postscripting the life of an average singaporean guy

Tuesday, August 17, 2004

When Boys Become Men....

There comes a time when a Man gotta do what a Man's gotta do, I am no exception. I would have done it at the age of 18+, if I had taken the JC path. Sadly, my grades couldn't even make it for a Diploma Education in a Polytechnic(2000), hence the delay of a year while awaiting the COP (Cut-Off-Point) to be lowered. To be honest, it was not good at first but looking back now although I had lost something - precious time & youth - during the period 2000-2001, I also gained something - good knowledge/experience of the working world, made working-class friends, managed to stay out of office politics BARELY, although I can't say for sure that should I stayed on working, I'll be dragged into it. Know enough about the banking industry during my one year temporary employment at Citibank which I am proud to say I still would like to try my hands on business studies. - 4 and almost close to a 5th year has since passed since I collected my Ordinary Level Certificate, whilst most of my secondary schoolmates & primary schoolmates have already completed or in the midst of National Service, it is finally my turn, yes, at approximately 3pm today, I'll be arriving and surrrendering my Pink I/C at Pulau Tekong, having my head shaved by the end of today and will most likely begin my Basic Millitary Training on 18th. What will I become or turnout at the end of the my BMT is anybody's guess, apparently, it's supposed to be when boys turn to men, would I still be the Big Friendly Giant you know today or a care-less/heartless person who lives by each day? Would I still be as fat as today or a fit person (something which I'm sure at one point or another all fat people would dream off). Would I be a chaokeng AKA a pretending to be weak soldier in hokkien or would I chiongsua AKA everything I onz. Would I be the LOSER aka Saboh King or the LEADER aka wayang? Would i emerge after NS as an idol or an idiot? # puns intended # What I do know is I will do my utmost best in remaining the same friendly & nice? # I'm not quite sure about the nice part so maybe you guys can reassure me # person you know currently..

Once again before I leave and really become a man, I thank you peeps for coming into my blog and do check back as I will hopefully update it as soon as I can.

On a final note, I am thankful to GOD of being accquainted to many of you and hopefully may our paths be cross in a better way.

This is your blogger/recruit signing off

jh out.~

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Monday, August 16, 2004

A lookback...

As I look back at my 21 years of life, I can't help but wonder how many lives have I touched? How many promises have I kept? Have I been righteous enough? How many enemies have I made besides myself? How many hearts have I broke?<-- this of course has absolutely no truth in it. Indeed 21 years I am, I am thankful for my time spent breathing the air we know as oxygen. I'm sure if my life was a movie it would have been a long one with interesting factors that attribute to myself today.

My character

I watched a show which had a line that struck on me, a meaningful line, "being a character does not mean you have character"

I can't really take a stand as to how my character is like, as a matter of fact, it is up to you all to tell me what sort of character I am.

I cried alot during my primary school years and my secondary year, it was only after secondary one that I learnt boys shouldn't be crying out in public.Somehow I feel my character was developed during my secondary 2 and 3, I was sorta on a curfew in secondary school, that is I can't go out after school and could only go straight home, thus I sometimes stayed in school and refused to go home so early, needless to say there were times I lied that I was in school when I was at parkway. Got caught a couple of times and control of me was quite tight by my godparents. Still I would like to thank them for having set that curfew, because being defiant and lie about being in school when I was someplace else is better than having no curfew and hang out with hooligans. TV programs were also a no no for me. I could only watch those charity programs and special events like National Day, of course I did sneak a peek now and then and of course watch TV when nobody's home! Anyway the thing is, my other free time was spend reading comics like The Adventures of Tin Tin and Asterix & Obelix, coupled with teenage fiction like the Hardy Boys, all atributed in what way or another into my character today.

My ambtion

I'm sure everyone was poised the question of a future ambition when they were young, I wasn't any dfferent, having TV as the only form of entertainment I had, my goal was to become the successful businessman the actors potray since apparently they earn lotsa of money, it helped too that my dad was quite a businessman I would say. my secondary ambition would have been the cops the actors potray, not just any plain blue uniform cop but rather a CIA or FBI or Interpol or in Singapore at least a CID. All thanks to the Jackie Chan films and the James Bond movies. Slowly as I began to understand things better and with Star Search on the rise in TV, my ambition solidified into being an actor, not an extra but a male lead. I figured actors can be who they wanna be. That happened when I was in Kindergarden 2 to Primary 2. I like the idea of a group of superheros and always encourage my friends to be superheros aka good. I copied many groups such as Captain Planet and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles all for the righteousness. Not once did I ever harbour the thought of being a doctor as I wasn't too sure of what my study capability was. Besides even though with a mindset of standing up for justice and righteousness, I was still kinda like a scaredly cat. As I enter teenagehood, I abandoned my thoughts of ambitions yes not even being an actor, a career of teacher did pop into my mind but I told myself not to think of it much. And so I am now in my adulthood, where after working for a few years, both full-time and part-time, I realised I still harbour my ambition of having an office with a bird's eye view/an actor. However, living in Singapore and reading news has also make me realise one thing, as much as i want to be a successful businessman, I am still somewhat an easily-contended person if I can provide my family with what is essential. My thoughts have thus shifted to a priority an unbreakable ricebowl and secondary objective a successful businessman/actor. Many of my friends might shun me with my remarkably low "ambition", but I still stick to my mindset, having a stable job is better than facing a possibly of failure in doing your own business itself <-- this would be my perssismistic side saying. Nevertheless, I continue searching and looking to see if I could get my optimistic side to have a say, pleased to tell you, what I have found was further studies and possibly masters, where I felt I will enjoy doing what the future prospects of that study will benefit my both priorit and ambition as one. Let's hope I will make it come true.

My size

I was quite big since I was an infant, so I guess that makes me big boned. my dad was big too but did you know that I was actually quite short and fat, I was literally round, amazingly, I grew so tall that I myself sometimes hate it although I would say in current singaporean male, being tall is a privilege. If I recalled correctly, I frew incredibily tall near the end of sec 2, where I started picking up basketball and played it every evening without fail with some of the neighbourhood kids, basketball was much much better than jogging aimlessly. Yes, I was jogging perpetually everyday, not to mention climbing 21 storys of stairs 10 times. All of which were just part of my exercise routine my godparents ordered me for my own good, but as much as I exercise, they allowed me to eat as much as I needed too. haha. Thankfully one of my neighbours suggest that I play basketball and my godparents allowed it to replaced my exercise regime. I am thankful yet again now as I look back as without basketball, I belive I will still be laughed at or make fun fun off by people. Once a round and fat boy shorter than many of you, I belived was about 1.55m now standing tall @ 1.84 to 1.85m still as fat but hey, BMT is coming, you never know what will happen.

My Beliefs

I belived that good triumps over evil
I belived that love can overcome all obstacles
I belived that the eldery deserves our thoughfulness unquestionably
I belived that respect needs to be earned
I belived that enemies are better off as friends
I belived that money isn't everything
I belived that each second we lose we gained something
I belived in the goodness of all people
I belived that I can't change where I'm from but I can change where I'm going
I believed in risking for the just and right cause
I believed that kindness need not be repaid instead be appreciated
I believed in a better tomorrow

I belived you have read enough, Au Revoir!

jh out.~

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Sunday, August 15, 2004

Firewerkz

Today was the last of the final fireworks display from the Singapore Fireworks Festival, it will be a Hongkong team, the passed 2 USA followed by Singapore were displayed on 1st August and 8th August respectively.To be really very proud, I only squeeze through all the masses of people once on the way from suntec to one fullerton around 7pm. My primary school friends and I went scouting around at One Fullerton for a good spot, too bad Ronald didn't drive, if he had, I would have directed him to the field where the fireworks was set off.We finally noticed a car park of Neptune restaurant and decided to head up there, but we weren't contended with our location and since we notice another field that seemed accessible from the shenton way area and with more than 40 mins to spare, we rushed and walked all the way near the old Lau PAt Sat Area which is actually opposite the new one but near the sea. Unfortunately it is under construction thus the fenced up. We even found a door leading into the construction site and wanted very much to go thru the site but were conscious that it is such acts that might actually endanger ourselves.With 15 mins left, we decided to head back to the carpark we found, by the time we got there and got ourselves good seats using the railings, theree were more and more people who discovered the same carpark. Still we were not sure if our TV "view" will eventually be a great view.

When the fireworks came, boy oh boy, it's gotta be the longest fireworks display than our annual National Day one. Or is it that time just passed by so fast whenever you see something so beautiful?10 Mins was what I counted yet it felt so short when I was admiring them. Even the national day one did not seem that long. Oh did I mention our windowed view from the carpark turned out to be the best view, besides we were sitting down comfortably. # g0dspeed laughs and gloats @ the crowd at the pier and the merlion park and the esplanade and the nicoll highway bridge near one fullerton # We were at the 6th floor so we manged to get both a great view of top and bottom of the fantastic firewerkz.

Walked all the way to Chinatown (about 7 mins walk only) to avoid the Fullerton to City Hall crowd. Went to Hans for a drink at the Great Eastern Centre, boy that place is big and has quite a cosy environment or maybe it's due to the late night and the fact that it was a sunday night.Then headed to the famous porridge store at Chinatown to get moi truly a bowl of porridge.

Been quite a weekend memorable or not I know of but surely my Man Utd can do something to overcome a 1-0 lead by Chelsea in the 2nd Half?

jh out.~

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Saturday, August 14, 2004

My last Saturday...

As a civilian of course... not that I will no longer get to spend another saturday as a civilian, that is when I complete my National Duties. What I am really trying to say is that, life has full of surprises and uncertainties, who knows I might not live pass my National Slavery, I might be one of the people who die in the line of "duty" and have a Singapore flag over my casket. In that case I'm sure the HOTA or rather the Human Organ Transplant Act will be the only people who are happy besides me as I feel that well since I'm dead and you could still use my body for greater purpose, why not? Of course, those dejected aka sounds sad kind of words are coming out from the pessismistic side of me as usual, the optimistic side of me would be that I might sign on to the Army, and serve the nation till the day I die.

If you all have notice, blogging has been part of my life these few days, sad to say I might not be blogging that often already due to you know what? So I thank you all once again for reading my blog at some point of your life. Whether or not our paths will cross again, I leave it to fate.

jh out.~

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Friday, August 13, 2004

Friday the 13th...

Contrary to some, Friday the 13th is a bad day, and these some people actually locked themselves up in the safety of their home on this very day. Paraskevidekatriaphobics — people afflicted with a morbid, irrational fear of Friday the 13th — is the term. More often than not, people with this phobia believes that just by leaving their house, they have raise their accident-prone level by up to 52 percent. I would therefore like to take this oppurtunity to say it is purely coincidental that I was at home the whole day today. Hey, I went up to my grandparent's place though for dinner so as to let them have a good look at me before I enlist. Oh by the way, I hate to admit this but I am dreading counting the days everyday. # Insert laughters and sorry faces here #

Where some might not know that breaking a mirror will cause you to have 7 years of bad luck, walking under a ladder or having a black cat crossed your path will bring you misfortune, Friday the 13th has got to be the most widespread superstitious of them all. As much as I belive that I feel luckier when a black cat crossed my path and so does walking under a ladder and going out on a Friday the 13th. My advice is that if there is another omen that befall you on the 6th day of the week (counting sunday as the first), let's say it's a sign to head home huh? Some of my friends may know this, there was once one of my friend had a black cat crossed his path on the 13th day of the month which happens to be a friday as well, well he thought not much about it until a phone call which if I remember correctly tells of his grandma going to hospital but not serious thankfully, next his supposdely "pro" skills in Counter-Strike failed him that day last but not least, he failed a couple of modules as results were released that day...

Sorry for the digression, now let's see how does this widespread supertitious might have come about...

It is said: If 13 people sit down to dinner together, all will die within the year. Many cities do not have a 13th Street or a 13th Avenue. Many buildings don't have a 13th floor. If you have 13 letters in your name, you will have the devil's luck (e.g. Jack the Ripper) There are 13 witches in a coven.

Although it is hard to explain the originality of Friday the 13th, we all but have to take a look at each seperately. Suggestions were that since primitive men had only 10 fingers and 2 fees as units, they could only count till 12, what lays beyond that therefore is a mystery. Another example was that the Bible tells us there were exactly 13 present at the Last Supper. One of the dinner guests — er, disciples — betrayed Jesus Christ, setting the stage for the Crucifixion. Correct me if I am wrong, but didn't the Crucifixion took place on a Friday?

It is said: Never change your bed on Friday; it will bring bad dreams. Don't start a trip on Friday or you will have misfortune. If you cut your nails on Friday, you cut them for sorrow. Ships that set sail on a Friday will have bad luck – as in the tale of H.M.S. Friday ... One hundred years ago, the British government sought to quell once and for all the widespread superstition among seamen that setting sail on Fridays was unlucky. A special ship was commissioned, named "H.M.S. Friday." They laid her keel on a Friday, launched her on a Friday, selected her crew on a Friday and hired a man named Jim Friday to be her captain. To top it off, H.M.S. Friday embarked on her maiden voyage on a Friday, and was never seen or heard from again...

The bad friday reputation goes a long way since it was supposedly on a friday that Eve tempted Adam with the forbidden fruit.

Based on the above knowledge, could it be that an unlucky Friday + unlucky 13 = An Unluckier Friday?

So repeat after me, "GO HOME & keep your fingers crossed if you spy another ill omen accompanied with a day known as Friday the 13th."

jh out.~

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Thursday, August 12, 2004

The Next Chapter

As you all may have already know by now, History was made about 4 hours ago, yes Singapore's 3rd Prime Minister is "born". As we bid farewell to Mr Goh who have serve as Prime Minister for 14 years, here comes Lee Hsien Loong who I would definitely like to placed all my assets under my name that he will serve almost as long as his dad(who serve 25 years), clearly evident by seeing how the 2 DPM that he chose were really quite old... I mean let's see you have 2 DPM that are as old or maybe slightly younger than you, You think after you serve a 10 year term, the 2 DPM you have now will be as old as you and rather not have so much responsibility as you now are going to undertake. Speaking of his dad, our dear old Mr Lee Kuan Yew, his title from Senior Minister may have been changed to Minister Mentor but his chinese version still remains the same, for the benefit of those who may not have a clue as to what I am saying, his title in chinese is still as before "Li Zhi Zhen", Mr Goh's title is now "Wu Zhi Zhen" the first verb meaning their surname. As some people including me are really wondering exactly what is the difference between the Minister Mentor and Senior Minister duties because based on the chinese version both are just to advice on matters. As much as I respect Mr Lee Kuan Yew, I think he is wasting taxpayers' money by taking on a new title.

The papers today may have been full of information or rather a background outlook of our new Prime Minister which you would really suspect whether if it was a "perfectly timed" articulation for the big "Swearing In of the Prime Minister & His Cabinet". However, it is not the same for foreign papers, while Singapore's papers are feeding the citizens with history and character of Mr Lee Hsien Loong, foreign papers are displaying, "New Bottle, Old Wine" which means New Goverment, Old Faces. Indeed, Mr Lee Hsien Loong has promoted 3 Acting Ministers to Full Minister Duty which by the way everyone knew it was inevitable given the people's support for these 3 acting Ministers and may I add a job well done for their time as Acting Ministers, foreign papers are "blasting" Mr Lee at just resuffling the Old Horses of the cabinet. OH!!! May I join my sister's hatred for BG George Yeo who is now the current Foreign Minister, the reason why we hate him because when he was minister for trade, he proposed that singapore's workforce or rather office hours to be make into 24 Hours!!! Is he mad? Oh yes and Mr Mah Bow Tan, who held on to his post of National Development(no wonder I don't see any development!) He's there because he has been with Mr Lee Hsien Loong for a long time.

As before, I would like to remind myself and others who support my views that only time will tell whether Starhub & Singtel are really affilated, Ho Ching(PM Lee Hsien Loong's wife) is really the 2nd richest woman in Singapore, Mrs Lee Kuan Yew being the richest woman of course having shares in Temasek Holdings, SIA not to mentioned owning TIBS. May I also add, the big boss of Singtel is Mr Lee Hsien Yang(brother of Lee Hsien Loong?) oops... I fear people might think I am not a patriotic but the truth is I am patriotic but just that as you can see all the richest seems to be heading towards the Lee family because they apparently control or rather totally owned Singapore since Mr Lee Kuan Yew's leadership. I wonder how the rest of the people whose family name happens to be Lee but are not as influential as the LKY family. #pun intended# And why is it that when you have a rich father such as Lee Kuan Yew, you are still able to go on a President Scholarship? Oh yeah! I remembered, because a scholarship is different from a bursary, scholarship is for smart people bursaries are for people like me, needing financial help and is above average? I propose that if a person is really smart & his dad is rich, no scholarships granted, scholarship shall be passed to the next eglible smart person who was denied scholarship and is really poor because he just lack a few more brians.

ponder ponder.....

PS: Catwoman sucks big time...they may have lots of cats in the show, I shall only give it 1.5 cats out of 5
PPS: Elements required for a shitty movie, too much CGI that even when a person holding a normal whip have to be made in CG freaking I!!!
PPPS: btw the 1.5 cats are given because of Halle Berry, issit me or do people who get oscar before will start planning their downfall?

jh out.~

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Wednesday, August 11, 2004

The Last Day!

Definitely not saying that this is my last day it is however OUR last day under the leadership of Mr Goh Chok Tong as our Prime Minister. His resignation of his government will be coming to effect on tomorrow 12/Aug/2004. For more details about the new government with effect from 8pm 12/Aug/2004 onwards go here.

Had one of the last birthday celebration for one of my friends, Stephen, as of course a Civilian! Went to Suki Sushi @ parkway parade, that place is probably the cheapest sushi/sashimi/teppenyaki buffet around. @ $20++ because I can still use my student pass since my hair is still long. It seems to me our group is getting smaller with each one of us heading into the army, will we be the same as before, only time can tell. Come next week, 4 of us will be heading into ALL MAN's land.

6 more days to BMT and I really can't wait, yet nervous as to what the ARMY has in store for me. Went to Chinatown just now to buy shower foam, toothpaste, toothbrush, pricky heat. Bought myself shampoo and hair wax too to be place at home when my hair eventually grows back. I'm still missing a suitable bag to be called my civilian bag, that is to put all my stuffs that I be carrying into the island also known as Pulau Tekong.

Some of my relatives are worried for me, well, it's kinda nice because it really has been such a long time since I actually felt my relatives caring for me. Like any human being, I am not perfect, it was only till when my grandmother passed away 2 years ago that kickstart my repairing of relationship with my Uncle/Godfather. It means a lot to me on a family kinda way to have him talking to me again!

Initially, I planned to stay in seclusion during my NS life, I realised it is abit, no not abit, it is WAY too long. My friends who were in the army told me it will be hard, because being in an island disconnected from the world will only strengthen my urge to see people I care for, not too sure whether "the one I care for" would know that. As usual, time will only tell on what will happen.

They say if you like someone, tell them or the moment might pass you by, or rather you might regret if you never ever will be able to tell them when they are gone.

1 more day to Singapore's 3rd Prime Minister,
2 more days to Friday the 13th,
3 more days to Saturday,
4 more days to Sunday,
5 more days to Last day as civilian,
6 more days to you-know-what.

Excusez-Moi, as I continue to keep faith, s'il vous plaît.

jh out.~

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Tuesday, August 10, 2004

7 more days to BMT... BM BM BMT!

I don't know whether I should be happy or not. As there are things I have not experience just yet. I planned to stay in seclusion over my next 4 months. That is if possible, yes, provided I do not get distracted by people asking me to go out. Anywayz, I pray that my 16 weeks of BMT will pass by quickly and then by end November, I can passed out as a different man. After that I will left about 1 Year 9 months of service with the government, that I hope to get thru quickly. I realise I have lost half of my audience(mainly females) for talking army stuffs. I apologise, as my mind is midway into transition to just obeying commands pretty soon... haha.

I was told that to live thru the army, you have to look on the bright side of it and NS will just breeze past you. I have always been a person who looks at both the bright side and the dark side, damm no wonder I can never be a true Jedi. # puns intended # I quote : "Winston Churchill did say before an oppurtunists sees oppurtunities in every difficulty while a pessimist will only see all the difficulties in every oppurtunities." I am somehow in between, I recognised the fact that the government is going to pay me to slim down.(and hopefully I can survive thru and lose as much weight as possible) but I also realise I'm going to be disconnected with the outside world, no special someone to care for, and many other stuffs, I seemed to be depressed, this is not good... So i guess I'm more of a pessimist ar? What I do know is, when I'm going thru difficulties, I always believe that something good will happen to me? So again back to square 1!

I digress. Caught the NDP on both TV mobile while on my way home and the later part where the fireworks comes alive on TV. Yes I missed the middle, but the only thing I have always liked about NDP is the marching contigents and of course the crowd-pleasing firewerkz. Although it cannot be compared to the current Singapore Fireworks Festivals held just beside the Esplanade which feature Fireworks almost every sunday since beginning August, the last one being on 15th August. For your information, I watched the NDP's fireworks from TV since my block is facing away from the stadium. Singapore Idol came on next, it was hilarious to see how the judges react to some? And how some go all the way just to get their 15 mins, I'm sorry it's erm 2 mins of fame but that's enough to leave a "haunting" memory on all viewers I guess. The Shanghai guy, Rocky, my sympathy goes to him, but the current music industry is not suited for classics voices.

I do feel glad I wasn't selected to go thru, since I did quite badly freezing on the spot and forgetting my lyrics during the Round 1 Audition. But there were some other really bad ones out there on TV last night which I really wonder how they get thru Round 1, I guess I wasn't lousy enough to create media attention like Goh Jia Hui whom Dick Lee sarcastily asked it will be interesting to hear what the original song sound like in the first place. I'm sure given a choice, the judges will just want singers who really can sing rather than have nonsense people who just want their faces to be on TV. Too bad, this is TV, and being a reality TV programme, as long as you can make people laugh or rather catche the masses attention, up on TV you go!

jh OUT!~

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Monday, August 09, 2004

National Day!

Caught PM Goh's last National Day Message on TV mobile on a familiar Orchard Road evening Jam during weekends. With this "Many of you have thanked me for taking care of Singapore. Tonight, I want to thank you.". My message to PM Goh: Your Welcome! (That is if he actually come to visit this blog, but if you do, Mr Goh, Many thanks to you yet again.)

I have only met you in person once and that was when you were at the Asian Aerospace this year, you have always left an image of a friendly and approachable person to me. Although I am not exactly thrilled with the coming of August 12th when Mr Lee Hsien Loong gets sworn in, I guess I have to trust my judgement in you in leaving Singapore under Mr Lee's care. I do however understand only Time can tell.

With that, I wish Singapore a Happy 39th Birthday! whilst I enjoy this last Public Holiday as a civilian!

PS: updated the Collateral Review, am totally into this song by Groove Armada that was playing at the beginning of this movie.! Enjoy ya! Check it out here @ my primary blog!

jh OUT!~

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Friday, August 06, 2004

Graduation..

No need to guess why the Vitamin C song is playing on my blog. Yes I have gone thru the boring ceremoney, collected my piece of paper that certifies that I am a Diploma holder, by the way, this piece of paper causes me about $6k not including the rest which the Singapore Government has so kindly helped to subsidise.

Was shocked to see one of my pictures(Pushball team champion) went up on the presentation slides titled memory lane.

It was funny maybe it's tertiary life because when I went back NYP, I just do not have the same feeling I had when I went back to my secondary school, probably because the whole class were more united than and we all went thru the same stuff. The only thing that I fondly remembered were my days spent having fun at the SIT events.

PS: Watch The Village already, would say it deserve 4 creatures out of 5,although there were no..., review can be found here under articles.

nuff' said.

jh OUT!~

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Tuesday, August 03, 2004

The Dentist

Never go to the dentist,
That is there He waits...

Let the tooth decay not be seen,
It attracts he!

Heed the warning drill,
For polishing needs to be done...

Directed by Peter Lin Jinghong of the UnAcademy Award losing film "The 9th Sense" and "sNiGS"...

Ok abit lame I have to agree, went to the dentist today, was told I had a slightly wider jaw with normal teeths therefore none of my wisdom tooth are giving me any problem... Went for the polishing and removing of plague, now my teeth feels so fresh, gonna really learn how to keep my teeth clean. The Dentist say because of my good arrangement of my teeth and that no decaying can be found instead of visiting him every 6 months I can delay it till a year... cool.

Just realise what else I need to get for my enlistment, A shaver for a quick shave, nail clippers to snip off those long nails during my first 2 weeks and I do belive an digital watch...

Basically my life today is the dentist so nothing much...

jh OUT!~

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Monday, August 02, 2004

August!

Yupz! It's August... 16 days left as a civilian...
Went to Genghis Khan for dinner yesterday, the oysters they have over there are really huge, exactly the same as the one I ate @ No Signboard during my birthday celebration with my primary schoolmates. Ate total 5 of them! Delicious!

Went to catch the ART film, House Of The Flying Daggers by Zhang Yi Mou. Heard many mixed reviews about this show, good and bad. I would say at the beginning of the movie up to 3/4 into the plot, it was quite a good film, the Director really wanted to integrate Art into the fightingsa although some fights wasn't really synchronise. Would give it 3 Daggers out of 5. The ending however was really bad, plot suddenly became like an olden days Infernal Affairs.

Met up with John, Boon & Nigel at the army market @ beach road. John was our guide in buying the stuffs needed for my impending enlistment into slavery...

Spent quite a sum of money there and I am still missing things like alarm clock, duffel bag, snake powder, liquid soap, toothbursh, toothpaste, kiwi black, slippers. Hmm... I guess that's all. If you happened to know what else I need to get to prepare for slavery, please go ahead and tag my board.

Went dinner @ a famous HK cooked food stall along alexandra road. Then went IKEA for window shopping with my sis & her boyfriend, my life seems so sad & lonely right... Haiz.. Saw a really nice Sofa Bed there, but it costs $400+ excluding $40 delievery. A new day of the week begins tomorrow... 15 days remaining...

PS: finally caught my missing beginning of the film of i,robot. The much awaited movie review for that show is out! That is if anybody really care...

jh OUT!~

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