Born in the wrong era? No. There is no wrong era.

unusual stuff today.

as was forewarned, a modified cherry came to church today! but the modification was totally unexpected. wah really surprised. heh. but if u like then ok loh i guess.

eugene is cool. he saves his friend and ends up driving his car. how cool is that? and he's going to ite to learn to fix cars...things that i only dream of.

i borrowed my mom's bike to go easpoint. and she actually told me to bring 2 locks along....wow.
so i did. came back in one piece, bike and all, no scare no scare.

mel was hyper-mouthed today.
he was giving speech after speech after speech. caught one or two or phone. :)
well, it seemed like he was trying to engage in a conversation with us, but nobody could understand him so it ended up becoming a monologue. he was SO funny.

mr ong and the rest of the guys came back sat night. plane got delayed and they landed about an hour later than expected.
2330.
time to go home.
2330.
spot kc studying at delifrance.
0930(next day)
grace bible pres has one less person to provide aircon for.
lol...

thanks.
who defines what are guys' interest and what are girls' interests?
society.
is it absolute?
no.
so yup. thanks.
it's comforting to know that some people are a bit more open minded..

wahwah was high today.
i think it's stress from the camp.
still...had a lot of fun just now.

after the challenge at eh, i started making my way for home.
joon chung just finish team meeting too so took train to simei together.
i said i was hungry.

BINGO.

haha, he agreed to go eat oily, unhealthy fastfood with me and somehow that sparked a long explanation of his insanely nonsensical retirement plans.
i don't remember much(too many of my brain cells died listening to him), except that it was highly unfeasible but desirable.

something along the line of starting a kopitiam called "the Art"(because food is an art he says...) and gathering the best and rarest foods in singapore to be sold there at affordable prices. then, gospel will be shared everyday through some talk show held there. we then debated on which hawkers were eligible to work there.
i insisted hum jin beng uncle is a MUST HAVE, but he was skeptical. as for yu tang uncle, he will just hire him to make chilli(WHAT AN INSULT! sure his chilli IS the best, but the noodles rock TOO!). then he say that the chai chee porridge stall(never eat before..wehwhehe..time for recce) will qualify...and
so on and so forth...
after going on and on about his ideas, he eventually said that he was just joking. -_-
WHAT A WASTE OF MY BRAIN CELLS.
but well, i did have a good laugh out of it...
stress ah brother?

went to east point. ate kfc.
talked about various stuff, some serious, some redundant. anyhow, along the course of the conversation, we somehow chanced upon the topic of pool...and then he had this sudden glint in his eyes taht was rare of him....

note: he's reading too much into some of my answers and actions...as others are doing too it seems. at least 4 other people i know are doing that too.

"wanna go play pool?", he asked me.
(he must've really been under lotsa stress..)
"sure."
(GOOD CALL!)

waha. went upstaris to x-zone and had a crash course on pool, techniques and etiqutte and all. this is ahbengization.

very fun. i've always liked the game. it's gotta do with angles and collision physics. and angles and collision physics are fun. so consequently, pool is fun!

we didn't really play for long but it was enough.....enough to make me want to play more. it's cool to be beng!
another time.
it was getting late, and we should've started making our way home. but in order to play pool, you had to pay for some extra game credits first, regardles of whether you used it or not.
as a result, we had 2 credits to spare.
so how to spend?

BISHA BASHI CHAMPION!
played single player together. wah....i realized it's also been ages since i last stepped into an arcade.
but that one also very fun, especially when play with others.
finally done. but not quite...

on our way down, we passed the stationery shop that was having a clearance sale. joon chung just had to go in and take a look...and that was just so...aunty. i called it auntification. haha.
in the end nothing to buy.

down down to the bus stop where we parted, but what fun we had! hopefully he managed to relieve some stress. heh...provided thats the thing that's bothering him...if something is indeed bothering him in the first place.

next time play more pool...more pool.
ok. time to sleep.

my sleeping pattern is totally off.
i'm....becoming nocturnal.
last night(or this morning(actually now is this morning(arghhh.friday morning.))) tried to sleep earlier, but i just couldn't.
went to the roof to look at stars(that's another good thing about rain. clears the sky) and hoped to fall asleep listening to music.
managed to doze off here and there, and i thought i could sleep easy but still when i got to bed it took me hours to fall into deep sleep.
the other thing that kept me from sleeping were the mosquitoes(here's the bad part about rain.)
they were having some buffet off me. sian ahhhh.

note: last night no moon. but the stars were bright and pretty. just took a glance; tonight no moon nor stars in sight, but i managed to see the moon just now at eh. it looked like it was smiling. :)
i like the moon.

went swimming just now with my dad and brother instead of going to the zoo(they complained about it being too hot for the zoo).
it seems dong also managed to go swimming today.
apparently minsen didn't. lol.
we were taking turns to disturb him. i got it back worse though. he was pouring spoilers into my brain by shoving them down my ear. struggled to keep them out.
we must've looked like psychos at eh...haii.childish.

tmr clean church!
st-e!
challenge time!
(that reminds me...gotta prepare...)

just as the prophecy foretold, mom's hooked on the drama(she's been watching it every night). as a result, my hair remains uncut. need to catch her when she's free....

it's tiring.

stayed in bed for most of today, yawned incessantly when i wasn't.

sen sen's dad had fallen asleep and i went down to the wake with dad just now to visit them before going to pick mom from the office.
i didn't know him personally. i'm not even sure if we've met him before.
they said that he was getting on with age and that they knew that he would go soon.
seems that the family's handling it quite well. i guess it was something that they were prepared for.

someone chris knew departed recently too it seems. i think it's made him reflect a bit.

as for myself i've said before. when i die, it'll only temporary. my death has already been paid for.
it won't be good-bye.
in the twinkling of an eye, i'd wake up and see all the saints.
it would only be goodnight.
and the night will soon pass.
and we'd enter into everlasting day.

nobody is online right now...nothing unusual there.
i'm hungry, but i don't feel like cooking nor do i feel like cycling to buy food.
i didn't know that there were girls interested in night cycling. maybe there aren't.
we had nice weather today. rainy and stuff. cooled down the whole place. good weather for.........i don't know.
played cs and halflife dm and halo today with htet tun and gang. realized i haven't played an fps for quite sometime, but still can make it i think.
everybody needs the Gospel. everybody.
red and yellow black and white, they are precious in His sight.
zebedee has left an impression on me today as a man who lives out this belief faithfully.
i wouldn't want my wrting to be impeded by knowing who reads what i write. reading is fine. just don't tell me.
i want to go to the zoo. friday's a possibility. animals on to-see list include penguin, polar bear, lion, bear, cheetah, monkey, aligator, camel, giraffe, wolf, and zebra. cannot remember.
i also want yu tang.
time to sleep.
and panda and rhino too...

mom's home.
guys' gone.
mr ong's gonna spend minimal time bathing(well done).
ettp amazingly(though not that surprisingly) has a towel rotation system.
and turtle forgets that he and ms lee tried to drown me once.
miss tai came, to my surprise, but like that better.
wj didn't come, apparently faithfully obeying a theory.
kc became VERY reactive to certain comments which could mean only one thing...or two.
i'd much rather believe the one though. although the two i KNOW is true, still, it's more fun to try and believe the one.
joon chung sat in the wrong car. with the wrong people. or at least, with the wrong driver...and passengers that just made things worse.
going to play water later. anti-social hydrophobe ain't coming, but that's fine i guess.
bk breakfast is ok, just that they could try to make it a bit more filling.
let me nap for a while.

oh.
and linda tay poh ling was there too. she wore black over white.

the patch on my head needs a trimming.
seems i've missed the night.
saw some stikfas stopanimation videos on youtube and became inspired to go buy some and do my own.
just need to learn to do stopanimation first....
decided to draw a fight scene instead and that's what i've been doing most of the night...
just took a bath and will be leaving to fetch my mom soon.
i thought 8007 was going to remain unattainable by me...but..
it seems i've managed to TOP that score with 9791!!! at 74 counts!
amazing...
ok time to start waking everybody up....

quick one before i go and climb.
i've not eaten anything in the past 20 hours.
at an all time low of 42.5 kg...
the wonders of dieting.
bob says he'll teach his son to skateboard if he has one.
if i had a son, i'd teach him to excel in catching.
so many things to teach children.
so cool to have a son. like every time see mel, he'd have grown a bit and he'd have learnt new things...
waha. now he can take out his binky with his hand so that he can eat fod.
few weeks ago he learnt to crawl...soon he'll be able to walk!
so amazing...the development of a child....

my bro's been watching some korean drama dvd...my girl it's called...he likes it.
my dad's watching it with him right now in fact.
heh, according to my dad, someone passed it to him for my mom to watch, and the way it looks, i think she'll like it too...
it's gonna be the usual process, just skip some parts...

usually it'll be
1. discover entertaining drama on tv.
2. faithfully watch drama everytime it airs. record if unable to do so.
3. become impatient and end up buying/borrowing the entire series.
4. try to moderate the amount watched. usually failing and watching until insane late hours.
5. decide to one time whack the series and get it over with quick.

this applies to my mom and it sometimes spills over into my dad, bro, and, on rare occasions, me.
some of the series that have gone through this process include huan zhu gege, full house, winter sonata, jie da huan xi, the gentle crackdown, shen diao xia li, and many other series that i cannot remember the name, never knew the name, or just can't remember...

apparently this series is gonna be next.
though somehow, i realise i've never really taken a partcular liking to korean shows.
as compared to jap dramas, i can remember some that i enjoyed very much, but korean dramas don't really appeal to me...

one thing is i don't get the language. just can't seem to get any grasp on it.
but usually my mom watches it dubbed so that means it isn't really the issue.
maybe it's the way they look, and their acting...
i find that those that i've seen so far have parts that are way over-exaggerated. i think. like more than(and i feel like really way more) jap shows. i'm not very sure, i'm just trying to guess...

and their fashion sense i find a tad weird and VERY contrary to my taste.
dyed, thick hair with not much of a undistinguishable shape for guys and some wear ear-rings and necklaces too....not my cup of tea.
girsl not that bad compared to guys...just some funny jewelry sometimes and clothes with weird, bright colour combis and cuts that don't really appeal to me...

if anything, these are what come to mind for now...maybe i shld go and watch some eps and try and find out what it is that bothers me...if it indeed does...
haha, maybe i'm wrong and i become some fan of korean dramas...
....
not likely.

my ear's been cleared. i feel MUCH better.
kinda like this morning. like when the guitar finally started to have it's sound amplified.
that was great. really. a relief to my heavy heart.
it's a soundguy's nightmare when something doesn't work and you can't locate the problem...terrible feeling...
but well, this isn't really the first time(of course)...so i've kinda learnt to deal with it.
should i say deal with it? i don't know.
whatever it is, i figured even if nothing works or there's some power failure or the church building collapse or suddenly no sound or powerpoint fail or singer cannot make it or instrument spoil or everyone sing out of tune or whatever, the service can still go on.
i mean if is just some simple technical difficulty, with a little gracious love and understanding from the congregation, most things...key things...wouldn't really be hindered.
so
....ees al kewwl.
heh, simple example of
liberty in non-essentials,
unity in essentials,
and charity in everything!

there exists nothing dull.
there is only the dulled mind that views the world dully.
in everything around us, there is much wonder to be captured.
it would be so sad if we were bored with everything that happens around us.

i knew this day would come.
having been in the spying business myself once upon a time, i am not unfamiliar with the trade.
the various workings behind the scenes, the calculated movements of the operatives, the considerations of the mastermind directing it all...it's all nothing new to me.
and when you've lived through as much as i have, you learn that there is only one way to survive;
trust no one.
all the knowledge and experience that i've gained from my missions thus far have caused me to be more wary of the people around me.
especialy other operatives.
you learn to question their behaviour and you take note of the way they respond to you.
you can tell when they are acting differently.
you can tell when they are trying to hide something.
you begin to realise when you are being spied upon.
I can tell when i'm being spied upon.

i AM being spied upon.

sometimes we say things we don't mean.
in msn, i could type something, but it could be misinterpreted because the tone was not heard or because of the wrong choice of words.
sometimes, we make empty promises. not as in literally " i promise that..." then don't fulfil what we said we would do, but rather the more casual empty remarks. things that we didn't really think of as promises, but that others(e.g. the "recepient") may have.
"one day must...." or "remind me when..." are some such remarks that i've both heard and made before.
sometimes we say these without thinking. things that we WANT to (or wouldn't mind)fulfil, but which we never thoroughly thought through beforehand what it would require of us. then when the time comes, we realise that we aren't able to do it. or we forget about what we've said. or we say taht we weren't serious.
sometimes we say things just to make others happy at that moment. but this mean taht we may have presented a hope that won't materialise, that they are looking forward to...
it can be quite discouraging when you realise that what was mentioned was not taken seriously.
more caution should be taken sometimes, because what we may not view as important, others may.

2 words.

Eiichiro, Genius.

oh
and the fighting is awesome,
the drawing style is unique,
the character design is insanely varied and creative,
with huge amounts of attention paid to finer details,
it's wickedly funny, even in fights,
and the story is childishly romantic.
(not as in mushy love story romantic, but fairytale-ish good guy wins bad guy romantic which i know is totally unrealistic but then again, i really don't care.)

it's gonna be an all-nighter.

i'm a neat-freak.
..i think.

i can't study when i feel that my surroundings is in a mess. it just gets at me.
but i think many will disagree with this opinion that i have about myself.
the thing is this: i am also lazy.
so what happens is that sometimes i can't stand it, but i am also too lazy to do anything about it.
kind of pathetic now that i think about it...
but anyway, i still maintain some form of neatness if i really need to work but can't be bothered to clean up. it's simlpe, really.
just isolate the mess(or messes), so in then end it is messy, but neatly messy.
sort of like
"that corner is my stuff and that pile is generally my folks' and my bro's and under that table is random stuff that doesn't really belong to anybody and this table is cleared for me to work."
something like that.
i used to be neater when i was younger. i have witnesses AND hard evidence.
now there are hints of it here and there. and sometimes the compulsive side of it shows too. like when i get down to arranging my comics. or when i start sorting out my notes, or doing proper filing on the comp, things like taht.
usually it's the initial start that's hard to get going, but once that's done i can go on for hours.
like when clean for very long liao then got momentum...then will chiong one.
which is what's gonna happen tonight.
i'm gonna ton and clean up the study. and as is common practice, it'll all be done with wonderful music playing.
saaaaaaa hajimasho!!

to my expected disappointment, this recent taking up of knitting has been received with the usual disbelief, speculations, and suaning.

yesterday at mr lim's house i worked on my bro's "scarf" while watching some reality program. i guess it was silly of me to expect others to be a bit more open-minded.
thoroughly suaned by mr lim and ms lee(take that!).
then later at night round 2 from my aunts when my cousins came over to celebrate nellis' birthday, not to mention a barrage from uncle william...hai..
been a while since i was last the object of such ridicule.
time to exercise that age-old anti-suan technique.

you think you know someone. then he reveals something that completely blows your mind away.

like when someone tells you that he para paraed for years. or when u find out that someone blogs. or when you discover that some people are afraid of cockroaches. or when someone tells you that he likes someone.

things that others do that you never guessed they would do. makes you wonder how well you know a person. i think there are many things to be discovered about others. nobody is all as he seems.

when people say,
"you are the last person that i'd ever thought would do this"
or
"this is so unlike the you that i know."

then this is where aizen's words are applicable.
"that's because you never knew the real me."

friday's open house was, in my opinion, terrible.
i mean...nobody came to our booth...well, sort of.

my open house experience:
setup.
wait.
nobody.
scrabble, bridge, taitee.
sepak takraw.
pack up.
go home.

SO exciting...
night even more exciting.

waha...yea...exciting...
rendezvoused at eastpoint, left for pasir ris park.
played blind mice. modified version of the crocodile variation.
IT WAS EXTREME.
we tried regular blindmice.
but one catcher was too unfair cos the playground was too complicated.
(if u think about it, blindmice is a funny name cos the cat is the one catching, and he's the one that's blind, so actually it should be blindcat, but well...)
so we made it crocodile instead. but still the place ws also too big.
so we introduced an additional catcher to the game, and that made all the difference.
it was one of the most, if not the most, xiong games of blindmice/crocodile i've ever had. and it even had the strategy element thanks to the dualed-catchers.
amazing.
catching can be similarly xiong cos of the running. i remember times when i ran like mad in a game of catching during my stay in tampines.
i mean, it's just plain ol running so stamina important also, just that this one u also work ur arms... =)
cool. must play again one day.

supper was good too. got to hear from kc for his birthday.
turtle was also going on about my answering 'the question' that was posed to me a year ago.
he seemed pretty shy about it at first though...and i'm still not quite sure what he had in mind when he asked me about it...
i'm also not very sure about the answer i gave them yesterday and it bothers me a bit. i think that i may not have been entirely honest or i may have been intentionally vague...i don't know but that's also due to blurness on my part i guess.
i plan on talking to him about it someday. hopefully someday near.
well, all in all it was good. i didn't really mind their pestering cos it wasn't the first time anyway so it was ok i guess.
mr spherical got me an airzooka as an early birthday gift, which is just so cool...hai...how come my bro like that and i like that...
he also got new super mario bros and it's a blast. good buy good buy.

at 91 counts.
i tycoed a crazy(by my standards) score for solitaire!
8007!!! insane!
i think i may never approach that score... well that's my highest so far...and it'll prolly be my highest ever...cool.
i need sleep...will write about the massacre today and some thoughts about it another time.
but for now...zzzz

fear me.
6800.
108 counts.
CAN YOU BEAT THAT!?!?
probably...

didn't really do much today,
spent most of the afternoon napping on the floor with the same song playing over and over and over again.

as usual, the house tripped again today, three or four times in the evening.
at first didn't trip, just that ah kong's t.v. couldn't work so went to do something about it.
then dad came home and then it started tripping..
seems like the problem most likely is the wall socket in ah kong's room...

dad's all hyped up about getting a new amplifier. he's been visiting his favorite website: yahoo auctions...
removed the study room speakers and replaced it with the amp and speakers from his room.
definitely sounds better, sure...but it's way too big for the comp in my opinion...and it's hard to adjust their projection direction(now they aren't pointing at me...and that affects what i hear..)
but well, he seems happy about it, so gotta find some way to adjust i guess.

went downtown to pick mom from some conference just now.
then we went over to liang court for dinner cos it was nearby and cos mr spherical wanted curry rice(though in the end he didn't eat that).
liang court, the 'japanese mall'.

saw quite a number of japs there. somehow, they have a particular look that makes it easy to identify them.
like last week, went to eat lunch at bedok camp with my dad and bro. saw these 3 toddlers(maybe 3 to 4 years old?), and guessed by the length of their hair, their clothes, their eyes and their skin tone that they were japs...heh, true enough i was right.
they each had a duck whistle and 2 were blowing it and making a racket(sort of..actually not that loud lah).
then the one that was not blowing shouted "mo urusaiii~~!!"
haha, very cute the 3 of them...tried to record them using my phone, but too much ambient noise, so can't really hear them talk. but it was funny.

seems like the trip to tokyo's been settled. me and the round guy will go first then my parents will join us later...then i'll come back first. lidat can go and make my folks happy and yet won't miss anything at home. genius. wahaha.

tomorrow got mj open house.
SIAN~~~
last year open house was bearable(although still a colossal waste of my time..)
i hid in a classroom and watched anime with chamcham. occasionally, we'd stop to eat or surf the net using the wireless connection from the nearby residential apartments..
but i told jasel i'd help out this year so seems like i'm mending the store tomorrow with the rest of the gang. must bring something to do..if not confirm bored to death..
see how lah.

but tomorrow night...ah that'll be cool. cycle, catching and supper for kc's birthday! maybe sleep in the day to store energy for the night. hey, theat's a good idea...

my highest is now 6753.
111 counts.

NEW HIGH SCORE 6273!!!!
118 counts.
my highest so far..`

when eating yu tang, one ought to drink kickapoo as the perfect compliment to it's mellow taste.

when in penang, one ought to drink umblah sng bueh as much as possible because it will never taste better anywhere else(if you can even FIND it anywhere else that is...).

when eating beef ball, one ought to drink sprite ice for that soothing feeling after devouring the chewy delight.

when eating hum jin beng(only at maxwell..the rest don't come close), one ought to drink sng bueh zhui because no other combi would do it justice.

and everyone ought to have a taste of sinalco before it disappears. it's not that bad you know? i mean, look at it, it's reddish orange!! haha, like methyl orange...oops.
it's nice, really..

today is kukaracha birthday!!
i thought that he turned 16 this year...
jialat. wish him wrongly. too used to thinking that o'levelers are 16...
you look young lah! people say you 16 is a compliment ok? (and sometimes you also very childish...but nevermind that for now lah ah?)
anyway happy birthday ah, can watch nc16 liao...

see this fri whether can go out for short night cycle, then eat supper!
maybe can play catching at pasir ris park again, and it'll be cool if it rains while eating supper then stop zhun zhun when we want to go home(wishful thinking, i know).

everybody concentrates differently.
i mean they all have diffent concentrating habits.
my mom and mr spherical both frown when they are working at something.
michael jordan sticks out his tongue i think.
i'm not particularly aware of what people do when they are deep in concentraion, however, i am aware of what my habit is...
it has happened on numerous accounts.
when i draw.
when i climb.
when i fix a lego model.
when i read.
when i knit(this i just found out..unfortunately).
it's even happened while i play table tennis.
and it ain't pretty.
if i'm too engrossed in something, usually i leave my mouth open, and sometimes i forget to swallow my saliva.
what happens as a result?
it usually falls out unexpectedly.
sometimes i realise it in the nick of time and i manage to suck it back before it falls onto something....
ummm..
yea..that's about it. maybe not as gross as i thought..

it ain't an exaggeration when i say that the circuit box of my house has tripped at least ten times today.
it's been tripping since around 2 plus 3 lidat.
super sian.
tried turning off the prime suspects, but still trip.
in the end just turn off everything and slowly turn on one by one...
seemed to work, never trip for quite a while. worked up a sweat in the whole process, so i went to take a shower.
my comp was running when i went in.
but it wasn't when i came out...
trip again.
ARRGGHHH!!!
what i've learn to do is that u may just want to occupy yourself with something while waiting to see if the system works.
meaning, turn off everything first, then turn on one by one, and while waiting to see what happens, play ball with the wall(was how i worked up the sweat at first) or practise piano.
seems like everything is under control for now...
i think the problem is the wall socket in ah kong's room. it's off now so if it trips again, then i really don't know what the problem could be...
hai, hence yet another manifestation of the bane of technology.
that's why must learn to engage in non-electricity-requiring pleasures like reading, soccer, knitting, and piano...
ahh, the old beats the new sometimes...
heh, what ps2? what xbox360? plain ol' knitting man!

turtle was practising anchor setup yesterday and told me i could go down to eh if i wanted to climb or something.
i did go down, but i only bouldered a bit.
spent more time screwing in holds.
then belay turtle for 2 ascents(one of which he cheated...you can one, don;t say cannot...)

haha, ended up putting some insane holds....one day must create some crazy route using those. mrs munz came down when we were packing up and she reminded me that i have yet to finish setting the pink route.
but that has been settled, next tuesday. i'll be down and it'll be done.

however, one thing though, that bothered me a bit, was how people associate me with climbing well.
not just yesterday, but for quite sometime liao...
alot of people like to say that i very good or i what what what and it makes it hard for me to respond.
the only thing that i've learnt to do is smile faintly, deny and keep quiet.
makes me out to be some guy who has attained some unobtainable skill or something which is totally untrue...

and then when i try to give people advice, they say, "ahhh easy for you to say lah..." or "such advice only applicable to some people..", and then don't try.
hai...when like that...don't like leh...
if i climb better, it's cos God decided that my hands are yet to become invalid, and so if i can still use them, i'll climb hard when i can.
if succeed, then good lah, don't need to give any more attention than is necessary...
and instead of saying how good others are, why not try for yourself, fall, and become better in the process? lidat then will grow mah.
learn to fail, then try, try and try again. finally will become better....

i think climbing can be quite a humbling sport.
cos when you're up there, all eyes are on you, and when you fall, everybody will see it. but it can puff you up too cos if you turn it around, it means that when you succeed, everybody wil also get to see...
the other thing about climbing is that it CAN be a very lonely sport.
i mean, if you're just gonna boulder, you can do it by yourself and you don't need with you...
sometimes it's good, cos it's convenient and sometimes you'd want to be alone.
other times, of course, it just bites and you'd rather not climb all together.
but anyway, that's that for now...
looking forward to next tues. more route setting fun. yeahey

cashiers at fastfood joints have a tough job.
they have to listen to(and decipher)what a variety of customers(who describe their orders in all sorts of ways with different standards of english) are saying, and then convey down the message after organinsing it in their head.
it becomes even more difficult for them when customers make modifications to their meals in bits and pieces.
hence i propose the use of economical english in all fastfood joints.
the concept is simple:
make orders in the most easily understood manner using as little words as possible.
to achieve this, there are some basic principles involved.

1. Be clear Be-forehand.
2. Consolidate meals.
3. Foundation first.
3. Modification last.
4. Less words = Less mess-ups.
5. Pace in Phase.

hence in this manner, the cashier will understand your order in the least amount of time with minimal difficulty.

in practice it would transform this

aunty, can i have 1 bigmac meal, change the coke to ice lemon tea, uhhh, 1 six piece mcnugget, no meal, 2 mcspicy double meals, upsize, one don't want mayo, um, 1 more bigmac meal upsize, and 1 fish mcdipper meal, got student price anot? don't have ah? ok then don't want fish mcdipper, 1 mcnugget student meal. can give me salt and curry sauce? chilli sauce also want.

into this

hi, 1 mcnugget student meal, 2 big mac meals, 2 mcspicy double meals, one no mayo, and 1 extra six piece mcnugget, no meal.
upsize 3 meals please, and 1 regular coke change to ice lemon tea.
thanks. curry and chilli sauce. can i also have salt please?

there we go, much better.
makes life so much easier and ordering food will become a more pleasant experience for everyone this way.
ahhhhhh....

2 months ago, the leg of my spectacles snapped(see the post een-purfactly boeaking englihs).
so i've been using a spare since.
sunday morning my spare snapped(at the exact same spot. amazing.)
so now i'm back to using my scotch-taped first pair.
repairing my spare and gonna get a spare for that spare.
maybe i'd ought to treat my specs better(like not sleeping with them on, and not throwing them around for example.)

at the optician's, the lady asked me to choose a pair.
very quickly i chose what i already had in mind: round, thin, simple.
i would have been done choosing.
but the lady still insisted on my trying out some other pairs to see how they look.
got multicolour type, thick frame type, weird pattern type..
hai... why? why must so stylo? simple simple can liao...
frustrating when you know what you want but others insist that you consider other options.
so all salesmen listen ah, i say want means want, don't ask so much can?
don't make getting something so simple such a bothersome thing...

ninku ed

this is a ninku ending that shows clips from different episodes throughout the entire series.
one of the best series i've seen.
funny like anything, animation is smooth and fighting is sui.
too bad can't find the eps that i want on yuoutube....
series too old liao

after spending an afternoon at orchard road(ian was late, which left me time to kill wandering around the place), i realise that it's no big deal because there's nothing there.

it's just shop after shop after shop after shop after shop of CLOTHES.
gah...why do people like going there so much?
and it's so busy and kan cheong...

or is that why people like going there?
because there are clothes(an endless supply of it) and it's bustling with life?

but would you call THAT life?
it's just a mass of individuals travelling around aimlessly, all trying to pass the time away until the day they die.
they move down the never-ending row of shops, looking for things to draw their attention away from the fact that they don't know what to do with their life.

does that sound a tad too cynical?

i felt that way when i was wandering around trying to kill time. and i imagined how terrible it would feel if i had to experience that every single day....
having absolutely no idea about anything in life.
hmm..
that was how it used to be. but i felt nothing.

the hour thus arriveth.
mine holiday hath begun(actually i'm 19 hours late...but who cares about specifics?)

yesterday i had mixed feelings.
maths was a bad match. i got downed a couple of times.
physics on the otherhand...was unanimously agreed to be the easiest of all the papers. i think it was(but i can't be sure exactly...)

but the joyous occasion was marred by a not so joyous event...i guess we'll see how things go on wed when school reopens.

last night was cool tho.
kukaracha came over and we kicked a ball around for fun.
then he had to do some team stuff on msn. i lied on the floor and listened to whatever was playing. eventually i ended up playing sudoku.
finally the highlight of the day(night actually...but like i said, who cares about specifics?).

went up to the roof to shang yue and eat snyders and drink plum juice and listen to music and talk.
only problem: no moon. too hazy, cloudy, whatever.
talked about all sortsa stuff, and the breeze was just nice.

kc mentioned that he found such a relaxed lifestyle attractive. of course it is my friend, my sentiments exactly.
that's the way it works with many things.
simple simple. not sloppy, but elegant, like jewelry.

i find simple jewelry more attractive than the heavily ornate. i think most people generally do. nothing wrong with jewelry, but simple simple can liao. don't put also can, unnecessary mah.

like soap. unnecessary. use the suds from shampoo for everything, just let it flow down from your head and wash away everything else with it.
you can save on so much, and just as clean!(ok dirty, but hey, who cares? messy specifics again)

maybe tonight can better see the moon.
hmmm, see how loh. today quite relaxed, meeting ian later, better get ready to leave.....

it's the season of romance,
and love is in the air.
it's the spring of youth right now...

if you're a toad.

they've been terrorising the pond.
mating season i think. noisy like anything.
croaking everynight for the past few days.
my mom says she has trouble sleeping sometimes.
so bo pian, we have to catch them and deport them.
haha, send them into exile.
i managed to catch 2 more last night.
the night before also got 2...so many...
but it seems like they're gone...for now...
no love songs tonight.

today also had the circuit breaker trip a few times.
haii...and we can't seem to locate the problem.
don't know if it's the pond, the fish tank, or the television.
or some other source that we're not aware of.
all armed with torchlights just in case.
but anyhow...it's actually great fun when it trips at night.
the whole place gets thrown into darkness...just like old times when we stayed in the old house.
it'd be great if can play catching or hide and seek in such conditions...fun like anything.
i asked dong about playing hide and seek in church at night durig the camp...turn off all the lights and use torchlights to play...
idea rejected.
HAIIII~~~
.....the best place to play..the best time....must try and persuade him..must...

tomorrow is the final bout.
back to back battles. it'll be tough, but what a way to end the week!
then night time will get to enjoy the moon in peace with lotsa plum juic and lotsa snyders.
today was not bad the paper...
i think...
but made some exam errors that should have been avoided with better planning.
ah well, shouldn't be too much of a prob.

was watching discovery channel just now(i think...maybe it was nat. geog...not sure...some animal show can liao lah)
saw how amazing animals are yet again and have decided to go to the zoo again!
maybe monday or tuesday...

gave chinks a call just now.
HEHEY!!
he decided not to withdraw from tj!!
YAY!!
so happy that he decided to stick to it.
was not sure at first after i called him on tues.
he still seemed intent on going vj then...
but just now he said that he's decided that he won't change.
WELL DONE. I SHALL SUPPORT YOU. ALL THE WAY MAN!!
let's go forward without looking back!

ok. the heater should be warm now.
wouldn't it be great to bathe in the dark?
lastly, i think i'm sick(one of those rare cases...)
caught a cold it seems. an occasional chill and sneeze here and there.
must be the studying. body can't cope with this foreign practice...
but then again...even in small amounts it can be so effective?
maybe it's cause i've been gonig around with less clothing than usual...
hai...good thing i don't take bio...

kukaracha just found out the address of this web log.
now he very happy.
come to my house. say want to study. in the end, use internet try and find this address...
hai....
childish....

the month of october is the month of many birthdays.
take today for example.
it's cherry's birthday today!
and she eat dunno how many cakes and still got somemore waiting i'm guessing.

then tomorrow got somemore birthdays. wawawa.
so many..

an interesting thing that my dad once shared with me was how somebody(i forgot who) celebrated his birthday. he would, instead of celebrating for himself, as birthdays usually do, buy a gift for his parents for having cared for him all these years. so he views his birthday as more of an appreciate-your-parents-for-bearing-and-raising-you day.

that's quite a good idea in fact....maybe i'd try that this year.

my birthday is approaching also...
but i'm still not close to leading the roof(i don't think i am)....
howhowhow?
need to train. yes. train.
like now. now is a battle.
a battle to be fought and trained for and...to bleed in.

thursday will be round 3 of 5.
my opponent is chemistry. bring it on man!
i'll go for a k.o.
lit today is going to be a judges' decision...but i think it is in my favour. i hope it is.
tomorrow i'm going to eat yu pian mian. i promise.
just a while more... a while more...

just one more week.
and it'll REALLY be over.
i remember it like it was just yesterday that i took my exams last year with my ears oozing and stuff...

yea right.
rubbish lah where got like just yesterday?
1 year liao...hai what have i been doing all this time....
but just one more week and it'll be over.
over as in happy over or good-bye over...i don't know.

it's funny how i've never felt like this before.
i've never been afraid of exams, never since primary school when i was too stupid to know i was failing, even until secondary school when i always had the confirm-won't-die-one philosophy. it never crossed my mind that i could fail.
not even last year when i took my promos.

difficult as i thought it would be and ill-prepared as i was, i figured that somehow things will work out fine like they always have. the thought did flash my mind once or twice though, last year. i wondered, "maybe this time cannot liao."
in the end?

dededeeeeeee.
fail.

i laughed when i got my results. i usually laugh when i get results.
laughed at the irony of it all(hehey, lit term here)and my complacency.
laughed at how what i had guessed might come true came true.
...but ya that's just some thoughts. just felt like writing it down....

this year the same? haha.
ehhh only maths i abit more scared...the rest not So scared(maybe false assurance...)
today had g.p.
all my classmates like, "aiyah, no problem for YOU lah..."
...
diam ah.
i have my issues too ok?
like how to spell "apotheosis" and 'benignancy".
and sometimes i also forget my latin phrases....
lol. kidding.

heh, see how ah. good feeling, but i may have written out of point.
if i did....sian~~
if not then should be ok lah.
wrote until my hand got cramp though...that was funny. it was cold in the hall(on air-con) and i sneezed every now and then...
but today was fine...

tomorrow lit...must chiong through the book tonight.
wednesday no paper.....must eat yu tang. live or die.
friday finish...snyders. sng bueh zhui. moon. don't ask why.
lol, exam haven't start think of post-exam liao...die....

ok! i shall face my exams with the power of love, courage and HONOUR!!!

i just came back from cheng lin's birthday party.
it was fun, catching up with bob and phua and cheng lin.
he did this last eyar too and huang lao shi came then.
she was invited this time round again, but she couldn't make it.
too bad...and we were looking forward to her presence, she's such a nice lady.
did quite alot of stuff,
will write more thoughts in future on individual subjects,
hai too much to write lah.

watched some youtube videos, ate and chatted. had fun talking about school and reminiscing the old days. disturb bob about stuff, me and phua lah, cheng lin never participates in such things. then we played risk, bob's set. destroyed phua. cheng lin amassed an army in north america but could not use it in time. bob went about his usual hilarious nonsense and fought bravely, but the dice were not on his side.
quite fun, but phua and chenglin said they enjoyed citadels more. k next time bring settlers and citadels or something....
but dunno when is next time.
the highlight(sort of) was the SECOND coke launch!!
it went smoothly.
everything was perfect.
we had test run after test run to make sure that it will succeed.
tried and experimented with different delivery methods.
found the best one and executed it.
recorded everything.
it all went in.
but now we know.

youtube's a scam.

either that or we're not doing something right, cos it never flew as high as it did on youtube.
sian loh.

but the build up was fun though..
next time. we try and make it better somehow. improveimproveimprove.
and well play with sparklers too. must.
maybe after their exams or something.
playing with them is fun.
"some of the closest friends you'll ever have will be from secondary school." something i have believed and it continues to prove true.
we should continue to do this even when we're older...
but for now...exams.
grarrr