I cannot stand old people

Old people who dunno how to operate SAM machine should seriously stop trying to be smart and attempt to use them. Seriously. After a hard day's work of dancing... all i wanna do is pay my bills and eat dnner.... but NOOOOOO.... those old farts just decided to show up all at the same time and waste my bloody time...

So anw i started yawning like a hippo after for waiting an uncle pay 6(!!) bills... and the auntie in front of me started telling me "you know ah last time when i pay 2 bills the people behind me start scolding me already ah!"... when all i wanted to reply was "seriously i dun need to know your whole family history.... and stop talking to me"

5 freakin minutes later, that same auntie fumbled with the buttons... when the machine asked whether she wants to pay another bill, she pressed "yes" when in fact thats all she had, and when she was supposed to press savings acct, she pressed current. i mean seriously, how stupid can a person get.

In the end the SAM machine hung.... IT HUNG!! thanks a lot auntie.... next time ask ur children to pay bills for u.... if not there is this system that was invented ten thousand years ago to help u with billing problems... its called GI-farking-RO.

The Man of Steel RETURNS!!

Superman Returns!! And he is bigger than ever!! Woot! While the world is currently hooked onto Captain Jack Sparrow, i finally found time to catch SR... and boy, was i blown away. I never really considered myself a Superman fan...till now. 11 years in the making, this movie truly depicts what Superman represents... justice, truth and above all things, courage... and don't we need a little of that once in a while? hehe. Go catch the movie if you havent... i was a skeptic too at first (seriously, how exciting can a man in red tights get), but now i am a true convert. Peace out y'all!

Update!! (part quatre)

1. Horrified that the holidays are coming to an end real soon... i CANNOT believe i actually managed to survive the 3 month break doing nothing particularly constructive to society or my personal well-being. i didnt work, i didnt revise, i watched a whole lotta tv and that's basically it.

2. Speaking of tv, i have 7 seasons of Will & Grace waiting for me.... which pretty much explains point number 1. It's all about pacing man...

3. Dancing 5 days a week now. I am a dance whore.

4. Friends are gradually leaving Singapore for greener pastures overseas for SEP and NOC. Leaving for Korea, US... and den France, Switzerland and UK. Which makes me kinda excited about my SEP, but worried all the same.... because i still havent sent in my application which has been lying on my desk since the start of the hols.... (seriously you say? Seriously... argh!)

5. i am a lean mean (sex) machine called the Procrastinator

6. Did i mention i got silver for ippt? hehe brag a little eh... below are the results

Situps: 40
SBJ: 234cm
Chinup: 9
Shuttle Run: 9.5s
2.4km run: 11:11mins

which makes me... 200bucks richer!! Holla!!

Those were the days...

Let's play a game of Spot me!

Sometimes when i tell my frens i still have primary school gatherings, their response would normally go along the the lines of "You must be joking.... dun you have a life?" Erm no, i am not joking, and yes, i have a life....

So anyway, after a hiatus of 2 years, the 6B1 gathering is back with a vengeance and bigger than ever!! 21 pple came! haha super happy!!

At the BBQ pit

Its good to know that everyone is going places and surviving well... we have a doctor in making, scholars, market analyst, engineers, auditor, psycologist, journalist, air force sign-on and someone who works for Nestle.

I miss the old campus at the quaint Parry neigbourhood, which was tucked away in a quiet corner... Truth be told, if i were to rank the different periods of my life so far, i would have to say my 6 years is Rosyth is a close 2nd, after Dunman High. Primary school was a time when we had no worries... when things were so much simpler and innocent. Constantly irritating the shit outta each other and catching grasshoppers at the field.

Some highlights of my life in Rosyth:

1. Harold was probably my first friend in p1, cos i had to borrow colour pencil from him the first day of school

2. I used to have 10 wives back in p3... i guess sometimes 1 just isnt enuff

3. Being part the all-star (yes, not shy) 4x100m team for Cheetah house with Zhiren, Harold and Daniel. GO TEAM!

4. Stealing a prefect's tie from Zhiren, because i lost mine.... and i almost lost him as a best fren because of this. (ohmygawd SHOCKER!!! yes...i panicked. i was 11. gimme a break) I've said this before but i will say it again. if you are reading this Zhiren, I AM SORRY and i deserved to be stoned for this heinous act of cowardice

5. One sunny morning in p5, a conversation between Mrs Grosse and Ms Githa, both in charge of prefects, and i went something like this:

Mrs Grosse: Cheong Chye, we have received some complaints about you recently.

Ms Githa: We've heard that you have been using the word "bitch" on other people. Do you know what the word "bitch" meeeeeans?

Me: Erm... a female dog? (with one eyebrow raised)

Such sarcasm at a young age.... tsk tsk. Seriously, what was i supposed to say. I was promptly sacked from the prefectorial board the next year.

6. Singing backup with weifeng for Hamdan the Diva for talentime. Singing Madonna no less. That, was like, major social suicide...

7. Traumatising my p1 buddy when i was in p6. i made the poor boy cry because he didnt know how to count money to buy food at the canteen. hope i didnt cause him any emotional distress.

8. Learning to name different parts of the male genitalia with Zhiren and Weifeng while doing science project... haha good times man, good times. (2nd best water filter!!! woohooo. the winning team used quartz. Like, who the hell knew quartz existed in p6??)

Class photo part deux at Mdm Azlina's house

Memories are flooding my brains now and they are all bittersweet.... ahhh nostlagic... Those were the days.

Beijing BOUND... and BACK!!

My family at Yihe Park

Me and sis at the 17 Arch bridge

Me and dad at Tiantan Park

YAY!! i climbed the Great Wall!! i am a hao3 han4!

Tiananmen is one freaking huge ass place!

Apparently eunuchs and maids come to one of these long corridors to rendezvous...

At the ruins of Yuanming Park

At the summit of Beihai Park

Surprisingly, Beijing wasnt as bad i i thought it would be... if you can look past the really bad pollution, the traffic congestion and the spitting, it's actually quite a livable city.... Contrary to popular belief, their toilets are actually quite clean.... in fact most are actually cleaner than ours! Quelle horreur! Thou i must say the whole idea of throwing soiled toilet paper into baskets rather than the towel bowl is something that i really CANNOT fathom.... apparently their sewage system isnt really that good so toilet paper chokes up the toilet (?!)

Everything there is dirt cheap.... one oyster costs 3rmb ($0.60) and one scallop costs 8rmb ($1.60) so we practically lived like kings and queens there.... but the cost of living in Beijing is actually steeper than that in Sinagpore.... their taxi flat rate is 10rmb and jumped 2rmb everytime.... and considering a normal waitress earns 600rmb a month, i really dunno wat Singaporeans are complaning about here....

Visited almost all the parks there... the emperors really have too much time, building so many gargantuan parks... i pity the sedan carriers... seriously.

So anyway, Beijing is really quite a worthwhile place to go if you are on a tight budget. Cheap Cheap!!