Bored at home


Random squawk: Have I told you that I'm currently not working? Long story. I'm looking for an office-hours job now. Anyone has lobang?


Yeap, it's exactly as the title says. Thank goodness we have the Starhub Cablevision now, or I'll really be bored to death.

While we're on this topic, I have some comments to share.

Before cable TV came along, the Lazy and I used to spend lazy evenings renting DVDs and watching them at home, or downloading cartoons like South Park, Family Guy and Futurama. Much of the fun was in the wait for the cartoons to finish downloading, and it was awesome when an episode had finished downloading and we could spend half an hour cuddling together watching them.

Or on a particularly lazy night when we don't even feel like going out to rent DVDs and the cartoons aren't downloaded yet, we'd be playing PS2. Well actually he'd be playing, and I'd be searching online for cheats. Heh.

That was fun.

Not that I don't like having cable TV now, but it takes away the fun of waiting and having to search for some nice DVDs. Most of the time now our eyes are glued to the set.

Maybe sometimes the simple life is just so much better.

We still do have fun now, like cooking our dinner together and munching away in front of the TV.


Lazy, the great shishamo cooker.

And let me tell you something. Lazy's shishamos are totally out of this world! And I'm the only one who gets to eat! Haha.

Anyways, I don't believe I've told you that my YELLOW MENACE IS BACK ON THE ROAD!!!!? Yea, Dante baby's BACK!

However, my workshop made a mistake. An awfully big and obvious one at that.





See the difference?

At first sight, yellow seemed nice. But when you look at it long enough, it's disgusting. Black is so much nicer.

Law says that it's only a small thing, and maybe I'll grow to like it. I told him that the front mudguard of a bike is like the shoes of a woman. If a colour doesn't match, we'll try on another dozen pairs until we find the right one that matches whatever we're wearing. And yes, I am a woman, so I'll nag and nag and nag at my workshop until they get me the right colour.

Dante's engines are running smoothly and perfectly, his petrol comsumption is amazingly low as well. The only thing that worries me is the brakes. I've just changed brake pads and they're not working as well yet, I need to wear them out a little before they start working to their full potential. And the brake lever's way too close to the handlebars.

I think I'm going to make a trip down to Ubi to correct it today.

Paying for Dante's hospitalisation and medical bills has left me broke. I desperately need a job or a source of income. Any companies with an opening wants to hire a certain blog-mistress?

I don't mind part-time because once I get my diploma next year I'm going to change jobs anyway, unless the company decides to make full use of my diploma (and provide me the benefits as well). I'm also looking forward to having free cash in my hand again so I can get this...



Doesn't look like much but it's one of my favourite. Gucci sunglasses going at $430. I'm also in love with another one of Oakleys, going at $330.

Anybody kind enough to get them for me?

Pak Tor Night (Safari)


Guess where Lazy took me the weekend he booked out?



It was just a simple dinner on Friday night, and then on Saturday...



We went to the Night Safari!

Lazy hasn't been there before, and I was there when I was very, very young and all I remember was that there were a lot of trees. So it was pretty much an eye-opening experience for the both of us.

Before we entered the entrance, there were a bunch of crazy people dancing with fire near the Ulu Ulu restaurant.



Like, what the heck?

First stop was at the Forest Giants' Trail, where I think they were showcasing.... trees. That's probably the trail I remembered from young.

It was so dark and it seemed such a crime to use flash on our cameras (it hurts the animals' eyes, mind you) that I couldn't get any decent pictures.


This is supposed to be a tiger. See if you can spot the stripes.

There were also stringent walking trails and tram ride trails, and they both go different ways, so we missed out on a couple of exhibits.

But I caught these amazingly cooperative animals who weren't shy at all, standing around in full view. Because my camera sucked, I could only aim it in the general direction, pray that they're somehow in view and snap, and then come back to digitally enhance the pictures.

The hippos.



The giant flying squirrel.



Raccoons, maybe?



Otters, and very noisy ones at that. Lazy actually didn't know that otters take to the water.



My personal favourite, owls.



If I have not forgotten, this should be a flying fox. They're damn cute (and damn big, and damn NOT shy).



The rest of the pictures were simply too dark to even make out anything.

After touring around most of the walkable parts of the park, we went for the Creatures of the Night show.




Waiting in line..

While the show was going on, the presenter suddenly announced that they lost one of their animals. It sparked off a frantic search amongst the audience (that's us) and suddenly, someone behind me started screaming and pushing everyone in sight.

It was actually one of the presenters, trying to get us to panic. They opened one trapdoor on the other side of the audience, found nothing, then came to open a trapdoor right underneath me. And you know what they found?

A reticulated python. Of course, it was all part of the show, to make the audience (that's us) feel more involved. Which basically means, all throughout the enjoying the show there was a reticulated python beneath me.

Nice.

After the show, we went outside where there was a corner were we were able to take pictures with some of the awesome animals. For a nominal fee towards the conservaton of the animals, of course.

Can you spot the little darling?



There she is!



This cute little fella just laid there and let me molest it in any way I liked.



And this playful little thing just wanted a snuggle, which the handler did right after we had our photo taken.



Isn't he sweet?

Sweet


Random squawk: Photobucket is down! Argh! Just when I needed to host photos. They'd better be up and running soon, I've got thousands of photos hosted there.


While talking to sweet Quek Quek online about plans for the old 346 meetup today,

"need my help share burden ma?"

"it's ok.
thanks for the thought though
next time u plan"

"jia you, nu qiang ren"

"^-^"

Disappointed


I was supposed to pick up my Dante today. But thanks to a certain mechanic, I made a worthless trip to Ubi, waited for a few hours, made a fruitless trip to Sin Ming and then back home again.

I am sick of waiting. Tell me, since when did a paintjob for a Mito take 2 whole months?


Argh.

Lazy's coming back tomorrow. I'm having my practical 3 for the 4th time tomorrow. Everything happens tomorrow.

I can't wait.

On a side note, Ms Anonymous is back. Yay~! Now I have someone to laugh at every now and then again.

Listen up all current friends, and friends-to-be


I am SICK and TIRED of having friends close to me fall in love with me, and expect me to do something about it.

I am SICK and TIRED of making friends, getting close, and then losing them one by one because of their uncontrollable feelings.

Every single time the same scenario happens. We meet, we make friends, we spend time together and get close, he falls in love with me, I make things clear that I am unavailable, they get angry and leave in a huff.

I can't give them what it is that they want. So to save time and effort, they stop contacting me. Or blow up at me and expect me to suck it up and act like I owe something to them.

Whatever happened to good old friendship?

All I want is a good friend, or a couple of them, is that so very hard?

Mr Famous once told me that things cannot be pushed, that I can't just deliberately go out and look for close friends, that I should just let nature run its course. And I did.

And look at what's happening.

Of course his advice holds true, but it's just that I am getting really tired of trying.

And I feel so lonely now.

So lonely.

Jam Packed Weekday (as well)


Random squawk: My muscles are aching all over from Sunday's basketball session. I also found out that my triceps (thanks for the heads up, Anon.!) have grown a lot bigger and harder.

Damn that low-paying company. Where else can you find a lowly-paid admin assistant who does manual labour as well?


Now that I'm not working anymore (long story), and Lazy's off for his reservist, I've been pretty much watching a LOT of TV to occupy my time.

However, if friends call to ask me out, that's another story altogether.

Take yesterday, for instance. After failing my 2A practical 3 for the third time, Kenny LCM called me up for a mahjong session, which I agreed without second thought.


He looks like Daniel Ong.

Dec 24 2004, the Christmas Mahjong at my house. For some of you who have been following my blog way before ImageShack were haywire on me, causing me to lose all my photos hosted with them, you'd remember this photo.

Anyways, here's a photo of him now.



Hasn't changed much, has he? Still as cute as he was 3 years ago.

That's Adel beside him, I only got to know her yesterday. And this other guy, Huijie, teammate of Kenny's I guess.

Four of us played three quarters of a round before JS arrived to take over my place and cheat his own teammates of their money.



Hiak hiak. We're very good tag-team players!

Immediately after that I went to meet CS and Atom for dinner at Yishun Central's 925 coffeeshop.



I was riding Lazy's wave, and both CS and Atom came to the conclusion that either the front tyre is punctured, or the rim is slanted. It was too dangerous for me to ride for long, so when Atom came up with the ridiculous idea of going into town at 9pm I decided to park Lazy's wave at my carpark and pillon with CS.

We went to the GAP at centrepoint where Atom works at, and went ballistic there.

While I was trying on some nice dresses, Atom and CS found a ridiculously long dress demanded that I try it on for their entertainment.


Nah, give you lah.


Atom says CS looks like a pimp in this picture.

The dress looked like a towel, but with some alterations it would be very nice. But at near $100 a pop, I'd much rather get a real big towel and wrap it around me for a fraction of the price.

Pictures at GAP today courtesy of Atom,



And pictures of my trying on the dress courtesy of CS,



... who helped us carry our stuff.



At GAP, I found an old friend of mine. When Atom called out his name, I did a double take just to be sure it was him, and it was.

One of the sweetest and most dedicated guy I ever know. I was so glad to see him again after so long.



Sweet YK.

Jam Packed Weekend


Random squawk: I love Jeff Corwin.


Spent a well worth jam-packed weekend and both Lazy and I loved it!

It all kicked off with Joanna's 20th birthday bash on Friday.


No prize for guessing who this is.

Joanna turns 20 on June 1st, while her boyfriend turns 21 around there. So they held a chalet together, inviting pretty much everybody. Their families, their friends, the works.

And what do you get when that happens?

Absolute chaos. When Lazy and I arrived, the group of guys from Joanna's boyfriend's side kept staring at us, maybe mistaking Lazy for being one of Joanna's boyfriend's friends. From Joanna's side, she had her primary school friends, secondary school friends, some people from god-knows-where, and her entire family.

I, being classified under the primary school friends catergory, naturally remained in the chalet room with Michelle and Kalai, also from the same class in primary school. The rest of the people, including a couple of primary school friends who weren't close to us remained downstairs where the action was.

Anyways, they had their chaos downstairs, we had our chaos upstairs. Joanna came up to join us near the end of the BBQ. and we squeezed in a couple of pictures before we left.

This was the best.




Then on Saturday, I went for and failed my 2A prac 3 for the second time before going to the Max Pavilion at the Singapore Expo.



To attend the concert of the year,



The long awaited MAYDAY CONCERT!

YEAH! I LOVE MAYDAY!! GAHHHH!!!!!

*ahem*

Because CS couldn't utilise his ticket, we called up this bottomless pit,


Naruto

Who couldn't stop eating. He ate a pizza burger when we met, then a hotdog bun and a braised meat bun before the concert, and another hotdog bun right after the concert.

He must be really hungry.


My favourite brand for drinks.

Naruto's also a rider, like us, 'cept that he's a phantom rider.



We entered the concert hall without much fuss, after Naruto pointed out that it would be relatively easy to sneak in past the ticket collectors, what with all the chaos going on and only ticket collectors by the doors and a lot of space in between.


We got in too early.

A lot of people attended the concert. Even my cousin Kenneth, and I didn't know about it til today.



The crowd was enthusiatic too, with people screaming left, right, center whenever anybody walked on stage or when the lights dimmed.

After what seemed like an eternity of waiting, an angel appeared.



Him.

Ah Xin!!! The lead singer of Mayday.

Gradually, the rest of the badn appeared too.





I think this is Stone,



... the one who famously proposed to his girlfriend during one of their concerts? He's now a happily married man.

The concert was a success! I screamed so much that I think Naruto is slightly scared of me now.



The entire band. Ah Xin. Stone. Monster. Masa. Guan You. MAYDAY!!!

It was awesome. Totally, slur-inducingly, crotch wetting AWESOME.


On Sunday, we woke up early for the old 346 basketball gathering.


Lazy, Kun Rong and Gabriel.

There weren't many people, and the man of the hour (also known as the guy set the time at 11am and who's supposed to bring the ball) overslept.


Wilson.

Which meant we were literally ball-less for about an hour before we got someone else to join in (and bring the ball).

We started a game at 346 before deciding that it was simply too hot, and shifted over to 325.



After a couple more games between ourselves and with some kids hanging out there, we took a rest and the void deck of 325, waiting for Hock.

He arrived at 4pm. Nice.


Hock. Finally.

We played until about 6pm, went for dinner, a certain blog-mistress got arrowed to organize the next outing and then went back.

So between 7pm to 10pm we :-

- Went for a haircut






Lazy is going to kill me for posting these.

- Bought certain neccessities
- Had supper
- Went back to Lazy's place for him to pack his bags for a week-long stay in camp

Lazy's now at camp for his week-long reservist. My very sweet Lazy, knowing how much I like to see him in uniform, jerked down the blankets I had over my eyes when he turned on the lights. When I opened my eyes he was already in uniform.



Doesn't my Lazy look hot?

After a good few kisses and a big bear hug, he's off again.

So now, my handbag feels rather empty without his things squeezing in with mine. My ears are ringing with silence without him singing loudly every now and then. Now there's nobody to make me smile no matter what happens. Nobody to dance with at my/his void deck.

Argh.