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Well, it’s been a while since I last updated on a Sunday night, eh?

Did an impromptu reservation with Margarita’s, this Mexican restaurant, at the recommendation of duckhawk. Thanks for the recommendation dude! This was to celebrate my baby’s birthday.

We had quite a bit, in terms of the main course, but eventually, it was the drink that filled us up. Total damage, $92.00.

Watched The Longest Yard at home in the afternoon before heading out. A lovely show man, I could have laughed my socks off … ‘cept for the fact that I wasn’t wearing any.

Went to her friend, Mas’s place for a gathering. Food+movie. Watched You Got Served … again, for the 3rd time. This is one of the few movies that you can just go on watching and watching over and over again!

Went off at about 11, after watching this fab show about dismantling cars, and putting them back together again, on Starhub Digital Cable. POWER!

Rushed down to the Church of the Holy Spirit for my nephew Brandon’s baptism, only to find out that he could not be baptised today. Fed up man, but not as fed up as Ronnie … poor man, I understand how he feels.

After that bummed event, we went to have lunch at this Song Kee Fishball Noodles restaurant at Thomson Road. Rating after buying so many dishes, 2/10.

It was SO terrible, that I could only claim the fish fillet to be nice, but even that was too salty.

The homemade barley was super bland, even to my mom. The hotplate noodles tasted like c.r.a.p. Everyone elses’ noodles tasted equally as bad. The crispy beancurd left me to dream on about Boon T0ng Kee’s version. And the dessert, all 3 of them, Green Bean Soup, Pulat Hitam and Glutinous rice and something, tasted BAD!

To sum things up, it sucked badddddddddddd.

After that awful lunch, me + gf went with my dad to Singapore Expo to check out the Big Boyz Toyz exhibition, primarily for the motorbikes. Went through the majority of them, except for the adult corner, which I felt embarassed to go to, cos my dad was there. Damage, $24.00.

Went to Sitex after that, then went home to watch UnderWorld.

At about 8pm, me + gf went to Evans Road with my mom to have dinner at this Prata Cafe. RECOMMENDED! Spent $30.90. Good food, nice eye candy, and ample space to sit.

After eating, while walking back to the bike, I saw Xuemin and Lixian’s ex coach, with her gf, and some other … friends. The ex coach’s gf kept looking at me like she knew me. Scary.

Alright … time to stop blogging for the moment. Pretty stressed about tmr’s itinery.

Weekly report due. Accident stats report due. RC Compliation due. Work work work. Bah.

Btw, did I mention that Newcastle just lost to Everton? BAH!

No, seriously! I really have no time to blog nowadays!

Life has just got too busy over the past month, what with the shifting of office, to Christmas coming and work and … *faints*

Actually, last Monday, I did pre-blog. On MS Word. It’s still in office … I might copy+paste that in the next few days when I actually complete it.

Been really tight with the meetings and stuff. Just did my appraisal with my boss on Friday. He’s recommending a promotion for me. Well, I hope that it comes with a substantial pay raise. Fuck that paper qualification shit. It’s a-coming. I just hate it when people associate those with no diplomas or degrees to be of a stupid sort. Mind you, many people started doing their thang without paper. It came along shortly.

And I plan to be one of those.

Newcastle lost 3-0 to Chelsea at Stamford Bridge. It was coming, I knew it. So, what’s with the rumours that Wayne Bridge is coming to Newcastle? Suddenly, Chelsea left backs are in season with the board eh?

I think that my NUFC link is going to start decomposing soon … I’m sorry.

Ok ok … enough of that. I promise myself to try and blog more frequently … *crosses fingers* till then …

Sigh. Time flies when you’re not working.

Then again. Time flies faster when you are.

Finished that 2 day course at The British Council. I would recommend it to all working adults actually. “Business Writing Essentials” is the name of the course. Though it’s a little steep at $567/- per person, it would be great if your company would sponsor you for it.

Note from the lecturer Greg to me; “You’re almost faultless.”

*b o i n g*

Alex is happy. Ha! I’ve always loved English, even though I know peanuts about nouns and verbs and all the rest.

Okay, secondarily, I watched a couple of movies at home. I caught “Madagascar” … finally! Then I also watched “Silence of the Lambs” which really was a good movie of that year. Evening time just now, saw “Cats and Dogs” … I love dogs!

Cooked macaroni for dinner. Cooked too much macaroni, and too little chicken. Bah!

Who wants to watch Chicken Little? But please, no weekend shows can? I just dunche believe in splurging $9.50 for a cartoon, no matter how good it is.

Sigh … work tomorrow … *dr0ne drone drone*

Gotta go! Seeya!

Alright, I promised an update. Well, you’re getting one … kinda. It’ll be a little rushed and all, but I guess that it will do.

Let’s replay the entire two weeks as though it were yesterday. Hmm.

31st October

Monday was my last day of work at the old building, which will be leased out at the start of the year. Towards the end of the day, after finishing with the weekly report, I set out to clear my belongings from the table and cabinet.

Goodness, it took 9 boxes to complete the lot! 2 years at the same place can really make you accumulate a lot of junk, huh?

There will be some fond memories of the place … sigh. Oh well.

1st November

Didn’t do much at all. Stayed over at Ai Ling’s place, bummed a little. Then went to her friend Loges’s place to celebrate Deepavali. Loges is quite a pretty lady, and I was simply amazed to find out that she used to be VERY wide. Now, she’s about just half of what she used to be, and the curves are all at the right places.

Stayed on till about 8 or so, then we made our way back to my place for we intended to leave home early.

Found out that my dad didn’t leave the Malaysian currency which I asked him to change for me at home. So I called him up, to realise that he wanted me to go INTO Malaysia on motorcycle to get the money from him.

Die!

And to top things off, he was due to leave JB for a game of golf at 9am, so he requested for me to meet him early in the morning.

That spelt the premature death of the dental appointment which was pre-planned earlier.

2nd November

Woke up at 4+am in the morning, and rode off to Malaysia with passports in tow at around 5.15am.

Upon reaching the Woodlands area, it started raining … heavily. Pissed me off.

No, what pissed me off even more was that motorcycles are supposed to use the BKE to enter JB. What gives with that?! Cheesed off lah! Took me 4 tries, all because the signage for the Entry to JB was like way in front.

Okay, so I wasn’t in a great mood, and the rain added to it.

Finally managed to enter JB at around 7.30am. Dad brought us to this ulu place to have Bak Kut Teh. Fantastic, I tell you! I wished I could bring myself there some other time, but then, I guess not. It’s too secluded already.

Rode around the coastal part of JB till about 9+am, then we made our way to Holiday Plaza. Won’t say what I bought there except for a packet of Watson’s tissues.

Took a crap at that hotel next to the Plaza as well. Nice!

We went back to Singapore after 11am. Almost ‘died’ at the checkpoint due to the CO produced by all the bikes there. I also missed the Malaysian checkpoint as well thanks to the fella who was sleeping. Basket. Made me walk all the way back again lor.

After JB, we went to Causeway Point to have dinner, when we chanced upon this Raffles Dental Centre which was offering scaling + polishing for $42 only! Mai tu liao! Too bad it was appointment based only. We made appointments for the following Wednesday.

Went back home exhausted. Bought food and all for our proposed picnic the next day.

3rd November

Happy mood was spoilt when I realised that mom actually invited herself as well as my sister’s family along for the picnic.

Ai Ling wasn’t too pleased with that, and this prompts me to say; it’s hard to please everyone, especially if they are all your loved ones.

Till today, I just cannot fathom the thought of both the women in my life quarrelling. To say that it would break my heart, would be an understatement.

Anyways, back to the picnic.

We made our way to Labrador Park for our picnic. Stayed there for quite a while, 6 hours? In the end, I think that it was actually quite nice to have my family there as well. For one, we could not possibly carry that much food there on my bike. I’m sure that she would agree with me on that point.

After the picnic, Ai Ling and I went to Tiong Bahru Plaza, to walk around for a bit. Saw this Guinness World Records 2004 edition going at $6, so I went ahead and bought it. Now at least I can proudly say that I own at least ONE copy of that. Heh.

4th November

Went to Sentosa in the afternoon, after enduring the rain which spoilt our plans to go in the morning.

All’s well that ends well with that.

All except the sad fact that Sentosa doesn’t allow motorcycles into the Island.

I mean, what gives? I was prepared to pay the $2 extra surcharge for that as it was. Sheesh! Seriously, not many places in Singapore takes care of motorcyclists like me.

With that said, I move on.

5th November

Saturday morning, I went back to CityCab to guide the movers with my belongings to the new building. Took a whole bloody half day, till 12.40pm.

Waited for Ai Ling to get done with her trim + colouring at Monsoon. That took another few hours, till 5.30pm.

Played a bit of basketball with Eugene, Chung Hao, Euphemia, and a few others whom I do not know.

Went for dinner somewhere near Queenstown (I think) then we went home. Had to get up early again the next day.

6th November

The day that I was waiting for. 2 things that I was eagerly anticipating. The first meet-up between me and the rest of the Barflies, as well as Paint ball!

Met 9 (of course) Mandrake, Tigerkiller, Duckhawk, Challenge Phoenix, Curious George, KengMeng, MakanGuru, Natsu (after that) and some others.

Paint ball was fun! I really had a wonderful workout. But of course, by the end of the session, my knee died on me and I started to limp slightly again.

Had my shower, then went back to Ai Ling’s place for her to take a bath. Found out from ah 9 that the guys had almost finished lunch, and were thinking of going to Cineleisure’s K-Box.

Ai Ling and I decided to have lunch at Adam Road Hawker Centre before meeting the rest. Wasn’t too bad. But the Rojak wasn’t up to par.

Met up with the Barflies, where I was forced to sing a song for them. Bah. Stayed on till about 6+pm, then we went back home first.

Went to Ai Ling’s place to catch DareDevil. Heh. Can’t blame me. I love movies based on Fictional or Marvel characters.

Went back home after the movie, dreading the next day.

7th November

To say that I hate the new building is an understatement to say the very least. There are so many ‘eyes’ around. And, now you don’t have only CityCab drivers going up to you, but Comfort and YTC cabbies as well! Ugh!! And the space is so darn small lah! Sian!

8th November

Work went on as per normal.

After work, we went to Jurong Kechil to see the doctor. But alas, the doctor was on leave! Wasted trip! Bah!

Rushed down after that to Sin Ming to watch Thomson CC play against TPY West CSC? What a wasted trip. Barely 5 minutes after coming, the match was adjourned thanks to some poor sportsmanship by the opposite team. Bah. Not since Minyi walked out of the court during Yuhua Cup had I seen such poor display of sportsmanship. Sigh.

Went back to Ai Ling’s place to watch CSI : Miami. After which, I went back home.

9th November

Yesterday was a busy … BUSY day. Not to mention screwed up. Some jerk-off at work took a whole stack of letters which I had generated from the system at about 8+am, and only returned it to the printer at 4+pm. There was also this cabby who refused to accept that the case that had happened to him earlier on during the day when someone threw a cigarette butt at him, and smashed his door, an accident.

If a tree suddenly uprooted and fell onto your car, well, that I might accept. But NO, an act of mischief does NOT qualify as an accident.

After work, Ai Ling and I went to Causeway Point for our dental appointment.

On our way there, Mother Nature decided to play a cruel prank on us, and started giving us many brilliant droplets of ‘life’. I was not amused. That’s 2 rainy days in 2 trips to the Woodlands area.

Result? We went to Raffles Dental Centre soaked to the core. A nice thing though, was that the dentist, Dr Wong, as well as her nurse-cum-cashier really made me feel at home. And not to mention, that was one heck of a GOOD scaling that she gave me.

10th November

Today, well, marked the start of a 2 day English writing course at British Council. It’s situated at Cecil Street, which also meant that I could not ride my bike in as I was not that familiar with the car parking system there.

I also noted that it costs something like $1.50 per half an hour of parking, so I decided to screw that part till I realised that Market Street’s car park complex was just 2 streets away. Hooray! Going to ride tomorrow!

The teacher, Greg, strikes me as nothing short of amazing. Firstly, he is a Singaporean PR.

There is nothing amazing about that.

The amazing thing is that he is originally from California, and he teaches perfect Queen’s English! No such thing as Recognize, just Recognise. How cool is that?

And, his way of English is the kind of fluent, yet without accent, kind of English. That’s just class.

Alright … how’s that for a major update? Took me the whole of 2 hours blogging this in-between my Diablo 2 game.

Well, that ends my update for the moment. Stay tuned.

Well, as good as my word is, I have shifted over to blogspot with effect from today.

I won’t be blogging much this whole week. Well, no doubt it’s the holidays and all, but most of the time will be spent away from home. Nope, Alex is no longer a homeboy.

Order of the rest of the week goes like this …

Wednesday – Heading over to the polyclinic to have my teeth checked on, following which, I will be going into Malaysia for some shopping.

Thursday – Picnic at Labrador Park. This will be my first time having a picnic. Hopefully, Mother Nature does not ruin the day for me.

Friday – Suntanning and all @ Sentosa! Once again, I hope that Mother Nature does not ruin the day. Heck, I hope Mother Nature does not ruin the entire week!

Saturday – Crap, have to go to office to direct the movers who are shifting my belongings over to the other building. After that, I will be sending Ai Ling over to Monsoon. Afternoon, I do hope to get some basketball going on at CCC.

Sunday – Paintball with Ah 9 and the rest of the barflies. Ai Ling will be coming as well!

Today was an exceptionally hot day! Uber hot I tell you! But, I’ll rather it be hot than rainy anytime … unless of course, I am sleeping *smiles*

Anyways … it’s time to cut things short for this first ‘official’ post. Heh. I’ll try my best to upkeep this blog for as long as possible.

Cherrios,

Alex