Updates of my 'Boring' life

Well on Friday morning, me and my family drove into msia to go to my mom's hometown for the long weekend. We headed to Segamat and its been more than 4 years since I've last visited it. We stayed at those 3 star hotel near the part of the new city. To sum it all up, the activities were mainly eating, more eating and much much more eating. Breakfast, lunch, tea and dinner. Lunch and dinner mostly zi ca (restaurant style). *pokes at stomach* Has it gotten bigger?

Cos the schedule was so packed (mom and her friends had so much eating and visting programmed lined up), there was little time for us to do what we really wanted, ie visit pirated stalls, shopping for clothes etc. But we managed to do that too for 2 hours on saturaday. Besides just eating, another constant was the rain. It rained everyday. Once we were caught in the rain with no umbrella and had to brave the rain to rush back to hotel to change for dinner. Walao. Not to mention, I had like RM$750 with me which I spent rather little. Had $690 remaining after the trip. Hmm should go to CitySquare in JB, I'll spend much more. Cos this trip no anime excpet for a few movies and 1 game. Not much to show for. Hmm didnt manage to get that movie "The King's Man", maybe ask candle to see in China got or not. But got another serial or movie that the guy acted in. Dun know about it cos now at hall.

On Sunday, returned to Spore and I went back to hall before 6pm. Nowadays I maple daily to train up my character before school and actual work begins...

Now I am a Chief Bandit (3rd Job) at lvl 70! Yay! Yesterday hit lvl 70.



Okay so back to training for this week.

Life is pretty alright at the moment. Wake up, Maple, eat and rest, Maple, sleep. Nice lifestyle.

Yay You-Tubes Up!

Videos I was talking about in the previous post uploaded.

1) Cool MTV with Ultra nice song. Check it out!

http://www.youtube.com/v/v27ItBNn_P0>

2) The video with Lee Jin Ki (Kee?), the clown in the show. Beautiful and nice smile. Nice earrings also.

Back to the Hall... (long post)

Yups, as the title mentions, I have moved back to the hall. Did it on Sunday evening. Chucked a few bags of notes, lps, laptop, a few clothes, my mp3 and its speakers and charger, my phone and its charger. Basically quite a few things to make my stay comfortable. When I opened the door, a musty stench blew past. Its like opening the doors of a crypt. Everything was as I had left it 11 weeks ago except for the junk mails slide under from the door and the dust.

Started cleaning up the place. Even forgot the toilet code until a kind neighbour pointed out for me. Was half cursing and swearing by the time I finished my cupboard, table, shelves and bed. Havent started on the floor yet!!! *faints* Where is Tab when u need her? *grumbles grumbles* Thot she moving back also? Dun tell me I have to clean up the whole room? Hey the floor is much bigger than a single room lor. Walao alot of dirt and hair on the floor. So bo bian. With no help on the way, I used a broom and went through every corner, sweeping out tonnes of hair and very very long ones too. (meaning = not possibly mine) and had to do a very thorough job to get most of it. Then used water and cloth to wipe the entire floor twice! This reminds me of the akido classes, where we have to clean the mats after practice, jap style:

First spread out cloth over two hands, grip the ends, put ur upper body in a pushup position and use ur legs to drive you around.... Man I had to relive that.... So by the time I was done, it was way past 10.30pm, though I arrived around 8.45pm. After that WWIII clean-up, I had a good bath to clean up myself and started stoning.

Basically I still had work pending. My supervisor wanted to see my lp files. It wasnt my idea to meet her so early.... It was two other bloody free trainees under her. Itchy backside.... no life is it? nothing to do have to come and screw me after I just finished tp? Sian the problem was that for the last 2-3 weeks I have not been doing the daily lps dilligently. So I was supposed to get started once I moved into hall. But after that massive cleaning, I was too tired for anything. Online to open maple shop and chat with siblings online. Later was digging around for food cos hungry and ended up eating lots of snacks. Promised to get some munchies tom.

Monday
So I woke up at 7.20am automatically and started to tidy up the lesson plan files. Lets just say from then until 12pm, I finished maths file. English too much to do and too little. Just chucked in the lesson plans from the tb which I followed closely. Prayed wont look too hard. Had a quick lunch with Tab, some good jap food with delicious fried tofu then rushed to library to print out and file in. Then as I forgot where the Sup's office is at, I had to spend 10mins running up and down to search for it. Finally found it, went in. She just flipped casually over first the maths file, then even more casually over the english file. Asked me how I felt about the tp, gave some general suggestions, then told me to inform her where I would be posted to.... Of course she gave me back my files... If I had known, I wont even had prepared that maths file properly.... Sian. Went for lecture.

There is a lecture which like less than half the people went to. Me and Tab ended up there listening to an overview lecture about how we GENERALLY fared for our assignments, tps etc. Then listen to alot of useless stuff about how they grade our assignment, which I couldnt be bothered at this point. Blah blah and ended up watching 2 recordings of groups presenting there RT. Wow, jeez, I am not keen anymore. I only want to know pass or fail, Fullstop. Went to JP with Tab and bought subway sandwich(dinner) and grapes(munchies). Then play maple with this friend, Icy, who arranged to meet online to train around evening. Was half watching SuperBand and half playing but once Lucify came out, I stopped for 5 mins to watch. Once they done, I go back to half playing, half watching. Well I quite like their style of music, visual rock and they did sound very good last week. This week not so good to me but judges praise like mad. Oh well they made it to next week. Yay one more highlight!

Today
Was up early again and decided that I wanted to get back in shape. Really like almost a year never exercise properly. I promised not to just wake up and Maple. Not healthy. So after brushing teeth, started some warm ups, crunches, dips, squats, leg lifts etc. My strength deteriorated but the general feel is still there. Still can do but not as many as before. Stairs currently no problem, have to try jogging. So after I did half an hour and cooled down, I opened Maple and started playing. Only to meet my bro and that friend, Icy online an hour later. Then we all train together until around 1.30pm. As different character class, we had different skills to add on and it was very benefical to all. Had a good time tag-teaming with my bro some of the tougher enemies. Yar I have another box! So far my 3rd box, and I have worn all the colours liao.

This week's fashion theme "Boxes" Eco-friendly, makes one look so stylish.Check it out!

#1 Cardboard Box- stylish


#2 Recycled Box - OUch! Hot!


#3 Paper Box - Eco-friendly! Fabulous darling.


Okay I'm not thinking straight. Its bloody 2am now and I am still awake. Will tell you why below. So Tada! I'm making a fashion statement in Mapleland. LOL!

Later got to go out. Went to see dentist cos almost time for scaling and also a tooth had a chip and there is a gap, that same tooth also had a natural hole, not cavity which the dentist suggested to drill do filling. But I was kinda reluctant as I had sensitive teeth. So the drilling is a torture and also had many bad experiences with other dentist about drilling. So I put off and off for one year until that chip came off and I braced myself and went to had the tooth filled. Hmm that dentist quite good, cos only mildly discomfort, no pain, no sensitive teeth feeling. And done pretty quickly. Except it set me back at 85 bucks, the rest is okay. 40 for scaling and 45 for filling. Can claim half from MOE so no problem.

Then after that went to see senseh with youngest sister, Geoky, to get medicine. That took up til 7pm. Ate dinner outside. Geoky was telling me that there is another guy in Korea, who acted in this movie about a King and a effiminate clown. It is a major HIT in US and other countries but havent come to Spore yet! Showed during end of December. Then that guy who acted as the clown really very beautiful!!! Some say even more beautiful than Gackt! Huh really. He became very very very famous after the movie. Like a Gackt of Korea. Woah really? So she gave me the official address and tell me to check out U-tube for it. Okay. I promised to go after Maple. So Geoky has a new craze now. Our upcoming trip to Segamat will see her frantically looking for that movie, the soundtrack(really very nice theme song-humming it now) Besides her other animes and yaoi comics. Oh well.

So after I returned to the Hall around 8pm, I bathe and played Maple. Met Icy again at 8.30pm for training part II and later my bro again. So played up to 11.30pm then stop. Set up maple shop and then watched for sales or the lack of it. Then I remembered that Korean movie. I went to their official website: The King's Clown. If you like DaChangJin, you would like this, ancient Korea setting. Checked out the pics and some videos, man that GUY is BEAUTIFUL. In fact too beautiful!!! Put gals to shame especially me... Sob sob :(

Okay the pics may not look good, but wait until u see the actual actor in the movie clips!!!! )*Shocking* "
God, you are not a fair god. Make guys so beautiful, its a sin to look at them. What about me?"

Anyway there is a music video with this ultra ultra ultra damn nice song! Go either to You-Tube or the offical webpage, Trailers, 3rd clip. (dunno why you-tube cannot host) Dmn nice tune, very dramatic song. Love it! Should download and ripped into Grey asap. That is like why I am still up, listening to it and blogging.

Oh oh, got one more clip, go You-Tube, there is a clip of that guy, Lee JunKi?? And the entire clip focused on him. Really he looks young and very very very beautiful too. Have features to die for. Then when he smiled, the gals keep screaming none stop... Warning alot of screaming in that clip. But he does look good. Is he better than Gackt? I dunno. I prefer gackt cos he can sing, play guitar, piano etc and compose his own songs, besides the look. Him, got to watch the movie to see if can act or not. So far from clip, cannot tell much... BUT another eye candy. After watching the trailer I also want to watch too. Not so much for the gay element but it looks interesting and like quite big-scale production type. Also I've caught a bit of the DaChangJin bug. My mom bought a few very famous serials like DaChangJin, YiDao, ShangDao. Quite good except I no time and patience to sit down and plow through at least 70 episodes each. I just watch parts and ask for the story.

GO AND VISIT AND MAKE UR OWN JUDGEMENT! I cannot host that you-tubes, its down. If can host later one, will put it up in my next post. So now I am still wide awake thinking of that song. Dmn nice song. The themes in the movie also nice and pleasant. Sign, if only tomorrow dun have stupid tutorial to go for. Definitely a waste of time one. Then evening got to go for Jap cos me going to segamat, Tab flying off to Cambodia. So Maple time reduced tomorrow, see how. Hmm I should think about what I want to get in Segamat.

Also another thing on my mind is Christine's upcoming wedding at the Church. Try as I might to think of things to wear but gothic stuff and dressing keeps coming to my mind! On second thoughts, it'll be fun. But Tab kept reminding me that its our senior's wedding leh... Okay so I'll wear a shirt. Then add chains, wristbands, trinklets, coffin handphone holder.... Maybe should have a hair cut and get contact lens.... Omg, wont even think of this if it is a Chinese wedding.... Exactly becos its a church thing so I have this urge.... hmm should go shopping in segamat see if got anything 'interesting' to wear. Need a bottom? shoes? haircut? lens? also lose some weight and work out to look fitter? Dunno. I shall strive to exercise a bit more now to be less flabby for a change.

Incidentally Tab is not living at the hall. Sunday went out with bf, leaving poor roommate to clean up whole room. Monday didnt stay, today didnt stay. Tom also not staying, thurs not too. Well I stayed cos I've cleaned up the place, brought my stuff liao. Noisy bitches have left so very peaceful now. Its like holidays so less than half the hall is occupied. Peaceful. Also my laptop can have uninterupted connection to play Maple and go online. Also can finish up any outstanding work eg lp files, disburse project money etc, tying up loose strngs. Also not to mention, already paid the rent, might as well live in for a short while. Next time want also dun have liao. Well the whole room is mine. Can sleep late and on lights at late nights like now. Can off fan if I am cold. (can throw stuff at her bed, jump on it, spray beer all over it... take her underwear and throw to guy's floor...) Hahaha.

Thinks that's all the interesting stuff I have for now.

I want to break Free!

Today is the official last day! *takes out champange and pops* Kampai! For all the hard work, sweat (from poor ventaliation) and tears.

Everyone who saw me today are like saying "last day right?" I am happy that at least for a short while I wont have to set alarm clock and wake up in zombie mode. Can maple in the afternoons, can sleep late in the evenings, can do what I like on sundays without LPs. Just finished up my last markings of correction.

Walao, yesterday went through, some didnt do properly and all are boys, luckily got oral for the boys, so I went up and caught these monkeys and made them finish up the corrections. The good thing is I got everyone except one. The bad thing was by the time I was done, it was already 3.30pm! Shoots! After makaning, its already 4pm. Took a cab home with my thick lp files so that my load on friday would be lighter. Knocked out. Changed and slept until 7.30pm. Pheng... woke up to eat dinner then get siblings to help pack the tibits. One pack got a jelly, a pack of crackers, a long chewy sweet and a chocolate biscuit. Man I got lots of leftovers as not enough to repacked the leftovers inside equally. By the time we were done, its close to 9pm and I spent some time online watching PVs (promotional videos = mtv) from the various jap visual rock groups that I follow. Then its time to sleep.

Today got Jap test and though I did study, I had almost forgotten all of it. Hope I dun hear from sensei. "sumimasen yenn san..." Argh! Better do last minute mugging today after school. Will go off on the dot.

The other trainee seems to be absent today. She went to hospital for her pregnancy check-up and has not been feeling well lately due to morning sickness. Too bad though cos I heard from that P5 class students that they are going to have a party for her??? I dunno how they knew she was going off but I think they did not know I am going off too. Well the better it is for me. Dun want to distract them from their studies and easier to leave without attachments or too much hoo-hars.

Oh I just went up and given the tibit packs to both classes. Both classes were shocked when I announced that it was my last day with them. Then I wished them all the best for the exams and walked around for them to pick up the tibits pack. As expected, it was a welcome treat for them all. Most were very excited about getting tibits. Then as I was walking off from the P5 class, one female student, the one whom gave me a get-well-card after I came back from my 2nd mc, asked for my handphone number. Err I told her later. Another passed me a small name card for me to fill up. Hmm so back at the staffroom, I had a dilemna, whether to devulge my hp or email to them. Hmm but the two are good students. And I felt if given to them, they are more of a keep-sake than anything. Hopefully they wont flood me with mails or calls or sms, in good faith, I filled up that card, made one for that gal and handed back to them after recess. The P5 had the same recess as the P4 and I had a P4 class immediately after their recess, so I walked over, handed to them then walked off to the P4 class. The P4 class also shocked that I was leaving, but I told them that I was studying, and if I study hard, they should too for their exams. Again the tibits were very welcomed. Anyway my load is much lightened.

The plan is to pack up and aim to leave by 1.30pm. Give out some of those leftover sweets if I could find the students. Need to study for jap test and rest. After jap test then celebrate. I've brought my Educator card, so if going drinking at Timber, got discount. Dunno though... See how first.

Okay add on from where I left off in the afternoon. Currently at home *grumbles grumbles* cos Tab got something on after jap test which she neglected to tell me earlier. Then I tried to make backup ie krynnder and ting, both busy. Thanks man. Hello what do you expect. Its last day of work, plus after jap exam, plus its a Friday!!!! Argh... nothing to say for that. Oh well, I had to settle my own dinner as I told my mom I would be going out. *grumbles grumbles* Well I'll just indulge in fastfood... duh... burger king dinner. Oishikunai!

Hmm in the end, I left work about 1.30pm. Had asked one student to see me for corrections after school, never turned up. I waited for half an hour, thanked my cts for their guidance and handed the cupboard key to the office staff. Just when I was about to walk off, that female student called and ran up to me. But when she was near, she didnt say much. Well I just asked her how was the english paper, which she shyly and very timidly said not good. (she is a very quiet and shy student in class) Gave her a pat and told her to try a bit harder, sure can one (why am I always doing this motivation thing???) Then bade her goodbye and walked off. I wondered what was it she wanted to say? I thought I had given her my contact details after recess? I dun carry high hopes that I've transformed any lives or whatever and I forgot to bring camera to take pictures but nevermind. Memories will suffice. In fact I wanted to get home earlier cos of Jap test and also mainly cos I was not feeling so good. Just dead-tired, my face was pale and lips purplish. I saw my own reflection in the staff toilet mirror and thought to myself "ghost!". Anyway tried to get a cab but too many people in the queue, so took mrt and bus home. Bought lunch home and ate. Then around 3.50pm, concus on bed, dead to the world until 5pm where I dragged myself up to go for Jap class. At least I am glad that tomorrow there is nothing on, a day to rest cos of elections. Can sleep damn late.

Oh one more news update. U all are familiar with Maplestory right? My pet which I bought immediately upon hearing my posting, still remember?

Yar, sob sob, my pig is DEAD!!!
It died naturally of age. It had reached its 3 mths lifespan.
My faithful pig which has been by my side throughout my practicum, is dead on the day that I regained my freedom.
NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Another $4.50 to revive my pig!!!! NO!!!!!!!



Sob sob my box is gone, my pig is dead. I am at home on a friday evening after tp and jap test. No!!!! *Sobs sobs snivel snivels*

Oh well, I'll go and play Pharoh, play ruler of Egypt then have an early night. Tom watch SuperBand cos Lucify the group dress quite visually, maybe can learn a bit and 'dress up' for Christine's wedding... Hmm I'll need a tie, hair gel, eye shadow....

YAY!!!!! One more bloody day to go. In which I only have 1 class cos of the exams again. Tom I will be santa hellbound with my sack of tibits for farewell. *Groans* Tonight have to pack them. Some felt $24 bucks is too much to spend on these kids. I dunno. Due to the nature of my workplace, there are quite a number of kids whom come from low income. Guess it'll be a treat for them. In certain classes most are okay so if one buys a cheapo mechanical pencil or pen, think they wont appreciate it also. Tibits seems a neutral choice. If they dun like, give family or friends though I have not met one whom dislike tibits.

The P5 class generally well behaved, did most of their work, participated in class and listen to my sometimes dry and boring English lesson. So they deserve something, though they have been really well-trained. Tom no lesson with them but will go up to give them b4 their recess.

The P4 class gets to me on some days. Once I almost lost control and almost teared AND nearly scolded them "shut the bloody fuck up!!!!' (imagine the repercussions of the 2nd option) But I controlled myself. There is really no point in getting too angry, cos its not personal. So I calmed myself and continued. Stood there folding my arms and keeping quiet until the class noticed and quietens on its own. Even keeping them back once for 15mins after school becos they were too disruptive. I didnt allow them to move until they kept quiet. The noisy ones were hushed up by their peers. After that things dun go too bad. BUT there are some who try hard in class though maths is not their thing, some who will take the initiative to ask for help, ask about homework. Generally they do greet me outside of class and even outside of school. Most dun run around when I am looking at them but do so when I turn around *signs* BUT they too deserve a little something for their general efforts. Some dun deserve it but most try so its good enough for me. Tom one more lesson with this class, final revision also. Hope to be able to cover some useful parts. Then last 5 mins then give them the stuff.

Just glad that the day is over for now. Its more bearable when its near the end somehow. Feel like going out to reward myself but still feel a bit anemic and tired. See how things go. I seriously dun feel like going back to the workplace but I dun have a choice. Last time write-in and call-in also still sent me back. Some collegues have been asking if I would most likely be coming back, I'll tell them "dunno" If they ask further if I want to come back, I'll say "its a bit far and inconvenient for me in the mornings." Dun care about the repercussions of that. Its not negative, its the bloody truth. There is no point at this juncture to write-in BECOS one letter from the P decides everything liao. If I write-in and went through alot of trouble only to still be sent back, I tell ya, the feeling really stinks and the stay would be very very sian. Like what I felt earlier before the practicum. So I'll just leave it. I chatted with the other trainee, and told her of my troubles in changing tp venue and she told me that b4 we enter NEI, the P would have to fill in some forms with regards and they have the option to request for the contract to come back. SO I dunno but strongly suspected that the P ticked that option for me. That could be why my efforts all went for naught and almost my entire stay reeks of frustration. So if I have to stay at a place for at least 3 yrs, I dun think I could stand feeling frustrated for 3 years cos I failed once again to change, despite repeated tries and lots of effort. Hence I just decided to leave it. The P over-rides me anyway and other P's may not take priority. So I'll just secretly hope that they dun want me.

A funny thing though. Yesterday during contact time, I sat with this collegue whom just came back from maternity. She was from my mentor's gang of friends and we often eat together. She asked me if I would be posted back. I looked at her and told her in a low tone that I dun want to. I already went to temple to pray, if cannot really nothing to say. Asked her if she would help pray for me at her mosque. She looked back at me and said that she also want to get out. But she didnt. So what makes me sure it'll work for me? Argh!!!! I jokingly asked her to change mosque. It lightens up the sianness of the long meeting yesterday but of course at my expense.

Most probably going to go home right after school. Bring some corrections to mark and I am done. I feel like celebrating but dunno what to do yet. Maybe give myself a good treat and relax the whole day. Sounds good.

Almost Free!!!!!

The last vistages of freedom is almost upon us that I could smell and taste it.

It has been the only source of motivation so far to get through this week even though I wake up feeling rather unwell this week. It started with the usual stomaches that persisted throughout the day, even in class. And it has been on-going for 3 days liao. Imagine waking up with the 'usual' stomache, reach work, another one brewing, later on some more. It really makes me wonder how much shit can a person really hold within? Gross question but I really think its alot. Anyway at home would be a couple of times. What is the fucking wrong with my stomache. Too much shit in my life is my simple verdict.

So these few days I wake up in the mornings feeling anemic. My head felt kinda of heavy. Sleeping around 12am didnt help things but I had already slept for about 2-3hrs in the afternoon. That's why the days seem short but there are things to do. Well my own personal things. BUT no mapling. Too tired to do so. At this rate, wonder if I could ever make it through 3 years of full-load? No use wondering. It will come and I will have to face it and make do with it.

These days have been slacking off whenever I could at work. Not much lessons for one class cos of exams so I only saw them today. Which I did a listening comprehension and corrections for the entire thematic unit. Yay! Out of the way. The other class I have lessons as per normal but as its revision time and near the end of the day, most of the time I would have recovered sufficiently by then before the class. But those corrections are still outstanding and I have not done them or marked one of their exercise. WB exercises also not completed. Have to hand them over. BUT I do look forward to this weekend despite the impending Jap test, which was postponed again last week and I had to re-study cos I had clean-forgottten alot of stuff. After 11.30am today, its officially last day tomorrow!

The other trainee with me has gotten it easy somehow. She is currently pregnant so kena mc for 5 days cos of intense vomiting and today she took off to go visit hospital for checkup. BUT since I dun even have a guy currently, no bf, no marriage and certainly no sex, I aint getting pregnant in the near and forseeably long future so no such 'benefits'. Other benefits include the ease of getting transfers, paid maternity leave of 3mths and even unpaid leave offered. (Not sure if trainee get unpaid leave...)

Anyway I tried to rest when I can and slack. Refuse to showcase anything extra, except chase students to stay back, but not often. Slack off at lesson planning for now. Not staying unless I had to. Going off early if I am done. Dabao to mark at home if I can so I dun have to stay on while I am unproductive at that timing. Am usually stoning after the first morning class and reading blogs, surfing a little bit of internet or else I am hogging the toilet, given my predictably sick stomache. Even now giving me 'trouble'. Classes in another 1 hour time, most prob will go visit the toilet again then see if there is anything I could do or clear up. Been steadily bringing things home to lighten my load on the final day.

Not much privacy here at all, a bit sian. This sunday I should be moving back to the hall and have to get ready my lesson plans file for supervisor on monday meeting. Going to go back to dust-filled room with howling bitches neighbours, 6 floors to climb, located in a forest. Well it still sounds better than work.

Faithful Leader

Nothing much to say for now. But dunno about the leader part.

A very very 'drunken' weekend

As the countdown is finally down to the final week of practicum, and there is a long weekend courtesy of Labour Day, coupled with the supposed jap test, Saturday was to be a day of celebration after jap lessons. BUT the test is postponed to one week later, which meant I have to study again for another week as I had forgotten most of it as soon as I had finished studying...

Oh well, me and Tab ended up queuing at Fish & Co in wheelock place for a while then we feasted on some very delicious fish and had 2 drinks each. Highly recommended cocktails: Deep sea, lime goggie and fishy maria. Then as krynnder and zx were joining us, we went over to Big O that was just next door and queued. After we got in, me and tab shared a Darkside and a milkshake. It was like too much fattening stuff in a day. Not to mention it did burn a bit of a hole in me pocket. Went home feeling satisfied, think its the drinks.

The next day, met Tab again to go to the Concourse to buy supposedly cheap stationary and toys to give our classes to bid farewell. (But for my case, I have a hunch that its not really farewell...) Lets just say, there were just 5-6 shops selling tibits, stationary in bulk. And it was not all that cheap, cos there is a tibit shop near my place which sold some cheaper. Hence I decided that I was not buying and not going to lug those tibits around town. But Tab did. Okay, I did help her to carry at some point.

Anyway dinner was at Marches. I was telling Tab about my impression that whenever I or friends end up at Marches, we'll just end up eating Rosti. My sister agreed with me, saying that the Rosti is one of the cheapest things on the menu and its filling. Hence the choice. Tab's reply was that they sold good rosti, she like potatoes, she buys it often. Huh? Hello but eating rosti at almost every visit is just too much. Hence I resolutely promised myself that I would eat something else. Tab went off first to get her food and predictably its rosti. Well moo moo to that.

My turn, I walked 2 rounds. As I had some diet restriciton imposed on me ie no chicken skin, less chicken, no chilli and no deep fried food, suddenly alot of the more interesting food were out. Seafood also out cos mostly deep fried. Stir-fried vege just seemed too much for me alone. I walked straight past rosti without looking. Went to the steak stall and ordered Meat loaf set. Not that band Meat Loaf but the real meat loaf. It came with an egg, slice of meat loaf and lots of mash potatoes and gravy. I'll cut a piece of meat loaf, mix with mustard, ketchup, mash, gravy and egg yolk. It tasted nice. Though the meat loaf taste just like luncheon meat except without its saltiness. So Tab tried one and said "english luncheon meat". Well moo moo to me.

Over dinner, I continued about the Rosti issue. Finally I realized why so many people ordered rosti- there is just not that much choice of food in Marches and rosti was really one of the cheapest besides the jumbo chicken set. Tab disagreed saying that her rosti cost about $12.90, which later to turn out to be $9.90 as she was mistaken. So our discussion turned poetic when Tab suddenly sprouted some poem about Rosti.

"Oh my delicious Rosti,
____forgot____ for me" (Tab pls put up ur poem or limmerick at ur blog)
My face turned... Pui pui.

Anyway then the conversation went to "Da Rosti Conspiracy". OMG!

To solve da rosti code, one have to purchase a serving of rosti and piece together the individual strands of potatoes to find the code. If that fails, then try by putting the rosti strands in formation with the sausage provided to find the next clue...

Okay it was too much and I turned my attention back to the rosti stall which really enjoyed good biz. There were some people whom walked around, milled around staring at the other food but eventually they ended up buying rosti. Its a rosti conpsiracy!

Later after dinner, we searched for Galiano at Carrefour but couldnt find it and headed down to Timber. Near SMU. There was a performance by UBlue, a rather popular blue band. We went in around 8.30pm and it was rather empty so we ordered 2 drinks. The drinks were normal priced but the happy hour pricing made it more affordable. A snowball for Tab and a Valencia (appricot liquer with orange) for me. Not bad. The Happy Hours are daily 6-9pm and there is 10% discount for educators daily but not during HH. So we chatted and took photos of our drinks. Tab commented that the series of photos she took, can tell a story. Well after alot of crapping, we ordered another drink before 9pm. A Waterfall for Tab (vodka with cranberry and grapefruit juice) and an Earthquake for me (gin, bourbon and vermouth-A sweet or dry fortified wine flavored with aromatic herbs and used chiefly in mixed drinks) It was a stronger drink, think they mixed with soda water cos couldnt taste any juices.

The performance started around 10pm and the band alternated between blue and soul. Whenever they hit the blues, I felt sleepy then perked up during their soul performance. The place was packed by then and many were eating the pizza, which is a thin crust pizza baked on wood. It looked good. Should try that. Whilst during the last blue song before their break, I noticed that Tab shut her eyes and thought she was either sleeping with rem eye movements, listening to music trying to see the picture in her brain?, or tired? So i asked her. It turned out she was very tired so she closed her eyes but didnt want to sleep cos of the good music but she couldnt take it liao. So we finished up our drinks and went off during the break. A pity but nevermind, cos I dun really dig blues, even soul pales in comparision to rock. Yar, give me a good rock band anytime. Still the place is nice, not so much smoke, open-air, HH cheap drinks, also discount for educators! One more watering hole discovered!

Again after those 2 days-in-a-row drinking and eating and merry-making, it set me back with a hole in my pocket. Hmm I updated my passbook and noted that I didnt save much this month. Think most of it went to hostel fees $260, $200 allowance advance for mom for next month, $240 exchanged to RM for trip to msia next month and the few eating and drinking sessions and taxi rides this month. Hmm should cut down a bit. Not much left and havent bought the stuff for class and collegues and Ct yet. Going to have a family holiday at Segamat, my mom's hometown, during the coming Vesak long weekend. Going to visit my brother and my entire family is going. First time in god-knows-when since we go as a family to somewhere else except home to msia. Something new and worth looking forward to. Yay official countdown is 4 more weekdays to final freedom.