it rained yesterday and the weather is very cold. it dropped till 14 degrees at mid day! that was how cold it was and i was just wearing shirt and three quarter pants.

didn't do much actually yesterday. followed my auntie to do some shopping and that's pretty much it. actually i'm wondering how i would bring back all the stuff that i've bought because there isn't much space in the bags, i guess i have to get bigger ones before i leave.

that's about it.
it's kinda short but yeah.

sorry for the lack of update. internet wasn't available. so this is the rough detiails of what happened these past 2 days.

Friday- I didn't do much because my cousins were out and my aunt had to do something so that pretty much left me and my granny at home. So i spent the whole day watching movies and reading books and going on the internet. At night, we went to this bar to watch my aunt's friend play and apparently he's a drummer and his band played 80s and 70s songs which was not bad for their standard. after that, we wanted to go to the famous casino in perth but i didn't bring my passport do they didn't allow me to go in. my aunt created a scene with the bodyguards, questioning them why i couldn't go in when i brought my IC. It was already like 1 plus in the morning so we decided to come back home instead.

Saturday- Do you know that yesterday was Earth Day and at 8pm, you are encouraged to off all your lights at home so that we can spare a thought for mother nature. Well, it's already a lost cause because it's too late doing this. We just need to be conciously aware of what we're doing and what we can do to delay it. So 8pm, my aunt invitied most of her friends over and we had dinner, IN THE DARK! we brought candles and it was as if it was like for a Valentine's day event. ahahaha.... after that me and my cousin went to this club to look around see how is it like. Well, i would say it's comparably to MOS. ahaha. so yeah.

Sunday- I just came back from a flea market. it was like the market in singapore, at Sungei Road. they sold old/unwanted stuffs at cheap prices but most of the people there went there to buy potted plants because they were really affordable. One thing i learnt that people in perth, during the free time, they commit a lot of their free time to gardening so every house has their own gardens. well, come to think of it, something like this won't happen in singapore. ahaha. soon, i'm off to a place called Fremantle and to the beach.

miss you like crazy dum dum

Frying Brains for sale

day- 5?

yeah i think it's day 5 in perth. days here pass so fast. i think i mentioned that in the previous post. and it's expensive. yeah that too...

well it's friday today and tonight we'll be going to this bar/pub to watch one of my auntie's friend perform and then we'll head to this casino/hotel/event place at Bursewood? It seems that stars like Justin Timberlake has performed here and this weekend, Celine Dion will be taking the stage. It seems a lot of famous people have come and go, unlike Singapore where we get to see stars once in a while.

I came here with the intention of losing weight but NOOO. i've been eating a lot. Every single hour i must munch on something. Like tidbits, chocolates, this DRINK WHICH I LIKE it's called LLB. i'll take a photo of it and then post it when i come back. hmmm... granny's the one been doing the cooking lately, so it's pretty much like what i eat at home. I WAS EXPECTING western food here, but never mind, it's expensive and oily!

okay, i think for now, that's it. i will go back to continue writing the script that i had in mind.

tadah..
and to BJ:
DUDE, STOP IT. I didn't come here to see any chicks. i've already got one back in singapore, right dum dum.

I hear birds all the time

day don't know what-

i'm very tired nowadays. maybe because of the sun or what. everytime i go out and just come back, i feel like sleeping. shit man. i've got no time to write on anything. yeah. but these 2 days, i've been going to the shopping centre nearby to get stuffs like shirts and stuff. yeah. things here are very expensive. like a bottle of water cost 2 dollars. a plate of fried rice cost $8 SINGAPORE dollars but of course it's very nice and the portions are big. the shirts are pretty okay, but compared to singapore, well, you could say some stuffs are cheap some stuffs are pretty much same to singapore.

yesterday we went to the fruit farm which was an hour ride from where i stay. when we reached there, there was nobody. it was like deserted and supposedly, the best fruits come from this place. so my auntie and i quietly stole some fruits from the farm there. not baskets of them ! but just a few. after that we went shopping again. this 2 days has been really spending a lot of money.

now, i just had lunch. grandma cooked tomyam fried noodles and i feel like sleeping again. wanted to follow my cousin to the gym but it's so expensive! 20 dollars?

that's all.
will update soon.
and i don't think i'm posting any pictures, the internet here is slow!
=)

miss you honey! check your email dum dum

Perth 3

day 3 perth-

everyday in perth goes by very fast. before i know it, i'm here typing this post and this morning felt like just minutes ago.
i got sun burnt because of the increase in temperature and at the same time it was cold too!
we went to the south of perth called mandurah to take a river cruise and we managed to see some dolphins. we got there to mandurah by the new rail trains, but unfortunately, it is like very vandalised on the windows. they SCRATCH on the windows.

after that, we had like fish and chips in the cruise itself while looking out to the sea and after it ended, we went to the local stores to get some ingredients to cook dinner. granny wanted to cook some indian curry so we bought a lot of spices. surprisingly, my auntie eats rice here which i find quite odd. i thought australians eat a lot of meat and veggie but she still prefers having 'singaporean' food.

that's pretty much today. i heard we're going to the farm tomorrow to see... fuji apples i think. more riding !

take care

i will buy for you stuffs okayyyyy? love you. muah. missing you

Day 2

Day 2 perth-

we woke up pretty early and cooked banana pancake with auntie. i made one myself and i didn't turn out as what i had expected. at around 10, we met some of aunt's friend and we proceeded to this place called 'Malaga' and we went to the market there. We had lunch there and i was starving. i had kebab with chicken, lamb and beef and i was full after i ate half of it.

then we proceeded to this mosque around the area and just looked around. after that we went to this "nouget' factory. it wasn't really a factory more like a shop and they sell things there SO expensive. we walked around and decided not to buy so much. after that, the uncle we met earlier brought us to a place to drink tea and i couldn't consume anything hot or with caffeine because i've been drinking coffee the whole morning. so i drank this alcoholic-free drink that tasted like beer ahaha. granny at this point was tired and we went back but on the way back we went pass the university that my cousin is studying at.

fyi, the weather is very hectic. the sky is VERY clear and it is hot but once the wind blows, it makes it better. sigh, i wish it was winter!

pictures:



take care !

gum gum miss dum dum. love you and i bought for you things! ahahaha muah <3

PERTH!!

Day 1 in perth-
i've arrived at perth around 4 in the afternoon and boy i was happy. within minutes me and my granny arrived at my aunt's place. perth's kinda like singapore, the sun's as hot as singapore, but it's not very hot. i mean, you can still feel the cool breeze and the temperature is lower than in singapore. it's just that there's no clouds in the sky so the sun shining bright on people here. granny got 'air sick' and she was feeling dizzy because of the flight just now. well, i am happy for her that she finally got to visit my aunt in australia and this is the first time she's in a 'western-ed' country.

i will upload pictures tomorrow as i didn't take any photos today.

knock knock knick knock

i'm going off to perth tomorrow morning and i'm going to have my proper holiday this 'holiday'. my bags are kind of packed and i'm ready to go but half of me tells me that it'll be better not to go. i've suddenly got the damn energy to write a good script, which i hope will work out for SDEA and damn! it HAS to happen before i'm leaving. but hey, i'm going to bring my new laptop, and yes for those who didn't know, i bought a new acer laptop from school and yes, i'm going to WRITE! and enjoy at the same time. so those who visit my blog, i'll update pictures everyday in my stay in perth!

take care guys

They were shining for us

First it was this racial harmony play that i was pulled in to do by gareth.
then it was 24 hours play by play which i acted as kevin.
then it was a playtime performance that was in the airport.
then it was COP.
then it was reality crashes in again as kevin AGAIN.
(i know i'm missing on a few events i've participated in drama)

but really, when i look at this events that i have done, i am only year 2 and balls, i've done a lot. i mean really really alot and i don't know why. maybe i am too nice and i say yes to everything. but hell, i enjoyed every single event. i kinda feel sad that we've said goodbye to our 3 dear drama members, natasha, madhavan and shaun but i know he'll be helping us. we've got a life after graduating. it's either going into NS or you end up working or studying. me being in drama for 2 years officially, i feel that drama.republic has lost really good people this year although i'm talking about like 3 people. the commitment of these 3 people are uncomparable to the rest of the people i know and that's why i respect them to the fullest. i may bitch about maddy but yet i respect him. shaun may not be friendly to know but what i've learnt is that it takes time to know somebody. and there's natasha, she never fails to cheer up people with her jokes and stories.
sigh. well, although these 3 people are leaving, it doesn't mean it's an end to anything. i hope we would still be friends after this.

THANK YOU

i regret getting a new handphone. i should have just stick to the old phones that would serve the exact same purpose except that people would stare at you when you are using something considered 'old'. i was carrying an old phone to the N*k*a Service centre because my current phone kept giving up on me. and when i reach the counter, i was carrying the old nokia phone and the staff assumed i wanted to get that phone repaired and immediately said, 'oh sorry, we don't service this phones anymore'. 'it's okay.' i told myself in my head and made her look dumb when i took out the other newer model.

'oh. paiseh. so what is the problem'

after that incident which i kept thinking in my head, the fact that they have so many people at the service centre, i asked myself why did i buy that phone.

not long after that, i met with my girlfriend which i kind of hate myself for doing. why? the plan was to bring her to this script-reading in the esplanade. usually, script-readings such as this i would expect to last at least 30 mins per script, thinking that they won't read the whole thing. i was wrong. they read the whole script but i pitied my girlfriend who was tired and just came back from work at school selling laptops. ACER!

why would such a competition would want to reveal the whole script to the audience? (this was a competition among 2 playwrights) it is really debatable because the winning script would be showcased as a ticketed performance. so..... you read the whole script........ a few months later..... people would pay to watch it again just that it's with a different cast, a set, and a different location. half of me was saying, 'this is isn't right. bloody good script and this is what they get'. the other half was glad to know the whole story.

it was a good experience because i needed to get some serious exposure in the script writing. honestly, i haven't been writing anything good lately.

like i would to put it, very self-indulgent.

Mother

i don’t care how you feel towards me now,

be it a hug, a cup of coffee

that is all i am asking for

La La la LAAA

At this time.
On this day.
Next week.
I'll be in Australia having my holiday.

I am really looking forward to it and I can safely say that this is my first real holiday in poly life.

Sigh. I will be missing my girlfriend a lot and vice versa. But at times, i just want to get away from life in singapore and just go somewhere unfamiliar and just close my eyes and reassure that nobody i know will come and disturb me unless my granny, whom i am planning to bring there is going to. And YES, i will be bringing my little granny to perth and we'll be staying over at my cousin's place so accommodation has been settled for (THANKS). so i will be looking forward to seeing what can be done during my 2 weeks stay there.

let's see.... hmmm

Moderating Life

nobody knows you unless you say 'hi' or you've done something great in life. appear in box office movie, shot a criminal, won the elections or you've got lots of money. in this world, let alone singapore, there are millions of people and there is only a handful of people that you know closely.

you walk down orchard road and everybody is living their own life. they only care for what concerns them. if GST goes up, they complain. if the road is blocked and they have to take a detour, they complain. if a political party you dislike wins elections, you complain. if hookers came around your neighbourhood, you complain even though there are married men that visit them. see the irony. complain when there's people around but enjoy it in silence. i can't understand the fact why people complain so much and there's nothing they will do about it. just live their lives. how will complaining help if you don't do anything to contribute to society.

i have finally come to understand that we live in a society that cannot accept differences or something unusual. we live such that we have to suit to other people's preference. if you are non-smoker, you cannot have smokers as friends. if you are gay, you are not my friend. if you are handsome, you are my friend. if a stranger says hi to you, that's weird. if a celebrity says hi to you, that's awesome.

the wishful thought in my head that DNA could control characteristics, we would be living a perfect world. we would have the perfect family, the perfect work, the perfect friends, the perfect environment. the perfect life.

random rants.

Ask when you need to ask

the important thing is not to stop questioning. curiosity has its own reason for existing. one cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. it is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. never lose a holy curiosity.

ask questions. but don't ask till you irritate the other party. ask the right questions, at the right time, at the right place, and maybe, just maybe, you'll get the right answer.

Starting Leaping baby

3/5 stars for leap years. something that i would like to watch again and again because it is a singaporean love movie. singaporean love movies come rarely and sometimes the plot just don't live up to the 'romantic' theme.

when i hear about it from people who watched it, most of the were positive except that for the fact that it is a bit too 'not going to happen in singapore'.

such movies where the director takes it from the books are very common nowadays like P.S I love you. the movies just spoil the plot that the book has laid out. if you've read the book and watched the movie, then maybe it'll be not as good. but if you've only watched the movie then it should be fine. people should stop making movies out of books because it just spoils the perception of the movie.

i bet you that 4 years down the road, people will follow this trend of asking guys out on this day and they can't refuse. unless they've forgotten it!

View my life, later

chalet was fun. something i could enjoy away from home.
gpa dropped, again.
i've been inconsistent in my fyp meetings due to work. sigh.


serving 2 years of NS i feel is rather unnecessary. Singapore's not going to get bombed or I can hardly forsee any attacks on this island in this century unless we start producing too many foreign-born athletes then it'll be otherwise.
we can look at this issue in both ways. One is that singapore lacks of talents and thus they are giving opportunities for foreign born talents to join them and let them shine. The second one will be that they're heavily depending on foreign imports to perform rather than investing in youths.