be myself day

friday was be myself day.

breakfast was at Coffee Club. first time having a meal there, the food was quite good but the service was excellent overall. however nice the food is, it is not much to my liking. i like my apples to be in a pie; i like the mushrooms to be boiled; i like my coffee to be white coffee tarik; i like my waffles to go with ice-cream and plenty of chocolate syrup. other than that, all's fine.

lunch was sort of skipped. spent my afternoon playing poker on facebook. i'm currently addicted to the game which is not a good sign as i ought to be focus. finally bought 走唱 陈伟联 and 陈奕迅 不想放手. i realisd i've grew up to become more daring and confident, arrogant in a sense. since we've had $20 vouchers, i borrowed a popular card for a 10% off the stationery while the vouchers for my albums. actually we only saved $2 but there was $6 off Eason's album because of GSS ?!?

getting the albums were my motivation to go for work. so apparently i lost my motivation to work earlier today as i called in sick. i would have gone to work, with sickness, if there were sufficient motivation. need to spare a thought for the kids though.

the other day i bought 2 formal blouses from dorothy perkins. on friday, a pair of formal pants from G2000. ii was very troubled as i have no idea yet if these were necessary. if not, perhaps for a proper full time job i'd find myself after graduation. even with the traveling plans or sign on, i'm sure it'll all work out nicely.

anyway, dinner was at the soup spoon. i'd say it was only so-so but the chocolate cake looks fine, i'll probably come back just for that though. the clam chowder wasn't that bad but the sandwich tasted too much of capsicums and unappetising. after dinner i went for a little workout. 324 was the score, not too bad but at the end of it bascially my hands were almost numb.

then, i thought of jerome. wished we could have played counterstrike, blackshot, left4dead or dota together. well, i had fun playing all that (except dota) and it was really enjoyable. never felt so relaxed for a long time.

fate brought me to dhoby ghaut, so i thought of trying the rocher bean curd, again. to my dismay it tasted about the same as before even though the before was already cold. guess i still prefer Mr Bean's no matter what. the queue was amazingly long, especially being a friday night i guess. along my way, there is this Mr Bean cafe 24hours. i'm going to go there for supper or what someday.

i did whatever i felt like doing. out. then, i watched whatever i wanted to watch. though there are still LOTS of shows like Doraemon, Tom & Jerry, and some HK dramas and some TW dramas recommended by some friends, and some animes highly recommended by a friend. i'll finish all that during my SIP period, where all time is to be spent in front of my laptop, watching stuffs. that'll be my mission.

till then.

Sweden with you.

Ho-ho.

I went to school at 6pm when I had no lessons (self-declared holiday). We were doing Trading and Profit and Loss Statement and Balance Sheet for 3 financial years for his Entrepreneurship (CDS). It was already almost 9pm so we took a cab to Ikea for a delightful dinner. The fare was not even 5 bucks.

Chocolate mousse. 2 Pasta with Meatballs. 15pcs Meatballs. 6pcs Chicken Wings. 2 Soft drinks.
Total: $36
Level of Satisfaction: Max.
Level of Fullness: Exceed Max.

So we walked around the place but the furnitures were all upstairs so didn't see much. More of to digest our food. I bought this bar of Sweden dark chocolate before leaving too. Continued our walk to the stop with 39 and there we parted.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but makes the mind forget.
Sometimes I do forget the existence of some cherished friends, but the moment we meet up again, nothing has changed. Love this feeling. Thanks for the almost-free meal. The food was definitely better than that of Deli France. I think I just spoiled my appetite (wanting better quality food).

:)

say something happy

I passed with 10 points. Dramatic experience coz in my mind I was already thinking, it was a goner. To my surprise, I passed! You don't know how disturbing it was when he 'tap tap tap' on that whatever system they call.

So I passed everything first time, with a total of $1,052.20, inclusive of theory (BTT e trial too! waste of money i'd say) and practical along with PDL and my driving license. :)

Thing is, it seemed as though nobody could fail. I was real panicky and my engine even stalled. Once, as I was waiting to make a right turn back to Ubi. Forgotten to change back to gear 1 as I was moving into the circuit. Then, I forgot to change to gear 1 into the S course resulting in striking kerb. It was my first station, not a good start definitely. Up and down the slope was quite bumpy and I made sure I knew his exact instructions were by double confirming. However after doing a perpendicular parking (it was gooood. first i turned too fast then i turned right and left full lock and tada!), he told me to U-turn at that narrow place and told me to move towards the kerb and park there. There was a car already then and it was actually blocking my way so I moved in front lol. He even said I don't listen to instructions (luckily the car in front was moving out so phew).

No emergency brake, thankfully. No chance to show of my engine braking (learned it with the constant nagging). Engine stalled. Didn't signal when I thought I should have. However, the paper was so plain (only striking kerb) and I got a shock when he said I passed (i thought it was gone case all the way along the road, esp after engine stalled). After I got down the car, some guy was smiling at me no idea asking/telling me "pass". Yeah that's why I missed the video and wasted an hour doing nothing lol.


Wow, I haven't blogged for an entire month in July.

30th June;
Had been craving for Gelaré so headed down with Moon and caught Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Fascinating. Now, it reminds me of Batman: The Dark Knight. Heroic. I'm gonna watch it again. Bought the tickets the day before. Use NETS, and it's only $6/8 per ticket.


5th July;
Dramatic day. Again, I was just in time for my grading. Other than panickingly searching for my grading card, all went well till I twisted my knee and lost balance. Continued with the grading (sparring) and I sincerely hoped I wasn't worsening the condition. The medics in charged were spouting nonsense, about the worse, WORST senario. However I couldn't stop laughing. It was kind of a memorable experience, you know. Who gets to send off in ambulance, laughing?

What's more, after 5mins up the van-converted-ambulance, the engine couldn't get started. So they called 995. Wow, what a chance to be sent to TTSH in an ambulance, for free, somewhat laughing. I think I am the happiest patient to be sent to hospital, really.

All was a hoax. A lot of crap, the usual. Wasted my $85 and I was too stunned to react to the X-ray. It was ligament issue I have no idea why X-ray had to be taken. Claiming STILL in process.

Had dinner with AiZhen at Waraku @ Velocity while the rest went to ZhengFa Steamboat to celebrate FangBei's birthday. It was great experience as I ordered this duo-meal with a pizza and spaghetti. Had thought the noodles would be too little but turned out sufficient, while the pizza is a bit off standard. Then again, it was my first time trying Japanese pizza. Perhaps it was meant to taste that way. Not to my liking, definitely.


10th July;
Met up with AiZhen, GuiWen, XiTing, LokTo, Nick, Nigel, Naz, Hafiq, Darryl, Daniel to watch Ice Age 3 at Tampines Mall. My first movie. Not bad, quite interesting, better than had expected. TeaDot is nice, not a good place to spend your money at, though. Their hot chocolate tasted normal. However I could consider trying out some of their cakes. Same as for those at Say Cheeze.


12th July;
Travelled most distance since a long time, by foot. Terrible experience I'd say. With the tinkles of sweat and limping leg, where's the joy man. Other than the accompany. Great dinner at Fisherman & Wharfs opposite The Central. The Snow White was good, though the usual dory wasn't that bad either.

In a failed attempt to find Ya Hua Ba Kut Teh, we went to Rocher Bean Curd off Selegie Road instead. Two hours walk in total oh my God. The bean curd was already cold when I had the appetite, so guess I have to go back and try again. Also, at Tao's and Giraffe nearby.


17th July;
Date of submission for AA project was postponed to Monday. Nonetheless, we still wanted to get it over and done with. YongWen came to find Shiyu after his CRA presentation (most likely it was) and they suggested Mahjong at Shiyu's. Conveniently I was sitting beside her and I agreed with no considerations lol. Been such a long, long time since I last played!

Bought dinner, ate and started. Good experience, even won some money. Took cab home. Conveniently this taxi just dropped someone and we didn't even have to walk to main road. Turns out the uncle learns Qi Kung and he taught Allan and I to breathe in, breathe out, breathe in and breathe out through the mouth. Repeat for 200 times every morning at a park or something and you'll feel a difference. No park! Without a long flight of stairs, so I don't really do that. Money won all spent on cab fare but nevertheless, it was wonderful.


18th July;
Had Sakae sushi platter with AiZhen, GuiWen, XiTing, Janice at East Coast Park. The unagis were so tasteful, I wonder if they have them in the menu, not just for platters. The cheese sushi tasted oddly delicious too. Guess it would be good to try their lunch/dinner buffet someday!


23rd July;
Had lunch at Swensons (YUCK) with Stanley and Moon. Please provide more details when I had no menu in hand next time! Food suck. Great company. What more can I say lol. Splitted after lunch though.

Dinner was at Suki Yaki, which people said it sucked. The pudding was one of the kind you could conveniently get off shell in NTUC. The unagi in my handroll was pathetic. I liked the unagi and tamago the first time I bought takeaway though. I still crave for the unagi sushi in the Sakae Platter.

Watched Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince with Adeline at Cineleisure. The most exciting scene wasn't in. What a crappy movie. You know, when before Dumbledore and Harry got back from wherever, the Deatheaters were SUPPOSED to be already have invaded Hogwarts and Ron, Hermoine and gang were SUPPOSED to be fighting them off. If not for the liquid luck or whatever they call it, they wouldn't have been able to stall to long. TOTALLY MISSED OUT. Boring. Boring. Boring.



Okay, back to happy stuffs, I passed driving. I wanna drive a car. Hopefully able to psycho weiguang and let me drive for a while but without the probation plates?! Time to sleep!


psycho-ed in success. of course, he has good faith in me. :) unlike that sicheong who “一朝被蛇咬，十年怕井蛇……” didn't get to see yuan dance live! at least there's video as backup.