Monday, March 31, 2008

You're my beloved, from the bottom of my heart

人に見られぬよう 頬をぬくう時は
そっと思いうかべるよ 君のその笑顔
心らいとしい人よ

Hito ni mirarenu you hoho wo nuguu toki wa
Sotto omoi ukaberu yo kimi no sono egao
Kokoro kara itoshii hito yo


When it's as if I can't look at anyone and I'm wiping my cheeks
I secretly picture that smile of yours
You're my beloved, from the bottom of my heart



Okay! Let's start blogging about today!!

This morning, after playing an hour of Final Fantasy X once I woke up, my family was going outside for some business, and they made me tagged along. Whatever. My mother, sister and two neighbours went to the market to eat breakfast first, while I tagged along with my father to the bank, being rather hopeful and optimistic about being able to get the money my father owes me back.

Yes, my father owes me money.-_-
Yes, my father made his own son a loan shark. -__-
Yes, my father said when he took my money that he would return at Sunday. -___-
Yet, so far, four Sundays have passed. -____-
Yes, my father hasn't return me my money yet even after twenty-five days. -_____-

I feel a lot better now that I got that off my chest. I'm still feeling pretty bad though. I want my money bad... D:

After that, I went to the town council with my father to pay the dunno-what dunno-what fees lah. The name for it seebay cheem lah, but at least this seventeen-year-old kid here knows that prompt payment is required if the gahmen wants to continue hiring those bangla sweepers. Aiya! Gahmen so rich still want us pay to hire those bangla meh?

Hmmm, I like the waterfall they put behind, haha, but what's the use when only people working there and people coming to pay the dunno-what dunno-what fees can see it? Aiya, I know lah, they put it down there so the gahmen can have a sense of accomplishment and pride in their... uh... financial management lor. Like people come and see, all say, "Wah! Gahmen so rich ah! Can put such swee waterfall here?" Steady boh?



Hmmm, I don't know why I sudden felt like blogging in Singlish, lol. ^_^ Sorry for those readers who aren't able to read and understand Singlish (if there are any of you, that is o.O), but for now, please enjoy the photo of that beautiful waterfall. (:

...Eh, nah bei. The waterfall kena covered by the reflection in the glass. Wah lan eh.

Then my father went to HDB branch at Tampines to pay some more dunno-what dunno-what fees. I think it's probably payment for the flat we are living in. Meanwhile, I went to the supermarket with my mother and sister to buy stuff. Eh, I don't get it leh. Why must I pay $15 for them when the only things I added into that freaking basket was four cup noodles (for emergency usage. In other words, when my mother's cooking happen to especially suck at that time) and some folding umbrella. -_________-

Since when did ten kilograms of rice became so light for me, lol? I can practically just prop it up on my right shoulders and carry it walking with both hands in my pockets. -.-

After that, we went to the coffee shop at Block 502, I think, to have lunch. Bloody hell, so crowded. -____________- Don't want to elaborate more. It sucks eating at crowded places. No space for you to even breathe. Sigh...

Went home and play more Final Fantasy X. I should blog about my progress. Maybe later. :P Halfway while playing, Hong Wei called me up to go and play basketball, yay. ^^ But aiya, what the hell, my basketball went missing. Heck!! Strange, both of us remembered that we did take the basketball back home last time we played... Where did it go? ): I want my basketball back... T_T

Guess I'll post a wanted poster.



Sorry, but I'm a stingy bastard. Only $2 reward. Take it or leave it. XP

Anyway, after Hong Wei, my mother and I searched the house for five minutes, we decided to declare it "LOST", and the two of us just went down to the basketball court, planning our invasion of the basketball court, offensive tactics, and snatching a basketball as the ante.





We somehow got mixed in with a group of people wearing Ngee Ann Secondary uniforms, one wearing East Spring Secondary uniform, and one wearing a red shirt. It was confusing to try and start a match, especially when we have some slacking and sitting at one side, refusing to get up, while others are chasing one other like a trio of primary school kids. Of all the matches I tried to organize and start, this one is the most confusing one. -.-

After ten long minutes, we finally got six people together in a circle, and we did that dunno-what dunno-what game people use to decide stuff. You know, the one where everyone displays their palms, either facing up or facing down, and those with palms face up team up against those with palms face down?

I find it rather funny though, that most of the time, we have everyone with the palms facing the same direction, except some guy who decides to be the odd one out. Who the odd-one-out guy is always changes, sometimes it's Hong Wei, sometimes it's me, and sometimes it's one of those strangers we are playing with, but it seems to be always like that, lol.

So after displaying our palms for quite some time, we finally got a 3-on-3 match started. I was teamed up with the guy wearing red, and one of the guys wearing Ngee Ann Secondary uniforms, who look to me like he's got a sense of justice, lol. Well, at least his face appears so... XD! Hong Wei, on the other hand, teams up with two other people wearing Ngee Ann uniforms.

Ah, that uniform is nostalgic, I must say. Though, if I remember correctly, assuming that the rules did not change during or after I graduated and left the school, aren't we not supposed to be wearing our uniforms while playing ball games? o.O Like who the hell cares about the school rules lol. I remember Yoshida once said that, "Rules are meant to be broken." XD

Before the match started, rofl, one of the East Spring Secondary girls sitting at a corner of the basketball court ran up to Hong Wei holding her handphone and asked for his handphone number. Roflmao. Seeing Hong Wei's face, which was completely "blur diao", as Sin Wei always like to say, was even more roflolmao. XD!

I nudge him with my elbow and asked him, "Popular with the ladies, eh?"



I'm still laughing out loud whenever I think of that scene... A shy girl holding her handphone up at Hong Wei with both hands... A Hong Wei looking completely blur and confused, with a facial expression suggesting that Sin just swallowed him up and he just somehow got teleported to a new, unfamiliar world named Spira (lol, that's completely copied from Final Fantasy X :P)... And we haven't even officially start the basketball match yet!!

Man, why am I so stupid...? I should have taken a photo of the two of them while cheering at the sidelines, "Whoohoooo!" XD!

I just hope Hong Wei isn't reading this.

I think I can hear Hong Wei's heart "breakin' into a million piece", when one of the girls from that same group (I don't know whether it is the same girl who went to Hong Wei or not. They all look the same to me; I can only differentiate them by the uniforms they are wearing, and for your information, all of them are wearing the same uniforms. -.- Sorry lah, I'm paying more attention to the basketball match lah) went up to one of those guys wearing Ngee Ann Sec uniform and asked for his number as well.

And rofl, that guy gave her his friend's number, and said friend, who was just right beside him, immediately proceeded to chase him down (obviously, the first guy tried running), managed to grab his arm and started spinning him around. o_____O Kids nowadays are so wild, hahaha. :P

And there was this third guy whom the girl (again, I don't know whether it's the same one or not. My eyes are focused on the basketball. "Every blitzer knows: When you got the ball, you gotta score!" ) went up to. He gave her "999", rofl. I mean, come up with a more believable number, would ya?

I thought in my mind, if one of them comes up to me, I'd give her "62226111". KFC delivery number. I'm not giving them my number, that's for sure. I'd rather chase my own happiness. XD Of course, I don't stand out at all, especially when I'm playing basketball with Mr. Popular With The Ladies. Rofl.

Okay, we've gone off-topic too much. Back to the basketball match.

The game itself was way too easy, lol, because the other two I'm teamed up with are way too strong, haha. Just one of them is able to score up against Hong Wei's team of three people solo, lol, and well, I'm just standing there as backup, snatching the ball back, irritating Hong Wei with my marking (which is incidentally full of fouls XD) and counting the score. ^_^"

I thought the game would end with the score "11-5", but nope, they continued playing, not giving a damn nor having a worry about the world. XD So we continue playing lor. We initially had triple their score, 19-6, but they eventually pulled it up to 23-11, which at that point of time, I was damn lazy to continue counting the score. We all know who the winners are going to be anyway. They know, I know, and you know, folks! XD!!
"You can say that again, Jimma. Look at the crowd, folks! Look at the crowd! Looks like all of Luca has turned out to cheer the Goers on! They know, I know, and you know, folks! The Luca Goers are number one!"
-Bobba, Final Fantasy X
Lmao.

Playing halfway of the match, Hong Wei's teammates, seeing that they are losing so much that they are in the abyss of darkness and despair (), decided to pull another guy wearing Ngee Ann Secondary uniform into their team, so it becomes 4-on-3. It didn't disadvantage us a bit, lol. The two of them, playing some sort of Golden Combi (lmao, taken from Captain Tsubasa XD), with me as a backup they can pass the ball to in case the opposing defense is overwhelmingly and exceptionally strong, managed to penetrate through whatever pathetic defense the four of them put up and score goals after goals. I think I did score a few goals here and there, rofl, thanks to Lady Luck, but they pale in comparison compared to the awesome goals my teammates made, lol! The sentence before this one is too long, dammit. -.-

After some time, my red-wearing teammate managed to pull in some guy wearing East Spring Secondary uniform, haha, so we played 4-on-4. Our new teammate was, yet again, another pro in basketball that Hong Wei's team had their pride shattered so badly lol. Okay lah, not so bad lah. I was particularly going easy, just walking around, grabbing a few balls here and there that fell from the sky... o.O

Okay, I know that I'm being a NUB (non-useful body), so you don't have to tell me that.

And lol, I found something funny during the match. It's either that I'm expecting my teammates in possession with the ball would pass to me, since the opponents are all coming down on him hard, but nope, it's either they rush forward themselves and magnificently managed to score, or they pass it to another of our teammates, lol. On the other hand, we have these scenarios where I wasn't expecting my teammate with the ball to pass to me, but instead he passed to me, and caught unexpected and unprepared, the ball instead gets passed me, out of the court, and into the opponents' possession. Damn it. -.-

The three Ngee Ann Sec guys on Hong Wei's team, astonished by how badly they have been owned, called for a new match, one which, in the words of one of them, a "Ngee Ann people versus non-Ngee Ann people". Oi! Why the fuck am I being put together with "non-Ngee Ann people"?! I'm someone from Ngee Ann Secondary (formerly, at least ), dammit!!

Or maybe I should return home, don the uniform that I have been wearing for four years with pride (lol! It's still in my closet!) and return down here? Nah, too much trouble. めんどくせぇ… (mendokusee...; how troublesome...)

Ah, whatever. Yeah, I wanted to make it 5-on-3, so we Ngee Ann Secondary would pwn the rest...

Anyway, I was feeling pretty tired and thirsty, so I suggested to Hong Wei to get a drink quick before the match starts. We went to the convenience store and bought a 1.5 litres bottle of coca-cola. Hmmm, don't know why, but I felt like drinking coke, lol. XD

While sitting outside the store, drinking, resting and chatting, Hong Wei said that apparently, those girls from East Spring Secondary who went out asking for handphone numbers were playing Truth or Dare?. Hmmm, meh. Who knows? Hong Wei did give them his number anyway... XP

We went back to the basketball court, but ah, everyone went ばらばら (bara bara; split up), lol. I think everyone doesn't have any interest to play any more matches together, lol... So Hong Wei and I ended up throwing random shoots with the guy wearing red and the East Spring Sec guy. Lol, due to boredom, I went to the middle of the court, and using one hand, tried to smack the board by swinging the ball as hard as possible. Just like how Wakka hits a flying fiend with his blitzball in Final Fantasy X. o.O


You want some of this?

I seriously need to aim, though. *casts Aim (a spell in Final Fantasy X, which boosts the party's Accuracy)* o.O Reminds me of what you would see in a toilet, posted by the aunties cleaning the toilet, "We aim to please. You aim too, please." XD!

Oh, and we were sitting down at the side of the basketball court and drinking the coca-cola we bought when suddenly, I see my mother walking towards us (she's going out, and the bus stop happens to be right behind us). I immediately said, "Hong Wei bought the coca-cola!!" (Actually, I did. ) Sorry for making you the scapegoat, Hong Wei, but I fear my mother's nagging. XP

At 6pm, Hong Wei decides to go home, so I went with him to the bus stop to wait for the bus. We took a few photos as well, haha. XP



Again, I need to aim...



Haha, this one, Hong Wei happens to be drinking coca-cola... -.-



Eh, my accuracy really sucks. X_X And oi! Uncle behind us! What's with that face? You having stomachache? Wu tai chi boh? (Anything wrong?)



Eh, how come it seems that Hong Wei is much shorter than me ah... o.o

And which at this point, Hong Wei got embarrassed and refused any more photos. XD! Rofl.



I'm lazy, so I'll blog about my progress in Final Fantasy X soon.
"Oh, sure! Soon like 'tomorrow' soon, I bet!"
-Tidus, Final Fantasy X
Meanwhile, take a look at this. :O

Sunday, March 30, 2008

Why is there such a huge distance between us...?

Why is there such a huge distance between us...?
Why is the distance between us widening...?
How can I close this long, long distance...?
Do I even get to attempt to get closer to you...?



This post is the 500th blog post, yay! :D Something I did to celebrate the occasion. :P





Lol, I don't know why, but I found something up at the bottom of my foot this morning, lol. Looks like the skin is bulging outwards or something, lol.



And haha, I'm playing Final Fantasy X in the background. XD My party is fighting an Earth Eater, lol.



Hmmm, went to Changi Village for very late lunch today, haha, and ended up taking a lot of photos for my blog! XD Haha, enjoy the photos, and I hope these sixty-five photos don't end up lagging your poor computer. XP

Before we left, my father spotted this small motorcycle outside the void deck of the HDB flat I live in, parked right next to another bigger motorcycle, haha. They look so funny together! XD



And lol, the small motorcycle looks rather cute. XD



Went to Changi Village and ate at the food court there. I ate oyster omelette (this one was really nice, haha! :D) and satay, haha. Okay lah, not much to say about what I eat lah. Doubt you guys are interested in this as well. :X Moving on...

The place there is really a sharp contrast to the Singapore that I have gotten used to, lmao. I was rather fascinated by the slow and quiet pace the people here seemingly live, haha. The buildings look kind of - how should I say this...? - intriguing. Haha. Never seen such old-looking housing flats before. XP So of course, I took a few photos of them while my family is looking around the shops, haha. XP







And lol, there was a cat outside a shop - I think it's a shop selling shoes - and everyone seems to just love disturbing it! XD





Well, I think that even though I didn't actually touch it or anything, I've pretty much disturbed it with the sharp flash my camera has been producing. XP



And lol, I was sort of feeling bored or something, so I thought I'd take a look and see how the Sun looks like captured in a photograph. XP!



And after we finished exploring the town, we decided to walk towards the beach. And this sign greets us once again, haha. XD



Straight down the path!



Lol, these plants look rather weird, don't they? My father, at first sight, thought that they were chilli, lol.



The things always seem so dark when the Sun is in the background...



It's easy to solve the problem... Just turn around so the Sun is now behind you instead! XD



Ewww, water pollution. X_X The biggest white thing floating in the water is, in fact, a paper cup, by the way.



Haha, two good friends sitting next to each other and fishing under the bridge. ^_^ (Note: I'm not actually sure if they are friends though :x)



Lol, what's with this path of destruction? XD Looks like somebody here did a straight, vertical cut that cuts through the ground and made the mud burst out of the ground.



Just a photo of beautiful nature.



Seeing notices of the escaped terrorist in Changi Beach, one might wonder if the police theorize that this fellow might come to here and set up camp for the night. Ah well, better not doubt the police and security of our nation.



More photos of beautiful nature. XD



Which reminds me, didn't Yoshida once say in our Secondary 3 camp that "Nature is a bitch"?



Oh well, hard for him not to, especially since they forced us to walk through some stupid forest for one hour, with all the bush branches scratching our legs. =.=



The sea looks so calming and peaceful... :P



While the sand looks so soft and white, haha.



Haha, some kid playing around in the waves.



Though it freaked me out to see that guy (whom I presumed is the kid's father or something) play around in the waves with him. o.O (Nope, didn't take a photo of that :P)



Though... what's that green-green thing?



*wonders what island it is over at the horizon*



Looking directly straight up, the leaves look so beautiful, rustling in the winds, haha. I just wonder who would, like me, ever bother to stop and take a good look at what is directly above him or her, lol.



Yet another notice for the escaped terrorist. Remember hor, if you see him, immeelly call police. Dun kay kiang cho hero, okay?



I don't know why, but shouldn't there be something on the map indicating the name of the islands across the sea? =.= Useless map, doesn't show what people want to know. -.-



A fingerpost, guiding the ways of the people who got lost. (:



Lol, it looks so peaceful at the beach. XD



Hmmm, coconut trees. What's a beach without coconut trees lol?



Lol, this tree is damn tall, man.



This coconut tree...



...reminds me of those you see at the beginning of the fourth opening of One Piece. o.O



The plane looks so huge, but it becomes so small when I take a photo, lol. :(



Hmmm... Nothing much to comment on. A picture says a thousand words. Go take a look at the photo already. Why are you still reading this text? D: You're lame!!



Trap card, activated! Trap Hole!! :O



With some barrier surrounding it for extra protection, lmao. Too bad it's rather shallow. XP



Looks like a great place to hang out and play around with friends, haha. Too bad it's occupied by hostile forces at the moment.



Huh... My condolences to those who were killed.



I don't understand why there would be Japanese words here though. It's like they are expecting Japaneses to come here, read it and... weep over and regret what their forebears have did?



So it's Pulau Sejahat across the sea, huh...?



Yay, a playground! XD



See the monkey bars on the right hand side of the photo below? I was sitting on them while taking the photo above. XD



This lorry has such a weird shape... o.O



Peaceful scenery... :)



:O! Roots!! It was much easier to jump down into the beach and take this photo than to get back up, lol. The sand slides downwards... D: I'm thankful to my legs being so long and my reflexes being so agile. XP



Weathering processes...... x____________X *brain explodes*



Lol, the sea looks so shallow beyond the platform (which you can see in the background of the photo of the tree roots) that you can even see the rocks underneath, heh!



It's sad that since Singapore is so small, we have to put a beach (Changi Beach) right next to an airport (Changi Airport), thereby causing the reasons behind this sign appearing here.
It's even more sad that I have never flew a kite before, not even once in my seventeen years of life. D:



And the winding path continues...



The enemy is one, you are one. What is there to fear? Cast off your fear! Look forward! Go forward! Never stand st - Oops!! Sorry!! *stood still to take the photo below*



Lol, if I'm not wrong, that over yonder is the runway for the airport.



Wonder what the construction here is about, lol.



A huge cargo ship spotted! A huge cargo ship sp - Eh...? It looks so small in the photo... D:



It seems mesmerizing to watch the waves continuously hitting the rocks, lol.



I took a photo of myself there as well, haha. ^o^ Looks so great with the sea as the background. :D



At this point, I have to curse Nokia for making it so that once the battery inside your handphone has reached the lowest level possible, you are unable to initiate the camera. -______-
I ended up having to borrow someone else's handphone just to take photos. =____________=
Oh well, at least Nokia did a good job by allowing Bluetooth usage despite depleting battery level.
And thus, this photo of the cargo ship is obviously not taken by my 3.2 megapixel camera. XD!



Neither is this, lol, which I think is the Changi Ferry Terminal... Is it? o.O



Lmao, that sign crackled me up that I just had to borrow someone else's handphone and take a photo of that. XD



I can't believe how ridiculously low they make water coolers to be. How the fuck am I supposed to drink from it, lmao?
Oh, and my mother sucks at taking photos. I'm the guy standing over there beside the water cooler, using my height to emphasize how freaking low that water cooler is. Yeah. -.-



And then we went home. :3 I was wanting initially to blog about my progress in Final Fantasy X as well, but I think this blog post is already damn long liao lah. See ya guys! :D