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2010-06-30T23:41:00.002+08:00

Just when I have the energy to stay up and watch world cup, there is no world cup match. zz
In a flash, im half a year into the job. In a flash too I could have been oversea and halfway through UQ's BSc. That was if only I had just be resolute and gone over. Yeah if only. Now im still torn, thinking of what I should do. sigh

2010-05-08T12:11:00.000+08:00

For the record, I am still alive. Sighs.

2010-01-31T19:40:00.002+08:00

One month into the new job. Research assistant at NDC. I was supposedly going to receive my own namecard. Hahaha. Shall see about that. Right now my job scope is to maintain my own lab, every aspect of it, chemicals, consumables and equipment, help 2 doctors with their 2 own separate research projects. As usual every aspect of it like literature, budget, schedule and experiments. Suddenly i feel underpaid. And i suddenly dont feel like studying for a degree. But no degree = this for the rest of your life. Unless i go into playing pool full time =D

Studying is really better than working =/

2010-01-03T21:51:00.002+08:00

Ooh Happy New Year all! A bit late haha, already day 3 of the new decade. Starting work at ndc tmr, hope i can continue as a part time valet. Its been very interesting, cars and company alike. Just yesterday there was 2 skyline GTRs going up to OC, in the shift before mine. Wasted.\

Cars driven on "last few days" of valet
Toyota Rav4
Honda Odessey
Merc E250, S350
Toyota MARKX! , Estima
Some Chevy with a funny reverse gear catch (yeah i did not know that so i had to push the car back manually as i drove too near a parked van haha.)

I havnt touch Audi and Jaguar yet. Boo.

2009-12-29T23:37:00.003+08:00

Somehow i dont feel all thrilled to be going into the new decade. Will be starting my 2 year contract with NDC in the first week. Its like army all over again. Haha.

These are the few cars i managed to touch. Some of them are damn big 7 seaters. Like a minibus already. Some are damn big SUVs, seriously not suited for singapores cramp multi storey car parks. The volvo SUV is damn nice to drive. Haha. But after going up and down OC carpark, the car ate up fuel that was meant to travel 10km. Power. Michelle Chong drives a sweet white 350Z. Pity i wasnt able to drive that and the S15 =(

Nissan Presage
Toyota Previa
Subaru Impreza WRX
Nissan Murano
Hyundai Tucson
BMW 5 series (old)
Volvo XC90
Merc E200
Volvo S60
Lexus IS300

2009-11-25T23:58:00.002+08:00

Its still not too late.. I think im shifting the scales to PSB..

PSB cons
Bad admin
Bad facilities
Distance Learning (DL) degree
No direct hons
No subsidy..37K course fees!

.. But degree from UWA. It should be better than an SIM degree..Right?

SIM
40% gahmen subsidy
Close to bento lol
Direct hons

AH! I think i should really choose the path that i really want to take. Not some random choice.

2009-11-25T23:51:00.002+08:00

I was in a dilemma as to whether i should further overseas or local. But now that i have secured the job from NDC (yay hahah!) i think i should really rethink SIM biomedical engineering or PSB molecular bio and biotech. Why bme? I looked thru the courses, its mainly electronics leh. I think i chose it for its location and subsidies. Goodness i really have to think hard abt my future..

2009-11-23T00:14:00.002+08:00

Out of sheer boredom i decided to go for the valet part time job. Yes v-a-l-e-t lol. The working place was orchard central, which was offering free valet services. So i did sunday 12-11pm under some valet company which was offering a measly 5 dollars per hour. All in all i was only allowed to touch 7 cars. The list a la gone in 60s is as shown below. How I wish I can make the Lexus LS350 gone in that minute. It was sitting there for hours. But it fetched a huge tip =D
Overall tips was super. Cannot disregard beginners luck eh. Haha

1. VW Golf GTI (damn awesome for a first valet driver's first car)
2. Nissan (Latio i think)
3. Toyota (some big mpv, should have taken the Lexus mpv. grr)
4. Honda Accord Euro R. (roar! stalled 2 times but still roar! LOL)
5. Mercedes (A class i think, was a hatch)
6. Nissan Teana (damn big la. dunno for what)
7. Honda Accord
8. Lexus LS350 (no lah. i dun dare touch lol. sat as passenger to an awesome driver)

2009-11-18T21:52:00.002+08:00

Met up with Eugene yesterday. He was back from perth for summer break. haha. Went to ps for indonesian bbq. Im having a bad throat so i had overpriced fish soup. Ok lah, maybe the soup was so much that what little fish was swimming around in it. After that went to play pool at cine. Whoa that place is damn overpriced.. peak hour 9 foot pool is 12.80/hr and snooker is 16.80! Now is a best time to put up some advert for snooker zone at toa payoh! Prices are below 10/h all the time and it opens till 3am! Woo lol.

Anyway, orchard central is an architectural marvel or disaster depends on how you view it really. Apart from its long thrilling escalators and maze like layout, it has nothing much. Perhaps not all the shops have opened. There was a lot of space everywhere. Then the shops all crammed together. Heh..Ion basement 4 alone has more 3x more people than the whole of oc.

Singapore better win in Thailand. Zomg

2009-11-14T21:50:00.002+08:00

the agent from recruit express gave me, correction, appealed to me to sub some sick person for a temp temperature screening job. I dunno why i even took it up. Well i guess it was necessary sacrifice to probably get some job references from them..So i was at renci hospital on wed fri and today from 2-8pm. Its freaking dusty and noisy as renovations are carried out. On friday i was conned by sx to woodlands in search for a new car rental company. Walked long roads to no avail. Later played snooker, super fun and exasperating at the same time. I thought i could report for work on time. Alas there was no cab for 15mins and a jam on the expressway made me 20 mins late and $17 poorer. Lesson learnt, do not work on friday the 13th.

On a happier note, NDC called me up for an interview on thursday. I managed to find a grey G2000 (bro's) shirt hiding in my closet so i did not have to look like a waiter. It went pretty smooth and well. I hope i can get that. But it is not going to be an easy job. Haha.

2009-11-06T15:29:00.005+08:00

8--Cathay------------------Temp Driver from 3rd - 18 dec
9--Some Gov Sector-----Lab Tech
10-NEA---------------------Environmental Health Officer

Number 10 is the sign of the times. Mosquito Killer, a diploma as prerequisite. Thats the state of diplomas now in Singapore; next to nothing. Actually i had a job offer. It was the skate company. They had enough drivers for the time being so they offered me to teach skating and after 20 sessions, i could do the teaching. I was for it at first, until tuesday night when i finally figured it would not be sustainable, (imagine 730am at woodlands or bukit batok or clementi or jurong) profitable or even stable (like confirming of lesson the day before) at this point of my life.

If you choose to do something, give it your best and do it well, or dont even bother starting

2009-10-30T13:00:00.002+08:00

Haha went for the job interview at the agency Recruit Express. I wore a dull white shirt-black pants combo. It went well, the interviewer was okay, perhaps it was morning so she wasnt that impatient with me. I gave a lot of "like that lor" answers to her qns until she got a bit fed up and lectured me on the dos and donts of an interview. Haha. I got reminded of Jovin* (see year 2007 posts lol) Maybe i should have gone to Kelly Services and see how she looks like.

Attended the farewell at the mess on wednesday for yeo who is going to be posted out from the unit. Now theres 3 pple left, technically 2 as one is clearing leave for ord and danger of another posting out before the new batch coming in next month. Whoa indeed a lot has changed and shaken up since i left. Sometimes i wonder if i should have extended, but theres no point since i have no intention to sign on. I am not that irreplaceable, am I?

The weather is particularly irritating. It was sunny then cloudy to the point of thunderstorm. Then it rained a bit then now its sunny again. Roar.

P.S Jovin was my agent for the data entry job 2 years ago. Her voice is damn sexy lol. And latest update. I STILL HAVE HER HANDPHONE NUMBER LOLOL.

So much for the P.S. Yes i am using my 6670 again! Luckily my bro din manage to soak it in water or drop somewhere. And in it are many contacts like Jovin's. Should i call her? HAHAHA

Real P.S Seagate sent me a delivery note. So my 2x 500GB harddisks replacements should be coming real soon

2009-10-29T14:46:00.005+08:00

No-----Institution----------Position--------------------Status
1 ------SERI--------------- Grader-------------------- Nil since 300909
2 ------AStar---------------Lab Biologist-------------- Nil since 191009
3 ------All Critters-------- Vet Tech--------------------Nil since 201009
4 ------NDC--------------- Lab Biologist---------------281009
5 ------Recruit Express---- QA Tech --------------------291009, interview on fri
6 ------Recruit Express---- Lab Tech -------------------291009, interview on fri
7 ------Skate Coy---------- P/T Van Driver--------------291009 (lol)

How i wish i can make money blogging. Perhaps i should consolidate all my past posts and send for publishing. lol

2009-10-26T19:10:00.003+08:00

ORD LOH!

Exactly 2 years later. Haha. In a nutshell at least it didnt feel like a waste of time. Got lucky with postings and overall its been fun in the unit. Haha. Luckily i was not allowed to be called back next february. Too fast lol.

Been running ard having fun and catching up with friends,unit and bmt mates. I have to complain about Shell. They were having this $1 petrol offer. And so i went like the rest of singapore to clog up the roads. Initially i could not remember which part of Lor 1 the station was located at. So i was driving up to the point when suddenly there was a queue on the road near the macdonalds. Must be it lah. Haha. So i queued lor. I took out the directory and checked. Eh this queue not that long leh! So i waited and crawled on slowly. After 20 mins or so i finally caught sight of the station. To my horror, the queue goes into the minor road and U turns out. Lol. That was another 45min. Altogether the fuel guage dropped one mark. Wasted at least 2L waiting lol

Finally got to the pumps and i specifically told the fucktard to pump 17L and he confirmed it. So i went to the counter and told the cashier my number. I asked twice and she was like wait havnt finish pumping yet. I felt something already. The register read 35 dollars. Fuck he go pump full tank. I was rushing off so i decided fuck it. On the way out i questioned him again he gave the excuse thought i told him 70L. Which fucking altis has a 70L fuel tank. Plus in that same morning at ard 1230am i already kena conned by some retarded china guy at bukit batok Shell say what fuel price discounted by half. Nv say properly that it was only 10am-6pm and I go pump 25L. So i still had about half tank left when i was toa payoh. Fuck Shell.

And so i returned the car with extra 1/4 tank which easily amounts to $15 (15L). Fuck Shell.

2009-10-01T19:02:00.002+08:00

happy childrens day! hahah. And there you have it october is here. Less than 10 odd working days left. Im kinda wondering what to do after that. Anyways i applied for SIM Biomedical Engineering starting in Jan nx year. Hope i can get the SERI job joanna introduced to me. Its kinda of like medical imaging kinda stuff which sounds and looks cool. If i do, i will have to make her coffee everyday but its ok. HAHA.

Its really good to keep a blog. At least you wont forget when and where u did what so that you will have a much easier time to do up your CV. Haha. It kinda brings back fond (forgotten) memories too. =)

2009-09-28T19:16:00.002+08:00

whoa. time really flies. Less than a month to ord! And so much for my resolution to blog more. Lets see, been to sentosa and badminton and pool and lan for much of the weekends. Oh just had a section bbq last friday. Nice.

Went for a swim just now. Feels good and rusty. Haha. Gotta find a job soon. So i have to do up my cv and stuffs. Its good to keep a blog. I cant remember when my attachment was already. HAHA

2009-07-14T19:45:00.002+08:00

Whoa cannot believe i ko-ed for so long on monday. Guess i had to pay my body back the sleep that i deprived it over the weekend. Haha.

The car from express car rental was not bad, although a tad expensive. $230 for weekend, Friday to Monday, on a 24hr basis. I got the car at 1315H on friday and returned at 1315H on Monday. Petrol was 52.90. Parking around $12-$15 so all in all ard $300, half my pay. Heh. The first 150Km used approx 15L of petrol, 10Km/L only. Kns the previous owner must have pumped 92 grade. What a fucker. My next 250km only used 20L, which is about 12Km/L. Haha no difference lah! LOL

2009-07-12T22:52:00.006+08:00

Thursday 090709
0900H-Met up with poly mates

1000H-L4D at parklane, Big O. The coms are nice and good. That place is good. So good we played until 3am. And it cost only $6.

0330H-Ate at some al-ameen style restaurant down the road. It was bad.

0400H-Zm sent me home haha

0430H-Dad wakes up. I went to sleep

Friday 100709
0630H-Dragged myself up for work.

1215H-Left workplace, still divided whether i should go rent a car. The previous one that i went to closed down. In the end i did, and think im glad i did. Haha.

1315-Got the car frm express car rental, at the aljunied branch, it was a black altis. Still thinking whether it was a good idea.

1415-Met up with mui, went to C4 for BENTO! Suddenly, the car rental seemed like a priceless decision. Nah not suddenly, the crispy fish fillet, the juicy teriyaki chicken, the oh so perfectly half fried egg, the golden brown shishamo. Plus the honeydew milkshake. Plus plenty of gorgeous girls frolicking about the school compound. Then we went to Mambo for pool. Its like poly days all over again. Priceless.

1730-Went for choir chalet! Did the bbq setup, as usual. Haha. But gtg off so freaking early to attend the happy hour back at camp. Missed a lot of good bbq stuff. Pissed off.

2000-Reached the mess, had some food, i shouldnt have even gone there..

2200-Reached town, got lost trying to find the timbre carpark. But thanks to singapore real time gps system Liam(Lian) HH i found it. No parking space and no seats at timbre. Waited for bear to come from work then we went to clark quay. First stop was hooters. Overpriced half chicken wings and disgusting drinks and lousy aircon drove us off to yello. The crazed people opened a chivas. But it was fun.

0330-The bar closed so we were driven away again. Apparently jim beam had to supplement the alcohol fanatics, all 90cl of it.

Saturday 110709
0600-Finally the madness ends. Well not really. Fetched (yes i drove but i din drink much only 1.5 glass of vodka fruit punch and one chivas green tea and some jim beam coke but im still 100% sober, im lying maybe 90% sober but its not an excuse for drink driving and i could have kena heapload of shit and miraculously there wasnt any TP (or else bear will die like shit) or i conked out at the wheel causing the car to flip 10 times or smt but luckily that din happen and i will not do that again and i will not let bear drive even though he is still fucking sober or if there is a fucking next time)

0700-Reached Macs at Yuan Ching. Omg hotcakes are nice.

0830-Reached home in one piece after tahan-ing the long journey. Conked out on the spot after taking a shit and shower.

1200-Was supposed to wake up to go chalet but wth its 12pm when i jolted up. Went to fetch bro from camp.

1545-Got lucky, i did not tear coupon for 1500-1545. Auntie was busy booking the poor vios which was occupying my fav 87 lot. Thanks for the decoy vios, i was at 80.

1630-After novena, sent mum to toapayoh then went down to T3 to send zm off. Saw bear on the way at SA Village that portion of PIE. That chiongster zao so fast. My car suddenly deactivate overdrive. So it was doing 3k rpm at 80km/h. The fuel burn like wth cannot take the heart pain went off at tampines to restart car. Worked fine after that thank goodness.

1725-Reached T3. And the parking is cut throat. So long my friend, zm. And yeah lets get high when u come back lol. I will not drive then. (Theres a lil overdrive button on the gear shift. You can ask the bear anything about the altis.)

1920-Reached chalet, omg almost everyone left. But theres 5 who wanted to stay! (I tore half hr coupon for that ok. Proceeded for bowling! (then too lazy to put coupon for night parking) Then card games till 0430. KO.

Sunday 120709
0845-Woke up the first thing i did was hope dun kena auntie. Packed up and rushed to carpark. Guess what. Parking brother was there! Zomg! But he was busy booking another vios (dun buy vios if u want to park without coupon, cfm kena). Heng sial siam tio. Went home then went church, then lunch then groceries shopping.

1645-Adhoc despatch to Geylang to buy durian. Parallel parking cmi. Durian stock also low. Grah. But still bought lol.

1900-Proceeded to Safra Jurong with family to eat Jap food. Its good~ Sent bro to camp

2145-Went to measure my running route using the car - the toapayoh loop - 4.5km

My weekend felt like it lasted 4 days. This feeling is priceless.
I need all my weekends to be like this.

(edited on Monday, wrong. Tuesday at 1935H. Up to now i still think today is monday. Yeah after returning the car on monday, I KO from 1500H-2115H, then from 2230 to morning. Like omg. Totally shagged.)

2009-06-30T22:27:00.000+08:00

And so June ends. =D

2009-05-26T19:17:00.002+08:00

On friday, i was so busy that i couldnt remember if i had returned this card to its supposed place. And i only realised this when i was at the busstop on the way home. So i was jittery all night wondering if i had misplaced the card somewhere. Luckily i did not have to tahan the weekend cos there was saturday duty and i had my colleague check it out for me. It was there. So yeah.

On monday, i remembered very clearly that i placed that very card back to its place before going out for lunch. So after i came back, to much horror, the card went missing. AGAIN. And so another night of, actually i was immune to the feeling already. And this afternoon, the card suddenly appeared out of nowhere, in our room.

Sabotage or whatever i dont care. Im just too glad it has been found, resurfaced actually.

P.S Playing poker while blogging leads to losses of over 400k

2009-05-01T23:03:00.002+08:00

Aha another once in a blue moon post. Nothing much happens every weekend except for the occasional left for dead lan game. No one to plan timbre and such. Ah wells haha.

Went to ubin today for some cycling / mountain biking with camp mates. It was awesome. The sun was blazing but luckily the rain held out. Cycled from about 11 to ard 3. Good workout and a lesson learnt. Do not take your eyes off the road even for a few seconds. I was speeding down this slope and i dunno why i was looking downwards. When i looked back up, i was travelling on the edge of the road. The mud area beside the roads was depressed and i was heading towards the trees. Through amazing grace, i managed to balance on the edge of the road for a while before pulling back to safety, all at speeds of around 35km/h, downslope. Imagine if front tyre slip into the depressed mud and i fly headfirst into a tree. Z. That was only a bicycle. Imagine u driving and texting, at 80km/h. Hoho. Dont text. Haha. Another 6 months to ord! Huat ah!

2009-03-25T22:01:00.003+08:00

Oop hvnt been updating haha. But time has been passing quite fast. Got a new diy computer on saturday! Like finally. There were some lessons learnt. Homework is a definate must. Checking is another must. Everything in all about 900 without screen. Recommends mynextcom at Sim Lim 05-26. Their prices are generally lower and yes i found out after i reached home. =/

Asus P5Q SE/R + Intel C2D E7400 2.8Ghz - 360 (355 at mynextcom)
Gigabyte 9800GT 512Mb- 232 (229 at mynextcom)
Seagate 500GB - 91 (bizgram)
2 Kingston 2GB - 28 x 2 (bizgram)
Cooler Master ELite - 58 (somewhere else)
Seventeam 450W - 80 (75 at mynextcom)

2009-02-23T19:52:00.002+08:00

whoa today on the way to work there was this freezer truck which buang a lampost and some railings. The lampost fell on the other side of the road. It covered 3 lanes but luckily no car kena hit. But if really u driving to work at 7 plus and a lamp post fall on you.. haha. i think i might just go crazy

2009-02-07T18:34:00.003+08:00

Another week gone is another week closer to ord but not without incident! On tuesday while i was travelling on clementi road on a despatch, an idiot taxi accelerated out into my lane to overtake a stationary car. I didnt have the time to brake so i had to swerve to the outer lane. Fortunately there wasnt any riders that were beside me. On the way back there was this lady driver who wanted to turn right into ubi ave 3 from paya lebar road. So i was on the extreme right lane that was going straight and on my right was a filter lane which was filled with a line of cars. She conveniently pulled up from my left and took her bloody time to cut in front of me as if i wasnt there and then sped off to turn right on the go straight only lane. Luckily i was in a good mood, or i would have accelerated and blast the horn at her, and then make sure that i prevented her from making that illegal turn. This is how accidents happen, and how the expressways get so jammed so easily..because of idiotic drivers who speed up all the way to the front of the exits and force their fat ass out just to save that few seconds.

Wednesday had a street soccer session with sqn mates. And of all days it started to rain. Haha. Thankfully it stopped and we could continue. After that decided to cab home and again a taxi incident. We told the driver our our plan of which place to go first. He assured us the trip from plab to my place to farrer mrt is shorter (14.25km) than plab to farrer mrt to my place (12.75km). Actually about the same eh. Haha. So why cant he do it my way. Piss me off. Hahahha

Thursday the sqn went to marina barrage for national education tour. Had a ride in a souped up rx8. It was phenomenal. Wheets. Haha. After i came home i was a lil lazy to go for a run. But! I gave up tv to run! Im proud of myself. Haa!

Friday evening went to play basketball. Nv did so much activity in a week for a long time. Haha. Just this morning there was the sqn cny gathering at ntu alumni club. Nice place. Hope i can get into ntu =/ After that went to play left 4 dead. Haha its fun. Im going to get it with a new computer. =D

259 days left

2009-01-29T20:05:00.003+08:00

Aha gotta keep to my "resolution" of blogging more frequently. Yep i think it was last year's. So! Its the lunar new year! Dong dong dong chiang! Haha. Lets see it was quite a routine new year. My cousin offered to lend me her nissan sunny to fetch my family around, which came as quite a pleasant surprise. She has another honda stream.. That would be nice. Overall it was great, considering the gloomy future. The mood was there, the angpaos were big, the sio ark sio bak sio kway te bak kong ba were superb..not forgetting the love letters! Wheets!

Made an effort to run yesterday! Luckily the fitness is still there. Jan past very fast which was very good..But! Feb and Mar no holiday! Grah! Endure! For ORD!

2009-01-27T21:13:00.002+08:00

Wishing one and all a blessed and prosperous Lunar New Year! Gong Xi Gong Xi, Wan Shi Ru Yi, Xin Xiang Shi Cheng! We all should have at least 3 days of holidays leh. Then got more time to play ban lak. lols

2009-01-24T11:20:00.002+08:00

So much for resolutions eh i was supposed to update more often. ahah. Yep you guessed i din make last years resoultions work. So no more resolutions period! Well work has been manageable so far and its gonna be more hectic after the holidays.. so enjoy first talk later. Timbre is a nice place to chill out with good food, drinks and music. The band was up kinda late but besides that they were good. Anyway cny is just ard the corner, let the feasting begin! See i alr plan sui sui. No point running so much before cny cos its all gonna go to waste. Hah!

273 days to ORD!

2009-01-12T19:18:00.005+08:00

Blue Rectangle (Left turn on red sign)

Yellow arrow (car making U-turn, light is green)

Red arrow (car turning left, light is red)

Situation A. Yellow car making a U-turn at T-Junction. Light is green in his favour. Red car turning left, light is red. Red car approaches junction just as previous car completes a U-turn. Yellow car is next. Red car continues to move forward and horns repeatedly at yellow car. Yellow car waves his hand in apology. Joel watches from the pavement and shakes his head. If Joel was the driver of the yellow car, he would blast his horn, turn on high beam and point the middle finger to red car. Because nowadays, drivers like one in the red car have not only have no patience on the roads, they do not even know basic traffic rules and they deserve a good wake up call.

photo from google earth

2009-01-08T17:13:00.004+08:00

Alrite! Here is the diagram as promised. I was owned at vivo basement carpark playing find a parking lot on 27th night. But then! The next day at this carpark in tpy behind the library, i turned into a pro. ahah (picture from google earth)

Yellow!-Spots a car moving out from the lot, but a nissan sunny seemed to get it first..NO! it ignored the lot! Chiongs to the next right turn.

TurquoiseX- Gets stuck behind 3 cars waiting to snatch a lot, manoeuvers past them cussing.

RedX-Gets lot! WOohooo!

Having a car is super convenient but.. at a price. Thats for 5 days only!

Car-280
Petrol-68.66
Parking Cashcard-21.49
Parking Coupons -20.00

Got the car from Aspire car rental. They had this promotion where they would deliver the car to any location except the west for a min 3 days rental. The car was quite ok cept the fuel consumption, which was about 10km/L. For now, having a car is still a liability. Boo. hahahah

Happy New Year!

2009-01-05T19:05:00.002+08:00

Happy New Year to all! I cant make any sense of that quote there so dont ask me yeah. I just like the layout and the colour. So wishing one and all a roaring year ahead!