Italian Hot Chocolate & Tiramisu from Brunetti, Papa Gino's fresh oysters, pasta and pizza, Mekong, St Kilda's, Smith St, Bridge St, DFO, Swanton St, Chinatown, Fed Square, Cookie, Lounge, Hairy Canary, Bunker, Inkra, Bohemian Pilsner, Susan Curti's house, Casino War, Chapel St, QV, Vic Market, Mel Central, Lygon St, Great Ocean Road, Loft, (the backalley bar with the DJ spinning, hangout for designers, funky toilets, forgotten the name!), Cotton On, Zoo York, $2 Fish N Chips @ Crown, The Dessert House @ Chinatown, Mel Aquarium, China Bar, Taipan's Dim Sum, Chicken Schnitzel, Potato Cakes, Spuds, Jester's Beef Pies, Boost's Smoothies, Automatic, Greco, St. Ali, Lattes, Graffitti, Telsta Dome and of cos, the chilly weather!
Sydney's
Darling Harbour, Sydney Harbour, Opera House, St Mary's Cathedral, Krispy Kreme, Seafood, Wellbeing's Healthy food, Ali Baba's Mediterranean food, Meriton Service Apartments, Paddy's Market, Chinatown, Market City (where we caught Da Vinci Code!! HAHA), Blue Mountains, Koalas, KFC, Sydney Tower, splendid architecture, mish-mash of Victorian, modern and classic buildings, Egyptian themed War Memorial, LG Imax Theatre, Cockle Bay Wharf, Sydney Exhibition Center, Chinese Garden!!, Eucalyptus Trees and the beautiful nightscene.
I won't miss Mel's
Nova Stargate (awful stay), the sodding trams, AUD$50 seafood buffet @ Crown, cows, shops closing at 5-6pm sharp and A-Star's salty food!
Sydney's
Seagulls who were always after food, Star Bar, hard-to-find Hard Rock Cafe, Sydney's Observatory which closes at 5pm!!!!!! (how the heck do we see stars then?!), BBQ King's hefty portions of Char Siew & Shao Rou Rice and expensive shopping!
I wanted to go to Mel's Observatory, Zoo & Brunswick St!
And also Sydney's Aquarium, Fish Market & Observatory!
So much has happened in 2006 and it's still February!
Had a decent CNY but didn't have the luck as i kept losing money to lucky red socks Sherwin. Went for an enjoyable 11-12km Bukit Timah - Treetop - MacRitchie hike with Grace and Sherwin. It's stuff like that that brings us back to nature. I'm gonna miss all these when Sherwin is back.
I've finally got out of my CNY hangover and really got started on my publication project. I've a good feeling about it.
For the past few days I've been having great food. It's been a long time since I've just pigged out until I can't stuff anything else in anymore. Coffee Club Taka is 10x better than the one outside California Fitness! And the food at June Live Seafood (except for Har Chiong Gai) is excellent!
until the next time peeps! Catch u at Franz Ferdinand next Thurs!
The rain is ruining everything. Especially my new year's resolutions!
Mostly the previous year's resolution were made, except for the "learn diving" part, which I am still keen on, but I'm not counting on doing it this year, reason = lack of funds. Well at least i did learn wakeboarding.
Here's this year's:
1) Back to the gym, more tone, no more bulk please.
2) Running. Maintain long distance but train 2.4km
3) IPPT gold for next window. Improve on 2.4 and SBJ
4) Get a decent job when I graduate
5) Travel somewhere
6) LESS PROCRASTINATION PLEASE!!
7) Take my CDs out for a listen more often
Shouldn't be too hard except for 3 & 7!
I'm hooked on Courtney Love for some obscure reason. Though she's a major bitch, she's got something going on in her music.
After a hectic packaging project and a tedious grid/typography brief, it's time to finally kick back and relax for the holidays.
2006 is coming you'all (like my slang?)!!
I shall recall what i did in point form.
- Bukit Timah Hill trek with Sherwin, Char & Rox. Monkeys, tau huay with tang yuan and steep slopes. Nuff said.
- Rediscovered the gym!
- Ministry of Sound. The music that opening nite was EXCELLENT! Nothing I have ever heard of. The old cliche that music is the only high u need, could be used.
- Great pre-X'mas dinner with Kym, Grace & Sherwin. Who said u needed to spend extravagantly to have a great time? Old school Monopoly!
- Upcoming: Kusu/St. John's Island visit! On Boxing Day. More Bukit Timah Hill treks! Pulau Ubin!
It's time to mourn, gayjason's LJ has been deleted. :(
...having to slice and dice 329234742 pieces of work
...having to strain my eyes cutting, pasting, aligning every bit of my work
...having to spend loads on printing and raw materials!!!
I'm almost halfway there...halfway there!
I must remind myself never to cut my fingernails when i have to use the bloody double sided tape!! I think I've wasted so much time trying to peel off the damn double sided tape!
Hiking peeps: Where and what time are we meeting? What are we gonna have to bring? THANKS. Been too busy to think! Or breathe.
Best $150 (originally USD $1k!) I have spent on for a long while. It was mind blowing and informative, and it has opened my eyes to the big picture of advertising and made my interest in it grow.
The drawbacks were that I fell sick on the 2nd day and I missed AirAsia's Tony Fernandes and Jetstar Asia's CEO Ken Ryan's talk. Man I really wanted to go for that badly. Christopher Greaves, President of the PR Division Worldwide for Ogilvy stole the show, with his wit and his excellent insight in the scene, as well as Bhaskar Das, Executive President, Bennett, Coleman & Co, whose role as panelist in ONE talk turned into one man show. Mr Das really increased fanbase that day.
The 3 days were spent eating and eating, listening, and freezing my ass in the Suntec Convention Hall's Ballrooms. The nights were alrite and me & my classmates soaked up in the atmosphere, watching people all over Asia networking and even some, making a fool out of themselves. Ah well.
Finally. I have rid my YO BRO's pc of his irritating search2web toolbar!! Pop-ups aplenty and a bloody search toolbar is GONE. My PC's Winfixer is also GONE! All gone in a day's work!
My hols is officially ending today and man how fast 3 weeks went by. After slogging away @ SFI, i will look back and miss these pple.
Zak - the 16 year old Indian boy who whined and complained and couldn't take criticism and quit on Thursday. BYE BYE
Uncle Rahim - After working for 5 days, u finally asked me where the toilet is ON FRIDAY. POWER! Can tahan until so long
Uncle Wong - I will never forget ur feud with Auntie Kiasi Ah Niam.
Auntie Kiasi Ah Niam - Thanks for being SO SO NAGGY. I think I've nver been nagged so much in my life before. I will miss ur "AH BOY, Careful ah!" "AH BOY, CANNOT LIKE THAT DO AH!". Wow, I was THIS close to just screaming back to her.
Uncle Chew - Thanks for the words of wisdom
All the aunties @ SFI - Thanks for treating me like their son. Thanks for all of u for asking where do i stay, have i gone thru army, where am i studying, stuff like that. Keep it up.
Now it's down to getting my dad's laptop to connect to our wireless connection.
Just completed re-watching the LOTR series, this time, ALL EXTENDED versions, so that made the duration of the 3 movies as long as 6 movies! Each movie clocked 3.5hours each. POWER. 3rd time watching Fellowship of the Ring & The Two Towers, and the 2nd with Return of the King.
Time to move on with some ONG BAK & Tom Yam Goong. Apparently, the actor playing the leads is twice the man that Jackie Chan is and does most of his stunts w/o any wires or help. What a sick dude! So I was actually searching for an image of ONG BAK to post it up, but I found something better.
Started temp work beginning on Halloween's, Wednesday and Friday @ SFI at Pandan Loop(near FOT's place, also near Hai Kim TER's old school, Tanglin Sec). Yes SFI, the wonderful pple who put food on ur plates during army days and of cos, provide our delicious field rations. (MENU 3 comes to mind, some CHESTNUT CHICKEN RICE shit)
Anyways, it's like working in a factory, and for $5.50/hr, they really squeeze out every ounce of effort out of u. On the 1st day itself, I was working from 8-8pm!! Wow...OT from 5:30pm-8:15pm just on the 1st day! We had to rush a shipment of those instant food packs. I still can't get the PINK packets of Saigon Red Curry Chicken, or the GREEN packets of Thai Green Curry Chicken, the RED packets of Malaysia Curry Rice, the YELLOW packets of Bali Coconut Curry Chicken, the LIGHT RED packets of Java Curry OUT OF MY MIND!
On Wednesday I was also doing the sealing of the packets and I was working non-stop except for the 1hr break! This time, OT was until 6:30pm...what a job huh.
Soon to get worse on Friday! I had to put on yellow PCK boots, those shower-cap like hair masks, and gloves for my next assignment! Next up was packing field rations...it was mind-numbing and everything seemed so....machine-liked. My body got so used to the tasks until my mind could go blank at times. I went home everyday with back aches and sore fingers!
Anyway i felt that if i were sufferring like that already, what about those uncles and aunties working like this everyday of the week? Here I am for only 2 weeks, making abit more than them. Who am I to complain when they are putting up with this crap for months, years?
Next time i think of bitching about not having a high enough pay, i will look back at this experience and remind myself how lucky i am sometimes. 5 more days of HELL @ SFI!!!
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