why like that?!!
i just sat for a damn weird ass test just now.. the total marks of it is 250.. and then there are questions where u are allowed to say 'i don't know' as the answer and you get 20% of the marks, if you attempt to answer it, and it looks like you dunno your stuff.. you will get 0 marks for it.. hmm which institute discourages ppl from trying?!! damn..
anyway start spreading the news, im leaving today.. i want to be a part of it.. new york new york!! see ya guys when im back..
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4:02 am
home
another summer day
is come and gone away
in paris and rome
but i wanna go home
mmmmmmmm
maybe surrounded by
a million people i
still feel all alone
i just wanna go home
oh i miss you, you know
and ive been keeping all the letters that i wrote to you
each one a line or two
im fine baby, how are you
well i would send them but i know that its just not enough
my words were cold and flat
and you deserve more than that
another aerorplane
another sunny place
im lucky I know
But i wanna go home
mmmm, ive got to go home
let me go home
im just too far from where you are
i wanna come home
and i feel just like im living someone elses life
its like i just stepped outside
when everything was going right
and i know just why you could not
come along with me
but this was not your dream
but you always believe in me
another winter day has come
and gone away
and even paris and rome
and i wanna go home
let me go home
and im surrounded by
a million people i
still feel alone
oh, let go home
oh, i miss you, you know
let me go home
ive had my run
baby, im done
i gotta go home
let me go home
it will all be alright
ill be home tonight
im coming back home
-micheal buble
napkin man: heard this song in the car today.. felt it was a nice song.. mmm its on repeat mode now on my itunes.. sooooo feeling it...
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11:44 am
random me and random you
i din feel like doing anything today, cept sleep watch tv.. no assignments or stardying for quizzes.. soo yeah its chill out day today. hence this post will have nothing interesting cept random musings (since when has my entries been interesting huh?? kekeke)
was feeling abit down the past few days, can't really put a finger to it, so decide to give u guys some fun and mix and match the reasons why napkin man is down:
craving pork knuckles
not enuff beer
bad haircut
lack of sleep
lack of lame jokes
assignments and quizzes
no kopitiam kopi
cold weather
male pms (its not a myth i tell you)
15% tax for everything you buy
k lar, enuff reasons.. ohs, in case u guys are wondering how bad my haircut really was, decided to post it up.. 
ppl not interested in my bad hair can focus on the 2 lesbos kissing behind
oh was watching ice hockey juz now.. never knew i was so into it till i came over.. yes yes what else can i watch here, all the jokes bout canadians and their hockey.. and its really true ya know.. it was an exciting match.. the local team here is called the toronto maple leafs.. might even get the jersy for fun.. errr i can go jurong east ice skating ring and be a wannabe.. whee!!
listening to nickelback's photographs.. its quite a cool song, one of those think back bout childhood, high school days time kindda song.. it brings back lots of memories i guess.. haha of teen crushes and chillin at coffee places.. life was simpler back then...
i'll be true, i'll be useful, i'll be cavalier,
i'll be yours my dear
And i'll belong to you
if you just let me through
....
and being with you here makes me sane.
i fear I'll go crazy if you leave my side
- as lovers go, dashboard confessionals
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12:08 pm
jit pai siao liao
went to korea town for kamchiadang(i dunno if its spelt that way), its basically pork bone soup or bak kut teh but korean style. its like the nicest thing around esp in the cold weather, cos its spicy and shiok, eat with kim chi.. woot woot!! hmm one of the few things i'll miss when i go back home.
the thing i won't miss is the blardy hairdressers!! freaking screw up my hair!! i kindda miss cheryl (yes that's my hair stylist back home, next @ holland vee, ask for her said vincent recommended one.. and err yah go on weekdays because got student discount.. muahahha). freak, i look like a train wreck lar... i told her not to cut off my back.. NOT TO CUT OFF MY BACK.. but yeah she din really cut it off lar, juz that trim until i dun really see much of it left.. and the front is still so bushy!! aiyoh.. i point the magazine say 'like that at the front' back dun cut.. arghh... that's it im going to someone who understands english nxt time!! (wait there is no next time, cos im going back to cut my hair that's for shure)
now i got no natural scarf to keep my neck warm!! arghh .. arrgh arrghh!! arrgh arrgh arghh!! arrghh arggh argghh arrgghh!!
everybody hurts.. sometimes..
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10:20 am
i can fly!!
im so fucking high now... beers alone can do wonders.. juz drink like alot of it!!! alexender keith's pale ale.. yummy! screw the assignments man.. i'll regret about them later... lalala...
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5:45 pm
here without you
a hundred days had made me older
since the last time that i saw your pretty face
a thousand lights had make me colder
and i don't think i can look at this the same
but all the miles had separate
they disappear now when im dreaming
of your face
im here without you baby,
but you're still on my lonely mind
i think about you baby
and i dream about you all the time
im here without you baby
but you're still with me in my dreams
and tonight its only you and me
the miles just keep rollin
as the people either way to say hello
i've heard this life is overrated
but I hope that it gets better as we go
everything I know,
and anywhere I go
it gets hard but it wont take away my love
and when the last one falls,
when its all said and done
it get hard but it wont take away my love
-3 doors down
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11:06 pm
eh who turn on the air con??
temperature today was about 12 degrees.. but the wind juz made it feel like i dunno sub 10.. temp now is 4 degs by the way.. super cold.. can't wait till it hits subzero, nah im kidding, but im more of a cold than hot person.. so this is nice, cept when you're playing soccer. yupps, today we the garang ppl played soccer in the freaking cold, and all wearing only shorts and t shirts.. it was a sorta leauge lar, so bo bian gotta play.. else i would haf just slept at home.. bleah .. aniwei its quite an experience.. my body was perpertually numb the whole game.. and i actually felt like running because it was soo cold that standing and waiting is not really a good idea. after the game i just came home and thawed myself in the hot shower for like 20 mins... and down one nice cup of hot milo.. phew
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1:03 pm
am i going nutz??
recently i couldn't eat nor sleep properly.. don't know why.. nah im just kidding, i'm such a bum that eating and sleeping comes naturally to me.. but i am going nutz though. and the motivating factor, is not work as u might assume, but something else, something trivia , something so stupid u would think i'm really nutz if i told you.
i cant find the shower foam i want.. and it's driving me nutz. so after sch just now, i just walked down a whole street popping into every convenience/drug mart/supermarket along the way just to find a stoopid shower foam. not to mention in the freaking cold cold weather (temp was alrite, but the wind freezes my ass and its really hard to walk around with a frozen ass aint it??) yeah still can't find, going to try my luck tmr on another street. the only shop i saw it was that time we went to do our groceries, but that place is like 45mins walk from my place and errr not a good idea ah (maybe last desperate attempt bahh) and don't ask me why i din buy it when i saw it then.. becoz i was a freaking cheapo and thought somewhere else might sell it cheaper!!!bahhh
kz told you i was nutz.. if you have 2nd thoughts being my friend now.. then please queue up to sign the 'friend release' form... bahhhhh
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6:23 am
where's has all the booze gone?
in my stomach, that's where.. yeah had 3 well deserve beers juz now. the reason is cos i juz completed my assignment that is due like midnite today (phew) and this week has been pretty rough with lotsa assignments, and next week doesn't look any brighter, with quizes.. and more assignments. sometimes i wondered if i really am on exchange.. bleah but shall not blabber on about work, i shud be starting on the next one, but decided that i enuff is enuff for today, shall take a well deserve break.
anyway sermon today was pretty good, the message is about faith and something bout being resident aliens (oxymoron). but the faith message spoke to me alot, as often as it has been spoken about, remember when we read bout the story of how moses brought the ppl outta egypt and how they always kao bei moses everytime they face a problem?? and we thought that those ppl are damn kao bei and unbelievable..hmm actually we aren't pretty far off are we?? i guess we really are a bunch of bums that have time and again forgotten that the Lord has brought us outta so much, and time again when we face our crisis, we start to bitch and show symptoms of lack of faith... if i muz point fingers, then it is to myself..
so yeah, know that the exams for ppl are coming round, ppl in uni are prolly swarmed with assignments after assignments after assignments that we just don't see the end huh?? just know we're all in it together and for my brothers and sisters in christ, place your trust and hope in the right place (yeah i know its alot more fun and easy to bitch about it, but we shall make an effort to try yeah?). and for the rest, well just take comfort that we're all in the same shite.. so yeah lets juz eat this shite together and make the best outta what comes our way.
alrites i shall be going off now (for my 4th beer?? nahh) .. strength and honour ppl.. strength and honour.
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12:21 pm
training camp
on monday 10th october, we enlisted for national service @ algonquin national park.
the bus picked us up from downtown toronto, where ppl said goodbye to their parents, and others like us whose parents are far away, just have to content with the new friends found. The bus took us to our barracks where we will be spent the rest of our training days: 
this is where the recruits slept
immediately after putting down our stuffs, we were told to fall in for lunch: 
recruit jj was punished for moving in the file after this
after lunch we were brought out to the field to do some basic tatical training, we learnt fire movement and also how to camouflage ourselves in the terrain: 
the unforgiving forest
recruit napkin taking a piss
we also did river crossing training.. not a very fun time
at least the water is nicer than batu apoi's
overall the training is pretty tough, and not a fun thing to go thru... shall leave you all with a parting shot:
recruit napkin was punished for pissing beside the command post
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2:10 pm
road trip
been meaning to post this up like for a few days now.. but then no have been abit lazy, now i lost abit of the enthusiasm to talk about it in an ..err enthusiastic manner?? sooo here we go:
saturday 8th october, road trip to kitchener/waterloo for oktober fest
so as you can see from the pic, alex the driver, me the navigator (although i was ousted from my position abit later cos i keep screwing up the directions.. ok ok dun blame me.. i gave up my reccee skills 2 years ago.. ) and the 2 passengers in the back.. man yin and felicia.. and u can see that the trees are turning a nice shade of red.. really very nice.. u all shud see for urself to really know how nice it is.. its like... NICE 
we stopped over at cambridge (yes alot of places here are named after places in uk.. duhh?? there's even a london here too.. and the funniest thing is, apparently they've got a bridge called the.. oh well u shud know...) to pick up our friend jia jun (aka jj). that's his room in the first pic, and the nxt 2 pics are of his school. he is in architecture (yeah the profession that i was rejected from) @ nus doing exchange at uni of waterloo , the thing is they house the architecture fac away from the main waterloo campus.. like so weird.. its like the law fac movin to the bukit timah campus (aka old smu, aka even older nie). so yeah we walked around the building for abit while jj dropped off some stuffs.
and off we went to kitchener.. we stopped at this beer hall for lunch (free entry what, so walk in see see lor) and then i went to buy this cool funky oktober fest hat (its real cool, cos like the ppl pin badges for the years that they've been to oktober fest.. so u see really lao jiao old men with pins from 1960 or something) 
nxt we went to the main campus of the uni of waterloo.. nothing much lar.. just walked around.. that place is really like ntu.. super ulu and only got 1 or 2 bus that goes there (like the 199 and 179).. its so ulu that the student center has an arcade in it.. how come ntu dun haf?? muz go to blardy jurong point to play my favourite dance dance revolution game.. 
we drove on further to stratford, this place known for thier plays and stuff, esp shakespear.. they even got a town called shakespear.. but the place is very nice, very artsy and 'up'.. u even gotta pay 5 bucks to go see quilts (no i din pay to see what my granny can sew) we just walked around, went to the theatre store to get some stuffs.. 
and finally we drove back to kitchener cos we pre-bought tix for this other beer house.. and yeah juz went there to experience the atmosphere of a more or less authentic oktober fest i gues.. muahahaha... actually singapore oso have lar, just need to find the right place to be.. swiss club confirm haf something simliar( refer to september post last year about me bitching bout working in the swiss club).. ohs along the way to the beer hall we found this really cool pumpkin kindda farm.. so yeah did the tourist thing and took photos!
kz soo that's all for road trip.. meanwhile.. not feeling very up.. must be that time of the month again... oh wells...
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6:07 am
la la la la la
the greatest single cause of atheism in the world today
is christians who acknowledge jesus with their lips
then walk out the door and deny him by their lifestyle.
that is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable
-what if i stumble, dc talk
i think they're talking about me...
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1:31 pm
post 460
can't think of a title for this post, so i'll just name it post 460.. since its the 460th post (like duh???). nothing to update from this part of the world, life's getting pretty mundane, been catching up on my readings.. (my what?! u ask?? hmm yeah no choice, cos if i don't i won't be able to do my assignments.. so its not my choice). the most irritating part of the cirriculum here is that the stuff they teach in sch is alrite, but the assignments they give you require you to go learn something (unrelated to the course) just so you can submit the work. here's and example, so its a simple assignment, but she don't allow handwritten assignments, so basically i need to go and learn how to use this program to type mathmatical symbols into my document. I obviously can't use ms word because it doesn't have such a function, so why the _____ (insert favourite curse word here) can't i just write it?!!
kz that's just my random ramblings... anyway was walking home today and a thought just hit me, rather 2 statements: ignorance is bliss, as compared to knowledge empowers. i believe i am the first type of person, i rather not know that things go wrong, everything in my mind is always pink lil flowers and sunshiny day and indeed just a bed of roses. is this escapism or optimism?? i guess its more of an escapism.. isit bad to feel this way?? kz i don't know where this discussion is leading to, but i always start things i don't intend to finish anyway (with exceptions of cos..)
waiting for my spaceship to take me home
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1:17 pm
thankfully
anyway, got back my econs quiz and another assignment results.. lets just say i didn't fail and i didn't do very badly either.. so thankfully.. maybe it aint that difficult here afterall?? putting too much pressure on myself... time to relac!
missed: jason mraz in concert
going to miss: john mayer trio concert (sold out!)
this is how muscle pulls look like
you don't have to put up a fight
you don't have to always be right
let me take some of the punches
for you tonight
listen to me now
i need to let you know
you don't have to go it alone
-sometimes you cant's make it on your own, U2
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2:48 pm
we thrive on these
saw this questionaire thingy on groupie's blog. don't we all just love doing these to satisfy our 'i want the whole world to know bout me' cravings?? muahahhaaaha...
7 things that scare me:
1. enclosed spaces, like being inside a 2 by 2 space enclosed totally by concrete, with no lights of cos
2. im afraid of becoming a social retard
3. getting alzheimer's.. imagine losing ur memory by the day!! at the end of it all you won't even know yourself or the things that made you you.
4. trannies (that's transvestites in case you are wondering..)
5. emotional blackmail, hate being sent on a guilt trip
6. losing ppl close to me..
7. war
7 important things in my room:
1. laptop
2. handphone (or any phone)
3. bed (and all its accessories like pillow etc)
4 - 7: actually i cant think of any more things, cos the above 3 esp my laptop is all i need to be comfy in a room
7 random facts about me:
1. i love to exclaim random statements like 'stubongz' or 'penis' at the top of my voice in random places like elevators or the toilet.
2. i picked up the guitar becos i wanted to jio char bo.. but realised it doesn't work... so now i use it for a greater purpose of serving God. (of cos at the same time still trying to jio char bo with it.. but then again i no need to jio char bo currently... )
3. i snore when i sleep... very loudly may i add...
4. i chose to major in computer engineering to make myself marketable and not because i have a strong interest(i stress strong, i still have abit of interest lar) .. i really wanted to be an architect.. but i was not talented enuff.. hope to do something media'y for a job next time.
5. the ring i wear on my finger is not an 'attachment' ring but one given to me by my cell leader (he is not gay.. well actually he is, but he din gave it to me cos he was trying to chase me.. or did he? hmmm) on my baptism.. its sort of to remind me that i am in the family of Christ.
6. i do stupid things when i am tipsy.. refer to close friends for stories
7. i am a part time super hero by the name of napkin man.. i don't really get paid for it.. but well i get job satisfaction
7 things I plan to do before I die:
1. get married haf kids.. blah blah blah
2. turn 18 (18 till i die.. gonna be 18 till i die)
3. go diving?
4. step foot on all continents (cept antartica i guess)
5. read finish some philosophical book like plato
6. write a song
7. be a mac user (as in OWN a mac)
7 things I can do:
1. write programs
2. play guitar
3. ride a bike (as in motorcycle)
4. drive a car
5. ride a bike (as in bicycle) and rollerblade
6. be an irritant
7. lame the daylights outta anybody
7 things I can't do:
1. sing
2. draw
3. cook (i can partially cook now, still cant do fancy though)
4. fly a plane
5. drive my dad's car
6. ride a bike that is not millitary owned
7. share files (well at least not in Singapore, its legal in Canada though)
7 things I say the most: (err aside from vulgar words k)
1. relaxing
2. wassup
3. yo yo yo
4. hello
5. bye
6. take care
7. hee
im supposed to pass it along to 7 ppl.. but then i know everybody likes to do questionaires.. so yeah just copy and paste it onto your blog all you questionaire sluts (i am one too!!)
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2:11 pm
finally after so long...
i went clubbing for the first time in my life yesterday! my housemates jio'ed me to go, i was like 'but i don't cheong one leh, i wanna stay home and study...' but still my ass got dragged down.
ok that didn't sound very convincing. fine, they din drag me down, i did.. and it wasn't clubbing for the first time in my life, but at least it was my first time in toronto! yeap, was down at this club called the guvernment, as some of you should have recalled from my earlier post, its like the zouk of toronto. yeah the setup of the club is quite similar to zouk in the sense that there's their version of 'phuture' which played hip hop, but they have this mc rapping along.. and then there's the 'velvet' area also.. for the main floor, its this uber massive dance space in the middle with ubber big speakers at the 4 corners pointing directly at the mid space.. damn loud if u stand in the middle. then the dj console is on the 2nd level.. which is quite sucky, cos like u need to really strain your neck to look up at him if u're near the front.
ok first up, the highlights, and there's really only one highlight of last night, it was dave seaman of cos. his set was sooo good, read the crowd pretty well and basically awesome. and he was interacting with the crowd so much, getting them to clap along, to cheer and stuff .. and he'd hold the bass and drum beat till the crowd goes crazy before releasing the oomph oomph oomph... and the dj before him (i think he's the resident) was quite good.. but i quite draggy at times..
now the bad: firstly, dave seaman only came on at 230.. by that time i was already quite shagged out from a long day. but the ultimate bad was the crowd!! ok you haf the usual youngsters and stuff, but then they dance very farnie, jumping up and down (i think they all got e'd out or someting).. and everybody is soo rude, they just jostle their way for space, and they will just shove you off if u are standing in their way, or just like bang into you.. fuggers. then you have the aunties and uncles! i mean wtf is this??!! my fren was exclaiming that they shud also have a max age limit. back home in spore, when u see auntie or uncle clubbing, quite cute since like they are like one outta 100?? but here it was like half the floor was full of them!!i admire their young at heartness, but then it is quite a turn off when the uncles take off their shirts, and the aunties try to act sexy.. (i dunno,you guys prolly don't have that much peeve about them.. maybe its just me) and the FINAL OMG I CANNOT TAKE THIS WTF IS GOING ON bad is... THEY DON'T SERVE ALCOHOL AFTER 2!!!! i mean dave seaman came on at 230.. but then i cant get a normal beer to go along with the good music??? wahh really pissed off man.
haiz so that was my adventure for the night.. din stay for the whole dave seaman set.. we left at 430 cos buay tahan liao.. went back concussed till 2 in the noon today. (aniwei my blogger time is according to singapore time in case u guys get confused..)
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7:35 am
yawns!
time check: 430am.. hmmm just got back from sue anne's best friend's place.. yeah her bestie is here in toronto too, so thought we'd link up for some chillin.. and chillin we did.. i really had a great time.. plus she was a fantastic cook lar! awesome, plus her other housemates are like sooo super cool to chill with, after dinner we went to the bar for some beer and then back to their place and smoked shisha.. its quite interesting.. and nice...
yupps... totally good way to end the school week.. now to crash..
p.s: how come i always buy the stoopid calling card and it is useless!! bahhh muffled.. but i blame the cab that the person was in... hmmm stoopid cab.
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4:37 pm
