Sunday, September 27, 2009


hello friends it has been quite some time since i last blogged :)

went to watch inglorious basterds today which i thought was utterly disappointing. i've no idea why everyone's been telling me it's damn good cos it looks to me like one big feel good nazi killing movie. honestly i thought it was based on a true story or something like that till i saw how two retards gunned down hilter in an assassination that even a 5 year old kid could carry out. and the story line is utterly impossible and filled with long long long dialogues which half the time i do not understand cos it's either in german or the lingo is just alien to me. the only thing i picked out was when they mentioned jerry which meant germans and i know it cos mr teo gene-en told us while we were going through some lit prose bout nazis and it led me to think about all that wilfred owen war poems and how both sides have to dehumanize each other before they're able to kill one another. and i realised it's been awfully long since i touched lit and i really really miss it. which led me to realise that i'm wasting two years in army bumming around rotting my brain away. sigh. haha so basically the entire movie's one big farce where seemingly murderous characters can be a comic relief. it's something like burn after reading where one moment u can be laughing and the nxt moment the guy is shot dead but somehow u're stil laughing and after that you question yourself why and it doesn't leave a very good after feeling.

this weekend's f1 week and i think it's really awesome how such a small country singapore can host such a massive event. 2 years ago if you ask anyone on the streets whether f1 is possible in singapore they would laugh and you and see you as a retard, cos the closest racing track we have is pie and cte and aye and all the eeeeees. but lo and behold 2 years later we have f1 cars racing pass esplanade and supreme court and all over town. who would have thought our roads were actually wide or long enough to fit f1 cars? and the race route is incredibly awesome no one would have known how to plan it in such a small congested space but yet we've done it. aren't you proud to be a singaporean? haha i really am. for this weekend only though. everytime i see an angmoh wearing the signature f1 pass and holding a huge singapore map entering a mrt, i feel like smiling at them and telling them welcome to singapore. but of cos social norms restrict that and the entire mrt wld think i'm a retard or someone out to swindle angmohs. so secretly inside i'm happy that they're here and i'm proud that they're in singapore. so let us just take a moment to be proud of this tiny island, that even in such a contrived restricted environment where even pole dancers have to apply for permits, our pseudo-democratic government had actually planned and allowed for such a massive ground breaking event to be hosted here. of cos let's not go into how meticulously they have calculated the costs and benefits and realised that the economical benefits far far outweigh the opportunity costs of blocking up the busiest roads in the country for 3 full days, cos that would spoil the fun of being a proud singaporean yes?

and cheers to lewis hamilton :)

shouted out at 9:32 AM

Tuesday, September 15, 2009


HELLO WORLD

yes it's been an ultra long time since i blogged. after my previous post, blogging in brunei became virtually impossible with nosey regulars hovering behind my back whenever i used the computer. but i have to admit brunei has been good, better than my first trip. and i realised the importance of going with nice friends, people whom you can click with, cos they'll get you through the otherwise unbearable 34 days of brunei boredom. hence, a big THANK YOU to all who went with me to brunei, though i doubt any would be reading this. no one knws that this page exists and i wanna keep it that way haha.

the first two weeks in brunei was spent on fervent trips to the gym, and badminton after. we were basically very very healthy people. but the third week someone discovered that we could all link up laptops to create some ad-hoc wireless lan and play dota with absolutely no lag, and henceforth hell began haha. dota sessions started from midnight and ended 5,6am the following day. and we only slept a couple of hours before going for work, which usually start in the early afternoon. and by some miracle there wasn't any flying during the last week, so we had longer dota sessions, till 7,8am in the morning. and more than often i find myself waking up at 5pm walking about like a zombie searching for food (that's the screwed up time when lunch hadalready been cleared but dinner had not arrived) and this daily routine completely screwed up body clock, had a freakin hard time when i came back to singapore. haha and my dad constantly nagged at how unhealthy my lifestyle was. argh.

and brunei had been a a month long of nice personal time for me. you get to think through alot of stuff that you wouldn't back in singapore cos you're just too busy. and somehow the freedom of being alone rocks. i didn't have to answer to anyone and no one cared bout me. to be honest i got quite irritated with my parent's constant nagging when i got back haha but now i'm numb to it :) and i find that i have more meaningful conversations with people instead of all that msn nonsense back home. emails and facebook are much much more effective HAHA. a huge huge thankew to all who replied to my melancholic monologues hahaha.

but of course having said all that, home is still the best :)

I'M BACK YOOOOOOO!

shouted out at 8:20 AM