buckingham palace! 

tube at earl's court on our way to nottinghillgate 

dinner with the babes qiuyun and fern at misato..ultra large serving..jap food..not v cheap though! 6pounds! k lah..cheap by london standards i guess... 

at st james' park, one of the finest gardens in london..nice green grass with pretty wild flowers 

where we stayed in london..kailun's room..with his roommate russian boxer euvgeny and peter..haha that's kailun with his mother big backpack 

jet lag

yes..down with jetlag, slept at 3am and woke up at 5.30pm...new record..its 4am right now..think i'd better get up earlier..

just came back from initial d, its way cool man. real biggie stars, jaychou edison and shawnyue.. but abit sad though, a must-watch.

and batch reunion yesterday..was pretty alright..got to see faces that i wanted to see..and it was a blast talking to everybody and abt everything..just like back in the rj days again..sigh.
yeah everybody misses it.

supper with izac and shiwei and serena..and we just talked abt stuff..
and today, while at the playground, with yk and kianleong..we talked abt it again... me and liana..hmm yeahh its been a really long time guys, lets just forget about it. im all over it man.

back to the trip, man, yeah there's lots of pictures that i want to upload, but its almost impossible with 1 gig of pictures..and that's just mine alone havent touched colin's yet..and the quirky stories too..like meeting pple and the weirdest places..haha. and the fantastic food.

thought abt a lot of things, i think the trip really accomplished what i set out to think abt.

im going to be a better person.

paris..amsterdam..brussels..brugges..london

finally back to london after like what, i dunno..10days?
havent got a chance to blog yet..no internet access..last night in london now..we tried to make the most outta it...

had lots of things to eat..think today we splurged our budget like mad, spent 20pounds on food..crazy man..i sound tired don't i?
yeah, i am, quite.

think this is probably enuff for now..i'm gonna miss europe..its been hell of a trip..lots of sights, lots of action, and lots of thinking.

just need sleep, and fooood..chilli sauce...yumm..will post up some pictures soon..but yeah..pictures dont tell the whole story..nor does it really give the whole 'picture' u get my point..really gotta go see it for oneself..

yeahh its been a bumpy and tough ride along the way with my brudder, but we survived man. all those scares and joys..ahh..and the friends we made, the pple that we've met and talk to, really takes the icing of the cake. nothing else beats that...where my memories belong..

thanks loads to e pple who've been kind to us, not very least the singaporeans we've met!! they're fab. joseph, and kai, and all...u guys been great!

nice is nice

im in nice ville now, leaivng for paris later..
can't say how much i love nice man, its really NICE.

the waters are pretty clear..but a tad too cold to dip in..and the beaches are all pebbly..hardly anysand..

antibes was great, but not cannes..
so was eze, super beautiful..medieval castle town perched on top of the hill now filled with shops..so its a quaint little town with a great view from the top..monaco was pretty ok, the aquarium was pretty fantastic.qite like underwater world..but i guess more species? and i spun e jackpot at monte carlo too!! too bad cudnt bring back a token..cos i spent them all! nv win lah.

hah..and staying at villa st exupery is great..the bossman's nice, so is his yandao tall son arno..and kirsten too! i like her..very sweet..

well anyway, leaving for paris now..along the way, have some regrets on this trip..like not doing this and not doing that..realising only when i've left the place..like buying one too many glassware and masks from venic.e.now i gotta lug them around..
like paying 5euros for supermarket seafood rice with poulet(chicken)..when i could have eaten a whole macs meal for that price..
and of cos not having a coin back from monte carlo..
not having bought anything from florence or rome..or nice for that matter...

so from now on, i'm gonna enjoy myself and do whatever i want! money's not an issue at this point now..though im gonna suck my savings dry..keep drawing money..its alawys not enuff..but the experience is worth it all..

and zhongyang, if ure gona book trains from florence to rome or vice versa..check thie reservations price first..cos it costs 12euros for mine..dam ex..if u can, from rome go to pisa(dun need to book), spend an hour or two there, trust me there's nothing to see except the tower, den from pisa go srtraight to florence (dun need to reserve either) unless its a sunday or something..that way u save buying return tickets to pisa which cost 10euros and also the reservation fee of 12euros!! think abt that.

cheers, mates. oh yes, i miss u too :)

romaa wooo roma!!!

so we checked in at guy's paradise, sister hostel of firenze inn!! GREAT PLACE MAN!! rachel from canada runs the place, and she's a sweet and friendly lady. its soo much cosier and stable here..i slept like a baby the last 2 nights man. and despite being dam hot in the morning, rome's chilly at night..really like aircon. and the breakfast here is 10times better, with ham and cheese and loads of CROISSANTS and pastries..yummy yum!

so its been 2 days, 1st night we just checked out the city..rome is just beautifullly fantastic..its really the eternal city, and if u have just one city to visit in life..this is it. i havent been to paris, but im quite sure about this. paris wud be the if-u-had-a-milion-bucks-to-spend-in-5-days kinda place. haha.

so we met patrick from alabama, he sleeps above me..haha and he's freaking tall and funny..AND GUESS WHAT!! HE'S A MED STUDENT TOO!! just finised first year like us, and he learns EXACTLY THE SAME STUFF, SAME TRACKS!! how cool is that..just sad to think that everyone else is shocked singaporeans speak english as our first language..

yeahh we checked out trevi fountain and spanish steps at night..trevi is just beautiful. one of the 3/4 things that define rome. u gotta check it out at night. no shit. i just wished YOU were here with me. but who the fuck are YOU?!?! please appear soon...here, france, anywhere...yeahh u throw coin with your back facing the trevi and u re bound to visit rome again, 2nd time, ure marrying a italian wife/make a wish. i made a wish la.

got back to some BOOZING..yeahh free unlimited booze at guy's paradise..really paradise man..dam siao.
so last 2 nights ive been dam seh when i went to sleep..

k shall update on my exciting trip to the vatican city with the pope and colossal colosseum tomrr...cos i have only 3 minutes left on the internet..hahahahhaa woohooo

FLORENCE. 5th to 7th.

i didnt wanna leave venice!! good thing we booked our accomdations in florence plus booked train tix. cos pple kept getting chased out when they have no reservations.

train ride was pretty good, with a pretty conductor! rest of florence pretty modern/industralised. nice hills. loved it.
train ride was pretty comfy amazingly. florence pretty diff frm venice..quite well developed. first thing was find our way to hostel. gotlost. hahaha as usual. great duomo.but not v impressive.maybe cos venice was too nice. italians are v friendly pple, so was our hostel! col and i both love it...LOVE IT.
great pple, great food! we had pasta and salad for dinner...they cooked it themselves!!

lots of asians around in florence though.
met fabio, a brazilian enginner..he's dam funny lah!! but dammm nice...so is blur brian from US..always sleepy..like colin..haha..and jared from canada ontario, who's spent a record 12 nights there..cos he loved int so much..i think he's a doctor though..rather punkish one..basket..haha..by the way havaianas in brazil only cost 3euros..thats like 6 bucks..i asked him to ship a crate in for me..anybody interested?

i guess where ure staying really makes a difference. highlight: hostel raided!!! license expired!!! THE WHOLE HOSTEL EVACUATED IN ULTRA QUICK TIME!! even the beds were moved..how cool is that!!! luckily i packed all my stuff..so didnt lose anything..colin almost lost its $140 mask from eyes wide shut.

visisted PISA. the tower REALLY LEANS.amazing to just see it man. and visited the DUOMO too..4th largest cathedral in the world..quite impressive..alot of michelangeloàs works.
headed down to PIAZZALE MICHELANGELO..zy read: MUST GO. don't ask why..just go there and u'll understand.
was so overwhelmed man. i didnt go to the pubcrawl this time, though last night i made alot alot of friends..mostly americans..describing cinque teres to me..5 little towns..ONLY americans noe about it..

so it was a quiet nite back at firenze inn...where we met boss lorenzo..and the next day, we just packed and left for the ACCADEMIA...where michelangeloàs most famous work, DAVID was housed.
my god, its really a splendid structure. so BIG in real life. have been wanting to see it all along..he's so good, u can see every detail..i wonder if he studied anatomy..cos the surface marks of the EJV, long saphenous vein, basilic veins, serratus anterior were SOO ZUN. its really worth the 8 euros to go in an just see man.

missed the uffizi. fuck.

ZY, READ: queue early for the uffizi and accademia, maybe around 8 plus am to 9 am. bloody long queue and DONàT BRING ANY BAGS. i had to wait outside with our stuff till colin was done seeing.

so we headed off to rome onboard eurostar italia, which is superb. dam fast, dam quiet. but fucking noisy americans on the train all around us..sleep oso cannot..and make fucking stupid comments summore...and most of them are just OBESE. when they got up, just blocked the whole damned aisle. but at least they're not racist..or they just dont show it.

VENICE. 3rd to 4th june.

comfy flight on ryanair.

reached treviso airport, super no frills airline, just straight from the plane, out u go into the tiny airport, maybe the size of my 5rm hdb flat. abit disappointing, no proper seats, only arrival plus departure halls.

took turns to shou3 ye4, hahah luckily got thai airways blanket and pillow we kopped... its a wonder how they can abandon us just like tthat, only 2 venezian soldiers guarding the airport, no staff at all. so its just 4 of us at the airport. bloody hell dam uncomfortable, keep waking up maybe 20 plus times. haha.

in the morning, finally the shuttle bus came, and we took it to camping village alba d'oro, fantastic place! not to mention getting lost before that..thereàs a swimming pool, supermarket ..great cos ive beenstarving.
abit ex but still cheaper than london.

haha and colin was in a dam jiao mood again, for reasons i shall not mention.. he jiaoed the counter person when we were booking our railtix, and questioned his work. wtf right haha.

VENICE WAS FANTASTIC!!
3gelatos in a day..can u believe it? strawberry flavoured, limone, and casato!! woohooo!! its dirt cheap lah..and their servings dam BIG.i mean like HUGE. only 1euro a cone. will post up fotos of it soon..

MET JULIA AT VAPORETTO STATOIN!! vaporetto is like their water taxi section..as u noe venice has no roads..just little canals and big canals..hahaha..wad am i talking about.. oh yeah, she's someone from salsa at xenbar, kinda danced with her a few times...just found out she's a doctor leh..doing PhD at Nus. dam impressed. she travelled for 3 months oredi, egypt to turkey to greece to italy. dam garang sia.

on the vaporetto, took in all the sights, SOOO BREATHTAKING. every building is a wonder by itself. gondolas, small canals, fantastic. like a faity tale coming alive infrnt of my eyes.
it's just GASP all the way man.

ST MARKS
gasp x 100!!!!!! the piazza is soo splendidly beautiful..and the basiclica too, which i got in for free...and paid for the pala doro, which is like crown jewels...really amazing. gotta see it for yourself.

and of course..we got lost..but it was a wonderful feeling to get lost..ure SUPPOSED to get lost in venice...it's amazing when u see how everything is intricately hand painted or crafted. a miracle too that they lasted so long.

it amazes, rather bewilders me, that such great artists only exist centuries ago, yet, today wiith our modern technology, weeàre unable to come up with antyhing as splendid as that, not even architecturally wise. replication is also near impossible.

how these structures are able to withstand time and still shine with colour against the weather elements is beyond me. where have all the geniuses gone?

not surprisingly, venezia is slowly becoming more and more touristy. shops selling the same things sprout up at every corner, competing for customers. im glad to have seeen it in its original, unspoilt, i hope, state.

remember all the storybooks that weàve read_ itàs coming alive right now before my eyes. eveyrthing seemed surreal. until u've touched it. the red flowers blooming from each window,little alleys, women screaming italiano from one window to another window while hanging laundry, im glad to have seen them all. the romantic gondolas, street kids playing soccer in the piazza, pple walking their dogs (poo not withstanding) street buskers.
and not forgetting the pizzas, magnifique. cobbled walkways alongside the river...sigh, wished someone special was here.

fantastic food, culture, sights and weather! not too hot, just right..no sweating! friendly and sometimes beautiful pple..but i wudnt wanna stay there..itàd take away all the charm it has. a holiday home, perhaps. see the 10day carnevale with all the pretty masks..i hate piazzale roman and the train staion. they are spoilers. it s a wonder how despite all the canals, only venice and amsterdam successfully thrives.at times, the piazza at stamarks get flooded too!i hope it neversinks.itàs really one of the wonders of the world man.

i wanna own an apartmentin central venice, with windows overlookkng the canlas, and doors opening to a small street or alley. of course, a bicycle and a gondola or a sepeedboat wud be nice.

italy

didnt have time to blog cos everyday's a whirlwind by
itself!!

cant believe i spent the whole day at vatican city
today..
yepp from venice to florence to rome today..

vatican city rocks!! so does rome!! i love my hostel,
guy's paradise..its cosy, beds are nice and the pple
are great!

was at the papal audience with the pope today..nice to
visit sistine chapel and everything..and posted a card
to myself from vatican city ahhaa..

so surreal man..yeah anyway, boozing alot now, l3 cans
of beer in all, so thats 1.5litres in an hour..piangz
not even so much water in that time man..
ok will blog soon, pple need to use the itnernet too,
dun keep them waiting..

london now...so far...before i forget.

yes, that's right, before i forget. was wanting to keep a journal..photo journal perhaps? but its pretty troublesome..okay im just lazy..perhaps im more cut out in front of the comp..so well..here it goes!

day 1

sights:
- touched down in heathrow, nice warm weather..tubed down straight to st james park! to catch the change of guards at buckingham palace.. st james park is a beautiful place, so picturesque, and like lynn, i really wanted to jump onto the grass and lie there, baking in the sun, cept that it was pretty chilly YET VERY sunny..until col reminded me that pigeons are aplenty and so are their shit.

oh, stopped by earl's court to change trains, buy an all powerful day travel pass.. and the funniest announcement ever..brits are really funny..

"we are going to conduct an emergency drill. please disregard the following announcement"

ok..just go ahead and do your stuff lor tubies..

"THIS IS AN EMERGENCY, WILL EVERYBODY PLEASE, LEAVE THE STATION IMMEDIATELY"

and u hear a burst of laughter from every sounding soul at earl's court underground...

"the drill is now over. please disregard the previous announcement"

yeahh and around st james park, was my first taste of london residential houses..in fact every single house is pretty much a monument by itself..each is like a shophouse, with its quaint designs and structure, yet all fitting into place..like a nice piece of mosaics..and buckingham palace..wonder how the queen can put up with so many pple outside her gate everyday at 11am. the change of guards was just normal..pretty boring actually...guess as colin said..its prolly just the costumelah..and the high hats..which looks abit like lum's hair i gotta say..

so we headed off to imperial's after that to meet kailun, where we dumped our stuff at alvin's first..lotsa singaporeans i gotta say, lots of asians..very little...if not no pretty girls...haha..and food was..pretty ex...i paid 4.7POUNDS..that's maybe about 15sing dollars? for a bbq chicken drumstick rice with corn and apple juice. that's steep man, that's steep.

so while sebas and kailun and their counterparts sawed their gclamp at the workshop, col and i decided to take a walk around london's famous sights..

- BIG BEN..big clock..nice. the parliament house was impressive. will postup pictures
- london eye, cute, ferris wheel. saw from a distance..abit ex, so wont take. not worth it.
- westminster abbey!! very chio...queue was long to get in..reasonable at 6pounds..the architecture..is just breathtaking..so was the parliament house..will post up pictures.
- 10 downing street.. blair's place, actually can't see his house, just the street..cos its warded off to the public by a gate, with police guarding the place with machine guns..but being brits, they're pretty friendly and funny..
- trafalgar square..nice!! went there today actually
- picadilly circus.. sort of like their city hall maybe?

oh, its not worth it to call from the public fone..paid 30pence for it..and it only lasted 15seconds..so we called fern and den met her at holborn, where she stays..and we took a trip down to LSE, where we met anand and yvette and choong..headed down to leicester sq, like their orchard road lydat...china town, covent gardens..

fern's really great, brought us all over..

- HAMLEY'S!!! cool toys aplenty, but steep.
- topshop...BIG
- regent street...where all the things are at

fern, lun col and i had dinner at this place at SOHO..reputed gay street..cheap nice food..ok lah actually 5pounds..but as kailun puts it..cannot think like that.. and we had superb desert as recommended by fern..yoghurt was like towering..

it was really nice to catch up with both of them, as we talked about old times..rj, actually just about EVERYTHING! yeahh it was really fun..

by the time we got back to kai's place from fern's so shacked, col and i fell asleep watching russell peters...haha but he's freaking funny lah.

DAY 2.

we woke up pretty early, just after kailun left..
had breakfast at TESCO's, a student's shopping haven, sort of like NTUC..funny thing is they dun allow more than 5 schoolkids in the shop at one time..

cheap breakfast, about 1 pound:
- 2 cinnamon rolls
- 1 pint of semi skimmed milk
- 1 strawberry yoghurt

yummy stuff! and VERY filling too..

headed down to:
- tower bridge..famous bridge, like what u see in the story books..and today was blustery windy too, so i was dying from the cold lah..so much for summer man..
- tower of london..didnt get to see.
- london bridge..nothing like tower bridge..just a normal bridge, disappointingly.
- ST PAUL'S CATHEDRAL...had holy communion service there, architecture is superb..and we visited the underground crypts, where alexander fleming and florence nightingale are buried. very cool place. pretty holy too..lots of tiny chapels in the cathedral itself.

we climbed about 530 steps..up to the higher parts of the dome, to the whispering gallery...its like a corridor around the circumference of the dome, and when u whisper from one end of the wall, the person right opposite about 70m away can actually hear u clearly!yeahh..no surprise, was eaves dropping alot..

and we climbed further up to the tip of the dome! where the winds were strong..and the view, splendid. as good as the london eye. just not higher. in 1705, THAT was the best view of the city of london..

- harrods..jianhong didnt get my msg! so we didnt meet up in the end. OOH KRISPY KREMES!! best donuts in the world..original glazed that melts in your mouth..and gues what! ITS BUY ONE GET ONE FREE EVERYDAY AT HARRODS!! its an unspoken rule, but the krispy kremes pple give one donut free to anyone who buys it, even those who don't pay, they'll just give it to u for free! yeah..cos harrods are too rich. and their luxury bathrooms..its really called luxury bathrooms. some guy there waits on you and cleans the toilet before u use it..everything is sensor automated, even the flush. talk about luxury man. eau de toilette used to spray STRAIGHT after u shit, and there's even a water cooler in there. now how cool is that.

- went to sebas place at gloucester street, OMG, its a rich street man, BMWs, mercs, ferraris and mini coopers line the street. yeahh..his place was very nice, very cosy. very rich district.

- headed to this steak and ribs place, i forgot its name but its really cool..cost us 8pounds, but WAY WORTH IT MAN..shud check out the ribs, gigantic portions, the chicken breast as well..and lots of chips..great company, great food, what else can u ask for???

- had hoegaarden at sebas' place before we headed down to MOS!!! much awaited..it was FANTASTIC MUSIC OVER THERE MAN, and the vodka mudshakes all were one for one..superb! nice atmosphere, but the crowd just wasnt right. so we left pretty early..dam tired,

met fern and qiuyun, who finally made it here man..nice to see her, she had this 3week roadtrip at california..finally touched down but couldnt join us at MOS..but still looking good!!

conked out totally when we reached back.

DAY 3.

that's today boy. we woke up and had tesco's breakfast again. this time i had raspberry yoghurt which sucked, but treacle tarts and semi skimmed milk again..super yummy the treacle tarts..

cold again, so we decided today would be museums day...haha dam boring right it sounds..yeah pretty boring.

-sir john soane's museum...he's this architect who worked for the banks of london, and he's a collector of art pieces..the museum's actually his house at 13 lincoln's inn fields..and i would die to stay in a house like his..preserved since 1837..but everything looked splendidly well maintained..the really solid english house.

- british museum..it has everything that's NOT british. haha..the highlights were the egyptian mummies exhibition...met CLEOPATRA!! ahhah..in person..literally.. its split up into different cultures the museums..hardly anything british..the reading room is this splendour of books..and pple actually study inside..actually that's what i expect british libraries to be like...very old but VERY GRAND.

- national gallery..a showcase of art pieces from the very best, davinci, monet, manet, nothing like the louvre or italy..but it had the virgin on the rocks! like in da vinci's code..but we didnt have time to see that..only caught monet's sunflowers..nice. haha. like i can appreciate much like that. but it's really VERY VERY different seeing it in real and from pictures..the texture is totally different..like caneletto's venezia paintings...its almost 3-d and like sunflowers, its pretty obvious, those strokes, could see everything pretty clear. defintely will wanna go back there again.

we sat at trafalgar sq after that, enjoying the sights and watching the world go by..quite a few babes..and LOTS OF PIGEONS..haha..these bunch of kids were protesting around the sq "pigeos are pests" dam cute.

met fern, qiuyun, nolly and choong for dinner at misato's, a jap restaurant. basket, the servings were really HUGE man!! think i was the only one who managed to finish all my food..hahha..but it was dam nice lah!! headed over to fern's place cos they wanted to change out of their skirts..too chilly..before we headed to LSE again to show qiuyun around...

we had snakebites!! qiuyun and i ordered one each from the LSE bar (YES THEY HAVE A BAR!! AND A WEEKLY PARTY IN THE BASEMENT COMPLETE WITH DISCO LIGHTS!!) which is a cocktail of alcohol but its only available in the schools' pubs..u can't find it anywhere else along london! something like booze plus cider plus raspbeery and some stuff...sweet stuff, quite potent. gulped down mine and qiuyun's leftovers...and almost puked haha in the end i just burped a large one..

headed over to noelle's place..finally got to meet nolly today proper!!! and got to know her too, she's really a funny and cool chick man, that girl. yeah so we chilled at her place and just talked..before i headed back here..leave them to enjoy themselves..hahha..again, dinner was fantastic food and great company...nothing more that i can ask for..i just wished it was like that everyday...gonna leave them tmr...and kailun's over at sebas for mahjong...tong xiao man..cannot lah, must come back keep colin the sleepyhead company..he's oredi asleep btw.

tmr's gonna be hyde park and some portobello market? probably camden too..good night peeps. my london journey ends tmr.

oh..i almost missed the tube after getting back from nolly's..walking down london streets..finding the tube..it was so surreal. the whole feeling.

i didnt feel threatened or anything like that..london is actually pretty safe. nothing like muggers jumpiing out from the bushes or dark alleys like that..just alot of drunkards at night..
but just walking down the street with the wind blowing in your face, but with your hands tucked warmly into your sweater..seeing all these victorian houses along the way, the red buses, red postboxes..london cabs..underground signs..quirky shops with bright warm lights illuminating out..it's really a dream come true for me. it's like the mecca for hanboon. nothing beats this feeling really. and to top it off, having great friends around to share it with you.

the cool weather that doesnt allow you to sweat, the friendly pple with quirkily funny slangs, the fantastic food, when darkness falls at 10pm and light shines at 5am, this is the place to be man.

LONDON!

it's only been a day, but oredi i'm taken in by the sights and sounds of london..

its really such a blessing that u guys get to study here..my god...i shall upload the photos once i get back..mean while..after the whirlwind trip around london yesterdayy...MORE TODAY!!!

yeah man and food is really crazily ex..basket..hahha..everything singapore price in british pounds...so a BK meal...4 pounds...is 12 bucks sing..wonderful!!

but as kailun said...cannot think this way lah guys..haha..one bus ride oso S$3...

but well, it was a dam good time catching up with kailun and fern...as they brought us around the whole place...

wassup for today man...tower of london!! harrods!! hmm....MOS!!!!!!

woohoo!! arghghhh..

okay, this post is dedicated to andy chong kien yoon..at least for the first part..sorry guys cudnt make it for the match this morning!! but i know u guys enjoyed the field right..haha..best turf every played on..okay u'll know why i couldnt make it after scrolling downwards..

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wooohoo!!!
centennial staff students games are finally over..by some miracle, my fellow batchmates managed to conjure up enough pple to form a team to face the oldies..hey man by oldies they are no means slowies..
kinda got creamed by them in some sports..and we lost narrowly 3-2!! basket...lost the racket games, table tennis, badminton and tennis..but tennis was close though..and eunice's such a dear for calling the tennis pple..even a houseman!! yeahh but we won bball and soccer..these we totally creamed them man..
4-0 for soccer!!!

yeahh..so the first shield went to the staff...after netball was cancelled..which i felt wasnt really fair since the old ladies bangseh us instead..so shuda been a walkover...but. give them chance lah. anyway, they did most of the work..and the after games dinner was FANTASTIC MAN!!

sorry didnt take much pictures..but the buffet spread was...my gosh. heavenly man. im sure all of u who came down really loved it..and thanks for coming too!! sure, nothing like the pizza and beer with the dean, but the dean was there, along with the booze minus the pizza..
but hey man, crayfish, baked mussels, tons of chicken wings, KEBABS, ONE WHOLE ROASTED LAMB, lotsa fish and crispy you tiao...WOOHOO!! and BOOZE TOO!! and dean sponsored a bottle of red wine, NOW IS THAT SHIELD WORTH IT OR WHAT!! that dinner was a total killer man..really..my gosh..that soft tenderly sweet lamb taste still lingers in my mouth..

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BY THE WAY, IM SUPPOSED TO BE PACKING NOW, but im typing away on my blog..dunno what im doing..but i know i'm not gonna sleep tonight man hahahaaaaa...still got some things to buy before i leave..yeahh...HAVENT EVEN CHANGED MY POUNDS AND EUROS YET...

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right, and that was last night, so u can guess..im more than shacked out after i reached home..so sorry guys, couldnt wake up for the game..but well. if u thot it was just an evening of fun that tired me out..ure so wrong man kienyoon...

that's cos...the night before, or rather, the morning earlier...was a disaster..

went for zhi's 1970s party..where only yk and i kept to the theme haha! and i left my shades there amidst the drunken stupor...yeahh..so it was just the few of us, ruggers, swimmers and us hanging out at zhi's place...mixed up a great cocktail..and then the party began..with shots.....after shots...............after shots.........
till the whole party ended up in the garden...out of the house...around the neighbourhood...yeahhh u get the idea....

one moment i was shooting baskets in his garden, next sprawled on the trampoline, before you know it..im charging down his lanes...

and puked out all the all-u-can-eat-chickenwings-contest with sarah (i lost btw, by a large margin) before stumbling into dongdong's car where he dropped nyen and i at bishan..took the nightrider..when i woke up, nyen was oredi gone..so i alighted at yishun..before i merlioned another 3 times...and ended up sleeping at the kopitiam tables...buying a gulp at 711...and stumbling home at 6am..where i snoozed till 2pm...oh, interrupted intermittenly by calls and sms regarding games later..and trooped down, with a terrible hangover to NUS for the games.

YES. that's all i have to report. i need to go back and pack now, before i meet ekin kailun at london..hahaha..

NO PICTURES FOR NOW. maybe tmr.

IM ANDRE AGASSI!!!

I'VE GOT THE DIVINE HELP I ASKED FOR!! WOOHOOO!!
thanks guys :)

i think im not a very good mopper of the floor...did it in record time today!! in slick fashion too..whole place bright clean and sparkly..but somehow, its more sticky than ever!! HOW COME?!?! dammit.

I BUY SHOES, IM A SHOES FREAK!!!

someone told me that she only reads my blog when there are pictures...
I NEED TO GET THE SHUTTERBUG BACK IN ME!!!

havent touched my dearest red minolta for sometime now...

centennial shit

i'm twisting and turning in my bed, my stomach revolts of sickness.

i'm going to hold a racket this friday to smack some cocks/balls if i dun get divine help soon. oh please, lord, save me! where have all you racket welding angels gone to?

why, why!? why put me on the court?! when i haven't even touch one of those stick things for years?! pleaseee oh PLEASEEEEE SAVE MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

pre-europe

oooh am i excited..5 more days to london!!
and like, hmm. 2 more days to centennial games. which i happen to be in charge of.
I NEED PLAYAS!!!! alamak.

yeahh here goes my daily ramblings:

- met stef yesteday for some fareast chicken rice plus jacket plus some pool...and den i met poon!!! still as ravishing..but den still as manly as can be..

- updated my ppt photo today finally..looking dorky as always..but actually, not THAT different. hah. and finally bought my backpack..VAUDE. $135. this trip is some expensive shit man. but it's gonna be worth it. right. got my insurance with col oso. right. what else do i need? COLLECTED THE AIRTIX!!! woohoo i'm on my way!!

yeahh..and well. looks like ive gotta watch the champions league final at home.. mother alone at home..shall accompany her..so she wont wake up to an empty house.. esp since i'll be gone for more than 3 weeks..alas..i hope she can cope well without me around..

i've been taken to task to organising stuff..so responsibility is a very big issue here..but i'm LIVING UP TO IT!!! yeah!! i just need some cooperation here guys..haha yeahh..really..hmm. things can't be done if we don't help each other..im not preaching here..i'll just be doing this for the next few days and make sure everything goes okay..den i can leave in peace...yeahh i know i will...

gateway to UM!! 

the walkway to our rooms...toilet fucking smelly 

the state of the room...dam jialat man...super dusty..check out the dust under danny's bed..yeah man they are real dust..broken mirrors at the door oso..nightmare on M street man. 

arggh!! why so dirty....SO DIRTY!!!! layer of dust below my bed..HOW TO SLEEP SIA?!?! actually quite shiok lah except the lizard shit...moved bed to sleep under fan haha 

my bunkmates zhong and dannyboy...haha check out danny's biceps as he wonders about the state of the room 

on the bus to sungei WANG!!!!! only bought a pair of boardshorts..wah dam shacked walking around loh...had this chicken buffet, like KFC unlimited lydat...from left, dehan, zhong, me, jinxi, eunice!!, joyce, siwei and below, denise and el 

on the bus to petaling..with marv, anson, zhong and yingci..ate guilinggao and drank some chengtng with rongster man, that place so damned crowded..but we got bored of it..cos chatuchak in bangkok rocks more!!! but their adidas/nike shoes look dammm real though 

that's wenjie, our funny malaysian fren with a chiobu girlfren on the left..he's really dam funny!! and dam nice, chauffeured us around..from left, him, me, dehan, dannyboy, rong and zhong 

outside times square, our last night in KL. 

oohh..

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MUNUS games

ahh..seems like i've been gone for a long time..but no! its just been 3 days..bus rides, ramly burgers, games, bruises, food and more food, and not forgetting many new friends made!

ahh yes, it was a pretty good trip, got know a few more med pple better, and some of them are so funny..like jeremy and mengchon hahaha...and man, are the malaysians nice..they are. very hospitable. they made our stay so comfortable and accomodating, we'd all give them 5 stars for that.

so we got on a 6hr trip to KL, stopping over at yongpeng..me and 14others on the 1st bus..and marksim and i got a ramly burger each..nice but overpriced at 4ringgit!! we reached UM pretty much exhausted..and they treated us to ramlee for supper again!! i almost puked..3 burgers in msia on the 1st day (cos i had kfc zinger for dinner in KLoso) haha shit my english is getting dam lousy now..

ok some highlights:

- crapping with jeremy,mc and huiyu abt milla and resident's evil on the bus (Great show)
- 3 burgers in 8 hours
- dusty and sparse college rooms with rickety beds and wardrobes (like a scene outta a dorm in the 70s complete with lizards and flowery curtains)
- speeding down the highway to indians/blacks populated bangsar in a mini car with wenjie and 5 others at the back
- losing...almost everything...
- we beat the malaysians in futsal...sort of hahah
- we beat them in touch? no..not really..but we won anyway! ahhaha
- having nasi lemak for breakfast...literally coconut rice....with chilli and half an egg and peanuts
- watching man utd lose undeservedly to arsenal with the msians in their tv room...for once we're on the same side
- having a chicken buffet for dinner
- eating gui ling gao with rongster at petaling
- playing cards at the sidewalk in KL

and last but not least, speeding back from KL to singapore in under 4 hours...my god. that's really wad i call EXPRESS man.

yeah, well. and one thing i really took back from this trip and probably won't forget was our futsal matches..fast and furious, and with total commitment..i dun remember playing futsal till i was so breathless for a loong loong time..credit to the whole team man..we all played super well, and everybody gave 200%. and of course, the hospitality of the malaysians, and the cruel but hard fact that indeed, the chinese there have less opportunities to succeed as compared to the malays, no matter how smart they are.

ah. i'm going to read the papers. im quite tired now actually.

my hero!! haha bloody cute..hmm i realised dam long nv update blog oredi..cos im too tired..hmm i forgot lah more like it..KL in two days...exam in 2 days too..basket bloody hell 

so tired so tired..

oh i hate school u noe.

actually i kinda miss school? but i hate waking up. man. tried to sleep at 1..ended up at 4..
woke up at 0845, just nice. go to school. no morning train crowd to jostle with.
came into lecture, regretted it.
should have just slept till 12!!! argh.

but well. this is a chance for me to get my sleep cycle back.
gonna sleep at 12. im so freakin tired.
sorry bros, disappointed u guys with no house of wax tonight.
but zhi and the durians sure more than made up for it!
wad joy, it was.

i'm gonna sleep. soon.
sent out some emails.
yeah. my daily ramblings. i dun have time to really explore my inner self. blog abt issues, about stuff. sometimes it just gets too complicated and abstract and i end up confusing myself.
no peace, no peace i find.

is the music playing? i haven't heard it. i dunno if its running..but i uploaded it alright.
can't see my tag box still? must have been that silly quiz.

and, is infrared the only way to transfer files from my sony ericsson k700i to the computer??? i dun have infra red on my pc!! wad am i going to do!! argh.

good night everybody.

bish bash bosh besh bush

she was with me for 3 years. maybe more. i can't remember. now she's left me. no, she's left us. it first started when she started losing hair..i didn't know what to do.

and one fine morning, yes one fine morning. i woke up, and she was lying in an awkward position. i tapped her..and she didn't moved. i'm so sad.

no more pets for me from now on.

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on a brighter note,

my sister got attached!!! i can't believe this dear sister..after all these years..it finally happened..
i dunno if u're reading this, but i'm really happy for u! hahaha.. yeahh man and to think that i thot i was drunk and hearing things when u GIGGLED and said "YA!" with so much enthusiasm..hahahahhaahaha

oh well..sad for me, no time for me oredi right...hahah well u guys have my blessings, u must tell me the story..and zao sheng gui zi..

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ya that's about it.

oh, my quest to queensway and beach road today churned out a miserable speedo towel. so much for the shoes and the backpack. if anyone noes where to get the ADIDAS KICK or ADIDAS ROMA (white and brown, not blue) please gimme a call...and cheap deuter packs, preferably quantum or aircomfort..thanks yo!

peace out.

GPAs and all that

to honestly say, i know nuts about stuff like that..medicine doesnt offer you a proper university education..u know nothing about modules..u know nothing about GPA..and all that funny letters and numbers that pop out from your friends..u know nuts..yeahh well i know nuts..

its so interesting to read that people can choose easier or 'filler' modules to push up their grades.. in order to go for 1st class honours or just into dean's list.. and so many of my friends are doing so well overseas...esp in the US..it seems like they seem to have all the fun in the world..and complain about how behind they are in their studies..saying they're gonna die..okay i probably believe them..but they still do pretty well to get into dean's lists!

hmm..i wonder how well i would do if i was overseas... but i'll have to be contend with my grades..

procrastination

procrastination is an ill of the society.

everybody waits till the last minute. i'm guilty of it too. but many a times, mine results in consequences of my own.

but when people procrastinate, and in turn, somebody else suffers, or even on a greater scale, a community gets the end of it...it's really too much.

why don't people just get off their butts and just simply acknowledge? must i beg you to do it?

eye for a (singaporean) guy 2

so it was denise's slot at 10pm which took up my reading time..

well, not bad, expected shan and howard to get thru...somehow, these ABCs/mixed blood chinese got the nod..except for the last guy, who was pure chinese but speaks like an ABC..coupled with the two new additions, a swede and a german-chinese...i'll bet the singaporean gets eliminated next..no doubts about it..or at least, he won't win definitely..

singaporean guys are, sad to say, losers. sigh.

and what more to dent our pride...than to intro 2 other angmohs to increase the competition..dam shiok man...

macdonalds

i had a mcnuggets meal today! yumm..

ezlink doesnt work..

and the new ad..u watched it?

"i learnt something painful about relationships today....they end."

followed by,

"but i'm happier now! thanks to macdonalds! "

siloso...palawan..tanjung..

hey mr sandman, haha yeah ure missing out loads man..
ya sentosa and the hut were pretty fun and refreshing man..

and i'm turning into a water baby..i just love the waters now..so i headed down to where the southern most point of the asian peninsula is located and we had a whale of a time, literally.

now i end up having a bruised 1st interdigital cleft on my right hand thanks to the frisbee..
sentosa is so different now. it looks certainly much more beautiful, and the people too, getting more and more beautiful. from fully clothed adolescents thronging the sandy beaches just a mere 2 years ago, sentosa has become a haven for bikini-clad beauties to frolick in the blue, albeit still murky, waters of the lagoons..

fortunately..the 'wildlife' is still pretty much unharmed, large schools of marine fish/longkang fish still inhabit the waters until the bridge, but less shy now and we found 'chit-chit' aka shellfish in the shallow waters of the offshore isle nearby..

but it was good to see that the young people nowadays are more open and outgoing now, and we just invited people to join in for some beach soccer..even seeing poly dudes picking up bikini secsch girls in beach vball..KM8 was a total disappointment.must be cos it was monday night..totally deserted man. but yeah they play some chill-out music. not outstanding, but a pretty cool concept.

okay, so jianhong, jirong and i left the hut to seek some cool solace on the beach, only to end up in the newly constructed hall/pavilion to spend our night..waking up to chittering noises and 'taptap' sounds in the night and frozen muscles. so here i am, having woken up from my slumber and dinner..yummy claypot chicken rice. my traps are aching already. and my brother is still screaming at my mother..hmm.

can't wait to finish downloading my OC..and i wonder how much my bro is paying for subscription to WOW. yes need to pay to play...what in the world is that logic?

oh, i should catch some home alone now..thanks sel..

and i'm left here on my own

jasper and i were sitting at PS macs eating our dinner, reading newpaper. they're gonna cut out lesbian/gay scenes/storylines in the OC/desperate housewives. OH COME ON! grow up man, what kinda age are we living in man..its like saying primary school kids never heard the word 'FUCK' before..i mean, i knew it since i was in primary 3..and i knew worst vulgarities man.. and the lesbian/gay scenes, are at best, ticklish, not in anyway lewd or porno or anything like that.. totally ridiculous..and i've watched those episodes, if they do cut it, realy takes a whole lotta fun outta it man... =P

i was born in 1984, in the central hills of eastern mongolia, tzerbingen. but i was raised in china until i was 6, before i migrated with my parents to singapore. so i can't really speak biaozhun chinese since i only started speaking that when i was maybe 4,5 years old..i mean, everything seemed rather vague then..how am i supposed to remember all that?!?! yeahh so basically i just look ( k maybe abit mongolian, just check my dad out) and sound like a singaporean, cos i was raised CONSCIOUSLY as a singaporean....oh come on..did u really believe all that crap?? well, a cute girl did. *wink*

sdfewrafdsdasf

being bogged down by abit of work..and travel plans means i have to forgo some tv tonight.. OC's becoming boring cos i've oredi watched that episode. but i'm downloading the latest one now! hah.

and i've got to trudge down to school tmr to meet the staff ic.

think i've been a bastard friend. not keeping in contact with my old friends..not even an occasional sms to ask them how they are or that i'm simply alive. a simple sms to say happy birthday is sometimes forgotten. and i blame it on laziness. not that i don't have time. i find the term 'i don't have time' simply rubbish. yeah how about just a minute? no? not even a minute??

i accidentally applied for the green card lottery online. and i got a call from the US 5 minutes later. alamak.

050505

happy birthday brother weijia...a special day today..happens only once in a lifetime..050505..

just like how my birthday last year was 20042004...ahhahaa

was watching discovery channel's travel and living just..isnt it everyone's dream to travel the world? yeahh..sometimes, i think i mite be better off being a travel guide or start my own travel show or whatever..but i dun think i'll be witty enough =P like ian wright..hahaha.. well. but that would be too selfish.

yeah and just learnt that the roman empire was really very powerful 2000 years ago..mann..i think i should go and read more about the history of europe..im just fearing there won't be enough time to do that..i hope i can absorb some of it though..sometimes don't u think that reading is very pointless? what's the point if u just forget everything like a year down the road..hmm.

yes..pretty enchanted with europe now..and just watched the replay of psv vs milan..my god. poor psv. they thoroughly deserved to go thru man..having a 2-0 deficit in the first leg, they bounced back 2-0 in the 2nd..only to have milan score an away goal in the last minute. and even when cocu scored a superb volley into the top corner of the net 2 minutes into extra time to win 3-1, it was all too late..

so now, today thursday is TV day..and i'm glad to find out half hour ago that SCOTT SAVOL HAS BEEN ELIMINATED!!!! WOOHOOO!!! fedorov is still safe though, but she's certainly gonna be the next one outta the door man!! yeaahHhh!! the top 3..carrie, vonzell and bo will definitely make it thru man. no doubt about that. carrie has a good voice, but she tends to be a little stoned on stage. bo has got great stage presence, but somehow, his vocals tend to be somewhat limited in range. i think vonzell is a good mix of both, blessed with GREAT vocals and beauty. she'll probably win it. i hope she wins it.

shit man, there's First mums, chase on tv tonight, followed by idol (i missed the first part) , THE OC!!! and then there's one tree hill, which i'll probably skip, and then everwood..this show about a doctor who moved to colorado falls after his wife died. yeah. and competes with the other sole snobbish doctor in town, and falls for this other therapist doing alternative medicine, and has 2 problem kids. hahahah.

right, i've got work to do for centennial games, and of course planning for that much-awaited yet frustrating europe trip. colin u better come home quick.

this is really funny..

Your dating personality profile: Big-Hearted - You are a kind and caring person. Your warmth is inviting, and your heart is a wellspring of love. Outgoing - You can liven up any party. You've got a way with people and have little difficulty charming your dates. Athletic - Physical fitness is one of your priorities. You find the time to work athletic pursuits into your schedule. You enjoy being active.

Your date match profile: Big-Hearted - You want someone compassionate, someone gentle and kind. A loving, nurturing person will fill that hole in your life. Sensual - You aren't looking for someone who is sexually repressed. You want someone who is adventurous under the covers. Traditional - You aren't looking for someone who is sexually repressed. You want someone who is adventurous under the covers.

Your Top Ten Traits 1. Big-Hearted 2. Outgoing 3. Athletic 4. Adventurous 5. Liberal 6. Traditional 7. Wealthy/Ambitious 8. Romantic 9. Sensual 10. Funny

Your Top Ten Match Traits 1. Big-Hearted 2. Sensual 3. Traditional 4. Shy 5. Athletic 6. Practical 7. Conservative 8. Adventurous 9. Funny 10. Intellectual

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haha anybody fits the bill?

champions league.

staying up to watch alias, followed by barclays highlights, den band of brothers, before the much-awaited match.

for the first time in my life, i actually love liverpool.

beautiful shot siah..i took one..wooohoo..some lagoon back in maldives....yarright..its actually the quarry at ubin 

first stop: chek jawa. stepping on mossy seaweed 

3 of us, at chek jawa. 

wondering..without raffles and ocs to shape us...what will become of us now? (haha fck off lah) 

i like this pic..but dun ask me why they look like that... 

against the flats of the australian outback  

chio man, at chek jawa. 

both of us..dipping our feet in the hot water..damm shiok man..but the mudd sucked my slippers in :( and dam weird corals which sucked your fingers too! 

me and weijia at the abandoned french house near the beach..yeahh..we climbed in..kinda creepy though.. 

PULAU UBIN

a different weekend of sorts, $2 bumboat ride there..chicks, sour coconuts, mangoes, quarries, mud, chek jawa, sore asses...it rocked man.

the very original brothers 4, col, me, yk and jasp. got this off jasp's..yeah the most recent. the rare times 

doe a deer...a female deer?

yeahh watched the 2nd last performance of sound of music..really enjoyable u noe, maria was pretty good..and funny! esp gretl...love her man..so cute..well anyway, singaporean audiences are really quite reserved and laid back..like the applause at the end was pretty lukewarm, and nobody had standing ovations for them even though they thorougly deserved one..i would have..but i was sitting in the 2nd circle terraces, right at the back..noway can they see me man..

well it certainly brought back lots of childhood memories! and those songs, ahh..yeah..made me think back alot..not only when i was young but a few years before this as well..

and today was meeting lots and lots of brudders day man!! first met up with the ruggers..havent seem some of them for so long man..isaac ng, kenny, zhichao, yipkai, lum..yeah..lum just looks pretty normal botak lah actually..and still as subdued..oh well..oh! and leslie too man..been a long time brother, since those days in the backseat in the LT..when u perpetually piss me off with those smelly chicken wings and jiao loud voice..keep attracting attn to our backseats siah.. yeahh den pool with leslie and jasp and weijia..

leslie just joined my club 7. =)

and den met up with the soccer dudes aka botak gang...been a freaking long time since we last had a match man!! sendoff for keith..going aussie for his flying soon..

and brother col just came back from thailand bought me boxing shorts which i missed out the last time..

yeah, just a pretty good day, meeting up with old old pals..from ri/rj days..felt really good man. didnt meet any girls though. funny. hahaa.

yeah..and i got back early...before 12..ahh. so tired.

must watch interpreter soon.

yes. boring post. fuck chelsea!!!