Thailand Trip part 2
I reckon the four of us woke up around nine in the morning the next day. Or was it just me? I have the tendency to wake up way too early, after which becoming a piece of roti prata on the bed. But not this morning... I had woke up and proceeded to wake up the rest of the chums. Breakfast is waiting. We paid for it, we ought to eat it! Plus the fact that we had already paid for the breakfast…
It’s about nine thirty when we reach the café downstairs. I should have taken a picture of the place. The lobby, receptionist and the café are all in the same place actually. That’s how small the hotel is. Oh… I forgot to mention, how fierce looking the receptionist is when she is busy and frustrated. That’s what I saw on the first day when we checked in. she wasn’t in one of her moods on this morning. Smiling, she passed me the coupons for the breakfast. Well… not bad for a start to the day I reckon. But what’s going to happen had ensured that I failed to live up to a promise I had to someone before I came to Thailand.
I think the four of us are kind of groggy or something, because all of us just read one side of the menu, completely missing out on the other side. So in the end all of us had just the normal ABF: ham, eggs, sausage, toast, juice and tea. Not exactly the most filling but acceptable, though I reckon I can do a much better scrambled egg than theirs. My pals said the orange juice was revolting. I wouldn’t know, I was having pineapple…
After breakfast, those pigs decided to go back to sleep. Think CSN is here in Thailand to sleep. So, I wouldn’t venture out so early in the morning. Even if I would, it would be the malls, which would be pointless since we are going there in the afternoon after all. So up I went back to the room. It seems that on espn, it was the western conference semis and on star movies it was ‘Wind talkers’. So I had quite a good time switching around the two channels. After a while I decided to take some pictures around the hotel room. Had to switch off the flash, in case I wake Shev up.
That’s the bed, with Shev in it. It’s actually pretty comfortable. My kind of bed.
Going over to the dark side...
Another crap photo... trying to point to FatShev...
After twelve, we were all up and ready to go around. We went to the rest of the shopping malls around for today, like the Siam Discovery Centre. Nope, their discovery centre and our discovery centre is not the same. Probably meaning finding new bargains is what their ‘discovery’ means. It’s just like any other shopping mall around in Singapore just that it could be cheaper slightly at times. We walked around for quite some time and decided to go somewhere else. I think we went to Siam square where you have little shops all over the place. Small malls, small shops and stuff, somewhat like Queensway shopping centre. And they sell similar stuff too. Amazingly, I couldn’t find a single star shaped trinket all over the place. Thais are obsessed with beads these days… and decorative stones and wood carvings. And not even trinkets in the shape of puppies. Talk about a treasure hunt with no treasure in the end…
We popped by their star bucks for a leg rest. I ordered a cappuccino, while the rest of the gang ordered… damn… I forgot the name in the split second. I think its mocha… is it? The one with coffee and cocoa. Yah… I think its mocha. Mocha ice. Apparently, when I saw their drinks, I thought they had all ordered different drinks. All their drinks had a different shade of brown. CSN was complaining how thick his drink was, and it was giving him a headache. I had a sip and found it to be one of the lightest coffee I had ever drunk. Fatshev has the darker version, David had the lighter shade. So the conclusion is unanimous… CSN cannot make it!
CSN and his headache giving mocha.
While we were there, I saw this sign.
So, beware of your belongings ok... they might attract pickpockets! I suppose that’s what they were trying to say! Hakhak…
We also saw this fella, who is without any drink or food, sitting at a leather couch, seemingly interested in some business on his laptop. But our eagled eyes told us otherwise. He was basically looking at ladies through out. While we were there, there was this really sexy lady who came in to buy a drink. And she has the most beautiful pair of eyes I’ve ever seen (exaggeration of course. She had a pair of very beautiful eyes, no doubts). As the guy was behind me, CSN had the honor of updating me every 10 seconds, that the fella behind me is eyeing that lady through out. The lady chose a seat directly in front of me, which means, directly in front of that fella as well. So I had a pair of eyes, transfixed in our direction all the while! And we started to think of stupid scenarios like they are drug sellers or something… damn dumb…
We went for a foot massage after the drink. Actually we had wanted a full body massage, but somehow the lady had heard wrongly from CSN or something, and had us all sat down at the foot massage area. I was too keen on the body massage actually as I am a very ticklish person. So I wasn’t complaining. The rest didn’t either, so we all had our foot massage. CSN was sitting on my left, suppressing his laughter and anguish all at the same time. His masseur was kind of amused, worried and concern. I was just laughing at him all the time each time he turned over to me and telling me how he felt ticklish and pain. CSN is indeed a source of laughter through out the trip.
We decided to go back and change into something more suitable for nightlife. On the way back, we decided to try some food from the roadside stalls for dinner. Now, this is the place we found all the language barrier. They speak zero English and us, zero Thai. They gave us their menu and gave us another baffling time. They are all in Thai and we asked for a menu with translated menu. They did give us one in the end, but with the menu so much shorten. So with much pointing and gesturing, we managed to order some grail squid, stir fried prawns, omelette, tomyam soup and something else which I had forgotten. It wasn’t as satisfying as we seen the others ate, firstly being what we ate wasn’t what they were eating. Secondly, the food which we had is really not that exciting at all. Bill, and we are off…
We decided to go patpong for the first look at their nightlife. Although I wasn’t too keen on a tiger show, I was most willing to watch it for the experience. So there was this person on the roadside who introduced us to his show. We followed him and got into a relatively small place. There wasn’t anyone in the place at the moment, just the four of us. The women on the stage were not very pretty or sexy either. I was turned off immediately. So we had the mummy coming over to us, bringing people over to sit with us as well. note I say people, not women. The fact is, the one sitting beside me throughout is a person with disorientated sexuality. His/her palm is even bigger than mine! I was trying to make it as interesting an evening as possible, making little chats with the people around me and buying them drinks.
Letting my guard down was a big mistake, as I didn’t check the receipt each time I bought a drink. They brought coke over and in the end, the receipts were writing rum, Heineken and stuff. And I actually believed the mummy’s words that each was 40baht. Dumb of me… but it’s a lesson learnt of course. So I chalked up about 6 drinks, each between 150 to 300 bahts. And after some mistake in tipping the ladies, I think I wasted around 2000+ baht there. And all I saw there was reluctant and poor performances on the stages. And of course, the companionship of unattractive people on my sides.
We left the place like in half an hour before proceeding elsewhere. But, we still have some luck as we saw a sports shop. We went in and marveled at the low prices on authentic adidas apparel there. Each of us bought some items there before we asked around for a good disco. Everyone gave us the same answer. Sukhumit Site 4. mmm… it has to be correct if more than four people gave us the same answer. So we hopped on a cab and went there straight. We got there, and saw a lot of pubs with lots of Caucasians in there. Each of them with a Thai girl in their arms. So we had got to another place to pick up Thailand girls again. But this place is not exactly the same as patpong. Patpong had their pros all decked out outside their brothels. And I can say, they are really kind of pretty. Here, you pick up girls in the pubs. And I believe those girls are all the same, waiting to pounce on one of those Caucasians, who of course in the first place, are there to find them. Not that I had that impression in me inherently, because when we walked away, and asked another Caucasian where we can find a good disco. He just told us to go back to the same place. He said ‘Just down by the corner! You find many chicks there! Have fun!’ well… that sums it up.
In the end, while we were discussing our next move by the roadside, a Thai approached us. I was thinking he was another of those fellas who’s going to introduce us to some sleazy place again until he asked if we want a tuktuk. Oops… my apologies… so, we asked him if he know where we can find a good disco. CSN told him it’s a big place, two floors. The driver immediately says he knew where. Hollywood Awards. We asked if we can walk there, he say four hundred meters away. We were thinking if we want to walk that four hundred meters when the driver said he would drive us there, for 40bahts. Then we asked again four hundred meters to which direction. His eyes widen and he smiled, ‘No no… four kilometers!’. We suddenly had this thought that he is trying to change the distance so we would take his tuktuk. Then we thought again, forty bahts, just give him for some comfort. So we hoped on, all four of us, with David sitting on the floor board.
In the end, we traveled more than four kilometers… before we really reached Hollywood Awards, for 40bahts! Cheap!
Hollywood Awards is like a disco pub… huge disco pub. Why did I say that? Because the whole setup is like a disco, but yet they don’t have a dance floor! Then CSN told me they used to have one, but the area is now filled with tables and chairs. More Profit. And from the turnout, I can see that they are really earning lots. It’s full, and there aren’t enough chairs to go around. No cover charge, but each group of people have to buy a bottle of liquor before going in. so we bought a bottle of Johnny walker for 1500bahts. Then there is this fella who came along to help us out. He got us the soda water, coke and ice. Pour the drinks for us and find us chairs. I appreciate this part of their disco. And thank goodness, he speaks excellent mandarin and we had no problems communicating with him. A Thai Chinese. And a pretty handsome fella. Unfortunately I had wasted so much money in patpong, if not I would have tipped him even more.
Initially we had the DJ playing music… mostly hip hop remixes… so basically the first thirty minutes there wasn’t that exciting, plus the alcohol not streaming through my blood vessels just yet. When the alcohol finally kicked in, they started to have their live performances, singers and dancers on the stage, rousing the crowd to pulsating tempo of Thai pop and rock! And the best part is, every single gal on the stage is prettier and better endowed than the ones back in patpong. Talk about rubbing the salt into the wound. And we begin to see people climbing onto tables to dance and stuff. It was a long time since I had liquor in such quantity and my legs are beginning to lose its feelings. So I stayed put on my chair and move to the music. I simply enjoyed myself. Though I believed I would have had a even better time if there was a dance floor!
We left the place at about two. But we hung around, decided to play some pool before leaving. Shev seeing me being unsteady, told me to sit down and watch which I obliged willingly. They were just playing with CSN boasting how he is going to finish them off. And yesh, he won the game, without all the moves which he claim he could. Ha… but yesh, nonetheless, he won. That’s what matters after all isn’t it? I got a few cues in and sunk a few balls when we were about to leave. Somehow Shev is getting hungry again and we walked across the car park to the stalls opposite, opening for patrons of the disco. The noodles we had are tasty, but too little. But for 30bahts, no one is complaining. CSN even took off with two bottles of their drinking water. ‘We paid for it already!’ I wasn’t vilified… I needed the water as well…
So we got back in one piece, not without some action. We hailed a cab with a very young driver. We told him where we want to go, using Asia hotel as the landmark. He nodded and proceeded to drive us there. But somehow, he did not know how to go! He drove and soon his phone was on his left hand. He called his friend and asked! He passed the phone to CSN and CSN had to tell his friend where we wanted to go and stuff… amazing… another thing amazing was, there was a traffic jam! At 2am! And our dear driver hopped out of the cab and asked another driver where our hotel was… and got a negative respond. So we were running around in his cab… and he was beginning to perspire nervously! Our cab driver was ganjiong! Ha… frankly I didn’t know if I should laugh or do something… overall, to me, it was amusing. When we finally reached, the meter was like 140+bahts. We gave him 200bahts, and he pushed back 100bahts to us. We insist on giving him the 100bahts, as we see how he had shown effort in bringing us back. And we felt it must have been quite an experience for him too…
Back to the hotel room…
That’s me...
And that’s Shev...
And no... Despite the time being 3+, those buggers still want to carry on with dai di season 2! But somehow it was pure fun again for the 2nd time! All sorts of crap and nonsense again during the game. West Brom emerged victorious this time, with a close battle throughout the season! Was a 3 horse race, with Shev and I closely behind through out! CSN got relegated! Hakhak…
So at last… at 530am, we proceeded to sleep…
And that’s it for day 2!
Thailand Trip part 1
Got back from Thailand on Sunday. Well, it’s been quite an experience down there. Get to see things you don't in Singapore and see things you always see in Singapore as well.
Let’s start from the preparations.
4 of us went over. CSN, Shev, David and myself. Since CSN is the only one who had went before, we entrust the planning and logistical support to him. Plane tickets, hotel lodging and places to go. Plus the fact we all lack something call a credit card, we have to turn to his brother for help.
Big mistake...
First thing is, CSN is a person with no sense of urgency at all. He's one of those who wait to rush, not rush to wait type. So we all gathered to talk about the plane tickets only 1 week before the trip. We couldn't get all the best deals around, those economy class tickets that go for S$130 round trip. So in the end, we settled for 2 tickets from Tiger airways, total $261 per head. Hell that's expensive by budget airways standard.
Next up is lodging. CSN told us he booked 1 room in Asia hotel. That was like the week before we flew over. So I told him, try to get another room in the same place. Three days before we flew, he sms us at 2am, telling us he cancelled the room and tried to book 2 rooms. Couldn't get them anymore. I almost went ballistic when I saw the sms in the morning when I woke up. In the end, for the 2 days before we flew, I took over the nonsense he left for us, and I cleared up the mess. In the end, we got ourselves a lil hotel near the same place. Motel/Hotel, what ever you called it. I think the price is pretty alright, basically cheap. So I was ready for any nonsense they are going to throw us. But when I got the confirmation, I heaved a sigh of relief. We shall see how the hotel looks like when we get there.
The night before we were to fly, I called CSN to confirm with him as to if his dad is driving us there. Shev has told me CSN said he told his dad to drive us there. So at 12+ I called him. He said he don't know the flight time, and told his dad not to drive us there. I almost blew my top at him over the phone. After all the shit he threw me, he still didn't know the flight timings. And he is saying we should meet to take the MRT to changi airport! Say it is expensive to take cab! My goodness... my insistence to take cab was replied with a reluctant yes. My goodness...
Lessons learnt:
1) If you want to go overseas, get yourself a credit card or debit card. Makes things easier.
2) If you are clueless how to do everything by yourself, find an agency to do everything for you.
3) And be early. At least 2 weeks in advance.
4) Plan early.
5) And do not leave important issues to people who just aren't cut out to handle them.
First day was alright. After we got all the rough ends smoothen out, we just went all out to enjoy ourselves. Forget about all the nonsense of pre-travel planning. We got our butts off to the airport and reached pretty early. We got our tickets from the efficient counters in changi airport. Excellent job. Headed off to MacDonald for a simple $2 breakfast since we've all eaten before heading out. And it seems like the 4 of us all didn't sleep much the night before. I've got 3 hours, Shev about the same, David about 2, so did CSN. So we were all a bit groggy in the early morning hours of our flight. We cracked jokes mostly and things seem pretty good. We got to the gate pretty early and saw the people gathering really early there too.
On the way there...
Then we caught the glimpse of Singaporean trait of Kiasuness. There was this elderly couple who were very near to the entrance of the door. Then this flight stewardess came along and went pass them, through the gate and towards the plane. The two senior citizens just stood up, cue for the rest as well. Then the whole bunch of people was crowding the entrance. It was an ugly sight... Just like MRT doors during peak hours. Ugly...
Boarding wasn't that bad, we managed to get a window seat despite not being the first few to go in. First time on an A320 for me. Its small, 3 seats each side of the aisle. Shev didn't want the window seat so I took it. I just love the looks of clouds and stuff. There were parts where there were no clouds at all. So I got to see clouds and the river system down below.
It was outstanding...
Now here are a few pictures of the clouds I caught outside.
Think this one looks glorious, with the sun shining and all...
This picture simply fascinates me. I think you can never see clouds like this from the bottom. It looks just like land, but it is all cloud…
Then the places where there are sparse clouds around.
Get to see the huge river at the bottom. Beautiful…
Here we get to see the meandering river snaking to the sea at the top... brilliant isn’t it? Sometimes you’ve got to appreciate geography.
Here’s one where two big rivers merge to become one. I think the reflection of the sunlight really brings out the brilliance of nature in this picture.
I was really having my head pasted to the window through out the flight. Well, unfortunately the seat wasn’t the most comfortable one around. For me that is. Tall people take note, especially tall and long legs. Here’s how I fared through out.
With slight leg space, for movement. Wriggle the toes a bit to get the blood flowing man. And the aisle is so tiny, when the cart they are pushing is in the middle, there isn’t anymore space for people to walk through. So get ready for a squeeze.
Sinister smile for the records...
Wholesome one from Shev
Sleeping 86’ kid
West Brom United
We touched down, look around and saw the big bunch of people looking for their visitors. We settled down by some seats and try to locate our hotel on the map. Seems like it’s so small, it’s not even on the map! So we asked the info counter lady and she located the road. She then proceeds to write the hotel name in Thai and passed to us, saying just pass to the taxi driver. Before we got to the queue, someone ambushed us halfway. It is one of those hawks. Anyway, we just followed him to his taxi area. 700bahts, a bit more on the expensive side. But their cabs are not those corollas. They are minivans. So for extra 200bahts, we get plenty of room for each person through the horrendous Bangkok jams.
We reached about 45minutes later. Well, the hotel kind of off the main road a little. Got to walk about 3minutes to the BTS station. Well, isn’t that bad. The rooms aren’t the best around, but alright for 25/pax/nite. Not really the best view either from the room.
We reached, bathe and went off in about an hour’s time. First place is of course, MBK for the beef noodles which everyone talks about. We decided to take the sky train over for the first time.
A train rolling in
Each station has such guards. Both sides of the track. Almost everywhere you get guards like them, subway, hotels, and shopping malls. They are everywhere. And they are not like Singapore security guards, who look like they can’t even withstand a punch from a kid. These in Thailand all look like Thai fighters… don’t even try to outrun them.
I heard the sky train system, or BTS is designed by a Singaporean. That explains the similarity to our MRT. The card they use is the one we used before ez-link came along. Those magnetic card or whatever you call them. As for their subway, or MRT, it’s just like our very own NEL. Amazing…
Isn’t it just similar?
The ticketing machine. It dispenses a small black round coin like ’card’ for single trips. For the subway, there are stored value cards. They also enter by tapping. So it’s the same as our system. But for the single trip, you tap when you get in, but you slot into a ‘coin slot’ when you exit. Minus the hassle of getting a refund. How smart these people!
The best part of the sky train and subway is the commuters. The people in Bangkok actually queued up for the train. They form 2 queues by the side of the door from the beginning. The four of us were like standing in a bunch beside the door area. We only realized the queue when it got longer and with the training approaching. I was quite impressed by their courtesy. Next, they waited for the commuters to alight before boarding the train.
Where the hell is that scene in Singapore?!?!?!
The image of the pair of elderly couple during boarding pops into my mind at that moment. Sad…
Anyway, we made our way to MBK, or what Mah Bu Kong. Sometimes I just can’t get those names in, so I just use short form. MBK, CTC, so on and so forth. We popped by the famous beef noodles store to get our lunch. It’s simply delicious! 50baht I think, or is it 40. Can’t really remember what the value was. But it has to be the best beef noodles I’ve ever eaten. We were even contemplating employing the cook, and set up our own store in Singapore. I’m sure that’s going to be a great venture.
We didn’t walk around much after that good meal. We proceed to the Erawan Shrine, where the Hindu God was, better known as the 4-face Buddha. We bought some flowers and incense for 20baht and offered our prayers. It was kind of rainy that afternoon and the crowd was sparse. But there are still quite a lot of people in the small shrine. Smoke all around. And despite the rain, the place was still hot and humid. Perspiration was raining down all our heads after we finished the rounds.
The famous Erawan 4-face Buddha shrine.
We found ourselves in another mall somewhere after that. Can’t really remember what the name was. Think was something like city central mall or something. Got ourselves a coke each before thinking of what to do for the day. We walked around and eventually decided to catch Star wars Episode III at the theatre. We got to the booth, but we couldn’t see the pricing of the tickets. We were looking around when we spot this LED board with all the listing. The pricing is moving across at the bottom. 120baht for each normal seat. Pretty cheap we thought. So we got CSN to buy the tickets.
Shev and I sat down on one of those chairs they have by the counter. Then I realized something. There was this voice over the PA system which is rattling away in Thai non-stop when we reached. I was thinking it was one of those pre-recorded voice stuff. Nope… it isn’t. There is this young lady who’s got a headset attached with a mic. She was the one who had been rattling away all the while! I was just plain amazed… and it reminds me of those pasar malam sellers who always talk non-stop, but they always have some audience. This young lady is simply talking to thin air. And from her smiles, it seems she thoroughly enjoys her work. Top marks for professionalism!
CSN got back with the tickets with a puzzled look. He said he was ‘chopped’ by the counter, brandishing 4 170baht tickets. We realized he had bought the platinum tickets. Now we are going to be watching a movie equivalent to Singapore pricing. So much for our plans of a budget trip.
When we went up to the theatre, we saw some huge wording over one of the entrances. It’s written ‘Platinum screen’. I think the attendant saw us with our puzzled look and requested to see our tickets to clarify our doubts. He gave us a wide smile and ushered us to the platinum screen. There, waiting for us is a welcome drink! Wow…. For 170bahts, it seems like its becoming a really good deal. We went in, and saw a medium size theatre. But the good thing is the leather seats and room for the legs! The seats can even be reclined a little. It’s super comfortable…
Now comes the interesting part of the whole experience. Before the show we have all the customary advertisements and stuff, while the 4 of us are getting kind of sleepy. And at that moment, a message flash across the screen, ‘Please pay your respects to the King of Thailand’. Then we saw the Thaïs in front of us standing up in attention. Immediately we shot up like our butts had been jabbed by needles, even though all of us are half dead like zombies. They played a clip, about their king and the love and respect the people showed him. It was about 5-6mins, and all the while we just stood there. Now that’s definitely something new…
After the show, we proceed to Chinatown to grab some sharks fin. They have this 300baht sharks fin in clay pot. It was pretty nice, better then most you get in Singapore. Then came another interesting thing. They served the sharks fin with bean sprouts. There was this big plate of bean sprouts that came along with it. Kind of a weird way to eat sharks fin I suppose. As the trip went on, we realized that eat every damn thing together with bean sprouts. So, if you ever go Thailand, don’t be surprise if they serve you a plate of bean sprouts for something you’ll least expect to go with it.
There were some screwed ups with our orders. Apparently the ladies had given our orders to some other people instead. So it’s like we ordered 4 plates of fried rice, but only 1 came. After like 20minutes of waiting, we called the lady to ask her why it’s so damn long. She said she’s going to check it out. So she asked another lady who took our order. Then they started laughing and the first lady pull the one who took our orders away, sneaking peaks at us and laughing all the way. At that time we were damn sure they misplaced our order. Well eventually it came along and we all had our final fill.
Shev and CSN
David and I
It was like 9pm when we finished our dinner. We had decided to go for a Thai boxing match. There were two locations on the map which has Thai boxing and we asked one of the ladies when there were matches. The 2 places have different match days. So the lady circled the places and wrote down the days of the matches for both places. When we got down to the roadside, we hailed a cab to get over there. CSN did his usual stunt and pointed to the wrong place! And when we got there, it was dark and deserted. Once again we feel like hammering CSN. Lucky for us, there was a night bazaar down there, and the mistake eventually will turn into a blessing for our Saturday night. We walked around the place, and felt that the place was meant for tourist, with all the prices relatively higher than other places. So we left pretty early and reached our hotel about 11pm.
My three traveling companions are weird people. Instead of sleeping, they wanted to play cards. So we proceeded to the nearest 7-11 to buy cards, and to buy some drinking water. We bought 8 bottles of 1.5l bottles, much to the astonishment of the cashier. She was looking at us bring 1, 2, 3….8 and broke into those astonished laughter. We just smiled at her and brought our stuff back. Eventually, it became a nightly event, our card game that is. We called it our dai di season. And I’m proud to announce KS united won the first season! After catching up on CSN for most of the game. Not bad for someone who isn’t much of a dai di player huh? Hahaha…
That about sums up the pre-tour and first day. I think I’ll leave the other days some other time. In the meantime, do stay tuned!
Can't think of a title man...
I don't know, I decided to give myself a period of time, in front of this com, and just type whatever that gets into my brain.
First thing,How will one propose to a gal? I wonder... If I have $, I would get a yacht, go to the high seas... line the cabin with white candles and rose petals. I'll blindfold her right from the start... until we reach the high seas... and slowly lead her into the cabin... then, I'll take off the blindfold, right in the middle of the cabin is a diamond ring. Symbol of Eternity...
"My Love is vast like the Ocean around us...
Surrounding You...
Now and Forever...
Marry Me..."
Second thing,I wondered why some people just can't do things with some urgency. I was a little pissed when someone told me he haven't booked the air tickets when he should have done two days ago.
My anger subsided in five seconds. I myself is damn surprised with the speed it went away. I've been pretty short plugged these days. Or should I say I am not as tolerant as I was in JC or army times.
We shall see how it goes in the future.
Third thing,I really want to meet up with all my long lost friends. I wonder how. I don't have many days free already. Priority priority priority...
Fourth thing,I met up with snowy baby on monday. I realised that, she has to be the most conservative thinking person. I don't really think conservative is the correct word. But I don't know what is the word to use either.
Here we have the sweet, adorable, filial, strong girl... who believes that the only thing that a guy needs to win over a girl... is Sincerity.
BEAT THAT!
That's how her current squeeze won her Heart. I don't have any idea what to say about that. I reckon she is one of the few, who just isn't swayed by all the evils of this world...
She is... Right up there.
Fifth thing,I bought a new pair of specs... cost me a nice $145. My expenditures have hit higher than $350 for this month already. I think after today it is $400.
Transport fee is atrociously high! Less than a week, I've got to top up twice, $20 each time!
WHAT THE F***?!
I saw the book 'Band of Brothers(BOB)' by Stephen E Ambrose. Its $30 at MPH citylink. It didn't add to the rising expenditure list for this month. I just held it in my hands. Think I'll buy it when I get the DVDs for BOB too. I want the originals for that, with the metal tin. I don't care if I can't watch it. If I can't, I will buy another set, with the cardboard covers.
That's the kind of $ I would spend on things that I want. Same applies to colognes. Nothing will stop me.
Things that I won't spend more than $100 includes:
1)T-Shirts
2)Ties
3)Wallet
4)Handphone Strap
5)Meal
6)Bag
7)And other famous brands items that just shouldn't be costing so much.
Things that I might spend more than $100 includes
1)Cologne(So far, all mine are less than $100, and not miniatures.)
2)A REALLY GOOD Meal(That's for me to define, when I eat it.)
3)Liverpool jerseys
Things that I am definitely willing to pay more than $100(and even much much more) includes
1)Parent's Allowance
2)A good pair of soccer boots
3)A good queen size bed
4)A TV
5)A good entertainment system
6)A DIAMOND RING
Which mostly are on my want list... and will be completed when I start working.
Sixth thing,I exercised again this morning. I felt damn tired after the one hour workout. I really need to get the body condition up. I want to be fitter, stronger and tougher.
And get the health into shape.
I think I need to go get that little contraption that's for forearm squeezes. And maybe some weights for me to carry next time when I progress further into my exercise regime.
It's not easy to keep to a regular timing, but I try to keep on the rythmn as much as possible.
It's a cadet mentality again...
Seventh thing,Amazing race is over. The winners are the ones I was hoping for. I was in so much anticipation when the two of them asked around for $ when they were short for the cab driver.
Honest people. What's their name... I think is Uchenna and Joyce. I salute them... damn amazing... If I was there, I wonder if I would do the same thing.
Another thing is about the cab drivers. In Jamaica, there is this driver who just drove them around for a little bit of $, when they heard they just have that amount. Amazing! Back in Miami, the cab driver just grumbles and grumbles. I think that's the same if it happened in Singapore.
Developed and Developing countries... the Difference.
There are different factors of course why different places can make different decisions. That, I'm not going to debate here.
Eighth thing,I had my FYP presentation last friday. It was smooth... got into shirt and pants again. Not everyday you get to see me in those garb. My partner haven't sent me the photos yet. So... anyway... don't know if I want to post them up either. We'll see...
Ninth thing,There's no ninth thing... I spent one hour thinking already. Enough for tonight.
That's it folks...
A Thought
A thought suddenly popped into my mind today...
"True Love is like History. It experiences Ups and Downs, travels through Trials and Tribulations, and stands the Test of Time."
Thought of just writing it down...
GapGapGap! Spider! Orange!
In pencil sketch, courtesy of princessann! Thanks gal!
I love this picture... don't you love it too? Yeah of course, I love myself, you don't have to love me too. You just have to LIKE me. Or you can hate me, despise me, dream me, backstab me, praise me, badmouth me... and the list goes on... but don't you just love that picture?!
Princessann's good work! She's a genius I tell you, and she's such a lovely and helpful gal.
Love You Love You Love You Gal!!
Ok Ok... enough on this hua chi thing. Love myself, love everyone else... Ha!
Go visit her site!
Lovely PrincessannAnd another one, my pal Weng's new blog.
Weng the bouldererGreat fella, loves to climb walls when there are roads around. We studied together this semester, together with Mr Tang, in which Weng termed him as fatboy(pretty appropriate... I'll touch on it later). Sometimes you get DZ too, when his harem has decided to retire to the inner chambers, CSN, once... Zhuge Robin on a few occasions. Mr Tang and I gave him another nick, Ruo Long. Yeah... Try to think why everyone! Anyone else? Mmm... nope nope... if there was, he/she/he-she/she-he/they is/are insignificant! Hehhehheh...
Well... we were holed up in a place called the study room, at NBS block. Freaking cold place. You see the few regular people there. The few significant ones are like the fella with the kettle, we call him the Kettle man.
Then we have Miss Pink, her top, her bag, hair crimp, slippers, file, even once bra, was pink. Well for the bra, she was wearing sleeveless, so no doubts at all, pink straps are easy to spot. So don't go around blasting me for trying so hard to look at people's bra. I DIDN'T have a choice. I did asked for her number, but she wasn't interested in being friends. So well... one less friend to be, just another stranger on the street.
And we have the regular pair of Le Shi Bian. The female side looks a lil like Faye Wong, but just way too skinny. The male side, didn't really catch much glimpses.
We have another pretty gal there too. I'll just call her Gal A, since we never give her any nick. She has this boyfriend, wonder if he is studying or what... always playing online Magic the Gathering. Yeah... mini eyecandy. Not very spectacular though.
The most spectacular person there is Miss Inspiration. My Miss Inspiration!!! I tell you, she is not exactly very pretty, not exactly having the devil's bod... but...but... she's got the most important factor... she's got 'Seh'. Ji Ba Hun! Pretty gals, add makeup skillfully, a lot. Got Seh gal... make up level 1000, still can't reproduce that aura that's surrounding her. And she always study alone, hardly distracted, with her customary chrysanthemum drink by her side. Either in her blue fila jacket or black(looks like giordano, but I don't really know) jackets... Ji Ba Hun!
Anymore... think think... nope... no more...
But the key is not these people. It's the people you study with. Have fun and work hard at the same time. Mr Tang and Weng! It makes things easier... And I would like to thank the following people for helping me out.
Amy! The siao za bor! But a smart one... Ha! Thank goodness she help me on my 439, if not I'll would have lost that whole question! Meal's on me!
Reynold! He gave me two equation, but one is correct. He gave me hope! Thanks dude!
Mr Tang! Yesh... fatboy! He helped me out on my DSP... that stupid butterfly method.
Weng! For the newspapers, coffee breaks and mini amusements.
My one minute is up... so thank again offstage...
So that's about it for the battlefield. Sweat buckets man... Don't want to talk about the unhappy stuff like ABC, EFGs. Just talk about the happy times. Keep the good memories. Right on Boy!
Hey wait... still got to talk a bit about Quad. Yesh... the ration party for the fighters. The Quad... It's a newly opened cafeteria in NTU. Mr Tang and I spotted it on a wednesday, the week which it opened. The food is generally good... and we go there all the time. Ha... like wengster said... at last... no more dinner at Quad. Go have a look man if you've never been.
Well... yesterday I was in school to do my slides for presentation. Saw Miss Inspiration again. But that wasn't really the highlight of the day. The highlight of the day was walking from the southspine to Mr Tang's hall. With some tired muscles from monday's exercise, a big bag of stuff and a heavy laptop, don't try those stunt again. We took the longer route, cause it's raining. And climbed so many flights of stairs. I was perspiring slightly... maybe because it's pretty cool. So wasn't that bad. When I went home, I climbed up 8 floors... Then I saw the perspiration flowing down like the floodgates being opened... But... it's good exercise. Try it! Ha...
And BLADDY HELL! I didn't wake up for LIVERPOOL vs chelsea..................... Miss the historic moment!!!!!
ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
(SILENCE.... voice gone)
*Five minutes passed, after a soothing cup of honey)
I'm going to go for a swim later... have lunch with Weet and meet up with CS after his last paper for our presentation.
Conclusion:
Life's never been better...
Goodday Chums!
The music that goes with it
And not to forget good/lively/energetic music to go with it!
My choices:
Maksim : The first album minus 'Dance of the Baroness'
Danny Elfman : Spiderman Opening Theme
Blink182 : All The Small Things
Caesar's Palace : Jerk It Out
Ricky Martin : Livin' A Viva Loca
Crystal Method : Matrix Theme
ATB vs Alice DJ : Matrix Theme
'Dunno who' : Matrix Battle Theme
Robert Miles : Fable
Evanescense : My Immortal, Tourniquet
POD : Alive
Prodigy : Fire Starter
Robbie Williams : Supreme
Exercise Regime
Ladies and Gentlemen,
If you want to stay healthy and have 45 minutes 3 days a week to spare, why not try the Luxy morning exercise regime.
To stay in shape and Keep Fit!
Stay healthy!
Lets go with the exercises:
For a start:
1) 25 x wide push ups
2) 25 x sit ups
3) 30 x 4 counts jumping jacks
4) 10 x diamond push ups
5) 30 x squats
6) 25 x wide dips
7) 30 x 5 counts heel raises
8) 25 x close dips
9) 25 x hamstring swings both legs
10) 25 counts dumb bell per arm
11) 25 x butt crunches
12) 25 x hamstring stretchs
13) 50 x forearm squeezes
Finish off with a cool down.
And a Hot shower!
And remember to do your stretching exercises! You don't want aching muscles, do you?
