Outside the door.


Behind the door. Now you know why no one stays indoor at pulau redang. Or at least this part of redang.

This is the most rigorous trek that i've been through. I am a pampered kid but just let me remain as one.

Spectacular view. I guess this is the reward for jungle trekkin, how i wish i could just jump down from there instead than to make my way down again.

How did i manage to climb all the way back? The rocks look so damn steep. How dangerous.

Its only now that i realise a little music along the way meant so much to me. =D Im a happy person again.

What a joke. My ipod mini died on me on april fool's day.

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My favorite fish. Especially when its covered with belachan.

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I had always like trains.

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Sometimes you got so used to certain things that you no longer wish to move on..

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What a lovely day!

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This is how i always thought a dragon should look like.

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Theres a ugly well but the place is eerily beautiful and theres even a lion and a forest nymph.

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I think she look burmese(not Myanmar but Burma). That era. Livin in some mountainous area of the Chin, mon or karen state. Why are they goin to kusu island??

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The lotus wishin well which looks more like a rafflesia.

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So tranquility is another word for ulu. It suddenly occurs to me that there is always no one else in the pictures.

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CBD area on the opposite shore. So it wasnt really that near after all.

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How is solar powered thing going to calm you down making you less stress? At first was the noddin smiley, nihonhon and then the flipflap thingy then winnie the pooh, even 招财猫s. The flappin irritates and starin at it to calm myself down will definitely makes me feels like im havin the intellect of a retarded ant. Blah.

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My little obsession.

Dada da da da! Its my McDonalds! I had Mac for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Egg Mcmuffin meal for breakfast, Filet-O-Fish for lunch and McSpicy meal for dinner. And according to their Nutritional Calculator, I had a total intake of 1794kcal today, which is slightly less than an average females' daily calories requirement. BUT of which, 89% are fats. With these kinda data, its abit hard to convince the public that mac is becoming more healthy just because they tried to portray a healthy image and sell rice burgers(that taste abit like the pink colour heart-shaped kueh that we eat with the black sauce but without the sauce). Nevertheless, they open 24/7, even on public holidays.

And by the way, Techno + Chinese new year tunes is definately a deadly combi.

I feel like im living in a plantation. So close to nature. If you close your eyes, you can just nearly imagine that. The overwhelming aroma of the pots of exotic flowers scattered around the house(that will normally wither by the 4th day of new year). And its simply too much for my olfactory epithelium. The point is even if you like all the spices(cinnamon, saffron, vanilla, star anise, coriander etc.), you cant add all of them in your soup. And it happens every chinese new year. Happy new year.

Happy New Year!

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I bought a cute little pineapple from chinatown. All the pineapple from the pineapple tarts should remain like this instead! Huat ah!

Rainy days. I had always liked them except when i am stranded somewhere without shelter and/or umbrella when its raining donkeys and giraffes or holding on to an umbrella when the rain suddenly stops. But these days should be deemed unsuitable for work of any kind. The paramount need is to stay indoors snug in a comfortable couch, sipping some hot beverage, reading a novel and not bothering bout anything else. Heavenly.

People is removing all the christmas decorations and replacing them with chinese new year's. Saw the giantic red M&M on centrepoint being transported away by a lorry. Its the time of the year again. The time where everyone smile at everyone else, somehow become interested in each others' life, act nice and pretend to be one big family. Whereas the fact is that i would consider myself to be even closer to hi-bye friends than some of them. Not to mention how kaypo they are. And the usual conversation will goes something like the previous years' or the year before that. Most of the time, one will comment on something and the rest will suddenly be all agreeable nodding their head in unison. At times, they find you being left out or overly quiet sitting around listening to their conversation (actually eating whatever there is on the table) and they will try to rope you into the conversation as well. Cant they see im more interested in the piece of mandarin orange in my hand? And somehow the weather is always scorching hot on that day. I just dont like chinese new year. Well, maybe except for the angpow part.

This is how i start my 1st day of the year. Went back to work all the way at tuas. And when is the last time you take a non-airconed bus?

Dinner on new year eve

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Indochine on new year eve

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Its a brand new year again. Myanmar seems so long ago. Last year. Anyway, there was these so-called WHITE elephants (at least thats what they claim) that i saw there. Its not excatly white to me, more like brownish dark yellowish color. But its something that they pay respect and worship and its so great that no photos are allowed. Im sure they will feel offended if they know what does white elephants symbolize in Singapore. Redundant that is. Hahaa

I always say it was an annus mirabilis last year. New year resolutions are the same as well - Sleep more, work less. Put in less effort but gain more out of it. Sometimes, I seriously think i might just get along very well with murphy.

Im starting to get tired again. Duh.

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.

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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.