37 dollar movie ticket
wtf man, me had long and hectic day (lessons till 8pm!!) then thought can come home relac one corner.. but then housemates gian to watch show, so i thought why not lar, can go de-stress abit, somemore watching comedy mah. we watched 40 year old virgin, its quite hilarious lar.. and abit outta point, totally brainless show.. worth watching on a $6.50 day in singapore.
so came outta the show then realised our car wasn't where we parked, then hong kan liao.. apparently it was towed away lar. here the tow trucks damn efficient sia, cos the place where we parked, said no parking from midnite to 7 unless got permit.. we came outta the theatre at 1230.. then the car gone liao. i mean cut some slack lar.. while we were standing there rooted to the spot, we saw alot of tow trucks towing other cars.. fuckers.. if only the rest of their admin system were so efficient (cos when we called the number given, we were like re directed 5 farking times lar). so we took a nice 20 mins stroll in the damn cold to retrieve our car. the compound was like damn dingy lar, the 'parking' or rather 'pharking enforcers' all looked like uptight anal lack of sex zombies lar... all look damn du lan (i would be too lar if my job was to stay in at nite to tow ppl's car).. but hello we only illegal park lar, don't treat us like some criminal (i think even criminals get more respect). anyway the fine came up to 107 bucks.. haiz.. so 4 way split, each about 27 bucks lor..
i should have just stayed at home and study... oh well, its an experience!
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2:07 pm
things i miss most back home
things ah.. not ppl (sensitive, later miss out someone's name then kanna kao bei, so better to say i miss everybody!! hee.. oh cept brian though, cos if i was back home, he won't be there aniwei.. soo err yar, no love for the big leaver! damn gay rite??) kz so here's the list:
1.my kopitiam kopi
2.the chinese vegetarian food...
3.pepper crab
4.brekos
5.ok i shall stop saying anymore food, making myself hungry.. soo errr my bed??
6.i hate to say this but... taking the bus(even 199, ok that's pushing it, so no not 199)!! i practically walk everywhere here.. hmmm the public transport here cost $2.50 no matter how far u travel.. so good for the 'pasir ris' ppl bahh, but not good for me..
7.my 2 other pair of nike shoes
8.zouk! but here got this club called guvernment, its like the zouk equivalent.. hmm this sat got dave seaman.. nxt week they have their anniversary... djs include: timo mass, ferry corsten, carl cox, lee burridge.. and the following week there's steve lawler.. i mean its not really a big thing i guess.. (sniggles)
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2:10 pm
fail liao lar
econs quiz.. din go very well... cos i was a stubongz and forgot that i should do something, so actually it would have been easy.. but im a stubongz, what can i say??
on the subject of stubongz.. i just heard news that few jc students were suspended cos they flamed their teachers on their blogs. wow.. so u mean the authorities while checking for racism , reported these things to the respective schools too?? hmmm when will all these madness stop? n why the big fuss over flaming teachers on their blogs?? its like so harmless.. im sure the teachers prefer students stuffing their car's exhaust pipe with potatos, or throwing a break at their windscreen... but then again what do i know?? i am just a computer engineer who screwed up his econz quiz..
when they ask me
how long im gonna love you
if the road to my heart
will always stay true
i'll say forever
i'll say forever for you
-forever for you, hall and oates
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1:13 pm
of muscle pulls and accounting headaches
played soccer yesterday morning, it was a match between the singaporeans (we formed an independent team) and the pharmacy students (its like inter school, but we're independent team lar). yeah i must be super lousy cos i only played 5 mins before i limped out of the field.. yesh, i think i might have pulled a muscle or something, walking is a painful experience for me now, had to go see the doc just now .. (since i have to pay some university insurance thingy, better make use of it!! basically its 'free' when i see the doc)
yupps, and got a quiz tmr, its some engineering econz module im taking lar, dunno why suddenly got some accounting thingy one, must balance account sheet one.. basket should know don't skip so many lectures liao.. now i super blur.. gathered the whole house to come and solve it for me just now.. but they all oso forget the accounting stuffs liao.. hmmm going to the armoury to draw smoke bombs later.. muahahha
listening to: so far away by carole king
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1:39 pm
same side of the moon 
I'm looking out the window
Where we sat to watch the stars
There's a chill within the air
It makes my heart long for your touch
You may be miles away
But as I kneel to pray
I see the same side of the moon
That we'll be looking on when the world turns blue
And know that time and space
can't come between me and you
We share the same side of the moon
And though you'll never see all my tears shine through
I know I can't be that far from you
If we're both looking on the same side of the moon.
I picture you across the oceans
In your corner of the world
I pray the wind will blow my voice
And gently whisper in your ear
Your night may be my day
And though the seasons change
It's still the same side of the moon
That we'll be looking on when the world turns blue
And know that time and space
can't come between me and you
We share the same side of the moon
And though you'll never see all my tears shine through
I know I can't be that far from you
If we're both looking on the same side of the moon
I know I can't be that far from you
If we're both looking on the same side of the moon
-corrine may
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4:24 am
majestic falls
how beautiful your creation o Lord
went down to niagara falls today, was quite an experience, the falls were really beautiful.. cept for the part where u get all wet.. becos of all the mist, its really like raining.. i think we should be going back again cos my fren blames me that she cant take the stoopid maid of the mist boat ride.. which err i feel is a waste of money..
oo then went to the winery to try out the ice wine.... errmm pretty much a nice experience lar.. i mean since when has wine been a lousy experience for me rite??
yeah basically that's it lar... 30 bucks trip.. cant ask for too much also.. prolly go up again another time.. la la la la la..
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1:03 pm
breakfast for lunch
hmmm cooked this all by myself! okies it might not look like a a big deal.. but for someone who needs his fruits cut and prepared for him.. it is. 
superhero breakfast includes:
4 slice bacon
2 slice ham
2 eggs
1 bagel with salmon cream cheese spread
2 slice cheese
1 cup coffee
just the right combination to give me the boost i need to save the world!
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11:25 am
chui tak lan
hmm that title literally means mouth stuffed with cock. sometimes i wish my command of engrish is slightly higher. cos the lack of vocab really sucks.. if i see a thing that looks nice, i'll say nice. i cant describe things beyond nice, cold, hot, bad, lousy, ok lor,etc... (u get the point). and its really hard to describe how ya feeling when the words u really got are stressed, sad, happy, lonely, excited... if only we could describe ourselves by making it possible for ppl to literally step into our shoes, and feel exactly how we're feeling.. that indescrible rush of emotions, that emospas, that euphoric high or low...
if only you could be me and i could be you for a day...
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12:59 pm
better together
there's no combination of words
i can put on the back of a postcard
no song that i could sing
but i can try for your heart
our dreams and they are made out of real things
like a shoebox of photographs
with sepiatone loving
love is the answer,
at least for most of the questions in my heart
like why are we here? and where do we go?
and how come it's so hard?
it's not always easy and
sometimes life can be deceiving
i'll tell you one thing its
always better when we're together
mmm its always better when we're together
yeah, we're look at the stars when we're together
well, it's always better when we're together
yeah, it's always better when we're together
and all of these moments
just might find their way into my dreams tonight
but i know that theyll be gone
when the morning light sings
and brings new things
for tomorrow night you see
that theyll be gone too
too many things i have to do
but if all of these dreams might find their way
into my day to day scene
i'd be under the impression
i was somewhere in between
with only two
just me and you
not so many things we got to do
or places we got to be
we'll sit beneath the mango tree now
its always better when we're together
mmmm, we're somewhere in between together
well, it's always better when we're together
yeah, it's always better when we're together
mmmmm mmmm mmmmm
i believe in memories
they look so, so pretty when I sleep
hey now, and when I wake up,
you look so pretty sleeping next to me
but there is not enough time,
and there is no song I could sing
and there is no, combination of words I could say
but I will still tell you one thing
we're better together.
- jack johnson
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12:55 pm
for the cutesy in you
for those crazy about spongebob, that means you : kai, max, rachie and _______ (add name here)
and for the more sadistic ppl out there, here's a really satanic cow, or rather moose that i found @ chinatown.. hmmm its really weird.. a chinese moose.. 
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1:49 pm
crowded but alone
realised i have been blogging more often now, oh wells brian is prolly right, its this bit that keeps us overseas ppl sane and at least connected to the ppl back home. prolly hoping somebody to drop a msg or 2 on the comments to know u're still being thought of back home. yeah and like the first thing when i do when i get back home is to switch my lappy on, to see who from home i can keep in touch with. but unlike brian i'd prolly not be able to take a day off from the internet, since my sch work depends on me staying connected (or is that just an excuse??)
kz, don't get me wrong, its not like im not having fun here although i havent partied, and U2 was the best thing that happened to me since arriving... yeah but having fun in other ways, like going for nice lunches and dinners with my housemates, hanging out, cooking dinner, playing soccer.. oh today we went to tim sum in the morning.. then we celebrated mooncake fest at our place with like 20 over odd singaporeans.. it was a nice time of getting together i guess, and we had a pamelo peeling competition.. muahhaa..
also i needed to do some retail therapy, so i bought 2 t shirts that cost me 92 bucks (add that to the U2 tshirt i bought.. im a groupie!!) wow.. i realised im going to be pretty broke by christmas (oh well i guess that's a good excuse for me not to buy prezzie back for everyone huh??)
just wished there was an easier way to stay connected...
thanks for the sacrifices..
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12:36 pm
the loud music hurts my ears
but im not complaining.. i meant the opening band was dashboard confession, and then they came out. it was a pretty good show, good show-man-ship, interlaced with agendas pertaining to human rights, and co-existence between different ppl, different races... nice, they played alot of familiar tunes, not just those from their new album.. yupps, and those more unfamiliar to me (cos i din buy their new albums, hehe,) they sounded damn nice oso lar, u guys prolly heard them before.. hmm but the highlight was when they played pride (in the name of love), where the streets have no name and one back to back.. it was awesome, the light efx was dazzling, and the crowd was huge (was at the air canada centre, basically its the home to the maple leafs ice hockey team, so think national stadium capacity).. yeah overall great show.. and best of all, the tickets were free cos my housemates couldn't make it down.. only thing missing prolly was those who would enjoy it with me.. ppl like mark (actually i only wanna name you doode, cos u said u will be dui if i went down.. and i did)
so in case u ppl dunno what im talking about... i caught U2 live in concert.. (muahahhaa)
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2:50 pm
the viet food hurts my stomach
hmmm i think im finally getting my retribution... went for a jog with my housemates today, basically i think we jogged for a good 1 hr.. argh now thighs are aching.. so after that we went to eat at this viet place.. the beef noodles quite shiok leh, but when i came back, i lau sai like mad lar.. shite (pun fully intended) .. wah rauz.
kz, slack day today, only got one hr lesson cos tutorial cancelled.. whee!!
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11:52 am
the hot weather hurts my head
yay! summer is approaching, can go to the beach le.. yes that's right, i would think autumn is almost here, but noooooo its getting hotter by the days.. got such thing one ahh?? and to think i was scared that it'll be freezing when i arrive.. regret not bringing my beach wear here.. got some canadian asian event at the beach on sunday!! i think all the kim chi's will be there lor.. sigh.. nope i shall stay home to pia my assignments..
wo men bu pai wen zi yao.. xie xie wu pi gao
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1:09 pm
the dry weather hurts my lungsYour Birthdate: November 20 
Your birth on the 20th day of the month adds a degree of emotion, sensitivity, and intuition to your reading.
The 2 energy provided here is very social, allowing you to make friends easily and quickly.
Yet you are apt to have a rather nervous air in the company of a large group.
You have a warmhearted nature and emotional understanding that constantly seeks affection.
You are very prone to become depressed and moody, as emotions can turn inward and cause anxiety and mental turmoil.
It can be hard for you to bounce back to reality when depression sets in.
When things are going well, you can go just as far the other way and become extremely affectionate.
saw the test on groupie's (xiaobin for the uninitiated) blog, and since its a 1 question test, so i just bo liao lor.. aniwei u be the judge of it...
in other news, played soccer with some of the singaporean doodes and misc nationality ppl (got one jap guy look like nakata.. i think nakata now not in italian league liao leh, he decide to continue stardie and play soccer for Uni of Toronto instead.. haha!) well, i think the climate here really different sia, i mean i havent been exercising for one month, yes but i was totally feeling damn jiat lat after running for awhile only lar.. like totally breathless.. then feel abit giddy and almost thought i was going to peng lar.. then decide not to soo garang, play last man instead.. hahah.. yeah and i think one of the rare times i actually pia for the ball, i ended up pulling my groin muscle (i think its groin rite.. its more of like side of the thigh.. but its near the groin, soo groin muscle it is).. playing on friday agian! muahahaha
and in more news, playing soccer meant i din catch bloc party tonight.. well its not becos i missed it for soccer, its cos i cannot find anybody to go with!! ortega is busy with work.. and i dunno who else will be interested in paying 24 canadian to see some band they never heard of.. wished indie boy was here.. he'd even pay for me!! haha..
alrites.. sch's in and it sucks.. but shall not complain, i put myself in this mess, so i shall settle it and come out victorious.. napkin man will blast his way thru useless lectures and assignments..
on itunes: god is a dj - faithless
p.s: was at a nude beach yesterday.. on toronto island, which is really like sentosa.. but aniwei din really see anything cept beached whales..
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11:36 am
the cold weather hurts my hip
woke up feeling damn nua today, i think i kanna burnt out from the first 2 days of school liao. anyway, so dragged my lazy ass out to meet some of the hong kong friends we made yesterday at the international students event.
it turned out to be quite an exciting day afterall, barely walking for 15 mins, we bumped into a first 'parade' thingy, some taoist tai chi association celebrating something i think, i dunno isit a protest or a parade, but its quite cool (actually what was more cool was the day before the major roads of the city were closed to let the U of T sutdents freshies do a march past.. freak, din get to see that, cos i had lessons!! bahhh) so anyway.. here are some of the pics:
even ang moh ah ma's do tai chi...
moh ho sai (lion dance)!!!
so we had lunch and walked all the way down to the waterfront, its really a very nice place, there's this park and all, and the view is quite nice.. anyway this is the nicest pics i can find.. 
and the highlight of it all was when we walked to the rogers centre, i think there was a football (american kind) match that just ended, then there were loads of ppl and everybody was super high, we just followed the crowd as they walk.. there was this band (marching band kind) along the way and they were playing songs, n ppl were dancing and clapping and cheering.. the atmosphere was just super awesome lar, i mean outside the stadium is like that, i cant imagine being inside!! 
they were playing 'then i saw her face, now im a believer' song..
finally, immediately after that high, we chanced upon a deonstration, it was quite a sight actually, it was basically an anti china demonstration (cos apparently hu jintao was visiting.. and he was actually at the convention centre we walked past, i think).. yeah there were the taiwanese protesting, the tibetians and lastly the fa lun gongs .. 
disclaimer: this author does not have a political agenda
alrites.. i know i abit bo liao posting such a chronological entry, but then again, i've lost my creative brain juice, so bahhh.. oh yeah, i forgot to add, i think autumn is approaching, cos its freaking cold today lar, and i had to go out in t shirt and berms n slippers, with no jacket whatesoever to wrap myself with..
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11:21 am
dedication to omc
hmm was juz going thru my pics and i remembered why i took the pic below.. cos it reminds me of the picture of the fish on our omc'05 identity.. which is a singlet.. i really like it.. aniwei here's a salute to the nxt comm! hope you do a great job!! 
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12:21 pm
first day of school
wahh, finally after eons of lifetime, i've started school! it was really quite hard to get into the groove of things, its like i sort of know what the prof is saying, but then got no recollection in detail watsoever. anyway had 2 outta 3 lectures, the last one the prof i think still on holiday.. basket make me sit inside the lt wait one hr for him.. thankfully there's all these freebies publication to keep me occupied.
anyway the buzz word for the 2 lectures i attended (introduction lecs always slack slack one mahh) is assignments (as mark will sing, deng deng deng).. basket even the one that doesnt have a practical component has a project to do, totally kanna fake.. only consolation is, that i dun hafta physically be in the lab.. which sucks too.. n to top it all, i was pretty much sitting by myself for the 2 lecs.. haiz.. need to be more sociable.. but seems like everybody there knows everybody, but come to think of it.. its not as if im very sociable back home in my sch aniwei.. bleah
other than that, had dinner with a whole bunch of singaporeans, its just a mini gathering my housemate (old bird singaporean in tron-toe) organised at some restaurant.. hmmmms i had pasta (happy), some choc moose(happy) and beer (flying high!!).. yupps, but we had a good time lar, at least make more new frenz (but i wanna know more ang moh frens!!)
kz.. and lastly, im such a klutz lar.. totally forgot bout my best bud's bday until i read his blog.. basically i totally missed it, even by tron-toe time.. haiz.. sorry buddy, will make up for it with lotsa booze when im back.. muahahah!! aniwei once again... happy belated birthday bro, u haf lived 5 years pass ur expiry date liao (18 till we die mahh..)keep rockin our socks!
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12:47 pm
a taste of home thanks to the swede
went down to the local ikea store today, it is exactly the same as the one in singapore.. except for like how they arrange it lar, but the stuffs are exactly the same. for a moment i actually thought i was in the store back home.. if only it were that simple.. maybe they shud juz make ikea's all over the world sort of a teleport thingy, where u can go from one country to another juz by going to ikea.. how awesome that'll be rite.. i'll be right back in spore in a minute, and another i'd prolly be down under visit brian.. but no such thing.......... yet.
ks the fotos are up (finally got a stable connection, no need to hijack ppl's wireless liao), i dunno how this fickr thing really work, but err hope u all can see the link.. else juz click on my zidigest and go to the set that says montreal, ottawa and blah... kz.. the link is here
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6:38 am
how to make money fast
just came back from a 3 days trip to qubec city, montreal and ottawa.. it wasn't such a pleasant trip because we din really have much time at each place.. that's what happens when u go on a tour organised by a ching company who make it sound cheap cheap.
anyway thru the tour i realised that if you were starting your own country, the fastest way to make money is such: build a damn tall tower, well it doesn't need to be damn tall, but as long as you can see most of the city/landscape. put it in ur tourist brochure as a must see, cant be miss kind of attraction and charge 30 bucks per time to take the lift to go up. of cos u shud include the option of a cheaper walk up the stairs urself thingy, but of cos nobody's that dumb.
another thing u could do is to look 100 years ahead, build like a super heritage kindda building, usually a church would do the trick (i mean meanwhile it'll be useful rite??).. an alternative would be to build a castle of some sort, call it the castle hotel, and then charge large amount of money for ppl to stay over.
of coz all this will not be possible if you don't work hand in hand with the ching travel agency, so that the ppl will not get their money's worth and hence have to go back on another trip.. lovely..
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6:35 am
miles away
you know you're in abit of trouble when you travelled thousands of miles away to a far away land only to find out that all you wanna do is to stay home and be connected to ppl. alot of ppl have been asking why i am always online, don't i go out and paint the town red and stuff?? hmm i dunno, partly due to circumstances (cos we only got one set of keys, so whenever my housemate comes over, we'll have to wait till she leaves before doing anything). and partly maybe i just feel i dunno... homesick?? (gimme time.. gimme time)
have been looking at my previous posts.. i realised its all about what i have been doing and more like a daily log.. i think somewhere along the way i just left out my feelings and such. but i've never really posted deep deep thoughts and emotions have i?? oh wells.. we'll see, maybe i'll start doing so since im far away..
if a star fell from the sky
everytime i thought of you
there would be none
and if the moon would shine
all the while u were on my mind
we'll never see the day
and i wish you werent so far away
-never see the day, noveaux
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11:21 am
relaxed day.. or not
spent the whole day at home today cos i had some problem with my subject matching, so was at home fiddling with the stoopid timetable. ppl in ntu, be happy you have such a thing as the timetable planner!! its so freaking sucks here, old school paper and pen. anyway i've plan out a quite nice timetable taking 6 modules, its nice cos only got one lecture clash (which is quite errr good?) but its totally packed lar.. abit loser lar, but hoping to do more here (cos pass fail only mah) and then go back and slack for final year.
oh wells, just as we were about to leave for sch to clarify the subjects with our faculty, our housemate's fren came over to say hi as our housemates are not around yet, so he dropped by to see how my fren and i are adaptin.. nice chap actually.. then we waited for this other girl whose oso our new housemate to move her things in. when she's done, it was almost 8 ready.. so only left the house for dinner and coffee.. quite chill lar i guess.
oh so comes the not so relaxed part. the first not relaxed part is stressing over my subject combi lar, i mean who isn't rite?? somemore foreign land, dunno can bargain my way thru anotz. and the nxt stressful part?? applying for my damn freaking IA (industrial attachment). apparently we shud start applying ready, but everything is such a blur, and plus im in a foreign land and its so hard to know what the hell is going on back in sch. thankfully i haf 2 other fellow course mates with me here who are more on the ball in making things happen, so i just follow whatever they're doing i guess.. but its damn stressful lar!!
kz soo that's pretty much my day.. many of u asking for pics ready.. so here's one of the view from my place... 
don't be jealous..
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12:31 pm
