Blessed!

Gonna fly home on this coming Wednesday and I feel so blessed.

Within this short 3 weeks or so, I've travelled and explored alot of Brunei. I've practically learnt where's the better foodie places, cheap groceries, fun places to go and I've got God to thank for!

Apart from the RSAF ppl that's so willing to show me around, I've got SQ to show me on the Sundays the places to go and how to go.

Got some great deals too! Bought a few stuffs, laptop RAM, cooler, Ni-MH batts and charger all at low low prices S'pore cannot offer!

Mixed feelings when I'm going back.
Happy coz I'll be returning to all my friends and family, my XBOX and room! I miss my room! All the shopping and hanging out with the gang! Karaoke ESPECIALLY!
Gonna feel sad coz I'll be heading back to a hellhole full of shit waiting for me to clear at work. I'll be leaving this boring i mean peaceful place where work means take your time as long as it's done!

When to Empire - hotel and resort. Grand grand place. I wouldn't mind spending my holiday there. It's far better than Tioman I felt. But kinda expensive. It's really where ALL koreans go for holiday. Tonnes of them! Haha.

So far been to a few places.

Gadong - Orchard Road: LAN Gaming, shopping mall, cinema, food, night market, groceries...
B.S.B - Capital of Brunei: Church, district area, bus interchange, ferry interchange, pork market, shopping center...
Jerudong - Theme Park: Go Karts, Empire Hotel & Resort - Sea Sports, BEST THAI FOOD! etc.
Muara - Hometown!: Aman Center, barber, RBC! X Mall...

Well, Hell of a ride so far. Thank God for this detachment! =)

Everyone's everywhere!

Funny how at this stage all of us are everywhere right now. It's a weird feeling coz we're seeing each other almost every week and now it's like everyone's just not in town. I dunno wad u call that feeling... Starts with M, ends with a G? Go figure? Haha.

Let's see. In the beginning of the year....

Caleb's already in Brunei

Kwo is trapped in Tekong island

Cherie's in Aussie for studies

I went Shanghai for holiday

Von and Lazy is in China now too.

Velle, Jon, Maine, QS etc. etc. went to Cambodia for mission.

Soon we're goin to M'sia for a road trip

Velle's goin to bangkok with frens.

I'm in brunei now.

Gonna go Aussie next up, not before Church camp I think...

Everyone's everywhere! Sounds fun. But I'm missing the fun outings every weekends. Stupid jokes trying to outwit each other with lamest and crappiest things we can find in out minds to spit out. Haha. Not to mention the food! We always go to the better foodie places! I miss that really.

Anywayz, here's an update...

Went to Lakiun, we took the Super Puma there! It's not everyday u can be a passenger on a military helicopter. Though it's not my 1st time =x

Had a hell of a ride on the speedboat on the river that leads to the 1000+ steps to nowhere...

Crazy as hell. I actually suggested to climb the towering scafolding on top of the MOUNTAIN!

That was high and I din't really realised until I was near the top and the whole scaldfold started to WOBBLE!!!. Only then did I realised that I've made a big mistake of going up the tallest point within that 40km....

We saw Mt. Kinabalu from there, I didn't dared to snap anymore photos as I carefully scurried down the wobbly thing only to find that each of it's legs are held by ONLY 2 BOLTS!!! 13 storeys high scaldfolding!!! Thank God I didn't fall and die!.

After that my legs were already shaking mad. Back down the 1299 steps.... Wobbling... Took the boat to the waterfall!

It was great! The water's refreshing and we all had shiok time submersing ourselves in the falls. God bless nature! The water was very very relaxing and certainly was a great experience!

Saw that Outward Bound Brunei was on the way, guess it's a tourist spot. Really thank God coz I paid only $7 for this trip, normally it would cost about $150 inclusive of the Helicopter ride. Leave you guys here with the video of the wild boat ride!

Photos!

My Pumas! Lolx. Finally I can upload my photos! The internet here sux!!!!! But yay! Finally!.

Thanks babe for the beautiful present. I love it!. Ah Thong and Ger too =D I love my Pumas!

The Brunei pics are up! Click Here Yay! =D

Bru~!

Finally I can get to post my photos! The internet here been's a pain in the @!(*)&!

Above's the shopping area, below's my bunk! Doesn't it looks like a typical chalet? =D

Life's a cup of Bru....

So here I am, sitting in the LAN shop with Bro Caleb 2 seats beside me. Surrounded by what seems to be the future of Brunei - Bleak and hopeless. All of them screaming to every 1s and 0s moving thru the system. All the vulgarities and barbaric things that they do... hmm. maybe it's just not what I expected.

Anyway, the drivers here like to blast their techno shit to the max in their car with their super huge sub woofers. I think their ppl will soon become deaf because of all the yelling and also loud music in cars.

Joined SQ for service, together with chief clerk and 3 other new friends. My Det encik was there, so was my EO. Wow. Hahaa, talk about small world. I think it's good. at least next week they know we can't attend.

Anywayz, the work here for us is minimal and there's plenty of time to do R&R. I do miss going out with the gang though, there's nothing to shop here and if it's not due to military restrictions, I'd loan a car and zoom around as much as possible. Here, entertainment is a huge problem. I seriously do not know how the Brus keep themselves entertained...

The way we see it, they have 1 or 2 shopping centers, a lot of night market stalls. Most of the shops along the streest are nessecities shops and EVERYWHERE you got you can buy $2 DVDs. At least the food is cheap and good. So I guess they spend most of their time eating and watching DVDs at home.

My seniors were commenting that there are alot of children in one family. Who can blame them? Nothing to do? Make babies! Some more it's tax free and cost of living here is not so taxing like Singapore. There's not alot of restrictions too.

That's the thing with Singapore - inflexible and too much rules. Rules that says to protect but in actual fact, stopping and feeding the citizens to think. Throw an average 88/89 kid ALONE in some developing country, he'll die for he can't think for himself. We're all too protected.

Our future looks bleak, just like the Brus... But at least here it's so much more relaxing. Oh btw, there's no such thing as GST here? I think tax free too? But in our defense, we don't have oil. =P

Boring country. no alchohol, only coffee. Everywhere too... coffee... Life's a cup of Bru~

Woohoo!

So i'm in Brunei now, it's very relaxing!

Imagine chalet with everything you'll need. DVD player and TV... The only bad thing is the WiFi sux... But it's alright. Went to Gedung on the 1st night to get some groceries, pretty cool. Things here are relatively cheap.

Hopefully will find some entertainment soon, the field's just outside, there's a gym, badminton court, etc.

Calling and SMSing back to SG is very expensive, $2.50 per min and $0.55 per SMS, so i'll not reply unless super important. Free incoming though, msg me or call at your own expense! Haha.

Gonna post some pics soon.

Got a pair of new Pumas! Thanks Babe! you're the best! Suki too =) I love em'
SQ's doing guard duty now, will join him for service tml. Updatez soon =)

Going to Brunei...

Stupid idiots do stupid things....

Because of 1 over-zealous person who thinks violence is the way to resolve their problems, the whole bloody organisation in SG is on high alert.

Heads surely rolled and definitely more will start to if they all dun find him fast..

Anywayz... Been super busy preparing for Brunei detachment this days. I've been tasked to be in charged of the technical preps. Of course there are still super huge loads of secondary appointments awaiting for me. I hope I can at least have some peace and quiet over there... 3 weeks withou the penguin.

Gonna pack for the trip soon. Hmmm... If let say you wanna contact me, just SMS or Call from the widget on the right -------------------------------------->

Sent my car for repairs, that's it.... Handicaped for the whole day... I cannot imagine that single trip on the MRT costs $1.70 now!!! It's expensive... That's like 1 liter of petrol! Went out with Kat n Angel yesterday... or rather friday.. we spent the whole day... literally whole day. from lunch to breakfast..

QQ Rice @ Square 2 is pretty cool! Choose a rice, maybe 2. Choose 5 sides and they'll do the rest!. Although it's so called a healthy food but I believe that the CARBO is very high...

Went to watch Meet ther Spartans... Crap show.... I suggest not to watch it in SG or just wait for VCD and watch it with a bunch of bored folks... Although some parts are really funny but most of it are really gross..

Went K, too bad Hui can't join us, if not we'd had a really great time... Zi Qing and Hao Yuan. 2 new friends =) Hard to believe that these days I'd still get to make new friends in such ways, without organisation or common grounds. So there's still hope! haha =P

Super early breakfast @ Xin Wang HK Cafe just beside Citibank near Suntec. OH!!!! The cheesy baked rice is GOOD~ It's those kind of cheese you'd imagine PERFECT on pizzas. Just that I shldn't have ordered the fillet one, the mushroom one shld suit me good.

Went home on the 1st train. What a thing to do... Once in a while you really need to go through humility to further appreciate how blessed we are - right at this point...

Almost killed someone...

Those of you who didn't see me in parade today will want to read on....

On my way to school. I was driving off as normally. An ant - a big one. Green in color appeared out of no where on my steering wheel.

What's the most natural human reaction?

I brushed it off... It fell onto my chest and the immediate human reaction is definitely to brush it of again.

By the time I looked up I already ran into a pedal cyclist.....

For the 1st time in my life I understood the words "uncontrollable trembling". Amazingly, I actually swerved the whole car within 2 lanes to make a U-turn and dashed out to his help.

Too late I thought. He's bleeding at the forehead. I almost wanted to cry. I was in FULL-U... I suspect that if it were any of you, you'll probably panic....

Took out my phone, kept asking him if he's ok. He kept saying he's ok and asking me why I didn't see him. I just asked him to lie down and not move. A passerby stopped and helped me wash his blood off.

How bloody hard it is to key 3 numbers on the keypad when your hands can't stop trembling and I'm using a freaking small phone.... 995.

"Hello! Accident on woodlands street 13, head injury, please come NOW! Yes, behind the swimming pool."

Ambulance came in like 7 mins. packed everything in and left me waiting for Traffic Police...

The exact word of how I feel is "un-expressible" in english... Maybe "Sang ko" can bring out a little of the meaning.. TP came. Very glad it's a familliar face....... Immediately my fears were relieved and became into worry...

My poly class chairperson. Traffic Police. Ah....................... Good to have friends.

Made the situation easier to swallow and handle... Directed to Ubi to make a report and take down my statement. Now it all lies with the cyclist... My fate is in the hands of a thai worker...

Thanks Hui for accompanying me. Thanks for being there to try cheering me up. Felt better with you around.

I'll never forget...

Kara with Kat, radio in car, MTV at home, youtube on the net. This song just keep coming back to me... What's up man? Am I missing you or you're praying for something?

I miss singing to you and hearing you sing this song...

Maybe there are valid reasons to why people are making so much comments on your upcoming relationship.

Trust me, I'll never forget mine and it's gonna hurt like crazy. The holes will never be filled up. They'll be there haunting you... Just like this and many other songs...

Wishlist~

Right... Sher and Velle asked me what I wanted for my birthday... Seriously, if I was buying a gift for Mr. Leonard Chia, I'll be damn FAN! Coz I also dunno what he wans!

So I went window shopping and try to find what I wanted... Let's see...

1. Xbox 360 Game: Assasin's Creed
2. Xbox 360 Accesory: AV HDMI Cable
3. Phiten Titanium Pillow/Back support/Waist support
4. Anything PUMA
5. Arsenal Jersey
6. Office Chair

*EDITED*
7. Wireless Keyboard
8. Wireless Mouse
9. Canon S5 IS Digital SLR Camera
10. 66 Books of the Bible in DVD video
*EDITED*

I think item 5 can leave it to von and lazy. hahas.

Many things to update...

Right, so long and soooo much to tell. Where do I start? Hmm...
I guess with the happy stuff 1st!

Righty, good news! I'm visiting Caleb on the 14th March, will be back on the 31st March. If you all need to pass him anything can just pass them on to me. I'll transfer it to him =)

Hmm...

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Birthday this year was kinda numb I think.... Coz I didn't had a party, there was no cake and erm, celebrations was a no as well. But I thank God coz I spent my day with gorgeous Kat and Angelia. Kbox in the morning, lunch in cine, shopping @ paragon and far east. Went to Upper Selatar Reservoir, had a good chat with Kat. The scenery was just sooo comfortable and romantic. Ahhh....

Met up with Angelia again to watch Kungfu Dunk. Hilarious!!! What a good movie. Finally a movie that's good in 2008! Sent them home. Dead beat...

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Movie screening @ Gliderz. Very bad response. Coz majority of all the youths were at the Singspiration Leader thingy. Can see that Martin was pretty disappointed. But we couldn't help it.

After that we went to eat dinner @ Changi Village. The journey on the way was a pretty engaging one... It reminded me of one of the sermons: "Christians have to literally throw away "being naive" and start "living" in this world so that we can understand how to live as Christians." Couldn't agree more... haiz...

It seems that almost every week we're going to the airport recently. Forsee that March there'll be a huge group not around - Cambodia Mission team, Me, Von & Lizhi. Hmmm...

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Ok... Next's up, my Shanghai trip!

Cool place to go, I meant COLD. Total went for 8 days and we've covered 7 places!

Day 1 -> Shanghai: QiPuLu Street, Xiaolongbaos, peanut candies, starbucks & Ramen
Day 2 -> Su Zhou: Girls, scenery, street foods, scenery and more scenery, Han Shan temple
Day 3 -> NanJing: Stones, Girls, scenery, museum, BRIDGE!!! huge huge BRIDGE!
Day 4 -> Wu Xi: Clam, Pearls, Tea, Clay, Teapots, LAKE! Giangtic LAKE!
Day 5 -> Hang Zhou: LAKE! again... Huge lake. Lake ride, Acrobatic "Musical"
Day 6 -> Yi Wu: Nothing.... All the shops closed..... Stayed in hotel to watch TV... zzz
Day 7 -> Xi Hu: Tom Cruise! MI3! Ancient town, scenery, river boat ride! Cool!
Day 8 -> Shanghai: Pearl tower, Shanghai Bund, Home sweet home...

Will post photos here

phew.. long post....

Shanghai here I come!

Alrighty! I'm here in Changi Airport right now. Using the free internet access. Kinda cool. So i guess I'll be seeing you guys in a week's time =)

Happy Chinese New Year to all! I'm expecting a super nice belated birthday bash when I come back. Hahaha.

Okie, 12mins more to use... Happy Holidays!

Arsenal ROCKS!

Came back from the Bah Kwa BBQ. Ugh... very very the gerlat (if that's how u spell it).

I think I regretted ordering 2kg. it's super huge and alot. Considering I won't be home for the whole of CNY, the lump of meat probably gonna be resting at home waiting and yearning to be eaten.

Work in the morning sux. Just sux.....

Reunion Dinner last night. Somehow this year's dinner was kinda different. There's alot more communication between everyone. Qian's grow to be a very beautiful girl. Good for her. Still gotta pray for her Spiritual growth.

After dinner was Chinatown shopping with Kat n Angelia! I bought a beautiful shirt. Really magnificent. Almost majestic if not for my round shape. =( I didn't get slp last night and slp thru after work. Kat and Angelia really ar.... Crazy. Planned for our overseas trip. May be Phuket or Bintan again.

The BBQ today was kinda "longtimenvdothis". Missed doing this kind of thing actually. When will we be doing this again? Hmmm.

Arsenal really didn't disappoint. Maybe Senderos did. Terrible marking. Haiz. At least we won't. But letting in a goal like tat is really terrible.

Man utd drew. We're TOP of the TABLE!!! YAY. Go spurs! Indeed our WORTHY derby rivals.

Now we're waiting for Liverpool to win! Catch up with stupid Man utd, push them all the way to the relegation zone! HAHA!

Here's a dedicated post. Adios.

Sometimes liking someone doesn't mean you have to be with the person. I guess as long as he/she is happy and you know it, it'll be just as well.

When we hammer the nails into the wall it hurts. Sorry to hammer any nails. Think I did 1 or 2. I know even when the nails are removed the damage is done. The hole's still there. Forever. There's nothing we can do about that.

Was asked what am I going to do... I asked back, what can I do? I didn't even think about it until I was asked... Why you'd asked? Why....?

You still believe? I think it is. Whatever you believe it should be true. I don't believe that your heart is there. I never believed that. Perhaps another, not there.

Thank God for work, it's coming in loads and hoards and throngs. So it'll take my mind off things.
I just understand how it is.

Bottomline. I understand. Bon Voyage.

Happy Chinese New Year?

Hmm... I'll miss visting with the gang this year... That means less ang baos and goodies =(

Foreseeing that this CNY will sort of be weird and very different from all others. Instead of enjoying it, i'll be making it work out. At least for my workplace... Always sucks to be organiser than participant.

Is there anyone who knows of any CNY songs that is singable??? Andy Lau's gong xi fa cai is too fast...... Help!!!

Shanghai's gonna be wind and snow. Record coldest storm is brewing over there now... Pray for journey mercy and safety! Hope I can get some rest over there too. zzzz

Arsenal rocks! They never disappoint =)

Josh & Joey's

3am den get to slp.... Kaoz... haha... Really got panda eyes.

Reach work early too. But still later than Encik. I think they have some kind of problems at home that they NEED to wake up super early and reach work SUPER early. If not they never go home at all... haha

Work duh. Finish some projects. Hand up tml. I hope I'm free by tml. Tml will be another free and easy day! I'd probably be super free and finish work before 4pm.

Today went to JJ wit Eileen. WOW!!! You would nv expect how it turned out to be! I mean really, from a neighbourhood restaurant to a poshy eatery. But things are still not working out. Maybe because of the initial start up that's tough.

Food's still the same, some new stuff, used to be our specials.
Place is really really really nicely done up. Nth needs to be changed. Maybe the ceiling but that can't be helped.

I miss working @ JJ. I think that's a Job I enjoyed super alot. Although the new place is very nice and everything's "oh so familliar". I still miss going to work at the woodgrove outlet. The cycling there, serving customers over lousy dining furnitures, slacking in the kitchen area, playing with the computer, snacking on bits of food in the trays and many many fun moments.

Really missed those days... Eileen too... I'm sure kwo and dreamerz as well maybe JC even? hahs.

Ok, not enuff slp... Panda x 1 million... adios~

Today...

Work today was kinda duh.

Went to work earlier than usual, didn't do much... Had an important oral exam. More like an interview so that I can finally be qualified as an independantly authorised senior technician.

Sorry Von, not that I don't wish to tell you what I'll be doing in that country. I very much want to. It's just that it's really restricted. No like you're a terrorist or whatever, just that it's in a publically sensitive place we're in. Hope you understand, I didn't meant to be rude or lame. I was serious.

Well, dinner was swell. Had our usual dose of laughter and I must say, ratty time. How great imaginations we all have, maybe we got them from watching too much cartoons. Explosion! That was kinda extreme and super laughable man.

I admit I was really chased by 2 rats. I was a short and tiny kid! Whatdya expect from a kid??? The quickest possible way out of the corridor was to the door! I remember they followed thru and I climbed up a shelf where they whizzed under and disappeared. The 1st animal chase I encountered! At least that was not so scary being chased by a dog. Same age, same location... Different animal, taller than me, bigger than me... I saw, I ran and it chased and ran passed me... I tot I was dead.... Now THAT is scary! Either I was an animal attraction or just nice both times they were being chased as well...

Funny how at this stage majority of us are leaving the country... Life's really a quick flick.

People say...

It's always people say people say...

I nv meant to, i didn't mean to, i din wanted to...

Why when things happen and people look to somewhere to account for what they've done? I must admit I did the same. No matter what situation you're in. It's always thinking of how others think of you.

Your character, it's based on other people's views... You never is who you are in the world you live in. Any other world makes alot of sense.

Why can't we be truthful to ourselves? This society is so sad... Hopeless...

Don't have to catch... You won't understand...
If Words are roots. There's no tree in you.

My day off...

So.... I've earned this day off...

Let see how I spent it...

Woke up about mid-day, about 12 I guess... Still felt alot of aches and pains everywhere.... Can you believe it? I sat infront of the TV without my specs staring until 2pm+

Planned to fix up my car and go for a spin but figured that it's gonna be a waste of money so scrapped that plan. Remembered I told myself "let's fix this mess" when I woke up... Basically cleared my whole room. Now it's much nneater but still lots of things needed to be chucked away.

Spent time watching taiwan varieties. Played Sims 2. Fetch my bro from school... Bought dinner and more Sims 2.

What a waste of a day off... zzz...

Oww!

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