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Been quite awhile since i write anything. One true love came back from melbourne! so busy with her. Although not an excuse to update but well thats just me. Procrastinator. Always delaying my actions. Got kind of a wake up call on sunday, as i sat in church listening to the sermon. At first it seem quite boring, but as the preacher went on, it struck me! It seem to be talking about me!

Persistant procrastintation will progress to indiscipline, losing self control, becoming unreliable in managing time and responsiblity.Prolonged procrastination will peak at imprudence, unwise and looked upon as a fool. Why unwise you say? So the preacher says that a procrastinator is like someone who admits a theif into his life, allowing unsolved problem to be enlarged.

You may say these are quite basic common sense but hey! sometimes you do need someone to tell you such things! Like mum asking the messy kid to clean up his or her room. So i got my act together and try to regroup during the week and try get some things done, especially preparation for the study trip. Hopefully i do not miss out anything when i go over there.

Anyhow....now as i sit on the bed typing awhile, background music playing some ballads.....heard some firehouse tracks with sweet lovey dovey lyrics....which also brought back some memories of secondary school days in bartley and later the 3mths in OI, with alan( I straight,quite straight) fooling aournd during the o level years, skipping school and extra lessons to go down to danon's place to swim cycle blade skateboard. Would really wanna meet up and catch up if have the chance.....

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Father's Day, Mother's Day, Valentine's Day....what else?? I know there has been many takes and says about such a topic, but heck what the hell!

This sunday marks Father's Day for 2005. But why mention Mother's Day and valentine's Day(and some other days)?

I believe such celebrations have lost much meaning while increasing $$ for restaurant owners, giftshops and such.....I believe that these days should not be around at all!! Not that I hate my parents, hate the world. But seriously why would you need a specific day in the year to remind you that you have to remember your dad, your mum, your love ones, that they are around you.

I for one cannot say that I am totally obedient, totally fillial to my parents. But what goes on my mind are whats the point of just showing love and concern to these people you supposedly love on just one bloody day out of the whole 365 days in a year, in the attempt of making it up for the lack of care, concern and love during the rest of the 364 days. And i dare say those lunch or dinner are sometimes made up of reluctant children bringing out their dad or mum for a meal, and after that showing black faces when the bill comes and are made to share the bill among the siblings.

And I am not a freaking miser. You can call me one too.....but i would not care less about getting a gift for such "celebration". I can show you care love concern for 364 or 365 days(exclude those days when i seriously piss you or you seriously piss me off), but do not expect anything extraordinary on those specifc days. I can treat you to great food, I can get you gifts(within my limits of course!).....Just not on those days.

Grown ups especially dads will not mind much about celebrating or not, which is a good thing. Mums will probably get a wee bit more sensitive then dads. But the worst case would be the girlfriends.....Your guy might have been treating you like a princess for the whole bloody year round (exclude those days when he seriously piss her or she seriously piss him off). So don't go around whining about not celebrating the day of love, when he justs wants to avoid the queues and crowd at the restaurants, cafes.

Reminds me of a short video clip of Chris Rock doing a take on dads, where he talks about dad busting his ass for the family and all he gets is the drumstick/biggest piece(forgot which was it) of chicken during dinner. Doesn't sound funny here but hey that guy is in the business of being funny. I am just a ordinary guy cracking corny jokes among my small group of buddies.

If one true love reads of this, i might get a good knock on my brains.Not that she is complaining much about lack of celebration for V-day.

Till next time......
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from copied paste from dictionary.com

Father's Day Word Origins

The celebration of Father's Day was inspired by the success of Mother's Day (which was observed nationally for the first time in 1914). Sonora Smart Dodd of Spokane, Washington, was listening to a Mother's Day sermon in church in 1909 and decided that fathers deserved a similar day of recognition. Her father, a Civil War veteran, raised Sonora and her five siblings after their mother died in childbirth. She circulated a petition suggesting the third Sunday in June (the month in which her father was born) and urging people to wear a rose on that day in honor of their fathers. The first Father's Day was celebrated on June 19, 1910. It was not until 1966, under President Lyndon B. Johnson, that it was proclaimed a national holiday and observance of this on the third Sunday in June was made a law in 1972.

The word father first appeared in Old English spelled as fæder (c 825), having derived from assumed Germanic fadar. It has cognates (relatives) in many other languages: Dutch vader and German Vater, as well as forms in Old Norse, Swedish, Danish, Gothic, etc., Latin and Greek pater, Old Irish athir, and Sanskrit pitar; all of these words share an Indo-European root. The use of the word father as a verb did not occur until 1483. Common synonyms for father are daddaddy (c 1500), papa (c 1681), pa (c 1811), pop (c 1838), poppa (c 1897), and pops (c 1928). (You only need to capitalize father or its synonyms when you are referring to your own father.) and

Just as the carnation became a symbol of Mother's Day, the rose was suggested and became connected to Father's Day. Some observe the custom of wearing a red rose to indicate that one's father is living or a white rose to indicate that he is deceased. The flower and plant rose comes from a shrub of the genus Rosa. Red is the most frequent color, but roses are also white, yellow, pink, and various shades of peach and pink. The Old English form rose came from Latin rosa, which may have been an adoption of the Greek word rhodon, "rose."

The creation of Mother's Day was a godsend for the florist industry. Its counterpart for Father's Day is the necktie or tie. Neckties started appearing on the earliest Father's Day greeting cards and retailers saw this and took advantage, suggesting this as a great practical gift. The word tie ("band, cord, rope") came into Old English by 800 in the form teah, teag, or teagum, developed from Proto-Germanic. The word necktie dates from around 1838 when it first hit the fashion scene as a narrow band of material worn around the collar (neck) of a shirt and tied in front. As early as 1920, the custom of giving a neckties to fathers as a token of affection took hold. Other popular gifts are socks, pipes and cigars, and shirts.

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This morning woke up with feeling tired from lack of sleep. Slept at around 4:30am woke up about 8+ automatically:( hate it....why i canot pig out like so many other people. Previous nite was bowling and billard with the boys. Lazed around, went thru some work stuff at home. Had dinner with my folks before meeting friends at coffee bean then after that shoot a little pool.

Played some pool, lost assets in monopoly, ass got whipped by the girls in UNO card game, all at Pool Junction selegie. And the cafe serves great chicken wings. A nice place I say.....nice tables and equipment, comfy environment. You can sit around its waiting area playing some board games,eating drinking, while waiting for a pool table to be made available.

These few days abit more busy than usual, with an additional project. No big responsibilities on the project but spending some time doing abit of documentation and also to try learn somethings as i see see look look. Got another project on hand which is more worrying becuase as i am gonna leave for studies soon. I still have some kinks left and some wee bit documentation left. So gonna try my best spend more time on site to iron out the remaining issues.

On the other hand, "one true love" is coming back from Australia for a study break. Excited when i think about her coming back, so over the moon. So damn miss her. Last time i saw her face to face was during her last summer holidays in Febuary. After her arrival, i shall leave in about 10 days time :( Then she will join me over there in Melbourne to start the new semester about 1 week+ after i leave. WOOHOO!! The i can see her more often.

We have been together for about 1 yr. and we have been together physically in the same country for 4 months there abouts. So Its all good as i can have her around more often when i join her over there for my studies.

My decision to study Melbourne wasn't all because of her. She forms about 20-30%. I think i m rather lucky to have my parents urging me to go study again....so I decided to go study after thinking over about it. Main thing would to be broaden my scope. Although you may say that you can get that thru working life. But well....since i have the chance to go study, so why not??

Alrite going to bed now. Till next time.....good nite

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Am going away yet again from singapore to further my studies. So this blog here is to update my friends back in Singapore on my status, dead or alive over there in Melbourne, Australia. Actually i don't really know whether to tell anyone about this blog.

Gonna leave good old Singapore in the beginning July. Hopefully by then my adminstrative stuff would be done by then.....I am still short of getting approval from the MIW....grr...so waiting for it now. Will be away for 1 and half years, maybe making a trip back in between my studies. Left the country for studies once before.

Feelings I have when leaving still the same, sad to leave my friends here in Singapore, especially those that I have just got to know from the cell group in LSBC, and also my the boys!!my xiong di(brother in chinese). On the other hand, looking forward to it....as I live on my own, as in away from my parents. although the place would not be something new, but i think i will try to maybe find a job(if i can cope with the studies), try to play for the Monash Peninsula Soccer Team again. and hopefully if $$ allows, to make more tours....esp to NZ.

Alrite....till the next time i feel like writing(blogging whatever).....take care

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Testing 1st Post here.

So ok. Why toast-burner??? Two words came to my mind while thinking of this sub-domain name. It came as a result fo something that took place in my uni days.

Hungry grouchy me decides to make some things to eat. Decided to try something new, toast crackers as i found a packet of crackers which was a little "lao hong" or stale. So i thought of toasting it awhile to make it crispy again.

I proceed to put it in and start toasting it.....and read the newspaper. Bad Mistake. The next thing i knew. Burning smell. Turned around and saw thick smoke coming from the toaster!! Rushed to cut the power to the toaster off, shut the doors to the living room to prevent smoke alarm from ringing(I could actually think of that), and also not to let my housemates know that i burnt something......again(previously was pizza in the oven) So i was successful in preventing any potential fire from breaking out.

In the end, house mates found out. I was known as guy who always burn food from then on.

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