Lunch at hong lim

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:: National Day stayover ::

my butt is aching.. sooo tired after a day out with my triplets and friends. haha.. my triplets are Faith and Junren, and my friends are Rj and Alvin.

wed was public holiday eve. a client asked me to stay back to upload some stuff on their website. i was sort of a middle person, because i had to pass the files to someone else to upload. and i had to wait till the person upload the files on the website before my client allowed me to leave =x haiz~ the guy seemed to have left his office earlier, so i could not reach him, so i had to inform the client tt there's no point in me staying to check the website since the guy had left. c'mon, it's public holiday eve! some companies would give their staff a half day off okay!

after work i went to Burlington Sq to meet my triplets. haa.. went to buy a pirated Sony Ericsson earpiece converter - to connect to a normal earphones plug. ****** SonyE to come up with UNIQUE products and peripherals. i had to buy a bigger memory card since i'm using the phone as a mp3 player as well. and then i can keep the thai phone at home till my sis comes to collect it back. but i didn't get the card though. didn't know it costs so much. grrr...

went up to junren's apartment and slack. chatted with him on msn and played msn games. haha yeah i know, we could just talk face to face ya. faith was playing an online game. started to get hungry around 9+pm, so we went for supper. Rochor beancurd was just a few minutes walk away. =P after we came back i went to take a shower. Alvin arrived. he brought dvds along, and i watched 300, the movie. couldn't quit laughing at the drag queen in the movie, Xerxes. haha.. didn't really catch the dialogue most of the time. had to ask Alvin what they were saying, since he's watched it 5 times! Jr's place has become a Lan shop. lol. he, alvin and faith were all playing online games.

then Rj arrived past midnight. he was quite tired, so he went to sleep. can't rem what we did, but faith and i went to sleep around 3am. haa.. chatted till we fell asleep. woke up around 9+am.. i gained an extra left eyelid these few days and felt v weird, like i had to force open my eyelids properly, but after blinking it droops down again. argh.. washed up and went out and realise the guys had not been sleeping well. they had to sleep on the sofa cuz they gave us the biggest bed. Jr is a super light sleeper.. both he and Rj woke up when they heard my camera's shutters. and i dunno why Rj was outside in the living room since he went to bed first.

went to buy BK breakfast with Jr. quite an expensive breakfast, since there must be some cheap good breakast around the area. guess we're all quite lazy. wanted to swim here, but procrastinated. haha.. before the stayover faith told me that both of us will go swimming while the guys play their games. and i was quite happy with the plan cuz i'm quite shy to go swimming with guy friends. haha. but she asked the guys to join in. anyway in the end we didn't go la.

we went to ECP to cycle. i rode on a double bike behind Rj. i must say he's good man. though my dad rides a motorbike, it's still more stable than a bicycle. to be able to ride a double bike with confidence is really zai man. i rem the last time i rode a double bike was with Hilwan, at pulau ubin. Weng Heng was also there. we went there for a photography session. really miss those times man. Wan was zai also, since the terrain at pulau ubin was much rougher and tougher.

the bike gave us really bad aching butt...and my whole groin area.. tt i wonder if tt's how it feels when u lose ur first time. *coughs* ... everytime Rj and i overtake the rest and gone too far in front we would stop and wait for them, and i would get off the bike and complain of a badly hurting butt. we had lunch at ECP hawker centre. ordered fried oysters, fried carrot cake, fried kuey tiao, fried hokkien mee and satay. =D thank God for healing me of my sickness that i could eat KFC (with my dad on tue) and all these stuff without having sore throat again. thank God for holding back the rain though it looked like it was going to rain anytime the whole day.

we got to a quieter part of ECP and alvin gave me a bicycle lesson. he was really very encouraging, and i could sense some progress in learning to cycle. i didn't master it yet, because i first have to overcome the lack of confidence. i never learnt much when i was young. i used to be quite proud tt my parents never forced me to take up extra lessons or whatever, when all my classmates were busy with piano lessons, ballet, swimming etc. but now i feel like i've lost out a lot in my childhood. sometimes i feel quite a failure, that so many pple can cycle like it's an easy feat while i can't. haiz.

after 3 hours it was time to return the bikes. then we went out to take bus back to Bugis. we had dinner at Koo Kee ramen & dumpling restaurant. hmm yummm.. had xiaolongbao and ramen. very satisfied. good food the whole time. hehe.. i was super stoned by that time and from dinner to back at the apartment i was just like a zombie. watched part of the National Day Parade on tv and waited for the fireworks. tried to catch it outside the window, but the view was blocked by other buildings. went home after that. Rj also left since he has school the next day. so only Faith and alvin stayed at Jr's place for another day. felt a bit cheated but i shan't say more.

took train from Little India station. thank God that i could have a seat though i was expecting a super crowded train after the NDP. my butt hurts esp when i am about to sit down and get up. =( slept late last night cuz i was busy transferring my contacts from my old phone to new phone. sooo tired.

these few days i'm shifting office from Kampong Bahru Rd to Hong Lim Complex. should have lotsa good food there, but it's further from Vivocity now. awww...

:: invisible target & girl talk ::

went to watch a movie "Invisible Target" yesterday, by myself hoho~

i didn't like to watch movie by myself.. i've missed A LOT of movies that i had badly wanted to watch because i'd rather have company. i was surprised tt weiting watches movies by herself and doesn't seem bothered about it. so i've finally decided and told myself to just heck it and watch it myself.

boy i am sooo happy to have caught this movie. it's a HK movie directed by Benny Chan, starring Jaycee (Jackie Chan's son), Shawn Yue and Nicholas Tse (earning milk powder money)!! haha.. i like to catch HK shows with cute guys. but i realise it's not easy finding someone who shares common interest. =D

IT'S A GREAT MOVIE!! enjoy it totally. got some funny dialogues, fighting scenes just when i expected them (i'm serious!), and jaycee looks more n more like his daddy! esp when he tries to fight. haha.. there is a good ending too. not very happy, but at least my fav guys r alive. =P

i know very little abt shawn yue, but i have always been fascinated by how much he looks like nicholas tse. haha.. and nic's baby is born! really hope he'll continue to be a good husband and daddy.

i dun think i'll buy the vcd when it comes out, because it's not like in another language where i have to watch it again to catch the joke/story. but i'll be anticipating its tv premier. =)

:: new phone ::

baa baa black *beep* have you any phone.. yes sir yes sir three black phones.



hmm haha..

:: Split Second ::

i'm so disappointed in last night's ending of Split Second - HK drama on Channel U at 10pm!!!

ALL the main characters died!!!

very interesting twist to the usual happy endings.. i would say it's very bold of the script writer to try this style. and i appreciate the HK-Thai ties for this drama.. i wonder if the director is HK or Thai. u gotta tell the actors from both countries to coordinate. i would say it's marvellous.

and i realise the Thai main actor is also the lead actor from Bangkok Robbery. Somehow halfway thru the drama it occurred to me that they are the same person, then i took out my VCD and compared the actor's name. haha.. he looks much younger and better in Split Second.

and haha i like the show mainly because of the guys in it. =P i got really sian when they all died! Esp Sam, the Thai actor, he died because he refused to go hospital after he was shot. he went to buy flowers for the girl he liked and died bleeding. Dong also, he could have gone to hospital after getting shot (by the same guy - argh!), but he insisted on going to find his girl. and then it ended. =( !!!

i'm a sucker for happy endings!!

:: troubled ::

i just went out for a walk during my lunch break, and came back feeling quite troubled. haha..

went to Spottiswoode... there were benches in front of a playground, but i didn't stop there, because there were grasscutters trimming the grass there. it was quite noisy as well as dangerous to be near them.

so i walked on... saw a few women smoking. they look like prostitutes who frequent the pubs & bars around my workplace.

and i walked on.. trying to find somewhere to rest. then i saw an old woman who kept staring at me. i stared back, wondering what she's thinking abt. something in my mind told me to go over and sit beside her and say hi. but i walked past thru another path, under a HDB block. sat down for a while near a basketball court. felt rather peaceful, enough to fall asleep. but i was concerned abt the ants around me. so i got up, deciding that i would go over to the old woman and say hi.

she had got up to find somewhere else to go, so i walked past her, half smiling to her. i went to near where she had sat and near the prostitutes. the old woman looked like she was looking for something under a block. i saw a cat on the path i came from (u can imagine me walking back and forth the same path) and went to play with it. it was kinda scared of me so i didn't get to play with it. i just kept looking at it until i realise the old woman was looking at me. she had found another spot to sit. so i nodded to her as a greeting. she seemed happy and tried to tell me something, so i walked nearer to her.

she started talking to me in Hokkien. honestly the whole conversation i probably understood only 10%! and she kept touching my arm to get my attention whenever i look away. =x halfway through i suddenly wondered whether this was a dream or not. i believe God is in control la huh. she was trying to tell me abt her zha bor kia, ta bor kia, ang, etc... i think her daughter lives on the 11th floor of the block and she has the keys to the 3-room flat but doesn't want to go in. and she told me abt taking taxi and taking bus. she doesn't know how to take the Choa Chu Kang LRT.. while talking she also grabbed my upper arm and asked me why it's so cold, is it because i bathe in cold water. she asked do i live in blk 106, i struggled to explain in Hokkien that i work in an office. she even started to dust my tshirt... felt a bit awkward. that's abt all i understand. then when she mentioned "gao deng" (church) and "bai xin" (pray to idol) i told her i "xin ya so" (believe in Jesus). dunno what she was trying to say, like telling me it's not good. =x

then she asked me whether i eat already, i said not yet, and she urged me to go and eat. so i went back to office, feeling like i was Alice in Wonderland. haha..

another disturbing thing was, i saw a trail of blood around my workplace. okay, if u dunno where i work, it's one of the shophouses facing the road. there got LOTS of pubs and it's not very safe to stay late at work. i followed the blood trail from one end of the row of shophouses to the other. quite scary.. as if someone was running for his life. it wasn't a lot of blood, but it made me wonder what happened last night. was there a fight?

hmmm... i kinda wish some nice guy out there would read my blog and decide that my workplace is too dangerous for me to go home alone... hee...

S.Korean Hostage Crisis: New deadline 3.30pm today

The Taliban killed 1 more hostage. Assholes. Imagine their frustration if we just don't care about the pple they've held hostage. They won't be able to get what they want. But this can never happen. If it does, humanity is in trouble.

Our weakness is that we cannot fight back because of the lives of the hostages, we may have to give in eventually (dunno what the government is planning). But in our weakness God's strength is found. God will make a way for the pple He loves and are persecuted.

Here in Singapore life still goes on for most of us. Who would get down on their knees and pray for the Koreans? Who would fast for them? I'm troubled but I haven't been praying much. Let's call each other up to pray for these brothers and sisters.