The Legend of Catherine Zeta Jones

Went to catch the Legend of Zorro on Saturday (29th) with 2 lady friends at PS. Apparently, most of friends from this gang are off holidaying somewhere liao. Oh well.

So-so movie but i just dun feel like going home so early.

2 snap shots from her previous work, The Mask of Zorro.

Enough said.

Like most men, I personally prefer women that are more full bodied or on the curvy side. Good for cuddling. Good for ....

:p

上的山多终遇虎

路上太久终于TP

Finally it came.

Fine : $150 and 6 demerit points.

Site of offence : Lornie road towards Marymount Road

Offence : 21-30 km/h above 70km/h

Location of camera : overhead bridge.

Mood : sianz.

Resolution : Keep to 2nd lane so that cannot “speed”. (if you call that speeding at all)

Problem : may not be that patient especially when you see the first lane empty, like that unlucky day :(

Have beer, will merry

Thursday - 27th

Went to brewery works with Darren, Hon and Daniel. As per the good old days, Hon was the latest to arrive, stuck somewhere along a very "long" Havelock road. But it was good to see him again after a long 2+ years. Man, he’s still full of oil. Drank till around 11+. Still sober enough to drive home. Ha ha ha….

Lets recall the speakable things that we said last night.

1. I promised to crash Darren’s wedding if I dun get an invitation.
2. Daniel will put together Darren’s Bachelor’s night. (Camels included?)
3. Daniel will propose in a year’s time. (Targeted)
4. Kelvin hopes to change his job to be an oil trader next year even though he’s doing well at his ID company. (Targeted)
5. I hope to go into sales. (Targeted)
6. ………

Guess we did not talk about much normal stuff after all. Wahahaha!

All this drinking reminded me of something from the movie 笑傲江湖。

天下风云出我辈。
一入江湖岁月催。
宏图霸业谈笑中。
不胜人生一场醉。

Oh yeah, we are going to make this a monthly affair which is designated as the last Thursday of every month.

Cheers and Burps!

Blue evening.

Can't catch the right tone of blue...

Pre-birthdays

Monday

Met up with Darren Y, Karen & Sam, Cheryl, Ronnie, Daniel and Alicia for dinner at Hereen Sakea Sushi. Kind of an early birthday celebration for Darren and Karen. It’s been around 2 years since I seen Darren though. He did not change much since, as a matter of fact, everyone looked unchanged physically. (must be my lousy observation skills). Oh yeah Darren is preparing to get hitched next year…. Hmm...

Again, I ask Kelvin H along but he got caught up in some late meeting. But he promised to buy me a drink this Thursday leh. Hee… see how.

Later in the night, i tried to find a UOB CDM around west side area but was disgusted at breakdown of the CDM around my place ( think 2 days liao). The nearest ones are either at Westmall, Boon Lay or Clementi. Went to the further one at Boon Lay coz i had not been there for 5 years plus. Still looks the same. Old men playing chess, homeless still sleeping on the stone benches. Admittedly, its an old area that had always been populated by mostly our hinterland counterparts as their workplace are in the area. But its also the place, where i spend most of my childhood. (I rented my first comic book in this area). Though there had been some upgrading done in the area, the feeling of the old neighbourhood remains.

Overall it was a good walk down the memory lane.

Monkey Killing Weekend

- The Damn Monkey

Spend the weekend at home. Finally finished off the Metal Gear Solid 3- Snake Eater, especially the damn monkey stage. Took some time to get used to playing it again. Now that i have finished the game once with most of the secrets uncovered, i think i will continue a 2nd round to kill everything living in the game so as to get the worst ranking possible. (yes, yes, everyone has a sadistic streak hidden somewhere) This game was meant to be a stealth / sneaking mission which meant that your character has to move around undetected and not killing any enemy soliders. Obviously this is damn difficult.

Now that i have an unlimited amno gun, these guys are going to hell ! wahahaha... Actually, clearing the game this way will be a lot faster. My first round of the game took me a mininum of 18 hours (not including the actual reloads). I will attempt to finish it in 3 or less. See how.


Wasted a good Sunday though. The weather was good.

一个傍晚

Met up with Daniel, Cheryl and Ronnie at Suntec. Its always great to catch up with old friends and have risqué conversations once again. Treated Daniel for dinner at Fish & Co. (Fish&Co finally woke up their idea and changed their venue to the central fountain area) but he ended treating us to deserts at NYDC. Ordered a slice of cake with one candle for Daniel but he blow off the candle before he made a wish. Cheryl got him to pick the candle out of the some whipped cream using his mouth, better than nothing I suppose. Lucky for Daniel, NYDC dun have canisters of whipped cream. Ha Ha. Too bad Daren Y and Kelvin H. could not have joined us yesterday though.

Surprise, surprise. HY actually called me up. He’s working at KK now. Promised to make a lunch date with him. Still, I think it’s a bit troublesome for us to meet for lunch coz of our lunch time. After work hours is still the best time. Think I should go to his place for teh-o-koson. See how.

I have decided to start posting the pictures of sky which I have been taking. Think I will limit them to one per post. Otherwise this blog might want to shut me down for wasting their space.

做人一定要有骨气

Friday

Went to meet up with my NPCC friends after work at 8pm and proceeded to Shenton Way Party World for a long bout of vocal torture till 0300hrs.

Quite like this not-so-recent song by 五月天 (May Day). So here’s its lyrics :

歌手：五月天 专辑：神的孩子都在跳舞

倔强

当我和世界不一样那就让我不一样
坚持对我来说就是以刚克刚
我如果对自己不行如果对自己说谎
即使你不原谅我也不能原谅
最美的愿望一定最疯狂
我就是我自己的神在我活的地方
我和我最后的倔强握紧双手绝对不放
下一站是不是天堂就算失望不能绝望
我和我骄傲的倔强我在风中大声的唱
这一次为自己疯狂就这一次我和我的倔强

对爱我的人别紧张我的固执很善良
我的手越肮脏眼神越是发光
你不在乎我的过往看到了我的翅膀
你说被火烧过才能出现凤凰
逆风的方向更适合飞翔
我不怕千万人阻挡只怕自己投降
我和我最后的倔强握紧双手绝对不放
下一站是不是天堂就算失望不能绝望
我和我骄傲的倔强我在风中大声的唱
这一次为自己疯狂就这一次我和我的倔强
就这一次让我大声唱
lalalala...
就算失望不能绝望...
lalalalala...
就这一次我和我的倔强.


Lesson for the Day. 做人一定要有骨气。

Visiting the baby

Thursday

Rushed to JM’s place after work. Reached ard 8.30pm. E was at a function, so it was just us, and his almost 2 months old baby daughter, 乐宣。Their place is nice and cozy. We chatted till his wife returned and I left around 10pm. Both of them are happy and E looks to be on her way to recovery. So I’m glad for them both. And apparently, I sucked at playing with babies.

Tried to contact my long lost good secondary school friend, HY, who lived around the same area but sadly, no one answered my call. Wondered if I had really lost contact with him. That would be a pity because we kinda clicked well. Well, he is a doctor now.

Hope he's well....

Teaching the Ultimate

In early times in Japan, bamboo-and-paper lanterns were used with candles inside.

A blind man, visiting a friend one night, was offered a lantern to carry home with him.

"I do not need a lantern," he said. "Darkness or light is all the same to me."

"I know you do not need a lantern to find your way," his friend replied, "but if you don't have one, someone else may run into you. So you must take it."

The blind man started off with the lantern and before he had walked very far someone ran squarely into him.

"Look out where you are going!" he exclaimed to the stranger. "Can't you see this lantern?"

"Your candle has burned out, brother," replied the stranger.

Jail people for thinking ?

Personally, I think this jail thingy for racist who publish their views on either the public media are way over, even as a deterrence sentence.

Banning people from publicly voicing their opinions, that is extremist or racist in nature, does not mean that such thoughts will disappear. It will just be driven underground and will go un-notice until it is too late when it had permeated into the majority or minority consciousness. Having people voice out their thoughts, even if ridiculous and illogical can help us understand how the misinformation came about and who are actually infected by such extremist views. Then we can see what to do about it.

Such highly-strung controls also show the immaturity of the ruling party and its populace in handling of sensitive issues.

No doubts, racial riots had happened in the past and might happen in the future. One must be clear that there are no solutions to stupidity and hence racism, something akin to virus infection. As long as there are people, there are bounded to be misunderstanding and discrimination. Besides you can’t stop others from thinking, right? Especially when we have crazy people who are highly educated, but still commit horrendous crimes to innocent people. This sadly just illustrate that having education / knowledge does not help someone whose mind are clouded with his own delusions.

Racisim is a virus that infects people and has no cure (i.e like your common flu), the only protection is to boost up your immune system (to lower the probability of having the virus run wide in your body when one come into contact). Like the common flu, once you catch it, there is no cure but to further build up your body immune sytem through thorough rest and wait for it to subside. You can ease your suffering by taking medications that only relieve the symptom but not treat the underlying illness.

Luckily for this red dot, the population is small and there are only 4 artificially created enclaves (i.e Chinese, Malays, Indians, Others). We can only hope that good education can help clear most of the misconceptions about each race and to have faith that people are not idiots to fall prey to illogical or bias messages from motivated and selectively-blind idiots.

One other area to be noted is that adequate representation in administration for the minority must exist to address the concerns of the minorities. Their concerns should not be swept under the carpet and should be properly addressed even if there is no viable solution in sight. Once people started to feel oppressed, the infection will start.

Poverty or the unequal sharing of resources is the bed rock of all problems in any society. With nothing to lose, people are restless and problems will arise using whatever reasons that are convenient.

My last concern is that self-righteous people will run wild branishing their own brand of justice under this sedition law thingy. Not so good to people like me who thinks differently from others and the society as a whole.

Astrology test

A friend just passed the quarter of the century. Quite bored with work so i took this test which she took.

Being born on the 12th day of the month (3 energy) is likely to add a good bit of vitality to your life. The energy of 3 allows you bounce back rapidly from setbacks, physical or mental. There is a restlessness in your nature, but you seem to be able to portray an easygoing, sometimes "couldn't care less" attitude. You have a natural ability to express yourself in public, and you always make a very good impression. Good with words, you excel in writing, speaking, and possibly singing. You are energetic and always a good conversationalist. You have a keen imagination, but you tend to scatter your energies and become involved with too may superficial matters. Your mind is practical and rational despite this tendency to jump about. You are affectionate and loving - but very sensitive. You are subject to rapid ups and downs.

What Does Your Birth Date Mean?

So-so accurate as of 6 Oct.

Clementi Kopitiam

Caught up with some uni-friends, Chee Kiong, Silas, Terence, Sonny, Yiliang, Jeremy, and especially Lips who's just back from the Dragon Land.

Chatted about all sorts of things till 2am. Long time no such gatherings liao. Those were the days.

Hmm.. Lips revealed Dragon Land contractors are looking for QS to work over there. Maybe i can ask him to forward my resume ?? see how lah... lots of things with 5 MRT stations on hand. Hmm.. I keep forgeting the names of my stations. Funny. Marymount, Thomson, Bukit Brown, Adam and Farrer. ha ha. http://www.lta.gov.sg/projects/index_proj_ccl.htm

On another note, think i'll just disappear from work this Saturday to go for Jiemin's baby daughter's post 1.5 month gathering. Have to go or otherwise his gift will be left gathering dust in my room. Luckily i had the sense to buy it in early September. phew...

Socially & financially not viable

Been driving to work these days.

Despite the convinence offered by having 4 wheels, the marginal utility gained from saving some amount of time and energy cannot offset that of social and financial cost.

Will have to cough up some cash to touch it up in order to put it up for sales.

一寸光阴一寸金，
寸金难买寸光阴。
没有光阴没有金，
烂命真难换真金。

It's official. I am now left with $234.60 for the rest of the month of which the phone bill of $150 is still unpaid.

Moo.

Happy Chinaman

Anyone walking about Chinatowns in America with observe statues of a stout fellow carrying a linen sack. Chinese merchants call him Happy Chinaman or Laughing Buddha.

This Hotei lived in the T'ang dynasty. He had no desire to call himself a Zen master or to gather many disciples about him. Instead he walked the streets with a big sack into which he would put gifts of candy, fruit, or doughnuts. These he would give to children who gathered around him in play. He established a kindergarten of the streets.

Whenever he met a Zen devotee he would extend his hand and say: "Give me one penny." And if anyone asked him to return to a temple to teach others, again he would reply: "Give me one penny."

Once he was about his play-work another Zen master happened along and inquired: "What is the significance of Zen?"

Hotei immediately plopped his sack down on the ground in silent answer.

"Then," asked the other, "what is the actualization of Zen?"

At once the Happy Chinaman swung the sack over his shoulder and continued on his way.

~既然万物是空。 又有什么好拿，什么好放得下？去做工啦。~