Wednesday, May 24, 2006
Another of the "couple" at the trip. They are always hanging ard each other
TY with Ade... Only shot I got of the 2 of them. Sweet right??
Didn't know Stacy had such a round face, like Selina...
This is Yee. He looks kinda tired...
All those that went for the trip. Bf on the last morning
Max, mel, yix and me!!
Max presenting the cake to Stacy
Stacy's birthday cake
From left: mel, zhihong, joyce, me and yixiang. (told you they were chio!!)
Some fireworks at party, from some guy to express his love for a girl michelle
3 of us at the party, it was incredable
At the party on the 1st night, cannot see anything though =(
Me and Mel. I really love his tattoo
Stacy and Yix, Stacy on the left and Yix on the right (duh)
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Yup, I am back, to continue the story started yesterday. Now where was I...?
Oh ya, about celebrating Stacy's 20th birthday. Then nothing fun happeden. Yix wanted to smash the chocolate cheese cake into her face, but I think I sort of adviced him against doing it. Choc and cheese all in one leh!!! How can he waste it on Stacy's face instead of letting us eat it???! In the end only one slice was used in a mini food fight, btw Max, Stacy and dunno who. Forget le. Luckily I was not involved. Dun wan my clothes to be stained with choc =p
Then it was a boring end to our first night at Redang, ended by sleeping the night away. I always thought that sleeping is a waste of time, esp so when you are young. I mean, com'on, y waste your time sleeping your youth off when u get all the time u wanna sleep next time when u die?? By then, u can't even wake up if u wanted to, so y rush sleeping now? Leave sleeping till when u r old and haggared and cannot do much everyday other than slp eat drink and wait for your turn to die la. Now, when u r young and energetic, use all the time to enjoy your life!!! Your youth dun come a second time leh. So when u r old and cannot walk and sick and need someone to help u even with your toilet business, u would be regretting not having fun when u r young and healthy and alive... But wad to do, they wanna slp, and I cannot do anything alone, so lan lan, slp lor =(
Second day highlight was a trip to a marine conservation park. Had to pay RM5 for the entrance fee. But nvm la, since we had nv been there before, pple dun mind paying. It was about the same as the snorkelling site on the 1st day, except that there are more corals, both alive and dead, here at the conservation park. Bad thing is, water is shallow, and if u r not careful, u might cut yourself on the corals. That is the small matter, cutting yourself. Big thing, as the guide said, is killing the corals when u kick it. I think yix kenna quite a couple of times, on the dead corals, cos he was busy feeding bread to the fish and did not take note that the water we were in was shallow. Mel managed to spot a morray eel under the jetty and apparently there was a gigantic grouper which we did not see. We did see the eel though, and the face was pretty ugly. It was hiding in a hole amongst the corals and u actually had to go deeper to see it. However, the current was pretty strong and we did not manage to get vv close. I think yix managed to snap a shot of the eel with the disposable camera that he bought there.
Although I am a certified diver, I think my swimming skill sucks big. Normally pple can tread water for pretty long before they tire out (not mentioning pple like mel who tread water so effortlessly). I tire pretty fast cos I gotta kick pretty hard to stay afloat. If I just kick normally, I can only keep the top of my head above the water level. Then like that how to breathe?? Even though I can swim in the sea without a life jacket, I feel safer to bring one along in case I need to tread water and got tire out from doing so. =(
The rest of the day after the conservation park trip was spent tanning with the girls and ty and ade. Me and yix was actaully playing ultimate frisbee with the 2 ladies, but there were some rocks in the beach on the rock and it was kinda dangerous. So in the end, me and ty played frisbee in the water. It was fun in the water, cos u can actually dive for the frisbee when it gets close without fear of breaking your ribs or rubbing your skin off. The rest just lie there and laze the time away. How sian...
In the end, someone came up with the idea to taupok max, and somehow he come to know about it, but we still succeed in the end. Photoes are with ade, shall upload when I get it from ty next time.
Night time was boring. Thought that the disco at laguana is supposed to be the highlight of the night, but after sending the 2 girls with stacy on recee, they said that there is nothing there and only karaoke and 小猫两三只. So in the end did nothing and go back to room and sleep... More sian than the first night!!! Wad the hell...
The next morning woke up at 0645 to wash up and get bf. Then off to the jetty to leave Redang. Something dramatic happened at the jetty though... Max wanted to wash off the sands trapped in his sandles at the jetty, then walked off a slope to the edge of the water to wash. Apparently the slope was overgrown with mosses and that made it super slippery. So he landed on his ass and enjoyed a short slide into the water. Stacy, seeing this, went down to help him up, but got a free slide as well. So in the end they left the island with a bum full of sand. And as if that wasn't enough, Stacy actually dropped Max's wallet into the sea. Some kind soul trying to help tried to get the floating wallet back with his leg, ended up kicking it into the water and it started sinking. Then one of the Redang staff got a mask and dived down to god knows how deep and.. ... ... managed to retrieve the wallet!! Damn zai! That actually changed my impression I have on malays, and I told that to Mel. That fucker actually said " Huh? But that is the only thing that they are good at wad!" Na beh...
The boring boat ride took slightly more than 1 hour, and managed to take a pic with Yee, the guide on the island. Taught me some malayu too, as his eng is not good and so is my malay. Shall write it down in case I forget.
Moon -- bolum
Star -- bintan
Sand -- pasih
Coconut -- kelapur
bath -- murai (think so)
then the rest foeget le. All about stuff u see at the beach, cos he just looked around and started teaching me... The 1-hr boat trip is nothing if I know how damn long the bus ride is going to take... 9+ freaking hours!! But that is including 2toilet breaks, 1 lunch break and 1 dinner break, and not to mention the stops at the customs.
But I really enjoyed this trip. Met some pple and made some friends!! But the most impt thing I learnt is that we should all do out part to protect and preserve the underwater world and the ocean. It is really a different world there and I strongly encourage pple out there to pick up diving. U can really enjoy the beauty of the sea. Do not throw wadever waste u have into the ocean. The marine lives might just mistake them for food and ended up killing themselves after consuming your waste, esp so when the waste are plastic materials. And for those pple who hanky-panky along the beach, pls la. For goodness sake pls throw your condoms into a rubbish bin!! I actually picked up 2 condoms while walking along the beach!! WTF... Human sperms dun work on other species ok, and if u r hoping to impregnate a mermaid, I dun think this will work as well. So pls, protect the marine lives and the ocean by disposing your waste into the rightful place -- rubbish bins along the beach. Alternatively, u can dun use the condom!!
Now for the pic!!
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Tuesday, May 23, 2006
Back from Redang yesterday...
It was incredable!! We boarded the bus at around 10am, then reached Singapore only at 9.50pm!! Wah lao eh, sit until the ass is rotting I think.
Left Singapore on 19th May, last Friday, which also happens to be the day I turned 22 =(. I dun like my birthdays. Cos everytime one comes along, means getting older and older, and I dun wan to grow old. I know that does not make the least sense, but that is how I feel.
Dunno why, somehow, I just feel that I am getting dumber and dumber as the days pass. And also getting lazier as well. And worst of all, my reaction is slowing down!! Cannot react as fast as how I used to react, then always get myself into sticky situations that I shall not dwell on here. Too embarressing.
Anyway, back to the trip. The bus to Redang leaves at around 1030pm, so I nv go home after the econs lec. Went straight to Golden Mile complex area to wait for the bus. Long wait I tell u. Have to hang around alone. Luckily Lincoln happnes to have a pool match at the same area and I watched him play till around 2030 before I make my way to army market to have dinner, alone...
Among the 9 of us going for the trip, I only know 3 -- max, stacy and mel. Met yix during dinner with mel and mel introduced him to me. Nice guy, vv easy to get along with. So no prob with him. Later met ty and ade. Apparently ty is max's meighbour, so mel must have known him, given the amount of time he spends at max's room before exams. Ade happens to be ty's gf, so mel knows her tooba, i guess.
Then still got ade's 2 other friends -- zhihong and joyce. (I think that is how they spell their name) These 2 really no one knows de, not even max. Just happens to tag along with us.
So off we went off to redang after a short introduction at the boarding bay. So sleepy already. When the bus leave, it is near 11. The 2 couples -- ty ade and max stacy, as well as zh and joyce, took the 3 "lover seats" while me mel and yix took the 3 single seats...
Zh and joyce happens to sit on the same row as me. I think zh was trying to make some conversation with me on the bus, but I really cannot take it le la. too sleepy, then give her the kind of dun-come-and-bother-me answer with the dun-come-and-bother-me tone =p. I think that was a bit bad la, as in, that was the first day that we met and pple are just trying to be friendly. Sholdn't have given her that kinda attitude. Well, wad's done cannot be undone, so...
If u think that I do that to her cos she is not chio, then U R TERRIBLY WRONG OK!!! Both zh and joyce not bad, really. That is why i still bother to respond. Otherwise they would get nothing!! Haha.
After clearing the customs, is sleep all the way!! Other than a toilet break at yong peng, no more stops till about 8+ the following morning. I am really impressed with the 2 malay drivers. They can tahan so long, drive through the night, and then still keep us safe. I think must be super shiong, their job. One of them will sleep and the other drive. Then when the driving one tired, they switch. And I think once they drop us at merang, which is the place that we board the ferry to redang, they pick up some other pple from merang and drive back to S'pore again. To and fro to and fro. That is how they earn their keep...
Actually this is more or less like a package tour, not the free and easy kind that I thought it would be. The itenary is already fixed before we check into the room and we were briefed wad is going to happen for the next 2 days. The good thing is, we can choose not to go for the snorkelling trips or the marine conservation park of we dun feel like going. So in a way it is a semi-package kinda thing la.
The receptionist that briefed us was ok, but her mandrian is a bit strange, need some effort to make out wad she is saying, cos of her malaysian accent. According to my ex's mum, malaysian chinese can tell where u r from by the accent u have when u speak in mandrian. I do notice some difference btw the way different pple speak mandrian, but I dunno how to tell where they are from... Nvm, out of point again.
The snorkelling trip at 1500 on the first day was fun!! We were ferried to this place called turtle bay. Was a good 20mins by boat before we reached. From the name, u can guess wad we can see there -- turtles!! Yes, turtles, the creature that lives for 150 years in finding nemo! But we were not that lucky. Nv even see any... But the underwater world is always full of surprises. The corals there are simply amazing, with the variety of fishes and corals, it is simply dazzling!! Too bad I dun have an underworld camera. Too expensive to own one.
After returning from the official snorkelling trip, there was a giude there called yee who offered to bring us to another one near where we stayed, to see some baby sharks. All thanks to the 2 ladies (zh and joyce), super good at making guys do their bidding, I think. Cos everyone lusting after them. (told u they were pretty). This time luck was on our side. Caught glimpses of the baby shark underwater. However, it nv let us get too near. Whenever someone closes in, it would just zoom out of sight and then reappear later at some other location. After a few failed attempts to get near to it, we then know better and observed it from far. It was vv fast, and kinda cute in certain ways, not like the man-eating image that hollywood films conjured in our minds from films like jaws and stuff...
After that, was dinner. Oh, think I forgot to mention, means there are all buffet style. We can get as much of things as we want, but we cannot waste food. 4 meals a day, the normal 3 meals and tea, at around 1630, when we just come back from the snorkelling trip. If I remember correctly, I think dinner was chinese, as in rice with some dishes. Ate with the other 8 of them.
Later went back for shower since we have nothing better to do till 2100, where there is a party at the beach. Lady Luck left is again. Redang is out of water and there is no water from 1900 onwards till god knows when. Lucky mel got a pail filled with water before and 3 of us bathed using that pathetic pail of water. First time bathing together with someone I had known for less than one day (Yix), and yet, we were having some fun suanning each other and stuff.
There was this disco at night, at the beach. It was one hell of a party. Imagine the sea breeze, the stars, the music and the babes in bikini. Wah lao eh, it is dream come true man... Went with mel, yix and the 2 ladies. Despite showering, 3 of us danced to our hearts' content, together with the 2 girls. There is some thing going on btw max and stacy, and after dancing for a while, stacy walked off by herself and started crying. Me and yix went after her, but being lousy with words, left yix to do the talking. Dun wanna make things worse. In the end, things turned out ok. And Sunday happens to be stacy's bday!! 3 of us got a choc cheese cake from the cake shop and gave stacy a surprise at the clock strikes 12 and when the party at the beach just ended. I think that also help in some ways in convincing her to forgive max...
Wah, there are so many things to write about this trip, and also the photoes. Shall continue tmr... This is all for now!!
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Thursday, May 18, 2006
I discovered that I haven't been blogging for a pretty long time. The last time I blogged was actually on the day of my last paper!! Gosh, that seems eons ago, now that I think of it...
I know that I once said I would delete this blog once the exams has ended and there is nothing for me to blog about. However now, I am having second thoughts... Despite only having only 8 entries (inc this 9), I cannot bear to delete this blog. Cos there are still tons of stuff for me to bitch about, in this wretched world that I live in. Hence, this blog shall remain an outlet of all my bitching!! Hahahahahaha...
Lots of things has happened since the end of the exams... I canont remember all of them, but shall try to put them in chronological order.
First thing first, after exams, YY actually drove his mitsubishi colt all the way from Tampines to hall, only to drive Pc, Hz and me all the way back east for a supper. We had planned it before exams, as something for us to look forward to during that super high stress period, but didn't expect him to actually drive all the way here. We wanted to have some porridge at some lok kok coffee shop that looks like it hasn't been visited by a single soul for a millennium, but the shop looks dodgy, the utensils look filthy, the environment would have made a perfect setting for some horror film, and worse of all, the "waitresses" look like prostitutes!! Haha.
"Well all the better for you Han Wei" you may say. If u say this, you dunno me at all ok!! I am so disappointed in you =(. I never say wad kind of prostitute wad. Those "waitresses" look like the old, haven't 接客 in a thousand years kind, and yet dun look experienced to be a mama-san. That is how they look, super turn off. I bet even the most hum sup old piece of shit wouldn't feel like giving it a go... So, we decided to change place to Bedok.
Dun ask me where exactly we went in Bedok. I dunno. In fact I am not even familiar with the east area. The only 3 places I know how to go are 1) my auntie's place, 2) east coast park and 3) zz's place. Oh and another place that lies in the east that I think all of you who call yourself Singaporeans should know how to go -- Changi Airport!! If u dunno, pls, take a moment off and give yourself a tight slap.
Ok, in Bedok. Not a bad place. Me and Hz got some satay and suger cane juice and porridge. The other 2 got ba chor mee. Apparently that is super famous in Bedok area, vv nice. I drank some soup from Pc, tasted different though. Nice to some extent. However, I think going by the law of diminishing returns, the more you drink, the worse it tastes. Hence, in the end, if u drink sufficient amount, it will taste worse than shit =p.
No photoes this time round, not bcos I nv bring my camera along with me, but cos I just formatted my laptop and all the photoes are in my external hd disk, which I nv bring...
Oh, and btw, I am now in Mac in Woodlands Civic Centre. Y, my home no internet meh?? Wah pls, in this era, who wouldn't wan internet at home??? Especially when the whole society is moving towards E-XXX and E-YYY, everything is becoming electronic. Whoever that doesn't have internet at home must be 1) cannot afford, and these pple I cannot blame, cos it is not their fault that they are poor, and 2) living in Kampong Lim Chu Kang for their life. But the internet connection at home sucks big. Provided by singtel and is charged by the minute. The more u use, the poorer u get. So might as well come to Mac, get one small Milo for $2 and I can sit here the whole day!!
Talking about surfing at Mac, it sucks as well. Yesterday I was at the Causeway Point Mac branch. Was sitting there for a whole hour, trying to set up the connection. The laptop was able to get the signal, but it just refuses to lead me on to the page where I can log on to the server. Then in the end I approached the manager, only to find out that the stupid Mac server is down!!! Idiot! Wasted my time, and I ordered big ice lemon tea somemore, $2.50 leh!!! Just suay la ...
Oh, and I think I am digressing... Actually after the supper at Bedok cannot really remember wad I have done for all the time from then till now. I think this is one of the main reasons why I wanted to keep a blog, so that I will not forget things that happened to me in my life...
There is one super impt thing that is happening today, on the 18th May 2006... Guess wad?? Da Vinci Code is opening today!!!!!!!!!! Long awaited, much looked forward to show, at least for me... Think with all the publicity, today will be super crowded, at all the major cinemas. Maybe shall watch it after I come back from Redang ba, and that will be next tue earliest... Hmm, hopefully can find pple to watch with me. Kinda boring to watch shows alone, it is just different, just like watching soccer matches, which was wad happened last night, or rather, this morning...
Champions league finals: Barcelona vs Arsenal!! Barcelona won 2-1. We watched it at Eugene Ma's place. Wonder wonder who the "we" are... "We" = Yy, Eugene, Hongen and me. It is just different when you watch it with a group of friends, compared to watching alone. Watching alone, you get no one to share your joy, and you cannot suan pple who supoprt teams that oppose the team that you support, which is the case this morning, when I supported Barca and Yy went for Arsenal. My parents were asking " watch soccer y need to go all the way to Eugene's house to watch?" Guess they also cannot understand or experience the difference btw watching soccer matches in a groups and alone... Anyway, Barca won!! Long live Barca :*
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Tuesday, May 02, 2006
Today I just had my final paper -- Quantum Mechanics, and I am done for year 2!!! Hahahahahaha. Actually come to think of it, there is nothing to be happy about la. End of one more year means I am one more year closer to going back to work. Yucks! I really hate that. I dunno y I am actually dumb enough to put my name on that stupid dotted line. Haiz, wad to do now? Wad's done cannot be undone. Grit my teeth and go through the 6 years lor. Not that bad la, not that they are not paying me, but money is not everything... I value my freedom more, more than most things. Nvm, shall not dwell too much into depressing thoughts. After my paper, met hz straight at orchard. Half the world is still having exams, and i dunno the other half who are done. Haha, but she is one who was done last friday, so asking her out wont make me feel bad. I realise I have this thing about pple's gf. Not that I nv realised. Pple had told me before, but I also cannot explain why. Apparently I am close to girls / ladies / wadever u wanna call them, only when they are attached. Look at PC, HZ and XY and yada yada... Strange ah. Not that I am falling for them or something, but talking to them is vv different from talking to someone who is not attached. I dunno how to put it nicely in words, but it is just different. I dun give a shit about pple getting the wrong idea. It is their own darn mind and they can think wadever and however they wan, but I know that I will not go after someone who is attached, no matter how much I like her. This is one of my principles, either I wait for them to break up, or I will forget about her, or I will cause her to break up first!! Hahahaha. No la, the last one was rubbish. And going out with her is ok, cos I know SE and being a super duper nice guy, I know that he will not mind. (I mean, SE, if u do mind and u r reading this, pls tell me k?) Had dinner at Fish & Co in borders, apparently it is called the best fish & chips in town, but I dun find anything special about it. It was supposedly a treat to hz for something la, forget wad le. Only remember that I owed her a treat, so there it is. And later it was off to get cheesecake for min and hc. But too bad, the cheesecake at NYDC too ex le. In the end I also got something similar la, a cheesecake... ... ... flavoured ben & jerry icecream. Better than nothing la. And those 2 %$!@#$@, tell me they will be in room. Then just now sms them tell me in med study table studying. Wad the... This one really win le. Lucky I sms them before going over to min's room. If not I will be standing outside there like an idiot. A bit pissed la, but nvm la, they are nice pple, and thus, forgiven. Haha. Then it was cheesecake for the both of us, at the Mccafe at lido. Oreo cheesecake, not bad, but not chocolately enough. I wanted to get the full cheese one, but hz wanted the oreo, so k lor. Since I made her angry by walking out on her during dinner that evening. Haiz, ladies... Can get angry over the slightest things. Cannot understand them... But I really enjoyed myself with hz, despite having to go on a hungry stomach till about 8pm, when I reach orchard. All worth it in the end! And hz, if u r reading this, THANKS!! :) On my way back on 14, my mind started wondering as usual. I wondered how life would be for me if i were a quantum particle... Then I would be neither here nor there, neither alive nor dead... I would be able to exist at multiple places at the same time. I can go eat dinner with hz, go home and visit my mum and dad, go and look for zz, go and look for mel and tiley, and get cheesecake for min and hc, and do so much stuff at the same time!! Wouldn't that be great? However, I will only have a fixed probability of appearing at a specific place at a point in time, which means I may not be able to go home, or get cheesecake, or eat dinner... Or I may just disappear halfway through dinner, right in front of hz! And scare the wit out of her. I may look fuzzy, due to my wave-like nature, and I will have a characteristic wavelength. This wavelength may be too big. This means that when I move through a door, I gotta open it up big enough. Otherwise I may just get diffracted and split up!! Oh no! One less good looking chap in the world. Haha. But if I were a quantum particle, this means I will only have 0 probability of existing only at infinity, which means that I can perform intergalactic travel!! Wow! How cool is that? Then SETI will employ me to visit some distant planet to look for ET's. And since I am the only one who can travel to these other-worldly locations at the speed of light, I can stake up my prices, and soon, I shall be a BILLIONaire. Hmph. The first thing I will do is to pay back all my bond and use the money to throw at the face of COA. But all these only if I were a quantum particle... ...
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