ICB

no pictures tonight cuz i forgot to bring my camera out. had a normal day at work...same old shit slinging around...i can't believe that my finance department actually cocked up my transport allowance payment for this month...they actually deducted $700 from my salary instead of adding it. this shows how much confidence i have in them calculating my commission next month. shit man...if i hadn't noticed it, they would have just kept it to themselves, or even worse, congratulated each other on saving the $700 for the company.

anyway, back to the real world...the one without bosses and HR departments. i went to ice cold beer today with jaime...she was quite free in the afternoon, so we snuck out of the office at around 5 plus and made our way down to orchard. we're getting pretty good at this already...one of us saying that she has a residential customer waiting, and the other one just doesn't give a fuck what his boss says.

actually, my boss called me halfway through my first carlsberg. damn it. i hate being interrupted when i'm having my breaks...who cares if it was only 545pm. i hate answering his calls:

boss: what happened to abc's system?

moby: err, i don't know boss, i didn't install it...

boss: find out lah!

*chorus*

moby: err, ok, tell you what boss, i'll call the engineer to call the customer cuz i really don't know what they did wrong...

boss: i wanna know now!

moby: err...ok boss, i'll call the engineer...

boss: no! i wanna know now!

*repeat chorus x 3*

so anyway, after the whole hooha died off, i was still to blame for something that i didn't do. welcome to the working world folks...at least to sky's world.

highlight of the night:

i was sitting there with jaime and her ex-colleagues, when i happened to see joey (the girl-who-reminded-me-of-my-ex-gf), walk past. it was a pleasant surprise, cuz one hour before that, i called her to ask if she wanted to come down to ice cold to take over from jaime...but she told me that she had an appointment with another friend already, so i didn't expect her to show up. but seeing her appear kinda boosted the happiness bar. she's always smiling. =)

after jaime and her ex-colleagues left, i waited for jason to come before joining joey upstairs. ah guak came after some persuasion too...so it was pretty cool. talked a bit...i found out that joey actually knew her planets (btw, there are 9 planets to the solar system, jason).

i sent all of them back home after that...rebecca (joey's secondary school friend), joey, then ah guak...jason excluded cuz he's a macho man who doesn't need a sending home (at least not when girls are around). while i was in the car with ah guak, she mentioned that i'd better not spoil the friendship between her and smiley girl. how could i??? i'm a good guy...at least i've been trying to be a good guy...for the last few years already. please lah...just because joey reminds me of adeline doesn't mean that i want to, or need to replace her. joey is joey and adeline is adeline...and i would and could never mix up the two. everyone is different. i understand that. great...now i have this in black and white, nobody can argue with me already. i learned this from work. sometimes i wish that life were this simple...black and white. somehow, at times, colours just seem to get in the way.

another day bites the dust...

wednesday

i decided to take the day off cuz i was just sick of answering phone calls from customers. so i took "urgent leave" once again, and embarked on another day in the life of skyhsu.

first, i wanted to practice my strokes, so i went to the range in queenstown with kean. i brought along my camera cuz i wanted to check out what i really looked like when playing. this is what i captured:


golfing sky

golfing sky 2

i had a lousy day at the range, hooked damn a lot of shots...but i hope to fix everything when my lesson comes on saturday...if the freaking instructor doesn't ignore me again...he's been doing that for the past few lessons...apparently i did so well during my first lesson and whatever, that the instructor told me to bring another club for the next lesson...and promptly forgot to coach me...cool...

after golf, i went to pick up winnie at her work place...as well as pat...from damn-far-away-city-hall-mrt. eventually, we made our way to wine company. since blinkmummy was still in london, i was the one who took pictures of pretty girls:


pat and winnie

two chio girls but what to do? they're both my ex-gf's best friends....sheesh. anyway, i was getting tired of entertaining the two girls, so i decided to call for backup. they've always been smitten with jay chou, so i decided that it was time to call him down for a drink.

jay chou, winnie and pat

they all were so distracted by the newcomer that i was pretty much forgotten...which was good in a way...i was getting a bit peeved by the frequent mentioning of adeline and her new activities. ever since that night i saw them (adeline, pat and winnie) at velvet, and i found out that adeline got a new guy, it became a different ball game. but what can i expect right...it has been all of 4 months already!!! haha. don't get me wrong, i'm over her already, but just thinking about how close and loving we were this time of the year last year...it just makes it even harder to swallow. how things change in the blink of an eye. oh well. i've got a new life now too. =)

and yet another day passes...

happy birthday bro!

it was my brother's birthday yesterday. =)

for those of you who don't know, i have a younger brother who's working for this company that sends him around the world every 6 months to learn the tricks of his industry. so far he's been to the states (where he joined the company), czech republic (prague for team building by going for wine tasting), england (birmingham to learn german), and now china (shanghai, where he's learning the chinaman business tactics). he's earning far more than me, he's so damn well-travelled, he's handsome, and the best part is, he's single. girls, he's for the taking.

sky's bro

anyway, happy birthday bro, i hope you can read this someday or somehow (apparently he can't access blogspot in china). hope to see you soon...

just another day

this afternoon i went for lunch with a friend who just changed jobs. she happened to be working in the town area, so i decided to bring her out for lunch cuz i was in the area. she wanted to eat something nice, so we went to the marriot to have their lunch buffet. they had oysters, lamb chops, roast beef, sushi, etc etc...the food wasn't great though, but the company was excellent. =)

winnie

after lunch, i had this company function at the shangri la hotel...some big fuck came down, said a few big words, everyone clapped politely, corporate video starts, corporate video ends, pyrotechnics go "bang, bang!", everyone wakes up, etc etc. anyway, it was damn boring to say the least...after the ceremonial crap, we escorted our guests to the food...which was the same damn spread that i had for lunch...oysters, lamb chops, roast beef, sushi, etc etc...more or less (but this time, they had wine. =) ). so i didn't eat anything...imagine what more than 6 oysters can do to you in one day.

after about 3 glasses of some caberbet savignon, 6pm came, so jaime and i decided that it was time to do our disappearing act that we have practised so often in recent days. our usual getaway hideout would normally be somewhere where alcohol was served. so anyway, we decided to drop by this place along mohd sultan road, where they serve $3.50 bottles of beer.

jaime

jaime and her heinee...haha.

after that, it was pretty uneventful already...i went for another colleague's wedding dinner at fort canning and jaime went for another drinking session at balaclava. just another day in the life of skyhsu.

movie!

just came back from watching a movie with jason...initial d...pretty good i must say. it kinda made me wanna contradict what i just posted yesterday. but i withheld the urge to break the sound barrier again...at least for tonight. (ok, ok...i imitated the drifting noises while making sharp turns in the carpark...but that hardly counts).

for those of you who watched the movie, what do you think about jay chou's girlfriend, natsuki? was she the villain or was she just a victim of circumstance? either way, i'm glad that the movie ended the way that it did. i just can't stand watching another "feel good" movie where everything falls into place at the end. melvin, jason and i watched "hitch" together, and i left in disgust after will smith and that "king of queens" fatass both got their chics. i can't stand watching those shows where everything works out perfectly...like when a black girl's parents accepted the white boy as their future son-in-law in "the-movie-that-was-so-forgettable-that-i-can't-remember-the-name-of-and-i-can't-be-bothered-to-look-up"...what nonsense. face it...most of the time, in life, nothing is perfect...realistically speaking...you have to move on and fight another day...

on another note, the reason why i liked "sideways" so much is cuz the ending leaves so much to your imagination...he knocks on the girl's door...and cut. very good. for those of you who haven't watched any of the shows mentioned above, i recommend two...you can decide which two...based on how you're feeling. DON'T WATCH HITCH...it'll only make you feel shitty...and DON'T WATCH "THAT-LOUSY-ASHTON-KUTCHER-WHITE-BOY" SHOW...it sucks.

speeding

*prologue start*

Moby: Tugk, we need to exercise. we're getting fat. can we do exercise today?
Tugk: ok, let's go and watch an S. League match.
Moby: how is that exercising?
Tugk: err...ok, let's go and play football championship manager 03/04 on your laptop at my house today.
Moby: ohhhkaayyy. i guess i can exercise tomorrow then. *thinks to himself - "yeah right"*
Tugk: yeah! we play whole day ok?
Moby: ohhhkaayyy.

*prologue end*

as we were driving from my place to tugk's house today, i was speeding, as usual, along the kje at around 120kmph. suddenly tugk said: "why don't we slow down today, listen to the music and enjoy the scenery. we're not really in a rush to my house anyway." it kinda made me realise that i've been missing out on something. as we drove along, listening to coldplay on the stereo, i felt much more relaxed than before, when i was bent on breaking the speed limit of a nissan sunny. i suddenly felt that in driving, speed wasn't everything. this kinda applies to life.

like they say, life's a journey...getting from point A to point B (birth and death) is a must...but how you make the journey is what it's all about. when driving, if you go at high speeds, you're very likely to miss out on things like the fish jumping in seletar reservoir, the wild flowers blooming along the roadside, and the occasional chiobu just-a-walking-down-the-street. likewise, if you speed along in life, missing out on the smaller yet finer things, then you can't really say that you've lived life (in my opinion). and plus, there's always the chance of running over a chicken if you go too fast.

(p.s. - from now on, i've decided to give my car engine a break and withhold all those requests for races. sorry alan heng, i know you're disappointed, but your mazda was never a match for my car in the first place. muahahaha.)

(p.p.s. - thanks tugk, for opening my eyes. and thanks for taking everton instead of arsenal. but you know i hate it when you give me chance.)

oo

i went to double o last night. crappy, loud, blaring music accompanied with an empty dancefloor greeted me when i reached at 113opm. i had just sent blinkymummy off to the airport, and was already pretty darn tired, but jason and his harem of girls asked me to go down to celebrate fiona's birthday. apparently fiona was part of an exotic dance competition and got free membership to double o, which offered on a member's: 1. 20 shots of a reddish-purplish concoction (which they claimed was bacardi rum) that tasted like crap, 2. a bottle of cheapo sparkling wine (which can't even be called champagne cuz it was made in spain), 3. 10 guests get to cut queue (which counted for nothing cuz there wasn't much of a queue to cut, and plus, you still had to pay cover charge of $20...with no drinks).

after a while, the girls and jason got a bit bored of double o, so they decided to go to some other place in central mall...they asked me if i wanted to join them, but hmmm...it was just a proposition that was too difficult to accept. anyway, i decided to join my other friend, ah guak (who happened to be at madam wong's) at madam wong's. actually before that, me and jason came out to meet this girl that ah guak wanted to introduce to us. she reminded me very much of adeline (my ex-girlfriend). the way that she talked, her actions...almost everything...except the braces...was very similar or almost identical to the ex. it took a while for this similarity to register...but after a while, it became almost scary...especially the part when she told me that she was going to get a belly button ring (ade had one too). but it was nice...just to meet someone "new". hopefully.

for once in a long time, i came back from double o (and mohd sultan) sober...and happy. =)

switzerland

i've just received the best news of my life so far...i've been accepted into the Masters Advanced Studies (MAS) in Sport Administration and Technology organised by the International Olympics Committee (and a few other Swiss universities) in lausanne, switzerland!!! i'm very excited by the prospect of going to switzerland for a whole new experience. i really can't express in words how i feel...but it's just wonderful. i might even get to watch the world cup in germany next year! =)

a few weeks before me and adeline broke up, she actually mentioned something about applying to a french university to further her studies...and being the sucker that i was (meaning that i built my life around a girl that i really loved), i started searching for a masters course in europe...way back in january / february...then a few days after i found MAS on the net, she broke up with me. there were times when i thought of just giving up the search, but i had to get on with life. so anyway, i found MAS and decided to give it a try...since i have always been very involved in sports. after making the initial decision to apply, i went to the east coast park almost EVERY weekend with jason to fill in the application form and to write the application essay. it was not easy man. e.g. - "what are the key problems facing sport today?". i wanted so much to get in just to show myself that i could make it. failure was not an option.

my essay was quite brilliant...after all the editing by jason, mike, my brother, and other friends (including lawyers no less...). so i'm very thankful to all of them. i hope that they will share the happiness that i am feeling now.

immediately after i received the good news via an email sent by the MAS secretary, i forwarded it to all my close friends and family. i was overflowing with joy. i even called up a few of them just to tell them personally (for those of you who didn't get the call...don't feel bad, i still wanted to tell you personally if and when we meet. haha.). i even sent the email to adeline...who replied...but that's another story altogether.

in fact, just yesteday, my mom called me when i was in "ice-cold-beer" and asked me whether i got accepted to the programme. i told her that it was still pending and that i would tell her when the time comes. i couldn't reach her today cuz she's in boston now, but i'm sure that when she sees my email, she'll be overjoyed. it's been a while since she's had that feeling with regards to my studies...haha.

but then again, there's the problem of expenses...the whole course costs CHF18,160 (Swiss Francs)...which is about S$24,000...for tuition only...and if the website is correct, living expenses comes out to around CHF1,500 per month, which is about S$2,000. sheesh. the total cost of studying in switzerland for one year is approximately S$50,000. wow. i gotta start looking out for scholarships / sponsors already...any takers? =)

i still can't believe that i got in. only 33 people in the WHOLE WORLD got into the programme last year...and now, this year, i'm one of them. i just hope that i'll live up to the expectations. apparently they have a football team which is doing pretty well. i better start running and doing sit-ups soon...ok ok...after this tiger....haha. life is getting better. i wish i felt like this all the time. =)