Night dreamer and day wanderer

Moose in hotel bed. Moose, my companion for 4 years.

you know ur spending a tad too much time online when

1. You check out ur friends' blog on an hourly basis.
2. When u have a desire to just keep jotting down ur tots instantneously aka Blog.
3. When u started friendstering to realize that u have friends who have not been on friendsters on more than 3 weeks.. and those make up the majority.
4. When u have no unread emails in ALL YOUR MAIL accounts.
5. When, you're checking out boliao links.
6. When u actually do a google to find out something like how to make an overseas call.
7. You use ur online calendar to plan ur weekend.
8. When you're able to come up with as many as 8 points on the basis of excessive internet usage.

Hmm... Char, if i do go for the reverse bungee thingy, i'll give u a ring. Dont worry about the screaming. You're not alone!=) let's see who scream her lungs out. It's okay to scream, just dont puke. U know.. the game of gravity?

Hiaks, it's weird, how i'm becoming more of an online IT creature than really out socialising. I like to do things alone now, well, it might have something to do with the fact, i am deprived of some personal time ( even when i was in BN).

I am really looking forward to spending one full day tom. Starting the day darn early, doing eventful stuffs. Like, washing the van!haha, i did that half a month ago.. good work out. Hmm, dont Dont even think about asking me to wash ur car. I'm no slave. * could so forsee some of ur thoughts*

" you know ur approaching civilization.... when u see a dustbin" --tot i had when i was trekking in the forest.

"Richness is only defined and experienced when there is poverty around"-- tot i had when i was cruising on the roads of BN.

"You know your plain lazy"-- tot i had when we drove from the hotel to the supermarket which is technically just across the road. Picture the distance from my hall to the canteen. i timed the journey. The clocked showed the same digits from the moments we started the car and stopped to park the car.

Looking out to the heavens. (my fav pic to date)

many thanks to my partner who brought his camera and took this shot of me (candid and splendid)!!

Drats. See the shore.. i ran across just to discover my phone died on me!of all times, of all days...Sighz...

Gibberish! that's what i like--@ Home

The feeling of coming home is so gratifying that i tot i should pen it down. Yesh, it doesn seem quite fascinating to be blogging the moment i land in singapore. But HEY, i feel time is too precious and i'm really happy to be in the company of the most important people to me in my planet.--my Family.

Imagine my shock when they were all there to pick me up at the airport about 2 hours ago. I was so surprised and never more happier to see the lot!=)


Remembered tinkerling brought sand back??? Well, surprisingly, hooey aint that far from her.. geez, dont know if i should be embarrassed or proud of the fact, that our gang do share some common traits!hiaks.

Want to know what i brought back? Actually you dont have a choice cos i'm darn proud of my collection and im' going to to showcase it to the world. Especially ruffy. (doesn this remind u of a particular show?). Ruffy prob wont be able to see this, or even receive this since he's till in bangkok. sighz.. u have to settle for the photos then.

Yes, i handpicked these while combing the shore. Washed them and dryed them with a hair-dryer and then placing them on my floor towel. Hard work eh.

Very lovely lovely beach i went to. Nature's beauty knows no bounds. Takes place everywhere as long as you look around. Undisturbed and purely nature, this is one sight which i like to share.

Taken as it is untouched. Nature's beauty unfolds with the swish-swash of the sea....



A brook near the sea, logs spanned across the stream. Something, you dont really see at home.=) I love the sun streaming in .. down the Stream. hiaks. Times like this when i'm thankful for the oversea exposure.

Geez, the pics above taken with NOKICAM, so sad i din bring my digicam on this trip. Definitely bringing it on the next trip.!=) Took much more, but too lazy to load them right now!hehe


Anyway, i spent last night watching "you've got mail" vcd becos there was nothing fascinating on HBO and Discovery Channel. Murphy's law struck again, the night i'm free when there's no one online to chat, ( possible becos of the fact that it's weekend), and there's nothing good on TV. Bummer.
Well, pretty delighted to recall all the interesting conversations and topics they had via emails.

Hmm.. which brings me to the next point.

What is it with men and " The Godfather "? Yes, i have heard the answers from the movie and personally , i have to admit i have not watched the movie, but it din quite strike me as anything interesting. How can the lines from the movie be used to answer ANY questions in the world?How is it possible. Tell me, give me some quotes if you do know the answers. I'm assuming of cos, that i have friends, or people reading this who actually Watch and Worship "The GODFATHER".



Movie aside, the plane i was on this afternoon was surprisingly filled with little princesses and toddler princes. Little princess wobbling down the aisle, drooling with every few steps, decked in their OSHKOSH pitter patters and fashionable bibs. Of cos, there are the mischievous few out to make things difficult for their parents! Refusing to eat their greens, a parent teasingly pry open the little kid's mouth! Hiaks.

Geez, i know i'm just blabbering away. I 'm starting to feel alit strained from working by the lappie for hours for weeks without stopping. My body aches and i'm starting to feel OLD. I seriously need to unwind and work out. So i intend to either go blading or swiming this trip back. Actually, i'm even tempted to go windsurfing. Do something Extreme or something. Anyone interested in reverse bungee? That's the thing, with this little time i have, it's hard to accomplish so much, hence i might just end up saying and not doing. In anycase, i dont dare make definite plans with others becos of the little time i have. Hence, i'm often seem as somewhat distant and not taking the initiative to meet up. *fully aware*

OKIES.. i'm off to grab some stuffs to eat. HOME SWEET HOME!

Blessed lot

it's past mid week, and i'm really looking forward to returning back to singapore. Sometimes, i think i'm better off being a student. My profile, the way i behave, the way i do things. Geez, i'm better off being a kiddo.

Anyway, i'm skyping with ruffy now.=)

Skyping becomes an essential mode of communication among couples now.. so far there are 3 couples i know who use skype because they are geographically separated.

Ruffy was mentioning something about 9/11 in his blog and i tot i add a note to how i agree with him on the power of media. How, ironically and seemingly true, that IGNORANCE is BLISS. When u dont seem to know what's going on, u live in ur own world, oblivious of what happen to others. Take the people from Afghanistan and Iraq for example, the suffering and torture many been through have gone unnoticed from us, becos of the lack of knowledge. And then, as we live with whatever that's occupying our daily happenings, we just conveniently forget and chuck it in a corner of our mind. Occasionally something will happen that strike a chord with us, that reminds us never to take things for granted.. right? "Correct me if i am wrong "=)

like i was saying, so.. we conveniently leave the rest of the world in a place where we dont know and dont see them. Only realizing the hard core facts, when the media presents the information before our eyes. Even then, we can't entirely rely on media to present the full story. As quoted from "The life of David Gale", "There are no truths, only perspectives". How TRUE. A matter of fact, there are people suffering out there. War is never kind, no matter how u see it. Innocent people sacrifice their lives for power they'll never enjoy. "Soldiers fight wars for the kings they never met. "

How, sometimes, we should just learn to see things with wider perspectives, learn not to take everything off the set, and learn to form our own opinions. To lead our lives a way we will not be ashamed, will be not disappointed and certainly, a life with minimal regrets.

Of cos, easy to say, not easy to do.

I popped a line to a friend while we were driving out to lunch today. I said "The people here are a blessed lot. Living in a world of their own, unaffected by others"

Surprised when he mentioned " i'll like to add another line. So are the people in Singapore.. pehaps in a different kind of way.. but still very blessed"



Just when u least expect it, a rainbow appears above u to remind you, there'll always be sunshine after rain...

p/s: been raining lots in BN.

Unexploited lands and a movie lover

Some shots i took with my phone camera..i call her "Nokicam".haha
Today marks my first day as a tourist in the land of BN.

This was taken during lunch on one of my work days....

Somehow, the expression was captured wrongly. Hiaks, me with dao look and nice cappucino.

First official free day. Let's see what hooey did...



Beach Spot #1. Nice, empty and vast. Endless ...

She plays sea shells by the seashore.

She in question, taken with those patches on the background which seemingly looked like little crab eggs.

Words inscripted by yours truely...
Footprints on the sand? More precisely my shoeprint.Where's ruffy's??

Stop 2: Canopy walk in the forest... supposedly for the adventurous. I made my point. Hiaks.

It's a long long way to go UP.

it's times like this u wonder.. with interesting names such as above, which path will u take?

Stop #3 (rather.. on the way to stop #3) taken while in the car.

Fields... like many fields where oil rigs can be found, nodding donkeys seen.. monuments spotted! This is just one plain field near the air base or something. windsock in the picture. i like the colors of grass...


Spot #3.. Another beach with a huge Breakwater. Never been more connected to South china sea.
People here not only own cars.. apparently they have boats. Gosh, see that long wheel structure extending from the back of the car. That;s attached to the car when carrying boats... like this

The day hasn end yet. We wanted to take the sunset, but we were a tad too early so we decided to call off the plan and guess where i went? Catch HARRY POTTER at empire cinema!!! COOL... haha, bet i even caught it earlier than many of u all back at home. HIAKS@=)
it was screened onthe same day as Singapore!YEAH!!

Spot #4: Empire Cinema -NICE!!!!! movie tics at $8 on weekends. Cheaper than singapore can?the place is hyped up with harry potter fans.! macham movie premier-)

hooey with death eaters???? Is she one of them?

A nice blurred photo taken at Empire cinema wih "The Island" in the backdrop.Movie-lover hurrah!



i'm zzz..
nights all, esp ruffy!

Drunk in BN

yes, u saw it right? Drunk for the first time. I dont even get high when i'm in singapore, Fine, for those of u who club with me (i'm not much of a frequent clubber or seasoned drinker for that matter), but u dont see me getting high or drunk... and then the impossible happened. I drank too fast, and actually puked.. in THE land of no Alcohol. Embarrasing.... and ridiculously ironic.

it's the fact that i'm drunk in a place where i'm not supposed to even be near alcohol that makes the whole thing so... nonsensical, so Hooey. Like feeling so full and bloated in a place where famine strikes. Like Pigs flying, and fish drowning kinda situation.

right, still feeling red, hot and groggy.. gosh.
Had to update this! Drunk in bn... Geez...

drunk hooey.

16 nov 2005

Sigh, it hasn been a fantastic night with me trying to hook up onto the wireless network for the past 2 hour plus just to get 1 hour plus of on-off connections, so, while i'm trying to get it started up again for the 512th time (hey it's up!!), if one thing, this job of mine has taught me to persevereand not give up at the slightest hurdle or obstacle u face. TROUBLESHOOTING is the word.


it's so cold that gloves are necessary

I'm still new to it, but i guess i'm learning to adapt.=)
Anyway, today marks half the week i'm here. Time sure past fast.. in a relaxed kinda way.I was up this morning, when i realize how i'm getting the hang of being "outstationed".Right, perhaps staying in a hotel really makes things much more comfortable.It's kinda a mechanical motion tho i wont call it a routine one. I actually enjoy the privacy and comfort of doing things the way i like it, knowing where to locate things in my room.Having a clean room with fresh bed sheets and towels everyday when i head back.


Of cos it's not always a bed of roses, when i'm at work, there are times when its' frustrating when things dont work out the way u expect them to be...especially when it's hard cold computers we are talkng here. (no complex office politics, no playing games.)
it's freezing cold, u dont see the sunshine or sunset for that matter.And there will be times when i have to keep myself awake, wishing that we can complete as much as possible, so that we can finish our work and head back home.


There will be times when we have to learn how to keep ourselves entertained so to make things abit more bearable, abit easier to pass time. Silly Jokes were cracked,experiences were shared, views were explored and dosages of suaning continues. Haha, last night, we went to the supermarket to settle our dinner. Yup, we boughta chicken (bbq chicken), 4 bottles of "alcohol-look-alike" lemonade, 1 packet of Instant Mash potatoes,One FRENCH loaf for dinner along with some other groceries.I was reminded of hostel life. Remembered the days when ruffy and me will go to NTUC to buy our groceries.=)


Beer that's non-alcoholic.
Red little car we saw on the way to our car.. silver car on its right . CUTE!!!!
Then we head back to hotel and started preparing dinner (aka pouring hot water into the powdered mash potato.. which surprisingly, mine turned out looking very decent; can almost give KFC a run for their money)while eating our chicken and bread and watching CATWOMAN on HBO. Refreshing change from eating out.

Yes, u will realize by now, that i've been even more in tuned with HBO than i was in singapore. Possibly more updated than any of u reading this. People here lives by HBO. I was just joking with my partner today the extend we worship HBO prob freak others out.Note, not only us, i realize our partners who reached here on the same day as me, also share the same interest (rather lack of other interests) in CABLE TV.One of our other partners mentioned how we seemingly have ASTRO antenna stuck to our heads.hiaks!My partner himself,for eg. has a .pdf file of the HBO Schedule.

I call that our Clock out Schedule. Why? cos i call HBO our Boss.
HBO==HBOss. Hugo BOss if u prefer a name. We look forward to the end of the day with what's good on TV. We worked much later if there's nothing interesting. If there is, we wil plan our schedule and time around it.the BOSS calls the shot, we worked seamlessly with HBOss.
Let's see what else did i do today? Oh, i got my BN Sim card. And what a coincidence when i found out that ruffy also got his BK Sim card on the same day during lunch!=)Anyway, dont think people reading this will be interested to know my number. And i shant blantantly post it online. Not so stupid to reveal my identity should someone check it against my number! hahaI've got a nice number tho!easy to remember.


Ruffy's lady boss just reached BN this evening and she's staying at the same hotel, same floor as me, just rooms away. DARN, if only ruffy came along for the trip. THAT WILL BE SO COOL!!!
yes, still thinking how cool it will be if he's here.
Well, time to say nighty nights.
zzzzz(bleah, network not up .. gotta post this is the morning.=( )

love-hate affair

Hi all,
Hooey's back in BN starting her first day at work. Was pretty disappointed that the network was down last night, so couldn skype or msn with anyone. Thankfully, they were showing 'Harry potter and the prisoner of A' on HBO, so hooey's night was pretty entertained by spells, Quidditch, trees that go around swinging smashing people and men evolving into animals.( that sounds werid)

Nvm, back to the point, it's a good morning so far, quiet, no small talks required. I bought two albums last nigth so i have my music to keep me through the day. If anything, i enjoy the freedom of working here. (Yes, an oxymoron statement). You're in control of your time and u need not care about what others think about your working style. It's something i sure have no problem getting used to.

The nights and days here start early, so that's something i gotta get used to. Last night, we went to this pretty cool little place to chill ( aka have our dinner) and i ordered a drink ( i like to think of it as a mocktail).
Shall post up some snapshots i took with my phone. Nope, hooey din bring her canon companion this time round cos my parents took it to KL.

"Gadong in the Blue"

Blues' cafe


It's frankly quite a nice place to chill out with the music and tealights all over. And it opens till 2 am... a place i can go if i should have difficulties falling
zzz at night, which technically has a probablity of 0.000002 % occurance.


Picture of my room on my First Trip. Illustrate my ideal work place.



haha, was thinking of blogging what i feel about air flights when i recalled a funny incident in the airport. I went to the Ladies and saw a man peeing. GOSH!
Note, before u all get too hyped up, or roll on the floor laughing, Nope I only saw him in cubicle. He din close door, back facing me alright? This lady in front of me
prob had a better view of what's goin on, and she gave me this frown as the man saw us and closed the door. He came out feeling very embarrassed of cos,
and apologize profusely, while washing his hands.

Well, i guess we all have our down moments. And make silly mistakes.=)

Back to the flight, i was thinking how i'm used to travelling alone and just entertaining myself on the flight.
i'm establishing a love-hate relationship for flying. Just check out:

LOVE
1. When i settled into my seat, and start flipping KRIS SHOP!!!

HATE
1. When I found out that the items are pretty much the same and those i want are too EX...

LOVE
2. When i see the FOOD TRAY coming my way

HATE
2. WHen i already tried both sets of meals offered in the MENU. I almost squirm into one corner as i heard the air stewardress repeat the options.

LOVE
3. When shows come in an attempt to distract me from my Kris Catalogue.

HATE
3. When i no longer laugh at the comedies which i watched in earlier occassions.back to catalogue ( xmas edition)

LOVE
4. When i asked for the newspaper and was distracted from my KRIs catologue for the entire session.

HATE
4. After reading the newspaper, i turned back to KRis Deciding if i should get the three items.

LOVE
5. THe fact that i can still have the option of getting them my return flight back.

HATE
5. When i knew i should be saving $$$ for more worthwhile stuffs like travelling and hence will prob just spend the return flight REPEATING The ABOVE 4 steps.

Geez.... i'm deprived of a shopping trip.

Leaving in a jet plane

hi, Aunt Abby, (yar right)

i'm going off to Brunei for the 3 rd time in 1 1/2 months.
Going to miss home. Really bad. It strikes me like a bolt of lightning with no pre-warning. Actually, could have sense it coming especially when i stayed in singapore for the past 2 weeks.

Could feel the withdrawal symptoms creeping in as i'm typing...=(

Whoever reads this, please email me, skype me, msn me, blog me, whatever me... just make me feel home!=)

Desperate lonely soul.

Hey You.

hey you,

yes you... dont look away, you know i'm talking about you! yes you there looking at the screen.How's your day? Fine?

What? You working? You're looking forward to the end of the day? Hey, tell me something new man.

Hmm... you saw what?Groups of young punks heading towards Sentosa? On your way to work? Man, that's a sad sight for one to see, especially one who's working. But hey, it's friday and that means weekend's just a step away! Yippie dont ya think?

Want to travel? To where?Wow, u sure ur up for that?COOL! 50-day trip? Think think only right? No, you're SERIOUS?!

True, one gotta to have dreams.Worktowards it.

Start making plans now, save. It's always good to save.
You're intending to do that? Keep to it huh!

Stop thinking about past. The days of lecturing, coming in late for classes are gone.
What? You EVEN missed canteen B?Yeah, those were the days. Mugging for exams, freezing one's butt in tutorial rooms.Scheming plans to book places. mASS joggin. Nasi Lemak.COffee.

Erm, stop singing! it's embarrassing. And hey, that's my coffee you're taking. STOP! i NEED my Caffeine shots.

Geez, what happened? U look kinda lost.
Orrrrrrh, so sad. Your previous post got deleted! That always happens man. Shit happens.. all the time.

So what did u write about?

Yeah, i've been pondering about that too, do we dislike a particular thing becos we're not good at it? Or becos it's in our gut feelings?

You dont like history! SAMA. How did u fare? U failed history... well, that's no mystery.

Hmm.. my history is limited or good up to Sang Nila Utama and Raffles and William.. Farq (something).

Yes, i hate dates and sequencing. Give me Dates and Sequencing, I'll GIVE u red Dates strung in sequence into a necklace for u to wear as this year's AUTUMN fashion Must have Accessories!

Give me long names to spell, and i'll give ya the longest word i know and proud to pronouce:"Supercalifragilisticispielidocius" so so i think that's how it's spelt.

I think you're hyperventilating. Haha.

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Geez, its sure tiring typing out a monologue. It's so much easier carrying the conversation in one's head.

Photograph required for caption.

Line of the day: "Haste is good only in catching fleas"
- Alla Yaroshinskaya
in New York Times

Read this line when i was on the way to work. Cant help nod at this phrase that somehow strike me in an astonishing way. How many times when i seem to rush and panic at deadlines that never seems to go away. How many times have i lost my cool because of self-bestowed pressure and stress?

This line cracks me up and i've learnt something more valuable beyond it's comic relief. A line to keep me in check, to keep me in balance.

Now, what i need is a interesting photograph to go along with it. Any takers?

For you

For the many who spent hours bustling about things which seem meaningless,
for those so busy to rest and smell the roses,
for those looking that little bit more in life.

This is for you.

A glimpse of South China Sea. Dont sweat the small stuffs.

The sunset that never fails to cheer one up.