November 30, 2003

Nothing to write about friday. Nothing exciting except for solving Ivan's computer problem.

Went SITEX (yea, again) today. Actually wanted to get Microsoft Office 2003 at the promotion price but reached there, the queue is like... never mind. Explore around the various booths and chatted with my friend who was working over at Lexmark. Spent about an hour there before going off. Anyway, I coming again tomorrow, the last day is when the vendors start their crazy price slashing. :)

Went marketing at Cold Storage. Bought lots of stuff, tit bits, M &M Peanut (yummy.) and my shaving blades. Darn, the shaving blades so expensive, $12 just for 3 pieces... totally nuts.

Work work work and more work. At least today is much better than the previous week, update crap and stuff, boring.

No wonder Ting Ping is having so much relationship problem. She sent me that guy photo, oh mine, he's so handsome. wahahaha. No wonder so many girls like him.

okie, going to play game. ta ta.

November 28, 2003

Received an wierd sms from a friend today. She asked me what am I doing now with her email included inside. I replied, "Just woke up, why did you include your email?". 30 min passed, 1 hour passed, 2 hours passed, 5 hours passed, no reply. lol. Wierd.

Played Gunbound for awhile after lunch and went to take a shower. Gonna meet Ivan at Singapore Expo to take back my telfon tape. Took a bus down to Tenah Merah MRT, it's those kind of special bus, it stops only at Tenah Merah MRT. Was listening to my discman (Christmas songs!) when I notice all the passengers getting down, I thought I reached the MRT and follow suit.

Take a look around and found out I actually get down 1 stop before the station. The weather is really nice anyway, don't mind walking down. The weather is cooling but with the sun shining brightly, I can feel the coldness of the wind and the warmth of the sun, somehow give me a feeling of the winter season.

Over at SITEX, called Ivan to ask where he is and went to find him. As usual, still so tanned. LOL, hope he's not reading this. Anyway, his mom appeared and I went off. Feel shy meeting parents of my friends, still remember that time at this girl's house, her mom just came home and I was so scare that she will enter the room, I mean, I was alone with her in the room, what if she think of ...erm... never mind.

woah, SITEX... so exciting, all the IT stuff. Went around with Ivan hunting for a headphone. He's loaded, bought a wireless router and a laptop. He went off shortly after his parents called him. Greeted his parents too. Anyway, there's this cute girl I met at Acer booth. She has a round face, at least 1.5m. She explained to me about the new acer laptop and stuff (Ivan should have buy that...).

Shortly after Ivan went off, Ronald, my friend came. He's applying broadband and followed him around the SingNet booth. We were sort of walking around the SingNet booth when this cute girl from Fujitsu booth approached us and said "oi, you all walk 1 round le, should come and see Fujitsu mah". Ronald and I was like, "eh...?" Then we said thanks and walk off. haha, she's very cute. She smiles at us after we walked past her again. Quite a nice girl.

There's so many things I gonna say about SITEX, but I guess people here are bored with my craziness for computers. heh.

Went back at 7 P.M. Parted way with Ronald at Paya Lebar MRT and took a bus home for dinner. Just in time for Gotcha. Skipped shopping with Ronald just becos of this. Gotcha is so funny!

okie, I going back to SITEX on saturday and sunday. Saturday to get the cheap Microsoft Office 2003 and sunday to buy all my stuff. The vendors usually offer great discounts on the last day. My wireless router actually costs $299, but I bought it at $199 at the last day. Hope Ivan won't regret buying his laptop on the first day. hehe.

Updated my background music to - Merry Christmas Everyone. This is the song which I like the most in my collection of Christmas songs.

November 26, 2003

Was suppose to sleep early yesterday, somehow, chatted with Ting Ping for an hour or so... Ended up tucking in at 4 and manage to fell asleep at 5 am. Chatted with her on relationship and stuff, didn't know I will be a great help on these and never expected her to share her problem with me.

It's car viewing time again... Woke up 10 A.M. early by my dad and started our journey. Went Toyota showroom first before going for lunch at Dunman Food Centre, it's somewhere near East Coast Road.

After lunch, we went Commonwealth to look at more cars... Spent the whole afternoon today solely on car viewing... I am so excited to drive a car, must get a license a.s.a.p next year.

Need to sleep early tonight, gonna go for SITEX tomorrow at Singapore Expo.... wee, computers, printers, digital cameras and laptops, I coming for you!

November 25, 2003

Decided to stop a day of blogging for yesterday and merge it with today blog. Nothing much happened yesterday, so might as well skip a day. heh.

Didn't do much today, starting to resume my sleeping late habit, slept at 4 A.M. and woke up at 1.30 P.M. Was chatting with Ronald and Meiling on the Malaysia backpack trip on the phone yesterday. Seriously need to get a new phone, it's irritating me with the selective tranmission of voice. I doubt the trip will be a success, by the time we manage to plan everything, the holiday will be over. Anyway, wish all my malay friends a Selamat Hari Raya.

AGGRH, missed "The Sound of Music", I thought the movie will be showing at night, turn up it's in the late afternoon. Switched my TV and find some wierd alien movie instead.

Oh my god, I eyeing the Canon digital camera... I am always a conservative person when it come to photography, preferring film camera over digital camera. I am rather surprise at my own urge for a digital camera. But frankly speaking, digital camera doesn't come close to film camera in term of picture quality, but the ability to preview your own shoots immediately unlike film camera which you have to develop the film. My photography investment is worth nine hundred dollars, consisting the camera, 24mm, 50mm, 70-210mm lens and motor drive. Should I abandon my current camera and go for digital camera? Hmm...

Invited by my friends to join them for a paintball match. Kinda expensive, but Abel was persuaded me to join them... should I? So many decisions to ponder on.

November 24, 2003

Woke up at 1 A.M. and decided to watch the last episode of the anime, the ending is quite touching almost wanted to cry.

My sisters are back today. One of them bought her photos from their holiday trip to Australia. Oh my, how I love the scenery of Australia. My brother-in-law even gave me a copy of their photos in CD.

Speaking of photos, I might be getting a new digital camera in the near future. Spent the afternoon doing some catching up with my sisters and talk about life etc. They bought some snack back for me too. Yummy.

Went out at night (9.30 P.M.) after my friends wanna go out and have a chat. Went Coffee Bean again. This time round, we didn't stay there, we drink it along the way down to Geylang Seri (Again...). Went there to see the Bazar, spent almost 2 hours there. We bought Ramly burgers and chicken wing and ate it at the provided tables along the bazar. Bring up the idea of going Genting in December, both of them were so excited. If this is finalized, this might be the first trip overseas with my friends.... wahahaha, very excited I am.

Parted with one of my friends since she is staying quite near. While the other guy, Ronald, went to the bus stop with me. Suddenly, my handphone rang. ah ha, it's my dad. Asked him to fetch me home since I might not make it for the last bus (It's 12.30 A.M.). Went to the bus stop with Ronald and waited for my dad. Ronald wanna hitch a ride home, so I asked my dad. This isn't the first time Ronald took a ride back home in my dad's car, anyway, I just ask my dad out of politeness and respect, can't possible make him look like my personal chauffeur ya? Seriously, he don't mind fetching my friends home. He's a great daddy. hehe.

Reached home at 1 A.M. Had a round of Gun Bound with Boss after bathing. Right now typing away at my blog. Going to sleep. ta ta.

November 23, 2003

Went Sim Lim Square today straight after lunch. Rushed there in a cab, was late for an appointment. Suppose to collect something I bought over the internet. Didn't buy anything today, just went there to collect my stuff and chat with my friend who was working there. Went to take a look at the Panasonic digital cameras at the Panasonic fair at the 1st level, impressive built, but feature and quality wise, I think Nikon and Canon still have an edge over them. Why did they spent so much on advertisement (that Ayumi - Jap pop star)? Shouldn't they spend it on R&D? haha, crapping too much today.

After Sim Lim Square, crossed the road and went OG to take a look at the Billabong t shirts, no new arrival, sigh. Quite a lot of people at OG.

Grabbed a Mcpepper and ice lemon tea over at Bugis McDonald, not really hungry, just wanted to have something to chew on, the double layer of beef is heavenly! Over at SingTel's Hello Shop, there's a promotion for cordless DECT phone, should ask my parents to get one, my home phone isn't functioning normally. Anyway, DECT phone are better compared to normal cordless phone, they uses digital signal instead of analog.

Went the bookstore at 3rd floor, nothing much that interests me, wanted to buy this book - "Fengshui master gone south". It's a story about this Fengshui master who have an interest on crime scene and blah blah blah, oh yea, i forgotten the details.

Walk around Seiyu before boarding a bus home.

Hectic schedule today. Lots of job assignment to be completed. Luckily its holiday now, if not, I don't think I can manage it. My studies till now, haven't really been affected by my work, at least, judging from my result. If this continues, I might have to give it up for my studies. At least the puny salary doesn't affect me.

Don't know what had got into me. I got quite emotional just now after watching anime. It's rather saddening, so many characters in the anime got killed. Now left with the final episode, I am hesitating on whether should I watch or not. I know the ending will be extremely saddening, I might cry. Just like that time when I watch AI: Artificial Intelligence . I cried throughout the whole show. One reason why I hate to watch drama, I can't bring myself to face the ending, might be skipping the last episode of Holland V.

ta ta, going off to sleep.

P.S. Changed the background music, hope you like it.

November 21, 2003

Was happily replying to my sister's sms when she asks me what I want for Christmas when I receives "Message sending failed". Just then my handphone vibrates, I select "Read" and I almost get a shock. "Exam Results for .... ". Didn't really expect the result to be sent today, but oh well. Nothing much to talk about, I just read through the results nonchalantly.

Informed my friends about the release of the results, helped one of them to check, but the Temasek Polytechnic website was sort of displaying a server busy error. Invalid login even with the correct userID and password combination.

Completed Max Payne 2 while waiting for the website to be ready. Got disturbed by my friend while playing, AGGRH, hate being disturbed in the middle of the game. So I helped him to check, his results quite okie, not that bad from what he told me.

Watched anime whole day long after completing Max Payne 2. Think I need something to pass the holiday by, almost completing my anime.

ta ta.

November 20, 2003

Was asked out by Ronald to see the Body parts exhibition. But I declined his offer, been going out these few days, need a break at home.

Played Max Payne 2: The fall of Max Payne all day long. It's a great game, good graphics and storyline. But as usual, when I play RPG (Role-Playing Game) I will get a headache. So took a break in between.

Went to collect anime CDs in the late afternoon. Walked about 3 bus stops distance to meet this fella to collect. After that, went Heartland Mall to do some shopping. Went Popular and MyEDB to look at books and magazines. Nothing interesting. At Cold Storage, bought chicken (my mom told me to...), Calbery's Chocolate powder, Ruffles chips and Campbell's New England Clam Chowder soup.

Right now slipping a cup of chocolate drink. 3 teaspoons of condensed milk, 3 teaspoons of Calbery's chocolate powder and a mug of hot water will do the trick. Yummy.

November 19, 2003

Went car viewing with my dad today again. Woke up 10 A.M. and went 2 different showroom to look around.

Bought lunch back home and went off shortly after finishing my lunch. My dad had lunch outside as he need to attend to his own stuff. Hop on a bus and went Paya Lebar MRT to meet Meiling and Ronald. Going Ikea to shop around.

Quite a long journey walking from Queenstown MRT to Ikea building. All 3 of us grab the hotdog set with drink. Hey its cheap, $1.50 will get you a hotdog and 1 small drink. Started our shopping from the 1st floor, Meiling was looking around at photo frames, while Ronald was simply amazed at the lightings. Well, for me, I more interested in kitchen stuff. Those tea cup set kinda tempting, heh. Anyway, we saw Chan Liping (Holland V) and her husband. She doesn't look that fat in real life.

We went the 2nd floor and Ronald started to get so interested in computer desk. He can't decide on which to get, keep on asking both of our opinion but still wish to keep to his own choice. Xian Zhi and Regine joined us soon after. I think everyone of us wanna bash Ronald or something, he really can't make up his mind. Finally we went to Ikea cafe to take a break. Hey, the food there is simply amazing! I ordered Prawn salad, mango juice and a large plate of meatballs (15). The prawn salad is more of prawn with salad rather then salad with prawn. The whole bowl i think there's about 20 prawns and only a few vegtables. The meatballs are superb! It consists of pork and beef and the cranberry jelly with the sauce topping go well with the meatballs. Yummy! I am coming back for more! wahahaha.

Went back 1st floor to collect Ronald's desk. Took 2 tealight candle holders and a packet of red candles. Going to burn them every night, ho ho, christmas is coming! Oh well, Ronald having second thoughts again. He keep on switching the desk he took eariler on. Mind you, it weights 10 kg and 20 kg for the different computer desks which he's interested. Finally he make up his mind. AGGRH.

At the end of the day, we parted with ronald as he need to take a cab home with his desk while the 3 girls and I took the same bus home. I'm the only one that need to transfer bus while all 3 of them don't have to. Lucky fellas. Listened to my Christmas songs on my way home.

okie, gonna play Max Payne 2 and watch CSI at the same time. goodbye.
Woke up at 12 P.M. today, a slight improvement from the daily 2 P.M.

Helped Daniel's friend on her computer today. At first, I am able to solve the first problem, after that, the second problem seems to cause her computer to be unable to access the internet. after I offered my solution. Have to help her over the phone, but I am kinda shy talking to a stranger, especially female, so my friend acted as the middleman and help us pass message. Couldn't really help her, cos at first she doesn't want to use the Remote Assistance feature, she scare I am a hacker or something, so I am unable to get to the bottom of it. Anyway, my friend said she has a nice voice. heh.

After helping her, I was late for my appointment with my friends at Coffee Bean at 9.30 P.M. Reached there at 9.35 P.M. ordered the Christmas mint coffee ice blended (Forgotten the name) and a piece of "My mom's scone". Hey the coffee is great! Highly recommended! Meiling's brother look like a mini businessman. Well, he will be collecting his PSLE result this Saturday, wish him luck.

Went Geylang Seri bazar with them later on. Like a mini Chinatown during Chinese New Year, lots of foodstuff and so on. Bought Ramly burgers for my family. I thought I am late for the last bus since I arrive at the bus stop at 12 AM sharp but it turn up otherwise. While waiting for the bus, saw this 2 Caucasian guys, one of them, his boxer is showing up and his T shirt is like so short, yucks. It's brown in color. (Sorry for the details, haha).

Now I am munching on my Ramly burger, yummy.

November 17, 2003

Think I am suffering from insomnia, only manage to sleep at around 4 a.m. when I tucked in 15 min earlier. My biological clock is messed up totally by the late night sleep, will try to sleep before 2 a.m. today.

Didn't went swimming today with Daniel, something cropped up at home. Nothing serious though, just wanna stay at home to ensure everything is going fine. Was in a Christmas mood today (that explain the Christmas song playing in the background), greeting everyone in MSN Messenger with my laughter, haha.

Did nothing much today, went around disturbing friends in MSN Messenger, surfing hardware forums, playing gunbound and watching TV. Learnt some new German words from my mom today over dinner, still trying to learn. Both my mom and my sister speaks German. Learning a new language is so fun! Except for Chinese.

Might be going out with Chan Hui tomorrow to watch "Identity". But somehow, I got a feeling I might come up with a stupid reason to miss the appointment. Just feel like staying at home.

If you have noticed, there's a small section on the left titled "Currently listening". This image will tell you what I am singing currently on my computer, the image changes real time, which mean it is accurate. But if the song remain unchanged, it means I not listening to any music. Kinda cool huh?

November 16, 2003

AGGRH... couldn't blog yesterday. Apparently Singnet underwater pipeline to the US was cut off (Think of this large optic-fiber lines under the sea). Couldn't play gunbound, blog, surf international websites, etc. Just stuck with local websites, good idea, support local talent?

Yesterday was my first day of work after taking a 3 weeks break for my projects and exams. Thinking back, I still prefer rushing for my projects or slack at home in my bed watching TV all day long. The pay (allowance?) is so puny that I think I might quit after a few months more.

For those who are curious, I am working as a website updater for a major IT website.

Lousy sunday. At least one of my sister is back, someone to talk to. She bought lunch for me and chatted a while before she went to read The Sunday Times. Was playing her Sony Ericsson T610 mobile, been eyeing this model for quite a while, but with the release of the new Samsung (SGH-E700) and Nokia (6600), I am keeping my options open. Anyway, my sister gave me her new name card, the texture kinda "plastic". Maybe I will scan the card if there's a demand here.

Watched "Star Wars" just now, switched over to the Channel 8 when the show ended, it's some gambling movie, those revenge stuff. Guess what, Shuqi acted in it, don't really like her.

Going swimming tomorrow with Daniel, haven't swim since the start of O level. Let's hope I haven't lost my touch yet.

That's it. ta ta.