29 May 2008

Bus 51

I am blogging on bus 51. This is a long detour bus which I've boarded from Jurong back to Hougang. I know that this is going to be a long journey back home, but it does give me a rare opportunity to bring myself back to my dover school dayz. That's 7years ago, to be exact. Wooh..

Used to take this bus in the west. Although t's a long ride, I love to listen to CD on board. I love to see the surrounding moved back after me. This ride will remind me of ....

Hang on, I just by-passes Shibuya-Makuhari! Erm.. I used to approach the school for a friendly game with my school. Been there a couple of times, a couple of minutes on the football court even mesmerised some of the japanese students!

Now, I am cruising past the desserted Singapore Science Part. Look more like a jungle to me; greens everywhere and only once in awhile I'll get to see some huge houses. Those huge houses are also part of my memory in this bus. How people can get that rich to stay in those unbelieveable huge hollow walls!

Yap! I have not finished that sentence above.. "This ride reminds me of.." Hairon, Din and Azmi! Din, Azmi and I used to hang around at Hairon's place after school. We would watch VCD, had our meals at Ginza (demolished) and most importantly talked alot of crap! We enjoyed our times together. Exam times, we would meet up at Ginza Mac (to study) everyday before we proceeded to school! Lost touch now.. hope that everyone is fine..

MP3 battery flat.. changing to cell phone's FM receiver...

Don't know where is my location now but it's kind of relax mood. Ever since my client service job commenced, it's been a roller-coaster ride all the while, non-stop. Sometimes, I can't blame myself when I compared my current duty with Kuali's dayz. Dayz in Kuali has been too fortunate. When I really think about it, this current job of mine is really much more challenging than before. Truthfully say, I don't know how long I can last. If I really leave this line, what can I do?

My bus has reached commonwealth area. Still got a long way to go ya..

20 May 2008

Amatuer Dream Team

Ask yourself, if you've got Stephen Ng (90s Singapore GK) at the goal, Steven Tan (90s Singapore Super-Sub) and Lee ManHon (90s Singapore Wonder-kid) at the midfield, Samawira Basri (90s Singapore striker) and Ang BangHeng (current Balestier GK) as strikers, wouldn't it be a perfect dream team in amateur weekend kick-about?



Tell me about it. I was playing in the team last evening with all these great players!

Stephen passed me the ball, I turned and passed it to Steven Tan. He dribbled past an opponent with pace, laid it to Manhon. With his wicked leftie, curved the ball to the path of running Samawira. Wira held his breath, beat the GK and scored. JUST SO EASY...




I've lost count of the goals we had scored. It's 8-1 or 9-1 I supposed. I didn't have the luxury of playing the entire full game but I did have a couple of assists in the first few goals.

I enjoyed playing a full pitch football. What made it more interesting are the players who are sharing their style and experiences on the pitch with you! At one point, Steven Tan was telling me where to run after a certain pass. Wooh.. I thought that was cool.

Maybe I should join Team Akashi more often to enjoy the kind of football which I've been craving for, the kind of football which I've been missing out for quite awhile.

17 May 2008

SiChuan Earthquake

The earthquake in China has been giving me lots of things to ponder. Especially the way of how I am leading my current life; so much fortunate. We, in general, are so much blessed to be away from all natural disasters but yet we're not satisfied with life, not satisfied with the way in how things are coming at us! I guess that's the nature of humanity, never satisfying.

The news reported that a mother was found dead with her few months old baby. A mobile was found (with the mother). A text read how much the mother loved the baby was typed out on the mobile. After hearing that, I am sooooo.... touched. Gosh.. Why are these disasters happening!

SiChuan earthquake and Mynmar cyclone happened very close to each other. Apparently, from what I've noticed, I personally feel that China is reacting very well with the rescue and reconstructing work but as a still-developing country, Mynmar, has been rejecting sincere assistance from neighbouring countries. If I'm going to judge the current news affair purely with the information reported by the News, I'd say that the effort being put in to convince their own people, as much as I'd like to say The Whole World, China is the best. Look at the way how China's soldiers were sweating, how they were moving those falling walls, how they were singing Birthday song to a young survivor who happened to be rescued on her Birthday and etc.

Time for me to reflect on my life. Maybe I should stop working! Maybe I should really find a place in Pulau Ubin, build a simple (at least mosquito-free) house and everyday just do cycling, farming and enjoy my life!

14 May 2008

Off Dayz

Having 2 half days of OFF within 3 days, erm.. kind of refreshing. Especially surviving through those brain-torturing events, it's always feels good to take a break. So what I did on these 2 off days??



Managed to catch up with my forever-flying kindergarden friend, Steve, at Central for a lunch. I recommended Steve to this Marutama Ramen and trust me, the noodles are worthy of your 12 bucks! Right after the meal, we're back to our "Hometown" for a session of Happy Hour, Karaoke! Noise pollution was created from 3pm-5:30pm.




Joanne and I finally booked our Europe holiday trip with the SA Tour this afternoon. We are excited and very much looking forward to our September's travelling. So from now on, gonna cut down on Toastbox for breakfast ya. Right after holiday booking, we made our way down to town to catch a movie, "What happened in Vegas". Sweet and humourous.

I remember watching that variety show where professional chefs imparted their skills to the Chef-Wannabe on TV. I remember vividly there's one humble-looking stall-keeper who was real hardworking. Today Joanne and I had our very first attempt at this stall and guess what, both of us were impressed. The roasted pork was similar to what we've tried at One Rochester; cripsy!

Incident of the Day: After having a mouthful of the crispy roasted pork rice, I realised that I've not paid for the food. Surprisingly the stall cashier didn't remember as well. Haha.. I actually went back to pay the 8 bucks and both of us were laughing (clumsy funny)!

10 May 2008

New Chapter


Final pic taken with Lena (right) at the place where we worked like doggies since early 2007. While everybody was sharing their final notes-of-missing-you, I am trying to figure out whether should I be happy for her or sad. Mixed feeling sia!

04 May 2008

Ford Challenge 2008




Ngee Ann City, 12pm - 6pm... 16 teams were battling for a flight tickets to the UEFA Champions League Final at Moscow. Prior to this today, Sunday, more teams were fighting on the pitch to reach the tickets!

I was invited to join the team, Winning11, for this 4-a-side futsal competition. It was a team made up by my football buddies. As all of them were so excited about making it to the final, got the tickets to Moscow, according to reliable source, couple of them had actually changed the currency!!





As I was busy running event yesterday, the initial battle was left to my teammates. They did not disappoint themselves (and me), they've reached the Last 16 and there I was kicking around with them the entire whole noon at Orchard today.

As far as competition is concerned, there will never be easy team. We were made to sweat and bleed before we proceeded from Last 16 to Quarter-Final and lastly, we bowed out of the competition gracefully at the Semi-Final.

Personally, I have enjoyed the session today considered the fact that I've not been in a competitive game for quite awhile. I felt that I did well for the first and last game but the second was a "lost-in-the-game"! I was greatly hit by the hot weather, mind lost all concentration and lucky we still managed to hold on to the lead till the end. Kudos to my mates! For that 2nd Runner-Up placing, we pocketed S$1,000!!



End of the hard day, I'm gonna thank my Number One fan, my wife, who's was there throughout the entire noon with me under the sun! Above was what we've got for the dinner at Takashimaya basement!