wmp: stars down, monster

lately, there are perhaps only three things that can give me a certain feeling of high - a good game of beach volleyball under fine weather, poker cards under the sleight of hand, and her.

Labels: beach, gessvball, life, movie

wmp: norwegian recycling, how six songs collide

there hasn't been much luck with the openings i've had so i guess this it. todays probably my second last day of my stint at rp and soon enough i'll be enjoying the good life.

woohoo?

between the hours of 8 to 5 i make some six bucks for every hour that ticks by but still i wish i knew how to make myself more productive with all this time i have to myself.

i have this impetus to buy this non-fiction entitled 'blink'. maybe i will this weekend. maybe not.

i've watched quite a number of dvd's lately. 'the marksman'. 'step up 2'. 'braveheart'. 'rush hour 3'. 'surf's up'. 'matchpoint'. 'matchstick men'. i wish they would just churn out episodes of scrubs more quickly.

grow island took some grueling three hours.

sometimes i put some considerable time aside to think of answers to questions i feel they would ask at interviews 'cause there is maybe no better feeling than nailing one. apart from being one with a vodka bottle of course.

;)

Labels: dvd, game, life, movie

what a day it was man...

prawns. lotsa 'em.

& iron man rocks my socks laaaaaaaaaa.

that's all I can say.

"the truth is...... i am iron man."

Labels: friends, movie

wmp: jay solo, my place

forbidden kingdom is freaky. gate of no gate. wtf?

i feel better than usual this morning even though probably the entire night was spent in the dreaming. i dreamt of being at the deeper waters but not too far away still from what looks like the shore of tinggi island with a couple of good friends. the boats had a way of sinking and miraculously come back afloat.

i was in primary school when our family made the trip to tinggi island and i guess why i remember so clearly is because of the dark waters that i couldn't really see the bottom to even though the water seemed clear. i was on a canoe and kinda challenged myself to paddle far offshore. it was erriely quiet out there when the crashing waves grew soft behind.

that was how i remembered it anyway.

quite frankly still, the thought of scuba diving unnerves me on so many levels. its so unnaturally quiet down below. i can't exactly describe this fear of being out of my own element but nobody seem to be able to relate. there're a whole lot of people out there who're dieing to scuba dive and i wonder whats wrong with them. haven't they watched 'jaws'?


dates i've marked down on the calendar...

260408 (am) ‘Breaking The Millionaire Code’ Seminar by Thomas Matthew
260408 (pm) sj's 21st birthday party
300408 iron man movie release (i wldn't miss this for the world)
010508 pay day/hsiang fa's return
010608 felix's 21st birthday
140608 kw's comm parade
260608 huimins return
280608 singapore's toy convention @ suntec city

Labels: dreams, fears, movie

wmp: lostprophets, 4am forever

it was a short dash across the three, maybe four, lane road because i wasn't as punctual as i'd like to have been and then i felt the breathlessness kick in. i wonder what happened man.

i liked horton. fcukin' hilarious.

and so after a stout, a walk down to felix's place, a drive out to mcdonalds, some five hour restless sleep and a day at bugis, i finally made it back to home sweet home.

looks like a storm is coming.

maybe its really more difficult than it looks but i think i've spent too much time reading and its finally time to get down to it no matter what my parents think i can't do.

Labels: beer, brewerkz, gessvball, go5, movie, nightlife

a simple dinner at the end of the day with an old friend kinda turned things round for the week...

i've been waiting for friday night to pop that dvd in, crank up the air con, and switch off the lights. having not finished it the last time on the return flight from taiwan, i figured 'a good year' was the kind of film i'd like to watch after the long week...

Labels: friday, movie

iron man, the full exclusive trailer.
click here.

through tu dou i managed to catch 'departed' which was fuckin shiok. i think its 115388783433 times better than wu jian dao which was very confusing when i felt when i first watch and them speaking very quickly in mandarin with faster than you can read subtitles doesn't exactly help much.

like i said, fuckin shiok.

goodnight now.

Labels: movie

wmp: staind, outside

i caught 'thumbsucker' on starworld and i thought it was a meaingful film.

i think its true that people make me nervous and awkward that i wonder how i'd be like twenty years from now.

i know how fickled this may sound but just five minutes ago, i made up my mind about accountancy yet again.

anyway, here is what i wanted to share. enjoy.

"That's 'cause we all wanna be problemless. To fix ourselves. We look for some magic solution to make us all better, but none of us really know what we're doing. And why is that so bad? That's all we humans can do. Guess. Try. Hope. But, Justin, just pray you don't fool yourself into thinking you've got the answer. Because that's bullshit. The trick is living without an answer. [pause] I think." - Dr. Perry Lyman (Keanu Reeves)

Labels: football, movie

wmp: how six songs collide, norwegian recycling

i've been trying to recollect on how i've spend the last two weeks ever since i've orded - it feels like yesterday actually - and do a day by day entry but everything seems to be one big blur.


so, in nutshell, t'was the chinese new year at my grandmother's place for a couple of nights of blackjack, and then we were at cs's birthday surprise came monday night(i can only imagine how he stepped into his bedroom of a bunch of us), kuishin bo on valentines day(hungry people obliterating snow crabs, lol) and, of course, raffles town club with the entire gessvball gang. aka the inebriates(see bottom left). for most of the week i saw felix & huimin, probably the two most free people in the world. haha.



t'was some afternoon i caught 'ah long' with sj & felix at marina sq. and then as we were looking around at springfield, we heard a good mix of songs. two weeks of searching and last night i finally found the guy churning those mash ups out. norwegian recycling. very neat stuff he's got.

cjseven was pretty hilarious but just alrite on the whole. i watched 'meet the spartans' on tvshack. not exactly something i'd go to the movies for but entertaining still. 'jumper' was cool. but i still wanna be superman.

i'm glad my model kit is finally taking shape after 6546876138318 days(since the alevels). what a waste of time and money. i can't wait to be done with it for good.

for the past week i've been kinda comfortable going to bed at 4am in the morning until i had to head down to the beach last saturday morning. quite a drag to reset the alarm an hour after an hour. they say its better to wake up in the early morning and i thought i'd like that too though i don't really know how now. besides, i enjoy the peace in the night.

i'm really lookin' forward to something but i can't exactly put my finger on it...

Labels: beach, beer, birthday, gessvball, go5, movie, ord, vodka

wmp third eye blind, jumper

we caught rambo. it's probably the kind of film you'd expect; bullets flying all around, body parts strewn about everywhere. besides the fact that the good guys always win in reel life, i thought for some parts, it was almost like watching that video where those god damn people skin those animals alive. at the end of the day, there i was, exhausted from the morning run taken up a notch, and of course, the perpetual lack of sleep. i could have laid like that for the entire night, and gone on talking about the past twenty years of our lives...




photos of redang. compliments of jenrine. i quote her 'pls go redang'. haha.

8 days left on the clock. 8 days. i guess i'm so close that i really wasn't looking anymore.

Labels: movie, nostalgia, vacation

i am legend was pretty much a disappointment. i didn't even bother myself to watch avp2 after all the crap i heard abt it. apart from the dark knight and cj7, here are two more up coming movie i'd probably watch no matter what...

cloverfield. nothing much known about the monsta yet except lotsa guessing. i can hardly wait.

transformers 2. http://www.sectorseven.org/ (enter "codeblack," click on the red hard drive, choose the N.B.E. 08 file) shows Dinobots leader Grimlock in his T-Rex form, crushing everything on his path. The excavator on the left could be Scavenger, from the Constructicons. i don't exactly like the characters from transformers but lets hope the director does something to make them look cool.

i heard they're doing a live action film of dragonball and street fighter too. very cool.

wikipedia for more details...

Labels: boredom, movie

wmp: everclear, wonderful

my first parallel parking since attaining my license became something to really laugh about.

i tried to retrace my steps in the afternoon lookin' at the street directory, of how i made it to chomp chomp/ice³, cineleisure and then back home but i couldn't recall much.

life would be so much better if i knew my way around. for one the car wouldnt be changing lanes back and forth while everybody scream for their lives.

i thought the golden compass was fucked up though it had rather cool ideas.

along with everclear's wonderful, rise against' everchanging, and anything blink, this too is perhaps one of my all time favourite songs maybe because it reminds of me of a certain phase of my life. check out the 'electric' version too!

Labels: driving, gessvball, movie, nightlife

wmp: the click five, empty

beowulf. t'was a fuckin good film i caught with shawn but at the end of the night, while hoping so hard that the strip of white paper under the windshield wiper was perhaps a useless spaming ad or something else, i wished i wasn't so stingy with the coupon.

damn it, i wish i had taken the bus...

i wish more good things could happen to me.

Labels: fuck, movie

wmp: filter, take a picture

the plan was to wake up at 0330, drive down to jj's place and watch some football but at 0330 when the alarm rang i told myself 5 minutes more and opened my eyes only some 6 hours later.

i slept through most of the day. i watched lotsa tv including the transformers movie dvd which made me remember why i liked it so much the first time(no, it wasn't just megan fox).

and then somewhere in the evening i tried prising open the wired remote control of my i-trigue speakers to give it a clean after doing a search on the net and coming across this page; the volume fluctuates the wrong way when i turn the knob and it gets frustrating sometimes that i have to give it a couple of knocks 'cause "thats how things work in the army", i remember pradeep saying. haha. eventually i realised i wasn't suppose to prise it open. and it was so much more complicated than it had looked from the outside that i closed it right back without doing anything. what a waste of time.

i thought i had this nailed. its "mind boggling".

i shall have to leave that to another day.

warrant P: "eh jake, your hair like planet of the apes you know"

hahahah...

Labels: life, movie, ns, tv

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: taking back sunday, what's it feel like to be a ghost

i've been using my inhaler throughout the week, before the morning runs, in the middle of the night, but usually discreetly behind my parents back(if only they wldn't kick a fuss out of it). this time round i just told them somehow. expectedly they mentioned how i should have out grown my asthma at my age and "no wonder i looked so haggard & pale". but when dad asked me to sniff on vicks vapour and reminded me to take my windbreaker out that sunday, and the world best mum putting down a mug of warm 'pei pa koa' right in front of me, all that, if you ask me, was priceless.

still, the uncontrollable coughs were killin' my throat that i found it better to be drugged on cough syrup and sleep through the rainy saturday. somewhere in the middle of the day i watched afro samurai. didn't think they could make an afro with a sword look that cool. voiced by samuel l jackson. not much of a storyline but pretty neat nevertheless.

last friday evening the bunch of us, andrew frankie lowbar & i, decided to have dinner at 'botak jones' which was good. the serving was generous & it was easy to see why almost everyone there in the kopitiam were there just for the american food. we caught the simpsons. hilarious flick. i tried not to cough too loudly throughout.

i woke up on a cloudy sunday, coughing still. i had planned a lazy day at the beach; a few good games of volleyball maybe but mostly lazing around. but it looked so damn cold out there. i met up with felix & cs still at ps. 'knocked up' was a good film. recommended. again i tried not to cough too much throughout. but i coughed as though i had tuberculosis as we walked down the streets to city hall after a couple of rounds of pool at meridian.

and so, there goes the weekend... great. frankly, just thinking about pulling through tmr is hard enough...



"Ben Stone: Do you want to do it doggie style?
Alison Scott: You're not going to fuck me like a dog.
Ben Stone: It's doggie style. It's just the style. We don't have to go outside or anything." - knocked up

Labels: family, go5, monday, movie

wmp: damien rice, rootless tree

the apache and chinook was really an eye opener. at the end of the day i had dinner at jp's long john silver with jj and we were at the vcd shop for quite awhile, selecting a number of titles for rent. i hadn't much time to myself at home before moving out to see huimin off at the airport.

i met up with cs and felix before proceeding there and while looking for a place to eat at the airport i suggested "popeye", which proved alittle elusive to find again since my last time there before i took off to taiwan a couple of months back. while we were there i saw an episode of tom & jerry being played at a kids corner and remember watching that exact same episode when i was a kid. i watched it on a video tape i used to own and had it played and replayed for probably 46060665679 times. it was a very nostalgic moment.

we were waiting, after the very satisfying meal, for the train back to T2 when...

cs: "felix, where's your bag?"
- long pause -

the calm before the storm, and then they sprinted back to 'popeye'. i couldn't stop laughing until they returned.

everyone else were there when we met up. along the way we saw ms chueng. she's timeless, looking exactly like how i faintly remember. at some point of time i couldn't quite understand how felix thought some dude looked like a hero in a hard shell. or why he started talking about his grandmother. the randomness of it all cracked me up hard.

hahahah...

it was past midnight and left of us at the airport were cs, joce & i. the cab, which stopped by the 7 elevan at bukit merah central and cs place before dropping all of us off at rifle range rd, made me took out money i couldn't quite take out in an all good conscience. the night slipped by with 3 of us and a bottle of mandarin(i'm convinced that liquor is distilled for the very bored who find themselves especially lost in the middle of night). at 6am i made my way home through a rainy morning.

and so just when i thought i would be lieing the couch spending the bulk of the night watching the '07.07.07 live earth' concerts, plans to go out came about and grace drove by together with kw and i was picked up with her newly acquired driving license. i was amazed by how crowded cineleisure was late at night. the slots were filling fast but after a quick snack at the burger king we caught "my wife is a gangster 3" which was darn hilarious. we took a drive back to the west and hung out at a coffee shop, catching up over a drink before finally deciding to head home. i reached home at 7am roughly, worned out, suffering from what everyone call 'the lack of sleep'.

after a mere 3 hours of shut eye i was out again, onboard the bus 30, on the way to the beach. the sun was scorching. and the back to back games were good. i didn't think i wld last but i did. we had dinner at superdog. and then felix & i went for a quick haircut for the sake of not having anyone up my ass. we took a walk around vivo where i splurged somemore(god dammit). t'was a heavy downpour and i was glad i brought my windbreaker out which allowed me to walk home with a dry head. with every flash across the sky i stopped in my tracks and hunched alittle lower; i must have been out of my mind to cut through the field. it was nearing midnight. reaching home nv felt that good.

the alarm clock sounded off. it was tough opening my eyes to the morning light through the curtains. and even tougher realising that it was a monday morning. i felt the burns on the shoulder. and the sore on the throat. and the ache on the legs. the back. but eventually thought it was all well worth it. ;)

-

the silver screen
ocean's thirteen
fantastic four: rise of the silver surfer
transformers
die hard 4.0
my wife is a gangster 3
harry potter and the order of the phoenix (12.07.07)
the simpsons (26.07.07)
bourne ultimatum (16.07)

Labels: beach, go5, monday, movie, nightlife, nostalgia, vodka

wmp: cleavage, my world.

after catching the fantastic four at jp i rushed down to raffles place just to meet up with the rest of the go5 & grace. we found oursevles at the molly malone's irish pub which served great fish & chips and i especially found the surroundings cosy and though the live acoustic music pretty much completed the set, it was alittle hard for conversations.

i took the train and alighted with grace to meet up with what's left of the gang at chevrons. it turned out ot be just jj, jy and me. i have my reservations about the place; for one the cigarettes made it stifling in there. the drinks and chat was fine. it was relaxing just laying there watching chinese mtv on the big screen. we talked about our miserable lifes till it was almost 3.

we were walking along boon lay way when we realised we were walking in the wrong direction and that nr5 wasn't in the list of any of the bus stops up ahead. we decided to stop by cheers and was surprised to see groups of kids from the boys brigade wandering around at that unholy hour looking for their 'check points'. we had supper at the prata house that i began to frequent ever since i moved to lakepoint before taking a cab home.

these's something about having the nights out that i'm addicted to. i somehow feel so at ease and tend to wish the nights could offer more...

Labels: beer, movie, nightlife

wmp: jacks mannequin, dark blue

the trip to the beach last weekend was better than i had expected apart from getting my toe hooked onto by a fucking fish hook left around by some irrespossible dumbass and having someone's heel planted right onto my feet ripping some skin off with the very abrasive sand in between...

it's been unbelievably a year. i had not much of good spikes but they were enough to make my day. having the ball in midair, i was less conscious of my movements despite my bad knee and it was liberating. towards the end of the day my stomach was almost trying to eat itself while my knee ached like a knife was twisting about within but yeah, somehow glad i dragged myself out of the house still...

it was work back as usual on wednesday, thursday and finally friday. my monday is gonna be fucked up. the entire upcoming week for that matter. i wonder why me. i thought i might as well pull out a chair, crack open a beer, and watch it come. i've decided to take the backseat when it rains shit.

if it's any consolation i'm watching spider-man tomorrow... o'boy...

united 300. this, is funny.

Labels: bad knee, beach, fuck, monday, movie, ns

i saw alot of familiar faces that day. julian at orchard. hj & gang at ps. but more surprisingly, while watching 'wild hogs', paul senior from 'american chopper'... & john c mcginley aka dr perry cox from 'scrubs'. almost unreal.

at ps we saw a guy in a spider-man costume on the ground floor taking pictures with the crowd. i've got to get one of those too. a spider-man costume. wahaha. seriously. i thought it'd be uber cool. even if it's just gonna be for the kicks.

Labels: birthday, go5, movie, tv