MEANINGLESS RAMBLINGS....

Wassup peeps!! My very tired legs just touched home ground about 4 hours back and truth be told i still feel like i am on a boat... woosy feeling. So anyway, my diving trip to Tioman was kinda exhilarating and my five senses were treated to a feast of its own.

Sight: WOW, just when u thought you've seen it all on land.... the underwater world offers another magical paradise of its own with its vibrant colours of the rainbow. Lucky me, i saw 2 sea turtles, tonnes of clownfish, angel fish, bat fish, butterfly fish, sergeant majors, damsels, cuttlefish and one HUGE ASS puffer fish (the size of my thigh). The clownfish were especially cute!! popping out of the anemone once in a while to peep at us! and our instructor cut open a sea urchin for some live underwater feeding!!

Taste: Seawater does not taste good... nuff said. Most of the time when i wanted to puke, its not because of seasickness, but more of the taste of saltwater that made me nauseous. BBQ dinner was fantastic as well... its good have BBQ when its not me cooking hehehe. And the sotong... to-die-for.

Touch: Didn't get to touch a lot of the creatures cos hum ji me, feared that i will die of posioning... but did get to play with sea cucumber which feels freakishly like an erect penis (hahaha. oops too much info) and touched the underside of a sea anemone.... ahhh velvetly smooth... did you know that its safe to touch an anemone with your palm, but if you use the back of your hand, you get a rash? interesting eh? Something to do with pores...

Smell: can still smell the fresh air of Tioman... its nice to breathe clean crisp air in the morning when the roosters and kittens greet you good morning.

Sound: When underwater, all i heard was my breathing and the sound of the regulator...... and faint noises of fishes eating. i KID YOU NOT. Everything was so peaceful and serene it gave me time to immerse myself in the whole environment. What a feeling!

Diving was a fantastic experience... thou not all is fun.... i hated my roommate... who happens to be a very wierd person that no one likes. He seems nice at first (dun they all) but somehow i just couldnt stand him towards the end. (its wierd that people whom are extremely nice turns out to be the freaks of nature that no one can stand eventually. Think Ye Yinhao and Thomas Teo).

i remembered when we were having lunch, i was so freaking tired and was thinking about not going for the last dive. he came to me and said "come on cheong chye, all 8 of us started this together and we are all going. it would be nice if all 8 of us go together. i know you can do it!" he said this with so much enthusiasm and conviction i almost wanted to puke out my lunch. like "fuck you bitch" was wat i wanted to reply. i barely knew you for 36 hours and here you are thinking that you know me so well, you smelly fart.

And he was sooo kiasu he kept cutting in between me and my buddy and the instructor during the dives. like go float somewhere else you stupid person. and it doesnt help that i had to share a bed with him at nite. and the best part is he stole my half od the blanket and i was freezing to death that ignorant imbecile. FUCK.YOU.BITCH. seriously.

i didnt like the boat ride, which made me queasy, but i was strong enuff not to puke... i got very sick and tired of having to wear and take out all my gear and feeling cold half the time. and i didnt like having to wait and wait and wait.

all in all it was a good experience and althou it was totally fun, i doubt i will be going to more diving trips in the near future... sometimes too much of a good thing can be bad as well dun ya think? plus did i mention my ankles aching due to the fins... sigh.

alright now.... tioman bound and back.... next stop: Beijing, China..... ah tiongs galore!!! cant wait.

1. You literally hear you knees start creaking when you dance too much

2. You dun frequent Far East that much because
a. you see people younger than you there
b. the music is just to blasting
c. the maze-like complex is too much for you to handle
d. the walk there is just too out of the way, you can't be bothered
e. all of the above

3. You've witness fashion trends in schools come and go.... (flash back circa 1996 when ah lians stuff their blouse inside their panties and expose their non existent cleavage, carrying transparent PVC bags and ah bengs stick a comb out of their back pocket... and now flash forward to today, when everyone is wearing everything baggy, thanks to the ACS/SAJC syndrome)

4. You wake up everyday before 930am and catch Oprah RELIGIOUSLY. (speaking of which i WANT Nate Berkus to re-design my house.... NOW!)

5. You avoid walking under the sun, even if it means taking a longer route

6. You have started to think of retirement plans even though you havent started working

7. You've started to, horror of all horrors, resemble you mother or father. yikes

Wow, my first scuba diving experience was a blast. Kinda scary but exciting at the same time. Had a semi panic attack at the bottom of the pool cos i wasnt used to being underwater yet... kinda like a claustrophobic feeling. desperately trying to suck in more air before i calmed myself down (take deeeeeep slooow breaths).

I even managed to swim underwater.... without my goggles!! i used to flip out whenever water entered my goggles but i managed well this time. so darn proud!!

on a totally unrelated note, its wierd that i've become so busy suddenly... dance practice extended to 3 nites a week (gasps!! *overkill*), dive trip to tioman, trip to Beijing.... COOL BANANAS!!

And i just watched my first world cup match... Portugal vs Iran... at Chijmes no less. And i must say it was quite exciting. A one sided game but good performance for both sides i guess (with my totally amateurish viewpoint).

One question thou- Are all soccer players born good looking? Or are they good looking BECAUSE they are soccer players? haiz... some people just have all the good genes....

WOW. The following clip is an interview segment of Shirley Phelps-Roper taken off Fox News. Apparently she brought her followers and has been making her way to other people's funerals to protests against their dead gay sons.... and the interviewer (Julie Banderas) lost her cool and called her "The Devil" while Roper retorted by calling her "Bimbo".

Which makes me wonder.... why can't Singapore have this kinda news... DAMN i would watch news everyday if they are like that. WOW



This you gotta see...

After months of waiting, alas, i didnt get the DUO scholarship that may make my life in Lyon better.... oh man. Everyone on that list are all like smart asses, which makes me wonder if there is life for mere mortals like me... they get As in exams, they get the deans list, they get the scholarships.... are they going to get all the jobs too?

Oh a lighter note, if you feel rich, please donate generously to 1800-send-cc-to-france. I hear its for a very good cause. yes? or just contact me la... hehehe

i havent been eating supper on a regular basis for a long long long time.... i have been exercising at least 4 times a week for the past month.... running 8 rounds and doing situps and wat nots.... not to mention sweating like a mad cow while i'm at it.... that is NOT a pretty sight.

which is why it surprises me that i still weigh 67kg, i still look like a malnutritioned Ethiopian and the stomach of mine is no where near disappearing..... i NEED HELP.

Here's an update on the current state of things:

1. Prison Break rawks my socks.... its the next best thing since Lost, Desperate Housewives and Grey's Anatomy. The story is basically about a civil engineer, who is trying to help his brother escape from prison, jailed for a crime he didnt commit... and he does so by going into prison himself... conspiracies abound in this thriller. And the good part is, i finally know what to do with my degree!!!... help prisoners escape from prison.... YEEE HA!!

2. My right eye is hurting like mad. Somehow i have a feeling its the contact lens that i didnt take out 2 months back that is coming back to haunt me.... and before u call me an idiot, i did try to take it out... i was THIS close to gouging my eye out the other time but just SOMEHOW, it rolled to the back of my eyeball. i hope it dropped out without me knowing.... otherwise someone must really hate me... poking a pin into a voodoo doll's eye.

3. Have to study a big ass dive manual for my upcoming dive trip to Tioman... so i finally have something constructive to do.... Still must do homework some more. Seriously, anyone with job lobangs... for 1 or 2 days, i shall be your new best fren ok?

4. Practice for dance is gonna start soon! I can't sit still....

5. Caught a chick flick with a fren a couple of days ago. She's the Man.... HIAK HIAK HIAK. i promised not to mention his name so i shall keep my promise. We were so embarrased we ran into the theatre to get to our seats and left as soon as the credits rolled... the theatre was practically filled with pubescent girls (99.9% of them have a crush on Channing Tatum) squealing away. ya know, sometimes u need a brainless chick flick to get your system going, ya know what i mean?

6. I WANT TO PLAY MAHJONG.... please call me.

alrighty now... peace out y'all

I cant actually remember the last time i was literally woken up by a dream... probably never. Which is why i was surprised this happened to be last night.

Basically, the premise of the dream was exactly the same as the wake i attended last night (my fren's gf passed on). It wasnt really a dream anw, more like a re-enactment... everyone was there, my frens, my juniors... even the positions we were sitting were identical... which really freaks me out.

Ok so, one of my juniors posed me a question... a question that i am not even going to repeat here (but it starts with "after all these years, ...."). At this point, in my subconscious, i was kinda pissed off that he actually said this in front of everyone... which was kinda rude and immature.... considering he was a doctor in training. (which pretty much tells me how good his bedside manners are)

I felt so mad, angry and embarrased in my subconscious that i actually woke up in cold sweat. Not good. I hate to be interupted when i am sleeping. And it took me almost 30min to re compose myself and go back to bed.

Moral of the story: i may look nice, and i may self deprecating humour and laugh off jokes that are made about me. But when a line is crossed, a line is crossed. No more Mr Nice Guy from now on.