Bowling...

I got a wake up call early in the morning @ 9.30 from ah gong... actually not that early also la.. he was alone @ his usual hunt... CDANS Bowling alley just across swiss cottage sec... haa ask if anyone wanna accompany him...

haa... in the end only got me, so i made my way down, luckily got van at home... in the end i lost all the games... we shared a terminal with two other young punks... initially they were there and seems amused by ah gong's posture as he bowl.. but slowly i can see their amazement as ah gong hit out a few strikes each time... haha... although i was no where near ah gong, but still proud of it..

luckily ah gong called, otherwise donnoe till wad time i'm gonna sleep... such a waste of time to slp the morning away.. but everytime i told myself to wake up early the next day, i failed... haa unless got lessons la den no choice... even so, i will also lai chuang till the v last min den wake up one.. that's bad... show my lack of discipline and determination man.... hope i can achiece my goal of zhao shui zhao qi one day.... it will be good if i can slp @ 11pm and wake up @ 8 or even 7 plus in the morning... haha but think i can only dream of it... hehe

going tuition soon... and i juz remembered my leather shoe is spoilt! shit... tml need to wear to work... how ar still cant find one satisfactory and up to my expectation one leh.. don wanna anyhow buy also...

Worst defeat ever...

Just sufffer e worst defeat ever in my life on the mahjong table... think i have been playing mj for at least 3 years plus le ba... today is the first time i cleared all my chips even before the first round ended...

Luckily we onli play 20 cents 40 cents... if it is with ah sian they all... i would have lost 300 dollars... but today is also bad enough although i only lost 30 dollars...

think i havent been winning for quite some time le.. plus haven't been v lucky recently also...

guess i need a change of luck...

time to slp now...

Happy 77th

Oh Sat is a great day cos it's my ah gong bdae.... haha... before that went to k lunch with a few of my cousins... it has been awhile since i last went... okie ahah quite enjoyable... But after that v tired also donnoe why...

Den went to Jase's Condo across the road from Lot1. The usual function room... Still early and few ppl had arrived, therefore a few of us cousins went to seat by the pool side to talk... talked abt lotsa stuffs... e.g. how things are different now when u grow older... u no longer enjoy the simple joy and laughter that we once enjoyed... things in our family etc etc....

Later in the night we sang the song and presented our presents to ah gong... that was the climax... everyone was just happy...We made a scrapbook for ah gong, inside is every grandchildren's wishes for him... 31 in total... and later we sat down with him and ah ying read out every single wishes to him... haha he must be super touched la... here's wad i wrote...

亲爱的阿公，

你就像天上的太阳在我们生活里给我们阳光也只润大地,

在夜里你就像月亮，而我们就像天上的星星陪伴着你

希望你能永远像天上的太阳在我们的生活里发光发热

也能像天上的月亮永远陪伴着这一群可爱的星星。

我们爱你阿公。

世界上伟大的人。

that's the best i can remember... mushy right... but i dare to say its wad we all feel... why be afraid of mushyness? better to say it when the person is still around right... 阿公你最棒！

yeah......

haa, received an email juz now from Crocodile representative.. wondering wad i doing with crocodile? haa clinched a deal with them for my committee to sponsor formal wear for the guys during the dinner and dance! haa it pays to persevere... Originally she said that they are nt going to take up the deal, but after some pestering from me, guess they are moved by my sincerity la=)

now having a small break from my special sem lesson.. gottta go for tuition soon at 5pm den after that gtta come back sch again for committee meeting... gonna be a long day...

tml again gt 2 tuition lessons haa...

den it will be the much looked forwarded to sat! my ah gong birthday celebration... before that in the afternoon going to have a small k lunch session with a few of my cousins.. yeah ahaha....

still got a resume and cover letter to write for my PA course.. but nt gonna care abt it for now haha... plus still got a 10% test coming up on monday sia... haha wait and see la...

next time i will remember...

woke up in the afternoon today 130pm(after a late morning MJ session that ended onli at 4am) and the weather was wonderful! wad a bright sunny day... decided to ask SA out for a swim and get some tan...

we went for lunch at canteen 11 and decided to ask nic out also, in the end we managed to get to the swimming complex oppostite my hse at onli 4 plus haa... as i was waiting at the lift lobby i saw a familiar notice dere... "SWIMMING COMPLEX CLOSED EVERY TUESDAY FOR MAINTENANCE" shit! haha i forgot all abt it.. in the end Nic drove us to jurong east. I advised him to put more parking coupons after my experiences dere haha, but he simply refuse to take my golden words...

Serve him right to be 10 dollars poorer hehehe i v bad right...

Boring few days....

it has been a boring few days for me...







I went to take a ferry on wed again! there is the sea breeze, the "beach" and many people.. But this time round its not to tioman.. but to the once so familiar island that most guys gotta spend abt 2 months of their life in. PULAU TEKONG...







Went dere for my bro passing out parade which now they seems to be calling it the graduation ceremony. Everything there seems quite the same... and tears actualli flowed down my cheeks on that day...







Not that i'm touched... juz that i was bored to tears haha... spend like 2hrs waiting over there for the parade to start man. But the few hours spent dere allowed me to reminise my BMT days haha... not bad la..


After getting out of tekong went to my parent's shop and packed up for a family dinner w/o my elder bro. (coincidentally he went tioman also with his friends). has been sometime since we realli have a proper family dinner. last time when we lived at bukit panjang we will still go the le kou fu makan. but maybe because we have grown up, therefore these chances are less ba...


Yesterday went school to help Henni in the calling for sponsorship and after that went to teach tuition. such a convenience to have a car to drive around haha since my bro not ard these few days...


Oh and late last night i passed the badminton net to Jem, wah such an envy.. he is always full of activities... plus he got his own business to handle and to be occupied with la... He told me that i shouldnt stay at home all the time... should get a life man.. don wait for ppl to call me out and i shd take initiatives some times... mm... food for thought haha...

ya i got try to get ppl la... e.g. for my cousins singing session.. but most ppl are working man or NS... so hard to organise sometime... also i got the tuition assignments to do haiz... Next week special sem starting le... goning back to semi school life soon.. donoe shd be happy or sad... one thing is it will keep me occupied... but den i starting to feel more and more that i have no life le.... come on some one save me pls...

gonna go tuition again tonight... realli no life sia... =(

Cup of Tea...

i like to be at the coffeeshop drinking my tea or coffee and reminise wad had happened or just watch ppl pass by or work... such an enjoyment...

And as i was sipping this cuppa tea i thought thru wad had happened the past week... and i start to regret missing the chance to make another new friend over at tioman... now it seems all too late, unless there is really fate, i guess my chance is gone.. twice i had the chance, but i nv grab it... there isnt any clues for me to find and start with... there was no name, no phone number, no address no nothing... just too late...

can only blame myself...

1st day of Hangover....

Woke up in the morning to a different experience... no sea breeze.. no beach view... no buffet breakfast... no more spore gal's glance... and this is called hangover...

went down to get the papers and took my usual cup of lipton plus bread...the usual kinda news on the papers.. so boring, no interesting tv shows also in the morning..juz some repeated telecasts of dramas.. wad a way to start my first day of the week...

after checking on my emails and soccer news, there is nothing much for me to do already and so i can only blog... blog abt my sianness....

programmes for the rest of the day- go out buy lunch, wait for fan repairman to come repair my ceiling fan in the room, go out teach tuition at 5pm...

i wonder how my other cousins are coping haha... probably working already...

Tioman Tioman....

ooO juz got back from my 3d2n trip from our neighbouring country.... Wad a nice experience.. although there wasnt exactly alot of things to do at tioman, but it was this nothing-to-do-ness tt allow us to really relax and do nothing much!

Woke up at 5am on the first day and got to golden mile at 6am as instructed by the tour agency. In the end we only boarded the bus at 7 and started on a long and tiring coach ride to our first stop- Tanjong Gemok. We reached there at ard 1145 on the note that the agency told us we will be able to board the ferry at 12. But to our horror, the ppl dere said tt it has been "delayed" till 2 pm. Seriously I sense something fishy at this moment. this is because it appears that we had already been allocated the 2pm ferry ride all along, the agency just lied to us abt the 12pm ride... But we can do nothing much also since we are alr stuck dere. therefore we went for our lunch first and waited patiently till 2pm...

when the ferry arrived, we were quite excited but decided not to rush since the seats are all allocated on the ticket stubs.. therefore we queued like obedient singaporeans until we discovered horror no.2, the seats allocated are just for show haha...

When we managed to get onboard, we need to endure another 1.5 hrs ride... so tired of all the travelling man.. juz wanna get to the place fast haa... it reminded me of a comment by the coach driver( u wan fast take aeroplane lo...) althought the ferry ride is boring, but we managed to take some pictures on the deck...

By the time we reach dere it was already late afternoon and we are all tired from the travelling. but it's nice to noe the resort is quite comfortable.(except that the water heater is not working) Programmes for the first day ended with a evening dip into the water, our dinner, exploring the surrounding area, booking for our snorkeling trip, pool, chilling out in the open and enjoying satay plus stingray....

Day 2 is an exciting one... we set off for our breakfast early in the morning in anticipation of our snorkeling trip! oh and i also met a s'pore gal at the breakfast area... we exchanged a few glances at each other, i think she noes i was looking at her, and i noe she was looking at me also haha(perhaps its because there isnt very much ppl of abt our age over dere ba)... but she's a xiao mei mei la, probably oldest abt 18 years old? tts why it just stopped there... she's always with her parents as well tts why... nv mix ard...

Snorkeling was fun! we took a boat out to the area and enjoyed the surrounding with fishes all around u.. the experience was great and it was beautiful... the corals are not that outstanding though, i guess it would have been even more beautiful a few years back.. tts why we shd protect the environ...

After the snorkelling we were all exhausted but not sunburnt(thks to banana boat). In the end we had a nap while my little cousins hone their skills at the pool table.... the aunty and uncles played their never boring game of LABI as usual haha. At night we also had a cuppa or more than that of red wine.. now i think i'm slowly more able to appreciate red wine than those vodka and wadever haa...

Day 3 morning i saw her at the breakfast table again.. as usual glances were exhanged and nothing happened haa... maybe one day i will see her in spore... maybe i will make a new friend den haha

After our breakfast we sat at the table and listen as our aunty and uncles talked abt their childhood stories and how our parent's life were last time... It's always sweet to look back at your past experience and laugh at it... Even more interesting for us the later generation to hear abt it....

i managed to shop for2 tee shirt and a bermuda shorts from the souveiner shop haha... nothing much to buy over there... We also plucked 5 coconuts from the tree outside our room to savour the juice haha... just do it the primitive way(smash in on the floor) when u do not have a chopper haa...

The return trip is the most sian one... got onto ferry at abt 12noon and reach causeway at only abt 7, after that we each took a cab home from woodlands.. and i'm still suffering from abit of hangover man... but i quite enjoyed the trip....

Do i look like i'm 25 years old?

Had been looking for tuition assignments to do for 2 weeks le... And these few days have been suddenly flooded with agencies calling in. In the end i accepted an assignment to teach a sec 1 student maths and science. It will be good if it just end here... the catch is that i have been asked to pose as a graduate full time tutor..

Just a day before the assignment.. now i'm starting to feel bad... the initial promised of a slightly higher pay doesnt seems so attractive after all... Just found out that it is actually not that high also. Money is not the issue i'm bothered with actually. It is the issue of having to lie to the parent about my actual identity.. what if they demand to see my Ic? die... and i'm supposed to lie throughout the whole period of assignment? tough.... it's just against my principle.. feel so bad...

Just hope the parents wouldnt mind...

What a blunder….

Next time when anyone is going to book for movies tickets online should really pay careful attention to the timing they are going to book… seriously I think that Cathay should start printing their timings using 24 hrs format… Otherwise… People like me may just take 3.00 a.m. as 3.00 p.m.

In the end it was an unforgettable experience, watching Pirates in the middle of the night. Sacrificing sleep is one thing, having the original pre-planned programs for the next day all messed up is another.

In the end me, Jun An, Zeren and Shan Jing had to meet up at 3am to watch the pirates. We nearly had a second blunder when we went into the wrong theatre showing the same show and we thought that we were late for the show. In the end we managed to realize that we walked into the wrong theatre. Thanks god…

It was tiring enough to reach home at 7 am in the morning. And worse I got to help my dad deliver sacks of rice and daily necessities to a couple of temple and home. After a look and strenuous morning as a “coolie” I managed to reach home at 2 pm for some sleep before going out again with HJ and co to sing! Haha… quite enjoyable.. however it was a real long long day… no one to blame… I will be more careful next time! = )

Customers are not Kings…

Saw an article in Today’s newspaper with regards to a commotion that happened in a certain bank. The issue was that one of the bank’s customer officer attended to a man who seemed lost and wandering about without first attending to the lady who was supposed to be next in queue. The lady made a din out of it and embarrassed the bank officer. Why is this happening? I got my fair share of ugly Singaporean customers while working in the sales and service line.

Why can’t we be more gracious? Many complain that Singapore’s service sector is performing poorly and we need to improve on it. However I think that in order for our services to be improved, the attitudes of the customers should also be looked into. I do not like to enter into a confrontation. It is always better to settle things in an amicable way. Are we too demanding as customers? I guess so. Singaporeans expect too much. The everyday life is already stressful and tiring enough. Why make it worse for people? It will be such a wonderful thing to do if we can brighten up somebody’s day.

It may seem like something for the people in the service industry to do; however I beg to differ. People at the receiving end of the service can play their part as well. Who doesn’t want to have a happy day? We should all give and take sometimes. That’s my philosophy. Will it take a piece of flesh off you to wait for 5 more minutes? Will it make u happier at the end of the day to shout and express your anger at someone? We should do more to make everyone’s day brighter! What goes around comes around.