Posted 11:59 PM

Shifting

My room's now a mess. And I'm in the midst of shifting. Most of the stuff is at the new place already. We spent a whole day today doing that. Princess P was so nice to come down and accompany me, else I'd have been bored to death alone by myself.

So as a form of gratitude I treated her to sushi! We ordered a lot of food, my most favourite dish being the mochi ice cream!! With a 10% discount it costed $34 in total. But it was worth it!
We were both so happy throughout the day, and we were no longer as tired after we filled our stomachs.

We then went to the arcade to play. And she wanted to play this driving a tank and shooting enemy tanks game, and at first I didn't really wanna 'cos I felt it was boring, but I agreed anyway. What's the name of the game? Anyway I shall call it battle tanks for now.

So the objective is to drive your tank and there are 2 teams of (four) tanks shooting against each other. Princess P and I were in opposing teams, and although her team eventually won, my statistics totally thrashed hers!! I destroyed way more enemy tanks than she did!
And in the 2nd game we were in the same team, and we won, and as usual I did far better than her. She only had 9 hits on enemy tanks. I had 20. My accuracy was 64%. Hers was..... 13%.. HAHA. She said "must take the average!" Ok lor.. my average was about 50+%... hers... dont' even talk about average accuracy... her TOTAL accuracy was less than 50.

HAHAHAHHAHA!!!!
I had such a good time laughing AT her. And I said wow this is such a fun game let's play it more often!

And she said "不要" （bu yao = don't want). HAHHAAHHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!

Hehehehehehehe. Man I can't stop thinking and laughing about it. Hehehehehhehehehehe.



triggering Mr Ng HS |

Posted 8:08 PM

I am your father.

(think I've used this before, but it's ok I'll say it again heh)




Two weeks back, I received a letter from him. It was a Christmas card. Well you know how snails mail have to swim across the seas.

（trent):
最近生活过得怎样？
功课还能应付吧？
希望你继续努力。
爸爸很想你。

translated:
(trent):
How's life?
Able to cope with work?
Hope you continue to work hard.
Dad misses you.

I didn't know what to do. No way was I sending a letter back. I thought of emailing him, but hesitated, and gradually forgot about it, until today...

Got an email with no visible addressee so I couldn't click on it, and the subject was 're: see you soon' so at first glance I thought it was another of those spam mail. But as I slowly read other emails i reached it, and it surprised me that it was from him again. He replied my reply about his email on 中秋节 (mid autumn festival), which means my last mail to him was in end of september.

Dear son,

did not hear any reply from you, you must be very busy i think.
how is everything now ? talk to me if you have doubt in your life.
for me , it was not easy to live in a new place which is completely new, at first, my place do not have the facilitily to connect to the internet nor call to contact the outside world, and trunk call is really unaffordable for me, because i took nothing but left everything totally to your mum, i have only less than 3 hundred in my pocket , just like a stray dog !
life is really difficult and miserable in the begining, weather, food, life style, i remembered last summer we met yunna typhoon(10 deg.) , you just can't imagine how powerful the nature force is, it was a big disaster for zhejiang province in history. and now we are in the winter season, heavy snowing last week, cold is the only word for me.
i shifted to a new hostel with full facilities two months ago, although problems still arise here and there some time (like blackout), but i can go to net easily this time. with the facility, we will talk to you more often.
you know i am chinese educated, i know i have bring you down, and i hope you forgive me with this poor english expression.

i'll be back to sin. on 31 jan. see you soon.

daddy

I must say his english really isn't that bad as I thought. I suppose he meant this Typhoon, in August 2004.

Suddenly offhand, I can't remember when he left. I think it was Jan 2004?
Wow it's been a year already.

I don't know what to reply again. And I think I'll wait for a couple of days before I do so anyway.

He's a stray dog, and he brings me down.

=(


triggering Mr Ng HS |

Posted 11:59 PM

I could be so lucky...

Sent an email this early morning. It was regarding one of my balloted tutorials. I didn't like the slot, and the lecturer (prof) only said we should see her if there was a clash of timetables, otherwise none will be entertained. I appealed through cors and of course it was 'not applicable'. I was already prepared for my friday being eaten up by that 1hour tutorial.... until I saw an email.. and replied:

Good day to you Ma'am! =)

My name is Triggering Trent, and I'm in your module XX1111. I've taken a look at the tutorial groupings, and I'm terribly excited to see that there are only 25 people (out of a possible 26) in DWx Thursday y-z pm.
I'd like to throw in an absolutely desperate last minute appeal to be inserted into that class (since I assume there's a vacant slot) and be removed from my present class of DWn Friday a-b pm.

Reason (abit lame though): I got rejected in all the 4 tutorial slots for thursday, and got that friday slot. Friday was my free day!! And I hope that I don't have to go to school for a one hour class on that day. I know the appeal stage is over, and my reason doesn't sound valid at all, but after I saw the groupings I know that hey I had to give it a try. =)

Looking forward to a favourable reply!

Thanks and regards,
Triggering Trent

And then I forgot about it, occupying my time thinking about what's gonna happen between Princess P and I, for we had a rough day yesterday. Or rather I did. Princess P had a splitting headache last night and still feel dizzy today. I worried for her, especially after she said she had to go to school to meet someone to buy a 2nd hand textbook. I immediately thought of trying to send her back home after her 4 hours in school. Mum didn't reply with what I wanted though, ie she would only be back late thus I wouldn't have the car.

I was a little bumped. I didn't know what to do then. I thought that I really need a car. Then Skaozer came online, and I asked if he had school today and he did, 6-8pm. So I asked if I could borrow his car during the said time, and he said yes. This was when I posted the earlier entry. I felt that everything's gonna work out nicely today. Thanks brudder it really means a lot to me, and you trusting me and not asking your mum for permission. It's my first time driving a car other than my own (except the one at the driving centre of course), and it did need some getting used to.

I smsed Princess P at 5pm telling her that I'm waiting for her at the car park and that I'll send her home. She walked over after her class and was totally surprised to see me behind a steering wheel of a car that she's unfamiliar with. I told her it's Skaozer's and I praised him to the heavens telling her WHAT A NICE GUY HE IS TO LEND ME HIS CAR. I bought ham and cheese sandwich from the coffee club express, because I thought she might be hungry. I also gave her a little hallmark card, telling her to get well. I bought some pastries for her brother too. It's cute that he and I share some similar taste in little munchies.

I waved bye to Princess P at the void deck, because I thought I might end up not wanting to go off had I walked her back to her unit. Then I drove back to school. I had to return the car, remember. Proceeded to AS7 computer cluster to log onto OED, and struggled with my tutorial. Checked my email and THE PROF REPLIED!


Triggering Trent,

Good try. :) Well, given that three groups do have 26 members (MUCH aginst our wishes, I must emphasize, so your logic doesn't quite work), we can't refuse, can we?

Okay, so you are now in DWx. I'll make the necessary changes.
Best,
prof

I'm so happy. So now I don't have to go to school on friday. And I replied:

Dear Ma’am,

Oh you’ve made my smile as wide as Singapore!!
Thanks so much! I really appreciate your time and effort in making the changes. I’m in DWx! =D =D

Have a nice day!

Regards,
Triggering Trent


So I then met Skaozer and friends at 8pm. We then drove off to have dinner. I treated him. I still owe him 9 more treats. HAHAHA.

Got home at 915pm. Princess P said she was surprised and touched by what I did today for her.
Now is close to midnight. I just got off a 20minute phone call with her. I guess I'm still abit upset over what happened yesterday.

She said sorry already. What more do I want? Want her to think more about me? I think I've told her that a hundred times.

But that's really what I feel. =(


triggering Mr Ng HS |

Posted 12:44 PM

What I really feel.
My eyes wouldn't let me hide.
Cause they always start to cry.
Another of my favourite quotes from another of my favourite sad songs.
"Lately" by Stevie Wonder.

I cried yesterday. It's been a long time since I really cried. I hugged my super big gigantic blue cushion and squeezed my face into it, and cried. I stopped. Went to take a shower, and cried. I had to slap myself. To force myself to stop. I'm so weak, always letting these emotions get the better of me. I went to bed. I had a good long sleep.

And it's a new day.

As I type, I know it.

Today is my lucky day.

I can feel it.

I can feel it.

Today is my lucky day.


triggering Mr Ng HS |

Posted 11:59 PM

Gamers are not lazy nerds.

In today's Sunday Times article.

"A NEW survey has smashed the common perception that video gamers are a bunch of lazy nerds sitting in darkened rooms for hours on end.

The Entertainment Software Association studied a group of American gamers and found that the average video game player spends more time exercising, reading and doing volunteer work than playing games.
It found that people who played video games for 11 or more hours a week were engaging in sporting, cultural, religious or creative activities for 34.5 hours of their week."

Aww come on man, 11 hours per week is nothing. Hardcore video gamers play 11 hours per DAY. Look at the gunbound and maple story craze. Kids play the whole afternoon and night. What's up with that?


triggering Mr Ng HS |

Posted 5:20 PM

The things I do when I no have skoo.

Ok.
You see. Friday was Hari Raya Haji, so it was a Public Holiday.
Plan: Meet Princess P, grab a couple of totally ridiculously funny movie vcds and watch at my place.
Note: Each to choose a vcd. That will be two movies for the day.



1st screening (Princess P's):
Connie and Carla.

"A mob mix-up in Chicago sends two chanteuses screaming for L.A., where they score a perfect gig: posing as drag queens on the dinner theater/cabaret circuit. Things get extra-weird when a guy falls for one of the girls."



Scroll over the picture will ya?

Argh.

This is not a comedy. If I were to be harsh, this is a movie suitable for insomniacs and anorexics, because they induce sleep and / or vomitting effects.

I mean I knew I never did like this kinda stuff, but it's ok because you know what? Princess P found it boring too! HAHAHAHA! I said she was probably trying hard to stay awake because it was she who chose the film and felt obliged to watch it. And hey, of course I watched every bit of it too. I added that other guys would have probably gone off to play their computer games and came back after the show finished. She thanked me for watching it with her, and she said it's a lousy show and she should have gotten GARFIELD or A CINDERELLA STORY instead.

(Not as if it's gonna be better hurhurhur.. but this connie carla bomb really tops it all. Or bottoms it all rather.)

It's so bad, if I was given a printed form to rate what I thought of the show, in the following format:
WORST -5 [] -4 [] -3 [] -2 [] -1 [] 0 [] 1 [] 2 [] 3 [] 4 [] 5 [] BEST

I would have ticked the -5 slot?
No man, ticking anything would have wasted my ink, or my bandwidth on the net.


2nd screening (mine):
Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle.



"Buttoned up Harold and laidback Kumar are stoners who want to get food at a White Castle Burgers joint, which becomes a perilous journey full of strange obstacles."

First off, it's DEFINITELY better than the previous film (although Princess P classified them as the same kind...noooooooooooooooooo) .

I love it! Because I love American humour, always making fun of everything, and having some very witty lines in the dialogues. Princess P didn't understand much, like references of Harold to Mr Miyagi ( the teacher in karate kid) and Kumar to Apu (the mart owner), or to the dumb movie 'dude where's my car'.

The ending's pretty anti-climax but well it's a good show the rental's worth checking out.

~
That's that, of our holiday vcd plan.

We really laughed a lot, not during the first screening, but AFTER the first screening, because I was acting out how I was dying of boredom, and then saying no no what a nice show it was, and began to sing what connie and carla sang during their drag performances, "don't cry for me argentina". Princess P couldn't help but laugh in disgust what a sucky show it was.

That set us up for a very fun evening. =)

I told her we should do this more often. It's a lot cheaper. Ahh yes I'll have to blog on the money issue soon....

Happy Long weekend!


triggering Mr Ng HS |

Posted 3:09 PM

I dream. I can run. Like the wind. And be strong.
(nonsensical post #45)

Quick. I give your brain 5 seconds to process what words are these.

That's right. They're from the chorus of a song.
Quick. Another 5 seconds to think about what song it is.

That's right. They're from Taufik Batisah's no.1 single titled "I Dream".
Quick. Another 5 seconds to tell me who Taufik Batisah is.

That's right. The very first Singapore Idol.
Quick. Another 5 seconds to tell me if you've heard of the song on radio. (Listening to it during the finals doesn't count.)

Yes? That's good.
Quick. Another 5 seconds to tell me if you're already sick of the song.

What? You only needed a SPLIT SECOND to tell me that you are??
But Singapore Idol only ended a month ago! Where's your sense of idol mania?

This reminds me of another word. Rooneymania.
Calls are coming in for the word to be introduced in dictionaries, after the British teenage football star lit up Euro 2004 with his performances.

And it obviously prompted a wtf response. Click the link. I'm telling you it's hilarious! Let me quote some definitions which internet surfers chipped in (in jest of course):

~
Acronym standing for: Where's the fruit?
Kid's say this to your friends and family when you want to know where you can get your apples.
"Billy, can you bring the fruit in from the car?"
"WTF mom?"
~
meaning: Wednesday Thursday Friday
<@guest> hey david u cummin to my house
<@Foogoo> WTF
~

Back to the point of Taufik, in no relation to what is now a lame joke in "taupok" of course, nor that Badminton PR. Hey this Taufik is true blue Singaporean, baby! I only got hold of the latest news, regarding how he couldn't turn up at a radio function, and how it is rumoured that the radios are boycotting him and not playing his songs and interviews on air.

Which leads inevitably to "the answer to every question in the world".

ie.

Who cares?

Nooooo. Some people care alright.

Read this news article. And I quote:

However, some fans are still disgruntled over Taufik's decreasing presence on some radio stations.

Said student Chen Shuyu, 17, who listens to Perfect 10 98.7FM and Class 95FM for about three hours a day: 'I've noticed that they are now playing him a lot less. They used to play I Dream almost every hour two weeks ago, but now I don't hear it as often.'

Huh?!?!? Playing the song almost every hour? I'd have boycotted the radio stations instead.
Recently I haven't been fervently tuning in to the radio stations as before, but if this is the case I'm glad.
The classic example I can give you is "The Song will go on" My heart will go on" by Celin Dion. Ahh yes. You shiver when I mentioned it, didn't you?

Lost?

Hey don't blame me for exposing you to internet lingo (only basics at that too).
Blame the society.

Yes. I say. Blame the society! For everything!
For making a University Degree seem as worthy as a roll of toilet paper!

'scuse me while I go work hard for that toilet paper.


A University degree is like toilet paper,
everyone needs a piece of it.
- triggering trent


triggering Mr Ng HS |

Posted 1:08 PM

Rainbow.

I'm ok. =)

Here's a joke for those who are under the weather.

There is a factory in America which makes the Tickle Me Elmo toys. The toy "laughs" when you tickle it under the arm.

A new blonde employee is hired at the Tickle Me Elmo factory and she reports for her first day promptly at 0800. At 0845 that day, the Foreman from the assembly line begins to complain about the new employee to the Plant Manager. He said that she is incredibly slow and the whole line is backing up, putting the entire production line behind schedule.

The Plant Manager decides he should see this for himself, so the two men march down to the factory floor. When they get there, the line is so backed up that there are Tickle Me Elmo's all over the factory floor.

At the end of the line stands the new employee surrounded by mountains of Tickle Me Elmo's. She has a roll of bright red fabric and a huge bag of small marbles. The two men watch in amazement as she cuts a little piece of fabric, wraps it around two marbles and begins to carefully sew the little package between Elmo's legs.

The Plant Manager bursts into laughter.

After several minutes of hysterics he pulls himself together and approaches the woman.

"I'm sorry," he says to her, barely able to keep a straight face, "but I think you misunderstood the instructions I gave you yesterday. Your job is to give Elmo two test tickles".

~
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! =D =D


triggering Mr Ng HS |

Posted 11:25 PM

The colour of tears.

I got very upset last night. I feel that Princess P upsetted me. I weeped a little on my bed, and I slept really early, at 1am, but also because I had a long day in school today. My sadness carried through till today. I didn't wanna go home. So can you believe it, I actually went to the library to do my readings. Wow. The central library is so empty. I've never seen it in this state before. So anyway I stayed there from a little before 6pm to about half past 8pm.

Princess P didn't try to make me feel better, and she didn't sms me anything the whole day, and actually blamed me for not smsing her. And she was so harsh again. I felt terrible. =( When she apologised, her smses seemed sarcastic. I didn't know what to think.

I think now we are ok. I don't understand why it happened. I feel that I didn't do anything to deserve this kinda treatment. I feel unappreciated. I just want to be appreciated. Sometimes I don't really know what she wants.


triggering Mr Ng HS |

Posted 4:26 PM

And you realised it's 16days into 2005.

And that's like 349 days into 2006.

Scary.

No really. It's so intimidating. This time thingy. Incidentally I remember writing this 'thingy' word in one of my GP essays and got screwed. That was 4-5 years back. I think it's time Merriam-Webster should update a little. Was saying, that time really catches us offguard sometimes. QUICK BONUS QUESTION: Without checking back, how many times have I typed 'time' in this paragraph. Ahh ok ok I'll start this entry properly.

Mooshi mooshi.

Hey what do ya know, it's 2 weeks passed just like that. I figure I must blog again else I'll forget how to write. Let's start with everyone's favourite topic: school. Ooh yeah. My #18 ranked University in the world. I've gotten all my 5modules I wanted this semester. Tutorial balloting starts tomorrow (monday) and if I get what I want, I'll have a pretty good weekly week (trent talk: weekly week) lined up. So this choosing of modules pretty much covered the first week. Second week was the first week of school. Am I confusing you my young padawan? On my first day I went to the central co-op to find the lady cashier whom I talked to everytime but she wasn't there that day. The week's great. Lectures are okay. Haven't bought any textbooks or course packs (not yet released) yet though. Week 2's coming and it's time to pay more attention to my studies now. Played soccer with the usual gang just this morning and some of my Engine Faculty friends are already talking about doing tutorials. They have hectic lives. I'll have to make better use of my time, since I seem to be more free than everyone else.

Mentoring has been even better. Met them for the past two weeks, and we did resolutions for the first session, and I discussed 'family' with my two mentees last week. I can see that they are growing up. I was also delighted that the mentees said hi or gestured at me when they noticed my presence in their canteen, and the mentees' friends came up and talked to me too.

I mentioned I've made more friends throughout this mentoring journey. I'm sure everyone reading now will be happy for me. I have more people to talk to on msn, and they are all nice people. Obviously. People who volunteer to be mentors are nice people. Which also means I've taken a trip round the mulberry bush to praise myself that I'm nice.

Hehe.

Last night, I went for the afterglow meet up with my fellow camp screw. The camp held in Sentosa last month, remember? The one where I saw more peacocks than bikini babes. Not many turned up, but in the end I guess it was just the right crowd since we all could occupy the tables comfortably. I was pretty disappointed when the other 4 mentors from my school all decided not to go for the BBQ, and none mentioned it to me. Even if I was sure of going regardless of their attendances, wouldn't it have been polite to inform me that all of them have decided to ally and not go? Often I feel left out by them. Well ok back to happy stuff. The BBQ was great. I spent quite some time at the pit itself talking to my fellow chefs and barbequeing the food. We kept forgetting to flip the bread and about three of them got burnt. I also ate a lot of crab sticks (perks of being at the pit). One of the highlights was that someone went to heat up and melt some chocolate and we dipped marshmellow in it and ooooohhhh it was goooooooood.

This reminds me of a Simpsons Episode, Guess Who's Coming to Criticise Dinner.
It's one in which Homer Simpson becomes a food critic, and as we all know he can't write for nuts, Lisa was roped in to translate his comments onto paper, a review of at least 500 words.
Excerpt:

Homer: OK, what restaurant did we review?
Lisa: Well, we went to Pate LaBelle last week, how about that?
Homer: Great, now let me think. The food was ... [Homer tastes his food-stained shirt to remind himself of the restaurant] ... was not un-delicious
Lisa: [typing] The food is delicious.
Homer: Ooh! That's brilliant! And they had this sweet, sweet chocolate mousse. Really, the only word to describe it is [drools lustily].
Lisa: Hmm. What's the English equivalent for [imitates Homer]? I'd say ... transcendent.
Homer: How about groin-grabbingly transcendent?
Lisa: Uh ... I don't think so.
Homer: We make a good team. A groin-grabbingly good team! [... a little later ...]
Lisa: 497 ... 498 words.
Homer: How about screw Flanders!
Lisa: Bon Appetite!
Homer: Ah, they're both good.

Noticed the 'drools lustily'? It's actually Homer like this:

And then he makes this 'saliva gargling in his mouth' sorta sound. Oh man you gotta hear it.

And as I was saying, the chocolate dipped marshmellows were... transcendent.

The BBQ ended around 10pm. We took some group photos and departed. Some of us were thinking of whether to go KTV, at this Kbox outlet in Choa Chu Kang. We weren't in time for the 10pm-midnight slot, so we pondered over the 12-3am session. Being a spontaneous and fun loving person I always am enthusiastic to go places, especially since I was already outside. So we finally settled on the 12-3am slot. We chilled at the coffee bean outlet below for an hour, before we sang for three. We had a wonderful time, us 3 girls and 2 guys. And then the initial plan of supper was cancelled because they were too tired and decided to go home. So we shared a cab since we stay in the same area, and we came back, showered, and chatted online. We talked till 5am. And I fell asleep by the computer and woke up at 6am, and I climbed onto my bed for a couple of hours before I woke for the soccer game. That's right I'm a tired man right now. Well not really. And that was a very special saturday night.

Money out of my pocket, affection into my heart.
I guess that's a pretty good exchange.

Princess P had a birthday celebration at Pasir Ris last night, and I haven't seen her since friday. I wanted to watch Hotel Rwanda, but we weren't really in the mood for that. So we watched Seed Of Chucky that night, my first ever Chucky movie, and it's wonderfully hilarious, filled with American humour and not really a fright-fest kinda show. It now makes me wanna catch the earlier installments. I wanted to ask her over today so we could watch the 2nd leg of the Tiger Cup final (Incidentally if you're from Singapore or Indonesia and you don't know what I'm talking about then you should kick your left leg with your right leg now.) later, but she's not really free. I miss her. Haha. Ok no mushy stuff please.

Funny, but really, I'm not tired. Perhaps the power of writing has overwhelmed my overexerted senses. It's another long day in school tomorrow. And I need to cut my hair soon too. And another time before Chinese New Year, because it will be long again. Oh! Has anyone spared a thought for our hair?? It tries so hard to grow, and we cut it. It's like the old nintendo game where you're on board a ship and the pirates will climb ladders and you will go left and right to hit the pirates on their heads to stop them.

Ok right. I shall end. Go Singapore! Win the Tiger Cup! Hopefully this will spur the younger generation (ie the people who were babies during the malaysia cup days) to have some confidence in Singapore football.

triggering Mr Ng HS |

Posted 2:12 PM

Probably an old article, and I ripped it off some site, but it's good! Very much worth reading! Again!

Chemistry Question

The following is supposedly an actual question given on a University of Washington chemistry mid-term. The answer by one student was so "profound" that the professor shared it with colleagues, via the Internet. How cool can this be? Read on...

Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)?

Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law (gas cools when it expands and heats when it is compressed) or some variant. One student, however, wrote the following:

First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So we need to know the rate at which souls are moving into Hell and the rate at which they are leaving. I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving.

As for how many souls are entering Hell, let's look at the different Religions that exist in the world today. Most of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell. Since there is more than one of these religions and since people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all souls go to Hell.

With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in Hell to increase exponentially. Now, we look at the rate of change of the volume in Hell because Boyle's Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume of Hell has to expand proportionately as souls are added.

This gives two possibilities:
1. If Hell is expanding at a slower rate that the rate at which souls enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase until all Hell breaks loose.
2. If Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until Hell freezes over.

So which is it?If we accept the postulate given to me by Teresa during my Freshman year that, "it will be a cold day in Hell before I sleep with you, and take into account the fact that I slept with her last night, then number 2 must be true, and thus I am sure that Hell is exothermic and has already frozen over.

The corollary of this theory is that since Hell has frozen over, it follows that it is not accepting any more souls and is therefore, extinct..leaving only Heaven thereby proving the existence of a divine being which explains why, last night, Teresa kept shouting "Oh my God."

THIS STUDENT RECEIVED THE ONLY A...

triggering Mr Ng HS |

Posted 4:50 PM

Another week of memorable events

Pardon me while I slack away the remaining of my holidays, as I blog less often. It was another week of fun. =)

tuesday night: making jelly
Princess P came over and we made those koniyaku jelly with fruits in them. She complained that the kiwis didn't look nice after I scraped off the outer skin. I said it was my first time. It was also our first time cutting fruits actually, and placing the little pieces in the jelly mould.

wednesday night: bbq
The mentors 7th cycle (SMP7 for short) had a gathering, and someone arrowed my place, so there it was. I hope nobody reads this haha. But anyway I had a great time. Everyone who came my house took a close look at my rabbit and they all loved her. My rabbit seemed to be ovewhelmed by the crowd though and while she usually jumps out of her cage and runs around when given the first opportunity, she jumped back into her cage when I carried her out that day. The people must have scared her! Or that she must have been traumatised by constantly hearing phrases like "later I wanna bbq your rabbit!", or "I'm gonna feed her vodka when you're gone". Stupid BV mentors. They terrorised my place, and kept asking if I had a mahjong table. I thought they were kidding until they really set up a make shift mahjong stall at my void deck. But I love them, because they are easy to talk to and a funny bunch. My fellow school mentors were playing table tennis. Princess P was carving her watermelon (see picture) for the best school dish competition.

The bbq eventually took place and while I tried my best to get everyone to mingle (word of the day there), some people were not really friendly, but the event was still a success. I had a lot of fun and I got to know better quite a few number of people. A couple of times I also felt neglected by my own school mentors and Princess P in particular, and as the evening wore on I felt worse because I didn't want the night to end.


It was also the first time I tried tiramisu. I've been hearing this word since JC and I don't know what it is. Actually I still don't. Someone told me there are a lot of eggs in them, and vodka? In any case it tasted great. My school won the best school dish because all the dishes were good and it appeared that our school had the most people involved in it. There was also a lucky draw and I got 2nd. There were 8 prizes in total, and my school got 4 of them, BV had 3. We think the lucky draw is rigged. HAHA!

When everything ended and I was finally back at my house, it was a little past 1am. I just threw the utensils in the basin and brushed them with water. Too lazy to clean them. I then went to shower and surprise surprise, came online. Some people asked me if my school mentors were still there. I think they got the impression they were staying over. My BV friends also thought so, and said they should have asked me over to play mahjong, instead of letting me rot online alone. Haha. I don't know how to play mahjong, and bridge. Must learn. Someday.

Thursday: football once again
Played football in NUS with a few of the usual gang. We played against mostly older opposition, and we lost! I think it's my fault! I scored 2 and I missed 3 clear cut chances! I am luis garcia of liverpool! (Think only my good skaozer friend will understand =p) We also didn't defend! As usual! I mean the rest! They didn't run back! What you think I am? Superman? I run to and fro! We need to defend and attack as a team!

It's good to play football again. Almost could feel the rust building up. As I type there's another game outing planned tomorrow (wed) and I hope more people turn up.

Friday: New year's eve
Second time I celebrated the arrival of a new year after dec 31st 1999 when I was at Suntec. That was my first time and I went because I hoped for the world to come crashing down in the new millenium. Okay okay year 2000 still belongs to the 20th century, in case you still didn't know.

Anyhoo, fireworks were cancelled due to the tsunami disaster which happened on boxing day. Will talk more on that later. But Princess P and I decided to go to the bay beside Esplanade. It was also where we were on our second 'date'. I think it's second. Oh no I hope she doesn't kill me if she finds out I forgot. Haha. Oh yah before we went out, I once again displayed my gentlemanly character by picking her up at her place (pui. Who the hell talks like that....other than me!) not with a porsche, or even a car. Eh I took mrt lah. You think undergrad very rich meh? But that's not the point! The point is, I bought a rose, just for her! Yay! Some of my fervent readers (what readers? =p) will remember that I'm not a flower giving person. The thought of going to a florist carries the same fear as a kid going to a dentist. So to me, it's a big deal. And I've never given any flower to a real girl before, oops I mean any real flower to a girl before, so I'm honoured to make Princess P my first recipient. So I walked to her door, pressed the door bell, and like what you see in tv shows, hid the flower behind my back. Her mum and sister opened the door, and I glanced that her room door was closed. Her mum whispered almost embarrassingly that Princess P was still sleeping. It was 830pm!! We did plan to meet later in the evening so we will be fresh for the whole night. So Princess P finally woke up (She still claims she was awake already.) and I popped out the flower like a magician, and wished her a happy new year, and she was surprised! Yeah! Mission accomplished!

We had Long John Silvers again at Plaza Sing and then we walked to the bay. There were many couples there but interestingly there were also 3 male malaysians using sticks playing tictactoe on the minimal sands. And we counted down (or rather she counted down again), twice in fact, because the ships playing party music in the seas had countdown parties and we followed their timings.

And so the first person I saw in 2005 is Princess P. =)
I wonder what did my rabbit see. Hmm...

We planned to catch the 325am movie at Orchard Cineleisure.
At around 245am we left the bay. I suggested a cab, because walking was too far and we were short of time. Princess P suggested the NightRider buses (NR) which will take us into the heart of Orchard road. We boarded NR7 and after we confirmed with the bus driver that we would go past orchard. It was my first time on a NR, and I asked her how much was it. $2? She said it should be $3. That's when I felt like tearing out my hair because 2 x $3 = $6, and we had calculated that a taxi ride (even with the 1.5 midnight surcharge) the price will be a little past $5 max. She gave me that (aiyah oh sh*t oh no bananas in pyjamas what have I done look) and then told me how nice it was sitting in a bus with big window panes and we could see the stars (no stars that night) and how we would have missed all this if we had taken a cab. The thing was a cab would have gotten us there straightaway. The NR weaved through so many unfamiliar roads that Princess P and I were suspecting if the bus driver had lied to us (maybe unintentionally because so many people were asking where the bus was headed) and we sat there for a few minutes thinking if we should alight because we had no idea where we were. And we asked a fellow passenger who had no idea, so we just sat and enjoyed the 'beautiful sceneries'. In the end we did end up at Orchard Road and the movie on time.


The movie wasn't even half as funny as Shaolin Soccer if you wanna compare recent Stephen Chow works. It was a little explicit with the kung fu scenes, like how a head being sewn off and how a guy's head is being repeatedly punched into the ground. It also reminded me of The Matrix during the group fight scenes. And the plot was really shallow, surprisingly to me, and I rate it much worse then Shaolin soccer's predictable storyline. Still, Stephen Chow fans should take a look. The special effects are notable and you can find some casual references of Shaolin soccer inside the film.

After the movie we slowly walked back to the esplanade bay because we planned to watch the sun rise. It was both our first time. Anyway as expected it wasn't really the best place to catch a sunrise, and the sky just magically turned bright. Princess P fell asleep and imagined a cleaner uncle sweeping away her shoes. She woke, checked her shoes, and gave me that blur look. Hahahahaha!

Took a bus and sent her back. Came back online settled my yahoo fantasy football team before I crashed into bed around 11am new year's day morning.

Saturday: new year's day sleep sleep sleep
Woke up only in the evening. And then it was football football football. On tv.

Monday (yesterday): Pool and chit chat
Princess P wanted to play pool and this time we did play. Being the super gentleman (oh man I can't even stand myself now) I didn't even take the balls in hand and for the last few racks I even hit the black ball nearer for her to hit, and keep hitting fouls so I could see her smiling and placing the cue ball anywhere she wanted. I also tried to talk to her while we were playing but she wasn't really interested and her mind seemed to be wondering off. =( Anyway she later said she got tired after playing the first few racks and indeed once we stopped playing she was back to her usual self. We had dinner where she had some ma2 la4 noodles (spicy stuff, cannot bluff) and it was cute watching her eat and hearing her tongue make that sssss slithering sound and I took a tissue and helped her soak off her sweat on her face. =)

We then came back to my house, and she went to talk to my mum for a long long time. And she then came back and told me all these stuffs, many which my mum never mentioned before. And she said my mum even cried a little, and she was putting her hand on my mum's shoulder telling her it's over. Actually my mum's side is so confusing now, because I haven't updated on her story for quite a while. More on that another time too. But it's nice seeing her treat Princess P like her own daughter. =)

Today
So now it's tuesday afternoon and I'm all alone in my room typing this. I'm supposed to check on more modules to take, but I'm pretty sick of those sites now. I think that's enough for now.

Smile people. =)


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