Monday, November 28, 2005
Nippon sugoi desu
japan was great. awesome. fantastic, wonderful, splendid, incredible. probably the best vacation i've had. and it was autumn there, not winter. the scenery was kirei and gorgeous to top off all the wonderful stuff. universal studios. disneyland. cute stuff. hot springs. high school girls (oops haha). even the toilet lol. (more on that later). can strike off canada from the list of 'places i want to go in my lifetime'. got so many wallpaper worthy photos of maple leaves already that i kinda got tired of taking them the last two days.
miss the hot springs already. thought the near 40 degree water i bath in (if the japanese taps are to be trusted) were hot already. 69 degrees the hot springs were. it was great. but guess i got inside for too long and got a li'l giddy coming out. can feel the heart pumping quite fast after but the muscles were really relaxed. sigh, i probably can't experience anytime soon.
and the toilets. they have this kind of electronic things attached to the toilet seat. i love the functions. they warm the seat for you and helps you clean up when you're done with your business by spraying water, warm or cold according to your choice. really nice. and can adjust two different modes (a more direct one and a spray mode) as well as the water pressures. according to the guide it's only half of the functions since hotels are afraid we'd spoil the seats with two many options. the rest include a drying function and actually a 'hand' which helps you wipe some time back until an error occured on a seat and the manufacturers stopped that option. now going to the toilet seems so troublesome again
i guess i'd leave the rest to some other day. though this time i definitely want to blog bout everything that happened. even upload some pics. (took 400+ of them ^^) if i can have it my way i'd be in japan for vacation every year.
miss the hot springs already. thought the near 40 degree water i bath in (if the japanese taps are to be trusted) were hot already. 69 degrees the hot springs were. it was great. but guess i got inside for too long and got a li'l giddy coming out. can feel the heart pumping quite fast after but the muscles were really relaxed. sigh, i probably can't experience anytime soon.
and the toilets. they have this kind of electronic things attached to the toilet seat. i love the functions. they warm the seat for you and helps you clean up when you're done with your business by spraying water, warm or cold according to your choice. really nice. and can adjust two different modes (a more direct one and a spray mode) as well as the water pressures. according to the guide it's only half of the functions since hotels are afraid we'd spoil the seats with two many options. the rest include a drying function and actually a 'hand' which helps you wipe some time back until an error occured on a seat and the manufacturers stopped that option. now going to the toilet seems so troublesome again
i guess i'd leave the rest to some other day. though this time i definitely want to blog bout everything that happened. even upload some pics. (took 400+ of them ^^) if i can have it my way i'd be in japan for vacation every year.
Sunday, November 20, 2005
Macdonald's and a number
ball with the usual bunch today. stamina and physical was the plan today. ran bout 3-4k (well, according to kelvin). i lasted only bout 3/4 of it. or maybe less. hopefully i'd cover it before next year with regular running. i like the atmosphere. there we are, me and wei hao trying to skive while kian leong was leading the run. and when we got back, during the physical parts, all 3 of us just kept complaining while mr manager kelvin was nagging at us. then paul and jun liang came. joined us in ranting (on hindsight, jun liang just went bout the stuff pretty quiet)
the physical and stuff. so reminds me of the bball days at zh. you're so burnt out after the run and physical such that when it came to the actual basketball stuff then hang of things never seem to come. free throws were horrible. slacked some parts of it today. hmm, i must work harder next time round
had a few games of 3 on 3 after that. my defence was horrible. but i guess that's from my lack of stamina after the run. surprisingly played alright offensively despite feeling all weird with the footing
arcade at sun plaza after that. seems like a routine nowadays. not that i mind. watched weihao and kian leong play some initial d. then it was lunch at mac. where the most interesting event of the day occured. so we all ordered separately. then kian leong's fries and spicy double weren't ready so they were to be delivered to him. soon it came. the girl was holding the tray in front of him. but didn't do anything (we were expecting her to hand him the burger and fries). kelvin then commented how his brother won't take the initiative and we were all joking around. he was kinda clumsy when he took it. the light hearted banter went round as usual. then the girl kinda got embarassed by our comments (i can't remember what was it that made her so lol), quickly put the tray she was holding under kelvin's and ran back to her counter.
so as usual when a bunch of guys get together we'd start talking bout it. we were saying how kian leong scared the girl, then he started ranting bout how he can only blame his mom for how handsome he is. and the like lah. surprisingly the girl actually came back to our table a few minutes later. she had one of those hands for donation. so we all chipped in with a few cents each and got it. so the talk became how the girl likes kian leong and such. then they started talking bout an incident last night where wei hao got the friendster account of 3 girls that was working with the gang at a banquet and can't wait to check it out so much so that he forgoed sleep to add them.
the girl came back yet again lol. kian leong saw her approaching and started walking away. she realised and jokingly hit him with her tray. so she was actually giving us a free apple pie. which we presumed to come with the donation hand thingy. then kian leong talked bout how wei hao would like her friendster account but got sabo-ed by the rest of us when we all hit it back. then the most amusing thing happened. at least to us. "friendster don't want lah. but number can" was her reply. or something like that. lol. have anyone ever seen or heard of girls giving out their numbers without directly asking for it. so he got her number in the end. (i guess i'd skip with the trivial details between that). a brief conversation later and she went back to work. and she's only 14. gosh. mac, the new place to get to know girls i wonder. and the advantage over pubs/bars: no need to ask for her name and you know it from the name tag already lol. when we left we even egged kian leong to say goodbye to her. these things are so fun when you're in a group.
so they had these numbers on the hand. went to buy 4d. hope it comes out haha. and with that i gave kian leong a plan heh. regardless of whether it comes out tell her it struck and offer to treat her dinner lol.
played pool after that. paul's girlfriend joined us. she happens to know the rest quite well too, so loads of laughs and jokes between. half of them bout xin yi hah. asked kian leong if he had msged her during dinner time. he said no but maybe later. then started thinking bout what to say haha.
"they sure love playing with girls" as paul commented at mac (i guess that's to be expected from the only guy with a gf in our group). but incidents like this. the puppy love between two young people. makes you feel kinda sweet doesn't it
the physical and stuff. so reminds me of the bball days at zh. you're so burnt out after the run and physical such that when it came to the actual basketball stuff then hang of things never seem to come. free throws were horrible. slacked some parts of it today. hmm, i must work harder next time round
had a few games of 3 on 3 after that. my defence was horrible. but i guess that's from my lack of stamina after the run. surprisingly played alright offensively despite feeling all weird with the footing
arcade at sun plaza after that. seems like a routine nowadays. not that i mind. watched weihao and kian leong play some initial d. then it was lunch at mac. where the most interesting event of the day occured. so we all ordered separately. then kian leong's fries and spicy double weren't ready so they were to be delivered to him. soon it came. the girl was holding the tray in front of him. but didn't do anything (we were expecting her to hand him the burger and fries). kelvin then commented how his brother won't take the initiative and we were all joking around. he was kinda clumsy when he took it. the light hearted banter went round as usual. then the girl kinda got embarassed by our comments (i can't remember what was it that made her so lol), quickly put the tray she was holding under kelvin's and ran back to her counter.
so as usual when a bunch of guys get together we'd start talking bout it. we were saying how kian leong scared the girl, then he started ranting bout how he can only blame his mom for how handsome he is. and the like lah. surprisingly the girl actually came back to our table a few minutes later. she had one of those hands for donation. so we all chipped in with a few cents each and got it. so the talk became how the girl likes kian leong and such. then they started talking bout an incident last night where wei hao got the friendster account of 3 girls that was working with the gang at a banquet and can't wait to check it out so much so that he forgoed sleep to add them.
the girl came back yet again lol. kian leong saw her approaching and started walking away. she realised and jokingly hit him with her tray. so she was actually giving us a free apple pie. which we presumed to come with the donation hand thingy. then kian leong talked bout how wei hao would like her friendster account but got sabo-ed by the rest of us when we all hit it back. then the most amusing thing happened. at least to us. "friendster don't want lah. but number can" was her reply. or something like that. lol. have anyone ever seen or heard of girls giving out their numbers without directly asking for it. so he got her number in the end. (i guess i'd skip with the trivial details between that). a brief conversation later and she went back to work. and she's only 14. gosh. mac, the new place to get to know girls i wonder. and the advantage over pubs/bars: no need to ask for her name and you know it from the name tag already lol. when we left we even egged kian leong to say goodbye to her. these things are so fun when you're in a group.
so they had these numbers on the hand. went to buy 4d. hope it comes out haha. and with that i gave kian leong a plan heh. regardless of whether it comes out tell her it struck and offer to treat her dinner lol.
played pool after that. paul's girlfriend joined us. she happens to know the rest quite well too, so loads of laughs and jokes between. half of them bout xin yi hah. asked kian leong if he had msged her during dinner time. he said no but maybe later. then started thinking bout what to say haha.
"they sure love playing with girls" as paul commented at mac (i guess that's to be expected from the only guy with a gf in our group). but incidents like this. the puppy love between two young people. makes you feel kinda sweet doesn't it
Saturday, November 19, 2005
Weird people on a basketball court
so i had a lot of material to blog bout from my two experiences playing ball at courts around my new area. i sound like i've just moved when it's been a few years already. but i still don't really know the area. but as so often is the case i'm kinda lazy to type them out. especially so when it involves loads of unnecessary description of people, etc. i'd get around it if i ever get into the mood.
well, i'm just feeling like uploading a few pictures so i don't lose them if my hard disc crashes all of a sudden. all the more so since my pc's infected with the infamous sony rootkit (go google it if u haven't heard bout it). and from ricky martin's album at that. grr. and again blogging bout sony's one of the several blog ideas i had since last time but it fizzled out before i got down to it again.
my room again. now time to fish out my previous picture of it for a before and after. and this was taken around september i think. when exams haven't started. it's in an even worse mess now what with wires and a ton of papers joining the fray. i ought to take monthly pics of my table to check its progress
latest jigsaw. the new panorama-styled ones. now hanging on the wall behind sis's bed. (i wonder how she can stand that. i'd feel so insecure with something hanging over my head when i sleep lol) it's 500 pieces i think, so was done pretty fast. esp with dad and sis's late nights. they have so much longer attention span than me. i can never sit at one place for long. started off pretty well, piecing quite a lot. then the lines came in and it was just staring at pieces not knowing what to do. i wonder if i've blogged bout it. i so prefer gradients in my jigsaw puzzles to lines. give me a blue sky anytime rather than some structure. and people normally comment on how tough it is when a jigsaw's just some scenery with the sky, sea, etc. gradients are so much easier imo. even if it's blue there'd almost always be that gradual colour change and you can kind of predict what shade and hue you want for the next piece. but i can never make out lines. never know what the next will look like. doesn't help that i don't like to refer to the picture on the box (another difference with me and my dad & sis. i'm such the oddball in the family)
i shouldn't have taken it at night what with lights just above the table. couldn't get a nice picture of it at all. i so liked the transition from black to colour but couldn't get a good shot.
take 3 of 3. on hindsight, i guess i shouldn't have used flash. and it seems kinda obvious who took the picture from the position of a certain displaced someone. (suddenly i feel an urge to take a picture where the person rushing back will trip and fall a la anime heh)
the science research team ^^. ugh, and it's these occasions where i wanna berate my inability to think of names instinctively. it normally wouldn't have occured to me to take the group photo until the science fair i think (even though i've been taking photos so often now with the need for pictures of our research process) but it was such a rare thing we got all five of us down in school lol. i think we've been at it for a few weeks liao, and throughout all our meetings etc we've never managed to get everyone free. even during the initial stages of brainstorming for ideas. so glad then that i just had to take this 'commemorative(sp) photo'. first and last time our team is together? lol. so i'd be off to japan next week. then hongyi will be going china soon after. and shiu hei back to hong kong. then i'm off to the youth camp again. and during the science fair hongyi and zhenhao might be off for competition. aaron might have another project. oh gosh. we're such busy people haha. and mrs ong's like so confident that we will start conflicting along the way. and almost like she wants us to argue. but we'd be together won't we? ^^. all the friendly banter on friday make me convinced we can do it and get something. kinda hopeful. then the arguments jokingly and such. i like this kind of atmosphere =).
take 1 of 3. i forgot to set the timer heh. it's so troublesome having to set it after every picture. i think it'd be more practical to make it permanent unless you turn it off, no? and well, zhenhao looking gay as usual :P
take 2 of 3. somehow i guess i knocked the camera when i ran back. so tt explains the position. well, i could just crop it but i kinda like the background heh. and oh well, i blocked hongyi. and shiu hei with his sleepy eyes...
well, i'm just feeling like uploading a few pictures so i don't lose them if my hard disc crashes all of a sudden. all the more so since my pc's infected with the infamous sony rootkit (go google it if u haven't heard bout it). and from ricky martin's album at that. grr. and again blogging bout sony's one of the several blog ideas i had since last time but it fizzled out before i got down to it again.
my room again. now time to fish out my previous picture of it for a before and after. and this was taken around september i think. when exams haven't started. it's in an even worse mess now what with wires and a ton of papers joining the fray. i ought to take monthly pics of my table to check its progress
latest jigsaw. the new panorama-styled ones. now hanging on the wall behind sis's bed. (i wonder how she can stand that. i'd feel so insecure with something hanging over my head when i sleep lol) it's 500 pieces i think, so was done pretty fast. esp with dad and sis's late nights. they have so much longer attention span than me. i can never sit at one place for long. started off pretty well, piecing quite a lot. then the lines came in and it was just staring at pieces not knowing what to do. i wonder if i've blogged bout it. i so prefer gradients in my jigsaw puzzles to lines. give me a blue sky anytime rather than some structure. and people normally comment on how tough it is when a jigsaw's just some scenery with the sky, sea, etc. gradients are so much easier imo. even if it's blue there'd almost always be that gradual colour change and you can kind of predict what shade and hue you want for the next piece. but i can never make out lines. never know what the next will look like. doesn't help that i don't like to refer to the picture on the box (another difference with me and my dad & sis. i'm such the oddball in the family)
i shouldn't have taken it at night what with lights just above the table. couldn't get a nice picture of it at all. i so liked the transition from black to colour but couldn't get a good shot.
take 3 of 3. on hindsight, i guess i shouldn't have used flash. and it seems kinda obvious who took the picture from the position of a certain displaced someone. (suddenly i feel an urge to take a picture where the person rushing back will trip and fall a la anime heh)
the science research team ^^. ugh, and it's these occasions where i wanna berate my inability to think of names instinctively. it normally wouldn't have occured to me to take the group photo until the science fair i think (even though i've been taking photos so often now with the need for pictures of our research process) but it was such a rare thing we got all five of us down in school lol. i think we've been at it for a few weeks liao, and throughout all our meetings etc we've never managed to get everyone free. even during the initial stages of brainstorming for ideas. so glad then that i just had to take this 'commemorative(sp) photo'. first and last time our team is together? lol. so i'd be off to japan next week. then hongyi will be going china soon after. and shiu hei back to hong kong. then i'm off to the youth camp again. and during the science fair hongyi and zhenhao might be off for competition. aaron might have another project. oh gosh. we're such busy people haha. and mrs ong's like so confident that we will start conflicting along the way. and almost like she wants us to argue. but we'd be together won't we? ^^. all the friendly banter on friday make me convinced we can do it and get something. kinda hopeful. then the arguments jokingly and such. i like this kind of atmosphere =).
take 1 of 3. i forgot to set the timer heh. it's so troublesome having to set it after every picture. i think it'd be more practical to make it permanent unless you turn it off, no? and well, zhenhao looking gay as usual :P
take 2 of 3. somehow i guess i knocked the camera when i ran back. so tt explains the position. well, i could just crop it but i kinda like the background heh. and oh well, i blocked hongyi. and shiu hei with his sleepy eyes...
Tuesday, November 15, 2005
Woo-hoo!
am i glad this thing's finally working. but well, guess i forgot whatever i was planning to blog on.
oh yeah, watched a couple of movies. flight plan with vinnie, kenneth and patrick. i liked the twist. pretty good movie as a result imo. then tom yum goong with shiu hei and zhen hao. man, tony jaa is pro-er than jackie chan lol. i so agree with zhen hao. and to think the most amusing scene i found in the movie was early on when tony jaa bumped into a jackie chan lookalike (i wonder how they scouted for him lol). they dropped their passports and stuff and the jackie chan was like smiling and such with a friendly face while tony jaa was so acting cool. totally needless scene that just wants to poke fun. and i kinda enjoyed it lol. well, mindless's the word for the movie i guess. tony jaa just fights and fights and fights throughout the whole movie. it's almost like those video games (remember bare knuckle/streets of rage and final fight?). one guy against hundreds and thousands of henchmen before he fights a 'boss' occasionally. my, he broke like millions of bones. sound effects people must have it easy. just keep playing the bone-breaking sound. and after the show, while i was analysing some stuff in the movie it's like so many things unexplained. no more lik khian and co to break down everything like we did for hide and seek lol. it was nice i guess, definitely better than what i've thought going into the cinema. but just really mindless
i dunno what i wanna do with this blog nowadays. kinda like how i dunno what i want with my life now. it's like i'm contented. i'm not down most of the time, etc. but somehow sth's missing. and i dunno what is it i want. there was this plan of having a weekly thingy here some time back but it kinda fizzled out. wonder if i'd do that now. oh well. let's see how it goes. looks like there's no hiatus after all. recently i've been like checking whether it works. even though i don't have much to blog. ok, i've said enough. out and out
~.~.~.~
Quote of the week:
School rumble does it again lol. go watch it.
Harima Kenji (replying to Tenma's 'Sorry, did you wait long?'): No, I just got here. (Thought bubble: One of the top eight lines i want to say once in my lifetime)
lol. i guess i can't really portray the scene on words. can't wait to rip off some great stills from episode 25 (actually, make that 'can't wait until i'm not so lazy that i won't mind saving some screenshots). i wonder what the other seven lines are. i guess "my friend suddenly had something on and can't make it. Since i have 2 tickets, would you go to the movie with me?"'s one of them.
gosh, i need to be less naggy and more concise when i gush bout stuff. i think i just took the humor out of the scene.
oh yeah, watched a couple of movies. flight plan with vinnie, kenneth and patrick. i liked the twist. pretty good movie as a result imo. then tom yum goong with shiu hei and zhen hao. man, tony jaa is pro-er than jackie chan lol. i so agree with zhen hao. and to think the most amusing scene i found in the movie was early on when tony jaa bumped into a jackie chan lookalike (i wonder how they scouted for him lol). they dropped their passports and stuff and the jackie chan was like smiling and such with a friendly face while tony jaa was so acting cool. totally needless scene that just wants to poke fun. and i kinda enjoyed it lol. well, mindless's the word for the movie i guess. tony jaa just fights and fights and fights throughout the whole movie. it's almost like those video games (remember bare knuckle/streets of rage and final fight?). one guy against hundreds and thousands of henchmen before he fights a 'boss' occasionally. my, he broke like millions of bones. sound effects people must have it easy. just keep playing the bone-breaking sound. and after the show, while i was analysing some stuff in the movie it's like so many things unexplained. no more lik khian and co to break down everything like we did for hide and seek lol. it was nice i guess, definitely better than what i've thought going into the cinema. but just really mindless
i dunno what i wanna do with this blog nowadays. kinda like how i dunno what i want with my life now. it's like i'm contented. i'm not down most of the time, etc. but somehow sth's missing. and i dunno what is it i want. there was this plan of having a weekly thingy here some time back but it kinda fizzled out. wonder if i'd do that now. oh well. let's see how it goes. looks like there's no hiatus after all. recently i've been like checking whether it works. even though i don't have much to blog. ok, i've said enough. out and out
~.~.~.~
Quote of the week:
School rumble does it again lol. go watch it.
Harima Kenji (replying to Tenma's 'Sorry, did you wait long?'): No, I just got here. (Thought bubble: One of the top eight lines i want to say once in my lifetime)
lol. i guess i can't really portray the scene on words. can't wait to rip off some great stills from episode 25 (actually, make that 'can't wait until i'm not so lazy that i won't mind saving some screenshots). i wonder what the other seven lines are. i guess "my friend suddenly had something on and can't make it. Since i have 2 tickets, would you go to the movie with me?"'s one of them.
gosh, i need to be less naggy and more concise when i gush bout stuff. i think i just took the humor out of the scene.
Friday, November 11, 2005
testing
let's hope this works
Sunday, November 06, 2005
fuck blogger
Take 2
(damn damn damn. click of the mouse on publish post and all the content got deleted. thankfully this was short..)
i thought i was over with basketball then heh. well, this time i won't let myself down again. i'm still crap, but i'm gonna work on it his time round. let's go!
all happening in my head. i wonder if that's good or bad...
(shucks... forgot what i had here... damn)
almost there... my story
"i can't believe i did something that stood out like that...
but for a moment, i was happy..." Sawachika Eri. School Rumble 24. Magical episode
it's funny saying 'used to' nowadays
i thought i was over with basketball then heh. well, this time i won't let myself down again. i'm still crap, but i'm gonna work on it his time round. let's go!
all happening in my head. i wonder if that's good or bad...
(shucks... forgot what i had here... damn)
almost there... my story
"i can't believe i did something that stood out like that...
but for a moment, i was happy..." Sawachika Eri. School Rumble 24. Magical episode
it's funny saying 'used to' nowadays
Tuesday, November 01, 2005
Stuff
just filling in on some stuff that happened.
sat... met up with the stall people in the temasek youth camp. and reconfirmed how slack our job is compared to the cultural night people and the seminar ones. so after finding out that we have nothing to do, we decided to go for some bonding session heh. pool it was. damn. played pretty badly. oh well. hung out later at bk. poor mus. first we have to meet at mac and then stephanie (from hc) and tristan wanted to eat. too bad baldwin had to go early. doesn't seem right without our leader providing some decision-making heh. quite cool seeing the other stephanie from vj talk bout soccer and f1 haha. oh no, the camp's overridden with liverpool supporters. and was fun discussing bout what we're gonna do at night. and good to find out i'm not the only one who see no point in clubbing. heck tristan heh. looking forward to it. just hope the oversea delegates will be as nice a bunch. (somehow i'm thinking i'm really lucky with the kinda random grouping getting such a great group and with almost nothing to do)
today... bball at the usual place. hung out with kelvin, wei hao and kian leong after that for a long while. lunch, loads of crapping and jokes etc. the zoo lol. first impressions ain't tt accurate. i originally thought weihao was another one of those aloof individuals/jokers who just happen to play damn good bball. how wrong. and can't believe when i first heard he's two years older than us. i guess it's his jokes and lighthearted cracks at stuff that makes him feel younger.
sat... met up with the stall people in the temasek youth camp. and reconfirmed how slack our job is compared to the cultural night people and the seminar ones. so after finding out that we have nothing to do, we decided to go for some bonding session heh. pool it was. damn. played pretty badly. oh well. hung out later at bk. poor mus. first we have to meet at mac and then stephanie (from hc) and tristan wanted to eat. too bad baldwin had to go early. doesn't seem right without our leader providing some decision-making heh. quite cool seeing the other stephanie from vj talk bout soccer and f1 haha. oh no, the camp's overridden with liverpool supporters. and was fun discussing bout what we're gonna do at night. and good to find out i'm not the only one who see no point in clubbing. heck tristan heh. looking forward to it. just hope the oversea delegates will be as nice a bunch. (somehow i'm thinking i'm really lucky with the kinda random grouping getting such a great group and with almost nothing to do)
today... bball at the usual place. hung out with kelvin, wei hao and kian leong after that for a long while. lunch, loads of crapping and jokes etc. the zoo lol. first impressions ain't tt accurate. i originally thought weihao was another one of those aloof individuals/jokers who just happen to play damn good bball. how wrong. and can't believe when i first heard he's two years older than us. i guess it's his jokes and lighthearted cracks at stuff that makes him feel younger.
