2nd August 2008

Met up with Daniel, Mark and Shiwei for a game of tennis over at seletar country club. Damn the sun was so hot that I felt so lethargic just after 45 minutes. We had good a exercise and there was a couple of great rallies too. After the session, we adjourned to the usual bistro restaurant to have our delicious food. A pity the camera's in sw's car. We ordered quite a bit of food. Each of us had a main, I think there was beef noodle soup, fried hor fun with beef, carrot cake and penang char kway teow. Besides the mains, we had our usual watermelon juice, fried chicken wings and soft shell crab with floss. Stomach felt like exploding after consuming such a great amount of good food. Damn I like coming to seletar cc.

Soon after, Daniel went home for his family gathering and we left for sw's house to bathe. Later, we picked Zhida up and went to Chomp Chomp @ Serangoon Gardens to tabao Alllllllllllll the local delights to bring to sentosa. We thought Alex should be craving for all the local delights. We bought alot, I mean alot of food. Imagine we spent $101 on hawker food. There were satays, satay bee hoon, char kway teow, stingray, rojak, sugarcane, chicken wings, or lua etc etc.

After dinner, we decided to play some poker. Afterall, all the marists are gamblers by nature. Hohoho! Daniel joined us later in the night after his family gathering. At the end of the day, I won about $30+, woooots. Not alot but still it's money haha.

More photos...

Leaving Sg...

Just taking some time off my hectic uni work schedule to do a lil updating on my blog. Actually there's quite a bit of pictures and outings to post, but it's a little tedious to put everything up. I guess I will just post those events in a non-chronological order.

4th August 2008, the dreadful day has arrived, yet again. Delayed my flight from the 3rd to 4th, coz on Monday morning there was a praying session for ah gong. Morning went to the temple at around 0530 to prepare the stuffs for prayers, and the whole session lasted till about 0700. Went back home to catch up on my sleep, and in the afternoon went to clementi for lunch with dad, and got my text from the clementi bookstore as well. It was kinda last minute, so a couple of texts were out of stock. Tough luck...

Went to pick up mom from work (and Khloe too), back home to finish up on packing and we were off to terminal 3. Such a sickening feeling to be leaving again. Parents and Khloe couldn't stay long with me at the airport coz mom had night shift (very selfish colleagues who don't lend any helping hand), so they just accompanied me for a while before leaving. Bro and Ade came from work to accompany me for dinner though, and we had it at TCC. Food was pretty good, but my appetite was obviously not that good afterall. Soon it was time to say goodbye, and I actually forgot to wave goodbye while I was at the immigration checkpoint. LOL. Think I was quite stoned already...

Supposed to be...

This blog is supposed to be updated frequently (think eurotrip and outings in sg), with stories and pictures depicting my life. However, lately, I'm just overwhelmed by the enormous amount of workload thrown straight at me from my lovely university. When I thought uni workload couldn't be more than the previous semesters, this semester just got worse. It's only week 3 now, and I cannot fathom how this is gonna last till week 12. I'm not going into the details of how stressful it is, as most of my friends would have known by now.

Now, there is a dilemma that I'm facing. To drop a module from my current four to three, and concentrate on the other 3. Or to simply try to attempt all 4 at one go. Both has its pros and cons of course.

Drop Module:
Pros are less workload, less stress, able to concentrate on just 3 modules and higher chance of scoring better grades.
Cons are I still have to take it next semester, making it a possibly stressful semester like the current one, I will also have 7 modules next year, so it's gonna be 4 in the first sem, and 3 in the second sem.

Holding on:
Pros are if I manage to pass all 4, I will have a relatively relax last year of uni come 2009, as mentioned earlier, I will only be left with 6 modules for the year of 2009.
Cons are workload as bad as now, may increase in the weeks to come, high chance of scoring mediocre results, worst scenario is failing any modules.

Date of decision has to be before the 31st of August. I will get back my money for a module if I choose to drop. 2 more weeks to decide......

Uni life is supposed to be fun and exciting. There is supposed to be a fair balance of work and play. Going overseas to study is supposed to be fun. It's supposed to be less stressful according to 'knowledgable singaporeans'. Everything in life seems "supposed to be", but in reality it seems not to be.

Looking forward to a better tomorrow.

Blog's been neglected I noticed, decided that I should do a little updating at least. The euro kids are coming back on the 1st of Aug, home sweet home finally for them. A pity that I can't stay till the end, sad..

Pretty much played catching up with my friends during the past week or so. Lets start from last Monday. Had dinner with uni friends at far east chicken rice, and we headed to party world at Shaw Center for a ktv session. Damn Ivan's gf Lynn can sing really well. This couple is a erm...singing couple I guess. After ktv we went to newton circus to gorge ourselves for supper. Better to gorge now then regret not having enough before heading back to sydney.

Woke up quite early on Tuesday to accompany ms j and xy for their friends' convo at NTU. Although NTU is FREAKING far, but I don't mind coz they are my GOOD friends. MUAHAHAHA!! Anyway, it was NTU's business convo, so I saw quite a few pretty chicks. Not a wasted trip I guess lol. Afterwhich we headed to paragon's sushi tei (my favourite) and had a fulfilling lunch, when m joined us. Caught The Dark Knight at The Cathay at only 6 bucks, cheap cheap cheap. Terr joined after the movie for dinner at glasshouse's Fish n Co. Portion's smaller, doesn't really seem to justify the price tag, should be avoiding this place in the near future.

We were brainstorming where to go, and ended up in Sentosa's beach. It was fun hanging out there, the tranquility and all, only annoying stuff was my throbbing headache. Thanks for the panadols guys. :)
Wednesday, met up with m10mg for dinner at Hogs Breath cafe at Chjimes. It was a farewell dinner for weiqi who's leaving for korea to kamsahamida and salangheyo. The beef was really quite good at hogs, and definitely extremely filling. Caught dark knight, this time at the grand cinema of cathay. Freaking hilarious malay usher made an announcement prior to the show. "Sorry this show is delayed SIAL". True blue malay. The 'Sial" was slanged to the max. Perfect pronounciation. Why so serious? Haha...

Thursday, met up with jc mates for dinner at Marina Square's Imperial Treasure. Had their la mian and siew lung bao. Not bad la, quite filling. Fun to hang out with them, makes me relive the good old jc days, less the final results haha. After dinner we jalan-ed around, and went to cartel to have the half price cake for desserts muahahah!

Friday, met up with kenneth and sara at Lau Pa Sat for lunch. They were my army buddies back then. Time flies man. Great catching up with them, so much nonsense between us all. Too bad its a rather short lunch appointment, further dampened (literally) by the heavy rain. Went back to White Sands to get my eyes checked, ordered contacts and also made a new pair of specs (old one broke-_-). I decided to get a pair of odd shaped specs, the Rayban Wayfarer black frame. Quite sian of the traditional rectangular shaped specs so I thought I try something new lol.

Had to work on Saturday in the clinic, omg can't believe I'm working -_-'''. It was easy money coz uncle wasn't around and it was a locum doctor, so it was half the usual crowd. At night family went to ah ma's house for steamboat/bbq. Ah ma seems alright, but I'm quite sure deep down she's not. Ah gong's presence was deeply missed, and will always be.

Sunday was tennis with mark, bert and my bro. Rest of the m10mg couldn't make it. Can't recall when's the last time I played, and my hand and arm is still aching as of now. Freaking weak. It was a good workout though, getting all the evil sweat and fats out of the buldging body. Had dinner at the vegetarian zhi char at AMK (best vegetarian stall in sg) with Aunt Michelle, Khloe, Jacob and my parents. Damn nice la, the food there is the best!

Later into the night, m and terr came over to bunk and play wii. They seem fascinated by the wii LOL. We enjoyed playing la, and it was like 3+am before we decided to head to simpang for our supper. TO OUR HORROR IT WAS CLOSING IT WAS LIKE OMFG HOW CAN THEY CLOSE SO EARLY??????????????????????????

-_-''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' My craving for PRATA BOMB literally JIBABOOOOOOOOOOOM! No prata or pattaya for the night. Fucking sad. m suggested we head to geylang for some dim sum. It's the one facing a row of durian stalls, food is not that bad but it's freaking expensive. Hmm may not head there again I think. Played abit of ps2 and wii again before all slept at around 8am. Woke up at 1am and went to E-hub for lunch at Mr chicken rice. Afterwhich I tried setting up the ktv system but gave up due to the confusing wires and connections that were apparently missing. Another day for ktv then!

End of my long post. :)

Grandpa passed away late last night. He died fighting the cancer. He was strong, and will be too in his afterlife.

I will miss you ah gong...I will take good care of mom and ah ma...I promise...Rest in peace...

Back in sg on 13th morn. Much earlier than the original planned date of 1 aug. Grandpa's condition got quite serious. Was at Rome when mom called to inform me of the bad news. No choice but to rush home immediately from Rome. Had to catch a plane from Rome to London Stansted, then a coach to Heathrow. Luckily I was able to get the earliest flight on sat, if not I would have to camp at the airport for more than 24hrs...I must have spent at least 10 pounds on the internet terminals too.

Quite sian and disappointed that my 1 month holiday had to end like this. Really missed the group in europe. I guess they are enjoying dinner at Gordon Ramsey's now. =/ Man utd, london, ireland factory outlets spree, prague, copenhagen, stockholm, oslo, helsinki...gonna miss them all.........

More sad to see my grandpa in his current state. All the freaking tubes, medication, heavy breathing. He has such strong will power, but it's obvious that it is very very taxing and tough on him.

I pray for a miracle.

1 week of sg is finally up. Time to leave for Europe. Wished I had more time in sg, to spend with friends and with family. Thanks to those who took time off to meet up with me, greatly appreciated! :)

Some asked if I met up with her. Nah...Too busy with her work. I'm not special enough to take up some of her free time. :) I figured its more worth spending the precious time with friends I know I can depend on.

To those friends that I couldn't meet up during this week, very very paiseh and I hope I could meet you guys asap.

Take care all. Will update as and when possible.

One week stint in sg's coming to an end real soon. Time really flies. Bro treated family to Long Beach @ east coast on sunday night. The seafood there still rocks, never fail to satisfy me!

Roast chicken, baby squid and cereal prawns
Giant black pepper crab.....oooooooooooooishiiiiiiii dez!
Giant piece of meat.

There were a few other dishes as well, didn't took pictures coz I was too indulged in devouring them instead of shooting them lol.

Monday afternoon met up with bert and sw. Great to see the m10mg bros again. Definitely have to meet the rest soon too. We had lunch at Uncle Sam. The claypot rice there is really not bad. Side dishes were tasty as well. Ran quite a few errands after the lunch. Picked up london air ticket, sent jeans for alteration, bought camera pouch and screen protector for its lcd. Side note, is it me or is it normal for mrt to be packed even during afternoon timings like 2-4pm. I walked from shenton way to chinatown just to avoid the crazy mrt crowd but ended up melting under the sun.

Got this watch on board SQ on my way back to sg. Had this USD75 voucher from them due to the little malfunction of my lcd during my previous trip to syd. Saw this nice adidas originals watch from krisshop's catalogue and thought why not? It's nice and simple, most importantly it's free. =)

It's happy to be with your family again. You know they are always there for you. Dad used his petrol points to get me a small samsonite luggage for my europe trip, as well as some funds for my new shoe, mom subsidised a part of my air ticket coz my posb was depleted and bro got me a camera for my belated bday.

Visited grandpa today. He looked pale. Doc said it was stage 3 cancer. Have to undergo chemo if possible. Mom was very sad too. I can only pray for the best.

Hokays I'm finally back in sg. Lotsa stuff to blog about, but was too busy with exam preparation. Lets start on 20th June.

Exams finally ended on the 20th of June, Friday 4pm. It was the law paper, which was the paper I'm least prepared for. I remember Yu Sheng and I were stressed to the point where our face turned green I think lol. Throughout the whole exam period I couldn't sleep well, sleep's always interrupted by the stupid alarm I have to set from preventing myself from sleeping too much. Couldn't msn, facebook etc etc. It felt really great when the invigilator said "pens down". I was like "FUCKING FINALLY"... The law paper wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. Only problem was the same as the rest of the papers - not enough time. Anyway, ys and I headed to paddys to get our macadamias and met kc there too. Had our dinner at the usual kickass chinese zi-char store and headed to woolies, after which we headed home as we are dead beat.

21st June -0230

I planned not to sleep as I was afraid of oversleeping and missing the cab I booked, but I dozed off on the bed at 0230 nonetheless, waking up at 0430 in a state of shock as the cab will be arriving at 5am.....and my luggage was half packed. Rushed like mad but the cab driver was kind enough to wait a while for me. Nice indo guy. I ended up in the airport at around 520 am and after checking in, realised I had like 2hrs+ to spare before the plane takes off at 8am. It's my first time taking a plane alone, and the experience was reallllllllllllly good. I just enjoyed it alot I don't know why. Maybe because it was the end of exams+going back home. Wandering around the airport alone, having breakfast at macs alone, viewing the planes taking off etc etc...

Me, 36H, aisle seat. 36J, maggie q look alike lady. HOHO! Through out the flight can't help but threw glances at her via her reflection on 36I's monitor screen. Lost count how many glances we threw at each other la. LOL damn interesting. Caught 3 movies on the flight, step up 2, 江山美人 and I am Legend. Food was kinda disappointing, both the breakfast and lunch was quite boring. Finally reached sg at around 2+ and voila! HOME SWEET HOME =))))))))))))))))))))))

Krispy Kreme =))) Waiting for luggage. T3 is wheely beautiful. heh

FINALLY..... I've finished all my projects. It's all down to revising the shit-heaps of work that has accumulated over the past 3 months. In less than a month, I will be back in Singapore. Time flies man...

Recap abit on the past few weeks. Nothing fanciful happened. Weixiang came over to stay at our place for 2 weeks as he was having his term break. We caught Ironman at East Gardens during one of the weekday nights, quite a gd show, just that the cinema seat wasn't that comfy. We went to town on saturday for dim sum, and won some quick bucks at casino later on.

Other than these activities, I've been rather busy playing catching up on tutorials, as well as rushing assignments and projects. Just gonna post some pics taken earlier when we were out. Will try to update as much as time allows me.

Something struck me when I was about to sleep last night. Suddenly, she just came into my mind. Whenever I see her online, a part of me wants to talk to her, but the other just kept fuming at how hot and cold she was towards me during the past few months. I'm concern about her. How is she coping at work? In school? Everyday life? Is she happy? Is she sad? Is she tired? etc etc...

On several occasions, I have told myself not to msg her anymore. Still, I would double click on her name, allowing the conversation box to pop out. I will then stone, eventually pressing the 'x' button...

It is so ambiguous between us right now. I thought I was sure of how she felt towards me when I was in sg for my summers. I was wrong then. Foolish? Maybe. As always? Yes, I think so. All the time and effort (I have never spent so much effort before in 22 yrs of my life) I spent during my holidays, suddenly seem like acts of foolishness to me right now. I just felt that she was taking me for granted, something which is very very hurtful. All the little promises she made to me, none of them came true. Maybe they are just misrepresentations. Maybe they are just trivial matters to her. To me, they are hope.

DUMB DUMB DAMIAN LIM. Isn't this what love is all about? L-O-V-E=H-U-R-T? (Am I right Ms J?) =/ Better get my ass back to work and push those damn marks up.

Yea yea I know I haven't been posting. Really busy with school work. All the projects, assignments and tutorials are driving me nuts. Time certainly passed faster this semester, it's already week 8 now. Exams will be in one month's time. ARGH!~!~

Here are some of the pictures that I didn't get a chance to post up. There's quite abit which I will upload some other day. First up was Apple's birthday. She treated us all at this excellent Jap bbq restaurant. First time trying beef tongue (Third pic from the top). One word. 爽!

Next stop was Levina's birthday. Yep both of them have the same birthday, such coincidence. She held it at her place, and quite a number of people turned up too.

Last pic was the 'back to reality' picture. We were on our way home when we took it. Damn zzz. Reach home=Study... Argh I can't wait for my exams to be over, and be back in home sweet home again. Of course, I will be looking forward to my europe trip with the marist brothers.