Almost scared out of my wits when the doc says that my soft bone, i.e. cartilage in my left knee is suffering from wear and tear... By definition, wear and tear means gonez liao aka no more le rite? So of cuz get worried lah... Upon further probing, this is what I figured out after filtering out all the medical jargon:

Cartilage got overworked, ligament is swollen -> cannot do sports for the next 7 days and need to take pills to stop pain, stop swell

So for tmr's Inter-project captain's ball tournament, I have to be at the sidelines liao lah...
Sian half =.=

And did I mention that I need to go back office tomorrow for the financial year end closing?
Totally sianz =.='

p.s. Thanks Rach for offering to 探病, even though she lives in bukit-dunno where along some ulu dunno simi road, but I'm ok lah, except for not being able to run around much
p.p.s Think I pissed her off for insisting to meet my frens for movie as planned instead of staying at home... hahah

Am semi crippled now from my regular session with TCSCBG last nite... Farnie lei, got do warm ups and stretching as usual and last nite's session wasn't really too physical...
I mean I was playing mixed doubles most of the time, which doesn't require me to run around much, unlike when I was up against the guys... Then how come can still end up straining my tendons lei?


And erm he's right though, Ariel was having this exact pose after Damien said she looked like the big fella =x

p.s. Ariel is actually quite a pretty gal and doesn't quite look like Blanka, except for the pose

Crazy weather... It can be hot as hell one moment then rain cats and dogs the next and now, the sun is glaring again! Can make up your mind whether you wanna rain or wanna shine can?

p.s.Ooooo... The eerie pix had been taken off from the lift... Maybe who ever put up the pix actually reads my blog??? It has been replaced by something about fire safety...

Wat the hell? I just finished a long blog entry and stupid blogger hanged on me when I tried to publish my entry... KNNBCCB!!! Now I have try and reconstruct everything... TMD!!!

Friday
Its Ah Geok's bdae but there was no celebration. The whole office avoided her like crazy.
My DD sent her a happy bdae email on behalf of the branch, although I was not asked if I wanna wish her happy bdae but being the nice guy that I am, I wished her happy bdae on my msn nick...

Saturday
Went for a course on how to become an effective volunteer leader... kns, looks like there's a lot of work to be done and being a chairperson isn't exactly as easy as what I was being told =x
Got to know a few other 掌门人 during the course, so I guess PR and networking is a must cuz there's gonna be some collaborations for the coming FY...
So much for being low profile =(

Realised that five-ten can only be played the traditional way, with booze... Five-ten played with any other stuff, especially with meaty sticks of satay is a torture...
The puking sensation came much faster after 10 sticks of satay than after 10 mugs of beer =(

Sunday
Monday blues arrive early... Feeling damn lethargic (muz be hanging over from the damned satay last nite)... wanna gym but can't seem to drag myself out of the house, looks like I'll most probably be nuaing for the rest of the day...

Oh my friend sent me this link, supposed to tell you whether your hp number is lucky or not... Mine, as expected, is in the inauspicious category, so meaning I should probably go change my no? Must be a conspiracy between the site owner and the mobile companies =(

p.s. I finally managed to find a way for you guys to leave comments, so humour me once in a while and drop something there can? heheh...

Ever heard of the saying 'Thy Greatest Enemy is Thyself?' Ok ok, the 'thy' is used to sound more shakespearean but anyways that's not the point.

Dennis the Shrink was at work again last nite when I suddenly realised that its so easy giving advise to people but when the same stuff happened to me, I was at a complete loss of wat to do.

Why is it so hard to see the truth when the subject is yourself? Its amazing how people always seem to 'know' the people around them, even though they are not really close or they have not known each other for very long.
I, for one can seem to read into people's personalities like an open book and can tell them what they would most likely to do under a given set of circumstances and its usually accurate...

But Dennis finds it hard to advise Dennis and tell Dennis what Dennis can do under the same given set of circumstances. Sometimes there is this outer me, the one where other sees you and how you would want others to see you and there is this inner me, the one who I'm really am inside and they dun seem to agree all the time...

Confused? Say for eg, you are attending a boring class and the inner you tells you to leave since its boring and its a waste of time but the outer you thinks its not a good idea cuz first of all, non of the other classmates are leaving and you are worried that the lecturer will 'mark' you for leaving...so in the end, you'll most likely spent the rest of the class debating with yourself...

Hahaha, actually dun really know the point of this entry... another case of the inner vs the outer self, dunno what to blog but feel like blogging... Hope u guys dun get too blur after reading this wor...

Had our Annual General Meeting at Changi Village over the weekend, actually on Saturday lah..

Time flies, it has been a year since I'm the Team Activities Group Leader for ROvers. Never really thought that I would end up doing volunteer work, much less taking on any posts in the Committee. But take up post I did and even got 2 'Star awards' during my stint, heheh... Its quite flattering to clinch the 'Most Charismatic Male Volunteer Award' actually, as for the other one award mah... Its the 'Most Couplish-Looking Pair Award', meaning the most couplish-looking pair who are not real couples in real life... It feels kinda awkward to be receiving it lor...Ok, I shall not tell you kay pohs out there who my better half is, if you can't see the pix clearly and the name is smudged, well its meant to be that way =p

Anyway, kanna arrowed to be the Chairperson for the coming work year, would actually like to believe that the others nominated rather than arrowed, so well, with great power comes great responsibilites... Gonna be a busy year ahead, after which hopefully I can take a backseat le... Not that I dun wish to contribute but rather, I dun like to be in the lime light, *hint hint*...

Went Ubin the next day with my Thursday-Clementi-Sports-Complex-Badminton-Gang (TCSCBG). The fun part about this gang is that its always changing. There's always new players every now and then, being friends and friends of friends, etc, much like a real life version of Friendster network. There are cases whereby we could be playing with each other for a few sessions and yet we dunno or dun remember the names... yeah its that dynamic... hahah
And so, as can be expected, its quite a challenge trying to organise any outings for TCSCBG, but luckily, the trip was a success. Nothing exciting abt the trip lah, just a typical cycling trip...

The only embarrassing thing is that we got lost a few times until I kanna arrowed to be the path finder cuz I seemed to be the only one who knows map reading, having been a Guardsman during my army days, some of the others are M'sians so dun have to do NS, while the rest are either from Navy (so know how to read stars and not maps... duh...) or vocations that dun require chiong shua (lucky bastards) ... And all this while, I thought they were just having fun roaming around the island... Tamade, all those track slopes for nothing... But then my poor legs needed the exercise...

One thing abt hitting the gym for vain dudes like me is, we usually work on the upper body and neglect the lower part, cuz no one is gonna look at our legs mah... hahah, which is also the reason why my legs are hurting like hell rite now...

At the jetty:

At the beach:

And so, had dinner with Rach and then we met up with some other colleagues and ex-colleagues at Timber... Its like an outdoor pub hidden in some godforsaken corner of Ochard Road (near SMU) with live band... the band ain't bad but the songs are a bit old school, nice place to hang out with frens but not really suited for drinking...

The gang isn't really much fun to hang out with, not much drinking and not much trash talking, just eat and drink and listen to the band, got quite bored after a while but still ended up staying there till after 1am...

Well the lass dun really feel like going home so we ended up in MH for some more drinks... Since she was feeling a bit down, the objective was to get pissed drunk so that she can pluck up enuf courage/lose enuf sanity to call whoever she was supposed to call and give the other party a hell of a scolding although Dennis The Shrink tried his best to convince her that its really pointless and as usual, tried to make her see the point that the problem probably aint with the guy...

Conclusion? At 3.30am, I dun think she gets it and we are not pissed drunk...
How can anyone get drunk on whisky-green-tea-peng-poh (diluted whisky green tea with ice, if you are not hokkien trained)? Suspected the pub ran out of whisky too cuz initially they told us they ran out of bourbon coke... How can a pub run out of booze??? But ok lah... the jug cost like $24 so it not all that bad...

p.s. Took a so called scandalous pix with Rach that she said must post in my blog... This is a dangerous move, considering the fact that my readership may drop and I may have to shut down the blog after the pix is being posted...

p.p.s. The pix is with one of my colleague's camera, so you guys will have to check back in here, for that so called scandalous pix...

p.p.s. BOM, think you nid to tell your fren that they need to buck up a bit in MH, the KTV system is giving problems as usual, the waitresses are generally forgetful and the booze tasted kinda like those colored water we used to drink back in army cook house =(

After 2 weeks of OT and loads of kao beh-ing, I have finally cleared my audit or at least, the major bulk of it has passed. Of course the next one is coming soon and its gonna be more siong than this recent one, but at least I can take a break over the next few days and have some life back before all hell break lose again...

Suppose to be meeting Rach later for drinks... dunno who else will be showing up later or if its gonna end up being just the 2 of us... but hell, I need some alcohol!

On Love and Relationships...
Recently caught a romance comedy 'Music and Lyrics' starring Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore... Not a bad show on the whole, Grant's funny and can actually sing, while Barrymore is her usual cutesy, crazy door-next-gal...

The OST is kinda nice too (the one you are hearing now)... and it kinda prompt me to write this entry... What love is to me during various stages of my life thus far....

Love in my pre-school days is when the really cute girl with dimples and nice ribbons smiles at me and our kindergarten teacher told us to hold hands when we queue up 2-by-2...

Love in my primary school days is when the girl I like talks to me and we go recess together...

Love in my secondary school is when the girl I like tells me she likes me too and we actually hold hands without having to queue up 2-by-2...

Love in my poly days is when I can go pubbing on weekends with my buddies and she doesn't mind hanging out with her gal friends, although that usually means I have to 'report strength' every 2 hours to let her know that I'm not drunk...

Love during my army days is when we can go out together on weekends, doing nothing sometimes but just being together...

Love in my present stage of life is like an expedition out in the vast ocean, lost and disillusioned but trying to find my 'Way Back Into Love'

麻坡的华语。。。
I cannot seem to post the youtube video so just click here...

p.s. If you are from muar and is offended by this, I'll flick you the finger, cuz I dun believe you never make fun of Singlish with our 'meh', 'lah', 'hor' and stuff =p

On Religions and Beliefs
Before I go any further, I would like to state the fact that I think all religions are beautiful because even though the teachings may vary, they are here to achieve the same goal i.e. to do good for all of mankind. So be it Scientology, Hindism, Islam, Taoism, Buddhism, Christianity or whatever, they are all good...

I guess the reason why there are so many religion-related wars throughout history is because of foolish Man who misinterpreted the teachings... coupled with their personal agenda, rivers of blood had been shed and mountains of bones had been stacked all in the name of God (by God here, I mean the Supreme Being, not the one on the cross)

Some of the people I know believe that there is only one universal God, and that the different religions are the different messengers sent by the Almighty One to spead his words, since Man is divided into different races and of different languages and different cultures.

Some will go so far as to believe that God is actually alien life forms who are much more advanced than Man, as depicted in some Hollywood movies, especially those involving pyramids and Egyptians.

Well personally, I find the former more possible... I cannot imagine people worshipping this bugger but if you happen to be one, peace man... I respect your belief...

So anyway my point is, the world will be much more peaceful if everyone can just like, you know, practice their own religion and leave the rest alone. There is, in my opinion, no best religion, if you believe your God will grant you eternal life, fine, but do not go and tell other people that they will not go to Heaven for not believing in yours, or that the God of the West is causing the people in the Middle East to suffer... blah blah blah...

For that matter, just because some people choose to worship religions that are not considered mainstream, doesn't mean that they are evil. I'm talking about Pageans or people worshipping Mother Nature being wrongly labelled as witches and such or Jews and other miniorities, I'm sure your God did not teach you to undermine other people's beliefs but to go against all that is considered evil and bad...

Which brings me to my next point... Is the Devil really that bad? I mean in most movies and also some of the church services that I had attended (I was from a Catholic mission school in my secondary school days), it seems that the Devil merely offers temptations but he will not force it down your throat. Man is always given a choice to succumb to temptation or to walk away from it. So can you blame the Devil if you are not strong willed enough nor have enough faith to walk away from his enticements?

And I think it is fruitless trying to think that Good will triumph over Evil because the universe is all about checks and balances. You can choose to ignore it but look around you... from the eco-system to mathematics to physics to chemistry, everything has its pros and cons, so why not good and evil?

So if even God cannot eradicate Devil since the beginning of Time, who are we to even think that we can? What we mere Mortals can do is to accept that fact and seek to live life as we seem fit, and in the midst of doing so, try to steer away from temptation and do more good deeds like helping those around us who are less fortunate and in doing so, hopefully we can help tip the scale more towards all that is good..

Hahaha... pretty heavy stuff from someone like me huh? Hello... I can be very chim at times one ok?

If you wanna have a peaceful sleep at night, never ever drink pepsi twist... Contrary to popular belief, coffee is not the most potent substance to keep one awake, at least in my case, I can be downing cuppas and can still knock out like a pig if I wanted to, but after downing one pepsi twist just now after my session with the clementi-badminton-kakis, I cannot sleep now!!!

Now, I'm the kinda people who would feel sleepy after exercising, so plus the long journey home from Clementi, there is no reason why I'm so awake right now, so conclusion is must be the pepsi twist...

Pepsi twisted with lemon is one evil drink =(

The reason I am not an accountant by profession is because I hate numbers, unless they appear in my bank account(s). This is also why I cannot understand how I ended up in the state that I am currently in.

I am now doing the exact thing that I hate in school, balancing accounts and looking for errors in posted journals and make sure I make the auditor very happy. Its okay if you do not understand what the hell I'm talking about. Seriously, I also don't know what I'm doing, not exactly anyway.

After clearing like 4 months' worth of accounts, I think I have pretty much get the hang of it, but then accounts are like a box of chocolates (praise Forrest Gump for the phrase), you never know what shit you are gonna get until you open the books. Do until sibei pek chek and sibei blurz and do I must, I tell myself. Even though I will kao bei but being the good responsible guy that I am, I still 咬紧牙关 and lan lan try my best to do what is expected of me to do.

The audit is next Friday and I hope I can make the auditor happy so that my boss will be happy and so that Ah Geok will be happy and so that in the end, I will be given an easier life and so I will be happy, so in order to make myself happy, I have to tahan and continue to open boxes of blardy chocolates, while at the same time, continue to kao bei to fellow like minded colleagues during lunch and tea breaks.

Actually, you dun think I kao bei kao bei, very bad. Of course all work sucks and its how we manage our work, cuz work still needs to be done.

But people often undermine the healing powers of kao bei. It helps to relief stress and helps bonding with your fellow colleagues. Its through kao bei-ing to each other that we have topics to talk about during lunch, especially people whom you seldom lunch with. Of course when you do that with someone you are not very close with, you have to be careful what you are kao bei-ing about. Safe topics include the gahmen, the big big boss, or the job scope or the general office environment, but always avoid kao bei-ing about another colleague, cuz you never know if they are buddies, know what I mean...

Ok, if you will excuse me, I have kao bei-ed and now its back to my accounts...

Its an exciting yesterday for most of us sua ku Singaporeans who have never experienced how it feels like to be in an earthquake... Never mind that we are experiencing just mere after shocks of a 6.6 quake in Southern Sumatra...

People evacuated from high rise office towers, some felt nausea and vomited, certain HDB flats suffered cracks, so ok... the worst that can happen is the cracks right? Maybe there could be structural damage, which I think must be cuz of those contractors who cut corners in order to qualify for the lowest bid for some gahmen tenders (c'mon, that's how the gahmen works mah, if unsure, always go for the lowest quote, saves time in justifying and getting the green light to go ahead with the projects)...

And we are getting like 15 minutes of news coverage, interviewing tons of people and spreads over many pages in the newspapers... hello? People are dying in Indonesia and they are getting like 3 min of local air time (well maybe Channel News Asia gives more)...

Then I was thinking, maybe we purposely downplay the actual situation? I mean the blardy Indons banned the export of sand and cement and granite right? So now its our chance to get back at them mah...
I say we refuse to send them humantarian(dunno how to spell) aid, make them beg us for help and agree to continue to sell us sand and cement and granite and water and Indonesian maids and whatever it is that we need from them at 50% discount (c'mon we are civilised people, so cannot ask for free right?) for the rest of eternity, then maybe we send some jiak lao bee army boys over to help pitch tents or bandage the injured, and just maybe, Singaporeans will be appeased enuf to start another one of those many annual fund raising concerts which involve celebrities risking their lives doing ridiculous stunts and begging people to make those 1900 calls which are, by the way, taxable (nabei lor, still must pay tax and admin fee to do good deeds, kan ni na) to save the poor suffering Indons

On hindsight, mayb its bad karma that they kanna earthquake cuz they dun sell us sand and semen, er I mean cement and granite...

Remember sometime ago, I blogged about people whose asses are so heavy that they have to literally drop their asses onto bus seats and irritate the hell of whoever sits next to them?

This morning, I encountered another species of bus vermins, people who talk so damn bloody loudly that they can wake the dead. Its extremely irritating when everyone is like dozing off on their way to work, then suddenly, these Ah Peks got on the bus and started to talk as if the whole freaking bus belongs to them... nabei they deaf or voice box spoilt, cannot adjust volume?
Last time when I took bus 147 and passed thru Serangoon oso like that... The Ah Neks all yak yak yak non stop, like crows returning to their nests liddat... They cannot talk softly meh?
Then there are those who have their handphone ringing tone set to the max, needless to say, these people also have a tendency to talk at the top of their lungs...

Sigh...

p.s. May not be able to update me blog so often liao, home PC is on strike again =(

Parents should be taught sex education first, then their kids

Most of you would have read about this 9 year old gal who is 6 months pregnant and the lao beh is a 14 year old young punk. Lucky he oso a minor, so no nid rotan n kanna jail...
I heard those type of people who kanna looked down upon in prison are those who go in for sexual crimes like molest or rape... These people often get it tough during their jail term... Dunno why oso but my guess is mayb the inmates are worried that the victims mayb their loved ones...

Inmate 1: Eh siao eh, hor sey boh? You new around here ar? How many people did u kill?
Inmate 2: I didn't kill anyone.
Inmate 1: Nabei, steady lah...You high tech one ar? U eat many peanuts like that TT Durain issit?
Inmate 2: Eh nope, I where got so smart?
Inmate 1: Then bang ah long tio kup?
Inmate 2: Oso no.
Inmate 1 (getting impatient): Then how the fuck you come in?
Inmate 2 (smiles sheepishly): I show my brother to some kaiwaii school gals...
Inmate 1: KNNBCCB!!!

*Followed by sounds of beating and acreams of agony*

So anyway back to the topic...My first reaction was 'What the fuck? (no pun intended)'...Was amazed by how anyone so young can get pregnant? Think she can confirm get a place in Guiness World Record for being the youngest mother...Wa lau eh, Primary 2 oni lor... I was still playing catching and watching Transformers when I was in P2 ok... Kids nowadays so hiong, Primary 2 oredi kia steady liao... If she good life and her daughter oso get pregnant at 9, she can be an Ah Ma at a tender age of 18!!! Not amazing meh?

I gotta hand it to the guy oso... What have they been teaching the kids in school nowadays? Ok lah granted that there is the internet and kids can pretty much get anything and everything on the web...So now comes the million dollar question, 'Should we teach our young sex education?'

As always, there will be 2 sides of the coin, some may say argue that they should be taught the correct stuff since whatever they are getting from the intenet may be misleading, others argue that ignorance is bliss, early exposure to bees and flowers theories are bad and thus pollute the young minds...

I say, educate the adults!!! I mean wake up lah, this isn't the yester-years anymore where chastity is sacred and people believe strongly in sex oni after marriage... Rather than treating sex like a dirty word, why can't people just accept the fact that its a normal thing and teach their young how to be responsible for their actions? I mean you can stop your kids from going steady, bar them from the internet, screen their phone calls and watever... But can you spy on them 24 hrs a day?

Caught a news heading from some chinese newspaper on my way back from work that loosely translated to be 'Should we teach kids how to date?' Imagine what the parents of Singapore will do if they teach this in school... So see? Like I said, instead of seeing it positively, people are quick to condemn the idea and blame everything to either the media or the gahmen...So its no surprise that the 2nd part of the heading reads '80% of those surveyed strongly objects'
*shakes head*

So, I say teach sex education to the parents, then the kids...

p.s. Oh actually, just discovered that the youngest mother is not this 9 year old kid but this girl, she was only 5 yrs 8mths old when she had her first born back in 1939

What kinda guy cannot even wait for his gf or shld I say wife-to-be for 15min? Poor AP is always at the receiving end of WS's wrath for being late. Ok, it can be irritating to always wait for the same person but its not as if she really wanna dilly dally lor... Of all people WS shld know best that it is not always possible to leave on time when Ah Geok is your boss! (Damn! See? This evil woman is always 阴魂不散, making everyone's life miserable, be it in or out of office) Wait for a while will die isit? Must walk off liddat and leave her looking all over the whole damn place for you like siao cha boh liddat meh?

Wa lau eh... this is the first time I'm dissing my friend in my blog wor... But I really cannot tahan lei... Gonna get married soon liao still behave like a little boy, next time how how how, you tell me? You very lucky AP can put up with you time and again for your little tantrums, if its other gals, you wait long long liao lor, think you still got chance to attitude like this and she still guai guai go look for you meh? *rolls eyes and shakes head in digust*

Although highly unlikely that WS can get to read this, but hor if for some miracle, you do come upon this entry, pls 反省反省 abit hor (or is it 反醒反醒？aiya anything lah, the idea is there)... Time to grow up liao, its really out of point to be fighting over such trivial matters, I'm very sure there are somethings about you that she dun really like I dun think she will constantly bark at you rite?

p.s. AP did not complain to me, just in case WS read this and tot so. LL saw AP crying and called me as she cld not get AP on the handphone. As friends, we were naturally worried and wanna find out what happened.

p.p.s. The initials are used to protect the true identities of the people mentioned.