another week

it's monday again. time sure passes fast.

a round up of the weekend basically consisted of a decent lunch at carl's jr and watching iron man. carl's is getting shittier by the month (but at least i was so full that i didn't really eat much of dinner) and the movie wasn't exactly as satisfying as i was expecting. first of all i thought it was going to be better, guess i had my hopes up a little bit too much, but overall it was okay. and then i also felt kind of bad for ditching certain parties whom i promised to watch it with. so... erm sorry, i didn't really have much of a choice.

so i went to watch the A division rugby semis today. ooh it felt exhilarating. haven't watched a proper rugby match for ages. probably since last year's final.

the saints and acjc match was quite evenly matched and was honestly pretty exciting. there was drama right from the beginning till the very end and all the spectators were kept on their toes. that's the kind of match i like. didn't really catch the other match between asci and rj, there wasn't the same kind of atmosphere, and my right knee is also kind of hollering at me since the end of the first game. how i wish i didn't screw it up. i think the final would be a little bit of a one-sided affair, but then again you never know what happens when a sizable chunk of silverware is at the stake. can't wait for next monday.

today i was also informed of the consequence of the training mishap last week. what i thought was just a harmless shoulder sprain for one of the guys has turned into a broken collar bone. damn just when things are going good, something bad has to pop up. why can't i ever have lady luck on my side. pffft...


+listening to: money by pink floyd

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soothing

awesome news! youtube is down. i don't mean to be a saddist but i can't really stand 90% of the stuff that people put up on youtube. since its outtage about an hour ago, i think the global online community has enjoyed its few precious moments of "silence".


i'm sure there are some very grateful parents out there who pray really hard before they go to bed every night that something like this will happen, so there you go, an answered prayer (finally). mind you it doesn't happen that often. last time something like this happened was in 2006 if i remember correctly. so do make it a point to note down the schedule in your diaries/planners so you can pray/make your sacrificial offerings accordingly. no gurantees though.

today was... soothing. had lunch with a few old mates of mine. it just feels so liberating to be able to say anything, ANYTHING without having to worry about being rude /overbearing /a*hole /insensitive /loud /coarse /ungentlemanly or whatever man. i needed this a long time ago. it's like back in the days in high school. i thank god pat myself on the back everyday that i went to an all guys high school. i dunno what kind of an oppressed being i might have ended up otherwise. you just have to let it all out, freely and without giving a damn about what other people think.

revitalized, peaceful, now all i need is incessant wealth. next time it rains, let it be money please.



edit: youtube is up again at around 10:15pm... the chaos continues, so should your prayers...


+listening to: primal cuts by steve morse band

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so yesterday...

So yesterday was labour day, or more commonly known world wide as may day. according to wikipedia:

In many countries, May Day is synonymous with International Workers' Day, or Labour Day, which celebrates the social and economic achievements of the labor movement. As a day of celebration the holiday has ancient origins, and it can relate to many customs that have survived into modern times. Many of these customs are due to May Day being a cross-quarter day, meaning that it falls approximately halfway between an equinox and a solstice...

but according to my calculations, it's just another normal, uneventful day. and i'm pretty sure the same goes for a lot of people.

don't get me wrong here, i'm not questioning the importance of this holiday, because as we know it anything that gets you off from working/studying mid-week is considered by many as a godsend.

just imagine, if thursday is a holiday, maybe you can slightly push the envelope and prolong the gratification for just a little while longer by maybe arriving at work half and hour late the next day, or even do away with another day of dreadful school completely by reporting sick.

as a result, the moment you arrive at work, your ritualistic countdown to a weekend of plastered-to-the-wall drinking starts at 7 hours and 30 minutes instead of the mundane, uninspiring 8 hour mark. how cool is that? think about it, but not too hard, what wonders that could do to your mental wellbeing!

so what are you waiting for? it's already friday. time awaits no man who can't hold his liquor for shit. immortality (well until you wake up again, whenever that may be) awaits... tonight!



+listening to: slow dancing in a burning room by john mayer trio

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eat your words

Image via Wikipediafor some weird reason, i had a sudden mental outrage against lip sync-ers. i used to be neutral on this issue, or rather apathetic. because let's face it, it's pretty pathetic and not really worthy of the effort wasted on processing an idea as daft as that in my head.

but today i just felt... angry. so i was watching the evening news, on the chinese channel, and they showed these bunch of celebrities (in the chinese community) at tian'anmen singing. apparently they were celebrating the "milestone" of 100 days before the official opening of the beijing olympics.

firstly i just thought it was stupid to waste money on such a publicity sham. it's not like the olympics has already started. no amount of positive publicity is going to change the public's perception of all their other daft ideas such as the "flame protectors" who were really plain clothes police exercising their non-existent jurisdiction in foreign countries. they might as well have sent some fighter jets over just to be "safe" right? in case some terrorists tried to steal the olympic torch to create some terrible weapon of mass destruction.

ok so these singers were obviously lip sync-ing. i mean they weren't even trying to make an effort to sync it. it was so obtrusively out of sync that i was flabbergasted. i mean if they were gonna spend that kind of money inviting all those people, they should at least give the people who turned up there to see it their money's worth right? why don't they have faith in their own vocal prowess? i'm not sure if i remember correctly, but the last time i checked, those people sang for a living?

imagin eddie vedder, robert plant, ian gillan, etc. lip sync-ing, it would almost gurantee to cause an instant riot. so can someone remind me why are these people lip sync-ing again?


+listening to: monkey business by bonnie raitt

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free cone day

went to get my certificate of non-criminal conviction at the police cantonment complex in the morning. i must say the building sure looks pretty big and grand and all, but nothing much seem to be going on. there was literally no one inside save for the security people at the entrance.

contemplated on going to town for a free ben and jerry's cone, but then decided against it. besides the fact that i have not fully recovered from my cough yet, i have a problem of going up to the counter at the scoop shop and telling the nice lady behind the counter "hi can i have my free cone please?" it just seems rather... vulgar. i dunno why.


anyways for those of you who are going to get a free cone, good for you. just so you know, satan created ben and jerry's, ben cohen (co-founder of ben and jerry’s) already had a quintuple bypass at the age of 49, burt baskin (co-founder of baskin robbins) died of diabetes, and you're probably gonna die the same way too. now go have yourself a nice free cone.

Bon Appétit!


+listening to: soul serenade by the derek trucks band

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same old same old

woke up feeling the monday blues again, i think it's in a diminished minor key too. that basically sums up the overall tone.

there's homework piling up: yes i have to complete a stack of ludicrous tutorials before i can even attend classes in uni, that's on top of the placement exam they're gonna throw at me once i get there. and i thought going to uni would be fun, looks like the real "fun" hasn't even started. bleh...

and then there's all the immigration nonsense that i have to take care of, the F1 visas, the I20 forms, financial statements, health/immunization forms, blah blah blah. the list just goes on. i'm staring right at it and i have absolutely no intention of doing anything about them until the absolute last minute. i'm not being lazy, if you were me you'd do the same.

i still have a week ahead of me of rest before my students return from their mid term vacation. i don't feel much energized at all. in fact i'm dreading every moment that i'm awake wasting my life away. i need to go to sleep, at least i won't feel so guilty that way.

watched P.S. I Love You yesterday. a pretty nice flick though love movies are not really my type of thing. i just saw it out of curiosity. and iron man comes out on wed 30th april, can't wait any longer. i hope it doesn't disappoint like some of the previous big name adaptations.

that's it i'm going for a nap until dinner. in the words of the velvet revolver song slither (with certain words substituted):

yeah, here comes the nap
it' comes to wash away the guilt of you and i
this time i sleep...

peace.


+listening to: light of the moon by steve vai

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the end of a chapter, beginning of another

tourney season official ended today. what can i say, it's been one hell of a ride. as with any good roller coaster rides, there are ups and downs, but overall i'm pretty happy with the outcome.


it's by no means measured with scores. they mean nothing to me, only the indication of certain temperaments on match day. the team has come a long way since the beginning of the year and i'm really glad that i could play a part in helping to mold this team. like i've said this is a sport where you can only go forward if the line has your back, you either play as a team or you die as individuals.

apparently some of you read this blog so let me say this: i am mighty proud of you guys even though all the odds were against you, yet you didn't give up trying. and all the harsh stuff i've said, all the days when i whacked you hard, i meant no harm. it just had to be done. you have also taught me a lot in the process, and i certainly hope you've learnt something from me too.

one day it will happen, one day. never stop believing...


+listening to: life before insanity by gov't mule

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lost for words

now i know being a professional translator isn't easy.

i just translated 6 full pages of words from english to chinese for my godma in the morning. it could have saved me a whole lot of trouble if she could read more english. she can only read chinese and french (well a bit of english too). so yeah weird combi huh. after i'm done with translating the english passages from english to chinese, she's gotta translate it again into french for her work. i foresee that some things are bound to be lost in translation, oh well can't really help it. but no good deed goes unrewarded, she'll be treating me to dinner at meritus mandarin!


come to think of it i haven't utilised my mother tongue skills since... erm when i graduated form high school. man i feel so rusty i was almost ready to eat my own head after i was done. it was that agonizing. i feel utterly ashamed that i now suck so bad at my mother tongue.

and when i say mother tongue, i mean it. it's not some kinda shit deal where people in india claim that english is their mother tongue. it's not my fault that christopher columbus screwed them over by ditching them, which of course resulted in them getting Effed in the A by the british, hence i suppose the claim that english is their mother tongue is somewhat justified. you can probably guess where they call their mother land - where else but england. so you see, you can't get any more chinese than i am, i was born on the mother land for pete's sake.

on a more serious note, i'm feeling ambivalent towards everything that has gone on lately. too much has been said. time to just stfu and do it.


+listening to: stressfest by steve morse band

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