I would walk 500 miles

musings of a dysfunctional adult

each word brings you to some different part of the blog!

NAVIGATIONS: everything has to be accessed from the image on your left yeah

"I" brings you to the Profile, which is nothing much.
"Would" is the Blog
"Walk" = Archives
"500" is the Tag board, please drop a note if you've come by
"Miles"is for the links to all other friends miles and miles away

sitting, waiting, wishing

Wishlist?
i long for the warmth of the days gone by...
and of lofts and lakeview penthouses

Saturday, January 28, 2006

we shall observe a moment of silence for the folding of our beloved tau huay shop in upper thomson road. :( why? darn the forces of capitalism. and even the casuarina prata shop moved and renovated to an air-con one! why why why?!? yee, so unauthentic. i like the hot, dirty and grimy one! :( and the floor has a perpetual coating of oil so you have to walk extra slowly inside.

hmm.. thinking of prata outings with the thomson people now. hmm. curry!
speaking of curry had this horrible tummy ache this morning from the indian food in the brunch bowl yesterday. shafa suffered yesterday but my reaction was prolonged by 12 hours so i wasn't spared either. probably the coconut oil (relives horrible sri lanka experience). haha quite pai seh because went out running with shafa and then we had to cut short our journey.

in the spirit of chinese new year, my bedsheets are now red! (haha actually just thought i'd change them cos it was quite dirty) unfortunately the duvet cover is black and grey. oops. ah well, whatever.

reunion dinner with the lse singaporeans yesterday. quite fun lah. prior to that shan and i went for krispy kremes and went to cafe nero for coffee cos i only slept like 3-4 hours the night before. (Yes the horrible GV essay is done! but i think i'll still get some lousy score as usual) And while we were inside, it snowed/sleeted! Felt more like christmas than new years! that was quite cool. oh well, played hangman but the theme was stripclubs. yes, and i was under the impression that fish-net stockings were called fish-leg stockings. haha. following that we had a very interesting guess-the-lyrics game which turned into guess-the-cheesy-lyrics game. shan doesn't remember n sync songs! i'm disappointed man.

Yay, and i've fallen in love with belgo's! Yummy mussels and cool beers like the united square place. Strawberry beer rocks. anyway, since it snowed yesterday, if i play christmas songs the entire day, will i be deluded to think that it is christmas? haha

anyway, watched nip tuck this morning. my conclusion is, there is no character in the show that doesn't have sex on screen, other than the pre-pubescent daughter and the lesbian anesthesiologist. oh well, the first episode was on this lady who got so fat she couldn't leave the couch for 3 years, and the moisture and sweat and bedsores caused her flesh to be bruised and assimilated into the couch. so scary.

I would walk
500 miles;2:26 pm

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Tuesday, January 24, 2006

hmm. lost in the end, but it was a good score. didn't play very well though, but still okay. on hindsight i feel a bit lazy cos i sometimes i just decide i can't get the ball and don't try. Hmm is it known as experience or laziness? hope it is the former but i think its the latter. was thinking need to work on a lot of stuff to get my game back. should stop intercepting the ball with one hand then picking it up and instead to just attempt to catch it with both hands regardless of how far it seems to be. yes the ms teo motto: if you can reach it with one hand you can reach it with two!

turns out the girl who got assaulted near bankside is one of the netball girls. what's even scarier is that she got injured even after she gave up her handbag. crazy people. yes, decided to play it safe and take a bus back today. actually i would still walk back but i didn't want to be dian deng pao. but, i seriously still think its safe. the rule is "it ain't dodgy unless you think it is".

darn it. IR presentation tmr. oh shucks, just remembered that i have to hand in a reading summary too. ARGH. and will slowly trudge to school tmr at 10.30 in negative degrees weather. where's my sunshine? (heehee btw mj you coming right? sunshine...)

I would walk
500 miles;1:30 am

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Monday, January 23, 2006

hmm. itchy fingers. internet research on EU, NATO and WTO turned into a search for Softball Clubs in London i could join. unfortunately the greater london league runs from april to september when i won't be around so no point joining. :( x 10

argh. i miss batting, stealing bases, running bases, catching line drives, striking people out, catching fly balls, being in the sun, catching grounders, pitching, getting people out at bases, tagging runners, sliding, covering for infielders, running on the grass, doing crazy things like lying on the grass/rj "field aka sandpit", not caring less and throwing my PED keys on the grass and finding them later, the thrill of throwing a ball to home base from far outfield, crazy drills coach puts us through, hitting a home run, hitting a line drive, bunting the ball then chionging like siao to first base, trying to pick the ball up and then releasing it as fast as possible, the adrenalin rush when you take a lead and have to double back then feeling damn heng when you're still saved, diamond drill, machine batting, being dirty and muddy and not caring, miss the softballers, strangely miss getting taupok-ed on my birthday, haha i miss the platinum xs bat that everyone else hated but i love (why does everyone like first lady?)... ohno okay i should stop before i get really really depressed. argh *my glove lies sad and alone on the floor waiting to be used*

hmm, then again i know that netball and softball together with work will kill me. But if i could do both i'd be so happy. Hmm... *pondering a career change*

More songs!
Time after time - Eva Cassidy (yes, not the horrible radio version with that horrible voice)
Superman - Five for Fighting (thought it was a really good batch song for orientation)

I’m only a man in a silly red sheet
Digging for kryptonite on this one way street
Only a man in a funny red sheet
Looking for special things inside of me

I would walk
500 miles;1:43 am

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Sunday, January 22, 2006

hmm today was an interesting day.

first met john to get some stuff and then went to lunch since i owe him a birthday lunch. went to search for the magical but elusive spicy pork place but it was closed so ate at macs instead. following that i proceeded down to chinatown via Wardour St (the famous "we must be going in the right direction because there are more and more asians!!" street) since it was on the way back and i thought maybe should get some food (me want tofu :( ). but i couldn't find the supposedly extremely good supermarket in chinatown. Yes, and i saw all these people carrying "si he hang" plastic bags but i didn't know where they came from. attempted to be more csi-like and hunt for the source of all the white plastic bags but failed miserably because it looks like the entire world was carrying them and walking in every direction possible so i gave up. And on the way back i found myself in the line of fire of some (i'm assuming) racist rice-ball attack. Fortunately the stuff only flew past my face and didn't land on me.

Following that went to tescos only to meet some weird guy who attempted to pick me up. Eww. Rest of the afternoon was spent attempting to read Leviathan but then failing miserably cos i fell asleep *again!*

yes, and if any banksiders wants the leftover loot from chai yee's birthday "party" come look for me yar? before it goes flat.

impt match tmr. if we win we'll top the league with one more match before the season ends. though its not exactly accurate to compare, looking at the other team's scores scares me. hopefully i'm up for it tmr. we'll see. Anyway, outlook is this. If we win, we celebrate, i crash for the next day's presentation. If we lose, i'll be sad. Either way it ain't good. haha.

argh. back to IR. next week will be hell.
"And the life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish and short."

Songs of the day:
Simple Things - Usher
Hei Se Mao Yi - Jay Chou
I Don't Wanna Know - Mario feat. P Diddy

I would walk
500 miles;9:57 pm

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