happy day

once again, my days on medical leave are turning out to be more happening than those when i'm healthy and working. ironic huh? maybe i should start taking mc's when i'm REALLY sick. like last week. oh well, i blame my clinic for all this...can i help it if my panel doctor's office is in paragon? smack in the middle of orchard??? getting distracted is like a must loh. haha.

i started by waking up at 1030am...surfed the net a bit...read xiaxue's blog for the second time in my whole life (to see what's the big fuss aboout the weblog awards thingy), hoping that i wouldn't puke my guts out again. well, let's just say that i found enough reason to see the doctor after reading that crap. where got people practically beg other people to vote for them one??? some more wanna cheat. i can't believe she went to the same secondary school as me...i guess the standard really started dropping from my year onwards...haha. on to more intelligent things...i met blinkymummy for lunch...hmmm...on second thought...hahahahahaha. anyway, had a good lunch, where she, as usual, took a million lousy pictures of me, which she will definitely post up later to embarrass me again. and oh yeah, i met ene (who works at the same place as blinkymummy) for the first time as well...she's looks different in real life...in a good way of course. =)

after lunch, i made my way down to the doctor's office in paragon. i was made to wait for like almost an hour while this uncle got his annual health check-up...pissed me off. i only wanted a freaking mc loh...2 minutes and i was out. oh well...not as if i was in a hurry to go anywhere...and besides, time passes faster when the receptionist keeps trying to flirt with you...sorry aunty, i had to mention this...my blog's for boosting my ego one. hahaha.

then i went to the library at taka to pay a fine that i incurred after borrowing a tiger woods book and photography manual...which were like 2 weeks overdue...i thought that i'd end up paying the actual prices of the books, so i was pleasantly surprised when the librarian ran up the whooping sum of only $5.10. cool...they're one organisation that knows a thing or two about customer service and satisfaction. haha.

there was this sale at guess today...50% off some stuff...i saw this really nice pair of dark brown corduroy jeans...but it was still $100+...and if you know me and how i shop, i don't buy anything over $70 for pants / jeans, and over $50 for shirts / tops...so...i decided to wait for the post-christmas sale...haha.

i did buy some stuff today though...went to sembawang music at orchard mrt and bought 2 new cds...green day's american idiot, and a compilation called "super fresh!". cool stuff. they actually cost me $40...which on hindthought, could have gotten me at least half of those corduroys...oh well...music soothes the savage beast in me. muahaha.

i'm happy now. don't know why. maybe cuz liverpool just won 3-0 in the club world championship against some lousy costa rican team...or maybe cuz "wherever you will go" by the calling is playing on "super fresh!" now...or maybe cuz i just saw this sunset outside my window:


farrer sunset

or maybe i just needed a break from work...i really don't know. but i feel good. cheers. =)

cambodia bound

cambo jo is coming back today. bomberman season is back in session starting this saturday. can't wait to open that can of whoop-ass. =)

speaking of cambodia, i just booked a pair of tickets to go to phnom penh. sorry perth addie...i guess the lure of australian bitches, oops...i mean beaches, wasn't enough to make me wanna be a victim of the riots there. haha. actually the $297 airport tax had a lot to do with it also. where got tax almost as expensive as the airplane ticket one??? sheesh. anyway, i guess i'll just wait for you and kev to come back before meeting you. =)

cambodia's going to be quite interesting to see...new place, new culture, new people, new food, new chics (hmmm...), a change of lifestyle, a change of pace of life...and if thailand and chiangmai are anything to go by, hopefully i'll be really relaxed by the time i get back...refreshed and recharged to start the new year. actually, i'm only gonna go on the 19th to the 23rd of january next year...so i guess it'll have to be refreshed and recharged for the chinese new year. haha.

a holiday. finally. =)

i do

*do you have friends who just seem to disappear from your life after they've been attached? i do. i really hope that it won't be their turn to say "i do" when i next see them. you know who you are!!!*

on a separate note, but not a totally different one...

i just read blinkymummy's entry on a common friend of ours who got married today in australia. goon and i actually suspect it's cuz he wants to avoid the chinese wedding dinner thingy here in singapore...or more likely, to avoid the possibility of having too many ex-girlfriends at one gathering...things could get really sticky (and knowing kl, it may just be in the literal sense...hahaha).

but seriously...it then struck us how most of our friends were maturing and well, getting old...in fact, goon actually wanted to organise a bachelor's night for the groom (our friend), but we realised that there probably weren't that many "new-and-once-in-a-life-time-last-chance-to-try" kinda activities that we could have arranged for him...mostly cuz he's probably tried them all already (threesomes included, we concluded). we're all getting old. been there done that. time to settle down already.

oh yeah...congrats mr. tan...we're all very happy for you. =)

quotable quotes

"Love, like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with a soaking joy. But sometimes, under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots, keeping itself alive."

- mitch albom (the five people you meet in heaven)

furniture bargain

jason and i were supposed to go for some spa thingy yesterday (the clean kind lah), but i was sick, and i didn't think that the masseuse would want to clean up a wet patch of phelgm below the massage table when she finished massaging me...so anyway, we went shopping instead...he wanted to look for a sofa to put in his room...

we jumped from courts @ bukit timah, to ikea @ queensway, to v.hive @ marine parade, to the furniture warehouse @ kallang, and then finally to the furniture mall @ the plaza (beach road)...where he finally found "the one". (at this point of time, i must thank sherine for helping me search for furfur_angel's entry on the sale at the furniture mall...thanks!)

anyway, too bad i don't have a picture of "the one" cuz it was pretty cool...a black pvc 3-seater-sofa-bed which comes with a "coffee table" that is actually the middle section backrest folded down...cool concept...kinda feels like a first-class airplane seat. anyway, as usual, i was on hand to help jason with the salesman:

jason: how much is the delivery charge?
furniture salesman (fsm): $30 per delivery.
jason: oh ok...hmmm...
fsm: this sofa is very classy, compared with the other one that you all saw behind...it's got a certain class about it...can't really compare with the other one lah...
jason: hmmm...
fsm: wait ah, let me go behind and check to see if we still have stock cuz this is really one of our best-sellers!!! *quickly ducks behind to "check" and see if there is stock*

moby: how?
jason: quite nice...i think i like it...don't waste time already...this is "the one"...i'm gonna get it.
fsm: *comes back surprisingly fast from his "check"* you're in luck!!! we only have two more pieces of this in black...but really, compared with the other one, it's just one class above, and...
moby: eh uncle ah, got discount or not?
fsm: err...no lah...it's on discount already.
moby: but i'm sure you can do something about the delivery charge right?
fsm: *squints his eyes and thinks a bit* err...ok lah, i give you all $20 lah...don't say don't have lah ok?
moby: wah lau eh uncle...i'm sure you can do better than that...
fsm: *squints his eyes and thinks a bit* ok, ok...$10 last price...
moby: please lah, from here to paya lebar only leh...uncle, if you deliver it for free, he'll buy it on the spot.
fsm: ok, let me go behind and check with my boss... *quickly ducks behind again and "checks" with his boss...*

jason: eh, don't lah...he also trying to make a living leh...
moby: trust me...all salesmen are the same...i know his tricks one lah...
jason: sigh...takes one to know one...haha.
fsm: *back surprisingly fast again* ok, ok! for you only ok? we'll waive the delivery charge!!!
moby: you sure cannot anymore discount on the sofa??
fsm: *eyes very wide open* sure.
moby: ok...i believe you.

another $30 saved...haha. cab drivers, furniture salesman...who's next??? oh yeah...btw, remember ah, if you win the car in the furniture mall lucky draw, please hor...do the necessary hor...hahaha. =)

(p.s. - furfur_angel...i tried to look for you @ the furniture mall, but i think you were off already...anyway, i actually posted a comment on your blog about my friend looking for a sofa, but i guess you didn't read it...oh well, maybe next time!)

photographsky - dempsey (wineless)

let me tell you about the time when i went to dempsey's and DIDN'T have wine...

last sunday, i went on another photographsky trip...to dempsey road with marvin. i've actually gone with him before (labrador park and changi beach club)...

this was one of the first things that we saw when we got out of my car...this picture of this church actually kinda looks like it was taken in mexico or some tropical island...you know, like in the movies...


st. george's church, tanglin

so, we took a little walk around the back, and found these...


backyard of huge-ass-house 1


backyard of huge-ass-house 2

i stopped at two pictures cuz i could have sworn i heard the distant sound of a police car siren...

there was this huge tree that was just dying to get it's picture taken with marvin in the foreground to show it's monstrosity...


huge tree

it was later that i realised that the "aaaawoooawoooawoooaaaa" sounds were not from the police cars chasing us...


tarzan vines 1


tarzan vines 2

we then came across a border, which we later regretted crossing...


nature's barbed wire fences

cuz while i was taking this picture...


twin towers of dempsey

the foot soldiers behind the fortress fences started attacking us...the ferocious-giant-fire-ants-of-the-himalayas-with-ravenous-pinchers-the-size-of-my-fist started gnawing at our appendages!!! too bad they were too mystical in nature that they refused to appear in any of the blurred pictures that i took of them...it's true, you have to believe me!!! (if it helps, just think of the loch ness monster and why there aren't any clear pictures of it yet)

after roasting the army of the freaking-giant-fire-ants-of-the-himalayas-with-ravenous-pinchers-the-size-of-my-fist away from our legs with my blowtorch (we were lucky to escape with only minor injuries...mainly to our egos), we managed to catch nature's own fire extinguishing act...


sunset @ dempsey 1


sunset @ dempsey 2

i was about to mention wine company / network, but it was then that marvin (who's half-indian btw) asked me outright if i had ever seen an indian drink wine...which is why we headed off to villa bali for two jugs of tiger instead.

thus ended another photographsky trip...and the only day i will ever go to dempsey without wine. =)

inconvenience

damn it. my dad came back early and didn't bother to tell me...in fact, it was my mom who called me from taiwan to tell me that my dad was coming back from beijing today while i was playing golf this afternoon. sheesh. i hate it when he does this. it happens almost every single time he goes overseas. he doesn't wanna inconvenience me by making me drive all the way to the airport to pick him up...when in fact, it does inconvenience me cuz i don't know when to clean up the house and the "stuff" (aka my ultra lights' butts) lying around.

there was even once when i went all the way to the airport already, and i waited and waited and waited till the last freaking person came out of the gates, only for him to call me on my handphone telling me that he had reached home already. how was i supposed to know that the plane came early??? talk about inconvenience. i wasted one whole trip to changi loh.

but at the end of the day, i think my dad has always been this way...not wanting to be an inconvenience to people. whenever we go back to taiwan or something, he would only let my relatives know that we're going back to visit when we've already reached the taiwan airport...just so that we didn't have to be an inconvenience. sigh...sometimes, being too prim and proper can be irritating...especially when we're a family.

i think i hear the cab pulling up downstairs already...i'd better go and help him with his luggage and inconvenience. =)

sick again

i'm sick again. and truly sick this time...not like last friday when i took medical leave cuz i overslept. these kinda things really come back and bite you in the ass don't they?

sheesh...if i hadn't taken off on friday, then i wouldn't have gone for drinks at this place called the balcony, which was so packed and hot and sweaty and totally unenjoyable...and i wouldn't have gone to play pool at this other place called the labyrinth, which was freezing (but fun)...and i wouldn't have gone for more drinks at the liquid room, which was so packed and hot and sweaty and totally unenjoyable...and i most definitely wouldn't have gone for even more drinks at attica after that, which sucked.

all these drastic changes in temperature took a toll on my body...and now i'm suffering the consequences. when will you ever learn??? ARGH.

now i'm at home, drinking warm water and reading other people's blogs. sit. stay. good boy.