Thanaka-stained cheeks

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They got it from the bark of some tree and applyin it on their cheeks is suppose to beautify and act as a sunscreen.

The biggest Pagoda

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Theres a 76carat diamond on top of it!! How magificent.

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Just look at what they add into their traditional medication oil. Bugs and goat head. How can anyone rub it on themselves?? Its suppose to cure arthritis by the way.

Lovely Puppies

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They are mountain puppies. Hahaa

Trains

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I had always been fond of trains.

Jade wall

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Omg what a big wall made of jade

Pagoda

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There are so many similar pagodas that you couldnt remember whether you have visited it or not.

Downtown

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Strong men

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Im sweating and pantin already and yet they are carryin all that stuff for $1 US dollar each trip up/down the mountain.

Myself

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The golden rock

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FROM FAR, it looks like lotsa men is tryin to push that big golden rock off the cliff. This is extreme gender discrimination. See all the MEN worshippin while all the women can only watch from afar. If you are not goin to let me touch it, make sure i never get near to it ever again. I promise i will push hard enough for that miracle golden stone to roll off that cliff! Hmpf

Military

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Haha this looks as if its taken during the nazis' regime.

Some pagoda

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Pagoda can be seen everywhere, even in the middle of a lake.

Sunset

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Somehow it didnt look anything near this when i was there. There was at least 10 other men sittin around there.

A little boy

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I went to Yangon which was no where near the golden triangle, ergo there was no mafias, no druglords & no poppies. There is nothing communist that i can see. No giraffe neck women walking around with pots on their head. No Aung San Suu Kyi obviously, but theres a Bogyoke Aung San market that was named after her father though. Anyway its an amazing place.

When someone mentions some place, some kinda image conjures up in your mind in that instant, something significant or somewhat prominent that represents the place. At times you have no idea how did all these got into your mind in the first place. Some examples.

Costa Rica - Beach, sun, sand, bikini babes.
Egypt - Pyrimids, camels, sand, arabs, nile.
Greece - Buildings made of stone, sculpture of naked man.
Tibet - Yaks, monks in red robes, ancient temples, snow, kungfu masters.
Madagascar - Some cartoon animals
Italy - Soccer, sexy man sellin pizza, vatican church.
Turkey - Kebab
Maldives - Scuba diving, sea, honeymoon.
France - Eiffel tower, romantic french men, wine, escargots.
Philippines - Maids, bananas, Arroyo, tagalog, black eye peas.

And guess what Burma/Myanmar reminds me of? Communist, military, giraffe neck women, Aung San Suu Kyi, golden triangle & druglords. Im half expecting mafias holdin on to AKs movin around the jungle on jeeps equiped with .308s guardin their poppies. I shall see.

Sometimes i think its simply not ethical or adhering to any moral principles for anyone to induce or produce any strong odour/scent/aroma or whatever strong smell that could possibly cause discomfort to any individual especially in confined spaces. Its always the overwhelming air freshener or the wretched body odour. The insignificant aircon reduced to a minimal and yet still wearing thick winter sweaters or maybe even latex underwear. Anyway, air freshener is not much better either, it just makes me think of what the person is trying to camouflage and so my mind creates an even greater fetid fiction.

Btw i got another silly catchy tune stuck to my head again.

I-like. I-mode.

Was surfing the net when i saw this:



We were the saviours! Haha that was like 5yrs or so ago and manjusri's website have not been updated ever since. I think the 3rd person from the left in the front row is me but i couldnt be absolutely sure either. How many mega pixels was that anyway? Its amazin how technology advances, 5yrs and people are already usin 8 to 10 mega pixels digital cams. 10 years down the road and we could be using gadgets that are like pagers to our moblie phones or discman to our mp3 players. We will be mockin at ourselves over our current technology illiteracy while lookin back at the photos that we had taken. "Omg i was using that sony 3.1mega pixel cam at that time! My new 4.3giga pixel cam is so much better." This makes me feel like gettin a new cam again.

The day after a public holiday always feel like a monday to me. So to think of it, in the past 7 days with today included in, there will be like 4 mondays out of like 8days. And in addition, 4 of it are non-workin days. When is the next public holiday??

I love all public holidays(even deepavali). =D

Doctors are bloody liars. With lotsa blood involve of course. They are not workin on themselves so how do they know. =( Common pharses that docters use - "Dont worry it doesnt hurt much." "Its just like an ant bite." "It'll just take awhile."

Dont they realise their awhile feels like an eternity to others.

Hmpf

Anyway i got stitched up for a first time. How painful. I am no worshipper of the morbid practice of self-inflicted injuries. Or should i say if i am to take a stand, i would be a typical antipodean. I could hardly stand any pain. Thinkin back, i didnt know how did i survive gettin a stitch on my wound without any anesthetic. That hook thingy needle thing stabbin into your flesh right beside a fresh bleedin wound and then more probin around with it. (i'll nv go fishin again) Simply gruesome sight. Bloody as well. It sounds like some sort of ancient heroic act in cheena novels where the hero do a DIY stitch on his own. But it was nothing heroic. It was so painful that my hand was shakin even after that. I am the poor victim of The Macabre of the Fallen Evaporating Dish. Hahahaa sound like the heroic cheena novel all again. And sometimes you translate tonight's chinese news highlights into english and you can get really funny stuff. In tonights' news, deity6 send some chinese spacemens into space and the spacemens and other crews are goin to be rewarded with crabs.

But its really uncomfortable with a bandage on your finger. There are so many things that cannot be done properly. No more finger-lickin good, no more computer games or anythin equivlent to intense chattin and so much more. Everythin doesnt feel right anymore. I feel like the most valuable and critical player on the team is on the beach due to injury and a very important match is just tomorrow. And the worst thing is that you have bet your entire fortune on that match DOH' It feels that bad.

Sometimes i think its more tiring to get to work than to actually do work. Doin my daily sprint to the bus stop, runnin down the stairs/escalators of the various mrt stations and it seems that im always slightly later. The red Arriving flashin, NEVER beside the Pasir Ris, ALWAYS the Boon Lay, when i am still outside the station. This is so sickening. It doesnt matter if i leave my place 5mins earlier or even catch the earlier bus, it always turns out to be the same, BoonLay Arriving(And in this case means less than 10secs before opening the door). I always try to tell myself not to think of it as a very long journey but instead im leavin early to avoid the mornin rush. How silly.

Some UN chief nuclear watchdog won the nobel peace prize this year. He look like hes wearin one of those funny disguise thingy with the typical harrypotter specs, big nose and moustache. Something like the Spinning Groucho but just with rebonded moustache. He could easily look like a character who walk stright out from a Mary poppins musical, all he need is a more fanciful suit and a hat. Hehe but i would smile like that too if i won the £725,000 peace prize =D



Many years ago on this day Christopher Columbus landed somewhere in Bahamas or so. His voyages are somewhat significant in someway. Singapore should celebrate this day too. Hmpf and the coffeebean sticky dates cheesecake sucks la, its just normal chicago cheesecake with some sort of red dates in it(not sure whether its red but can taste the skin of the dates). Yucks.

Lovely eggs

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Abit lanky but other than that quite a beautiful set of hearts yeah. And trust me, no one in the right state of mind will feel like eatin it before cuttin it apart even if the serpent is around to tempt one into it. Yup its that ugly on the outside.

2steps forward for apple. Omg what is mini when there is nano? A black 4GB ipodnano, colored screen and with my name engraved behind. How beautiful if i could have a vertu phone to go with it as well.



Hahaa who in the right mind one will get a phone like this. Platinium casing, handcraft, laced with white gold. Omg never get robbed before izzit? But beautiful no doubt. =D

Now i understand why people always say studyin is so much better than workin.

1. It starts at 8am every single day.
2. One just couldn just skip work like class.
3. Work never end earlier on some/any days.

And point 1 is bad enough. I would be enjoyin work so much more if it doesn start so goddamn early. Yawnz

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. But it simply takes abit of motivation to get started but so much more to keep yourself going..

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My strawberry look like the fimbles! Baby Pom!

Thousands of years ago (Vedic dark ages), some inhabitants of india believed that Earth is supported by a serpent (Arya texts), some believed that Earth was supported on a giant tortoise, and still some believed that Earth was carried by giant elepants, which in turn were balancing on the back of a huge turtle, which itself was perched on the top of a stupendous 1000-headed snake. There were other beliefs like the universe was orginated from the egg and the earth floats in the sea of wine(Alcoholics). See! What else is there to say? Its in the genes. Fuckwit.

Was watching Jacelyn Tay show on tv. She ate the half-cooked, tasteless-looking food without much savoury condiments and still look as if it taste great. But she look hungry to me. I just didnt understand why diet stuff usually cost more than the usual thing. Normally the product will come in a lighter shade of colour, with the word REDUCE or LESS in red on the packaging and will cost more than the normal one. (e.g yakult, coke etc.) It has reduced sugar/less calories and all but why are people paying more for less?


"Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it." -C.S.Lewis

Graffiti

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Beautiful graffiti but strangely disturbing.

This is the time of the year again for me to take a breather from all my eccentric sleep patterns. (Or at least for the 1st couple of days.) Call me superstitious if you wish but i simply feel uneasy with all the people stickin joss stick all along the sidewalk and with the candles burnin and offerings scattered around. And what is it with that big board with all our MPs on it with bright lights all around? National day? Or tryin to remind us that the writ had been issued? Hmmm off to bed.

The colored balls

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Why do designers nowadays like to decorate buildings or landscape with brightly colored balls on water?

Graduation Day! Fotos later.

Anyway im officially not dumb! Take the "ARE YOU DUMB" QUIZ! http://www.alldumb.com/media/content/2005/07/12771.swf
Jimmy Choo is damn cute lo =D

One was tellin me that the oyster boy stories are awfully morbid. Yeah i know its no romantic idyll but thinkin back, the popular books, movies and stories are mostly filled with gruesome deaths, heartbreaks, suicides, traumatic expriences, bloodcurdling murders, vengeance, controversies or bitter childhoods. Are they any better? And surprisingly, none of these belongs to some morbid psychology offshoot from english literature, but rather they are squarely in the mainstream and are loved by loads. Like batman witnessed his parents death and is keen on revenge. Snow white's mum die on durin childbirth, had a evil step mother and ate a poison apple. (Not to mention cinderella.) Peter Pan lures the darling children away from home to be forgotten, doesnt accept love, kidnappings, fights with pirates, evil mermaids and finally returnin them home, while he is left outside without a family. Forever. Then finally the new Harry Potter volume where people all over the world camped overnight outside bookstores waiting for its release. And Harry's parents were murdered, an evil wizard is comin after him and some main character is goin to die.

Fairy tales tell us that there are perils, but we can survive them usin wit and live happily ever after. But oysterboy tell us they dun happen all the time. Wahahahaa

How could one feel lost and excited over the same issue all at the same time? Psychological ambivalence again i guess. Lookin at previous posts, i sounded so damn depress over graduating but upon recievin my seat number and the 2 invitation cards to the graduation ceremony, i feel all excited again. Who's goin to sit next to me? Who's attendin it? What am i goin to wear? Haha suddenly it feels so cool to graduate, its not something that happens every other day. It doesn matter that its just a diploma and all. I've graduated! Wahahaaa

And did anyone notice the ads on the bus stops? First, there were normal boards with the ad on it. Then, there comes the rotatin ad thingy. And of course those tuition, swimmin, house rental ads pasted on the board with a phone number that ya can tear off. After awhile, theres this 3-d ad trend that creative advertisin firms came out with and thus, becoming very popular. E.g. gifts on top of the bus stops, the fortune god cap on the bus etc. And now all of those mention above.

Very recently, theres this particular HSBC one at ps with 2 divers standin on top of the bus stop and the pillars and ground is pasted with this hideous lookin dark background with fluorescence worm-like thingy (i assume that are corals la since there are 2 divers standin on top) But seriously, those stuff are not just ugly, but revoltingly ugly. It appears more like some highly fluorescent nematodes, bacteria or fungi seen under the fluorescent microscope with the right filter, at least to me. The murkiness of the background make it look as if you will fall right into the eternal abyess of darkness packed only with fluoresence nematodes, bacteria and fungus when you step on it(or rather into it). Its so damn disgustin can? They wanna show the deep blue sea, then show the clear waters with sunlight penetratin and a school of brightly colored fishes swimmin. Why the murky sea, as if there is a thick canopy overhead? Arghhh and its also dangerous too. There are(is?) people who find it disgustin and didn want to step on it and so they have no choice but to stand on the yellow line. Hmpf when are they goin to remove that ad?

Began the day with a terrible flu, had naively thought some fresh air and good food will do me good but ended up drenched. Heavy rain today, interspersed with promising (deceptive?) periods of bright sunshine. Still sick, but its almost a pleasure. Curled up safely in bed, listenin to the storm outside. Later.

1st July'05 - A sudden realization that im no longer a tertiary student. My red ezlink imprinted with the school logo produced this awful "DAAEEE" sound upon tappin the reader instead of the usual chirpy "didi". And this reminds me especially when im fillin out forms or signin up for stuff online. Im not excatly a student anymore but i couldn excatly say that im in any of the listed industries. I feel lost as its like bein stripped off a title suddenly or something fundamental like the sun left the sky sort of thing. Hmmm okay, not that drastic. Haha but maybe they can just add "in transition" into their occupation or industry lists, people could feel better.

It has been nearly 2 months, of paradox and of waitin. It is a short time that seems long and a time in which everythin, and nothin, seems to happen. And it appears that i am consumed by the pleasures of the everyday - good food, sleeping, reading, skating, friendship, internet, games, the natural world - whilst never being far from the monotony and the feelin of emptiness. Crap. And apparently i have too much time to think.

Sometimes i wonder if everyone around me will grow up to this certain age and start actin old. As in really old. Where conversations are mostly in the past tense, startin every story with introductory retrospections on past events that had taken place in that halcyon years and usin words like "used to", "if i was younger", "in my younger days" or "you are too young to understand" too frequently or even develop a likin for those newborn monstersbabies that cry too much. Couldn imagine how life can possibly go on that way. Suddenly i could understand how Peter Pan feels.

Anyway, i was on my way home when i saw this tough lookin guy in a jacket lyin on the pavement after a bike accident. He seems to be in pain. This scene suddenly reminds me of something i that i had wrote a few years back in my portfolio.

"I had chosen the shell as its hardy and robust exteral usually portray a deep sense of strength and defensiveness as it give sanctuary to the life within. A shattered shell is a sheer oxymoronic example of it, the eventual breakdown despite its strength, urging people to stop and take a closer look at our vunerable life."

Somehow, reading the same words over doesn bring back the same feelin. i guess nothing have changed except my own perception.

Sometimes i dont understand how did all the junk mails ended up in my mailbox. I am constantly winning lotteries or free membership to gyms and i am so-called randomly selected base on their NEW java-based software. I have got so used to the junk mails humdrum existence that i click on the delete button almost instantly. But one day, i stopped and think. "What if its true?" 2 million euros, it didn matter whether it will be paid to me in 4 installments or as a lump sum. I could do alot with it. It simply ask for some of my information but no sensitive credentials needed. So what is there to lose i ask myself. Then i click the delete button. Haha maybe im abit low on oxytocin or something but still i couldn bring myself to trust an email like this. Or maybe im just behind the times who doesn even buy a t-shirt off the internet even though i dont even try t-shirts before i buy them but because i need to look at the t-shirt, touch the t-shirt and be assured i will get the my stuff once i pay. I am just old-fashion traditional.

And lately advertisement is gettin more ridiculous. One about gettin a genuine colleage degree in 2 weeks. No Study required! Plus academic transcript and student records are all available. What an attractive offer. They even added a short paragraph to explain this "legal loophole". And it is suppose to be a secret that has been kept quiet for years whereby the legal loophole allows established colleages to award degrees at their discretion. And with all the attention that these news are generating, the loophole should be closed in no time. So we should call up that number and order now right before the loophole closes and pray hard that the authorities will close one eye on those who ordered before this organisation got busted yeah?

I am glad. I can play Maplestory again and whack green jelly globs and finally the month of may is over and Rob Thomas is no longer the artist of the month and get to have his mtv played over and over again. Im sure coldplay would be so much better. I simply cannot stand Rob Thomas shakin his ass like a fag to the lonely no more music. And now i got the crazy frog's axel f tune stuck to my head.

DingDingDing DingDing Ding Ding DingDing Ding DINGDING

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Sometimes i wonder who are the people in my network searching for all these or how are these selected to be included in the list. 姐姐教弟弟做爱？？ Whos that pervert??

Anyone cravin for some mac fries? Take a look at this before induglin in a pack of fries again. And the mouldy crinkle fries look like worms.. Urgh i wun attempt to do an experiment like this.

This was the most lopsided women's final in Paris since 1988, when Steffi Graf defeated Natasha Zvereva, 6-0, 6-0. That rout lasted just 32 minutes, and this one would have lasted less than an hour, too, if Pierce had not taken so much time and so many deep breaths between serves.
"I'm sad because I lost, which is normal when you lose," Pierce said, when she was finally able to make her remarks to the crowd. "But I wanted to play a better match. I'm sorry. It didn't last very long." -International Herald Tribune

Hmmm. That was harsh.

"A BASIC science degree qualifies you to wash test tubes. A master's makes you an advanced washer. And a PhD makes you an ordinary worker."

"That is the harsh reality in the world of science. Growing a mass of 'warm, intelligent bodies' is therefore the key to building Singapore's research capabilities"

"This is the nature of the game; a PhD is essential. The real value-added element is the brains and people. You can have buildings and labs - they can be easily replicated - but what will drive research are the people."

All this are said like 3yrs back by some recently quite infamous guy who is sittin on the top of this world-class scientific research organisation. It would be very discouragin if i saw this when i first got into poly, but damn it, right now im not even qualified to wash test tubes. And that was back then, now they have disposable test tubes. No wonder we learn bioremediation in school. We have to know what can we do with the test tubes after they are being thrown out by the degree holders.

Finally, the photos. Things seem to be takin place concurrently, the melancholy in the air. Sometimes i simply couldn picture myself in a workin environment of any kind in a month or so, but maybe givin myself one month is more like makin a parody of myself. Then again i think i rather be bored readin electoral manifestos at home. Anyway, since i am so exceptional and lead such a felicitous life, i should be able to find my ideal job soon enough. Hah of course that is true, i am so fortunate that i seems to have won some millons of dollars in china, not once, but twice. And they didn even contact me usin sms, i had phone calls lookin for me. How interestin, i am one of the potential victims of the latest china sms scam. Bored.

And now i know why people can stay in tioman for the rest of their lives.

Sunset at salang

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The sunset that im waitin so long for. Alluring no doubt, although i had expected something more. I thought the sunset would be somethin like those takin part in a photography competition where the sun sets slowly and disappear behind the horizon, from a glowin orange to a deep crimson and finally becoming dark.

Speedboat to tioman

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On the speedboat, leavin the urban city. The distance to tioman is inversely portionate to the excitement that im feelin.

Nature

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Some sorta swamp behind the resort, makes one feel really close to nature. But on second thoughts, i wouldn want to be caught in such a place at night. A perfect scene out of any horror movie. It wouldn be nice to have a creek behind my house after all.

The bridge

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Wooden bridges are common over there, with a cranky plank every now and then.

Paya beach

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Low tide and all the rocks can be seen, this is the so-called muddy place that i referred to. But no, it aint mud. But it doesn really matter anyway, the seabed is ugly. Wonder how moses manage to walk thru it after splitting the sea apart.

Rockfall

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Manage to reach this place after trekkin for quite sometime. The coolin water and the rocks surroundin makin the place the perfect hideout.

Ringgis island

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This is the 1st spot where we snorkel. My first time as well. Now i am really glad man are land animals. Yes i love the sea but just on the surface and not whats deep inside where ya get to see its freakish little side. Its filled with fishes, paddlepop-look-alike fish, aquarium fishes and other fishes that look like those that are sold in supermarkets. I still prefer fishes in filet o fish or wrapped nicely in clingwrap on display. I couldn help it but people are feeding them with stale bread, and bread and fish simply reminds me of filet o fish. This is how sucessful mac is, instillin all this deep into our minds.

I thought fishes are bad enough, until i saw the oysters. Disgustin barnacles like shell embedded into the rocks. Yucks. Couldn believe they are actually the same thing served in classy restaurant where people pay for it.

And then there is the shit like sea cucumber. Shit is not just bananas, shit is sea cucumber. B-A-NAN-A-S. *Just listen carefully to the lyrics of hollaback girl by stefani gwen.* The sea cucumbers lie motionless on the seabed. And the seabed look like a wreak too after all the corals die. Ok some corals look like lingzhi but still i couldn bring myself to touch any of them, soft or otherwise. I had tried to picture them just as plants, each consist of cells, nuclei, mitochondra and all but still i just couldnt. I guess man stay on land for a purpose.

Snorkelling

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Paya beach

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Right outside our doorstep. Who need a yard when there is a beach right outside.

Paya resort

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Salang jetty

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Finally. Surviving the boat ride.

Reaching salang

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Without sunlight. This place look like some scene out of chinese ancient kungfu shows where the grand master stay to 闭关修炼. Serene & tranquil.

Outside out place

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Our place at salang

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View from the jetty.

The clear blue water

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The water is so clear that the school of fish can be seen. Beautiful. I mean the water.

Me

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Salang beach

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This is the wonder of sunlight that comes abit too late. Leavin the island on that day. No one would bear to leave the place with sun, sand, sea & booze. Everything that everyone wanted.

Farewell

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Back to reality.

I have to say - i love this week even more than last week, or the week before.

Hehe could hardly hide my anticipation. In less than 24hrs. Simply enjoy this feelin of excitement knowin tomorrow wont be just another day. The feelin of anxiousness. The feelin of knowin i cant finish packin my bag till late at night and STILL forget something important and feelin slpy the next day despite everything else. Just feelin glad that i can say goodbye to the hot languorous afternoons and the humdrum repetition of familar routines and everything else just for the moment. It always feel better to be a tourist, to be in an foreign land, even if it means to buy ubiquitous souvenirs like silly t-shirts or keychains with bold floral prints. To walk around not knowing whether its the right way and refusing to take out a map, maintainin my cool tryin to act like a local. How ironical. And of course to "smuggle" gums back even when theres no need to smuggle anymore. What a typical sporean i have turn out to be. Hah This is goin to be fun. ;]

And just a random thought that man is unique and conformity among all is hardly possible, the stereotyped could be preferential but not exclusive. It may not be the only path that leads to your desire, the longer path may allow deeper insights and perceiving in a more intuitive manner. Concuring may not be the only way and dissenting may not be a mistake.

My body's internal clock is damn screwed. My suprachiasmatic nucleus in the hypothalamus must be really confuse this time round. I cant fall asleep in the night time and i cant wake up on time in the day time. Tried goin to bed earlier than usual but i would end up lyin there for a couple of hours listenin to my mp3s. Complete waste of time yeah, i might as well keep myself occupied till i get really tired before hittin the sack so that i would be out within minutes right. Or maybe a even simpler solution of moving somewhere which will make up the appropriate time difference of 4 hours, how bout iraq or afghanistan. Maybe its my body's natural inclination to be an nightowl and i enjoy the way it is too, the peace of the night and simply tunin out the world on my way to work. Duh just for the sake of next week. I shall try to get it turned around within a week and have it back in sync with time. ;] Soon.

I had always love to try new drinks, even weird drinks. But lately, the newer product seems to taste weirder than ever. I wonder where can i get a can of Heaven and earth, Imperial orchard tea. The one in a purple can and taste abit like slightly sweeten, chilled, chinese tea. Couldn find those anywhere but now they have this new revitalising white tea that taste completely artificial and would be more appropriate in a bottle of perfume than in a can of drink. Like the one before with added catechin, polyphenol which is suppose to heal dunno what shit but taste really horrible. Catechin somehow reminds me of colchicine and i can vaguely remember it does no good and causes polypoidy. Just imagine after drinking your cells stop division because it is unable to undergo mitosis. How scary. And being a polyphenol and an alkaloid doesn make much difference to me either. I will never have another can of that.

And drinks nowadays are getting really high tech, we soon can have a can of hot latte that is based on a simple science reaction. Pressing a button at the bottom of the container would allow water to flow into calcium oxide causing an exodermic reaction and thus heating up the latte. But 2.24USD a bottle? That is going to $4SGD i guess for the one use self-heating container. Interesting, from Wolfgang puck.

Did something totally dumb but ridiculously amusing. Was home late on friday night after working and im workin again the following day in the afternoon. Having only one uniform and a pair of black pants, i decided to wash them so that i can wear them again the next day. I was afraid it couldn dry on time so i hang them right outside my bedroom window, when the most terrible thing happened. I was tryin to fit my shirt onto the hanger and i suddenly saw an empty hanger outside my window. OH! My pants! Yup it fell. I stick my head out of the window thinkin what can be worst than droppin the pants that i need the next day at 3am in the morning. Now i know. It is having the pants stuck on someone else window. Didn want to wait till the next morning, i suddenly have this brillant idea of throwin other items down so that my pants will land on the ground floor. Being a considerate neighbour, not wanting to break any windows or disturb my neighbours i decided to throw some unwanted clothings down. I realise a t-shirt is not heavy enough, so i wetted a singlet and threw it down. MISS again but it make this really loud sound. PloP PloP PloP Plop PLAATT. Hahahaaa i couldn help it but bursted out laughing. Someone downstairs must think this is a plank, not knowing it is of an noble cause. So this went on, t-shirts, singlets, shorts, all wetted, went down one by one. MISS again and again. Haiz i threw a final pair of jeans down but still my black pants remain stuck there. I gave up, wrote a note to my neighbour and stuck it into their unit and went downstairs to get those that successfully reach the ground floor. Yup not all are sucessful. In the end i have got a t-shirt and that pair of jeans stuck on someone else aircon but i only brought a piece of paper down so i didn write a note or something to get them back. But luckily i got my pants back the next morning. Hehe good neighbours.

*If anyone livin in marine crescent and happens to find a t-shirt and a pair of jeans on the aircon outside their masterbed room and so happens to read this or something can just leave it outside my doorstep. Sorry for the inconvience caused. Thanks.

Your dearest neighbour,

#17-03

Companies nowadays are really efficient but of course lah we are highly ranked in those research on labour force evaluations mahz. (Although we drop a spot to 3rd in competitive ranking overtaken by HongKong) Foreign companies can always trust spore companies like what PM lee said on that talk show, no matter what there is always the spore government there to apprendend those companies involved in fraudulence practices.

Approach in recruiting is also especially creative. Some calling you up early in the morning the following workin day after recieving your mail and some replying with an email and other sending to you an sms EARLY in the morning to ask you to check your mail and response when they have not even send the email out. How interestin, companies are getting more and more high tech. Waking me up early with an sms saying "Regarding the job they have recieve my resume and i am to check my email and response. thx." Short and sweet. Man i was still impress until i check my mailbox. There was no email. Damn company wake me up early on such a beautiful mornin and make me all gungho about the job that i have completely no recollection of and switching on my com and all but THERE IS NO EMAIL?

Most companies never reply then the SIBEICHUIweather associate gave me an url and i got no idea how to send my CV over. Had thought that would be an easy job to forecast the weather, summer in spore is always the same mahz and there is only summer in spore. Always hot, humid and scattered showers at parts of the island lo but cannot lah this job sniffing out the weather makes me feel like a dog. Then some company mailbox was full and my resume bounce back and now i got an sms but no email. Im no longer excited bout joinin this efficient spore workforce. duh.

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Yes finally uploaded the photos. When to Pulau Ubin on friday but too lazy to upload them till now.

Changi ferry terminal. A complete new look. Use to be a couple of benches outdoors, people simply sitting around. Hmmmm now this look more like an arrival/departure hall with that machine that scans your lugguage. Shall go pengerang someday, $7 for the bumboat ride there. Never notice that was available before, always thought the bumboats are small and there isnt enough fuel to go anywhere other than pulau ubin.

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Me. Waiting at the Changi ferry terminal for enough people to fill the bumboat. My eye is swollen again, i think the 3rd time this month.

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There we are. Finally arriving at Pulau Ubin after the 10mins bumboat ride.

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Pulau ubin. This is a very typical picture of it that appears on textbooks and anywhere else trying to attract tourists to it.

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A wooden toilet make of planks, same concept as the makeshift type but very much less sophicated. With a drophole in middle with anythin going straight into the lake. Extreme pollution but yet that area is full of fishes. Fishes like shit and attracted to it. And did i heard someone say he would like some Riesling to go with his fish and chips??

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But the toilet we use are the comtemporary sort, nothing similar to the one before.