December, 2005


21
Dec 05

The whacky Taxi driver

After purchasing our stuff from Giant in preparation for theBBQ on Tue, we hailed a cab and after we loaded the stuff, bm went to push back the trolley cos she spotted the trolley loading area first.

She got into the front seat while me and Alvin got into the back seat.

After we set off he started on a massive tirade of how we guys were damn ungentlemanly to let bm push back the trolley and let her sit in front. Ho ho ho, he said that in a ‘lecturely’ manner lah, not say scold us, but in a I-cross-bridges-more-than-u-tread-on-flat-ground-and-I-eat-salt-more-than-
you-eat-rice-so-I-am-powerful-you-are-not-muahahahah tone.

Which was so pathetic!! Okay starting I felt it was quite funny lah, and I saw Alvin show him the middle finger to me.

Then we started getting abit peeved when he started going onto stuff like how mutual communication is vital to all relationships. Like between friends, couples, and TAXI-DRIVERS AND PASSENGERS. How that is so very important. Hahaha so funny!!

Well I guess I’m glad me and Alvin looked like little kids. I don’t think he realizes that he is trying to lecture 3 university students. No offence meant, but if he were such a great communicator and is as wonderful as he thinks he is, I doubt we would have met that very day, and on a taxi somemore.

What an ego-maniac!

If there is one model of guy I don’t like, it is gentlemen.

If there is one model of guy I detest, it is gentlemen who think that being a gentleman is the number one virtue on planet Earth.

They think that holding the door for a girl, pulling out the chair for her, buying flowers for her, ect etc, are the best things a man could do.

Which is bullshit, I think. Well yeah I agree it could be nice at times, but priding your existence on such mundane and bo liao things is stupid and I would say, hypocritical.

Would you do all that for a not-good-looking girl? A girl whom u don’t give a damn what she thinks of you? An old lady? If so, I give u the thumbs up. If not, I think u’re just a chao buaya.

Which is not wrong, because being a chao buaya is but a natural instinct. Just stop behaving like u do all that because u are nice and “gentlemanly”!

In this sense I really admire xiao lee fei dao. He is damn power lah, and he was damn frickin rich, but he retired cos he buei tahan all the hypocrites in the jiang hu. He never gives a damn about the damage his actions will do to his reputation; he only does what is right.

“If something is wrong, it is wrong even if the whole world does it. If something is right, it is right even though nobody is doing it.”

But it takes alot of courage to be that kind of person, and I believe that kind of person only exists in novels like xiao lee fei dao.

Therefore, I admit that I am hypocritical too. Whoever says he is not a hypocrite sometimes, is an ultimate hypocrite.

What are people skills? Hypocricism!! Okay I think no such word, but u get my point.

If an ugly girl asks u if she’s ugly, what do u say? If a cleaner asks u if his job is glamorous, what do u say? If u reply the TRUTH, well, good luck to u in surviving on this planet.

Oh yeah, back to the cabby. He asked bm what me and Alvin were to him. Me is his bg loh. Then he made some bullshit comment that bg should not bully bm etc. And some shitty stuff about boyfriends, girlfriends, and friends. Then asked bm who Alvin was. She say friend loh.

Then the uncle said “There, I told u so.”

I mean, WTF?! Just pick one guy and one girl walking in the same group, whether alone or with other people, and out of 100 attempts, at least 95 will say that they are friends loh!

What is so there-I-told-u-so about that?

Ridiculous!

But amusingly ridiculous; I know I’d never forget this incident in a long long time haha.


21
Dec 05

Bookworm me.

I’m now reading Harry Potter and Xiao Lee Fei Dao simultaneously. Whoa, English and Chinese book can read together?

Haha, can, lydat then good wad, see English see sian liao see Chinese and vice versa.

Anyway both books are damn good man. XLFD is melancholic, sometimes dark, and abit surreal. Whereas HP is really easy to read and the storyline easy to follow.

Ho ho ho.


17
Dec 05

‘Tis the season for love~

Seems like nowadays everyone and their neighbours are getting hit by Cupid’s arrows! Seeing them blissful and happy makes kang kang feel good too!

In retrospect, it’s been like, almost 5 months since we split. 5 months is close to half a year! I think that’s pretty long, considering the fact that she was one person I’ve been seeing, or at least hearing or sms-ing almost every single day for a whole 3 years of my life.

Haha okok, this ain’t supposed to sound sad, cos it’s not!

Y’know, she was the best thing that’s ever happened to me. Up till now, at least. Like I always say, I’m no prophet and I don’t know if anyone BETTER is going to come into my life.

We never regretted it, I think. (And hope)

At least I don’t ; )

Cos even if kang kang dies tomorrow or something, he could jolly well say that he’s once treated someone with all his heart before, and he is fairly sure that he could say the same for his other half too!

Good enough ain’t it. This kinda thing is never perfect. Like I always say, happy before can liao, ahahah.

Now she’s just like Nerubian Queen, cold and far and distant. Can’t seem to ask her out at all~ But I guess it’s good for both of us this way.

Well sometimes I really wonder how come soapy korean dramas can get so soapy. Want to die because someone you love doesn’t love you anymore? ‘S that dumb or what?

Yeah it was really painful when we splitted I guess. Nobody had any idea of the magnitude of confusion and bouts of sadness I was overcome with, but I was NEVER anywhere near suicide or anything like that, hahaha.

So yeah, Christmas is coming, and I see that it’s brought much love along the way!

May she be happy. May EVERYONE be happy! May everyone find their Mr and Mrs Rights soon enough!

Cos ’tis the season for love!


17
Dec 05

Arcade games then and now.

Aye my knees hurt real bad. Too much bball maybe. Professor Ben says I need more milk.

The original plan to “lah kopi” at Starbucks last night turned into a night of nostalgia at the arcade. KOF(King of Fighters) is so different now man. Kids nowadays are really good at these games. They actually memorise combos and stuff.

Nowadays it’s all about executing combos and giving your opponent no chance to move until he’s dead.

Last time was more about tactics and forcing your opponent to make stupid moves and terrorizing them for their mistakes.

I decided that I will surely die fast and waste 50 cents if I play KOF, so went to play the easy X-Men vs Street Fighter instead. To my pure horror, Mr Nice Guy had to come in and save as a new challenger halfway through!!

What the hell, last time I could easily complete the game. Mr Nice Guy was also quite rusty though. But I ended up losing to him by like 1.5 cm of blood. DAMN.

But I won him back in SVC vs Street Fighter. Is that the name? Dunno lah, it’s more KOF style and I guess I’m still better at KOF muaha. But still, I didn’t complete the game.

I still remember the time when I was in like secondary school and playing Art of Fighting 3 for the first time in my life. This 20-something years old guy joined in and lost to me. I was like, beaming. But he went to purchase additional tokens and kept on trying to defeat me.

I beat him 5 times and wasted like $2.50 of his money. I was so scared he would beat me up.

Last night we also played the all-time favorite Daytona but Mr Nice Guy came in first, followed by Kenny then me. So lousy. Kept having the tendency to drive with one hand.


17
Dec 05

The Job.

There’s only one real competitor for the post of Student Associate Writer, supposedly. The person says the rest don’t stand a chance. I wonder why though. The ‘competitor’ is supposedly a very ‘enthusiastic’ person who can really ‘produce stuff’.

Aww man, I’d definitely lose out in the ‘enthusiasm’ category cos I really am not too keen about it anymore. $8.52 per hour is real tempting but I don’t know man, should I take it? The manager is mean. Some times the work load gets really alot. Need to churn out like 10-20 articles during peak periods. And I’ll be almost wholly in charge of the frickin newsletter.

Also, the “competitor’s” an indian who supposedly needs the job real badly cos ‘his dad just passed away’? Kang Kang is getting soft-hearted.

Now I’m supposed to produce a sample article for them. I guess I’d just do it and see how it goes. Can get then get loh, cannot get I’d secretly heave a sigh of relief, I guess. If I do get it, hmm.. Do I give it up to him or what?

Alamak.


15
Dec 05

Harry Potter

I think Xiaxue did a very good review of the movie leh, now that I’ve watched it. I agree with most of what she’s said.

Dumbledore is so badly portrayed. He’s supposed to be all-knowing and super capable in the book. He ‘smiles knowingly’ to himself even when things go wrong. He’s in control all the time. And he NEVER loses his temper.

But in the movie he was like quite useless. Gets anxious when shit happens. And he screams at students and Harry!! That’s so not him.

I don’t understand why the director places so much emphasis on the part where Harry and Ron were looking for dance partners. I won’t think that’s so bad if not for the fact that he actually cut out the Quidditch World Cup part!

I don’t think it’s just me ba; Quidditch is such an essential part of the series; how could they omit that part? Well maybe removing the Dobby and other house elves part was understandable but I think removing Quidditch is a big no-no.

Mad Eye Moody is eccentric. But he’s the cool cool kind of eccentric. He’s not so violent one wad! He doesn’t shout at the class like that. And when he first appeared in Hogwarts he was already drinking Polyjuice. But isn’t that supposed to be the REAL Moody?? Drink Polyjuice for what? Well maybe I remember wrongly. If the director remembers this wrongly maybe they should hire me instead.

Olympe Maxime is taller than Hagrid meh? I thought they’re about the same height. Same height then cute wad.

Well to conclude, I think if I haven’t read the book in the first place, I won’t know what’s happening in the movie. But precisely because I’ve watched it, I think the standard’s kinda low.

So either way, I guess this movie could be better.


15
Dec 05

Escape to Escape

For the first time in the 21 years of my childhood-deprived life, I went to Escape Theme Park! So fun leh, made me feel like a little boy once again.

At first quite paiseh, me and xyz both felt quite paiseh walking into the place cos there were little kids all over the place. Either kids or parents. People of our age quite few.


We played like everything that was available, the pirate ship was quite shiok ah, we took that 5 times. All throughout see people scream only, they scream then we laugh.

The twister and inverter were very fun also! I felt so brave afterwards. Cos I thought I would be afraid hahah.

Go-kart was so slooooooow. No kick one. Ain’t as fun as I thought it to be leh. Budden really can drift one. Just make sharp turn it will drift liao loh. But I think I got one of the slower ones ba, cos I step until cannot step liao still got people overtake me along straight paths.

Xyz asked me if driving real car is like driving go-kart. Haha if so easy then no need get license loh!!

I dunno if this gaping hole is there for show or what but it sure looks pretty cool.

The Haunted House kinda sucks though. I think throughout the whole thing we were just scaring ourselves, being afraid that ghosts will jump out at us. Aftereffects of CAC camp hahah.

There were cute little girls in there loh. I wonder if they will agree to let me be their godfather.

This poor attendant was in charge of the most no-kick ride in Escape. I think she’s so poor thing, cannot get to see people scream, everyone get onto the ride also like sian sian one, somemore she mans this alone.

Well after the adventurous experience, xyz felt very giddy while I had this puky feeling in me cos I think I ate too much. I was so tired leh, think I’m too old for kiddish games hahah.

We dragged ourselves to town afterwards for dinner and to check out the X’mas decorations. Well after the yummy dinner we recovered and could run around again liao.

Music to the ears.

Yummy christmas tree.

Robinson’s.

Hohoho!

The ice cream cone that is 3 times bigger than me.

The eerie soldier beside the eerie demon tree.

Melt-in-your-mouth Christmas?

I finally saw this Lambo after hearing that it has been there for damn long. Unforunately, I wasn’t able to take good pictures of it :(

I think this pic is damn cool lah.


13
Dec 05

Mountains of books.

Just as I was gloating over the fact that I stayed home for the most of today and actually finished 2 issues of Sandman, I realized I have this many left.


And y’know, I still have tons of Chinese novels.

A grand total of TWENTY FIVE books, excluding The Half Blooded Prince, Bleach, and Death Note!

I know. This is a test. If I manage to accomplish the feat of reading all these books. It be will a testament of my geekism.

This is getting so exciting.


12
Dec 05

Wow mass update.

Can’t believe a couch-potato wanna-be actually couldn’t take time to update his blog everyday and has to mass update.

*Face in palms*

I’m going for the Student Associate Writer thing interview on Friday. Bm thinks I should wear nice nice, long sleeve. Wah lau eh, I was planning to go in t-shirt berms loh. Can get then get loh, cannot get then sua. She said they might go for looks so maybe I should show off my sexy hairy legs by wearing berms right. Haha.

I just changed my stat-counter thingy. Resetted it. That thing is so cool eh, it tells u how many first-time visitors there are to ur blog and bm says u can even tell where they came from, but I haven’t really figured out that one yet.

Only started tampering with it yesterday and realized that there’s an average of 3-4 new visitors to my blog everyday.

I mean, everyday?!

I thought most everyone who comes are my friends who have come until dowan to come liao??

Weird.


12
Dec 05

Fight!

Hai, I’m still trying to master the art of couchpotatoism. Why do I keep going out and wasting money?

Y’know, these few days I’ve spent more than a hundred bucks already.

Went to print jersey with WST today. We were comtemplating if we should print out our “team name” in full. But they said that they will NEVER want to walk around in jerseys with “World’s Saddest Team” printed on it. So in the end we just had “WST”.

And then we went for dim sum buffet at ZHONG1 GUO2 CHA2 LOU2. What a song2 name that is.

After slacking at home for awhile, went to play bball with again, with Aylwin and gang. We ran into the walking cactus again!! Sheesh.

FIVE ON FIVE IS DAMN TIRING LAH.

It’s a duel between young, energetic kids and freshly orded slackers leh.

I KNEW something bad was gonna happen between the walking cactus and my friends. After awhile I was slacking at our side of the court waiting for the ball to come to me and looking downwards when I suddenly heard “CHEE BYE LAH!!” across the court.

I was like, oh fuck, and started running over.

Then I heard “YOU THEN CHEEYBYE LAH!!!” and had to virtually teleport all the way across the court to hold back my friend while Tong Whye kid held back his friend.

Walking cactus-es are dangerous lah.

Well we played on and y’know what, unbelievably we actually won. Frickin awesome man, I thought we sure lose one, cos their side was really quite strong.

Maybe we played with our brains more lah.