lousy day
i woke up today to the sound of drilling and knocking next door. i looked outside my window and saw a lorry outside...one of those contractor kind with a lot of tools at the back. i think that my neighbour is doing some sort of renovation to his place. this was at 834am. pissed me off. it's a saturday for crying out loud!!! i straightaway put my spare pillow over my head and tried to sleep again.
15 minutes later or so, just as i managed to drift off...when i heard a loud bang and crackling sound...i thought that it was just the renovators again, and tried to shut it out. when it continued for some time (it was damn loud) with regular frequency, i got up and went to the window again, with the intention of shouting something vulgar. that's when i saw a flash and heard a bang right in front of my face. it was a lightning storm. great. can't really shout any vulagrities at anyone for that...without getting a bolt shot back at me at least. i hate lightning storms...apparently singapore has the most number of lightning storms in the world (per unit area)...and ntu happens to be one of the most lightning prone places in singapore (some student actually kena struck a few years ago while playing football...and now they have a sign there that warns against this kinda thing happening again...can't remember the exact words on the sign though). i couldn't sleep after that, with all the loud banging and stuff...
i was supposed to go to the saddle club today to read up on my application process for the swiss university thingy...but since it was raining in the morning, i didn't get a chance to go...but the skies decided to relent for a while, so i wanted to squeeze in a golf range session before i did some deep reading. when i finally reached the saddle club after hitting (or rather, hooking and slicing) some balls, i found out that it was already pre-booked by some kid who was having a birthday party there, preventing me from getting anything done. just great.
went to meet leehsin and jason for dinner at samy's curry restaurant. i reached there at 7pm, but the other two said that they would be late, so i informed the waiter that i wanted an outdoor table . he said that he would get me one as soon as there was one available (apparently 2 empty tables were "reserved for regulars" already). i sat there for about 30 minutes, waiting for both the table and my friends to come. when we finally sat down at a table outside, i overheard the waiter remarking "no reservations?" before leading a couple of ang mohs to the aforementioned "reserved table". i could have sworn that he gave me an extremely contented look as he was took their orders before coming to take ours. i'm guessing that since the place looked quite retro and all, he assumed that he was still living in the colonial days. wake up lah ah neh...the year of the chinaman is fast approaching...
after finishing dinner, lee hsin dragged me to her colleague's housewarming party. the guy is actually an architect who designed this place for his friend, who in turn, rented it out to him. so basically the guy designed his own place lah. not too bad i must say...very bachelor-loft-pad kinda feel that you see in movies. it's an apartment above one of those siglap shophouses (they sell car tyres downstairs). a very open concept...so much so that i find it kinda unsafe to use his stairs (which had no hand railings to it), and also, to sit at his "balcony" (which had no grilles or railings either). definitely not a place for people who drink on a regular basis. anyway, back to the party. we went at around 9 plus...then we left at around 10 plus cuz it was so boring. a lot of people were there...some of whom we knew, but mostly strangers...i have a feeling that the other people were ignoring us cuz of the 2 bottles of 100 plus that lee hsin insisted on buying from the 7-11 downstairs, as a gift for the housewarming...hmph...if only they knew that the cure for hangovers is to take an isotonic drink after the alcohol...and if only i knew it was gonna be an arty farty kinda party...you can read about leehsin's experience here.
on the way back home from the party, i got caught in a jam along the PIE. when i finally reached the place that was causing the jam, i got so angry that i nearly wanted to honk and shout at the people causing the jam. there was a preview to the national day parade this evening at the padang...in which they like to display their tanks and military whatnots...it's fine and all...even though it's kinda chinaman if you ask me (china loves to show off their military strength during these kinda occasions). but anyway, the reason for the jam was cuz the stupid police and auxiliary police people were escorting these tanks and vehicles back to the base...just as the people who attended this preview were going home. WTF lah. someone's gonna get scolded on monday. i can assure you that. the jam stretched back from jurong all the way to eunos. do the vehicles really HAVE to be back so fast? can't they just wait a few hours for the crowd to go home first before escorting them back? many many cars and people were inconvenienced like that...i reached home in almost one hour. was boiling mad...so much so that i forgot my lighter in my car, and also my camera as well...which is why there won't be any photos tonight.
i'm going to bed. hopefully i'll wake up on the right side tomorrow.
15 minutes later or so, just as i managed to drift off...when i heard a loud bang and crackling sound...i thought that it was just the renovators again, and tried to shut it out. when it continued for some time (it was damn loud) with regular frequency, i got up and went to the window again, with the intention of shouting something vulgar. that's when i saw a flash and heard a bang right in front of my face. it was a lightning storm. great. can't really shout any vulagrities at anyone for that...without getting a bolt shot back at me at least. i hate lightning storms...apparently singapore has the most number of lightning storms in the world (per unit area)...and ntu happens to be one of the most lightning prone places in singapore (some student actually kena struck a few years ago while playing football...and now they have a sign there that warns against this kinda thing happening again...can't remember the exact words on the sign though). i couldn't sleep after that, with all the loud banging and stuff...
i was supposed to go to the saddle club today to read up on my application process for the swiss university thingy...but since it was raining in the morning, i didn't get a chance to go...but the skies decided to relent for a while, so i wanted to squeeze in a golf range session before i did some deep reading. when i finally reached the saddle club after hitting (or rather, hooking and slicing) some balls, i found out that it was already pre-booked by some kid who was having a birthday party there, preventing me from getting anything done. just great.
went to meet leehsin and jason for dinner at samy's curry restaurant. i reached there at 7pm, but the other two said that they would be late, so i informed the waiter that i wanted an outdoor table . he said that he would get me one as soon as there was one available (apparently 2 empty tables were "reserved for regulars" already). i sat there for about 30 minutes, waiting for both the table and my friends to come. when we finally sat down at a table outside, i overheard the waiter remarking "no reservations?" before leading a couple of ang mohs to the aforementioned "reserved table". i could have sworn that he gave me an extremely contented look as he was took their orders before coming to take ours. i'm guessing that since the place looked quite retro and all, he assumed that he was still living in the colonial days. wake up lah ah neh...the year of the chinaman is fast approaching...
after finishing dinner, lee hsin dragged me to her colleague's housewarming party. the guy is actually an architect who designed this place for his friend, who in turn, rented it out to him. so basically the guy designed his own place lah. not too bad i must say...very bachelor-loft-pad kinda feel that you see in movies. it's an apartment above one of those siglap shophouses (they sell car tyres downstairs). a very open concept...so much so that i find it kinda unsafe to use his stairs (which had no hand railings to it), and also, to sit at his "balcony" (which had no grilles or railings either). definitely not a place for people who drink on a regular basis. anyway, back to the party. we went at around 9 plus...then we left at around 10 plus cuz it was so boring. a lot of people were there...some of whom we knew, but mostly strangers...i have a feeling that the other people were ignoring us cuz of the 2 bottles of 100 plus that lee hsin insisted on buying from the 7-11 downstairs, as a gift for the housewarming...hmph...if only they knew that the cure for hangovers is to take an isotonic drink after the alcohol...and if only i knew it was gonna be an arty farty kinda party...you can read about leehsin's experience here.
on the way back home from the party, i got caught in a jam along the PIE. when i finally reached the place that was causing the jam, i got so angry that i nearly wanted to honk and shout at the people causing the jam. there was a preview to the national day parade this evening at the padang...in which they like to display their tanks and military whatnots...it's fine and all...even though it's kinda chinaman if you ask me (china loves to show off their military strength during these kinda occasions). but anyway, the reason for the jam was cuz the stupid police and auxiliary police people were escorting these tanks and vehicles back to the base...just as the people who attended this preview were going home. WTF lah. someone's gonna get scolded on monday. i can assure you that. the jam stretched back from jurong all the way to eunos. do the vehicles really HAVE to be back so fast? can't they just wait a few hours for the crowd to go home first before escorting them back? many many cars and people were inconvenienced like that...i reached home in almost one hour. was boiling mad...so much so that i forgot my lighter in my car, and also my camera as well...which is why there won't be any photos tonight.
i'm going to bed. hopefully i'll wake up on the right side tomorrow.
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