THE COMIC BOOK LOFT

Bundoora X-country

2007-07-21T17:19:00.000+10:00

Just got back from a great race! probably my best race of the season thus far. It was down in Bundoora (or up actually if u think about it, cos bundoora's altitute is higher than melbournes). But all technicalities aside, it was a beautiful park in a beautiful suburb made marginally less beautiful by the mud-covered cross country route. It had been raining the past week, and about 2000 little kids had just run a high school x-country in the morning before us, so by the time it was our turn to race, there was mud everywhere!

The race itself was 12km....4x3km laps (shudder). I went out pretty hard cos i squeezed my way to the front of the start, and everyone in the front usually go hard at the gun. I ended up running a 45.30 which i was extremely pleased with. My past couple of races werent too good, so it was nice to get back on track with this one. Now looking forward to the half marathon in september. BUT, theres still two more shorter races to get thru before then!

Its back to uni on monday. I had my last day at work on friday. What a relief! I know its good and all, but man...it was tiring. School is so much better. Only one more sem to graduation..better enjoy it while it lasts!

Ta. till next time.

back from sydney..

2007-07-14T17:12:00.001+10:00

setting off early in the morning

My cousin, Terrance, came to visit me all the way from US and A recently for 8 days. I havnt seen him is almost 4 years! Its funny, bcos he's one of my closest cousins despite living the farthest (by far!) away! I felt kinda bad cos i couldnt take too much time off my full time job at the archi firm to show him around melbourne. I did manage to negotiate for 3 days off (out of the 8 days that he was here) and we planned a trip to sydney along with my housemate, Jeff, and usual suspects Esther and Crystal! To spice things up a little, we decided to drive up to sydney instead of flying. Its said to be one the "those things" that one needs to do while studying in melbourne, so we decided to give it a shot.

and what a looooong ride it was!

we set off at 6am in the morning and reached sydney at 7pm!! although, we did stop over in the nation's capital, Canberra, for 2 hours. No sign of John Howard tho.. haha. In total, we travelled jsut over 1000km in one day!!! thats like going to Malacca and back 4 times!!!! holy cow! Jeff and i took turns to drive. Esther came up with the idea that we should all make our own 'road trip mix cd' and play it along the way. haha. thats was good fun.. listening to all the various music tastes. Terrance and i also made a "best of the songs-u-love-to-hate" cd with such infamous hits as "Toxic", "Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely", "Cry Me a River", and "Baby One More Time".

Parliament House, Canberra. (from left: Crystal, Jeff, Terrance, Me, Esther)

The first thing i noticed when i got to syndey was that there were so many more cars!! I felt like i was driving along orchard road during a TAKA sale. CARS EVERYWHERE! stress! stress! Through jeff's skillful navigation, we arrived safely at our backpackers and to my surprise (and delight!), it was located directly opposite the road from the COMIC STORE!!! we went out from some food and then turned in for the night.

(ok im gonna start doing this in point form)

Day 1: Took a morning jog to the opera house.
Visited Paddy's Market. (like a pasar malam but in the day)
Went to the Toronga Zoo.
Visited opera house at night.

Day 2: Visited opera house and harbour bridge in the daytime to take pics.
Went to the FISH MARKET!!! this place was seriously heaven. I could spend soooo much money here eating fresh seafood!
Terrance and i went to the casino at night. He won 30 bucks. haha. (its scary how much money some of the other casino patrons were spending! like hundreds of dollars on a single bet!)

Day 3: last day. Went around the city shopping. (and i spent a bomb on comic books. I wont disclose the figure, or what items i spent on, cos you'll all think im crazy. and you'd be right.)

Went to visit some film locations!!!! THIS WAS REALLY INTERESTING! It dawned on me that The Matrix and Superman Returns were filmed in sydney, so i went location scouting with terrance and we found these two KEY locations from both films. see if u can recognise them!

Metropolis General Hospital from Superman Returns.

"Were you listening to me Neo, or were you looking at the woman in the red dress? Look again. Freeze it!"

Alas, it was time to go back to melboure after a sweeet holiday. Blew quite a large amount of money, but thats what holidays are all about, no? Back to work now to recover my finances and prepare for the next big splurge at the end of the year (and boy is it gonna be a BIG one).... NEW ZEALAND!!! get your kiwi game on!

still dreaming the dream

2007-06-30T00:32:00.000+10:00

work at the archi firm has been going well. I'm getting much more comfortable with the inner workings of the office, and gradually getting to know every one's name. the workload is still considerable...and at times stressful...but im coping. So if its all going well, why do i still feel....(whats the word im looking for...).... hollow? yes.... hollow. why do i feel hollow? There is no drive.. no passion. Its a day job. nothing more. It could be because i'm not actually directly involved in any of the projects. I just do whatever my boss hands to me. Granted, he does give me things that flex my creative muscle, but im by no means involved in the running of the firm. maybe thats why i feel unfulfilled. i hope thats why...

still.. i cant help but think that now, more than ever, i really really want to be a comic book artist. what started out as a dream, has now become an obsession. and somehow...i dont think i will ever be completely satisfied with my life unless i achieve that dream. when i come home from work, im so utterly drained....but still, instead of playing video games or watching tv for hours, i sit at my table and i draw and draw...and it just brings me so much joy... so much pleasure. And i dont mean to brag or anything, but i've been working really hard on my art style over the past year or so, and i think its come to a level now that may be sufficient to start sending out to potential publishers. Thats what i intend to do anyway. THE SAVANT is now at page 12. The first chapter should be about 30 pages long...which means i'll be done roughly by the end of the year... and then it'll be time to try and get it out there in the market somehow. I have no idea how i'm gonna do that. Its scary...but at the same time....interesting, and fun! who knows, eh?

meanwhile....check the comic site for updates:
www.savant.smackjeeves.com

blue collar dude

2007-06-27T21:52:00.000+10:00

today was day 4 of my time at the archi firm.
work's been really busy... quite stressful at times... but i've learnt so much in these past 4 days. For the most part, they've got me doing autocad stuff on the computer. And those who know me know that i am one of those architects who's totally against computers!! we should all go back to the good ol' days where everything was hand drawn. But now its all about computer renderings and you dont need to be able to hold a pencil properly to be an architect. Sigh. This is just something that shits me... but ultimately, technology will win out and in 10 years time, hand drawing will be a thing of the past. Even today, we hand-drafters are already a dying breed.

Where was i....

ah yes. So they had me do lots of computers stuff. Had to learn a lot of things pretty quick, and i feel a little bit of info overload over the past few days. When i get home im so tired i just wanna eat, watch tv and sleep. now i remember why satiish n i used to sleep at 9 or 10pm in OCS.

I had a very wet training session today. It started raining as i was leaving the house, but i was already psyched up for the run, so i decided to go to uni anyways and if nobody was there, i would just go for my own long run. But to my pleasant surprise, there were quite a few of my teammates warming up in the rain. lets hear it for HARDCORE!!!!! ended up doing one of the toughest but most fun sessions i can recall. stepping in massive puddles..feeling the rain smack me in the face at high speed...the insane winds. woohoo. its this kinda stuff that reminds u that youre alive!! and my times were not bad too... seem to be slowly improving. thats good.. i hope to peak in august for the 21km.

ah...its still raining ouside... perfect for sleeping!!

16 km of hills!

2007-06-23T19:22:00.000+10:00

phew! i just got back from a very tiring race....16km of good ol' fashion cross country racing with lots of hills. ah...yes...yet again i find myself asking..erm..myself...why do i do this?? i dont know exactly... but its somewhere along the lines of "so i can continue to eat tim tams all the time".

anyways...
the race was down in geeeeeeelong. (ok, its really only spelt with two "e"s). its the second biggest town in the state of victoria after melbourne, and about 70km southeast of the city. I caught a ride down there with Alison, Jasmine, Sophie and Al's mega cute doggie Becky, who has unofficially become the team mascot.
We reached the start line at 1.30, well in time for the girls to prepare for their race at 2pm. Now here's something interesting: for this race, the girls only run 4km while the lads have to do 16km!! yes, thats 4x4km laps. very sian and definitely screws with your mind. but thankfully the course itself was quite scenic, running through the botanical gardens and catching a glimpse of the seaside at some parts. However, by the last lap, i didnt notice the scenery at all cos i was DYING!
Ended up doing a 65mins flat.... quite pleased with that. My initial target was to do it in 64mins (so 4mins per k pace). But with all those hills, i'm happy with that time. Its a good lead up to the half marathon in august which i hope to run in sub-1hr24mins.

In other unrelated news....

Ive now worked two days at the archi firm in collingwood. Its been a great learning experience so far, but i must say... I FEEL LIKE A DUMB SHIT! i was so so lost the first day at work, and my boss handed me this autocad plan to ammend, but seeing as i have very limited autocad knowledge, i had to ask him how to do most of it. by the end of the day i had learnt a lot, but i think i also pissed him off quite a bit with all my questions. second day was better...and im hoping next week will go smoother. I'm working there every weekday 9am-5pm till next sem starts. (yay great holiday for meee!). Its all good stuff tho. great experience.

ah.. tonight is kick back time and pig out time. i went to the supermart to get chocolate n chips after the run. time to put back all the carbs i lost in that race, and probably even more!

waiting game...

2007-06-19T00:42:00.000+10:00

I went for an interview last wk with an archi firm for some work over the holidays.
INterview went well, and the dude said he'd call me back early this wk to let me know when i'll be starting. Well, its one day gone now and still no call. Still anxiously waiting. I keep worrying that he's gonna call when im taking a shower or on the crapper or something. I knwo its silly... we live in an age of voicemail after all. I stopped working weekdays at nandos now (and potentially stopped working altogether for the holidays, unless i can get wkend shifts), so if the dude at the archi practice suddenly decides not to employ me, then i could potentially be unemployed this holidays! GASP!! now u see why im so anxious to get THE CALL.

been catching up on my comic drawing too...its so good to just sit there for hours and draw. been a long time since ive been able to do that. I finished pencilling and inking one and a half pages yesterday and today. Will upload them soon once ive scanned them in an photoshopped in the text. I still catch myself thinking sometimes...'why am i doing this comic book stuff... is it really gonna lead anywhere? I mean, it takes a lot of time. too much some would say. oh well, at least i can show my kids someday that daddy was an uber-nerd.'

there was a shooting here in melb earlier today. two guys got shot for trying to help out a girl who was being abused on the street. whats the world coming to... everytime i turn on the news its all about 'war' this, and 'war' that. fight fight war war....thats all thats going on. at this rate, i dont believe the human race will last much longer. we're gonna wipe ourselves off the face of the planet soon enough. just as well...look how we've treated it. we've made one hell of a screw job.
hmm... i seemed to have digressed a bit here.
its late...
time to zzzz
going riding tmr!

"may we be cursed to live in interesting times"

freedom is less than 15hrs away!

2007-06-13T23:44:00.000+10:00

done my studying for tonight. (which was only about 1hr)
i had a quite a tough session at training tonight.
we had to do 5 x 1000m intervals. usually, we get either 4min or 5min rest in btw each one. but tonight, tony told us to have a decreasing recovery time, which means that the first interval will be 5mins recovery, then 4mins for the second one....and so on. so by the last interval there was only 2min rest. and boy did that 2mins go by quick!
i was pleasantly surprised with my times tho. managed to maintain under 1.20 per lap and under 3.20 overall for all the 1000s.
im thinking the time may be right for me to try and break that elusive 8min mark for my 2.4.... if i dont do it now, who knows how unfit i'll get next time. trouble is, theres nobody to pace. and i think to run a sub 8mins i'll NBED a pacer.

ohh ive got an interview with an archi firm this friday! my friend is working in an archi firm now and she put in a good word for me and they want to meet with me this friday to discuss potentially working for them over the holidays. im so excited! hope i get it! pray for me ppl.

right, i need to free my mind now and not think about the exam tmr. the last thing i want on my mind now is information overload.

i think i'll watch borat. that should clear things up!
yagshemash!

new page

2007-06-12T09:58:00.000+10:00

updated a new page of The Savant today.
http://savant.smackjeeves.com/comics/168853/

just two more days to my exam!
i met up with some friends yesterday to go thru a couple of exam papers. it was a good wake up call for me to get more studying done, cos i barely contributed to the discussion!
but based on the assignments that ive done so far for the subject, i already have 48.5%... so i only need 1.5% in the exam to pass, which makes me that much less motivated to study.

then again, im also not looking forward to starting the job hunting. i have no clue where to start.

i dont want to job hunt... i want to plan vacations!! hehe

one of those days

2007-06-08T12:47:00.001+10:00

feeling slightly depressed today.
had a shit time at work yesterday. i accidentally tipped some the mayonaise bucket over and it fell.....well, to cut a long story short....it caused a chain reaction that led to a plate being broken and about 10 chicken wings dunked in mayonaise. not to mention a gooey mess on the floor. boss was pissed.

my exam draws ever nearer, and i still have no motivation to study for this paper. partly bcos...i dont know WHAT to study. i looked at the past exam paper and i might as well have been reading a greek manuscript. i didnt understand anything. at least if u read something and dont understand it, but you know what u need to do to understand it, then u can go and study what u know u are lacking. am i making sense? i dunno. i just re-read that sentence and it makes no sense to me too. but hopefully u get the idea.

i admire those ppl who are so mentally strong... who can look past the little setbacks in life and move on. im so not one of those people. i must live in my perfect world where all is good and the sky is bright n sunny, and everything that i planned to do goes off without a hitch. anything contrary to that, and i get...well.... depressed. its so bad...
well, im working an extra two shifts over the wkend, so hopefully things get better. not sure what to make of my exam revision strategy yet...heading to uni later to try n figure it out.

usually when im depressed i feel like running. but today i dont. i feel like being a lazy ass and eating nachos n ice cream while watching DVDs.

yknow what..... i miss home.
i miss my parents, and i miss suresh n satiish n all my friends.
wont get to see them till the end of the year. thats a long time to wait.

someone once said that life sucks, but thats what makes those happy moments all the more precious.

2500 in 2 days... argh..... i promise....i will never procrastinate again

2007-06-04T14:31:00.000+10:00

in about 2 hrs time, i will be handing in my LAST LAST LAST LAST LAST history essay of aaaaaaaallllll timeeeeeeeee!!!!
this sem's essay was terrible... i totally left it to the last min. i left myslef one week to borrow books, read em, and write the essay. And even then, even within that one week, STILL i procrastinated and didnt start writing the essay till two days before it was due!
never again.
writing 2500 words in 2 days sucks.
especially when u write like me.....veeeerrrrryyyyy ssllllloooooowwwllyyy.
by the time i got to 1500 words i had run out of points, so i had to go back and re-read some books and try to squeeze out more things to say. Its a torture. a sheer torture. how some people enjoy writing essays i'll never know. I'm just glad my time is over. Next semester i have ZERO essays!!!! hurrah!!!!!! and i have a drawing elective!!! (if my application is successful)

im going for some max brenner later!
mmm.....chocolate.

eeaaaaoooouuuch

2007-06-01T10:33:00.000+10:00

so yes....the massage was....erm.... painful!

i gotta say... i used to think that massages were pleasurable experiences where u could fall asleep from sheer bliss. but apparently, to quote borat.... NOT!!!!
it was painful!
granted the massuese was my running friend and he said that he would go easy, seeing as it was my first time. (a massage virgin he called me) but still...it hurt a bloody lot. when he did my calfs it felt like someone stabbed a knife into the back of my leg then ran it along up to my gluts. its even worse cos ive never gotten a massage before, so my muscles were really tight. and im ticklish too. haha. whcih makes me tense up very easily...and that only makes it MORE painful.
but this morning i felt great. went for a 1hr run with tyler and felt really good...felt lighter. i'll prob go back for another massage after the 16km race on 23 june, which i anticipate is gonna be another killer.

3 more days till my essay is due. the plan is to finish reading my books today and then start writing tmr. 2500 words in 2 days... can it be done? well, it doesnt matter. it HAS to be done. it WILL be done one way or the other. good thing is, its only due at 4pm on monday, so effectively i have almost 3 days to write it in.

i miss drawing. havnt had to time to do it lately.

a new beginning

2007-05-28T17:55:00.000+10:00

with final submission over just a few days ago, the time felt right to give my 'blogging' another reboot.

i checked the last post and it was over a month ago, so its a bit pointless (and incredibly difficult) to recap whats been happening in the last two months. if you've spoken to me on msn, you'dve known by know the ins and outs of the last 60-odd days of my life.

so i'll just move on to whats been happening over the past week or so.
well, for starters, the semester is OVER!!! this sem felt faster than any that went before it. i was super busy and super stressed for the most part. looking back, i dont think that was healthy living. but now that its over, i find myself feeling a bit lost. i feel like im SUPPOSED to be doing SOMETHING, but i dont know what. gasp! have i forgotten how to slack!!!??
granted, i DO have an essay due in 7 days, for which i have only read one book so far. thats what i SHOULD be doing now. working on my essay. i hate essays. writing is such a chore to me. i spoke to hannah, my uni friend, today about it and she said she'd rather write an essay than do design work this week. its the absolute opposite for me. give me drawing and design anytime. at least u can do the latter while watching TV!!

had a 10km race over the wkend too. the conditions were HOT and WINDY, and i hadnt slept at all two nights ago. (as u can see, im building up the excuses for my bad timing). yes, crap timing. sub 37mins was the target. i blew waaaay past it with a 38.17. sigh... feels like lately my running has been deproving. even at training sessions i can feel that im not as fast as i was earlier in the year. elaine suggested that i get a massage. she even got me a massage voucher for my bday which was awesome. ive booked myself an appointment this thursday, so we'll see if things get better.

brrr! its cold here. erratic melb weather rears its ugly head yet again.

sat rants

2007-03-17T17:23:00.000+11:00

sorry guys... i know its been a long time since i posted anything.

its been a long time since ive done a lot of things lately.
been a long time since i played my ps2
been a long time since i watched smallville (long for me is 2 wks)
been a long time since ive been sick. (which i am now... augh... annoying)
been a long time since i just sat on my couch and did NOTHING for a couple of hours.

after a slow start, i am in semester HELL now.
this wkend i have to write am 800word formal letter thingie, do two A3 collages, and make a "cool design artefact". im still going cycling tmr tho... i dont care. been looking forward to it was too long now...ALL WEEK!!! i'll be cycling up to Mount Dandenong with the cycling club tmr morning. its about 40km from the city, so should be quite a ride. Aparently u can get a good view of melbourne city from some points on the mountain!
last week i went with them to frankston (42km from city)... but they went at such a fast pace that i couldnt keep up on the way back. the headwind was terrible that day....ive never been so shag riding a bike before. but its good training! stronger quads = better running! its all, how do they say...erm....complementary training? haha. ok...i made that up.

been struggling to keep posting one page of THE SAVANT every week. its up to page 6 now, so if check it out if you've been missing out. I really dunno how long i can keep this up tho... it takes about 8-10hrs to finish one page, and as it is i'm stuggling to find the time to do it. With Archi Design getting busier by the week, i might have to give the comics a break soon.

i spoke to one of my friends at training on thurs about his trip to europe. he took a semester off last year and toured europe for 6 mths. it sounded so awesome! i know its now become this cliche that architecture students do the "euro-trip" after 3rd year, but now i REALLY WANNA GO!!! and of course old trafford will be right up there on the to-visit list.

my baby!

2007-03-01T20:45:00.000+11:00

its finally heeeeeere!!!!!!!!
went to the bike shop today with my housemate to pick up our new road bikes.
i got home at 4.30, and i knew i had running training at 6, but i just HAD to take it out for a spin. haha. and damn..it was smoooooooth as!
i cant wait till saturday to take it out on beach road and really stretch its legs. (..or wheels....watever)
meanwhile, heres a pic of my beautiful baby! hahaha.

go see pans labyrinth NOW!

2007-02-27T16:29:00.000+11:00

if u havnt seen this show get...GO GO NOW!!!
its absolutely stunning.
forget the fact that its in spanish...after a few mins, you'll forget that you're reading subtitles.
im totally blown away. gonna be thinking about it for a while to come, and probably see it again soon. (downloaded of course.. haha)
phew... mentally shag. best show ive seen since the prestige last yr.

i cant wait till thursday!

2007-02-27T16:20:00.000+11:00

i finally went to buy my bike yesterday!!
now my savings are down to just a few dollars, and my first 3 wks pay at nandos has been wiped on in one swift debit move.
but it doesnt matter....cos i finally have my road bike! woohoo!!
gotta wait till thursday to collect it tho... argh... the wait it so excrutiating! some ppl say that the longer you wait for something, the better it is in the end. sometimes thats just not true! i dont see how waiting longer could possibly make getting the bike any better.

another great bit of news... i might have 2 days off each wk! i was supposed to have wed off initially, with one lecture on tues, but now it looks like the tues lecture might be scrapped or moved to friday morning, which means both tues n wed will be free!! how awesome is that!

going to (yet again) get back to training tonight. this start-stop mentality has to stop if i wanna meet my target of finishing in the top10 club ranking this season. gotta buck up. no pian no gain!

last night by myself

2007-02-24T00:59:00.000+11:00

wow. this is quite a milestone. after 1yr 7mths of living alone, tonight is gonna be my last night by myself. my housemate, jeff, is arriving tmr morning. i really dunno wat to expect. havnt lived with anyone b4 (excluding Satiish in bunk). But ive never had to share bills, and rent, and cleaning up. (lets face it, Satiish n i claned up on an annual basis). Gonna be a whole new experience..im kinda nervous about it. But just gotta take it as it comes i guess... part of the overseas experience. After all, it was me who didnt want to live alone anymore.

Work at nandos this wk was much better. Less scolding by the BOSS. haha. i asked for 2 shifts a week (10hrs total) during semester time, but mr. bossman said that he might need me for 3 shifts a week. i said ok. hoping that i can cope. This sem is gonna be busy busy busy, and i dont mean schoolwork. Theres the winter running season thats starting soon, and the first race is late april, so i'll definitely wanna start working towards that. Plenty of Singapore Student Society things to start planning too. During orentation, in a bid to attract new members of the club, we started saying that we organise activites on a fortnightly basis. hahaha. now i have to live up to that promise! we're planning to organise fun runs every wkend, and use that to get away with the "one activity per fortnight" clause. haha. i also joined the cycling club. jeff too. thanks to the nandos job, i finally have enuf money to buy my beloved road bike! weeehoo! yup, so cycling's gonna be every sunday morning. after all that is said and done, i'll try to squeeze a bit or studying somewhere inside.

oh yes and of course 3 hrs each wk is dedicated to one episode of Smallville, LOST and Heroes. ha.

the savant...

2007-02-18T21:47:00.000+11:00

ive decided to start another comic. yep, as some of u may have known, ive been tossing around ideas for a while now. its been very frustrating. i think the whole process of coming up with a good plot device that gets your whole story going is probably the hardest thing in storytelling. Most of the time u come up with an idea, which is quite good, but you dont FEEL IT. you say "yeah, thats a good idea. its good. mm...but do i REALLY want to spend 2yrs of my life developing it? naaahhh."

i was feeling like that for a long time now. ever since i finished my last comic, Uberman, which (holy cow!) has been a YEAR now, ive been trying to come up with an original story. All my past comics were parodies of other TV shows, movies, etc with my friends or classmates in them. Uberman was quite original, but it still borrowed heavily from Smallville and Superman. (wait...they're the same arent they...) I wanted to do a comic that i could call my own. One that i could possibly send out to publishing companies.

About a week ago, i was lying down on my couch (cos it was too darn HOT to sleep of my loft bed), and as i was dozing off, i suddenly had this major influx of ideas! i dunno why...but i find that you get CRAZY ideas just before u fall asleep. Trouble is, u usually forget them the next morning. And i definitely didnt want that to happen! so i got up, booted up my comp, opened MS Word, and wrote down about 3 pages of text...just mental vomiting it all out. (note to self: need to develop this technique for essay writing).
I started pencilling the first page 2 days ago, and just finished inking and scanning it today. Its got hardly any text in it, but hopefully it helps to set the tone for the rest of the book.

click on the image to see a larger one!

stuck at uni

2007-02-18T19:42:00.000+11:00

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!
its was sooooo hot today! 38degrees!!!!
wiwi (and her grandma), yongsi, and ed came over for CNY lunch. we cooked chicken rice (standard), prawns in batter, and steak! it was super nice! and then longans with almond jelly for dessert.
went to chinatown afterwards to see all the CNY stuff that was going on there. they had cordoned off a whole street and set up stalls (like fun-o-rama) selling food and little nic-nacks.
but the weather was tooo darn hot.

got home at about 5pm, took a shower and went to uni to submit my digital design assignment. and when i reached uni, BOOM! it started raining!!
still raining now... im stuck here. no umbrella...
im hungry.... aaah, i can taste those crispy wedges now. *drools on keyboard*
*wipes keyboard with shirt*

visual test

2007-02-15T09:53:00.000+11:00

only 364 more days to the next valentines day.....thank goodness....

but only 67 more mins to my history visual test!!!
i feel so sleepy. its was so HOT last nite that i couldnt sleep on my loft bed. (hot air rises......dammit!) So i slept on my futon couch (which is about 30 cm too short for me) with the fan on. Didnt sleep too well...woke up still feeling wrecked.
Then i went to the kitchen to make breakfast... i tipped over the cereal box to pour the cereal out, and there was only ONE kernel of cereal left!!!!! seriously! ONE!

well, good to get all the bad karma out of the way early in the morning. haha.

uh oh. i have to leave in 20mins. better go n shower now.
adios amigos.

today we have a sexy time

2007-02-14T01:38:00.000+11:00

hello all u luuurvers out there.
happy valentines day!
the day that men all aroudn the world develop gaping holes in their pockets.
and women eat a year's supply of chocolate
and the florist industry gets away with charging u a bazzillion percent times the normal price on roses.
ah...the love....sweet love.

and THEN, theres SOME of us, who have to study for a history exam on the 15th!!!!!

evil melb uni...

i just got off work at 11.30pm tonite...so tired....
the last shift is always the hardest...have to clean up the whole store. by right the last order shld be at 10pm ,but my boss cant seem to say no to customers and he usually takes "last" orders till 10.30...

arrggggg.....its 2am now and im barely awake.
one more hour till valentines day in spore....
coffee.... must make coffee....

gd nite ppl. happy valentines day!

"great success!!"

2007-02-03T19:24:00.000+11:00

the last TWO times i tried to blog, i wrote lengthy blogs and they were unable to be published. GAAAHH!! for some reason, only the title of the post appeared following by this huge blank space where the text was supposed to be. so if you're reading this, it meaans that this time was "great success!!"

settling in...

2007-01-25T20:53:00.000+11:00

tuesday was the BIG move. today crystal came over and helped me set up my loft bed. it was a real pain to take apart and set up again, and my mom told me to just buy a new "proper" bed like normal people do. but a love my loft bed! i bitched and whined and groaned while i assembled it, but now that its back up in my new room, all i can say is... ITS NICE!

still a few more little things like rubbish bin, a couple of posters, and some toiletries that i need to move from the old place, then comes the im-so-not-looking-forward-to-it task of cleaning up the place!!! im the type of cleaner who jus sweeps all the dust under the fridge. so now that the fridge isnt there anymore, the 12-month accumulation of dust and little bits of dried food is there for all to see!

yes, and im still internet-less, and will continue to be for at least another wk...probably more. which is probably a good thing cos i need to get my essay done and stop downloading Heroes, Lost and Smallville.

Went back to training today for the first time since end November. Some new faces...but mainly the old gang is still there. Fewer ppl tho... i guess not many aussies like running in the summer heat. and it was only 27 degrees! thats nothing, right Satiish!?!? haha. Tony the coach had me do an easy 40min run with a few surges in between...nothing too shocking on my first day back. still.....it hurt. im out of shape. the winter season starts in march, so ive got about 1 and a half months to get my form back.

tonight is roddick vs federer! ive become somewhat of a tennis fan of late, mainly bcos thats all they show on TV at night!

btw....does anybody know... where's Michael Chang????? haha.

optus needs to hire more callcentre ppl

2007-01-21T22:26:00.000+11:00

i tried calling Optus (melbourne phone company) this morning to transfer my broadband from my current place to my new one. anyway...to the point.... i was put on hold for almost an HOUR!!!!!!! i dont care where u come from, that is totally unacceptable. and wait...it gets better.
when i finally got thru.... here's what happened:

me: hello. i'd like to transfer my optus broadband internet to a new address.

optus dude: does your new address have an existing optus connection.

me: erm...no.

optus dude: oh, sorry. in that case you'll have to call the home mover's extention. i can give u the number but they're not open on weekends.

me: (stunned). oh..... ok.

optus dude: you can call 1300555241 after 8am on monday. thank you. bye.

i was too stunned. you mean i had been waiting for AN HOUR for a 2 minute conversation that accomplished next to nothing!?!?!?!?

the rest of the day was good. moved more stuff to my new apartment in the day. watched rocky balbao (downloaded..hehe). its pretty good. better than i expected.

went to yongsi's at night with esther n wiwie to have bbq. it was so nice...the 4 of us talking and gossiping (and eating!). i dunno wat it is, but no matter how long its been since JC, i still feel that whenever we SB3 ppl get together, theres a closeness that i cant explain. i dont know wats gonna happen in the future...(some of us have are already married!!).. but i hope we'll continue to keep in touch.

moving house

2007-01-19T18:39:00.000+11:00

tuesday is the big day.
i arranged with the moving company this morning, and they'll be here on tuesday.

the last two days have been a torture... largely its my fault bcos ive bought so much JUNK since i came to melbourne. (most of which.oddly enough, happens to be superman paraphanalia)
not to mention all the architecture models that are littered throughout the apartment. oh, and the little bits and pieces of leftover archi materials too. i think ive figured it out... usually when i build a model, i'll have a bit of leftover cardboard or foam core, and i'll jus chuck it in a corner "for later use". but when the time comes to build a new model, i jus go out n buy MORE materials... and then chuck the remainder in the corner again and the cycle repeats itself till now that small pile in the corner has become a HUGE LOAD of junk.

i for one believe in 'cleaning everything all at once..ONE SHOT!' rather than 'a little bit each day'. my mom would beg to differ....

today i also had to perform a very sad duty.....removing my beloved star wars episode 1-6 posters from my living room wall. although i suspect that it didnt bode too well with the ladies, i liked em up there anyways. gonna miss them in the new place cos i doubt my housemate would approve of me covering the walls with them.

in other unrelated news...i went for yongsi's b-day bbq on wednesday. esther and wiwie were supposed to come too, but they had to work late...so i went down to clayton by myself. met some of yongsi's mooonash frens. really nice people...easy going. i like. and we had chocolate fondue!! ITS NICE!!!
going back to her place for another bbq on sun...this time WITH esther n wiwie...to finish up the leftover food. hahaha.

HOOOOOOOT

2007-01-16T09:00:00.000+11:00

the temperature today is......39 degrees!!!!!!
i wish i could just stay in all day in air-con comfort, but i have to go for a lecture right smack at noon. sigh... staying at home and playing FIFA sounds tempting.

2007-01-13T22:36:00.000+11:00

after one week of summer school, ive come to the following conclusion...

history sucks.

it used to suck. it still sucks. and it will always suck.

argh... im jus a little on edge now after spending most of the day working on my class paper. (due on monday!!!). didnt expect to be doing so much work so early in the sem. still very much on holiday-mode.

at least if they're gonna make us study history (which i already find to be entirely irrelevant), at the very least make us study RECENT history like say within the past 50 years or so. That way, theres a high chance that we can actually APPLY the stuff we learnt into our designs and theres also a high chance that the architects we studied are still ALIVE. this sem im studying "modern" architecture in the 17th and 18th century. thats like AGES AGO!!! EVERYBODY IS DEAD! (excuse my bluntness). the architectural theories that they practiced then.....NOBODY CARES ABOUT THEM NOW!!!

like i said.....on edge.

i played some FIFA to try and ease the stress, but i lost 5-2 to sunderland!!!! only served to add to my stress.

things should get better after monday. i hope. i submitted my resume to Nandos this evening. hope i can get a job there, even though time really doesnt permit that right now. but i need the money. haha. gotta start planning for orientation soon too. need to find ways to sucker more innocent freshies into the Singapore Student Society. bwahahahahahaah!!!

im back!

2007-01-09T20:00:00.000+11:00

wow. didnt realise how long its been since i last posted an entry till i saw the date on the last post... 4th dec!!! holy crap!!! ive been a total slacker (blogwise of course).

well, first thing's first..... UNI HAS STARTED!!! BAAAAHHH!!!! damn sian.
had my first lecture yesterday and first tutorial today. the lecturer is this old dude who wears a bowtie (wtf!) and speaks veryfastwithnopausesbetweenhiswordskindalikethis.

i was trying to stay awake the whole lecture. usually i just succumb to the z-monster and doze off, but in summer sch there are only like 15 students in one lecture, so if u sleep, EVERYBODY can see! still....i think i dozed off a few times for a few seconds. cannot tahan. good thing is, the lectures are recorded. thank you technology!!

feels really weird here now that satiish, marie and grace have left for spore. we had such a great holiday. thanks you guys. you made it so fun! "Its Nice!" "Great Success!"
the apartment is very quiet now. i leave the TV on when im bumming ard, otherwise its too creepy.

and in BIIIIIIGGGG NEWS.........

I HAVE A NEW APARTMENT!!!!!!!!
yes my new address (for people who will be sending me nice birthday presents. hehe) is....

30/36 Drummond Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053

i just got the keys today! so excited! haha. its a 2nd storey apartment in a secure compound with low rise buildings only about 4 storeys. the landscaping is quite nice, and altho its farther from the city as my current place, its a LOT cheaper... which means more money for me to spend...heh heh. (mmm....comics......road bike......)

trying to get a job now. summer sch only takes up one or two hours a day, so ive got lots of time to kill. somebody hire meeeee!

after 2 years, i can put my demons to rest

2006-12-04T02:11:00.000+11:00

completed the spore marathon this morning.
as i crossed the finish line, i thought about the time 2 years ago when i injured myself training for the same event. I felt like shit then, and i promised myself that i'd come back and run it again someday.
crossing that finish line today was SWEEEEET AS!

didnt do too good timing wise tho.... 4hrs 6mins.
Its about 20 mins faster than my previous marathon, but i still wanted to do better. Thought that i could've gone below 4hrs. oh well...that for my next marathon. hahaha. dunno when that'll be. in so much pain now that i cant think about doing another one for a while.

the weather today was great tho. NO direct sun. overcast sky. perfect. i shudder to think what my timing wouldve been had the sun been out in full force. bottom line....spore weather was not meant for running marathons. for suntanning maybe, for drying clothes fast maybe.....but for marathons, NO!

satiish and i went to BK after the run and whacked two burgers (one with meal). felt like the ending scene in harold and kumar (after all, we WERE two chinese and indian dudes eating fast food in a shag state. haha). knees killing me now. hopefully no long term damage. we'll see.... will prob go for a recovery run on wed.

2 more days....NEED PASTA

2006-12-01T14:00:00.000+11:00

getting excited...and worried... marathon's this sunday!
woke up early this morning and went for an easy 7km. i left the house at 7.30am, and it was already blaaaaaardy HOT. definitely need to wear shades on sunday.

started my pasta eating (or gorging) yesterday nite. gonna eat pasta for every meal (excluding breakfast) till sunday. Tmr satiish and i will be going to pastamania in the afternoon, then ordering in pizza at nite! woohoo! hopefully we can get it all out of our system on sunday morning (ie: a good morning shit.) haha.

going to NUS later to see suresh's shag pad...erm...hostel.

i seem to be sleeping a lot lately. had a 3 hr nap yest afternoon, and still slept by 12am. not good. must force myslef to sleep less.

results in 8 days.
erk....

home is where the humidity is

2006-11-30T22:47:00.000+11:00

its been 6 days now since i landed in spore. finally got out of my lazy spell and decided to blog.
i find it funny... blogging is one of those things that when you dont do it for a while, you keep procrastinating adding another entry day after day...but when you finally get down to typing that entry, you feel better and want to blog MORE. i was gonna say "in that way, its kinda like studying"...but then again after i study a little, i dont feel like doing more. so i guess its different. haha.

A short recap of whats been happening:

sat - went to collect marathon race packet with satiish. jalan-jalan ard suntec for a bit, then went home.

sun - went to east coast and met with khal and danielle. we rented blades. FUN! went to NTU afterwards to run with satiish. it was the most PAINFUL run EVEEEERRRRRRRR. we did a 2hr run in prep for the marathon. but it only made us realise how NOT ready we are. at the 1hr30mins mark, both of us "hit the wall" and the last half an hour was just pure torture. if not for the finisher's tee, i think i wouldnt be running this sun. hahaha. we were so dehydrated afterwards that we whacked 4 drinks back to back to back to back. went to suresh's place to watch man u chelsea that night. once again, i realise that i NEED to get foxtel in australia.

mon - woke up in PAIN. rest of the day was sluggish...feeling the muscles aching all over. cant remember what i did on monday....hmmm..... must be the post-2hr-run memory lapse.

tues - watched movie with satiish then went to bukit batok to have POWER BRIYANI!!! and MILO GODZILLA!!! hahahaha. damn nice.

wed - met satiish at NTU at 7-frickin-am in the morning. havent woken up so early in a loooong time. but no choice....cos we were going for a 10km run, and by 8am its pretty hot already. afterwards, we went to this new swimming complex in jurong. not bad....had onc nice long slide. no wave pool tho =(

thurs - collected my new specs! but my degree went up =(.... too much photoshopping in front of my small laptop screen. my mom says its too much psp....but we all know thats NOT TRUE!

going to NUS to visit suresh tmr. his exams are over on monday. cant wait!! we got lotsa FIFA and PASTA to catch up on!

NICE

2006-11-23T09:59:00.000+11:00

im a FREEEEEEE man~!!
yeaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!

went to watch the prestige yest after my LAST PAPER.
its a kick ass show... if u havent watched it yet, you should! i mean, a show where wolverine takes on batman...how could u possibly go wrong!? haha.

im still high.
bought FIFA 07 yesterday!!!! was playing all nite long.
cant wait to watch man u vs chelsea this wkend back in spore!

well, im at uni now of all places. need to collect my work from the studio, but the darn room is locked. and the faculty office doesnt open for another 10 mins...arrgggg.....

gonna watch BORAT later!
NICE.
haha.

2006-11-14T13:25:00.000+11:00

the slide test kinda sucked.

didnt know about 15 out of 60 questions...and several more that i got wrong. looks like im gonna get about 60%. shit. was really hoping the slide test was gonna pull up my marks.

needed to unwind after the test.... so decided to run to williamstown (part of my hopeful attempt to get my marathon training back on track). took about an hour to run there...and an hour back. thats the longest ive run since last year's marathon....and man did i feel it! suuuuuper pain after 1hr30min mark. muscles hurting left, right, centre. and thats only about 28km...still got another 12km more to go. sigh...die lah. that PLUS the hot n humid spore weather will ensure that i WILL suffer a lot. will aim for a 2.5hr run later this wk.... i think thats as far as im gonna train. The knee is still holding up well, thank goodness.

got a lot of mugging to do today. the written exam tmr, which initally i planned to be my weakest link, now looks like it HAS to be the one thing that pulls up my grade. thats not a good thing.

back to the books! ta

2006-11-12T20:29:00.000+11:00

i fell off my bike today.
in broad daylight at a very busy intersection. damn pai seh.

i bought new pedals (the clip kind that secure your shoe to the pedal) from Cam for real cheap.
I practiced a bit in the car park clipping them on and off...and after about 10 mins i thought i was ready to hit the road.

WRONG!

at the FIRST traffic light, on an upslope, i had already clipped in my left shoe and was in the midst of pushing off and trying to clip in the right shoe...BUT i missed the clip and so i tried to gain my balance by putting my left leg on the ground...BUT of course, my left leg was already tied to the bike... so i feel flat on my side. sigh...

but that was it. just fell once. so not too bad. haha.
had a nice ride....cycled to williamstown, which is about 45mins from the city.
i DO have my first paper tmr, but needed to get outside and let off some steam.

oh shit... my first paper is tmr??!?
uh oh.

where are those lecture slides!!???!??

lookie! building! lookie! building!

2006-11-06T21:10:00.000+11:00

AHHHHHHH
so many buildings! so many buildings!
omg omg omg
i can feel my brain beginning to expand, and surely enought it will soon explode!!
shit shit
i havent used this much memorising power since JC.
but theres a difference...
i suck at it now!

AHHHHHHHHHH
dying dying. damn visual test.... only 15% of my grade also. but i need every single mark i can get, cos i got my essay comments yesterday and they werent too good. im thinking i'll get btw 60-70....hmm......ok maybe 60-65. hahaha hoooo hooo hehehe. oh no im delirious shit i shld stop taking so much sweets and tea oh no now my punctutation marks have gone missing too crap dammit help help

im going crazy!

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all work and no play makes iylia a dull boy all work and no play makes iylia a dull boy
all work and no play makes iylia a dull boy all work and no play makes iylia a dull boy

2006-11-05T00:09:00.000+11:00

remember, remember the fifth of november
the gunpowder, treason and plot
i know of no reason why the gunpowder treason
should ever be forgot

brain dead

2006-11-02T19:41:00.000+11:00

not that ive been studying VERY hard lately....in fact i havent been studying too hard at all.
average about 4hrs a day. thats bad.
after final submission last wk, i have no will, no drive to study.
the fact that my hist exam isnt for almost another 2 wks doesnt help. im in the "zone" now. and no, its not the study 'zone'.

at uni now trying to compile a list of important buildings to study for the visual exam. theres just so frickin MANY. ahhhhhh! been sitting here for the past 3 hrs doing nothing but going thru a list of buildings and deciding which ones are important enough to memorise for the exam.

and my brain is dead. cant think straight. need a break. hence the blogging.

supposed to go for training today, but they were doing hills intervals, which wouldnt benefit my marathon training in any way so i decided not to go. that and because i LUUURRRVE being a slave to my history paper.

i need sugar.

i need coffee.

i need to watch Harold n Kumar.

will prob go home soon. cant take much more of this. hungry too.

back to training...oh so bad

2006-11-01T09:31:00.000+11:00

after a month (possibly more), i finally made my return to training yesterday. daylight savings has started since then, and now finally training is in daylight! i got to break out the sunnies which, lets face it, makes you run faster! (right satiish? haha)
training session was freakin tough! we did 4 x 1200 reps.... the rest time was measured by whenever your heartrate drops to 140, which isnt much time at all. It works out to about 1 to 1.5mins between each rep.
ok...so this prob isnt the worst session we've done, but i found it so so so hard. was struggling after the 2nd set. my speedwork is gone now. sigh. i guess its a tradeoff....been doing too many long, easy runs preparing for the marathon. will start my speed training again once its over.

studying for exams arent going too good. i went to rowden white library yesterday and borrowed a hardcover x-men comic. ive already read half of it and its almost as thick as my history reader. ah, if only i could read my reader at that pace. why? why? why? oh and i borrowed the xmen dvd too. haha. shit... i need somebody to give me a kick up the arse and get me studying, cos its just now happening now.

hmmm....guess i'll go finish that xmen boook now.

the AD aftermath brunch

2006-10-28T18:07:00.000+10:00

Had a nice brunch today with some of my archi frens.
Most of them i only got to know this semester. Altho we've been in the same year all this while, we've never been in the same tute grp. They're a really nice bunch. Hopefully we'll be in the same studio classes again next sem!

Anyways...im totally overloaded on SUGAR now!!!
had a very large brekkie at a cafe with ICE CHOCOLATE. then proceeded to have CAKE and ICE CREAM at another cafe. We only ordered 4 cakes to share among the 8 of us...but the portions were so HUGE that we couldnt finish it. I thought 4 wouldnt be enuf....how wrong i was. hahaha.

sigh....my parents are leaving tmr... so soon. well, i'll see them again in about a month's time.
gonna take a nice break this wkend and catch up on some tv shows and psp games. come monday its back to (sigh) mugging for history paper. holidays, come faster!!

ah! the light! bright! bright!

2006-10-27T11:14:00.000+10:00

yes, tats how i felt walking out of the architecture building yesterday afternoon, having spent 2 nights there working on my final project. (ah the sad life of me...)
Ok, to be honest, it was more like one night, cos the first night i went home at about 3am to sleep a little. But last nite was an all-nighter. Havent done one for almost a year now. (see construction-friggin-technology 1B model)
Well, ITS DONE! ITS SUBMITTED! and now i can rest for the weekend. Gonna spend some more time with my parents before they leave on sunday. I've been neglecting them and spending most of my time at uni this past wk.... feel bad. Now we've only got 2 more days together so gotta make the most of it.

in other news.....marathon training has started again after a one wk haitus, i havent bought FIFA07 yet, im still single, and man u beat liverpool over the wkend!!!!!

on the right track..

2006-10-17T19:44:00.000+10:00

check this out!!
i was reading comics in between my lessons, and i found this gem!
read it... its my life's plan exactly...heh heh.

presentation over! mummy's here! new racers!

2006-10-17T19:35:00.000+10:00

Today is a goooood day!
my mom got here in the morning. i was still very much asleep, having slept at 4.30am preparing for the presentation today. Had a horrid weekend cramming for it....but it was all worth it in the end. i got a good grade! yippie! now its only another 9 days to the final submission. i hereby designate tonite 'REST NITE'. archi work shall resume tmr.....or maybe the day after. haha.

oooh. and my mom brought my new racers! they cost AUD$180 here, but only S$120 from queensway!!! anyways, they're neon blue and they look awesome! cant wait to try them out...but gotta wait till after the fasting month.

off to get krispy kream doughnuts now with mummy. ciao!

ps : khal, i'll post it soon! hee. lazy lah. haha

esther's grad

2006-10-14T01:35:00.000+10:00

Went to Esther's graduation yesterday.
Cant believe my ACJC friends are graduating!!! It really feels like just yesterday we finished A levels.....but 'wow' its actually almost 4 yrs ago... omg we're old!
The ceremony was at the Clayton campus. Yongsi met me at the train station and gave me a ride to the campus. We met Denise there. And so....the four 2SB3 melbournites were together yet again! haha.
Had dinner with esther's family afterwards (felt a bit pai seh)...but the food was really good...seafood claypot rice! Then we took the train back to the city and there was this dodgy, loud, had-too-much-vodka-for-dessert aussie punk on the train making trouble. He didnt hurt anyone...just making a lot of noise. idiot.

I meant to do work today...but i went shopping instead! hahaha. bought 3 giordano tops for 20 bucks total! so happy! i got home just before dinner, and it suddenly hit me that i have only 3 days to my final submission. aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. good thing i havent bought FIFA07 yet.

so true its scary

2006-10-05T11:09:00.000+10:00

i'll be one of the first people to slam the idea that "our destiny is controlled by the stars", or "because u were born on so-and-so day, your life will turn out as such...blah...blah".
But i took one of these random tests where u input your birthday and the computer generates all manner of information about that date, like your star sign, birth stone, zodiac....etc. One in particular was so true about me its actually kinda creepy...

Your birth tree is:

Chestnut Tree, the Honesty
Of unusual beauty, does not want to impress, well-developed sense of justice, vivacious, interested, a born diplomat, but irritable and sensitive in company, often due to a lack of self-confidence, acts sometimes superior, feels not understood, loves only once, has difficulties in finding a partner.

try it out.
http://www.paulsadowski.com/BirthData.asp

UNIGAMES!

2006-10-02T17:38:00.000+10:00

alice, allison, cam, me, elaine

Day 1:
i met up with elaine at her place and we both got a ride with allison to the airport. I had to walk about 1km with a big backpackers-style bag....and it totally drained me! so not combat fit now. oh how i dread reservice...
anyways...moving on. we got the airport and met alice and cam there and surprise, surprise, found that they were on the same flight as us. just as well, bcos one of cam's frens had rented a car in adelaide, so when we touched down we got a free ride to the hotel!
the hotel was nice...BUT! cam and i got put into the smallest room. (or at least thats what it seemed) everyone else's room appeared bigger than ours. there was only one queen-sized bed, but luckily the hotel soon provided us with another single bed so we didnt have to sleep brokeback-style. nothing much happened on day 1. we went to the supermarket to stock up on supplies and had an early night.

alice, elaine, sofie, allison, bry

me, hamish, cam

Day 2:
Woke up at 9am and went for a walk. there are really nice parks in adelaide! but the birds are evil. one attacked me and landed on my head.
We all met up at 12pm and caugt a bus to the race venue at flinders university.
The race? 12km cross country. The course? the most boring-arse course u could imagine... 6 x 2km. super sian. and part of the course was on very uneven terrain which made it that much more annoying.
ran a 48min...not too good. thats 4min per km....
It was a horrible race... there are only a few times in my life that ive felt more shag after a race. But we got a team silver medal, so it wasnt all for nothing. Went back to the hotel and got a massage. (my first ever massage...seriously) Then we went out for dinner to this supposedly nearby place that ended up being 45 mins walk!!! and the food wasnt too great either. i had a pasta that was too creamy and too salty. bleah.

before

after

Day 3:
The day of the dreaded 10000m.
woke up feeling SORE from the 12km the day before. the massage helped...but not much.
I was feeling very reluctant to do the 10km....but cam was doing it too, so i figured what the heck, why not.
10000m on the track is boring boring boring multiplied to the power of infinity.
i had to stop a couple of times and stretch my ITB which was beginning to hurt, prob from running on too much uneven terrain the day earlier.
ran a 39.20....again not so good. just under 4min per km pace, which for 10000m is not fast enough. Cant quite remember what i did the rest of the day. haha. i think we stayed at the track and watched some other races before going out to dinner. oh ya! now i remember...haha. we went to another pasta place. much closer to the hotel this time, and better food too.

tram to the beach!

Day 4:
rest day! no races for me!
went to the beach with cam, sofie and elaine in the morning. unfortunately i was fasting, and coundnt eat the fish n chips by the beach.
we went to support some other people who were racing in the afternoon, and i managed to sneak in a bit of shopping into the day too.
at night we went to this ice cream place called Cold Rock that sofie was going on and on about. i must say, its the best damn ice cream ive ever had. EVER! what happens is u choose a flavour of ice cream and a topping (for example, an oreo cookie), and they actually mash and beat the two together on the counter top in front of u. haha. its great! and it tastes oh so yummy. needless to say, that wasnt my last trip to cold rock.

COLD ROCK ROCKS!

Day 5:
steeplechase!
looking back, the steeplechase was fun. but running it....NOT FUN. haha. why do they have to make to steeples so $%#& high?? i was like the second shortest person in the race, and at some points i had to use my hands and literally CLIMB over the steeple. so not pro. haha. but i definitely want to try it again. im sure i can do a better time. oh yea, i did a 11.28 btw....
poor cam injured his leg on one of the jumps. nothing major thank goodness...he should be back training in a week or so.
again...cant quite recall what we did at night. hmm...

Day 6:
We had to get up early and meet up at 9am in the lobby to head down to the road relay. We showed up at the race course, and there was only one other team there!! hahaha. apparently, the other teams had gotten too boozed the night before and couldnt wake up. hahaha.
the course was 5km, and once again, it was a boring 6 laps of a horse racing track. it was a fast course, though, and i got a good time...17.59. i suspect its a little under 5km, but i dont care! i'll take what i can get! haha.
we got back to the city at around 12 and had lunch at this really nice italian cafe. i had a seafood pizza...and it was WOOO!!! nothing like a good pizza after a hard run.
spent the rest of the afternoon walking ard and shopping. haha. but in the end i only bought a couple of plain tees for 27 bucks. (the thought of saving for my road bike was ever-present in my mind)
i've got so much to write about friday night! we had a HUGE clubbing session!!
but i gotta go break fast now, so i'll dedicate an entire post to friday night soon!

MUACXC end of season bbq...and off to adelaide!

2006-09-23T19:59:00.000+10:00

the white train!

MUACXC had an end of season bbq today. was so fun!!
ive said it before, but this grp of runners are really nice people. its great to hang out with them at these social events, cos we dont get to talk so much during training when everybody's so shag. haha.
Roly and Hamish prepared this absolutely hillarious presentation that recapped the season. They're so funny! they should be stand-up comedians...i think they'd make a lot of money off it.
And of course we started getting excited about adelaide and talking about all the parties that we're gonna go to there. haha. Monica was like super excited about all the parties...she was telling elaine and me how she had to sit on her suitcase to close it! haha. I havent even started packing!! shit... must start real soon.
Still not confirmed what events i'll be running for unigames. At the moment my schedule is like :
Monday - Cross country (6km?)
Tues - 10000m
Thurs - 3000m steeplechase.
But i found out today that someone pulled out of the 800m, so i might want to run that! I prefer these shorter track races. Not too sian. haha. its painful but over quickly.
Hopefully can squeeze in a bit of sight seeing too. Definitely want to hit the beach!!

ah...better go pack now! updates n pics in a week!! ta

a tan at the TAN

2006-09-16T23:02:00.000+10:00

today was the last race of the winter season. its kinda sad...i really enjoyed the winter season. Ive always been more of a cross country runner...i like it more than short track races. so knowing that there wont be any more such races till march next year is kind of a bummer.
I will still do the summer season tho (the track season)... wanna try out some events like 1500m and 3000m steeplechase. (satiish! gimme some tips!)

yeap, so today was the final winter race, the TAN relays. i dunno why its called "tan". probably is an acronym for something but i dunno wat. haha. Its a 3.88km route, and each person runs one round only. Its FAST n FURIOUS! oh...and crowded also! had to dodge n weave my way thru other competitors at some points. It felt much shorter than 3.88 tho... compared to running macritchie 4.8 back home, this lap seemed much much faster.

I aimed to do a 14min... and ended up with a 13.36...yay!
originally i was supposed to run in division 5 (there are 7 divs, with div 1 being the best)...but there werent enough runners, so i got bumped up to div3!! the other 4 ppl in my team were pro! i was slated to run the last lap, so i got to see the times of the ppl before me...and they were FAST! they all did ard 13mins flat! so i was like 'oh shit...if i do 14mins plus its gonna look bad.' luckily managed to go under 14mins. phew.

most of the ladies had a good run. some clocking under 14mins!! which is just utter madness. and for the div one guys, some did 11min plus. again...CRAAAZZZY!!

Dave brought many pieces and sizes of our new club t-shirt. its called the "white train"....something like "le blue train" from tour de france, but this time its runners. looks really cute! haha. he even brought really small sizes "for our kids". hahaa. damn funny! we all wore the t-shirt and took photos. i heard they looked really good! will post them once i get my hands on them.

its really nice hanging out with the running bunch. they're all such nice, easy going people. cant wait to go for unigames with them in a week! its gonna be so much fun!
ah...but gotta do my essay b4 then. i read a few books this week... will prob start writing on monday, but i write very..............very..................slowly...................

one, two, cha cha cha

2006-09-12T09:49:00.000+10:00

Crystal's dance exhibition was fun!
We left the city at around 12pm...caught a ride in a maxi-cab with esther, crystal, and crystal's friend jacklyn and her parents. The place we went to was quite far away from the city in this suburb called forest hills...its about 40mins drive. The actual ballroom itself is right smack in the middle of a housing estate, which is kinda weird...but its a very beautiful location. I can imagine the place being used for small weddings. It only seats about 100-150 ppl, so much less than the void deck weddings in spore *cough cough*.

The event had only just started when we got there, but crystal n jacklyn's first performances werent till about an hour after the start, so we were making good time. I was quite skeptical at first as to whether i'd enjoy watching ppl dance for hours, and i joked with crystal that i would bring my PSP with me...but i must say its very interesting to watch the pros dance! especially the HOT latin dances with the shart movements and questionable groping. (okay..im exaggerating)

We had a lunch break at around 3.30pm. (everyone else had pasta, but i had the vege meal which was just soup!! do they think vegetarians eat less or something???) anyways, as a result, i was really really hungry by dinner time, which was at about 8pm. dinner did not disappoint! it was a buffet. and it had oysters!!! (bennett! r u jealous?? i had FREE oysters!! hahaha)

Oh i must mention one thing. There was this slightly dodgy guy sitting at our table next to esther. He behaved a bit like a perv and constantly "touching" everybody. There was one instance where he (already quite drunk) grabbed esther's arm and pretended to nibble it cos he said he couldnt wait for dinner. I was sooooooooo pissed off, but i didnt wanna make a scene, so i just clenched my fists beneath the table and tried not to lose my cool. Luckily he didnt do it again or i think i might have seriously hit him. arrrggghh...wat a dickhead. Later on he got REALLY wasted and began shouting profanities....then he left (thank god), and the rest of the evening was peaceful.

Esther, jacklyn, her parents and myself caught a cab back to the city at ard 11pm. crystal stayed on the party with he dance mates. All in all, it was a really wonderful evening. Thanks crystal! I'll be there for your march showcase! (am i invited? haha)

ive posted the pics of the nite HERE

2 more wks to unigames!

2006-09-09T00:38:00.000+10:00

I went to Savers this morning. Its this place that sells second hand stuff (kinda like salvation army, but a lot BIGGER). Crystal has a dance presentation this sunday, and Esther and i are going to watch. Its from mid afternoon all the way till 9pm...looking forward to it! should be fun! Its a formal event, so have to dress up nicely ala ball-style. Thats why i went to savers...wanted to look for a shirt to match esther's dress. But her dress is this very unique colour so i ended up buying just a white shirt in the end. Ooooh, but i got a suit for super cheap! its second hand...only 17 bucks!!! and it fit me soooo perfectly! haha. so happy! now i suddenly feel the urge to go to more balls. hahaha. Met up with esther at night and went looking for a tie (since i couldnt match my shirt with hers, the next best thing was to match the tie). We found quite a close match in the end. and it was 25% off! but its damn funny...my tie costs 22 bucks, which is more than my suit! hahahaha.

going to the botanical gardens for training tmr morning. should be a nice change of location. usually we train at princes park, which is behind uni. im so sian of that place! haha. looking forward to the change of scenery. also bcos we are having a relay there (the botanical gardens) in a wks time, so we need to get familiar with the route. Each person runs one lap of the garderns, which is about 3.8km. Some of the ppl do it in under 12 mins!!! crazy lah... i'm aiming for 13.30.

its only 2 wks to uni games!! getting really excited! booked my ticket already. taking the morning flight with elaine on sun 24th sep at 9.10am, and back on sat 30th sep at 7pm. 6 days of holiday! wheeee!! BUT, this also means that i have to finish my history essay in the next 2 wks! which is no time at all considering ive barely started research. argh.

survived the half! new PB!!

2006-09-03T22:39:00.000+10:00

im so happy!!
i ran the half marathon without my knee guard, and my knee held up fine. was a little sore at the end, but thats to be expected. after a bit or stretching it felt fine.

but the best part is....i did a new PB!!! yippieeeee!!!

1hr 25min 30s

the course was really nice! although it was one of those "lap" courses (in this case, 3 x 7km laps), it didnt feel nearly as monotonous as i thought it would be. It rained super heavily at the start point, and we were freeeeezing!!! once the race got underway, though, the weather cleared up into a slight drizzle which lasted the whole race. It was actually quite nice to have the drizzle.

Lots of ppl in the club did PBs this time round. it was really good! and a couple of girls ran sub-1hr30mins!!!! i was like...whoa!! PRO!

gonna be really sore tmr morning. i can feel it already.
okie..gonna sleep now. its only 10.30pm but im so tired.

nite!

the HALF cometh!

2006-09-02T16:04:00.000+10:00

tmr is the half marathon!!

i feel so unprepared. only trained up to 15km...and that was only once!!
back in spore i would've done at least a couple of 18km runs by now. oh well...too late now. haha. hopefully it will be a good run. im not aiming for a good timing (though i wouldnt mind if by some miracle i did one!). hoping to finish is more like it...
this is the first race that i'll be doing without my knee guard...so im really praying that the knee holds up, if not its another couple months of laying off running. nooooooooo...i dun want to go thru that again!

wish me luck!

so chio!

2006-08-31T10:08:00.000+10:00

i have a new love....cycling!
been going ard the city quite a lot lately on my road bike. its so fun! a bit scary cos of those evil trams, but thats what makes it more exciting! haha.
theres a pro bike shop downstairs at my place, so i went there last wk to have a looksy. arrgghh all the road bikes are sooooooo cool! but damn ex la.... cheapest is like 1000+.
went online last nite to search for cheaper road bikes at various shops in the city (instead of doing my assignment). found one that was 800+ bucks...still ex, but thats the cheapest i could find thats good for starters.

shit la.... why do i always pick up sports that cost so much $$$??? in JC it was bowling, then running in NS(new asics shoe every year = 200 bucks), and now cycling! ahhhhhhh.
im really really interested in trying out triathlon next year. the more i hear my fren talk about it, the more interested i get! but gotta brush up on my swimming....cos, well, it sucks. after 30 laps of the 25m pool at my place im like half dead. i heard that the tri squad at uni swims 2-3 km during trainings! (i know...wtf!)
so heres my plan :
1. from now till feb next year, will start training up my swimming till i can swim (gasp) 2km non-stop.
2. save money from my part time job! and buy less comics! (oh thats gonna be tough...) if i can save 150 a month, and i work in sept, oct, nov, and jan....then by the time term starts in feb is hould have enuf to buy a road bike!
3. join tri squad during feb orientation!

sigh....im like totally not saving money for my future. everytime i get my paycheck i just blow most of it. i was supposed to use the money from this part time job to pay for my cartooning course next year, but now looks like its going into a bike. damn...am i making the wrong decisions? should i not be thinking about all this sporting stuff? after all, few years down the road, a cartooing course cert will be more valuable than a road bike. and its not like im super pro in sports and gonna do it professionally. just doing it for fun but its costing me so much money! sigh...decisions decisions.

(suresh, i think definitely no Man U jersey for me this year)

shit...been typing for quite a while now....back to work! assignment due later today!

4 more days to the half....

ultimate spidey 100!!!

2006-08-26T23:49:00.000+10:00

ive been collecting comics for about 6 years now...started way back when i was 16yrs old. and the first comic that i started collecting, the one that started it all, was a title called Ultimate Spiderman. at that time, Marvel were just starting their new Ultimate line, in which they were gonna "restart" the universes. and the first character they were gonna try it with was spidey. well, that was 6 years ago, and in a couple week's time, Ultimate Spiderman issue 100 will be out!!!! ive not missed a single issue since it debuted! so excited!! i preordered my copy already! woohoo! hahaha.

met up with my frens from the SSS today. we went to natalie's house to make laksa and bandung. were gonna sell it at the Festival of Nations in uni next week. but silly me bought the WRONG kind of rose syrup. in fact, it wasnt rose syrup at all...it just looked like it. argh...d'oh!

went for a 15km run this morning with jensen. (satiish u remember him? he was one of the cadets during AHM, when we were ocifers) was quite a fast paced run... the knee held up fine without wearing a knee guard. im so glad for that. no pain so far, so im considering risking not wearing a knee guard for the 21km next wkend. we'll see how...

going DFO tmr with esther, yongsi and my mom. i just got my salary on friday, so i have a bit of money to spend spend spend!! but must keep in mind that the variant cover for ultimate spidey 100 will cost about 30 bucks. im definitely getting it! i dun care! its issue 100!!! gotta start saving a bit for uni games...

2 wks to the half! oh no!

2006-08-23T08:20:00.000+10:00

less than 2 wks to the half marathon! yikes!
the farthest ive trained so far is only 10km. yeah....im so screwed. been telling myself to start clocking the mileage, but ive just procrastinated and procrastinated till now theres only 2 wks left. looking at my current condition, i'll be happy to do a 1.40.

went cycling down the coast on sunday with some frens. super fun! road cycling is great! we left the city at about 9am, then rode down to st kilda beach. the ride to st kilda sucks, cos there are lots of evil trams and heavy traffic and annoying padestrians. but once u get to the "beach road", its smooth sailing all the way. at some parts the wind was so strong, u kinda go "whoa!" and feel like you're gonna be lifted off the ground! the views are spectacular along the coast. wish we couldve gone further, but one of my frens had a skin irritation problem, so we had to stop and take a train back to the city. cant wait to go again this sunday!

school is a little less hectic this week. fewer assignments. but there are big ones coming up, and if i dont start now, i'll regret it later. i got my essay topic a week ago. went to the library yesterday to find books and already a lot of them have been loaned out! talk about KIASU!!! and if they're like me, they'll just hog the books and keep extending the loan period till the essay is over. heh heh.

nothing much else happening really. its been very routine lately. cant wait for the mid-sem break.....and UNI GAMES IN ADELAIDE! but my coach wants me to run 10000m on track! 25 rounds! omg....

finally...a break

2006-08-17T22:48:00.000+10:00

ah...ive been waiting for this day for several weeks now.
i only have one assignment to do this weekend. can u believe it?!?! only ONE!!!! woohoo!
finally, i can take some time off to start training again, go for a bike ride, read the new comic books that ive been neglecting, and maybe watch some TV!! its good....its real good.

still sick tho. the fever is more or less gone, but the sore throat is still bad. im glad the fever is gone tho, cos with it went the lethargic feeling as well. its good timing, cos im working tmr, and its no good waiting tables for 8 hrs with a fever.

i was so happy today. this year's issue of EYES (a magazine that showcases the best student work in the archi faculty of the past year) was released. I had submitted one of my projects for inclusion in the magazine earlier in the year, but i was told that i would probably only get a small portion of a page. so i was very pleasantly surprised to see that i had a whole page to myself! yay! that really made my day...especially after a long studio where once again i didnt get a very high mark for this wk's model making assignment.

its almost 11 now and im gonna sleep...and im not gonna set my alarm!!! haha. its been countless nights with 5 hrs sleep or less, so its about time i made up for it!

good nite folks!

TNA : Total Non-stop Architectural studies

2006-08-13T01:31:00.000+10:00

its 1.31am now.... and i FINALLY get a chance to post another blog entry.
i have seriously not had a minute's rest lately!
the course coordinators for this semester mustve been on crack when they came up with the workload...cos its way too much!
and its not just me.

just take a look at some of my archi fren's MSN nicks:

rachael : architorture
monkie : starting to feel the architect's life
justmich : die

over the past week, ive been sleeping at 2am, wake up at 7.30, do assignments, go to school, come home n do more assignments, go for running training, come home super shag but STILL have to finish assignments. argh... NEED BREAK!

thankfully this week's assignment (one of THREE for the week) was to make an 8-10 page comic book! YES! THATS RIGHT! make a COMIC BOOK!!! i'm loving it!
there's a catch tho...we cant just do it on ANYTHING we want. it has to be based on this placed called CROWN hotel in the city. we went to take photos of the place, and our comic is supposed to showcase the movt thru the spaces...or smthg like that.
who cares! its a comic book! yay!
trouble is, its due in one week! and one week is NO TIME at all to be writing and illustrating an 8-page comic book. i spent from 3pm till 1.30am today (yes, thats right...with only a break for dinner in between.) just pencilling it. still havent got into inking yet. my hand is damn pain n numb at the same time now. ah.....
and tmr have to get up at 7.30am again to do ANOTHER assignment. cant go on much longer like this....

some good news :
im meeting a guy tmr who wants to sell his road bike for less than $100. if its in good condition im gonna get it!! some frens of mine go cycling on sundays, so im hoping to join them.

Uni Games is in end sept!! its this yearly event where all the universities in australia come together to compete in sports. this year its in adelaide!! im gonna tryout for the 1500m, steeple, and 5km relay. the qualifying times are quite psycho, but im gonna give it a go. PRAY FOR ME!

thats all folks. take care my dear frens.
hopefully i can update this more regularly...

mari kita rakyat singapura...

2006-08-08T09:51:00.000+10:00

national day is tmr!!! hahaha. ive never been so patriotic in my life. but being on the spore student society committee means that i must spread the mood!! MARI KITA RAKYAT SINGAPURA... ahem ahem...

anyways...its been a busy as heck week. this semester has started in 5th gear!!! assignmetns are pouring in already!! just this week alone i had to build this weird cube-window-model thing (yes, its exactly as weird as it sounds), go down to some building in the city and draw plans for EVERY ONE of its 35 floors, and prepare a hist paper/presentation thats worth 20% of my overall mark for the subjust. supposed to meet up with my hist partner this morning, and i only just finished reading the reader last night!! die lah...shes gonna be pissed... saw her at lecture on monday and she had already finished the reading over the weekend and had made lots of notes n stuff. and im like..."erm....yeah....i'll uh.....read it tonight."

oh and I GOT A JOB!!
yay!
am gonna start work at this indonesian restaurant in the city on friday. i was very lucky to get this job cos there are only so few halal restaurants in the city. the manager said that he'll put me on 'trial' for the first 20 hrs, and then if all goes well, i can start working on a regular basis.
pray for me!

nothing much has changed on the whole "i dont want to be an architect" front. i STILL think i dont want to be an architect. im so indecisive. one week i may feel like drawing for MARVEL, and the next i feel like going off and doing some humanitarian effort-thing. i wish i had as clear a vision of where i was heading as some of the other students i know. i guess i do have an ultimate goal...... DRAW FOR MARVEL. but thats more than a far-fetched dream than a goal. need to think more realistically...

ok..running late for school!

...

2006-08-04T09:44:00.000+10:00

friday morning.
the beginning of the weekend.
the beginning of another torturous 3 days where i have to do assignment work, and comtemplate, even more, what direction my life is heading.
weekends arent nice. weekends suck.
during the weekdays, going to school keeps me busy. keeps my mind occupied. but the weekends are a different story. since i dont have sch on fridays, thats 72 hours of time to myself.
i cant turn back now, though.... already halfway thru my 2.5 year course. I must at least graduate with my first degree and find some work. i owe my parents that at least. But beyond that...i dunno. i want to be a comic book artist. sounds cheesy i know....but i really want to do it. and theres only one place to do that.....the states. sigh...am i wrong to have a dream like that? is it immature of me to wake up every morning wondering how much BETTER my life could be, when its already very good now? uncertainty......argh i hate uncertainty. the future is a scary place...its rolling towards me everyday at breakneck speed, and i cant see more than 3 feet in front of me. i think i need psychiatric help...... some moments im super happy, and 5 mins later i can slump into a completely depressive state, and not feel like talking to anybody. tell me im not crazy? is that crazy? oh no.....im going crazy.

2SB3 nite out in melb!

2006-07-30T10:21:00.000+10:00

hey everyone!
sorry but this is a very delayed post.

a week ago, we had a little sb3 gathering here in melbourne. Bennett and Evelyn came from singapore to join the usual suspects of yongsi, esther, denise and myself.

I dunno who came up with the idea to wear our sch uniforms (esther? haha), but yeah....we WORE OUR ACJC UNIFORMS!! hahahahaha...and went to eat a buffet at Crown Casino.
It was so nice to hang out with friends that you feel so comfortable with. Friends who dont judge you, and whom u know u can talk to about anything and everything. Its amazing how after all these years, when we get together, we are STILL the same ppl. still talking nonsense and still lauging at all manner of lame jokes. i miss ACJC!!!!

ok, i'll let the pics tell the rest of the story! enjoy!

PICS HERE!

l dont like mornings

2006-07-30T10:15:00.000+10:00

sunday morning. yawn.

i dont like the weekends anymore. theres too much time to do nothing. feels like im not accomplishing anything and my life is passing me by. as u can see, mornings are NOT my fav time of day. i like evenings...sunsets.

went to Crown casino to have dessert yesterday nite with Crystal n Ah Yen... passed by this Warner Bros shop and Crys pointed out that they were hiring at the moment!!! Gonna go for an interview on monday. ahhh....i so so so so want that job!!! working in the WB store, surrounded by stuffed toys and not to mention superman n batman merchandise....its like a dream job. (probably ranking as high on my job-wish-list as max brenner)

yesterday, went to esther's drama performance at church. she was an angel...literally. nice! unfortunately, silly me forgot to bring my camera. d'oh!

back

2006-07-27T08:24:00.000+10:00

hey everyone.

its been almost a month since the last post. sorry!
now that im back in melb and sch is starting again, the blog will be updated more regularly.

tasmania pics and pics from the sb3 uniform nite out will be posted soon.

right now i just dun feel like doing anything. im so sian....
every morning over the past few days when i wake up, i think about what i will be doing in the future. its probably not a good idea to worry about the future too much, and just take it day by day, but i cant help but worry about where i'll be in a few yrs time. most of this i think has to do with my course.

last semester when i started out, architecture was like rEALLY waht i wanted to do. but now that ive dived into it for a year, and seen snippets of what the industry is like....it scares me. cant help but worry that if i dun make it as an architect, i CANT DO ANYTHING ELSE!!! its too specialised. u know that "calling" that doctors have...like they WANT to be doctors....well, i dun feel that at the moment. its as if i just keep going on n on, day after day, rolling forward towards an inevitable outcome that i cant hide from.

bleah....i dunno. like i said.....really sian rite now.

life ahead seems so uncertain. what am i doing???? i dunno..... waht is my purpose in life???? i dunno....

4 more years here is a very very long time. and im not even sure if its what i want to do. to quote someone..."nothing is worse than uncertainty. your soul leaves you."

sooperman

2006-06-28T18:26:00.000+10:00

finally after years n years of waiting...superman returns is opening tmr!!!!
and of course ive got my tickets booked already! im not taking any chances with this one.
x-men or spiderman i can afford to watch week after opening.
but for superman, HELL NO!
its gotta be opening day! no questions asked!
and so we come to it at last....JUNE 29th 2006!!!

other things ive been up to when im not counting down the seconds to tmr.

1. went for a run yesterday. it was horrible. ive learnt one thing....dont run after u have taken a nap in the aircon. your body will be too cold n not warmed-up yet. when i ran i felt as though i was running thru a furnace. not a good feeling. its nice to feel shag after a run cos it gives u a sense of accomplishment. but if u feel pain, then something is wrong. and yesterday i felt PAIN. was gasping for breath even as i was walking home after the run. not gonna do that again...

2. been reading this comic called Y:The Last Man. Its about a plague that kills every since male creature on the planet, except for one man named Yorrick BRown. the story is about how yorrick journeys accross the world to get to his girlfriend in australia, while along the way also discovering why is it he was the only man spared. There are 7 collected trades now on sale....i bought the first one from kino the other day and ive finished reading it already. as usual, it ended on a bloody cliffhangar so now i have no choice but to buy the next set. im more than happy to do it tho..hehe.

3. my body clock is totally screwed. been watching both soccer matches for two days straight now. and somehow the afternoon naps are not making up for the loss of sleep. i feel tired ALL DAY LONG now. thats not good.... especially when driving with the air con blowing at my face.

4. need to start practicing my AutoCad. brought the CD back to spore n told myself that i will do it in my free time. still havent gotten down to doing it yet. i want to start, but there are so many other distractions...PSP, comics, world cup. ahhhhhh. truth is im just too lazy to do it.

yawn. im sleepy again.
oh well, might as well take another nap.
the more i sleep, the sooner it will be to tmr.....and the sooner i can watch SOOOPERMAN RETURNS!!!!!

one week back in humidity central

2006-06-25T13:52:00.000+10:00

phew!
finally after almost a week back home, i have time to blog...

been going out almost every day this wk...wait.....make that EVERYDAY.

monday - went to help Lala at her workplace, then went lau pasat for dineer
tues - went out with mom cos she took the day off, then watched WC with suresh at nite
wed - went to airport to pick up satiish, then hung out the whole day with him
thurs - whole day spent with satiish n marie preparing for the bbq, which was at night
fri - cleaned up the bbq stuff in the morning and went to meet khalsom at orchard in the afternoon.
sat - went queensway with satiish, then macritche to run, then thompson to eat. (nasi goreng ikan bilis! POWER!)
sun - morning REST! FINALLY! malay wedding in the afternoon.

damn shag now. haha.

was supposed to play a soccer match this morning but it was cancelled cos we couldnt get enuf players. just as well, im still reeling from the middle-of-the-afternoon macritchie run with satiish yesterday, and my ankle hurts too. so thanks to the cancelled match, i have the time to relax this morning, before i have to head off to a malay wedding later this afternoon.

just spoke to crystal last nite and she said the tazzie trip is confirmed!!! yay!!!!!
cant wait for that!

still have a good 3 more weeks in spore. 1st week went by so fast! i cant believe its already sunday again. but the faster time goes, the sooner it will be the opening of SUPERMAN RETURNS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

3 days!

2006-06-15T20:48:00.000+10:00

its thursday already!
im going home on sunday!
wooohooooooooo!!!

tmr is my last paper. its an mcq paper....120 mcqs. bcos of that i feel so lazy to study. i think today i studied a grand total of one hour. damn. no motivation la.... in the back of my head all i can think of is going home on sunday. ive even done most of my packing already! haha.

im bored now. i dun feel like doing anymore practise-mcq questions, and world cup doesnt start for another 2 hrs...
so to kill time, i shall come up with a list of thing to eat when i get back!!

(not in order of preference)
1. mushroom swiss
2. chicken rice. (the one at rex and the one at far east)
3. roti prata! omg this one on the way back from the airport i'll stop at jalan kayu n eat already!
4. pizza (one with a lot of MEAT)
5. pasta mania fussilli arrabiatta with a shit load of cheeeeeeeese (suresh, its time!)
6. mom's cooking! hehe
7. big mac meal
8. seoul garden
9. nasi goreng ikan bilis (east coast and thompson)
10. cheese prata @ thompson
11. nasi lemak
12. cheese fries @ kfc (satiish, we must go to the suntec one again. hahaha)
13. chicken chop w/rice @ ang mo kio
14. lontong! (but dunno where to get nice one.....anybody? help?)
15. indian rojak (the one near ntu)
16. cook house food! (hahahaha. if i can...just for old time sake)
17. teh bing! (not a food, but i wanna have it sooooo bad!)

k la...thats it for now. cant think already. thats quite a list tho. its good to plan ahead. haha.

best. commercial. ever.

2006-06-14T11:49:00.000+10:00

i was just browsing thru youtube.com today when i chanced upon this very old nike commercial. i think its one of the best, if not THE best one ever!!

u gotta check this out. im sure you'll remember it.

http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRjiawSZrT8&search=cantona%20nike

aussie aussie aussie! oi! oi! oi!

2006-06-13T12:40:00.000+10:00

Went to watch the world cup match btw australia and japan last night at the BIG screen at federation sq with esther. It was maaaaaaaad!
The atmosphere was amazing! We got there about half an hour before kick off, and the square was already totally packed!!! remember those images of a sea of red koreans in world cup 2002? yeah, it was exactly like that!!! there mustve been thousands of people there. luckily we managed to squeeze a bit here n there n get good places up the front. nobody was sitting down tho...everyone stood up thru the full match!!! felt sorry for esther cos i asked her to come along, and she had to stand the whole match. Thanks esther!

oh there was one japanese flag in the crowd...which was quite surprising...in the midst of hordes of screaming, and possibly drunk, australians. pity them...hope they didnt get bashed up. haha.
neways....what a match! down 1-0 till the 84th minute...then up stepped CAHILL!!!! 3 goals in the last 5 mins! DAAAAAAAAMMN!!!!!! everyone went crazy. there were even flares!!! like those that u see in LaLiga or Serie A matches. dunno if thats legal or not. oh well, the police didnt do anything. hahaa.

after the match, people were just going insane on the streets. traffic literally could not move cos there was a sea of people blocking the main intersection of the city. picture thousands of raving fans at the intersection of orchard n scotts road....and cars honking away as far as can be heard. thats what the atmosphere was like. damn i cant imagine what it must be like to be in germany!!! okok...new addition to "things to do b4 i die". gotta watch a world cup final match live.

got home at about 2am after sending esther home, and watched the USA vs czech republic match till about 3am. czech were leading at half time by 2-0, and we all know USA sucks too bad to come back from that, so i went to sleep. wouldve caught the italy matchat 4am, but i had to wake up early today to study. =(
exam is tomorrow. haha...yes exams are still going on amidst all this soccer. im quite worried actually. i dun feel as prepared as i was last sem. oh well.... we shall see. if its meant to be, its meant to be. hahaha. fate can be a good thing when it works to your convenience.

kk...lunch time. ive posted the rest of the photos of last nite in my photo gallery above.

5 more days! just 5 more days!!!!!!!
cya all soooooooon! =)

ouch

2006-06-09T10:10:00.000+10:00

i'm typing this post with only my right hand.
left hand is currently incapacitated.
reason? pen knife accident.
i was so proud of the fact that ive gone almost 1 yr in archicourse without any penknife cuts.
well, now i have one... =(
quite a bad one actually.... managed to slice off a chunk of my finger. ok lah, a chunk is exaggeratin. but it definitely had volume. and it went down to the whatchamacallit beneath the skin. tendons? muscles? wateva...im not a doc.
neways....now i cant play FIFA!!!!! cos i cant press the "WSAD" keys on the keyboard without having to use my index finger. argh! maybe its a blessing. yes, i think it is.

shit. i cant seem to stop the blood from flowing.... used dunno how many plasters n cotton balls already.
maybe i'll try letting it just bleed till the blood coagulates n clots naturally.

look ma! no skin!

12 days...

2006-06-06T21:28:00.000+10:00

HISTORY DONE!!!!!
paper went rather well. although there was this one question that i totally left blank cos i had no clue what it was talking about. mustve been from one of the lectures that i fell asleep or 'zhaoed'. haha. all in all, i left 18 marks blank. sounds quite bad but its not really. im pretty confident about the other 82 marks that i DID answer. should be able to pass...no probs. yay!

going out for dessert now! esther wants me to try this pizza-banana-chocolate thing. sounds awesome! hahaha.

12 days...

2006-06-06T09:15:00.000+10:00

Superman presents an MTV movie award to Batman!!! Tell me that isnt cool as heck!!

13 days...

2006-06-05T12:04:00.000+10:00

ahhhhhhhhh!!! first paper tmr!!!!
stress stress panic panic!!

BUT!

going home in less than 2 wks!!
cant wait!!

15 days...

2006-06-03T18:44:00.000+10:00

just got back from the frankston race....
omg it was terrible....took pain to a whole new level.
the terrain was like the first half of macritchie....only this time it was ALL THE WAY.
lots of little annoying hills that screw up your rhythm....
so so so glad its over now.
on the last lap (it was 4 x 4km laps) i dont think ive ever been in that much pain in a run. the army half marathons were pain, and the full marathon too....but this one was somehow worse. i felt as though i was literally gonna pass out of exhaustion. but the girls' race was first, so by the time the men were running, they were cheering us on. so i couldnt stop or just collapse along the way...pai seh ah....haha.

neways...did a 68m 14s for 16km.....was pretty satisfied. i was aiming for anything under 70 mins. and given the harsh terrain, im happy with the timing. no doubt i still finished second last compared to the other men in the running club, but i kinda got used to that already. haha. not being last is a good thing unto itself.

ah....now i can flop onto the sofa, whip out my ta-pao dinner and watch TV....yay!

15 days...

2006-06-03T10:07:00.000+10:00

just about to head off for the Frankston race now..
ankle/shin still hurts from tuesday's training.
spoke to my coach...he said it may be a shin spleen but i wont know till it gets worse...argh.
ive never had a shin spleen before, but from what i head, its a real bitch n takes a while to heal.
been resting it since tuesday, but yesterday i had to walk about 20min to the mosque on an uphill, and it started to hurt again.
crap
gonna wear an ankle guard today.....16km......hope it holds up.
getting old lah...hahahaha

alrighty then. *takes in deep breath*. lets go bring on the pain.

16 days...

2006-06-02T10:36:00.000+10:00

argh!
i cant seem to shake this feeling of 'un-afraidness' (witness the depth of my vocabulary) that im feeling. I should be worried! very worried! history exam is in 4 days and i havent even finished reading thru my reader ONCE! by this time last sem, i had read it thru once, highlighted the impt stuff, and was halfway thru my second reading.

im getting too slack

there just too many distractions. HAH! excuses, iylia!
but its true!
studying away from home helps. went out to study last nite with some frens till about 10pm. that was the most productive 3 hrs of my day. had i not gone out to study with them, i'd have prob spent the time on my couch, eating chips and watching LOST. argh. its bad....i have little motivation to study. just wanna get these papers over with and get my ass back to spore!

comic book shipment was delayed this week. grrr..... something about memorial day in the states. damn ah-mericans.

17 days...

2006-06-01T11:52:00.000+10:00

asian architecture is boring!
i miss history in sec sch....about world war 2 and the nazis. (not that im for their kinda thing..) but it was interesting!
now im reading about things like the chinese immigration into australia....the accounts of some i-cant-remember-who in i-cant-remember-which-part-of-asia in i-cant-remember-what-situation.
i shldnt complain tho....my reader is only 150 pages long. thats nothing compared to the arts and law students. they read like 100 pages a week! holy crap.... salute to them.

going for a race at frankston this sat. 16km...
thought it would be a nice, scenic route since frankston is by the beach....but it turns out the course is 4 X 4km laps. SIAN!! argh... sure to get lapped on the last lap by some psychos.

17 more days n its out of the freezer n into the oven! whee!

20 days....

2006-05-29T11:05:00.000+10:00

the weekend went by so fast!
my lovely slacking weekend is over! nooooooooooooooooo
back to reality
time to start doing what we sporeans do best....MUG MUG MUG.

gotta do hist today....argh.
for this im gonna need some serious coffee.

lost!!

2006-05-27T10:08:00.000+10:00

was supposed to go to yarra bend park for training this morning.
didnt know where it was, so i looked it in an online map.
BUT!
i read the map scale wrong! (this is what happens when u get posted as an admin officer)
thought it was about 2km away...so i figured i could jog there instead of spending 2 bucks on a tram ticket. and after all, 2km would be a good warm-up for training.
BUT!
it ended up being about 6-7km away!!
when i got there i was so shag.....i told my coach i couldnt take part in the training, and instead took a very very slow jog back home.

oh, did i mention...
NO MORE ASSINGMENTS!!!!
ha.

gonna take the weekend off and just relax. will start work again on monday. first paper is the 6th, so theres enough time to bum around for the moment. =p

and...i watched X3 yesterday!!!! it whoops ass! dunno if its as good as X2, but its better than MI:3 for sure. NOTE:if you're going to watch X3, when the credits roll at the end, DONT LEAVE THE THEATRE. stay till the credits are over. theres a 30 sec clip at the end thats really impt!!! you'll regret it if u miss it!

forever young...i want to be forever young

2006-05-26T08:58:00.000+10:00

wednesday was the first anniversary of my 21st birthday.

(shhh! that means i'm 22)

didnt do much to whole day. wed was right smack in btw assignments, so most of my morning was spent trying to cough up words for my hist essay.

BUT! esther n the gals gave me a wonderful surprise in the evening!
they came over with a cake n nice indian food!!
thank gals! that was really wonderful...totally made my day!

today is friday. the LAST DAY OF THE SEMESTER!!!! WEEEHOOOOOOO!!
gonna hand in my last two assignments today!
once i chuck them into the assignment chute, thats it! no more crappy assignments!!
exams dont start till 6th june, so im gonna give myself a break and do NO studying over the weekend. ah...can catch up on some OC, LOST, ps2, running.....haha listen to me, i sound like my exams are over already.

essay..

2006-05-21T11:31:00.000+10:00

gotta write 1200 words today! ahhhhhhhh

somebody saaaaaaaave meeeeeeeeee

oh my.....

2006-05-17T22:47:00.000+10:00

holy geekedy-geek-geek-geekedy hell yeah! i want to watch this movie NOW!
NOW, I SAY!

dot dot dot...

2006-05-17T12:38:00.000+10:00

hey frens.
yes, once again i have neglected my blogging for over a wk now.

(cue trademark iylia excuse)

I WAS TOO BUSY!

hahahahahaha.

this week has has been, and is shaping up to be, HELL WEEK. (ok la...so its not as bad as "hell week" that those crazy NDU ppl go thru...not being able to sleep for a week and having to crap their pants in training cos they can only go to the toilet once a day. at least i can take a crap as and when i like) But here's how my next couple of weeks is shaping up to be...

Today: Construction Tech 2A presentation
Thurs: Archi Design 2A presentation.
Friday: CT1A postcards submission (day), Melb Athletics Annual Ball (night)
Next Tues: Asian Archi folio submission (12 x watercolour drawings)
Next Thurs: Asian Archi Essay submission (1500 words...and ive only written 200 =p)

and finally......(the one and only good news)....

Next Friday: XMEN 3 OPENS!!!!!! woohooooohoooooo! perfect way to end the sch term.

sigh....but gotta get thru hell first.
ok...time to prepare for presentation. ho hum.

great train race

2006-05-07T18:11:00.000+10:00

I just got back from the Great Train Race!
It was very fun!....although the weather was terrible. I woke up at 6am and the sky was loooking very dark and ominous. By the time i left the apartment at 7, there was a slight drizzle...and by the time i got to uni it had become a larger drizzle. A few of us met at uni and carpooled to the race, which is somewhere in the dandenongs i believe. Its about 1hr away from the city, so its very suburban. Not to the extent of sheeps n farmstays, but its still a fair way out from the city.

When we got to the startline. the drizzle had developed into light rain. I had to put my warm jacket n tracksuit in a plastic bag and deposit it into a truck that would bring all the stuff to the endpoint. So there i was....in just my running singlet n shorts....in the 15 degree cold, with rain slowly but persistently soaking my clothes. I did some warm-up jogs which didnt serve to warm me up very much, then proceeded to the startline with a couple of friends.

At the stratline, while waiting for the race to be flagged off, it started POURING!! and everyone starting making lots of noise...not in the angry mob way, but in a fun-spirited way. it was great!! The rain continued thru the entire race, although it did subside as the race went on.

for the record, I BEAT THE TRAIN!! woohoooo. i didnt think that i could. I was telling myself in the beginning that i would just treat this as a fun run, cos the timing to beat seemed a little out of my reach. but as the race went on, i felt on form and decided to give it a try. In the end, the train did 54m50sec for 13.2km.....and i did 54m18sec. towards the end of the course, i was almost sprinting alongside the train to get to the finish line...and ppl in the train were cheering us on. it was great!

oh and on the way home, my friend's car started making weird noises and the engine temp was real high! so we pulled over and added water into the radiator, which then started spewing out steam!! haha...it was funny and scary at the same time, cos we were still very far from civilisation at the time.

i'm back home now of course...just woke up from a nap and gonna start working for the rest of the evening. had to wash n scrub all my running attire n shoes just now cos they were drenched in mud! the running course is part-tarred road, part-macritchie-like dirt terrain....so u can imagine after a downpour how muddy it got!

despite christian's gestures, that cant be a good thing...

free comic book day

2006-05-06T16:49:00.000+10:00

today, sat 6th may, is free comic book day all over the world! how this works is basically, on this day, anyone can go to a comic book store, and pic ONE comic book from a selected list, and its absolutely freeeeee!

i went down to the comics store at windsor with crystal, and we both each picked up a comic. then we came back to the city to another comic store to pick up another two comics. but she only reads archie, and since there were no archie comics available in the city store, she let me have her entitlement to one issue! woohooo! so i ended up with THREE free comics at the end of the day!

the best things in life ARE free

Superbloke! (outside the windsor comic store)

the force is strong with this one

once an AO always an AO.

2006-05-06T00:09:00.000+10:00

guess wat!

i am now officially on the committee of the Singapore Students Society!! hahahahaha.

they recently had the elections for the 2006/2007 committee, and i was running for the post of Activites Officer, which means that i (and two other activities officers) organise...erm.....activites for the SSS throughout the year.

its funny....when i was in OCS HQ, i was the Admin Officer for the weapons team, and hence my title was AO for short. now, its AO again! hahahahaha. i know...thats lame. but its very amusing to me...heh.

tired

2006-05-05T23:56:00.000+10:00

ah...its friday night.
its raining...its dark...and its cold.
whoever said autumn was the most beautiful time to be in melbourne, was obviously mistaken.
so far, autumn has been nothing but wet streets, irritating drizzles that never seem to go away, piling assignments, and well...u get the picture.

ok...so its not so bad. at least its nice to run in this weather. much better than running in summer. but pretty soon its gonna get reeeaaaaaaally cold. hopefully by then i'll be back in sunny spore! yay!

was supposed to go out for dinner with esther, crystal n yen tonight...but it rained, and yen couldnt make it last min....so we had to cancel. ended up doing work at home instead, which wasnt too bad cos i have a butt load of assignmetns to finish by next week. spent 4 hrs tonight drafting while watching back to the future part 1 and 2. haha. borrowed the DVDs from crystal. these movies never get stale.

its 12am now but i dun feel sleepy yet. prob cos i slept in lecture today...hehe. ah...but it feels good to have done 4 hrs of work. maybe its just some psychological thing, but i wont feel guilty if i watch 2 hours of X-files now. my brain is telling me that ive earned it.

gloomy wednesday

2006-05-03T11:00:00.000+10:00

wednesdays are the worst days of the week.
its mid week, and sch doesnt start till 3pm....so im left bumming in my apartment alone all morning, with little or no motivation to start studying.

blah... i dun feel like typing much today. sorry guys.

oooo...lantern

2006-05-01T20:55:00.000+10:00

just got my exam timetable today, and thank god....its GOOD!!
couldnt be much better really.
school ends on 27th may, and then theres one week of SWOT(studies without teaching) vacation for a week. The exam period is officially from 5-23 june....so if youre unlucky, u can get an exam on the last day!!!! and i was praying that this wouldnt happen to me cos im booked on a flight back to spore on 20th june!
ah....but luckily all is well.
my first paper is on 6th june (Asian Archi History) and my next two papers for construction technology are on 14th and 16th. that gives me more than one wk to study for each paper. sweeeeeeeeeet.
but from now till then, still have a lot of assignments to be done, and i've just about got off my butt and started doing them....cos time is running out!!!
one of the most stupid assignments is due this friday....im supposed to make a lantern. argh! like kindergarten!!!!! oh well, its better than writing an essay....
speaking of which, i havent started on my hist essay. but thats not due till 26th may, so i can still procrastinate without feeling too worried. heeeheee.

ah..ok.... lantern time....

post-run

2006-04-29T18:18:00.000+10:00

Melb Uni Athletics Club mens runners

post-run pig out!

ah...my 2nd race of the season is over. 6km relay at Yarra Bend. Its a really nice park, but the course was full of tight turns!!! It felt like i was watching formula 1 on tv.

Anyways, i did a 24mins flat...which is actually quite bad. Maybe it was the flu....haha. here i go making excuses. OH but one thing that definitely DID slow me down was the fact that i ran off course!! There werent many ppl ard me at the time, and i veered into this dirt track down into the woods cos i thought that was the right way. Its only after about 15 seconds that a marshaller yelled out to me to get back on the runnning route! argh! (satiish, now i know how it feels. =p)

so tired now. totally spent.....
gonna have dinner then try to get started on some work. will prob do something easy tonight that i can work on while watching TV. Ocean's 11 is on. nice. hmmm....maybe some watercolouring for my Asian Archi module.

flu

2006-04-27T16:59:00.000+10:00

argh

what a rotten time to get sick...got a 6km relay this sat.

gonna drink lots of water and hopefully pee all the germs out of my system.

eeeww.

sch work's starting to heat up too. Just barely managed to hand in my assignment today. (the one that i thought was due on 19th may. phew! that was too close...) And very promtly received a NEW assignment! yay....hurray.... worth 55% of the grade. but this one is due on may 25th. this time im SURE OF IT! hahaha.

mid wk blues

2006-04-26T13:07:00.000+10:00

really felt sad yesterday.
dunno y... was sitting in my apartment alone, staring at my comic books on the shelf.....and it hit me that i'll be here for a long time to come. All the things that have been happening of late have only served to compound this miserable feeling.
I miss home....
luckily its already end april, and soon i'll be back to the sunshine of spore!

but thats only temporary happiness. what about the future?..... i used to be so certain of where i was headed. i would graduate from archi, get a PR, get a job here....blah blah. now all that seems so hazy. I cant see anything past this semester, and maybe i dont want to. I'm afraid of what will happen, because im not sure if i want it.

bah

hopefully this feeling will pass. exams are coming soon so that should keep my mind occupied. also have 3 races over the next 3 weekends. running is good therapy, cos when you're gasping for breath, life doesnt seem so bad. its quite sadistic, but thats the way i see it.

one good piece of news this week... i got one of my models published in a university magazine! yay! its not much...but my name will be printed there n all. haha its a start...

hang in there guys. exams almost over.

D'oh! D'oh! D'oh!

2006-04-25T09:58:00.000+10:00

shit im screwed!!
haha this is so terrible its actually funny!
although it probably wont be funny anymore when i end up pulling an all-nighter on wed night.

haha.. so whats going on u ask? i thought one of my BIG assignmets was due on 19th may. but turns out, i was a little bit off...

ITS DUE THIS THURSDAY!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
IDIOT!

dunno how the heck i managed to f this one up. haha.
so now frantically scrambling to finish in 2 days!!

Its ANZAC day today, which is supposed to be a holiday, but im at uni now printing out stuff in the comp lab. ahhh....serves me right. shouldve double checked the dates.

hahahahahaha. its still funny for the moment.

"tell me, what good is a phone call if you're unable....to speak"

2006-04-23T20:31:00.000+10:00

another test here

enjoy

happy food

2006-04-23T20:23:00.000+10:00

mmm... the smell of apple pies in the oven. its enough to brighten up any day. and my days are in dire need of brightening.
but apple pies alone cant do it.... need more happy food to multiply the effect.

enter....ICE CREEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAM!!!!

u scream i scream we all scream for ice cream!

im really losing it......
gotta keep my mind busy.

happy food. happy food!

sigh..

2006-04-23T08:32:00.000+10:00

im in trouble...
something happened that ive always told myself to avoid, but it happened anyway.

falling for a friend...

its a terrible feeling. because i know i shouldnt...but, as often is the case, feelings of the heart transcend all logic and reason. but that doesnt make it any easier. in fact, i think it makes it worse...
i'd rather be rejected by a stranger 10 times over than be in this situation now..

ah, then of course theres the infamous ladder theory (see "ladder theory" post below). dont wanna wind up in the abyss.

damn it. cant study.. cant concentrate.. this is driving me crazy!

uh oh...im a chick...

2006-04-22T20:59:00.000+10:00

which scifi/fantasy character are you?

http://www.tk421.net/character/

Princess Leia

A strong-willed herald of causes against injustice, you passionately strive to right the wrongs around you.

Somebody has to save our skins!

williamstown pics

2006-04-22T15:35:00.000+10:00

"Jack! I'm flying!"

kawabunga!

ka POW!

mwahahahah mine! ALL MINE!!

williamstown = cheap pizza

apple strudel! oooo...

under construction..

2006-04-21T18:34:00.000+10:00

the comic book loft is undergoing a facelift.

this is just one of the many things that i am doing INSTEAD of studying.

went to the great ocean road with yongsi and esther recently, as well as williamstown with chris n grace.

pics up soooooon!

the ladder theory

2006-04-20T21:32:00.000+10:00

a friend of mine told me of this theory about relationships, but more specifically about relationships that do or do not sprout from friendships.

its called the Ladder Theory, and i have to say its the damned most accurate relationship theory ive ever heard. Well, actually it's more accurate if u are a guy. If you're a girl u may be offended by this theory, so im just gonna give u a WARNING now so that u dont sue me.

here goes.

Guys have ONE ladder. its called the f**k ladder. ( or relationship ladder, if f**k ladder sounds too crude. hey, im just telling it the way it was told to me) anyways, every girl that he meets, he places them on this ladder. the higher up the ladder they are, the more he wants to be in a relationship with her. Remember, ALL girls that guys meet are placed somewhere on this ladder, EVEN FRIENDS ARE ON THIS LADDER SOMEWHERE. girls that he doesnt see ANYthing attractive in, he places them below the ladder, in the abyss. So you see, any girl can move up or down a guy's ladder. The determinants of this movt varies from guy to guy. (some guys like talkative girls, so if a girl he knew for a long time suddenly became the talkative type, she might move up the ladder. you get the idea...)

Now comes the interesting part.

Girls have TWO ladders. just like guys, they have a f**k ladder. BUT they also have a FRIEND ladder. when a girl meets a guy, she either places him on the f**k ladder or the friend ladder. Thing is, the guy doesnt know which ladder he's on! If he's on the f**k ladder, then good for him. if he plays his cards right, he could move up the ladder and maybe one day win her heart. BUT, ( and here comes the MOST impt bit) if a guy is on the friend ladder, he can NEVER by his own actions get onto the f**k ladder. if he really really likes the girl, and tries to elevate their friendship to the next level, he could end up crashing and burning if he was on her friend ladder, not her f**k ladder. when a guy is blinded by love, the f**k ladder always seems within reach. It seems that its possible to leap from the friend ladder onto the f**k ladder. but this is NOT TRUE. guys that try this leap wiil not make it and fall into the abyss.
ONLY a girl can move the guys she pleases from her friend ladder to her f**k ladder. BUT, as mentioned before, the guy is not aware of this. soooooo, the moral here is....it sucks to be a guy sometimes. if u really like a friend of yours, and think that you two can have a more serious relationship, BE CAREFUL!!! U MAY BE WRONG!!! u could be on her friend ladder!!!! if u leap, u will fall into the abyss!!!!! and once you're in the abyss, u cannot be on both ladders.

alone again..

2006-04-15T18:53:00.000+10:00

my parents are leaving tonight!!!
noooooooo......
i feel better knowing i'll see them again in a couple of months.
my mom cooked enough food to feed a small country and put it in my freezer. i think its gonna last me till i go back to spore. haha.

in the meantime...its catch up session for me during the easter break.

been 3 days since the hols started and i havent done SHIT!

auugh....i hate myself for being so slack. but its just so difficult to start being studious. so many distractions!! okok, excuses iylia.... you're just a slack ass. sigh...
tmr prob not gonna get much work done also. morning going for a run in some nature reserve 1hr away from the city with the melb uni runners. carpooling there with a hot babe and two other guys. hopefully the guys oversleep and it'll be just me n her...mwahahahahaha.
then in the afternoon going to the visitors centre (tourist centre) with some frens to scope out any nice places to go for a day trip during the hols. yup, so that will be another day gone.
ahhhhh like this how to study man!!!!

anyways, hope u all are doing well preparing for exams and all... i cant wait to see u all in june. soon soon! =)

ciao for now.

paparazzi snapshot!

2006-04-11T23:02:00.000+10:00

woohoo.
surprise surprise!
im in the newspapers!! hehe.
managed to get a snapshot of me in the Herald Sun (the melbourne newspaper) running in the Run for the Kids on sunday.

let me savour my microsecond of fame.....ah......

run 4 e kids

2006-04-09T17:15:00.000+10:00

hurrah! 1st race of the season complete!

and the timing is...... 61min 0sec for 14.7km.

not too shabby. a lot of my team finished ahead of me, but the important thing is...i did not finish last! yea!