and a few days back i was doing ironing all by myself. i'm really damn proud of myself that i can actually iron my own shirts and pants now. it's really a super chim and tedious process. u have to try not to crumple your shirt while ironing it, at the same time balancing the iron on the ironing board (i swear it almost slipped off the board once cos i pushed it away too hard once) and always keeping a safe distance from the iron cos it has the potential to do some real good damage to your skin. i tink all household appliances are weapons of mass destruction. the washing machine drum started turning and churning while my hand was still inside, it cld have chopped off my hand or sth lah, and not forgetting all my clothes wld be stained with blood so i've to spend more money on a new wardrobe. and everything else in the kitchen produces enough heat to kill you. the microwave, toaster, oven, kettle. so i've came to a conclusion that kitchens shld just be left to girls. HAHAHAHA. i shall find a housewife wife nxt time and not those super powerful career woman. LOL LOL LOL

and well another thing which i'm highly dissatisfied with is the huge stack of newspapers i get everyday. last time i just read them and throw it ard the hse and miraculously they'll all be folded up nicely in the storeroom the nxt day. but now i've gotta do all the folding myself, and that's when i realise that the papers are only as good as the main section. the rest is just bullshit which no one reads. so why even bother printing stuff like classified ads. they shld provide them free on news stands so only those who want it take it. bloody waste of paper. 

and this week has been amazingly slow compared to my nz trip which lasted the same duration. it's like i cld have gone for 10 nz trips. sigh time passes slowly when u're doing something which u have no interest at all. 

and oh a birthday shoutout to STELLA LIANG! HAPPY NINETEENNNN!!! thankew for your pink trail slippers they're really imba, much much better than havaianas. it survived three army camps, and 2 overseas trips! but they're actually more black than pink now haha. anyway stay as spastic as u always are okie LOL! and u gotta curb that addiction of touching stray cats! hahahaha

and changyi i'll make sure i do a damn good post for you come back from brunei. if farrell the mutated fish can survive there, u can too. but maybe u'll just be stuck with derrick soh on some small island off shore and u've gotta survive with him for months. HAHAHA. take care bro. 

oh and today i got bombarded by financial advisers on my way home. what seemed to be a very simple survey which started with a purely innocent question "do you save or spend?" turned out to be an intense drilling session and ultimately i succumbed under pressure and gave them my name and contact number. and this marks the start of irritating insurance sellers calling me on my mobile asking me if i wanna invest. at first only one approached me asking me if i cld do a simple survey, den i made the biggest mistake by saying yes. cos once i said yes, another one sneaked up from behind my back and started talking to me like i was his best friend. den 5 mins later one more popped out from nowhere. so i was interrogated by THREE financial planners, all having the same agenda of squeezing off as much money as they can from this poor kid. for goodness sake if i wanna invest i will come to one of you i dun need you to survey me on the streets and den con me into investing. who doesn't know that bank interest rates are super low and it's better to put your money in some investment plan to make it grow. but even a three year old kid knows that we're in a recession right now. and they always like to ask you "what happen if you die today, you know if you don't have an insurance policy your parents are not gonna get a single cent? and how are they gonna support themselves without you ard?" basket all they knw is how to curse me, and since when my parents treated me as a commodity? bunch of irritants. and since i was in my army uniform, they shld have the common sense to know how badly paid army kids are. we're cheap labour. i get more money working the same hours in mcdonalds. and not being condescending or anything, but please, i'm a college graduate, u don't pay me 400 bucks a month for my services.

okay enough of whining and lamenting, let's talk bout new zealand! :) nz was really really awesome. the weather, the people and the culture's totally so different from singapore. and i dun have a single photo with me, all of them are in dad's camera which is still far far away in newzealand, so i'll upload photos nxt week or sth. haha nothing much anyway, just more mountains and grass and sheep. and the photos undermine the true beauty and magnificence of nature. the difference between looking at a picture and physically being there is at two ends of a spectrum. so this will be a long pictureless post! hahaa

first of all the weather in nz is super shoik. it's like living in a fridge. u'll never sweat and u can never sweat, it's that type of weather that's so comfortable you won't get pissed off at anything cos the weather cools u down. haha. and thanks to global warming which is screwing up the whole climate, it actually SNOWED, and it's not abit of snow, it was really snowing quite heavily. and it's supposed to be late spring now in nz, so snow shld have gone away a long long time ago. not that i care anyway, all that mattered was snow. snow's so much better than rain. rain's irritating and makes everything wet. but snow is much gentler and u can walk ard without carrying an umbrella cos it doesn't wet u at all. how awesome! :) but since none of us were prepared for snowy weather which meant subzero temperatures, we didn't bring enough clothes so we froze. haha this was the first time my hands got so cold until i couldn't feel them and it hurt for like the next 20 mins. i was kinda worried my fingers might drop off or sth. haha. 

and the scenery is nz is really really spectacular. the way mountains and grass plains meet, with a railway track running somewhere in between, and hundreds and thousands of sheep littered everywhere, it looks like something u'll only see on postcards. and it's kinda ironic as we were enjoying steak beside a farm fill with sheep and cows. hahaha. but besides the scenery, what really moved me was the people and its culture. all the angmohs there were super friendly and helpful. random people will smile at you while u're walking down the streets, and everyone's so kind and polite. there's much more human interaction there than in singapore. back here everyone's in their own little world, and to even look at some stranger wld be considered intrusive. and everyone wld be staring either at the ceiling or the floor when we're in a lift. angmohs are totally different, random ppl can just strike up conversations with you, and they are actually so friendly they will purposely open doors for you. these small greetings and actions really brightened up my day. these random ppl become part of your life, and not just a background which zooms pass goes unnoticed. u feel a genuine sincerity from everyone around you, and the warmth i felt was something which i've never experienced before here. perhaps that's why the west seems far more appealing than the east. u wld rather want a nice holiday in australia than in china. and honestly i'm kinda ashamed by our culture here. the angmohs really deserve hot girlfriends. LOL.  

anyway i'll say more bout nz when i finally get my hands on the photos! but for now it's back to reality. rahh. and i'm home alone for one whole week cos my family's still in nz having fun. THAT'S LIFE. and i'm kinda scared staying alone at home cos of all the horror movies i watched in nz. the people over there have no night life, all shops close by 5.30, so the tele is the only entertainment at night. somehow they air horror movies everynight, so i got kinda brainwashed. and i'm feeling homesick! haha can't believe it but i really miss my family. the house seems so much more colder and quieter now. kinda ironic cos i'm at home yet i'm feeling homesick. 

WELL life moves on, christmas's up next :)

when a relationship first starts off, the girl treats the guy like a god. but slowly overtime, the letters are reversed.

chaos! :)

well other than the disappointing helloween, this week was samuel justin ting zhou min's birthday! happy nineteen bro :) u're one lucky numbskull to get a fred perry for your bday. and i'm still wearing 2 for 30bucks cotton on polo tees. life is unfair man. haha

and in another 24hours i'll be in new zealand chilling out with the sheep and cows there :) not really excited though cos it's gonna be the same stuff that i saw last year, and the shopping there ain't that great too cos ang moh stuff are always super expensive and branded. perhaps i can find more cotton on shops there, or pray that by some miracle i find a ralph lauren warehouse that sells stuff at 70% off. but till then i guess i'll just take it as a nice break from my monotonous army life. 

to infinity and beyond! :)