celebrating xmas?

i was nua-ing and gaming the whole day till don ask to chill out later on xmas eve. since i have no other plans, i thought why not, if he had in mind where to go. but in the end, he wanted sebas to discuss with me where we could chill out.

was going to meet sebas for dinner on saturday when i saw don's parents. we were going to eat at ivin's near my place, so i walked from home when i saw don's parents outside the post office. his mum told me he left them there so they had to walk home, weird since don said he borrowed the car in the afternoon. well, maybe he did drop them off in the noon.

then sebas called me and told me ivin's was closed at 9, damn. so we ate at the 24hr chinese cafe beside the prata store. after dinner we went down to mind's cafe at prinsep street to meet up with don to 'chill out' since he was already there. so when we reached there, oddly not crowded considering is xmas eve, we saw him sitting down with 3 other friends. so after the introduction, bas and i sat down and it was kind of weird, feels like something's going on and we dont know what it was. so one of the friends, jeremiah, said they were having games later or something, and asked if we knew. so bas and i just turned our head to don and asked, 'so what's happening later?'

but we didnt participate in the games anyway, we just played board games by ourselves for like the next 4 hours. we played starwars monopoly, simpsons game of life and this new game rubis. rather intellectual games i must say, got us thinking for very long to outwit each other.

there was a countdown though, but it kind of happen so quickly we didnt react fast enough to it, before we knew it, everyone(except for a few guys) were counting down and shouting and then singing 'we wish you a merry christmas'. quite christmasy, just that we didnt know anyone.

interview

i just went down to mediacorp for an interview for a temp job. the place is actually quite cool, great working environment. best thing was, i saw a pretty gal, or at least she looked cute.

she look really familiar, maybe someone from mags or tv i'm not sure. but i'm pretty sure if i had such a cute aquintance i would surely remember. well we were applying for the same post and i'm not sure why i didnt even talk to her. i was thinking in my mind where i saw her before so dont know what to ask her. man, i'm weird.

so she wished me good luck before she left and its my turn. nice interviewer/boss, briefed me about the job then asked me to read the NKF article in today's lian he zhao bao. man, thought it was kind of tough, but it was actually not too difficult except for the fact i thought it was, and screening very hard for mediacorp news when there isnt. got tricked. or at least i thought there were mediacorp news in them.

well hope i do get the job, so i can work there because its good to have a pretigious name in my resume and its really near my place. plus the environment is really good.

see you again tong

sent tong off yesterday at T2 with bas and don. he waited for us to have mac breakfast then we sat and chatted for awhile and realised, he had 3 other families going along with him. man big family outing. then he left and lam was on the way to send him off too but we didnt call him to meet him cause. didnt see the need to cause don needs to head back for work and if he wanted to send tong off, should have just came earlier anyway.

well, he's in canada now. glad we spend some time gaming on sunday and the dinner together.

bday

this is sat's entry. we went to sentosa to so call celebrate yida's birthday.

so we went and crap. there's a volleyball tournament going on, so we basically cant play cause all the courts were taken up. so without our own ball and only a frisbee, frisbee we played. honed our throwing skills and kinda fun even though we were not playing against each other. then the chance came for us to 'qie' another group in beach soccer. we were having fun till the malay guy came and took the posts away cause apparently no one paid for it. sianz.

so we nua again, and it began to rain.
and we nua, and nua and nua.

couldnt play volleyball, cant play soccer. nothing to do. frisbee all the way.

we did try to ask one team playing soccer if we can join them, but apparently they were having some tournament as well. so frisbee again.

so yida was feeling hungry and leave and get some food. mac we went so tong could meet his insurance advisor.

we went terence's early 2 weeks birhtday celebration at aloha loyang and loykee didnt go(i dont know why). squeeze into tong's car cause his parents came to pick him up and i got to sit on yida's lap and lie on sebas. reached aloha and there were lots of people inside. we went in can stay in, took the food and thought we find a spot for ourselves cause there were a lot of people but we knew none of them. stood at the sliding door to have our food and watch the tv as well. the feeling was so weird cause everyone there seems to know more than 1 particular group of friends of terence except us, most of them are from the national dragon boat team, so basically we are the only small and skinny guys there.

well, then we saw a kid that looks like 'chiken little' and we started making jokes and laughed at ourselves, really no 'xing siang'. then there was this kid who asked his mum like 'who's terence'. so there were actually people eating the food, having fun and about to eat the cake without knowing who's birthday celebration he's attending. so those kids were terence's cousins and he also dont really know who they are.

so everyone left after the cake ceremony and 'ta-da' terence brought out yida's cake as planned and we celebrated for him with the kids. i guess the people left were feeling weird cause another birthday was going on. we left after the cake and went down to dubliner's to get some beer and watch a bit of soccer.

rather slow yet eventful day.

bangkok

i went and i'm back. we(me,bas,don and tong) took airasia and stayed in a hostel caused its very ex to stay to take other commercial flights and the hostel was to save money.

things that happened on departing day:
1.the flight was deplayed for the 2nd time when we reach changi airport.
2.long queue to wait for the crew to check us in and give us the boarding pass which was jus a piece of written paper.
3.30 mins wait again at the holding area for the crew and plane to arrive. again late.
4.lights on plane werent off during the flight making it diff to sleep.
5.reach bangkok late and so unfortunately took a cab driven by a lady going at only 90 tops, when the rest fo the world was zooming at 110 at least.
6.reach the hostel in shock of how small the place was.
7.another shock when the bed was harder than tatami mat.
8.went out the streets for food, surprised(didnt expect to be this near) patpong night market was only across the st.
9.had satay.
10.shop around at patpong.

day 1:
1.took train to chatukchat weekend market.
2.had breakfast which was just ba cor me.
3.walk the market until we were lost inside.
4.had lunch.
5.walked and shop until we were lost again.
6.tong wanted to shit so we went to the park toilet, he didnt shit cause he said it was a turnoff inside, me and bas sat on the grass like the other thais in the park to wait for tong.
7.walked again and had juice on a small cafe, suddenly some athem is broadcast and everyone stood up and faced one direction. we just sat still on our bench not knowing what to do better.
8.left the place after getting lost too many times.
9.went chinatown to have dinner, kanna 'robert' by the uncle there. had bird's nest and shark's fin.
10.walk the streets to find 'theive's market' but its a day market.
11.took tut-tut back to patpong for a walk.
12.don kanna 'robert' in one of the shops, ask me to help him negotiate his money back. in the end manage to salvage some by paying a bit more for another berms pus his jeans. didnt even thank me(ungrateful ass)

day 2:
1.wake up and took cab to MBK.
2.had brunch at their food court.
3.shop till mad again.
4.had early dinner at food court again.
5.shop again and finished walking most the shops.
6.walk the other malls around the area.
7.found many small shops like bugis street.
8.ate at A&W, tong wanted to 'stun' the mug but didnt in the end.thought he was going to do it.
9.walked somemore and headed back.

day 3:
1.went to find some temple cause tong wanted to view some.
2.the receptionist at the hostel dont know if there's one nearby but we remember there's one only 2 mrt stops away.wth.
3.went to the nearby temple, tong started snapping photos and think he went in the pray with don, while me and bas stood outside.
4.the usher at the temple told us there's a market nearby and we walked over to ahve our breakfast.
5.reached the market, everything was in thai and we cant read any. tong attempted to communicate with one lady and she showed us english menus.
6.my nose bled from 'heatiness' while eating. think never drink enough water since we had to buy them everyday.troublesome.
7.took cab to another temple only to find need to pay entrance fee, and its quite small. we left.
8.took cab to another temple somewhere far.near the grand palace.the temple was huge.paid 20baht to explore the place. saw our biology teacher from st. andrew's. took like 5 mins before we realised who she was.
9.tong wanted to walk the grand palace or some other temple but don keep asking him if he needs to see so many temples.
10.went to MBK area again.
11.don cut his hair, while i go shit at a stylo toilet in Siam Centre.
12.me,bas and tong walked the place awhile before heading back to the streets to find don.
13.shop and walked around the area again, and again, and again until no where to walk.
14.went to have dinner at heineken beer park outside the world trade centre.
15.not so filling dinner with 2 jugs of beer, tong even wanted to order one barrel cause it was very cheap.
16.watch some performances and don didnt want to leave and many people were staring at us cause our table was empty except for 2 glasses of beer.
17.ordered calamarie but finish fast also.told don we leave after the next song then me and bas went toilet.
18.came back and he was still at the table with tong, me and bas waited outside cause the song was ending. but still didnt leave after the song ended. left finally saying 'concert havent end, where got leave'
19.went to suan lum night market, walked 2 of the squares then went back.

going home:
1.took cab to MBK for don to change his berms. some idoit tried to con us to go somewhere us by telling us MBK dont open till 1130 when we were there at 945.
2.he did a show with the tut-tut driver to show he negotiate the price to 20baht for us to talke us to this 'Siam City'
3.driver dropped us near MBK area to change currency, it was a good money changer with wonderful rates.
4.paid the driver off with 20baht cause we saw people having breakfast at MBK mcdonald's.
5.walked backed and had Mc breakfast and tong flirted with the cashier.
6.went to change the berms only to hear 'no' from the owner cause its bad omen to return goods before they sell anything.
7.went to buy tong's shoes at nearby place, bought dunkin' donuts for home and had coffee there.
8.went to change the berms, only to change to one belt buckle and one polo.
9.got back to pick up our bags and to the airport.
10.sat in a cab that drives super fast and have very fast pick up speed.
11.again waited at the airport.
12.check in and had lunch at thai airways resturant
13.boarded and slept on the way home.

*there were many other interesting things that happened, just that its too long to write everything down. man i am lazy.

artful dodger

so nai was talking about this guy the other time for 'siaming' NS. ya, he was fined $5000 but what's that too him, then he lost $30000 of his security bond. ok, maybe that's a little more painful for him, but hey, he still is a famous, world reknown pianist.

unethical price of shit

so i got my IC back today, just happened to meet hafiz and affendi at the office. so finally get to meet this PRIVATE who was holding on to all our ICs. and guess what, i was told that they purposely went off early yesterday so that those who come in the afternoon cant get their ICs. what kind of fark shit is this? just because we ORD earlier, you are not happy? so when we were out in the field doing exercise, and you were in the office, did we come back and throw all our stores at you and tell you to clean them.

useless piece of crap.