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Name: maRcUs
Age: 22
Occupation: SMU Undergraduate
Birthday: 13 March 1985

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Sunday, May 29, 2005

finally the chalet's over. had fun. but most of the time it was irritating. its supposed to be my officer's chalet. but it turned out to be mine. haha. shud have jus start a party there or sth. haha.

only allan me dyne and jianlong stayed over on thursday. we were like playing xbox and crapping thru out the entire night. it was prob one of the more fun times during the chalet. haha. huiling came to join us after that. she's pretty scary. cuz she plays games better than most guys. haha. which was amazing. packing up in the morning was not enjoyable. but glad its over.

didnt slp much the entire night. was almost half dead when i drove home. freddie called to meet up for movie in the afternoon. so i went straight to bed first to catch some slp before going out again. met up with fred and fiona at cine for movie. caught madagascar. haha. funny and amusing show. but not reali worth it cuz the show was only like 80 minutes. kinda same as amityville horror. had a good laugh tho. haha.

went far east after that to pass daphne the bangkok photos and the money i owed her during the trip. i swear her work is so slack la. jus sit at the far east redemption counter whole day doing nothin! haha. and she have her bf for company. goodness. i wan this kinda job too. easy money. haha. went to shop around after that before fiona left.

amy was feeling bored after work so she asked mingyi and us to meet up for dinner. its funny listening to her saying how much she misses her bf cuz her bf went overseas for a week and communication was not exactly accessible. but it was onli the second day her bf had left. haha. cant imagine how she would be like todae. haha. had dinner at sushi tei again. haha. 2nd time in like 4 days. saw zhichao. havent seen him since secondary sch days. thats long. anywae. had a nice dinner at sushi tei. had a good time catching up too. not forgetting laughters. haha.

fred left half way cuz he had driving lesson while the 3 of us went for shopping after dinner. it was the pre singapore sale on friday. so it was pretty good shopping with all the discounts. bought a shirt. but still wanna buy another shirt i saw in metro tho. shall buy it soon. haha. amy had craving for tau hwey so we went selegie after shoppinh. she was still going on abt how much she miss her bf. haha. so she indulged herself with tau hwey and soya bean milk to try and forget abt him. haha. i swear she's gonna get all fat if she continues with that. oh. and thanks mingyi for the earsticks. not forgetting the coin pouch too. thanks!

ydae was spent sleeping and playing xbox. haha. great life.

its a rainy day todae. meetin up with fred and joy later. been ages since the three of us were seen together. haha. hope it'll be fun.

having computer course tml and tuesday at selegie. slacking time again. haha. but starting wednesday. i'll be at padang doing guard duty. argh. do 1 day off 2 days. great. no more looking at weekends for me. will be there till after ndp. goodness. its bad. im becoming like ben. haha. nvm. not gonna tink abt it.

meawhile. im addicted to xbox. be back soon hopefully.

Thursday, May 26, 2005

been a crazy past few days.

yeah..having chalet at changi this week. basically army life couldnt be anymore fun. haha.

left camp early on tuesday morning to shop for chalet stuffs. went home to change before leaving to check in the chalet in allan's car. the chalet's pretty good i must say. nice view. except that there are prob too much bugs around. haha. went allan's place to collect some bbq stuff too. his room is basically his living room dining room kitchen and bedroom altogether. haha. anywae. after putting all the stuffs at the chalet we left for town. parked at goodwood. cheapo. haha. walked around far east. got my ear pierced! haha. dun ask me wad made me do it. i jus felt like piercing it. haha.

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went sushi tei at paragon for dinner after that. had a great time crapping away. bitching. and disturbing the waitresses. haha. ah long ( sounds like some loan shark right? haha ) came to find us after that. wanted to catch amityville horror. and we onli liked ps. so there we went walkin all the way back to goodwood and drive down to ps. show starts at 10 so we had like 2 hours to spare. went for pool at meridien. been ages since i went there. it must have been like 3 years ago when it was the usual hangout place everyday after sch in cj. haha. brought back memories. the show wasnt that scary as it promises to be. still tink the book illustrates the story better tho. but at least it has some storyline. so it wasnt that bad. haha. was pretty late. didnt wanna go for supper cuz i was rather full. so allan sent me back home instead.

had to go back to the chalet in the morning. but thanks to allan oversleeping. we reached onli at noon. haha. Allan brought his 'Ru Hua' VCDs. so we had a fun and laughter filled time watchin it for hours. haha. left to do some last minute shopping for bbq at ard 3. went tampines for lunch. then we headed down to defu lane to get otahs! too bad the satay stalls were closed tho. but its okae. we managed to get another fren to get the satays. dropped by allan's place to pick up somemore things. haha. me and jianlong were like ransacking his room and we found a pack of 12 condoms! haha. terrible la he. haha. anywae. he's gonna like change car again. Mitsubishi Evo 9! my god. life's unfair! haha

went back chalet and started preparing for bbq. did a little bbqing before i decided to flee from the pit. haha. went to play xbox instead. it was all pretty fun. then i played mahjong with my madam and officers. i won 40 cents! haha. pathetic. but kinda addicted to it already. gonna play again tonight! haha. we had a combined birthday celebration too. reali fun. then it was all taking pictures and stuff. capturing our moments before some of us leave. memorable photos. it was amazing how we could make plans so quickly cuz we suggested going clubbing out of the blue. asked our officer and he said we could go and didnt hafta stay at the chalet. so there we went rushing to clean up and blaze the expressways home to change. haha. i swear it was all so impromptu. allan gave me a lift home and my. i saw him blaze the roads at 140 like nobody's business. haha. totally mad.

so there i went. changed up took my dad's car and left for zouk. peeps were great. allan huiling rachel jiahao jianlong lawrence angelia ahlong ken and sheena. it didnt look too packed outside zouk somehow. but inside it was a whole different story. saw candice and weijie after a pretty long time too. phuture was full house! which was pretty sad. but had pretty good fun at mambo tho. i reali tink clubbing is a good medicine and therapy. i was feeling pretty sick ydae again but it somehow disappeared this morning. strange. haha. clubbing was seriously high and fun. except the part when i got hugged from behind by a drop dead gorgeous ah gua!! argh!! haha. i duno to feel fortunate or disgusted. haha. but the tot of it was pretty gross tho. haha. danced with this group of pretty working class ladies too. its funny how they can be more crazy than us with all their exotic dance moves. haha. great music. great dancing. great peeps. great company. woohoo! fun fun fun! we managed to sneak in phuture without the bouncer looking somehow. as they sae. forbidden fruits taste sweeter! haha. i swear the music was so much nicer. so u can imagine how much more fun we had. simply fabulous! =)

reached home at around 3.30 after sending jianlong home. jus in time to catch the start of the second half for the champions league final! Liverpool are the champions of Europe!! i swear my heart sank the moment i saw the score reading at 3-0 to AC Milan. god. i was tinkin to myself 'not again?' haha. been supporting this club for half my life. and it was pretty much the same old story again. bearing the taunts from freddie and frens last time. somehow i didnt give up supporting them. then came the magical 6 minutes. my was it good. Gerrard Smicer Alonso. Dun mention the italians. even i was in shock. haha. but it was great. its the kinda match that will kill someone with a weak heart i swear. haha. then the fantastic goalkeeping of Dudek. The God-knows-how block with 3 minutes left and the dancing goalkeeping moves in the penalty shootout were a total classic. haha. it was simply great. a pleasure to watch.

escape and wild wild wet later! cant wait. and its back to the chalet! be back with more soon. Cheers!

Sunday, May 22, 2005

Its Vesak Day today. and its Michelle's Birthday too. Happy sweet 17th Birthday Girl!

finally had some time to upload bangkok photos. So enjoy viewing them below!

hmmz..it has been a rather short week somehow. weird.

had off on monday and worked onli half a day on tues.

Wednesday - Happy Birthday Freddie Bro!

woke up late cuz had to attend some meeting at CMPB. sent my dad to work before i drove the car to depot road. meeting was rather boring and useless. but its alright. it ended at 12 and i had the rest of the day off. so i changed up and went city hall to pick freddie bro before heading to victors to watch A div. had to pick dad up too cuz he needed the car to go for meeting.
Watchin A div reali does bring back lotsa memories. Kinda made me wanna start bowling again. Amazingly so many ex-sajcian bowlers were there! Kevin Tyler Keith Xiuyun Anli Mavis Melissa Aaron Ben Bene Philip. The atmosphere was reali good. SA won the overall schools title for guys and 2nd for girls. which was simply great! tho i felt we shud have gotten more gold medals. and i swear clara and keith are super duper hilarious. they got my laughin fits going the entire afternoon! haha.

After that we headed to Suntec to celebrate Freddie's Birthday. Anli Xiuyun Mel Mavis Fred Marc Tyler Kev and Keith. Had crystal jade for dinner. The Xiao Long Baos were simply a delicacy made in heaven. Yippie Yippie Yum Yum. totally satisfied. =) Anli and Mel were reali nice to excuse themselves unknowingly to get a birthday cake for fred. How sweet of them. haha. So there we went singing birthday song and crapping away at crystal jade. Anli keith and I left for home while the rest wanted to go chill out. Mavis was wearing a sch tshirt which meant she couldnt enter any pub so i had to lend her my adidas jacket. havent seen my jacket for days. im beginning to miss it. haha.

Met mich at suntec to go home together. been a couple of months since we last met up. so we had pretty much stuff to catch up. talked and rubbished for almost the entire bus ride and walk home. It was reali enjoyable. Its not often i can find someone whom i can be so at ease with. So thanks for making it a pleasant and nice night girl! hugss =)

Friday - met up with mingyi. it was supposed to be a long overdue birthday shopping for her. but if i didnt forced her. she jus wun allow me to pay. haha. in the end all she bought was a jacket. i guess that was only half a present ya. so i still owe u half more k! haha. walked around in town somemore before we went lagoon for early supper. i had my usual sugar cane and the wanton mee. it was reali good. now i know why amy and mingyi have been recommending it to me all along. haha. and thanks for the wallet mingyi! its reali nice. i love it! thanks! =) and i wan my own designer clothes to be ready soon ya? haha

Saturday - supposed to go sentosa and town with victor and gang. but it was cancelled somehow. was supposed to go interclub too. but i was jus too lazy. in the end met up with victor kevin and teehsien after interclub to watch fa cup. went to pool junction. wanted to play pool while watchin soccer but sadly there wasnt any table. so there we sat at the cafe. playing cards and watchin soccer instead. haha. i tot it was a boring match. maybe cuz it wasnt liverpool playing. haha. but glad arsenal won anyway. haha. =) they wanted supper. so there we went to edo sushi at park lane. supper. crapping. laughing. rubbishing. it was all pretty fun. havent gone out with them ever since i started serving NS. so u can imagine how long was that. haha. sent teehsien back and reached home at 3 i tink. tired.

oyah. NDP media brief was on friday. thankfully it went smoothly. was so scared my head was gonna roll cuz i prepared the powerpoint slides. thank god.
alright. thats one media brief down. six more to go! pray for me pple. tho im tinking i shud volunteer to do guard duty at padang to escape all these powerpoint stuff i hafta prepare! shud i?

sigh. need to start catching up on my sleep soon. my eye bags are all starting to show.

on a brighter note. having chalet this week. cant wait. cuz that means no return to office until june! cool! Life is good!

9 and a half more months to ORD! i can smell it!

Day 5 - 15 May 05

AllOurLuggage! ResultingFromExcessiveShopping
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LastGoodbyeAtHotelArnoma
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FinalGoodbyeAtHotelArnoma
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PhilipTheSilentKiller!
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BenedictTheSleepyEye!
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MarcusTheCuteWaterBoy!
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ManfredTheHappyMan!
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FredMarcDapJune! WaitingToCheckInSwissAir!
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AtChangiAirportDutyFree!
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FinallyHome!
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BeerBellies! SecondOneIsTheBiggest!
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Day 4 - 14 May 05

BenLiangMarcDapJune! SettingOffToChatuchak!
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SweatySmellyStickyPigsAtChatuchak!
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FredProvidingSomeSpasticEntertainment!
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NewBagsForExcessiveShopping!
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Day 3 - 13 May 05

freddie liangie harnie horny
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Boyband! You can call them "JMPAB" JusMyPrettyAttitudeBoys
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GaysWithAttitude
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BowlingCentreAtMBK!
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DinnerAtChinatown!
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SatisfiedFaces!
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FredDapMarc - TheJamesBondExperience!
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ViewFromTukTukRideToKhaosan!
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PinkBlueWhiteBlue! Cool Hair!
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WhiteWhiteWhite!
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AaronHavingHisHairExtension!
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NicePubAtKhaosan
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LiangieAaronie
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JackieBenie
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FreddieHarnie
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Day 2 - 12 May 05

StreetsOfBangkok!
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FirstDayShopping! WithMyNiceMosquitoSunglasses!
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Bene Philie Aaronie Freddie Marcky Daphne
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Freddie Marcky Daphne ( Taxi/Tuktuk Buddies! )
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CheapAndGoodJapaneseDinner! YippieYippieYumYum!
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WeManagedToFinishAllOfItSomehow
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SatisfiedFacesAfterDinner!
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OutsideJapRestaurantAtWorldTradeCentre
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Take 2
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TheFiveLitreBeerCan! NeverHadSoMuchBeerInOurLives!
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Day 1 - 11 May 05

freddie marcky
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all of us!
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before takeoff!
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harnie marcky
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harnie freddie
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pisceans are natural cuties.
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jackie junie daphne marcky
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Monday, May 16, 2005

i miss thailand.
i miss popeye's for dinner at changi airport.
i miss the feeling of everybody going overseas together finally.
i miss the finnair flight going to bangkok playing cards with dap and bene.
i miss the lousy food.
i miss how the plane took rounds and rounds of U turns in the air at bangkok.
i miss the bumpy van ride to the hotel.
i miss arnoma.
i miss that cute durian object which resembles fred at the hotel lobby.
i miss sharing room with freddie bro.
i miss how fred scared me at night by suddenly shouting and going back to slp.
i miss how harn ram the door over my foot and made my toe nail crack.
i miss the breakfasts. (Literally. haha.)
i miss the hotel television.
i miss having someone to open the doors for you.
i miss the breath of bangkok when walking down the streets.
i miss shopping aimlessly at Pratunam.
i miss shopping crazily at MahBoonKrong(MBK).
i miss the absurd bargaining sessions.
i miss the crazy taxi rides taking us to the king's palace and hospital.
i miss the fantastic and cheap Jap dinner.
i miss shopping leisurely and fantastic outdoor drinking place at SuanLum.
i miss the time when everybody went high on beer.
i miss my amazing race experience with my taxi and tuk-tuk buddies fred and dap.
i miss fred talking rubbish when he gets high.
i miss the surprise message i received.
i miss me and fred shouting in the hotel room as though we own it.
i miss the time i woke up feeling sick.
i miss how fred made so much noise to wake me up when i was already awake.
i miss the times the taxi dropped us at the wrong places.
i miss the freezing aircon at starbucks and window shopping at Siam Center.
i miss the massage session. (Literally)
i miss shopping at adidas thanks to dap at Siam Discovery.
i miss the continuation of endless shopping and movie at MBK.
i miss how we hafta stand and pay respect to his majesty before the movie began.
i miss the movie. A Lot Like Love.
i miss the long queue for taxis.
i miss the shortcuts and longcuts the taxi drivers took.
i miss traffic jams.
i miss the dinner at Chinatown.
i miss the Sharks fin.
i miss the meagre Crabs.
i miss the Giant Prawns.
i miss the fun James Bond experience tuk-tuk ride to Khaosan.
i miss the fantastic chill out places at Khaosan.
i miss the hair extensions and hair braiding almost all of us had.
i miss my white hair extensions.
i miss clubbing with harn june dap jack bene fred and aaron.
i miss clubbing somemore with harn jack and fred.
i miss the smell clubbing left on me.
i miss how clubbing turned out to be the cure for my illness.
i miss how i felt better again.
i miss how i could laze in bed every morning.
i miss the time the taxi drivers dropped us all at different places at Chatuchak so we could search high and low for each other.
i miss how we eventually found each other.
i miss the thousands and thousands of stalls at the weekend market at Chatuchak.
i miss how we could still bump into each other in the midst of millions of pple.
i miss the smell and sight of sweat of everybody.
i miss the long long taxi ride back with bene jack and aaron.
i miss that cute jap girl me and jack saw while gettin off the cab.
i miss how aaron got locked out of his hotel room with jack sleeping like a pig inside.
i miss the Thai Dinner at world trade center.
i miss the Tom Yam.
i miss the green curry.
i miss the pineapple rice.
i miss shopping leisurely by the road side.
i miss shopping at the supermarket.
i miss seeing prices on shelves believing i could buy the entire supermarket.
i miss the ice cream indulgence with dap.
i miss seeing the piles and piles of things i bought.
i miss the time i was so worried thinking how to bring my things back to singapore.
i miss the time i eased that worry.
i miss the drinking and card playing sessions in the rooms.
i miss how ben carry fred up like a piece of toy.
i miss the crazy phototaking times.
i miss the mornings lazing in bed.
i miss how worried we got when our flight was cancelled.
i miss the ease we had when they switched us to swiss air.
i miss the flight back to singapore with liang harn and phil.
i miss the nice food.
i miss the movies and games we enjoyed on the in flight entertainment system.
i miss how who wants to be a millionaire and trivia games made us seem like complete fools.
i miss how my entertainment system hanged.

but i wouldnt miss all these..
without missing all of you who made it a wonderful trip.
thanks! =)
Daphne. Harnie. Junie. Aaronie. Jackie. Freddie. Philie. Bene. Benie. Liangie.
You guys rock my world! =)

Thursday, May 05, 2005

the week's passing rather quickly. wonder why.

went out with bros on sunday. went marche. bitching as usual. saw philip and his gf. haha. funny couple. wanted to watch movie. but no timings. went some coconut place in kovan instead. nice place. watched soccer together. more bitching.

had duty ydae and sth unpleasant happened again. shall not tok abt it. its a female staff sergeant again. but its another one this time. sick.

on a brighter note. went sungei gedong for some briefing today. and my was it far. but its okae. left camp at 8 in lawrence's car and went to pick chief clerk. briefing ended at 12. went toa payoh for lunch. crystal jade. yummy. chief clerk treated us. nice of her. =) had so much food. xiao long bao. la mian. char siew rice. roasted pork and duck. and nice dim sum.

level of satisfaction - 8

she let us off back home too. so reached home at 3. even nicer of her.

level of happiness - 8

and on an even brighter note. bangkok in 6 days! cant wait. patpong. pratunam. khaosan. see shows. shopping. spa. clubbing. chilling out with gang. time to pack my bag before i run outta time!

and oh yes. liverpool won! and to the champions league final! been waiting for this day for ten years. goodness. it has finally happened! =)

and its strange how ever since i had my eye infection, all i have ever dreamt abt was liverpool winning the champions league. could it be an omen? maybe i ought to bet a fortune on liverpool to win. -ponders-

Sunday, May 01, 2005

it has been a while..

met up with freddie amy and mingyi last sunday. it has been a long long while since the 4 of us got tgt. so it was pretty nice meeting up again. went for tau hwey. played pool. i knocked some poor soul's car plate. haha. went east coast lagoon. went fishermen's. took nice photos. and back to lagoon again. and oh yes. i swear fred's gettin stronger. last time he couldnt even carry me. and yet he managed to piggyback me and ran. haha. yes. he ran. haha. had a good time. =)

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had lotsa duties in camp this week. so didnt do much. tried catchin up on slp whenever i could. but something unpleasant had to happen. got backstabbed by one of my female staff sergeants on fri. i seriously tot she was like the nicest person in my unit. but i supposed i got it wrong. she put words into my mouth jus to get herself outta trouble. thankfully my madam believed me. if not i would have died horribly. sigh. hate backstabbers. they ought to jus die. it jus totally spoilt my week. and it makes me reali wonder. with such pple in the army i tink spore will jus die if there's a war. and i cant believe that everybody is actually contributing money to the govt to employ these pple in the army. serious total waste of resources. sigh.

having standby this week. so didnt reali felt like going out. was suppose to meet frens ydae. but they played me out three times. thankfully amy called. if not i would have been stuck in nowhere. was suppose to meet for lunch. then got played out. then suppose to meet for dinner. got played out again. then it was supper. third time. great. haha. anywae. amy called cuz she needed a guy to help buy her bf's present. haha. its not like she needed my opinion. but she wanted to get CK briefs for her bf. so she jus needed a guy to pay for it at the cashier cuz she was paisei. haha. but being the nice me. i decided to help. haha. wasnt that difficult. then she bought her own lingerie. wanted to go for tau hwey after that. but she suggested lagoon. so we called mingyi along. haha. oh yes. and not forgetting sth amy said. haha. she said that she found fred and mingyi very compatible. i duno how she came to that conclusion. but ya. haha. anywae. amy had her dinner and we all had sugar cane. i tink im kinda having too much sugar cane these days. i have drank like 5 times in the past week already. totally crazy. haha.

left at abt 11. was on the way home when josh called. tot supper was on so i went to pick josh up from his 'fren's' place. haha. scandalous. watching dvd alone with a girl at her house on a saturday night. haha. totally scandalous. haha. anywae. jus as i said. got played out. so me and josh headed for wala wala instead. the live band was reali good and they played some fantastic music. but the crowd was somewhat subdued. wasnt exactly enthu except the crazy angmohs sitting beside us. haha. it was pretty fun to join in the dancing and all. haha. hmmz. actually the music isnt fantastic. it was simply fabulous. the songs are still stuck in my head now. haha. and josh forced me to drink. when im driving. how nice. thanks dude. haha. stayed till the band finished playing their last set. which was like 2am. haha. reali tired. but reali enjoyed the music. it was seriously good.

all the music im being exposed to. its making me go into music nowadays. i need to find jiahao to continue teachin me guitar! and josh to teach me drums. haha. jamming here i come!

next week's the 3rd anniversary the band's playin i tink. josh suggested we go again. great. anybody whose interested in music wanna come along? i promise it's gonna be good!