1st week

Stressed.

Will overcome.

Everything was, but just the beginning.

Twelve more weeks to go.

Will survive.

My will.

Last Few Hours...

Just got this news from a reliable source that I'll be in ro*ky hi*l's Zul*u coy. SHIT.

The worse coy in that school.

Anyway, the last few fruitful days were spent watching movies, tiny feasting and literally went sightseeing around the island. Met Nel, Ting, and Yong ren for dinner at Vivo and spent rest of the night there. Supposedly wanted to watch a movie, however ended up having supper with Nel and weida. On sat, yr and me met up again for a trip downtown on a bus, purposeful for sightseeing when mrt would be much faster. Watched Blood Ties by Chai Yee Wei at GV Plaza. A surprisingly good movie for a first full length film director . 4.5 out of 5 stars! Dinner time, I went to grandpa's house for my last dinner with them before ns, and then shortly after that met yr again. At midnight, we watched another one - The Ugly Truth. 4.5 out of 5 stars too! Super funny... Katherine Heigl is super cool. muahahahaha. Took night owl back to my house, and we ended the day after a few small chat about ns. woke up at 11, immediately we go out of house and went to chevron's e mart to buy ns things. walked 2km to chinatown to buy my stuff. Hmm, tired.

At night, had dinner with family at a jap restaurant and went on with buying yet more stuff for ns - from batteries, stationeries and alarm clock. what a nice ending...

Goodnight!

Next weekend out: The Proposal, G-Force 3D, Final Desto 3D. Hopefully can come out. Dunno what's the first thing I'll do then.

Where Got Ghost Review

First thing first, I must gasp in dismay and suggest that the film didn't worth 20% of the $8.50 ticket price at all. I guess Jack Neo is running out of idea, and has tried all ways he could possibly have done to engage the audience with his favourite mixture of laughter and one other extreme reaction, and in this case, kiddy fright. Despite all his effort, I'd say he was merely trying to entertain a two-year-old with his ultra-fake computerised graphics and the same old repeated jokes - how many times, in his previous movies, did Ah Nan said about the cobra and the 'spectacles'? Umpteem times. The ghostly appearance and some cinematic shooting angle do however look some sort of Holywood or Hong Kong film style. The rest of the effects were just damn fake, and having to stare so long at the screen just to see the fake granite hill fall off its cliff was simply a pain. Throughout the nearly two hours and especially nearing the end, I felt quite some urge to leave the hall - I have never felt like this before. Not only did the three story parts unlinked, I wasn't really sure what's the rational behind each individual part.

Albeit funny, the entire experience just left me wondering again whether to watch his next film. The decision this time to watch it is all in the name of supporting a Singapore film. I will surely think twice before queueing for the ticket to his movie in future. It's a total disgrace for the Singapore film industry - now almost all Malaysian cinemas show this film. Roystan Tan, a new bird in the commercial-scale production, did a far, far better job.

Following his previous movie's 1-star rating by a local magazine, I'd have given him half a star more this time, at the capacity of a common layman. It just feels like a no-brainer film of the 1970s.

Last Few Days...

Alright, D Day seems nearer than ever and having to spend the remaining 100 hours or less fulfilling an ever increasing items on the to-do list sucks, albeit a little of excitement here or there knowing that I'll for sure shed off those extra pounds.

D day also means an extra thing: the last few days of staying in this comfy and beloved house. When it's time to book out, the feeling of not knowing where my new home is sucks too. But with my beloved family, I'm totally at ease while playing with my new big toys. (sis don't get YAYA!) Nation above self.

Things seem a little odd these days yea? I hope not. But yeeeeaaa it is if I did follow my heart. NS is up and coming, that's the only thought. Shall status quo remains.

Yet frankly speaking, my enlistment date is at a right time because there won't be a confinement period as it did to my other counterparts. There's a public holiday on the 21st Sept. And on top of that, I get to enjoy many long weekends for the next half of the year as many of them will fall on a friday.

Wilds aside, another thing I'm not getting used to: From SAMSUNG smart-phone with QWERTY keypad to that old-school Nokia. And I really feel shiok when typing QWERTY at one go. Piano-style movement.

So from tomorrow onwards, I'll be happy to even just stay home and enjoy every detail of my house, although as always the outside world scratches my heart whenever i'm home. Nobody's going to watch the newly set up Mio TV because I'm away. No more feasting for me. Sis noticed that I didn't do my 10km today. What the hell are you noticing? Indeed, it's hell.

I shall prepare to empty a 'parking lot' in anticipation of my new boots.

Ns

NS in 6 days.

Packing up the whole room into cartons within the last week.
Preparing an item list for Ns.
Preparing resignation letter to boss.
Make appointment for dental care.
Enjoying the last few nites of stay at home.
Jogging 10km everyday.
Swim at least once this week.
Finishing up all blog posts that are left in draft state.
Explanation.

14 sept. 2pm.

Genting/KL Day 1

All it took for a long overdue decision and an impromtu action, we ended up on a coach bounded up north. It's my (n)th trip there since 2005, and the third for this year. That's just for Genting; a total of five entries have been made into Malaysia. Sounds boring yea? Quite not if you're traveling with different pals each time.

I took train all the way to AMK for coach boarding. As in the receipt, we were entitled for luxury coaches for both ways because we've upgraded our ride. A 'CEO platinum cruiser' by WTS travel has motorised aircraft seatings and a personal entertainment system. Quite a nice thingy to have for an especially long and winding journey.

For this entire trip, we ate, slept, shopped, ate, and again and again, till I found some gain. Trust me it's true.

When approaching the highway towards Pahang at KL, a slight jam slowed us down. But nonetheless we still arrived earlier than stated and, most importantly, safely. Henceforth we became the first 20 in the check-in queue, which the worst scenario could be a wait of at least 3 hours. While waiting, we had a buffet lunch at Coffee Terrace where they featured the Singapore Food Promotion, with two giant Merlion statue guarding the entrance. I felt a gust of familiar hospitality as if at home, so we entered. I would say the food is better than those at our local hawker centers! But not all though.

After check in, we visited Ripley's Believe it or not museum. Very interesting exhibits like the one in Hong Hong's The Peak. Rm18 per adult, considered cheap for a musuem visit. 3 hours were spent there, sky has turned dark. It wasn't cold until night falls.

That's it for the first day! Cos' there wasn't really much things to do within Genting itself. Looking forward to day 2's KL trip! Just before movie, we went Sushi King, where I had a share of their Unagi Fest! And after the movie, with nothing else to do, we sat at a cafe holding on to my mocha and some danish. Sip by sip in the midst of the chilly and foggy air. Cool. Just that it didn't snow.

This is the first movie we had - On His Majesty's Secret Service (大内密探灵灵狗). It has a hilarious setting for almost all parts of the approximately 100mins show. The entire audience (full occupancy everyday!) giggled and laughed as if everybody poked one another non-stop. Everything was damn funny! The best part was that a 'premium' movie ticket cost only RM15 (approx S$6), and it comes with a box of pop corn, a packet of chips and a regular drink. For RM1 more, we will get to use the OSIM massage chair for an all-new movie experience! Too bad only 10 chairs are available each time. We gotta try all movies till we get one! Maybe that's the reason why we watch one movie a day. lol.

Quoted Yahoo Movies: For generations, the secret service has always been responsible for protecting the emperor, where 12 agents are assigned to bodyguard duty. Among the current group, Zero Zero Dog (Louis Koo) is considered to be the weakest as he shows no interest in the martial arts and spends his time studying technology and coming up with scientific inventions. When Dog uncovers an evil plot to kill the emperor by the chief eunuch, Cao Yan Chui (Fan Siu Wong), he decides to eliminate the enemy himself.

It was unfortunate that Singapore doesn't show this film. Even if it does, it'd be translated into Mandarin. What a disappointment.

Finally, blogger stops that shit - pictures uploaded now.

Day 2 includes a visit to KL city center. First stop was Times Square, then followed by the shopping malls around Bt Bintang like Lot 10 and Sungei Wang.

A Wild Heart

First thing first before I forget: Happy birthday, Singapore!

I'm getting rather wilder these few years as I try my best to travel to many places. More and more targets are already on my mind, and just deciding where to go first. Maybe 20 more years, after saving up from more disposable income, I'd want to give Japan and Europe a visit each. Definitely.

Watch this video and its different parts. The more I watch, the more I love the beautiful scenery! Look at the Mt Fuji. The Fuji River. Osaka, and then Kyoto. All they begin from Tokyo.




OMG. I'm getting in love with Japan... The Sapporo Ramen. Onsen. Best of all, the Shinkasen (Bullet Trains)! Other than that, I want to see the Roman Catholic Church, the Trevi fountain and the Colosseum in Rome, the gondolas on the venice waterways, the Empire State building and the midtown manhattan junction, the railway market in Bangkok, the body of Mr HCM in Hanoi, the Washington Monument, a possible cross-country drive from Perth to Sydney Opera House; and even Pyongyang to see how the 'forbiden city of reality' actually functions. And also not forgetting all the seven wonders of the world, especially the Grand Canyon and Coloseum, toronto's CN tower, and the Great Pyramid. Definitely not forgoing the Aurora for anything! Oh well, is $200,000 enough? Don't faint, dad. It's for future for myself by myself. For that sum, perhaps I have to wait till I'm 40 years old to realise the dream.

For now, they're all bubbles. Jus yet, don't try to burst any! Just let my heart wonder for a moment.



The Aurora

Leading a sedantary lifestyle

OMG. Zhenyu has had cravings for Mac. HAHAHAHA. Sounds serious? Like the first time in dunno how many donkey years? I mean, not just the burger the bun or the patty but fries this time! If you know me well, well, you'll know i hate fries because I don't think potatoes should go into the hot oil. So the worst thing is that, the cravings were satisfied like almost immediately. Out I went and I'm just in time for the McValue just to save a mere bit. Don't know what's that call, mac double fish fillet? With added wasabi of course. I love it! Had this once in Hong Kong, and I'd say the second attempt to break the record was so similar to the first. They tasted almost the same, or least the same at all. I'm going to try bolehland's mac next week!

Not withstanding that, I think I'm certain I'm correct and I'm justified that H1N1 is within me. It was just reported in the news that almost all flu patients is contracted with it, and it's become a large scale common flu, just like any other viruses in history. It's been 3 weeks since my first visit to the doctor? And the first visit was 1 week after my first symptom surfaced. So technically there are more than 30 days of symptoms. Up till today I'm still on anti-biotics because my doctor couldn't dispose me with tamiflu because his clinic is not under the Pandemic Preparedness Clinic (PPC) framework. He said 'even if you're down with H1N1 I can't tell either'. Like wtf? Ok sorry for that but the bottomline is that I'm still down.

Seems like the virus is invading my brain cells. I've been satisfying my every craving, like the mac case, and more to come. Potatoe chips?! Oh gosh. I hated it for once and for years of abstinence until I broke the sacred and unspoken history with my bare hands and an open mouth in just a few seconds. The 3kg lost (WOW) during the last month could be, again, a matter of history. Refering to this post, the target and result are on par but if I'm going at this rate, the lost kilos will be reverted in just a few days. And the virus being in the way of workouts, the body mass will typically, as is the case before, increase back to the peak of recent times.

Kbox session tml, and I hope to warm up my huge already long frozen brain.

ONE GOOD NEWS. The new owner of my house has agreed to extend the tenure for two months comencing from the date of completion. Maybe November instead of next month. Urgently looking for a new stayout now. Thank them for that, appreciated. If not perhaps the spot under KJE flyover could be our next shelter...

ITS HOLIDAY SEASON! Travelling around the region for the next few weeks!

Yet another craving: this time round an unrealistic one and can't be satisfied in at least the near future. She's the one.

A korean born in germany. A true elegant beauty in its class. And for the price.

TEN years later. Cool.

Home Sweet Home

Look at how she construct her own bed. That's so smart and cute of her!

That's really hilarious! HAHAHAAHA. Or perhaps she knows we're all moving soon....

AND... I think this is real cool. Called the PRT (Personal Rapid Transport), it moves only when there's passenger, so that alone can save on resources and thus lower fare (Approx 20c a trip for 4 persons), yet direct service (can go right into a shopping mall or office building) with no transfers needed. The best thing is, the train waits for you, not the other way around like the mrt or bus transit. Imagine our Orchard Road featuring such cool thingy??

And this is how she sleeps everyday!

New job!

A new job, a new begining.

Just bathed the hamsters. They smell good like i do!

Sick

It's been one week since the last post. Perhaps with litt or no mood to blog, even facebook apps seem so boring. And, 3 slips of MCs for the past 7 days - first was toothache, and fever, then today chest discomfort and so giddy. Is it H1N1?! So worried. mask on. I tried to go work yesterday, but in the end ended work 5 hrs earlier instead and took a cab home for a restful night.

Attended cousin zanc's graduation at ntu. all the best for him! ntu, here i come!

And, I don't usually talk to bastards.

A Day At Bay

A bad, bad toothache... High fever.

Wondering how real is that.

Stopped.

Out We Go! - A New Chapter Begining

This morning came an expatriate family with their two little boys, as well as a local retiree. Both parties arrived at my doorstep for viewing and consequently one became the new owner after a table of negotiation. That means my house is now technically sold, with just one or more steps at the law firm to be officially sold. The new owner - a nepalis middle aged men and his young family - instantly became the to-be owners with a downpayment after agreeing to what all of us believe it to be a 'heavenly heaven' - my home. That was their first visit, our first viewer, and surprisingly the deal closes so quickly because they liked it the moment they enter the house. Good thing for the agent. Then the other viewer also liked it so much so that competition arose between them for the next two hours. But the local man, whose wife wasn't around, loses out because he couldn't get hold of the go-ahead by his spouse. In the end, the family man inked down at a premium he is rather comfortable with.

After nearly 10 years of residency at this condominium, things have certainly gone far and almost everything, including the neighbourliness and the physical environment, now feels even closer to heart following the confirmation of departure. Surely, we can't bear to leave this place but life has to go on and into the next phase of our lives, or a milestone travelled.

It does take quite some effort to let go, and mum will be hardest hit - being the household manager day-in day-out. Long Service Award - should there be one.

Now trees are tall, and the tiles have shown signs of exposure to the elements; all these are significant as we age all together right from the beginning. Not everybody likes algae growing on the ledge, but I do. It goes through the test of time and with every weather element. So are hairline cracks, blown light bulbs and some stubborn stains.

Every moment of the past has been captured and witnessed within and with them signing on the dotted line, that signifies the end of the legacy. But of course, there will be a new house soon. While many belongings will be shifted over, certain things need to stay intact, taking over nothing but pure memories. More and more photos will be taken, just like this afternoon, which we the shutterbugs work non-stop in an attempt to capture every corner as images to be kept, waiting to be retrieved many many years down the road, supplementing our real-life history lesson in future.

So within the next and final 10 weeks of stay, we vowed to make everything perfect, including the daily use of the estate facilities (but not by sleeping on the car park lot) and upkeeping the house's physical condition in the upmost and tip-top state. The fish-eye view outside our full-height windows, which leads the sightline to as far as Bukit Timah, Bukit Panjang, Jurong Town and Jurong Island, will always be missed... cos' the images of it simply cannot replicate the breathtaking and scenic wonderful heaven's gift which we had enjoyed for almost a decade, together.

Yew Mei Green - a true epitome of goodness.

Seriously, things around me have been changing at a rapid rate. Seems like I will have to work harder to bring back lost things... Anything but then, not just the loafs. But I hope to discard things that should well have been discarded. Somebody important please appear... Come back, courage!

Food For Thought

Mum fell sick, so came the responsibility. What a thoughtful son...

Last night's amazing dinner: Ipoh horfun Soup

Tonight's hearty dinner: Tropical Seafood Crepe
(Tuna + Pineapple + Blueberry and a slice of cheddar cheese)

Wow.......

Project NS

Ns enlistment is around the corner! So, I shall (once again) commence on the project 'D' for 'diet'! Because of all those unnecessary trips overseas, those past projects have been halted several times in a year, or two, or reluctantly the past 20 years. What's left in store will be the time in next two months, which is from now till 31 Aug. The target will be to lose 5 kg in all, or 0.6kg per week. 600g if you wish, if I still look like a beautiful piece of pork to you. Though 5kg may look as if a NO BIG DEAL number, losing 0.6kg a week is not an easy task. So what's in the plan? No comments. Just results... =)

Update: Letter came - Pes B L1. Date still unknown. zzz... I hope I'll be enlisted like, NOW. Quickly go in and get out earlier, so to stop it from being a hindrance to my progress as planned.

Determination... Prudence... Integrity... Yield to maturity!!!! lol.