Before I Grow Old

Sunday, January 13, 2002

All Those Lonely Nights!

salutations to all dear readers!


i am really thrilled that you wanted to read bout my life. -spend the next few sec basking in the limelight- oooo. very honoured indeed. the next wonderful thing is now i have 2 people on my mailing list! however, i am afraid i will be boring you everytime you read my mails coz this ain't exactly the celebrity diary you're reading. i m neither adrian mole nor sue townsend. neither talented nor ecentric. totally dull - you get the picture?

07_01_02 ===>>monday: sccumbed to the delicious chicken cullet. alas. i cld't keep to my mighty 5 bucks budget for the first day - spent 30 cents more. well, nobody can blame me for that. one big piece of golden tender crispy meat. its worth every-single-cent

08_01_02 ===>>tuesday: when i woke up, i found myself in my room at home. i can see the closet.. wait a min, i m supposed to be in the hall. i opened my eyes real wide .. den all of sudden, that i was back in hall. it was a nightmare! -duh- lol. newae its 0615hrs and i was awake for a good cause. ran to the tracks - first time making use of the ntu sporting facilities. =p. did six rounds - first time running in six mths. 0830 lecs ended at 1030, friggin' early. wanted to take the noon nap, but roomie said if i do, the morn' run wld be useless. determined to downsize my flattering tumtum, i stayed awake. read three BigO (before i grow old - magazine) front to back, upside downside (really, there r two diff covers on each side) many many times. sat infront of pc all day downloading songs from local acts. (sigh typical typical comp. geek) my roomie spent the afternoon watchin casablanca and gone with the wind, before he started to talk to me like the actor in the show. Weird!

09_01_02 ====>>wednesday: supposed to have GE (general elective) at SR2 -- the location. what is SR2?? I have no idea! its not even on the map. Went with three other friends to find it... finally found this Seminar Room 2 at N3 of South Spine. we sat there for 15mins. no lec, not even other students. so we left lorh. after a few hrs my friend's who is taking another GE told me that there's SR2 in N4 too!!! how come NTU so many SR2??

10_01_02 ====>>thursday: 1 x blueberry waffle. 1 x tea-puccino. 1 x famous cartel cheese cake. 1 x peach fuzz. $23.23. and then..."boring, no chemistry" all that.. it must had been the most disasterous one-on-one i ever had. i felt absolute crap! i felt totally "eww" and "arghs". instead of headin' home, i wenta hmv and blast large amount of loud loud smashing pumpkin's "1979". i was feelin' out right crap. gotta make myself feel BIG (think BIG of myself, oh-am-all-so-impt, to leave the mood up abit).. i was sinking down fast! okay. maybe i wasn't that emo. l... i bought a copy on BigO and read it as i listen. a woman boarded the train at jurong west. she had rudolf's nose. i cld see the sadness in her eyes.. like gonna cry.. but holding it back. sigh. maybe she had arough day too. maybe i shall vow celibacy.

"i like to know how to survive, all those lonely nights...."

-- Padres, 'Water'

Monday, January 07, 2002

It went on and on!

greetings. its real nice reading bout ur life. i feel a strong urge to spill out every lil' details bout mine to u too NOT. don't u worry, u wun hear too much bout me coz its just so boring mah.=3Dp


sem2 day 1: 3 lec in a row. first time for me. managed to stay awake tho'. The maths lec drove us nuts coz he went on to elaborate on how impt it is for us to practice writing. he even talked bout how some pple's 5 looks like S. bah. all that.. and his bottom line is that no lec notes will be given.
he'd write the notes on the spot and we copy every word he writes. and mabe 2 weeks later.. we can get the pdf format of those "notes" in his folder! itsmaths lehhhhh... i duno howta cope man.

i have this thot in my mind: it'd be great if they assess us just on the lect attendance. all we havta do is go attend lec and then we getthe degree! those who skip dun get la. =p

had $2 chicken rice for lunch. think i m on the course to succesfully keep to my budget of $5 per day! heh. aiyar wanna save mah.. coz wanna buy a palm. friends all ask me buy one for what. they say i m
prolly just being a poseur. contrary to their thinking, the palm is more than just an organizer. there's so many applications u can run on it.. and i can read ebook! so i m saving for it lorh... hoping to work again next sem for the money too.

tmr: i think it'd be even betta. coz just 2 lec in the morning. 830 again.. all my lec this sem 830 la. =D)

nye & nyd: i spent it in hall lorh. coincidentally my roomie was in. no countdown or any of those crap la. c'mon.. we so old liao...dun do such thing. lol. u know i last time sure go suntec and sentosa one...with tview chatters or sch friends lorh. actually i kinda like the sand... the moonlight. dancing at the sunset bay. but pretty sick of all the crowd.... u like crowd? anyway during the day time i wenta orchard walk walk....walk walk the next day i went there walk walk again.... lol.. managed to finished
this book i was reading halfway at borders the day b4. anyway wanna get a pair of slacks lor. but everything still so ex despite the SALE. yea.. armani x-change 50% off..now only $120 like that lor. cooooow. so i end up spending my money on my fav stuffs - books & cd.

wed mambo nite: was surprised to see u at the bash la. actually i dun go bash... anymore. but its sci bash, my friends in the committee. so i support him. phuture was playing nice songs that day.. i went there to chill out. left bout 2.00. wenta the gas station to buy a drink after that... talk bout drink.. i spent 8buks on a bottle of evian at zouk! -grumbles- was dyhdrating so no choice. but really, waste of $. at the shell station one whole row of nus gurls were sitting there with me and my friends. lol. but my friend neva intro anyone to us, he was too busy with something....lol... 22bucks for cab fare home. i paid just 3bucks coz i was last to get off. hee. newae the nextday mum talked to me bout where i went

mum: last night u came home very late right?

me: yeah. bout 3 lorh.

mum: i told u not to go out play till so late then come back.

me: aiyar...

mum: where u went?

me: erm. nus event.

mum: oh.. okay. -smile smile- next time come back earlier.

mabe parents worry more bout their children as the children grow older? =p she neva really asked so much when i go clubbing during my army days or when i go tonn at sentosa or chalet or ecp or whatever when i was merely 15 -16.

10 days after christmas: they say 26th of dec is called boxing day coz pple put the leftovers from their sumptuous christmas dinner into boxes and give to poor pple.. is that true?? anyway.... its a fridae. its not like some significant day, so i thot 10 days after christmas wld be quite meaningful to
mention. lol. wenta temple to pray pray that day. called my friend who live nearby to come out after that mah.

mum: ok lorh, u can go out with ur friend later. mabe u can have lunch with us first? So u going out with boy or girl?

me: girl lorh. not going for lunch, going for coffee with her.

mum: huh? girl ar? -laugh laugh- from sch one is it?

me: no lar. outside know one la.

mum: -smile smile laugh laugh-

eh... u get my pt here???

future: back with vengence. this sem gonna be tough. so tough. so so tough. i m afraid i mite start slacking again leh.

i aso not that young anymore. 22 liao. needta start on my fyp soon...lol. birthdays are always overrated for me... i'll be so excited for it...for the day to come. in the end nothing much happen. just glad that at least some pple will rem, sms me or whatever on that day. i got quite a few "erm.. i m
not very sure.. but i think its your birthday today right? happy birthday" kinda messages last year lorh. but at least my family always rem and we'll always go somewhere nice to eat.

When's ur 20th burdae huh? u must gimme ur add. i wanna give u a big present.. big from my heart not in monetary value. =p

take care & good luck!

-poof-