Life For Rent

There were some discussions going on between me, ceddy and some other forumers. Sometime’s things just don’t get across very well online. Or maybe it is just the person.

My point is very simple. Things are hard enough in this circle. We don’t need people to slam and bash another in a forum. When was the last time you asked a teacher something and the reply you got was “Why are you so stupid?”. Why? Is it because you were a primary school student and he has a BSc? Does that give him the right to say you are stupid juz cause he has walked more roads? For now?

I simply cannot comprehend. It is quite simple. If one has nothing better to say, then don’t say. People don’t ask questions in forums and expect to be bashed. There so many IT experts in the hardwarezone.com. They don’t even need to answer questions like “What is a RAM used for?” cause it is far too basic. They either don’t add onto the post, or they do. They don’t reply “RAM so simple you also don’t know”.

That’s not very intelligent. Really annoys me. But it is not up to me to shut him up either. I just pity the newbies and I write to them seperately. If I were them I reckon I will appreciate that a lot.

Did I mentioned this ‘cute guy’ spotted last weekend at Maxwell market? I think I did. I was saying it turned out to be someone I know. We’ve been talking quite a bit. Let’s call him lil labbit for now. I don’t know how far this would go and I am not expecting anything much out of it now. He has the kind of looks a lot around me will adore, but really when it comes to love. I wonder. His is still so nice, so pure and all yet. Mine has been bitten and checked by reality. I caught his attention a long time ago cause of a one liner I used in the forums. He last saw me at Happy sometime in Jan by chance while I was with an ex trainee who is now a medical student and lil labbit was there and he told his friend who I was but somehow the friend interpreted it as he wanted my number. I gave him my number later in the night after I said hi formally after finishing tripping on the dance floor and he didn’t have his mobile with him! With that I conclude he is a non clubber and true enough he isn’t. He doesn’t really like the whole clubbing thing and it is one of the biggest obstacle I have been thinking about. Some say I should just find a clubber partrner. I don’t think that is how it goes but I see their point.

My cough is finally subsiding and all. And contrary to what my sis thinks, I don’t drink all the time. I DANCE. I drink enough to get high to dance cuz if I don’t I just stand there with my arms folded. I took a jug of LIT but the kick lasted for about 15 mins of dancing only and I didn’t drink anymore cuz I was driving. Happy’s Graveyard is harsh. I wonder how it is like at another club. Shall take one before and another mid way to top up and see how it goes.

As for lil labbit, I orginally planned to do coffee at the end of the month when my assigments are done but shall see what happens tomorrow. I wanna get this done and over with. The poor fella has so much expectations on himself for his partner and his friends.

Before I pen off, in reference to the shit being said on the forums, the thought of the day is “The internet is what we use, not where we live.”

TGIF!

Just to add on as I listen to the song on repeat mode and tears well up in my eyes again, chatting with Melvin online telling him about me not knowing what home is really about. How it was like many mnay years ago when I was a kid. When things were messed up and a routine day during my kindergarden days would be to be dropped off at her place in the morning and wait for the school bus to come. My dad flew, and my mom worked back then. And when they aren’t so caught up in work they are caught up arguing. I didn’t like that.

On days when my mom would call to say she is working late and hence will not be picking me home, I would be really really happy. My grandma knows. In my family she knows me best. She prolly understands my temprement and character best. After all, she’s the master this dawg recognises.

As I grew older I still slept over a couple nights a week and when it was time to go home, I always sulked and threw fits. My mom would say, everytime you go stay with your grandma you get so ill mannered. So here I was, trying to show that I like staying with her, but she interpreted it as I should NOT cause I always end up so ill mannered. She so does not know me. And she doesn’t still, after 27 years. A home? Or a pound that I live in?

I may not really comprehend what a home is like as compared to a house. But I am lucky to have experienced what love is probably about. Romantic love. Twice. I would really like to meet up with my dad and grandma a whole lot more. I have been saying that for so long. Each time they ask me out I will throw everything out just to go along. I do try my best. Cause I know my grandma isn’t gonna live forever. I hope to take her on a trip someday. Before she can’t walk and stuff but even if she can’t I will still take her. I won’t forget the days she brought me up, and usually if there is someone who can talk the stubborn me out of something it is probably her.

You know what I dread most? It is for the day, when the song above is meant for her.

Good night… good night.

I have been a lil more emotional of late. Aint going too much into detail other than music doing its fantastic job of churning up emotions. I actually put up Shawn Stockman’s Visions of a Sunset earlier but decided to put this DC song up so visitors can sorta sample what it is all about.

It is a song left behind by an ex of mine a long time ago. I never really gotten over it and only sorta let it fade away back then. It was also the track DJ George Leong used to end his sunday show and it sorta swooned me over. Did I say I found him quite cute?

It is prolly my kinda style in spinning also. I do loads of house top 40s. Retro is fine and I can handle it but it is not a fav genre of mine. I found the mambo audience very similar to the why not crowd. Music is totally different but they are very similar crowd behaviours. Quite lot of gay friendly guys also but please, one does not want to bark the wrong tree. The girls on the other hand tend to be a lil more shy and sedated. Not fun at all. Think R&B ladies are a whole lot more fun.

Back to DC. They split, they rejoin, they split. Some are jealous of Beyonce, so much so clips of them making fun of her are all over YouTube. DC’s Emotions is like Britney’s Don’t Let Me Be The Last To Know. Not the usual genre of songs the group normally deals with. Think DC’s Independent Woman, Jumpin Jumpin. Girl is an inbetween. Compare all that with Soldier, and Britney’s Toxic and all her other main stream tracks she is famous for. Okay okay Britney is famous for hell lotta things, glamourous and other wise but music wise you get the drift.

Emotions, being a remake of the Bee Gees track, is so full of lyrics that many can relate to. It speaks what their hearts say. Words that remain unspoken most of the time.

And where are you now, now that I need you?
Tears on my pillow wherever you go
I’ll cry me a river that leads to your ocean
You’ll never see me fall apart
Don’t you know there’s nobody left in this world to hold me tight?
Don’t you know there’s nobody left in this world to kiss goodnight
Goodnight, goodnight

It is Monday. And what do we always have on Mondays? The joke of the week!

Johnny wanted to screw a girl in his office…..but she belonged to someone else… One day Johnny got so frustrated that he went up to her and
said I’ll give you a 1000 dollars if you let me screw you….but the girl said

NO.

Johnny said I’ll be fast, I’ll throw the money on the floor, you bend down, I’ll be finished by the time you pick it up. She thought for a
moment and said that she would have to consult her boyfriend…..so she called her boyfriend and told him the story. Her boyfriend says ask him for
2000 dollars, pick up the money very fast, he won’t even be able to get his pants down. So she agrees and accepts the proposal. Half an hour goes by and the boyfriend is waiting for his girlfriend to call.

Finally after 45 mins the boyfriend calls and asks what happened……

She said “THE BASTARD USED COINS!!!”

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I have lived on this planet for almost 27 years now. What have I learnt? What have you learnt? Heck, here are some stuff people have learnt. I think we can learn from people’s mistakes.

Story: 1
A young executive was leaving the office at 6 p.m. when he found CEO
standing in front of a shredder with a piece of paper in his hand.
“Listen,” said the CEO, “this is a very sensitive and important document,
and my secretary has left. Can you make this thing work?” Certainly,” said
the young executive. He turned the machine on, inserted the paper, and
pressed the start button. “Excellent, excellent!” said the CEO. As his
paper disappeared inside the machine. “I just need one copy.”
Lesson I – Never, never assume that your BOSS knows everything

Story: 2
A crusty old man walks into a bank and says to the teller at the window:
“I want to open a damn checking account.” To which the astonished woman
replies: “I beg your pardon, sir; I must have misunderstood you. What did
you say?” “Listen up bitch! I said, I want to open a damn checking account
right now!” “I’m very sorry sir, but we do not tolerate that kind of
language in this bank.” Having said this, the teller leaves the window and
goes over to the bank manager to tell him about her problem customer.

They both return and the manager asks the old geezer: “What seems to be
the problem here?” “There’s no damn problem, sonny,” the elderly man says.
“I just won 50 million bucks in the damn lottery and I want to open a damn
checking account in this damn bank!” “I see,” says the manager
thoughtfully. And you’re saying that this bitch here is giving you a hard
time?”
Lesson II – If you are RICH, you can get away with almost anything.

Story: 3
An American and a Japanese were sitting on the plane on the way to LA when
the American turned to the Japanese and asked, “What kind of ese are you?”
Confused, the Japanese replied, “Sorry but I don’t understand what you
mean.” The American repeated, “What kind of -ese are you?” Again, the
Japanese was confused over the question. The American, now irritated, then
yelled, “What kind of -ese are you…Are you a Chinese,
Japanese,Vietnamese!, etc……???” The Japanese then replied, “Oh, I am a
Japanese.” A while later the Japanese turned to the American and asked what
kind of ‘key’ was he. The American, frustrated, yelled, “What do you mean
what kind of ‘-key’ am I?!” The Japanese said, “Are you a Yankee, donkey,
or monkee?”
Lesson III – Never insult anyone.

Story: 4
There were these 4 guys, a Russian, a German, a British and a French, who
found this small genie bottle. When they rubbed the bottle, a genie
appeared. Thankful that the 4 guys had released him out of the bottle, he
said, “Next to you all are 4 swimming pools, I will give each of you a
wish. When you run towards the pool and jump, you shout what you want the
pool of water to become, then your wish will come true.”

The French wanted to start. He ran towards the pool, jumped and shouted
“WINE”. The pool immediately changed into a pool of wine. The Frenchman was
so happy swimming and drinking from the pool. Next is the Russian’s turn,
he did the same andshouted,” VODKA” and immersed himself into a pool of
vodka. The German was next and he jumped and shouted, “BEER”. He was so
contented with his beer pool. The last is the British. He was running
towards the pool when suddenly he steps on a banana peel. He slipped
towards the pool and shouted, SHIT!!!!!!!………”
Lesson IV – Think twice before you say something, because sometimes what
you say accidentally does happen.

Story: 5
A junior manager, a senior manager and their boss are on their way to a
meeting. On their way through a park, they come across a wonder lamp. They
rub the lamp and a ghost appears. The ghost says, “Normally, one is granted
three wishes but as you are three, I will allow one wish each” So the eager
senior manager shouts, I want the first wish. I want to be in the Bahamas,
on a fast boat and have no worries for a month. “Pfufffff, and he is gone.
Now the junior manager could not keep quiet and shouts, “I want to be in
Florida with beautiful girls, plenty of food and cocktails for a month.”
“Pfufffff, and he is also gone. Then it’s the boss’s turn, and he says
calmly, “I want these two idiots back in the office after lunch”
Lesson V- “Always allow the bosses to speak first”.

Dance! Do you wanna dance ! Come on take a chance! Do you wanna dance?

What a wild weekend. Lousy mood from work and school but the music at happy on Sunday made it all up. DJ George Leong did his thing and was I mesmerised literally but I didn’t wanna drink so I was darn sober. He played Destiny’s Child’s Emotion last and goodness me. It sure brought back loads of memories. On my drive home power 98 played the song too. Geez. What are the odds. George’s cool! The happy staff are nice and I just got a feeling a picture taken with all of us are gonna go onto the webbie. It was taken by yvvone, the door bitch.

Dance ! Do u wanna dance! Come on take a chance! Baby why don’t ya dance!

Thanks for setting things right for a new week ahead.

DJ Raj seems to be losing it. But I think jansen and I have similar music pref and we agree the mixing is quite out today. Lookin forward to him spinning as a guest dj soon! Hopefully!

So many people got wasted tonight. Next time play finger guessing games must close bottle n use mixers only hahah. And that guy who got his fren to get my number, aiyo jaspher don’t be shy la i’m a friendly pooch. Uniform night coming up! This is gonna be interesting…:P

And the week continues. Assignments to rush. Work wise need to think of a work around a problem. Hope it will work. Hate thinkin n talkin bout work over the weekend especially at a club. I tell my guys, ‘in here it doesn’t matter if you are a student or an nsf or working n earning big bucks cuz everyone’s a club whore still’.

The sun has risen, and it means it is time for bed. Sundays, are club rehab days! Holla to all who made it better. Ian : U’re a good friend, love ya to bits. Let’s forget the bad stuff and keep smiling as we always do k? Thanks for saying bye. I appreciate it! *muack*

Final Destination 3 is gory and gross. It is a no-no. First 2 are definitely better so don’t waste your time on this one. Unoriginal and unless you like to see a couple breasts get cooked literally and gore, forget it.

I saw Robin Goh at happy. Wanted to tell him he did good the night before at the play. Najp was there, and I was told Dick Lee was there too but I was too drunk to observe hah hah.

Rima S was worse than ever. I kept screaming, get her off my stage!! Cuz I had 2 graveyards, and the graveyard comes with a bottle of stout each and it tastes like the worst crap I have ever tasted. The one at MOX is heavenly in comparison..

Anyway I was quite dissed cause I kept thinking bout work. Tonight I’ll send some kisses bout to Xavy. He’s celebrating his birthday and yeh he took care of me when I got real drunk once so we look after one another. He’s nice. I think I am gonna be drunk..esp if David and Jake get their way… Oh by the way they are the pair of twins who runs why not.

I was told of a serial molester in the why not premises. In fact I saw him at maxwell food centre looking at our group. I can only promise him in advanced if he tries anything with me, he’ll wish he weren’t born.

So stay tuned to see if he ever got to me, and what I did. What I do depends on how drunk I am… haha. Well anywhere from dragging him by his collar to the toilet n flushing his face in the bowl, or right out to the outside and spear him right in his face. Whichever is more convenient at that point. He was looking at me last night cause when I turned to look at something, he turned away so obviously he caught my attention. And Jack told me he’s da molestor.

Molester my ass.

Send a long mail out, sleep, wake up and hype myself up for the night!

Had a good Billy Bommers meal with Jeff @ Bugis before the scheduled Army Daze. Guess we were chattin bout random stuff. Kenny. Marcus. The guys. The girls. Jasmine. Weddings. Marriage. Monogamy. Sam. Gary. Break ups. Dim Sum. Sashimi. Clubbing. Cars. Ties.

Wow, quite a handful isn’t it.

Army Daze the play was at Drama Centre, National Library. The accoustics of the hall isn’t that fantastic, but seating arrangement wise is good. Doesn’t really matter which cat seats you are at really.

I was in Cat 1, the highest priced one. Why? Cause…. Yu Wen was in the cast! *L* Mr Bowler cum califare actor who looks edible in the pictures on in person really. Jeff told me he is attached to this dude who used to work at Mox or something. Ok he can dance but I think Robin Goh can prolly dance better.

Overall rating of the show? Think Jeff and I agree it lacks a certain X factor. Maybe we have watched the movie before although there were new things here and there. Sebas Tan, Mr Broadway Beng did his role very well. Kumar, well what can I say. Everyone expects the best out of him. If I had to pick my fav out of the whole lot, I would give it to Mr ‘CPL’ Ong. Haven’t seen him on stage before and if he is new, he certainly did very well. Loud and commanding. Taking on the role of CPL Ong is no easy feat. If you remember…

My recommendation is, watch it, but you can go for the Cat 2 or 3 seats. Cat 2, if you really want to catch cute fellas, Cat 1 if you wanna see Mr Johari aka Sheik Haikel’s tummy..

You know as Hossan gave commentry during their POP and stuff, it kinda brings me back to my BMT days. Watching the califare actors, who really look and behave like recruits/privates. One of them suspiciously looks like an ex trainee of mine and yeh it takes me a year back when I was in the military as an instructor. (By the way in case you are wondering, yes it is me on the miw website under NSMen.) What I had in my head is, do bonds really stay? Recruits spend weeks together and get really close. POP arrives and it signifies another phase in their NS life and everyone goes their seperate ways. I remember as a young lad of 17 or 18, I used to hang out with friends at Coffee Bean and Tea Leaves. It used to be the ‘in’ thing. The outlet we used to go no longer stands. It’s along orchard road, next to Paragon I believe, facing Ngee Ann City. It was nice hanging out chatting. And then people started loving one another. A loves B but B likes C and C likes A kinda ‘drama’. People finish their studies, go to NS, work etc and everyone goes their own seperate ways eventually. You can say I sound really jaded over these issues but anyone who is around my age or older would have gone through the stages, from a ‘teen’ to a ‘ty’ and thereafter. If people don’t start relationships within the group etc, would things be different? I have a pair of frens, who have just recently broken up. Because of 2 the entire group gets ‘disbanded’. Why? Frens now have to think, if I ask A out, what about B? I can’t ask them out now at this stage together. So maybe I will ask A out and someone else will ask B out and eventually it’s so complicated. Not to mention frustrating. And what if the couple are also business partners? Yikes.

I don’t know. Given a choice, I’d prefer to date someone outside my group of friends. Like me and my ex, come and go, with zero impact on our individual friends. I don’t really care for ‘our’ friends once upon a time for it is quite clear where ‘they have gone to’ and I don’t wanna make things difficult for anyone so hopefully we won’t see each other again. They can stick to him. It is better this way. Problem is, if we began within a group of friends, everyone’s gonna be affected when things go wrong. Of course the argument is, why do I have to assume it will definitely not work in the end? Good question. No answer to that, but darn I won’t wanna be caught in that situation if I can help it. Quite frankly, the fellas around me have either broken up, or are on the verge of doing so. I don’t know bout Lenny and Bernard. Aint close to them and maybe it is better this way. Get too close to me and you end up with a breakup. I may be everyone’s love curse.

Check this out!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ScsSOYE37kQ

Oh yeh. For those who are planning to get new phones / line upgrades etc, let me know. Got a good bud of mine who deals with phones at Pearl Centre.

Speaking of pearls, I always get a good milkshake at the bubble tea stall near my office. In the past it used to cost like 3 bucks, now it’s 1.30. Wow. How are profits like? Hmm, can do, but risky. Cause of investment costs unless they get the equipment second hand or something.

Nonetheless, a good shake makes me happy.