good food....for one nite only

had a little masak-masak session at my place tonite. The gals came over and helped me cook. (cos i cant cook an above-average meal if my life depended on it). anyways, we cooked tom yam, baked chicken and steamed egg w/chicken. whee!
thats the best meal ive had in a while. tmr its back to my microwavable pasta...ahahaha.

mmmm....foooooooood

the chefs

ready to dig in

tgif part 2

it wasnt till i looked at the title of my last post that i realised i havent blogged in a wk. time flies.

random thought : time flies faster when you're stressed and doing lotsa shit work than when you're having fun.

my parents are coming to visit me this monday! wheee!
i miss my mom's cooking!
but i better clean the apartment before she arrives or suffer her nagging about my lack of cleanliness. its strange, most of my frens who come to my apartment tell me that its of above-average cleanliness.... but when my mom visits, she exclaims "how can u live in such filth!?! how can u tolerate all this dust!?!?"
sigh....moms will be moms i guess. hee.

the temperature is FINALLY dropping! gonna be sub-20 degress for the first time since i got back here in december. nice nice. had just about enough of this summer heat.
hey, autumn, its about damn time u arrived!!! stop slacking and get your butt here PRONTO!!!

ok..cant type a long post now. gotta catch Family Guy on TV.

later alligators! (yipes...where did that come from??)

tgif

what a long day.....

sch started at 9am. had to get up at 7.30 which is waaaaay too early. i SHOULD sleep earlier the night before, but i cant bring myself to fall asleep before 1am these days. body clock is starting to get a bit screwy. wish someone would invent something to let people sleep instantly. oh wait....i think thats called sleeping pills. damn...stoopid.

anyways, after a two hour lecture from 9-11am (which i slept about one hour on-and-off), i had to work for 4 hours for my tutor. ahhhhh. supposed to be done with this part-time job last wk!!! BUT NO! he keeps adding more and more tasks and it just keeps dragging on and on. hopefully will be done by the end of next wk. but then again, i said that two weeks ago. good thing im getting paid, or else i would've bailed a long time ago.

so after working from 11-3pm with only a 15min pizza break in between, had a 2 hour total-waste-of-time tutorial in which we were supposed to make a bridge out of spaghetti. wtf....LAME. argh....cant stand these mindless assignments. and on a friday evening!?!? NO. i just wanna go home, not play with raw pasta and scald myself with the blasted glue gun.

at least theres something to look forward to tmr....commonwealth games athletics final day! wheee! cant wait. the stadiums a full house, so shld be LOUD. too bad no sporeans running. (satiish where r u????)

some other ramblings:

i watched this interview with some of the top few MARVEL comic artists and writers. suddenly feel inspired to write another comic, although i swore not to do one again for a while after the painful task of finishing Uberman. but now i feel like going for it again! i'll regret doing this i know...

getting my ass whooped in track training. the aussies are damn pro (and im also not that fit now). put two and two together and whatd'ya get? me getting thrashed. always finish last or second last. hai.... making spore lose face. haha.

some late pics

a bit laggy here...but these are some pics of the overnight trip to geelong.

enjoy! =)

sitting on the floor, MRT-style

obligatory train-platform-with-city-name-display shot

carousels freak me out...

geelong = seafood

pyjama party? erm....not quite

the truth. u heard it here first...

i made a startling discovery last night...
i found out where all the aliens that are on planet earth are hiding.

they're in kenya.

yes. kenyans are aliens.

how else can u expain a sub-13min 5km??

they probably hail from a planet with low oxygen content.

holy bored survey, batman!

i shouldnt be bored. theres lots of work to be done.
but im bored of doing work...so i guess im still bored, depending on how u look at it.

whoa.

thats the most thought-provoking thing ive come up with all day.

and this is what bored ppl do.....

Three names you go by:
1. Iylia
2. Dhamiri (when my parents are angry at me)
3. Jeff (back in school. suresh knows why..=p)

Three parts of ur heritage:
1. half-mat
2. half-chink
3. erm.... thats all

Three things that scare you:
1. very attractive girls (i turn into an idiot in front of them)
2. snakes
3. aliens (they're out to get me i tell you)

Three of your everyday's essential:
1. MSN. its the only way to keep in touch with ppl back home.
2. shower in the morning. i simply MUST or else i cant start my day
3. oxygen?

Three things you are wearing now:
1. glasses
2. man utd trackpants
3. some stretchy cheap white tee that i sleep in

Three of your favourite songs:
1. I Miss You - Blink 182
2. November Rain - Guns n Roses
3. You and Me - Lifehouse

Two truths and a lie: (oooo this is interesting...)
1. i spend 50-100 bucks a month on comic books
2. ive broken 5 bones in my lifetime
3. i have a superman costume at home

Three things about opposite sex that appeal to you right now:
1. great legs. heh heh
2. athletic (usually goes hand-in-hand with no.1)
3. easy going, not materialistic, appreciates my failed humour

Three of your favourite things to do:
1. draw, read, collect comics
2. eat. yes i really like doing this.
3. run

Three things you want to do really badly now:
1. get my salary so i can go buy a PSP
2. watch EPL!!!
3. have an ice cold drink. (wait i min...i CAN do that! ok off to the kitchen for a sec)

Three places you want to go:
1. into Space.
2. gallapagos islands (i dunno if i spelt it correctly, but they're supposed to have mad diving sites there)
3. the south pole. it'd just be nice to say ive been there.

Three ways that you are stereotypically male:
1. i perv at girls' legs
2. i dont like losing
3. i cant cook anything fancy if my life depended on it (Esther, when r u gonna teach my that steamed egg?? hee)

aight...thats all folks.

im still bored tho....

its hard to keep thinking of titles for these posts, eh?

didnt feel like blogging today, mainly cos i spent most of the day facing this damn computer screen finishing up a site report. shit. did i mention i hate construction tech? oh well, for the uninformed, i HATE construction tech.

but seeing as my last post was on march 6th i believe, i though i'd drop an update to let you, my dear friends, know that i am NOT DEAD YET. (hmm....too morbid. lets try that again)..... to let you, my dear friends, know that i am still ALIVE. (ah....more positive)

went for a friend's b-day cum farewell party last nite. finished at 3am.....walked esther n crystal home and finally got home at 4am. took a shower (i MUST take a shower b4 i sleep, otherwise i feel icky all over. (i attribute this to my mild case of obsessive compulsive behaviour).

woke up at 9am to find that i had mistakenly put the air-con on "timer mode" when i went to sleep, and it had automatically switched off while i was sleeping. i woke up all sweaty and gross. got out of bed.....went to the sofa bed.....switched on the stand fan.....and went back to sleep there. woke up at 11am and realised OH SHIT i have wasted half a day and that's half a day less to do my damn constuction tech site report.

one whole day WASTED doing a site report. wanted to go for a swim today too but no time. =(

whoops. i intended this to be a short post but looks like i got carried away. haha. gd nite ppl! hope u have a good week ahead!

ooooo...$$$

i was tidying up my apartment today and chanced upon a stash of money that i didnt even know i had! (dontcha just love it when that happens!)
it was my 'hong bao' money from CNY that i had brought back to melb with me wanting to change it to aussie dollars. but apparently i ended up stashing it away in some box while i was moving place, and completely forgot about it till now.
trouble is.....now i've gotten over the whole "spending" mood that comes with the receiving of 'hong baos'. no mood to buy anything now. if i splurch on something now, i'll regret it.....and i'll feel terribly guilty after paying for it. so i'll keep the money for now! never know when it may come in handy!

in other news...

i went to geelong over the weekend with esther and some other frens for a mini-road-trip. ok lah it wasnt a road trip cos we went by train...but still it sounds cool to call it that, rather than a "short holiday".
great beaches! clear water! (although a bit cold) and lots n lots n lots of seafood!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i pigged out quite a fair bit over the two days. had pizza for lunch, pizza+chocolate ice shake+the girls' leftovers for dinner, another choc ice shake for supper, and bags of chips for post-supper-cum-Friends-marathon-cum-UNO-playing-session.
oooohh......i feel sick today........
need to go to the gym.

sch time table sucks. i HATE 2-hour lectures. last sem i had no 2-hr lectures. this sem i have THREE!!!!!!!!! wtf.....thats gay. thats brokeback.

goodbye long hair...

i just joined the melb uni athletics club yesterday.
first training was craaaaaazzy. reminds me of how shag i used to feel running those rounds around OCS at the wee hours of the morning. havent felt that shag in a loooooong time....till yesterday. according to the other members, the coach wanted to "initiate" the new ppl (which happened to be only me and this other english dude). we went for 3 rds around the track ,then ran 1km to a park nearby. and that was the warm up. proceeded to do 3 x 3km circuits with one min slow jog interval in between....ahhhhhh.

anyways, long story short.....now that i'll be training for real, instead of jogging only when i feel like im putting on weight, i had to cut my hair. running with long hair is just too much of a pain in the neck (quite literally). so sad tho.....took so long to grow. haha. well, its all gone now! back to OCS-style! haha.

whee. short hair!