that's fabio from brazil..he slept below me in florence..nice guy haha..engineer and very funny..that's the david replica..david is dam bloody good. ...along the streets of florence..some square..
Tuesday, July 12, 2005
FLORENCE!!! land of art..duomo...me with the horsecarts..duomo again..some piazza...at the big square..along the streets of florence..the river at florence..sunset..some monument..another sunset..pub crawl with hostelites!!! tha'ts the one-piece band at the pub..my fellow hostelites joinign in the party..with martin from uS..their fish market..some museum..
Monday, July 11, 2005
venice part 3..i love this part of venice..its a scene out of a portrait..the life that i crave..the romantic gondolas and river walkways...the endless venezia ice cream..frozen artists...concerts held in chapels..their public water taps..venetian masks..floating fruit markets..gigantic pizzas..artistic graffiti..kids playing football at the many piazzas/campos..pple just chilling out...little italian kids..and our lovely campsite which is actually a cabin with our own ensuite toilet!! woohoo!!
venice part 2..venice main river..pucci..gucci side by side..venetian alley..st marks sq!!!..with col at stmarks..st marks and its resident pigeons..st marks..st marks' cafe..peanuts man...hot french babes feeding pigeons..stmarks basilica..view from the bottom..the dome of st marks..cute baby and me!!..haha tomb of st marks..
Sunday, July 10, 2005
argh
what a boring weekend it has been.
saturday was spent missing chicken rice at far east, followed by some walking around singapore's malls...xbox..can't believe we suck at it now..
well at least we tried some carl's jnr burgers...at jasper's recommendation i took the double western bacon cheeseburger..which was HUGE, and yes, juicy..but for $10 for a meal like that, rather ex man. ok, so u offer free flow of beverages..but who the hell can finish more than 2 medium sized cokes after downing that gigantic burger plus fries? i almost puked.
and sunday..waking up past noon..that was nice..followed by the rain..and off i am to meet POPeyes to do up our tags...and YES! voila we're done!!
oh well. and for u guys who grew up eating big breakfasts or filletofish lunches at the macs down at ymca..it's closed from tmr onwards. effectively, i was there for the last day it's gonna be open..and they ran out of garlic chilly sauce..rather nostalgic though..
i used to go to the nat library which has since been replaced and the history museum on saturday mornings when i was sec1/2..yeahh i had nothing to do on those mornings anyway so i just took a trip now by myself..have some time alone..and i would drop by the macs sometimes.. yup i was pretty much the loner..i liked being alone then..i guess im going back to those days..
its sort of good really, makes u less dependent on pple..and i think that's important. cos ultimately, in a coupla years time i'll be doing that again, and i'll be making big decisions all on my own. and i sort of like that. i wanted to live alone too, rent a studio by myself, and i reckon that i can do just fine. that day, i saw the houseman darren at sgh, and he was just rushing to places alone..i guess its true that as u grow older, your circle of frens tend to dwindle as well.. what may be that 4 rows of us sitting at the back of the LT, would soon be whittled down to just maybe 8 or 9 per cg, and as the yrs go by, u'll be alone once ure full fledged doc.
ah. cherish them now.
saturday was spent missing chicken rice at far east, followed by some walking around singapore's malls...xbox..can't believe we suck at it now..
well at least we tried some carl's jnr burgers...at jasper's recommendation i took the double western bacon cheeseburger..which was HUGE, and yes, juicy..but for $10 for a meal like that, rather ex man. ok, so u offer free flow of beverages..but who the hell can finish more than 2 medium sized cokes after downing that gigantic burger plus fries? i almost puked.
and sunday..waking up past noon..that was nice..followed by the rain..and off i am to meet POPeyes to do up our tags...and YES! voila we're done!!
oh well. and for u guys who grew up eating big breakfasts or filletofish lunches at the macs down at ymca..it's closed from tmr onwards. effectively, i was there for the last day it's gonna be open..and they ran out of garlic chilly sauce..rather nostalgic though..
i used to go to the nat library which has since been replaced and the history museum on saturday mornings when i was sec1/2..yeahh i had nothing to do on those mornings anyway so i just took a trip now by myself..have some time alone..and i would drop by the macs sometimes.. yup i was pretty much the loner..i liked being alone then..i guess im going back to those days..
its sort of good really, makes u less dependent on pple..and i think that's important. cos ultimately, in a coupla years time i'll be doing that again, and i'll be making big decisions all on my own. and i sort of like that. i wanted to live alone too, rent a studio by myself, and i reckon that i can do just fine. that day, i saw the houseman darren at sgh, and he was just rushing to places alone..i guess its true that as u grow older, your circle of frens tend to dwindle as well.. what may be that 4 rows of us sitting at the back of the LT, would soon be whittled down to just maybe 8 or 9 per cg, and as the yrs go by, u'll be alone once ure full fledged doc.
ah. cherish them now.
Saturday, July 09, 2005
zits galore
when you start getting pimples for no reason...maybe its time to change the BEDSHEETS and pillow cases!!
on a brighter note, i just bought a usb bluetooth dongle!! just transferred the photos from hp to comp..hmm..not bad quality..but not good enough. im going to buy the 2MP k750i man!!
cheers
sidenote: fright night's gonna be a blast man!
on a brighter note, i just bought a usb bluetooth dongle!! just transferred the photos from hp to comp..hmm..not bad quality..but not good enough. im going to buy the 2MP k750i man!!
cheers
sidenote: fright night's gonna be a blast man!
Thursday, July 07, 2005
london won :(
standing admist the crowd at raffles city really takes the cake man, i felt like i was back in europe all over again..surrounded by french-speaking guys and one or 2 cute chicks..cheering 'paris! paris!' all the way before the results were announced...it was awesome man. with the cameras and flashes all around..the atmosphere was just electric!
and being the singaporeans and siao on brudders that we were, jasp and i managed to ease , yeah i mean literally EASE, past everybody to enter swissotel, and waited at the escalator for the celebs to come flowing down...
celebs who just BRUSHED us literally by an inch:
jonathan edwards+colin jackson, lord sebastian coe, TONY PARKER!!! (he was really subdued, having pulled off his tie and all, we got a few words with him in private!! hahaa..he turned us down for a photo cos he wasnt in the mood) LAURENT BLANC!!! princess anne!! prince albert!!! marie jose perec!! AND I WAS STANDING NEXT TO ALEXEI NEMOV!!! wanted to take a picture with him but he was busy showing his OWN pictures to his russian fren..my gosh im taller than him but he's way buffer man..yeahh just the two of us at the door..wahlao, how exciting is that..and of cos, who can forget the hosts for the night, lovely vivian and her host..dunno his name but he was one heck of a funny dude..yeahh so only vivian was kind enuff to take a shot with me, really pretty that babe..who else did i see huh..no beckham lah..no raul oso..dam disappointing..but fuck!!! tony parker talked to us!!!
he squeezed past us into the hotel and both of us were like 'fuck, is that tony parker??' wahlao! btw he just won the NBA with spurs and he's currently bedding eva longoria from desperate housewives..talk abt that man..what a night, what a night.
and jasp and i ended the night, some heart to heart talk there..man, what a blast tonight was. fuck! tony parker and sebastian coe!! princess anne!! unbelievable man.
and being the singaporeans and siao on brudders that we were, jasp and i managed to ease , yeah i mean literally EASE, past everybody to enter swissotel, and waited at the escalator for the celebs to come flowing down...
celebs who just BRUSHED us literally by an inch:
jonathan edwards+colin jackson, lord sebastian coe, TONY PARKER!!! (he was really subdued, having pulled off his tie and all, we got a few words with him in private!! hahaa..he turned us down for a photo cos he wasnt in the mood) LAURENT BLANC!!! princess anne!! prince albert!!! marie jose perec!! AND I WAS STANDING NEXT TO ALEXEI NEMOV!!! wanted to take a picture with him but he was busy showing his OWN pictures to his russian fren..my gosh im taller than him but he's way buffer man..yeahh just the two of us at the door..wahlao, how exciting is that..and of cos, who can forget the hosts for the night, lovely vivian and her host..dunno his name but he was one heck of a funny dude..yeahh so only vivian was kind enuff to take a shot with me, really pretty that babe..who else did i see huh..no beckham lah..no raul oso..dam disappointing..but fuck!!! tony parker talked to us!!!
he squeezed past us into the hotel and both of us were like 'fuck, is that tony parker??' wahlao! btw he just won the NBA with spurs and he's currently bedding eva longoria from desperate housewives..talk abt that man..what a night, what a night.
and jasp and i ended the night, some heart to heart talk there..man, what a blast tonight was. fuck! tony parker and sebastian coe!! princess anne!! unbelievable man.
Wednesday, July 06, 2005
in a few hours' time, the race to host the olympics will begin..and the front-runners london will showcase just how worthy they are..i love the history and culture of that place, the gloomy weather and their awful food..yes i do love them..
but brits today happen to piss me off so bad, i wished paris won. it can't be worse really. after watching the allblacks runneth them over, the brit + irish lions resorted to dirty tramping and stamping on their opponents, scenes enough to start a war. it was typical british bulldog behaviour, bite when u lose.
and i was on my way back after a good nights out with weijia, jasp, cktang and dehan when on the train, this psuedo-londoner starts cussing abt 'surviving in singa' and can't wait to get his ass out of the country and back to london..'fuckin' policemen..can't stand it..too many rules in this fuckin' country'..and it was a half-fucked london accent littered with bits of malay slang in it..yeah this fucking malay, who probably stayed 3 or 4 years in london starts cussing abt my country..i wished this scum was back in london that very moment.
and while watching chang from taipei finish off valentine from scot, who is admirably dressed to impressed with his scottish kilt, our dear brit actually pointed a middle finger at the camera..showing how typically uncouth a brit can get.
as much as i love the UK, its this bad apples that ruin it for me. the french, though snobbish, have a reason to be, and they are no where near as bad as they are..i mean, hey, they DO clear their trays after eating at macdonalds u noe!
so that's paris for me.
but brits today happen to piss me off so bad, i wished paris won. it can't be worse really. after watching the allblacks runneth them over, the brit + irish lions resorted to dirty tramping and stamping on their opponents, scenes enough to start a war. it was typical british bulldog behaviour, bite when u lose.
and i was on my way back after a good nights out with weijia, jasp, cktang and dehan when on the train, this psuedo-londoner starts cussing abt 'surviving in singa' and can't wait to get his ass out of the country and back to london..'fuckin' policemen..can't stand it..too many rules in this fuckin' country'..and it was a half-fucked london accent littered with bits of malay slang in it..yeah this fucking malay, who probably stayed 3 or 4 years in london starts cussing abt my country..i wished this scum was back in london that very moment.
and while watching chang from taipei finish off valentine from scot, who is admirably dressed to impressed with his scottish kilt, our dear brit actually pointed a middle finger at the camera..showing how typically uncouth a brit can get.
as much as i love the UK, its this bad apples that ruin it for me. the french, though snobbish, have a reason to be, and they are no where near as bad as they are..i mean, hey, they DO clear their trays after eating at macdonalds u noe!
so that's paris for me.
Tuesday, July 05, 2005
schmucked
the british + irish lions finally set foot in new zealand down under, only to lose all their test matches against the allblacks..and set a record by conceding 40points, most ever by any opposition.
can't blame them, daniel carter, my new hero, was in top form, taking 33 out of 48 points..
another reason to be knighted, sir clive woodward.
can't blame them, daniel carter, my new hero, was in top form, taking 33 out of 48 points..
another reason to be knighted, sir clive woodward.
shopaholic
in order to rediscover what goes on around in the minds of women and what tickles them, i've resorted to reading this series of books entitled 'shopaholic and *'..
as with war of the worlds and many literature thats been reviewed by me, the aftermath was just a stunned/bored 'OK...'
right, its a good book to read, i love the settings, from rural england to the big cities of ny and london..and really finding out for myself what girls actually do and buy when they shop..but its strenous on the mind as u trudge thru items 1 to 10345667 from page 1 to 300...because yes, that's what the book's about..just uncontrollable shopping shopping and more shopping.. still, with its quirky twists and funny letters from banks/credit card companies makes it a good, brainless read..
if you like surfing this certain babe's blog which is all about escapades and pictures of shopping and herself, you'll definitely like this book.
as with war of the worlds and many literature thats been reviewed by me, the aftermath was just a stunned/bored 'OK...'
right, its a good book to read, i love the settings, from rural england to the big cities of ny and london..and really finding out for myself what girls actually do and buy when they shop..but its strenous on the mind as u trudge thru items 1 to 10345667 from page 1 to 300...because yes, that's what the book's about..just uncontrollable shopping shopping and more shopping.. still, with its quirky twists and funny letters from banks/credit card companies makes it a good, brainless read..
if you like surfing this certain babe's blog which is all about escapades and pictures of shopping and herself, you'll definitely like this book.
Sunday, July 03, 2005
ioc 2005
hai..im so upset with myself..but i noe i couldnt have helped it anyway..
what turned out to be a 'to-do' before i left never materialised...because i couldnt commit the time to it..even though i really wanted to..to volunteer at the ioc 2005..
face it, singapore will never ever host the olympics..at least not in our lifetime..and its just once in this lifetime that they decide on where to hold the olympics right here on our very soil..and a chance for a commoner like me to be part of the fracas..its all too late to get involved. well..lets just enjoy what's to come den..hopefully can see beckham in flesh guffaws.
what turned out to be a 'to-do' before i left never materialised...because i couldnt commit the time to it..even though i really wanted to..to volunteer at the ioc 2005..
face it, singapore will never ever host the olympics..at least not in our lifetime..and its just once in this lifetime that they decide on where to hold the olympics right here on our very soil..and a chance for a commoner like me to be part of the fracas..its all too late to get involved. well..lets just enjoy what's to come den..hopefully can see beckham in flesh guffaws.
Saturday, July 02, 2005
success!
i hate signing in to blogger to blog, can't they be more efficient and userfriendly like msn or something!?
hmm. YES! i think ive successfully tuned back my body clock. cos im feeling sleepy now..and i went for a 6km run just now..hmm. took quite long actually..i didnt time but by the time i bathed and watched some tennis it was oredi 12..and i started at 10.45..hmm.
yeah man, gonna wake up for some ogl briefing tmr..after a 5week hiatus frm nus, time to go get involved in sch..
new sem resolutions:
- attain average grades (was below average)
- join more clubs, get to know more pple hah! (i was in medsoc..how exciting)
- GET FITTER!!
- that's abt all for now that i can come up with. OH!!
- get a job man.
- keep on dreaming.
hmm. YES! i think ive successfully tuned back my body clock. cos im feeling sleepy now..and i went for a 6km run just now..hmm. took quite long actually..i didnt time but by the time i bathed and watched some tennis it was oredi 12..and i started at 10.45..hmm.
yeah man, gonna wake up for some ogl briefing tmr..after a 5week hiatus frm nus, time to go get involved in sch..
new sem resolutions:
- attain average grades (was below average)
- join more clubs, get to know more pple hah! (i was in medsoc..how exciting)
- GET FITTER!!
- that's abt all for now that i can come up with. OH!!
- get a job man.
- keep on dreaming.
Friday, July 01, 2005
glitzy buzy
movies week! its barely been a week since i'm back and i've oredi caught 3 shows..
initial d...great show with cool dudes..really a brothers' show man. with all of us 'ooh'ing and 'aah'ing at the same moments..
war of the worlds with brudder jasp..and after some footie before waking up really seh..overhyped lah, just great effects but stupid show i think..and wtf, tripods!??
and finally, batmin begins, with brudder yk..who graciously treated me with his free ticket..ahha..but it was a good night out man..with some booze to top it off..fwahh..refreshing as it trickled down my throat..
yeahh..successfully tuned my body clock back..just woke up at as-per-normal time 12noon to read some crappy news abt nus' centennial achievements..just keep talking abt yourselves lah guys, what with all your apru or isit apfu conferences i dun care..i think probably covered more on the nus president and his fellow profs rather than his students..
think maybe shud do a special edition on the IOC coming up instead..haii..if not for europe probably wud have volunteered for it oso..
hmm..zara here i come..alone
initial d...great show with cool dudes..really a brothers' show man. with all of us 'ooh'ing and 'aah'ing at the same moments..
war of the worlds with brudder jasp..and after some footie before waking up really seh..overhyped lah, just great effects but stupid show i think..and wtf, tripods!??
and finally, batmin begins, with brudder yk..who graciously treated me with his free ticket..ahha..but it was a good night out man..with some booze to top it off..fwahh..refreshing as it trickled down my throat..
yeahh..successfully tuned my body clock back..just woke up at as-per-normal time 12noon to read some crappy news abt nus' centennial achievements..just keep talking abt yourselves lah guys, what with all your apru or isit apfu conferences i dun care..i think probably covered more on the nus president and his fellow profs rather than his students..
think maybe shud do a special edition on the IOC coming up instead..haii..if not for europe probably wud have volunteered for it oso..
hmm..zara here i come..alone
Wednesday, June 29, 2005
i'll settle this once and for all
and so there i was, fighting insomnia and jetlag..its european 8.30pm now..i can't sleep..
so what better to do than to indulge in some oc finale..boy.
it was fantablastic man.
somehow the show has nv lost its charm on me. i was hooked ever since the first episode, of cos i have you to thank. i dun think the show's gotten worse or better, but its certainly stirred up those emotions and feelings deep inside of me.. its endless depression really, the show, it just gets more dramatic and exciting..and it leaves me with a sense of..i dunno what it is..guilt? somewhere along the way we must have done something wrong in our lives, there's never a perfect day. its just the severity of our crimes that will strike us..
i think after watching the last episode..im gonna have nightmares or a fitful sleep for sure..
hmm well...strange, how everytime i watch it i seem to think of you..and meeting you that day, really made me, or rather, still makes me, realise how poor a person i am..think i have still some long way to go..yeah that's right, i'm not there yet. you didnt have to say or do anything..just your mere presence alone reflects how inadequate i am.
chocolates arent good enuff, and vodka is just a tad too strong for me now..beer's a tasty poison, but certainly not potent enuff. alas, what am i going to do?
so what better to do than to indulge in some oc finale..boy.
it was fantablastic man.
somehow the show has nv lost its charm on me. i was hooked ever since the first episode, of cos i have you to thank. i dun think the show's gotten worse or better, but its certainly stirred up those emotions and feelings deep inside of me.. its endless depression really, the show, it just gets more dramatic and exciting..and it leaves me with a sense of..i dunno what it is..guilt? somewhere along the way we must have done something wrong in our lives, there's never a perfect day. its just the severity of our crimes that will strike us..
i think after watching the last episode..im gonna have nightmares or a fitful sleep for sure..
hmm well...strange, how everytime i watch it i seem to think of you..and meeting you that day, really made me, or rather, still makes me, realise how poor a person i am..think i have still some long way to go..yeah that's right, i'm not there yet. you didnt have to say or do anything..just your mere presence alone reflects how inadequate i am.
chocolates arent good enuff, and vodka is just a tad too strong for me now..beer's a tasty poison, but certainly not potent enuff. alas, what am i going to do?
Tuesday, June 28, 2005
and den we leave for venice treviso on board budget air line ryan air..quite a comfortable ride...cheap summore..but not before having delayed trains at the tube, before rushing to find where the terminal for the greenline is, and having the greenline picking up the previous bus cos it broke down..and having to go off the expressway on a detour thru the small towns of luton...and finally reaching half hour before the plane took off..phew..what an experience man. WHAT TOUGH LUCK. that's all for london.....
hyde park!! pigeon lady feeding those damned pests..now u noe why there are so many of them there..other than that..hyde park is pretty much gigantic and lots of fun..lots of cute kids around..and their toilets are all underground..i ran past many without noticing..and its so dry and cold there that u dun even sweat...when i was totally covered..ahh..weather's perfect.
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