unkle grumps.

i had the weirdest dream. and the thing is, i can still remember it vaguely! lots of things happened but i only remember 2. and they were all in one dream.. i dreamt that i got back together with someone. but someone else was after her, wanting to kill her, so i sort of protected her by making sure this killer doesn't get anywhere near her.. but at the time being, ashley was telling me to get lost cos there was gonna be a big fight. a fight between roger and julian. and everyone was there. haha sounded damn lame man, but that was really what i dreamt. it all may seem kinda short, but the duration of the dream was like reality time, so probably a few hours. haha ok enough of this bullshit..

i'm enlisting tomorrow!!! argh!! haha its finally time for me to go in.. will be at commando training institute, not at hendon camp, but at a new commando BMT school at pasir ris camp.. hopefully if i can make it through, i'll "pia" all the way.. but if i can't, i'll most probably "kheng" and hopefully play for safsa..

ok la, nothing much really happened the past few weeks so, no point writing what i did. i'm gonna enjoy my last few hours before i go in..

20 hours left.....

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so, i haven't blogged for 3 full months.. what has happened? lots.. well, not gonna blog everything, but just what i feel like saying..

anyway, in another 11 more days, i'm going into the army, like finally.. mono intake, posted to commando training institute.. pretty sad that i only have a few more days of freedom.. anyway, resigned from balaclava last thursday.. will definitely miss all of my colleagues there.. that night on my last day, i had the worst drinks anyone wouldn't have taken.. a flaming waterfall which consists of millions of alcohol (exaggerating), but probably lots of alcohol, lets say on the shelf, from the first alcohol to the last.. damn, almost killed me.. after that had a double shooter.. consisted of a shot of bacardi 151 (75% alc) and mccormick (95% alc) mixed together in a double shooter gls, so basically, one shot of mccormick and one shot of 151. i almost died, after that had a sambuca and mccormick mixed into a shot gls. puked everything out right after that.. surprisingly, no hangover ther next morning.

had a staff retreat today for balaclavaians.. went to wild wild wet, but i didn't go.. then headed to barstop, one of our other outlets.. had a budget of $2000.. damn, we had a feast, a had tons of drinks which just the 15 of us had, spent about $1300 only.. still had $700 left!!! well, i jotted down what i had drank today.. started off with a bottle of asahi, followed by a pint of hoegaarden. the a pint of tetley's ale, followed by a gls of taittinger champagne.. had a quadruple bailey's on the rocks in a tall gls, an amaretto sour, a sex on the beach shot, a lemon drops shot, and a tequila rose on the rocks.. fucking high balls.. the tequila rose is a must try.. it looks like milk, and tastes like strawberry milk.. but its an awesome drink.. well, all expenses paid for, happy!

well, only days of partying i have left is zoukout.. can't wait man!!

gonna sleep now.. stilla lil' high form what i had earlier on..

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well, my first 5 days of work over at balaclava.. its been closed since monday btw, staff retreat to bang-some-kok.. how funn.. tomorrow we start work again! okay, working at balaclava has been fun.. made some new friends, learnt alot of things, and really got my discipline up a lil' bit.. work has been tiring especially on wednesdays, and fridays. sometimes thursdays, thats when EIC plays.. well, friday is madness.. the people just start coming in like balaclava is the size of singapore expo.. bloody hell.. the whole place is full and people just don't care and keep squeezing their way through.. grrrrr, irritating.. thats not the worst part.. we servers can't even walk around to take orders, serve drinks, clean up the tables, ash trays, blah blah.. the whole time there would be someone in front of me and i'd have to shout out loud, "EXCUSE ME!!" for them to move aside.. there was this one lady who even pushed me on purpose right after i walked pass her.. bitch.. whats with these people? you wanna enjoy? treat everybody around you with respect, and you'll get respect.. sigh.. but i got thru the day alive.. haha.. tiring though..

last sunday was excellent, having most of my lovelies around for a farewell drink over at eski bar, holland v.. we took like 100 over pictures, but i'm too lazy to upload it up.. it was fun, being crazy, drinking, chatting, doing stupid stuff.. too bad some of my lovelies couldn't come.. oh well.. i miss you guys.. haha..

might head down to zouk tonight.. heh.. haven't clubbed in a looooooong time..

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well, haven't updated in awhile.. lets see what happened..

wednesday: went fishing in the morning with soon, chai and peter.. in all, we caught about 60 fishes!!!!! yes, you heard me right, 60! but we threw away some of the small ones and kept the big ones.. brought them back to fosters where i had to de-scale about 25 freaking fishes!!! i hate de-scaling fishes!! anyway, soon cooked them all.. deep-fried, and baked 2 different kinds.. here are some delicious pictures of the fishes..

johnny doing the final touches of de-scaling.. haha!

later at night, had a drink over at walas with kim and squid.. had like 3 pints and man, was i high.. i know, 3 pints is damn little, but sometimes it depends.. i'm not sure when, but sometimes i can drink a lil bit and get high, and sometimes i can drink a hell lot and not get high.. well, walas was alright as usual.. enjoying ngak's band's music.. headed to crystal jade for some supper which i barely remember as i was like spinning.. thats all i can remember.. here are some zany pictures of the night..

friday: met ah po and peter neo for drinks at eski bar.. kim, squid and danielle joined us.. i got soooo drunk man.. BUT, i didn't puke.. surprisingly.. had like 5 1/2 pints of erdinger and 1/2 a pint of guiness, 2 glasses of red wine, and that saw me sleeping on a bench at fosters.. took some pictures before that fateful moment.. danielle, if you're reading this, please please send me the pictures.. thank you sooo much! here are some pictures that i took..

in the freeze room with squid


3 of my lovelies. kim, danielle and squid

saturday: work work work.. woke up with a bloody hangover.. couldn't go fishing at first.. had a terrible headache.. but in the end, i woke up a lil later and surprised the fishing crew by appearing at yishun jetty.. haha.. well, its the second last day of work and counting.. lots of wierd thing we did while there weren't any customers.. here are some pictures.. i basically took an axe and started chopping everyone in sight!

here's a pic of me and karen sharon.

tomorrow, can't wait for the gathering of all my lovelies for my farewell drinks over at eski bar!!

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went to yishun jetty to fish this morning.. was fun, caught a few fishes.. but first, we went into the "longkang" to catch small prawns to be used as bait, after that, we fished.. by 1pm, peter neo and chai had to leave for fosters, and we had already caught 15 fishes in total.. thats alot! here's a picture.

went home, gave the neighbour 11 fishes, and kept 4.. man, de-scaling's a bitch.. pricked myself a few times on my fingers and there was blood.. but hard work's been paid off.. mom stir fried the 4 fishes and oven baked the big mangrove jack.. wow the mangrove jack's meat is awesome.. here's some pics i took..

here's what the mangrove jack looks like after being oven baked.

see how juicy and tasty the meat looks. mmmmm...

here's the stir fried fishes.. ate them all!

just came back from work, and am like dead tired.. man i'm gonna sleeeeep!!!

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i'm tired from work.. a lil' frustrated too, with certain people at work.. knn damn pissed off.. argh forget it..

just realised that the fish i caught wasn't a sand perch, but a mangrove jack.. haha.. not too sure also, thats what my friend says.. anyway, going fishing again tomorrow morning at yishun jetty.. can't wait!

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just got back from fishing at pasir ris. man, it was fun. met soon, peter neo and jason at yishun interchange at 6.45am, then we took a bus to pasir ris. started fishing at around 7.30am. half the day, we were facing the sun, and yes, i got a singlet tan AGAIN!

well, for the first few hours, we did not catch anything other than jason fishing small fishes. then peter neo caught a red snapper. a decent size, around 1 kg. then peter neo caught a red snapper AGAIN, around the same size as the previous one. then peter neo caught ANOTHER red snapper, around the same size as the others. and so, peter neo caught 3 red snappers, the rest of us caught none. okay, the first red snapper, peter reeled it up himself. the second one, he was busy sleeping, so i reeled it up, first time. the third time, jason reeled it. fun.

a few hours passed, no fish. johnny came to visit us, bought lunch for us and brought hot coffee. man, he's a damn thoughtful guy. he actually came to see us catch some fishes, but none when he was around. when he left, a few hours later around 3.30pm - 4pm, i caught a fish, man was i overjoyed! i reeled it up and voila! caught a sand perch. a member of the sea bass family. actually i didn't know what fish it was until i came home and did a small research. and the fish i caught looked exactly like this. here are some random pictures i took, well, only 4 pictures.

my rod. heh heh

me, paying attention to my rod to see if i got a bite.

and finally i caught a fish!!!!! wooohoooo!! virgin no more!!

the fishes we caught. 3 red snappers and a sand perch.

i was so happy after i caught the fish. its an awesome feeling, really, seriously, awesome. will be fishing again soon!

P.S. if some of you dirty minded people are thinking that what i'm saying sounds obscene, e.g. paying attention to my rod to see if i got a bite, my rod is not a virgin anymore, blah blah, well, to tell you the truth, it IS meant to sound obscene but is not obscene. whatever.

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wtf blogger is being a fcukup.. grrr..

anyway, 6 more hours to go.. happieee.. fishing!!

work's been pretty slack the past few days.. customers have been depleting.. but oh well, money is still coming in!! haha.. by the end of the month, i would have clocked a total of 160 hours exactly.. time 6.50, = 1050+ . minus CPF (cut pay, fcuk!), around 850+ . hoooooooooooooooooooooo!

okay gonna get some sleep for tomorrow's fishing!!!!

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argh!! can't wait!! just 1 more day to go!! hahaha shit excited excited.. fishing FishinG FISHING! HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!

here's a video of me playing the song chopsticks on an octopus.. Squid got that octopus for her birthday and i was making use of it right after her birthday. lol. its damn tiring playing that song on the octopus especially..

18 hrs 40 mins

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we celebrated Squid's 21st at Wala Wala on wed. it was hell lotsa fun. good music, good company, good food, and most importantly, good beer. haha! pictures up!

Happy Birthday Squid!~~

here comes the picture of the day!



hahahahahahahahahaha nice one Johnny!

here's a video of ngak singing a birthday song for squid and everyone going a lil' crazy. video and sound are a lil' off.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SQUID!

ooo.. damn i'm too lazy to update..

what have i been doing recently? thats what everyone have been asking me.. ever since i've quit school, i've been just working my ass off.. pay's like shit but oh well, can't complain when you've already got a job and you're earning for your own living and expenses..

said in my previous posts that i've been training, yeah.. at that time.. got lazy soon after writing that post.. haven't been to training, haven't done anything productive in the last few months.. belly's not going down, not making it go down either.. haha.. shit..

had a match against Strathallan College, Scotland, yesterday.. played like shit.. let 2 tries in.. both i got side-stepped.. one from a hooker, who looks twice my size, 5 years younger than me, playing for Scotland U-18s.. wtf do you expect? damn.. got fucked by damian real bad.. in front of the whole team too.. man, i'm gonna quit playing contact rugby.. either touch rugby or no rugby for me..

been thinking about what i'm doing with my life.. although i've said that i wanna study at School of Audio Engineering (SAE), but its just words, no actions.. did not look it up over the net, no research done.. sigh.. my driving license.. started more than a year ago, halfway done.. braces, since cavemen existed, don't wanna talk about it.. studying in poly, dropped out half-way.. fuck everything is just half-way.. my whole bloody life is a half-way.. grrr.. wake up brandon!

i dun mind picking up a new sport, like fishing.. sounds relaxing.. haha.. or maybe golf, which i've played a few times, but haven't gone for any lessons or tests, no handicap yet.. argh!! haven't been practising the guitar too.. rusty rusty rusty!!! my whole body's RUSTY to do anything!

for sure next week, its just gym and swim everyday.. well maybe it'll go on for just a few days (haha), but i'm gonna try and be more disciplined, like i never was..

world cup semi finals are coming, in a few hours.. Germany vs Italy.. i'd say Italy will win.. and France for the other semis.. it'll be a France vs Italy Finals.. just what i feel although every single one of you disagree with me.. i'm sticking to my gut feeling..

gonna try and catch some winks before the match.. gotta work in the morning later.. fucking tired.. zzzzz

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pimp night 2 is coming in a few more days. i must say the preparations are a lil' fcuked up given sooo little time, but all seems to be good for the second jamming we had last saturday. we did our stuff well, can't say perfect, YET, but for the second jamming, it was gooood. tomorrow's the next jamming session and i hope we can perfect everything.

been training since last monday and i'm sure i've lost weight and definitely, increased my fitness. i have officially quit breathing in nicotine and tar, no seriously, and intending on building up my fitness for both rugby and army. so, i must have strong will power even though i always have a huge urge to do it.

i need to find a day job, like seriously. in alot of trouble now. sigh.

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training was awesome yesterday. i think i lost like 5 pounds. haha. not sure about the exact amount of weight, but i definitely lost some. did 3 sets of fitness. 1st set was 15 push ups, 15 sit-ups, 15 step-ups, 15 crunches with a twist, 15 burpees, 15 half squats, 15 bench squats. in between each exercise is 1 round around the field. i almost died. 2nd set was the same but cut down the running to 4 rounds. so its 2 exercises each run. 3rd set was the same again but the running was cut down again to 2 rounds. so its 4 exercises per run. it was awesome. of course the body's aching like a bitch, but its all good.

after training went over to nigel's house to play mahjong. haha i can say my luck in mahjong is still pretty darn good. won like 12 bucks. well, only played 10cents/20cents and one round, 12 bucks is alot.

so, i've heard some stuff that i'm not very surprised of but kinda disappointed. well, life's a bitch, thats all i can say.

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