Holidays Coming To An End

Alas the holidays though long, is coming to an end. In another 10 measley days, I have to start working again. Not so much of a big deal except my sleeping hours are all upside-down. Starting to adjust to waking up early. Today managed to do so at 8.30am to switch off the alarm before i fall back asleep. Wonder if that's an improvement from doing so at 9am.

My ears dun hurt anymore infact on the second day, it doesnt hurt at all. Now it just feels kinda queer when u touch ur lobes, expecting a smooth ear but encountering a stud. Guess i better not play around with my ears, in case of infection. Today have to go for bbq. Incharge of games. So yesterday i was looking around for a Uno set. Thankfully i chanced upon one Kitty version selling for $2.50. Gladly bought it, otherwise the same would have cost me $10. Intend to play games like Indian poker, murderer etc, maybe some ball games. (Cos poker cards are not allowed) Oh another year of tuition has begun for me. So far only one, which is fine with me. The other not confirmed, so if dun have i am just happy with one. A little bit of extra income, for a few hours, but leaving me enough time to rest, spend with family, go out and stuff. Just thankful for that.

Though at this point i do feel a bit apprehensive abt the next year ahead, in terms of the work. But heck, no work has managed to kill me even ShittyBank. Hence I will survive! Definitely! Hope to start learning how to drive next year too. Been putting that off for too long. And i will go to school! Cos until now still havent gotten any info abt any good pte instructors. What the heck, i just want to get it over and done with.

My mom bought the Cashflow game @ $300 bucks! Which means have to play many games for it to be worth the money. Maybe a good biz idea is to invite friends over and charge them a few bucks to play the game. Cheap refreshments provided. Havent played it yet. But I paid $5 last time to play once. My sis and mom were playing and both got out of the rat race. I just hope i can apply what i learn to REAL LIFE. But definitely not properties in Spore but another medium perhaps.

Okay to those non-Christians: Happy Holidays!

To all Christians: Merry Christmas!

ITAI DESU YO! (PAIN!)

Woke up to another day, with an aching knee (Pain No 1) from the zoo yesterday, due to a call to turn up for another bbq from school. Huh? I didnt know i have to turn up. Ou, okay, i will turn up then, thanks. So now i am incharge of games. So have to go back for one day. Fine.

Went to nearby coffee shop for lunch with sisters, only shortly after all kenna stomache (Pain No 2). Then my mom came back from msia and we accompanied her to buy stuff. The final pain comes in the form of getting ears pierced. Why? Cos my youngest sister got hers pierced and she said painless so my other sister interested. Oh well, what the heck so I joined in also. So she dun feel lonely and stuff. We decided to get it done this holiday so can recuperate during holidays. My mom told us have to look for auspicious date to get it done. Hence we delay until tom cos its the winter solace festival. My mom came back from msia and told us that actually today is a good day to get it done. Fine, only that the auspicious time is after 3pm. So we did grocery shopping until 3. Went to the jewellery shop where my sister got hers done. Dunno why, but I was to go first. Hey, why no scissors, paper, stone. Lalalala so i sat there holding my hair while the uncle makes the mark and let us choose the color of the stud. After some trial and error, got the marks to be even then its time to fire the earrings.

"Thud!" went the first shot. "Ouch...." A sharp pain from my right ear. Then i turned around, "....sss..." Another pain in my left ear. Great, i thought when both are done. Now the pain feels more balanced, both my ears feels as though someone clipped some very tight clothes clippers on it.

"How? Still painful?" my mom asked.

"Yes... subsiding a bit but my ears still pain. When i open my mouth too wide it hurts more"

"For both ears? Oh then u must have been pierced at the nerves for both... When i first did mine....."

Just great isnt it.... Watashi no Mi Mi ga ITAI desyo!!!! ITAI ITAI ITAI!!!!

My sister had it much better, cos she didnt hit any nerves hence just feel numb, no pain.

*grumbles* At this moment while blogging, my mi mi still hurt. I can feel the studs distinctively. So the moral of the story, dun listen to your sister.

No lah. In chinese: Yao Mei Bu Yao Ming! (Want beauty not ur life)
I just hope the dull aching pain will subside soon... my sisters one is numb still. Unfair.

ITAI ITAI ITAI. Watashi no mi mi ga itai desyo!

Zoo E Kimashita!

Today went to the zoo, yep cos my youngest sister wanted to go, yes cos my dad keen to go, yes also cos its my last free sunday as tuition is starting again and its been more than a decade since we last went. So off we went at 9.45am. Reached there around ten and went in. The weather was nice cos it didnt rain at all, something that is pretty rare given the current monsoon season. My sister guided our progess using the map that was provided. And we reminded her to cross-out those that we visited along the way.

"OkayLions, been there done that, so what's next?"

"Hmm, Monkeys is up next, then we follow this loop...."

Along the way, we looked at the animals and tried to take some pictures. My dad was fussing us all to take pictures his way so the photos will turn out good.... *sign, I dun agree with his good pics so far, but still have to reluctantly pose and grumble and become irritable*

The reality of zoo from the ideal where animals are active and clean, and willing to pose pictures is really one where; the sheep's wool are yellow instead of white, the pungent goat smell can be detected ten metres away depending on the wind, one where all the animals are sleeping or lazing around while humans try their best doing idiotic gestures and making weird animal sounds to draw their attention to the camera. Some animals even look bored and couldnt be borthered. Oh well, the reality vs the marketing campaign.

Halfway, i was mumbling to my sister that I am MORE interested in dead chickens than any animals. So its time for human feeding time. KFC lunch. After lunch, still got another halfway to go....

Stumbles, arg my right knee is hurting.... the afternoon sun is hot.... water..wate...r. Phew, that smell makes me wanna puke up my lunch....

My favourite exhibits are the Horse and pygmi dogs. The Horses are magnificent, beautiful creatures. And boy are they big! I didnt realize that horses can be that large. Its almost twice my height. If only i could ride one and gallop freely on a wide open plain. That is one dream i hope to achieve one day. The pygmi dogs are small rodents like guinea pig size. They eat wood and at the exhibit, one stood on its hind legs, using its front paws and made grabbing movements with its front paws. Looks very cute indeed.

After much struggle, and grumbling, finally made it out of the zoo. Looking at the watch, we spent 6 hours inside. On our way home, my sister told me that she overheard one parent telling the kid that they will go to the zoo next week. I remarked "I wont come here for another decade... Once is enough." She agreed.

We stopped for a bite at clementi. While there, I queued for more than 20 mins for a popiah!!! Grr... but the chilli popiah is one to die for, cos chilli padi sauce is used. Oiyishi! Both my sister tried and choked, downing a lot of water, kept on saying HOT HOT HOT!!!! Tears even appeared. Sign who asked them to try, that one is for me. They dun eat much chilli so serves them right. I have just fallen in love with that popiah. No wonder many order the chilli one. One more nice food in clementi.

Its been a while since my last entry.

For my phone, finally after proscratinating and looking around for a LONG LONG time (abt 4 mths) I got my new phone Nokia 2650. Though its a basic phone, i still want it to be Nokia for the user interface esp for sms. Bought for S$148, $48 plus $100 for upgrade. Kept my own plan. The upside is that it fits nicely into my coffin-shaped handphone pouch :) So for now I dangle a coffin wherever I go.

Nowadays my sleeping hours are totally unside-down! Every night for the past week, I stayed up until 3-4am practicing weiqi. Dunno why leh but I can think clearly at the dead of the night cos its quiet and peaceful. The interest has always been there, but got more determined after the Hiraku No Go manga. Then I didnt really start until this holiday. Its best that I dun stop halfway cos I have bad habit of leaving things unfinished..... Hehehe next round trash Tab in weiqi. So on normal nights where I try to sleep early, I cant. Will have to slowly adjust back. 2 more weeks to go.

Hmm been Gunbounding when I am not practicing weiqi, and its like double whammy! Cos when i gunbound, it also takes up long hours even to late at night, or the entire afternoon. The end result is that I am tired during the day and active at night...

Ah another reason for tiredness, went down twice to Immigration office to settle international passport... and wasted one trip. Each trip is like 45mins mrt ride to and back. So yesterday i went to immigration, followed by bank. Then I am flat out and concus. NOW i am wide awake, hence blogging this entry. Been having this routine for the past 1.5weeks so now I exist in this semi-conscious mode. The type of heavy-headed from lack of sleep or proper sleep.

Today's potentially tiring program include waking up by 9.30 and dragging myself into a gym, going out with friends to temple to pray. Keep them company and for me to go out and stretch these old bones. I should get more Gunbound shirts. Students like my previous one. Then Sunday going to zoo, hope very hard that it doesnt rain. Its been more than a decade since I've been to a zoo. Okie thats all for now. Going to bed. Hope to get a few hours sleep, I remember last sat when i went to the gym, I was running on the running machine and lost my balance cos i wasnt focusing but luckily not hurt.

Back from another passport making cum ic taking exercise 'adventure' that I have been forced to embark numerous times within this year.

Really me and my family went through soo much crap for the ic making, so this is the final chapter where i finally get the finished product. *breathe a sign of relief* Well just throw in another passport episode to top things up. M'sia very recently, which is exactly sometime last week, suddenly decided to abolish its restricted passport to revert to all international passports like Spore. Which is all fine with me except we are all restricted passport holders, and to top it off, all our passports are expiring this December! Hence another journey to the immigration office in my hometown is planned (LOTR, journey to Mt Doom) to acquire the ic and update the passport before the deadline (before the Great One Eye gains enough power...) Luckily everything was finished on Monday itself.

The thing abt this trip was the boredom. Nothing to do but play games, even typing games. In fact i tried the test and to my pleasant surprise, my WPM shot up to 50-60+ per min, excluding numbers. I brought extra Rm but ended up spending less than RM$150, mostly on sundries for the home. The only thing interesting was that I bought a coffin-shaped phone box. Err tried on my phone but its too big to fit in. Anyway a fitting end to my current phone which has served me faithfully for the past 4 over years. Hmm am aiming a new phone. Maybe the New nokia clam shell phone, the only thing is that its a basic phone I think. Hmm or maybe another brand. I shall see... The extra criteria now is that it must fit my phone pouch. :)

Still havent gotten anywhere with regards to watching anime vcds. Am practicing 2 new songs on guitar. Tidied a bit of my table. Am feeling very lazy, hardly go out. Sleep until noon. Still have cupboard x 2 to tidy :(