i have 3 interviews in two days (tues and wed) and in a span of less than 24 hours. i really wonder how that will go. lets hope i score every single one of them. and hurry up be employed and richer in the pocket.

today is technically the start of my ‘lose tummy’ program. and after running less than 1km around my block. i have come to a conclusion (as of every time) that im terribly unfit. and that ill really need either alot of determination or a miracle (whichever comes first) to reach that outcome.

so that made me really want to join a gym and that also made me really want to join a gym with someone. just that im broke and the nearest gym is $0.89 by bus/train away. and besides i havent found a job to know where ill really be at the next few months.

someone give me some money for lipo or something.

Check this out man.

i was just thinking to myself that i should read a better selection of books. so i was totally anticipating Dan brown’s latest book ‘the lost symbol’. isnt the singapore national library the best place to go borrow a book. and since i jolly know that there are only limited copies in the library i decided to put a reservation for it.

only cost $1.55 to reserve a book from the national library but the most ridiculous thing is that im number 594 in the waiting list for the book!!!

here is proof...

not like there are any short of copies of the book. in fact a total of 160 in the whole singapore library circulation, just that assuming that each of those before me on the waiting list borrows it for a full 3 weeks (as allowed), i will only end up getting my reserved book next year.

that is calculated 2.7 months for before the book is transported to bishan library for collection. that is basically almost JANUARY until i get to read the book. and i still have to pay $1.55 for it.

s​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​I have been hitting the eating places like crazy since i came back. God knows how much money i have already spent on food. mayb somewhere close to about 400 SGD in less than 2 weeks. and since i had potential company like janelle to go stuff our faces every now and then. it was good fun.

Just visited Still road crab store for specially ordered large crabs on friday night. Elvin specially called up to reserve 4 crabs. large enough for each pincer to the size of one hand. and that cost us about 190 dollars for the whole meal for 6 people ($32 per person which was quite worth it)

then this morning at 10 am i found myself hopping into a cab and heading straight to geylang for timsum. that was about $32 between me and nelle before we head into town for coffee and more food which was another $30 odd dollars between us. morning was supposed to be with jillian but for reason i still cannot comprehend, she was LATE... AGAIN...

last wednesday was a short trip in the morning to NUS to collect my cert and a short cheap memory lane food at science canteen with nelle and mala. then it was down to town for my hair cut. yes!!! finally chopped off my 1 year uncut hair and got myself a bob. too bad i dont find it as nice as i thought it would be since my hair is super thick and not silky enough for a proper style. but it dint look too bad so it is still ok.

and then night was my second round of Xiao long paos at ding tai fung with the tennis people. i realised that i never bothered to take photos since i came back and thanks to jinx and her camera i have something to put on the blog.

it is very nice to meet them all again. all employed and working. they say meet at 7pm and when i reached there at 7pm and called the rest of the world. they are all still in the office working. WORKAHOLICS!!! well lets hope ill not be like that in the future. haha.

we even came to a tennis plan. and i really hope that works out fine. it would really be nice if weekly tennis became reality since i have actually put on enough weight over the last year. it would really be nice to see them every week (if possible)

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i have been back for over a week now. and all these time i have been enjoying the random book (well. actually a whole series by author julia quinn) im down to my 5th book in the 8 book series. yeah i know. i read like 4 books in one and a half weeks.

i dont know why it seems so magical, either i have not been reading for a very long time, or this author does give trash some magical potion.

but it is really nice to be curled up on your bed with a book. before you sleep or after you wake up. i guess this is one luxury i have to enjoy before i get a job. in fact there are many luxuries of time i better be able to appreciate before someone hires me.

thing like:

reading a book
going to town as and when you feel like it
traveling around for food
drama series
doing nothing
playing my ds or psp

god i think ill really miss this later in my life. imagine yourself 10 years down stuck with 2 kids in tow, work stacking up to your throat, and housework to mop over. when that time comes with a huge sayonara to everything classified as ‘leisure’.

jacklyn just gave birth to a baby girl. nice to see that some people have actually gotten on with the rest of their lives.

i have been having alot of random stuff to talk about. just that i dont feel like posting them up at all coz it is just boring random stuff like this post. not as if there was something interesting happening in my life that i need to report. for now it is just meeting friends and having food.

It has been a while since i was back in singapore. basically the last week have been a lazy yet hectic week. i dont even know where i should categorize the week into. i have been busy running around doing errands and meeting friends, and at the same realize that i am ‘bored’ when i am at home.

think i have pretty much settled down to the weather and the time zone. although i still sleep enough for two time zones (1am to 1pm), i still feel like life has not really settled down for me. i dont feel comfortable enough to be back in singapore. lets just say not feeling settled yet.

in one year, it is clear that many things has changed, and yet at the same time not.

orchard has been given a drastic face lift since the last time i stepped there. i practically dont register the new face of orchard now. shops which i only thought existed in the UK are now for the first time open at the ion. london shopping can go kiss my arse. orchard in itself can be a shopping heaven. the pure range and number of shops are already enough to make my head spin.

its funny how every thing also seemed to have stayed the way they were. i’ve seen janelle for the first time in a year and it really seems like we just saw each other a week ago. everything dint seemed to have changed. that feeling of social comfort is really warming. even driving around the island the roads hasnt changed.

sunday - janelle and kway chup (supper)
monday - janelle and frog leg porridge (supper)
tuesday - janelle and jilly and sun and moon (dinner)
wednesday - ron and boon tong kee (lunch)
thursday - cheong, janelle and mala at soup restataunt (dinner)
friday - lynette and jilly and xiao long paos (dinner)

basically i have already spent more than 100 on food. plus all the little errands i had to run to replace my toothbrush, hair conditional, day planner, bath scrub. etc have cost me another 150. plus i went for a facial for the first time in a year and that cost me slightly under 100 too. and plus top up for transport. so basically in less than a week i have already hit my 400 SGD quota. never spent so much in a week for a long time.

to a poor person like me. i really wonder how long my money is going to last until i either go broke or reach my first pay day. hoping very hard that the latter is going to come first.

talking about being unemployed. im really really hoping to get a job asap. then at least i will have come income. i am really hoping that my nparks job application turns out well. it would really be nice to go back to a familiar environment to work. PRAY I GET THE JOB !

it would be nice if someone reading this can get me a job or job lobang

its 5 am in the morning and i am as wide awake as the next barn owl in the bird park. i have been tossing and turning on the bed for the longest 2 hours. and even the aircon dint help the jet lag. i really hate the feeling of not being able to fall asleep. even sticking my ipods into my ears dint help.

thank god my bro was a late home returner. he got his long locks chopped off. and he kept me entertain till the sun rose.

the only constant thing that has been on my mind since i touched down at Changi was that i desperately need to give my room a whole spring clean. there is absolutely no space in my current closet for anything that is packed in my two suitcases. and the house internet doesnt work on my laptop which is totally like the boundary of ‘suck big time’.

i have so many errands to run. so many things to eat and so many people to catch up with.

we took a day trip out to monaco. the french Rivera's famous casino monte carlo sits on the coast of this very famous town. apparently according to ron, it is the first ever casino in the world. so does that means that the french invented casinos?

the thing about the coast is that it is lined with palm trees and cactus. it is lined all over the streets and gardens that it doesnt feel like i am in france but in california or miami. plus when we took the bus from nice to monaco, the view was amazing all along the coast.

the port of monaco is filled with expensive and big boats. that is how rich these people are.

dont you love it when the sky and the sea is equally blue and rich. and you can see how the rich and possibly famous live their very expensive life here.

this is the sitting room for our hotel. not that fancy a hotel but it will do for 60 euros for a room a night. it is pretty downstairs. and thank god that the people working here actually speak english.

this is our back patio. not bad eh. just that i dint have the opportunity to sit around here at all.

desperados, one of the most amazing tasting beer that comes i a bottle. plus i fell in love with the bottle at first sight. dont you think that that bottle is damn chio? it is not just your average beer in a bottle. it is with tequila in it too. and best drunk with a slice of lemon.

this is a quick photo update. no mood to blog long posts anymore

we wanted to go to paris but since ryan air no longer flies to paris from EMA. so it was a ticket to southern france instead. It was technically a ‘graduation trip’ for me and ron. and in the short one week i have before we fly back home after completion of my dissertation.

5 whole long sunny days in the french coast. bathing ourselves in the sun and the sea. and loads of topless women on the beach.

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it was nice to get to Nice (pronounced as ‘neece’), one of the towns that is along the southern coastal area of france. it is a famous spot for the rich to come spend some money at the casinos and also as a sunny side up beach coastal resort town place.

it was a baking 30 degC on our first day there. although humidity was no where as bad as singapore. it was still hot. but with the sea breeze, everything was made slightly more enjoyable. although it was still undeniably baking hot.

the skies where cloudless and the blue-est of the blue. it was just like that for the whole 5 days we were there. and honestly, it was a little too hot to bare in the afternoons so me and ron opted to rot in the hotel instead. with everything on tv in french, the only two channels made for english viewing was sports and bbc.

the beach was pure gravel. not a single spec of sand. although i did try basking a bit of a tan there, i somehow ended up with not a single bikini tan line. only left with my gladiator sandals strap marks on my feet.

for the time that i lay there on our hotel borrowed mats. not only did i not get a tan, but in that same amount of time. ron got sun burnt. meaning that me and ron will never ever be able to be beach buddies. all i wanted was to sit there longer to make a nice clear tan line. but at the same time i was scared ron will be baked red. and he got a sunburn for 1.5 hours of sun.

i had to say that the promenade was a nice walk along the stretch of the bay. with every section of visible gravel breach. there was bound to be at least two or three topless women. although most of them are aunties with sagging boobs. but there were still good firm ones out there.

we walked along the coast from the beach to the port. and the waters were a nice clear blue. something that you will never really get to see in singapore EVER. but it seems to be shinning in the sunlight and making it crystal clear blue arching waters.

there was some old fort we were too lazy to climb, and at the other end of the cliff was this weird looking thing. as weird as it was just a single structure sticking out from the ground, it was actually nice on camera. but then again, since my lcd died from iceland, i cant really see what i was taking. but looking from the self shots i got, i really got to say i am really good at self shots. NZ trained me well

the houses on the coast was in nice contrasting shades of yellow, orange and red, green and blue. all match up in window panels and wall paint. and as mismatched as the colors could get. it dint look wrong in the sunlight. the houses has nice patios and really pretty shutters. if only singapore could look half like that.

we spent a few days walking in town. going shopping and look seeing. it was so hot me and ron were practically hiding in the shade of every building we can get. and it was so hot that we really spent most the day indoors. until it was cooler at night that we stoled out to enjoy the chill of the nightlife.

we chances upon this particular restaurant. it was 19 euros for a three course meal. and i can say that it is the best western food i have ever eaten in my life. it was so good we came back for a second dinner.

i dont know why it tasted so good. even the american couple thought it was good and well priced. there was even foir gras on my steak i ordered. i would love to hire the cook and make it cook for me everyday.

and to balance the scale of money spent. we only has baguette and ham from the supermarket for lunch and breakfast. baguette from the corner bakery was only 45 cents and it was fresh hot from the oven and crunchy to the bite. plus we got small packs of butter for spread. and occasionally buying a quiche.

nothing really much to say other than the fact that we spent 5 whole days doing absolutely nothing. lets just call it a vacation.

i had a small cooking accident while trying to make myself half boiled eggs. and as a result of a catastrophic tiny tiny mishap, i have accidentally kill one of the kitchen’s cooking appliances. i can totally see my flat-mates half killing me in their mind.

i totally maimed the cooker.

i was boiling water on the cooker for my lovely eggs in great attempt to make soft boiled eggs. and then i left the kitchen to go check some stuff online. then it happened. the water started over-boiling the pot and then i kinda short circuited the whole cooker. as water was literally boiling over the whole cooker.

moral of the story...
always watch your cooking.
and...
never buy an electric cooker. try getting gas (and blowing up your house instead)

but that is not the worst part.

i went down to the estate office to report my tiny misdoing. and then david (our estate manager) came and sorted out the circuit breaker. when i thought everything was solved... then the worst happened... i turned on the cooker to continue bring my herbal chicken soup to boil and then i smelt fire.

guess what? apparently the wiring caught fire. and it was smoking the kitchen away. i over boiled my pot and i set the wires on fire. so now the whole flat cant use the cooker at all. all thanks to yours truly. you might be wondering where and how on earth can the wires catch fire.

well... see the little hole below the knobs at the side of the cooker (where the lights were suppose to be?) well... there apparently was no plastic cover when i first moved into the flat one year ago. and this little hole has many many wires sitting under it.

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thanks to me. there is no way of cooking on the cooker for at least a weekend. coz its a friday today and the service people do not work on the weekend. so my poor flatmates have 3 days of no cooker. and best thing is that im leaving them to their own cooking ethics while i fly off to sunny southern france for a vacation.

so we are only left with a whole weekend of cooking from the oven, the microwave and the rice cooker. so on the good side. not like you cant cook a decent meal still.

thank god i could continue cooking my soup. i had only done 1 hour on low fire before the little mishap. but thanks to my steam boat cooker thingy. i could still put it on slow boil and cook it for another hour. so that is not the end of the world yet.

11.57 of 3rd september marks the end of everything that i have come up the uk to do. it is at 11.57 in the morning that i deposited two 76 pages dissertation to the department secretary. that 76 pages equals to 2.5 months worth of hard work.

it took 11 pounds to print 76 x 2 = 152 pages. plus another 5 pounds to bind them up in wire binding. that means in under 3 hours i already spend 16 pounds on paper and a piece of metal. that is 40 SGD worth of paper. i cant believe i actually paid 40 freaking bucks for two stacks of paper.

but seriously... ITS FINALLY OVER !!!

O.V.E.R

this is proof of 40 SGD going down the drain. talk about save the trees. and i handed it a whole 24 hours before the actual deadline.

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i am finally free to do anything i want. but that also means that i am officially UNEMPLOYED. need to start scouting for a job that will pay my insurances and my debt.

it is time to start packing for home. i’ve got to pack my whole room into two suitcase. im not really looking forward to how i can squeeze many many things into my suitcase. i really do have quite a bit of stuff all over the room. plus me and ron are going down to southern france on saturday. so that means i really need to start packing tmr.