its gonna be the start of a new year in around 1 hours time! Looking back at the start of year 2008 till the very last day of it, it was certainly memorable and fun journey albeit encountering adversities during a certain period of time.

I guess the highlight of this year would be my 3months overseas attachment period. Although we did come back to SG to spend the weekends once a month, i still find it hard to not have my parents and close people living in the same area as me. I missed Singapore quite badly during that 3 months haha and we even joked about wanting to kiss the road when we reached the singapore custom on our first trip back here during the first month of the attachment. So often ive been complaining about how bored is Singapore and that theres nothing much for us to do here. Ironically,this is the place that i cant wait to come back to when im abroad. We all need to get segregated from here for a period of time to realise that home is the best place to be!

Year 2008 is also the first year that i didnt get to celebrate my birthday in Singapore because of my attachment. I guess year 2009 will not be an exception either because i will most probably be serving the country during late july :(. A memorable 20th and 21st birthday indeed haha.

This will also be my last and final year in Poly. Something that i'm definitely looking forward to.. life after graduation! but i bet i will miss the times during year 1 and 2 when we were having lessons together as a class before we all went seperate ways for MP and SIP. This is how most of us behave. We often complain and whine about how arduous the process or journey is but when we come to the end it, we somehow miss going through the same thing again. Maybe we missed all the fractiousness! Though i get to make friends with other people in my course, the times during APEL with c140 were the best! I will be looking forward to more class outings and chalets in the future

Finally, to end this instropective entry, i shall pin down some resolutions for the new year!

1) To work hard during the holidays and earn some money
2) To advance musically in my guitar playing
3) To do more housework
4) To train up and prepare myself for National Service
5) To do more kind deeds!

and many more.......


HAPPY NEW YEAR PEOPLE!

the countdown is over as im typing this sentence now!

May good health and prosperity be upon each and everyone of u

take care and all the best for ur future endeavours!

i just realised i spent 2 hours watching a movie that ive seen before

and that movie is windstruck

but its a nice show nonetheless, so i won't say that i just wasted 2 hours

xmas is over and 2009 is approaching soon

enjoy ur weekends!

merry christmas everyone!

#01- MY FRIENDS.. are fun to hang out with
#02- I AM LISTENING TO.. Don't cry - Guns and Roses
#03- MAYBE I SHOULD LEARN.. piano
#04- I LOVE.. my family, my friends, my little brown guitar and yummy esculent like grapes and sourplum iceblend @ sweet talk
#05- MY PLAN.. is to become rich and buy watever i want
#06- I DUN UNDERSTAND.. anything related to bloody programming
#07- I LOST... motivation to continue my MP
#08- PPL SAY.. life is boring.
#09- I AM MISSING.. joys of adolescence
#10- LOVE MEANS.. honesty, respect and acceptance
#11- SOMEWHERE, SOMEONE IS.. cursing at me
#12- I AM ALWAYS SEARCHING FOR.. ways to keep myself motivated to play the guitar
#13- FOREVER SEEMS.. to exist only in fairytales
#14- I WILL NEVER WANT TO.. commit a felony and destroy my life
#15- MY MOBILE PHONE.. is the legendary motorola v3x
#16- WHEN I WOKE UP IN THE MORNING.. i check the time
#17- I GET ANNOYED WHEN.. i failed to understand things
#18- PARTY(ies) ARE.. fun if i know most of the people there
#19- TODAY I.. went to town for the first time since i came back from penang
#20- TOMORROW I WILL BE.. staying at home
#21- I REALLY WANT.. to get my MP done and over with
#22- I.. will be sleeping soon
#23- MY RINGTONE.. rick roll ftw!
#24- NAME 10 PEOPLE[NOT TAGGING] :
1- eric
2- wei cong
3- lih long
4- alex
5- choon
6- pq
7- xw
8- wy
9- yh
10- kc
#25- HOW DID YOU KNOW 1 (eric)- same class from sec1 to 5. My tampines khaki
#26- DOES 2 SMOKE (wei cong)- nope
#27- D0ES 3 BEHAVE LIKE A HOOLIGAN (lih long)- yes when someone types with many "...." like "okay.........."
#28- WHY ARE YOU FRIENDS WITH 4 (alex)- because his results suck during secondary school so i need him to make myself feel good.
#29- IF 5 SLAPPED YOU ON THE FACE, WHAT WOULD YOUR RESPONSE BE (choon)- i slap his cock
#30- WOULD YOU WOO 6 (pq)- Wont wanna risk having dirty water being poured down to my laundry from the 9th floor
#31- NAME A TALENT OF 7 (xw)- photshopping
#32- WHO IS 8 IN LOVE WITH (wy)- duno
#33- HAS 9 EVER BETRAYED YOU (yh)- with such a sly face, i wouldnt rule out that possibility haha
#34- WOULD YOU TRUST 10 WITH YOUR SECRETS (kc)- yea.


time to sleep!

bye all

yesterday was a fun-filled and memorable day!

The first half of the day was spent at sentosa with my secondary sch mates. Think its the first we went there together. Before meeting up with the rest at harbour front, i left home at around 6am to meet eric at tampines station. The plan was to meet up for breakfast, 7 am at some place near lih long's house. We decided on that while playing game that night so we gamed and msned till about 415am and i took a 45mins nap cuz i couldnt take it anymore. They were afraid that i would oversleep and wake up in the noon but i managed not to. Had Prata at somewhere near bugis. Muhmaad sultan road to be exact. The place we ate at was the only one in the vicinity that was opened and they make good and huge pratas!

I thought the beach at Sentosa would be super crowded as it was a Sunday but surprsingly and thankfully, its not! So we didnt had any trouble finding a sheltered spot to settle down. The weater was very erractic. It can be torrid for a minute and then cooling and windy for another. But it didnt rain so it wasnt that bad. We met a group of people from the express class over there too. Seems like we werent the only gang that is still meeting up after graduation. Didnt really know most of them but they all still look the same. So the group gathering turned out to be a CCHB reunion haha. We played soccer and captains ball together. Definitely relishing every minute of it.

I reached home at around 530 in the evening and quickly took a short nap as i can hardly keep my eyes open the entire day. Headed to safra at 645 for our class xmas gathering at Minds cafe. Glad to see most of my classmates again. Played a board game called "tabboo" It was actually quite fun and funny lol. I was so engrossed with it that i couldnt be bothered about my food. Did a gift exchange after that! Thanks alot pq for the cute present!

10 of us went to catch "YES MAN" after that at TM. Lucky we were able to get one whole row to ourselves. It was a movie that i was looking forward to ever since i saw the poster at Penang and it definitely didnt disappoint! The starting few mins is already damn funny. Those funny expressions of jim carrey's face is priceless. The movie is not all about trying to make u laugh. It also teaches one not to say "yes" to everything or to everyone. It might seem like ure a really kind person at first but as time goes by, ur "yes" might not be seen as a genuine one to others. Anyway, watch the movie and u will understand wat im trying to say. Its worth every penny!

Time for some pictures of yesterday's xmas celebration. There are many more pictures that is not with me right now. Shall add them when i have it


Kim Choon and Weizhe


Xw, wy and pq


either pq's or wy's drink


Clockwise: Amalina, Denise, Alicia, Mr Rick toh and his son Ruell(Not sure how to spell it but thats how its being pronounce)


mr rick toh!


xw and wy


kc and clarence.


candid #1


candid#2


Group#1



group #2


the girls: Left to right - Wy, xw, lj, kelina, pq

Thats all! i realise we guys didnt take a group picture together. There are a few more candid shots but im kinda lazy to upload them as the waiting time is quite lengthy.

okay thats about it. Thank you guys for such a fun and wonderful night!

3 more days to xmas!

bye all take good care!

Driving
Had my Final Theory Test yesterday and i passed! 1 more step before acquiring my driving license and sadly, the practical test is the hardest. Not many of those whom i know cleared it at their first attempt. I hope i can do it though because i have to pay another 200bucks to retake if i fail. I cant afford to waste too much cash on driving. Don't wanna rely on my parents too much and time isn't on my side. Not sure when is my enlistment date and i hope its not any time before june.. so at least i might have enough time to retake my practical if i fail but i prefer not to. Need to start driving hard and getting serious about my lessons if i want to drive my 350z in the future!

School
I think we are in week 6 or 7 of our MP now. I got no idea by when are we suppose to finish our project but shld be a few weeks more, either early or mid jan. Progress had been so far so good. Hope everyone else is doing alright too! Its all gonna end soon so hang in there!


Im sure everyone cant wait to get their IP/MP over with and enjoy the long break before graduation. I'm certainly excited about it. Theres so many things i wanna do during the vacation. Go on a holiday with my friends. Probably to tioman or redang island! I want to find a job and earn some money to pay for my driving lessons, to buy my own necessities and to repay my parents for wat they had done and paid for me. I want to find a group of people to jam with. Its been a long time since i last stepped into the studio. Hopefully the search can be successful and maybe we can play in a gig or smth! Jamming is really something that i want to do often but cant seem to find the right people and time to do it now. So i hope that during the break, i can step into the studio at least once!


Christmas
Its 6 days away! Looking forward to the xmas celebration with my poly classmates on sunday. There will be a gift exchange so i will most probably receive my 2nd xmas gift. But its the fun and fellowship that i'm looking forward too. Might be our last xmas gathering as a class but sadly not all can make it.

Gonna celebrate with my usual group of frends next week. Going to lih long's place for steamboat and probably some mahjong session. Defintely gonna be fun.

All in all, this year's xmas seems like it gonna be filled with lots of fun and lots of laughters. Remember to put on a smile wherever u go. After all, this is the season to be jolly!


Take care everyone! You won't want to fall sick during this period of time

bye!

just finish watching love actually on channel 5. They will really screen it every year at this time of the month! Amazing movie. Definitely injected a whole lot of xmas spirit into me.

I don't want a lot for Christmas
There's just one thing I need
I don't care about the presents
Underneath the Christmas tree
I just want you for my own
More than you could ever know
Make my wish come true
All I want for Christmas is...
You


Merry early christmas everyone! its 10 days away!

its that time of the season again!

yeap christmas is around the corners and i'm already in the festive mood already. We've been playing the song "all i want for christmas is you" on friday in our lab. From the funny korean guy version to the original mariah carey version. And of course, not forgetting the movie "love actually", which featured that song too. Its a really nice christmas movie to watch. Hope that channel 5 will screen that movie again just like last year's christmas! Im downloading it now anyway because its a movie to keep!

Its a pity that we can't experience natural snowy weather in Singapore and my family don't have the habit of celebrating christmas so for the past few years, ive been hanging out with friends for some drinking session or having a good meal at restaurants. There was once where we get to exchange presents with one another and i think that was 2 years ago, with my poly classmates. We went to the function room at john's condo and had pizzas, presents exchange and lots of stuff. That was the only time i received a christmas gift. Yeap its a waste for families like mine who doesnt really regard xmas as a joyous occasion and thus, not carrying out the usual way of celebrating it :(

So what will u guys be doing for this year's xmas? ive heard that people in other classes will have a xmas gathering. Good for them :(

Anyway, better focus on MP first before anything else. Sigh its such a pain

All the best to everyone! Hope that the last month of 2008 will be a blast for u guys

bye all and take care!