A little update

¡Hola!

It's been two months since I last blogged. Wow, so much as happened in the world. Pluto had been demoted from the planetary system to a dwarf planet, Steve Irwin had passed away after a freak accident with a stingray (rest in peace, mate), Thaksin's government had been toppled and replaced with military rule, Katie Couric started work at CBS News, Singapore just ended hosting the IMF meeting recently...yah I get it, I got so lazy the past few weeks that I am not keeping up with the world events.

Anyway, just a little update for peeps out there, just started my undergraduate life in Nanyang. Before that, I actually had two options - Arts and Social Science in NUS or Engineering in NTU. A lot of my friends asked me why I chose NTU instead or NUS. I really dun noe the exact reason but I guess it's because I still dun wanna abandon my science background. All my life, I have studied science from sec sch to JC. To suddenly abandon it to pursue arts, I gueses it's not in my blood. Not to say, I dun like Arts subjects. I like History and Psychology. Perhaps I can take these subjects as my electives in my course at NTU.

Spanish is in my blood...heh!! Yup, I am currently learning Spanish in my school. It's fun to learn, quite easy to learn so far. Spanish has three verbs conjugations, so it's quite easy to learn compared to the other romantic languages. So next time I am in Spain or Latin America, check me conversing with the Latino and Spanish babes there in Spanish...lol

Just a little pics of to show how "civic-minded" that Singaporeans can be!! Eating curry puffs in the MRT train as if it's the right thing to do! Such a disgrace and blantly rude for ignoring the 'No eating & drinking in the train' signs...

Renewal

Wow, it's been a month since I last posted. What is new now?

• A new different layout (yeah!!)
• A new tagboard which people can post their comments and messages (yeah! yeah!)

How's cool is that? I learnt all this from the Internet, should kudos to the Net where everything is can be learned and enjoyed.

Enjoy the new layout...

Chill

Happy New Year...or is it?

So much as happened since the last time I had blogged here. The months of Dec and Jan have been really crazy for me. Here is the list of what happened to my life during the past two months.

Mid-December 05
I went for a little vacation at the east of Singapore. That's rite! I am too broke to go overseas for vacation, so I went to the Aloha chalet with my church friends for one week vacation. The weather was good, so we went to the beach almost everyday. I never imagined that Singapore beaches were that good. I think Singapore beaches are ok, not much of a 'wow' factor as a tourist attraction. However, the sun is been hot during the week, so my friends and I sun-tanned almost everyday. When I returned to work after that, I was so tanned that people will think I went to Phuket for vacation. LOL!!!

Christmas vacation 05
Ok, I went for a minor operation during the Christmas holidays. I know that's sucks coz it's near Christmas. I have to miss my friends Christmas party, miss Christmas Midnight mass. Our church Christmas Midnight mass has always been a yearly affair. My friends and I would buy the lastest fashion in clothes and exchange presents before mass. We would attend the Midnight mass together with our friends. It was a memorable event. Too bad I couldn't make it due to my operation. I had to have my leg operated as I had an extra bone growing. So I have to miss a lot of Christmas holidays and gift exchanges. The upside: I have one month plus of medical leave lasting till the first week of Feb. Not a bad trade-off, come to think about it.

26 December - First anniversary of the Tsunami victims
Just a moment when the world stop whatever it is doing and pay respect to the lives lost during the Tsunami in the year 2004. The Tsunami is the worst disaster in the history where so many lives were lost during the Tsunami in different Asian countries. Now, the survivors have to rebuilt their lives.

The Nightmare of the New Year's Eve and the New Year
Yup, this year New Year Eve wil be my worst time I ever had. Why? This is the day where I will always remember how my father is. My father suddenly died of an acute heart attack in the morning of New Year Eve. The night before, my father went for his New Year party with his colleagues. He got home drunk, intoxicated and a bit unconscious. My sister and I tried to help him to wash him up and clean him. Checking that he is sleeping peacefully, we went to sleep. However, as fate intervened, my father had a heart failure during the middle of the night. I didn't noticed that until the next morning on New Year's Eve at 7.30am in the morning. I woke up to check on him and felt his pulse and breathing. There was none. I quickly called my family and called for the ambulance. However, by the time the paramedics came, the paramedics had pronounced my father to be dead on the spot. It was too late to save him. He was gone. Our family hierarchy suddenly changed. I was the head of the household. I suddenly became the man of the household. My world suddenly collapsed. During the wake, I felt so overwhelmed with this new position that I felt helpless and had no one to talk to. My father was suddenly taken away from me on New Year Eve. I had not even said farewell to him. All the time, I took him for granted, thinking that he will be there tomorrow and the day after. There's so many stuff that I wanted to say to him but couldn't now. It was this moment that I realised that I have become an adult.

Now, everything has more or less settled in my life. I am still having my medical leave. My father has been gone for two weeks. The New Year had been hard on me and our family. I guess now, we couldn't celebrate New Year like we used to anymore. Life has to go on.

Adios for now.

Age gap too huge??

I am now at my friend's house typing this post. I am bored at his house...all my friends are in their teenage years, screaming and shouting at their top of their lungs. I mean, I am not enjoying myself here. All my friends are still in their secondary school years, underage, playing computer games and shouting for no apparent reasons. Grow up!! Or is it me? Have I grown up too much that I can't mix around with them anymore...

At my friend's house, I feel like I am the one babysitting them instead of hanging out. Perhaps there is a huge age gap between them and me. My notion of hanging out will be sitting at the coffee bar or pub, drinking and chit-chating...that's all. No fuss and worries...

Today, it seems to be a long, long day...I am bored and nothing to do, so I watched all my shows which I have. Watched the recent episode of Desperate Housewives, Smallville and Boston Legal...I think I am hooked to US shows...they seem to be more interesting than local shows that Singapore produces. I mean, wat's with PCK and Police and Thief? Slapstick comedy?? More like some lame production...PCK used to be quite nice and funny to watch. However, it slowly seems to be deterrioting. Luckily, the producers have stopped producing them already...

Now, I am watching Oprah Primetime. There have a two-part special on the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina. When I watched it, I watched the horrors of destruction and devastation that Hurricane Katrina had caused. I saw one half collapsed house. The house was supposed to be hurricane-proof, but thenthe hurricane was too strong that it tore the top half of the house apart. Also, I watched how the victims are coping and staying refuge in the stadiums. They are very resilient and determined to get on with their life. Even the American actors and actress showed their support for the victims by comforting and consoling them. They seemed to be a united bunch of folk. I wonder about this Singapore. When we faced a great tragedy, can we really rise up to the occasion and help others in need?

Wow! What a long time...

Yup, what a long time since I last posted. Basically, I kinda forgot my password and username, so have to go through the tedious process of retrieving them...sighz

So far, nothing much happened dramatically in my life.

Wat you know about me: I am a young male Singaporean who is still undergoing National Service (NS). Yup, I am sure there are some human rights violation against conscription....but my country choose to ignore that anyway...

More to post later, so see ya!!