morningdocq

2010-02-26T15:13:00.000+11:00

hot hot hot, it's just so frikkin hot in Bangkok!!!

2010-02-12T14:07:00.002+11:00

one two three four, one two three four, there's 1 for u 19 for me.

Exams came and went, so did the new year and now chinese new year is around the corner. I didn't celebrate CNY last time coz I was away. It was pathetic last year in terms of cousins showing up; only 4. But fear not, this year even the ones from UK who doesnt come for the past 5 years have decided to show.

Buying PS3 today but thinking whether to buy any game for myself. Probably just buy winning eleven for now, since FFXIII's coming out next month. Game's so expensive nowadays, need to think twice everytime, sian...

Fireworks, red packages, reunion dinner, people....

2009-11-28T02:18:00.002+11:00

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Sitting down alone at 2.18 am thinking what I'm going to do this 2 months of summer in sydney. I decided to stay because I can fast forward some of my subjects so that next year the last semester I would only need to do 3 subjects, plus I need to do general education too and the good course is only in summer.

How long has it been since I last blogged?? 2 months plus. Alot had happened since, my exams, projects, presentation etc. Of the exams I took, ironically the subject I feared the most (intro econometrics) proved to be the easiest and the other I thought I studied quite well was very very hard (multinational finance). Anyway the finance test date was a day after the econometrics and, having studying like crazy for the former, I pulled an all nighter revision till around 6 something in the morning till my head just couldn't process anymore. I slept for 2 hrs then went to exam hall. It wasn't as well as I have hoped, period.

Anyway it's been 2 weeks after the finals and my summer course is about to start this coming tuesday. These past 2 weeks I completely slacked, totally wasting time sleeping, playing dragon age : origin, fifa 2010, replaying FF12, going out, kbox, drinking etc And rigtht now, 2 am something in the morning (my sleeping routine is usually 4 am to 12 or 1pm), it struck me that I have been slacking too much and if keep on doing it my life will b wasted away.

So, what to do? my class will b sparse coz it's summer course and I need to do something productive with the excess time. Work mayb and earn money?? I dun want to work man, no. I will b working for the rest of my life very soon and there's a time for that. I want to improve myself, exercise more, I dunno, just now I was actually looking at a japanese sushi cooking course and a course about public speaking. Lol I'm going to graduate soon and going to be a responsible adult but I feel I'm not ready.

But I know, in this 2 months I must make use of my time to the fullest.

P.S It's gonna b freaking hot here very soon. the other day the weather was like omg 42 degrees, the wind itself is like a heater wave, no kidding.

PSS I'm going to b alone during christmas. All my fren have gone back to their coutries and my bro is going back on monday. Sad...

2009-09-18T22:24:00.002+10:00

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took me like 1 hr plus to prepare and cook man, but it's a win xd, taste of a pro.

Cut garlic, ginger, onion to small pieces, cut 2 medium size potato, 1 tomato, 1 carrot and 1 onion.

Steps (curry)

1) heat the pan, put abit of oil then throw in garlic onion and ginger and mince pork. Stir fry for 5 min.
2) put potato, carrot then cook another 5 min
3) pour 6 cups of chicken stock soup water in and tomato, stir 20 mins till potato abit soft
4) put the whole thing inside a bigger put, occasionally stir for 20 mins
5)put 4 curry cube and leave it for 10 mins, stir occationall then put aside

tonkatsu

1)beat 1 egg\
2)the pot dip with egg, then flour then panko powder
3)deep fry

EAT

total time around 1 hr 20 mins

2009-09-03T01:05:00.004+10:00

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Pretty relaxing time after my 3616 multinational finance mid sem. I studied for it and, of course, I killed that paper.

My 1 week break starts from this coming friday and so I will be going away to gold coast from sunday to wed, this is what break should be like man after all the crap this sem had put me.

I just got my first contact lens today. Last time I checked in thailand the doctor told me I got some eye allergy thing so I couldn't do it (I was pretty sad when I heard it). Then today the doctor here checked and there's no problem. Hmm thailand's standard isn't good -_-. Anyway, it felt weird wearing for the first time and I shed quite a few "manly" tears. Putting on is much harder for my left eyes, probably need some more practice eh.

The other day I was browsing my rapidshare usual website for some jazz music when I came across a best love song Disney compilation. Inside there's songs from the likes of cinderella, snow white and such. Then it got me thinking "hey I've never watched these disney classics in english before". Of course, the perfectly sane reason is that I was just a kid at that time and my mom bought these VHS videos in thai for me. I wouldn't understand shit if it was english.

Inspired by this revealation (correct spelling?), I downloaded the whole set of disney animation I could think of. Now my collection boast of ***ciderella, beauty and the beast, hunchback of notre damne, the sword in the stone, pocahontus, robin hood, Lion king, the land before time, dumbo, 101 dalmatians, alice in wonderland, bambi, jungle book, lady and the tramp, peter pan, toy story 1-3, tarzan, the adventure of ichabad, aladdin, hercules and sleeping beauty***.

I watched cinderella the other night and lol oh so nostalgic, It's a good feeling that you still remembered here and there from 15 years ago.

Finally start resuming exercise after so much delays and laziness, hope I can continue as long as 1 year lol.

Disc no.5 was still in the dvd player, I'm too lazy to take it out.

2009-08-25T02:40:00.003+10:00

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My Fins3616 mid sem's tmr and by far this one I'm most prepared. I mean, after all this if my grade is crappy again I dun really know what to say. I especially went online searching for extra papers to practise. It better good, no, great tmr I tell you.

On saturday was my excursion tour for aviation and we went inside the airport. Nope, not the usual lame terminals we always go overseas but the runway itself. We sat in a bus and the guide showed us around the place explain in good details abt history/story etc of planes and airport. Lol a lot of big ass planes up real close man, it's the first time I saw super Boeing A380 too and two of them (HUGE MAN). The australian one and the first one in the world which belonged to SIA.

FYI, they dun wash the plane using machine man but 6-7 guys that took a day for the whole body. It cost like 6 million aus to totally fully inspect the interior and outside the plane (change seat, wiring everything) and boy, sydney Kingsford's Smith is the oldest commercial airport in the world (1919) and Qantas airline was also the second oldest. What's more is that it's the only airport in southern hemisphere that a space shuttle can land, wow.

Anyway, I'm gonna skip my cantonese lesson to finish my dumbass aviation essay which I havnt actually start (because of bloody finance). It's 25% of the whole thing lol I guess no sleeping tmr night.

Look like normal noodle and all that right? but this is actually my italian cabonara. Nah I din make the sauce (bought it from super man), just cook the spaghetti, stir fry mince pork and sliced ham then put in the sauce and noodle (stir fry some more and done). It does taste pretty nice though (not be biased really).

2009-08-18T22:28:00.000+10:00

2009-08-18T02:41:00.002+10:00

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So, the fifth week has arrived, meaning the midsem isn't too far away in distant future.

Let's see what happened since the last update.

1) Busted my ass off in trying to finish the management essay which, in my opinion, isn't as worth as much effort input, well at least it's done.

2)Most weekend literally gone for preparing the dumbass general education presentation that went pretty well this afternoon (abit stumbling here and there, I felt pretty bash when so many hot ang mos are staring at me). We did however, played left for dead at the nearby internet cafe near our place for small relaxation.

3)Cooked grapao pork dinner for some friends I invited. It was success in term of taste and appearance of food, albeit slightly too spicy for my friends (diff endurance level which of course, the thais have much higher).

4)Went eat with J's parents on Friday. A nice man and I bought white wine which we all ended up drinking. Taste pretty nice (very good taiko choice).

That's pretty much in a nutshell. This sem is so much busier than last. Only went clubbing once, wth and bigass finace midsem next week. Good luck TSP!!

2009-08-10T02:57:00.003+10:00

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So, the second sem's picking up. Let's see, 1 management essay this week, tons of havnt-done-readings, 1 presentation next week on dumbass general education, 1 econometrics assignment next week. Big ass Finance test on week 6 (people said it's damn hard), 1 excursion and a test on another dumbass gened. Still got last week's reading still havnt do ah!!!!

A whole damn weekend wasted on studying haizz. At least last thurs with J and Joanne was fun.

Wonder what my army frens in Sing r doing, must be getting abs now probably.

My com's audio went haywired earlier, was helping my flatmate ken downloading song and a virus got me and gone was my audio. It became loud buzzing sound whenever i played music or clips. I was pretty damn "wth" mood and took me long time to scan com, went back on restore point (which din work), restart and repair a few times, uninstalled some drivers, donwload a few driver finder software and finally, after a dozen different attempts, found the right sound driver. Took so much of my time man I should have been writing essay ...pft.

2009-07-26T02:53:00.002+10:00

2.53 in the morning, just had good time with my close friends j and joan. Good ribs and nice cake.

I cant sleep, I'm scared of tmr, I'm scared of what will I become with such crappy grade, I dunno whether I can pull myself out of it. So many things in my head now I'm ready to burst. I'm actually reading my book right now lol.

2009-06-10T02:47:00.003+10:00

Moonlight glimmers, silence of the night,
sleepy gambler, chiming for more,
Gloomy solace, as dices rolling,
frantically reaching out,
his hope, his desire, his woes
longing what, he knows not.

2009-06-09T05:01:00.005+10:00

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Time : 5.01 am in the morning.

It's been a very long time and honestly, I'm surprised at myself rigth now why I felt so compelled to do something about it, knowing that I might regret doing due to the feeling of deprived sleep when dawn breaks.

My life's right now's been generally busy, final's starting just 3 days away (qmb) and as you know, mugging and mugging and no life as a result. Fortunately, given abit more days to prepare this semester (also the exam days not so close tgt), I felt much more at ease and more confident. Lol last sem was hell, only 2 days revision time and exams back to back, I almost din sleep at all for 4 days. It felt downright terrible.

Anyway, winter's here with the temperature around 14-18 degrees on average. By 5.30 pm here it is already dark and of course, you will freeze without coat if you walk outside. I din complain though, like all other south east asian who, all of our lives, only know hot, I like cold almost very much.

RANDOM facts

1) I began learning to cook recently. It's abit shameful to say but me at this age almost have no experience in cooking good food at all. What's worse is that being a thai I dun even noe how to do proper thai cuisine (the best cuisine on the planet XD). Thus I tried, for afew time, thai style fried rice for the last few dinners. It tasted quite good actually, I mean, I dun want to sound biased or anything but I think my fried rice can definitely thrash quite a few restaurant ones around here. No kidding man. I'm trying grapao mu next time.

2) My hair's getting quite out control so I'm going to barber soon. The last haircut was a disaster. I kept getting looks from everywhere I went (it's not my imagination) and I felt quite insecured for almost a week before it got abit better. Haiz always having so much problem abt hair, not even worth worrying abt right?

3) Been downloading movies like crazy man. Like, in a week it's around 15-20? I even ran out of idea of what to downloads sometimes lol. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button dvd is out already!!! U all should get it soon!!

4)Still sleeping on couch, it's been almost 70 days already.

5)Read the translation on Tsuji's story and Downtown dx show that had my all time top 2 fav MM as guests made me smile.

More update next time, I felt damn sleepy already.

2009-04-16T00:13:00.005+10:00

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If there's anyone worried, I'm still alive and doing well. True, it's been a long time, more then a month since I last posted here. U might think I dun care abt this blog anymore, on the contrary, I have several urge to update but every time I started doing it, words and thought just welled up and, after a first paragraph, you realised u havnt even finished a tenth of what you intended to put down, lol u just simply close the window aye.

Anyway, I just got my internet back today after like 2 weeks since I moved to the new place. The damn internet provider took me so long to relocate to the new address. It's supposed to be a one week thing but due to some silly/totally bullshit unprofessional miscommunication, it became two. What's even worse is that when i got it back today the internet kept cutting off by itself, a technical problem that brought much much frustration to the people here (man after 2 weeks of torture without internet). I cant even download a decent movie without getting disconnected every 3 minutes.

That aside, the new place was cool. It's so near uni and that's very very awesome. However no place is perfect, though we have a big ass balcony coz we are on 1st floor, it got quite noisy sometimes with of cars and shit. The most shitty thing isn't the noise though, at night when the sun is down, at the big ass balcony several most disgusting insect roams the place for food. That's right people, fucking cockroaches. OMG Anything but Cockroaches!!!! I simply hate and really really feel damn yucky seeing them in collectives. U noe, since I sacrifice my room to my bro and slept on the couch at night, at least I want some cool breeze from outside air, that's what I did when we were at the old place. Now I cant even do that anymore coz I'm terrified with these new little friends, what if it "fly in" and land on my face when I slept (just thinking abt it gave me chills man).

Study-wise, things are not exactly as I wish it would be. Fins' Portfolio's chewing my ass off and economics are becoming a very sore pain in the neck at a an alarming rate. I had test the other day which I studied so hard for, yet when I saw the question I just couldnt come out with reasonable answer, well good things most of my classmates feel the same way.

Lastly, happy birthday for Jim again on tuesday, wish you a thousand more wishes man.

Pics

2009-03-11T00:36:00.002+11:00

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So we finally got the new place after around 2 weeks of house chasing and inspections. Boy oh boy what a relief man I thought we would end up in one of thodr lousy 2 room 1 toilet units. Ken was really lucky when browse the internet and came across the housing agency located inside city which has one unit in our area. U see, coz eveyone only looked for the housing agencies here in kingsford, they din noe that such fabulous fantastic unit exist just clicks away.

What's so great about this place? One, it's bigger then our current apartment we staying (so the price but not so much). Two, it has a gym and swimming pool facilities hence no need to spend so much (50 bucks a month, crazy) on the uni gym. Plus, there's big field right behind to run too. And lastly, it's bloody hell like 3 mins away from uni entrance. That's right, if my tut starts at 10, I can wake up as late as 9.40. My bro should b very happy too coz it's like 2 mins away from his foundation study, just cross 1 traffic light and walk 1 block then already reach the school. What a wonderful life for him eh, my first year always have to take bus.

But we cant move in yet, the place will b ready at the end of this month. Just nice when my bro come and help us move the furniture.

2009-02-28T02:55:00.002+11:00

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As promised, I'm alive again I have a thing or 2 to tell.

Currently, Tsp, aka Sahadchai is now back in sydney. He was here for almost 2 weeks n totally slacking like nobody's business till the grueling semester commence again next monday. The reason for such extensive n prematured arrival was that he needed to visit thai consulate in sydney so that they can issues documents for my army postpone problem. Yep, the consulate must approved that he is a uni student here (n kicking asses) so he can move his army days further back.

Everything was taken cared of yes, only 1 hiccup abt the paper he was to provide but it's done anyway now.

He had paid the school fees for T1 (the bloody 13000 australian dollars (thank god the currency dropped so much)), get the extra cash for the 3 months term deposit (also thank god the commonwealth bank didnt crash) and had his school books bought. Most of his frens are not back yet so much of his time were spent on watching dvds, downloading movies, music, games and playing the exciting "new game" the witcher as his brand new laptop was able to do so (a whooping 2.4 ghz, 2gb ddr3, 1.279 gb nvidia geforce 9600 n 16 inch screen).

He watched the Oscar and so under the influence watched Vicky, Christina, Barcelona and really think that Cruz was a very hot n skillful lady (especially the photograph part). He's going to watch Milk at cinema tmr with some of his pals.

Flashbacks

24th Dec 2008

Christmas eve, this is the first and probably the only time I would spend this joyous day in a temple. My feeling, at the moment, is mixed. A little apprehensive and abit worried of the task lying ahead for the coming 6 weeks and the first night might prove to be the hardest. I wish I know everything, what to do, how to do it well n most importantly, to get along with people and monks here. Hmm, no use worrying, just go with the flow might come no?

My head without hair is cooling aye.

9.20 pm

Pra arjan Hung taught me the first 2 parts of the chapter I was to recite on the ordinationation day. Nothing was easy but after an hour of practise I was getting a hang of it. I swept the temple grounds at 3.30pm

As foreseen, I still have a hard time enduring the pain when kneeling with all the weights on my 2 feet, especially the right one which only have 2 toes to support it. Pappiap postition wasn't very comforting either coz for only short time like 5 min I already felt the ache up till my stomach muscle. In the end I resorted to the normal cross leg till the 1 hr night praying was done.

I need more practice on these soon.

2009-02-26T01:08:00.001+11:00

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It's been too long and no this is not an update post but mark my words I'll b starting it again soon.

PEACE!!!

2008-12-24T09:42:00.002+11:00

Last post of 2008

It's been one of the best years I had. I turned 20, went to china alone for a month, did some sky diving, went to Japan with friends I cherish and really enjoy myself in Singapore.

From today onwards I'm becoming monk so u wont hear from me till 5th of Febuary.

Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and Chinese New Year in advance.

2008-12-13T01:31:00.006+11:00

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It's such a long time, so long and so much had happened, both good and bad. First off is the holiday I had right after exam. What a relief on that day, even though the paper was hard everyone was smiling and laughing. Then I was thinking of celebrating but I couldn't coz 2 close frens of mine went to the place I swore I would not go (it's ok i dun blame u).

So I didnt do anything that day, just sleeping my ass off the whole day thru getting some rest. Anyway they took me to the beach the other day and it was great, very very beautiful (like in movie) though we got lost on the way (n some frustration). Playing in the sea was nice and all but as I get older my skin was getting weaker. And soon it was pain all over my body to the point that even walking was painful. There's no one else but me to blame for my foolhardiness in thinking that I was the same guy 5-6 yrs ago. Well, things have changed.

Getting back to Bangkok was uneventful except for the part that I came back with the person I used to like (which is, btw, a good thing). We sat at the most behind seat so we have many empty ones for ourselves. Coz the flight's morning this time I had a hard time sleeping, and naturally it feels so much longer.

I went back to Hatyai a day after I arrived in bangkok, heck the flight was 7 in the morning and I overslept, I almost miss.

Everything's per normal till the 19th November when I went to Singapore to catch the plane to japan with my secondary school mates. Everyone looks pretty much the same since last year that I saw them. Going somewhere like this tgt with some close frens, what more can you ask.

The flight to Japan was 7 hrs. We had a little hiccups at the custom but everything was alright. Anyway our first stop was Osaka castle that I had seen before last year on the trip when I came with my family. Since it was early we din get the chance to went in, instead, we had our breakfast there.

Our next stop one of the shopping district in Osaka. We got there like close to 10 so most small shops weren't open yet. We kept walking and went inside Takashimaya. Boy oh boy people were bowing and saying welcome everywhere!! Literally, everyshop assistant that I had made eye contact bow at me. Honestly, I've never felt like king in any shopping malls before.

But Takashimaya is expensive, everything, EVERYFUCKINGTHINGS are expensive. A nice looking jacket might cost u like 60000 yen which is like S$800. I mean, just one of that alone overshot my pocket money twice.

I din buy anything but 2 of my pals did, it's so nice to alot of money yeah.

We went to Kobe and saw some bridge. I thinking it's the longest suspension bridge or something but I wasn't that overwhelmingly interested. The next stop was some nice shopping places, like a small cozy looking alley strecting for some 200 meters. It was pretty aye.

The first night we had dinner in the hotel (i think it's 4 stars). Like I said, I really like the japanese services. A fine example is the waitress refilling our glass, heck everytime I finished half a glass the girl would came filled it up. I mean wtf even we were fooling around with her (keep drinking n she keep coming to fill it) she still does her job like nobody's business with a smile. In the end we were so impressed that we wanted to give her tips but alas she was nowhere to b found at that time.

I din remember where we went the next day but at night I remembered walking around at night exploring. We had one of the ramen place and went inside the pachinko palour. Man the place stanks with smoke but we were fascinated nonetheless. I think the pachinko people was suspicious of us coz they were following us around keeping a very wacthful. Soon we lost our interest and we went back to hotel.

We went to Kyoto temple the next day and at night went to Onsen with my pals. At first we din want to go coz the place was small. Some of us chickened out so in the end it was 4 of us who went in. Of course I saw all their dicks and all but it wasn't that clear coz the whole room was kinda steamy. The water was damn damn hot so I got up many times to have a shower.

It was fucking cold when we got out at level 5 of mount fuji the next day. That level of coldness when u got out of the bus u ran sraight to whatever cover u can find. Anyway since we are bunch of idiots at the end before we left we played a "who's the man" game which is wearing one layer outside. Suicidal but true n we did, i'll post that pics once i feel like it.

The 3 last days we spent in Tokyo, the great capital. Foregoing disneyland, we went to akihabara, ginza and shinjuku instead. In the morning we set out. True as I imagined Akihabara was exactly like in all dramas that I watched. Tall buildings with countless electronic shops, figurines, dolls, gundam and afew porn shop. I'll upload the pics later.

We had lunch in the steak house and went to maid cafe after that, which, of course, is what I really want to go see after all these times. Some of the girls were quite cute, I wish my japanese is better so I can joke around and made them laugh.

Then we went to Ginza. Oh man we walked quite a great deal n all the shops were crazy expensive. I didnt buy shit man each shirt is like 60000 yen plus. I love the services though, really really awesome, the best in the world man.

At night we walked around Shinjuku, the red light district. A pimp was trying to get me fuck the jap girl. I knew I want to do it but the language barrier is too big. Besides, I would chicken out at the end anyway. Mayb next time when I become more older and more daring.

We went back the 7th day. Japan was awesome

2008-10-22T02:19:00.002+11:00

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2.19 am in the morning. Officially, I have 7 days left to my final year exam. My exam timetable is probably the suckiest amongs all my frens. While most undergraduates have at least 1 or 2 days breather for each exam, mine's straight in the bull from 29th to 1st. Having said that of course, I have to work my ass off now for this last week. Hmm, I can probably do well in economics and mayb reasonbly ok in finance and accounting. However, what really scares me is QMB in which there's a possibility that I might screw up bad.

Anyway, enough abt exam. I'm going to Japan with Chairman and co from 19-25 November and yeah that's something I'm really really looking forward to. It's gonna b so much fun going with frens like this, not to mention going Onsen tgt and gawking and some jap chicks. The other day I went down to City CBD to make my visa. Lol I got lost for 10 mins looking for the place while infact the building isn't far from the bus stop I got off. The visa department was smally then I expected. Only 3 service counter and big tables, approximately fit for around 10-12 people in there.

Yeah, so I prepared everything u noe, application form, the itinery Chairman scan to me, passport, bank statement and even a photocopy of my student card. Sadly they still require more documents, the receive that I pay with the tour. Interestingly, the lady said the cash in my bank statement is too little lol therefore I need to transfer more in there to make it credible, well, whatever.

I been visiting my fren at the hospital since that day when he fell. Staying in hospital is damn expensive, 1 day 800 something Aussy dollar, man that's much more expensive then a room in 5 star hotel. The doc said he got 7 broken bone inside his foot and boy it's gonna take like 6 months to walk properly and another 6 before he can run again. What an unlucky bastard. His operation's on the 29th, the first day I have exam.

Go watch Hanakimi special if anyone noe what I'm toking abt. The subtitles, both english and thai are now available online. So far I finished half of the 109 mins clip, very fun x fun man I totally wanted to watch the whole serie again, the obstacle in my way is that the discs are in Hatyai. The file is pretty big though, around 900 mb.

H!P

Yeah, the past days have been crazy. The annoucement is more then a shock for fans, the hardcore and noncore alike (I'm super hardcore). They're gonna do it, mass graduations (same thing as firing man) next spring. Boy oh Boy UFA must b in a such F*** position now to pull something this big scale. It's a very very big gamble but really, but I cant see much future for this company anyway knowing the fact that all that's left's just some kids who are not even have persona, heck some even not good looking and doesn't sing well. What's the world coming too really, what the hell are the managers/directors thinking.

2008-10-17T00:24:00.002+11:00

EXTREME RANTING

F*** F*** F***!!!!!!!!!!!! WHY OF ALL DAYS!!!! Y!!!!! Y today!!!!!!!!!!!!1

October fest is just once in a year and I missed it the last as I was too nerd studying my ass off. And today, I already made up my mind to put down the books and had a good time. It's the biggest party in the Uni and just for one day (before exam stress gonna kick in), I want to have fun. I noe exam's coming and I been studying days after days, in fact after Uni I even came back and studied till 9 pm.

Then we went out, and I supposed to meet up with my fren who live in campus (we going in tgt). I called the guy under the balcony from his room on the 2nd floor. I could see him make his hair and all, dressing up. Then, instead of getting down from stairs to the main entrance, the guy jumped down from his balcony!! I was like wtf!!! But that's not all, I thought he gonna b alright, he came down with a crash and started rolling on the floor clutching his right ankle.

........Okay.........., it looked pretty bad and he was groaning from pain like crazy. We helped him back up and called a cab, sending him to hospital. After the long awaited X ray, the nurse said one of his bone was broken. I was sorry for him genuinely I was, coz final's coming up real soon and we even have test tmr, what's he gonna do now??

........And yeah, we just couldn't leave him there u noe, we r not assholes. However, being nice has consequences. We missed the whole party, yeah, the whole fucking event. We stayed in the hospital from 9 something to 12 coz the Australian medical service was such a suckass. The party ended at midnight.

YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2008-10-16T01:26:00.004+11:00

LEAH Dizon reportedly got married last Friday and has been pregnant for 4 months!!!

http://seirou.blogspot.com/2008/10/news-leah-dizon-pregnant-and-getting.html
http://www.tokyograph.com/news/id-3916

OMG!!!!!! OMG!!!!!!!!! OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!

Translation!

Voiceover: Gravure idol, Leah Dizon's important announcement.

Leah: Everyone, there's something very important that you need to know.
Leah: I want to tell you this very important thing personally.
Leah: Actually, I just got married.

Fans (text on screen): Ehhhhhhhh! Ehhhhhhhh!
Fans (text on screen): Congratulations!

Voiceover: Blah blah blah... And then...

Leah: Also... I'm pregnant.

Fans (text on screen): Ehhhhhhhh! Ehhhhhhhh!

Leah: My family and I are very happy.

Leah: I'll be taking a short break from work but I'll be back soon.
Leah: I hope you will support me!

Voiceover (text on screen): Shocked fan reaction regarding the shotgun marriage.

Reporter (text on screen): Leah Dizon just got married.

* Note: "yabai" can mean 'awful' or 'awesome' depending on the generation using it and its context. I'm assuming they're happy for her, FYI.

#1 Pair of girls: EH. You're kidding! Awesome! Awesome!

#2 Couple: Eh! That's great! You're kidding, right?

#3 Pair of guys: Eh. Really? I didn't know at all!

Announcer (white text on screen): Do you know she's pregnant as well?

#4 Pair of girls: Ehhh~! That's awesome!

#5 She's pregnant? Whoa... That's quick... (He's the first and only one that didn't start with "Eh!" xD)

Then there's the whole segment in between talking about her career in general.

Back to the concert...

Leah: Thank you so much!

Fans: Leah! We love you!

credit : seirou.blogspot.com

2008-10-14T22:57:00.002+11:00

Personal

Exam's around the corner so I din update for awhile (no one really come here except Jim anyway I think). Pretty stressful at the moment trying to cover all the topics, I still hate accounting.

The Aus dollar had depreciate very substancially for last couple of months(now i think it's the same as Singapore) and so I asked my mom to change back in Thailand. So when she called me just now and said she couldn't do it I was surprised (What!!! cant change!!??). Apparently there's no Australian dollar for sale. Huh?? ....Right, no Auzzie money in any banks? R u kidding?

Well, what to do?

Another good news is I might go to Japan again, but this time with chairman n co. The only problem now is visa application. I'm gonna call the embassy tmr see whether possible to apply here, hope I can get it done.

2008-10-12T02:24:00.002+11:00

It pains me to see my own country breaking apart. It's a shame to read the news everyday knowing that while the world is cooperating with each other to solve the common problem, Thai people are fighting among themselves to gain power. The ongoing protest, because just afew upstarts, with some pretty words and many people are already fooled. Do the protesters even know what they are doing? Rolling back on democarcy? only 30 % to be elected to lower house? Do they actually buy that crap from 2 guys? Are they that dumb?

And now the PM is finally giving in, either resign or house dissolution, wtf. It really pissed me off when someone force the guy out like this, they r just using idiots who cannot think, ruining the country at the time when economy's at lowest point. Instead of protecting the country's well being, instead to joining hands, here we are acting like dogs over bones. It's a shame to see all these news.

I din say I like the current PM. It was a mistake for the party to elect him as their leader. Everyone knows he's the brother in law and hence there were bound to be strong adverse reaction. Yet they still choose him, what the hell. I'm not his biggest fan but I really feel sorry for him to b forced out like this. All because of stupid idiots who call themselves thai getting so worked up by some afew bigger jerks. I bet they're so dumb they dun even noe all the consequences the country will pay later. Somebody please stop them.

2008-10-06T02:05:00.001+11:00

The first of many more to come.

2008-10-04T17:36:00.003+10:00

Personal

Goldcoast is cool. We took the 1 hr plane on Saturday night and arrived around 11 plus, the last Virgin Blue flight to the city. Our accomodation is normal and pretty good for the price. A serviced apartment with a master bedroom, counches, and everything else, pots n pans and even washing machine. I settled my resting place in one of the couch for sleep.

We had good time, went to many theme parks, direct factory outlet for shopping (i bought shoe and billabong pencil box), glow worm night tour etc. I'm lazy to put it in details at the moment so yeah when I feel like it I might upload some pics with texts underneath.

Anyway my flatmate Ken's parents came to Sydney and we we went out to eat many times, in fact we r going East Ocean later for nice chinese food. They bought alot of stuffs to improvise our apartment big time. Now we got new fridge for drinks only, new vacuum cleaner, new pots and pans, more spoons (thank god), better rice cooker etc etc The place looks more livable now xd.

It's colder today coz of rain and I feel positively sick. Got block nose currently and my head's abit dizzy, hope I get well soon.

2008-09-26T18:45:00.002+10:00

The 1 week holiday is here and Tsp is going to enjoy himself to the fullest before coming back and continue his oh-so-exciting Uni course. He'll be going to Gold Coast tmr night (plane) and come back on Tuesday.

CU soon

2008-09-22T00:07:00.001+10:00

PV

Alan - RED CLIFF ~心・戦~ (Kokoro Ikusa)

2008-09-21T00:07:00.002+10:00

Personal

U noe the spring is here when u see mosquito hovering above ur bed.

U noe the spring is here when u open window in full yet u feel abit hot.

U noe the spring is here when it's becoming more and more "uncool" to wear jacket.

U noe the spring is here when 6 o'clock in the evening is still bright.

U noe the spring is here when the wind no longer hurts.

AND

U noe the spring is here when u dun huddle in ur blanket from cold at 8 in the morning (and feel too lazy to get up and close the damn window).

2008-09-17T21:36:00.002+10:00

Personal

No test this week so take a break abit. I downloaded Star Wars : Force Unleashed Psp version (also available on WII, PS3, PS2, XBOX360) and boy do I LOVE the game. Setting afew years before Star Wars episode IV, u play as a secret apprentice of Lord Vader. A powerful apprentuice code name Starkiller who can even bring down a star destroyer. And yes, u have it it all, lightning strike, force choke, push, grip or even exlposion (they have like 2o abilities) abilities for u to use and upgrade. My fav is lighting and chooke. U press the triangle button raise ur victim into the air and blast him of with ur lightning or throw him far away.

The story started when Darth Vader was on one of his mission in Kashyy (Wookies home world), he was abt to kill a jedi when a boy not more then an age of 7 snatch away his lightsabre using the force. Darth Vader then trained him and kept him secret (even from the emporer) to do his biddings in fighting the empire's enemies. At the later part of the game u learn how the rebel alliance is formed and some familiar face such as Leia Organa and see (and play) the construction of Death Star.

Not only the story mode, u can play historic mission in this game, for example, u use Darth Vader to fight Luke in the carbonite chamber, the same one at the end of Star Wars episode V and Relive the moment "I'M YOUR FATHER". U can even play as ObiWan fighting Anakin in Star Wars Episode III at Volcanic Mustafar (except that Anakin will b dead in this one if u defeat him).

Other game modes like Order 66 where u fight waves after waves of enemies and unlock new character along the way (u can get Darth Maul if u finish Order 66 the 66th stage).

There's so many things in this game and I truely say that this one is camparable to Crisis Core (only the crisis core graphic better) or God of Wars. A must have for PSP gamer and a die die must get for Star Wars fan.

The trailer

The Gameplay

2008-09-15T23:59:00.004+10:00

Financial News

Terrible financial happening occured today. Lehman Brothers, the 158 years old 4th largest American investment bank filed for bankruptcy due to its inability to face off the liabilities it incured for the mortage meltdown. In the exclusive interview the "gnome" Alan Greenspan (former very successful US Federal bank Chairman of Clinton Era) said it himself this's one in a century event, supposeedly biggest since the wall street crash in 1929.

Share around the world went down by 4-5 percent (it's alot for a day) and it'll be going down at least for a few more days. Even the oil price's reduced to 93 bucks (afew days earlier it's 99 bucks), from the likes of $147 dollars in July. Although it's not entirely bad thing, it only signal to the fact that the world's demand on oil will reduce due to the weakening of economies. All the US top ten banks like Citibank, JP Morgan, bank of america etc even joined hands together in an unpredecented bid to ease the financial volatilty by injecting approximately $70 billion US dollar emergency cash. There's going to b various oncoming of reprecussion from today that's certain. And the US dollar's going depreciate further.

It's unimaginable that only few days ago there had been some relatively good news of Fannie and May take over (stocks around the world up 3-4 percent), nothing is now impossible, brace urself for more bad news to come.

2008-09-14T21:42:00.003+10:00

Personal

Painted the wall today to cover up the stain and what not that we had. Landlady's coming to check so we need to really work our ass of. Ken went out and buy the whole damn bucket completed with rollers brush and everything.

So yep we did the whole section of wall in 1 hour and man we use generous amonut of paint. It doesn't look too bad when we r done and when the landlady actually came she didn't even seem to notice it. Good job lol

Tsp n the wall

U noe wat, the hardest part isn't painting, it's the cleaning of the house that tires me off. Kitchen was a real mess, the toilet's dirty, the sink is grimy and there's plenty of dust everywhere. So we did it all, Ken took care of the kitchen (thank god he finally clean his own mess) and me the toilet. It wasn't as bad as I thought (except the toilet bowl part eeww) and I vacuum the place. Overall was satisfcatory albeit the fact that there's some white paint dropped on the carpet, nvm the landlady didn't look down xd.

2008-09-12T01:52:00.002+10:00

Personal

Yeah, kind of lazy to update recently. Anyway this week alot of test so stuck in law library mugging as usual.

Went to celebrate Jas bd last Friday at one of the sichuan restaurant in the city. Good food and happy people, too bad it rained. Played pool after that (never play so long my skill's sux now) and went to drink at Jas work place. The bd girl was genuinely happy and really drank too much for her own good, start making alot of noise and hitting people.

I only drank afew shots of tequila and vodka and some beer and hence was mildly dizzy. 60 challenged my "thai spirit" on speed and amt but alas, my throat's not as strong as Beijing's ONE WORLD ONE DREAM people.

Tmr got Finance test abt shit capital budgeting which is quite hard, confusing and require many steps. I was quite sleepy today and slept for one hr at the table in law lib after dinner at Ayam Goreng. I stayed till library close when my mom called and told me the new office had been completed and all the staffs will start working there tmr. Good for her and me, cant wait to see it when I get back.

Today econ test as well but I did fine, I studied quite hard for it.

2008-09-02T00:01:00.003+10:00

Personal

So, September is finally upon us. Man time really flew this year, so fast and it's already the 9th month. Well gd luck for those taking A level this year, they must b pissing in their pants by now.

Anyway last Saturday was my accounting mid semester exam. Sad to say that I wasn't as prepared as I hope to be. After pulling an all day + nighter, my revision stop around 3 and my frens went home (upstairs). I was very tired and I slept until 9.38 am when Cas called and asked me where the hell I was. See, the exam start at 10 and at 9.40 I just got out of bed feeling stupid and extreme panicky. It was a beautiful morning, full of sunshine, a bit chilly and here I was, running my ass off to school, no shower, no brushing of teeth let alone a nice comfortable breakfast. Good thing I live near the campus, if not I wouldn't dare think what will happen.

Yeah so I made it, 5 mins before the time. Hell, before I noe what's going on the exam was over. Anyway abt half of the candidates were satisfied with the test while the rest was not. I guess I stuck between those 2.

2008-08-28T22:18:00.002+10:00

Personal

Oh man, super tired today, been studying accounting from 12 to 4 then after class from 6 to 10 and not making that much of progress. So much to remember and so many stupid details. And when I tried to do the past exam paper I still stuck (for like almost an hour). Why is it so hard?

Seriously, tsp and accounting really doesn't go well together.

On the side note I got my econ test paper back which was pretty good, 9/10. Let's see how much I scored for my finance.

2008-08-24T23:59:00.001+10:00

Olympics

So, it's a battle of won and lost today. Jongjohor Somjit brought home proud the gold medal after winning against Cuban Andris 8 : 2 in Men's fly weight. However, approximately 1.5 hours later Manus Boonjumnong lost to Dominican replubic Diaz Felix in Men's light Welter weight final bout. I din watch both matchs coz I couldn't watch any of the thai online tv link for some unknown stupid reason. Fortunately I did listen to sport radio online for the second one which is almost live except for a minute of time lag (my sis kept updating me live on msn though xd).

So, total 2 golds and 2 silver and currently ranking 30th place, well not the best rank but compared to other SEA country, I say it's pretty good.

2 tests last weeks were good especially finance, I hope I can at least get 8 out of 10. 2 more tests this coming week, man I hate accounting so much. Thank god this's the last semester I'm doing it.

JPOP

I've been watching this PV over and over again many times since yesterday. I like Otsuka's upbeat song but honestly, she does better on slow songs like this one. This new single is the same level as planetarium and Kingyo Hanabi deus. Nice PV, awesome instruments, powerful voice and lots of Bias. I give it 4.5/5

Otsuka ai - Kurage, Nagareboshi.

2008-08-20T21:46:00.000+10:00

Lift fixed!!!! Yay!!!

n

tmr econ test.

2008-08-17T23:03:00.002+10:00

Men's Light Welter 64kg Quarterfinal

Thailand BOONJUMNONG Manus beated the crap out of SAPIYEV Serik from Kazakhstan and proceed to the semi final.

Anyone noe how to watch boxing live online?

2008-08-14T23:47:00.005+10:00

Personal

I got stuck in the lift today. At noon I went down and had steak for lunch with my frens and came back. The lift got stuck between level 5 and 6, it just stopped and I punched all the buttons many times but no response. I wasn't scared, I knew the probabily of dying due to lack of oxygen is almost zero and besides, I just couldn't imagine my life ending there. But boy I was annoyed, I mean I wanted to piss and now the lift stuck. Anyway I pressed the bell button and someone answered the call from the other sides (god noes where). The operator asked for my HP number and she said the mechanice would b coming in 15 mins.

So, without anything to do, I sat down (contemplated my current situation + life) and waited, almost patiently. Soon enough mayb like 13 mins I heard some clanging sound above and someone said "hello" and I said "I'm here and alive". Then he said "wait a minute I'll get u out". Then I said "okay".

It took him like 2 mins to fix the damn thing. The lift was moving again in no time and I got out. It's over so quick I forgot to thank the guy.

2008-08-12T23:34:00.002+10:00

Happy Mother's Day

I forgot it's Mother's Day in Thailand till my mom called just now. I wished her all the best wishes I know she desires (including wishing all her children turning to enlightenment of Buddhism, as if it's not enough already (compared to other thai millions of my relative age).

It's even colder after I left the law lib today around 10. I met more frens old and new tonight while studying. Tests will commence next week onwards and fortunately I wasn't as scared as last sem.

N the damn lift spoiled resulting in me climbing 6 level of stairs. It's not the physical efforts I'm complaining abt no it's very minute, but it's the emotional frustration and at the same time terror of its eerie plus dinghy ladders and walls that disturbed me, considering the time to b so late and so silence at night

2008-08-11T00:37:00.002+10:00

Personal

Woke up so late today. So cold this evening brrrr...

To whomever concerned : I've extended the acct man as promised. 90 days

Downloaded Ai Otsuka - LOVE PiECE Tour 2008. 1.46 gb n watching.

The presentation was better then last week but still need to touch up more.

2008-08-10T00:45:00.002+10:00

Personal

The other day I downloaded 2 movies from the law library computer. Big fish which is probably sometimes ago and Evan Mcgregger "Obi Wan" (hope spelling's ok) stars in it. It's a story of his life told in unusual fantasy way as the whole movie follows through and came to a moving end. The kind of movie that touch u inside and Evan delivered it so well true to his form. My rating, 4/5

The other was WANTED which has Angelina Jolie inside. I watched it the 2nd time with J and Joanne when they came by to borrow my Finance book. Yeah I suppose watched it the second is normally not as exciting as the first. The movie's good and I damn like all the slow motions. I give it 3.5/5

I played some songs as requests by the pair and it seems that everytime I played in anyone's presence I felt extra nervous and totally short of breath faster then usual. Anyway I was managing just alright, just only 1 song that I totally stumbled through the beginning and only got the chorus part. Like that the other time too when I was in my uncle's home and my cousins asked me to play. I knew I wasn't in my peak but apparently they found my performance impressive, well mayb they havnt seen how the pro play it yet I think.

I woke up late today coz I watched the ceremony and din sleep till 4. I met Ken's fren in the evening and we went for dinner.

2008-08-09T02:51:00.003+10:00

Beijing Olympic

Just watched it. As far as memory served, this's the first olympic ceremony that I watched from beginning to the end (and honestly, it's tiring). As expected, the chinese did make it spectacular amount to the hype they were making, only that there's no terrorist bomb or some tibetan monks pouring into the field holding burned Hu's effigy. Anyway parade was very interesting, but only at first. Man there were 204 in all and by the time it hit 60 plus I was already sick of it (I kept waiting for Thailand for so long u noe).

The best part of the parade is undoubtly Iraq. I mean the camera shot abit at the country and after that it turned to Bush (wearing red tie, the east is RED), as if expected him to call an airstrike or do something stupid (I mean, wtf shot him for wat?? And I was laughing my ass out).

We got to see many big shots live as well, Hu Jintao, Jiang Ze Min, Putin, Sarkozy, Fukada, Bush and even Samak were there. Pity Mugabe and Musharaff weren't present.

I expected Zhang Yimou to make an appearance but apparently he's not important enough. Well, actually I never seen the guy before, so I just want to see what he looks like that's all. And yeah the torch lighting part was the awesome. When the girl lighted the last torch the fat man he din move so I was wondering what's he waiting for. Then suddenly OMG HE'S FLYING!!!!! And for a silly moment the first thing come to my mind was not strings but FLYING KUNGFU lol (jking jking). The scroll the was creative really, and they showed the clips on it too how cool is that (the fat guy himself was fun to watch to xd).

The fireworks was medicore except the white wing which I thought was nice. They did so much fireworks and polluted the sky man (there's enough haze already).

Hopefully Thailand can get all gold for boxing xd.

2008-08-07T22:08:00.002+10:00

Personal

There's a thunderstorm today at 3 plus pm which doesn't happen very often in Sydney and I say this one's big. I mean, the wind's so strong against the window that the glass was making loud cracking sound. The sky is, however not black but dark sickly brown like a very bad pollution. The whole thing didn't last long though, only 1 hr. But the rain make the air even colder man brrrr.....

I studied at Library tonight after dinner till it closed at 10.

2008-08-06T11:58:00.000+10:00

Random

I wanted to go Bondi juction after my maths but it rained man n I was soaked (no umbrella).

I din go to law lib tonight coz I feel so slack n watched dvd Ken bought (it's cool series).

The textfile number hasn't arrive and I'm feeling more anxious.

I think I need to wash my clothes tmr, they'll piling up big.

I'll definitely go law lib tmr after dinner.

There a dirty bowl on my table and I'm lazy to wash it.

My lips hurt again after playing sax for too long.

I'm sleepy but I dun want to sleep.

Morning Musume's Cinderella the Musical open to public today.　

I think I'm crazy doing this post.

I should do it more often.

HAVE A NICE DAY (and Wilson told me, today 63 years ago, the first atomic bomb was dropped).

2008-08-05T21:57:00.002+10:00

Personal

I changed my saxophone teacher awhile back. No, not becoz the old one's evil or harsh, it's just his place is too damn far away and I'm so tired of waiting for the bus every half hour back forth. The time spent travelling is totally not worth it.

Anyway today's my first lesson with this guy Ian. He taught me a lot of techniques that I still must train to produce a strong sturdy sound (now my breath is quite shallow), then I let him hear what I was capable of. I played KH2 Roxas' theme and Utada's Simple and clean. He was impressed with my perfomance (quite good for amateur) and commented that my sound and beat were already there but just need more strength and holding length. So overall I say I've improved quite abit since the last month.

It's very enjoyable lesson and we overshot the time for 20 mins, which is, of course, very fine with me (the old one was too punctual, he always stopped when time over).

Went to Library to study at night for the 2nd day (it's actually nice and quiet during non exam period lol), I want to see how long I can keep this up.

2008-08-02T23:53:00.004+10:00

Watched the phantom of the opera (the movie) that I downloaded today. Very touching, sad and romamtic and man I LOVE the song. In the stage play that we went we sat up too far high in the theatre and I couldn't see the expression of the actors and actress well (though the voice and moves were beyond superb). Nevertheless there's no doubt that the play would be nicer than the movie, I mean how can anyone not love a stage play, it's the awesomest thing man. Pity but I have only myself to blame having booked the seat just one night earlier with cheap price. Next time I swear I wont buy a cheap seat again.

Woke up early this morning to play basketball with my pal and had breakfast at Mc with 60. Never played so long I was getting rusty xd.

And the only souvenir that I bought at the theatre.

2008-07-31T11:44:00.003+10:00

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2008-07-26T20:26:00.002+10:00

Personal

Hmm the past 4 days have been quite busy and great at the same time. Thursday went to Hunter's valley to taste some wine. J and Joanne swapped to drive a total of 5 hrs there and back. We had some wine but tell u the truth, I'm no wine drinker so I din really noe what's good from bad. Lol the first few drink was alright, but after the 3rd glass I was feeling quite bad. By the time we had it for the 7th I felt downright terrible, but no I kept cool and din say anything.

I did buy 1 bottle though (white wine). Not like I act cool or anything, I like it honestly, it had a very good slightly fruity flavour and wasn't strong like red wine. It cost 20 bucks.

Anyway I din want to take photo much that day coz I was feeling particularly unhandsome (many pimples attacked me the past night and it just look terrible). We went to the smelly cheese shop nearby and bought some ice cream and headed back. Lol we had little excitement on the way coz the petrol was running low and we couldn't find the station with the gas, turns out everything's ok.

Went to a convention at darling harbour yesterday and today.

School starts Monday, lol sian chin

2008-07-22T23:45:00.001+10:00

Personal

Flight's unusual, I didn't get the aisle seat that I wanted coz all were taken and I got the middle one instead. Except for meals I slept all the way thru the flight, hell I din even play my psp or listened to my ipod (I charged them full the night before), dunno y I'm so tired.

It's windy when I got out of the airport and boy it's cold. I feels kinda glad to be back again though I'm far from my family, mayb living alone is not such a bad idea yes (well, I might sing a different tune sooner or later aye)? Nah, I am alone for the meantime till Ken comes back.

Of course there's nothing in the kitchen and my milk's all rotten. I took a whiff of smell at it and wished I didn't. Anyway, Ken cleaned the kitchen pretty well before he left, but the dining table's messy with papers though.

Then I started calling people saying I'm back and went to school for awhile to see if there's anything going on. There's none, the O week start this wednesday.

I went to see 60 in the law library and stayed there awhile before I came back home, I couldn't download shit coz I din bring my thumbdrive.

Today the 4 of us went to DFO (direct factory outlet) which sells nice clothes, shoes etc at factory price. There were lots of shops in there and goods were cheap for their good quality. I got a pair of shoe (50 bucks) and a book (War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy) which coz only 7 bucks. While the girls were shopping, me and J walked around the whole place. Even we have covered every shop the girls were still in the same one trying their clothes lol.

We got lost for awhile during our way back but all was well.

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2008-07-19T22:21:00.004+10:00

Personal

THE LEDGER TRIBUTE

2008-07-18T23:49:00.000+10:00

Personal

I watched Batman today though I was 15 late. I thought there would b commercial like any other movies so I took my time, haizz I missed the beginning.

Anyway the movie deserves a 4.5 thumbs up (out of 5). Joker was Great/Awesome/Fantastic, so damn good it's a pity that he's already dead. I liked how they build up the 2 faces guy character for the next sequel. The many climax along the way till the most climax part of the movie (ahem...ship...ahem *spoiler*) was a thrill and so unexpected (really). But u noe, I totally din guess the end to b like that (sob, U're still my HERO no matter what!!). Well, in a way it makes u feel even more eager to watch the next one, totally unprecdictable xd.

Btw, the sonar shot was out of this world man who the hell think of that idea, that's some cool shit.

Yeah that's as far as my crappy review goes. I wouldn't mind watching again for that lost 15 mins, it's that good!!!

Shopping for clothes this afternoon, leaving for Bangkok/Sydney this coming sunday.

The moon is beautiful tonight, I became poetic for awhile as I stood there at the garden gazing up by myself. Wanna hear my poem? Wait long long man my english sux.

2008-07-15T02:02:00.006+10:00

Personal

Back from Bangkok.

10/7/08

My sis was very stunningly stella on her graduation day. I went to sleep at her condo the night before coz I need to help her carry stuffs in the morning. At 4 something am the make up guy came while I was still sleeping (my sis was up). Soon one her best fren came afterwards to do the make up as well and yes, I was still sleeping. Eventually I woke up at 6 (much to my pathetic cum embarrassing sleeping "hair" and "look"), showered, ate some cake for breakfast and we left at 7.

Unfortunately it was raining outside. Lol, after all the damn make up we have to stay indoors when we took photoes. Nevertheless lots of my uncles/aunts cousins relatives came to congratulate my sister (well, she got first honour in law after all, that's really something) but sadly, instead of having lots of pictures taken in various places for this occasion, we had to put up indoors.

Most of the people went back a couple of hours later while my bro (he flew back from Singapore for this day), my cousins (who skipped their classes for this day), my mother (who left her work behind O0O!!! for this day) and me (who did not intend to come back from Aussie at first albeit the 1 month holiday but did so for this day) remained behind.

Walked here walked there till 11.30 when my sis went inside the hall to take the certs from the princess of thailand (yes, the king's daughter, it's tradition).

She came out at 4 plus and we went to look for her.

The sky cleared by the time and we did get some good photoes. We had a big big dinner that night.

11/7/08

We went to Chatujak mall and then market looking for a thai costume. Y? The racial harmony day's coming soon in Singapore right? So my bro wanted to participate and we looked for proper oldy thai clothes. Took sometimes walking around this damn huge market, fortunately not many people today coz it's not weekends.

Today's my first uncle's darling daughter's birthday and we all went to eat in the high-so Italian restaurant. The price for each dish was absurd albeit it's awesome taste. We had a good time there.

12/7/08

Nothing much, slacked whole day. In the evening I took BTS to Chong nonsi to meet Ken (my sydney flatmate who happened to be in Bangkok). His dad works here and his whole family came for holiday. 2 months ago when Ken called back his house he realised that the two of us might b in Bangkok around the same time. His dad then said whether I would like to have dinner with them. I said yes.

Anyway Ken's family was very well-to-do and they took me to eat ex chinese dinner in the very grand looking restaurant. Food was good. They sent me all the way back home.

13/7/08

Went to Chatujak again but with my cousins this time (last time so many shops still closed). Lots of people today. We ran into all kind of tourists (japanese, chinese, some whites who speak funny language etc). I bought 4 long sleeve shirts which cost less then 40 Sing dollar combined together.

Author's pick

Didn't upload Sayu's pics for so long but man these 2 were just ....wow!!!!

2008-07-08T00:01:00.002+10:00

Personal

It's really time to update. Everytime I started writing something I'm just not in the mood. Not that my life's boring, alot happened since I arrived here and I'm hardly at home (well, mostly trying to rub off my mother's superb skill, my duty as the heir eh). But u noe, no mood is no mood.

The second day after I came back from Bangkok I stayed at the temple for 3 days 3 nights, yeah eat, sleep everything there totally cut out from outside (no ipod, psp watever). As usual, I have to practise my meditation coz I have totally been slack the whole year. When my legs were damn pain from hours of sitting, I would go to the praying hall and read some religious books (many new insight yes).

7 o'clock everynight the monks hold daily praying rituals and I attended. I dun mind praying really (I have been doing all my life) but I damn dun like that kneeling position, so painful man, dunno how can they sit like that for hours.

Lol the high monk asked me to sleep in the praying hall (nowhere else left to sleep man). I dun like the idea, I mean come on, alone!!! Yeah I noe the buddha statues are plenty in the hall so I shouldn't feel scared but at the back of my mind I just feel the ghosts might attack me from behind, lol I dun even dare look outside window (it's pitch black outside for the record). All the company I had were 2 cats, one black and white. What's worse is the dogs howled sometimes, and u noe wat it meant.

Anyway it wasn't as bad as I imagined, the first night I slept like pig. I actually felt damn sleepy at 9.15 pm and 15 mins later I was gone, deep sleep without dream.

Second day was like the first. Afew hrs of meditation, afew more of reading and meditation switching to and fro. In the evening when I showered at 6 there was a spider in the toilet. It's not that big (half ur palm size) but I din want to take any chance (it looked poisonous). I had a hard time chasing it away with the water spray, it's quite stubborn.

Second night I dreamt alot. It's very rarely that I dream and as far I noe it happened less then ten times per year. Boy that night I dreamt alot, like 5-6 of them and I could remember quite clearly.

I came out on Friday and stayed at home to slack for 2 days as a reward for my dedication (and braverly).

I bought saxophone today, it's too ex so my mom helped me pay half first then installment later (without interest).

Going Bangkok tmr at 2 pm.

2008-06-29T22:46:00.002+10:00

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I touched down at Bangkok 2 days ago. The 9 hrs flight was uneventful and boring. I listened to my Ipod, read the Great Gatsby till half way (my good fren lend it to me but I din read it till now) and played my PSP till the batt ran flat. Surprisingly, I only pissed once during the flight (last time was 3).

Anyway man it was HOT in Bangkok. I mean really, it's damn damn hot down here, all the smothering heat and humidity tis almost unbearable, DAMN!!!

I went to my sister place and helped here clean the room, the next day was her graduation full dress rehearsal day which means there'll be alot of make up and blah blah to be done in the morning. I'm supposed to go help her carry all her bags, hp and other stuffs the next day (yesterday) coz her dress doesn't have pocket.

It turned out she woke up damn early and the make up artist came to the other room at 6 plus in the morning. We left at 8.30 and made our way to Chulalongorn University Interior (best Uni in Thailand). We met up with the photographer and walked arnd taking photo. All the while I was standing out of the way and picked up her many many phone calls. We met up with more and more of her frens afterwards. Man almost every woman in this uni's so pretty. U noe, those outstanding kind u dun dare approach coz u noe u're not up to their standard of awesomeness to actually talk face to face. Yeah that kind EVERYWHERE, really nice lol. We walked and walked and walked and my sis socialized herself with people the whole damn day. My cousin joined me later and boy I'm glad that he came. It's quite boring when u dunno anyone.

Tired chin, from 9am to 4 pm plus taking photos from diff place, my younger cousin joined us towards the end and by the time we fin at 5 plus, my sis, after wearing high heels the whole day in diff terrain (field, concreet, wood, steps etc) could not take it anymore. She changed into slipperd (we brought them) and the 4 of us (the photographer go back) went to eat dinner nearby.

We ate again at my grandma house and went back to her condo. Both of us slept like pig that night (I hit pillow then black out straight away).

2008-06-21T23:54:00.000+10:00

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I'm totally enjoying myself these few days. Slackage like never before, slept and 4 on average and woke up after lunch. Well, at least no worries till the result released.

However this morning I woke up much earlier. Reason? I had to attend the marketing talk at 12 pm. Mr. Simon came to pick me up quite late and seubsequently, compounded by bad traffic jam, we were 45 mins late of the schedule (weather's surprisingly scorching today).

It's abt ACN telecommunication and boy there were lots of people, rich ass people, asian and angmo alike (and most of them are in suits). lol I was sensible enough not to wear jeans today, but man I was still one of the underdress people.

The talk was tiring but quite useful. From 12 - 6 pm with 2 breaks in between.

Tired chin (it's like attending 6 hrs lecture).

Me and my flatmate's gonna get 29 inch flat screen TV tmr. His fren's moving out and he sells it for only 50 bucks!! Finally some TV lol.

H!P

Gottsan is with AVEX now and she still have my fullest support. I hope she beat the crap out of Koda Kumi.

2008-06-19T00:12:00.002+10:00

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It's finally over and boy it feels good that it is.

Hmm I would say it's quite trying (and damn tiring) for the last week sleeping after 3 am everynight with 2 cans of redbull consumption daily (sometimes it helps).

Some subjects were good while others sux. Well, at least I can enjoy myself till the result comes out.

Went out to have dinner with J and Joanne and sang my ass of at Kbox afterthat. I noe my sound was totally off but I dun care, I just wanted to shout.

I slept at 1 yesterday and woke up at 3 in the afternoon. Took a shower and went to Bondi junction to return the saxophone I rent. Actually I overshot the due by almost 2 weeks and on the agreement paper (I just realised 2 days ago) and I was supposed to pay some fines. Lol the guy somehow didn't remember it and so I kept my mouth shut, not that I mind yeah.

I'm going back to Thailand on 27 to surprise my sis on her graduation day (if she havn't find out already, dun tell her k?). At first I planned to stay here coz the fare's too damn high, well, good thing is I can go home and buy cheaper saxophone in Thailand.

It's getting colder these days, u already can blow the smoke from ur breath.

2008-06-08T22:58:00.003+10:00

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Time : 10.59pm

Location : Quad Undergraduate comlab UNSW

Feeling : Very blue

Reason : Cant do maths online quiz at home coz internet suddenly become crappy and it must be completed before midnight.

Intention : Might stay here at least till 2 am. So sian walk here walk there man, should I just sleep here??

Want : A can of red bull (sugar free)

2008-06-02T20:01:00.011+10:00

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Yep, I finally did it!! Actually it's supposed to b on my birthday 6 weeks ago but they kept postponing coz there's not enough people.

Anyway the place is damn damn far away man, took me so long on the train and bus to get there but it's worth it.

To cut story short, I arrived there around 1 pm and coz I was late my schedule was pushed to 3.30. When it's time they took us to the small airport, there're alot of small planes down there and some helicopter but no big plane. Our operation plane is, in fact, quite mini that with enough room for 7 people, including the pilot.

After all the strappings are done we got inside and boy it was cramped (no seat, everyone just sat where they can). But at that time that discomfort took the least portion of my mind. Honestly I've never felt scared till I was actually seated and the plane took off. I mean it suddenly felt so real and overwhelming as the plane kept climbing higher and higher diagonally and houses becoming smaller. What's worse is that there's no door, just an openning. I was postively, genueinly terrified.

It went on for the longest 20 mins (it's high above the cloud man, 14000 feet) until the pilot behind me gave it a go. Since I got on the plane first it means I'm seated in the inner most and thus the last to jump. Seeing the first 2 two flew away into oblivion I suddenly and really thought that I shouldn't be there, what the hell am I thinking, this shit is not roller coaster man it's fucking 14000 feet!! I dun even noe how many km I'm above the sea level.

Anyway I rehearsed in my mind what position I should take in order not to injured myself. Then the instructor guy pushed me lightly toward the exit. U noe myy legs were hanging off the plane (all those thing u saw in movie, when u actually do it, it totally felt different (much much worse). The wind's so damn cold up there but I didn't really appreciated it for long, I closed my eyes and plunged.

Boy it's not fun at all man, I mean, the dive with ur head toward the earth and the realisation that there's no support whatsoever for u. Like the vertical dropped without strap and ur head's at the bottom. For the first 15 second or so, there's not a thing in my head, just me and the infinite sky. I WAS SCARED SHITLESS MAN I DO!!!

Not long after the guy tapped my shoulder signalling that I can released my arms from making X against my chest. I was scared still, but managed to do some thumbs up.

The free fall last for 60 long seconds and he pulled the parachute. The impact is quite rough, quite painful especially at the straps near ur dick.

The view cannot be put in words, it's just too awesome. U gotta see it and u'll noe.

Good Lord!!! I'M FLYING

U cant imagine how quiet it was. Total TOTAL utter silence, not a sound nothing, it's so serene and surreal that I didn't dare break the silence.

I did it anyway coz It felt so liberating really, u gotta shout man WOOO!!!. The weather's perfect too, as u can see, there's not a single cloud in the sky.

Then the guy asked me whether I like roller coaster. I said yes, and he pulled the parachute handle to the right, resulting in a screw spirally spin. I was thinking why did I say yes (but I like roller coaster really)

He then gave me then handle. I dunno what was I thinking at that time, I pulled both the handles quite hard same time. What happened was I experienced FREE FALL again, albeit ass down which is not so bad.

TSP safe and sound.

2008-06-01T00:50:00.000+10:00

More detailed update soon

2008-05-28T00:49:00.000+10:00

Exam, Hiatus till 17 of June

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2008-05-27T00:03:00.003+10:00

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Tired qin, slept so late yesterday doing the preparation. The question's damn confusing and so hard to understand. Stone for so long before able to start. If not Ken's help confirm die.

Anyway, woke up early to finish the presentation. As expected, when the actual thing started I was nervous like hell. Everything went like a blur and before I noe it everything's over, not that I mind though.

Went to Uni again at 7 plus to do the accounting assignment with J and Joanne. Man I really hate that piece of work, so tedious, we stayed almost 3 hours but only managed to do only 1 qs, SIAN!!!

I dunno why body ached right now, as in the whole body, not just legs, foot but my arms and neck as well, hope I feel better tmr morning.

saikin gakuen sugei musukashi, mainichi maichi benkyo doste mo yappa testru wa dekinai, mukatsku cho mukatsku. Doshio...

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Morning Musume

In Taiwan

2008-05-23T20:01:00.005+10:00

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Nothing much to update. Been studying (alot) to do the online accounting predisco assignment which I totally no idea how to do coz I didn't pay much attention to classes earlier this year (regretting now lol).

Went to Bondi junction alone today (all my fren have classes today, except me). Slacked there, walk walk window shopping, see clothes and went to bookstore and read for half an hour. After that I ate at the japanese ramen for lunch (finally man, that place's always full, no kidding). Had miso ramen which was pretty nice (no surprise why people queue up everytime I walked pass).

When I'm d0ne (otsukaresama deus ta!!) I went to the saxophone shop to buy new reeds, the old one's so sux that I cant produce proper sound anymore. Bought a song book there also, (inside have godfather's theme, a whole new world etc). And bought a stand to put the scores when I played. Lol I spent alot today.

It's quite cold this morning.

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2008-05-19T21:45:00.002+10:00

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Ta tada ta da daa da daaa daa da, ta da ta tada da da tada, tadaaa, taadaaa, taaaaaadaaaaaaa da da da da, tada daaa ta da ta daaa daaaaaa

^_^

Amai yo

2008-05-17T21:52:00.004+10:00

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Boy, the wind is totally on tonight and I've never felt this cold since Shanghai. Body literally shivering as I'm typing this, surprisingly I didn't want to change the setting of my foot heater from mild to hot. Perhaps I'm enjoying the chill? I have no idea.

Went to school com lab to do my Qma assignment with Sean and Daniel today. As usual, I came on time and both of them were, also as usual, fashionably late (why do I have to tire myself rushing everytime?). So I started the work first, as in I tried to. There's 12 complicated excel questions linear program shit in total and I found myself stuck at qs 2, wtf.

In the end when both arrived (20 and 30 mins later respectively), I had changed my attention to surfing the net. Anyway we stayed there for 5 hours to finish 8 qs.

Recently my lower lip's been hurtung after my more-then-often saxophone practices in the last couple days. I had searched and found many, albeit still beginner, scores online and was pretty on in practising it out. Now I began to worried whether it will heal in time for I can practise my homework due Thursday.

I downloaded 2 movies from Comlab today, the Bucket list (Jack Nickleson and Morgan Freeman) and Good bye Lenin that we History students watched in class long ago, I wondered how everyone's doing now.

PS. My sister got first honour in the best uni in Thailand!!! That's something really really hard to get. She called just now and sounded very veryand truly happy, CONGRATULATION!!!!!

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2008-05-16T20:57:00.005+10:00

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2008-05-14T23:36:00.004+10:00

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I went to japanese class today at 6.15 pm UNSW Randwick campus. Then I realised, I hadn't laugh this much or be as happy for the whole week compared to that 2 hours. Not only I like what I learn, it's also everyone around me, my classmates.

How I missed the time last year when we were in Catherine class, back when we really laughed our asses off (really LAUGHed our asses off).

Back to study, I got online maths quizz to fin before Sunday.

PS. I finally got my first credit card!!!!

PSS. I watched "Sweeny Todd : The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" today. What a gory movie, though the music is great but the gore's way way too much, even for me brrr.

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LOLed

2008-05-12T22:29:00.004+10:00

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Monday again lol.

I woke very early today to study. I usually tried to study at night but unfortunately after 12 am it became very difficult for me to concentrate (u noe like reading the same line for 15 mins to understand), all I can do after that time is maths. Yeah I resolved to do more accounting as so far it's my weakest subject, it's not that hard, just I have always been slack to read lots of text, very much like finance.

Anyway, today's per normal. Same lunch place, same library to study and sleep, and same econ tut at 2. I bumped into J and Joanne after the tut and dragged them to the bookstore (also that same thick book that I showed them, the bd thing). There's a 50% booksale outside the bookstore apparently, I was a considering buying the "Alexander : The murder in Babylon" but alas, just when I was about to get it someone went ahead and took the last copy, wat luck eh. Joanne came across the star wars book "republic commando 2", too bad u need to read book 1 first so I din buy it.

The weather's mostly chilly these day and I say I like it, tonight the moon is half and there was hardly any clouds in the sky. The stars were beautiful.

Tanya lent me "The great Gatsby" during lunch (in exchange for X-Japan Hide Memorial Live 5/5/08 dvd that I helped her burned). I'll find some time to read.

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The batman "dark knight" trailer's awesome (there's ver 2 now btw), go watch it.

2008-05-11T23:04:00.000+10:00

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Random at its best, beware

I woke up at 6 am to download the last part of X-japan concert happened on 30 March. I did so coz my off peak period (110 gb) is between 3am to 9 am.

I had kokocruch for breakfast and cleaned the kitchen that my flatmate failed to properly do so.

I practised Jazz abit.

I studied for 15 mins

I went out and waited for Dean at the bustop to go sydney U

The bus was 20 mins late

We kind of lost coz the last time P Geng picked us up.

We reached Uni at 12 exact.

Our chairman were toking and sucking cigarette when we arrived.

It's semi final and final today.

It was quite boring and we totally got nothing to do except chit chat and watched the soccer game.

The final was damn good, fast, hard and accurate, 6-2 was the final score, total pwnage.

We took the group pic with the thai consulate who presented the medals and prizes for winners

I reached home at 4

I tried to study again

My sis called and asked abt EPP

Tried to study again.

Dinner at Ayam Goreng with 60, on the way I saw Joanne and her mom eating at GPK, the pizza looks really good.

I'm surprised 60 came before me and actually got the seats (that's awesome, it's always so full).

I forgot to bring Matlab dvd for 60

We fin eating, I withdraw money from ATM for rent and went home.

Slacked for 1 hour

Studied

slacked again

feel sleepy.

blog.

shower later.

probably tried to study.

All's in a day.

2008-05-10T00:37:00.003+10:00

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It's been way too long since my last update. First I din want coz it's the exam period time. Then we changed the internet service provider and the house was without internet for almost 2 weeks.

So, good news and bad news.

Bad news first. I screwed my accounting, big time. That's all I will say abt it, coz reapeating it again just make me feel worse.

Good news. My maths' better then expected and it came as a very pleasant surprise. The rest of subject was so so.

Last Tuesday I came across a book in the uni bookshop. A very thick book that roughly had 356 pages in it following the days of one year. Basically it tells u abt ur personality from the day u're born, very interesting right? Yeah I browsed all my bro and sis birthday, my frens and myself and I say the book is pretty accurate. Tell me ur birthday and I'll go look for wat it says for u lol(Jim no need coz I saw urs liao).

Till next time,

Tsp

2008-04-21T03:55:00.000+10:00

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Hmmm, been studying the whole day but still not enough. Exam's next saturday but I'm still unprepared.

Had a few cups of coffee so n0w pretty wide awake. Reading Econ later.

Finished half the box of ferrerochec (spelling anyone?) chocolate in 10 mins (man it's so irresistable)

It's so rainy this week, wind's strong as well, brrrrr

Tmr Tsa meeting at 6.

U should watch Music fighter this week (aired on my bd too! what a present!) coz Sayu PWNed the show. Translation here

I think I had stomach problem, been making cakes 3 times in the last 30 mins (one coming up as I'm writing).

I accidentally mix my t-shirt with my underwear on my last washing, man this's bad.

I was emo yesterday coz I got 1/8 for my online maths quiz after a whole day of studying/practising it.

I THINK I HAD TOO MUCH COFFEE JUST NOW COZ IT'S 2 am AND I DUN FEEL SLEEPY AT ALL. Hope iI dun sleep in my lec tmr.

This blog needs more Sayu eyecandy

2008-04-20T00:07:00.002+10:00

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Despair and misery. Reality eventually hit back. No life, no joy, toil and torment returns. Feeling numb, head swimming, eyes dragging down. Much to do, little time.

Despair and misery

Too early to falter.

2008-04-18T02:15:00.001+10:00

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It's 15 min past midnight and I'm officially 20 years old. That's right, my age start with 2 now so I must become and act more like an adult.

Thx William, Jas, Cas, Joan, J, Suresh and Mark who wished me a happy birthday in the last 15 mins so far, though my phone's crap and it cut off several times, hmm maybe i should get a new one.

Anyway more update later, I want to sleep now.

EDITED

Went to eat the luxurious Musashi restaurant which we had to wait 30 mins for our places (7 people). Food's good and we had stomach full, too full for our own good.

Went to buy more stuff before going back home and had a small party. It appeared we were very noisy and the neighbour threatened to call the police.

They all went back around 11 plus.

J stayed behind and helped me cleaned the mess, he accompanied me till 12 am.

I got 2 T-shirts, 1 box of ferraroche chocolate and a 8 Gb Thumbdrive for presents (the last one is awesome).

2008-04-14T19:55:00.004+10:00

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Final Fantasy VII : Crisis core COMPLETED

100% Mission
str 255
vit 255
spr 255
mag 161
lck 49

Very very sad ending, poor Zack.

Angeal and Genesis Vs Sephiroth (English)

Those who has Psp, go buy and play NOW!!

LASTLY, HPBD TO JIM TANG WEICHEN WHO TURNED 20 TODAY!!!!! CONGRATULATION!!! WISH U'RE SUCCESS IN WHATEVER YOU DO BRO!!!! STRAIGHT A LEVELS TOO!!! Too bad I cant call at midnight ur time, it'll be 3 am here man.

2008-04-13T18:44:00.000+10:00

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It's thai new year today so HAPPY NEW YEAR. Yep Songkran festival or po sui jia in chinese.

Woke up damn early (5.50am) and went to help up at the spa booth somewhere near IMAX at darling harbour (They asked us UNSW TSA to helped them so we go). Lol Coz I dun noe the place I ended up walking 1 whole round from paddy's market when I could just walked straight for 10 mins from the 3 monkey pub.

I reached there around 7.30 and the seniors were already busy arranging, helping stuff. We had "pretty great" time chatting, doing and thinking the best way to do it as efficient as possible (product specialisation anyone?). Time flies and when we fininshed, it was almost 10. By then more people came and lol they asked us to do more jobs, pasting ad sticker on "numerous" Spa cd cover, wth. I did till 10.30 when the monks start praying ceremony and we all went to sit down on the mats provided. The chanting was around 30 mins long under the hot sun and the Tuk bat procession (u give food to the monks, thai tradition) commenced. I bought 3 packages of dried food at one of the booth near the entrance and, after wishing for happiness, success and luck (not forgettting family), I presented to them as they slowly walked past us.

More shows were yet to come but we were damn hungry. That's not to worry coz there were so many thai food booths (6) around us boasting delicacies that are one of the best among the 600-700 hundred thai restaurants in sydney.

I didn't my Canon G9 camera there so ...

2008-04-13T01:05:00.001+10:00

Letting go

This post is dedicated to 2 very special person, A and B. I considered A a very good fren of mine since last year, one of those I can trust. A and I, we shared the same class, the same timetable so last year we sticked together throughout, always watching for one another ass. B was also in the same class except a minor different in the subject. I wasn't close to B at first, due to some reasons one way or another but later we got along. A and B started going out around the middle of last year and I was the person both pretty much confided in. In fact, if it hadn't been my coaxing they would have broken up long ago.

Initially our group when we started going out was around 6-7 people, eating, having fun that kind of stuff. However towards the end becoz some of our gang was SOAB we started going out with him less and less. B also had her problem too, she likes to hate people. Eventually it ended up only the 3 of us last semester but even then we still had good times.

These days A and B dun go out with formal frens at all, apparently, B's hate for them had grown to the point where she didn't want to see any of their faces, forgetting all those time we all used to share. I was in good terms with everyone but alas, it's so difficult to get them back together. A and B recently started bad mouthing others which I dun like, it's against my core value. I am not with them nowadays too coz I feel they dun give a damn abt me, happily in their own couple world.

So I have decided to let go.

No more, no need to keep waiting for the call that wont arrive. No more asking them out coz the answer will be the same. No more, time to let go. If it's so difficult and tiring then I will better off and make new frens, no need to consider their feeling when they dun do so to me.

How dumb of me to even consider them my priority, no more.

PS. abit emo post, hope u dun mind.

2008-04-12T00:55:00.000+10:00

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So yeah, didn't update for quite long time.

I'm alright Jim, just abit more adapting and stuff, I'll be fine. Thx for ur concern man xd.

Well, tons of things happened since last update which is like 2 weeks ago. I finally moved into new place so YAY. Got my own room and everything and I like it alot!!! I'm a simple guy, didn't need much decoration in my room so it looks kind of plain, but tidyness is a must xd.

Went to Ikea with my pals afew days after I just moved. Bought many stuff like bed/pillow sheet, chair, some buckets and other "homy" necessity. Pretty fun I guess lol (the Ikea is so damn far away).

School work is pretty tiring, one test after another this week, so much to read especially finance, hell the concept is quite alot and confusing. Maths' ok same with econ. Accouting still sux though.

Anyway my tennis class finally started last week at 9 am on saturday. Waking up at 8 on weekends is very weird for me I supposed. I like the class yes, though the dumb instructor wasn't able to bring the racket and we had to share with those who brought theirs, overall the class was quite entertaining.

I played tennis with my pals yesterday and man many of my shot were quite off and went over the fence or other court which, I think, is kinda noob. However I approved significantly today, no off the court ball and my aiming is, although still considered sux, better. I like tennis xd

Last friday I attended my first TSA meeting, that is, Thai Student Association so I know at least some thai people in my connection. It was alright, many pretty girls but sadly they are all older than me, and only afew first year there though. I tried my best to socialise and yeah I think I done not a bad job, we went to eat together afterwards at Kingsford's chinese restaurant, the 17 of us. I still felt very new to the group yet so it's abit uncomfortable at first, well as times go I suppose it'll get better. Anyway it's Songkran, thai new year, this coming sunday and the thai consulate asked us TSA to help out with the event at darling harbour, I'm thinking whether I should go there damn early to help (at 7 am).

The ISC (international student collective, looks like I'm a commitee member now) bowling event that I and the other guy organised didn't come to realisation (man after all the brainstorming and finding the venue, going there and shit). That's becoz so few want to come, I was so sian with the number of emails that replied after being sent out, man only 6 people, we cant even do a package group u noe. Probably becoz many people having mid semester exam, oh well, at least I tried.

Last thing my saxophone class, almost liao and soon i will be able to play a song (though however crappy it might sound at first). Going to the tuition place is faster too from my new apartment, there's "400" bus stop right outside so no need to double tripple bus trip anymore. Awesome.

And I played FFVII Crisis Core, level 73 at the moment and chapter 11, the last one. My Hp 56000 plus and I hit 99999 which is the highest. I completed to 83 percent already and man the mission 9s were damn hard, I planned to fight Minerva but had so much trouble getting there, even my status is so high it's still not enough.

The fight with Sephiroth was damn damn cool, I really liked this version of "one winged angel", but sephiroth is noob though, my stat so high I hit him one time he died liao, guess I'm too pro. LOL seeing the nibelheim incident again with full understanding really gave me goosebumps. Reliving the famous photograph of Zack, Tifa and Sephiroth, the CG scene of sephiroth disappearing through the fire, oh man I cant put feelings into words. I went to Vincent Valentine coffin too. I didn't see his face though, the coffin opened abit but the camera is positioned at the coffin side and I only heard him "zzzzz" with Zack saying "better not disturb him". It's still nice though.

Yep, that's all, pretty long post on this one. I hope it's enough to make up for Jim's concern xd.

My birthday next friday, I'll make it a very very special one.

PS mine's friday so I guess Jim's next monday then, 20 liao hahaha, good luck for both of us man.

PSS Ma ying jeou won the election, u like him?

2008-03-27T02:55:00.000+11:00

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Hmm, been waking up pretty late since the start of this 1 week holiday.

Yesterday was good at eastershow though it abit drizzled from time to time. We to only 3 rides and decided to give up. First we tried the cup roller coaster thingy which, in my opinion, was quite noob. Then the vertical drop that I also did last year. U noe, the one where it goes vertically very high and let u fall in seconds, making ur stomach damn xxxx.

Then we walked around abit and finally decided on the "sky walker". Basically, u sat on the seat with legs hanging and it hurled up up and u spin around like u're on X-Wing star fighter from the epic starwars. Oh man it was so high up and u spun 360 degrees. Looking from the ground earlier, it doesn't seem scary. But when u're up there well... just imagine u do somersault continuously till ur head hurts. I screamed at first for a few second coz it's fun, then after awhile u started feeling sick, u closed ur eyes and wanted to get out right away. Only the problem is that it wont stop, it went on for like 2 mins which u felt like 2 hours.

When it finally slowed down and came to a stop I was thanking the lord for letting me live and walked on both feet again. We did little to exchange our feeling then, each very contented to keep quiet. It looked as if all of us had seen a ghost or something, coz all the blood was drained from our face. Upon J's suggestion which I readily agreed, we decided to find a spot to sit down and rest.

We sat for a very very long time before deciding to move on and our theme park activity ended with that last ride. I bought some show bags and we walked around before having dinner there. Later we went and sat in the stadium watching the live band performance, pickup trucks and very spectacular motorbike stunts. The day ended with the glorious 9 pm fire works.

2008-03-25T05:22:00.000+11:00

Personal (Random)

It's almost 2 am but sleeping still feels like miles away. Yes, for some reason my eyelids are as light as ever, my head is as clear as spring waterfall and hell if I'm staying alone I'll probably blasted my small ipod speaker like no-one business.

Anyway, I'm moving to a new place this saturday, to the apartment which I so visited and slept over for so many times last year. Jas and Cas had decided to move out and lived on their own and Ken had asked me if I wanted to replace them, he even said I am the first on the list of all people he wanted to accept, which made me kind of flattered.

The location is good, just downstairs there's a supermarket, many restaurant and all kind of the necessary things u need to live. The bank is nearby and the bus stop to the city is just there, so damn convenient and perfect. The rent is reasonable, everything is furnished and man the furniture is so nice. So finally after a year and 2 month I'm gonna have my own room. No more thinking for others anymore, no more having to be nice and considerate. Now I can put my speaker on when I sleep, practise my sax in my own room and played com till wee hours, awesome.

Travelling to Uni is just walking distance, probably only 10 mins. I'm thinking maybe I can stay in uni longer too coz the house is near, lol u dun have to fight for seats in the bus no more man.

ok change topic

We are going easter show tmr at Olympic city. I remembered well last year we also went together. It's our first outing then but we are still not very close. Look how far we have come together, sharing all the hardship and joys. Though some of us might feel diff abt each other now, both in good or not so good ways, that day was the day I still cherished. I was bored and pretty lonely then, coz I just came here all alone. I still remembered the topic in the bus on the way there was like "where do u live?" or "wat r u gonna study in uni?". It was only 4 of us that day and tmr there'll be more. I'm quite looking forward to it and the new memebers share the same feelings. Tmr we will see the rides that are still the same like last year, the same stadium and all the stages. I'll look at them and remember this day a year ago, smiling to myself thinking how we were then.

We are gonna see firework this time.

ok change topic again

I clean my bag today (lol it's not that dirty ok!!) and found some pamphlet that I just shoved in my bag when the leaflet guy handed to me at uni during the week. I am really glad that I did it, coz if I waited a few more days later I might not be able to sign up the tennis class I 'm so keen to learn. Actually, I want to learn alot of new things this year. That's y I take up a sax class that last only half an hour when the travelling time is one hour and a half, carrying that thing in the bus, so careful as not to let it hit people was troublesome.

Anyway abt the tennis thing, it's 4 lesson in total and they provide the equipments for me. It's 52 bucks though, abit ex but what the hell I want to learn.

Last topic

Congrats to me, I'm finally sleepy now

PS What a random post -_-.

2008-03-23T19:18:00.003+11:00

Personal

School for the last week was no better then the first, the homework load kept pouring in and some of the subject I havn't got the books yet. Reason was simple, they are just too ex. I mean, 100 bucks plus for each book?? wth.

Anyway my com screwed up afew days ago. I did my usual maintainance thing using spyware doctor. It found 4 level 5 trojons and I tried to clean it off. Then they asked me to restart the com which I did. What happened was the com started up but never got past the "Window XP" page. I tried the safe mode, with networking and even command prompt it still couldn't work.

Ultimately I was left to only 1 option ; reformat the whole damn thing. The process didn't take very long. What's a pain in the ass was pictures, music albums that are lost and not to mention the school file and stuffs. Since the guardian here downgraded the internet plan when I left last year, everything is so bloody slow. Yes it's 56kb/s again haizz.

I backed up some programs from last year though so when I did everything's to be done, at the end of the day I was able to get backed to 80% of my previous status. Still not that bad I supposed. Took me many hours to do -_-.

H!P/Momusu

Yeah all my recent MM pics and videos that I collected the last 3 months are gone too, not to mention some dramas and PV, I'll miss them (Sob)

2008-03-14T18:52:00.002+11:00

Personal

Hmm, went out with Raymond and Natasha today for lunch. These past days had been some extraordinary events of a chance meeting with my dear old fren from Singapore (seen in previous post). What culminate this already too-strange-to-be-true rendevouz further was the hotmail from Natasha who was with us in primary 5 in Qiaonan before she left for other school. The mail said she's in Sydney and she wanted to meet me. Lol I mean what the hell, how come suddenly so many fren decided to come to sydney at the same time?

Anyway She gave me a call yesterday and we arranged the time. I met both of them infront of market city. We had lunch together and talked.

2008-03-13T00:10:00.000+11:00

Personal

I met Raymond when I was walking from the campus post office (I noe him since primary 5 when I first studied in Singapore, man this is so coincidence). I noe he was coming here and I tried to contact him many times since the 9th so we can meet. Unfortunately I couldn't reach him coz apparently he's already departed since the 6th. Honestly, I have given up hope when he suddenly materialized before my eyes. Man we were both so stunned when we see each other.

I was : "what the f*** r u doing here??"
Ray : "My mom used to study here and she wanted come visit"

and so they came together the whole family, the father, the mother and his bro Dunken who used to be my bro classmate.

We had lunch in the campus together and I toured them around.

2008-03-12T00:21:00.000+11:00

Personal

Uni had finally started. The timetable is all over the place and it's pretty sux. Like, 1 tutorials, then 2 hours break then another 2 hour lecture followed up by more 2 or sometimes 3 hours break before the next class and it eventually end ups 8 O clock at night (some day). Haizz, fortunately I had some frens from Foundation studies last year who share some classes as me, if not it's even more difficult to make frens now coz everyone takes diff course and we have like 1 class together the whole week. Unless, of course, u join same clubs and society.

Anyway today is one of those day I fin at 8 pm, and it's a whole days full of 2 hours of lecture!!! Aaarrghhh!!!

I havn't purchase all the prescribed book yet coz they're so damn damn ex (1 book 100 Aus bucks), so ex that I feel like everything's a joke.

2008-03-10T01:12:00.001+11:00

Personal

Hmm it's been 10 days since coming back to Sydney and I had a hard time adjusting my body clock since day one. Though I should say I've gotten better, those earlier days were nothing but a pain in the ass. I couldn't sleep till like 4 or 5 am everytime and man I couldn't wake up till noon. Onthe night before orientation day I couldn't sleep at all, not becoz I'm so very excited (yeah right!!), I dun why but I was rolling on my bed tossing and turning, listening to music albums after albums for 5 hours. When it was around 6 I heard birds chirping outside and the light became brighter and brighter. In the end, I only slept from 6.30 to 7.30, a hour.

The orientation was ok, I felt pretty comfortable with my old familiar faces beside me, heck I would feel bored and sian alot if it's my first day alone like many in the cohort do. I didn't stay long though, the intro by some dean was typical and boring, it got better when the club and societies presented themselves with own made clips that are more hilarious. I left with my fren afterwards (man her shoes made so much noise xd so everyone's looking) and went to the Commonwealth bank inside the campus. I changed my streamline account to net saving plan so I can get a whooping 6% per anum interest.

And since my name had changed I went to many admin authority in the school to update my profile. Lol I did my new ID yesterday with the old name so I had do it again, man what luck.

With that important stuff finished me and the rest went to have lunch outside. I signed up a new mobile plan after that so I can get a new free phone so I can send it to my bro. His phone now is one of the suckiest looking model around and no kidding.

One of my fren just turned 18 so finally she is allowed to enter starcity. Everyone agreed to go there so to quence her heart's desire. We only stayed there 3 hours unlike last time and I won a hundred bucks (at least I won).

My semester finally started tmr and I just cant wait (I mean really, I'm tired of having nothing to do). I signed up the japanese class the other day and went there with a fren to scout the location, now I'm having a headache on how can I travelled from the uni to that place in such short span of time. I fin the lucture and 6 pm and the class started at 6.15, I need half an hour at least to get there. Haizzz...

H!P Pics

2008-02-28T03:22:00.002+11:00

Personal

A little update. Sahadchai now is in Bangkok, he's going back to Sydney tmr, the holiday had finally ended.

Sahadchai had been busy, he followed his mother to work, he knows all the shit his mother had to face everyday, Sahadchai learned quite alot.

Sahadchai bought 2 pair of shoes today.

2008-02-12T21:18:00.000+11:00

Personal

Sahadchai just came back from Bangkok. He went there 2 days ago to finish up legal documents (visa + changing the name stuff). On Sunday he and his cousins went to watch CHOCOLATE, a thai action movie starring a very very talented girl who could rally kick people ass with damn nice punch and flying kick much like Tony Ja.

Monday he went to Ministry of foreign affairs not far from his grandmother house. He went there early but had to wait 2 and a half hour to get the stamp approve for his new name that is translated to English.

Then he went to Australia embassy to send all the papers for making visa. It involved shit load of document and Sahadchai really hate preparing them himself (birth cert, passport, bank book, man what crap). Anyway when it's his turn he found out that the bank draft for the student visa fees (13950 bahts) was addressed wrongly. It's suppose to be addressed to "The Australia embassy, Bangkok" but and not "The Australia embassy, Thailand". So he cursed himself and went all the way to the bank (taxi) to cancel the draft and pay the embassy people in cash, he found it totally burdensome.

He had Italian dinner with his cousins and sister, the taste was awesome.

He came back this morning around 11 am, he almost missed the flight when he woke up late.

H!P/Momusu

My current line up ranking, Sayu takes no.1

2008-02-05T20:37:00.000+11:00

Personal

It's been 5 days since I came back. Various news report had informed of a very drastic turn of weather in south and central China that left around 100 millions people stranded at bus terminals, airport or railways and many dead. Then I was thinking how lucky I am to escape in time.

Anyway coming back I had done some stuffs. Now I had officially renamed Sahadchai Gajaseni when I went to change my ID card and passport.

I finally got ADSL yesterday, though it's only 1 meg (come on, my house's in village what u expect), at least I can download music and movies and dun have to wait for like half an hour for a 5 mb song.

Two of my dogs got some kind of skin disease or something, alot of their fur dropped off.

Went to Pattani the other day to the temple where we presented the famous buddha statue with food thanking for what we had asked for during the past year. As some of u may noe, Pattani is one of the 3 provinces of the troubled south. On the main highway from Hatyai to Pattani there are 3 road blocks where ur car had to zig zag through the obstruction thingy before ur car is checked by the army guy.

There were also a few army personals at the temple too. After we prayed finish my mom gave the food the army guys. We also did the same when we went to the other chinese temple 20 mins from there.

My mom went to Bangkok yesterday so I came here and slack at the office (I got the whole room for myself xd). The internet speed is much faster here (3 meg and wireless) so I can download more stuffs. Just now went to the local municiple office where I represent my mom in giving out the motorbike she had donated to the hatyai-volunteer-corps, basically the reserve voluteer army in case something happen. The povince governor was there along with Hatyai's mayor and more dignitaries.

I'm one of the 9 people who present the thing. The governor would stand at the pondum with 4 lines of officers infront, then they will call and each donor would step up and present the big key to the governor while the camera people took photos.

Very nervous, man I dun like alot of people looking at me -_-.

Later go see dentist.

The praying ancestor day's tmr and alot of family members' coming back. I'm glad my house will be noisy again.

Game Trailer

Final Fantasy Versus XIII Extended

It's been uped 1 or 2 months ago, if u havn't watch plz do, it's awesome.

2008-02-02T03:40:00.000+11:00

Shanghai's memoir

Day 30 (last day)

It's almost midnight and all the lights are off except the table lamp.

I came back from Shanghai on 30th which is 2 days ago. It was damn cold when I left and sure damn hot when I arrived. Since my flight was 8.45 am in the morning, I forced myself to wake up at 4.30 in the morning (also damn cold). The previous night I've booked the taxi schedule to arrive at 5.30 in the morning so, after making sure I had everything ready, I gave one last sweep look of my room for a month, said good bye silently and closed the door.

There's no one at the reception except the middle aged guy who were waiting for me. Apperently my belongings had increased somewhat due many shopping (both for myself and others) and I was fearing for the time ahead when I had to transfer stuffs.

So I got in the taxi and had some small talk with the cab guy. It ended after some times and I kind of observed Shanghai 5.45 am in the morning. It's expectly quiet with some cars. In the public buses though there're already alot of people. And even with little traffic, it still took me 50 minutes to get from my place to Pudong international airport. Hell it costed me 162 Yuan, enough cash to buy myself a now jacket.

Anyway the plane's uneventful except the sea of clouds outside when the aircraft had reached the peak. Pretty awesome view actually, like u're on a plane flying not that high from the sea, only that the sea are thick white cloud stretching for as long as ur eyes can reach.

Bangkok was hot (no, damn hot). It's quite a distant to walk from the plane to the immigration and my arms were damn tired. I had one laptop slinging from my right shoulder, a paper bag filled with some books, present and jacket on my right hand and another bag still full of what-shit on my left (so heavy). Honestly, a thought came acrossed my mind that I wouldn't be able to make it.

As usual the immigration were full with all kind of nationalities (I noticed a higher number of indians travellers today both at Pudong and Bangkok). Fortunately the queues for the thais weren't very long. However it took me like almost 40 mins for my bags.

My flight back to Hatyai was 5.25 pm so I had approximately 3 hours to rest. I went to my uncle place that's only 15 drive from the airport and had my lunch there. After a month of cheap chinese food and other crap, I finally realised how freaking lucky I'm to be born a thai.

I took the plane again and suffered the same fate carrying all the pile of shit. This time it's even worse coz the strict limited for thai airasia is only 15 kg. What I had was like almost 30 so I had to carry the extra bag and even so, the excess weight of the big lugguage is still 8 kg. I had to pay 800 bahts.

My mom picked me up today at the airport (that's rare, never happen for a few years now).

SO this trip had finally come to an end. Honestly I wouldn't call it easy, getting used to new place, trying to talk chinese (something I'm not keen and been practising to) to survive and all that shit. I have always thought that China will be a place full of unfriendly people trying to cheat ur ass off. Though it's true that alot of them had bad attitudes (shop keepers and stuffs, pushing, never say sorry, spitting like free, smoking like no one business), some people aren't that rude. There're numerous times that I got lost and I asked them for direction, at first I expected them to ignore me but some really gave me the help.

And it's damn beautiful in Shanghai. When u felt bored and come to city center at night the lights are like WHOA!!! very pretty xd.

After the trip I feel stronger with my adaptation skill. As it is totally self arranged and researched (places to sleep, tuition places, going from places to places), somewhere deep down inside I felt I'm not that scared of new places anymore, like I can go live in new country, take on the wolrd (after all, my exp is rather substancial, I left for Singapore since I was 12). And going abt alone eating and stuff, though it felt really really and I mean REALLY sux at first, at the end, though I still dun like it, I found myself able to eat alone. Walking down the streets for hours, watching people go abt their business also can sometimes be interesting.

PS. U noe the best place where u can read ur books? It's airport and airplane. I started reading Murakami's Norwegian Wood at 7.30 in the morning while waiting to board, then abt another 4 hours plus 50000 feets above the air (shit man I didn't noe time fly so fast) and again from Bangkok to Hatyai. I love this book xd. It's kinda slow, like reading diary and quite amusing, still 50 pages to go though. Thx chairman for recommending.

PSS. I'll post abt the other Beijing day trip later.

PSSS. There's something wrong with the tag board coz I cant see it, u too?

2008-01-29T02:26:00.000+11:00

China's memoir (Beijing)

day 20

Ah Beijing, the capital of China, I would never have dreamt of coming here by train.

Anyway, it appears that here's much colder then my last stop. So far my endurance had put up pretty well, but here man was some cold shit, I was shaking my pants.

Casper father's fren came to pick us up. Dunno whether it's luck or not, we were shafted into the other small teenage tour group who were none other then Cas's former fren and her crew. The diff is that the other group stayed in some 2.5 star lodging while we were transported to 4 (or 5) star hotel. I felt a little bit uneasy of course, I didn't pay a single shit, now I owed his dad something (I didn't say it, but I promised myself he or his son get that favor in return one way or another).

Lol finally some kick ass toilet (I'm sick of public bath). There's naughty channel and u have to pay for it, apparently they're from the States and they looked like a couple decades back (They really dun the japs lol)

First we went to Summer palace, that's right, THE Summer Palace where the late Dowager Cixi got the cash and, instead of modernised the ragtag backward chinese imperial army, she decided to lavish them on building the palace.

But the coolest thing so far since comeing to China was here, the lake inside the palace, IT FROZE.

I'm gonna spare a great deal of detail here and let u see the pics themselves (when I upload them that is), just let u noe we walked around the place for 3 hours (frozen lake included), climbed some temple and other stuffs.

We had lunch in a reastaurant, the food was not bad but the service sux.

Next we went to Tiantang, a place date back a thousand year plus (if I'm not wrong) where the emperors held ceremony for good harvest. Pretty interesting, it would be much better if it wasn't this cold.

We seperated with the group after Tiantang, they were going to shop and Casper wanted to take me to eat Peking duck. Took as almost an hour to reach the place. We took a taxi but shit they dun even noe the place is, in the end he dropped us somewhere "close" and we had to walk a few km (after much direction asking).

The restaurant was damn big and there were expensive looking cars everywhere. My dread finally realised when we were told to wait an hour for the seat. Cas was like "F*** it man, let's go" I couldn't agree more.

We went to the shopping street much like Nanjing road in Shanghai. Everything looked ex so we just window shopping around. Eventually we came across a foreign language bookstore. To my wildest surprise they sell Star Wars here. Honestly I just only recently became addicted to the series after reading the one I bought. It's very amusing to be sure, come all the away across the ocean and here I am, right in the capital of China holding 3 Star Wars books on my hand.

I'm glad I came here.

We had dinner in another restaurant nearby. I had Peking duck (probably not as authentic as the real one but what the heck), it tasted good.

Shanghai's memoir

Day 27

OMG It's snowing when I woke up. My teacher said it doen't snow here often so I guess I'm very fortunate.

William's going back around noon so I'm alone again. I went out after lunch to buy some books for my bro, and some fake dvds for myself (5 Yuan per disc, man that's 4 times cheaper then in Thailand). I also bought some expensive tea for my guardian in Sydney and the former in Singapore.

Everwhere's wet coz the snow, it sux.

Day 28

It hailed when I went out this morning. Just before I reached the tuition place I fell down coz the steps are too damn slippery, what luck.

It snowed even heavier afterward and hence wetter/dirtier streets, I began to hate them now (MY SHOE MAN MY SHOE!!!).

Afew more shopping for some people. cash running low, going home in 2 days (cant wait).

TAG

tsp to Chairman : Well, the chinese mainland man they said

tsp to Z : Yeah, nice or not?

2008-01-27T05:04:00.000+11:00

China's memoir (Wuhan)

Day 19

Everywhere's white in the morning, literally white, the street, the tree, the houses hell even the cars. The snow was almost a shoe thick if u actually tried to press ur feet into it. Casper took me to have the breakfast outside (noodle), he was thinking it'll be nice to have what locals always eat in the morning. Unfornately most of them noodles are beef noodle. So we walked abit more and had pork liver noodle instead. Lol I'm actually not that fond of liver but to make things less complicated, I decided to appear like I was enjoying it. The meal was cheap, 10 yuan for 2 persons (2 Sing dollar)

His parents were already waiting in the car when we got back. His dad took me to Wuchang where the Donghu aka east lake resides. Of course those who have been to Hangzhou (heaven on earth so the chinese says) would have seen the beautiful Westlake (Xihu). This is the East lake, and it's in Wuhan.

He just drove around coz it's very cold outside. The lake is nice to look at, I opened the window abit to let the wind in (freezing). On my left was the lake and my right was some small hill full of trees, the snow on them, the whole hill, awesome.

After that we went the electronic stores. I bought a small ipod speaker (500 Y) that cost around 100 Sing bucks. We had lunch in Hankou, 25 mins drive from Wuchang. Alot of dumplings xd. I bought a sweater, after heavy persuasion from Casper's mother telling me that the weather will get worse, from the nearby shopping center.

We came back and packed our stuff. We were to leave Wuhan tonight and took the train to Beijing. We had dinner and went for a shower in the public bath (again) before arriving at the train station at 8 pm. Casper bumped into his primary/junior school pal and her friends. We paid extra 10 yuan each to get into Vip waiting room had the privilege to enter the train earlier.

The train was dark when we got in, apparently they didn't/or dun want to on the light. Anyway each compartment of train holds 6 bed, 3 on the left and 3 on the right, the bottom floor, middle and top one. The bed itself is just enough for the length of body so I wouldn't say u are very comfortable with that.

The train left at 9.15 and the light finally came.

To make it as vivid as possible with my crappy description, when u get in the train, on ur right is the small walkway for u to move from one end to the other, on the left is the sleeping compartment and there's no door so everyone can see so no privacy. Anyway on the right of the already small walkway there're a rectangular table and 2 chair which from the wall. We sat there and chatted till 10 plus till everyone slept and we climbed up to rest. Mine's middle and his's on top.

I read Star Wars till they off the light again, music in my ear.

Shanghai's memoir

Day 26

I had lesson as normal. Ate chicken rice for lunch and came back to my hostel after getting my supplies from the shopping mall. William, my Hangzhou fren arrived in Shanghai around noon to visit his shanghai relatives. In the evening he called and said his uncle and the family were having dinner and asked me if I wanted to join them.

It's a good opportunity so I didn't refuse, moreover, it'll nice to have some good food once in a while. I took train line 4 to Pudong Ave station (10 stops) and got off at exit no.1 as told by William. Again I was too early and 15 mins past when William and his granddad showed up.

Dinner's very good but abit slow. Ate till 8 when we're done, his uncle took then us around for sightseeing.

TAG

Tsp to Jim : Yeah and take a pic to let u all see?? Hmm not that sure, probably just abit below zero.

2008-01-25T00:50:00.000+11:00

China's memoir

Day 18 (Wuhan Day 1)

I woke up very early today, of course, although the flight is 1 pm, I must be at the airport 2 hours before time that's the rule (play safe rule that is). And since it's my first time taking bus to the airport (i surveyed its location 2 days before, took me 30 mins of getting lost/asking around) I spared even more time in case of traffic jam.

Anyway I arrived at the bus stop at 0745 and the bus left at 0800. It took 1 hour and forty minutes to reach Pudong international airport after picking up more people from 5 different stops across shanghai.

I slept during the whole trip.

So yep, I checked in at 10 and found myself 3 hours free. I just walked around the place (the security is pretty tight for domestic flight). Eventually I sat down and read Star Wars The New Jedi order : Edge of Victory II that I bought in Singapore with Chairman and MFT (while the rest were busy playing pool).

Time flew and before I noe it, it's time to get in. My Wuhan friend Casper sms me just before I boarded the Boeing 737-300 : IT WILL SNOW.

Perhaps some of u might not noe that through 19 years of my life I have never seen/touch/taste real snow before. Naturally that news really put me on a positive edge.

The flight was thankfully uneventful. 5 mins before it landed I got the chance of my life, peering down from the window, for the first time to see the whole city blanketed in white caps, the fields, the houses, some parts of road, I found it extremely exhilaratiog. The good news was I was not the lone soul feeling it, apparently the chinese passengers at large were gibbering excitedly too "XIA XUE AH XIA XUE".

My moment finally arrived when I climbed down the ladder.

"I felt the chilling wind, but apart from it, I felt something new, something light as feather. It's refreshingly cold and man so soft like fine white sand. As I felt them softly beating my face I sticked out my tongue, but tried as I might I couldn't catch them" Of course the tongue sticking out part was very brief, not even one second as there's people around wanting to get into the bus.

I walked out the exit and found Casper waving at me, he seemed to put on weight since I last saw him (due to heavy influence from his gf across the ocean). We made our way in the the 4 wheel drive Land Crusier parking outside.

I've never felt this happy since the beginning of this year.

Casper's house entrance though was not very sightly but his house (top floor of the building) was beautifully furnished. Not long after I put my bag I requested going to the open balcony second floor to feel the thick layer of snow. I stepped on it, felt my feet sinked in abit and walked around. I made a ball out of it, realising it'll hurt if u actually flung it on someone face, but no, I threw it down to the street below instead. Lastly was the taste ; it was bad.

After an hour or so his mom came back, and we exchange some pleasantaries. She cooked me a pretty extravagant dinner ; frogleg, some damn nice soup, fried chicken and some Wuhan local vegetable dish.

Since cas house's using solar power to operate hot water/the elctrical appliance for making hot water also down, we went out to shower. Now here's an interesting part, the chinese, apparently they shower in public bath.

I was shocked at first when I saw some dicks, not becoz they're very gross (I mean they are, to a very extensive certain extent), I was panicking that I have to show my dick too. Anyway we stripped (man it sounds weird) and put our clothing into the locker. Fortunately there were cubicles (though no door) for each to shower. What a nice exp

It snowed pretty heavily at night and it was damn damn damn cold (and I had 2 blanket on top). I didn't sleep that well.

TAG

tsp to Mark : Cant find anywhere in here xd

tsp to Jim : There u go, comment on it man.

tsp to Yane : Now how affectionate, I'm Sahadchai already u noe. Good luck with whatever u do man.

2008-01-15T01:07:00.000+11:00

Shanghai's memoir

Day 14

The sky was clear when I woke up and up above there's barely any clouds. So, happily, I assumed that it's going to be warmer today. Alas when I stepped out of my temperature controlled room it hit me hard that looks, even the heaven above, can be deceiving.

Not only it's not warmer, it's by far the shit coldest day since I have arrived here (and no kidding). I mean, it's even colder then the cloudy drizzling yesterday. I have never wear scarf since I came here and when I finally wore it, I still feel that yesterday's warmer.

Anyway starting from today till Wednesday I'm having a full day class, meaning a nice "relaxed and highly enjoyable" 6 hours of chinese lessons, something I "extremely" look forward to. Yep, it would be unthinkable and certainly unbearable 2-3 years ago, the whole class will complain like xxxx. However, the main difference is that it's wholly my own doing . The reason for these unwelcomed marathon (thank the lord it's only 3 days) stems from the fact that I will be going to Wuhan (the CCP Base after 1925 White Terror in Shanghai) to visit a friend as promised last year. I already got the ticket last week, 700 Yuan two way ticket, that's cheap (China Eastern airline in which 80% of minor shareholders rejected SIA from buying 29% of it's shares last week).

I'll be there from Friday to Tuesday so yep, 3 days worth of lessons are going to be crammed today, Tuesday and tmr.

It's reported that Wuhan is enveloped in heavy snow. So since I have never seen/touch real snow before I'll be looking forward to it.

Tag

Tsp to Chairman : Lol it's a guy!!?? (Paiseh) Anyway thx for the advice man, I thought u were in a coffee shop u noe, the background was pretty noisy xd.

2008-01-14T00:55:00.000+11:00

Shanghai's memoir

Day 13

Yet another cold and cloudy morning. So lazy out of bed, dun feel like moving anywhere. The people next door was making alot of noises opening and banging their door like nobody's business.

No breakfast this morning (almost noon anyway) coz the bread supply has run out. Went out around 1 plus. Had some Ramen in the shopping center 2 train stop away. Slowly, maybe I'm getting used to sitting alone eating (still strongly prefer some company).

Had a thought of visiting the museum, but the time I got off the train at Nanjing rd East station, it began to drizzle. Oh what the hell. So I walked along Fuzhou road that I missed the other day before. It's called the cultural street, well maybe becoz if has diff kind of shops from diff countries that's all. Anyway it's a grey world today but the pedestrian's still full of people albeit the damp and cold. Everyone's complaining how bloody cold it is today, however, after my encounter with yesterday's wind by the Huangpu river, I think this's chicken's feet.

I walked past a medium sized music store. Something's going on inside coz people are crowding at the closed entrance outside and 3 rather tall middle aged important looking guards were on station. I edged closer inside the crowd and heard someone said Cai Yi Ling. Of course, although I dun really listened much of her music, Jolin Tsai's a big star. I tried a closer look but sill, I cant see the face, not sure whether Jolin or not, her back looked pretty.

Yep so I continued my walk down the road. Actually I was looking for Shanghia's Book City which supposed to be very book and had all kinds of books, foreign and the like. It's big alright xd. Shanghai's book city boasted sweeping 7 floors that divided into history, litreture, computer, social science etc section. And since they're all in chinese I went straight to 6th floor that sells music and entertainment.

Looking at the price of each cd I'm shocked to see how cheap they are. The regular music cd cost around 30-35 Yuan (so around 6-8 bucks sing), half the price in Thailand. I assumed it's real coz u always real stuffs inside every decent bookshop-cum-music stores. The real dvds meanwhile cost abt the same price, the case's first class decent man everything's worth buying.

I just looked around and went up the second floor that had art and foreign books section. The classics like Phatom of Opera/sherlockholms/great expectation stuff cost only 20 Yuan (man that's 4 sing dollar!!!). I saw the unabridged version of the Iliad by Homer and was tempted to buy. However when I flipped through and realised that everything's in original poem shimp format, lol I put it down.

I got myself Helen Keller's diary and Phantom of Opera for that. The more recent book like stephen king etc are 65 while the newest like Murakami stuffs cost 125 Yuan. I heard Murakami's good (my fren in Sydney and Chairman read it and both say nice. Also I once read "After the quake" and I say her style's interesting).

Torn between Norwegian wood and South of the border and west of the sun, I gave Our very own Chairman a call for his expertise. According to Chairman, both books are good, but if I have more time he said, Norwegian wood seemed a more preferable start. He chuckled when I told him I'm in the bookstore. And yes, when I compare the thickness and the size of letter fonts, my mind was made up.

I went downstair again and bought Fort Minor (Mike Shinoda from LP)'s Rising Tide, Vitas disco (actually it's a french disco compil) and BBC Hiroshima the documentary.

It's still drizzling when came out so, before the sky fall, I headed back. I went to that "Mali" shopping center again and bought my supply of bread/dinner and some snack (in case I'm hungry).

Maybe, just maybe, it'll snow tmr.

2008-01-13T02:53:00.001+11:00

Shanghai's memoir

Day 11

Raining, washed clothes/ironing shirt.

Day 12

Morning mood when wake up : Damn!!! it's cloudy like xxxx again.

Upon opening the window and let the wind rushed in : OMG!!! IT'S FREEZING OUT TOO!!

So I sat down, still in my pajamas, and contemplated "Man it's getting colder and colder, should I go out?? It's Saturday"

Anyway I took a shower, had the same old breakfast and before I knew it, the breakfast had become lunch (lol). I went outside to check on the weather ; bad but still bearable, overcasted sky and dunno when it'll rain. I came back and slacked till almost 2 before making up my mind to go out (time is precious). I looked at the map and decided on the venue ; THE PEOPLE'S SQUARE.

Located in the heart of Shanghai, peole's square's some 140000 sq.m, it's the largest public square in Shanghai and had been renovated several times. At the northern end of square is Municipal City Hall, next to it is Shanghai Urban planning exhibition hall, southern end is Shanghai Museum and Shanghai Grand theatre is at the northeastern side.

Well, after getting off the train (and not knowing where to begin) I went straight inside what I thought was the people's square. It IS the people's square but it's a smaller area behind the Municipal City Hall (part of the whole thing but diff section). I just simply walked around and came across an art exhibit. Costed me 20 Yuan for admission.

Here's the pic (later then uploaded)

Looks like I wasted alot of time there coz by the time I found (took me half an hour of walking/spotting, man the square's HUGE!!!) the museum, it was closed. Actually it closed at 5 but the latest time for admission is 4, I reached there at 4.10, they just wouldn't let me in -_-. So what I planned was to walk around there sightseeing and made my way (some 3 MRT train stops) to the Bund, Shanghai's most beatiful (at night) scenic spot at the Huangpu river. Yes the one u confirm went there before if u've been to Shanghai.

However on my way I came across a public marching protest consisting around a couple hundreds people chanting "Go against the gov" slogan and the other sentence that I dun get what it meant (U always see this on TV but not real life xd). Pretty interesting sight yeah, I walked in opposite direction and it's a long line of people (some of them smiling -0-??). Not long after the last guy passed me 2 vans full of police came. I quickly climbed the nearest bridge to see the drama unfolded (lol it's getting very exciting, first hand exp seeing communism in action). Alas that was not to be, the throngs of people were too far and the building blocked the view. What I saw was the one of the van stopped and some 10 police came out. The leader asked 1 of the bystander where the protesters were and the guy pointed in that direction. The polices went inside the van again and off they went.

Anyway come back to my sightseeing I thought the Bund's near but it's not (I should have brought my map along). By the time I reached it's 5 plus and wind's VERY VERY XXX. Not so beautiful today, water looks somewhat polluted and the sky's so murky cloudy. I took the tunnel and went to the other side, colourful tunnel yes.

I didn't climb the Orient Pearl TV tower coz it's 280 Yuan to get in (way too ex), besides, I've been there before. Had cheap spicy noodle (8 Yuan) for dinner at one of the inexpensive looking 5-6 food stalls across the Pearl Tower near the Super grand Mall. Didn't went inside the mall though, it began to rain quite abit so I quickly went back. Reached home at 7 plus. I walked alot today.

PS Should have followed the police vans

TAG

Tsp to Suresh and Jim: Nah, I can go to the dashboard and post my stuff but I cant go to morningdocq-or-whoever.blogspot.com to see. Yeah I'll upload some pics when I have the mood man, upload speed's slow here.

Tsp to Mark : lol how I wish I can do that xd.

Tsp to Jim : Ma Ying-Jeou's KMT won the parliamentary election, who did u vote on?

2008-01-13T02:53:00.000+11:00

2008-01-10T00:19:00.000+11:00

Shanghai's memoir

day 9

Right so, I reached school early today (so Yeah ^_^!!). Make no mistake though, being the best student in class (there's only: me duh) I always arrive just in time (late only once, and for good reason). Anyway today's whooping 6 hours of my fav subject chinese right from 9 to 12 and 1 to 4. Reason? Coz the school's busy tmr so they asked me if I can alter the schedule. I didn't refuse of course (how could I), it also means that tmr I'll a free day Yay!! (maybe I should go people square and huaihai rd?).

Pretty tiring really and today's so cold too. These 2 days thick fog envelope the city and the sun can hardly be seen (much less its warmth). Lol and I went to buy chinese electronic dictionary yesterday for 600 Y (3000 bahts/ S$120). It's one of the cheapest there (most ex is 2000 Y) and I say the functions damn good, alot more convenient now when I write essay.

Will sleep in tmr.

Tag

Tsp to Jim : Cost of living? hmm normal food here range from 10 to 30 Yuan (for the simple inexpensive dish). so I say one day u'll probably need 60 Y (S$12) for that. And normal common people salary in shanghai is around 2500 Y. But house here quite ex though.

2008-01-07T22:39:00.000+11:00

Shanghai's memoir

Day 7

Right, looks like I survived the first week in Shanghai. Honestly I feel this has been the most momentous week for a start of any year. So far I can adapt to every aspect of this new temporary lifestyle, people, language (though few breakdown/hand gesture here and there) everything except loneliness. I mean wtf man, u noe how sux it is to eat alone every meal? KFC, restaurant anywhere. No friends coz my class consist of me and the teacher. Feeling shitty everytime when I sat alone and had my meals. Haizz...

Anyway I went to Nanjing lu (much like Orchard rd) in the afternoon around 5 plus. It's a paved 2-3 km stretch of pedestrial road with high class restaurant and small malls on both side. A beauty when the sun went down really. I didn't buy anything coz they're all expensive, just a slow walk from one end to the other window shopping. A few beggars here and there (I met 2) and some people will come and ask if u want rolex watch.

Had Ajisen ramen for dinner, it tasted good.

PS. I took lots of photoes but I just cant upload them, it's either the wireless problem or they blocked me -_-. SIANZ!!!

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tsp to Wu-san : Wow that's a long trip, where did u go?

tsp to Z : What's SHH Tunnel?

tsp to Jim : I'll be here till the end of the month man so approximately 3 more weeks. By then I'll a pro Shanghai traveller liao. I can give u a tour u noe, at discount price xd. Nah, not that super thrilling really, I can use some company.

2008-01-05T23:41:00.000+11:00

Shanghai's memoir

day 5

It's Saturday so I woke up at 10.30. And by the time I got up it's 11 plus (so cold u noe, dun feel like getting out of bad). One of the advantage of waking up late is that u skip breakfast. These few days I finally realized how ma fan it is about looking for food. I mean, everyday of my life someone always cook for me or I noe when I'm going out for dinner. Now, here, alone in Shanghai, I must always be thinking, what to eat, where to eat, buying food for breakfast. Sometimes I felt lazy going out and ended up starving, pretty stupid but true.

Anyway my lunch was very simple, it's the sesame bun that I bought in the supermarket yesterday. Shower in the morning and night are still a trying experience which I might take a long time to get used to. The temperature's generally getting warmer today, around 5-6 degree, but it's still cold for me.

I left my house for Xujiahui station somewhere in Shanghai city center. Last night I looked at the "Practical tourist guide to Shanghai" book for today's destination. It's a big commercial areas consisted of 5-6 big shopping mall. Took me an hour to get there and loads of people got off here and I just followed the crowd.

I spent around the area for 2 hours plus walking here and there. Alot of IT stuffs are sold here, several floors of each buildings totally devoted to computers, handphone, psp, Ipod, home entertainment like Simlim Square in Singapore but 3 times more varieties and activities. I think this area is where people buy cheap IT product.

Walked until damn tired so I boarded the train again for Hengshan rd just a stop away. A totally quiet place unlike xujiahui. In the guide book it says this place's full of youngsters, bars and restaurant. There're alot of bars and restaurant alright but people were so few. So I explored the road for abt 1 km or so then walked back. The road was not big and on either sides are dotted with high class restaurant or expensive looking residence. I intended to eat something good today so I went inside "Grand piano" restaurant. A very stylish looking place that eminated cozy feeling. Maybe I too early or wat (5.15 pm) coz the restaurant's totally empty. When I went in the owner straight away talked to me in Japanese (do I look like one?). I replied in chinese and ordered peporicio and iced coffee. It costed 80 yuan. The food's good alhough I waited for a considerable time. I had bolouise (spelling?) for desert. Total it costed 105 Y (around 20 sing dollar). An enjoyable meal I can afford probably once a week.

I reached my place at 7. Another tiring day, Walking and eating on my own's pretty lonely -_-.

PS. I cant excess by own blog but I can see the tagboard from Cbox.ws website so feel free to leave comment.

TAG

tsp to Z : Happy new year to u Z. Damn the chinese gov banned so many shit.

tsp to Jim : Yeah right, I'm alone in this city, Happy New year btw, I cant go xanga either.

tsp to Joanne : I'm a big boy so I'll be alright. Happy new Year to u too. When u go back Sydney?

tsp to Mark : I break their rules and they'll break my neck man xd

tsp to CZY : Happy new year hoho.

2008-01-03T22:00:00.000+11:00

Shanghai's memoir

day 3

Went to Sun Yat Sen's Shanghai residence after class. Took the train damn long. Swapped from line 3 to line 2 then to line 1 at 3 diff places, lucky I have map. After got out dun noe the exact location so had to ask around. The entrance ticket is 30 Y. Inside's pretty cool. Old relics of Sun, he had alot of ideas for independent China and he wrote lots and lots of book. There's 3 floor together, very classic.

After that finished around 3.30 plus. The original plan was to go to Comrade Zhou En Lai former residence. However the entrance closed at 4 and I still wasn't certain of the exact location. By the time I probably got there it might have closed. So I walked around Shanxi road, which boasted alot of big shopping centers. The stretch of road kind of resemble Orchard road in Singapore, only it's way colder and not we long. Well, I wouldn't call it very exciting walking around alone (would u?). Nevertheless, the glimpse of modern shanghai's pretty refreshing. Boutique brand name shops everywhere and this's not even center of Shanghai yet.

It got colder and colder as evening drew on, I rested awhile at the park at the last stretch of shopping mall. Probably 15 minutes there I guess, to put down my moaning legs. I decided to go home around 5 plus and reached zhong shan gong yuan station (2 stop my from hostel). By that time it was already pitch dark. I walked out from the subway and for the first time, I realized how beautiful this district is. Some new year decorations are still on and the flashy light of those many tall buildings, just amazing.

My stomach was growling so I went inside in one of the mall for my meal. I wanted to have KFC today but alas there's so many people queing up. I walked around the place quite abit before deciding on a cheap alternative (today spent alot on transportations and entrace fee already) found inside the supermarket. That's right, I had fried Kwuay Tiao in one of the booth. The price was only 4.5 Yuan (S$0.9) which I thought was astonishingly cheap, I mean man it's even cheaper then in Thailand. The taste was cheap too, I dun like it.

I went home after that, damn there's so many people in the train pushing and pulling, a bad experience.

2008-01-03T01:10:00.000+11:00

Shanghai's memoir

Day 2

Well, to guard against unseen tragedy I set my alarm early at 6 am. It was too early for me and by the time I actually got up it was almost 7. I was thinking of a shower but it seemed that it will be nothing short of suicide if I chose to do so. Instead I just brushed my teeth, washed my face with my facial soap thrice, cleaned my ass and quickly ran back and forth once in the shower before ultra lighting speed fast wrapped myself with towel again.

I didn't have breakfast coz I dun feel like eating. Actually that was not the whole reason, I was too preoccupied thinking how the hell to get to the tuition place. I went down to the reception and asked the girl, showing my slip of paper. "Zhe ge Wanhangdu Lu shi hen jin zhe bian de, ke shi zhe ge haoma (2088) bu zhi dao zai nar li. Ni wen Taxi bah". Well, it was already 8 and so I supposed I shouldn't be wasting anymore time.

The moment I opened the door the gust of wind structed and it hell chilled me down to my very bone. "The Shanghai morning breeze", I was thinking "cold like xxxx". Before long I was cursing relentlessly to myself why I didn't bring a thicker jacket from Thailand. So where I should start my search? I walked slowly, still putting my hands in my pocket while making small steam from my mouth (never tired of it), along the now already noisy street filled with constant honks. Upon reaching the main road I hailed a cab. I got and gave him that slip of paper. Again he said he know the road but he didn't noe the number. He then ask me "kao jing nar li". I was like HTF do I noe, I'm a noob in this city. The partake eventually ended with "dui bu shi and bu hao yi si" and I left the cab.

Alright, fine, that's not the end of the world. I waited for awhile more and hailed other cab. This time he seemed to noe the direction. However, he asked me to cross the road opposite and hail there instead. To put the long story short, I finally got out in front of Wanhangdu rd no. 2088.

The place doesn't look like a commercial building I expected. In fact,they looked very much like high rise condominium. That's right, like the one u saw outside Bezzy's unit.

Ilooked at my slip paper again, everything's appeared correct. So hell I went inside and asked the guard for direction. Sure enough, he pointed at the second building on my right. Still feeling abit apprehensive I reached the door and pressed the number. The person on the other side was a lady. I introduced myself and I found out that she was none other than Joyce Zhang, the person who I had been sending and answering email with for the past month. "Thank god the place's correct".

I went on 3rd floor into her unit. Contrary to outside, her unit was everything like a tuition place. There's reception, 1 small room full of computers, 2 spacious room that could fill 6-7 students, a very damn nice looking toilet (as big as my hostel unit) and a small kitchen. I went inside in one of the room and she switched on the heater. She told me it was -2 degree celcius today and I went OMG (inside my head). We discussed the plan of study and I asked her many questions. The teacher, Susy came at 9.05. She is an elderly lady age around late fifties and after much talking, I found out that she used to teach in both Chinese and American University throughout her life, she appeared to be very experienced in teaching foreigner. I did the reading and comprehension test, and even an essay writing (fxxx!!!).

We finished class at 12.20pm

Since I still didn't have a clue abt places around, Susy was very kind to take me around. She brought me to the sky train station, telling me names of stations and whatnot. Then she took me to the big shopping center next to the station. It has 8 floors and 2 basements, this mall is pretty big. We went to the bookstore and I bought Shanghai map, a dictionary and a shanghai tourist book. After that she left and I walked around abit.

I had japanese ramen for lunch (15 yuan) and went home around 3 plus.

I bought bread for dinner and breakfast.

PS. I called Casper my Wuhan fren. It's even colder overthere, the groundwater froze xd.

PSS. Still cannot access my blog and others.

2008-01-02T15:48:00.000+11:00

Shanghai's memoir

Day 1

The flight's 10.55 am and my bro to Singapore is 8.40 am. Since it's more logical, judging from the time proximity, to make only 1 trip so it was decided the day before that I should wake up, like my bro and cousin, at 5.30 and leave the house in Bangkok at 6.30. And so I did, waking up barely 5 hours after my first countdown in capital of Thailand.

My bro and cousin went in at 8 am so I was left alone till 9 plus when the check in gate open. Although I'm sufficed to say that I have been travelling alone for quite sometimes, what I was feeling now was a funny mixture of fear, expectation and excitement. See, it's my first trip alone to totally new place so complete and there's no one to save my ass but myself if I run into trouble. Nobody arranged anything, I didn't get help from anyone or advice when I contacted the school or book the hostel. Everything's done manually through email and websites.

So as I waited in the plane miles away above the ground I checked an double my important documents and money over and over to console myself that everything's gonna be fine.

Cold, no, freezing was the word when I walked outside at Pudong International Airport. Immigration was not a problem and my lugguages were untouched. I hailed a cab asking him to take me to my hostel. He didn't know the exact place and I explained to him in my oh-so-noob chinese the proper direction. I knew it's far away from the airport (way across the Huangpu River) but I didn't expect it to be so far as 196 yuan. Eventually we arrived at the Bailan Lu and I got in the Le Tour Shanghai Youth Hostel. It was homely alright yes, much too homely infact. Well what do u expect? it's 135 yuan a night converting to roughly 700 baths or 30 Singapore bucks a day. There's no lift, no facilities and the room consist nothing but a bed and a table, not even a cupboard to put my clothes. The toilets, thank god it's clean, are shared among the people and they're rather tiny.

I was pretty tired and too damn cold outside (-1) so I just had instant noodle for dinner. It tasted good. After unpacking I went out to buy phonecard in a nearby building, my chinese was nothing great but I was able to put across the message that I wanted to convey. So I got it, 70 yuan CCMC sim card with 50 Yuan worth of calling inside. Man since everything's in chinese I was having a rather xxxxing time understanding how to activate it. It was after 45 mins then I was able to call back Thailand.

The rest of the time was used to make my room liveable before I slept at a staggering early 10.30.

PS.Looks like the Chinese government has banned blogspot in Shanghai coz I cant open my site (others as well) down here so I cant reply any tags lol.

PSS. Internet in this hostel's painfully slow -_-