lock-me-out-nator

I think i am allergic to work. last nite the moment i open my documents to work on, i felt tired and sleeping already. so i had to resort to blasting some heavy rock and metal music to keep me awake.

i had 2 word documents on the desktop simulaneously. oh yeah and the video player too. just a tiny small screen in a corner playing The Terminal and Nanny McPhee back to back.

when i was done with what i wanted to do, it was 0430Hr. two more nights...and situation would be better.

//running 007
complete 7km in 36++min. i already decided to run a 12km before starting. but friction is a nosso good friend and i do not wish to walk like a cowboy after my run.

Labels: mein leben, running

Posted by Unknown at 6:09 PM | Permalink | Comments

after a frustrating week of futile searching of journals, case studies and things like that, things turned for the better(i hope).

so friday comes, and the plan was night of clubbing in city. it comes as a good break. went down to frankston to pick up charm and HT. on the way, picked lilian up too.

we reached lavish, and saw a long queue. it looks like we are never gonna get in. while queuing, i actually met a guy who was from my previous course. so caught up with him abit. then friend met friend's friend's who worked or knew someone inside. we were got in after 3mins in the queue.

the place, is divided into two rooms. one small room dedicated to head shaking, leg shuffling trance music. the main hall was for the RnB crowd. it looks like some university asian night event, about 98% of the crowd being asian. and it was packed, especially the RnB room, like sardines in tins.

being the designated driver=little drinking. so no getting high on drinks. i only got a serving of whisky, and one SOHO(sprite and gin?). this is also the first time i got to drink without paying!!

when we were done at around 3+, legs were tired man. not much pics. only the one below with the pretty girls from frankston (and i look wierd)

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Posted by Unknown at 4:45 PM | Permalink | Comments

i think i should stop calling myself burninator, probably something like lock-me-out-nator.

yes ladies and gentlemen, i locked myself out again. BLOODY HELL.

i was gonna meet charm and her housemates and other friends for dinner (shifting the blame here). i walked out of my house, to my car, dipped my fingers into me pockets.

ACHTUNG! ALARM BELLS RING. NO KEYS. BLOODY HELL!!! (so i can't really shift the blame) but this time i was actually quite calm. unlike the last time, like kancheong spider (spider joke). called charm told her about the incident, and i went off to take public transport to the city.

beforehand i made sure my housemate was at home to open the door. so after dinner, i came back. he opened the door. i took about 3minutes or less to open my room door. a kick to loosen the knob, then twist the knob open. stick in a spoon. WA LA!! it opens.

First picture shows the knob being taken apart already. 2nd picture, there is a slot inside which i sticked a spoon in to open like a key.

i hope my housing agent will not stumble onto this. and i leave you with a quote.

u lousy piece of shit la u can u pls make more duplicate keys
- charm

Labels: mein leben, SNAFU

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just got the cravings for red meat. so grilled steak, baked potatoe, caramalized onions for dinner. took me quite a while to prepare the dinner. good food! but eating alone:(



the texture of the meat doesnt feel like those of restaurants. but still acceptable. try another different seasoning next time. getting sick of black pepper and herbs.

making the caramalized onions almost choked me. after frying the onions for awhile, i poured in the balsamic vinegar. the fumes......wooaah, damn strong. in the end came out looking abit different from estee's version. but still taste alrite.

//Running 006
5km in ??mins. forgot to bring my watch out.

legs are abit tired from the previous night out at the club. but managed to shake that feeling off and get into momentum after awhile.

Labels: food, running

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after dinner i m supposed to be searching for case studies yadayadabadabingbadaboom. but i ended up surfing some blogs.

came across this word, digestif. didnt know what it was, so i went to find out whats the meaning of that.

A digestif is a beverage, usually small and alcoholic, which is consumed at the end of a meal. Some believe that a digestif aids the digestion of food....
.....

Further searches led me to pages like whisky, then scotch whiskey, and finally C Regal's website. Looked through ways of mixing. some of which are quite interesting, like warming a piece of pear and whiskey together.

Then i looked up on my cupboard, Chivas is sitting pretty there. Hmm...digestif. Whisky. Chivas. best way served on ice. indeed.

(pretty boring life i lead nowadays, hence the lack of any more interesting stuff other then the crap above)

Labels: food

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an 8km run today in about 45mins. halfway into the run, kind of felt weak, probably because lack of food. but managed to complete the run.

however my dinner undid my efforts. fish & chips, and beer. an excellent combo.

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Posted by Unknown at 8:56 PM | Permalink | Comments

a tutor kicked a guy out of the tutorial class today, for surfing chinese website or friendster or something like that.

earlier on, the tutor noticed people surfing "non academic" websites, so he shot off a warning about this, else he would kick offenders out of the class. 5 minutes later. tutor raised his voice and told this guy to get out. they sort of exchanged some remarks like "i would love to get out" and "be my guest" kind of stuff, before the student walked out.

this is some unexpected stuff ......at this level. its not bartley secondary school nor nanyang polytechnic mate. its a freakin tutorial of a master degree module for dick ching's sake.

a dick move by both. a tutor with mood swing. and the other behaved like a dick for a moment.

Labels: mein leben, SNAFU

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after a night on the couch, i was awaken by the ray of light shining in through the blinds.

I saw a sunny day and with a gentle breeze. I got up, washed up. A very nice day, a good day. I took my book with me to the patio outside. Sat down on a chair, put my legs up on the table and flipped to where i left Don and Mike Corleone.

the sun, the breeze.

it seems the outside of my current place is always covered in dust. As i sat there, i look up at the vast expense of the sky. I missed living in this area. It seems spacious and open here. I feel like i am on a holiday.

i want more of such days.

on another note, i weighed myself. i gone below 70. surprise surprise. The last time i gone under 70 was during army training phase, about 3years ago. Weighed myself at xpider's place. i didnt believe it and asked her if the weighing machine was spoiled.

i told estee about it. i attributed to my exercise and food. she said that i lost weight because of my more and more unearthly sleeping hours. basket.....

Labels: good shit, mein leben

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friday nite, i volunteered to cook for pinkxpider and her housemate. xpider said she quite sian. so i say i go entertain her. hopefully i didnt make her worse.

i tried to make my roast beef. lets just say there were better attempts. seem to lost my touch with my roast beef.

(never mind , i shall blame it on the oven!)

After dinner, there was ice-cream and the movies. they rented a few good selections. We watched V for Vendetta, Chicago and Walk the line. Movies with really interesting storylines. Particularly liked V for vendetta for its plot.

Labels: mein leben, tgif, vidz

Posted by Unknown at 6:51 PM | Permalink | Comments

The company that put the i in your life, Apple, has threatened smaller companies over the use of 'pod' in their product names, for example profit pod, tightpod.

read more here. In fact there are quite a few online news site on this matter.

it sounds so damn familiar against this case, where Creative tries to sue Apple over the use of Nano(iPod nano, creative Nano). And apple zealots came in saying how wrong creative are and how almighty the ipods were.

Now its Apple's turn. thankfuly they did not clamp down on the use of 'i'(or did they?)

Labels: geek, net

Posted by Unknown at 10:26 AM | Permalink | Comments

eating alone and eating with someone makes a huge difference.

nowadays when i eat alone, i think of things that will require little preparation and cooking time as possible. because the prep and cook time do not justify the time spent on eating.

i prepare a real proper meal, taking up an hour. then i gobble up the food in like 15mins(sometimes faster if the food is really nice). the time spent preparing and cooking is so not worth the 15mins of good times.

when you have company for dinner, you don't just sit there and gobble the food. you can chit chat, critic the food. dinner takes awhile, and not forgetting the economies of scale.

i think i shall go offer my services to cook a dinner soon. i have cravings for nice succulent roast beef.

MOOO and out!

Labels: mein leben

Posted by Unknown at 8:49 AM | Permalink | Comments

tried a new route yesterday. roughly about 5km run around the perimeter of the school. it seems a little tougher then the usual route.

went back home, prepared my dinner. a dinner that will make my efforts to run go down the drain. i had leftover pizza(only 2 slices though and 2 pieces of chicken wing)

Labels: running

Posted by Unknown at 8:38 AM | Permalink | Comments

as i was going to bath, i looked at my abdominals. hmmm...nice and flat, six pack kind of steel abs.

"i missed you abs. its been awhile"

then i realise i was holding my breath. time to stop sucking in and lying to myself.

i breathed normally, and the layer of fats was back again, covering my abs.
...
...
ok i am quite wu liao.

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Posted by Unknown at 10:03 PM | Permalink | Comments

completed 6km+/- in abt 33min+++. not too bad at all. an increase in distance.

the air seem to be quite dry, causing some discomfort to my throat initially. but as i went on, i didnt notice that discomfort anymore. maybe too busy trying to catch my breath.

i noticed my calves are abit unequal. maybe because of the slant of the path, so it might strain one more than the other. shall run in the opposite direction the next time round.

over and out!

Labels: running

Posted by Unknown at 6:13 PM | Permalink | Comments

just happen to stumble upon this video while blog hopping.

it is about some guys attempting some fast and furious stuff on singapore roads. i was kind of snickering when i saw the ending.

dumb driver, dumb ending.

tyres screehing~~ and then "oh shit!! oh my gawd!! f**k f**k f**k"

go figure the ending.

Labels: net, vidz

Posted by Unknown at 11:52 AM | Permalink | Comments

ran again, same route, same distance as before.

it was sunset when i was finishing. just one more lap around the pond in the school.

the setting sun, and the reflection shimmering on the pond surface. complete with ducks swimming in it. looks so calm and peaceful.

Labels: running

Posted by Unknown at 3:56 PM | Permalink | Comments

9th august, to celebrate Singapore's National Day, I held a mini celebration at my place.

i was preparing roast pork during the afternoon. As the pork was cooking halfway in the oven, i saw quite abit smoke gathering inside the oven. i was cooking up a disaster!

burninate again. i thought. but luckily it turned out alrite.

anyway, with us singaporeans, there would always be food! good food. food that we usually would see in Singapore like bak kut teh, curry vege(which smells and taste like lontong)

and food that were not very singaporean, like pizza and roast pork.

there were the girls...


the guys


the games and the punishment


had a fun time!! thanks to all who came

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Posted by Unknown at 3:35 PM | Permalink | Comments

greetings from Clayton, Australia!!

born as a Singaporean,
live like a Singaporean,
proud to be a Singaporean

over and out!

Posted by Unknown at 11:32 PM | Permalink | Comments

one of my new year resolution, was to run a half-marathon, at the end of the year. so far i have not been doing any work on that resolution. so hopefully, as i post my runs here, it shall serve as a reminder and to knock on my head when i have not been running or progressing (you can do that too. just don't let me catch you!)

today, i ran roughly 3km in about 20mins. the last part of the route killed my legs, with the gradient of the road suddenly shot up.

timing is quite a far cry from the period when i was errmm...fitter.

but am not too worried about the timing now. just want to go try go as far as my legs and lungs can take me.

till the next run....

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Posted by Unknown at 5:46 PM | Permalink | Comments

its a rather bored, eventless saturday. especially after my dinner. i just felt restless.

even the tv shows are boring. the most interesting one, where the wallabies took on the springboks, are rather boring, with both sides just kicking the rugby ball up and down the pitch.

i just had to have you, C. Regal.

Labels: mein leben

Posted by Unknown at 1:14 AM | Permalink | Comments

i went again. with the girls, (probably)the last time, before the assignments hit us hard.



I am not hooked:P it's just that i have nothing better to do on a friday evening.

with shennie and her friend, liting, they just went crazy and camwhored with all the available cameras, mine included.


then shennie entertained us with great hokkien oldies like "要拼才会赢" and "一支小雨伞".

pinkxpider brought along a bright pink hat, which i had a go at it too.



the 3 housemates on the right, i am an extra.

quite a fun night......now to go on and really get proper work done.

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Posted by Unknown at 11:02 PM | Permalink | Comments

Next week 9th August, Singapore celebrates National Day. And in Australia, we Singaporeans celebrate too.

Probably a small potluck/party on the day itself. and the venue, my apartment. Take a look at my place. Very spacious. But rather pathetic, because its so empty.

Oh yeah ed, this is my place. Huge, clean, very empty, its almost like a warehouse.

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