Happy Birthday, Tiger!!!

Today is the birthday of my younger brother...who has turned 19 today...
hope he could be more sensible, and to be nicer to mum... your one and only mum in the world!

Today is the final of the Inter-Semicon tournument. While i was away last weekend to Genting/KL for a getaway, Chatered lost the game to STM and the result?? We are only left with 3rd or 4th placing to fight for :(
Felt so pressured since thursday, when everybody i seen, are asking me to MAKE SURE that we win today...
and we did won....and i was awarded a trophy as one of the dream team member called the Mythical Five...
tired....
but worthwhile i guess...

Hari Raya...

Public hoilday today....so no work...
Went out with a friend...to catch a movie and dinner...
movie-wise...totally disappointing...
it's the show, "Home Sweet Home", starring Shu Qi and Karen Lim....
Expecting it to be a some sort of horror film where i can get some cheap thrills from...
End up???? the frightening scenes were over within the starting hour... Chey...

but the film does try to bring forward the message....
Motherly love is the GREATEST...hahahaha...

You look great! CK, sorry if i haven't mentioned before :)

After dinner at Di Tai Feng, where i satisfied my carving for xiao long baos....
Sorry, CK, i didn't send ya back.... :(
Headed down to Eduard's place at CCK for a gathering...
First time, i been to a Pinoy's family place...
it's really easy to settle down after a few drinks...
food was INTERESTINGLY nice... we had the usual chicken wing, and BBQ boar head meat!!! How do you beat that???
hahahaha...actually it's kinda same as the suckling pig we have during chinese weddings...but this time round, it's the boar(adult pig) we are eating instead...wahahahah
Getting really tispy after lots of Jim Beam and Voka...had a cup of coffee before i left...
whether will anything happen if i mix kopi with liqour....i hope i don't get a stomach upset tomorrow...
hahahaha....

Post Genting/KL trip

Genting and Kuala Lumper is great...
been there so many times, it still feel good...
but this time round...it's kinda different, been so long since the whole family went out together...
hopefully this is a small start to more family outing, to hopefully further places...
wahahahaha....
Pity Brother JL couldn't make it due to some A**-hole agent...

Now for the break-down...

Genting...still as chilly to me as before...
maybe it's because i'm the kind that get cold really easily...
so i find the weather on Genting something to love and loathe...
But still it's GREAT...
First time i won in the Genting Casino... Just wanted to try my luck on anything...to get some more extra pocket money
and how lucky can one get?
1 time on the russian roulette....and bingo...
Instant 36 times of the RM10 i betted....
I was so so so thrilled!!!!
But alas none of the people i knew was around me :(
trying so hard to contain my joy....
the thrill is ....... WOW!!!!

But i guess my luck just start at that only hand....anything else i played in later...all kena makan by Uncle Lim
But it's still a big win!!! Wahahahaha
Looks like my new Levi's jeans is pretty much covered....LOL
Lots of walking around and look see here and there....

On the 28th afternoon, we departure from Genting to KL...
the hotel that we are staying in is Radius International...
I would say it is in a rather good location, considering it just 5mins walk from the hotel to Jalan Bukit Bintang and Sungei Wang...
Went to Time Square on the very same afternoon and had dinner at the Chinatown (not too sure how to spell out the cantonese name of that place, think it's Chi Chong Kai)
Food is great...too bad Bro JL....you still didn't try the delicious seafood in aluminium foil thingy
but here's some pic for your viewing pleasure...wahhahahaha


See the nice spread??? you could almost smell it!

Look at the smile on Esther's face...


Second day, we went to Sunway Pyramid for more SHOPPING...Somehow to me, this aint a relaxing weekend getaway thingy anymore....but a walk here, walk there trip...i think i probably clocked at least 20km minium during the two days i'm there...
after Sunway, we head to the nearby Mid Valley...more shopping follows...but i didn't got anything there...
the weekend crowd is just too much...it take too much time just to try on the clothes you want to buy...
So to beat the peak hour traffic...we decided to take the LRT system...something refreshing for my parents...
Somehow we had to stop at Times Sqaure again...partly to collect our altered jeans and for more shopping for Esther and Perene....and my younger brother too!

We stopped at 8 plus before heading to the street whereby the food is highly recommended by bro JL, indeed the food there is really nice...especially the chicken wings (from the end of the street) and the fried "bao yu" mushroom.
Again for your viewing pleasure, bro JL, whahahahahaha


delicious chicken wings from the end of the street...

delicious sting ray too!! Yum Yum

last but not least, the famous fried Bao Yu Gu...

once again...our model of the trip strike again...

the place we didn't went to :(

nice??

But i prefer this one...hahaha

And some of the miscellanous pictures....Enjoy!!

Lawrence and Brian

Tiger and Esther

Tiger and Me

My mum and dad

Genting away from everything....

yes....i'm Genting away from everything...
going on a 4 days 3 nights to Genting and KL
yes...a long awaited break before the stupid semester begins...
with my family and colleagues....
i just hope nothing bad crops up...
and it will be a enjoyable one for everybody....

So see everybody on Sun nite...
Wahahahahahaha

Today is....

for those who didn't know....
it's my birthday today....
Yes, yes i'm one year older...from now on i will have to offically tell anybody who ask me, "what's my age?"
and i will have to reply, "I'm 25!"
Yes, LimBH, i didn't lied about my age when you asked me a couple of days ago...i was 24 then, but if you do ask me again, i will gladly tell you, i'm 25 liao le.... if that will please you in any way....

So how special was my day on my birthday??? Well, early in the morning, i got my Mum really angry. Why?
I was supposed to be having dinner with the whole family at the Thai food restursant at Sembwang Shopping Centre,
but i turn her down, so that i can go for this certain church league basketball game. Which we lost! (DAMN). So first thing i got my mum pissed...she took the day of from work for this dinner, i feel so bad...
i'm such a lousy son...

2nd bad new on my birthday, looks like JL might not be able to make it for the weekend getaway...
Hai...WTF is wrong with everything today??? Why can't they process the stupid visa thingy faster?
Just when i thought we could go drink to our hearts delight...and not care more about the world.
I got to be hit by such bad news...Damn again!

Thanks to those few who smsed me, wishing me "happy birthday"
Thanks to Calvin for the fruit smoothie at Spinelli...
Got to say, i'm kinda touched...
I guess i wasn't really forgotten afterall....
hahahaha...
Thanks...

yes yes yes

yes....i pass...
i pass my ippt liao...
no more worries....
so happy today....

and only left with the stupid exam results...
hopefully i can get all passes for them den i can go enjoy my holiday trip in peace!!!

Saturday nite...Pee Ya's Wedding and Sunday

Been a busy Saturday...
Not exactly busy either...
Yesterday, my Si Gu's daughter had a wedding reception at the Grand Hyatt Hotel...
it's more of a lunch cum tea-break affair, unlike the conventional dinner...
Anyway, I didn't attend, because I don't really want to. End up, my mum and my brother attended it
I just hitched a ride with them on the cab, as I wanted to go to town to have a walk before my company's Bball game
which was at 4plus :(

Well, good news...Chartered won AGAIN...
these days winning seems like a formality...
wahahahahaha....

Straight after the games, which ended around 6pm, I rushed back home to wash up so that I won't be late for Pee Ya's wedding dinner. Everybody was telling me, "aiyah, Chinese dinner won't start on time one lah!" Which I totally protested!! But I guess the habit of arriving late for this sort of dinner, is kinda too deeply etched in the mindset of most people...
Hai...Sad but true!!! I was late too...but not because I wanted too, but the stupid ball games started late. :p

So when I got to the Peninsula Execlsior Hotel, which was around 7pm...colleagues that I hang out with, aren't not even there yet.... Wah....

Anyway, there are some photos I took...
Must say Pee Ya look so different, almost can't recognise her already.
Saw Mrs Lye also :P wahahahaha


The invite at the lobby...


(from left) Me, KeeKhoon, Sinyan, Perene, Pee Ya, Bride Groom, Esther and Ah Moi


May and her Guan Guan aka Ken... Wahahaahah


Me and my "gan jie" :P Wahahahahah


At the request of Tze Kiong...

After the dinner... Kee Khoon, Esther, Perene and Me met up with JL and we went to somewhere at
Upper Serangoon to continue our drinking session, and luckily the place "The GrapeVine" does offer
live soccer and i managed to catch some of the World Cup Qualifier Match between England and Austria

So Shiok...just doing nothing and downing Hoegarden....think i took about 3 bottles on top of the red wine at the wedding dinner... Don't know what came over me... I just wanted to drink, maybe i was sad or down... I don't know
I just thought if i kept on drinking... I will feel better and i'll forget everything... Hahahaha

Came back home around 2-3 plus....
and it was black-out until the alarm clock went off at 6.30am...

Yes, Reality is back... I gotta work on Sunday... :(

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A final note....Our Chartered Team finished the first round of the Inter-semicon competition with a ALL-win record...

Hope those we read my blog had a great weekend... i suppose i had...

Tired...

REally getting tired these days...
everybody in office who sees me...ask me the same question.
"Why are you so tired?"
How to tell them? I'm playing in a lot of bball games...
Just this week, tues and wed....follow by sat and sun...
I think my body is totally exhausted....
I need some rest... any somebody kind enough to give me some massage mah?


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Seems like things between LL and her b/f is all sort out...
So happy for her...think the only thing left for her is to QUIT SMOKING!!!
in case you are reading this....Yes, i hope you kick the habit soon, so the next time i go out with you. I don't have to stand beside a rubbish bin and wait for you to finish smoking...Okay??? :P

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Looks like playing in the inter-con games has it perks after all...
the CC i'm representing...has promise us a oversea trip if we could actually win the tournment...
Guess where are we going? USA...
Sound really good, but i really wonder if we can actually go that far in the tournment....
I seriously think we are lacking in depth... Nothing to think about actually...
I'll just remember this "Never count your chicks before the egg hatches"
LOL...

Oh yeah...the winning streak continues....wahahahaha, love the feeling...

my sunday....

slept at 3.30am this morning....woke up at 6.30am
rather stoned...
Went to meet up with my poly-classmate at DBL O, first time there....i think the number of times i go clubbing, to keep count, all the fingers on both my hand is enough. But strangely, why do people don't believe me, when i said i'm not a chiongster??? Do i give out the impression that i am??? Anybody could enlighten me??? LOL

Rather surprised to see CZ, so much different from while he's in class...wahahahaha... But it was fun...meeting some new friends... but can't seems to remember any of the new fren's names... i have never been good with names...

Like the music there....Saturday is Retro Night... the place is pretty packed by 11pm.... didn't have much time to indugle in the atomsphere.... because, i still had another mission that night...

that was to keep my close friend, LL, of 10 years (both of us were kind of surprised) listening to some of her relationship problems...
she's kind of in a dilemma...Good or bad? I can't decide for her..
could only lend her my ears...And keep her company as she didn't want to go back home too early...

Strangely I asked myself, if I could treat another friend, as good as I treat her...
I can't answer that...At least I try to treat everybody around me with a sincere heart...
If anybody wanna puke after reading this...please go ahead....LOL

Been laze around the office...it one of those days..where there's totally nothing....Absolutely nothing to test...
but the freaking lab is so freaking cold......
i admit i was sleeping on the job the whole day....so what? Sue me....


Feeling so restless.... thinking of some silly stuff... confused over some silly stuffs too...
Hope LL get her things sorted out....
Can't bear to see my best friend in that sad state....

Finally....all is over...

As of yesterday....the semester has finally concluded...
what's left now is the trival task of waiting for the results to be annouced...
which i totally have no confidence in... hai...
if i do manage to clear this sem.... i swear i will buck up and do my best for the next sem...

Got my new toy a couple of days ago....
really loved it to hell...
here... take a look :P


Cool..ain't it? just like the 'zen' looks all Apple products have...


Everything attached...with my in-ear headphones...


See how thin it is....


the chrome back is really 'chio' too

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Feeling kinda lost in the office today...
felt so tired.... don't think it the after-effect of waking up to catch the Man U vs Benfica match at 2.30am
now that i get to go back home everyday....it starting to become a hassle to think of what i can do when i get home.
And over the past two weeks... it's ball games after ball games....
i think my body is really felling the strain...
Gonna feel some good, cheap and effective ways to relax myself...
Thanks JL and KKK for the offer to go "uphill" but i don't have the leave nor the extra time, due to the commitment to the ball games i'm in...
Don't know when...with my bro, JL flying off soon....and KKK gonna be changing to the other shift....
I'm thinking if i CAN change to the same shift as he is...
don't wanna face the 'senior' every freaking day....if i can't change back...i think i rather opt for the normal mon-fri work week.
Gonna catch some sleep now, waking up to catch the Liverpool vs Chelsea match later....

What can i do??? Arghhhhh.....
Why can't life be simple....why am i always thinking so much stupid stuff....
pui....

Mid-Autumn....

Can you see how full the moon is??? No? Sorry, my h/p camera sucks...

Somehow looking at the full moon, make me sad...
it's supposed to be a night where people gather together....to enjoy the full moon
but i was sitting at the nearby basketball court, looking at xiao mei mei, playing badminton...
staring at the blank field beyond the court....

What am i doing here???

I don't know....

But i feel so relaxed, abiet those STUPID Mosquitoes kept kissing me...
ARGHhhhhhhhh

I know i can achieve more.....I want more too...
And i gonna let go of the past....
it's over....looking into my wallet, realised that i had never taken "her" photo out....
i'm so useless.....

Mid-Autumn is tomorrow...

Went down to the local Coffee Bean to get a Cuppa and look thru some examination notes...
dunno what is wrong with me, it just seems that i can study at home, even though there isn't any form of distraction to distract me...
i just can get myself to settle down and study :( hai.....

As i have to pass through the playground near my block before i can get to the coffee joint..
Lots of children and adults were there, having gathering, playing with sparkler (those firework thingy), kids were playing with candles and lighting them up one by one...running around with their lanterns, ranging from those candle-lilted kind to those super modern battery-operated kind....wahahahahaha

So fun....
if only my mid-autumn was as exciting as theirs...
i remember the first time i went to play-ground to play during the mid-autumn's eve, i ended up gashing my knee, with blood free-flowin, i got a earful from my mum....
the second year....the same thing happened...since then, i was barred from going to the playground...
kinda sad childhood....almost hated my mum for it, when i look out the kitchen window and see all the kids having fun...
i guess it was partial my own fault too...too eager to be running around and never look....

Mid-autumn eve also reminds me the first time i went to my ex-girlfriend house, where i was formally introduced to her parents for the first time... it really brings back a lot of memories...

Memories are sweet, yet they can be so painful too...

iPod Nano.....i want

I WANT a iPOD Nano!!!!
I want, I want!!!!!!
see this gal having it on the MRT today....it's so COOL!!!! 0_0

Didn'’t go to work today, because I have to accompany my mum to the Singapore General Hospital for a appointment. Apparently, she felt a small lump at her lower left cheek, and since she can'’t speak any English, I have to act as her interpreter.
She really worried about it.…keep thinking if it might be something more serious than it could really turn out to be…

Actually I hate going out with her though…but as a filial son that I am :P if I don't, who will??? My younger brother? If he'’s that dependable in the first place, I won'’t have to be here now.… Come to think of it, what is he doing now? Probably still lying in his sack. Lazy Ass!!
Back to my mum.… why do I hate hitting the street with her? I think it must be her tendencies to complain at the slightest matter that she encounter, whether it is or is not her business. Be it waiting at the counter or waiting for the lift? She can go, “blah blah, why is it taking so long? What is that receptionist doing? Why is she taking her own sweet time? etc etc….

Arghhh…. enough said!!!

I hate it, but she my mum… and I still love her...…
/me blushed…

Here's some pic i took at chinatown while i was there for lunch with my mum...


Hou Yi and the seven suns....i think
that's the theme for the Mid-Autumm Festival...i guess...


Pomole...is it spell this way???


Apparently this store's moon-cake is very good....the quene was Damn long...


and it ain't cheap either...a small box like this cost will set you back by 6 bucks!!!

Hmmm.....

Been a while since my last entry....
Busy over work and school projects...
Everything is like a whirlwind....spinning round and round....
Sleep is something i have not been getting enough off...

but some stuff i wanna say,
My condolences to JL....over the loss of his grandma...

Looks like i got myself in some sort of deep shit....how???
Have i been giving her mixed signals?? i don't know...
Guess i just take everything a step at a time...

Felt great after the 10 km run yesterday, felt so refreshed after the gruesome run...
Think i should be doing this more often...and it seems like my pair of lungs are still doing fine...

Couple of weeks more before everything related to school comes to an end...
Just have to pick myself up and endure all the way till the finishing line...

SNAG, Metrosexual, now Retrosexual???

What the hell do women want???
First, they want a guy who is not afraid of showing him emotions, someone who is in touch with the senstive side...
someone who is not afraid to cry...blah blah...
Won't that make him a wimp in front of the gal??? Strange right??

The world is changing is much.....i think the women probably don't even know what the hell do they want in a guy anymore, with the earning power and spending power they command...
While they expect to be up to par with any guy, but the still expect to be treated like a spolit brat....
Man!!!!

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My poor brother.....i thought he had managed to escape the crutches of the B$%&*, but i was wrong...
thought that finally is able to move on and seek new pasture....but...
Why do people keep running around in circles....
Sad....to see him get so frustrated...
kept saying that he's a useless fool, who will be always waiting for her...
what's so good about her??
When i ask him what happened, he could still denied that nothing is going on, when his face has already betrayed all his thoughts....
Pity....Pls make him grow up....
If i can, so can he....
Please.....if there's a higher being out there....
Crap...i must be crazy saying all this....
wahahahhahaha...

this week...

hmmm...
been busy the while week over a Logic Design mini project...
And although the most difficult portion have been solved....but i can't help thinking if i had done the right thing by showing the whole class what i had done...
Or should i had just kept it to myself and just waited till the day i'm supposed to submit it to the lecturer, and just do it quietly?
Hmmm....seems like everybody is copying my design and ..... Pui....the feeling sucks....
Although it's more of like helping everyone in the class, but.... What if? What if i didn't bring it up? would the other "smarter" one do the same? Or will they also be like me....

hai.....

maybe i'm thinkin too much....
Helping people should be a good thing right? So why am i feeling not happy about it??

Is being selfish better?? or?

Chat with a colleague....

One afternoon, I was sitting beside one of my colleague surfing the internet, out of the blue, she asked me, "Brian, Do you have a girlfriend?" I was rather reluctant to answer her question, but i guess one have to let go of the past. I replied, "We broke up couple of months back." She seems surprised!

I was thinking, WTF i'm so ugly meh? Cannot have girlfriend har??? #$%&

And she contiuned asking, "How long have you been together?" I told her... hmmm, going 6 year plus ba! Now her eyes opened even bigger, a bit dumbfolded... Guess what she said? I thought my relationship was long leh....Wah, yours is even longer wor, so rare these days. I was ??!!?? WTFFFFF...cannot meh???

Anyway, she tried to probed further, why i broken up with her....blah blah blah. Anyway the bottom line is we broken up. Not due to personality incompatiablity, but some other reasons...

Seven year leh, isn't it a pity? You bear to give it up meh? Don't you miss her? Will you still wait for her to turn back?

What can i do if she doesn't want to come back? if 7 years of relationship is important to her, i really cannot figure up why she could just so convniently jump into another relationship...What CRAP!!!

Anyway i pleaded her, i cried for her, i was in a daze for her...for what? Worth it?
With nothing to look back at the only way is to look in front and leave everything behind. And when i mean everything...that would include memories....those are the killers that suck you into the never-ending loop of hoping she might come back to you.. Pui!

"You must let her go out to try mah, then she will know that you are the better one!" She commented. Then? I replied. So i must foolishly await her return har? Aint that STUPID???

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Well, turns out she's also just ended her five year long relationship a month ago. I was, "Oh!", the same guy in your photo album? yeah, she confirmed... I guess that the reason why i never wanted to go for a photo-shoot with my ex, even though she insisted.
"So what happened?" i ask. Personality-clash was her reply! What??? Only after five years together, then you discover that you guys aren't compatiable?? What rubbish!!! You guys are even living under the same roof. (She stayed at her b/f place). So where are you staying now? i enquired?? I'm still staying at his place.

O_o

"I just don't shared the same room with him anymore." she said.
Isn't it arkward seeing him around after what happened? I asked.
Oh, no lah, he will try to avoid me de....

After all this, i just felt that she is so DAMN childish...and what she said later really confirmed my thinking...

She said, you know how hard is for me(after the breakup)?
Nobody drive me to out to work anymore, i have to walk all the way out the dark alley every morning to take the company transport to work.
He used to "da pao" food for me, but now nobody buy food for me anymore... So many things i have to do myself! I was so dependent on him! And he just left me like this...It so hard...

WTF lah.. Wake up!!! Gal You are responsible for your own life...
If you want to be serve 24/7 by someone, better to get a maid....can serve you more dedicated!!!
Wake up to Reality! please


Gals are just so hard to please....

Random thoughts...

Just back from a gruesome basketball match....
We lost again...
Feel so down...
We couldn't defend as a team...
Neither could we attack as a unit...
there is no corrdination of any sort...
When i talking to my Chartered team-mate, when we were going back together.
I asked him, " How can we expect to win like this?"
Guess what his reply was??? "We are not playing to win in the first place."
I was like ?!!??!!?
If we weren't playing to win, so why bother to play anyway???
Isn't it a waste of time???

I think i'm obsessed with winning... I want to win in anything i play in...
Be it just a friendly match or a match against a lousy team...
I just want to WIN...
I hate that losing feeling....
Especially when the player from the oppsing team says to you, "Hey, good game!!"
I was like....WTF???? How could it be a good game when we lost to your team?
It wasn't as if it was a one-sided contest....but i feel that both sides were evenly matched...
I HATE THIS!!!! I want to start winning some games....
I feel that if we lost too much games, we might actually lose the desire to win anymore....

Now if only i can start applying this to my daily life and not just on playing basketball....
ARGHHhhhhh

Poor Me...

Looking at my bank A/c via internet banking just now....
:,(
Inside really pitiful....so empty....
Realised i spent a bomb on all sort of stuffs just this month...and with pay-day still more than a week away...
Looks like i have to start bring instant Milo and Gardenia bread to work liao... wahahaha

Took some pic of the stuff i got this month....
Heart pain when i look at my bank a/c, but feel so shiok.....when i see my new toys!!!


First, i got this ring at TianPo with Esther and Perene.....

Looks pretty neat!!! I must say....

The white version of this watch is finally back....and without any second thoughts,
i grabbed it the moment i saw it at West Mall....No need to wear the Swatch anymore,
No more memories....

My new Cell phone.... Possibly the most powerful 2G phone currently on the market....
And it MINE!!!! Wahahahahaha

Well, with me changing to a new mobile, you won't expect my younger brother to be lagging behind either..
But what surprised me was, he's willing to settle for such a simple phone after using a N7610...
Strange....

Finally....all my loot for the month....

Please don't envy me...i'm just a poor techie....

Good night...

Chelsea won the Community Shield!!!!

Just back form watching the Community Shield match between Chelsea and Arsenal...
Final score after 92mins....Chelsea won 2-1
Finally they had defeated Arsenal....after 20 years??? Can't remember...
But winning this contest....does it mean that they will also fall into the jinx???
The jinx, whereby the winner of the Shield will not be able to win the Premiership???
I think Chelsea can beat the odds and win all trophies there's to win this season, be it the Fa Cup or The Champions League...
Today have been a wonderful Sunday....
EVerything went well...
Looking forward to the week ahead...hopefully i can get my V3 soon...
And it's back to the school....