Saturday, December 31, 2005
Happy new year everyone !!! Yes the year 2006 has finally arrived and everyone is getting psyched up for the As..except for yours truly still slacking away at home...but honestly speaking..2005 has been a bittersweet year..my original opinion was 2005 was a f**ked up year..but after much consideration..it was a bittersweet one.
Sweet parts: Meridian days. Meeting new friends like priya, avni, deepan, class of 05S203, meeting up with old MBS friends..going to Nallu's, Brian's, Mathan's places...Valentines day was fun...Orientation...hanging out with the TK gang...Making a GD movie...celebrating bdaes...beating nallu up...playing daidee and soccer...POOL...watching movies..esp 40 year old virgin...christmas party...loads more...
Bitter parts: Studying for promos...lucien and jeremy fights...the twin's departure...anthony's departure...suhendra's departure...the first 3 months in AC...devotions during assembly...and loads more...
Now my life aint that bad...Made loads of new friends in AC...but i still miss meridian though...got used to the devotions during assembly...the twins and anthony are back! But anthony would be leaving again after chinese new year...cleared things up with lucien but jeremy still sucks...
Memoirs of a Geisha would be the first movie i am gonna watch in the year 2006.
The new years party was fantastic. My relatives invited me at around 9pm to go for a Shangri La party yesterday, and the party starts at 9.30pm. How last minute..but upon arrival...the place was awesome. Imagine pillars engulfed in golden lights..the surrounding shrouded with mist...disco lights driving the mind crazy...alcohol, oysters and ramen were served...ppl dressed in smart casual outfits...the cigarette smoke kinda sucked...the band face2face kinda sucked too but the female lead singer was freaking hot. Tried champagne and whiskey...champagne tasted like beer and whiskey sucked...cant believe ppl actually drink it...went wild on the dancefloor and countdowned to the new year with the band...reached home at 3am..haha.
Year 2006...here i come.
InD!gO plunged into darkness 11:40 PM
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Sunday, December 25, 2005
On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me...10 painful slaps...9 vicious stab wounds...8 backhind kicks...7 mind-numbing punches...6 kisses from a gay...5 piercing pinches...4 unbearable bites...3 slashes to the back...2 eye gouges...and 1 hard low blowwwwww... Christmas is here and my true love is so cruel..haha jk.
Christmas is here. Went to parkway to buy merci chocs for a certain someone..haha..and went to priya's place. Met the twins, nallu, mathan, nithya and priya. Nallu brought his monopoly once again and we really wanted to throw his monopoly down the floor...ahhh but nvm...Met priya's cousins too..they are friendly ppl. We sat and chatted a bit and played some daidee..but it got kinda sian so i talked to nithya about stuff...and that got kinda sian too so we played scrabble with priya's mom. They started the monopoly marathon...twins, nallu, mathan, rohan ( Spelling? ), anan and deepan played...linhao zijian and brian were playing cards still...priya was being a banker and the 3 of us played scrabble..
Scrabble is really fun. Reminds me of the times when i use to play with my mom and my aunt in US. Too bad we dun do that anymore..haha but it was cool playing it again. After scrabble, we decided to eat dinner and the monopoly dudes were busy auctioning their wateva...and they adjourned their auction. The food was great. First time i tasted mutton. A christmas evening with my friends...simply heaven. And as usual nallu anan and i were jacking on another..haha and the rest were eating and watching princess dairies..
Another round of monopoly began and got kinda sian so decided to play cards again but that got sian too..so i just sat down and chatted with priya. Then we went home. Kinda abrupt right..but it was majority's decision. But everyone lives in the east except for me..and i didnt want to impose on priya's parents..felt so paiseh but grateful too...otherwise i would be watching the opera singers performing near priya's block...
First time i celebrated christmas in my whole life and it was an awesome experience. Wanna thank priya for being a good host and wanna thank the TK gang for keeping my company. Thanks a bunch guys.
Year end party is next and we are gonna rock the house down..( hopefully we dun coz its my place. ) Wallace and Gromit here we come.
InD!gO plunged into darkness 7:39 AM
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Saturday, December 24, 2005
[Adam and Christmas Eve]
Today is Christmas eve. Everyone basking in joy as they spend their day with their loved ones...haha including me. Met Xueming and Eric at Victoria concert hall for a special christmas performance put together by Xueming's church members. Awesome performance and wonderful experience in victoria concert hall ( first time there ). Carolling and sermon accompanied the performance..and there was some preaching and prayer..I saw someone collapse on the floor when ppl prayed for her..it was kinda freaky..but Xueming said it was a normal reaction when interacting with God..so i was wondering what will happen to me when i received that treatment..haha..would love to try it but not now..
Ate dinner at Boat Quay..first time eating there too..yes i am deprived..sze chuan chicken..beancurd and stir fried vege..mmm..haha. Chatted a bit and met new friends such as Xiangshan and Mingzhu. Then went home. Kinda short celebration but it was still great. AC friends rawk.
Tmr would be better..i hope..celebrations at priya's place. Haha i am sure it would be fun. Merry christmas one and all. Rudolph the red nose reindeer and fat santa...
InD!gO plunged into darkness 4:45 AM
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Friday, December 23, 2005
Well we finally celebrated Dehong's belated bdae..haha sry about that man..and we celebrated Anan's bdae as well..we celebrated as a TK clique..not complete but most of us were there.
Brian's at 10am. Mathan kenneth zijian brian dehong zamir and i were there. We played a few rounds of daidee and bridge till it got kinda boring and we were just slacking and waiting for anan and nallu to come. Nallu was making loads of phone calls and talking about irrelevant stuff over the phone. Anan went there shortly and we played police and detective..kinda childish but the TK gang is kinda deprived of such games...nallu finally arrived there and we played bluff..and our grand 'VIP' went to brian's house..the great legendary linhao...but we hid from him in brian's guest room for 10mins before he discovered us..haha and we carried on while jacking nallu. Fun part came went dehong had to leave and we gave him his present..then he had to get on the mahjong table and we whacked him up..and the table collapsed !!! We were just laughing all the way while fixing the table.
Round 2. Whacking dehong on the bed was supposed to be our agenda. But plans changed when we saw nallu being the first one to whack dehong..In the end we whacked nallu up for being such an ass over the phone and he was as usual screaming like a girl and we wanted to strip him of his pants but he was on the verge of tears..so we pitied him and let him off.
Round 3. We presented anan's gift..and obviously every bdae gift has to come with a bashing...so we whacked him up on the bed..haha i pity Brian coz the room was practically thrashed..and zj has been recording the bash ups.
After all the bashing and screaming and excitement..we headed to parkway to chow down. Super hungry after arguing with nallu over the phone and beating ppl up..Played soccer at haig court after lunch..and guess wad..we played a match. Friendly match and nallu was being an ass..walking around without doing much running..showing off his 'soccer skills'..hahaha so we were jacking him during soccer too..and the best part happened..when he landed a kick to the ball..he slipped and fell on his ass..and all of us were too busy laughing while he was acting retarded in front of the camera..hahaha mean of us to laugh at him but heck..its nallu..
After soccer..went to bedok interchange and everyone went home. At night..had to receive some merit bursary from Minister Lim Hng Kiang at Dover Community Hall..Shook his hand on stage in front of ppl and received some cheque..kinda cool seeing him in person..heard loads about him in singapore and in WTO conference.
Christmas is coming !!! First time gonna celebrate christmas..busy going out tmr and the day after..Merry Christmas everyone.
InD!gO plunged into darkness 6:24 AM
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Tuesday, December 20, 2005
Ahhhh today was kinda sucky. Was anticipating sth good out of todae but it turned out to be an average day..still kinda cool considering the fact that i havent met my friends for 5 days and i am already missing them like hell..gosh..see how vulnerable i am...
Anyway.. met brian zj mathan and kenneth. 2 more was supposed to turn up..hahaa but nallu had some ics and ogl thing that he claims to have..and priya had to cash a cheque in raffles place..so yeah the 5 of us went around parkway to search for gifts for anan and dehong. Surprisingly it only took half an hour to get anan a soccer ball and dehong a franz ferdinand CD. Half an hour only..so we discussed about celebrations in KFC. Oh and we met jiahao in PP in his vj uniform with his vj friends..the rest snubbed him and i gave him attitude..this was the best part of the day and we just laughed when we walked past him. LOL so funny..cant believe he is a christian now..bet he became one just coz he thinks its cool to be one..loser..
Played pool at Classics. Well..at least my pool skills were MUCH better than the time i played with linhao. Yup..linhao beat me fair and square in lucky plaza..wasnt so lucky in a lucky plaza..den trooped over to brian's place for a feast of canned tuna and ice lemon tea..listening to music and playing cards with kenneth and zj. Thats the life..ate dinner..went to make new specs..i have always hated the optical shop since young..dun ask me y..i just hate it..
Yeah so anyway..Thats it. I forgot to buy anthony's gift !!! And christmas gifts !!! ARGH. nvm..
Oh ya forgot to blog about my cousin's bdae. He treated me to Shangri la which explains my nick on msn. Shangri La buffets are 60 bucks per head but it was heaven. Looked like charlie and the choc factory..choc fountain..a wide variety of desserts..sushi bar..salad bar..barbeque bar..alcohol bar..indian stall..chinese stall..malay stall..seafood bar..really really awesome. Sorry readers for making u drool. Haha.
InD!gO plunged into darkness 8:12 AM
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Friday, December 16, 2005
Its bored being at home nowadays..i miss my friends already but none of them are making any plans..so here i am..at home rotting and typing in my blog.. did quite a bit of math in the afternoon but gave up after like about 1.5 hours..and its freaky coz i have forgotten most of my math concepts..damn..need to put in more practice..
During the evening, decided to go for a jog and run some errands for mom. ( No pun intended. ) Surprisingly it was quite eventful and i didnt know jogging can be such a joy. Biking beats jogging anytime but jogging is still ok. Wanted to explore my neighbourhood coz its been a while since i have done that.. and i jogged to Singapore Poly and the Singtel building there wasnt as big as it seems from my place. The Singtel building was surrounded by the institution.
Being my curious self, went into SP and saw a whole new neighbourhood. The environment was never seen before. Clouds dotted the amber sky as the sun puts away his brilliant golden robe to allow shy lady moon to cast down her elegant violet gown. I gazed upon the grass of the school track and it was a wonderful sight. SP is great. It has fastfood outlets..restaurants..popular bookstore..and quite a number of hot girls even though most of them are minahs..haha..too bad i had to leave early but i am going there again tmr to meet my friends and attend a fun fair !! Yayness.
Thats it. Till tmr. NiteZ.
InD!gO plunged into darkness 4:54 AM
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Thursday, December 15, 2005
Watched kingkong yesterday..and i have to tell ya..peter jackson's movies are awesome.
Went to brian's place at 10am to meet mathan zijian and linhao..played a few rounds of daidee before going over to lido to meet the twins and priya. At lido..mathan lost the tickets..haha but we found it lying on the floor..kinda careless huh..reminds me of myself during the daredevil movie when the gang deliberately took away the tickets from my bag to scare me..hahaha.. priya went there just on time and we watched the movie.
The lead actress is called jessica. Ok sth out of point but i just have to sae it. Even though i dun wanna have kids in the future..just in case i do..i have already got names for them. Rodriguez for a guy and jessica for a girl. Rodriguez sounds cool and majority of the jessicas in the world are hot. Yeah so back to kingkong. Nice scenery of New Zealand.. sad ending though..the big hairy monkey died.. haha before the movie, mathan and i were screaming big ape..and during the movie mathan was whispering stuff about surprise appearance of golem and kingkong having a nice ass...and we were rooting for lobo chan after the movie ended by screaming his name when it was shown during the credits..haha we are crazy in cinemas..even crazier with nallu around..wonder where he is...hm..
Shot pool at lucky plaza with jingyang linhao priya and mathan. I sucked. Lady luck wasnt around..and i depend on luck..ah well..ate at pastamania at cineleisure and chatted for about an hour.. it was nice just having a nice quiet chat with friends. Ironically..even linhao was good company. Seems that he has changed quite a bit and he is less rowdy..and his pool has improved so much..haha guess all his practice at home pays off huh..
Today is a boring day. Slacking at home really sucks. I would much rather hang out with friends..hope GD organises sth real soon.. group study would be a nice alternative too.
Christmas is coming! And i havent bought christmas gifts..and anthony's birthday gift !! I need to buy them really soon..ahhhhhh...
InD!gO plunged into darkness 1:09 AM
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Wednesday, December 14, 2005
As the title suggests..it was a bittersweet day on the 13th. Not friday the 13th..but still it was pretty bad..but got loads of good events during the day..but before i get to the 13th..let me blog about the 12th.
Costa Sands at 2.30pm. No one was there and i had to sit in some dark quiet corner listening to hanson and reading some book about blacks. Seemed kinda antisocial but i was anticipating the arrival of my OG mates for a 3day 2nite chalet. Around 4, shirlynn came with her friend YC and her mum. Checked in and wanyee came along. Couldnt recognise quite a number of my OG mates in meridian but all was cool and we had a great time catching up on the old times. I sort of became closer to my OG mates coz during the first 5 days i was some antisocial ass and didnt really mix much. Missed TK too much..haha.. Anyway back to the chalet..the 2 storey room shirlynn booked was cool except the aircon sucks. Went to Giant at parkway and met sze hwei and darianne there. Chatted with them and talked to them about meridian days.
Bought stuff and went back to the chalet where we just chatted..and i was the only guy in a bedroom with 5 other girls..seems lucky but not so much. Chatted about JC life..promos..meridian life in particular and sze hwei and darianne find nallu cool !!! Hahaha but its awesome..i should be proud of my friend.. just that i would have never expected it..he would be delighted to know that ppl are wary of his existence. Went to macs and ate..saw susan, zhenhong and kangzhuang for 5 sec before i left.
Day 2. Waited for priya for 45 mins. 45 mins. 45mins. Haha and we went to the chalet to find out that they are going to parkway to chow down when priya just came from there.. upon arrival at parkway..priya and i sort of ditched the rest coz they had no activities planned and we decided to watch pride and prejudice. Keira Knightley !! Who cares about the male lead..hahaha..anyway we came up with a lame excuse of going back to priya's place to get ASTHMA medicine. Funny. Boarded 4 36 buses. Fun huh..first went to EW at suntec and then GV at marina. Both had no P&P. So we had to watch it at PS. But it was an awesome romantic movie...even though the british accent was kinda strong during the first part and i couldnt figure out a single thing they were talking.. but keira knightley was sooooooooooo sweet. Officially make her my fav. actress. No lust scenes throughout the movie..so it was pure innocent love. This was the sweet part of the bittersweet day.
Went back to the chalet after the movie and i got water splashed on my pants twice coz cars were zooming past water puddles on the road. Cool huh.. Ate steamboat at the chalet with the rest of the OG. It taste good too..haha love the soup. After that..wanted to see karhian at his anglican chalet but he wasnt there..so walked along the beach with priya..
Had a nice long chat with her even though i think i bored her throughout the whole thing. But it was great for me coz its been a long time since we had that kind of long chats ever since we went to different JCs. We shared a couple of secrets. I never expected myself to be able to pluck up the courage to admit to her how i felt when she got steady with sasi. I have always thought it would be my personal secret for life..considering the fact that blurting it out could have affected our friendship. At that moment along the beach..i was kinda encouraging her and decided to just sae it. But i felt so much better after telling her my true feelings instead of putting up facades and brave fronts. I think she felt bad..i think..but everything's cool now. Just gonna cherish the friendship i have with her even more than before.
Finally saw karhian and chatted with priya, him, susan and kangzhuang. Meridian rawkz..gonna support them for next year's soccer match against vjc. Sorry victorians. Had 5 missed calls from my dad and he got kinda pissed..took a cab to priya's place and waited for my dad like a fool. Felt really bad but everything was fine when i was in his car. What a forgiving dad i have..haha.
Thats it. Sorry readers for boring u guys. NiteZ. Keira Knightley rawkZ.
InD!gO plunged into darkness 6:33 AM
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Sunday, December 11, 2005
Inspired by a certain blog in the world wide web..i guess the blogger should know who he/she is..hahaha..ok so here are my goals...not that they interest readers anyway but i will just write them down.
[Goals before the beginning of next year]
- Master math all over again.
- Go to the gym 3 times a week.
- Buy cross-trainer shoes.
- Watch pride and prejudice to see keira knightley.
- Pair of specs.
- Clean room.
- Study econs via e-learning.
- Play pool.
- Buying Christmas gifts.
- Attend merit bursary function.
- Hang out with jessie and steph.
- Christmas celebrations on 23rd at victoria concert hall.
- Christmas celebrations with friends.
- Christmas celebrations with relatives.
[Goals before end of next year]
- Study real hard for prelims and As.
- Scholarship.
- Do well in 2 S papers.
- Stretch my potential in tennis, badminton and chess.
- Maybe sign up for bintan trip.
- Another round of industrial attachment.
- Secure friendships with new AC friends.
- Appear good on grad nite.
- Give private tuition after As.
- Prepare body for NS.
- CLUBBING.
- Hanging out with friends is a definite must.
- Watch M18 movies ( Even though i am already watching them. )
[Goals before i turn 30]
- Complete bachelor of medicine course.
- Serve NS as medical officer.
- Further degree of medicine to phD.
- Girlfriend.
- Married to a sweet girl? ( Not the young ones. )
- NO children. ( Unless my wife insists. )
- Get a car.
- Hang out with friends. Hopefully.
Simple goals. But gonna strive to achieve them. Main objective: Express my gratitude to my parents by giving them money and caring for them more. Thats it.
InD!gO plunged into darkness 2:19 AM
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Monday, December 05, 2005
Well i have finally finished reading Eddie's Bastard by William Kowalski..excellent novel..however i wish there is a continuation coz the ending was like left hanging..ah well..can always hope..absolutely astounding..a book written with such elegance, maturity and humour it is difficult to believe that the author is only 28 years old. Wickedly funny and genuinely moving..i would recommend it to book lovers.
[Quotes from the book]
Universal signs, those clues to our destinies, are everywhere. It is up to us whether or not we follow them - but they are there nonetheless.
The extent of a man's greatness is determined by his ability to follow his proper direction. We create our own destinies, and yet we do not. We forge a new path as we proceed, and yet the path already exists beforehand, though it is not always well marked. This is the paradox of life; and a paradox is not a riddle to be solved, but a place to dwell in, if only for a brief time.
Have no fear of anger, for then anger has no power over you. Anger is a tool. Wield it, but use it wisely, never rashly. That is the way to turn it to one's advantage; that is the way to keep it from taking over Life. That is the way of a Celtic warrior.
I must never allow myself to forget that i live like a king because millions of others lived like animals. To enslave a person is to rob them of their dignity, their rights, their past and future. I am tormented by nightmares, and one nightmare in particular. Even though it was not I who traded decency for gold, I still reap the benefits of the transaction. But as a result, I have to pay the price of suffering under the Rory's curse.
We humans are a lot of monkeys running hither and thither, living in fancy cages of our own devising and slowly inventing the means to destroy ourselves. Before us also came a long line of monkeys, who through no grandiose intentions, but through the simple ability to procreate - or the inability not to - gave rise to us. For the most part they have been a depraved, murderous, hateful group, stealing land from other monkeys and wiping out other monkey tribes. Some of us modern monkeys seem to think much of our ancestors, and are proud to trace our monkeyhood back several generations, perhaps even as far as those original murdering monkeys, the Europeans. But I myself see little in our species' history of which to be proud. What? World Wars? It is far too late to prevent our worst errors as humans. Even if they havent been committed yet, the stage has already been set...Some mistakes are inevitable...
NiteZ
InD!gO plunged into darkness 8:05 AM
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Friday, December 02, 2005
Well..Anthony has left for indonesia..probably celebrating christmas with his family there..haha..and i have noticed that i havent blogged about him ever since he has arrived in singapore..guess i was too busy hanging out with him to even bother blogging..ah well..here is the post dedicated to my good friend..anthony gunawan.
Arrived in singapore at 12 midnight on 27th dec...and i met him at 9am on 27th dec..haha but it was really cool seeing him again since august..played tennis in the morning and it was a refreshing experience..its been a long while since i have last played with him too..but fatigue got the better of us..and in the end we only played for 1 hour...
We went to the airport to meet his austrialian friends who were also from indonesia and transitting in singapore..they were christianto and danny..my 2 new friends..haha even though i barely knew them and they were speaking in indo language more often than english..they had great personalities and we became good friends real quick. Danny was from RI while christianto was from St Gabriels..both study in UNSW and are good friends with anthony..felt kinda relieved coz i thought anthony would feel lonely there considering that most of friends are in singapore...Danny plans to take chemical engineering while christianto plans to take civil engineering..and he is gonna be anthony's classmate next year..cool..
We went to sunshine plaza in bugis with anthony's sis to look at some japanese anime and other stuff..ate at junction 8 too..and we went to sim lim coz christianto wanted to buy a T3 camera..but we met this ass of a salesperson who was giving us attitude instead of providing efficient service..but in the end he bought his camera..
Met anthony 3 times in a span of a week..coz he was only staying for a week..yesterday was the last time i saw him..went to his house at 6 in the evening coz i was hanging out at brian's house in the early afternoon..played tennis with him and christianto coz danny left for indo already..and ate dinner at a foodcourt..i mentioned to him about the UNSW in singapore and he said he would consider transferring..hope he transfers..haha..but it was all cool.
Anthony..i am expecting u to come back to singapore next year..as u promised..haha see ya in Jan.
Boring day today.
NiteZ.
InD!gO plunged into darkness 4:49 AM
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