i'm blogging for the last time be4 i am officially enlisted... first i'll talk about yesterday.. woke up late then went for sunday brunch at pete's place at hyatt hotel.. my dad had gotten some free entry for 2 adults.. these two tix would hv cost us $95 bucks... WoW !! michelle tagged along.. hmm.. her entry as a child price was 21++ bucks... expensive lei... however, the food was great.. i had beef, beef n more beef... then i had lamp chop, lamp chop n more lamp chop.... haha.. there were other stuff like fruits, ice-cream, spaghetti which i tried too.. they're fine...
i was so full... i'm juz so afraid i cannot blend into life in camp after all this gorging... met apple at around 2+ in the afternoon to accompany her to try book a chalet.. but it wasn't open.. i'm organizing a chalet on Nov 1st. which will be a saturday night.. the chalet should be mine by friday but i ain't out yet.. so we'll leave it empty... however, there is a dilemma... coz gary had the same bdae as apple... he wanna celebrate together.. how could he??!! i pay for him? no way... it's not fair...
the chalet was actually meant for my bdae on 11th nov.. but... 11th is a tuesday... so i'll probably be in camp... thus i decided to celebrate my n her bdae on the 1st together... well... then i had started sms-ing ppl.. inviting them... who noes? gary had the same bdae n wanna steal the thunder from us.. haha.. he is realli the "niao" sort which we dun quite like... i told him either he get a chalet close by so that we could be together coz i am already sharing the cost with my gf n i'm unwilling to share with him too... is that too stern? hope not...
Dav, pool drew 0-0 last night... a score very suggestive of their negative play... heh.. let's hope houllier gets the sack soon... arsenal beat boro 4-0 away almost effortlessly... one of the goals reminiscing of putting on a golfing green... haha... i'll miss my soccer... n my internet... boo hoo hoo... but life has to go on.. C'Mon !! i'm ready to go "Cheong Sua" liao.... bye for now, pals... wish me lotsa luck....
Bean blubbered at [10:08]
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ok, this will probably be my last blog entry before i am enlisted.. i'm having a lil' of mixed feelings.. glad i'm going in but also 'fraid and excited abt the life in there.. the loneliness will finally leave me soon.. saturday morning, i brought apple to have prata at casuarina road. we ordered some plain n cheese pratas.. the cheese prata was almost the twice as normal pratas.. heh.. it was delicious of coz... n the curry is hot n spicy.. then, we together with, aunt elsie, uncle john, cheryl and ryan went to takashimaya level 5 to have dim sum... ate lotsa prawns.. it seems to me that most dishes uses prawns as fillings...
after lunch, we went home. as in my aunt's home.. i showed apple the salt water fish tank i've always been talking about. n as we were often bothered by cheryl n especially ryan... i brought her to hougang point to walk walk.. while running a few errands for my uncle n aunt too... we had a good time together.. chatting n enjoying each other's accompany.. the weather was good too.. cool n breezy.. good for a stroll...
apple stayed for dinner too... after she saw the rain come pouring down.. there was no way she could go home dry. so she stayed for dinner. during dinner, i watched soccer with my uncle. Newcastle went 1-0 up against Man Utd.. but it was not to be as they lost 1-2 in the end... Pui !! am i angry... GRrrrrrr.... !!! ok, till the time i come out all shaven.. i shouldn't be blogging anymore for today... tomolo i'm going in... take care pals... byee =)
Bean blubbered at [08:53]
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Thursday, August 21, 2003
Loneliness.... i'm feeling lonely... a lil' sad.. a lil' nostagic.. it's always this feeling whenever life has to go on to another stage. always wishing that you could turn back the clock.. hmm.. why is it that we always hv so many regrets that we have to always hope to turn back the clock? maybe it ain't that we wanna turn back the clock.. i feel it's more that we wanna turn the clock back to a happy time n then remove the batteries so that it stays that way.. is this greed? .....
maybe this is what i'll feel when i'm older. or should i say elder.. coz there will come a time where your friends will be diminishing.. due to old age. that is of coz provided i live longer than the others.. heh.. i doubt it... this feeling i'm talking about is that of your friends one by one gone from your side.. maybe going in later was good.. but it sure was lonely... wednesday jm was enlisted. today kelvo n jonas was enlisted.. tomolo kp will be gone too... haiz... i may have 4 more days.. a weekend to enjoy.. but there's no one realli to go out with... (apple = working) at least one day of the weekend i could be with her.. hmmm... time to start planning..
Aunt told me to organize a chalet.. she'll pay for it.. heh... for my birthday.. i'm lazy to organize. i've entrusted apple to help out.. there's just so many things to plan over.. who to invite, what to get to eat, where to accomodate in, how many day, ect... arrggghhhh..... juz dun hv the mood to do all these planning.. yah, i've finished reading my book.. so i supposed i can borrow a new book from aunt elsie to bring into army.. i'll probably toss the books again to choose which to read..
Bean blubbered at [19:35]
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Wednesday, August 20, 2003
So, Terence & JM are gone... enlisted to be exact.. kelvo & jonas will be going in tomolo.. kp on friday... hmmm... a lil' sad eh? me, jonas, kp n kelvo went to golden mile food centre again.. i went to exchange my t-shirt n singlet to a larger size. the uncle had insisted to me yesterday that i need oni a M... but.. it's skin tight.. so ugly... my nipples popped out like a sore thumb.. yurks!! got an L instead. much better now..
i bought a handphone pouch to keep my handphone in while i'm in camp too.. heh... deuter too.. was priced at 12 bucks but i managed to bargained it down to 10 bucks... kp borrowed from me $30 to buy t-shirts, a water bottle and some other camping stuff...
had lunch there too.. i ate char siew rice today as compared to fishball noodles yesterday. kp had laksa today. a change from beef noodles. kelvo had roast duck rice. we all had sugar cane drink... jonas woked late n met us there straight. that's the reason why he wasn't with us when we shopped there... he joined us when kp was withdrawing some cash from an ATM machine nearby to return me the money.
i bought another belt for my jeans.. it is the exactly same design as the belt i bought recently oni my preferred grey.. then i was "forced" to buy the green belt for $5.90 which i thought then that it was a bargain as the usual price i see is around 10 bucks.. now this grey one was oni 3 bucks.. i bought it without much hesitation. heh...
we proceeded to golden mile complex coz kelvo wanted to help his dad find some ointment or cream or something like that.. he din get anything though while i bought a facial scrub recommended by kp for $3.90, a prickly heat powder for $3.50 and a shower foam for $4.95.. they had reckon i wouldn't be needing a shampoo as i'm not likely to have hair in there.. haaa.. so i had skipped shampoo off my list.. on hearing that an electric shaver will be given, i cancelled it off my list too...
we split ways after sharing bus 100 for a while. me n kelvo switched to bus 853 while they continued for another stop before going to take mrt.. kelvo n me went to amk center to shop for an alarm clock.. we got it at 14 bucks each.. he had wanted to collect his spectacles but they weren't ready so he'll have to come back later in the evening to do that... on seeing that it cost him only about 60++ bucks, i had wanted to make one for myself too.. my lens are so flawed i juz hate it.. maybe it's time to make a new one.. shall consult apple later...
ok, i'm gonna plug in my old 20GB HDD after i finally got the HDD brackets that i wanted. n i got a new IDE cable yesterday too... then i'm gonna install cm to start a new game on ipswich town.. hmm.. will i ? won't i? let's see... first come installing the HDD.. and i better do more reading.. i want to finish my current book titled "Lightning" by Danielle Steel before i'm enlisted so that i could borrow and bring in a new book... ok... gotta rush... byee.. =)
Bean blubbered at [14:46]
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Tomolo we're gonna go to the army market at beach road to get some necessities for our enlistment. masking tape lah n etc... i'm getting real fed-up n pissed off by jm already. lazy to call him to go with us liao.. this is the result of being rejected too many times. dun wanna fight losing battles too many time liao.. could feel the same happening to kp too.. so we're going with kelvo oni.. & yeah.. this is my design for michelle...
Bean blubbered at [00:53]
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Okay,... the count down to National Service enlistment starts from today... 7 more days to go !! today was a very dull day.. basically did nothing except watch re-runs of the epl last night. Dammit,.. my favourite team was held to a draw... ain't that happy about it.. being the optimist i am, i told myself that a draw matched together with a victory was a good way to start a season. at least we're still unbeaten... hmmm... however a first home match of the season against a rejuvenated man utd looks ominous...
around 3 pm i set off for home.. on the way, i did quite a fair share of reading... i juz love reading books on buses,.. even memorising stuff on buses just before i go to school is soooo my style... it's not realli the last minute that i like to be. it's juz easier to absorb while reading on the bus. at least i dun have a computer on the bus to distract me from my book !!
when i reached home, i made myself a good cuppa coffee n went about installing java run-time environment plug-in on my browser.. i had hash-browns too.. Yummie.. !! n i redeemed the apple pie i demanded from Macdonald's the other time they over-run the quicksand timer... surfed for a while, n i was soon on my way via 133 to fetch apple.. i missed her already..
tonite i've gotta draft up a list of toiletries to bring for NS n also design something for michelle.. what a bother michelle... :P time to brush up on my photoshop skills eh? haaa... & i've forgotten to retrieve my ring from grandma's toilet... hmm... gotta go down to get it as soon as i am finish with this blog entry.. soon i'll be like david.. unable to blog often .. i wonder if i have the time to phlog... hmmm so if u guys wanna catch up on me.. feel free to read my phlogs too !! ( though i noticed a lack of comments on my phlogs.. =( )
Bean blubbered at [22:27]
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this morning.. i went to cash my cheque from khl at bishan cpf building.. then we deposited our cash into dbs bank at j8.. din managed to earn as much as last pay day coz i was absent for 2 days... heh... however still, i'm not the one who earned the least.. kelvo fared worst off.. went home to have breakfast-cum-pre-lunch... which was....??? hashbrowns... yummie...
then i rushed down via 133 to serangoon road to pick apple off work. din manage to get the discounted ba kwa for my auntie coz she ain't considered a full timer yet.. so the buying of ba kwa will be postponed to 3 months later or at least until she get to noe ppl there better.. off we go on the new mrt line to dhoby ghaut.. had japanese lunch at food court then shopped for a formal pants for her..
boy was it boring... i was like spending a lot of time yawning in the shops while she changed in the fitting room.. (ppl who noticed my phlog will soon realize the timing when she's changing..) but, i'm still willing to accompany her... being with her is great.. we had swensens' too.. (gold rush, fries + mochaccino). we looked at clothes, and pouches.. which i decided not to get. there won't be much chance of me needing it before army comes along so maybe during army i'll come out n shop for it with her... a perfect excuse to ask her out eh? haaa... or at least we need think where to go or what to do...
we got our rings too... heh... i love it... the engraving actually costs more than the rings itself... haha.. Engraved are... "Melvyn" on the ouside for her ring. "SHUPING (heart shape) MELVYN 25/08/01" on the inside of her ring. For my ring, it's vice versa which means.. "ShuPing" on the outside of my ring n "MELVYN (heart shape) SHUPING 25/08/01"... now i can celebrate scoring goals "Raul Style"... heh... Raul is a skillful footballer who celebrates by kissing his ring thus dedicating the goal he has juz scored to his wife...
yesh, n the epl is underway again... too bad my fav team ain't playing tonite.. but tomolo nite, we should be watching together... heh... not much chances of such a get-together anymore... we're gonna get enlisted into national jail soon... (NS) :P .... my tongue n mouth feels bitter... i haven recovered. damn. ryan got water in his lungs.. maybe i do too.. heh.. i still got my phlem... tomolo morning will play soccer still.. surely i'll be very lousy.. phlem juz doesn't allow me to run lor... i cannot breathe as per normal.. ok, back to surfing....
Bean blubbered at [01:06]
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Ladies & Gentlemen !! Please rise from your seats to welcome the diplomat with the new 80 GB HDD !! haaa.. juz joking... finally i can online n blog.. it's not gonna be long before i hv to be enlisted n i'll be gone again... (enlisted lah not die. choy choy choy...) i have a new OS too... it's Microsoft XP Professional. i've been too many complains of Win98 to install it again.. n furthermore... XP allows less installation as several stuff such as WinZip, Media Player are already packaged together.
there was only one big flaw.. n i din noe it until i had installed Win98 & Win XP twice each... somehow or rather, there was a virus/worm by the name of MSBlaster.. it keeps on making my PC reboot. it's like they say there has been some error n only 1 minute is allowed before the PC reboots. i finally got rid of the problem after i consulted a singnet broadband technician by the name of Patrick. i have to say thanks here..
oh.. finally i've graduated. now i'm going into army. hope i can withstand the rigours in there.. i hate the sharing of bathrooms to bath... i find it a disgrace.. they shouldn't force ppl to do things against their will. especially when it has to do with one's sexual privacy... i hate it i hate it i hate it.... arrrgggghhhhh..... i'll go the extra mile to bath alone... trust me.. be it waking up an hour before whatsoever...
my room's a mess now.. i gotta clean up, install all the stuff back into my new HDD n oso transfer my data from my previous HDD into this new one.. n i gotta get brackets for my HDD.. tomolo we're going queensway to shop... i wanna get a belt, kelvo wants to go window shopping, n jm wants a bag.. yeah... n one more thing.. i'm down... not in spirits but in health.. i fell ill.. i had this tremendous amount of phlem in my throat of whereever that is n i keep feeling so so tired at around 1900h... maybe today i'm betta.. i haven felt as tired as last night n i realli dun wanna be fit only to see all my pals enlisted leaving me alone in my room. haiz... sometimes i do like to whine n pine... ok...that's all for now...
Bean blubbered at [17:34]
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