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Wow... haven't been blogging for ages. Very sorry, been rather busy lately,

and NO, this blog isn't dead. :)

Guess where am I now?

Yeah man, in the same old lab, same old desk, in front of the same old gawd damn computer.

Cut the crap, I shall go straight into recent significant events, and let's start with Christmas.


The snow is falling, and Christmas is near.
I couldn't ask for more than having you here.
Cos I miss you girl, I always will.
And now I feel the moment is right, the moment is right...

Moment to do what? You would ask. Well, the moment to move on.


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'Safe and sound night', or chinese would say 'Ping An Ye' or to put it simple, its Christmas Eve. I was contemplating whether to join Y clubbers on an eventful night at clarke quay counting down or go chiong with my chionging buds.

A bit of a history first.

Y club is a gang of brothers and sisters formed around Christmas time in 1999. It started off with 10 members. Namely,

Yongjie, Jeffrey, Samuel, Alvin On, Candy, Me, Jing Jing, Jolene, Wen Sheng, Alex.

Be it recess time back in sec school, outings during weekends, birthdays, this 10 people would always stick together. Everyone was indispensable.

Then Yongjie was the first to leave us, followed shortly by Jeffrey. Both of which I've absolutely no idea why they left.

The last member to part was Jing Jing, mainly due to us not having a liking for her boyfriend. We were all utterly disappointed with her over this. I shan't go into details, its all in the past anyway.

What remains now, from the initial Y club 10, is the current Y club 7.

As the years flew by, everybody gets attached naturally. And so resulting in lesser time for each other as everyone would be busy with their steads.

Now in general, I can divide the 7 of us into 3 sub groups.

1. Candy and Alvin

Ever since they got hooked with one another, they have been entering a world of their own.

2. Jolene

Same for her, ever since she had Gabriel, I only see her like once in months?

3. Wen Sheng, Me, Alex and Samuel

Our brotherhood is still as strong albeit I would say Samuel have been busy with his own things lately and seldom meet up with us.

All these years, I've spent all my Christmas Eves with Y clubbers, so why should this year be any different?

To be honest, deep down inside me, there's this overwhelming intuition telling me Y club is splitting. In fact, that feeling has been lingering for quite some time already.

Very sad indeed.

Nowadays whenever there's a club gathering, be it brothers or sisters birthdays or just any other outing, I feel that everyone is just putting up a front pretending to be very close like how we were in the past. Although it's not very blatant to say the least, we really can't deny the fact that the gap actually exists. I know the gang is trying hard to conceal it, but how long can we hide?

Anyway, after giving much thought, I decided not to change my Christmas custom. Simply because brothers are forever. (Notice the fact I said brothers only?)


I met up with Wen Sheng first. We were sitting on a couch waiting for Alvin and Candy to come, when an idea struck me. There was this group of young teens selling those spray foams at 5 for $10. I persuaded Wen Sheng to buy although he was quite reluctant initially. The idea of course, was to bombard Y clubbers during midnight as I presumed they wouldn't be prepared for it.

Lo and behold, I was damn right. When the clock struck twelve, it was time for FOAM WAR!

Muahaha, I took out 2 cans, shook them vigorously before going on a spraying spree where everyone was trying to run away from me. TeeHeeHee. *grins*

It was very fun and signs of old days coming back were at sight, but I knew it was only for that moment. Sad.

Everyone was fucking hungry after that and we proceeded to fill our stomachs at Satay King.

Fucking hell, a plate of mee goreng plus sunny side up cost a massive $6.50!

And it wasn't any much different from the ones we eat at normal coffeeshops. In fact, the serving was slightly lesser. @#$%@#!@!#

Ta-dah! Time to exchange presents! We exchanged presents via the musical chair format.

Allow me to elaborate.

One person will play music with his or her back facing the group in a circle. The the group will pass the present around until the music stops. (The one playing the music can stop anytime he/she likes) And so the one holding the present when the music stops belongs to him/her.

I got a famous amos cookies brought LAST MINUTE by Wen Sheng. Eh-hem. *rolls eyes*

And the one so luckily got my chinese version of 'Fererro Rocher', "Jinuo Cocher" is none other than Sam the Man. Muahaha...

As the package was quite obvious and everyone knew it was Rocher. All of them were laughing the heads off when it was time to pass my pressie around. The present only circulated for a few rounds before Sam got it. For your info, the music hadn't stop, but when Sam wanted to pass the present to Alvin, he backed off laughing like a moron. Then Sam handed it to Candy, who in turn retreated a few steps back, chuckling away. In the end Sam turned to Jolene, who 'monkey see monkey do', ran away in opposite direction. Hahaha... buey tahan. In the end, when the music stopped, poor Sam had to resign to fate that the present is his to keep.

Expecting a Ferrero Rocher to emerge from the wrapper, to his surprise and everyone else's horror, out comes a similar box of nicely silver wrapped round chocolates, and on the front written nicely were the words, 'JINUO CHOCHER'.

Everyone nearly die laughing, claiming I bought a pirated version of rocher.

Haha... what a day!
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.:nitekidScrewed at 2:32 PM:.
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I'm bored. Fucking bored.

I'm in school.

Doing what?

ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.

Gawd. School don't suck. Timetable sucks. Big time.

So many fucking useless breaks in between lessons. I can start school as early as 9am in the morning and dismiss at 5pm. Hmm... let me count. 1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8! Oh yeah 8 freaking hours including breaks. U must be thinking OH! Then I should be having maybe 7 hours or AT LEAST, 6 hours of classes?

Nah.

Its only half the time. 4 hours of classes only. 2 hours of lab, 1 hour of lecture and another hour of tutorial. The rest of the time?

SLACK LOR.

What more can I do? Most of my poly pals have all graduated. Its unlike the past anymore where you will meet up with different buddies at different days for lunch.

Well its not so much about meeting friends for lunch. Bottomline being,

FAST system SUCK to the core of the gawd damn earth.

Its simply a waste of student's precious time.

Now I truly regret. I regret not coming to school more often in the 2 semesters that I retained. All because I was lazy to attend class. In the end got myself debarred from exams. Worse part is, I wasn't even allowed to take supplementary exams, which most cases of debarrment would have been permitted to sit for supp albeit you cannot take your main exams.

Why?

Cos I was debarred for too many papers, 3 to be exact. ALL 3 examinable subjects. POWER huh? They gave me a direct repeat.

Yeah, I did it on Year 2 Sem 1. And OPPS I did it again, on Year 3 Sem 1.

A fucker who doesn't learn his lesson right? Yeah, serve me right. I have to admit.

Now, as a result of my moment of folly and pure stupidity, I have to endure long hours of "Zho Bo" and self indulgence in school, loittering around like a person who lost his way in school.

In Laymen's terms, I'm acting like a freshmen.

Well... luckily for me, Rey is still here to accompany me for my lunch when our breaks coincide.

Or should I say, unfortunately there's only Rey? Haha...

Oh ya, there's still Jeremy and Ricky, my 2 chionging buds, but their breaks don't match mine for most of the days. The most I see them once a week. Sad.

For your info, I'm currently in the school's free access lab surfing net, in the midst of a 3 hour break.

I feel good. So good. :)
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Today, the 5th of December was our supposed 5th month. Well then again, life's full of unexpectations.

Although I'm still trying to adapt to life without her by my side, it seems that now I have more time for my bruddars and friends, because I devoted most of my time to her in the past. Come to think of it, I was indeed that little selfish.

Well... its already the past. So why bother?

We live in the present, so what's important is not what happened yesterday, but things that are happening today.

It's my life, it's now or never.
I ain't gonna live forever.
I just wanna live when I'm alive...

This should be the spirit. Whenever u encounter hurdles, move on. Jump over it. Never let it hinder ur way to live life to the fullest. Cos we don't live forever. If we don't live now, then when will it be?

Next life?

Nah, we're not even certain that there will be one after we die.

There's a chinese saying,

"jin zhao you jiu jin zhao zui, ming ri chou lai ming ri dang."

Direct translation from English would be,

"Today got beer today drink, tomorrow problems tomorrow settle."

Life is short. It really is.


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Today went to Oldman's Pub again with Eric and gang. Going out with them is never dull. Never short of laughter. And never debating on who pays more and who pays less. They are indeed a bunch of selfless bruddars to me. In the midst of despair and unhappiness, there's always them to brighten up your day. Simply great friends.

We did the usual. Sang songs, play cards, drink beer and crack jokes. After which we proceed to fill our stomach with dian xin at Geylang, before sending them home.

Its another weekend gone. And great, I'm going back to school on Monday.

Sad.
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.:nitekidScrewed at 6:03 AM:.
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