muack!

women are such a difficult species to understand:

1. they want attention
2. they want freedom
3. they want to be pampered
4. they want challenges
5. they want independence
6. they can't drive
7. they want you to act the way they want you to act
8. they want you to look the way they want you to look
9. they want your room to look the way they want it to look
10. you cannot change them...no, god forbid

got more to add? haha.

muack!

cheers. =)

no regrets

we all have had instances in our lives when we would wish for a time machine...a contraption which could take us back a few years, a few months, a few days, or even just a few minutes in the past...to undo / redo / erase something that went wrong. i know i would have begged, borrowed and / or killed for such a machine more than a few times in my life...

but on retrospect, i feel that if those things didn't happen to me, if i didn't make those mistakes and learned from them, and if i had made every single decision correctly, i wouldn't be the person that i am today...what doesn't kill you, blah blah blah...it's true.

it's tough accepting defeat, and it's always painful especially with matters of the heart. a male's ego is very fragile, and can be burst with the slightest touch. the important thing is knowing how to get up, dust off the anguish, and start learning the life lessons...and to keep learning...

no regrets. you can do it.

cheers. =)

anticipation

another world cup ends...
another captain retires in tears...
another four more years till south africa 2010...
sigh.

but don't fret all you fellow liverpool fans...
30 more days until the champions league qualifier (8/9 aug)...
34 more days until the community shield opener against chelsea (13 aug)...
40 more days until the opening premier league match against sheffield united (19 aug)...

and the countdown begins...

go reds!

cheers. =)

birthday poem

on fields of green, lay our sleeping heads,
grasshoppers roam, through our nestled beds.
has our childhood passed so fast,
has the distance between us become so vast?

i look out to find one day,
you and me, san francisco bay.
discovering again the youth we once had,
when things were simple...both good and bad.

it is with these hopes i have so high,
on this day, on the sixth of july.
may you have happiness, and may you glow,
happy birthday, my dear brother tien yeo.

- moby sky

videographsky - lunch with blinkymummy

i took the day off today cuz of the world cup semi-finals last night...so guess who i met for lunch today?



it's easy to be happy and to have fun when you're out with the right people... =)

cheers. =)

(p.s. - go france...preferrably win by 1-0...hehe)

hk escape

i'm looking for a cheap way to get to hong kong...preferably in early or mid august cuz my brother won't be there for that much longer...anyone got good lobangs to share? (btw, please don't bother to reply if you are going to suggest travel means other than by airplane hor)

i've never gone to hong kong before...it's been a place that i've always wanted to visit for some time now...what with the new disneyland, the better service, the excitable yet stressful uncles on buses and all...what's there not to see?!!

i believe that touring other countries and places can only widen my horizon by exposing myself to new cultures and people. without these insights, i think that i'd get more and more engrossed in the mundane routine that has ruled my life for the past 4 years of slavery (aka working life in singapore).

obviously, merely touring a place will not enable me to fully understand everything...it would probably just be a form of escapism...but it will at least give me a another glimpse of the world outside of singapore...

having said that though...hong kong was also a british colony in asia not too long ago...which leads me to wonder whether their people also claim seats in hawker centres with packets of tissue paper...i can't wait to find out...haha.

cheers. =)

mondays

alarm sounds.
press snooze.

chorus:
alarm resounds.
press snooze (x 3)

wake up with heavy heart.
raining outside.
sleep again for 5 mins (x 2)

eyes suddenly open with panic.
whole body aches from yesterday's football.
25 minutes late already.
michael learns to rock plays on mp3.

brush teeth.
wash face.
put on contacts.
shave stubble.
"bad day" by daniel powter plays on mp3.

customer calls at 8:30am.
answer call with raspy voice.
customer threatens something-or-other.
"with or without you" by u2 plays on mp3.

goes to office.
checks mail (x 36)
customer calls (x 214)
placate customer (x 314)
customer calls again to complain (x 56)
apologises again (x 67)
"crazy" by gnarls barkley plays in head.

appointment (x 5)
suck up to customer (x 5)
flirt with male cusotmer (x 4)
flirt with female customer (x 0)
"creep" by radiohead plays in colleauge's car.

report successful day to boss.
leave office.
drink beer with colleague (x 3)
bitch about bitch colleagues (x 11)
"give me novacaine" by greenday...

wait for pei hwan to come.
happy.
=) (x ∞)
"you and i both" by jason mraz... =)

monday life goes on...

cheers. =)

char kway teow & england

i went to the famous "hai kee teochew cha kway teow" stall at the margaret drive hawker centre last night. after waiting in the tremendously long queue for 45 minutes before getting my $2.50 plate of noodles and cockles, i discovered the meaning of much-hyped and over-rated. kinda like england and brazil in this world cup...all the fanfare, but not much substance. =|

hmmm...it's an all-european contest now...so who's your bet on? i'm thinking germany vs. france...but then again, now that my favourite team (holland) is out of the competition already, i don't really care who wins...as long as it's not england...but that was settled last night, thanks to wayne rooney's cock up. haha.


cock up


red rooney

but i do feel bad for beckham though...


becks off

injured, substituted, a forlorn figure...he softly cried by himself on the bench...it's quite lonely when you're at the top huh...

even his beautiful wife cried...


posh tears

though i wonder if the tears are for her husband, her country, or the end of her already-prolonged shopping trip...haha.

oh well...you can always come to singapore and try the hai kee teochew char kway teow...you'll definitely like the cockles.

cheers. =)

(images courtesy of soccernet.com)