With this post ends a two+ year hiatus from online blogging. By one reason or another I have been putting off posting on this blog and most of it stems from laziness but I did promise Tianli I would post pictures of OZ OZ OZ oi oi oi online.
*Not So Brief History*
Ryan has two sisters who study in perth now and his mom lives there to take care of them while they're in school so we crashed at his place to save money. It was hilarious having 5 guys crash in one room since we didnt want to be slobs sleeping in the living room and all.
The rock festival was fun and we toasted ourselves for 9 hours in the baking sun cos you were allowed one entry and one exit only and it was in a footie oval. Thank god for SPF55 sunblock which i was super adament on putting. Poor ang mohs were burnt to a crisp after that man. Other than that Perth really turned out quite fun cos Ryan and his friends could show us around really well, we ate good food and the view from his place was magnificent since it was right on Swan River. We also clubbed which wasnt half bad and i karaoked for the first time in my life and probably last and also got a different high for the first time but didnt quite like it cos i was spazzin out.
Ryan made me carry a freakin mattress for him; grown men in one room; View from Ryan's balcony; I bought a porsche while I was there (barbegallo speedway); Submarine museum; Asian westlife; One and only karaoke in my life;Touch rugby on the beach ; Some TLC w/ Chris Cooling down under showers at the concert;I ncubus baby!; Little Creatures Brewery; Random Aussie Flag; Me doing pushups after being on the losing team for soccer; Showing Chris some love; We're all verrryy verryyy haaaaaapppy :P
Ben's Car; Facade of his house; Indoor Swimming Pool; His frickin room which is basically its own duplex; Shitty but beautiful golf course; UQ; EFTPOS sounds super crude to me; Yatala yummy pie; Token surfer's paradise; The car jus wanted it's belly scratched!; Gamblers turned sidewalk prossies after losing all their money (kidding); Me and a roo;Good steak with ben and Tian; night sky where we saw a damn brightshooting star..would have been romantic if i wasnt with two guys; Ferrari in 'paris'
My chauffeur and bodyguard at the airport; Kelvin likes steel bull balls; Berrin's house; Desert/Cake shop; Stinky(Sticky) and the super dusty house; Shop till ya drop!; wah the guy could do weird things wit a guitar and the girl too wit the chinese guitar(forgot its name); BBQ with head chef kelly tan; cute sticky shot; Fireworks at a carnival; Candyfloss; Dim Sum the next day; The dog that will not let you into the compound if you don say hi to it when you first get there; A cute lodging B&B style in mornington Mornington; wine; Noice view mayte; Us!;Thats a hedgehog that bundled off the track when it saw us coming during our nature walk Dinner at The Rocks
University of Sydney; Some really good coffee place apparantly, forgot the name heh!; Fish market; Visit the aquarium after the fish market food hehehh; He lost a tooth; Us at a ribs restaurant on bondi; Bondi!; We like to take walks; Some posh ass place where the stars go to be seen..forgot the name too; Cool rock features; She looks like shes in a green screen studio; Scenic shot; Fried mars bars to replace the calories lost from walking; I want an aston martin!
The argyle..nice place; If you look closely theres a box suspended in mid air wit the DJ in it; The Bday girl who got a chanel bag; I like frowers k; More walking!; REAALLY good ass hot chocolate where you heat up the little pieces by dropping them in milk heated by a tea light; A bad place for a lotus to park...under a tar conveyer machine; The famous Lobster noodles!; Ben loves his abalone porridge; Mexican restaurant; More hot chocolate; Carols place with a kick ass view; Creepy ass reporter on tv...makes me want to read the papers instead; Yaoyou kickin back at Tianli's; GREAT bbq by tianli with badang dang present; Token cigars....yeeaaa...yao you even da bao the cigar home!
*Not So Brief History*
Ok for the benefit of people who I havent talked to in a while, I got out of army around CNY amidst two weeks of complete binge drinking. I say this with all seriousness that not one day for 2 solid weeks did I not have at least one glass of alcohol. Needless to say my body started to tell me I am gettting old and I had to start detoxing before I seriously injure myself. And cos there was still some serious drinking to be done in Australia so I had to give myself a break
After that and lots of late nights with lots of poker, I was off to Australia with my army buddies Ryan, Chris and Leon in Perth. Ryan's friend Hansel, who hasn't worked one day in his life and plays professional poker for a living joined us too. Our purpose was to go attend a rock festival headlined by Incubus, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus and Sao Sin among other acts although TRJA didn't show in the end.
Ryan has two sisters who study in perth now and his mom lives there to take care of them while they're in school so we crashed at his place to save money. It was hilarious having 5 guys crash in one room since we didnt want to be slobs sleeping in the living room and all.
The rock festival was fun and we toasted ourselves for 9 hours in the baking sun cos you were allowed one entry and one exit only and it was in a footie oval. Thank god for SPF55 sunblock which i was super adament on putting. Poor ang mohs were burnt to a crisp after that man. Other than that Perth really turned out quite fun cos Ryan and his friends could show us around really well, we ate good food and the view from his place was magnificent since it was right on Swan River. We also clubbed which wasnt half bad and i karaoked for the first time in my life and probably last and also got a different high for the first time but didnt quite like it cos i was spazzin out.
Ryan made me carry a freakin mattress for him; grown men in one room; View from Ryan's balcony; I bought a porsche while I was there (barbegallo speedway); Submarine museum; Asian westlife; One and only karaoke in my life;Touch rugby on the beach ; Some TLC w/ Chris Cooling down under showers at the concert;I ncubus baby!; Little Creatures Brewery; Random Aussie Flag; Me doing pushups after being on the losing team for soccer; Showing Chris some love; We're all verrryy verryyy haaaaaapppy :PAfter perth i hopped on a plane to ben's ginomous house in Brizzy and played some golf on my own, burnt his Mini's clutch a little, managed to freakishly lose his car keys and watch a car on the lawn with all four tires up in the sky and won some money at the poker dome winning a mini tournament! Power la! As usual ben and tian spared no expense for food and entertainment and i enjoyed myself as much as anyone can in Brizzy (come on its quite boring there)
Ben's Car; Facade of his house; Indoor Swimming Pool; His frickin room which is basically its own duplex; Shitty but beautiful golf course; UQ; EFTPOS sounds super crude to me; Yatala yummy pie; Token surfer's paradise; The car jus wanted it's belly scratched!; Gamblers turned sidewalk prossies after losing all their money (kidding); Me and a roo;Good steak with ben and Tian; night sky where we saw a damn brightshooting star..would have been romantic if i wasnt with two guys; Ferrari in 'paris'A quick flight to melbourne to see kelvin and finally meet up wit kelly. we stayed at kell's friends house and luckily too cos the moment we stepped into kelvins house the both of us were hacking and sneezing and gasping for dear life cos of the dust and stinky's fur. That dog is hyper as they come man and she hits you like a mack truck too when she's excited. I got a good tour of melbourne, the city and the uni and caught up wit kelvin which was good and went to mornington for some wine and R&R and lost money to Crown then it was off to Sydney.
My chauffeur and bodyguard at the airport; Kelvin likes steel bull balls; Berrin's house; Desert/Cake shop; Stinky(Sticky) and the super dusty house; Shop till ya drop!; wah the guy could do weird things wit a guitar and the girl too wit the chinese guitar(forgot its name); BBQ with head chef kelly tan; cute sticky shot; Fireworks at a carnival; Candyfloss; Dim Sum the next day; The dog that will not let you into the compound if you don say hi to it when you first get there; A cute lodging B&B style in mornington Mornington; wine; Noice view mayte; Us!;Thats a hedgehog that bundled off the track when it saw us coming during our nature walk Dinner at The RocksAgain we stayed wit another of kell's frens cos it was closer to city center and i still got to hang wit tian and ben who made the trip down for the abalone porridge and lobster noodles. Syd by far is the most happening city and beautiful too. Bondi, harbour bridge, syd uni, shopping, tian's house all that was really quite fun and its a good place to go and work no doubt. We had a good ass BBQ wit yaoyou and badangdang and some poker at tianli's house which was arguably one of the best meals yet and i donated money to the treasury too heh! The argyle and lowenbrau were quite good too and the chicas are waay good looking. Aussie girls have this cleavage fetish and I'm sure as hell not complaining.
Beautiful bridge near Argyle; The germans got it right man.. boobs and beer!; Hahhhhburrr bridge and the opera house; The greenery across the harbour bridge to the rich man's area which is beautiful; Thats a whole tree full of bats at a golf course; Cute chicks; I like Bong Bong!; Coffee is good for you; Breakfast is a hotdog!; I is good photographer; Us!
University of Sydney; Some really good coffee place apparantly, forgot the name heh!; Fish market; Visit the aquarium after the fish market food hehehh; He lost a tooth; Us at a ribs restaurant on bondi; Bondi!; We like to take walks; Some posh ass place where the stars go to be seen..forgot the name too; Cool rock features; She looks like shes in a green screen studio; Scenic shot; Fried mars bars to replace the calories lost from walking; I want an aston martin!The argyle..nice place; If you look closely theres a box suspended in mid air wit the DJ in it; The Bday girl who got a chanel bag; I like frowers k; More walking!; REAALLY good ass hot chocolate where you heat up the little pieces by dropping them in milk heated by a tea light; A bad place for a lotus to park...under a tar conveyer machine; The famous Lobster noodles!; Ben loves his abalone porridge; Mexican restaurant; More hot chocolate; Carols place with a kick ass view; Creepy ass reporter on tv...makes me want to read the papers instead; Yaoyou kickin back at Tianli's; GREAT bbq by tianli with badang dang present; Token cigars....yeeaaa...yao you even da bao the cigar home!So after that adventure was all done it was back to reality. Job searching really sucks and it really hit me hard how suddenly uncertain my life has become. Its the first time I have no direction whatsoever and anything i do can influence the rest of my life. Gone are the days I know my schedule from one week to the next man. I was really down for a few weeks and it was affecting me alot and my dad figured that it would be good to take my mind off it and work for his subsidiary for a bit which i now reluctantly say it was a good idea but obviously i would have rather slacked more.
I had actively started my job search since before leaving the army and in four months I had a grand total of 5 interviews after mounds and mounds of applications but finally i landed one with ST Kinetics. So as of 9th june 2008... a whole new chapter of my life began and it is my turn to make an impact on the world around me and prove to myself above all else that I can make it good on my own.
The job basically is like goin back to army since STK does lots of military work being almost the sole provider of new products, maintenance, repair and overhaul of military vehicles, weapons and ammunition for the SAF and other military organisations around the world. This entails me having to subject myself to security clearance again and again have to use a cameraless phone but at least i have a job and one that i thought i could never find in singapore. I am going to be dealing with military vehicles as a design engineer so its really exciting but for now Im not sure i can reveal alot so I'll tread on the safe side ya?
Ok so thats basically it, this is a damn long post man! shiok 2 years worth of blogging purged in one outing. Snaps for me!!!
