lock-me-out-nator

i am getting slack with this blog. whole day rotting at home but not posting anything. did an 8km run few days ago, but hehe, didnt update.

during the exam period, the number of post seem to increase quite abit, due to the relunctance to study. now, i would rather nua. also, i have been trying to sell my stuff, like my D'Charade.

anyway monday!!

i cooked dinner for lil, huiting and alick. didnt invite more people because got limited chairs and utensils at my place :P



had some pasta, beef and salad. then after dinner went to play pool and arcade. this time round with quite a few stupid poses with the guns in the arcade and fooling around on the drum thing.

and then wednesday night, off to a korean bbq with huiting and alick for dinner. after dinner, we ended up at my place, with lilian who came later. played cards, finished up my cookies :( and made prata. we seem to spend the night stuffing ourselves full with food.



this is the day i received my exam results. coincidentally, the day when results came out in the last semester, i had dinner at the exact same restaurant, but previous with daphne and charm.

this time round, GOOD NEWS!!! I graduated !!! Thank God.

ORD Graduate loh!!

MUHAHAHAHA. together with huiting and alick, and charm too! Congratulations to them all!!

but now the bad news......I am UNEMPLOYED, part of the statistics, part of the 4% in singapore(citation needed).

now back to trying to sell my stuff...bugger

Labels: food, good shit, mein leben

Posted by Unknown at 8:59 PM | Permalink | Comments

been a long time since catching a movie, so friday nite went down to glen waverly to catch a show, a good year, starring russell crowe. pretty good show. about rusell playing the role of a damn successful investor/broker who calls his employees lab rats, went on to discover new life besides the hustle bustle of the business world.

this show has lots of scenes on wine and all that. i went home opened a bottle of cleanskin pinot noir and turn on some old shows i have on my hard disk. wine's not too good but hey its only $4.99.

i watched till i fell asleep. woke up 7am in the saturday morning and i cant go back to sleep. just wierd whenever i have some drink, i will just wake up real early the next morning.

got up, got out for a 10km run, finishing in about 50mins. nice cool fresh air due to the low volume of traffic, which picked up when i was about done.

hopefully can pick my lazy fat ass to go run more regularly and increase my distance.

Labels: mein leben, running

Posted by Unknown at 9:39 AM | Permalink | Comments

after events like this and this, i came up with a key redundancy plan to reduce the level of helplessness after being locked out.

yesterday i had a chance to try this redundancy plan. while i was leaving for my golf game, i stood at my doors thinking of what i have forgot the bring out.

the thought of "KEYS" came right at the moment the door slammed shut. my heart sunk, thinking...

"F**K. locked out again!!!!"

it seemed to always happen when my hands are stuffed full, so i can't do my 3 point check of my left right rear pockets for my wallet, mobile and keys.

but hey this time different, i got my redundant keys somewhere. so i got back into the house and retrieve my keys.

plan worked fine. but silly me, no next time please. me don't like being locked out.

Labels: mein leben

Posted by Unknown at 8:17 AM | Permalink | Comments

haven't been hitting the small white ball. so yesterday to the range, then today woke up early at about 8 and went to the golf course for a round of eighteen holes. now some muscle ache.

waking up at 8 to play golf. you would not catch me waking up at 8 to study.

i reached the golf course and there was a long queue of retirees. me, youngest kid there by a margin of probably 30-40 years. got into a flight with 2 guys, an aussie and a scot. had a pretty nice game with them two. for myself, i had an ok game. would love to go on the golf course more often to play.

this was my first time interacting with a scot. now whenever i watch english shows with real english people or the mash of accents from different parts of UK, i always have difficulties catching what they are speaking.

this guy, wow....i cant catch half(or more) of what he was saying. it didnt help that the only scot i see and hear around is Willie.(from The Simpsons)


but he was pretty nice about it.(and no, he does not dress like Willie) adding that the aussie guy couldn't catch what he was talking about in the beginning too.


grrr...i am hungry. wonder if anyone game for supper or not......

Labels: golf, mein leben

Posted by Unknown at 7:11 PM | Permalink | Comments

these few days, i'm quite lazy to post anything. not that there is anything much to post about though.

yesterday was possibly the longest shopping trip of my life. about 6hrs at the Direct Factory Outlet near the melbourne airport. but its was alrite as i bought some things, so it was not any of a wasted trip where u go round and round and got nothing but air.

*long long break here for dinner*

just back from dinner. had the vietnamese broken rice. been a long time since having that. the ohh so delicious i-dunnoe-what's that-but-its nice stuff together with a piece of pork chop.

and then off to Princes to shoot some pool. into the smoky billard saloon, it reminded of MechMaster in singapore that are full of ah bengs smoking away.

i suck pool but i managed to beat my friend 3-2 in a best of five. VICTORY!

although technically i lost(pocketed the black ball on the first shot of the last game). and then there was shooting of another kind, Time Crisis 4!!



its part four already !!! i am ancient.

now i am home. i shall go on to finish House season 2. and then on to 恶作剧之吻.

Labels: mein leben

Posted by Unknown at 3:19 PM | Permalink | Comments

5km in 25min.

a run in the afternoon today is like a live chicken running in an oven. 36degree. *pant**pant*

5km only, run until no sweat liao. but its not chicken feet either. looks like i should load up more on H2O

Labels: running

Posted by Unknown at 3:04 PM | Permalink | Comments

these few days, i had friends over for dinner at my place, and i went to friend's place for dinner. went clubbing on friday

friday

clubbing at lavish with the same few people. they had some event "House edition". freaking crowded!! packed like sardines

but the music was good. and i feel old already. by 3am my legs are tired already.


look at the eyebags under my eyes man! still feeling the effects of lack of sleep due to the exams.

reached home at 6am. hurry up bathed and jumped into bed to snooze. tired zzzzz.....

monday

rach is going back to malaysia, so i had nick & rachel back for dinner. same beef, since there was request for it. cooked some pasta too, which was quite plain.



after dinner, had bubble tea. and then relive our childhood by making paper aeroplanes and a paper football to kick around, using my exam notes!!

we were so restless that we used some paper cups, and did bowling with it, together with the paper ball we made.

oh yeah and the pearls in the bubble tea were superb that night. very nice to chew on

tuesday

dinner at huiting and alick's place where we had 'ma la' steamboat together with lilian. good day to have it too, since it was a rather cool wet day.



lots of food, many different types of fishballs. ice cream and lychees. so damn full and we didnt even finish the food.

played some card games and photo taking. learn a game called "asshole". same concept as big two. except its doesn't stop at the first winner, but goes on till everyone discards the cards. then exchanging good and bad cards between the loser and winners.

like so long never take photos already. so i decided to act cute alittle.

Labels: food, good shit, mein leben

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

my runs are getting irregular. rite now i can only blame the weather. hate running in the damn windy conditions. my ears would hurt alittle from the wind.

anyway after last nite's steamboat (next post coming up) with 3 damn big scoops of ice-cream, i feel guilty. so i screw the wind conditions and went to run.

roughly 5km in abt 24mins. lungs gasping for air. doesn't really help much when my runs are like once a week.

Labels: running

Posted by Unknown at 10:43 AM | Permalink | Comments

i see my friend's nick about some disappointment and some shit like this. i asked a little about what happen.

it just further strengthen my beliefs that long distance relationship is kind of bullshit.

although there are some success cases. the rate of failure probably far outweighs success.

for success stories, both parties probably need a small dosage of naivety, the desire to tango, and hopefully no extra person trying to tango as well.

Note to self: No LDR shit in my life please

Labels: mein leben, SNAFU

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

this period of not much things to do is damn shiok lah. its been awhile since i can OFFICIALLY doing nothing.

love it!

except this cannot carry on for one month.

i need someone who's mind is not that normal, one that would wanna take a road trip to adelaide or something like that. or som outdoor-sy kind of activity like mountain biking (except i ain't got a bike)

Labels: mein leben

Posted by Unknown at 10:06 PM | Permalink | Comments

to celebrate the end of exams, nick was kind to invite a few peps to his place for dinner, where rach whipped up a few dishes for dinner.



very nice simple dishes and few bottles of wine. and they were great company. one of them, raj was actually from the same vocation as me in the army.



a good night. a nice night. an enjoyable night.

with the wine, it just puts me to a good night sleep. only to wake up at 7am. damn, body alarm clock is still on. but luckily still managed to squeeze in a few more hours of sleep.

Labels: good shit, mein leben

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

5km in about 24mins.

been awhile since the last one, so before going for some night out, i decided to go for a short one.

not that good an idea to run under the current 4pm sun and when the body was pumped with abit of red wine the night before.

Labels: running

Posted by Unknown at 6:04 PM | Permalink | Comments

in a little less than 24hrs, my self imposed alcohol ban shall be lifted(Since when huh?). same time as when my last paper ends.

bad thing is, i got only 1 evening to study for that. got another paper in an hours' time.

got a dinner at friend's place tomorrow. bring a bottle of wine, he said. and can sleep over if you want to. shall i get 2 bottle and my few miserable bottles of beer over as well.

things are getting better, after tonight.

tonight....will be bad.

Labels: mein leben

Posted by Unknown at 9:31 AM | Permalink | Comments

yeeeehhaaa!!

the second paper finish liao. supposedly 11:30 end. but i reached home 11:30 wahahha, including a trip to the supermarket.

good or bad? wait results come out then say lah. still got 2 more paper. just as unprepared as the 2 that finished.

i gotta admit, this has got to be the worst prepared exams among all exams in university. no motivation. no morale. no spirit. like a punctured tire. just trying to get it done and over with.

all yeah, for the 4D-buying people, my seat number is 2116. sounds like a winning number? then buy it.

but if you win, please bring me to a trip to taiwan or thailand.

Labels: mein leben

Posted by Unknown at 10:21 AM | Permalink | Comments

steak with creamed spinach
Originally uploaded by Nerd with love handles.

meaty dinner today. although i eat alone, sometimes i treat myself real nice. eat alone also make until nice nice. dunnoe why. maybe seriously bored.

anyway a porterhouse steak, seasoned with salt & pepper alone. roast some potatoes, and tried something new. creamed spinach.

made some bechamel sauce(butter, flour and cream. season salt pepper to taste). blanched the baby spinach. then cook with the sauce. nice rich sauce together with spinach that is not overcooked.

complete the dinner by opening a bottle of beer.

love it!

Labels: food

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

this past week has been as interesting as counting the number of hair on my arm. and this coming week will be too as well.

all day long trying to stare at my notes, in the hope that some stuff gets into my head, and actually stays there until the exam day itself. my memory has been like that of a goldfish :(

life has never got so interesting man. in fact it gets so damn interesting that it makes cooking dinner exciting. it makes supermarket shopping feels like a box of chocolate because i do not know what offers i can find on the next aisle.

no more lessons or classes to attend already, and friends are caught up with exams to hang out for late nite pancakes and whats not. so the only chance for human interaction nowadays is probably with the cashier at the checkout counter (hopefully a pretty chick for eye candy), or the 10mins before going into the exam halls, discussing with your classmates about how unprepared you are.

for tonite, to make the night a wee bit interesting, some nachos, topped with salsa, cheese, sour cream and sprinkled with some spring onions.



enough whining for now. hopefully none at all after these.

Labels: food, mein leben

Posted by Unknown at 7:28 PM | Permalink | Comments

5km in 25mins.

fine weather and i thought of going for 10km. in the end, laziness rules the day.

Labels: running

Posted by Unknown at 7:23 PM | Permalink | Comments