Scribbles

2011-08-26T22:48:00.001+08:00

Week 2 of school. Things haven't really changed much in terms of pace, and routines are starting to set in. There were many info sessions this week but we missed most of them :D

Its been a tiring week but a good week :)

Weekend! Mug, guitar.

2011-08-19T22:08:00.002+08:00

First week of school is over. I have to say, I'm pleasantly surprised with my classes. I don't seem to have any horrible classes. Well, except for my AW class where there is this ONE Indian girl who is a class participation whore who keeps mumbling answers. DAMN IRRITATING. Other than that, :)

I think I'm gonna start mugging in school next week, when the workload starts to pile on. But, I can't exactly say I'm dreading it cause it means spending more time with friends, and that usually never puts me in a dour mood!

And oh, it was Vivace today! Signed up for SMUX, gourmet club and EYE investment club. Hope its not too much! Skating clinic next friday :)

2011-08-13T01:28:00.001+08:00

And so convocation is over. It has suddenly sunken in that school is starting next week. Dreading the workload but looking forward to spending more time with the lovely new friends I've made ^^

2011-08-01T16:21:00.003+08:00

And so comes the end of 13 days worth of camps! Its been 2 days of rest and I still feel sleepy. That goes to show how much energy I spent on these 13 days. iConserve camp was particularly tiring, what with being orgcomm and all.

Was it all worth it? Definitely :) And who knew I would turn out to be scandal boy and something else. Trust me, that was the last thing I thought I would be, HAHA.

2 weeks rest before school commences. I have to say... I am looking forward to it :D

2011-07-21T21:20:00.002+08:00

FTB was awesome. Simply awesome. Thanks to Flubbers Robert, Vincent, Yixin, Chewy, Amanda, Mei Lin, Linda, Weicheng, Ian, Charmaine, Pamela, Marilyn, Beatriz, Tommy, TiongHui and Pathy- the people that made this FTB one of the most memorable experiences of my life! So very glad that I met you all :)

Convocation, Bash coming up!

2011-07-13T23:10:00.003+08:00

I know. Long time since I last blogged. But I've been pretty busy with school, iConserve etc... Having the time of my life though :) Been meeting so many great people, new friends. Can't wait for OCIP next summer!

Finals on friday. All the best to jan and jeff, lol...

2011-06-22T13:46:00.002+08:00

"This will be my life in a year!"

"This will be my life in five years!"

"This will be my life in ten years!"

We all tell ourselves these hopes and dreams and expectations, and with conviction, for the goal is needed to facilitate the journey. But in the end of that span, be it in one or five or ten or fifty years hence, it is the journey and not the goal, achieved or lost, that defines who we are. The journey is the story of our life, not the achievement or failure at its end, and so the more important declaration by far, I have come to know, is, "This is my life now."

-Drizzt

2011-06-03T16:20:00.003+08:00

And so my exam grade is lower than what I expected of myself. Still kinda disappointed with myself but I'm only more motivated to do better. Realized where I went wrong in these 5 weeks and I shall try not to repeat them again.

Shall think of what to cook up for dinner... cooking always makes me happy :) even if it doesn't exactly turn out right. But thats the lesson from Edison right? Don't let setbacks pull you down. Keep on trying, finding ways to improve and eventually you'll get it right.

2011-05-30T16:11:00.001+08:00

2 week break :) Have so much free time after such a chiongster 5 weeks...

Don't wanna know my results though. DAMN nervous about it.

2011-05-21T22:41:00.001+08:00

Recent obsession over potatoes. Wanna make potato skins!

Finals next Friday! Studying all I can but yet unsure if I will do well. Ah....

2011-05-18T10:20:00.003+08:00

First things first... my but cheeks are aching like CRAZY after yesterday's squash! Hahaha but squash was so damn fun yesterday. I shall get my own squash racket soon!

2 very good meals this weekend... one was Cr's birthday buffet on Friday and the other was Lisa's birthday on Monday night. Good thing was that the people who have been MIA for millennia have finally turned up again. People like Neeeklers.

School... well got an A for my mid-term test, but thats only 15%. Our presentation on Monday went okay I guess. Not too sure about the outcome but to be safe I'm gonna start mugging like hell for my finals cos I wanna get an A! Finals is on next friday and I shall start doing my revision and writing notes today! Motivated by Xx who's been doing so well :)

Wow seanson 6 episode 24 was just mind-blowing! But it was such a good ending to the season because I CAN'T WAIT FOR SEASON 7!

Okay shall cook some brunch now... mushrooms with toast and some sausages?

2011-05-10T00:14:00.002+08:00

Mid-term test is down! Gosh everything I studied didn't help at all... it really isn't about memorizing facts and figures. Didn't have time to write everything I wanted to :( Still should do fine....

Presentation planning planning planning... On the bright side, school is getting better :)

2011-05-06T11:34:00.002+08:00

Risotto Recipe as requested :) Haha try not to stubbornly follow exactly, look at what you're cooking and judge when to add stuff.

Things u need for serving 2:

Mushrooms (amount depends on what type)

Oil (preferably olive oil), butter

Salt, pepper, some mixed herbs

Half a large white onion, 3 cloves of garlic. All finely chopped up.

Half a cup of rice. Preferably round grain (sushi rice).

Grated cheese, VERY IMPT.

Chicken stock. MOST IMPT.

Fry mushrooms with olive, salt and pepper and some herbs till cooked then put aside.

Heat up 1 and a half tablespoons of olive oil in a pot then put in garlic and onion (turn down to low fire). Stir around evenly and then place lid on the pot. This is called sweating the garlic and onions. Sweat them for about 3 minutes then throw in the the rice. Stir around then put in a ladle of chicken stock, not so much as to drown the rice. From here on u do not need the lid anymore. Stir until stock is soaked up then add in a bit more of stock again and repeat this process again and again. After about 10 minutes taste some and see if its too salty. If yes, continue the process with plain water instead. Just keep adding and stirring chicken stock/water till rice is cooked (please tell me you can tell :) ) Once rice is cooked, it should be in a slightly wet state. Add in a teaspoon of butter and the mushrooms to fold it all together. Lastly, add as much grated cheese as you want and stir it around. Ready to serve! Sprinkle some herbs on top for color contrast, Green works.

Points to note... be very stingy with the water/stock adding. U don't wanna end up with porridge at the end =P

Next step is called sweating the garlic and onions.

2011-05-04T19:58:00.002+08:00

School has been fine so far. Been keeping up with the lecture notes but I'm not entirely sure I know the stuff I'm supposed to know. Not sure whether the stuff in the notes are extra information or whether I'm supposed to memorize them, zzz.

We've been exercising but always end up eating huge ass meals after that. Don't think that'll work? An we got Cr's present/(s?) today, its gonna be an epic reaction by him hahahahaha.

Oh yea.... driving test this coming FRIDAY!

2011-05-01T00:00:00.002+08:00

Mum says I gotta tone down my studying lest I burn myself out too quickly. Come to think of it I have been too kiasu with my studying. Shall have more lax time from tomorrow onwards.

I realized something... I'm watching an average of 2 food shows a day now. My favorite is still Man VS Food. Awesome show on all the most sinful food you can find in America... and of course its amusing to watch the food challenges :)

SLEEP

2011-04-26T21:16:00.003+08:00

And so school has begun. Yesterday was day 1 and it was so damn demoralizing cause jan and I were so lost in the module. We didn't know bout the uploaded lecture notes, lotsa general knowledge etc... oh and we were grouped with 2 china guys for 2 projects. Not worried bout the written one cause I can edit that one. The one I worry about is the verbal presentation. Hopefully they get sympathy marks. AND we're a handicapped group. Bummer.

Today went much better! Prepared for class by doing all the readings and I understood everything going on. Also answered most of the questions though I should tone it down a bit if not I'm gonna be labelled a know-it all.

Rest night tonight... need to rest my brain awhile. The engine is still rather cold. Brrr.

2011-04-14T21:33:00.003+08:00

Night-time runs. Missed them terribly. Gotta get round to doing this more often again, just like last time.

Experimented with Risotto today. Inspired by Jamie Oliver's show yesterday. BUT, alot more tweaking to do. It was nice but not fantastic.

Talking about food... Man VS Food in 25 minutes time. Haha seems like I got cable TV to watch food shows mostly. It has been Top Chef at 7pm on Mondays to Fridays. God I love that show. With a hot host too, Padma Lakshmi...

Hope jamming goes well tmr. It'll definitely be fun, but lets hope productive too. Only a week till SHOWTIME!

2011-04-06T23:49:00.002+08:00

Been awhile since I blogged. Just have the feeling to all of a sudden :)

Driving has been good... easy, I must say. I haven't met any errors yet but all it takes is to be suay 1 time during the test and GG. Ohya test is on 6 may.

School starts in 2 weeks! Excited yet dreading it. Technology and World Change. Was thinking of reading up on it first but its so damn general that I might be wasting my time. I've decided to enjoy life while I still can.

These few days have been pretty empty. Playing my guitar, downloading movies, gaming, reading. Getting bored of it already. Which is why I'm blogging now.

Thinking of the past and all the things I've done, people I've met. Don't know where I'm going with this but its kinda nice to look back once in a while...

Future, what will you bring to me?

2011-03-06T23:33:00.003+08:00

Okay now I feel like blogging, because a tragedy has occured.

My new laptop is practically dead. Blue screen upon starting up, even after reformatting. This means its a hardware issue. SHIT! Only 2 months. Perhaps I did overwork it what with running so many programs at once while playing games like Crysis 2. Thankfully theres warranty for 3 years. But still... lesson learnt the hard way. Shall not over-work my com once I get it repaired... or replaced, god forbid!

Haven't really touched my textbooks sinced I ORDed. My laptop dying must be a sign, hah. Starting from tomorrow! Less late weekday nights, less gaming, more reading!

Scary. School is starting so soon, and exams will be just 4 weeks into the term. Nooooooo!

Driving tomorrow then I shall bring my lappy down for an inspection. I suspect hardware failure, zzz.

Gnight!

2011-02-21T00:40:00.002+08:00

Okay shall update in no order whatsoever...

Went to see Sandy's performance today. I realized the last time I went for a chinese orchestra was in Sec 3? Hahaha not bad, not bad at all. Best song was when they covered Fa Ru Xue. Makes me wanna listen to all those chinese songs I used to love again...

Sihua's birthday celebration last night! Gawd the Wii was DAMN FUN! But she made us dress up so it was terribly hot, eurgh. And there was so much food! It just kept on pouring out of the kitchen! But the best was the Salmon sashimi, really really good stuff. And thank god she loves the bag! When Xx told us it was for older ladies AFTER we bought it we were like wth, did we make a mistake? Thankfully no :)

Movie marathon on friday night! Okay seems I'm going in reverse order. We missed ordering Dominos pizza by like 15 mins! ARGH! Ate mac instead but dominos would have been so much better. Watched Paranormal 2 and The Last Exorcism. Both had screwed up endings :S All of us cept ken and rosh pretty much KOed after that. I woke up at 2pm the next day man. Thats a record for me.

Decided to remove Cbox BECAUSE THERE ARE SO MANY SPAM COMMENTS! Its like the more ip addresses you ban, the more comments there are. Ah well.

Driving 1 3 5 next week and the following week. Wanna get my license NOW!

2011-02-12T19:19:00.002+08:00

ORDed, finally...

Now I have all the time in the world for my books, and music... been looking for new songs recently, and I realized that How I Met Your Mother has so many awesome soundtracks. According to sources, they're mostly Indie songs, but I guess they're not at the extreme end of that line of genre. Downloading the soundtracks now, almost 140 of them I think.

Really addicted to this song by Alison Sudol - Lifesize. It was used as the ending music for HIMYM season 5. Made it such a beautiful ending.

I realized that nowadays I'm after more mellow music rather than R&B and the usual. Hmmm. Getting old?

2011-02-06T21:53:00.002+08:00

This week was one of stuffing and exercise man... played squash on Monday, ran on thursday, played squash again on Friday, then badminton again today! Had alot of stuffing sessions cause of CnY plus we ate Shabu Shabu and today Boon Tong Kee. Omg.

I've been having wayyy too may late nights too. But last night was damn fun! Laughed till I had stomach cramps man... Kenny Cr Shuyun and I were playing gambling games introduced by Shuyun. Diao Yu, Jim Rummy etc. But omg it was so damn hilarious. We turned to bridge after that which was even crazier, all the stupid choices of partners etc.

First gig is coming up soon! We're performing at SIM where shuyun and lirong study... nervous. Gotta practice alot!

IPhone 4 is simply awesome...

2011-01-30T15:07:00.003+08:00

Had a blast last night... meeting all the familiar faces :)

And now I'm really sure, its not what I want.

11 more days and the chapter of my life which goes NSF will be closing. Ironically, starting tomorrow, my exercise regime will begin. I don't know why but somehow, I'm seeing things clearer now. Obviously not in the literal sense. I think what I'm trying to say is that I feel more focused now.

Music. Never gonna get enough of it, and its the main thing driving me now. And did I mention, we got an awesome new singer? She's so very friendly and there wasn't really a need to audition her at all. We might be performing at SIM this Valentines Day, omg ;)

Time to search up new chords and add them to the list... oh and finish up Officially Missing You.

Ciao.

2011-01-23T19:33:00.000+08:00

What

Here

For?

2011-01-16T21:30:00.002+08:00

10 more working days... can't wait :)

I'm excited yet nervous about what SMU will bring to my life. I know its kinda early to feel so but well, 25th April ain't that far away at all.

But its no use worrying and thinking so much. Whatever comes will come, and I'll just have to see what I can do about it when it comes.

One thing at a time ya?

2011-01-08T01:18:00.003+08:00

Applying for driving tomorrow. Told myself I'll start asap this year, though the earliest I can start is probably around Feb. Hopefully boss lets us spam off just before ord, then I can start even earlier.

Talking about ord... 34 more days...

Shall continue reading BGS tomorrow. The last time I read it was AGES ago and I stopped at the first chapter, haha. School's drawing near though, time to get this brains' engine kicking again.

Yea, think I'm gonna do both parts of the special term. Take the time to adjust. My brain has been defunct this entire time, I doubt it'll be able to cope if the going isn't easy at first :S

Sleep? Yes, no?

One foot out the door, the next one...

2011-01-02T22:05:00.002+08:00

Noooo! Its gonna be a full work week starting tomorrow! For the past month I've been only going to camp for 1.5 days a week. How great is that. Ah well. Shall bring along lotsa books, including one of Xx's SMU books to study. Told myself I'll start in 2011 and I shall...

On the bright side, I'll be seeing Tly and Mich this wednesday. Always cheers me up to see them :)

I haven't been blogging much... don't know why but there seems to be nothing much to blog about nowadays. Sigh, boring life.

2010-12-31T18:32:00.002+08:00

So fast... its count down again, and looks like its the same 4 of us just like last year, lol... cept nicholas lee is joining us.

2011. I don't know what to expect from you.

2010-12-30T00:13:00.002+08:00

I've been thinking about my life lately - about the things I have, the things I'm striving for, what I've been doing with my life these past few years and I feel like I haven't achieved much at all.

I can't seem to pen my thoughts down. Too many things on my mind maybe. Lately my mind has been wandering too much, at the reaches far far away from reality. So many things that cross my mind are irrational thoughts, but I don't pay them any heed. Should I if they keep coming back?

What do I want? I don't know... my wants seem to be drifting here there and everywhere. It always starts with my dreams at night, dreams so real that the images don't leave my mind, implanting themselves into my consciousness and resurfacing on an almost hourly basis till I can't ignore them anymore. Then again they are just dreams so what can I do?

Confusing? Don't worry, I'm even more confused than you are. I'm kinda lost right now...

Or maybe not. I know what I want but then again I know its not what I really want. Is it?

2010-12-26T10:19:00.003+08:00

It has been an uneventful past few days... that is till yesterday. Our TPJC songfest winner Farhan came to Cr's yesterday to jam and my gosh is he good! Fuckin powerful voice which he does not hold back like lisa... and we did an impromptu recording that was near perfect cept for an off pitch at the 2nd last verse of the last chorus. The avenue to all the guy songs just opened up, booya! Funny thing is that we're the first band to approach him... lucky us :)

BBQ today! I'm 90% well already but after tonight I'm pretty sure its gonna be 90% unwell, ahahahahaha.

Bought COH, after much persuasion from kenny and cr... training time!

Disappointments... oh well guess I should have learned my lesson by now, not to expect much. Ho hum.

2010-12-22T20:42:00.003+08:00

Haven't been sick in such a long time! Think at least half a year... but thankfully the symptoms only developed after the trip.

I miss reading... gonna stay in tomorrow night to finish up a book or 2. That is, if boss doesn't give us friday off... Hopefully he will, since he's on leave anyway. Ho hum.

2010-12-21T09:29:00.001+08:00

20. I don't feel any different/older though :)

2010-12-20T00:38:00.002+08:00

Back in Singapore, back to reality... But it was the best trip I've ever had :)

Till Phuket next December!

2010-12-18T08:04:00.003+08:00

17 dec 2010, the day I will never ever forget because it was the BEST DAY EVER!

We did para sailing, rode on jet skis and on a banana boat I beat chuanrui in chopsticks twice :)

When we first did para sailing, I thought it was the best experience of my life. Running off for take off (with xx eating lots of sand :P) then suddenly just flying up into the air once the parachute catches the wind. It was so very beautiful and calm up there, with an unbeatable view of the coast. I would have liked to stay up there for about half an hour, travelling along the coast but it lasted for around 6 minutes. Still, a very exhilarating 6 minutes. Skimming the water with our toes was scary but awesome :)

BUT! The best yet was the jet ski ride! around $26 sgd for 15 minutes on a jet ski free and easy, and it was the best $26 I ever spent! Pulling full throttle and just shooting across the water at at least 90km/h with the wind whipping through your face and hair and the occasional jump when the ski flys over a wave! Really an ultimate feeling of freedom, the best feeling of freedom I've ever experienced! Oh and drenching Xx HAHAHA

Banana boat couldn't compare to the earlier two. Only consolation was beating chuanrui in Chopsticks twice while zooming along the sea on the banana, hahaha. Achievement!

Regretted taking the horse ride.. the poor guy was so small but I've always wanted to try horse riding. And after I'm done with the ride I see 2 full grown horses appear out of nowhere - -

All in all... 17 Dec 2010, a day I will always remember . A day of amazing firsts, a day of doing the things we never imagined us doing, a day of fun and laughter with the very best of friends, a day we will forever remember :)

2010-12-12T22:41:00.002+08:00

Mum having more complications... she went to A&E the moment we got back from Bkk cos she couldn't pee the entire day... now she has a catheter and a bag sticking out of her... parents aren't coming to Penang with us anymore and Hk has been cancelled.

But none of that matters... only thing that matters is that my mom doesn't have anything seriously wrong with her... :(

2010-12-11T19:50:00.002+08:00

Shop shop shop shopping again today! Omg I've bombed about $600 already... But this time round the clothes I've bought are frigging awesome!

Home tomorrow :)

2010-12-10T23:55:00.002+08:00

This holiday is turning out to be the break I've been hoping for :) Can't wait for next week! Penang with Cr gang!

Been watching all my favorite episodes of How I Met Your Mother. I still think its the most awesome show...

I keep hearing police sirens going on outside the hotel. I wonder whats going on... hope that its not some shit thats gonna make this trip difficult. Come on, just 1 more day of peace!

Tomorrow I'm gonna nua the whole day ^^ Too much walking around today already, and whats more I went running with my bro at the gym for 2 days already. Made me realise how much my stamina has dropped. 3km is tough now, or maybe its because I didn't hydrate properly? Hmmm. Gotta make jogging routine again. I used to run 3 times a week, but for the past few months it hasn't even been once every 2 weeks :S

Once upon a time I did... I'm sure I did.

Now I'm not sure about anything at all...

2010-12-07T23:54:00.002+08:00

Last day of course today... heng ar, I managed to apply all my leave and get them all approved. Anyway, the highlight of today was going around looking at east side rich people's houses in Haze's car!

First stop was around Haze's place... his house which is 4 storeys (about double the size of mine) with a pool table and table tennis table and ps3 area, his uncles house which is about the same. Near his place, some frigging rich neighbour with 2 plots of land.... 1 for an obscenely huge house, another for storing 3 Lamborghinis! But oh this was just the starter...

Next we headed down towards katong and further down towards Nicoll Highway and omg the king of houses were on the way, in some dead end side roads along the way. I forgot what it was called, Royal something, but that place is a frigging huge mansion! Definitely worth at least 40 million. They had a bloody fountain in the middle of the driveway! And 2 Bentleys and a DAMN NICE silver Porsche. Hahaha next time when got a ride in kenny's car I shall bring them to go looksee...

2010-12-06T19:31:00.000+08:00

Katharine Mcphee - Had it All

Potential new song?

2010-12-04T22:40:00.002+08:00

One day, I wanna escape to someplace like this for a time. A quiet life, for awhile... :)

Talking bout escaping... I wanna go to Tasmania again, soon! I just googled pictures of it and it brings back such memories of the tranquility there... and all the friendly wild animals of course...

If only Singapore had such natural beauty...

2010-12-04T03:03:00.003+08:00

Sad... sad that the 2 best months of my army life, no, of my life, will come to a close on tuesday. I've made so many amazing friends during this period of time... Marcus the Bai Ka, Rahul the Bai Chu, Raj the oil tanker, Haze the fat boy and 29 other amazing people. IC2 10/10, friends for life.

I'm gonna be MIA most of this december...

9-12 Dec - Bangkok

16-19 Dec - Penang

25-28 Dec - Hong Kong

Lots of shopping to do :)

2010-11-28T16:49:00.002+08:00

Jamming today... good :) But the epic fail thing... changing BGDC chords after 1 year!

Book in early again... 8.30pm. Zzzz, oh well. At most there'll be one more weekend of booking in early and after that its freedom!

Hope they let me book all my leave =S I'll probably go on a murderous rampage if they don't.

2010-11-27T04:01:00.002+08:00

Just got back from a movie with my camp buddies! I haven't laughed so hard and so much in such a long time :) Harry Potter was okay only though... the book still beats the crap out of the movie.

Omg gym at 10am tmr... help me!

2010-11-20T03:11:00.001+08:00

Thankfully everything is alright for now... whew. For now...

2010-11-19T19:51:00.002+08:00

Scared.

I've never been so scared in my life.

Hope everything turns out fine... :(

2010-11-17T17:02:00.001+08:00

My future home - 90% sure ;)

Waterview! http://www.propertyguru.com.sg/new-homes-listing/waterview-604 Ready when I graduate.

2010-11-12T23:34:00.002+08:00

The most realistic of dreams. I haven't had such a vivid one in months. I still remember it clear as day. Though its participants were not unexpected...

Nooooo, Thai disco tomorrow is cancelled cause 4 of the guys going got confined. Next week I suppose.

Stuck in the middle~ Which way to go?

2010-11-07T12:10:00.000+08:00

Just a feeling

I watched you cry

Bathed in sunlight

By the bathroom door

You said you wished you did not love me anymore

You left your flowers in the backseat of my car

The things we said and did have left permanent scars

Obsessed depressed at the same time

I can't even walk in a straight line

I've been lying in the dark no sunshine

No sunshine

She cries

"This is more than goodbye

When I look into your eyes

You're not even there"

It's just a feeling

Just a feeling

Just a feeling that I have

Just a feeling

Just a feeling that I have

2010-11-05T19:08:00.002+08:00

Guard duty last night. It was pretty fun actually, partnering up with Fadly and hearing all his stories and us making fun of Kevin and bitching about other people in the course. What a pampered life I've had D: I haven't really done anything to deserve it... Some people are really so unfortunate :(

The guys are going to da pao next Friday. No way I'm gonna join them. But its Butter Fac next Sat :D We're opening 2 tables I think, $50 a person. Its Tommy's breakup release and he's gonna tank everything else. Oh well...

2010-10-31T18:44:00.002+08:00

In a mid-life crisis, somehow. Feel so lost.

You feel it coming now

You feel it falling down

You gotta keep yourself together

2010-10-31T09:35:00.002+08:00

The Town was a pretty good movie. I love the part about choices. You always have a choice.

After looking at the Notebooks available from the SMU tender, I don't think I'll be getting a Mac anymore. i-7 core acer, 4mb ram and intel HD graphics, 8 hour battery life, sleek and elegent for 1.8k. Tempting, tempting...

And so its solo practice today. Shall try to run through all the songs I have. That'll amount to about 4 hours of playing :D

2010-10-29T20:51:00.002+08:00

5 more weeks to go.

Bummer. I'm starting to disconnect. Is it the inevitable?

Lol we played truth or dare on one of the days in camp. My my, I've got... interesting friends. And we played I've never ever, and lets just say I'm almost ALWAYS safe. I wonder what everyone would say if I started hanging out with them. Not that I'm going to, mind. Already I'm getting invites, but I've got principles I'm gonna stick to.

2010-10-24T20:11:00.002+08:00

Jamming today was really really good :) But damn, we gotta look for a singer to replace ShuYun. Said she's too busy to commit to the band. Oh well... I wonder where we're gonna find one...

Makes me think though. She's in SIM, and yet has so little time already. I'm gonna be in SMU... oh shit. Ah well, hope I can really make it for the once every 2 weeks.

ESP Viper 1000, hmmm.

2010-10-23T22:38:00.002+08:00

2 weeks have passed already. Though it is 2 weeks closer to ORD, I'm gonna miss my course mates for sure when the next 6 weeks come to a close. Such a myraid of people I've met in this platoon...

Ohhyea. Something particular happened this week. I had very severe food poisoning from something I ate on wednesday. Thursday I had diarrhea in the morning, couldn't put down anything for breakfast. Ate a tiny bit for lunch and upon marching back to the bunk, I threw up everything and continued vomiting violently for another 20 minutes and was so stricken with stomach cramps that I couldn't stand and I was sent to the nearest M.O via ambulance cos our M.O was overseas. Lucky upon being medicated, the cramps somewhat subsided. Don't think I was ever in so much pain in years. Bad bad experience man... :(

Hope jamming tmr is good.

Halloween next weekend? Hmmm.

2010-10-17T17:21:00.003+08:00

Hmmm. Jon is trying to get me to bring my Maestro to camp so we can do acoustic covers, me on rhythm and he on lead, but my Maestro is too big and fragile for me to bear to do so. Ah well... Wanna get a 3/4 sized guitar... one of the cheap ones so I can bring it to camp, but is it a waste of money?

Wanna get a really good 3/4 sized acoustic guitar... maybe for my 21st birthday? Though I think my parents would slaughter me... or maybe I'll just wait till the year end swee lee sale then take a look see...

Finished doing up more tabs today... after procrastinating for ages. Maybe I'll continue sorting out my music library... my playlists are all empty now after the recent shifting of the file directories.

2010-10-16T22:39:00.003+08:00

What a boring weekend, really. So much expected turned out to be nothing much at all. Pfft. I actually rather spend this weekend like how I've spent my weekdays, in course with my course mates.

Just me and my guitar... shall scout for more songs.

2010-10-15T20:57:00.003+08:00

Back from the first week of course, and I'm having an awesome time! Gawd did I miss platoon life... maybe because I have really awesome course mates this time round. And we have the best kick-ass instructor among all the courses, and instructor is a SHE. I foresee these 8 weeks to be a memorable 2 months :)

One thing... I'm the earliest to ORD in the platoon. Majority are returning to one unit or another after the end of the course, ORDing in 2011. But 5 poor guys joined us from BMT, ord in AUG 2012. Still, nobody is being left out from the fun :D The most bonded platoon I've been in in my whole NS life. Maybe its the talk sessions our instructor had with us every night of the first week, whereby everyone would squeeze into a bunk and crack jokes and all XD

Lan later, hmm....

2010-10-10T20:04:00.002+08:00

And so it starts tomorrow. 1 year overdue, hahaha. Though I don't know what course I'm in yet, but I'll take whatever I get. Time to do some work for the 1 year of ultimate slacking I've had :D Positive attitude.

Cya on friday! Feel free to text the bored kid stuck in camp...

2010-10-09T03:03:00.003+08:00

Just downloaded Katy Perry's new album! Really really awesome songs in there man! As in on of the best albums I've heard so far. Her songs can really make an awesome mix of dance/rock which is just amazing. I'm sure at least half of the songs will be chart toppers!

Finally done with all the planning for the Dec trip. Whew...

You give me that hummingbird heartbeat

Spread my wings and make me fly

The taste of your honey is so sweet

When you give me that hummingbird heartbeat...

2010-10-05T21:51:00.002+08:00

No time to blog since I got back because all my time has gone to reserching for the Dec trip. Xx, I should get permanent immunity from the list for this, like seriously :P

Shall blog about Kl trip some other time... damn tired now. Brain dead.

2010-09-30T22:23:00.002+08:00

Day 30 - Whatever Tickles Your Fancy

Hahahahaha, I dunno man. Just a few years back my head was on some other planet and I had all these notions about being noble, being honorable... so much so that I actually came up with this, which I called my code tree. I was a kid inspired by the books read, couldn't help it :P

Off to KL tomorrow. Wheeee! :D

2010-09-29T16:06:00.000+08:00

Hmm.

2010-09-29T10:28:00.001+08:00

Day 29 - Hopes, dreams and plans for the next 365 days

I shall split this into 2 categories... one will be hopes and dreams, and the next is plans.

Hmmm hopes and dreams... You know, I used to have so many just a few years back, even more when I was a kid. Right now I can't really think of anything, and isin't that just sad. Oh okay I just thought of one! That we manage to get a gig and pull it off within the next 365 days. Yes, the purpose of us forming the band is to make music and have fun. But wouldn't it be awesome if one day we could share that music? :) Oh yea and one more thing... that we make a band original.

Okay I haven't been completely honest here ;) I actually have more... dreams I think. But I haven't really formulated what I want out of them, or actually whether I really want them in the light of possible repercussions. Complicated, I know. Is it really or am I making things so? Hmmm.

Plans for the next 365 days! Finish my course, ORD, go for a couple of trips overseas with Cr gang, study and prepare for SMU. Everything else, all the little plans, will come along when they do.

Okay back to House!

2010-09-28T18:48:00.002+08:00

Day 28- This Year, in Great Detail

Sorry my readers, I don't wanna bore both me and you to death with a post of my year in great detail :P I shall do This Year, an Overview instead... ahahahahaha.

This year has been my fastest year ever, in terms of how quickly time has passed this year. Actually, it was ever since I finished my final A Level paper that time really started to sprint then fly. I still remember ever so clearly those days when we were still hyped up over clubbing, as if they happened a week ago. Growing old...

Okay back to the post proper. The year started alright... with us playing with the Katanas at kenny's place, the first time we were there after the renovation. Back then I was still at Engineer Training Institute, in charge of all the corporals. Life was already VERY good back then. I didn't have many responsibilities, except directing the other corporals. Hence I was excused from many duties :D This continued till May when I got posted to Signal Institute. There, life got EVEN better. My army life has been way too lucky so far. But wait, actually it wasan't all luck. If I wasan't such a hard worker, my bosses wouldn't have given me such nice posting or jobs or so many offs. A majority of my offs were because of good performance for one thing or another. Lucky for me I had bosses who appreciated and rewarded effort, and not take it for granted. Alright that about sums up army :)

The next most important aspect of this year... jamming! Last year I was still fiddling with my dad's old old old classical guitar. But at the start of this year, I got my Sunburst with a Laney Amp... and that was when I really found something meaningful to do with my free time. Most of my free time then went into practicing our 2 Band songs... Love Story and You Belong With Me. The 2 songs were were playing for AGES. Can't really remember when long shot and the rest of the songs came in, but boy those days when we jammed on cr's old super cluttered up room were fun. But then things got really stagnant and we hit a lull... a pretty long one. Another world opened up for me when I decided to go ahead and get my Acoustic guitar :) Thankfully I didn't wait till the end of the year, hahaha. I would have probably dropped dead because of boredom if I had done so.

Lastly, memorable events that happened this year.

- First thing that comes to mind is Paintball! That was something :P

- The recent supper at ECP, probably because that was so very recent.

- The amazingly confused and bored faces of some the guys when we watched Sex and the City 2. HAHA.

- The farewell supper for Sihua, at Hong Kong cafe from which we adjourned to Mac. I almost didn't turn up that day :P

- World Cup! Germany VS Argentina at a random bar at Siglap. Finals at Kenny's place with Domino Pizza. AWESOME.

- Catch up meetings with TLY and Sandy and Mich :) Perhaps the only JC people I've met this year other than the Cr gang guys.

- Deren's Bday bbq at my place. With the super failed batsu game but awesomely successful I've never ever :D

I'm sure there are many other things that happened which I have forgotten, temporarily. But all in all, an extremely good year so far :)

2010-09-27T23:09:00.003+08:00

Day 27 - This Month, In Great Detail

Oh gosh I don't wanna do this post... just read my blog for this month yea? I'll do tomorrow's challenge. But not a VERY detailed one... just a overview of my year so far... ;)

Tomorrow is a semi-off day. I don't need to go back to camp but then again I need to go to Marina Square to check out some stuff...

2010-09-26T19:07:00.003+08:00

Day 26 - This Week, in Great Detail

Okay I shall skip yesterday in great detail cos I did it detailed enough already :P Seriously I can't imagine doing month and year in great detail.

Honestly I can't really remember what happened in army this week because its really a repetitive thing... whats more this week was very quiet... no major events happening. Most of the time its nuaing in office, using facebook and playing games online or for my case watching House and Band of Brothers. So I guess I shall just blog down the more notable stuff that happened this week...

Boss was in a very good mood this whole week. Lately he has been in an awesome mood and all us minions in the office are stumped as to why. Oh and we went home early on a majority of the days. This is becoming an unhealthy norm. Whats more I'll be on course in 2 weeks time, STAY IN mon-fri for 8 weeks. But yea, as XX siad, my army life has been wayy too good for wayy to long, I cannot complain :P Btw Xx, hope I didn't screw up your studying too much last night...

Okay there were alot of weird sounds when I staying in on tuesday night... Ohyea I haven't mentioned this before. My bunk block is HAUNTED. As in really. My boss and everyone confirms it. They've had priests come bless the place numerous times but apparently its a recurring thing. During the previous course, a trainee woke up in the morning with a pile of freaking long hairs on his bed, like 80cm long strands. And sometimes we hear cupboards banging in the middle of the night... not continuous mind, but like 1 or 2 second things. Still, I've been living with it... just ignore it and it'll ignore you. I've been saying a little prayer every night before I sleep too... recommended by my boss. So far fine...

Can't think of anything else to blog about for the weekday, so I shall get back to today! Cr and kenny are at my place and we're watching F1 now! We cleared out a whole HUGE dish of spaghetti with spicy sausage baked with cheese. Okay back to the start of today... I started off the morning with breakast and clearing off those episodesof BBT which I missed and seriously I just LOLed the whole morning. Gosh I missed such awesome episodes. Met kenny and Jan at 12.30 to gym and my gosh the gym was DAMN SMELLY! Even the toilet smelled better, imagine that. Subway lunch then it was off to Cr's for jamming. We were acutally pretty objective today. Noted down the problems with the songs in our list, cleared off some. Figuring out the new parts will be done in the near future cos next weeked in KL :D

Okay I wanna watch F1... bye!

2010-09-25T14:47:00.006+08:00

Day 25 - Your Day in Great Detail

By day I'm assuming starting from 12am so... here we go.

At 12am... just arrived at Lagoon with Cr, Xx, Kenny, Jan and Lisa for dinner/slash supper. Ordered way too much food, partly I think because we forgot the fact that everyone actually already had a little something to eat before the night started. So yea, a HUGE plate of seafood fried rice, sambal kang kong, sambal stingray, sambal sotong, satay, and an array of drinks. Lisa was pretty... shi bai with her DSLR, hahaha, cos she still hasan't gotten to know it well yet. Think she took like 4 photos only, which was a waste actually. Anyway so we ate and talked, with CR sharing session which I don't think I should put down here because that would be disrespectful. By the time everyone was full and bloated, we still had at least 3/4 of the fried rice and hence re resorted to card games to try and finish it!

First card game... can't remember what it was called but it had Jack in the name. A reflex and reaction game, in which I spoke too soon about how easy it was :P Reminder to self - shall have to keep my tongue in check in the future. I realised... after about 7 or 8 penalties, we totally left fried rice out of the game, hahahaha. I think everyone came to a telepathic understanding that we all didn't want to touch it anymore. After that we played one of Cr's memory games which was okay. I think at this point everyone was pretty tired already. Somehow time flew till around 2am at that point of time. Stoned for a bit then we were off heading home. Lisa Jan and Cr in a cab, Kenny and I walking Xx back. Along the way we saw this disgustingly huge mass of ants with big bloated heads... If only we still had that mint sweet that was the ultimate ant killer. Dropped Xx off at her place then Kenny and I caught a cab home... then it was SLEEP. At around 3am.

Woke up at around 9.30am? Showered then bacon and eggs and a huge cuppa tea for breakfast, awesome. Didn't really do much in the morning because I was still pretty shagged out. Read about 40 pages of Bullet which is the latest book in the Anita Blake series. Soon enough it was time for lunch with grans which was the usual thing... sigh good food with them every weekend since I was self-conscious and could start to remember stuff. Gotta thank my lucky star man. And now I'm sitting here and just got promoted from Hated4life to Blacklisted4life, HAHAHA! Okay gonna make more tea and read :) READ :D

Shall complete this post later on tonight? Yea.

Okay continuing on...

Had Wagyu for dinner again! Sinful but so damn awesome, hahaha.... but that makes it twice this week. Oh well... Ohyea just remembered something. I guess I'm really damn lucky that my mum can cook so well. As she pointed out, not many mums can cook so many types of dishes - Chinese, Malay, Indian, Western, Italian, Japanese, Thai... Still got so many dishes to learn from her. Okay back to today... yea, dinner was steak then I got a lift to Xx house to grab House Season 5 and 6. I thought it would be a take and go thing cause I was expecting her to be busy mugging but instead I stayed on for almost 2 hours. Talked, went through some of my music, and watched Batsu Game at 1.5-1.9 times normal speed. Hahaha watching it fast is a good and bad thing... good thing is that well yes, you can catch most of it in a much shorter period of time. But the bad thing is that when you play it at normal speed, it crawls :P Filled the gaps in my BBT series too, THANKS :D

Took the bus home, showered, and now I'm preparing to sleep soon... but first I gotta start converting House to psp format...

Mind, the next 2 day challenges won't be as detailed. Next one is a month and the following a year. Gawd.

2010-09-24T14:44:00.001+08:00

Day 24 - Whatever Tickles Your Fancy

Okay so today is early bookout :) Boss is in such a good mood today, no idea why. And he keeps cracking lame jokes. Totally another side if him...

And tonight sounds pretty good... lepak and acoustic at Cr's, then dinner with my favourite people in the world. Hmm, supper actually... ;)

2010-09-23T21:33:00.001+08:00

Day 23 - A Youtube Video

Pixie Lott... she's just one of a kind.

2010-09-22T20:46:00.002+08:00

Day 22 - A Website

http://www.webmd.com/balance/guide/forgive-forget

HAHAHA LIM XX THIS ONE IS FOR YOU :P

2010-09-21T15:48:00.005+08:00

Day 21 - A Recepie

Hmmm recepies recepies... don't which one to put down. Some are wayy too simple, like stir-fried beef with Korean sauce is just to marinate the beef in the korean suace which you can get from the supermarket for about 4 hours, then you shallow fry garlic and onions then throw in the beef and voila.

Can't really think of any elaborate ones though... nowadays cooking is wayy to easy with all the pre-packaged sauces available. But since I have to put something down... perhap Butter-Herb Pacific Dory Fillet?
1. Get a nice fresh Pacific Dory fillet from a supermarket. Cold Storage ones tend to be fresher. Sprinkle and rub on a pinch of salt and however much pepper you want. I suggst coarse black pepper.
2. Chuck a chunk of butter into a pan, let it sizzle till it melts. Put a generous amount please cos you'll be frying the fish in it later.
3. Once butter melts, throw in minced garlic and onions. DO NOT fry till they brown. Let them sizzle for about 3o seconds then you throw in the slab of pacific dory fillet. If you brown them before throwing in the fillet, they'll BURN. Okay just cook both sides of the dory till they are slightly brown. Once its almost done, throw in some italian herb mix which you can buy from the supermarket in small bottles that costs around $3 each. Do not throw in the herb too early if not they'll BURN also.

And there you go, easy enough to make. Serve with... Rosti? To make Rosti boil a couple of potatoes till they're cooked, mash em up with mozerella cheese and sprinkle in some ground pepper and salt while you're at it. No need for much salt as the cheese is salty on its own. Once mashed up just chuck it into a pan with some olive oil and shallow fry. To make them more appealing to the eye, you can try molding them flat like a pancake. Fire cannot be too large as cheese has to cook evenly. Too large a fire will cause the outside to burn. Ohyea, use a non-stick pan if not clumps of Rosti will stick and you'll get an ugly pockmarked Rosti, lol.

Boil some baby carrots in water with a teaspoon of sugar. They'll be awesomely soft and sweet.

Hahaha okay this turned out longer than I expected...

2010-09-20T21:23:00.003+08:00

Day 20 - A Hobby of Yours

Well, its something new. Its now more than just a hobby, but an integral part of my lifestyle now. And its none other than... playing the guitar ;)

YAY! NEXT WEEK ITS RNR! 3 DAYS 2 NIGHT OF REST, RELAXATION, RECREATION AND RETAIL :D

Hahaha sorry Xx...cmon you don't really mean it when you said you hate us for life for this... :P

2010-09-19T22:17:00.004+08:00

Day 19 - A Talent of Yours

Hmmm. I don't really know of any specific talent of mine. But since I have to name one thing... Okay, not that I'm bragging, but this is feedback from quite a few people... I seem to be able to pick up stuff pretty well. By stuff I don't mean random things that may have fallen on the floor, rofl, but in general, like econs or physics concepts, new sports, or even picking up on more subtle things like underlying emotions people might have.

Start of another work week... 3 more weeks to the start of my 2 months course. Looking on the brighter side of stuff, once my course starts, it marks 4 MONTHS TO ORD :D

2010-09-18T23:36:00.001+08:00

Day 18 - Whatever Tickles Your Fancy

Well, don't really have much to blog about :) But since I've gotta pen something down...

1. I've been sorting out my music library again... cos putting it all in folders like that is not Itunes friendly and its taken me over a week already but I keep procrastinating :S
2. Recently discovered some of Kelly Clarkson's older songs like Just Missed the Train which are absolutely awesome...
3. Am about to sleep so goodnight!

2010-09-17T23:45:00.003+08:00

Day 17 - An Art Piece

Digital art - the blizzard in the snowstorm.

This week was nuts btw. 4 out of 5 days were practically half days XD

2010-09-16T20:50:00.003+08:00

Day 16 - A Song that makes you Cry (Or Nearly)

Well to be honest theres not a single song I have or know of that brings me even remotely close to tears :P But if there's any one song, it would be Let me Love You by Mario Winans. This was my favourite brooding song when I was all dark and emo. "shivers"

*Ammendment.

I've just been seriously moved by the power of the emotion in this song... so yea, this takes first place. Feat - Boyce Avenue's Cover of Teenage Dream

2010-09-15T16:06:00.003+08:00

Day 15 - A Fanfic Day

Uhoh, this one I can't do cos I don't really know of any fan-fiction... so hmm, guess thats that :P

2010-09-14T20:47:00.002+08:00

I'm kinda... amazed at my dad... he just topped his cohort for the first TCM theory test... full marks 100%. And he's like the oldest there... there are students my age (the girls) or slightly older there. Oh well... maybe he has a potion hidden somewhere too, ahahahahaha.

Just when I thought this was going to be a normal week, yesterday my boss didn't come to camp cos he was on off and on some other course in the afternoon, resulting in us doing our own stuff the whole day till 4.30 bookout. Today he disappeared somewhere in camp at arnd 9, called us at 2.30 to pack up and lock up. And tomorrow is WED alr! :D

2010-09-14T08:41:00.004+08:00

Day 14 - A Non-Fictional Book

As a kid I used to spend so much of my time reading books about insects/animals/dinosaurs, catching insects in the huge field which used to be in front of my house, going to the zoo EVERY weekend etc... I simply loved animals. No... I still love animals. Maybe its cause both my parents studied animals during uni... they both did zoology. And my childhood dream was to become a zoologist... but that wasan't practical, or at least I thought so. Even so, I don't regret this path I've chosen because I'm happy with what I have now :)

Perhaps one day I'll do something like what my dad did... retire and chase your old dreams. He retired and is now taking a full-time 5-year degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine... If it runs in the blood hopefully I might have that kinda determination some day.

2010-09-13T23:32:00.001+08:00

Day 13 - A Fictional Book

This one is a pretty awesome book too... damn I wanna read all the Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child books again.

2010-09-12T16:24:00.003+08:00

Day 12 - Whatever Tickles Your Fancy

So... some updates for the weekend... friday! Holiday! Jamming at Cr's place and some recording. At night was supper with cr kenny and lisa at Lagoon... it was great just to sit there and talk over drinks and reminisce over stuff... Reached home at around 2.30

The next day, yesterday, was an extremely tiring day with odd meal times, hahaha. Morning/afternoon we gymmed then swam under the scorching sun... then we trotted to sim-lim square to get cr's ipod charger then headed back to Pp to chill at cr's place till jan was done with his family dinner. At arnd 8pm we made our way to NTUC to get our stuff for teppanyaki/steamboat at kenny's place! $76 worth of food for 3 people, hahaha. Sinful man... but the food was pretty good so ^^ Watched a couple of episodes of HIMYM then LOTR 3. We actually wanted to marathon the whole trilogy but by the time we were done with dinner it was arnd 12am. Cabbed back at around 4.30. Too tiring a day man...

So now its present day, Sunday. Fiddled with the recording program and recorded guitar for terrified and pyramid. Took much longer than expected, urgh. And my fingers are seriously sore now. Guess I'll leave more recording to tomorrow...

Oh no... its a full work week starting tomorrow. I haven't had a full work week in ages. Hahahaha.

2010-09-11T19:02:00.000+08:00

Day 11 — A photo of you taken recently

The feel of the music ~

2010-09-10T10:12:00.002+08:00

Day 10 - A Photo of You Taken Over 10 Years Ago...

Sorry I don't have one on my comp... :P Used to have a baby photo somewhere but I don't know where...

Jamming today! :D

I open my eyes and it was only just a dream~

2010-09-09T18:45:00.002+08:00

Day 09 - A Photo You Took

This was prepared on the spot by the chefs at the first class lounge at T3... before flying off to Tokyo... Gawd am I craving it again :D

Gonna sort out my music library again! Realised its not itunes friendly cos its all in folders D: About 1500 songs to sort... gonna take me till 1am I think, ahahahaha. But I'm bored so :P

2010-09-08T20:44:00.002+08:00

Day 08 - A Photo That Makes You Angry/Sad

Well sorry guys, I don't have any photos that make me angry/sad... why would I wanna keep a photo like that? :P

Hmm but a random photo from the net... it would be those of the dying animals caught in BPs huge screw up. I've always loved animals so...

2010-09-07T21:55:00.003+08:00

Day 07 - A Photo That Makes You Happy

Hahaha this photo used to be in all my bunk cupoards... from bmt to sispec to eti to seletar to back to eti. It reminds me of a time when I didn't really have a care in the world... This was taken on 23rd Jan 2009, during the lull between A's and Army. That was a good day, though I remember we were superbly tired from that day. Sentosa the whole morning/afternoon then Home Club at night... think I fell sick the next day. But nonetheless :P, this picture makes me smile... remembering the good times.

2010-09-06T10:32:00.004+08:00

Day 06- Whatever Tickles Your Fancy

Since its about anything, I shall just update about tmr :)

Jamming didn't really go that well... too many screw ups like how the mike was very echoey cos of cr's setting, lol... how one of the Amps wasan't working, how the drum was missing a part... and we couldn't do any recording cos the programme needed to be registered online. Ah well... We're gonna do recording at Cr's place this friday so... :)

But food yesterday was awesome... Swensens then this XO fish soup place at Bugis... awesome stuff man.

Tomorrow I shall sort out the 800+ mb worth of high-res photos :D Maybe try photoshop...

2010-09-05T10:16:00.003+08:00

Day 05 - Your Favourite Quote

Well of course its about one of the 2 things which are the most important in my life - family and friends.

"In loneliness, in sickness, in confusion - the mere knowledge of friendship makes it possible to endure, even if the friend is powerless to help. It is enough that they exist. Friendship is not diminished by distance or time, by imprisonment or war, by suffering or silence. It is in these things that it roots most deeply. It is from these things that it flowers." -Pam Brown

2010-09-04T12:23:00.002+08:00

Day 04 - Your Favourite Book

Well to be honest, I don't have a favourite book cos I've read too many book serieses which are frigging awesome. Eg - Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child's books on Pendergast, also by them the 2 books Relic and Reliquary which are on Mbwun, Matthiew Reilly's trilogy of 7 Deadly Wonders, 6 Sacred Stones, 5 Greatest Warriors. But of all the serieses I've read, my favourite one would have to be the 20 something books from the Forgotten Realms series involving my favourite fictional character - Drizzt Do'Urden. He has a wiki page btw. But the main thing about the books are the journals done by Drizzt which are found at the start of each chapter, and words are deeply insightful, really really meaningful.

Just for fun, I shall list all the books about Drizzt... they are from 7 serieses about him

The Crystal Shard
Streams of Silver
The Halflings Gem
Homeland
Exile
Sojourn
The Legacy
Starless Night
Siege of Darkness
Passage to Dawn
The Silent Blade
The Spine of the World
Servant of the Shard
Sea of Swords
The Thousand Orcs
The Lone Drow
The Two Swords
Promise of the Witch King
Road of the Patriarch
The Orc King
The Pirate King
The Ghost King
Dark Mirror
The Fires of Narbondel
The Stowaway
The Shadow Mask

And my favourite Extract from his Journal...

We construct our days bit by bit, year by year. Our lives take on a routine, and then we bemoan that routine. Predictability, it seems, is a double-edged blade of comfort and boredom. We long for it, we build it, and when we find it, we reject it.

Because while change is not always growth, growth is always rooted in change. A finished person, like a finished house, is a static thing. Pleasent, perhaps, or beautiful or admirable, but not forlong exciting. There is a line we all straddle, between comfort and adventure. There are those who find satisfaction, even fulfillment, in the former, and there are those who are forever seeking.

It is not boredom that propels myself along steps unknown, but a firm belief that the guiding principle of life must be a search not for what is, but for what could be. To look at injustice or oppression, at poverty or slavery, and shrug helplessly, or worse to twist a god's "word" to jusify such states, is anathema to the ideal, and to me, the ideal is achieved only when the ideal is sought. The ideal is not a gift from the gods, but a promise from them.

We are posessed of reason. We are posessed of generosity. We are posessed of sympathy and empathy. We have within us a better nature, and it is one that cannot be confined by the constructed walls of anything short of the concept of heaven itself. Within the very logic of that better nature, a perfect life cannot be found in a world that is imperfect.

So we dare to seek. So we dare to change. Even knowing that we will not get to "heaven" in this life is no excuse to hide within the comfort of routine. For it is in that seeking, in that continual desire to improve ourselves and to improve the world around us, that we walk the road of enlightenment, that we eventually can approach the gods with heads bowed in humility, but with confidence that we did the work, that we tried to lift ourselves and our world to their lofty standards, the image of ideal.

Damn I wanna read them all again! I guess thats the drawback of not buying books =P

2010-09-03T15:36:00.003+08:00

Day 03 - Your Favourite Television Programme

The first thing that came to mind was The Mentalist cause Patrick Jane is way too awesome. But then How I Met Your Mother took over! That show never fails to make me laugh :) Definitely my favourite tele prog cos it makes me laugh. And I guess its a show guys can connect to :P

Looking forward to Sunday! I need social life. Perhaps I'm gonna die in SMU. We'll see when it comes. Less than a year now :D

2010-09-02T15:37:00.005+08:00

Day 02 - Your Favourite Movie

*Ammendment
Well I thought it was Avatar at first :P But after some random thinking last night, I think Iron Man 2 fits the bill more. Finding your purpose, a path that you know in your heart is right. And not to forget the super cool technology...

2010-09-01T07:59:00.003+08:00

Day 1 - Your Favourite Song

Well in terms of current favourite or all time favourite? My current favourite songs tends to change pretty quickly, perhaps on a monthly basis when new songs with a wicked beat come out. But all time favourite? Its gotta be Beautiful Love by The Afters! Though they aren't widely known and haven't got any of their tracks on the billboard charts... doesn't matter!

2010-09-01T07:58:00.004+08:00

30 day challenge! A small start to committing...

Day 01 — Your favorite song
Day 02 — Your favorite movie

Day 03 — Your favorite television program

Day 04 — Your favorite book

Day 05 — Your favourite quote

Day 06 — Whatever tickles your fancy

Day 07 — A photo that makes you happy

Day 08 — A photo that makes you angry/sad

Day 09 — A photo you took

Day 10 — A photo of you taken over ten years ago

Day 11 — A photo of you taken recently

Day 12 — Whatever tickles your fancy

Day 13 — A fictional book

Day 14 — A non-fictional book

Day 15 — A fanfic

Day 16 — A song that makes you cry (or nearly)

Day 17 — An art piece (painting, drawing, sculpture, etc.)

Day 18 — Whatever tickles your fancy

Day 19 — A talent of yours

Day 20 — A hobby of yours

Day 21 — A recipe

Day 22 — A website

Day 23 — A YouTube video

Day 24 — Whatever tickles your fancy

Day 25 — Your day, in great detail

Day 26 — Your week, in great detail

Day 27 — This month, in great detail

Day 28 — This year, in great detail

Day 29 — Hopes, dreams and plans for the next 365 days

Day 30 — Whatever tickles your fancy

2010-08-27T22:50:00.002+08:00

Okay its confirmed. I'll be down for course on 11 Oct till... 3rd or 4th Dec, can't remember which it is but its a friday. Boss gonna pull strings to get me into a good course and then pluck more strings to get me back into his office.

Something I came across in Twelve "Modesty is just another way to lie." Hmm, so its got me thinking, is being modest a good thing or bad thing? But of course anything in excess is bad so... I guess it depends on the extent.

This week N.E and I bitched about getting pretty sick of being the one who usually organises stuff in our respective cliques. You only need to volunteer once and then people will take it for granted that you'll plan out every weekend for them. Well guess what guys, we're gonna be taking a break from that. We're gonna try sitting back (most of the time) and see what happens.

Finished watching Glee in about 3 days. Pretty awesome show... lots of lessons to be learnt. But the story line from the start up till episode 15 or 16 was pretty fudged up, what with all the insane ways of hiding pregnancies. But the song covers are really really awesome. Okay moving on...

Wait, I've got nothing left to blog about actually. Took me 4 minutes worth of random thought from the previous paragraph to realise this. Ah well.

Don't stop believing :)

2010-08-24T22:19:00.002+08:00

Went to gym this morning! After an absence from the gym for about a month. Feels good to be pumped up again! Muscles aching like mad though. But I missed the gym. Think its gonna be a weekly routine again!

Next Sunday! Band shoot with Sandy's DSLR camera and we're gonna have a mini-audience of tly mich and sandy. Hopefully the singers can make it though... :P

On dispatch AGAIN tmr morning. This time to Pasir Laba. At least I get to leave the house around 8.30 :P

New biometric passport is ready! Finally, no more baby face picture, no more immigration staff asking me to recite full name, nric and birth date cos I don't look like my passport photo.

2010-08-24T10:59:00.002+08:00

Dreamt last night.
You know what they say - the truth lies in your dreams.
Deep down I guess you're the one I always wanted.
But I guess thats an impossibility now...

One life to live

One love to give

One chance to keep from falling

One heart to break

One soul to take us, not forsake us

Only one

2010-08-24T00:04:00.003+08:00

Ach gotta have a word with Cr about piano. About how insane the first ever piano piece I'm supposed to learn that he gave me is. Gotta really start from basics man. I'll just stick to scales and chords for this week.

Tackling Boyce Avenue songs now! I wonder where they got the idea to change so many tunings. And they really sound damn awesome! I feel quite accomplished for learning Broken Angel :) Its the trickiest guitar stumming/plucking mix I've learned yet! Lots of weird chords too. But sounds good on the acoustic!

Sleeping soon. Shall not be lazy tomorrow. Gym in the morning then its music the rest of the day.

Twelve by Jasper Kent. Such an awesome book.

Disgusted with myslef that such selfish feelings are surfacing. Thought I was above that but apparently not.

2010-08-22T20:09:00.003+08:00

Shiiiit. Right now I've got that mood, that feeling that my life is pointless and that I'm living for the sake of taking up space.

Perhaps I'm just too tired. Its been 2 very late nights in a row.

Get some sleep Jeff. Its a temporary feeling. Its an impulse.

I wish...

2010-08-19T23:16:00.002+08:00

This week has been pretty good to me :) Alot of hassle over the phone most of the time trying to settle stuff here and there, especially the banner, but the result? Monday was off, today was afternoon off, tomorrow is morning off. Cr was like "WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU?!?"

Miss my acoustic which is at Cr's house... And wow my fingertips are really armor-plated already. Did an experiment with a staple bullet. The staple bent before it could penetrate my skin. How cool is that, lol.

Its a chance to stay up late but I'm feeling so sleepy alr. Hmmm.

2010-08-16T22:40:00.002+08:00

When truths lie only in my dreams...
Is that it?