Monday, December 25, 2006

Some back-dated Invoices. Wait I meant entries.

Well this's some back dated entries that apparently, Les is desperate for me to post it up here.

I forgot when this event happened, but I'll make it short.

-Trip to central Library (The "new" National Library) for the Nanyang Neo Clan Association of Singapore's 75th Special photo exhibition.

-Invited Les over.

-After the exhibition, went to the library to browse at the books.

-Borrowed 2 books with Les's card (Science goes to war, Antimatter)

-Went to Bugis Junction for the 2nd time in my life. Got lost there, and talked a little bout' Les's relationship and my ever-confusing/messed-up life.

-Ate at a crowded food court, talked more stuffs. Went on a "killing spree' with Sniper Rifles Eyes targetting at beautiful/gorgeous babes. Well it became like a routine when we hang out. Keeps our minds sharp and alert. Asked Les bout' Blog, and he recommended his elder sister to help.

11th Dec 2006

On my quest to obtain the knowledge to make a GOOD/AWESOME blog through the use of BlogSkin, music and so on, I went to Les's house, which is located somewhere near Boon Lay MRT station. I was told (By Him) that his Elder sis was experienced in such area, so I went to their house seeking her help.

As small Singapore may seem, the trip to Boon Lay can take a very long time. Well based on our Singaporean Terms, "Very Long" means bout'.... 30mins to 1hr++

The good thing bout' that trip:
-I was dropped at Aljunied MRT Station, which means shorter travelling time to Boon Lay.

The bad thing:
-Stuck in some "Talk/Discussion" bout' my Surname, 梁 (Neo). Well, the whole thing was boring, cause I didn't understand a single a thing our China Guests said. My dad too.

-After 2 hours stuck in that "Talk", I was apparently dropped at Aljunied MRT Station cause it's the nearest to the Nanyang Neo Clan Association Main Office. Trying to ignore the fact that an hour was wasted on Dad doing something which I dont really care, and it' bout' 6~7pm+ when I reached the Station. This means, I'll only have less than 2 hours to do my blog. So, this sucks. Whatever.

Blah, Blah, Blah, reached the Boon Lay Station at bout' 7~8pm+. The sky was freakin'ly Dark. I was pissed. Apparently I just dashed for Les's house under 10mins, which I think was some good personal record based on the fact that his house...Was not as near as I just said to the MRT Station.

Reaching his house, I was like SO ready to get my blog reconstruction going on til, Les told me he had to go to his friend's birthday party. And I remembered, he said it's a SHORT one. Well I'm not really a Ladies' men, and being stuck in his house with his 2 other sisters, it's awkward. Anyway he dragged me out to his friend's birthday party.

We took a long time to reach his friend's house, cause Les was like walking aimlessly around. And it was NOT near to his house. It's like walking from 1 end of Boon Lay to another. So when we finally did reach his house, it's 8~9pm+. Followed him into the house and into the small room cramped with a few other friends. 5 of them if I remembered correctly. Man the Birthday Boy, Julius was living the life! Playing his Maple Story here, and have a TV set (Not a big one though) just left next to him. It was less that 30cm away !

There they talked their stuff. I was like some stranger who entered the wrong party. Apparently they decided to go to Arena Country Club for a bowling session. That's where me, Josh, Les and our families go to to have our occasional badminton matches. Josh's rich by the way. To hang out with such "unique" friends was a new experience for me, and kinda retarded. But fun. So we took a bus, went there, only to find out that...the whole bowling centre was full. WTH! We had to wait at least 30mins to play. That was around 8~9pm++.

Tragedy struck. Birthday Boy Julius lost his wallet. And from what Les said bout him always have to lose something every once in a while, I had to say this. He lost his wallet. AGAIN.

So while we waited at the bus stop, the other guys (Julius and the other friends) went on each and every bus (193 if I remembered correctly) to search for his wallet. Sad thing is, he never found it. Bad thing is, it was 9~10+pm. And they still wanted their bowling game, although I was pressing for time to rush home for work the next day. During the time when Julius and gang were searching the buses, Les and I went to look for Josh. From what Les said, Josh had some class party going on at the Arena Country Club Chalet. Hence, we decided to crash the party. We went to search for the room (It's easy cause there's only 8 of them there LoL), only to hear this kind of crap. Les's fault by the way.

From Les's Blog :

When we two reached one of the rooms,i knocked on it and asked,"hi...is there a joshua gay here?" three girls and 1 guy just pop out of the room and said" whos that?" when Me & Jack seriously heard that Josh saying "WTF!" then nevermind...They acctually went back to their room and screamed..." Help!~ Ah Beng ar!~so scary!~" we two was like-lets get the hell of out here!...

Yep, that was bout it. So after this incident, and Julius giving up his search for the wallet, we went to bowl. Due to some weird fracture like pain in my right arm, I decided not to bowl. Cause I had work to think bout'. I played in the arcade nearby for a while, but those machines were old. Very Old. Time Crisis (1), Metal Slug 3...Yeah it's old.

After the whole bowling thingy, it's 11.15pm. HOlY COW! Last MRT is at 11.30pm, and not to mention the buses to reach home. Due to the ever horrible fact that Bus 193* comes only every 15~30 mins, these guys decided to walk back home. Yeah you heard me right. Walk.

While walking back. 1. 2. 3 Buses went past us. And we gave chase to catch up the buses in a desperate attempt. Well we missed it all, and I got a good workout too. I don't run often nowadays. After finally walking back to the HDB area, (Arena is apparently located around the Industrial Park area. Just beside Singapore Discovery Centre) some guys went their way home. Only Les, Nigel, Yik Loong and I were left. And I just love to say this.

"LES, YOU'RE SO SCREWED. "

He was responsible for his sisters' dinner. And it was 8pm+ when we left. When we're walking back to his house, it's bout' 11 reaching 12pm. Well at bout' that time, I gave up hope of ever making back home that night, so I decided to camp at Les' house for the night. My $30 is gone~. Not to mention a FREAKINGLY LOW pay T-T

After buying dinner for his sisters, the 4 of us continued on our way back home. I forgot who started this whole Sex/Porn/Girls/Guys conversation, but my suspected culprit was Les. This whole conversation, I must say, was AWESOME. It's a LMAO, LOL, ROFL experience. Nigel spat his drink out, I almost choked on my drink, Les and Yik laughing their asses off. Man that's cool.

Anyway we went on our separate ways, and Les and I went back to his house. Well I could see that his dad and mom were a little surprised to see me there at such time, and more surprised that I'm staying there for the night. Well, I didn't sleep at all til 9am. This whole not sleeping thingy, I seemed comfortable with it. Les got knocked out at 5am, his elder sis was knocked out at 6~7am. His 2nd elder sis was sleeping away when we reached home.

At the wee hours of morning, I was getting "educated" on blogskins. music insertion etc. Bad thing is, elder sis don't use Blogspot. Now I need to find someone else to help me. Apparently for the whole time spent not sleeping, I was like playing Maple Story, cause it's the only thing I could do.

I slept at 9am, woke up at 1pm, and went home at 2pm+. Well since I took that day off, I decided to go to Orchard's Kinokuniya BookStore to look at some books. Particullarly the Halo Graphic Novel =D

Me and Les took the MRT from Boon Lay to Bedok, took the bus back to my home. Apparently due to yesterday's not sleeping enough experience, Les was too exhausted to go to Orchard. I was still feeling ok. So we just played Xbox, Maple Story and stuffs.

At 7pm+, I sent Les back home, but not before dinner =D
He needed help with getting to the Bedok MRT LoL.

Friday, December 08, 2006

Death Note

Well this two days were practically normal, with occasional fun from stress and challenges from my job, but I noticed some things.

It's littered with Deaths. First, being in a advertising firm equates to tons and tons of newspapers for you to read. The NewPaper yesterday reported of 2 deaths(Sudden deaths?), one, a father-to-be and another, a cabbie and a dad.

Late last night, I heard the news of a South Korean Jockey killed in a freak accident during the Dubai Asian Games 06', involving his horse, rainy weather, a low wall and resulting in brain dead.

Today, The Ghost Whisperer had to rub it in. 243 deaths in just 2 days (Well if you include those 240 passengers who died in the plane crash in the show), and this is bloody insane. Is it some kind of sign, phenomena? Plus that shocking incident yesterday, and the book which I happened to borrow recently, what does it mean? Does it mean God exist and is giving signs? Clues? Or guidance? The Book, stated that Man invent things (In times of War) to kill each other faster, easier and in larger numbers. In the past few centuries, many are lost in the name of scientific progression? That Man technologically advanced rapidly due to Wars?

I watched Full Metal Alchemist, an anime. Alphonse Elric stated that, to obtain something you must trade something equal in value. This is called something like Alchemical Equillibrium ? I forgot the term.

This death issue going on is getting onto me. I plan to live on forever~

Thursday, December 07, 2006

Icy Cold Gemini

This is the first post, and probably the dumbest, under the new site name

Icy-Cold-Gemini.Blogspot.Com


This sudden change is due to that ever pesky brother reading/harressing me and my blog as that guy has no life at all to boot! Doing a blog is gay? How bout' READING one? EVERYDAY? Almost every other hour? Dude, you need a life! And stop taking photos of yourself cause it's dumb and man, those pics look awful. I respect you by not showing them out to public. YET. And please respect my privacy. There's a limit to my patience de.

Anyway this blog name is used to represent my thinking/life/feelings currently, and dude! Les said it sounded COOL, so I went ahead lor (I thought of that name myself =D).

Going to change blog skin soon, and MAY add some other features in too.

Just only $0.55 to get a shock of your life. Plus the bonus of exhaustion, hallucination etc~

Today's my 3rd day at MediaTron advertising, job's kinda easy/simplistic. Admin jobs, checking of invoices, typing in AP, doing letters. Did that, done that. HENG it's less strenuous compared to my first time working there. Phone calls keep ringing in, sometimes 3~5 calls in a row.

"Morning MediaTron! How can assist you?" - Repeats every 1 or so minute for 8 hours a day


Yep, those were the days. Accompanied by 4 months of invoices/check payment etc urgently needed to be cleared. I went there by 9am, only to return home at bout 7~8pm+. Normal working hours was 9am-6pm, and it's $3 too T-T. But still got OT bonus, so it's not so bad ($3 per hour also...)

It's been a while since I get this fuzzy, drowzy, light headed, blur blur feeling. I experienced this kind once in a while, with the period when I'm working most distinctive. Apparently, based on my theory, it's caused by lack of sufficient rest, poor air ventilation, dusty plus sensitive nose combo. My body temperature would rise or fall depending on the pace of my work. There was once I practically froze my hands off "speed" typing AP/AC accounts. With the lack of sleep, there're some times that I almost doze off due to either working too fast, or there's nothing to do. Hey I said this time it's less hectic right? So the solution? 3 in 1 Coffee. Not Super brand, but something else. Quite a good cup of coffee, but that diabetic-hereditary issue going on in my Dad's side of family, I'm starting to worry T-T. So maybe 2~5 cups of coffee a day, depending on situations. On average it's 1 during the morning before I leave for work, 1 during work and 1 when it's almost time to go home.

So leaving the office at around 7pm today after reading some old issues of 8days in the office (It's a advertising company, so it's almost newspaper galore and all you can read for free there. I like it =D ). Listening to my MP3 at the smallest possible audible volume (My ears are getting numb. I cant hear well..), I waited for a bus. First came 66, almost crowded, so I decided against going onboard. Secondly, I almost mistook Bus no.8 as some other bus. Thirdly, Bus no.22 came.

So I got up, and took the bus home. Weird thing is, I noticed that NO ONE standing abroad wanted to grab the seat left empty (beside some uncle)for like eons, but anyway I went for the seats cause no one went for it. As the bus reached the housing area between Bedok Reservoir and Ubi, the bus got a little more crowded. My front view was obscured by some guys, so I just look at the scenaries at my right (While doing so I joked to myself that I MIGHT meet someone I know at the stop).

And who knew? There she was. I didnt even notice her coming up. No not the glittering princess I saw 2 months back, but someone I knew for my whole secondary days. She looked different from her normal usual in school look. Slightly dyed brown hair, donning some white jacket/sweater and not tying her hair up, I mistook her for someone else, man, that almost took away me soul. There I was, thinking bout' things, and I didn't really focused on her. Til she came walked up right to me. Apparently she's just moving to the back of the bus, and I noticed her, a little too late. She's less than a metre away from me when I finally like, "WTH? How come she's here?!"

Stunned, unable to at least greet properly, I was like :" AWK AWK..." like those usual idiots in love comedies. To think I laughed at those people. Getting stunned is my weakness I guess. I didn't really thought she'll be in the same bus, and worse, at a time I was TOTALLY unprepared. Exhausted, listening to MP3, like semi dozing/dreamuing state. I guess she didn't see me, but I was in a nervous wreck.

" WTH is she doing here? She went on a date or something? Went to work?"


I went AWK~AWKing for a while, and the uncle beside me was proberbly thinking that am I choking or what. After some quick thinking, I decided to do what I do best. ACT DUMB. So I continued starring blurrly outside, trying not to focus on her.

I focused on my MP3, and tried to compose myself. Took quite a while, but I can't still take my mind off her. I was TOTALLY unprepared for such things to happen, and usually I'll take a long time to analyze,think and conclude before taking any actions, and this shock will definitely cut my life-span by several years (I plan to live forever~ But having a common sense is very dampening). My heart was pounding like a train on fire, and I felt hot and nervous and was panting, not that badly though. I dont even suffer such horrible panic attack during my O lvl orals.

So just a few stops later, she got off near the Bedok Reservoir wet market. But that was a very scary experience. Looks like some foul divine intervention/trick, and man I was THAT shocked/scared. This is ironic, cause I'm trying all I can to just forget this whole crush on her issue. This just reverts the whole situation back to square one.

Tuesday, December 05, 2006

Well been busy recently, so I just summarized everything. Mrs Kwa (Ms DeCotta) will be SO proud :). Gotta work tomorrow! Working is fun! But harmful to the body. I feel lethargic. And feverish.

Saturday - Went for a gathering (Not as huge as in thousands, bout' 30+ people) on Saturday. Bored at first, but that Ping Pong game was gorgeous XD. Listen to Uncle's Paul's "philosophy". Interesting and shocking (Cause I heard something I don't really get to hear. NO Porn here). Got appointed as the Leader for the kids and teens. All boys only.

Sunday Night - Went to the Library! Kinda bored, but there's good books =D! Ate at some 24hr cafe, though food is a little disappointing.

Monday - Went to a photo exhibition held at the new National Library, and I heard it's held by the Nanyang Neo Clan (A organization for the people with the surname 'Neo'. Bet the Tans got one too). Went to check out the library. I was expecting a larger library, after all it's a few storeys high, oh well. Borrowed 2 books (Science go to War, Anti-Matter) with Les's library card cause mine don't work. Both of us went around Bugis Junction, talked a lot. Went home late, slept late, woke up late, sleepy when going to work.

Tuesday - Went to work BY 8.30am. Thank God it's nearby. Like any other offices, aircon based, stuffy (I hate it. Especially with a sensitive nose). Due to insufficient sleep, plus the previous night of Insomania, felt feverish. And exhausted. But anyway I had fun today. Thank God no keying of invoices into the com! Just keying it in using some early 80~90s program is horrible! No undo! An error = redoing the whole invoice again! keying HUNDREDS/Thousands of invoices! Stiff Neck again T.T

Well I think I'm just gonna do it.(Thanks to Les for discussing crap with me ^^) Mustering all the courage and luck that I could get.

Saturday, December 02, 2006

Yesterday was a really short day, well maybe because I woke up at 3pm+. That kind of wake up knowing that you slept a full 8 hours feeling was great! No Sinus, no digestive system problem, no severe blur blur effect(eg. Question yourself what happaned the other night; forgot you name etc.) and the afternoon felt lazy!

Well the night 2 days ago just sucks. Not going into that in detail, but I did thought about things alot. So besides from waking up today like a princess awoking from her eternal sleep (You don't see prince sleeping eternally anywhere don't you ?), drinking the sweeet, ol' cold,creamy milo (I'm trying to restrict drinking of coffee. Anyway not a big fan of it, cause it's for the caffine only), I was told we have a temple dinner later yesterday's night. So it's was around 3hours later. Not that I'm complaining, but that 3 hours seemed long, I used the net to do my daily routine of news/halo news/blogging reading, played 6 levels in Halo 2 (Awaiting H3! Chances are I won't earn enough for a Xbox360 by the end of 2006) and even took a short nap! Life without motive is boring. I don't even get to use my brain.

Like always, the temple dinner was held at some housing estates, either at carparks, basketball courts or even the road o.O . And also like always, the horrible portable toilets, me not eating due to many meat dishes served and getting so bored that i almost practically dozed off. But the only difference is, the dinner seemed to finish faster than usual?

So forgetting bout' that, I think I've decided to work for that family friend again. The job which my dad suggested was a sham, a hoax, and for a while he almost conned me, until I found it's too good to be true. $4, 6 days wk, 8 hrs day, and the best part is, I'll be so called under "Apprenticeship". So I'll be just doing manual chores, or just see how the workers do those machine parts. My uncle didn't even know that I was about to go there to work in the workshop. Not to blame my parents, but they got this all talk no action habit. 99% of the data spewing out from their mouth are either irrelevant, useless, very very unnesessary or bullshit. So thank god I was prepared for the worst.

So bout' that job that family friend's offering, it's not comfirmed yet, but chances are high, cause she asked my mom if I was still looking for a holiday job. Guess I have no choice then, cause I can only work for bout 2~3 weeks, and during a week of december I'll be in Malaysia for vacation. That's the only job which is "flexible", theorically safe and has the stable 8hrs/5days wk thingy. Well forgetting the part which I may be paid only $3 per hour, no lunch/transportation included, this should be ok. Just more admin jobs, manual labour etc.

I guess Xbox360 is a no show for me this year, afterall I took 2 months of saving $3 per hour working to save up for a Xbox 2 years ago. This time I'll need to seat down and think/consider seriously to plan out for the 360 and Wii. Oh yeah and H3 too XD

Haiz, I still need the cash I can get for the very private reason. Guess die die must get that job liao. Must plan for that meeting already, so Mrs Oon please reply asap.

-Currently surviving on Anime MP3s, Prison Break season 1. They keep me from going insane.