wmp: third eye blind, farther

this month i've splurged a good portion of my pay of which a good 160 bucks went to a pair of skates, and a couple of bucks more on a marvel graphic novel and two other books on a new found hobby of coins & cards. since then i've lost the urge to draw out the notes so readily again especially after that pair of skates that i'm not sure i even have the time for (or so it seems for now)...

on the eve of the course i caught bourne ultimatum with my brother. i was glad my brother, who sacrificed a study night, had thought the trip down and the film was all worth it.

during the last two weeks a bunch of us had two stayovers in the office due to late nights the course extended into. it wasn't so bad or at least better than just rushing home, touch the door, and be back the next morning. on the second stayover we watched saw iii, something i thought i would nv do because of the gore but i did nevertheless, for the storyline sake. it was close to three in the morning when we decided to slip into our sleeping bags. i was glad to have left mine around for the past few months.

i stayed up on saturday night finishing the graphic novel, earth x, at some 4am. and then it was another day at the beach on sunday. the weather almost crossed the line that would have ruined what's left of the day. we played a couple of pairs. i haven't ran so frantically after a ball in awhile. i hoped no one saw us play mini vball. we finally decided to head to the 'pit stop' after standing around for quite awhile after dinner and the quick trip to the evil 'candy empire'. i don't know how but i blurted out 'coffeebucks' for the second time. the 'ticket to ride' proved to be interesting board game, yet frustrating at some point of time or another. the moment of truth came when we finally counted our final scores that left fh basking in her victory. ugly ugly ugly wasn't much of fun, at least for me, for obvious reasons. when it was finally time to head home felix & i made a quick tour around 'central' before we went our seperate ways. i boarded the train along with the throngs of fellow commuters, feeling the sore of a bad right knee, popping gummi bears all the way...

monday morning came. as i walked out of the back gate to the train station, thoughts of the night before continued to linger...

Labels: bad knee, beach, gessvball, money, movie, ns, sleepovers

wmp: the doves, caught by the river

t'was the ccis course not too long ago, a few days back. jj, jeff and i caught 300 on one of those days in the evening. i didn't think i'll get the kicks out of the film since i've read the graphic novel long before but many of the scenes, i felt, were refreshing and captivating still. i would go as far as to describe it as an epic movie on a whole new level.

the course ended early and thursday was a half day. we decided to meet up again after heading home to drop our bags and have a change of clothes. jeff's passport took awhile. then we headed to spawn asia at stamford house where i had no luck looking for king leonidas. we made a quick trip to the falcon's hanger at far east plaza only to be told it was sold out too. fucking disappointing.

i joined the both of them in a game of dota eventually but got my head pawned for gold throughout. i fared better in counter-strike but still had my fair share of deaths as well. it was 9pm when we decided to leave. if the following fucking day wasn't a working day i wld have wanted to spend the night out. bask in the nightlife. not go home, just yet. it was just unfortunate...

i woke up on friday morning contemplating a trip to the polyclicnic and remembered ice was ord-ing on that day itself. t'was a cohesion in the late afternoon. we had fun but i would have left earlier if i wasn't tied down by branch duty that night. the lethargy was killing me. i was on the verge of falling sick and i cld feel it. had a bad runny nose in the middle of the night and true enough i woke up to a call from kl with a flu the next morning.

i made a decision. a decision to apply for membership at kinokuniya. along with a book titled 'chi running' for my dad, i grabbed marvel zombies and neil gaimen neverwhere too with my newly acquired entitlement(10% off, yeah). i can't believe marvel zombies would actually sell out with such a childish plot. the art from neverwhere wasn't what quite i had imagined too (i wld have prefered it much darker).

what a waste of money.

Labels: comics, money, movie, nightlife, ns