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I’ve decided to blog abit again because I think although I’ve realized the now and the future are the most important to me, keeping track of where I’ve been really keeps me grounded and humble.

In today’s episode, I managed to

1. blast thinner into my eyes and not go blind
2. clear coat my bike with urine colored clear coat
3. have dinner with the Wangs and Mincys (this one was completely normal thankfully)

Went over with the cousin to the shop to clear coat the rest of the bike. Unfortunately the clear coat is really a light shade of urine colored yellow so over the white bits you really can see that someone pee-d on my bike. Blue is fine though! Its a dark enough color to hide the yellow tinge of the clear coat.

Spent quite a while flushing the airbrush, checking if the cup is the problem and seeing if the clear coat had yellowed but we don’t have an explanation. Well at least the bike doesn’t smell like urine. While flushing the airbrush I blocked the outlet to kinda allow a little air to backflow and bubble into the cup but… it blasted a large amount of thinner into my face. Ouch! It really burned quite bad! flushed my eyes with water for a couple of minutes and felt fine again. Not gonna look into the cup again in future… zzz..

Been working on video editing and am pretty excited at what can be done! just that it takes ages and I’m not too creative with moving pictures. Trying to work on some basic technique to piece my own video together for next year! Hope it turns out fine. Some pictures of the painted un-coated bike.

I took a cycle to lor halus wetlands tonight cos I heard it was open to public already. Its beautiful! So cooling, quiet, close to nature and tranquil without tons of people along the river. The bridge is so nice and brings me to punggol in a very short time, about the distance I travel to tampines. There is also kind of a lifestyle / eating area on the other side.. sigh.. I saw the HDB flats building and I definitely want one there.. I think there’s nowhere in Singapore I’d rather stay now (excluding my home now). I’ve kinda fallen in love with the place. Anyone wanna go with me again? I’d be glad to show you around! I don’t think I’ll tire of it for quite a while. Oh.. and there’s popeyes too!

I got up at 5am today to do a database dump. I didn’t even take a dump myself until about 8pm just now!! haha.. sigh.. I’m thinking its cos my workplace is so far thats why I seem to be spending inordinate amounts of time at work. I only work 9-6, just like everyone else! but I leave and come back home at 740am and 8pm each day. Today I was going to leave work at 4 but I didn’t manage to. Haha.. had to run off to sim lim to buy stuff.. still, I managed to leave office at 5..

I should pick up the “Your work matters to God” book just to have a read. Anyone got a copy? haha..

Went to pick up YX and then zipped over to victoria concert hall where there was this fire-art-exhibition thing going on sat and sunday. Parked at parliament building basement carpark and you’ll be able to walk there in about 2 min

There were musicians and stuff playing while the fires burned around you in little ceramic pots or on elaborate giant metal structures. There were also these cannon like tubes which spout fire controlled by a guy turning a wheel.. it was really quite an eye opener… I feel like going down to take some more photos! But here are some from yesterday.. check it out if you can today!

Just some photos. Don’t know what but I feel abit numbed and strange cos its back to slacker life again. I kinda hope I get a call tomorrow telling me I have my job. Meanwhile, its day after day of I don’t know what.

Today I spent most of my day with Oswald. Finished our work together in the morning which involved climbing roughly a total of 30 storeys each with all kinds of boxes furniture and stuff. Up and down and up and down.. my legs were trembling in the afternoon after we got done at 1230. Ate lunch at the curry rice stall at maxwell.. sooo good. Then we went sls to buy a router, BK to wait for the rain to stop and then sungei road and the antique store opposite raffles hospital/medical center.

Its nice talking to him cos we are very different but still have worked closely together before as musicians. I also always find it amusing to find that he’s related to Alvin and Stanley. So to give him a feel of what I felt like I told him I was related to the other Alvin.. haha.. and then he understood.

Anyway it was back to home for dinner for both of us. I hurried out to sell a Canon Snappy 20 at Eunos then came back to sell the Saitek joystick at my place. It’s pretty good that I managed all this, I’m quite happy that people bought stuff. I still have quite abit of stuff to sell but I guess it’ll be slowly slowly. I gave up on the LOMO LC-A and am going to send it in for repair tomorrow at sunshine plaza. I’m wimping out because I don’t have the parts for it, anyway even with the repair I don’t think I’ll exceed market price. So much for an easy fix..

I still have quite a long way to go. Tomorrow’s going to be a short day I think. Maybe I’ll get a call.. I need to cast my nets wider for a job.. but I don’t know why I don’t want to. Perhaps I want this one too much. hahaha..

Days are still Good to me. I usually start at 10 then carry on from there. Today was no different. Snapped some pictures, then met YX for a short while. Probably head for dinner later together. I’m still searching for work, lets hope something turns up soon.

I stayed up all night for the first time in a long long while. Haha.. had a rather entertaining time actually and the following day was a reminder as to why I don’t do it anymore. I carried on to attend the airshow evacuation and emergency response exercise thing from 11-4 and my head nearly exploded by the time I reached home at 5pm. It was splitting headache kind so I slept all the way to 3, then all the way to 9:30.  I further cleaned up my room and made a “to sell” pile and tried to throw as much stuff as possible. My room is rather spacious if I minus everything inside it.. lol.. Oh well.. “Hannah came in and said “Kau fu.. I got no space to walk..” haha.. so that kinda describes the room now. I’m making enough room for a sofa that doesn’t exist or is available just yet. Hopefully a reading area I can make.

As a side note something that stuck from before camp is that I’m also reading much less google reader now and the stuff piling up (1000++) is a reminder as to how much stuff I used to read. hahaha.. I usually just click on the blogs I want to follow like this and then skip the rest. Time saving! heh.. now to carry on doing something with that time.

Had a great time at camp preparations. Kinda missed Hannah though. As I was going out she was coming in and when she saw me she was like super excited and ran to hug me. hahaha.. oh man. Then I didn’t feel like going out already. Anyway, I’m attending my first indian muslim wedding tomorrow. Interesting is the word. haha.. I don’t have any malay friends at all! other than NS. And this guy’s indian muslim so he doesn’t really count. Super weird la, I feel like I’m missing out on great malay friends. lol.. okay going to rest now. Finding out the location then going to sleep. Looks like its along the NEL! super awesome. Haven’t visited google reader for 2 days. haha..

So after a day out and about I’ve come back home, ran 2k and ended up spending quite abit of time on the computer. of course, in between I cleaned up a lens as well. Total time about 1hours here. Not too bad. I’m just here to log my progress and today’s happenings which was really quite nice and queer.

I got up at about 8 today, left the house at 830 and went over to YX’s.

Opened up the present and left at about 1030 (waiting for her mom to come back with the car) then went over to hatched for a nice eggy breakfast. The food there isn’t spectacular, neither is the service but it was still pretty nice.  I managed to get very nice shots at the window-side seats where we were.

WB set to cloudy for extra warm-ification.

Then since we were at bukit timah, we thought of going to the botanical gardens! Just to take a look around and to catch some more snaps. I didn’t bring a tripod so I stayed behind the camera all the way. It was an interesting walk.. went all about, to the cool room, the symphony stage and evolution garden.

It was getting pretty warm so we left for cooler pastures and thought to visit Cheryl at her V for Vase exhibition. She so happened to be on duty to jaga the exhibition.. how coincidental is that! haha.. So we got to see all kinds of amusing concepts of vases and stuff. Took some snaps. Again. Why not?

She finished her shift at 330 and we went over to ion where Cheryl got some sweets for YX! and we walked around for abit getting stuff done. Picked up YX”s watch, wandered around for abit more at borders then went to black angus for dinner. For the first time in my life, I think I left quite abit of food untouched. Wah man, either getting old, feeling fat or both. Still, I quite enjoyed it. A little over-done though. Ate nice vanilla ice cream with brownie, sent her home, took bus back to my home and called it a day. It was a really unscripted, pleasant and enjoyable day.

Happy Birthday!