lock-me-out-nator

(mindless complains coming up)

tomorrow.....hmm later, i have my first paper for this semester's exams. the last bloody probable bunch of damn exams in my life.

why i cannot apply the same discipline for running 10km to my studies.GRRRR. i just hate sitting down and just read the notes.

my attention span is so short such that it is gone before you could say "bob's your uncle"

bloody mundane, bloody boring, bloody lifeless.

i would rather do assignments for the whole semester. so much more exciting lah. maybe i bring dice for the MCQs.

roll the dice and go

BIG MONEY! BIG MONEY!

better get back to reading my stuff and rest early. morning paper:( complain more later.

Labels: mein leben

Posted by Unknown at 10:08 PM | Permalink | Comments

met with daphne last night, before she returns to singapore. a night of eating, and eating @ macdonalds.

a nugget meal, an apple pie and half a muffin. sinful sia.

pls congratulate her, for she has graduated (26th oct)!

no pics of her graduation. because it's all with her. and i don't think i will get the pics until like 10 years later. only this one, before she left melbourne in july.



all the best! and see you back in singapore

Labels: good shit, mein leben

Posted by Unknown at 4:00 PM | Permalink | Comments

10km in abt 50mins.

:( got blister on my foot !@#$

a sunny day, a fine day. a good day for a run, so a long run it is. 2 laps around the school parameter.

more fine days!!

Labels: running

Posted by Unknown at 3:58 PM | Permalink | Comments

5km in 25mins.

a little difficult to run today. calf muscles aching a little still.

wind was strong. temperature was abt maybe around 13-15 when i ran. the windchill made it felt like it was below 10. ears hurt a little just halfway thru the run.

thought of doing 7km or 10km today. hehe no thanks lah. other days, when the weather is fine

Labels: running

Posted by Unknown at 12:43 AM | Permalink | Comments

about 2 weeks ago, had some friends, nick & his gf, rach over at my place for dinner to celebrate end of school term, but beginning of the exams :(

waiting for my friend to send me the photos. oh but what the hell.

a simple roast dinner, beef, mashed potatoes and asparagus with prawns.

i even bought a meat thermometer. figured that i would probably do such thing in Singapore still, so i bought it.


the beef, rub it with salt pepper and some herbs. stick the thermometer into the piece of meat, chuck it into the oven.

wanted to slow cook for longer time at lower temperature for a medium rare doneness. but i cant wait lah!! so its not as tender as i wanted. more like done at medium. but still good:P

next time cook earlier.

mashed potatoes, add milk, butter, white pepper to taste.

asparagus with prawns. seared and cooked the prawns with white wine. be generous!
then throw in the greens. throw a spoon of butter over it when serving.


these 2 buggers don't even wait for the cook!


made them washed the dishes, for not waiting.

it was a night of eating. after dinner, it was bubble tea. then we went home. only to come out later around 1am for pancakes @ pancake parlour, doncaster.

Labels: food, mein leben, tgif

Posted by Unknown at 12:06 PM | Permalink | Comments

The faces of the people seem to be ever cheerful to each other. love thy neighbour, so they say and probably obeying the saying.

However the innards of the skeptical me feels otherwise. The seemingly calm and tranquil surface probably hides some ugly underwater eddy.

Some things i heard probably confirmed what i thought.

Maybe its like this, or maybe the need to be overly nice and caring has taken its toil.

Or probably everyone lies.

Labels: mein leben, SNAFU

Posted by Unknown at 11:20 AM | Permalink | Comments

congrats to mavis, for having finally received Ed's proposal

a ring for both of you!! beautiful ring for you mav, and err...suffe-ringanother kind of ring for ed

their flat is coming up soon too. time to discuss with them about some terms like sofa bed and what package should they get on SCV, for the probable weekends at their place.

make myself at home, i know. thats what ed would probably say....(yah shameless me)

a shameless me just want to say that i am glad to see both of you together and enjoy your journey called life together. more good years ahead!! looking forward to your wedding come january.

(shameless me is kind of sucky with words lah)

Labels: good shit

Posted by Unknown at 8:44 AM | Permalink | Comments

today 5km in 24mins+.

usually i would be running lazily and with each stride i take, i land on the heel of my foot. today tried running and landing on the balls of my foot.

i felt faster. or is it just some imagination.

gawdy gawd, i just ate 3 donuts at one shot after dinner. this is bad. on the other hand, the donuts are finished.

so no more temptations

Labels: running

Posted by Unknown at 8:31 PM | Permalink | Comments

I shudder at the thought of losing my USB drive. As you could tell from my Zen and the Art of the USB Drive Series, my entire life is on that USB drive. “So,” I thought, “what could I do to help ensure that I get my lost USB drive back?” After some consideration, I came up with a few ideas.

go to article here

rather useful, especially if you are like me, always misplacing or losing stuff. heaps of help, if your thumbdrive falls into hands of good Samaritans who would bother to try give it back.

But don't do much if it gets picked up by some lousy bastards.

Labels: net

Posted by Unknown at 8:18 PM | Permalink | Comments

if i check my post about my runs, the last one was last thursday.

hmm...gosh!...abit slack already. not as often as i wanted.

anyway the presence of doughnuts made me feel guilty. so today a 7km in 35mins++

must.....arrghh.....study........

Labels: running

Posted by Unknown at 7:56 PM | Permalink | Comments

its was a night for studying. unfortunately little of that happened.

there was a quake. read about here. but i didnt feel anything. too engrossed in bourne supremacy and trying to study.

later that night around 1am, phone rang. who the hell rings me at that time.

fren: "oi we outside your place. lets go get krispy kreme"
me: "i m in PJs leh"
fren: "we are too.drive thru lah, no need come out"
me: "oh what the hell..coming out now"

now i have a dozen nine of those original glaze.

donuts anyone?

Labels: food, mein leben

Posted by Unknown at 12:26 PM | Permalink | Comments

its was a night for studying. unfortunately little of that happened.

there was a quake. read about here. but i didnt feel anything.

too engrossed in bourne supremacy and trying to study.

later that night around 1am, phone rang. who the hell rings me at that time.

fren: "oi we outside your place. lets go get krispy kreme"
me: "i m in PJs leh"
fren: "we are too.drive thru lah, no need come out"
fren: "oh what the hell..coming out now"

now i have a dozen nine of those original glaze.

you want some?

Labels: mein leben

Posted by Unknown at 12:26 PM | Permalink | Comments

chanced upon this video while surfing around. its from Rent, the musical.

nope i never watched the musical or the movie before. but it seems like one that you should catch.

if you find the dvd in stores, you can buy it for me as a gift:P

what a cheeful and uplifting song. need something like that in my life now.

text link

525,600 minutes, 525,000 moments so dear.
525,600 minutes - how do you measure, measure a year?
In daylights, in sunsets, in midnights, in cups of coffee.
In inches, in miles, in laughter, in strife.
In 525,600 minutes - how do you measure a year in the life?
How about love? How about love? How about love? Measure in love.
Seasons of love.

Labels: notes, vidz

Posted by Unknown at 10:14 AM | Permalink | Comments

gosh these days leading up to the exams can be rather bored. facing the notes, books and all these.

i wonder if i could get a special consideration for the exam, regarding my allergies...allergies to the notes and books. whenever i open them up, i just feel tired, my head spinning and i just want to sleep.

shall go soak in the tub, read some neil gaiman & maybe drink some wine

Labels: mein leben

Posted by Unknown at 8:33 PM | Permalink | Comments

oh gawdy gawd! ben actually put the photos from the 90s up on his blog!!!

just looking at those makes me cramp up, cringe in horror!!


my god! what was i doing! WHAT WERE WE DOING!!



taken on a bridge during a night riding trip around fullerton, probably on the way up mt faber.

All of them buddies from The Boys Brigade days. its been a decade already(at least)

gosh..thinking of it just makes me feel old.

Labels: mein leben, musing

Posted by Unknown at 7:38 PM | Permalink | Comments

5km in about 24-25mins.

legs still abit aching from the last run at the start of run. shake off that feeling half way.

lungs are less strained than the less run too.

Labels: running

Posted by Unknown at 7:36 PM | Permalink | Comments

if you love 24 the tv series, then get your mobile to ring just like the phones in the show.

i know i got mine sounding alike already.

get it here!!

Labels: musing, net

Posted by Unknown at 7:32 PM | Permalink | Comments

have not been running as often as i liked. last week busy leh. besides being busy, abit sick as well, so i guess it would be better to give myself some rest.

so today resume run. 5km in around 26min. abit slow and i felt heavy.

past week of unhealthy fast food, snacks and sitting around seem to have some effect on me. so getting my ass up and running feels alittle tough on my lungs.

why does it seem to take a much shorter time to put on weight and increase my diameter, while it seem to take like 10 times to do the otherwise.

Labels: running

Posted by Unknown at 9:12 PM | Permalink | Comments

why didn't i watch house earlier! better than grey's anatomy in some ways, which GA is turning into more like soap opera show.

nice smart show, plus lots and lots of sarcasm by the doctors.

what would you want? a doctor who holds your hand while you die? Or a doctor who ignores you while you get better.

I think it would particularly suck if you've got a doctor who ignores you while you die

- Dr. Gregory House

Labels: vidz

Posted by Unknown at 9:40 PM | Permalink | Comments

i went into the toilet. first person i saw was someone with ponytail. for one second, i thought i went into the wrong toilet again. heng ah

today got back another assignment. been waiting for 6 weeks for this to come back. bloody lecturer took bloody weeks to return to us. and he managed to lose a few of the assignments. this guy is more slack than me!!

i say he deserve a bloody smack on his head.

as shown with the number of 'bloody' above, i probably woke up from the wrong side of the bed.

RRRrrr~ why is the rum gone!? although my choice of poison would probably be whisky

oh well tomorrow will be better. study!!

Labels: mein leben, SNAFU

Posted by Unknown at 8:33 PM | Permalink | Comments

exchanged a few messages. responses seem cold.

while washing dishes, i thought about it(or us or whatever the fuck) and felt.......

"fuck. waste my fucking time"

i think i need to put on some kick ass rock music, instead of some sad sounding beethoven pathetique shit

Labels: mein leben, SNAFU

Posted by Unknown at 10:49 PM | Permalink | Comments

handed in two assignments. one on wednesday and the other on friday + a presentation. so one more minor assignment.

wednesday
had to present an assignment, which is an online store website, to the tutor. selling liquor (no surprises huh). last minute, something minor cocked up.

but it wasn't bad. and i really don't give a heck or 2 piece of shit about it already lah.

thursday
was a rather long day, which stretched till friday. it was also a darn warm day. so warm it made my head ached alittle.

my night was spent cleaning up two reports and doing up a presentation at my friends place. to start off the night and to cool off, we opened up a bottle of beer each. shiok. damn cooling sia. and proceed to do work.

later, time for supper, which was french fries & nuggets from MacDs(no delivery. have to drive). fattening sia.

opened another beer (lagi fattening). still damn warm lah :P

finished and printed the report around 5. when i reached home the sky was already like this.


stayed up and did some stuff for the presentation. left for sch around 9.

our group was first to go. i forgot what i wanted to say and urrhh ermm my way thru. then i sat thru the 2 or 3 presentations which was twice as long as ours. it was painful sitting thru and listening.

infact probably more painful than hearing myself speak just now.

went home and KO. met up with lil and james in the evening for some korean dinner.

went home soaking in the bath tub and reading American Gods. a good night sleep was next.

Labels: mein leben

Posted by Unknown at 12:30 PM | Permalink | Comments

when such news appear on Straits Times Online, you know you would not have to think twice about not renewing the subscription.

In drunken oblivion
Passers-by were astonished to see a drunk man pass out on East Coast Road in the early hours of Wednesday.

One man, who gave his name only as Mr Tan, saw someone lying in the gutter at around 1am. He had seen the same man 15 minutes earlier, though this time, he had been lying on the pavement.

He said: 'It was very scary seeing him on the ground there. Although the road was not that busy, cars could still come by and run over him.'

Mr Tan called the police, who arrived at the scene shortly after and woke the man up. After taking some time to sober up, the man got into a taxi and went home.

this kind of article can also be considered news-worthy. Shitty Times

Labels: musing

Posted by Unknown at 11:20 AM | Permalink | Comments

just cleaning up some reports for my assignment. some business cases, one on a cafe business and the other a manufacturing company.

i just realise both businesses are quite a win win situation....in fact win win is an understatement.

i expect to breakeven like less than a year for a million dollar project and an IRR of 96%. and the other IRR of 220% and a payback within half a year!!

me and my team make a damn good business consulting group. (although the figures are rather ridiculous)

Labels: geek

Posted by Unknown at 7:12 PM | Permalink | Comments

yesterday morning (tuesday) freaked myself out. woke up around 11:45 and proceed to wash up.

while washing up, some thoughts came to my mind.

why didnt i top up my petrol yesterday? cause i always top up the car on tuesdays.

then i freaked out! yesterday was tuesday! then today wednesday!!! i got presentation at 10:30 on a wednesday!!

alarm bells rang in my head. this time siao liao lah!

then i composed myself, checked properly. it was still a nice tuesday morning with nothing on for me.

hiyoh, kan cheong spider for nothing

Labels: mein leben, musing

Posted by Unknown at 8:34 PM | Permalink | Comments

I was watching late night tv as i was gonna sleep last night. there were lots of the ads asking me to sms or call some numbers to get new girls on my mobile phone or chat with some girls.

i would have called...if there weren't so many ads, so much so that i don't know which girl i like and there are so many different numbers to remember.

ok~......maybe not. i might rather spend my phone credits to call my parents or maybe call my vegeterian auntie living up epping or somewhere there.

seriously i wonder who would call up those ads. me, a normal guy, who is not loved by all, wont call. then who would call??

now as i cant sleep, i m turning on the tv for background sound. and i cant make up my mind what to buy to prevent wrinkles and which night cream eye cream is good for me....

zzzzzzzz

Labels: mein leben, musing

Posted by Unknown at 1:34 AM | Permalink | Comments

as my studies are slowly drawing to a close as each day past. now i have to think about what comes up ahead.

i love and hate the crossroads of life. and most of the time, the major ones, the sort that just turns and goes into the dark corner, and without much indication of where you may end up. but no matter what, its gonna be exciting.....i guess.

love it for the surprises it may throw up in the next turn and the discovery of something nice. hate it for that turn might be a wrong turn, or a big loop that might just bring me to the same point.

with this 1 and 1/2 years spent doing this course over here, it has given me another option to take. the chance to take up a Australian PR and work here.

right now am trying to explore all available options and the requirements, weighing the pros & cons, and the things i have to forgo.

of course there are some constraints too, like the costings. no "allyourbasearebelongtous" or "leaf it to me". so i would have to research more, especially for the part on the application for PR.

Labels: mein leben

Posted by Unknown at 11:10 PM | Permalink | Comments

i seriously forgot how warm weather feels like, especially under the aussie sun. digged out the burms from the depth of mess in my wardrobe.

baked. dry. just these 2 words came to my mind as i lugged my laptop and talk a 15mins walk to school:( wat to do......group assignment.

after this week, i shall be free from all assignments except one more. two biggies to hand in this week.

after dinner was disgested, i decided to take a bathe. when i started filling, i felt the water. hmm nice warm

but halfway i went to check. damn no warm water already!!

sian 1/2. no mood liao.

(the pic not really sunny lah. when i took, it was sunset already)

Labels: mein leben

Posted by Unknown at 10:45 PM | Permalink | Comments

ok so the night is not so lonely after. got a friend over, on the pretext of doing work. oh we did open up a set of lecture notes and drew afew diagrams.

but after that, it was some version of bubble puzzle and a few of the cheapest and finest victoria has to offer. plus some talk cock sing song play piano(ok no sing song play piano)



good night everyone. i hope you choke on your mooncakes

Labels: mein leben, tgif

Posted by Unknown at 12:40 AM | Permalink | Comments

thats my supper last night. my gosh. these few days, i astonish myself with the amount of food i eat.

bread and jam. ,chocolate eclair, egg with indon mee. some time later, biscuits and tea. then dinner was rice & chicken soup. then egg pudding for supper, and some ice cream and biscuits. all in a day. not much for some of you. but quite alot for me

must be the jogs, hence the eating. or eating therefore the jogs. hmm whichever way. vicious cycle. chicken-or-egg-comes-first type of question.

its supposed to be mooncake night but no mooncakes nor anyone to watch the moon or whatever you do during zhong qiu jie.

anyway am feeling a little heaty. change of weather and overdose on those scotch fingers biscuits. man i love that flavour.

but i feel a cough coming up. some beer to cool down would be nice.

Labels: food, mein leben

Posted by Unknown at 7:32 PM | Permalink | Comments

today 8km in 43++mins. old problem in the right shin area is coming back again:(

not really big problem but it aches so much after i covered 2km that i have walk for awhile before running again.

after jogging for awhile, the ache sort of subsided, then slowly disappeared and gone. wierd.

Labels: running

Posted by Unknown at 11:21 PM | Permalink | Comments

actually was waiting for some pictures to be sent to me before i wanna blog. but that someone keep dilly dally.

last friday, i realise that i really suck at those fighting games. everytime kena thrash. the last time i played a fighting game was DOA on XBox, kena thrashed by a girl. now tekken 5 on the ps2 :(


my tekken ass in the process of being kicked by charm.


that night was good as there were alcohol. vodka lemonades at certain ting's place with a few others before making our way to the beach club to meet up a few more others. then a 151 and some bourbon coke and some SOHO in there.





finished up the night with some macdonalds, before i was taken home by alick.

Labels: mein leben, tgif

Posted by Unknown at 8:04 PM | Permalink | Comments

NINJA!

This was the company i was posted to exactly 6 years ago when i first started serving. its been awhile

trainee days were fun days. until i got posted to a training school as an instructor for the rest of my NS life. got a not very good superior and i got to see some of the ugly side one too many career soldiers.

but life is still not too bad in there. although being in an operational unit would be preobably more interesting.

more good years of reservist(or In Camp Training) huh

Labels: mein leben

Posted by Unknown at 9:59 AM | Permalink | Comments

the past week was a school holiday. damn it. my motivation to run also on holiday. didnt manage to go run even once.

screwed up sleeping hours. alcohol. no mood.

anyway today managed to get in a good run. wanted to run 8km but my lungs and legs feeling damn strained lah. so make do with 5km. finished in abt 25mins.

next run, 8km alrite......

Labels: running

Posted by Unknown at 7:56 PM | Permalink | Comments

no not macdonald's, but Apple's MacBook.



i was always wondering what was the hype on Apple's product, especially the iPods. Now my attention has turned to the Apple notebooks.

after talking to a few friends where they raved about the usability Mac Platform and the no lack of software because of a rather large community of developers.

i would like to get my hands on one to test drive. not to mention, you can triple boot OS-es, like Mac OS, Linux and Windows XP. i have been dual booting my laptop with Suse Linux and XP pro, and trying to get a hang of alternatives other then Microsoft products.

what one of friends say though, was that you should never get rid of a windows, no matter how much u dislike it.

Labels: geek

Posted by Unknown at 11:31 AM | Permalink | Comments

Yngwie Malamsteen's concerto suite for electric. Classical influences with his rock guitar shredding.

Labels: notes, vidz

Posted by Unknown at 10:23 AM | Permalink | Comments