=D

I am finally not working on a Saturday.

2009-05-23T16:49:00.002+08:00

I am enjoying my time slacking at home on a Saturday. I woke up late, took my time to go pee after I managed to get myself off the bed. Then I didnt even brush my teeth and took my time to eat my brunch which consists of 1 slice of 50 cents plain bread and a bowl of cereal with soy milk.

I was extremely hungry before and after that lovely brunch. But i was extremely lazy to move my ass to the coffee shop which is around 200 meters away from my house. But I do have a younger brother who would take care of my increasingly hungry stomach after much persistence which explains why i did have rice and vegetables at 4.30pm

Mission accomplished.

My hunger's gone and now I have to pack my bag. I am going to Bintan tomorrow with my very good friends. A short break from work and I am going to drink to my heart's content. Good times.

As for now, I am going to mafia wars on facebook and see u guys in 3 days time. =D

Hai Guys!

2009-05-02T02:40:00.002+08:00

hai guys, i just read Jesse's blog and I felt i needed to blog. I think its because I am way too bored and I only have labour day to do everything I wanted to do during the week.

Anyway, I have not showered since I came back home from work yesterday. I didnt sweat abit for the whole of today even though the weather was such a bitch. I did tried playing my guitar for a while but I was too restless to be musical.

I am hungry again and I wanted to gulp down the best and richest flavoured pastas and steaks in the world. I would love to accompany those great pleasures with a bottle of Shiraz. I dreamt of having multigrain toast with bacons for my breakfast and macchiato with triple shot of espresso to go with it. And for lunch, it will be a plate of hot and steaming Lamb Shank with Appletiser as my beverage. And for dinner, i would love to have Jumbo Prawn Pasta with Squid Ink Linguine and a glass of chardonnay and have Olivia Ong or Diana Krall sing live.

I really really want to go to Thompson road now and eat the best BaK Chor Mee with extra chilli and extra vinegar and mee kia as my choice of noodle. I really really want to go back to my camp's canteen to eat the best laksa i have ever eaten. Then I am going to have 2 bowls of really really huge servings of boh boh char char and then i am going to walk around the streets. Just as when I was going to quench my thirst, I saw a stall selling coconut drinks. OMG, my life savior.

I love my coffees thick with no sugar at all. I would love to have 3 or more shots of espresso in it, with no sugar and with alot of milk and foam. On a really hot day, ice mocha with gelato should calm me down, even though coffee increases your heart rate. On a really chilly day, i would like to have 3 shots of hot espresso and a bag of almond biscotti and just sit at the park and watch the world goes by. Upon the first sip of this coffee, I can taste the rich aroma of the roasted beans and the heat makes the cold weather bearable. The taste is constant throughout the drink and it never turns sour even when it turned lukewarm. Perfect.

I swear my appetite increased 10 fold nowadays and I want to go beyond what is offered here in Singapore. I want to try raw herring in Europe, taste the richest wines straight from the vineyard and relive the memories of kampung kopi in Malaysia. OMG, food seems like my new hobby right now.

2009-02-09T23:16:00.002+08:00

I wish to take this opportunity to say something to my PE teacher, Mr Issac Lim.

OMG! I can't believe I have one more month to go when most of my friends have already ORD-ed. Wah liew, if only i could do 2 more pullups in school, i would have ORD-ed this week.

My virgin post of 2009!!!! Happy new year folks

2009-01-05T00:22:00.004+08:00

Tomorrow is my 1st work day of the year. Contrary to the moans and groans of people around me, I am actually pretty excited. No reasons to explain that. Perhaps its the boredom.

Its a freaking new year, niggers. I dont have any resolution for the new year, just like previous years. I find it unnecessary though because i dont follow my resolutions. I just live and let live, you dig?

What i really want to do now is to leave the god-damn army. I have no reservations of serving and protecting my country (my country tends to need it time after time) but I do object the things superiors do to conscripts. Things we have to do because some old dick likes to suck up to the officers and officers sometimes are pretty obnoxious themselves because there is always someone higher up. When they behave like that, its the conscripts that suffers. I dont give a shit if thats their career and they have mouths to feed but if you can't make conscripts like us to be led and fight alongside with you, i guess you have make a really bad career in a citizen army. And if being an officer makes you incompetent in protecting your men, i will shoot you myself.

Being an aethist myself (and sometimes agnostic because of some godly musician), I really hope some kind of peace can be brokered between the ongoing warring parties. Have you seen photos of Palestinians living in houses with walls tattered with various sizes of bullets? All these happened during the first few hours of the new year while I was half drunk, not thinking about my future.

Soldiers die in war, that is inevitable. It is part of the seed and fruit theory in Buddhism. No matter how much u pray, you tend to have a higher chance of dying because once u enter the battlefield with your arms, you run the risk of getting shot. Conscripts aside, if you dont want to die, then dont fight. When soldiers die, they are not the real casualties. Their mothers weep for them, their wives and kids weep for them, civilians are affected and murdered by soldiers. You know...cause and effect?

My friend, frois said war is a necessity because humans like us needs it to survive. Like Darwin theory of evolution, survival of the fittest, when people of a particular group are unhappy with an opposing group, they would have to make a stand. And if their views are not strong enough, they fight to gain their rights. Similar to how animals fight for their territories and mates. Perhaps that is what really happened during the 40s and the 50s when the Arabs were unhappy that Jews had won a partition from the British Mandate of something, i can't remember. This probably concludes that the Jews were getting their own homeland in the heart of the Arabs' land. That probably spark the ongoing conflict that lasted till now.

Before you guys start to mention how you hate the Jews because they murdered civilians in the recent conflict, think of how the different countries, the different religions, the different political views, the different races, different colours sums up to the endless conflicts among us.

And if humans dont extinct themselves, i am sure Mother Nature will take care of it.

I could only Imagine.

Imagine - John Lennon & the Plastic Ono Band

Hello!

2008-09-26T00:29:00.002+08:00

Just got back from the hours of sappy oldies, talented local musicians and soapy dramas from HK. All from youtube!

Proud to say i spent most of my 2 days off being a couch potato and watching videos from Youtube. And I found 53A on youtube!!!!!!! Actually I was surfing through someone's blog and found the video. I remembered waiting for them to perform when they were still doing sound check 4 hrs prior to their performance.

Hmm, i guess its not just UnXpected at Wala Wala, Monday nights should be reserved for 53A too. I am already waiting for their album since last year's mosaic.

James Morisson - You Give Me Something

New Radicals - Someday We'll Know

Pretty good huh?

Here's another unique song by a very unique pop-reggae band.

Dispatch - The General.

Maybe this song wont mean that much to conscripts like us who only serve his time for the country but for veterans and soldiers that saw blood shed, husbands and sons killed, mothers weeping, civilians murdered, children orphaned and more often than not politicians being ignorant of human lives that are sacrificed. Soldiers sometimes die in vain, instead of the valour, the honour and bravery which they are made of to protect his fellow countrymen or sometimes his Human Race.

2008-08-08T00:21:00.002+08:00

I am finally down with 1 exercise and there are 2 more to go. Its never fun in real life unlike how we play strategy games in lan shops.

We are the computer who runs the monitor. We might seem like nothing but they need us to run the whole thing smoothly.

And there are so many things I could actually blog about in order not to waste a portion of the Internet. But some things are better to talk about over drinks with old friends. Henceforth, I think this blog would be pretty dead every now and then because I don't believe in blogging about what I did over the weekends with my friends, especially when I dont take alot of photos and people want to look at photos instead of huge chunks of words. For me, I would'nt even bother reading them, i just look at photos. Furthermore, i often KO infront of my pc before I could even start typing anything, therefore it shows that I am actually doing work during office hours and hence felt the effects of being tired.

And I am typing this because I dont feel like sleeping and I have to work tomorrow. I dont really give a damn now. I am really like sianZZZZZ and thinking about everybody and everything and not really giving a shit about it too. I just want to ORD and get a move on or just dont give a damn about it and let live and die.

sianZZZZZZZ

2008-06-29T23:17:00.002+08:00

I want to go back to school. I miss school.

I miss the days when I could have school breaks lasting for a month. Being totally in a blissful state of mind, lying back at Mind's Cafe or the library at the Esplanade or anything civilian after school and doing things that you actually enjoy doing. Your detention only last until 5pm and not over the weekends. Speaking of weekends, weekends are entirely yours most of the time and you are not liable to last minute call back. You dont have regulations on headdress and the cleanliness of your shoes. You want to go to school because of that special someone you have been thinking of. You might want to have intelligent debate about trival and subjective matters with your teachers without being purged for insubordination or in severe cases, mutiny. Most teachers encouraged their students to have a more inquisitive mind without being reprimanded for questioning orders.

I really dont wish to see myself blogging about NS stuffs in my future posts but its unfortunate that it revolves around me most of the time, including some weekends, which perhaps explain my nasty mood this weekend because I refused to answer any phone calls and msges on my mobile.

Bah.

For those who are feeling really down because of life's tragedies and its misgivings, Bobby Mcferrin might be the guy to put a smile on your face.

If you dont appreciate Reggae music, then dont listen and dont insult Bobby Mcferrin.

I always smile after listening to this...

The Cracking Point

2008-06-21T11:19:00.002+08:00

One fine day, I was slacking in G2 Branch at Division. I was reading a book about SAF customs and traditions. To add insult to injury, I realised the term 'Sergeant' comes from the word servant, in which this particular servant will do important tasks for his master.

Further reading revealed why Lieutenant General is of a higher rank than Major General. Lieutenant means Deputy. A Lieutenant Colonel is a deputy of a Colonel, a Lieutenant General is a deputy of a full fledged General. So if a Lieutenant is a deputy of a Captain or a full fledged officer and a 2nd Lieutenant is a deputy of a deputy of a full fledged officer, then he would be a half fucked officer.

The facts in the book were proven true when I realised I was a servant doing 'very important' tasks for my masters.

"Sgt neo, come here."

One of the officers point to my rank and said something about it being 3 stripes only. Then he took an empty plate and looked at me.

Fuck mann, i was fucking dulan. I would'nt mind doing a favour for high ranking people if they have asked me nicely, instead of using rank on me. I am only a NSF. Bitches.

I was so dulan about everything in these 2 weeks at the CP, that i actually showed my displeasure. The next day, my S3 asked me whether if i was damn angry with him. I was in fact very angry at him but decided to say I wasnt.

I came to a conclusion that after 2 weeks spent in a CP filled with officers, I am serving my 2 years of liability not for my country but for people whom i dont even respect.

2008-06-01T22:32:00.002+08:00

I was watching House TV series some weeks ago and Dr House said something that really got me awe-struck.

You cant die with dignity. Since the day you were born, you are dying, its ugly. You can only live with dignity.

(not the exact words)

I concur totally with what Dr. House had said to his patient. But despite the fact that everyone is decomposing from the time you are born, Homo-sapiens, being the most superior and most intelligent being in the mortal world on Earth, decides to kill each other because of differences in race, language and religion.

Come on, life is already ugly. There is already differences in economy standings, Mother Nature and microorganisms that will kill you. Do we really have to further degrade the ugliness of life through genocide and war? Do individuals have to kill themselves over trival matters like being obliged to serve their nation for 2 years or over an opposite gender because of love?

We have a bigger picture to think about.

18 and Life

2008-05-20T21:38:00.002+08:00

Ricky was a young boy, He had a heart of stone.

Lived 9 to 5 and worked his fingers to the bone.
Just barely out of school, came from the edge of town.
Fought like a switchblade so no one could take him down.
He had no money, oooh no good at home.
He walked the streets a soldier and he fought the world alone
And now it's

18 and life You got it
18 and life you know
Your crime is time and it's
18 and life to go

Tequila in his heartbeat, His veins burned gasoline.
It kept his motor running but it never kept him clean.
They say he loved adventure, "Ricky's the wild one."
He married trouble and had a courtship with a gun.
Bang Bang Shoot 'em up, The party never ends.
You can't think of dying when the bottle's your best friend
And now it's


"Accidents will happen" they all heard Ricky say
He fired his six-shot to the wind and that child blew a child away

HAROLD AND KUMARRRRRRRRRRRRR!!

2008-05-03T21:42:00.002+08:00

"Why do u put people in jail for smoking weed when you are smoking weed yourself? Isnt that hyprocritical?"

"Son, do u like giving people a handjob?"

Kumar shrugs

"Hell no."

"Do u like people giving u a handjob?"

"Oh yeah!"

"Then you are hypocriticizing!!"

(exact words are not used but the meaning is there)

HAHAHAHAHHAHAHA, one of the funniest part in Harold and Kumar. Definitely worth watching unless you are offended by nudity and drugs, otherwise its a must.

You know one of my friends said that exposing penis in a movie is a big turn off. I wasnt really bothered about that statement until I watched Harold and Kumar. Seriously, when the movie reaches the scene where alot of girls are bottomless, and the camera is facing the pool, get prepared to close your eyes because its a nightmarish scene.

Oh yeah, watch the 1st Harold and Kumar movie b4 watching the current one and i think it might become a trilogy because Neil Patrick Harris didnt actually die. (opps spoilers =))

Inspiration from inspiring musicians for the inspiration hungry listeners Part 1

2008-04-29T22:31:00.004+08:00

After listening to so many artists, I think the album of the 1st decade of the 21st century should go to Red Hot Chilli Pepper's Stadium Arcadium. Listening to John Frusciante is akin to smoking weed and getting closer to the higher beings.

Wake and Bake baby!

Bah, I've never smoke weed before but I do not need drugs to get high. John's simplicity and the use of effects on his guitars, that fuzzy, muddy and plucky music, stirred with Anthony Kiedis's psychedelic vocals is a recipe to spiritual narcotics.

A musician does not have to be a soprano and croon like Whitney Houston or be able to sing like Mariah Carey's falsetto or run his/her fingers through countless of Arpeggios and pentatonic scales on instruments at top speed. Just listen to Frusciante, his solos are so simple yet alluring. He could even control overdriven sounds to make coherent music and phrase it melodically.

Fucking talented.

And do you know one of the inspirations John Frusciante looks up to is the legendary Jimi Hendrix? Without Hendrix, Steve Vai, Van Halen, Joe Satriani, Yngwie Malmsteen, Stevie Ray Vaughn and other legendary musicians would not have appeared in the history books and I wont be able to listen to good music.

=D

2008-04-19T19:41:00.002+08:00

Out of boredom in camp, I asked my buddy about his current situation with his girlfriend. He started to complain how his girlfriend put him as the least priority and so on and on, which most couples have fought or are fighting over about, hence making it so boring and cliche. So i decided to tell him the little quote in the picture. Well, he was pissed off after that. I as usual, was laughing loudly at him.

And then I got really serious and tell him. If your girlfriend makes u the least priority because she can't get over her ex beau; dont fret over her and dump her for good. Why bother wasting your time over someone who doesnt care about you. It doesnt make sense right?

After that, i proceed to laugh at him once more. Seeing him so down, I started to sing my favourite hokkien song, one little umbrella. Both of us started to sing the song, reminiscing the good old times.

sian ah, now I have to go back camp for tml's guard duty. SIAN! Pray for me mann.

Anyway, this Stand By Me is covered by a male A Cappella Group from Indiana University. Such impromptu performance as a way of saying thank you to the fast food outlet staff is a very touching thing. Awwwww..

Being intelligent, being appreciative and lastly good music. Trust me, it will make your day.

2008-04-14T20:31:00.008+08:00

I was talking to my dad over dinner about the monotony of army life and at the same time, explaining what am I really doing in camp everyday. I have difficulty explaining to him what is Intelligence in mandarin. Imagine me having to say I am a chong ming soldier.

Well, I guess my dad probably took it literally. You see, I am the luckiest bastard in the army. I am drawing a 3sg's pay with combat allowance. I do not have to do SOC, i stay out and I rarely have a chance to wear my helmet anymore and I am PES A. My dad probably thinks that I am really so chong ming to manage to slack till this state and so he just nod his head with approval everytime I try to say i am an Intelligence spec.

He would probably boast to his khakis about his eldest son having a bright future ahead, afterall his son managed to siam the bane of the army and enjoy the fruits of it.

Shit, I hope my chief clerk doesnt read this.

Anyway, today is a super boring day. I came to camp and sat on my laurels for a whole damn day. I did a few camp passes, reduced a few red-tapes and built up relationship with my boss. It took damn long to reach 5pm. While waiting for time to pass, I started to ponder introspectively through thoughts about myself. I was thinking how often I contradict myself. But after awhile, I came to a conclusion that Man will always think that the grass is greener on the other side.

Its funny how I dislike Infantry life, digging trenches, living in the jungles for a mere 4 days and yet regretted not going to Infantry when I'm in Artillery. As a matter of fact, I LOVE war movies. I can watch numerous reruns of Band of Brothers or Black Hawk Down and I will never get bored. I love military history, inspired by the valour and heroism of individual soldiers that fought the great wars. Perhaps the monotony fuels the resentment but even till today, I would still think that Infantry life has the fun thing to it.

I have never like Science since primary school, neither do I like the languages. I loathe over Literature back in Secondary school and prefers studying for my Science subjects because I think its the most important subject of all. All my life, i picked Science as my route of advancement without hesitation. But later into my JC years, I always have that feeling that the Arts stream is always better than the Science stream. I would also think that I should have taken Economics instead of Physics or I should have went Poly instead of JC. It goes on forever.

Well, I guess I dont really appreciate the things on my side. I hope it doesnt happen when it comes to marriage.

Im surprised you are still reading on. Anyway, I bought an album by a local singer, Bevlyn Khoo weeks ago. Its only available at Gramaphone and she puts up only 1000 cds for sale. Reminds me of another Olivia Ong. She has excellent diction for her mandarin songs even though some of her songs reminds me of National Day theme songs. She did a pretty good interpretation of La Vie En Rose, which is one of my favourite. Unless you hate Bossa Nova and Folk, you guys should listen to her and support local music!!

The good & The Bad.

2008-04-13T13:14:00.007+08:00

Refresing and relaxing. My kind of down-tempo chill out. Olivia has a voice so calm, so sweet that could really de-stress you. It makes you want to go for more. Its a big contrast from those pop idols that go for sex appeal. Honestly, most of her songs are pretty boring but I listen to the lyrics and her voice. That is why I'm never bored of her. I think she pawns Lisa Ono mann.

I bought Sheryl Crow's latest album weeks ago. I demo-ed a couple of her tracks before deciding to spend some money on it. But as I went through the whole album at home, I regretted buying it. Even though she hasnt changed her country-rock style that much, she tried to write about peace and political issues in her album. Bah.

Im going to meet up with my friends for a nice cyle down to West Coast Park. I went a couple of weeks ago and realised they have removed the fencing, so now I could see the sea. Though not as impressive as the views from the beaches down at Sentosa(it was too cluttered near the shore), but the sea breeze and tranquil is worth your time.

Its a crying shame, to have hopeless sorrow.

2008-04-09T21:19:00.002+08:00

I dont know how to put it in words but Bic Runga penned a line that really describes everything.

"Its a crying shame, to have hopeless sorrow."

I am going back to my unit tomorrow. Back into a shithole. I am going to miss my trainee life for the past 1 month because it was purely a break from shit. Even though I have to go through 3 exercises and stay in on some nights, I would still prefer to stay at camp X. And more shit is about to fall on me because i will be the guard comd for next sunday guards. I have only little experience on being a guard comd. Hai, i think i prepare to sign 3 extras la.

There is one thing that is bothering my mind right now. But i can't just type it down here. I think the only way to solve this is to avoid bad company. pretty easy ah. But sometimes walking on the line can make life pretty boring. Morals and life or 18 and life?

Oh where, oh where can my baby be?

2008-04-08T21:58:00.002+08:00

Many many weeks ago, shourav, stephanus and me gathered at ben's place to jam. Unfortunately, kunal and sugar cldnt join us otherwise it would be so much fun. They were jamming last kiss and I fell in love with that song since then.

Today, i heard it over the radio and have been putting it on loop at youtube.

They say the lyrics to this song is actually true.

Pearl Jam - Last Kiss.
Oh where, oh where can my baby be?
The Lord took her away from me.
She's gone to heaven, so I've got to be good,
So I can see my baby when I leave this world.

We were out on a date in my daddy's car,
we hadn't driven very far.
There in the road, straight ahead,a car was stalled, the engine was dead.
I couldn't stop, so I swerved to the right.I'll never forget, the sound that night--
the screamin tires, the bustin glass,
the painful scream that I-- heard last.

Oh where, oh where can my baby be?
The Lord took her away from me.
She's gone to heaven, so I've got to be good,
So I can see my baby when I leave this world.
When I woke up, the rain was pourin down.
There were people standin all around.
Somethin warm flowin through my eyes,
but somehow I found my baby that night.
I lifted her head, she looked at me and said,
"Hold me darlin just a little while."
I held her close, I kissed her--our last kiss.
I'd found the love that I knew I had missed.
Well now she's gone, even though I hold her tight.
I lost my love, my life-- that night.

Oh where, oh where can my baby be?
The Lord took her away from me.
She's gone to heaven, so I've got to be good,
So I can see my baby when I leave this world.

shrewd history

2008-04-07T00:25:00.003+08:00

I was as usual searching for my favourite singers on wikipedia. This unfaltering determination for knowledge is needed to quell my daily urge to be more intelligent. But somehow, that night I ended up reading on the History of China when I only intended to read on Olivia Ong. Through the links, I spanned more than a few topics, ranging from Olivia Ong, to money, to Singapore, to some other stuffs and finally reaching History of China.

Within that 1 night, I have that impression that Chinese were actually pretty shrewd before the Qing Dynasty fell. Makes me appreciate that I was born in a modern society with plenty of morals and ethics. Try picturing a criminal being sentenced to a slow death execution in the streets of China. The criminal being fed with excess opium to keep him alive while his skin is being cut into smaller pieces for the sake of humiliation. The Chinese do get orgasmic watching this.

How about the strict discipline in the army of premodern China. Yue Fei wanted to execute his son for not executing a drill properly. Failure to comply with orders awards you with decapitation. What the fuck? Its pretty shocking to me that my ancestors have lived through such a backward era.

Ok, im going to sleep and not think about how shrewd and backward Chinese were 100 years ago. And pray hard to all the different Gods that me or eric junior or eric junior the 3rd and so on and on will not suffer the same predicament.

Happy Easter.

2008-03-23T22:23:00.002+08:00

Back in my kindergarten days at St. Joseph's, we were given baskets of Easter Chocolate Eggs with small hot cross buns for us to relish in every Easter. Then, we were kids not older than 6. Treats like these were the best part since my parents were so strict on candies. It didnt hit home to us that Easter Sunday was the resurrection of Jesus.

It didnt matter to me anyway. I was schooled in Catholic mission schools all my life and I'm still a Buddhist, albeit not a devout one. It didnt matter much to me anyhow now, since preceding Easter, its Good Friday which somehow grants me an extra public holiday. So on this day, when Jesus was crucified many many years ago, when he shed his blood, carrying the heavy wooden cross to the site of execution, I slept through half of the day.

Good Fridays always relinquish good memories from my kindergarten days. Like the carefree and innocent times then, apart from the chocolate eggs and hot cross buns, there were times that you can't forget even though 15 years have passed. I wonder where all my friends have went. I always remember this hauntingly compatible duo who would be incharge of the school bus that brought me home. There was this super big field right infront of our class and in it were different playgrounds. I love the climbing one. It was really high to me then. Now i could even touch the top without climbing.

Things are different at my kindergarten now. Flanked by AES and CHIJ Bukit Timah, the once serene and tranquil air doesnt really exist anymore. The huge church tower still stands, but the school complex seems different. I remembered once at the back of the school, there was this ulu track that followed the statues which depicted how Jesus was crucified on Good Friday. Then, to me the statues were larger than life. Now the ulu track is replaced by the huge ass and polluted Bukit Timah Road and the statues seems to disappear along with time even though physically they are still there.

The world seems to be a much more quiet place then till cars and roads starts to pile up. Thats is why I always say old is better than new. I love oldies, i love film cameras, i love black and white films, I love the retro fashion.

But I will nvr swear off technology.

On a really different tangent, technology is something we can't say we loathe about even though at times it contradicts its purpose. For now, especially in my course, I would die for a computer. It does wonders which a human hand could not possibly have done for hours. Fortunately, they are teaching us to draw overlays on maps using computers which would make my life way much easier. More time and attention could then be given to the planning of intelligence during war.

Alright mann, im damn tired. Long week this week. Bye.

I was mesmerized.

2008-03-15T12:04:00.011+08:00

I managed to catch Olivia Ong and Kathleen Harris on friday night. They are performing for the Mosaic Festival and best of all its free! I hate the crowd though, I cldnt take a proper photo of Olivia Ong because I cldnt get a good vantage point. And my camera skills sucks mann. Most of my photos turned out to be blurry. =(

Btw, Olivia Ong looked damn pretty in real life sia.

At the end of Olivia's show, everyone was shouting for her to perform one more song. She performed Fly me to the moon much to the pleasure of the audience.

Life of a patty in a burger.

2008-03-01T16:29:00.002+08:00

Life is akin to a patty stuck between 2 slices of bread in a burger. Thats if you belong to the middle management in a hierarchy system. The taste of the burger depends on the patty. The slices of bread could be topped with savouring bits of sesame seeds and baked with a golden brown but if the patty doesnt taste as good as it seems, the burger wont taste as good as a whole.

Ive learnt that leadership and responsibility comes with increasing status of your chevrons. People look at you as a commander and to gain respect you must have a high standard of responsibility and maturity. I find it seemingly difficult to command a section of people who are older and more knowledgeable than I am. Its a tough learning process, very different from things ive learnt during my NCC days. Unfortunately, things are much worse in the middle than the top. Its like a bottleneck. From the top down, you get screwed pretty badly because from the bottom up, we are supposed to lead by example. Its not something you can negotiate about because if something goes awry, you will be the first to be blamed.

To be honest, I was sort of feeling proud and losing self respect just so because I was going to become a 3sg. It was a pretty naive thought actually. During my NCC days as a platoon sgt, I would be a fucking sadistic bastard. thinking respect is earned through means like that. But after months of interacting with people under me in the army, I realised it takes more than being physically fit to be a leader. I think it goes down the same way outside military world. I think ive learnt more on improving myself from my men than during my trainee days in a command school. This learning process wasnt as smooth as you would think. I get scolded by my boss, judged by people and be infamous for the wrong reasons.

Hmm, finally I found some time to type all these. I told my boss im taking off on Monday to rest. I need it mann. I'm going to play my guitar because its collecting dust for weeks. Also, I realised that Rihanna is so fucking hot. Heh.

bye!

2008-02-08T02:34:00.000+08:00

Oh my god, I would love to soak up every single moment of this enriching and soulful cover by Diana Krall. I love the walking bass lines by John Clayton. I love how the bass lines work in harmony with the piano solos. Its a wonder how jazz music could work by breaking all rules of classical music. How, in this perfect harmony and phrasing of a simple beautiful piece of classic music, be so beautiful with a husky and sexy voice from Diana Krall. I love the piano solos because it sounded so fluid with the walking bass. MANN, I love this cover.

Can't wait for this year's mosaics.
Happy CNY!

Another post on something that talks about something

2008-01-30T21:58:00.000+08:00

Tomorrow is 31st Jan of 2008. No big deal but that means 11 more months for the year to change to 2009. But on the other hand, i dont really like the idea of going nearer to my birthday because i dont want to go into the twenties. I love staying 18. 18 and life, you know?

nowadays, army just dont feel like army. I go to camp at 7am and then i go back home at 6pm. Everyday I just stay in office and settle alot of admin stuffs. I have radio, comfortable armchairs, and aircon by my side. I dont even feel like I am even defending my country. Alot of on job training during office hours which i think will benefit me after i leave the army. I dont even understand why can't I go to the civilian world and do the same stuff and benefit the economy of my country. I hate regimentation. Even though, my job is pretty alright, compared to my peers who have to stay-in, I still hate the regimentation in the army. I hate to greet people i dont even respect. i hate wearing the uniform and I hate to say yes sir yes sir all the time.

I think i lack motivation ah. No motivation, everyday life like damn meaningless. Everyday wake up, work, eat, work, eat, internet, tv, sleep. Weekends always the best because u got all ur friends around ah. I was thinking of retaking my As this year, so maybe i got some goal to achieve. I want to learn how to drive ah but i cannot afford ah.

Tml the planet will inch along the orbit around the sun. The nearest galaxy will inch towards our own galaxy. Mars will still be orbiting around the sun without any substantial signs of life form or water in it. Living things on Earth are being competitive against each other to survive, only to die when their biological time is up. Are all these routines of the universe making life and nature seems so meaningless?

A new year

2008-01-01T18:16:00.000+08:00

If I was born 15 years earlier, I would be old enough to listen to the world's greatest bands ever. I would be saving money to buy AC/DC and KISS cassettes with those A/B sides. I could fly to USA to listen to Metallica, Skid Row, Vixen, Poison, Slaughter, Def Leppard and many others LIVE. Their music would be given abundant air time on most radios. Schools start to ban students from listening to Sex Pistols, godfather of classic punk music and girls will go crazy over Joan Jett and the Ramones. AHHH, the bloody 80s.

If I was born 25 years earlier, I will probably experience the Hendrix experience live and find a day job just to buy a Fender guitar and a Marshall Amp. I will love EAGLES to death with their Hotel California. What about the Beatles? They will probably be lullabies for me to sleep when I am still a kid. And of course, what about the Carpenters? Their Yesterday Once More and Close to You were the bubblegum pop hits of the 70s.

If I was born 35 years earlier, I could probably sway with swing jazz and dance to the beats of reggae. Nat King Cole would still be alive then and I could listen to his hits like L-O-V-E, his cover for The Girl from Ipanema, Route 66 and Mona Lisa. Frank Sinatra, Quincy Jones and Ray Charles will be playing my favourite tunes. Astrud Gilberto crooning her vocals over public radios with her One Note Samba.

Damn i tell you I was born in the wrong year.

Happy new year folks.

Dey, why u spray confetti at me, dey? Go back n spray water at your elephant la dey.

2007-12-24T23:20:00.000+08:00

One of the many life lessons i've learnt during my 19 years of habituating this world of craziness is not to stroll down Downtown on a Christmas or New Year's Eve. Thus, you find me blogging this entry at this particular point of time.

Its very similar to the time when I went to Ling's concert at Stage@Powerhouse. The whole crowd was filled with probably Bangladeshis., except that this time the crowd was more well behaved. But it was totally dead, the crowd was dead. It made Ling's concert looked bad. On the contrary, these very same group of people filled every corners, every skid row of the streets in town during end of the year festive eves, tearing the whole fucking place down and spraying confettis at random people, pissing the hell out of ppl. It made the streets looked bad with these people.

So, I've made a rather wise and decisive choice not to roam around town tonight. Anyway, I dont really celebrate Christmas since i'm a Buddhist and find countdown to xmas really a waste of resources and a commercialized event for business to boom(saying merry xmas is a sign of respect). I have to wake up early tml to attend my late grandfather's death anniversary.

By the way, there's a tagboard on my blog now. People tell me they dont really bother about the comments link at the bottom of my post and there are also people telling me to put a tagboard here so that they can spam me when they are bored. Ok, so the tagboard is here for u to enjoy, enjoy!

Of Slackness and more slackness

2007-12-20T13:30:00.000+08:00

Yo.
Its been quite some time since I blogged. Actually, there isnt really any thing to blog about unless you want the whole world to know about the minute details of your life. Thats like selling yourself to people, like real estate agents.

Entered the next paragraph. I sat cross legged, my eyes darting everywhere but the screen, my index finger tapping on the next key to start my first word of the next sentence. Nothing. Tap..Tap...Tap, still nothing. I picked my cup and drank some liquid from it. Tap...Tap...Tap, nothing. Then i sweared again. Oh shit, how am I going to continue my post by writing all these? Hmmmm. Is hmmmm going to help? Nah, still blank.

I was about to shit myself in my pants when I thought about the events that I'm going to tell everyone about in this post. Should I write about my graduation parade, my new unit or the time when I had a cold war with my friends or maybe about that time when my house was completely denied water from a faulty pipe made by an irresponsible government contractor?

How about emotions from people and myself? I wanted to write about the awkward feeling I had when my parents really did not come for my graduation parade. I wanted to amplify my satisfaction and belittle my envious friends on my new unit. By the way, I'm posted to 3rd Div Arty as an Int Spec where I will be staying out and will have no SOC for the rest of my NS.

Wow, thats alot. But then again, I decided that I'm not really going to write about them all. But rather, I have actually wrote about those events in a summary. Now its back to more tapping again for my next paragraph.

Goodbye? See you later? See you? Maybe. But before I really conclude this post which is really very irrelevant to the title I have given to this post, I must really make an announcement to music lovers in Singapore who truly appreciates local music to take some time off in the evening to watch Ling(I blogged about this local songbird few months ago) perform at Stage@Powerhouse near Esplanade to the tunes of various artists such as Elliot Smith, Damien Rice, Rachel Yamagata and many many more, including her own work, "Larkin Step". Its happening today at 7.30pm.

My post shalt end with the tunes of Larkin Step.

(Some cheebye went to hack her youtube account. boliao.)

2007-11-27T20:32:00.000+08:00

yay, i got nights out today. the most boring of all the nights out because i have to go home to bring back half of my stuffs.
And, this week is also quite boring. Except for the cert presentation, photo-taking and some rehearsal for the POP, its wake up, eat and sleep kind of life.
After much thought, I think calling my parents down to watch the POP is not really necessary. Its a waste of time and I dont see any pride in passing out. Pride or rather pride in getting our ranks doesnt really exist in our course. Pride actually stands for "people rest I do extra". Worse still, we were told that we will be going to our new unit next Thursday and before that we have to come back to move everything from our old building to the new one. NA BEI!
It would be much better if it was like my graduation parade back in sispec. We were shagged like fuck after route marching like fuck and then have to stand sommore with the @#$% fieldpack still on for them to stick our ranks. For pride I will still stand straight lor but actually during that day i almost fainted, i was squatting down cos too tired sia.

my friend went siao after watching Enchanted lor. he kept singing the "happy working song" when he's doing saikang and he said it actually made him want to work.

This one is another song from the movie. Quite nice too.

ok got to go back liao. =(

Giant is Dead!

2007-11-24T10:10:00.000+08:00

woohoo i finished my last field exercise as a trainee liao. After moving around the whole of the Northern Singapore, including one deployment ground that was so near my house and sitting inside the fucking hot, crampy and smelly command post vehicle, we were presented our beret.

I read Jesse's blog just now and he was talking about some things that made him nostalgic and filled with regrets. Basically it was part emo, part reminiscing of the past. Anyway, I just want to say no point in getting emo over the past, just move on. Not everything in life ends as happily ever after. Well, you might have missed your past madly but you could relive all these memories by meeting up with your old friends again. As for your love, I dont know what to say. For me, I've already forgotten that girl that I have so fanatically been infatuated with in school. Well, partly because she went away to some far away land to study. But then, i realise I dont want to dwell in such a sad and pathetic feeling everyday. Love supposed to be filled with warmth and happiness, not emo-ness, right?

anyway, listen to this bumblegum pop of the 70s. Its called Yesterday Once more by the carpenters.

2007-11-18T19:38:00.000+08:00

When a human body is exhumed, the remains seemed so fragile, proving how feeble humans really are. It doesnt really matter how powerful u were or how good looking u were, you just become a heap of bones that really meant nothing but only memories that will only be close to your loved ones and friends.
So make those memories a good one. Strive towards your dream in life, love your loved ones like as if there's no tomorrow, dont be afraid to have fun in your life and so on and on.

Bah, Exercise Giant starts tomorrow. The grand finale before I graduate. Actually i am more stressed than thrilled. I'm not really sure of my stuffs cos I dont have good long term memory. My sgt major said i rank 2nd last in the whole course because I failed one of the test, arghh. I hope i still can pass out as a spec, considering i have pass my soc and ippt.

shit is going to happen tml sia.

HAHAHAHA

2007-11-11T17:45:00.000+08:00

LOL!

Damn tired after 3 days of Khatib Chalet

2007-11-07T19:40:00.000+08:00

I'm back with a pair of very rotten legs. Its really rotten with pus oozing out and then there are scars and wounds everywhere on my calves. Disgusting sia, i got exotic looking insect-bitten lesion all over my hands and I have not inhabit the jungle since bslc.

Zeus the Greek god has been rather busy nowadays, which in a way is good for all soldiers that are about to embark on a rundown with 11 obstacles along the way. I used to whistle one of Travis's song when im met with extreme bad luck but not for that day. Then suddenly i remembered Guns N' Roses's November Rain and I was overjoyed.

This week has been quite eventful. I went to slackmore camp, opps, its stagmont camp for a few hours of insomnia therapy. I returned home with difficulties in shutting my eyelids due to intensive shutting of the eyelids at both khatib chalet and at the therapy.

All of u students, civilian workers and fellow soldiers, i've got a good 4 days off and my pay day is in 2 days.

WooHoo!

=D

2007-10-28T01:10:00.000+08:00

I had some major mood swings while clearing soc on friday. all the hokkien phrases just came out in a rush of anger. FUK MANNN! I cldnt clear low rope again. It sucks when you know u need just one more loop to touch the top but you just cldnt do it. It becomes more demoralizing when you see your section mates going all up and shout. argh.

i feel so ashamed to call myself a metal fan. megadeth and black sabbath came to singapore and i didnt even go! wth. I have to wait a decade for them to come again but by then they would be like eagles, old grandpas that could probably have some serious seizure while headbanging. To further degrade myself, i dont even have a single song from megadeth! OMG! They are like the bread and butter of anyone who started out listening to metal. GARGHHH!

bah. its a saturday night, or oh well sunday morning. i've decided to rot at home because i simply dont wish to go out. on this very weekend i longed for everyday in camp, i spent it all at home. before i go emo again, which i hoped it will nvr happen like in my previous posts, i bury myself in dvds and video games. Ah video games(not dota), something that i've not touch in a long time, it relinquish my inner self. Especially in the comforts of my own home, i was comfortable in screaming wildly and cursing at the screen when my character got shot by ze most invincible baddies with a 3000rds per sec mini machine gun.

sad to say, when i wake up tml, probably more than a million people would have died and another million ppl would have been born. the cycle goes on every minute and at any time you might be contributing to this cycle. SO, dont waste your time and start to do the things u might or had love to do, like playing block catching, drive a car without a license, gulp down 10 bottles of booze, visit your frail sickly former teacher and scold him/her your lifetime of beautiful cultured dialect phrases and so on and on.

WHAT WAS I THINKING? I dont know why i end my post in such a manner, i dont remember planning to end it this way.

Gazillion BAHs.

death in photos

2007-10-12T23:20:00.001+08:00

Taken by Robert Capa, these photos captured death at its best moments. Just like the 1st photo, I think the guy didnt know what hit him and Robert Capa accidentally shot that photo at the instance he was fatally shot. I love his wartime photos, especially the ones at the Omaha Beach. I was surprised he wasnt shot or blown to bits after following the 1st wave of soldiers onto Omaha.

Watched too much documentaries with bloodshed and gore but i guess i am going to watch it and say omg thats so sad in a pitiful voice and then switch off my tv and go to sleep on my comfy bed and wake up peacefully.

Back to school...errr, i mean Artillery Institute

2007-09-07T22:28:00.000+08:00

I feel like im going back to school again, busy with that calculator and attending lectures everyday. Just that I will be wearing military fatigues to lessons. Well, I'm posted to be a gunnery spec at artillery institute. My job is to calculate data and transmit them to the gunners to fire off. I dont even need to carry any shells or fire any artillery guns!

Shiok right? But then the course is damn boring ah, everyday lectures and lectures. Everybody is dying to enter our course. Our neighbours, the mortars and the 155 gunners are damn jia lat. Everyday see them sweat while we in lecture room. bwahahaha! But the course is kam pua long leh, freaking 13 weeks to get 3sg.

watched 881 and the rat show after bslc. damn song lor. i love that hokkien theme song from 881, actually basically all the hokkien songs in there even though the plot of the movie not really that nice. and the rat show also buey pai, the animation so outstanding lor. I advise u to eat until damn full den watch the rat show or not sure cannot take it one.

song ah, i book out on a friday seh, very long since i book out on friday. now for the whole 13 weeks i will be booking out every friday unless i do stupid things again la, then i wont even come home. But dun worry, i wont bring rifle plus live rounds out of camp. Thats really damn stupid sia! fucking hell, 1/4 of ur life will be gone at the far eastern side of the island and the backside just got slapped just by doing that. Then when finish liao, go to somewhere to carry sandbags and do pushups like its free and then do his remaining 1 month of being a soldier. Good deal sia!

im going for a run tml. omg, on a weekend especially after 5 days in an army camp. so hardworking right? but no la, i feel guilty for sitting around the lecture room for too long and i want that monetary incentive for ippt leh. muhaha!

for us and you and me.

2007-08-25T20:52:00.001+08:00

I heard skid row over the radio just now. Its a surprise actually because most local radio stations dont really play 80's heavy metal. All hail power 98!

sian, tml i got army marathon run. But I would rather run than to do guard duty on Sunday. I was so damn lucky to escape it even though i have to report at 5.30am at esplanade.

1 more week left to end of bslc. I'm so delighted that its going to be over soon. Actually, I realised the training throughout the entire bslc isnt that tough. Eventually the day will end, the training will stop and you will still be alive. It isnt that bad actually.

What really makes life unbearable in sispec is the people. I am not talking about people being competitive, its about relationship. I think all those team based lectures and activities we attended didnt touch alot on human relationships. Almost all the time, everyone will be hating each other in the company. Instructors hates the OC, our PC dont like the instructors, instructors dont like each other and then they don't know how to talk to each other, leaving things unplanned and made our training really inefficient. Instructors, being experienced sergeants themselves are expected to show examples. But yet, they induce feelings that ignite more hatred towards our OC.

Things dont go too well amongst the trainees too. I hate my section but actually its only 1 person. It made me realise that the intelligence of a group is based on the collective intelligence of a person. Some people just talked too much. The i/cs are given the privilege to plan and manage activities during training. How they make decision is up to their abilities and they have many responsibilities to shoulder too. But yet some people would tend to voice their unhappiness and claim they could do better in this and that. Apparently, they hadn't been an i/c before and therefore do not understand the stress.

It sucked even more if you are a buddy of someone that the whole section hates. Yes, i know the section is frustrated with him for being uncooperative and selfish but that doesnt mean they have all the rights to bully him or ostracized him. The best way is to talk about it and see how can the problem be solved. Sometimes i find it difficult to react to situations when I have to be friendly to both sides. Its almost impossible. Talking to him makes me feel uncomfortable because the section will start to make noises and make some really juvenile comments that sometimes pisses me off.

I'm glad i'm going to leave sispec in a week's time. I dont think i will go to aslc because i said no to being a commander in the express interest form. Seriously, i just want a peaceful life in NS and all these people I have known for the entire 10 weeks in bslc will be forgotten forever.

The sun will shine and the birds will sing.

2007-08-19T20:40:00.001+08:00

The other night before I went Tekong, my platoon mates were mocking at me about my embarrassing night at double O. It was so embarrassing that it will only happen if I'm under heavy alcohol influence. Blame it on the duty free beers at chevrons.

But on a different tangent, one of the mocking party went nearer to me and pat me on my shoulders and said something which I felt nothing for a split second and then felt really miserable during the after effect.

It was about this particular person. Somehow amidst the confusion that night at double O due to my soberness, I remembered us talking about her(I dont remember why we were talking about her) on the couch and he did the uninitiated. He went on to msg her asking whether if she knows me. If i were more conscious that night, i could have probably berated at him.

But that wasnt my point on why I felt miserable. But if I were to tell anyone that I have only known the existence of this person for the whole of my jc life and talked to her for less than 3 times and I felt miserable because this person is leaving for somewhere to study for a period of time, what will they say?

I mean I dont know why I felt miserable. That night my Ipod coincidentally shuffled to Jay Zhou - Kai bu liao kou and then to Dirty Vegas - Days go by. I know its a roll-eyes kind of thing but when these kind of songs starts to play and you already feel so emo about something, it just can't be help.

Sia la, so emo. If she ever reads this, i will be so embarrassed mann. I think she will just freak out and faint on the spot if I were to admit. She will never expect it lor. Its like whenever both of us walk past each other, it will be like a stranger to stranger kind of thing, like in the streets. No hellos, no smile, nothing.

Anyway, I got selected to go for a PTI selection course. How and why I was selected remains a mystery. I only obtained a pass for IPPT, not even close to silver mann. My hopes of going to airforce and navy was dashed when my friend told me if i fail my selection course, I will go straight to ASLC. NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! I can't believe me going to taiwan and dig holes and not shower for 7 days.

Bah, so much so for putting not interested to Inf/Guards in my express interest form.

Going back in an hour's time and my csm's words always resound in my mind whenever i walk through the gate, "Gentlemen, welcome to another phuck day in the army."

I am so excited

2007-08-12T19:19:00.000+08:00

As what the blog title have mentioned, I am going to embark on a holiday on our very own outback, P. Tekong. Its a fun filled and laughter kind of holiday, a once in a lifetime opportunity for certain members of the society. Jointly organized and supported by the people loving and decades long ruling government of our beloved island and conducted by the super efficient and knows-how-to-wayang-the-right-way organization of our beautiful country.

Best of all, its FREE!
Dont ask me why, my fellow taxpayers.

The catalogue of this holiday read as follows:

The itenary of this exciting and thrilling trip ensures that you would not be idling around and doing nothing. Your legs will be sore with dead skin(natural exfoliation, girls are you paying close attention to this?) and your uniforms can be thrown away after this trip because it is impossible to wash away the stains. Most importantly, you will be meeting the indigenous habitants on this sunny island called P. Tekong. They are called Tekonreans. They have either sharp piercing thorns on their mouths or have 4 limbs. They roam around freely and loves to pop by and say HI!!!! when you are at the least attentive. Sometimes after saying hello, you will start to itch and a slight reddish bump will appear. Its ok actually but please do caution if you see a black and white stripes species saying hello to you. Furthermore, the ones with 4 limbs and looks like a pig says HI if you have food around you. So if you want to know more about them, please do not throw away your food the proper way and sleep half naked in the jungle.

Now, aren't you excited? We do provide personal body maintainance by making you do pressups(pushups) in the middle of the jungle. How nice. If you are homosexual and the voices of men shouting at you turns you on, dont worry. Even though you are faraway from civilian life, you can still feel at home because voices of men shouting at the top of their voice is abundant.

Do u love mud? Tekong has abundant sources of it. You will have the chance to be stuck in it, sleep on it and maybe have some of it around your lips.

Please do bring more underwears and socks. Do not try to bring your lovers along unless you are homesexual. If you think you are too obsessed with the female gender, this holiday will be your best solution psychologically because in this tour group, we believe in a single gender.

A 4days 3 nights trip which starts tml.

Come on everyone, repeat after me.

I L-O-V-E S*F
I L-O-V-E S*F
I L-O-V-E S*F

Hooray!

Im going to book in real early tonight. SO HAPPY! I feel sad if they let me go home, you know? I smile when they give me extra duties, you know? I smile even more when they burn my weekends and deprive me of the outside world. They keep me from all evils in the civilian life. SEE? I love being a soldier.

SO NICE!

Not Ready To Make Nice

2007-08-09T16:01:00.000+08:00

If people were to ask me what have I learnt during my Army days, I would say i learnt to become more selfish.
Well i think its pretty true. Whenever I hear someone asking for help, my ears just shut off completely. It can't be help, especially when I am so shagged out and just found a nice and comfortable spot to sit and then just when I am about to doze off, somebody just had to shout for volunteers.
Sometimes when I just need a cold drink and there aren't enough for everyone out in the field, it will be an every man for himself thing. Unless its my section mates, I would not even bother sharing my drinks. Just can't be help.

Field camp this week was like a holiday camp. Revellie, breakfast, sleep the whole morning while waiting for our turn to do fire movement. Then lunch. then sleep again until its time for night operations. The only highlight of the whole field camp was the ambush ops. I got to move the whole section to do ambush at night. set up trip flare, claymore mines and wear night vision goggles and then wait for the enemy to appear. Sadly i did not manage to bring my section back to HQ because i was so disoriented at night. bah.

1 more field camp to go, which is at Tekong and 3 more weeks to the end of BSLC. Yay!

and yes, if you are watching that propaganda show about the army on channel 8, you can see my BMT company there. All of our sgts were involved in the filming and the part when the actor passed out from BMT is when our company took part in the filming too. That is the day when I had to give up my admin time for the filming.

jungle warfare

2007-07-29T02:10:00.000+08:00

I booked out on a Saturday afternoon again. Thanks to the conjunctivitis outbreak, we had massive area cleaning for the whole morning and now our bunk smells like hospital. It seems like sispec is infected with all kinds of disease. Different coys have different kind of outbreak and according to the MO, our coy pawned everyone in PLC: highest number of soldiers attend C.

Field camp was damn fun. But it would be more fun if it didnt rain and our section commander didnt have sore eyes. I learnt alot during these 3 days in the jungle. I saw a trip flare for the first time and it was so damn beautiful. As a section we were tasked to set up a controlled trip flare at a junction. Thanks to my section, they saboh me to set it up. Even though i passed the tech test for trip flare, i confused it with claymore mines, so I wasted 20 mins of my time figuring out how. So in the end, my section mate took over me.

So we waited and waited, halfway through we saw students from nearby NTU taking their graduation photos. Clean, odour-free, pretty girls, civilians, knn. But still seeing the trip flare lighting up the whole night sky is an experience. The whole thing just exploded right in front of us, blinding me for a few seconds.

Fire movement was what we learnt during the camp. Have to bashed through all kinds of vegetation and admist the sounds of blanks fired during our movement, moans and groans could be heard as we tried to avoid the thorny mimosa. My SAW kept getting stuck with the mimosa and since I am a SAW gunner, I am the last man of the whole formation. Due to my incompetence of handling SAW, I was extremely clumsy during the movement. So clumsy I was, that I changed lane and almost shot at my friend. Got fucked severely by my PC, hahah.

Talking about SAW, I learnt how to operate and be confident with it the hard way. I misfired once during unloading of weapons. Because SAW function differently from M16 and SAR21, it was more prone to misfire. My SAW had 2 bullets stuck in the chamber, one expended and the other the opposite. So i attempted to clear it and instinctively I switch it to SAFE and took out my magazine. So i did and the next thing i knew, one round fired off. Again, got fucked. Almost cldnt go home this weekend and my name was recorded in the "shit-list" But SAW is an orgasmic weapon. With a gentle touch on the trigger, many many many bullets flew out. I emptied my whole mag in less than 15 seconds. Surprisingly, I was the only person in my section who managed to achieved orgasm firing the weapon. The others managed to jam the weapon or cldnt cock it when they tried the SAW.

Last day of field camp was the best. Our section commd came back. Training then became a stroll in the park. Our section health frequently(health is the codename for smoking hahah) with other section. Instead of "taking 5", we took 30. When we see OC driving in his rover, we will do a 'W' handsign, denoting wayang. In hokkien we called it, "zhou hee", meaning wayang. We will pretend we are shagged, sometimes we would pretend to be having AAR(after action review) and once in a while we would be running to take cover whenever OC appears. Have so much fun.

1 field camp over, 2 more to go. I am going to apply what I have learnt for monday's section live firing and fortunately I'm a SAW gunner again. What i'm afraid of is that I might shoot at my friend or worst still the opposite. But its ok, the SAW loves me.

On a different tangent, I finally got my guitar setup. My guitar teacher gave me a gd discount. It doesnt go off tune that often and my palm mute sounds better now. The clean sound seems to be softer but I'm ok with it. I will just save up and buy a new set of pickups, hopefully by the end of my trainee life.

im off to listen to bic runga crooning over my speakers and enjoying my last bits of late night supper.

Somebody's Daughter.

2007-07-22T19:27:00.000+08:00

And so it is
Just like you said it would be
Life goes easy on me
Most of the time
And so it is
The shorter story
No love, no glory
No hero in her sky

Booking in tonight, field camp will start. Can't pass SOC, no silver for ippt, my kneecap is still painful when i run, no motivation to become a section commander, dont even desire to don chevrons on my arms. But i make it through whenever I thought of your sweet voice and smile. Want to forget but can't forget. Why didn't you reply me???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

7 more weeks.

2007-07-16T19:01:00.000+08:00

1. This weekend is my longest outside camp. Since i went into sispec, I had to stay an extra night due to regimental duties and not obtaining silver for ippt.

2. everyday in sispec is mind-fuck. although the instructors can be extremely friendly and allows many canteen breaks, they can be damn volatile too. Like the book out i had on Saturday night. it was both body and mind fuck. fuck everywhere until i book out all in mud.

3. physical training is tough. sweating before breakfast is normal, running 1-2km to SOC start point is only warm up. Running 4km is a workout for most of us but then to the PTI its only warm up as we need to do all 3 combat physical training after the run. every fucking place we go, we will either run, fast march or march round and round until we stop.

4. everything in SOC is upsized. i ran 700m like mad, only to bang the wall at the first obstacle.

5. food in sispec is really nice. the soup is the best. I chiong for 2 bowls everytime.

6. accommodation is better at sispec. Everything there looks so non-military. I like.

7. Doing a parade rehearsal before our navigation exercise is fucked up. doing it for a general whom we do not even know is even more fucked up. Informing us the night before is extremely extremely fucked up. It caused so much stress the next day that my enciks had a quarrel with the SSM. But what to do? our csm say suck thumb lor. I do it out of respect for the rank, not the person.

8. There's a female trainee in F coy that looks pretty cute. but too bad she's married(i heard)

9. I have one whole stack of handbooks, training manuals and guidebooks in my cupboard. I thought we wouldn't be studying anything in the army, but i was so wrong.

10. my platoon mates are all damn competitive. Most of them have silver and gold for ippt while i only have a pass. Seeing them breezing through the SOC makes me fed-up.

11. Bathing after lights out is normal. It becomes worse if you are a platoon i/c(we call it LPS in sispec) or company i/c(LSM in sispec). I was only a section i/c and i slept 2 hours after lights out just to settle some admin stuff.

12. 3 days navigating around the jungle convinced me not to chiong for ASLC or any infantry vocations. GIVE ME AIRFORCE, MP, OR ANYTHING THAT DOESNT HAVE TO DO WITH THE DAMN JUNGLE.

13. 7 more weeks to the end of BSLC. hopefully they post me somewhere else. PLEASE!

O-EM-EFF-GEE!! BLOCK LEAVE's OVER. GAHH!

2007-06-24T01:16:00.000+08:00

ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

Ahem.
Sorry for my dramatic start.
But who doesn’t go crazy when you know your 10 days of civilian life is going to be over?

Damn, I heard there’s IPPT during the 1st week and I’ve been resting on my laurels for 10 days already.

Damn, my muscles are getting softer. Bah!

How to pass?

Hai.

Suffer in Silence and Plus Extra Confinement lor

Here we go again.

beep, beep , I beep, beep pass out liao!

2007-06-20T22:47:00.000+08:00

Alas, my block leave is in effect. No more army for 10 days. It’s something to rejoice about eh? But then again, it’s pretty agonizing to think about the impending future for the next 1 ¾ years of National Service. I could imagine myself trembling on Friday as I check my postings. Perhaps, the army could allow us to hit F5 to refresh the page if we didn’t like our postings.

Ah, it’s a game, a game of randomness. I’m dreaming again, dang.

But life’s full of random stuffs, isn’t it? It could change your mood, your destiny, your whatever, the list goes on. It kind of makes things unexpected. It makes life more thrilling and unpredictable. It gives life a purpose, hence its beauty.

I could imagine some random institution sending me a letter that says I’m short listed for their scholars programme or maybe somebody I have been infatuated or lost contact with chats up with me at some random time of the day and making me smile with bouts of nostalgia. I could also just go banging on my table and shout, knnccb f this and f that at some random time, in some random place with some random people. The list goes on and on and it will neither be exhaustive nor definitive.

Do you see the beauty of it? The randomness in life? Without it, life would be pretty much boring and bleak. Scientifically, Man would not evolve because without randomness, life will be pretty much the same. Man would not explore further, civilization remained stagnant and the world will be a primitive place.

But yet, with randomness, people’s lives are at stake too. Natural disasters, scientific errors and on the contrary of the above paragraph, Man explores deep enough to develop killing machines to finish his own kind. Sad but true.

Ah, it’s all random, random and random. Unpredictable, surprising and arbitrary; life’s beautiful, aint it?

Ok, enough of my random ramblings.

Anyway, amidst all the female musicians I saw on youtube, I found one which has the most potential of being my girlfriend.

Nah, in my dreams only. But among all the females guitarists I have seen, most of them have the worst stoned face expression I’ve ever seen, some of them played without any soul at all and some are cleavage baring.

But anyway, this Korean lady is covering Larry Carlton’s Bubble Shuffle and she is using a Fender Strat.

Support Local Music. Rock For Wayne; Rock with me as I turn Private.

2007-06-10T16:13:00.000+08:00

Rock for Wayne - A tribute to the drummer of The Suns who had passed away. A tribute to kick start the efforts done by him to spice up the local music scene. Renamed as Rock for Wayne, this tribute show will showcase some of the best local bands. Enough to rock you for good and enjoy the local music scene. Get your tickets from The Pavilion at Far East Square now!

you wake up every morning, just in time to watch the dark sky and the stars glitters. Somewhere across the horizon, the sun breaking out. Birds chirping, reminding you of home. But when you think of home, you think of your bed and when you hear the chirping sounds, you know its morning but you would just cover your blanket over your head, clutch your favourite soft toy and go back to sleep.
How nice.

Shouts bellowed from somewhere. My dreams of my own room and my home vanished. I see people running around, dazed. Somehow, I was moving. I couldn't feel my legs but I know I was running. Images of my friends, people I know and love, my room, my soft toys and my blanket threatened to make me fall.
I stopped.
I looked up, the skies still littered with stars. This has been my best comfort. The only thing that is beautiful and magnificent, the only thing that reminded me about the beauty of life.

I looked ahead. My arms swinging back and forth. I was convinced I wasn't mad. I was moving in steps together with people that were as dazed as me. They were people, aesthetically beautiful in their own forms, civilized and healthy.

They were my friends, my buddies, my acquaintances.

I woke up again to the dark skies once more, this time with a strange feeling. My foot tattered with dying skin cells and clotted wounds. My muscles stretched to its limit. Images of my home do not appear often but they still do and haunt me when I looked at the dazzling lights from across the sea. I have grown sick from hearing the loud roar of planes flying over us. And sometimes, I do wonder if people inside the plane could see us, awed at how miniature things could get from above and their beauty too.

My bunk was quieter when I woke up. 3 of us had left, forever not healthy anymore. In their own form, they have become uglier. Their backs deformed, blood vessels not working, the beauty of life for them tarnished.

Back to the present, the 24km route march was an experience. Experience that I would not want to go back again, ever. But could I? Graduation is in 3 days time and I am glad i do not have to board a ferry and go to an island so detached from everything. I spent my time in empathy, understanding the workings of SAF, how individuals can sometimes feel so numb.

But whatever it is, it is a rite of passage. Like the quote I always see when I book in, "Its not what you leave behind, its what you gained in the days ahead."

Something Good

2007-06-03T15:08:00.000+08:00

Something good, an annual charity busking festival will be held from the 9th to the 17th of June. How nice. I can spend my 2 weeks block leave watching good street performers. Furthermore, the Arts Festival is also underway, which will make my block leave enjoyable. =D The sad thing is most of the performances during the Arts Festival is not free. =(

Anyway, not going to blog much. I'm going to pass out soon and this week will be my graduation route march. Hopefully, time passes this fast and 2 years will be over.

Videos ahead.

Ling. She will be performing during the busking festival and she's good. She writes like Bic and sings like Jewel(or so i think) and has the sweetness like Norah Jones.

Together with Amanda Tee. Heard Amanda is from CJ. (she still in J2) I heard rumors that there's this female guitarist from CJ by the name Amanda that can shred since last year. Maybe this is the same Amanda. Her website.

I know its getting pretty irritating to any frequent readers here that I'm talking about Bic Runga again. I hope nobody thinks I'm falling in love with her and tries to stalk her. hahaha! I'm really impressed with her talents. I have not heard a good female vocalist and songwriter since Jewel or Norah Jones or maybe Corrinne May or Rachel Yamagata. She's from New Zealand and she has Maori blood. The last time she came to Singapore was 1997 and hopefully she flies here again.

Anyway, Bic has an elder sister called Boh. She's pretty good but i still prefer Bic's music.

Bic Runga - Something Good

Bic Runga - Get Some Sleep

Bic Runga - Sway. I finally found the MV and she looked damn funny with her short hair sia.

My favourite song from Bic's latest album, Winning Arrow.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=mlgi3iA_0Ws

And this is Steve Vai performing with Nelly Furtado. They are performing I'm Like a Birdddd.

"I'm likee a birdddd!"

And so this is the end of yet another post and sadly I will be back in there for another 5 days. Its really depressing and like one of my pltn mates had said, every book in is like PMS, just that we males called it a different name. We called it the pre-book in syndrome. Your mood just dropped tremendously and no matter how much inspiring music u play, it just cannot lift your spirit.

HAI

I survived sia.

2007-05-05T23:33:00.000+08:00

Nabei, i can't believe I was in the jungle on a Saturday and then rushed like mad back to our bunks and prepared our bags to book out without bathing for a full 3 days.

Imagine how we stink sia.

I thought after our field camp, SIT Test wont be a problem. BUT i was so damn wrong. Field camp was heaven compared to SIT test(compared to Ninja coy, ours was total heaven). It was so damn tiring during the whole damn test as we moved from checkpoint to checkpoint. Then along the way we have to leopard crawl plus we got arty drills, depending on the officers' and sergeants' mood and then when walking to our next checkpoint, we would get lost somehow and got more tired. Sometimes along the way, some of the ppl in the team will get shot and then we have to carry the casualty to the next checkpoint. When we got tired we dropped the casualty and we have to go back again and restart.

I was so damn shagged sia, feel like giving up throughout the whole SIT test. But nevertheless I finished my SIT Test and BMT is so much easier now. I heard N coy had a bad time during their field camp. They had their field camp while we had our 4 days break and it rained almost everyday and the heaviest i think was Tuesday night. They didn't even get their canteen break and they had RO till 10.30pm. We had free time from 6pm to the next morning after our field camp. Ahaha.

Sian mann, i miss home every now and then sia. Tml have to book in again, next week booking out on a saturday again. Hai, I realise time is the thing I always take for granted sia. Its not really the comfort of the air con, my bed or the fresh food i get in civilian life. Its time sia. I got so little time everytime I book out, its beginning to be very difficult to do the things I enjoy during my civilian life. Like now, I book out few hours ago and I have to book in tml's evening and I have alot to do for my next book in. In the end I have to cancel my spiderman 3 movie and I can't watch tml either.

Damn it sia, i NEED more time.

Never mind, only 2 years nia.

I'm Back.

2007-04-30T10:23:00.000+08:00

I am so crazy over Bic Runga. I even went to amazon.com and ordered her album when i can't find them at gramophone. Brilliant songwriter, soothing voice and charismatic, I'm still waiting for her to fly to Singapore and perform. Somehow i think she bears a certain resemblance to Jacintha Abisheganaden.

These 2 songs are my favourite. "Listening to the Weather" from Beautiful Collision album has very beautiful lyrics, a good vision of life and the love in it and "Sway" from the Drive album.

"Listening to the Weather"

"Sway" Not her actual video, but the background music is from her album. The lady in the video is not Bic but someone who is lip-syncing her.

I just got back from my 2 weeks confinement and enjoying my 4 days break. Field camp was an experience that I will never forget. It was more mentally tormenting than physically strenuous. Many of my platoon mates broke down, especially when digging the shell-scrape.

Argh, many more days to march 2009. damn it.

Bic Runga and Ana Free

2007-04-08T16:06:00.000+08:00

BIC RUNGA!!

Sway is my favourite but she doesnt have a MV for it. This is the best live quality i can find.

This is Ana Free doing a cover of Sway.

And this song called Drive by Bic Runga is the song that made Bic famous.

Hai Today is my book in day, sian.

Bloody Conscript Army

2007-04-06T08:58:00.000+08:00

There you go,
I'm a conscript now.
obligated to serve the nation and stuck in a far far place in the south china sea.
I am in B coy now or Bronco Company, the only company to have warrant officers as our platoon commanders.
All of them the same one, damn vulgar. The platoon 4 PC is the worst. All the tattoos spread over his arms and every single sentence got the F-word. Our OC also damn funny. Instead of pronouncing lanjiao properly, he keep saying lap cheong (he's an indian so dun blame him). Now because of that, my platoon is crazy over saying lap cheong.

My platoon also damn funny. u know every night the tekong night very starry one. can see the moon so clearly, can see the glittering stars and sometimes faint light from a distant planet can be seen too. anyway, we were falling in after night snack and as usual our sergeants were missing. So some of the ppl in the platoon start doing a hand motion and sang "Pei Wo Qu Kan Liu Xing Yu"(watch the shooting stars with me). They did it for around 3 times and a plane flew by. Because at night, there are lights at the fuselage of the plane, so it looks like stars flying by in the night sky. SO, my platoon mates all went "WOW!!" damn hilarious lah.

then there was conflict already in my platoon. like this person who always like to be the right marker during fall in and also he talks alot. So we called him RM, a.k.a right marker a.k.a recruit major a.k.a no. 1. Then one of my pltn mates got pissed off because he kana guard duty due to someone's SBO. He almost want to punch the guy lor. Then another incident was that our corporal saw someone pouring water from our platoon level. He asked all of us to come down and ask who did it. nobody replied what, so we kana fucked. So as usual, everyone was angry, everyone was suspecting everyone.

next week is the last week of ptp liao. so fast sia, how i wish ptp dun end so fast. im dreading bmt lor, it would mean less admin time, night pt and many more shit, summore i have another 12 days stay-in in 2 weeks time. argh! After thinking of the goals i wanna achieve in NS, i have decided to chiong for guards. I heard its very tough, everyday must chiong-sua down there but nothing beats the experience of fighting war in a chopper and rappel down from it and go fight a war. Also, i heard during the guardsmen survival training, u must kill a snake and drink its blood. But i want to wear the khaki coloured beret and don a guards tab on my left shoulder.

hahah, now its my long weekend, shiok ah!

BYEBYEBYE!

2007-03-15T23:05:00.000+08:00

IM GOING OFF TO THE ARMY. SEE YOU PEOPLE IN 2 WEEKS TIME. BYE BYE!

A casualty of my own incompetence.

2007-03-04T00:36:00.000+08:00

What if i tell you that this post is filled with depressing, angst ridden thoughts? Would you want to read on and listen to my self-deprecating comments on my life? Probably you would, because you wanted to read how pitiful and depressing this guy actually is and maybe had a good sneer in front of your computer's screen whilst chain of thoughts whizzed past your Grey matter in your skull.

Depressed, however does not necessarily mean sad or low in spirits, even though they are the conventional definition for that particular emotion. But it is also synonymous to being discourage; a sense of hopelessness and low self confidence.

But what exactly am I trying to say here? You must be wondering and probably expecting me to start off with a self-pity remark. I could have typed my wish to end my life so as to escape the realities of life because my results were bad even though i have a perfect family and life or maybe I could have typed that I am much healthier, full of vigour in real life but I am still unsuccessful and unhappy in life because what matters in this society is your education qualifications.

But come on, self-pity is for losers. Period.

It does amaze me that self-pity is a trait in which humans indulges in to find solace. Most of us do it subconsciously, some do it to find comfort. But this is not my point in writing this blog entry. My point is simple, i did badly for my A levels and i decided that to start off with a self-pity, depressing post about my bad results would turn people off. At the same time, I have been going through some introspective thoughts on my results and the only thing i could think of is that I am a casualty of my own incompetence.

Anyhow, I went for my last day of work on Thursday. I was reluctant to leave actually but both clement and I have no choice because we are going to be conscripted in 2.5 weeks time. Last meal there was sumptuous and the people there were as heartwarming as usual. I was pretty surprised that they actually gave us parting gifts and that really really touched me. Handshakes were exchanged when we left and it was emotional(HAHA but i wasnt joking). Fortunately, clement tore down the shelves as we were about to leave. We have to stayed back for 30 mins to move back the shelves and the files. It was tiring but we didnt mind.

Memories.....

Hmm..

2007-02-24T14:07:00.000+08:00

Hello!
Its been ages since i last blog huh?
Damn it! I'm losing my readers!
But come to think of it, who would really want to read about the life of an average joe?

Anyway, i stumbled onto this website which amazes me because it really do justice to my motto, "Think Simple". Simple diagrams like them speaks more than i write on this post. Go and visit it @ http://www.indexed.blogspot.com .

I finally bought a new guitar. Unfortunately it isn't Ibanez JEM. My guitar belongs to the family of Ibanez Prestige series. Although its pickups are stock pickups from Ibanez, i love its tremolo lock. Beautiful, sexy and well polished, the Edge Pro tremolo lock is not to be messed with. It keeps ur strings in tune even after hours and hours of wanking with the whammy bar.

Headstock of my new axe. You can see my tremolo lock.

My axe's bed!

The bridge part of the tremolo lock. I know its not parallel to the body but luckily the tech guy helped me fix this.

Welcome to the family, heh.

Well, of course like every new stuff i bought, i have difficulties using the guitar initially. This machine is more complex than my old guitar because my old guitar is a fixed bridge while my new one is a floating bridge. Therefore, tuning the strings is a hassle and takes more time now and when changing a new set of strings, i have to be extra careful because im using more tools to change. When i first started using it, i have to tune it every 30 mins and it was extremely annoying but soon after it got better after the guitar tech guy taught me the essentials. =D

Ok, enough of guitars lah. I'm always talking about guitars, music and more music and it probably bore most of you off because i know you want to know more about my life. haha! Anyway, clement and I are going to work for the last week next week. I've never regretted going there to work and in fact im so grateful to be there. Besides the experiences gained from there, it has also showed me that the society is not that bad as it seems. The people are so nice, really nice(maybe because we are still kids, heh) but we do quarrel with them but in a more slap-stick manner, like Dilbert comics and the office show on arts central.

Probably going back there when i finish NS.

Anyway, i watched 2 new films this month. Both of them pretty sucked

I know nothing about Ghostrider being a character from Marvel comics but that doesnt mean i will not understand the movie. The movie has an extremely lousy plot and besides Nicholas Cage, i dont like any actors/actresses in there at all. The only thing that complements it is the CGI effects. Dont watch it unless you are a big fan of CGI effects.

Jack Neo's Just Follow Law did not do as good as his previous films. It is about 2 person, Lee Teng Zui(Gurmit Singh) and Tanya Chew(Fann Wong) exchanging their souls due to a freak accident. Along the way, the ironies of being a public servant and an insight look of the workings of endless hierarchies in a govt office is slowly pointed out to the audiences from the 2 main characters and their acquaintances using parodies and slap-stick humor. Personally, i think the parodies in this movie is really pathetic and some of them are really old. Jokes such as the CCTV-Gomez thing was used in a very distasteful manner. But of course there are a few memorable and humorous ones which would still tickle our funny bone. On the brighter side of things, the performance by the actors in the film managed to save the film. It was very fresh watching Fann Wong acting a very different character and personality in her years in showbiz. I especially like her crying scene at the last part of the movie because it was so raw, so honest. Love it. This time round, memorable figures like Mark Lee and Patricia Mok were not present but they were replaced by the quirky, law abiding Indian security guard. Watch out for him! Even though the plot manages to bring its point out, it has some difficulties ending the story. The ending was really horrible, it was as if the scriptwriter wanted a twisted ending but decided that he couldn't think of one, so he finishes off with a happy ending. bah! Watch it if you have money to spare.

I recommend anyone who is reading this to watch these movies. Its a must WATCH!

and also not to forget Donnie Darko. Heh! Im going to jchua hse to watch it tonight, yay!

Mosaic Music Festival

2007-01-28T02:27:00.000+08:00

Ok this is a badly edited picture. You can see the uneven edges and the slanted border. Well its my first time using Adobe Photoshop since 10000 years ago.

And finally,
I have been waiting for this for 2 years already! This year, the festival will feature both local and foreign talents through jazz, world music, soul, electroclash, hip-hop and more. WOW! But i hate hip-hop and some of the traditional music from certain groups but there's always other artists that would compliment that! On top of that, i get to watch Rani Singam perform! She's a lawyer turned full time singer and was once dubbed the Nightingale of Raffles Girls' School! Our very own local jazz singer. BUT, i was so shocked when i heard that she's performing for the kids! WHAT THE HELL! =( . C'mon do u think the kids will actually appreciate and enjoy the jazz musician? Bah!

Call sistic now and buy those tickets!

http://www.mosaicmusicfestival.com

Just like how Singapore needs more street musicians, we need more street graffiti like this and this. They could liven up our streets with more improv-actors walking around, like them.

And..
Before I die or anyone who is reading this,
All of u should go watch the movie Donnie Darko. I have not watched it yet but its on the list of top 55 things u should do before u die and the movie's website is uber awesome. Winner of numerous awards, you should not hesitate to visit it.

Nice sia!

latest bites :)

2007-01-21T21:41:00.000+08:00

I've realised why i should'nt change my blog layout and stick with the customized layouts done by blogger. New layouts from blogskins.com makes my life more difficult than ever. I can't even edit the HTML codes through the blogger's new tool, thus this new layout will remain as it is.

I still felt dejected and frustrated when I saw the price tag for the Ibanez JEM. How in the world would I be able to afford it? A couple of weeks ago, I went for my first day of work, thinking that at the end of the month I would be able to save up enough to buy that guitar.

"Finally, a job that is reliable and stable."

Fresh out of school, I thought having a job would be good before enlisting into the army. I went there with abit of over-enthusiasm because I was bent on working to my objective, my new electric guitar.

Still grinning, I decided to drop by at Swee Lee Music Store at Bras Basah Complex after work. I just could'nt stop thinking about it. My fanactism was so powerful that I could'nt control the urge of going there. I fantasized about how I would be able to produce the colourful, warm and thick tone Steve Vai always manages to produce.

There it was, gleaming in its whiteness. The pine tree of life on the fretboard was glowing, as if it was motioning me over. Its surreal scream and tone transcends all of human imagination.

Then, I saw this piece of paper hanging on the tuning pegs. It was'nt supposed to be there. I thought if this were to be part of the guitar, then it would be a fashion disaster for the looks department. The content on the paper seems to be clearer with every blink of my eyes.

It was like how a boy would feel when a girl rejected him. That feeling of lost, unwanted and broken soon overwhelmed me.

Tears soon welled up in my eyes...

***

ok. i was bored.

My Love.......so far away.

2007-01-18T23:30:00.000+08:00

ka ni na bu chao chee bye....

Yes.
U cannot see meh.
I damn angry now.

I saw my first love
My heart melts
My world stopped moving at that instance.

I watched how she stood there.
Gleaming
Her skin so smooth, so pale.
Her body so solid, very slim and beautiful.

I like the way she turns me on.
But when i saw her with another man,
I was feeling damn cheebye.

ka ni nah bei chao chee bye - i thought.

all my love for her gone down the drain.
bitch
I've waited for her for years.

Everyday, i will travel to Bugis just to see her
I will stand by the window, watching her,
standing there minding her own business.

Many men lust for her.
but i know its just because they are damn horny.
But limpeh?
I'M FOR REAL!
I GIVE U TRUE LOVE.

I know i cannot afford to live with u.
I'm poor, i have so many problems with my family and all.
My family hates u, they hate u so much.
But i'm prepared to leave them for u.
I will work hard to live with u forever n ever.

hai.

I just want to say

I LOVE U, IBANEZ JEM!

This is Ibanez JEM, my first love. Chio or not?

sorry people.
i know i've just wasted a few minutes of ur life. but i just wanna say i'm so pissed off with the ever increasing price of Ibanez JEM. Last year it was 1.7k, now its 4.7k. When will i ever get to play that guitar and be steve vai?

Like i said mann, i will stand at the window of the guitar shop to admire that guitar. Its designed by the legendary musician, Steve Vai. I swear by it and will never buy any other guitars mann. Waited for 1 bloody year and I'm still waiting, damn it.

=(

Chicks that rock!

2007-01-15T23:01:00.000+08:00

This girl covered steve vai's song. can u just imagine it? She's holding an Ibanez JEM, played the full song(the crying machine) and she got more balls than me. But she made alot of mistakes here and there, her bending and vibrato was bad and she screwed up at the last part. But whatever it is, it doesnt matter. She's probably like 14 and has the damn courage to perform on stage. bravo man.

note: I would advise anyone who really want to watch this to turn down their subwoofer(but not shut it down) because its either the audio quality in the video that sucked or the band didnt do a good sound check.

for the REAL steve vai version, u can go to http://youtube.com/watch?v=SNrDWdVrnrU

Next is Vixen mann! Vixen is from the 80's and its one of the few female heavy metal bands still surviving. Steve Vai's wife, Pia Vai, was a former bass player of Vixen. \m/

Edge of the broken Heart. My favourite song mann! Too bad, i can't find their MVs anymore.

Crying

oh man. why dont they have this kind of music anymore?

Not Ready To Make Nice

2007-01-14T00:06:00.000+08:00

This is why i love the dixie chicks so much.

Forgive, sounds good
Forget, I’m not sure I could
They say time heals everything
But I’m still waiting

I’m through with doubt
There’s nothing left for me to figure out
I’ve paid a price
And I’ll keep paying

I’m not ready to make nice
I’m not ready to back down
I’m still mad as hell and
I don’t have time to go round and round and round
It’s too late to make it right
I probably wouldn’t if I could
‘Cause I’m mad as hell
Can’t bring myself to do what it is you think I should

I know you said
Can’t you just get over it
It turned my whole world around
And I kind of like it

I made my bed and I sleep like a baby
With no regrets and I don’t mind sayin’
It’s a sad sad story when a mother will teach her
Daughter that she ought to hate a perfect stranger
And how in the world can the words that I said
Send somebody so over the edge
That they’d write me a letter
Sayin’ that I better shut up and sing
Or my life will be over

I’m not ready to make nice
I’m not ready to back down
I’m still mad as hell and
I don’t have time to go round and round and round
It’s too late to make it right
I probably wouldn’t if I could
‘Cause I’m mad as hell
Can’t bring myself to do what it is you think I should

I’m not ready to make nice
I’m not ready to back down
I’m still mad as hell and
I don’t have time to go round and round and round
It’s too late to make it right
I probably wouldn’t if I could
‘Cause I’m mad as hell
Can’t bring myself to do what it is you think I should
*(What it is you think I should)*

Forgive, sounds good
Forget, I’m not sure I could
They say time heals everything
But I’m still waiting

You have all the rights to voice your opinions, girls.

If you're looking for witty, sarcastic Brit comedy, Black Books is the one.

Episode 1 Part 1

Episode 1 Part 2

Episode 1 Part 3

Another long post. Really damn long man. VERY VERY LONG. Even i also buey tahan.

2006-12-31T19:11:00.000+08:00

u can skip to the last few paragraphs if u are bored.

I'm so disturbed by the fact that Saddam Hussein has been executed. The videos I saw on msnbc.com showed a man expressing no fear at all and remained defiant even in the hour of his own execution. That defiance reminded me of Herman Goring, the 2nd in command of the Third Reich during the Nuremberg Trials. If u watched the 3 part miniseries of Nuremberg, you will get what i mean. The defiant Goring would wear sun glasses in the courtroom when a witness is presented in the court for the judge, he would not wear the earphones to listen to the testimony of the witness because he did not want to hear the translation and he strongly believes that anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany has no difference between the segregation laws in USA. That defiance brought respect to the fellow defendants(excluding Albert Speer) and boost their confidence in hope of winning the trials. With his practical and quick response to the questions asked about the crimes committed by the Nazis, the defendants won the early rounds of the trials, prompting the allies to change the course of the trials as they were afraid all defendants would be acquitted for crimes against humanity.

Despite being defiant and not remorseful, Saddam was sentenced to death by hanging, just like Herman Goring. Both of them were denied the opportunity to die a soldier's death, i.e by shooting. Both were charged with crimes against humanity, with Goring being the most extreme. Saddam was hanged eventually and Goring committed suicide much to the dismay of the allies.
Even though both committed crimes against humanity, I think both of them deserved the right to choose how they were going to die. However, i am against capital punishment because i believe the notion that no one has the right to be the bearer of death of another, no matter how serious the crime is.

I heard from the news that an Indonesian ferry has just sunk and more than 400 went missing. Its really sad to know that such tragic events can happen 2 days before a new year. The reason why i wrote about this was because I saw waves that went 3 storeys high (or the height of the ferry i was on) when I was in Thailand travelling on a medium size ferry, capable of ferrying 200 or so people. It was cool for a moment lah, some ang mohs went to the top of the ferry to sun-tan thinking that they wont get wet. But in the end, everyone was soaked. The ship didnt rocked as violently as that Indonesian ferry(choy!) but the waves was huge enough and strong enough to engulf us mann. Now it reminds me of the movie, Poisedon, in which a rouge wave capsized the cruise ship, bigger than Titanic. (dunno true or not)

Talking about the Thailand trip, it was fun, no thanks to my uncle(i went there with my uncle). I saw the nice beautiful beaches in Phuket, snorkeled there too and bargain like siao in Hat Yai. I see alot of trans in Hat Yai lor, met one sommore. I didnt know the person there was a trans because the person there looks like some hot Thai girl. Finally when we leaving the shop, my uncle gave that person small sum of tip, initially that person smiled and I was expecting a very feminine thank you. The next moment was quite shocking, coz he replied with 2 palms together said Thank You in Thai in a male voice. I wasnt disrespecting them by appearing shock, i was just shocked lah.

Everything went well in Thailand until the day when lim peh decided to buy a guitar from Hat Yai. I saw a Jem look-alike guitar made by Barracuda. I decided to buy there since its only 400 SGD there and 1700 SGD back home. I was curious why the guitar was made by Barracuda and not Ibanez and i soon realised the pickups on that guitar is not D'Marzio and the wood they used to make the guitar has different quality compared to Ibanez made Jem, thats why it cost only 400 SGD. Anyway, that guitar shop guy has alot of integrity, even though I was a potential customer. He said buying in thailand is actually more ex than Singapore because Thailand charges 200% tax. But nvm, i was too embarrased to buy from him because if i were to buy, it would be like going against good advice.

I decided to go to some old man shop. Thats where i got really pissed off. This old man told me i can't try the guitars with a pick becos he was afraid I would scratch it. I was thinking if its accoustic guitar, its okay without a pick. But with an electric, i need to hear how it sound like when i do pinch harmonics, when i do sweeping on 3 strings, when i palm mute, when i do fast alternate picking. But after awhile, i said nevermind, just let me use without the pick. I thought everything was okay, then this old man started to recoil the wire, off the amplifier and decided not to sell me, even though i told him i would not use a pick. Fuck man, i was so damn pissed. Where got ppl do business like that 1? My uncle told me that night that he believe the old man was like that because he thot i wasn't going to buy, only to try. @#$%

ok lah, this post really damn long liao but i have alot of things to say but i can't blog it here either. I wanna talk about the party i had at my cousin's house, the party with elvan and gang and so on and on. but they are damn draggy. So i just blog what's important.

Anyway, tml is new year liao lor, 2007! And very soon, lim peh going to become a soldier lor, an honour in other countries, maybe here also, but something to drag going to right here. I will be missing alot of my friends also lor, like the chua chu kang cum bukit batok gang, benji+jesse+thatwholegroup of people, elvan and gang, naraen n gang, my guitar buddies, few people from my jc class like xl, bill and xc and of course not forgetting the most impt thing in my life, my guitar! hawhawhaw!

Before the clock strikes 12 tonight ah, limpeh want to thank...(sound very bo liao right, but lim peh loves my peng you mah!) for making this year damn shiok lor.

J chua for introducing to me good music, a gd fren for like 4 years, someone able to go out with and talk nonsense without any strings attached and shawn, clement, yu hsien(he's back from US till tuesday), alvin ong and harshal for the same reasons and we will still remain the chua chu kang cum bukit batok gang. hawhawhaw! (btw alvin ong, j chua pissed with ur november 2005 post. hawhaw, the one which u walked with harshal at westmall)

naraen n winston for being the most crappiest bunch of jokers i ever met. I picked up the hawhawhaw laugh from u guys, the soniyerbitchernayi from u guys and all the crappiest things i ever known and i also started playing CS again becoz of u guys.

benji, jesse, wei yu, xue cong, yanyi, quan you, xing long for being my great buddies in and out of school. For having lunch with me, flag poled me twice this year, video taped my candid moments and putting up on you tube sommore and getting the principals involved, talk cock with me, help me alot in my sch work, understand whats life, asked the girl i like whether she got stead, for calling me monkey, spamming my blog and yes I WILL NEVER FORGET THE DAY U GUYS KIDNAPPED ME BEFORE GRADUATION AND TORTURED ME AFTER THE A LEVELS. haha!

elvan, ivan, wei sin, manoj, dinah, melissa for being my great buddies. We talk alot alot alot of cock everywhere we go and u guys have the greatest sense of humour. I would laugh non-stop with u guys lor. Must thank you guys for being my fashion makeover artist, hawhawhaw and for inviting me to all kinds of freaking fun parties with all the nice drinks.

bill and wt for having paper ball fights with me in class and to practise my hokkien swearing on.
calvin tan, jeremy frois, qing lun and bryan kwek for being great friends even after we left sji
kzh and jasper my internet buddies who has not forget me after we haven met up for so long
and
of course to the girl that i have like for like 1.5 yrs but nvr had the guts to tell her ah. heehee.

hawhaw, thats all man. so damn long, dunno who will read this anyway.

I will disappear

2006-12-15T23:37:00.000+08:00

Hello!

I'm blogging from my pentium 3 pc. hawhaw! finally the internet is up on this pc and i can play games with my bro now!

i will be leaving for thailand for an eight days trip, so if u guys want me to buy anything for you and if you are lucky enough, i might check my inbox(if i can find a cybercafe) when you send me a request through email.

Lim peh sitting thai airways only lor, unlike that ivan ong. go thailand sit first class 1 lor. lucky bastard.

I finally bought a LED ZEPPLIN T-Shirt from ZARA man! Wah lau, cost me a whopping 60 bucks man. I can buy 6 months worth of strings man! BUT NEVERMIND, ITS LED ZEPPLIN. I'm still saving up for that 200 bucks LED ZEPPLIN platinum collection at THE CD SHOP. I saw THE WHO and GUNS N ROSES T-shirt at Zara too. But it will cost me 180 bucks to buy all of them. =((((

Im so fucking happy right now, coz my cousin is a walking rock dictionary. He has the rarest of the most rare songs from the super duper uber extremely rare bands man. Bands like Kane Roberts, Ratt, GUN, Bad English, Pretty Boy Floyd and many many more. Not only that, he has all kinds of genres man, ranging from baroque to contemporary classical, classic punk to vintage rock, oldies to new age, swing jazz to avant garde jazz. OH MAN! I ripped all these music from his pc to my IPOD. ITS GOOD SHIET MAN. I copied 700 chinese pop music somemore. Thats not all too, i have malay, thai, korean and japan pop and unfortunately(for me) there is also techno. Argh, i hate techno.

Ok, thats for now man. im going to pack my bag. Im not really looking forward to go Thailand actually, but yesterday trip out with elvan and the gang made me realise i need more clothes and buying at Singapore is really kaninah expensive. Hawhaw!! time to go slash price in Thailand, the land of smiles.....

.....or not.
My cousin got slapped by a calculator thrown by a Thai who is obviously not smiling because my cousin slashed too much. hawhawhaw!

I'm getting mouldy

2006-12-11T11:14:00.000+08:00

I was supposed to go out with the class for ice skating but they cancelled it last night. Argh! I was looking forward to this trip man. =( It seems that everytime when I am excited about the ice skating trip organised by the class, it will be cancelled in the end. hmmph.

I rent 6 dvds cum vcds and watch them in 2 days. It gives me headaches at the end of the day though but i would'nt deny that some of the videos are nice. Personally, I love Hard Candy, Be with Me and The Terminal.

Be With me is a very inspiring, touching and introspective kind of movie that makes you ask whether if true love really exist, regardless whether the person is in his/her teenage years, middle age or the old age and Eric Khoo made a point not to leave out true love among homosexuals. Although he got a little bit draggy on the memoirs of Theresa Chan(this movie is part memoirs, part story kind of movie), i still think overall the movie is pretty good. Go watch it man!

Hard Candy makes me go sick actually. I wanted to watch this after my promos, but one of my friend has'nt had his birthday yet. Its produced by Liongates, the production company that produces the Saw series. Its amazing that Lion Gates could produce such a thriller and provocative movie with the tight budget they have. Its like SAW 1, they play with the audience's mind and "test" their moral and ethics values. At the end of the movie, a twist unimaginable occurs and the audience will realise why they were angry at the wrong person.

The Terminal. I dont really have much to say about this but I was totally amused by the movie(Catherine Zeta Jones is so pretty man!). Amazing and Hilarious. Go watch it if u have'nt!

Damn, im really getting mouldy now. I haven been going out of my house for 2 whole days man. Wed, i have this museum trip with my sec sch class. I hope its a success cos i really don't want to end up playing lan and i hope the admission for the art museum is free since we are old boys of sji and art museum resides in the old sji complex.

I AM SOOOOOOO BORED!

Bold As Love - A Jimi Hendrix Classic!

2006-12-07T11:52:00.000+08:00

ANGER!

He smiles, towering in shiny metallic purple armor.
Green jealousy, envy waits behind every door, her fiery Green gown
snares at the grassy ground.

Blue are the life giving waters, taken for granted,
they quietly understand.

A once happy Turquoise army lay opposite and ready
but wonder why the fight is on.

But they're are all bold as love
they're all bold as love
Yeah, they're all bold as love
Just ask the axis

My Red is so confident, that he flashes tokens of war
and ribbons of euphoria
orange is young and full of daring
but very unsteady for the first go around.

My Yellow in this case is not so mellow in fact I'm trying to say,
it's frightened like me, and all these emotions of mine
keep tolling me from giving my life to a Rainbow like you,

But I'm A...yeah
I'm Bold as Love, yeah, yeah
Well I'm Bold, Bold as Love
Hear me talking
I'm Bold as love,
Just ask the axis, he knows everything.
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah

This song is another classic by Hendrix. Even after many years since Hendrix's demise, people around the world still plays his songs. His greatest hits during his music career are timeless and soulful, which makes his stand out amongst the rest.

John Mayer did a cover for this too. Personally i think both Hendrix and him are great, just that Mayer's guitar tone is not of the same tone as Hendrix's. Even though people had commented that Mayer's version was better because of his impressive vocals, i think otherwise.

Here's the video to the music.

Jimi Hendrix's Version

John Mayer Covering the song.

EA Games: Those soniyerbitchernayis capitalists!

2006-12-06T01:43:00.000+08:00

Fuck

I hate EA Games right now. Big coporate company monopolise most of the favourite games but in the end, it doesnt perform as good as it should be. It shows only one thing, it wants to gain as much profit as they can by selling bugged and unstable games.

Soniyerbitchernayi!

In order to fix those god damned bugs, i have to download patches. Being a small market Singapore is, servers are located overseas, i.e in Hong Kong and Japan. So that means my download speed will decrease. Not only that, in order to download at a higher rate, one must pay more to enjoy greater speed. Damn those capitalist!

Whatever man!

I went jamming just now with my old buddies and 1 new guy. This new guy is also another soniyerbitchernayi. Jamming is costly and with only 2 hours to spare, one should take jamming seriously and not a session to fuck around. Carrying a guitar and playing the guitar is 2 different things. Apparently, this guy has the talent to carry his guitar around with an ego unimaginable but when its the time to play, he starts to ka jiao everyone. The drummer was on time and he was'nt, so he thought the drummer screwed up and then start shouting fuck this n fuck that. you suck n all that. Man, damn it i was pissed but as usual, i always smile. So i said why dont u start off with a lick, and we all will improvise. That guy look at me for a few seconds and decided to play some lick of his.
I thought it was quite impressive because his ideas was quite refreshing but his stupid ego came back again. When the drummer starts off, then followed by me, that soniyerbitchernayi say shut the fuck up, dont disturb me and said that his lick was good, so just let me solo first for a while.

I could'nt take it anymore, so the drummer and I just left without paying.

I'm going to sleep right now, tml there's a hell lot of activities. Now i am wondering whether i should just go to swee lee n buy a new axe. Sunday's jamming is another headache because i haven got my new axe. Damn sian, i have absolute no confidence of bringing my Aria to jam, damnit.

kk, i'm tired. bb

Beck a.k.a The Mongolian Chop Squad

2006-12-02T11:31:00.000+08:00

I've just finished watching the whole season of the anime, "Beck" or better known as "Mongolian Chop Squad". The characters in there are so captivating that I felt sad when the last episode ended.It was about the life changing experiences that happened to this young Japanese boy called Koyuki. It all started with him finding a lost weird looking dog. Its owner, Ray, apparently a former band member of a disbanded Japanese band(lim peh forget the name) and at the same time happened to know one of the member of Dying Breed, Eddie (not van halen pls!) was delighted of course. This is also the time when Koyuki was appalled by the music Ray plays and enchanted by the way Ray plays his guitar. And then Koyuki went on to find himself on a journey of rock n roll, guitar playing and the perils faced when record deals and the danger of losing their own lives plays an important part not just on their music and survival, but also on the romance that is brewing between Koyuki and Ray's sister, Maho-chan.

Watch it here

Lim peh can feel for the characters, especially Koyuki because once u pick up the guitar and have a passion for it, its never going to be the same. I'm not talking about dreams of being in a glam rock band or enjoying the rock n roll lifestyle of LSDs, beers and chicks. Its about the feeling, a sense of satisfaction of playing music and not be embarrassed of what genre i'm playing. Koyuki went through a lot of hard work, running from places to places, envying guitarists from around his neighbourhood and also from his school. Along the way, he learnt through many teachers, embarrassing himself in front of auditions but still came out strong as an important member and of course a very brave and passionate soul of Beck

Prom night was fun lah. That hotel room Dinah booked in Ritz Carlton was really a sweet suite. Feel like a country pumpkin when i went there coz everything in there was awesome. The scenery up there was breathtaking, the bathroom of that suite was even better. Elvan n wei sin had alot of fun in that bathroom heh! After that was prom night liao lor. Then finish liao, i decided to go for the post prom party. Never been to clubbing before, so i just try. DXO was pretty small and the band playing there was like shit. The singer was asking more ppl to come n mosh at the dance floor, but no one was that enthu lah.

now sian liao. im gg out liao, bb.

Demise of a blog and loving jack black's worshipping of the "Satan"

2006-11-28T00:43:00.000+08:00

there are 2 soniyerbitchernayis here trying to ka jiao(disturb) me. But these 2 nayis are my acquaintances(or are they?), who are trying to nose around my blog for the latest gossips or personal thoughts that they hope i post it up here.

nope so sorry. i find it difficult to write personal thoughts right here, i.e who i boh su ka(don't like) lah, who i su ka(like) lah, or i want to kill that guy lah, or this guy/girl is so n so lah.

HAHAHA, u can never find out!

I decided to give up trying to log into my another blog. Its been ages since I have logged into that and consequently i have forgotten both my username n password, coz i dont use "vaineo" as my username. So too bad lor, its gone forever. anyway its kind of useless.

anyone reading this should go watch Tenacious D and the pick of destiny. Its M18 though. extremely funny, stupid plot but yet hilarious and still keeps u entertained. what u expect mah, ben stiller production leh! There's this quote i like from the movie; "the little voice in your heart that says have sex all day or fuck you"
It was talking about how Satan, like God is in anyone's heart and not just material stuffs that signifies Satan.

How true.

Life After As...Blissfulness

2006-11-24T13:25:00.000+08:00

i rejected fender. The feel and the chemistry is just right for me, but the sound is very disappointing. Too twangy for the distortion, too muddy for the overdrive.

anyhow, life after As is pretty blissful. Ever since the end of As, my days are packed with all kinds of activities. Sibei busy one, finally today can have a day by myself.

the other day, xl, bill n me went jamming. Stupid la, waste my time n money. A lesson learnt though. Never go fucking jamming without a proper drummer or singer. bill was whacking the cymbals so hard until my fucking ears was going deaf. feel damn pissed off lor. but we did a couple of songs, which was rather successful. we played sweet child o' mine, knocking on heaven's door and some improvisation on different keys.
Before that jamming session, we had kbox and some lan with some ppl from our class la. We sang quite a lot, some of the songs damn crappy. Lucky i left for the jamming or not I have to sing that jennifer lopez song.

sian la. i dunno what to blog also lor. lucky next week got class chalet, or not i also dunno what to do. now i feel that go into NS earlier is actually better la. Faster go in, faster come out mah. Sian, somemore when i go into NS, is not straight into BMT lor, is into that PTP, coz lim bei fail napfa.

2006-11-16T19:05:00.000+08:00

WASSUP!!!

Vai neo is back again.

(applause!)

Kum Xia!! (Thank you in Hokkien).

OK la, i know its not very funny but I'm too happy liao. A levels going to finish by tomorrow! I dont have to take physics, chemistry and my mother tongue for the rest of my life!

I've nothing to blog actually lah. Tomorrow my paper is in the afternoon so I can slack abit. I have not touch anything yet since my 2nd last paper which is physics paper 3. Its ok though, coz tml's only mcq.

Anyway, alvin lee's going to sell me his fender tml. I fought with my parents because of that. I know its 2nd hand but that doesnt meant it has to be as cheap as possible. They dont understand how Fender guitars work and its feel and their tone is fucking superb. Selling at 1.2 k for a 2.5k guitar is actually a good steal. I still get the certificate of authencity and a hard case.
Actually if swee lee is offering JEM guitars for less than $1500, i might consider ditching alvin's deal, since i hate single coil guitars.

ok, thats it.

Sebastian Bach of Skid Row Attacking a Fan. \m/

Marty Friedman and Paul Gilbert in some Jap Show. (its ok if u dun understand, coz i dont. Just listen to the guitars.)

Wah! Damn Jia lat!.

2006-10-19T08:19:00.000+08:00

"The kidnappers of an Italian journalist in Afghanistan have offered to free him in exchange for a Christian convert who fled the country, an aid agency says.

Photojournalist Gabriele Torsello was seized last week while travelling on a bus in southern Afghanistan.

The kidnappers will free Mr Torsello, a Muslim convert, if Abdul Rahman returns from Italy where he was granted asylum earlier this year, the aid agency says.
Mr Rahman had escaped a possible death sentence for becoming a Christian. "

Read full story here

Will they(Italian Authorities) actually meet the kidnappers' demands by handing over Mr Abdul Rahman?

Is it fair to cause someone to walk to his death (assuming that the death sentence is in effect against the christian convert) in order to save another person's life?

It is not a demand that a decent human being would ever consider," the politician, Rocco Buttiglione, told the BBC.

"We are not ready to offer one human life for another human life... It is barbarian, inhuman, and it grinds against any accepted convention on human rights."

What about Mr. Torsello then?

Phucking Long Post. But patience is a virtue, you know?

2006-09-28T19:50:00.001+08:00

"SONIYERBITCHERNAYI!!!!!"

That's Tamil btw. Its the only word i can swear confidently, thanks to my secondary school friend.

I just got back almost all my papers. I did'nt phucking pass most of the subject! How can that be!?! Especially my Physics, my marks is so low until i myself and Mr Wong can't believe it. No, i'm not trying to self-deprecate myself on the net, but seriously I'm stiffled by my really poor results.(ok im exaggerating). So now, I have no choice lor, have to consult Mr Wong almost daily to pass my Physics. =(

Today, GP lesson got me awe-struck for a while. Mr Fahy discussed about a theory that is called "Relativist Fallacy". That topic was so intellectually stimulating that i got lost for a moment, at times not sure I fully understood the theory. But this theory seems to explain why most of us always fail essays and the ka ni na application qns.

This "Relativist Fallacy" theory was explained in an article written by Stephen Law. He explained that a truth itself may be true for some people but it might not be true for others. He then goes on by saying that people always believe that their conclusion is true simply by believing it without any substantial evidence. In other words, these people have committed a logical fallacy!

This fallacy, whether committed knowingly or not, is actually an error which a person conclude their views by going with their personal feelings. So in other words, if it is based on their personal feelings, its is not the truth at all, because arguably, their evidence is not based on actual facts but just on the individual's feelings or maybe intuition.

The funny part comes in...
If a person based on his/her personal feelings, which is actually not true to a certain extent, then how could he/she deny something that is true in the first place? In other words, if he/she said something that is not accurate but yet conclude its accurate(perhaps unknowingly), how could he/she deny something that is actually accurate especially when the accurate claim is based on actual scientific facts.

Isnt the person contradicting himself?

Some really cheem stuffs. Actually hor, i dont know if i explained it correctly or not, but this is what i understand about Relativist Fallacy. Correct me if i'm wrong.

Enough about these cheem stuffs lah! Cockanathan. J Chua came over to my hse to interview me(yes i know u would go what the phuck!). This newbie director came my hse to redo the shootings because due to his inexperience of handling the cameras and gears( he doesnt know how to use the tripod and took a couple of hrs figuring how to set up the camera properly), he has to do it again today! Anyway, i had to say about my struggle towards the higher class of society. But i dont think i ever said things on that because all I did was to introduce myself, about my school, complain about anything and play the guitar. In the end, it seems like J chua wanna market me out into the music industry coz most of what he did was on my guitars.

ok lah. going to 8pm liao, i still haven touch physics tys, later mr wong give me that hopeless look again. =/

PRELIMS END LIAO!

2006-09-24T23:32:00.000+08:00

"Jimi Hendrix passed suddenly on September 18, 1970 while touring through London,
England. When news of the tragedy made its way to James “Al” Hendrix, (Jimi's
father) back in the United States, the wheels for a lasting memorial began to
take shape. Al Hendrix requested that Jimi's body be brought back to his
birthplace of Seattle, Washington so that a burial at a new family plot, located
at Greenwood Memorial Park in Renton could be performed... "

Read more here.

R.I.P Hendrix.

Prelims finally ended, concluding one of my worst nightmares. Soon, a new impending doom will be bestowed on me. KA NI NA! The phucking A levels is starting in 1 month!!! ARGHH....

2006-09-10T15:00:00.000+08:00

OMG! I just love Stevie Ray Vaughan! His music rejuvenate my Sunday morning, at least it did made me settle down to read my oh-so-boring Physics Notes. hmm..
too bad he's gone now. =(

I changed my template, though it isn't much of a change. But i like it simple and plain, with no fancy animations or complicated javas trolling around the whole site. I just love the Blogger Beta thing, it really makes my life way easier. No more searching through the HTML codes! All I need is to click a button, type in a few words and tada, its done.

The rest of my prelims will commence next Tuesday. I dont think i will make it anyway, especially for Physics. Mr Wong should have taught us since J1 and not arrive at Term 3 this year to replace Mr Tan.

My GP is a goner man!!! I'm going to fail it badly and mr fahy is going to scream at me again! I did a question which required me to comment on the comparison between a pragmatist and an idealist. Initially, i wanted to pick the question on the war on terrorism, but I can't remember the names of some of the terrorist groups. =(

Ok this entry is actually quite pointless. I blog another one when I have the time.

Here is Tommy Emmanuel doing a Chet Atkins cover. One of my favourite songs. =)

2006-09-09T14:38:00.000+08:00

Hey!
If anyone is reading this, i have just set up a new musicians' blog. Its still new and i need help to run it too. But you can take a look here.

2006-08-20T21:10:00.000+08:00

ARGHH! I got physics mock exam in a few hours time and I have not fully understand the concepts of Archimedes' Principles nor Einstein's
energy vs mass concept!!

not going to blog much, but im going to post some nice videos.

CHOPIN!! My favourite pianist after watching the movie "The Pianist". My favourite piece? Nocturne in C-Sharp Minor!!

not by chopin though, but he was flawless.

The 5 browns!!

no ending though =(

and of course not forgetting my favourite band! SKID ROW! Original by Jimi Hendrix. I just love the voice of Bach. Enjoy.

Back to mugging =(

2006-08-17T00:39:00.000+08:00

"boy, you zhup buey he liao leh. happy birthday hor." (Son, you're 18 already. happy birthday.)

Upon hearing that, my hair starts to stand, goosebumps starts to appear, my skin turned paler than usual and my heart almost skipped a damn beat. I thought to myself, "woah, i'm 18 already?!?"

Albeit the insignificance of that day to others, turning 18 and being 18 meant alot to me. Besides being able to consume and buy alcohol legitimately(FINALLY!!), watching m18 films(most of them have better plots than PG films) and probably doing things under-18s can't do, 18 was a milestone number. To many, 18 is just probably another number, another year to pass, but to me its a period of transition of becoming an adult; maturity and responsibility.

Having said that, I would admit that I have the worst birthday ever. I don't really understand why people always tend to think otherwise when you are actually sincerely trying to be a friend, a REAL FRIEND.

On a lighter note, I went out with 2 of my classmates for a heavy lunch. We had it at Seoul Garden and we ate for 4 hours!(+, - 1 hr. can't remember). Actually this was'nt planned, it was just a spontaneous decision. Since we were so famished, a heavy lunch was our top choice. Upon reaching there, we voraciously ate as much as we could to fill our stomach and we made eggs from our ladle. Even the manager there was impressed with our impressive culinary skills! I promised to put up some pictures once my friend had uploaded it. It was so cute that we were relunctant to eat it. hahah!

We ate for 4 hours sia, so we decided to head to the nearby library to mug for our mock exams. haha, was productive actually leh.

Anyway, I was blog surfing and I came across this blog entry which had a proposed speech to the UN for the Prime Minister of Israel. I was stunned for a while after reading it and I would agree with what Ben Caspit had wrote about.

This is the speech Ben Caspit wrote:

Ladies and gentlemen, leaders of the world. I, the Prime Minister of Israel, am speaking to you from Jerusalem in the face of the terrible pictures from Kfar Kana. Any human heart, wherever it is, must sicken and recoil at the sight of such pictures. There are no words of comfort that can mitigate the enormity of this tragedy. Still, I am looking you straight in the eye and telling you that the State of Israel will continue its military campaign in Lebanon.

The Israel Defense Forces will continue to attack targets from which missiles and Katyusha rockets are fired at hospitals, old age homes and kindergartens in Israel. I have instructed the security forces and the IDF to continue to hunt for the Katyusha stockpiles and launch sites from which these savages are bombarding the State of Israel.

We will not hesitate, we will not apologize and we will not back off. If they continue to launch missiles into Israel from Kfar Kana, we will continue to bomb Kfar Kana. Today, tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. Here, there and everywhere. The children of Kfar Kana could now be sleeping peacefully in their homes, unmolested, had the agents of the devil not taken over their land and turned the lives of our children into hell.

Ladies and gentlemen, it's time you understood: the Jewish state will no longer be trampled upon. We will no longer allow anyone to exploit population centers in order to bomb our citizens. No one will be able to hide anymore behind women and children in order to kill our women and children. This anarchy is over. You can condemn us, you can boycott us, you can stop visiting us and, if necessary, we will stop visiting you.

A voice for six million citizens Today I am serving as the voice of six million bombarded Israeli citizens who serve as the voice of six million murdered Jews who were melted down to dust and ashes by savages in Europe. In both cases, those responsible for these evil acts were, and are, barbarians devoid of all humanity, who set themselves one simple goal: to wipe the Jewish race off the face of the earth, as Adolph Hitler said, or to wipe the State of Israel off the map, as Mahmoud Ahmedinjad proclaims.

And you - just as you did not take those words seriously then, you are ignoring them again now. And that, ladies and gentlemen, leaders of the world, will not happen again. Never again will we wait for bombs that never came to hit the gas chambers. Never again will we wait for salvation that never arrives. Now we have our own air force.

The Jewish people are now capable of standing up to those who seek their destruction - those people will no longer be able to hide behind women and children. They will no longer be able to evade their responsibility. Every place from which a Katyusha is fired into the State of Israel will be a legitimate target for us to attack. This must be stated clearly and publicly, once and for all. You are welcome to judge us, to ostracize us, to boycott us and to vilify us. But to kill us? Absolutely not.

Four months ago I was elected by hundreds of thousands of citizens to the office of Prime Minister of the government of Israel, on the basis of my plan for unilaterally withdrawing from 90 percent of the areas of Judea and Samaria, the birth place and cradle of the Jewish people; to end most of the occupation and to enable the Palestinian people to turn over a new leaf and to calm things down until conditions are ripe for attaining a permanent settlement between us.

The Prime Minister who preceded me, Ariel Sharon, made a full withdrawal from the Gaza Strip back to the international border, and gave the Palestinians there a chance to build a new reality for themselves. The Prime Minister who preceded him, Ehud Barak, ended the lengthy Israeli presence in Lebanon and pulled the IDF back to the international border, leaving the land of the cedars to flourish, develop and establish its democracy and its economy.

What did the State of Israel get in exchange for all of this? Did we win even one minute of quiet? Was our hand, outstretched in peace, met with a handshake of encouragement? Ehud Barak's peace initiative at Camp David let loose on us a wave of suicide bombers who smashed and blew to pieces over 1,000 citizens, men, women and children. I don't remember you being so enraged then. Maybe that happened because we did not allow TV close-ups of the dismembered body parts of the Israeli youngsters at the Dolphinarium? Or of the shattered lives of the people butchered while celebrating the Passover seder at the Park Hotel in Netanya? What can you do - that's the way we are. We don't wave body parts at the camera. We grieve quietly.

We do not dance on the roofs at the sight of the bodies of our enemy's children - we express genuine sorrow and regret. That is the monstrous behavior of our enemies. Now they have risen up against us.

Tomorrow they will rise up against you. You are already familiar with the murderous taste of this terror. And you will taste more. In a loud and clear voice And Ariel Sharon's withdrawal from Gaza. What did it get us? A barrage of Kassem missiles fired at peaceful settlements and the kidnapping of soldiers. Then too, I don't recall you reacting with such alarm.

And for six years, the withdrawal from Lebanon has drawn the vituperation and crimes of a dangerous, extremist Iranian agent, who took over an entire country in the name of religious fanaticism and is trying to take Israel hostage on his way to Jerusalem - and from there to Paris and London.

An enormous terrorist infrastructure has been established by Iran on our border, threatening our citizens, growing stronger before our very eyes, awaiting the moment when the land of the Ayatollahs becomes a nuclear power in order to bring us to our knees. And make no mistake - we won't go down alone. You, the leaders of the free and enlightened world, will go down along with us.

So today, here and now, I am putting an end to this parade of hypocrisy. I don't recall such a wave of reaction in the face of the 100 citizens killed every single day in Iraq. Sunnis kill Shiites who kill Sunnis, and all of them kill Americans - and the world remains silent. And I am hard pressed to recall a similar reaction when the Russians destroyed entire villages and burned down large cities in order to repress the revolt in Chechnya. And when NATO bombed Kosovo for almost three months and crushed the civilian population - then you also kept silent.

What is it about us, the Jews, the minority, the persecuted, that arouses this cosmic sense of justice in you? What do we have that all the others don't?

In a loud clear voice, looking you straight in the eye, I stand before you openly and I will not apologize. I will not capitulate. I will not whine.

This is a battle for our freedom. For our humanity. For the right to lead normal lives within our recognized, legitimate borders. It is also your battle. I pray and I believe that now you will understand that. Because if you don't, you may regret it later, when it's too late.

Stunned already??
Oh btw, i would start adding links and putting some images and videos here lah. Coming soon lah, when i have time ok?

2006-07-13T15:57:00.000+08:00

HELLO!

mr vai neo is back once again. i've just realised i didnt blog for more than 1 month liao! no la, its not because im busy or what, its because i don't have the passion to blog anymore. anyway, im contemplating to create a new blog on something different, not something about my pathetic boring life, but on something of a larger scale run by my close friends and of course yours truly.

i hate my blog's name, can't wait to change it. it's like some kind of existential angst that i was feeling long long time ago. =
i hate going to school nowadays. i hate the peer pressure and the overemphasis of the consequences of failing my A lvls. I shudder in fear everytime my science tutors starts teaching new concepts regarding the last few remaining chapters. Each new concept is like a hurdle to me; i'm never a fast learner that is. Everytime i dont understand a new concept, i would just give up, yielding shitty results. Mid year was another failure. I did tried for it, i start to dig up and consolidate all my notes and started to scutinize every single details i might have missed out in past exams. The only problem was my ongoing hatred for JC education. This stops me from going on and on in my studies. I was comparing how liberal some of my friends are now, i.e besides still being obliged to memorize and do shitloads of sums and essays, they were learning and absorbing new concepts without so much pressure and without rigid rubrics. Although they were so liberal, they fell into other temptations, i.e drugs, cigarettes and alcohols.

I envy jeremy chua's "courage". I wonder how he could quit JC to pursue his passion in scriptwriting, even though he was promoted. I wished i could do that, to pursue my passion and not get stuck in some pressurized education system. It might seem too naive in saying that, because i seemed to be someone who would want to "enjoy" life first, then work hard for my retirement funds, but JC education is just not the right path. Screw this, too late to regret now.

aiyah, life damn sian now. yu hsien going back to states liao, can no longer come out and have a drink and chit chat with j chua and other ppl from the "chua chu kang" gang + other 409 ppl. world cup ended too and i missed the shouts from my neighbours, it gives me that kind of heartwarming feeling. hahah! zidane apologized but the world is still not happy, so sad. =S . i can't wait to reach 18 too, its coming steadfast, too fast though. Can't wait to buy myself a bottle of tiger(yu hsien its a good beer ok) and drink with my dear friends.

ok la, talk so much cock.
BYEZ!

Oh yes, notice my blog is almost 2 years old. =|

2006-05-20T10:53:00.000+08:00

hai...
finally the long awaited weekends came.
feel like the start of june holidays actually, cos' weekends means no school. after all the endless amount of homeworks, tests, it just drives me crazy.

alot of things happened over the weeks. dinah got infatuated by her eyecandy, but then felt that it was the end of the world when she read something. people who are classmates cum 1st aiders fought. i got raped, mr fahy as usual still foams at his mouth when he talks with such ardent and dramatic expression.

talking about mr fahy, my gp teacher. this ang moh teacher is from ireland, been in sg even before i was born. he claims that he read more books than anyone in singapore. haha! i wonder if its really true. anyway, this teacher is damn eccentric(wonder if eccentric should be used here though, coz he appears to be more dramatic for the purpose of the lesson. maybe i should know more of his personal life). he always act out some funny things in the middle of his lesson, most of the time raising his voice and shocking the sian 1/2 people in the class, esp. yours truly. anyway, maybe i got brainwashed by him, or its because of the environment i'm in, i can't believe i have actually develop an interest in academically inclined books such as river out of eden by richard dawkins or maybe writings from the famous stephen hawkings. whats happening to me?!?

enough bout fahy, coz i can go on and on about him.
i just upgraded my music equipment and now i could use my distortion pedals. wah, i tell you the pedal makes my tone goes wahhhhh!, considering that my guitar only have single pickups, which sucks alot in tone if you want to play rock. anyway, after what my guitar teacher said to me about the practical and potential prospects of music in today's competitive world, i think pursuing a music career is out of the question. if i were to pay so much to just get into berklee and then achieve nothing in the real world, then its not worth it. coz its like i have only 2 years of exp in playing an instrutment, which is too little.

hai, i gtg now lah. going to ride to my fav hangout now, west coast park! i want to ride to east coast, but considering the distance and the inconvenience of asking for directions and travelling with vehicles that are bigger than me and most of them looks like they were about to crash into me, i decided F*** man. west coast park is a nice and quiet place, though the shoreline not ready till end of this yr, i still like that place.

oh yah, those who are fans of both hoobastank and RHCP, u must buy their latest albums. GOOD STUFF MAN!

oh yah, hey alvin! didnt expect u to come here though. anyway, i always thought ur blog link had two 8s, now i realise why i could'nt go ur blog. sheesh.

2006-03-21T18:07:00.000+08:00

Life's been very fucked up right now.
recently, i could'nt take it anymore, so i blew up.
It cost me an almost injured eye and a friendship.
friendship that was meant to last forever...

even though we patched up, the friendship was'nt like before.
it just became more superficial.

exams come and go.
i have been fucking around too much.
i've just realised why i am wasting 2 years of my short life.
since i've almost wasted almost 3/2 of it, why dont i just make the best out of it.

LOVE
i'm in love with a beautiful sweet girl.
right across my class, it's her class.
i still dont have the guts to her.
it just so...,
whenever she's so close to me.
i just don't have the damn guts.

i read kai chuen's blog just now and what he wrote there makes me ponder on some of the shit that happened to me. It was about how he said about the many shit i have already saw in NCC. Basically, as a cadet, you don't have to plan or tolerate cb people under your responsibility. Basically, you just go there for your cca and waste your time. But as leader, you start to realise how stupid things can get. The red tapes, the communication stuff, the programs and the problems go on.
Actually the main problem is the people you are going to deal with. They just don't give you the fucking respect you want when you want to get serious. Especially, when you want to get things in control so you can plan things well. Some people just don't understand how to limit themselves when they are required to be serious.
It just pisses me off. I could remember how things started to go wrong when 1 person have to say the wrong things. Its ok to joke once in a while, but when things go overboard, it can get very fucked up. My last year in NCC was really screwed up. Alot people just don't understand how difficult my post were. My stupid rank does'nt make me very happy either. I remembered a quote that said about how rank and respect is different and how respect is earned regardless of your cheebye rank. This quote make sense totally to me then.
Well, you must be wondering why i wrote this long piece of crap. Part of it relates to the problem i am facing now and part of it was because my junior told me the cadets i have trained has screwed up the unit as specialists. Usually, anyone who fucking hates NCC and all kinds of uniformed grp stuffs(like me) will not give a damn about it. But inside me, i still feel that i have some strings attached in ncc and sji itself. What my junior had said makes me guilty and angry. I'm guilty because i have not done my job well. All the recommendations and praises from my senior and officers are all wasted.

My last year in ncc really screwed up my life pretty much and so it greatly affect my attitude in last year in sji. My graduation year wasnt a fucking good one.

Aiyah, fuck la. I don't know why im typing so damn long. anyway, i will just end now.

2005-12-16T00:04:00.000+08:00

SONG BO
vai neo back again.
knn..
i just receive my NS letter. dunno ask me to go check up on Jan 2006
everytime this kind of lj letter come, i will have a heavy heart.
dunno why also, nabei
like i going to prison for 2 years, u know what i mean right.

now holiday like going to end.
pooki la. J2 coming, NS coming, As coming.
how to enjoy life?
wait till i finish NS, finish all my studies, come out and enjoy life.
i hope la.

i just came back frm that S. Korea. kns, sibei cold. but i tell u, the ice skiing damn shiok. shiok until very shiok. i think S. Korea much better than SG. i got take sibei alot of photos, got time i upload into internet den oput i link la.

SIAN LA, kunal the guitar god broke my string. now i come back, hand itching to shred my wife, but string snap how to shred. haiz. also hor, i waiting for my pay to come also, so that i can go n upgrade my amps. no need to use that lousy wire and the pedal. everytime play volume go up and down itself, sibei pek chek. play also no mood again, how to be steve vai, u tell me?

hai, sibei sian, my mind now dunno happy or sad. very hard to tell leh.
kns
all my buddies tell me i seem to be a happy person.
hai, how to reply my friends.
even my teachers thot so.
so many small big medium, happy sad angry thoughts.
pooki la.

2005-09-05T19:35:00.000+08:00

sibei sian.
i damn hate holidays before exam.
knn.

now still got few wks left to promos, sibei sian. dunno how to mug properly. alot you know. i see maths still can, coz i really love maths. but when i see chem and physics on my table, i will sian 1/2. then i will regret my times when i day dream too much in class.

ANYWAY, i today go back to school to attend chem lectures. extra lectures lah but sibei useless. go back is to sleep, sit beside andreas worst. he slp, must also tempt me to sleep. after the sibei sian lectures, my frens go out with me to eat. same old people lor(benny, xing long, jesse..) when on the bus, i see one indian, his face reminds me of steve vai and a bit of kirk hammet. his eyes was like half dead, those sian sian kind, abit like drug addict. then the hair quite long, quite curly also, like kirk hammet during s&m concert. wah sia lah, i thot he rocker leh but in the end he damn sad. go around the bus asking for money. potential rocker leh, got the style, got the attitude, got the face. what a waste.

now my mama n papa go overseas, the hse is damn quiet. they say quiet good for u to study, but my hse quiet until like graveyard silence, how to study?!? one pin drop can also stunned me, kns. hse so quiet, i so lonely. hai..

kunal the guitar god finally fix his electric. now finally can go his hse see the world go by and then enjoy life with his electric. knn, when i play his electric, i feel like god lor. when i play my own electric, bo feeling leh. summore play can until fingers damn pain. his electric so comfortable, his amps sounds produce original metal sound leh. knnb, i sibei like it.

siao liao, going to 8pm liao. still infront comp. zhao liao.

2005-08-27T07:42:00.000+08:00

hey!
its a nice saturday morning.
suppose to go to sch for the vip pac opening but in the end cancelled.
so now its a boring saturday liao.
zzzzzzz.

stupid promos coming,den dunno why nowadays the teachers like to pms alot. esp. mr thomas ho. but cannot blame him, coz we always disturb his lessons. hah! shit lah, so many things to mug, everytime i want to study, i will just lie on my bed. den i will sleep. ZZZZZZ..

ytd, I had a nice time out in thompson plaza with 5 classmates. xing long wanna excaped the pac opening night duty. so he did and of course he make up alot of stories lah. then dunno why he so suay, just as we were walking out of thompson plaza, just nice bang into the fsv ppl. den atiqah was there. dunno whether she got see xing long or not, if not all 5 of us musketteers will just die lor.

shit lah, my stupid hand shaking very badly now. i wonder if i have played too much of master of puppets. that song require very fast hand movement lor, but i cannot go that fast wad. so maybe my hand now abit screwed up trying to go that fast. knnbccb.

sian..i go relax abit lah before MUGGING

=|

2005-08-09T23:24:00.000+08:00

tuesday's gone with the wind.

part of a song from one of the rare occasions when metallica plays a more country tune.

national day has just ended which means school's starting soon. spent a really boring and lazy tuesday afternoon at home. zzzz

as i watched the parade segment, i just cant help but recount those precious momments as a cadet in sjinccland. when i went back on mon evening, things hasnt changed much but the people in it has changed alot. It was their day, especially my former cadets who have passed out and officially take over as seniors. time flies so damn fast. it was only 2years ago, that 8th august was our DAY. when we were promoted to specialist. it was the happiest momment then because we knew power is ours and we were freed from those rigours as a cadet.

the only biggest regret i had when i passed out was not accomplishing what i was supposed to do. it is a damn long story and i think i shouldnt post it here.

anyhow, national day celebrations in CJ was a blast. cool performances esp. the ultra sexy cheerleaders performance and the ROFLMAO faggot performance by the rugby team. And the most digusting one, the guitar club's performance. yucks. speaking about CCA, i just joined a new one called FSV(film, sound and video) with 5 ppl frm my class. got no choice though since we all got no CCA. we were supposed to join editorial but the teacher i/c was on maternity leave so we turn to the most "enticing" one, the FSV.

xing long said we were treated as coolie and FSV could have been better known as coolie club. i agree lah. but i think we were treated as coolie because we were still newbs in those complicated gadgets which i have no bloody interest and cant help. but it was a real eyeopener because it was cool to play around with those sounds effects, just like how i tweak my guitar sounds on my amps. somehow, i still feel that the current members of the FSV treat the 5 of us as outcasts. haha, don't know maybe its just me.

hmm...i really wonder if anyone really check this blog out, since i have'nt blog for ages. who cares about this **** anyway. =S

i gtg. later./

2005-08-01T02:22:00.000+08:00

i can't believe i'm typing this.
so many months of not blogging, i've decided to try my hands on it again.

since the day i've last post, tons of things happen. of course, life changed drastically for me at least. from the day i received my Os results to now when i am beginning to mug for my promos.

see how almost 1 year is coming to an end? fuck it. its happening too fast. whenever i think of how my As is going to start and end, i will start to ponder about me entering NS. I would shudder in contemplation. Soon, i will be 21 years old. Oh my god, i'm growing older now.

cjc is a fun place i must say. The environment is just right for me. There is this home class rule and we get to bond closely with the class. 1T31 is where i was assigned to. I have come to know that this class is filled with extremely hardworking and smart people, but at the same time having fun. What could i possibly expect?

leaving my good buddies in yj is such a pain. the most sincere friends that i have are all my 1st 3 mths friends. Especially, KIM WEE, Kairen and Kunal. Well, kunal in cj now. it was them that make the 1st 3 mths bearable. God, i missed them so much. and oh yes, how could i forget P09. the class filled with wacky and cool people, people that clicked so well with each other at the instant we met. too bad it was all over.

its 2.34am. at least right now as i finish this statement. its time for me to turn in then. wonder if anyone still check this blog once in a while. i doubt so. nobody blogs now except for a few. hmm..

later man.

2005-02-12T14:55:00.000+08:00

for most of us, its only a short 2 and a half days break from our daily routine.
it was the break i have long anticipated.
Finally, no more waking up at 6am in the morning or listening to boring lecturers talking crap.
It was shortlived though.

YJC has this fantastic idea of organising xcountry run on lunar new year's eve. how nice.
...
the run started after some band performance and ridiculous martial arts display. i told them i wasnt from yjc, since i wasnt wearing the orientation tshirt. I met up with kim wee and waited for kairen to change out shirt. So we 3 big slackers walked all the way, just to get the dumb chop.
then it all ended.

It was the most boring CNY i ever had in 16 years. Besides listening to the constant bickering from the adults, i had nothing better to do. I was watching those kids playing among themselves, how nice it cld be if i was a child like them. Carefree, no homework, no school. Life would be great then.

Day 2 was much better but nevertheless it was still boring. Finally, there's a guitar in the hse. But din touch it for long before my cousins invited me to gamble. bad luck all the way, cant believe i lost almost all my money. They were playing this betting horse game. If you win, u get all the money of other players and triple from the banker. So i thought it must be damn easy to win, so i showed hand. Ugh, i lost all and i have to play triple to the banker.

watched I do I do with my uncle's family. So funny, but Jack is getting more boring.
It was late after the movie. So i decided to pon sch the next day. So now i have 1 day week. Cheers! No, should be 1.5 days week.

I have watched many MVs such as Slayer, Alter Bridge, Red hot chilli peppers, Eagles etc. but none caught my eye except one band. METALLICA! I think they're the best, no one can beat their way of jamming a song. The S&M version of Nothing Else Matters is really damn cool. Fag, if only i could play like them.

ok, i think thats all.

2005-02-06T02:01:00.000+08:00

another new entry, another new month into a screwed up year.
my days are numbered
everyone's making me worried about my Os results.
they were saying that they were confident of getting below 16 pts.
i dont even have the confidence of getting that 20 pts and below.

i could still remember my geog elect paper. i cld'nt believe i was dreaming.
so i had 15 mins left to do the remaining 2 parts qns. each consists of 8 marks.
then it was physics. i took 30 mins to do the logic gates qns. then all i left was 5 mins to do the either/or qns. I could have chosen the OR, coz it was much much easier. But i dint give a damn since i only have 5 mins left.

now, i dont want to blog about my school life.
i felt stupid everytime i read my past entries.
its about how i protest school life, how bad it was, how screwed up the ppl were.
ok..
now i got nth to blog.
forgive me. im a boring person.

how come the petition for friday(11/02/05) to be a holiday wasnt successful? damn.

2005-01-26T19:40:00.000+08:00

today's another slack day.
skipped every single lectures except for GP.
Why?
Coz there's a movie. And its rather boring since i watched that movie(Day After Tomorrow) twice.

today started off as usual. I was early by a minute.
miss aisha came up to me with a pissed look and said she wanted to see me. So i thought its probably the MCs i owned her.
But instead, she was telling me that i wasnt standing at attention during morning assembly.
-.-''

i started my day at the basketball court. with a few of my grpmates. I wasnt that enthusiastic since the sun was pretty hot and i din want to sweat. So i just stood there, and just attempt a few shots whenever i had the chance to hold the ball.
and oh so sorry to shiping who got 'injured' during the game. HAHAH. it was wai kiat who hit the ball at your eyes. hah!

then it was stoning period at the piano area. this time serene din play the piano. It was some pro playing it. Rather soothing. then melissa has this brilliant idea. in order to kill time, we decided to play a childish game. We were supposed to play sisscors paper stones. Crap, the person who lost shall be whacked. IT was damn painful ok. Then we rotated among ourselves. quite fun lah, although very embarassing, but it was to kill time anyway.

i have a damn hilarious grpmate. He's a bloody faggot(my first time seeing one). He mimics the way a pregnant woman walks and behave. It was so disgusting. Then he decided to display his opera 'skills'. Imagine a guy trying to do a high pitch voice and sounds like a faggot doing it.

next week, we will be assigned to a new class. I have to start making new friends all over again. Being the anti-social me, i wont be so happy about it. Being in a permanent class would mean i cldnt skip any more lectures and that will suck alot.

sian

2005-01-13T22:29:00.000+08:00

hi all,
i dont know how to start this. But its another screwed up entry.
i guess thats how i'm going to start.
bryan said my entry are kind of sad.
what?!?
Sad? Ok, this time i write about happy stuffs ok?
ponders
......

wait. they arent any happy stuffs(stuffs that are real DAMN happy. yeah..if stuffs can smile)

my orientation grp kick ass in some way or another. But its just that i dont get the content of it.
I know faces but not the names. Worst, my group did'nt know my existence either.
Why?
Because i am so anti-social and quiet that i'm always not with the group.
well, nvm.
there's still KUNAL.
But fuck! He's leaving college and joining the red cross. Now i'm alone. SCREW IT.
nvm. there's darrenn eng. OH yah, i just remembered. He has michelle, so im still alone. there's jing sheng, but who the fuck is jing sheng. He's from sji but i dont know him. I cant find clifton in school. Ahh, im alone on my own.
Lets look at this in a positive way. Maybe they want me to interact with my group?

lectures start so soon. I believe yjc is the only college that starts lectures on the 3rd day of school. Its kind of boring and uncomfortable. I can't doze off, like what i always do in my good ol' classroom back at sji. Occasionally, the lecturers would ask volunteers to go up and solve problems. Lucky i wasnt called upon yet.

2 weeks of lectures and tutorials, i concluded that jc life is not fit for me. I'm considering a poly route. I dont know, i'll decide later.

heheh. now i got contacts of my groupmates. And because of these friendster thing, they know my existence(hehehe!). Welldone oh yeah btw, thanks to kairen. Being in a mixed school is still so wierd, nvm i will adapt to it.

gathering of the good ol' mates. HAHA. calling all 09s and SJI people. 1pm at city hall mrt(though i will b late). Having some big lunch thing. wonder if its possible since we have such a big group. Hope everyone turns up.

2005-01-08T01:53:00.000+08:00

finally, last day of orientation ended.
unfortunately, i ponned the last day of orientation.
so sian.
i really miss sji man.
once a josephian, always a josephian.
u can take the person out of sji, but not the sji out of the person.

yjc sucks sia.
school look as if its run down. look totally different from the brochure they gave us back in sji.
but one good thing is, they dont have strict rules like cant use handphones. We can even talk with our mobile phones in the library.

hai. lectures already started 3 days ago. we had homework on the 3rd day of school. Wah, that sucks. Our school ends quite late too, around 4pm. Wahh, this is dumb, i want to get out of this dumb shit school.

just when kunal hse and saw him played the guitar. I really need to worship him. He plays metallica like so nice man. When i first saw him played at school, i came back and hang around with it for everyday. So that at least i can play something nice when i go to trial for guitar club.

seriously, if anyone can play better than kunal, i will sure worship him/her.

2005-01-01T15:52:00.000+08:00

hi all,
i know this is a crude way of starting my first entry of the year but nevertheless it's for some laughs.

HOKKIEN SWEARING 101

Hong Gan: Get fucked!

Kgum Lan: Whatever the hell for? (lit. Suck balls)

Tio Gan: Being fucked

Sio Gan: Fucking

Bo Ji / Bo Lum Pa: No balls

Lan Jiao Lang: Cock person (Jerk / Bastard)

Kena sai: Disgraced! (lit. to be stained by shit)

Chee Bye Chwee: Pussy mouth

Hah? Hah Lum Par!: Huh? Huh, testicles!

Kan Nin Nia/Bu: Fuck your mum

Gan Nin Lao Pei: Fuck your dad

Lin Nia eh...!: Your mum's...!

Lan Jiao Wei: Nonsense! (lit. Cock story)

Lan Sai Wei: Nonsense! (lit. Cock shit story)

Lan Sai Bin: Cock shit face

Chow Ter Bye: Foul pig's pussy

Chow Lang: Foul Person

Hao lian: An extremely vain person

Chee Bye Kia: Pussy child (Jerk, Bastard)

Lum Pa Jeng: Swollen Balls (Exhausted)

Chee Hong: A man who always socializes with ladies

Neh Neh Pok: Breast

Neh Ji: Nipple

Png Tang: Good for nothing (lit. Rice bucket)

Char Tow: Blockhead

How Dai: Foolish

Swey: Unlucky

Bo Lor Yeong: No road to use (Useless)

Bo Bei Chow: No horse run (Unbeatable)

Tei Mia: Short life (Cursing one to an early death)

Pua Pbee: Sickly (Damning someone)

Gong Kia:Stupid child

Kei Kiang: Faking Cleverness (Smart alec)

Gow: Faking Cleverness (Smart alec)

Hao Lian: Proud, Boastful

Lau Kau: Monkey

Si Bak Kau: Four-eyed monkey (Person with glasses)

Seow Kow: Mad dog

Seow Lang: Mad person

Guey: Chicken (Prostitute)

Pua Chu Teng: Broken Roof (Partially bald person)

Low Kui: Embarrass

Sia Suay: Disgrace

Jzao Sai: To be unfaithful

Pah Cheow Bak: Shoot bird eyes (cross-eyed)

Bak Jiu Gkor Sai: Eyes smeared with shit (Bad taste)

Low Lan: Arrogant (lit. Droopy Balls)

Sia Lan: Rude and arrogant

Siao Liao: Expression for dismay, resignation

Siam: Get out of the way

Gei Seow: Feign ignorance

Jzao Gka Bei Tit: Run until tail strait (Run and flee like hell)

See Kwee Kia: Damned Demon Child (Naughty kid)

See Ghin Na: Damn Child

Hao Lum Bin: Sour and unhappy face

Kow Bei Kow Bu: Cry father, cry mother (Making noise)

Ke Chia: Die! (lit. Up the lorry)

Kan ni lao bu chow chee: bye Fuck your mother's smelly cunt

Ki sai: Go to hell (lit: go shit)

Jiak Pah Bo Sai Pang: Walk unknown road (To make a lousy decision)

Kin Jio Kia:A Chinese who wishes to be a Caucasian (lit. Banana kid)

Jiak Gan Tang: A Chinese who speak English as their 1st language (lit. Eat potato)

Bak Jiu Tah Stamp: Stamps pasted over eyes (Bad taste; careless)

Wah Biang / Lau / Liu / Lan / Kao / Korh: Expressions of surprise, disbelief, anger, etc.

Mm Jai See: Recklessness (lit. Don't know death)

Jzoh Gui Tow: A troublemaker (lit. Be leader of Ghost)

Cheers! =D

2004-12-27T01:14:00.000+08:00

I am making an offer to anyone who is interested in buying an original Battlefield1942 cd.
The set includes 2 dics, and paper packs. It comes with a brand new cd key. All for 39.90. Since it does'nt include a box and a mannual guide, the price is reduced from 49.90. We can discuss the price, selling as low as 20 dollars(minimum).

***
christmas is a joyous occasion. Everyone can feel it everywhere in town. Yes, people spraying those things at you when you walk pass them. Thats pretty dumb, but who cares? It happens only once a year.

well so my friend kzh happened to introduce me some xmas job, promising great pay between 100 to 150. So we were kind of attracted to it. The interview went smoothly and then xmas eve came. Teamed up with 3 strangers, we made our way out of the office, carrying bags containing light sticks, reindeer hats, sprays and poppers. What happened next is totally dumb. We got rivals all around us. They sell better and more attractive products than us. Every corner of the streets were filled with them. We were stretched out thin.

The price we were supposed to sell was totally dumb too. 3 cans of sprays for 10 bucks. Bloody hell, who wants to buy? Our rivals selling 5 cans for 10 bucks. 1 light stick costs 2 bucks. -.-'' . So we made deals with customers and we took the initiative to slash the price. The boss wasnt happy, his face looks like he was about to burst. Because of what we did, the second round of sales was getting better. Why? Boss finally agree to change the price.

I did'nt know our sales is illegal. Chased away my policemen and running away. But Boss said that there are no more licence to apply for this kind of sales. How dumb can it be.

So after the really pathetic countdown, we finally sat down at the carpark. It was 2 hours to our freedom. There we sat down, stoning. But people recognise us, they keep coming to us, buying the sprays from us. The sprays quality sucks, compared to our rivals. I'm glad there are many kind souls there to help us. Esp., the group of bengs and lians. They kept coming back for more, so we happily took their money. Sitting down beside us, is the some tourists from god-knows-where. They are'nt Singaporean. You know how i know? They emptied all their singapore currency and gave it to us. That was when i realise, they were'nt singaporean.

ok 8 hours of dumb work. 6pm to 2am. we did only 80 plus dollars in sales. We set our goals before. 180 bucks for the sales. But what happened? 2am..2am, sharp. we reported back to our gathering point. We expect everyone to arrive but it was damn empty. We realise they left us without informing us to come back. What the hell. So we walk quite a distance just to hail a bloody taxi. Lucky they were kind enough to pay for us the fare. That's pretty good i suppose.

Next day, we went and collect our pay. I spent 45 mins travelling from Bukit Gombak to Bugis. Big deal? Probably not. Still suffering from the fatigue i had during the sales, we went into the office. It still looked like a cheaters' den.

"42.50 in total for the both of you"

I was -.-'' . 42.50 divide 2. You do the math. Our transport allowance is included. So imagine, our share minus 10 bucks. Thats our pay for 8 hours selling dumb things. So i turned to my friend, who is as -.-'' as me and said, "Thanks buddy. I really appretiate that you introduce me that job."

***

The last week of holidays starts when i end this post. I've got nothing to do. No work, no money. Why no money? After getting my pay, i spend everything that is in my wallet to buy a WW2 collection game set. (thats why i have 2 copies of bf now). The money in my wallet is not enough too. So i had to borrow money from kzh. How pathetic.
New year's eve is coming again. The same carnage is going to happen. Well, what can i say? I have the money to enjoy new year's eve and not the money to go back home. -.-'' . So we will see how.

2004-12-19T13:44:00.000+08:00

from Dec 04 till now, everyday is so damn boring.
work everyday and now im sacked from my work.
well, i still have alternate days work.
im having a xmas job from 6pm onwards on 24th Dec.
Buy from me, or i wont have pay. since this job is on performance basis plus it ends at 2am, still need pay 10 bucks for transportation. -.-''

finally, i got myself a damn good computer.(well for me)
those games i cant play, can be played now.
but sadly all pirated except for bf1942.
initially i thought halflife 2 and CS:Source sucks.
But after going to naraen house and actually saw it being played, i want to buy it sia.
If only i have the game earlier. Go and buy, damn nice

For those gamers whos damn siao about WW2 FPS game,
try Call of Duty and its expansion pack, United Offensive

America's Army(recently there is a singapore community and singapore's server. Singapore server = little latency) Download Americas Army v2.2 for free(750MB) at www.americasarmy.com

Battlefield 1942. Join ClanDarkForce. http://www.df-sg.tk Those looking for singapore server in BF1942, go to www.pagn.net to check out the IP.

Medal of Honour Battlechest. These set includes Medal of Honour Allied Assault, Medal of Honour Spearhead and Breakthrough.

Medal of Honour Pacific Assault (MUST BUY). Very High requirements but its a damn bloody excellent game

Half Life 2 and Cs: Source. Im going to buy this game. Not only the whole damn interface change, the realism changes too. Like the CS:Source, realism really rock the game. It looks like an American Army Game interface but its damn bloody cool.

Oh yeah. I went to sim lim square to look at the games there. One game really caught my eye. Its not FPS, its RTS. Lord of The Rings: battle of the middle earth. DAMN cool. I recommend you the shop. Its at 05-78 Iec Drome, sim lim square. they sell quite standard price lah but there got all kinds of game and softwares.

=|

2004-12-04T17:37:00.000+08:00

hey frois,
im too caught up with the games i bought recently. so i totally lost touch with blogging.
blogging no fun.
yes, i will try to msg u my number.

my comp finally crashed.
bryan's too.
he managed to convince her mom and im in the process.
if i get a new comp, with a sexy graphics card like the ATI radeon 9800, HAH!
btw, im using comp in my mum's working place.

we should actually organise a lunch gathering for our class or not must wait 10 years leh. well according to frois, seoul gardens seems to be the best place. depends on how much, im having serious cash problems.

sian ah. went for 2 job interviews, till now haven call me yet. -.-'' so in the end, work at my mom's place lor. can slack and use comp plus can get salary. how good can that be?

having a primary sch gathering next week. don't know should go or not. i go dere also sian.

SIAN.

2004-11-23T13:28:00.000+08:00

finally i've got a good night sleep yesterday.
Sleeping at 3 plus am and waking up couple of hours later to go out with my friends.

O's ended. Somehow, i don't feel any overwhelmed happiness or excitment. Maybe i did'nt put in any effort at all. I felt that i've put in more effort in my prelims than in my Os. Countless times, i made small mistakes which i will regret later on. Well, Os ended as soon as it started and i think i would'nt go too nostalgic over it.

***

ah crap. My computer is so ancient. I could'nt play most of the latest games. I bought 'call of duty' with clement on sunday. After waiting for an hour, my fucking computer sounded a depressing warning alarm. "Your graphics card does not meet the minimum requirements"

"WHAM!"

I slammed my hands on the table, furious that after waiting for an hour, my pathetic pc screw it up. My family is too poor to afford a computer anyway. I've got to find a solution to this.

I browsed through funan center with Naraen, winston and feymun yesterday. Enduring the sharp pain from the blisters in my right foot, i walked on with them. It was my first trip to Funan center. The hardwares displayed there seemed so alien to me. I've never seen so many computer hardwares in my life before. No doubt, i was not too sure what i was looking at.

Shops after shops, we went in and out. I was looking around while winston was looking for his joystick. One sound system caught my eye and that fucking thing costs $985. Ah forget it, im not buying it. I gave up looking for hardwares and decided to try out the XbOx. It was displayed at every floor. I saw Halo 2, it was so cool. The game context and the graphics are sure to blow me away. But looking at the price, i looked away with a heavy heart.
So winston did'nt find this joystick and i did'nt make any progress looking at hardwares. So everyone's sad.

Caught two movies recently. 'SAW' is a phsyco cum thriller which is so different compared to those boring, mediocre thriller u watched on channel 5 or i. Im not saying all thrillers are boring but most of the time you can correctly guessed what's going to happen next, right? SAW does'nt. In fact, it tricked you. Go watch it, im sure u'll like it.

Incredibles. Those adorable animation will sure win the hearts of many primary school kids and sometimes maybe adults. And i'm darn sure you know who will win when the movie ends. The superheros have to win! The movie's supposed to be marketed in a way that kids would'nt have the wrong impression.
No?
Maybe i am being biased here.
On the other hand, the show is giving movie-goers a good laugh for a couple of hours. 6.50 for this movie is not too bad but a 7.50 for this isn't worth it.

I shall go and shoot cybersoilders. Thats the pleasurable thing i could do now. I'm downloading maplestory later, not sure whether its nice. It seems that everyone is addicted to it.

=|

2004-11-16T13:26:00.000+08:00

Before blogging on my stuffs.
I think it is appropriate for me to apologize to tag-board spammers and the potentials.
This is your apology. _|_ _|_ (if you don't know what this means, you can shove it)
I guess you're happy huh?

I can't wait.
Its three(3) days more before exams are over.
I just can't wait. Imagine the time i could stay in town, play lan in the morning, watch movie the next and play pool to end the day.
Winston decided to organise a lan party(for those who are committed to play Battlefield). It should be played for real, like in terms of money. =D Well, its just a suggestion.
ANyone interested? After the PAE exercise?

My mom got me a job for the month of December. Hopefully i can earn enough to buy myself a new computer. How much can i earn in just 1 month? ponders.
Shourav msged me to be his "working-out" buddy. He wants to lose 12 kg in December. Well, he's crazy. He wants to run from newton to toapayoh and then work out in the gym. I can bet that we would be tired out when we reached the gym.

Damnit, hell lot of activities coming up after the exams. I really cannot wait.

Here are some websites that you might find it interesting.
http://www.lalalabom.blogspot.com
http://listentoher.blogspot.com
http://bitchpartner.blogspot.com/
http://72.3.131.10/

2004-11-08T11:48:00.000+08:00

alright.
i admit defeat.
Whats this? empty promises!
Well, just let me take a break man.
Nono, i won't come online till 19th Nov.

emaths paper2 was such a breeze. hope it can pull my paper 1 up
coz paper 1 was really horrendous.

for the past papers in school...
i always hear people saying, "aiyah neighbourhood school ppl so stupid how can they do better than us? sure will lower the national standard one lah" and other related comments.
I felt extremely pissed hearing it.
why...why do people(including me) like to generalise others?
Arrogance.
They think they are so smart?
What about those students from neighbourhood schools who can come to independent schools but chose not to because its either too far or too expensive? Are they stupid and dumb too?
Just because their school has long and valued history or belonged to the independent schools category, does'nt mean they are smarter than students in neighbourhood schools. But so sad, its the influence that caused this generalisation.
well..

another thing.
i hate it..
when i see girls
acting cute when they walk.
Its so fucking disgusting.
Their wierd or their so called "cute" posture are so stupid, adding on is their face expression. It really irks me.
I think its okay when girls act cute infront of their close friends or their loved ones or whatever, but walking too?
Thats disgusting.

2004-11-06T11:35:00.000+08:00

blogger is extremely screw up lah.
i think i am changing the host.

this week i took half of my Os already.
It was'nt that fantastic.
shit lah.
even emaths so simple i can screw up.
Fortunately, i still have amaths to save my ass.

9 days of break after emaths paper 2 is the time i am going to redeem myself.
my last chance.
so i think this is my last post and my last time im coming online.
when Os finish,
i just can't wait to go back to my gaming sheldule again.

2004-11-02T15:07:00.000+08:00

i can't...i can't see myself falling into some black hole, unable to get up. Lost in that world, humiliated.
What is this?
Humanities.
one of my better subjects. I screw it up. That a1 and a2 is just gone.
fuck it
Maybe i did'nt study much or its just me.
Why...why?

2004-11-01T13:40:00.000+08:00

I find this article very amusing.
****

Minister Mentor Lee proves he can reach out to today’s youth with the release of a hip-hop rap album, under his stage name, Em’n’em.

“Some people have suggested that I am increasingly out of touch with the aspirations of the young people of today,” said Mr. Lee, who was recently bestowed the title of ‘Minister Mentor’ after the handover of the Prime Ministership to his son. “So I gotta knuckle up and prove to these niggaz that there ain’t no diggety that me and my homies, we still be down wid it an’ shit, you know what I’m sayin’, son?”

The album, “My Name Is (MM Lee)” is the first hip-hop album to be made compulsorily examinable for the GCE ‘O’ Levels, and its first single, “The Real MM Lee”, has been hailed by the State’s Times music reviewer as “more chillin’ than the air-con at Whitley Road Detention Centre.”

For our readers’ edification, we are pleased to excerpt some lyrics:

THE REAL MM LEE
Em’n’em’ (Temasek Records, 2004)

Hi! My name is... (what?) My name is... (who?)
My name is... {scratches} Harry Lee
Hi! My name is... (huh?) My name is... (what?)
But call me... {scratches} MM Lee!
Ahem. Excuse me!
Can I have the attention of the class for one second?

May I have your attention please?
May I have your attention please?
For MM Lee will you please stand up?
I repeat, for MM Lee, will you please stand up?
Or else you’re gonna have a problem here...

Y'all act like you never seen a minister mentor before
But I been here for years, in this city of Singapore
Which I’m gonna rule till I’m a hundred and four or more
I’m gonna make a prediction, that whether or not there’s an election (Ahh!)
I’m going to return just like before
Hey, wait, no way, don’t ji seow me
He didn’t just say that, did he?
What about his son Little PM Lee? So what about him?
Who’s your daddy? I said, who’s your daddy? (Ha ha!)
Your daddy - he’s Em’n’em! (Chigga chigga chigga)
Harry Lee, you can’t eject me
Look at me, walkin’ around, grabbin’ them votes
Suin’ the pants of you-know-who!
Yeah, and you could be next too!
Some folks, they say they don’t like my views
But so what? It’s your citizen’s right to choose
And you folks, you just refuse to let me lose
So you ain’t got no right to sing the blues
My ass is on your lips, my ass is on your lips
So pucker up and give me a big wet kiss
That’s the message I want to deliver to all you kids
In my hood, the game’s played like this
Of course you all know that’s how it is
By the time you hit Sec 4
And you want cash to go to the department store
You know you got to play my game, if you want more of the same
It’s all planned out for you like a blueprint
You better listen close and get the hint
Follow it, or your face will bear my shoeprint (Owww!)
Careful now, don’t be tempted to rock the boat
You don’t want someone to come slit your throat
I don’t mean to brag
But all you niggaz be flyin’ my flag

Chorus:

‘Cause I’m Harry Lee,
Yes, I’m the real Lee
All the MPs, they’re just imitatin’
So for me, ol’ MM Lee, won’t you please stand up
Please stand up!
Please stand up!
Don’t you dare say I’m shady
Because I’m si beh steady
So for me, ol’ MM Lee, won’t you please stand up
Please stand up!
Please stand up!

Etc.

© TalkingCock.Com

2004-10-31T14:15:00.000+08:00

i went for my tuition this morning.
a lesson that i won't forget.

They say Singaporeans are always commended because they can SPEAK well in English. However, caucasians such as Americans or Australians have a difficult time understanding Singaporeans.
Why?
Since Singaporeans can speak well in English, then why is it that caucasians can't understand us?

Let me ask you a question.

Why are you late for school?
So simple right? HOW THE FUCK can i get it wrong?
Think of an answer.
NOW.

Does your answer includes any of these?
1. It was raining
2. I overslept
or related reasons.

A typical Singaporean will usually respond with such answers. 9/10 of Singaporeans usually do that. No, thats not speculation. Next time try it on your friends and compare the results. Students answering these questions usually think their answers are correct and at the same time assuming they had answered the teacher's question.

BUT....

"So what?!?"
So what if its raining? Have you answered my question?
No you have'nt!

Look closely at the question again.
Read: Why are you late?

Wheres the damn link? It can be raining but it does'nt mean that you have to be late.
It is raining but there's no traffic jam. I can still reach school in time.
Yes, so what if its raining?

The answer, "It was raining" sounds perfect to a question that asked, "What was the weather like?" Isn't it?

Hmm, confused? Yes, i am very confused too.

But as my tuition teacher goes on, i realise that whenever we say simple answers, our answers contradicts with our mind. There isn't a link in our answers. You can't expect people to make a link from inference by listening to your answer and that's why some people just don't understand us, Singaporeans.

Lets compare another answer.
"I was caught in a rain"
What does that answer tells you?
It was raining and i am stuck in it and hence i could'nt reach school in time.

Look at the original answer again.
"It was raining"
Yes, it was raining cats and dogs.
But how did the damn rain delayed you then?
Now thats a missing link.

****

Ok here are some interesting Q & A for you to figure out.

Student: Can i go to the toilet?
Teacher: Yes of course you can. But you may not.

Girlfriend(grinning): Will you please buy me that diamond ring?
Boyfriend has no choice but to buy for her. Because the way his girlfriend asked him left him with no choice.

=|

2004-10-27T10:13:00.000+08:00

I want you to stand up from the computer seat you
are almost certainly sitting in.
If your in a public area, this may make you look
stupid but I am demanding this of you.
Ok.
How did that feel? Feel any twinges, aches,
cramps, strain or tiredness?
You probably did. Now sit down. There it is again.
Strech your fingers out as far as they will go and
then contract them. Repeat.
You can really feel the strain and cracking there
can't you?
What's my point?
The Human body is one of the most self-mutilating
feeble things. It is the weakness of mankind!

Everyone gets injuries. Even if you don't play
proffesional sport - before you hit 20 you will
almost certainly have some sort of debilitating
injury. Whether it be a broken arm/leg or an
ingrowing toe-nail - its annoying and it reveals the
human bodies feebleness. And it's not because
we are agressive, clusmsy but because we are
weak. About as weak as my mobile signal when I
actually need to call someone. We all need to
toughen up.

So - what do I propose we do about this? Weak
and feeble men are normally described
as "SPINELESS". This should not be the case. I
believe if we didn't have a spine - and were
spineless - we would be much better off. back
injuries are the most common debiliating injury
world wide. You remove our spine suddenly our
key and crucial weakness is removed. Obviously,
i understand we inherit the problems of lack of
movement and adopt a sort of jelly consistency
meaning we all look like collapsed tents. So,
instead I suggest that each person has a custom
build spine of solid steel. Think of the advantages.
Think of the INDESTRUCTABILITY! If someone
comes up to you and sledgehammers you in the
back - you probably wont feel a thing
(please don't try that at home kiddies)

How else can we "toughen up" our species? Well
another key problem is our faces. Yes, 62.6% are
hideously ugly,
but this is not the problem. Instead, they are poorly
constrcted and supported.
I want you to poke your face. Go on. Not too hard
but poke anywhere on your face. (please avoid
the eyes)
(chrisafi can take no responsibilty for any
injuries/deaths caused by your actions)

Even a poke is uncomfortable - and if you hit your
face really hard, you would break something(s)
and it would
probably REALLY REALLY hurt. And you'd
become on of those 62.6% (if you weren't there
already)
(please note - chrisafi cannot ensure nor promise
hitting your face really hard will make you ugly but
will give it his best shot should you fail)

So again - what can we do? We don't want to
cover up our faces do we? Maybe if they are ugly -
buy they are what
make us unique. So, I propose we all wear
Astronaught helmets - ALL THE TIME.
Oh yes. I'd like to see you damage your head now.
3 inch glass is a very good shock absorber.
Although there are
saftey risks which I have been informed of
(something about air - bah), I believe we can
make this work

So join me - in enhancing the human body for
years to come. Together we can be indestructable
(please note - chrisafi cannot ensure your
immortalitly should you agree to join his cause)

By Chrisafi.
(taken from a forum
http://htbdf.ipbhost.com/index.php?
showtopic=2759)

2004-10-27T01:33:00.000+08:00

ok. i ripped the entire blog layout from jacky's website.
including the music.
hah!

alright its getting late.
i'll blog tomorrow.

2004-10-26T10:06:00.000+08:00

i took this from friendster.

If A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q
R S T U V W X Y Z

Is equal to

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 16 17
18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26

Then
Hardwork=H+A+R+D+W+O+R+K
= 8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11
= 98% only

Knowledge=K+N+O+W+L+E+D+G+
E
= 11+14+15+23+12+5+4+7+5
= 96%
only

Love=L+O+V+E
=12+15+22+5
=54%

Luck =L+U+C+K
= 12+21+3+11
= 47%
(don't most of us think that this is the most important?)

Then what makes 100% Is it
Money? ..... No
Leadership? ...... NO

Every problem has a solution, only if
we perhaps change our attitude.

To go to the top, to that 100%

what we really need to go further.....
a
bit more.......

Attitude=A+T+T+I+T+U+D+E
=1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5
= 100%

=D

I am finally not working on a Saturday.

Hai Guys!

My virgin post of 2009!!!! Happy new year folks

Hello!

The Cracking Point

18 and Life

HAROLD AND KUMARRRRRRRRRRRRR!!

Inspiration from inspiring musicians for the inspiration hungry listeners Part 1

=D

Being intelligent, being appreciative and lastly good music. Trust me, it will make your day.

The good & The Bad.

Its a crying shame, to have hopeless sorrow.

Oh where, oh where can my baby be?

shrewd history

Happy Easter.

I was mesmerized.

Life of a patty in a burger.

Another post on something that talks about something

A new year

Dey, why u spray confetti at me, dey? Go back n spray water at your elephant la dey.

Of Slackness and more slackness

Giant is Dead!

HAHAHAHA

Damn tired after 3 days of Khatib Chalet

=D

death in photos

Back to school...errr, i mean Artillery Institute

for us and you and me.

The sun will shine and the birds will sing.

I am so excited

Not Ready To Make Nice

jungle warfare

Somebody's Daughter.

7 more weeks.

O-EM-EFF-GEE!! BLOCK LEAVE's OVER. GAHH!

*beep*, *beep* , I *beep*, *beep* pass out liao!

Support Local Music. Rock For Wayne; Rock with me as I turn Private.

Something Good

I survived sia.

I'm Back.

Bic Runga and Ana Free

Bloody Conscript Army

BYEBYEBYE!

A casualty of my own incompetence.

Hmm..

Mosaic Music Festival

latest bites :)

My Love.......so far away.

Chicks that rock!

Not Ready To Make Nice

Another long post. Really damn long man. VERY VERY LONG. Even i also buey tahan.

I will disappear

I'm getting mouldy

Bold As Love - A Jimi Hendrix Classic!

EA Games: Those soniyerbitchernayis capitalists!

Beck a.k.a The Mongolian Chop Squad

Demise of a blog and loving jack black's worshipping of the "Satan"

Life After As...Blissfulness

Wah! Damn Jia lat!.

Phucking Long Post. But patience is a virtue, you know?

PRELIMS END LIAO!

beep, beep , I beep, beep pass out liao!