Monday, January 29, 2007

nothing to blog about these days, just that my schedule is SUPER relaxed next week...

apparently, the store isn't making alot of money, so we have to cut back on employee wages, which means cutting back on employee working hours.

Praise the Lord.

anyway, the only reason i posted at this time is to ask for some things, namely, songs.

1)It Ends Tonight - All American Rejects
2)This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race - Fallout Boys
3)Welcome to the Black Parade - My Chemical Romance
4)Famous Last Words - My Chemical Romance

if anyone has them, PLEASE contact me via msn...

well, cya

2:41 AM

And through it all, the rise and fall...

Sunday, January 28, 2007

did something crazy on friday.

i rushed out of the house and took the bus to west mall, at, wait for it, 11pm.

why? because my dear friend, james a.k.a the one and only korean a.k.a jamess a.k.a jam in the ass a.k.a korean hunk a.k.a communist is turning 17!

guess what, i was the first, second, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eigth and 15+ person to wish him happy birthday!!! muahaha...

wj, james, yuting and sharon went to catch the movie "happy birthday" (i know, they were trying to be funny :P ). was supposed to join them, but due to cash flow problems, i ended up staying at home.

my bro went for NS on friday, and the whole thing lasted freaking long. there was a tour, then a super long boring speech, then the enlistees took their oaths of loyalty to the country, then the enlistees had a meal with their family (fried chicken, baked beans, baby carrots, mushroom soup, wintermelon juice. i guess it's the last time for a long long time that the enlistees get to eat something like that) and then, it was "so long! see you in two weeks!"

yea.

was supposed to go out with a friend for dinner or somethign after that, but that friend ditched me last minute for some other friends, maybe cause i didn't have money to play pool or something. same friend ditched me on tuesday too. ah well.

went for cell group on saturday. it was nice, haven't seen the cell group in a while. it started at 3.15, and by the time it ended around 4.17, we were seriously late for service. more people came today because guess what, Dr. A.R. Bernard came! not that 95.73% of people reading this blog would know who he is, just FYI.

so in the end, we got there in true, "weijian" style, cab.

$17, split between 3 people. sarah and winnie had it worse, about $19 between 2 people.

so in the end, we missed praise and worship, but still got there in time for dr. bernard's message.

quite powerful, i must say, just that the english he use abit "cheem", got a few parts hard to understand. for me, anyways.

hmm, it's 13:15. better go get prepared for work.

cya

12:55 PM

And through it all, the rise and fall...

Sunday, January 21, 2007

i am really dreading the next week.

monday -- work, 8am-3pm
tuesday -- work, 8am-3pm
wednesday -- work, 8am-3pm
thursday -- work, 3pm-11pm
friday -- send stupid brother off to NS
saturday -- cell group, church
sunday -- work, 3pm-11pm

the only thing i can look forward to is my pay, which will only come next month. only getting like, $450+, cause of the stupid CPF. zilah is lucky, she got $475, less than $500 so never minus CPF. also, i have the EAGLES award thingy, and it's like, $150 only. si qian got both the EAGLES and the scholarship, total amounting to like, $500+ to $600+. should have studied harder...

so in total, i'll be getting like, $600, 10% goes to tithe, and the rest of it probably to building fund. finally i can give more than, like, $20 a week...

why doesn't the school just give you cash instead of a check? or is it cheque? anyway, i have no idea how to cash it, so, probably won't be getting the money anytime soon...

i really need a break. maybe one whole day, where i can just chill or hang out with friends. i miss everyone!!!the only people i'm seeing now is zilah and kinah. not that it's bad or anything, but i miss seeing people like NANI(so so so so so sorry... haha) edward, min, james (happy birthday, by the way. i must be the earliest one to wish you, since i'm like, one week early). so far, i've seen wj, mh, sharon, yuting, kok, memah, fiez. no one else, really..

i miss w330!!! but luckily, i'm available for cell group this saturday!! unless the manager asks me back at the last minute, which happened once already.

my zen has been there with me during bus rides. sad to say, the left one is abit spoiled. don't wanna point fingers, but it was like that since i got it back from someone i lent it to. it must have been the atomic kittens who polluted it :p

anyone knows where to get one of those earphones where you stick them into your ears and instantly all other sound gets drowned out? the one wj used to have. and, don't mind me asking, anyone saw it with a price tag of like, below $25? all those i've seen is over $50. maybe need to buy second hand or something... or, better yet, anyone itching to get me a very late or extremely early birthday/Christmas gift? i won't mind :D

dammit, nothing else to blog about. that's what i mean, you know, i've not been out for so long that i've nothing else to say beside work.

cya

4:40 PM

And through it all, the rise and fall...

Thursday, January 18, 2007

i wonder... why doesn't anyone come online in the morning, or stay online after midnight? or is it because no one comes online anymore? haven't chatted with some people in a long time. the working life sucks! can't even go out with my friends, since i work from 3-11 nowadays. and what's more, there's not enough people in the store now, so i have to work on saturday, meaning i'm gonna miss cell group. this sucks! first cell group of the year, and i'll miss it. what's more, i have to rush down to service after work. gonna be tiring...

been hearing lot's of eminem nowadays, with the 30 minute bus ride from inter to holland v. gotta love "the way i am".

i am, whatever you say i am
if i wasn't, then why would i say i am
in the paper, the news everyday i am
i don't know its just the way i am

superman rocks too. by five for fighting.

i'm so bored. the only person who i chat to gone offline already, so now i'm pretty much alone.

crap, someone talk to me! what's the point of "ton-ning" if no ones tons with you? and also, no one freaking updates their blogs nowadays. what's the point of having one if you're not gonna use it? haha, i know, i'm not one to talk...

ah well, gonna hang around for a while, then i'm gonna sleep.

life is so boring now...

1:15 AM

And through it all, the rise and fall...

Tuesday, January 16, 2007

i'm confused.

do you, or do you not?

is this real, or is this an elaborate joke that you got a few of my friends in on?

i guess the real question now is, do i, or do i not...

if you know who you are, PLEASE, tell me this isn't a joke.

what the heck am i doing? no one comes to this blog nowadays.

12:39 AM

And through it all, the rise and fall...

Friday, January 12, 2007

back from a 3 day trip from genting. well, alot less than 3 days, actually. we arrived at 3.22am on tuesday and left at 2.30pm on wednesday, meaning we spent barely 24 hours in genting. ah well, life sucks, get used to it.

starting this blog entry at about 1.56am, let's see what time i'll end. if you're guessing, yes, i am gonna do a long picture post again, so once again, be forewarned of the ultimate loading time (i have like, 54 pics in my cam alone, not counting those sent by wj and meihui. will try to cut out useless ones). don't worry though, i'm gonna, once again, try my best to do as long a post as possible so you can view the pictures at your own pace leisurely. aren't i kind?

well, for starters, i met up with sharon and wj at bbecc at 8, went to meihui's house, then cabbed to boon lay, where we boarded the coach at 9.30. it takes like, 6 hours just to get there. well, at least there was some form of entertainment. watched harry potter 4 on the small screen behind the chair in front of me, if you know what i mean. went on to watch elektra, but was cut off halfway when the bus was about to arrive.
got there, checked in and went into our rooms. wj and i shared the room which had like, the most unlucky number i've ever seen: "13911". good thing i don't believe in bad luck.

all 4 of us didn't sleep, went around the place (first world hotel) taking pictures.only went back a few hours later to sleep for awhile. i couldn't sleep, seeing as there was a "motorbike" sharing the same bed as me :p

woke up, well, got up, actually, at 10.40, brushed, bathed, dressed, woke wj, went over to the girls' room, found out both were awake, hung around for awhile, joined by wj, went back to our room, put all the cameras and wallets into my shoebag, and set off.

turns out, the freaking theme park was freaking closed because of the freaking rain, making us feel as if we freaking wasted our freaking time. had to freaking settle for the freaking indoor theme park which was freaking substandard with a freaking roller coaster that was so freaking slow even freaking wj didn't freaking scream.went for the freaking "4D motion master", which freaking meant that they gave you freaking 3d glasses and the freaking seats would move as the camera moves. kinda lame, actually, i don't know if the 3d glasses they gave me was screwed, or if their projector just sucked, but the image looked nothing like 3d. also, when they played lame trickes like throwing knives at you and all, you get bored real quick. at the start, i have to admit i was a little apprehensive, but that was due to past experience, when i went to singapore science centre and they had a 3d show. that was real 3d, scared the heck out of the 9 to 11 year old me.

didn't have much to do after that, browsed around the shops, and i found this perfect jacket that costed only 89.90RM, meaning less than s$45! would've bought it, but i decided to look around more and when i got back it was already gone. damn tourists... also, we played pool, and i have to say, it's freaking fun. i love being 16.

had dinner at some restaurant with meihui's family (yea, forgot to mention that they were there. we only came to genting because meihui invited us to tag along). the food there was like, damn good, much much much much much better than those served at grad night. the fish was great, but i didn't eat much though, took most of the vegetable, which was also damn nice. there was also scrambled egg, which smelled so nice, but too bad, there were onions in it. walked around again after that, then went back to the hotel to play some card games. here's an anecdote: when you put sharon plus "heart attack" plus sore throat together, you get a high sharon making the occasional dinosaur roars.

went back out again, meihui and i armed with instant noodles, and went out to the open where the fog and cold air blew against your whole body. eating hot instant noodles in cold weather feels good. the air was like super refreshing, and the noodles, well, they were instant noodles. went back to the hotel after that to catch a few Zs, this time i fell asleep before the motorbike started, so, all's good.

went around again the next day, had pizza hut brunch, played pool again, and went around the shops for souvenirs for some friends. i only bought for like, 2 people, and shared with wj a present for winnie, our cell group leader. went back to singapore after that.

really hope that we'll be able to go overseas for longer periods in future, but seeing as we're all gonna end up probably in different polys, we'll probably lose contact sooner or later. that's how it was with all my primary school mates, and i don't see why this should be any different. besides, it's already starting to happen with some people. ah well, let's start the picture post.

gonna sleep after this, morning shift tomorrow, so, again, you guys had better enjoy these photos.

cya.

1:56 AM

And through it all, the rise and fall...

Wednesday, January 03, 2007

well, looks like i finally got the cam back after all. for people with slow loading time, welcome to internet hell.

i'll be nice, and do a long post so you can all wait for the pics to load without feeling so frustrated and start slashing your (or other people's ) wrists.

yusof ishak grad night 2006. kinda disappointing, not what i expected, but, ah well, you get to see a different side of your friends on that night. i went over to yuting's house at around 5 to meet up with the rest. i thought only kok, sharon and yuting would be there. imagine my surprise when i saw james, huda, chingru and weijian too.

i changed into my clothes, did some last minute adjustments to my hair, and the company left around 5:30. i'm not sure what time we arrived, but when we were there, it didn't seem like many people had arrived yet, so we slacked at a sofa on one side of the reception room (at least i think that was the reception room...). pretty soon, other 4e2 people arrived and a few minutes later the couch was packed with 4e2 people only. the opposite sofa consisted mainly of 4e3 people, not that i cared. haha, just kidding.

we were told to register, so we went to the booth, signed our names, and took a book with what we assumed would be the cover of this year's teen companion, and also a lucky draw ticket. can't remember what my number was. guess from that sentence you know i didn't win anything.

went in to the big room outside the function room, which i assume would be the waiting area. saw like, 3 booths set up. one hair coulouring, one air brush tattoo, and one guy which sketches your face. not on your face, but on a paper, never mind, i'll show you later on. edward, kok and i think sharon went to get the tattoo, and after that the 4e2 people went over to the artist's booth. only people from our class managed to get our portraits, the rest just stand around waiting for the celebration to start.

when it finally started, all of us went to our tables. mine had wj, james, edward, kok, sharon, yuting, ching ru, kartik, sue-e and me in it. the entertainment that night was far from what i would call entertaining. the band's that performing might have actually sounded good, but, once again, P.A. sucks. the DJ acted so cool when it started, but he looks like he doesn't know what he's doing. the music from the instruments were turned on so loud you can barely hear the singer. guess that's the kind of DJ you get for paying $65 for your grad night.

the food, overall, not that satisfying. the first course was ok, but the second one, fish, tasted weird. the fish wasn't even fresh. but at least it wasn't a wedding kind of food. shark's fin, steamed fish... you get the drift.

the skit started out ok, slightly entertaining, but after a while you get sick of that woman's voice being blasted so loudly (again i say, P.A. sucks). edward and i left halfway for the toilet, and we never returned. at least till the skit was almost over. we were outside taking pictures among ourselves. within minutes, there wasn't a single person from 4e2 still watching the show. wonder what the people thought when they saw whole tables stand up and leave.

then came the lucky draw. long story short, no one from our class won. guess we really are united. haha.

min actually went all the way to the final draw. i prayed for her and, guess what, God is good.

after the mc said goodbye,i started feeling sad. only like, 2 people know why, i think. was hardly acknowledged. well at least now i have some idea of something.

left with a bunch of people, which consisted of the people from yuting's house, plus nani, edward,hafiez, fahmy and haziq. not sure if i left anyone out. went touring singapore. at least that was what it felt like. we walked a freaking long way, and cabbed even further. spent like, $6 on cab fare, and when you consider that it was shared by 3 or 4 people per cab, it's quite alot. damn the midnight charges.

soon the numbers dwindled, and somewhere somehow, we ended up at wj house. we as in sharon, wj, edward, fahmy, hafiez, haziq and me. watched 'see no evil' at his house. loved the way kane died. disgusting, yet, seeing as he's the villain, oddly funny.

left at 6:15am. everyone cabbed home, as for me, the infamous miser, i sat at the bus stop. after about 5 minutes i turned around from my seat to stare at the bus chart behind me. realised that 106 and 77 wouldn't be arriving anytime before 20 minutes later, so i started walking. got home at about 6:45 to 7. was so tired that when my dad called, i almost screamed at him while on the bus. when i'm tired i don't even know what i'm doing. ah well, guess that concludes the pst about grad night. if your pics haven't loaded yet, screw you. :p

sorry if some of the pics are abit dark. they looked bright enough on my cam...

the four of us all got our self portraits done. we were like the first four who signed up for this. haha.