2000 - 2010 a decade in review

ehhh yeah i know that isnt exactly a decade, that's 11 years but i dun exactly know which year a decade starts so..... DUN CARE. anyway here goes:

y2k came and went as fast as the second hand passed the "12". the whole hullabaloo was all for nothing. meh. computers crashing my ass. i was waiting for an apocalypse and all u gave was a whimper. underwhelming.

911. i was taking my exams on the morning when it was first reported (prelims? Alevels?) and only found out about the crashing of the twin towers when i got back home. tragedy. one minute of silence pls.

VJC was pretty unmemorable. David Beckham visiting however wasn't. ok next.

Army is where u first learn how to cao keng and not get caught. and a pretty low point in my life i must say. but yay to new frens found. without you, army would be miserable. U guys made it so much more bearable. U know who u are.

A level results. oh yes. when u belong to a so called "top 5 JC" and "scholar batch" of enlistees in BMT and u only get 2As and 2Bs.... oh boy. let's just say.... i was part of the statistics that pulled VJ down and could have done better. not that i really cared for either.

Virgin trip on a plane alone to visit my sister and future bro-in-law with a full head of blonde (yes blonde) hair. BIGGEST MISTAKE EVER. the hair, not the trip. im not meant to be blonde. and there's a reason u've never seen the pictures. cos it was atrocious. my trip to london, venice, rome, brussels, bruges and cambridge with my sister, however----- AMAZING.

NUS was a whole new ball game altogther. it's like mean girls. only meaner. hell, its a popularity contest in hall. and you've actually gotta be smart to be even part of the game. blk comm was mehhhhh to the max. wrong group of people. could have enjoyed it more. biggest enjoyment thou was dance. i would have died without being part of it. i would have died not being in it. one of the highlights of my university life. i WOULD NOT have gone back to hall after my SEP, but dance made me.... and speaking of SEP.....

SEP in France. Big pat on the back. i did it, i enjoyed it and i LOVED it. even the parts where i was suffering. it's a country i love to hate and i hate to love. it soooo screwed up its good. there are parts where i'd rather choose to forget (like that time i got detained in berlin's airport and got sent straight back to france becos of my visa. darkest 12 hours of my life. and wasting 500bucks while im at it). and it's also where i turned into an alcoholic. i mean seriously 2.50euros wine? A FULL BOTTLE? tell me how to resist.... i cant believe i did it, on my own. in a foreign language. beat that.

coming back to hall. what a wonderful final year i've had. the really failed Rag, Design and FYP, culture night, 8gz and funka, DU, command, final exams. i did it all. full circle. and i enjoyed and loved every single minute of it TTM. i got to know new people whom i love and still do. and yay to no more having to study (out of obligation).

And then there was the grad trip to taiwan. INSANE. grad trip part 2 to indochina. INSANE. good times. i miss the days, when u are accountable for nothing but ur grades. u choose whatever u wanna do. that's it. this whole working thing? TOO DAMN HARD.

Work. oh boy, work. where do i even start. It was tough man, transitioning from a student to a working adult. it got so bad i cried at work. the whole waterworks. but evetually i got used to waking up at 7 (then 705am, then 710am, to now 715am haha, what can i say. imma slacker) every single morning, walking to the mrt, taking MyPaper, bua-ing strangers in the train. Coming into office being a generic cubicle rat. geez. repeat sequence for the next 40 years. But i got to say i have to thank my lucky stars for being able to secure such a good job. comfortable pay. hell i even got promoted in 2 years which is much faster than normal. so, we shall see what's next.

Then there's there trip to US. Alone, albeit not by choice. i've learnt to survive alone. to entertain myself. to not cry when i want to cry. yeah. it's not tough. but its not easy either. and i have to do this. for the rest of my life. this was just a prelude.

Of cos there were the low points. stuff that I wished didnt happen but did. stuff that i wish i have done, but didnt. shoulda woulda coulda. but its life. u choose what u wanna do, and u deal with the consequences. right? no use crying over spilt milk. or at least thats what i tell myself at the end of the day.

So yeah. that's it. 10 (or 11) years of ups and downs. it was worth the ride. I wonder what i'll be writing in Dec 2020... oh boy i would be 37 by then. Grrreeeaat.

2010 year in review

2010 films



2010 songs

What i want for Xmas

1. an Agnes B ring
2. a new gym bag. preferably duffel.
3. abs
4. unlimited supply of wine
5. not to fall sick. ever. again
6. a clean slate to start over

Weekend round up

Sorry too lazy to post... will just add captions

Much anticipated bbq at andi's house. too bad there was a drizzle but it soon cleared up

with baobao and henry, the other 2 early (love) birds

with the guys bbq-ing. i dun care what pple say about bbqs being cancer causing. i love it ttm. and its the best form of gatherings imo.

gift exchanges are lame..... but ya know whatever, i got to get rid of my speakers that i didnt want.

proof of why they are lame..... this was my present. tzl. i left it at andi's house and didnt want to bring it home hahaha.

With vanna white my fellow aussie tripster..... note: my face is smaller than hers.

after some wild drinking and lotsa emo talk.... EVERYONE fell asleep in the living room only to wake up at 6am to the blasting of the aircon. *brrrrrrrr

Sat was spent visiting Step at TTSH (thanks for the virus) and attending the LAST WEDDING OF THE DECADE congrats SHITTTTT!!! U and ur husband are going to make yummy babies.....

Picture of the bride and groom.... she is the only woman who's ever told me she liked me before.... haha. awwww. it's ok. u got yourself a pilot.... pilot >>>>>>>>> civil engineer. u've made the right choice.

damn i look very good right cannot take it.... like a DSquared2 model.

picture for reference..... ok fine those are the designers but u get my drift.

anyway for those of u who wanna know who wei wei is, there u go.... albeit being a mysterious sadako version. he is shy. (FYI this was not taken by canny. Canny is taking an indefinite hiatus from taking photos becos i am too lazy to bring him out)

yeah so anyway. new year resolution number 1: I SHALL ONLY ATTEND 5 WEDDINGS FOR 2011. BETTER HURRY UP BOOK YOUR SLOT.

ok toodles.

Zoukout weekend part 2: The nite of miracles

So ok ct is very efficient today so i shall just blog it now. i was soooo ready to party when i finally got to the hotel room so i press the doorbell like 100times. and to my AMAZEMENT everybody inside was sleeping. and ct was so pissed that i woke them up.... ZDY TAKE A NAP RT. sian to the max pls. so i had to change damn quietly in the dark....

den i cannot take it i went out to find alexis and their frens. finally got to meet pacat.... and then went back into the room again (ok by this time i was kinda intoxicated so everything was kinda blurry)..... so we decide decide decide OK CANNOT TAKE IT we need to GO OUT NOW and party. even step who was sick also buay tahan she just woke up, cracked all the lightsticks and that made everyone crazy.

somehow i got a white lightstick and i remembered whining about it cos everyone elses was so colorful and that made every one laugh like mad. i have no idea why. so since i was late and i havent got the tag i had to make my way to the entrance MYSELF while the rest were to meet me later. BIG MISTAKE cos everything here on out was ABSOLUTE CHAOS.

the queue was INSANELY LONG. and it started to RAIN. oh boy fuck my life. to make it worse the network was like down until sibei jialat. i dunno where the fuck everyone else was n i was stuck in the queue with weeps ticket and i had NO IDEA where he was. so i started frantically calling step. den alexis. den ct. den cameron cos i wanted to cut queue but tmd he was already inside. so calling totally did not work cos nothing was going thru so we resorted to sms. so apparently weep was already in the queue too and he was looking for me.... den MIRACULOUSLY when i was right at the entrance, I SAW HIM PLS amongst a sea of people. zai zai. eagle eyes.

den i made my way to tent 5 to look for my colleagues and totally abandoned yoat and weeps cos i walked very fast. YAY miracle number 2 pls cos i managed to find them!!!

whoooo hoooo!!! since one of our colleague was bartending i think he got us free drinks. cant really remember cos i was pretty much gone by that time.... MIracle number 3. I saw step and the rest plssss. tzl!!!

dun be fooled by her smile cos she seriously was sick and totally vomitted. and she made peter walk her back pls.... i had to go toilet and pee so i left everyone (smart move again) and went to pee and had to see the fireworks from the toilets. nice.

den i fumbled my way back to look for people and obviously i got lost for a while and then miracle number 4 i bumped into peter who just got back in again!

awwww so sweet pls we totally brokeback-ed the cos he was so tired and wasted and he cant breathe so i had to hold his hands the entire nite. went to a quiet corner where there was room to sit down behind the tents and he sleep for about a whole minute before deciding that its too uncomfortable. den i saw people running behind the tents away from the patrol guards. so i look at peter "eh u wanna try running or not" den he said yes pls so i became incredible hulk and totally lifted the fence and the both of us, ran towards the exit on the beach, holding hands mind u. but since we were both gg-ed it was pretty easy for the patrollers to catch up to us. BUT IT WAS MIGHTY FUN PLS....

apparently when we were running away and trying to exit, tiesto was already playing.

i totally didnt remember dancing at all.... oh boy zdy go zoukout and then not dance..... well at least the others did on my behalf..... so while we were exiting we saw the rest making their way back to the room too plssssssss. amen. tzl.

this is the finest moment of ct.... i swear u are damn heavy pls. ur bones are made of steel. i wanna carry also cannot. but u sorta saved the rest in a way cos u had to make every leave.... hahaha. since the nite was still young and i totally didnt feel like sleeping, i stripped down to my undies and went to the pool to frolic. loves it.... then all the rest came to join me damn im influential. damn refreshing. can swim. can cy (oh boy yl peter cy-s too pls) background got music, can eat instant noodles..... heaven.

went back to the room and totally crashed. and slept till morning.... only to wake up to this mess.

wowowowow. i was so scared the hotel will make us pay for damages.... but heng they let us off pls....

so yes. zoukout was a mess. and i hated it. too many people. and too exp. last time EVER.

Zoukout weekend part 1

Since saturday was zoukout, i decided to just have dinner with wei wei at Wisma and then PROMISED myself i would go home. Weiwei was on mc but he still came out to have dinner with me..... awwwww so sweet. we went to food republic to eat sushi which was quite exp for a food court. but the food is really nubbad. Shiok! sushi was, as the name suggested, very shiok and so was garlic fried rice...

so i tot i could really go home until step sms me to bring her to the (get this) hospital to see doctor. oh boy zdy go hospital see doctor sjb pls. so ok la what to do right since she was dying of fever and cough and there is no medicine she could take and it was zoukout weekend so i had to be nice. and she let me drive her car so.... OK FINE I BRING.

working the facemask like a mcdreamy. so in the end there really isnt any meds she could take... and she still have to pay 106bucks.... tzl. fhl. and i swear the hospital is really full of virus and bacteria cos the moment i entered that place, it reeked of bad things..... i could just feel it in my pores and i knew immediately i would fall sick the next day....

TRUE ENUFF PLS the next day step and wei's potent virus together with a visit to the hospital, made me slightly feverish and throat super irritated. sian.... but lucky my body is strong enuff i didnt really fall sick towards the end of the day. Rushed off to St Regis at 4pm to meet up with the bride and groom and be their chinese (!!) emcee.... oh boy.

there's my first love right there.... zdy watch ur first love get married away and STILL be the bloody emcee right.... tzl i am too nice.

workkkkkkkkkkkkkkkin the suit pls... damn why am i still single.......

just because i think i look too damn good, i decided to put another photo. hahaha. so being a chinese emcee is totally freaking me out cos, i knew i could speak chinese on a colloqual level but speaking PROPER chinese is a totally diff ballgame pls. so i downed like 5 6 glasses of wine to calm myself down pls.... a bit tipsy but whoa once i got on stage..... i worked the crowd like magic pls.

with my partner melissa...... so ok. sat with a bunch of frat boys from tpjc and it was totally unnerving. esp one of them.... sibei ah beng cannot take it. so i made a run for sentosa once my duties ended. and didnt collect my angbao at all.... damn. gotta meet up with my friend to get my angbaooooo.

took a cab to sentosa and totally got "niam" by the taxi driver all the way. seriously i hate taxi drivers who kp and talk to me. just leave me alone ok.... i am paying u so just get me where im supposed to go and dun talk to me pls. the ride in was excruciatingly long as expected. bloody zoukout totally made me detour a damn long route to my hotel. sibei sian. in the end the taxi from st regis to siloso beach resort was like 20plus dollars pls. suck my money gao gao.....

part 2 coming up next.....

ZAI MAX WEEKEND PART 2

ok sorry delayed post cos i am a busy man.

Dragged my lazy ass out of bed last sunday to gym cos i havent been exercising... and halfway thru those 3 crazyasses smsed me to "meet for brunch".... zdy meet for brunch when it's already over 12pm. so ok lor since i got nothing to do.... was supposed to meet at 2pm but dragged until 230pm. sorry ah i got no patience to wait for people.... so i went to tampopo to eat my ramen first cos i was uber hungry.... and den we headed over to Brewerks @ CQ for my drinks and their "brunch"

yay.... eating round2 for me.... no wonder my tummy is NEVER gonna get smaller. so we talked and chilled a bit before i pull my famous stunt "eh go home liao la"....since the 3 of us (sans ct) were quite tired and we just wanna go home and sleep.... so we parted (or so we thought) for home.

So on our way to Alexis's house (after passing spiderman his cup noodles from Japan).... step mentioned something about Azzurra @sentosa and how its nicer then cafe del mar.... simultaneously ct bbm-ed alexis that she is "very sian" and she obviously hasnt left the CQ carpark cos she doesnt bbm when she is driving.... so one thing led to another.....

BAM!!!! we were at Sentosa with one another AGAIN within the next 30mins. very gross pls shoot me now.

i swear we are mad.....oh boy. whatever happened to being broke right.... zdy act rich when actually all our credit cards are gonna explode.....

tzl yl i am so shuai....

with my fhfl.... thanks for the free cy and cy burner. sorry must speak in codes. the sun was shining oh so brightly and it was getting slightly warm... so i decided to

STRIP... oh yeah so much better..... my body not bad right....tsk i was very traumatised ok.... cos the other day at the office i saw the calendar shoot people. i asked her "eh how are the photos" den she said "oh i just spoke to AK (the photographer) and we were talking abt u!"... so i asked "what about me??!?! ISSIT MY PHOTOS ARE BADLY TAKEN?? very difficult to PHOTOSHOP ISSIT".... and she totally gave me the "ERRRRRRRRRRRRRR" reply. sad pls. im gonna get eliminated next. seriously what did they expect from me man.... michael phelps body within 3 days notice right.... u gimme 3 years also wun help pls.

so anyway back to Azzurra

oh wowow lookatthesun zdby tan.... so we nua and nua and ordered a lot of drinks and pizza and totally partied from 4pm till....

oh boy almost 8pm. craziness.... this is too much.

OK BYE.