Had my weekly dinner with my click at Clark Quay. We ate at Quayside Grilled Seafood, the food was not bad, price is reasonable, service was excellent when we first sat but as soon we are going to finished our dinner, the service dropped.

Had Gelato Ice Cream at Liang Court before proceeding to Singapore River Bank to chill out. Talked about Paranormal stuffs. There is one thing called ‘Time Lapse’, I am not too sure whether it is the right word to use. For example Geargina brought this up. A couple was at Clementi, the boyfriend went toilet and did not came back. The girl made a police report and 2 weeks later the boy came back saying that he was in the toilet for only 5 minutes.

Terry also experienced this before when he was young playing hide and seek. He was running down a spiral path and after running for a very long time, he is still at the 3rd floor.

I can’t seem to find the right term to use so that I can search using google. I find it is quite an interesting subject.

How time flies, it is our 8th weekly dinner, 2 months just flew pass.

My 5 years Nike waterbottle is cracked, time to get those a new one. Aiming at those transparent plastic one which is quite trendy now. Wanted to get a Sigg, but my mom say will dent very easily which is quite true.

Was thinking of going for Lasik(Eye Surgery) after my NS. Here is a discussion thread on it. I heard the success rate is 99.9% and no one has gone blind in the world before, but the down side it cost a total of around $6k for both eyes. But one thing for sure, I do not like the hassle of wearing specs.

Anyway, I watched Dawn Of The Dead. I find it pretty good and much better than 28 days but lose to Resident Evil. The real ending is after the credits but I do not get to watch it because the person cut away the credits in the avi file. Hope to watch it in the cinema this Sunday.

Starhub MaxOnline was down for more than 15 minutes yesterday. At first I thought it is my problem only, after smsing/calling some of my friends, they told me theirs also down. Slowly I realize that it is whole of Singapore. Tried calling their hotline but it was engaged, and I was told even if I managed to get through, I have to wait for 20 minutes or more to speak to their CSO. You called that good service? This afternoon, I woke up, realized that my cable got dced again at around 8am.

That is it, I am totally pissed off with Starhub, regretted signing the 2 years contract with them. Once the contract expire and there is a faster ADSL/DSL connection available, I will definitely switch ISP. Now I am looking at Qala or Magix. Can’t wait the day where we will have T1 or T3 line for residents.

Chatted with 2 people online after my cable was up. One was a guy from #starhub who is going in DMMT this July. Chatted about poly life and stuffs. All of us was bitching about how lousy Starhub MaxOnline is in #starhub, and apparently, last time there is a petition signed by 3k people to Starhub to ask them increase the bandwidth, but apparently that doesn’t work. The other one was my primary school classmate. He got into NP but he also received his NS letter and he already deferred 2 times, and this time he can’t defer anymore. He went to CMPB and went to see the MP, both also no use. Apparently he is as pissed off as me with Singapore.

Can’t the government let us finished our education first before serving the country, why must they always fuck around with our lives. We control our own lives and not them.

Went to see my cousin today at Mount Alvernia Hospital, she just gave birth to a baby girl on Monday. She looks ok but her daughter is having a flu. Poor thing. I just realized having a kid/child is expensive especially in Singapore is VERY expensive. The hospital bills for giving birth will be around a few K and baby clothing/stuffs are sometimes are more expensive than adults one.

You think life sucks? Before you say that, take a look a this thread. Take note of the last picture. I used to say life sucks last time, but if life sucks that much to you, why not just end it? Dare not? Means life does not suck.

Need to get more CDRs, my CDRs is running low on stock.

Kill Bill Vol 2 opens here in Singapore tomorrow, finally the rating is out, which is M18. I doubt they will censor anything because it is not as gory as Vol 1 beside the eye part. The movie length is about 2 hours. Overall, the entire Kill Bill was ok, but somehow Vol 1 got more fight scenes and I kinda prefer it.

The Telesync version which is around 2.0GB(3 CDs), the quality is not that bad but most importantly it is still watchable. Hope the DVD rip will be out before I go in for NS. The Punisher, Dawn Of The Dead and 50 First Dates are the movies I am going to get next.

My closer cousin gave birth to a baby girl on 19th April 2004, which makes me an uncle for the, let me see…..should be the 6th time.

Now the talk of the town became the collapse of Nicoll Highway, I am surprise by how fast the information spreads. I was surfing Hardware Zone forums, and if I am not wrong, the thread about the collapse of Nicoll Highway was posted 15 minutes after it happen and within the next hour it spreads faster than a virus could.

Last week was the massive blackout in the West area, this week was the collapse of Nicoll Highway, whats next?

By the way, I have updated the gallery with Jackey’s Birthday photos.

*Update* Whats next? Starhub MaxOnline is down for more than 15 minutes, affecting ALL users of maxonline. I just got my Internet back. Then what is next again?

Watched Ichi The Killer. It is a very very gross movie, Kill Bill is nothing compared to it. I still managed to finish watching the movie without puking. Overall the movie was ok but the ending is very weird. Watch Ichi The Killer trailer.

I also downloaded Zatoichi, which is a NC16 show and it is going to show here soon. I don’t think it is worth to watch it in the cinema because our dear MDA always love to censor stuffs. In term of gross, I think it can’t beat Ichi and from what I heard the ending is very weird too.

Going to download Kill Bill Vol 2 once I have finished downloading Band Of Brothers. I hope Kill Bill Vol 2 is a M18 rating here in Singapore and hope that our dear MDA don’t censor anything, else I rather watch it from the comfort of my home.

I seriously can’t stand movie being censored, is like cheating your money. Imagine a CD stating 12 tracks, but there is only 10 tracks in the CD. Don’t blame piracy, blame MDA.

I recommend Media Player Classic, it can play all video formats/codecs. If you are having codec problem, give this player a try.

Your NTU/NUS admission status should be release to you in batches from mid April 2004 to late May 2004.

*Update* Wohoo, got my 4th month pay. My ITP is over. My JSPG assignment got selected for the ICT showcase. Woot.

Went to Tampines Mall yesterday after sending my brother to tuition. The whole Tampines Mall area is very crowded, no place to park the car, end up my dad park it at some HDB carpark above S-11 coffeeshop.

The reason maybe it is because there is a national Monopoly competition going on there. Had Fish & Co for dinner, the last time I ate it was during Johnson’s birthday last year. The chilli crab looks nice, wanted to order it but it is sold out.

Had lunch today at Cartel in Plaza Singapura. My brother got a $100 voucher given to him by his table tennis coach. His coach is the owner of Cartel. I find the food is average only but the price is very reasonable due to the large portion.

Went to Wheelock place, got myself the Crumpler Bag that I am eying for all the while and a small pouch for my iPod.

Had some light snack at Olio Dome, the ambiance was quite good and prices is quite reasonable. The soup and the Cesar salad was fantastic.

The weather these days is darn hot, taking an afternoon nap with my fan set to the RD speed will also perspire. I wonder how long does this bloody weather last.

Oh ya, today is Sabrina birthday. Happy 20th Birthday Sabrina.

Went to school yesterday to take the letter from the school, the last try to take 3 days leave from PTP in case I could not get a silver from IPPT. According to the personal in charge of Tekong, during PTP should be able to get 3 days off. Army is so big that have so many departments and each of them say different things.

Had lunch with my mom at Long House, the food there is so-so although heard many say there is quite alot of good food there.

Met up with Jackey at Bugis to pray at the Waterloo Street’s temple. Met up with the rest at Harbour Front.

We went to the Riverboat restaurant in Sentosa for dinner and to celebrate Jackey’s birthday. The food there was ok and the portion is quite big. Spend almost 3 hours there, talking, taking photos, cutting cake and giving the presents. It was fun.

Left Sentosa to Orchard at about 11.45pm. Terry and Geargina went home because they got something on the next day while the rest of us decided to spend our night in Orchard.

We watched Starsky And Hutch at 3.35am. I love Orchard Cineleisure because on weekends it always have 24 hours movies. Bought the tickets first then we chill our at Swensens. The air-conditioning system in Crown Prince Swensens does not make any difference with a fan. We left Swensens at about 2am and hang around in the Crown Prince Hotel’s lobby, took some photos there.

Starsky And Hutch was quite ok, I have seen far worst comedy that that before. But I guess most of my friends fell asleep now and then during the show.

It has been a fun day, long time didn’t stay overnight. Must enjoy myself more before I go in NS.

I think I am the first one to wake up. Last but not least, Happy 20th Birthday Jackey.

My ITP more or less done. Now left with testing and debugging.

Went to jog with my friends at Queenstown Stadium, finally can jog 2.4km non-stop. Did train on pull up with the help of them. I hope every week I can increase 400m in running and try to do pulll-up. If everything goes on well, when PTP come, I can get silver for IPPT at the end of the 2 weeks, and then my BMT will start in August according to CMPB.

I think we are not fated to have dessert after running. Went to the hawker center opposite Queenstown Stadium and there is a dessert store but it is closing. Sigh.

List of movies that I intend to watch/download when it is out:

» Kill Bill 2
» Dawn Of The Dead
» Van Helsing
» Spiderman 2
» Harry Potter 3
» The Day After Tomorrow
» Resident Evil 2
» Garfield
» Alien vs Prediator

Here are some images to share with you all. Some are not work safe but they are not porn.

» 2006 MRT Map
» Food Sex
» Priceless
» Chinese
» Optical Illusion
» Windaz 2000
» Punishment
» Iron
» Camel Spider

Suppose to go to Queenstown Stadium for a jog with my secondary school friends, but there is a soccer match going on there, thus we went back to SP. The track there was very dark but it was rather cooling. I managed to jog for 2km without stopping, but the bad side is that my timing was around 15 minutes and I need to get less than 11 1/2 minutes for 2.4km in order to get silver for my IPPT.

After jogging we went to Clementi for dessert and realize that the whole of Clementi Central do not even have a single dessert store.

Met up with my supervisor today in SP Main library, had a hard time configuring the Wireless LAN, end up have to ask help from the CIS department. There are very helpful and friendly. I think SP have 2 wireless LAN network, because the campus wide surf zone requires you to login while wireless LAN network around ICT blocks do not require you to do so and it is much much much faster.

Got my 3rd month pay and a Certificate of Commendation for being placed on the school’s director roll for academic excellence in 2003/2004 semester 1.

CMPB called my mom and said it is impossible to get 3 days off during PTP, and that does it. The phrase quoting “do not ask what your country can do for you but ask what can you do for your country” is F bullshit. If your country can’t even give you 3 days off for urgent things, why the F do you want to do things for your country. Almost everything here is F up. F up government, F ISP and even the weather is F up. This song “Limp Bizkit - Hot Dog” goes likes this: It is a F up world, a F up place…..

When there is a war, rest assured I will NOT fight for Singapore, I will be one of the first few F to leave. I will just served 2 1/2 years of NS as a pay back to the government and F off after that.

*Update* Censored to protect myself since it has something to do with government. Replace F with your imagination.

Yesterday, woken up by a call from CMPB. SP have informed them about the WSC and want me to defer. If I want to defer, I need to write in a personal letter. But now the problem is, I don’t want to defer because if i defer most probably I will go in PTP after August and I will ORD later also which is around 1st quarter of 2007 and thus most probably I will miss the University intake and have to wait for 1 more year.

I just want to take the 3 days off for the WSC and according to CMPB, that is more difficult than deferring. If I go in on 9th June, I will ORD around end of 2006 and just nice I can enter University in 2007. The government is really fucking around with our lives especially guys. My dad say he will go to see the MP and ask me don’t defer. If really worst come to worst, I will fore go the WSC.

Today suppose to meet my supervisor for my ITP but last minute he could not make it. Had a huge lunch gather in school today with my classmates. Was quite happy as we can see each other and it seems we have alot to talk about. The only thing I miss about SP is the food and maybe the lecturers. Total 14 of us met up, SuQin, Laily, Serene, LiXiang, Jean, Karen, Charlene, Geargina, Sabrina, Robert, Ron, Hafiz, Ismail and Razine. Ron was there to take his NAPFA, and I could not physco him not to go. Hafiz was on MC and he got nothing to do, so he went to school.

Saw ZhiFan, ChinPoh, Darren, WenHui, Max, MingFoo and ChoonSing in the lab 2054. Is good to see familiar faces around.

Watched Paycheck last night and it was quite a good show and the storyline is not bad, similar to Butterfly Effect and Timeline. The power of reverse engineering.

Will be going jogging at Queenstown Stadium with my friends later.

Had a Bh Chou Mee lunch with my parents at Marina Square followed by some drinks at NYDC.

Met up with XiuYu and HuiJuan for Passion Of Christ at GV Marina. The show is slightly more than 2 hours. I find the movie just average. No offense but I find it quite dramatic also. The makeup unit has done an excellent job. Regarding gory, I find it ok only, I have seen more gory film like Battle Royal and Kill Bill.

Had a chill out session at Millenia Walk. The ambiance at The Coffee Connection(TCC) was fantastic. And it was not crowded which makes it a great place to chill out. I gave them a treat because they could not make it for my birthday dinner.

Had dinner at NYDC again, and on our way there, we saw Mr Clarence Ng in Suntec. He said he saw me and was standing beside me during the UT2K4 competition in Sim Lim Square, didn’t notice that.

We did delicate a song and a message at the Fountain, but no idea whether the DJ played it as we can’t really hear/see it in NYDC. The computer system used for the delication sucks.

Thanks XiuYu and HuiJuan for the nice Dragonball figurine. I shall get all 4 of them soon.

On a side note, I find all these NKF show is bullshit. For every dollar you donate only $0.52 goes to the patient. On top of that you still need to pay 5% GST which is $0.25 and it goes to Singtel. Forum thread on this issue. If those artist are really that good in heart, why not take out half of their salary and donate instead. And NKF should really cut down on the advertisements and save the money for their patient instead.