important update: my flight back to Singapore is scheduled on 30th December 2006.
Flight No.: SQ67 / SIN Changi Terminal 2
E. Arrival Time: 1900 hrs
there you go. if you read this then good, if not then too bad.
now playing Literati on Yahoo! Games with Shirley, Stradford, Michelle and Umar.
heh. not bad. quite fun to kill time literally.
and since we are about to go back to Singapore, its fun unlike any other kind of fun. playing games in office rocks!!! hehe.
Tuesday, December 26, 2006
Thursday, December 21, 2006
Minna no Nihongo Part III
life is just starting to turn into Better Street when it met with a dead end with a 'No U-Turn' sign pasted right smack in the middle of the road.
important update, i might and should be going back latest by 31st of December 2006 because of a new law by Thailand Immigration to have a work permit for training. this is called a 'loophole' and we are caught right in the middle. whoever knows this might happen? and i'm not saying this to anyone in MSN. heheh. well, maybe a few of my close friends.
i find it rather annoying when people come up to me and say, 'what sia, come home never tell.'
excuse me? do i need to tell the whole world? my God. not that i'm not being reasonable. its just the way i think. nothing personal.
i found the possibility of having a re-entry and possibility of extending our stay for another 30 days under the visitor/tourist stamp. but nonetheless i think the school rejected the idea. the fastest way was by air to KLIA since the surrounding countries around Thailand is deemed to be of danger for us. now we are instructed to return by 31st December by our Liaison Officer. the problem is now having seats for the flight back with the peak period of New Year looming round the corner.
what a letdown. that's the reason why i hate having contingencies. it gives me the feeling of unpreparedness and lack of confidence. i'm the type of person who knows what i want, when i want it and how i want to get it done. so there's no room for contingencies. a perfectionist somesort.
first was that coup d'état right before our departure to Bangkok which postponed our flight by 1 week. now, there's this unexpected law that some goon invented which just slapped our faces head on and reducing our stay here by 3 weeks!!! 3 WEEKS!!!! angry le. not only that, we still have to report back to IGroup's Singapore office at Kaki Bukit. Techlink Building. not that i'm complaining, its just a pain to get back home from Kaki Bukit.
right now, i have to plan out again on what to buy for all you evil people out there.
the worst thing is that i have to cancel my Pattaya trip and have to come back another time.
important update, i might and should be going back latest by 31st of December 2006 because of a new law by Thailand Immigration to have a work permit for training. this is called a 'loophole' and we are caught right in the middle. whoever knows this might happen? and i'm not saying this to anyone in MSN. heheh. well, maybe a few of my close friends.
i find it rather annoying when people come up to me and say, 'what sia, come home never tell.'
excuse me? do i need to tell the whole world? my God. not that i'm not being reasonable. its just the way i think. nothing personal.
i found the possibility of having a re-entry and possibility of extending our stay for another 30 days under the visitor/tourist stamp. but nonetheless i think the school rejected the idea. the fastest way was by air to KLIA since the surrounding countries around Thailand is deemed to be of danger for us. now we are instructed to return by 31st December by our Liaison Officer. the problem is now having seats for the flight back with the peak period of New Year looming round the corner.
what a letdown. that's the reason why i hate having contingencies. it gives me the feeling of unpreparedness and lack of confidence. i'm the type of person who knows what i want, when i want it and how i want to get it done. so there's no room for contingencies. a perfectionist somesort.
first was that coup d'état right before our departure to Bangkok which postponed our flight by 1 week. now, there's this unexpected law that some goon invented which just slapped our faces head on and reducing our stay here by 3 weeks!!! 3 WEEKS!!!! angry le. not only that, we still have to report back to IGroup's Singapore office at Kaki Bukit. Techlink Building. not that i'm complaining, its just a pain to get back home from Kaki Bukit.
right now, i have to plan out again on what to buy for all you evil people out there.
the worst thing is that i have to cancel my Pattaya trip and have to come back another time.
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
Cherries Make The World Go Round
good morning!
Google Earth is a pretty nice tool to start charting out landmarks if you're an avid adventurer or just starting out on carthography. the free version can be downloaded at the Google Earth Website.
just so that you know, i have a 5-day holiday for New Year's Day. not exactly 5 days. technically, its only 3 days and if include the 2 days of weekened, its 5 days. so its from Friday, 29th December 2006 to 2nd January 2007. and the best part is i'm going to Pattaya from 30th December to 2nd January!!! with the other 5 TP interns including Stradford and Zhencong. i already booked the hotel we are staying which is at Peace Resort, Pattaya. booked with my Platinum Mastercard since they need a guarantee for the booking i've made. actually i wanted to make use of the Platinum privileges at Aisawan Resort & Spa. check it out at Aisawan Resort & Spa. they have a 40% - 50% discount for Platinum Mastercard holders. but the thing is, a basic room costs about USD$172++ excluding tax and service charge. well, who can complain? it is a luxury resort.
the Peace Resort had us below 900 baht per pax for a good 3 nights including 7% VAT and 10% service charge. i also took a peek at Sheraton Pattaya. it costs a whopping 80,000++ baht for a 3-night stay for 3 person for a terrace suite with a garden villa with an oceanview. i would go here for my honeymoon or for a short holiday when i get married definitely. =D
i don't mind spending the money. really!
i booked the 'Standard non-poolside room' which is abit outrageous because after that i calculated that we would be only be paying SGD$1+ more for a deluxe room per night!! oh well.
anyway, i had called the travel agency up for the details so it should be okay i guess. the confirmation should be in my mailbox latest by today or tomorrow.
and in somewhat old-current news, 'wider income gaps among Singaporeans'
i found this article in Yahoo! Singapore News which read,
'Income gap tears at Singapore social fabric'.
there is without a doubt as explained in the article. people would then think, is this the life of an elite high-class family? if that is the case, then i wouldn't want my children to grow up in ignorance of other people's plight. this is not the kind of country i would want to live in. just because you can get to a good school and have a so called 'elite' education doesn't mean you can just dismiss or even have the right to ignorantly comment.
there's this saying, 'the more intelligent you get, the more dumb you will become.'
the truth is when you are out there in the world, no one really cares who you are or what you have done. it doesn't matter anymore.
oh oh oh! and guess who is Izumi Morimoto? i'm sure some of you have seen it in my MSN display name sometime. i will not tell who... wahahahaha.
no, i'm not in love with her don't worry. i just like her name very much.
anyway, in Bangkok for the past 2 days has had cool weather. whereas in Singapore i heard has been raining since Sunday. the cool breeze is oh-so-nice especially in the morning. oh well, i'm looking forward to the New Year Pattaya trip!!!
have a nice afternoon.
Google Earth is a pretty nice tool to start charting out landmarks if you're an avid adventurer or just starting out on carthography. the free version can be downloaded at the Google Earth Website.
just so that you know, i have a 5-day holiday for New Year's Day. not exactly 5 days. technically, its only 3 days and if include the 2 days of weekened, its 5 days. so its from Friday, 29th December 2006 to 2nd January 2007. and the best part is i'm going to Pattaya from 30th December to 2nd January!!! with the other 5 TP interns including Stradford and Zhencong. i already booked the hotel we are staying which is at Peace Resort, Pattaya. booked with my Platinum Mastercard since they need a guarantee for the booking i've made. actually i wanted to make use of the Platinum privileges at Aisawan Resort & Spa. check it out at Aisawan Resort & Spa. they have a 40% - 50% discount for Platinum Mastercard holders. but the thing is, a basic room costs about USD$172++ excluding tax and service charge. well, who can complain? it is a luxury resort.
the Peace Resort had us below 900 baht per pax for a good 3 nights including 7% VAT and 10% service charge. i also took a peek at Sheraton Pattaya. it costs a whopping 80,000++ baht for a 3-night stay for 3 person for a terrace suite with a garden villa with an oceanview. i would go here for my honeymoon or for a short holiday when i get married definitely. =D
i don't mind spending the money. really!
i booked the 'Standard non-poolside room' which is abit outrageous because after that i calculated that we would be only be paying SGD$1+ more for a deluxe room per night!! oh well.
anyway, i had called the travel agency up for the details so it should be okay i guess. the confirmation should be in my mailbox latest by today or tomorrow.
and in somewhat old-current news, 'wider income gaps among Singaporeans'
i found this article in Yahoo! Singapore News which read,
'Income gap tears at Singapore social fabric'.
there is without a doubt as explained in the article. people would then think, is this the life of an elite high-class family? if that is the case, then i wouldn't want my children to grow up in ignorance of other people's plight. this is not the kind of country i would want to live in. just because you can get to a good school and have a so called 'elite' education doesn't mean you can just dismiss or even have the right to ignorantly comment.
there's this saying, 'the more intelligent you get, the more dumb you will become.'
the truth is when you are out there in the world, no one really cares who you are or what you have done. it doesn't matter anymore.
oh oh oh! and guess who is Izumi Morimoto? i'm sure some of you have seen it in my MSN display name sometime. i will not tell who... wahahahaha.
no, i'm not in love with her don't worry. i just like her name very much.
anyway, in Bangkok for the past 2 days has had cool weather. whereas in Singapore i heard has been raining since Sunday. the cool breeze is oh-so-nice especially in the morning. oh well, i'm looking forward to the New Year Pattaya trip!!!
have a nice afternoon.
Sunday, December 17, 2006
Mid-December Syndrome
weekend's almost over. in fact it already ended.
we had dinner downstairs at the Orchard Restaurant and i ate spaghetti carbonara with chicken. and...i think i'm beginning to like playing table tennis. all thanks to Stradford. i'm able to fairly well do some top spins and i kinda like it very much!!!! maybe i should play table tennis more often!! hahahahahaa...
so anyway, we didn't go anywhere for the weekend. just only some grocery shopping yesterday at Tesco Lotus. bought some frozen stuff and the sorts. seems i have been eating some 'rubbish' food all week. now i understand why too much potato chips are bad for health. so starting from tomorrow, i will live healthily and dedicate 30 minutes daily to run on the treadmill!! man, i seriously need to exercise more. just that i don't exercise enough and not that i don't exercise.
yesterday night, i found out how painful it was to sleep on the floor. Umar slept on the bed, Michelle didn't sleep, Shirley slept at around 4am, Stradford around 4am too, Zhencong slept at 6am i think. me, Shirley and Stradford slept on the floor. hahahahahah!!
i'm so tired now. exhausted i think. better get some rest or else i'm going to look like an ape tomorrow at work folding my arms and sleeping. i did some weights today and some 50 jumping jacks so i'll be pretty much going to do more next week.
good night everyone, and tomorrow is the start of the new week. cheers. =)
we had dinner downstairs at the Orchard Restaurant and i ate spaghetti carbonara with chicken. and...i think i'm beginning to like playing table tennis. all thanks to Stradford. i'm able to fairly well do some top spins and i kinda like it very much!!!! maybe i should play table tennis more often!! hahahahahaa...
so anyway, we didn't go anywhere for the weekend. just only some grocery shopping yesterday at Tesco Lotus. bought some frozen stuff and the sorts. seems i have been eating some 'rubbish' food all week. now i understand why too much potato chips are bad for health. so starting from tomorrow, i will live healthily and dedicate 30 minutes daily to run on the treadmill!! man, i seriously need to exercise more. just that i don't exercise enough and not that i don't exercise.
yesterday night, i found out how painful it was to sleep on the floor. Umar slept on the bed, Michelle didn't sleep, Shirley slept at around 4am, Stradford around 4am too, Zhencong slept at 6am i think. me, Shirley and Stradford slept on the floor. hahahahahah!!
i'm so tired now. exhausted i think. better get some rest or else i'm going to look like an ape tomorrow at work folding my arms and sleeping. i did some weights today and some 50 jumping jacks so i'll be pretty much going to do more next week.
good night everyone, and tomorrow is the start of the new week. cheers. =)
Friday, December 15, 2006
Over The Sea Part III
more insight on yesterday's visit to Suan Dusit University.
the 7 of us sat around this rectangular-ish table drinking cold Milo, when khun Kittipong, the General Manager of IGroup, opened up small talk with us about getting Thai girlfriends. he said getting girlfriends is just like a business; need to know what are the market trends and the sorts. what are 'marketing' strategies needed, etc. he's a nice guy for a General Manager. hehz.
the school itself is quite huge with a school of culinary all by its own building. there's also an arts school. though i'm not very sure how many schools there are but Suan Dusit University is for those who wants to become teachers. so it is pretty self-explanatory why they have the best and modern technologies in their sprawling campus.
so much for adventures, the next couple of meetings have been postponed again at a later announced date. well, i'm left with like 5 more weekends to enjoy. its been a blast but i'm looking forward to coming home.
and by the way. i love you. mwah!
haha.
the 7 of us sat around this rectangular-ish table drinking cold Milo, when khun Kittipong, the General Manager of IGroup, opened up small talk with us about getting Thai girlfriends. he said getting girlfriends is just like a business; need to know what are the market trends and the sorts. what are 'marketing' strategies needed, etc. he's a nice guy for a General Manager. hehz.
the school itself is quite huge with a school of culinary all by its own building. there's also an arts school. though i'm not very sure how many schools there are but Suan Dusit University is for those who wants to become teachers. so it is pretty self-explanatory why they have the best and modern technologies in their sprawling campus.
so much for adventures, the next couple of meetings have been postponed again at a later announced date. well, i'm left with like 5 more weekends to enjoy. its been a blast but i'm looking forward to coming home.
and by the way. i love you. mwah!
haha.
Thursday, December 14, 2006
Arai-na?
vices and virtues. the unique defining traits of each and every living soul which spans the entire galaxy from the simple micro-organism to the vast cities infested with...humans.
Homo sapiens.
the 2 most important things we thrive and live on.
today was the much awaited second visit to Suan Dusit Rajabhat University located off west of Bangkok. A fine University provided you could speak and write well in Thai. doh~ =P
we went to work dressed up in formal and we went off from the office at about 9.15am. me, Umar and phee Chok took a cab which took the toll-ed expressway to west bangkok. Michelle and Shirley followed phee Kwan and khun Kittipong in khun Kittipong's car.
we arrived at the Suan Dusit about 30 minutes later. went to the library which is only about 4 storeys high. waited for the rest and found out they were having drinks at a nearby kiosk downstairs. me and Umar bought some drinks too then we all headed up to the Conference Room. the three of them had to present the powerpoint to the staff of ARIT of Suan Dusit Uni which was rather long i think. i just sat in the middle and i was the only one sitting in the middle. felt good a while there imagining i was the president somewhat. hahahaha... =P
even the glass had the logo of Suan Dusit. we had iced water and coffee with some bread during the meeting. the meeting was mainly in Thai which i had really no idea what they were talking. seriously i felt like.................. -_-"
finally at lunch, everyone brightened up a bit and i ate this yellow rice with chicken in some gravy which was nice!!! for about 25 baht. and they used a swiping card system for purchases. in fact, its a trend here in Thailand. you exchange some money like value in a card then you can buy whatever you want as long as the card has value in it. its a pretty nice way of eliminating cash-handling.
and i 'hijacked' Shirley's camera to take some photos of Suan Dusit because my camera was in my laptop bag which was inside khun Kittipong's car. nice going. oh well, i did take some pictures with Shirley's camera.
and here i am back in the office wasting the day away. i'm doing some quizzes to just pass my day really. maybe i'll post some links in the next post.
till then. make the world a better place and be thankful that you always have someone to count on.
and by the way, let's watch a movie together some time eh? or maybe sit down somewhere by the beach. i haven't seen the sea for like 2 months already you know.
byeeeeeeeeeeeeee.
Homo sapiens.
the 2 most important things we thrive and live on.
today was the much awaited second visit to Suan Dusit Rajabhat University located off west of Bangkok. A fine University provided you could speak and write well in Thai. doh~ =P
we went to work dressed up in formal and we went off from the office at about 9.15am. me, Umar and phee Chok took a cab which took the toll-ed expressway to west bangkok. Michelle and Shirley followed phee Kwan and khun Kittipong in khun Kittipong's car.
we arrived at the Suan Dusit about 30 minutes later. went to the library which is only about 4 storeys high. waited for the rest and found out they were having drinks at a nearby kiosk downstairs. me and Umar bought some drinks too then we all headed up to the Conference Room. the three of them had to present the powerpoint to the staff of ARIT of Suan Dusit Uni which was rather long i think. i just sat in the middle and i was the only one sitting in the middle. felt good a while there imagining i was the president somewhat. hahahaha... =P
even the glass had the logo of Suan Dusit. we had iced water and coffee with some bread during the meeting. the meeting was mainly in Thai which i had really no idea what they were talking. seriously i felt like.................. -_-"
finally at lunch, everyone brightened up a bit and i ate this yellow rice with chicken in some gravy which was nice!!! for about 25 baht. and they used a swiping card system for purchases. in fact, its a trend here in Thailand. you exchange some money like value in a card then you can buy whatever you want as long as the card has value in it. its a pretty nice way of eliminating cash-handling.
and i 'hijacked' Shirley's camera to take some photos of Suan Dusit because my camera was in my laptop bag which was inside khun Kittipong's car. nice going. oh well, i did take some pictures with Shirley's camera.
and here i am back in the office wasting the day away. i'm doing some quizzes to just pass my day really. maybe i'll post some links in the next post.
till then. make the world a better place and be thankful that you always have someone to count on.
and by the way, let's watch a movie together some time eh? or maybe sit down somewhere by the beach. i haven't seen the sea for like 2 months already you know.
byeeeeeeeeeeeeee.
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Single is Good, Double is Better, Triple is 'Da Bomb'
its been really a while since i've updated. and i have an explanation!!
my D: drive of my laptop well, it had a broken partition while i was transferring some free space back to C: drive. but my Windows is working fine. just that my oh-so-precious data had been partially lost. i managed to save 6GB of my music but lost 4GB of music. but i had saved all my pictures and some files. whew. so that was a big relief. though heartbroken.
that was last Friday.
last Saturday, me, Umar, Stradford, Zhencong, Shirley and Michelle went to Siam Paragon!!!! the first time the 6 of us went out together in town to catch a movie. we took 2 cabs to town and we'll be meeting at Siam Paragon's Burger King. me, Stradford and Zhencong took the same cab and got off at about 100 odd baht. and which we had walked to Siam Paragon because of the lousy traffic. we reached first and messaged the rest to give us a ring when they reached.
so it was the 3 of us walking around Paragon first. when the other 3 had reached, we had lunch where i had bought a 234 baht meal of a Triple Whopper!!!! heheh. the burger is so humongous that i have to really give is a good pressing before i could fit it into my mouth. hahahahahaha!!
for about a SGD$9 worth of a meal. why not eh? that would last me the entire day without eating anything. hehz.
mind you this is only the entrance and not the theaters yet. Siam Paragon; for your info, hosts a staggering 14 theaters on its 5th and 6th floor. largest i've seen so far and it is pretty impressive.
Umar,Stradford and me queued for the tickets which costs around 160 baht for the middle seats and 200 baht for the back seats. translates to about SGD$6 and SGD$8 respectively.
....and here they are!!!!
6 tickets for the show Death Note 2: The Last Name.
we're seated on the 'F' row.
oh and we bought popcorn and drinks too! and me, Shirley and Michelle decided to share the 120 baht combo. for the popcorn there was the classic type, the sweet type, the cheese type and the salmon-flavoured type. which i found out later the latter two to be extremely weird. i still preferred the sweet type because i think i am a sweet person. hehz. okay, that's extremely random. but you get the idea. =P
i wonder how one could forget all their sorrows while watching a good movie with a bunch of good friends with some good popcorn and drink. eat, drink and be cherry. we don't live young for long before we get old eh?
oops. i meant 'merry'. ahahaha. okay, i'm just messing around with rhymes again. oh and i'm so bad. i know. sorry Miss Cherry!!!! gomen ne hontou ni.
so far, we had a pretty good and interesting weekend here on the 10th week of OSIP. now its the 11th week and we only have about 5 weeks left. we usually don't go anywhere on Sunday because we would be resting at home and do some laundry. YES! i do my own laundry, i wash them by hand, hang them up to dry and i would iron them out. so to you people out there who haven't invented something, this is a good time to design a portable washing machine!!!! maybe you could make travelling a whole lot easier. and to think i 'kena' travel from Ramkhamhaeng 36/1 (Ramkampeng sahm-sip-hok) to Sukhumvit 21 (Sukhumwit yee-sip-et) to Serm-mit Tower to the NEC service centre. its a bit of a pain in the neck during cab rides because the roads here made me have motion sickness just two days ago. what was i thinking? the NEC service centre couldn't even backup or restore my hard drive!!! and Sukhumvit isn't just next door, its bad enough i went there 3 times costing me 600 baht of taxi fare to and fro. and the best thing this week is i've had some mixed dreams of bad and good. man. and about the same person for 3 consecutive nights!!! what is the world coming to. no, its not the world, i think its me.
and, i got to meet Thailand's top table-tennis player last Monday!!!!!!!!
woohooo!! she competed with Li Jiawei of Singapore too.
she's good; i meant the Thai player. saw her training intensively for a competition next week. they have like young players from as young as 7 years old to start playing the sport full-time.
they have lots of talent that even i at that kind of age was still learning how to write a full proper sentence on a straight line. hopefully, i'll see them on TV someday.
yesterday, we went to The Mall to have dinner at KFC. again. but this time with a greater purpose of buying Michelle's MMC phone memory card. i ate a 3-piece Original chicken with 2 pieces of Zabb chicken drumlets a.k.a spiced chicken, 1 large glass of Pepsi and a box of fries. after which we went to the electronics shop to buy the 1GB Kingston MMC card after which we went to Auntie Anne's to buy some Almond pretzels. Umar and Michelle went to Chester's Grill to get his burger. i waited with Shirley for the pretzels. and i noticed some Uni girls walk in to the non-partitioned shop; Baskin Robbins. the girls went to sit at the back of the shop at first.
i, for once, unknowingly stared at one of the girls. not surprisingly as she's quite attractive. then they started to move out to move closer and closer to where i'm sitting. i dismissed it casually. and again, they moved again this time about one table away. then that girl i was staring at before sat facing away but the friend kept looking at me and giggling something to her. the other friend was buying some ice-cream. then they stood up. giggle some more, and whispered and whispered and kept looking at me. i was like, 'uh-oh.'
Shirley picked up the pretzels a while later and i got up to walk to Chester's Grill and gave a last look at the girl. she was like, kinda waving and smiling from ear to ear. which i shrugged off. and i know!!!! wasted a chance to get her number!!!! but its okay, i won't be here for long for her to remember my name. in any case which i already have a darling back in Singapore. ahahahahahaha. i wonder eh?
okay, time to end this. its going to be lunch time soon.
my D: drive of my laptop well, it had a broken partition while i was transferring some free space back to C: drive. but my Windows is working fine. just that my oh-so-precious data had been partially lost. i managed to save 6GB of my music but lost 4GB of music. but i had saved all my pictures and some files. whew. so that was a big relief. though heartbroken.
that was last Friday.
last Saturday, me, Umar, Stradford, Zhencong, Shirley and Michelle went to Siam Paragon!!!! the first time the 6 of us went out together in town to catch a movie. we took 2 cabs to town and we'll be meeting at Siam Paragon's Burger King. me, Stradford and Zhencong took the same cab and got off at about 100 odd baht. and which we had walked to Siam Paragon because of the lousy traffic. we reached first and messaged the rest to give us a ring when they reached.
so it was the 3 of us walking around Paragon first. when the other 3 had reached, we had lunch where i had bought a 234 baht meal of a Triple Whopper!!!! heheh. the burger is so humongous that i have to really give is a good pressing before i could fit it into my mouth. hahahahahaha!!
after we had lunch, we bought the tickets for the show; Death Note 2: The Last Name. and the best thing its not even out in Singapore yet!! haha. oh, nevermind. i didn't see the first part anyway.
the theaters were at the 5th level of Siam Paragon. so we got on the lift and we actually got off at the other end of the level 5 concourse and had to walk to the other side where the theaters were. we walked through this super huge convention hall with an another one even larger inside through the large doors. think of like a super grand ballroom about the size of 3 halls at the Singapore Expo.
we got to the theaters which the entrance looked like.....this.
Umar,Stradford and me queued for the tickets which costs around 160 baht for the middle seats and 200 baht for the back seats. translates to about SGD$6 and SGD$8 respectively.
....and here they are!!!!
we're seated on the 'F' row.
oh and we bought popcorn and drinks too! and me, Shirley and Michelle decided to share the 120 baht combo. for the popcorn there was the classic type, the sweet type, the cheese type and the salmon-flavoured type. which i found out later the latter two to be extremely weird. i still preferred the sweet type because i think i am a sweet person. hehz. okay, that's extremely random. but you get the idea. =P
oops. i meant 'merry'. ahahaha. okay, i'm just messing around with rhymes again. oh and i'm so bad. i know. sorry Miss Cherry!!!! gomen ne hontou ni.
so far, we had a pretty good and interesting weekend here on the 10th week of OSIP. now its the 11th week and we only have about 5 weeks left. we usually don't go anywhere on Sunday because we would be resting at home and do some laundry. YES! i do my own laundry, i wash them by hand, hang them up to dry and i would iron them out. so to you people out there who haven't invented something, this is a good time to design a portable washing machine!!!! maybe you could make travelling a whole lot easier. and to think i 'kena' travel from Ramkhamhaeng 36/1 (Ramkampeng sahm-sip-hok) to Sukhumvit 21 (Sukhumwit yee-sip-et) to Serm-mit Tower to the NEC service centre. its a bit of a pain in the neck during cab rides because the roads here made me have motion sickness just two days ago. what was i thinking? the NEC service centre couldn't even backup or restore my hard drive!!! and Sukhumvit isn't just next door, its bad enough i went there 3 times costing me 600 baht of taxi fare to and fro. and the best thing this week is i've had some mixed dreams of bad and good. man. and about the same person for 3 consecutive nights!!! what is the world coming to. no, its not the world, i think its me.
and, i got to meet Thailand's top table-tennis player last Monday!!!!!!!!
woohooo!! she competed with Li Jiawei of Singapore too.
she's good; i meant the Thai player. saw her training intensively for a competition next week. they have like young players from as young as 7 years old to start playing the sport full-time.
they have lots of talent that even i at that kind of age was still learning how to write a full proper sentence on a straight line. hopefully, i'll see them on TV someday.
yesterday, we went to The Mall to have dinner at KFC. again. but this time with a greater purpose of buying Michelle's MMC phone memory card. i ate a 3-piece Original chicken with 2 pieces of Zabb chicken drumlets a.k.a spiced chicken, 1 large glass of Pepsi and a box of fries. after which we went to the electronics shop to buy the 1GB Kingston MMC card after which we went to Auntie Anne's to buy some Almond pretzels. Umar and Michelle went to Chester's Grill to get his burger. i waited with Shirley for the pretzels. and i noticed some Uni girls walk in to the non-partitioned shop; Baskin Robbins. the girls went to sit at the back of the shop at first.
i, for once, unknowingly stared at one of the girls. not surprisingly as she's quite attractive. then they started to move out to move closer and closer to where i'm sitting. i dismissed it casually. and again, they moved again this time about one table away. then that girl i was staring at before sat facing away but the friend kept looking at me and giggling something to her. the other friend was buying some ice-cream. then they stood up. giggle some more, and whispered and whispered and kept looking at me. i was like, 'uh-oh.'
Shirley picked up the pretzels a while later and i got up to walk to Chester's Grill and gave a last look at the girl. she was like, kinda waving and smiling from ear to ear. which i shrugged off. and i know!!!! wasted a chance to get her number!!!! but its okay, i won't be here for long for her to remember my name. in any case which i already have a darling back in Singapore. ahahahahahaha. i wonder eh?
okay, time to end this. its going to be lunch time soon.
Friday, December 08, 2006
Minna no Nihongo Part II
i have absolutely no idea why i have been coughing lately.
i don't think its the food i eat or the drinks i had. the weather? or the time i sleep?
this week was a super-tiring week with most days having to sleep at 2am and waking up at 8am. fatigue has overtaken my sense of time and judgement. i fell asleep in front of the computer several times for the past 3 or so days. and i'm getting sick of sitting in front of the computer all day.
and purple is a gay colour. and i think i'm beginning to behave more and more like a girl.
because i..... i......... shall not say it!!! hahahahahaha!!!
i wanna have a pet kitty cat. kawaii. but training and maintaining would be a problem because my mum and sisters don't like cats.
and also i've been having bad dreams lately. just this morning i woke up with my heart racing like mad. i could feel some adrenaline rush. and just yesterday, when i fell asleep in the office, i dreamt i had leaped off a 13-storey building!!!!! when i landed, i woke up shouting like, "Ahh!!!". you get the idea. and had my head spinning for the next 10 minutes. imagine that. but somehow, i managed to put all those bad dreams aside and continue with the day.
my current favourite music tracks:
Tata Young - Call Him Mine
Paris Hilton - Nothing In This World
Mariah Carey - Dreamlover
M2M - Pretty Boy
M2M - The Day You Went Away
Nobuo Uematsu - Vamo' Alla Flamenco
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trust my taste for once. okay?
they're easy listening songs.
today, actually we all planned to go and watch Death Note 2. well, its postponed to tomorrow since we would we going to the Thailand Games Festival at Siam Paragon. then we can watch the movie there too. ticket costs around SGD$5 and they have something called 'Movie Buffet'. for a mere 500 Baht (SGD$20+-), you can watch any movie at any time for 1 week. yes. you can watch as many movies as you want, when you want and where you want as long as its operated by the same theater company. now that's style. though i doubt i could watch the movies all week. i've got work! i wouldn't mind if i'm on holiday here for 3 months though. heh.
anyway, i'm left with 6 more weeks here. excited to go back home. excited to tell my family and friends about my adventures here. and i'm longing for my bed back home. i think i missed Filet-O-Fish. lost count how many times i said that.
oh oh!! and yesterday night i was talking to Yoko. after so long. talked to her till about 2am. lots to talk about. and she told me something i didn't understand. wait wait, let me get the message.
本当 に 面白い人 だね!! 超良い人♪ 笑い がとまらない ょ。
hontou ni omoshiroi hito dane!! chou ryoui hito warai gatomaranai yo.
Yoko is very cheeky. wahahaha. she said to study it myself. and i did!!
but i don't know the meaning of the second part.
first part means, 'you are really an interesting person.' then the second part is quite fuzzy, i picked out, 'good, person, laugh' or something. help me translate!!!!!! but i think i got the idea.
see? japanese isn't that hard. once you've spent about SGD$1,000+ learning it over a period of about 1 year, its quite amazing i think. nothing's impossible if you do it right.
and now the wireless connection kicked me out!! sian sian. have to use the LAN connection. don't know whether the router kicked me or my wireless card ran out on me. either which i simply can't connect back. luckily its nearing the end of the day. later on, Stradford and Zhencong will be coming over again for the weekend.
so this entry marks the end of weekdays and start of weekends in this lovely country called Thailand. enjoy your weekends people!!! and eat as much Filet-O-Fish as you can before the fish runs out in 50 years. its true! =)
さよなら。
i don't think its the food i eat or the drinks i had. the weather? or the time i sleep?
this week was a super-tiring week with most days having to sleep at 2am and waking up at 8am. fatigue has overtaken my sense of time and judgement. i fell asleep in front of the computer several times for the past 3 or so days. and i'm getting sick of sitting in front of the computer all day.
and purple is a gay colour. and i think i'm beginning to behave more and more like a girl.
because i..... i......... shall not say it!!! hahahahahaha!!!
i wanna have a pet kitty cat. kawaii. but training and maintaining would be a problem because my mum and sisters don't like cats.
and also i've been having bad dreams lately. just this morning i woke up with my heart racing like mad. i could feel some adrenaline rush. and just yesterday, when i fell asleep in the office, i dreamt i had leaped off a 13-storey building!!!!! when i landed, i woke up shouting like, "Ahh!!!". you get the idea. and had my head spinning for the next 10 minutes. imagine that. but somehow, i managed to put all those bad dreams aside and continue with the day.
my current favourite music tracks:
Tata Young - Call Him Mine
Paris Hilton - Nothing In This World
Mariah Carey - Dreamlover
M2M - Pretty Boy
M2M - The Day You Went Away
Nobuo Uematsu - Vamo' Alla Flamenco
----------------------------------------
trust my taste for once. okay?
they're easy listening songs.
today, actually we all planned to go and watch Death Note 2. well, its postponed to tomorrow since we would we going to the Thailand Games Festival at Siam Paragon. then we can watch the movie there too. ticket costs around SGD$5 and they have something called 'Movie Buffet'. for a mere 500 Baht (SGD$20+-), you can watch any movie at any time for 1 week. yes. you can watch as many movies as you want, when you want and where you want as long as its operated by the same theater company. now that's style. though i doubt i could watch the movies all week. i've got work! i wouldn't mind if i'm on holiday here for 3 months though. heh.
anyway, i'm left with 6 more weeks here. excited to go back home. excited to tell my family and friends about my adventures here. and i'm longing for my bed back home. i think i missed Filet-O-Fish. lost count how many times i said that.
oh oh!! and yesterday night i was talking to Yoko. after so long. talked to her till about 2am. lots to talk about. and she told me something i didn't understand. wait wait, let me get the message.
本当 に 面白い人 だね!! 超良い人♪ 笑い がとまらない ょ。
hontou ni omoshiroi hito dane!! chou ryoui hito warai gatomaranai yo.
Yoko is very cheeky. wahahaha. she said to study it myself. and i did!!
but i don't know the meaning of the second part.
first part means, 'you are really an interesting person.' then the second part is quite fuzzy, i picked out, 'good, person, laugh' or something. help me translate!!!!!! but i think i got the idea.
see? japanese isn't that hard. once you've spent about SGD$1,000+ learning it over a period of about 1 year, its quite amazing i think. nothing's impossible if you do it right.
and now the wireless connection kicked me out!! sian sian. have to use the LAN connection. don't know whether the router kicked me or my wireless card ran out on me. either which i simply can't connect back. luckily its nearing the end of the day. later on, Stradford and Zhencong will be coming over again for the weekend.
so this entry marks the end of weekdays and start of weekends in this lovely country called Thailand. enjoy your weekends people!!! and eat as much Filet-O-Fish as you can before the fish runs out in 50 years. its true! =)
さよなら。
Wednesday, December 06, 2006
Te Dijo Te Amo. Cereza Dijo Te Amo.
male chauvinism.
as defined in Wikipedia,
start quote.
" Male chauvinism is the term used to describe the belief that males are undeniably superior to females. The word "chauvinist" was originally used to describe someone who has a fanatical loyalty in one's country. The word was later applied by the "women's liberation movement" in the 1960s and used to describe men who uphold the belief of female inferiority.
The slur "male chauvinist pig" has been reclaimed by some men as a jocular personal rebuttal or tolerance of such accusations. "
end quote.
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Male_chauvinism
no no, i'm not a male chauvinist pig. ermmm....no i'm not. humpf!
why am i talking about it anyway?!
i was looking through some articles in wikipedia when i stumbled upon the word "chauvinist".
now i know something more to it. well in any case, it does remind me of 'male chauvinist pig'. i wonder why.
yesterday, i bought myself a Futsal black t-shirt jersey together with a pair of track pants. it costed me about nearly 800 baht. which is around SGD$32. and thinking i bought new arrivals apparels, i guess it was worth it. the brand was a national sponsor of Thailand's national athletes. it has this nice set of Mazda-like logo of a 'bird'. and the theme of the event was, "Cheer Thailand!!!" which is self-explanatory and considering they've done quite well in the recent Doha Asian Games 2006, they have taken pride in what they have achieved.
Singapore on the other hand, leaves me quite disappointed in their performance. and that is all there is to it.
during lunch, i ate seafood kway teow. and basically that has been my diet practically every week. chicken, seafood, beef and rarely fish. then i would add some 'chili padi' which i found to be pretty spicy but still it adds some taste to the otherwise very bland mee.
usually the food here costs around what? 20 - 35 baht. because i usually have a sunny-side up egg added on. on several occasions, i would have a bottle of Pepsi which adds another 10 baht or so which isn't so bad. i miss Singaporean food!!! Nasi Lemak, Mee Rebus!!! wahahhah. and especially McDonald's Filet-O-Fish!!!!!!
is there someone who wants to FedEx to me here?? please......?
haha.
in any case, life here is good. i'm very well thank you very much. =)
alright i'm logging off now.
stay happy, be happy and make the world a better place.
as defined in Wikipedia,
start quote.
" Male chauvinism is the term used to describe the belief that males are undeniably superior to females. The word "chauvinist" was originally used to describe someone who has a fanatical loyalty in one's country. The word was later applied by the "women's liberation movement" in the 1960s and used to describe men who uphold the belief of female inferiority.
The slur "male chauvinist pig" has been reclaimed by some men as a jocular personal rebuttal or tolerance of such accusations. "
end quote.
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Male_chauvinism
no no, i'm not a male chauvinist pig. ermmm....no i'm not. humpf!
why am i talking about it anyway?!
i was looking through some articles in wikipedia when i stumbled upon the word "chauvinist".
now i know something more to it. well in any case, it does remind me of 'male chauvinist pig'. i wonder why.
yesterday, i bought myself a Futsal black t-shirt jersey together with a pair of track pants. it costed me about nearly 800 baht. which is around SGD$32. and thinking i bought new arrivals apparels, i guess it was worth it. the brand was a national sponsor of Thailand's national athletes. it has this nice set of Mazda-like logo of a 'bird'. and the theme of the event was, "Cheer Thailand!!!" which is self-explanatory and considering they've done quite well in the recent Doha Asian Games 2006, they have taken pride in what they have achieved.
Singapore on the other hand, leaves me quite disappointed in their performance. and that is all there is to it.
during lunch, i ate seafood kway teow. and basically that has been my diet practically every week. chicken, seafood, beef and rarely fish. then i would add some 'chili padi' which i found to be pretty spicy but still it adds some taste to the otherwise very bland mee.
usually the food here costs around what? 20 - 35 baht. because i usually have a sunny-side up egg added on. on several occasions, i would have a bottle of Pepsi which adds another 10 baht or so which isn't so bad. i miss Singaporean food!!! Nasi Lemak, Mee Rebus!!! wahahhah. and especially McDonald's Filet-O-Fish!!!!!!
is there someone who wants to FedEx to me here?? please......?
haha.
in any case, life here is good. i'm very well thank you very much. =)
alright i'm logging off now.
stay happy, be happy and make the world a better place.
Tuesday, December 05, 2006
あいしてる。でしょう?
hello all.
well technically, tuesday was yesterday. i did go out but only to The Mall. ermm, actually..... i wanted to go and see fireworks can?
the rest was lazy. i sian-ed.
saying the place is far and crowded is just a lame excuse.
i mean, c'mon!!! how often do you get to see fireworks overseas?! i was just too disappointed lah. if given the fact i was alone, i could've just taken the cab myself. but well, i'm just way too disappointed. but on a bright note, New Year's coming so i will make sure i go. alone if need be. just because i love fireworks. =]
so just now i had to just keep myself contented sitting at my couch watching it from a not-so-nice angle in the balcony. i kept saying things like, "This is pathetic, if we were out there, it would've been much better."
okay, you could say i was quite pissed. i was actually.
on early Tuesday, or rather at 4am, there was a fire opposite my apartment at the side of the road. it was in a slum. the slum apparently caught fire and well, burnt the nearby greeney as well as destroying about two power posts. i took some photos but my memory card died on me yesterday saying there was card error. i was like......'errrr, i didn't do anything wrong!!!'. so i had to reformat the card. so all the data i took was gone and i can't remember what was on the card. but i know it was also recently reformatted. just that i had none of the pictures of the fire. but Shirley took some also.
oh well, its getting late. guess i should sleep.
nite. おやすみなさい。
あなたに会えなくてとても寂しい。
well technically, tuesday was yesterday. i did go out but only to The Mall. ermm, actually..... i wanted to go and see fireworks can?
the rest was lazy. i sian-ed.
saying the place is far and crowded is just a lame excuse.
i mean, c'mon!!! how often do you get to see fireworks overseas?! i was just too disappointed lah. if given the fact i was alone, i could've just taken the cab myself. but well, i'm just way too disappointed. but on a bright note, New Year's coming so i will make sure i go. alone if need be. just because i love fireworks. =]
so just now i had to just keep myself contented sitting at my couch watching it from a not-so-nice angle in the balcony. i kept saying things like, "This is pathetic, if we were out there, it would've been much better."
okay, you could say i was quite pissed. i was actually.
on early Tuesday, or rather at 4am, there was a fire opposite my apartment at the side of the road. it was in a slum. the slum apparently caught fire and well, burnt the nearby greeney as well as destroying about two power posts. i took some photos but my memory card died on me yesterday saying there was card error. i was like......'errrr, i didn't do anything wrong!!!'. so i had to reformat the card. so all the data i took was gone and i can't remember what was on the card. but i know it was also recently reformatted. just that i had none of the pictures of the fire. but Shirley took some also.
oh well, its getting late. guess i should sleep.
nite. おやすみなさい。
あなたに会えなくてとても寂しい。
Monday, December 04, 2006
Miss, May I Have This Dance?
its a curse to know everything but yet its a shame not to know anything.
i feel today is like a slumber day having to wake up at 8am. maybe its the sleep i'm getting. having to sleep about 5 - 6 hours of sleep everyday is already bad enough.
anyway, we had Stradford and Zhencong over at our place again during the weekends. we didn't go out as we usually would but it was high-time for gaming. seemingly, it was rather boring sitting in the apartment all day. it was quite depressing really. i'm a person who could not sit still in one place doing nothing for a good ten minutes. though sometimes i can be pretty quiet. but that's not my point...
oh ya! yesterday night, we were having dinner among the 6 of us down at the restaurant below, the CEO and founder of Igroup who is known as Mr Lee, the company i'm attached to, was there having drinks with some people. we waved to him while entering and eventually settling down at a long corner table. and we were talking...talking...talking when the CEO went up to our table to say hi and everything. and well, before that, we were joking if he was going to treat us again like the previous 2 times we were there. and guess what!? he did really pay for our dinner. all of our dinner!!! he's a friendly guy and to think on first glance, he didn't look like any wealthy man. never saw him with a shirt on. always saw him in Polo t-shirt and smart trousers.
we went up to him to thank him afterwards.
guess it was our lucky day.
anyway, i'm starting to get really homesick. and i miss......McDonald's Filet-O-Fish student meal. i can't eat the McDonald's here. crap.
and i miss school. those who ever said that working is better than studying is totally mistaken. maybe its office work that i don't like. i don't like sitting in an office the whole day just to sit in front of the computer. i just can't stand sitting down. hehz.
get it?....stand while sitting down....?
and today, guess what? i absent-mindedly have forgotten to bring my earpiece!!!!
and that means no music for one whole day! urgh!!
but i can live with it. =D
tomorrow, the 5th of December, would be the King's birthday. 79th birthday if i'm not mistaken. there would be fireworks and i really do look forward to it.
i love fireworks!! they're the most beautiful thing on earth besides a flower. =]
はなび。
i'm sure to get lots of photos. =D
till then, i just want to say...
i miss Filet-O-Fish.
and school. hahahahahaha.
i feel today is like a slumber day having to wake up at 8am. maybe its the sleep i'm getting. having to sleep about 5 - 6 hours of sleep everyday is already bad enough.
anyway, we had Stradford and Zhencong over at our place again during the weekends. we didn't go out as we usually would but it was high-time for gaming. seemingly, it was rather boring sitting in the apartment all day. it was quite depressing really. i'm a person who could not sit still in one place doing nothing for a good ten minutes. though sometimes i can be pretty quiet. but that's not my point...
oh ya! yesterday night, we were having dinner among the 6 of us down at the restaurant below, the CEO and founder of Igroup who is known as Mr Lee, the company i'm attached to, was there having drinks with some people. we waved to him while entering and eventually settling down at a long corner table. and we were talking...talking...talking when the CEO went up to our table to say hi and everything. and well, before that, we were joking if he was going to treat us again like the previous 2 times we were there. and guess what!? he did really pay for our dinner. all of our dinner!!! he's a friendly guy and to think on first glance, he didn't look like any wealthy man. never saw him with a shirt on. always saw him in Polo t-shirt and smart trousers.
we went up to him to thank him afterwards.
guess it was our lucky day.
anyway, i'm starting to get really homesick. and i miss......McDonald's Filet-O-Fish student meal. i can't eat the McDonald's here. crap.
and i miss school. those who ever said that working is better than studying is totally mistaken. maybe its office work that i don't like. i don't like sitting in an office the whole day just to sit in front of the computer. i just can't stand sitting down. hehz.
get it?....stand while sitting down....?
and today, guess what? i absent-mindedly have forgotten to bring my earpiece!!!!
and that means no music for one whole day! urgh!!
but i can live with it. =D
tomorrow, the 5th of December, would be the King's birthday. 79th birthday if i'm not mistaken. there would be fireworks and i really do look forward to it.
i love fireworks!! they're the most beautiful thing on earth besides a flower. =]
はなび。
i'm sure to get lots of photos. =D
till then, i just want to say...
i miss Filet-O-Fish.
and school. hahahahahaha.
Friday, December 01, 2006
Cherries Don't Blossom in December Too
sweet, sweet December.
and yesterday morning, i had cut myself whilst shaving my moustache.
literally, it ripped off the flesh on my lower-right portion of my left cheek. the 3-blade Mach 3 Turbo took a bit of my flesh. it had sliced the wound wide open and though now it doesn't hurt as much.
first it sliced my flesh, i could feel the pain ripping through the nerves up to my brain. then about 10 seconds or so, blood started to drip. i just mumbled a, "Hmmmmm.........." thinking why it took so long for the blood to drip out.
this morning, it rained lightly but well it stopped before 9 so we made our way to work. while on the way, i saw a little toddler girl donning a red kindergarten uniform walking with her mother. kawaii. haha. i wonder how long more i could get my own daughter. hahahahahahaha!!! long way to go.
and so anyway, i had a rather disturbing dream last night. but all's well. i think.
slept quite late yesterday and this bloody zit above my lip is killing me.
i think, i should start sleeping early. as early as 11pm.
a little more sleep goes a long way to be healthy. and surprisingly i was awake since 6am. from then on, my sleep was on and off until 8am. what time i slept? 2am.
thinking of new solutions to current problems.
Ultra-Short Term: Return safely to Singapore
Very-Short Term: Think of a Flash solution
Short Term: Finish Polytechnic education
Long-Term: Get into a University
Very-Long Term: Establish an aviation career
Ultra-Long Term: Live overseas with family
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in other words, i want a happy life. =)
who wouldn't?
i'm looking at scholarships or study opportunities abroad.
well, the possibilities are in France, Germany, Japan, US, Canada and Australia.
and yesterday morning, i had cut myself whilst shaving my moustache.
literally, it ripped off the flesh on my lower-right portion of my left cheek. the 3-blade Mach 3 Turbo took a bit of my flesh. it had sliced the wound wide open and though now it doesn't hurt as much.
first it sliced my flesh, i could feel the pain ripping through the nerves up to my brain. then about 10 seconds or so, blood started to drip. i just mumbled a, "Hmmmmm.........." thinking why it took so long for the blood to drip out.
this morning, it rained lightly but well it stopped before 9 so we made our way to work. while on the way, i saw a little toddler girl donning a red kindergarten uniform walking with her mother. kawaii. haha. i wonder how long more i could get my own daughter. hahahahahahaha!!! long way to go.
and so anyway, i had a rather disturbing dream last night. but all's well. i think.
slept quite late yesterday and this bloody zit above my lip is killing me.
i think, i should start sleeping early. as early as 11pm.
a little more sleep goes a long way to be healthy. and surprisingly i was awake since 6am. from then on, my sleep was on and off until 8am. what time i slept? 2am.
thinking of new solutions to current problems.
Ultra-Short Term: Return safely to Singapore
Very-Short Term: Think of a Flash solution
Short Term: Finish Polytechnic education
Long-Term: Get into a University
Very-Long Term: Establish an aviation career
Ultra-Long Term: Live overseas with family
-------------------------------------------------
in other words, i want a happy life. =)
who wouldn't?
i'm looking at scholarships or study opportunities abroad.
well, the possibilities are in France, Germany, Japan, US, Canada and Australia.
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