some late pics

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

enjoy! =)

sitting on the floor, MRT-style

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

carousels freak me out...

geelong = seafood

pyjama party? erm....not quite

the truth. u heard it here first...

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

they're in kenya.

yes. kenyans are aliens.

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

they probably hail from a planet with low oxygen content.

holy bored survey, batman!

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

whoa.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

aight...thats all folks.

im still bored tho....

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ooooo...$$$

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

in other news...

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

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

goodbye long hair...

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

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

whee. short hair!

sunday ramblings

ooo...one more day to the new term.
a bit excited....a bit sad....a bit anxious....but most of all, a bit lazy. ha.

woke up at 9am this morning, but didnt feel like getting out of bed. it rained overnight, so the weather was damn cool and i just felt like snuggling under the blanket n stare at the ceiling. (which in my case is much easier cos the ceiling is only 90cm above my bed).

met a fren from ACS(i) the other day, Terence. wah...havent seen him for ages man. we used to be classmates and in NCC(Air) together. amazing who u can suddenly bump into on the streets of melb! then yesterday evening i went for a run at a nearby park and BAM! saw him again! haha. didnt know he was into running also. woohoo finally got a running buddy again. its super sian to run alone.

decided to try out for a couple of sports clubs this sem. signed up for futsal and athletics....trials on monday and tuesday respectively. see how it goes....will prob only join one or the other, cos they both train 3 times a wk....the knee cannot take it.

so....to join futsal for the love of the game? OR join athletics for the hot middle-distance babes? haha. we'll see....

been trying to eat a bit more healthily too... bought lots of fruit. and low-fat ice cream. haha. (probably low in fat but high in a lot of other shit that can kill me faster). i miss my mummy's cooking. everything i cook seems to be unhealthy in some way, cos its mostly "instant", "pre-cooked" or "canned".

a-holes in the pool

before i say anything further...let me state that i have nothing against chinese ppl (as in from china), and nothing against cantonese as well.

i wanted to go to the gym and then have a swim today. but i ended up ONLY going to the gym. why? cos there were a bunch of loud (and i mean LOUD) assholes yelling in canton at the top of their voices in the pool...splashing water EVER DAMN PLACE! And these werent kids. They had to be at least 18 yrs old. FREAKIN CHILDISH A-HOLES! they were splashing water ALL OVER the place, and had there not been a glass wall separating the pool from the gym, i'd be doing weights in ankle deep water.

i really felt like shouting to them SHUT THE F UP! but thankfully an aussie girl in the pool did that for me. well, she didnt exact use vulgarities, but u could tell from her tone that she was seriously pissed off. And so they kept quiet for about 15 seconds......and then YAP!YAP!YAP! they start their fish market talk again!!! the girl was so pissed she just left the pool. and what do these a-holes do?!? they laugh! they laugh and they act like they're so macho that they managed to get the girl to leave. bastards.
no wonder some aussies look down on asians. heck, even im ashamed to be from the same hemisphere as them. ARRRHHH!! A-HOLES!!!

xabi marchena

yo suresh... check this out. sent my scout to find a new forward, and look what he came back with!! the guys name is xabi marchena. who needs van nistelrooy. ha. check out these stats!!!

wooo im bored n lovin it!

9 lasts
1. cigarette: never. yuuuaacckks!
2. beverage: choc milk
3. kiss: ah....quite some time ago.
4. hug: mmmm...that one more recently
5. movie seen: Lord of War. go see this NOW! it kicks ass.
6. cd played: been a long time since i played an acutal "CD".... pirated downloads are the wave of the future.
7. song listened to: Forever Young.... yes, THAT O.C. song....
9. time you cried: hmm... cant remember.


8 have you evers
1. dated one of your best friends: uh huh.
2. skinny dipped: waiting for an invite. (but pls...no dudes)
3. kissed somebody and regretted it: no. no regrets.
4. fallen in love: hard to say cos i never told her..
5. lost someone: yeah
6. been depressed: not really
7. been drunk and threw up: nope
8. ran away: erm...when i was 7 i ran away to the playground for an hour or so. ha. rebellious childhood!


7 countries you've been to:
aussie, england, USA, malaysia, indonesia, saudi, holland


6 things you've done today
(dude, i just woke up!!! ok i'll talk about yesterday then...)
1. woke up LATE.
2. went to IKEA
3. had salad for lunch. mmmm....salmon.
4. bought a food tray.
5. had a Wendy's Super Shake. freaking awesome.
6. ran out of cash in wallet.


5. favorite things in no order.
1. my comics. if my house burnt down i'll save them b4 anything else. (expect my IC n passport...)
2. my lappie
3. my PS2
4. my apartment!
5. my loft bed.


4 people you can tell anything to in no order
1. suresh
2. satiish
3.
4.
thats all really....i can tell lots of people stuff about me. but these two great frens are the only ones i'll trust with ANYTHING.


3. wishes.
1. to quit uni, get a job offer from Marvel....become freakin rich and buy a porche 911 turbo. (wait, is that 3 already??)
2. to confirm the existence of extra terrestrials
3. for Star Wars episode 7,8,9 to be made.


2 things you want to be when you grow up
1. a penciller for Marvel
2. married to natalie portman


1 thing you regret
1. being an only child. ok so thats not really my fault.....but i couldve pleaded harder with my parents for a sibling.

oh no its tuesday already?!?!

tomorrow is wed already?!?! ahhhhh where is my one wk break slipping too!?? who's behind this evil time-lapse scheme!!! i bet there was something amiss with the space-time continuem, and the past 24 hours passed by as if it were only 16 hours!!!

today went by lightning quick.
i woke up uncharacteristically late at 9.45am. set my alarm at 8 but i didnt hear it. hmm... my body must somehow know that its term break. anyway, luckily i managed to wake up at 9.45 cos was supposed to meet grace at 11am at uni.

reached uni at 10.50.....and it was PACKED!!! orientation has started for the freshies!!!!
and its not fair....their orientation is WAY more spectacular than mine! but thats to be expected...the mid-year intake is always much smaller than the feb intake. grrrr...let those puny feb intake jabronis enjoy their little orientation. i shouldve stayed in spore and slacked longer and join in this intake instead of last year's july one. oh wait.....that would mean that i would graduate when i'm 28 instead of 27.......ok NONONO. thank god for july intake.

waiting for my dinner to cook in the mini-oven now. yet another healthy-licous meal of 3 chicken sausages and bread! at least i still havent touched any instant mee this year!! but its only feb.....10 more mths to go...... ahh............cold turkey.....cold turkey..........

end of summer

its ooovvvveeeeeeeerrrrr!!!!!!!
summer sem is officially DONE!!!!
finally its time to slack! (not that i havent been doing lots of that already! =p)
but now its time for intense slacking!

actually, i decided to treat myself somewhat, and had little piggin out session by myself last nite while watching The Terminator on tv.
i had nachos (cheese flavour, of course), salsa dip, ice cream, and nutella toast! oooooo....
and it didnt stop today either. after submitting our folios, my frens and i went to Max Brenner and had chocolate banana waffle ice cream!
i think i need to skip dinner today....too much! too much! and if i see another chocolate for the next 24 hours im gonna be sick....

oh btw suresh, i saw this program on tv last nite about italian food. apparently, italians hate the idea of having grated parmesan cheese with their pasta. they think its very un-italian. hahaha. guess we wont be holidaying to italy anytime soon! good thing pasta mania isnt a "traditional" italian restaurant.

uber is the new super..

hey folks.
i'm here to shamelessly promote a comic that i just finished.its taken two long years of my life to complete from conceptualisation to final panel, and is the most ambitious story ive ever tried to write. there were many times along the way that i felt like giving up cos it just takes so much damn time to write and draw these things! but i'm so glad i saw the whole thing through, so that u guys might get a chance to read it.

http://uberman.smackjeeves.com/comics/7920/

hope you enjoy it.
and if its not too much to ask, let you friends know about it too...and tell them to let their friends know. the more people who read it the better...cos thats the whole idea of comics no?

friday..

morning. yawn.

just finished my fortnightly cleaning of the apartment....waiting for the floor to dry now before taking a shower.

i'm so so so glad that i dont have much to do this weekend. although my final folio submission is on monday, i've pretty much finished 90% of what i need to do....so the next couple of days will be spent having a long overdue SLACKing session. bring out the potato chips and sprite, boys! got quite a few comics to catch up on....and theres still tonnes of xfiles episodes to watch too.
i SHOULD squeeze in some gym time too....ah heck....i'll do it if i feel like it. haha.

now then.....i believe there's and xmen issue that requires my immediate attention....

14th feb...just another day

hey folks.
sorry i havent posted anything for quite a while. been really busy with sch work, especially in this, the last week of summer school.
ok, thats a bad excuse....truth is, i just didnt feel like blogging lately. dunno why...
maybe its one of those things that after u do too much of, u kinda get sick of it and need to lay off for a while.
well, i'm back. feel like blogging again. haha.

and yes, indeed it is *dum dum DUM!* valentines day.
okay, lets get the big question out of the way....NO i dont have a date.
yes, another valentines day come and gone....another valentines day spent watching dvds and eating chocolate to make myself feel better. well, actually i think i'll go for a run. havent exercised in nearly a week cos of all the work. feel like such a fatass...(not far from the truth)

my two best frens here are this guy from spore (Evan), and a girl from Sweden (mimmi). Mimmi has a boyfren and she's going out with him tonight. so evan and i thought of hanging out and watching a movie.......but then we decided that would be too gay, especially on THIS night! haha. and to up the GAYness even more, we could watch brokeback mountain. (story about 2 gay cowboys.) so we decided NO we're not gonna do that. its better to stay at home and sulk in self-pity than spend valentines day with another dude.

ok im gonna go for that run now.
ciao!