Wednesday, June 30, 2004
Tuesday, June 29, 2004
The good old folks at Talkingcock.com are amazing, they can really talk cock, do visit their site at :
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Go read the Secret Dairies of the Dragon Prince, that one's a classic, I shan't post it because it's seriously going to get me into trouble with the Men-In-White.
Here's something I've read and taken off TalkingCock.com
WHAT IF HARRY POTTER WAS BASED IN SINGAPORE?
1. Qualifies as ‘foreign talent’ immediately. (Some more, his talent is damn foreign, one.)
2. Must buy COE for broom.
3. Also, after parking broom, must remember to put coupon.
4. Hogwarts becomes part of Through Train Programme.
5. Hogwarts to be renamed ‘Magicopolis’.
6. For mother tongue, put down ‘‘Parseltongue’.
7. In potions class, learn that potions can be either ‘heaty’ or ‘cooling’.
8. Will have to deal with being labelled a “mugger” in addition to a “muggle”.
9. Have fun along East Coast Parkway, shouting ‘Lumos!’ and disturbing the lovers in the bushes.
10. SingTel to provide owl-delivered messages as option in their mobile plans.
11. Hagrid kena put on the Trim And Fit programme.
12. After graduating from Hogwarts, kena do NS.
13. People will keep calling Hermione “Her-myon”.
14. The Dursleys will make him stay in the maid’s room instead of under the stairs. (The maid will stay under the stairs.)
15. Prisoner of Changi.
16. Encouraged to faster marry Hermione and have three kids before thirty.
17. Encouraged by Gahmen to become not just a “wizard” but a “wizapreneur”.
18. Gahmen declares it aims to make it to the Quidditch World Cup by 2010.
19. Meanwhile, Singapore Pools starts accepting bets for Quidditch.
20. Because of lightning-shaped scar on forehead, asked to join Youth Wing of certain political party.
21. Formation of Order of the Phoenix kena rejected by Registrar of Societies.
22. Cannot refer to dark overlords by actual name. (No difference there.)
23. Harry. Good name.
Msg from NuhC: Harry is the ang moh name of Mr LKY
Just finished watching the final finale of FRIENDS! My goodness, it's so sad that this long long long running comedy series is ending. They ending everything in a very very graceful way, mouth shut for now. But it's so damn sad that everything's ended. Sigh...
There's someone out in the sea, clinging to a styroform board. I know she's been trying to stay afloat, but there's like a 10kg weight belt strapped on. She's only afloat cos of her non-stop struggle plus the bouyancy of the styroform board. Now that the board's going to disappear, aw man... God save the board and the person.
Sunday, June 27, 2004
I went east yesterday, to the airport. I haven't been to the airport for some time, wasn't there to send someone off, just there to have coffee, with Laiping, Ting and mich. The airport has changed quite a bit since the last time I was there. And the coffee bean was very unusually crowded yeseterday. Ting's friend who's a PSC scholar was flying off to Japan for an exchange program. Interesting person and we had a little discussion about "movies". Coffee was really timely, I needed the caffiene high to lift myself off the troubles floating around my mind. Headed to You Tiao Wang for supper again, this time i sat out with Laiping until pretty late to discuss about the happenings in life.
Today was pretty boring, I slept alot, and woke up really late. I watched the match last night, happy that my orange team got through, a bit tyco though. Due to some unforseen reasons I needed to eat dinner on my own. There's a salmon steak in my fridge and I decided to figure out how to make myself a salmon steak. Googled the web for a recipe and I changed a few ingredients with the cooking knowledge I've gained from endless hours of watching the NAked Chef.
Here's the recipe:
Salmon Steak
Light Soy Sause
Lemon Skin (do you hear the Naked Chef saying: "The lemon is an amazing source of intense flavour)
LEmon juice
Sugar
Salt
Ground pepper
Butter
Stir everything together and leave the salmon to marinate for 15 minutes. Preheat the oven at high. Then bake for 15 mins. It'll be good...
Saturday, June 26, 2004
It's the last day my my NS liability. I've officially ORD-ed loh! It's finally over! Anyway the whole of the Medical Corps of the SAF celebrated this day with me. The celebrations was held at the newly opened Wild Wild Wet! Isn't it exciting? Bleah! yeah rite. There was a crappy telematch that no one give a shit about. Good thing was that CMC Sir felt that those things were painfully boring for a farewell celebration. He skillfully made his daughter act like she wanted to go for this water slide and thus sort of signalling the end of the telematch. There weren't many bikini chicks. I'll say 5? The arrangements made by the organisers sucked lah, they couldn't even arrange for more bikini chicks, only a little handful and none of them looked good. Mark and I headed straight for this ride called the Sidewinder. It's this U-shaped, something like Viking ship ride. You'll sit on a float and you'll be pushed down one arm of the U and you'll go up and down. We shouted like mad although there was only one free-falling drop, the kick was in the shouting. Everyone watched as we did our farewell shout! Thanks SAF MEdical Corps!
We went down to visit Marcus later with Andy, Jov Ian, Foo and Mark. Marcus looks so much better than 2 days ago. The bleeding stopped and he says the original owner of the graft hasn't been talking to him. Looks like he's making good progress and hope he'll recover soon. Hmmm... still the IS Manga series is attracting alot of my attention. Must borrow from him soon.
Friday, June 25, 2004
Today is THE day. I've finally gotten my PINK IC back. I'm a civilian now, yeah! The 2 and a half years I owe the government. YEAH!
ORD LOH!
I've just recieved photos of the Perhentian trip. Anyway this is a really nice photo. Qh looks sooo sweeet. Anyway...
Thursday, June 24, 2004
Went to CGH to visit Marcus today with Xiong, Mark and Mao. Marcus looked so poor thing, just hope he'll get well soon. Guess what? He has the complete I.S. Manga Series in the room. Damn, I wanna read oso...
We headed down to the Glass House Fish and Co for dinner, we all ate so much, the food was good and ever. Why does Fish and Co always make good fish? We started talking about our futures and what to do in the future, oh man... But at least, the happy thing is that we all ORD Loh!!!
I'm collecting my I.C. tomorrow! Yeah!
S02 Gathering In Ms Chng's Place
First, I must say that we have an amazing assistant Class Manager, YUKI! She's the best! Better than the real guy. We were supposed to meet up at 6.30 at Yishun MRT station and guess what? The full attendance was reached only at 6.50, as usual, S02 is never punctual. I met Norlin first, we were damn early, as early as 6, so we headed for coffee at Starbucks first. Anyone looked fine, Jag wore he's only MIB outfit (wonder if he ever changes), Yuki was in black and white (don't ask), Terri and Qiaohui were pretty as ever, Boon in her usual boy boy look (she's looking prettier by the day). Then there's Banu and Rose both in their tudong (is that how to spell?), they look good too. Qinli was in his usual serious clothing. ZB looked the same, only that he was wearing this accessory i've never seen him wear, a GIRLFRIEND.
The 804 ride to Ms Chng's place was really long and yah, she stays in an amazing apartment. It's an Exec Condo, so pretty so spacious. Her hubby looked familiar, he was a relief teacher in Pioneer for some time. We did some catching up and everyone was doing fine. We ate pizza delivery and had Ms Chng's famous dessert.Explored her place a little. While exploring the balcony, I stepped on this really wet grass carpet. Damn! But at least, I managed to trick everyone wearing socks to wet their socks with me. EVIL!!! Ms Chng looked gorgoeus in her wedding photos, so pretty. Jag being Jag pointed out, with a funny look on his face, this photo where Ms Chng had long hair, Jag... Jag...
I left a little early and went night cycling. The cycle was pretty good, with the ONE whining away. And the ONE was as usual LATE! Anyway... Laiping joined us for the first time, it was really fun, except that we got stopped by a police patrol car again! This time, "Where you all going?", "Where you guys came from?", we're allowed to carry on after answering the questions. Lucky thing was, Kok was using his cam to film a video of the speed we were cycling at, I saw the patrol car and told him to keep it on time. I'll try to get the video soon... Can hear me shouting "Matah, matah..." and the police officer asking questions.
Tuesday, June 22, 2004
This morning was another crazy day out. When I say morning, I mean 12 plus am. I met Kok for a night cycling session. It was a good night, no strong winds, no traffic, no people, BUT loads of police patrol cars. Kok and I was heading down Thompson Road in front of Novena Square, Kok thought we were turning right to Newton, but I told him to go straight. So there we were, me on the left most lane, Kok on the 2 lane. Since there wasn't a single bit of traffic, Kok decided the let go of the handle bar and just cruise down the junction. But sway-est of all sway things happened. There was a "Kampong Java" Police patrol car on the other side of the road watching Kok. Kok and the police man in the car had some eye contact, Kok knew he was in deep shit, but we still cycled on, into this small lane. We heard screaming tires coming from the back, and then came blue and red flashes. Oh shit! We stopped.
Once the police officer stepped out of the car, he started scolding kok like there was no tmr. "Why were cycling like that?!" "Why your bicycle don't have front and back lights?!" Why are you wearing a dark colored shirt?!" Kok's a police officer too, he kinda know the law also, and he knew there wasn't a real offence in what the officer was scolding him about. The officer also said: "There isn't a real criminal offense but still it's the safety of all road users we're talking about... ya da ya da..." So Kok was booked, as he flashed his police 11B, the officer lowered his tone. They are technically colleagues afterall. There was no face given when it came to the booking of names. He was warned not to ride recklessly and told to get lights. I hope the issue will not go further than where it was left at. But talking about reckless, is there a need to burn rubber (of the tires) while driving in a one lane road with cars parked on both sides?
Monday, June 21, 2004
I was watching News on TV just now. There's was something about our good ol LKY (er... that's Lee Kuan Yew for all the blurries out there) said in some lecture or talk.
"Eat less than you need to, work more than you need to, sleep well."
think about it...
