Rehab

Fort Canning Park, Dance School. Shooting with lou, mel & xule. D80, Tamron 90mm F2.8

I'm in rehab now. Deprived from the virtual world that connects me to all my friends. for 10+ hours a day, I'm barred from Facebook, msn, FlickR, Gmail and the all essential news feeds. All because the wireless in my company has been password protected due to some legal suit for copyright infringment. dammnnn. So once again, I'm in REHAB. I've never thought of myself as someone who's so dependent on technology. Well, this shall be a test for me and I think i'm going to fail. 2nd day into work as a temp staff and I'm thinking of quitting. Never have i been so bored and restless at work, resorting to mass texting and walking around to disturb the other employees/interns.

and so the song by Amy Winehouse rings in my mind
~ they tried to make me go to rehab but i said no no no ~

damn i want my facebook and messenger! time's passing too slow at work now. instead of counting down the hours, i'm counting the seconds!!!!

new year, same old me

awaiting landing at Phuket, Thailand airport. June 07

2009 carried many global events like the economic crisis, Gaza strip conflict etc over from 2008. The future is indeed bleak at the moment. Soon, we will see how everyone will be affected by the crisis. Its already starting, job cuts, bank bailouts bla bla bla. gosh. I pray for better times ahead. But at the moment, all we can do is hold on to our jobs and hope we can ride this one out. From the looks of it, it might even be as bad as the previous financial crisis. %

2009 will be the year where I pick up my boots and put on that ugly green uniform as part of my citizen duty to serve the country via national service. I will be sheltered and blocked out from the outside world 5 days a week for 2 years. The thing is, I currently classified under PES D which is a temporary fitness status until I go for my specialist check up on 12 Feb. Hope all goes well and I will get back to normal pes status of an A or a B. C is gonna make my life in army darn boring with an office job.

I dont believe in making new year resolutions but there is one which i will make which can definitely keep - keep healthy and exercise regularly - yep how cliche is that. pfft.

I am currently serving my internship at EUROCOPTER SOUTH EAST ASIA and gosh I have been so busy lately that i have not noticed that its already FEBUARY! 1 more week to the end of me being an intern there! but the work doesnt stop there. In ONE week, I have got to complete my internship final report and presentation slides, study for my qsmm final exam (25%) and complete the urgent project that my boss just assigned to us within 3 days?!?? INSANE?!!!!!! well after this better times ahead!!!!!! (: (: (: omgosh and i am so freaking sick now. lost my voice for 3 days, there after, i had a fever and have been coughing non-stop since. and my threadmill test is just next thurs (12 feb)!!! hope i recover in time man.

Urg i hate work right now. I am finally free after next week! But... (wait for it) ... I extended my contract with them for 2 months. Hopefully this is just a phase i am going through. you know one of these sian phases which will pass after a while and stuff... My new job title will be Temporary Hangar Assistant. Oh please. My work scope as no relation to that lohh! I will continue working under my current boss in the design office a.

Things i want to maintain this year
1. maintain healthy, being sick sucks totally.
2. chill with friends, one of the most awesome things
3. improve my fitness
4. PHOTOGRAPYYYY!! <3 <3 <3 was viewing my holiday pictures just now and goshh how i miss my cam!!!

Things to do when I am out of my job
1. Train for sundown marathon
2. run more, work out more
3. CATCH UP ON MY READING!!!!! I think it has been like close to 6 months since i read a proper book.
4. hit the beach
5. go on holidays
6. rockclimb/boulder
7. kayaking expedition!!!
8. scuba diving open water course
9. BUM!!!!!
10. get back to wearing contacts.
11. learn to cook some stuff before army
12. get more involved with BB
13. NOT staying at home the whole day everyday until i enlist
14. already mentioned on my - to maintain list - SHOOT SHOOT SHOOT!!!!
15. get my long overdue SB 900 flash unit
16. BRAINROTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!
17. help friends with what they need
18. i dont know?! zomg i am so waiting for this day! *jumps around hysterically*

oh wells. nights all. to reach that stage, i must first get past the hardest part. which is going to start the moment i open my eyes tmr.

2009

simplicity + heavy orton effect on skies

I've been waiting to post a proper 09 post for quite sometime but have been putting it off all these times. Now its feb and still no new year post?! hahaha and yea this ain't the post which i've been wanting to post for such a long. in fact its just another boring post of mine. maybe this is why i don't really like clubbing and other stuff ... hmm okay that was abit irrelavent. moving on...

this picture depicts the simple life of mine and of many others like mine. Simplicity and down to earth i'ld say is one of the many philosophies that i follow. However like many others, i aim to succeed in life, get a pretty decent payroll, enjoy doing what i do, stay healthy, love my family and of course friends. But even if i get rich someday, i will not forget my roots. I will still continue to lead a simple life even if i'm surrounded by the riches. I will not splurge on luxuries and in the future even if I make it rich, I will just get a Green car over the sports and glamourous cars.

This global crisis has shown us the mess that greed and many other factors has brought about. It has brought many people back to the basics of simple living and made people more humble. Soon, gone will be the time where these well off-ed people gloat about their wealth and achievements. I think people living simple lives will be happier than these morons caught in their web of success and wealth. Whenever this crisis ends, I hope people will learn to see where how a simple way of life is so much "...." and not to go back to being too materialistic and get sucked into that endless vortex of whatever shit that comes along with that.

Ultimately, in my opinion being truely happy cannot be quantified by wealth or success but by the things you do and whom you do it with. Eventually.... okay i think i'm typing rubbish and shall end here. Thirty to forty years down the road, i hope i will not be too engrossed in my work to be there for my loved ones. I will look back into the days of my youth and remember that philosophy that i once mentioned and go "oh i'm glad I havent forgotten it"

ps: i know that there are many errors in the form of words used, expressions phrased, sentence strucutre and stuff. but yea its 12 30am, i'm sick, i've lost my voice for the 3rd consecutive day and i'm having another fever attack. But overall this is what i feel right now.

party da funk

after covering a few parties, i realized, i suck! please do not hire nor ask me to cover your events unless you want lousy pictures. period.

and the year's ending, and i'm too busy to be nostalgic. what rubbish is that!

AWESOMMMME!

Asics GT1120 - HDR after Salomon X Trail

The inaugural Salomon X Trail race was awsome! And these shoes were the aftermath of the race. Jumping around, initial avoiding muddy puddles, threatening to devour your shoes when you sink into it, trying not to trip on the thick roots of the overgrowth and rocks, i thought to myself - OMGOSH THIS IS GONNA BE HELL LOTTA FUN! and hell it was! I think this might be the run that would inspire me to run trails in the future. At first i was afraid to bash through the puddles of mud but 5mins into the race, i was like what the heck just freaking bash through it's gonna get dirty by the end anyways! and so it began! while others were still running out of their way to avoid the i just ran through them and overtook many of them! After the jungle route it a series of hills awaited me! up down up down for the next 30mins and it exhausted most of the participants whereas, i kept my own slow pace and overtook most of them at the upslope. Towards the 7k mark, my pacer - Mr Lim Zheng Ping Eugene fell off and much to my "not wanting to run on without him feeling" , i had to run ahead to get a faster timing. But after a while, i felt bored and started greeting and shaking hands with the volunteers "cheering" the racers on - but only to those cheerful volunteers who weren't trying to "act cool" and not doing their job properly". Haha yea i know i'm choosy. Later, i developed a tatic to overtake people and it was to sprint up the hills and to let gravity pull me down for the slope. It was rather effective and me being the chirpy little runner i am, i clapped and cheered other runners on who were abt to give up at the slopes. The only part that totally killed me was this rather steep and rocky slope which caused me to jog slowly for the straights after that. Met gerald and sam chong on the other side of the straights too. I must say, the signs towards the end was kind of confusing as when i saw the 300m mark i thought it meant 300m to the next drink point, so i thought i must be another 1k from finish "sian" and decided to slow my pace down abit but just after the drinks station, i saw 100m and i was like omgosh its to the finish line and there, i started sprinting to the finish.

All in all, i enjoyed myself tremendously althought my shoes were sooo darn dirty. but i guess that's the momento from the race!

Here's my results for the race. Thought i could have done better but it's still pretty decent considering, this is my first trail run and i was still recovering from a flu hence no prior training for it ): Oh yea, i bet some of the participants thought i was kinda retarded for carrying tissue in my pockets and blowing my nose while running. some even avoided me! Arse-os! i owned your asses alright!


ps: my shoe is now clean and white again! (:



- pictures of the race are on my fb
- flickr pictures on the race

tie those laces mister!

Kelong, Batam, 18 May 08

Put on your running shoes mate and lets run to the beat! It has been ages since i ran mann! like 2 plus weeks?! plus i've been down with the flu bug! However today's run was fantassstic! Didn't expect this recovery run to be so enjoyable to the point i extended my route twice! Managed to keep up to my normal pace by the end of the 5-6k run. The only downside was towards the last quater of my run, mucus and phlegm started building up and it was kinda uncomfortable. Snorting the mucus out ran through my mind a dozen times but that would be too disgusting haha! Looking forward to my next 7-8k recovery run on thursday provided it doesn't rain.
Salomon X Trail 10k Race is this Sunday! and i bet my timing would be over an hour, down by LOADS. that sucks! and the last of the flu bug hasn't left me yet!

♥ running ♥ my asics! can't wait to get my ds trainers! kinda disappointed when my mum told me that the dealer ran out of my size and brought a size 8. but noooo size 8 is wayyy to biig! dang. gotta fork out more money because instead of a 40% discount from the dealer i'll have to settle with the 25% one when i get mine from queensway. this sucks ): Bought a Salomon XT Wings trail shoe though, after much self-convincing. haha. dang. 160 bucks! after a 30% discount. come on people i do accept cash/giro/cheque. gosh. there's something wrong with me, i'm on a sudden buying spree on shoes. next up, Asics DS Trainer 13, Asics Onisuka Tigers!!

ROCK ON!

zomgosh it's been almost 2 months since my previous entry. and i've got a mental note to myself not to rant about the disappointing results where my 2 credit point module screwed my perfect score (damnn.. i just had to bring it up) and the disappointing human race run. Wellll. for those who don't know me, i'm currently an intern at Eurocopter SEA (ESEA) and its loads of fun! Loads of hands of work at the hangar. Can't say what i'm working on because of the commercial secrets. heh! Working life is totally different mannn. I found out that exercise and proper sleep is very important as it makes you more alert the following day. I'm begining to find it hard to find time to work out already and my running has deproved tremendously. this sucks haha!

so here's an update to what has been happening

i try to keep myself active on weekends, join runs/races and volunteer for races since i've been missing out on so much lately.

1. BAYBEATS 08!!!
okay I know that i'm a big fan of procastination and i'll finish editing the electrico and joy electric set asap!!!!

electrico, baybeats 08
electrico, baybeats 08

2. Weekly friday workout with the usual

3. Run for hope Singapore 10k (formerly known as the terry fox run but because TF run didn't allow any kind of sponsership they changed the name). Held at East Coast Park.
The Asics tee was awesommmmmeeee. it was proper dri-fit material and didn't give me any nipple abrasions yea don't laugh you!!! It was mr Lim Zheng Ping Eugene's brithday and he celebrated it by running this 10k. He's quite sad larh. All the friends that he invited all didn't come and join him in the end. So it was only me and himm. The run was fantastic!!

4. Sentosa outings
can't remember much on them. but i remember the most recent one which chris organised together with his TP cabin crew darlings. HAD A BLAST! haha actually not really la. sentosa is kinda boring now.

5. Weekly towning

6. Swimming with mr bangla aka eugene on weekends.

tsk. see how pathetic our lives are right now! in 2 months i can only count 6 things which i've done. okay to make me happier. these 6 things are spreaded out into many things. pfft. please stop consoling myself and get reallll. okay work is a drag!!! haha it has its moments - fun at times and also dull at times. up to the design office i go from the hangar. whoosh!

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Nike+ Human Race

Really love that logo. Yep the nike+ human race is tomorrow and i'm not prepared for it! haha! going to treat it like a casual run. the race pack was rather disappointing. had couple of items missing. sent a complaint email to nike. The quality of the tee didn't match up to expectations too but the design is awsome. (: last thing to rant about - NO BLOCKAGE OF ROADS ALONG THE RACE ROUTE!!!! The race booklet is available online.

Singapore Race Route

and omg its been ages since i last posted! time has passed so quickly! submission of projects are long over and exams are waayyy over too! no more exams till UNI! YAY! spent the week prior to the exams mugging everyday at ourspace from morning till evening. freaking sian i tell you. well the last push for the final academic semester. hope i'll get good results to top the last acad sem.

so, as usual, post exam parties follows by closely. had a class gathering at chun's place. we bought the same amount of food that could feed the whole SE chalet for the first day. but no fear guys, we have many fat pigs that are capable enough to finish them. and indeed they all disappeared before dawn. met chuns, suele, eggy and the bangla at thompson plaza in the morning to get the stuffs. on the way there, coincidently i met leo who was heading to thompson plaza too, to meet tania. marinated the stuff with random concoxtions of herbs and stuff like the way we usual do it but chuns didnt have oyster sause!!! what a spoiler. had to make do with whatever then. overall, everyone had a hell of a time. this would be the last gathering before we all break and go on with our individual postings.



so 1 week has passed rather quickly and as of 1 sept i'm going to start my attachment at eurocopter! this week was rather busy with sentosa, fishing etc.

- cheers!

ps: sorry for the poor sentence structure, writing this before i turn in

Going on another haitus

Jurong Bird Park 26 March 08

School work has been piling up and i don't even have time to shoot. urg. But DDACP is OVER! 1 tough module which in my opinion deserves 12 credits has finally came to an end with the submission of proj 2, landing gear 10 and tut 3! This picture represents the same scenario of which I'm in bound by many external things unable to be free! The eyes tell us that it has accepted its fate and there's nothing it can do about it. But fortunately, unlike the bird the cage which I'm in will just disappear in 2 weeks time! omgosh that sounded so tacky! Beach bumming, BBQ, house parties, chilling, drinking, 10k race etc are the things i have to look forward to. wo0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o! 22th is the date to look to. Till then, BACK TO STUDYING!

note to self: please do up a study plan

the grass, the tree & the sky

Had an eventful past week, completed modelling the darn bombadier NLG part. As of today, i've completed most of the analysis and have decided to take the day off. But great news! Eurocopter replied on friday and my course manager said i might get in! haha!

Friday was the day the placement of IAP companies were out. A hilarious event indeed! Got into jet aviation though which wasn't my first choice. Friday was our group's "exercise" day again. While the rest went to swim, i went to gym with kheng kheng, followed by a short intense campus jog with chuns, ending with swimming with the rest of the guys.

Saturday was ubin "clean up" day. met some of the guys for changi v's nasi lemak and met up with the rest of the class to go to ubin. As pictures say a thousand words, they are up on my facebook, here & here!

okay okay enough rubbish from me. picture was taken at the bus stop near pasir ris mrt with a compact ixus 50.