been a long time since i've updated this blog of mine, which i can see is virtually covered with cobwebs.
firstly, the past week has somewhat been hectic especially on thurs and fri, where we had to rush to rectify some mistakes.. thanks to some people, who knew the mistakes, yet didn't speak up.
and they get their 4,5 - figure paysums from us, the taxpayers.
what the hell.
anyway, so we (the ones getting measly allowances from the taxpayers) worked through the whole day till evening getting everything right and working.
work aside, recently nothing's been happening.
life's pretty much this routine: monday - friday, work. saturday, meet up with frens, hit town, city area, shop around, catch a movie.
not that i'm complaining, after all, i'm stay-out vocation. begun to sort of accept things the way they are, even though i don't really expect this kind of life in NS.
anyway, whatever it is, its roughly 7 more months or so to getting the pink IC back! i miss it so much, i'm dead serious man. ORD is such an important date now in my life. its like every now and then i'll emo and remind myself OH NOT TO WORRY 7 MORE MONTHS lolol.
time files man. previously it was 1 year and like 5,6 months? lol!
next week, i've to report to pasir ris camp. yep, 5 days straight. sucks balls.
and oh, mini, my bad for crashing that chopper in GTA 4. seriously thats an EPIC FAIL
2010. a new year, a new start, a (most probably) new trip to Taiwan, a new university life awaiting, new friends blah blah blah.....
2010 sounds good. well, for one, i'm getting out of the godforsaken place known as Pasir Laba Camp. thats like the best thing to look forward to..
well technically i'm not gonna ORD cuz i'll be disrupting my NS to continue my uni studies.. but fuck when i come back to serve the remaining 1 month or so i doubt they'll give me much work to do.. just come back office shake leg :D
anyway, wish everyone a brand new year with new surprises!
no particular reason, just that me and a bunch of frens, we're clearing our leaves, and we thought, hey its been such a long time since we've gone back for a visit, why not?
for me, its been almost 2 years........
the so-called theme was, back to school, and initially everyone agreed to bring a bag...
i brought mine.. even slotted in 2 books of lecture notes on aircraft systems. act student must act to the end ma! heh.
kelvin... he brought NOTHING. bastard!
bingting.. brought a bag. small sling bag. still okay.
EK.. brought a bag. inside nothing but a CAMERA -_-
jason... came from camp -_- brought NOTHING!
so i'm the only idiot who tries to relieve the old school days as accurately and as faithfully as possible... and those idiots!
LOLOLOL.
it feels good to alight from Dover.. walk down.. and wait for everyone at The Bridge.
i remember very fondly everyone, before going for lessons, will surely wait for everyone else on the bridge. there, we will stand around, talk cock, gossip, look at girls, check if you brought a certain assignment, share exam tips, discuss where to go after lectures. there's nothing you can't do there..
this time round however, as it is the exam period, it was relatively quiet and empty. everyone is either hard studying in the library or taking their paper.
we walked in and decided to check out the foodcourts.. foodcourt 4 first. passed by the new Student Service Centre... looks good. wth the old one was at the rock-climbing wall and it suckssss now it looks so good.
everything looks so good now.
decided to proceed to foodcourt 6 instead.. the holy grail of all foodcourts.
why?
because its located in the School of Business :D
it was a FAIL decision cuz none of the stalls (okay maybe for the drinks stall) were open and THERE WASN'T ANY CROWD INSIDE.
this SP trip wasn't very exciting or anything cuz we were planning to crash lectures.... but then again its the exam period so can't really do anything about it.
oh. foodcourt 5 is now air-conditioned. and looks so good. fuckin hell.....
now, for the past few years, my resolutions have somewhat been the same.. about the same stuffs..
get fatter. get richer. get a girlfriend (although i used to get really uptight over this issue, but lately i realised its not a very big issue..) get a car license (done that in 07). get a car. get good results. (in 08) get into uni, hopefully. (done (: ) get a new com (done this year)
well basically those are the more important/urgent resolutions?
wow. 16 days of not blogging. hahaaha. definitely this is one place thats bound to be buried one day..
anyway.
mini's birthday was on last sunday! we had a celebration for him on saturday. we went to play GO KART! miniwong, me, kelvin, jason, salty and bingting!
okay, the go-karts there are NOTHING like the toy ones you drove in the Escape Theme Park. they are much faster, much more thrilling and much more tiring to drive them.. lol!
i can practically feel the g-force when i floored the pedal. despite having only 6.5 horsepower (a normal motorcycle, 125CC, has about 11-12 horsepower) you definitely can feel the speed yo!
well but then... the weather wasn't too forgiving on us. the track is at Arena Country Club (very near to my camp!) and the timing for walk-in customers are from 12-2pm, 5-7pm. other timings are reserved for professionals to use the circuit to practice and so on. however they will try to squeeze in slots for us as each race lasts only for about 10mins.
thats right... i paid $35 for 10mins of thrill. absolutely worth every cent of my money.
although....... we waited for a LONG time. we reached at 1.45pm. decided to go for lunch. went back at 2.20pm. have to wait for the professionals to finish their training and roundings. when FINALLY it was our turn....
it began to rain =(
and so the conclusion? MINI HAS 2 CURSES ON HIM NOW. either when we go out there'll be no contact/encounters/luck with girls OR the weather will just simply pour on us.
rain stopped after about an hour. by this time it was reaching 4pm. they let one of the professional drivers to test the circuit for us.
so they changed their karts (fucking fast, one of them was about 30horsepower, can reach speeds of like 100km/h and more?!) tires to wet-weather ones.
even when the tires were wet-weather ones, he struggled on the tracks. he even spun out a couple of times. well... our karts were fitted with SLICKS... meaning they are strictly meant for DRY conditions............ =(
we waited for like another 20,30mins before we decided, enough is enough, FUCK IT MAN. i was in the first kart.. the guy started my engine by giving it a tug.. i made my way slowly out.... once out of the "pit", i floored the pedal.... okay it IS powerful.. gave the brake a lil prod.. rear wheels skid.. apparently the brakes are applied to only the rear wheels.. approaching a turn... release accelerator.. brake.. step on accelerator... *engine goes silent*
wait a minute. this engine stalled on me?!
okay so being the ever courteous driver i let the kart rolled to the side of the track and signalled for the guy to come over to start my engine again =( and i watched everyone whizzed by.... mini giving me the HAHA SUCKER look....
and thats how i became the last guy. HAHA. no the race is not over yet! after some spin-outs i began to get the feel of the kart. drifting is damn easy but its easy to spin-out too! once i stepped on the brakes too hard and my kart came to rest just beside the patch of grass hahahaha.
well, guess that's the nearest F1 experience.
$35 man. ain't cheap, but was worth it.
went to jason's house to wash up after that. booked tickets for this Merantau Warrior or something. some show that showcases Silat, a form of Malay martial arts. the movie was alright, fighting scenes were good, but well... not that you will wanna spend 10bucks to watch it on a weekend?
[sorrrleee ah no pictures everyone was racing plus no one brought a camera so....... heh...]
anyway on friday i met up with pris to hang out and chill out at town. went to cine in hopes of playing Guitar Hero there. but SO SUAY. we were put on the waiting list cuz some other group of ppl are using the guitar controllers. and apparently i think there're only like 2 or 3 controllers? fuck! and just before they were about to return the bloody guitar controllers they came over and.... EXTEND THEIR BLOODY TIMING.
owned.
well what can we do.. booked a xbox machine.. went to play Halo.. 2 n00bs who'd never played before Halo.... spend the first like 15mins exploring controls and the environment rofl.
caught Paranormal Activity later. unfortunately my ass of a friend blurted out the ending to me so it kinda spoiled it for me but still.. i've to admit its kinda creepy. not so much of a scare. CREEPY. never know whats gonna happen. but still.. BORING. we were both scared the shit out of ourselves towards the ending though... HAHAHA.
and so another weekend passed. another weekend nearer to the next payday.
Nick, a high-school senior from Hoboken, can't stop obsessing about Tris, his cute, blond, conniving ex-girlfriend. Norah, also a senior and an acquaintance of Tris's, is dissed by Tris at a club in New York City, so to show she's cool and has a boyfriend, she goes up a stranger, whispers in his ear, and kisses him. It's Nick. Thus begins a night of fits and starts between Nick and Norah as they share a love of music, hunt for an elusive band scheduled to play somewhere that night, search for Norah's drunk friend Caroline - with the help of Nick's gay band mates, and keep running into Tris and Nora's sort-of boyfriend. Both Nick and Norah have to figure out what they want.
after watching this movie i felt happy. i have no idea why, perhaps its the vibe that it gives off, perhaps its the ending of the movie, perhaps its just the whole storyline that gives you a "good-feel" feeling. i wasn't feeling terribly miserable before, but i wasn't entirely happy too. its some sort of un-settleness (is there even such a word?!), some sort of emptiness all around.
but for the first time in probably a few months, i felt happy. just happy. =)
P.S: to all my friends OF COURSE I FEEL HAPPY WHEN I GO OUT WITH YOU ALL LAH its not that i don't feel happy when i hang out with you all.
err as for the entire movie. there're pretty much 2 options. 1) get it from the video store. 2) watch it online or download it?
who:eric seo where: western singapore. lol what about it: formerly from SP's Dip in Aerospace Electronics. currently serving National Service. yes, i don't bite! Rock n roll music please. and loud powerful muscle cars make my day.
