Friday, August 10, 2007 -

Okay.....I've returned once again for yet another post.............nice,short and sweet update on what I've been up to now that I'm studying full-time and pretty much altogether out of camp........Last post was a thick,artsy fartsy kinda post so this post is going to be a lighter,breezier post........Yeah this time I'm going to break down how I compose a blog post from start to finish.....from writing it in pencil,to inking the pencilled words and then tranferring it onto blogger.com.........hahahahaha........Just kidding.........

Anyways a Couple of weeks back...........I managed to catch The Simpsons Movie with Wenjun and Huiling and then we met up with Gerald for dinner after that......Felix did'nt go because at that point of time he was in Kota Tinggi on some outdoor trip, partnered with some fat,black indian chick called Pushpa(was anyone really expecting Felix to have been assigned to a nice,normal pretty chick??...based on past experiences.....I DUN think so..hahha)........

Damn man......... The Simpsons movie was a really,really funny flick.........it did'nt feel like a normal 30 mins episode strecthed on for 1 and 1/2 hrs...........they managed to fill the movie with all kinds of crazy throwaway gags,jokes, and celebrity paraodies(Tom Hanks and Arnold Schwarzenneger) for the entire duration of the movie.........that's amazing considering for a cartoon like the simpsons, they have to have some sorta joke or gag with a frequency of every 30-40 seconds or so to retain the viewer's audience.........cos if any episode goes on for 5 minutes without a single gag, chances are people are'nt even going to be bothered watching the entire show............it was pretty damn funny, I pretty much laughed consistently through the entire movie..................stuff like Nelson's mum laughing exactly like nelson, Green Day's parody of the Titanic movie, Moe getting robbed blind when the electricity is off, Homer' trying to pass himself off as a general in a hotel bell boy outfit,"Spider-Pig" and pretty much all the homer-related scenes are pure comedy gold!!!haha........They even had a touching moment of Marge taping her message over their wedding video to show her disappointment in Homer.........I 'll rate the movie 4.5/5 Duff beers.....hahaha

After the movie we met up with Gerald at Cafe Cartel at PS for dinner.......had a good long chit chat session, primarily about a certain someone ,"She who's name must not be mentioned" (Hint: It ain't Veldermort!!).......haha........recently I stumbled onto some information concerning that old acquaintance that dropped the missing piece of a puzzle right on my lap, crystallizing(Goh Siow Meng, 2003) certain events that took place years ago.........hahaha...usually I hate gossiping....but Damn those girls dragged me into it.....their enthusiasm was infectious....haha........also once again during the course of the meal, Gerald did her famous sonny Phua hands and Rolling Eyes combo..........hahhaha.....dammit that girl takes eye-rolling to new heights, eye-rolling is transformed into a freaking art form in her hands....hahhaa.....she can roll here eyes so far back that Xia shun, the blind guy from the "Heavenly Sword and Dragon Sabre" tvb drama can take some lessons from her........haha

The week after I managed to catch Die Hard 0.4 with my sec school buddy, Sakthi...........probably one of my oldest friends that I'm still in regular contact with........imagine me covered in black paint and that's basically him.....hahaha........laidback,sarcastic,wear only sandles and bermudas, same taste in movies, same taste in women (Chinese.........Indian girls ain't really my bag baby!!).........anyways met up with him for the first time in quite a few mths, I noticed something was wrong with him since there was a distinct lack of insults........so we started to catch up with each other and he told me something major had happened to him......and we talked late into the night........he asked about what I thought and I gave him my frank opinion.......no flowery,sugar coating and false empathy that would have reeked of Patronization on my part......

He asked me whether Should we think with our hearts or think with our heads because sometimes emotions can totally overwhelm logic.........it got me thinking....and I told him that that's a dilema everybody faces, the best would be to have an optimum balance between logic and emotion, but how many people can achieve the right balance in their lifetime?.........

When you think with your head, many times that involves detaching yourself from your personal feelings and you can seem heartless or cold or indifferent by being objective..........but when you think with your heart....many times you do stuff that you know is not very logical, stuff that will be at your own expense and at the end of the day.......you put yourself out there and 9 out of 10 times......and you'll probably be at the losing end.......when you invest youself emotionally you can get hurt......when you don't invest anything...you don't get hurt......so its kinda a dilema....

When you lose a loved one? Do you think with your heart and spent years reminiscing about the person and holding onto old memories with an iron grip? Or Do you think with your head and move on?.........when a friend becomes a toxic influence or a liability....do you think with your head and do the logical thing and cut the person loose or think with your heart and try not to write him/her off in hopes that something may improve..........I honestly don't know.....there's really no right and wrong.......no black and white.....everything is just... in shades of grey.

He says that both of us tend to skew towards thinking with the heart instead of head.........that that's not good........sometimes its best to ruled by your logic and remain detached......safer this way,protects yourself from being hurt.....I don't know.........I told him that I did'nt have any definite answers and that we'll probably be grappling with achieving an optimum balance of both for the forseeable future..........so just go with the flow......

Well anyway......after our long talk about both current events and our old school days.......he told me about the direction he was going to take.....I told him that that's probably the same thing I would do in his position and that for the past 10 years, I've known him to be an absolutley rational person, one of the more intellectually "well put-together" individual in our clique and that I have no doubts that he'll make the right choices............which I'm sure he will.

As for my review of Die Hard 4.........well it was ok I think.....I wasn't really concentrating after he dropped that bombshell before we entered the theatre.......I think I rate it 3/5 because of Maggie Q alone...haha

As for this week............I caught Rush Hour 3 with Huiling and Felix and had dinner with 2 of them plus Gerald and Wenjun at Plaza Singapura. Gerald could'nt go for the movie cos she had her trip to malaysia in the early morning and originally wenjun was supposed to join us and she even bought a ticket but because she got got this really bad headache after dinner( exarcerbated by the lack of tinely delivery of her sashimi..hahah), she could'nt join us............even after we dolled her up like a Japanese Kamikaze pilot with the cool fever plaster on her head......but I think she would have enjoyed the movie.....oh well she can always watch it when I get it on Dvd....hahhaa.....

Rush Hour 3 was light on plot but kinda entertaining.......the same old jokes are re-used albeit with some touch-ups, the "falling-out" plot trick was used again and Chris Tucker's "Black dude" jokes are starting to wear thin and Jackie Chan's stunts were tame this time around but it was not that bad...........I loved the opening sequence with chris Tucker dancing and directing traffic and him forcing the American-hating French cab driver under gun point to sing the US national Anthem was the highlight of the movie..........the bloopers were the funniest part of the movie though.......hahah.....I rate it 3/5......

Anyway other then relaxing and watching flicks like rush hour 3...........I got projects galore and a MR test on 21st August.......and in the middle of this was Mum's Birthday.........my dad and her decided to spend her birthday in JB this year.......so I had to make arrangements for my projects before I could leave for JB in peace on the 7th and 8th......

I completed my OB inidividual essay 9 days before the dead line on the 13th........and reworked the draft and refined it all the way till the morning of 7th August............and for the other project, my group mates were still NOT very keen on picking a subject topic for our MR project even though we had less then a week to the due date.........we were scheduled to have a meeting on the 8th of Aaugust, but since I was going to Malaysia......I did not want to leave without completing some parts of the project.......its just not right to dump the work toothers and leave....but if they did'nt pick a topic by the 6th, I could'nt get started on anything.........

so I said screw it! and I just picked the topic that me and felix want and I told felix to meet me at Mcdonald's at Bukit Pnajang Plaza........and since the girls did'nt want to start on nothing, the both of us brainstormed different parts of the project till 11.30 pm that night before I left...........at the end of it we filled up every segment of the project that we could possibly fill-up on our own like the intro,objectives,budget,sampling plan....and I went back and typed everything in Microsoft word and sent it to Felix and told him to bring it to the project discussion on the 8th........so even though I can't be there, I left them with a solid base from which to start the project and they even had something tangible to show Jonas Lee and consult with him that day itself............if the both of us had'nt started work on the project they would'nt have shit to show Jonas much less consult him......Those Flat Chest BBBBB****tches!!!Hahahha.......

Anway the 2 day JB trip was good for me.............spend some quality time away from Singapore and Projects and Army...........had a nice time with my mum and dad, ate intercontinental breakfasts everyday, had a relaxing time soaking in the bath tub every night, shopping for clothes, reading my 1000 page Marlon Brando biography on long car rides and I even visited every single Pirated DVD shop in Holiday Inn...hahaha......

Anyway the 8th was my Mum's 52nd Birthday and we had a nice time........had breakfast at the Hotel together, then I went to change a faulty Dvd I bought......haha.......then we went to one of the new Shopping centres in JB to shop, had sushi, tea eggs and toast for lunch washed down by a bottle of yoghurt drink and then we went Pelangi shopping centre to buy some donuts for my aunty and hunt for more DVDS (Naturally!!)...........and after that we went back to the hotel for dinner at one of their chinese restaurants.........the food was good and my mum and dad had some wine, anyway My mum got some light rash after drinking the wine (Note....I keep Typing "Wine" as "Whine" in this freaking sentence....dammit!!!) and we went back to the hotel room to cut the cake...here are some pictures we took......


The Birthday girl Herself........My Mum!! (The no. of candles is misleading though)


My Parents cutting the cake..........They look so happy!! (Editor's Note: This was before I told them I had bought 16 DVDs)


Me and My Mum...............Happy 52nd Birthday!!!



A group shot of the three of us.........My brother could'nt make it for the trip so the Lamp's standing in for him.....haha


Blowing out the candle together.......


Another group shot and I think this is the closest I ever got to smiling!!! Buy Lottery Today Mum!!!


Ok.....one last picture.....This is me multi-tasking....winking and Smiling at the same time!!! a rarer sight you'll never find!!!


My Mum says that I look more "Jolly" in these pics...........Of course I look happy.........not only did I have a grand time snickering at words like Bisikal (bicyle), Farmasi( Pharmacy),etc.......I wonder who's the country's fav american rapper.....50 sen(50 cents)?!??!Haahhaa......AND I was practically dancing in aisles upon aisles of DVDs further then the eye can see........my very eyes became wide,silvery discs of pure delight........... I even managed to buy obscure stuff like Last Tango in Paris (1972) by Marlon Brando and Reservoir dogs by Quetin Tranatino....Films I have been dying to watch and never thought I could find........but guess what...I did!!!!...hoho.......I gotta say nothing brightens up my day then lying on my sofa,drink in hand, watching a good DVD( Preferably Pirated of course...DUH!!!!)...hahahha
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PLUS!!!...............I got less then one month to my ORD date!!!!!!!! Goodness Gracious me!!..........no more duty,no more turn outs and no more of "my rifle and my buddy and me-ee-ee".......It's finally come........and I still can't wrap my head around it..............you know that last pic? That's me winking at my juniors in camp.......Enjoy Your time in HELL privates...I've served my sentence !!!!Hahahaa.........now I only got 10 more years of re-service to serve.....Hhahaha......ha..ha......h.....hmmmm......well I guess you win some and you lose some.....haha
Alrighty then................That's it for this post Folks.....Next post: ORD TIME!!!!!

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