Of inefficiency and a dash of stupidity.

Spent a good sum of time dealing with a mess that shouldn't have been there in the first place. It was resolved eventually, but with a bitter aftertaste for both party. The entire episode was somewhat plagued with issues, minor or not, they add up to the whole experience. Doubt we will engage their services again; make that never. I've always tried to rein myself in from extreme behaviours, but this time warrants this. Time to try the other vendors next time. The previous experience wasn't this bad probably because it was a school club trip. It is disappointing when expectations turned out differently. Well a good learning experience and the dust had settled.

Time to look forward to the trip.

So in light of recent happenings, I went to get myself a surface marker buoy today. A rather big one too, after some deliberations initially.

Then on the way back, I saw this figure getting off the train as I was getting on. A tight top coupled with long hair, smokey eye makeup completed with eyeliner ending in that tail thingy which I forgot what is the term for it. The only thing is IT was this ugly uncle. And at the station that I alighted, there was this woman in a floral top, Justin Timberlake's kind of curls in her waist length hair, green tights and leopard print boots.


Eyeopening night to say the least, but save my eyes already.

Someday I'll Be Saturday Night

Seemingly apt



Hey, man Im alive Im takin each day and night at a time
Im feelin like a monday but someday I'll be saturday night

Hey, my name is jim, where did I go wrong
My lifes a bargain basement, all the good shits gone
I just can't hold a job, where do I belong
Im sleeping in my car, my dreams move on

My name is billy jean, my love was bought and sold
Im only sixteen, I feel a hundred years old
My foster daddy went, took my innocence away
The street life aint much better, but at least I get paid

And tuesday just might go my way
It can't get worse than yesterday
Thursdays, fridays aint been kind
But somehow I'll survive

Hey man Im alive Im takin each day and night at a time
Yeah Im down, but I know I'll get by
Hey hey hey hey, man gotta live my life
Like I aint got nothin but this roll of the dice
Im feelin like a monday, but someday I'll be saturday night

Now I can't say my name, and tell you where I am
I want to roll myself away, don't know if I can

I wish that I could be in some other time and place
With someone elses soul, someone elses face

Oh, tuesday just might go my way
It can't get worse than yesterday
Thursdays, fridays aint been kind
But somehow I'll survive

Hey, man Im alive Im takin each day and night at a time
Yeah Im down, but I know I'll get by
Hey hey hey hey, man gotta live my life
Im gonna pick up all the pieces and what's left of my pride
Im feelin like a monday, but someday I'll be saturday night

Saturday night here we go
Some day I'll be saturday night
Ill be back on my feet, I'll be doin alright
It may not be tomorrow baby, that's ok
I aint goin down, gonna find a way, hey hey hey

Hey man Im alive Im takin each day and night at a time
Yeah, Im down, but I know I'll get by
Hey hey hey hey, man, gotta live my life
Like I aint got nothin but this roll of the dice
Im feelin like a monday, but someday I'll be saturday night
Im feelin like a monday, but someday I'll be saturday night
Saturday night __________,all right, all right
Saturday night

The one day we went underwater.

I was at the bookshop last night. Some damage was unavoidable despite having to pay a higher premium for them, read: higher cost for books than bought online. I have a Kindle touch yet I continue to buy physical prints; I know there are cheaper alternatives yet I shop in a bookstore; and how we sometimes have to be most cordial and play nice to the person that we hate the most; life is full of irony. I am full of irony.

Playing nice doesn't equate to being nice. In fact I feel playing nice is in a way more insulting than being outright mean. I know I am mean, and can be difficult and highly critical. They are usually reined in but there are moments that I loosen a little. Frustrations when by others doesn't operate on the same wavelength or galaxy as me, or even on the simple same page. Which is why I can't never be a teacher, or teach properly. Many a things I take for granted that it is known to us, like logic, but I realised that stuff isn't that way most of the time. What is logic or idiot proof to me can be totally Greek to the uninitiated. The real cases I'm always forgiving. But there are some of those that are taking you for granted, outright. It is the latter that I have issues with, all the time. That is where playing nice usually comes in. I really hate to make a mockery out of your mental capacity; and that takes effort to do so too. Mean stuff doesn't just appear in the air above me for me to pluck at will. What is more agonising is when the sarcasm didn't convey its message across; which often leads me to think if the opposite party is really dense and dumb. Oh well, perhaps I really did thought too highly of some people. The joke's on me, oh the irony. Rant.

On a separate note, it was good to know that I have friends who actually thought so highly of me, even I'm embarrassed to say. And they can be scarily accurate too. So it works both way and now I'm on the receiving end.

Pool session today was a barbeque. Baked in the half length wetsuit but it was small price to pay to protect myself from being baked red. Though there were some spots that got burnt from missing them with the sunblock. I will do better next week in Dayang. Was somewhat nervous while executing the drills, but nothing can't solved with a little getting used to underwater. After all, it had been a good 2+ years since. Hovering felt okay, and despite only the 2m depth, I think my buoyancy exceeded my expectation. :)

If you have not seen it already, that stupid auntie. Gotta turn up the volume though.

Last Thursday was overdose of food at Chomp Chomp after the run, this week it was the salted fish fried rice. Was amazed by both the portion of the rice and the salted fish, they are a lot. The run today was good, but not so good with a partially blocked nose, meh. Oh well. Pool session on Sat will be so boring.

From OS 5 to the Ice Cream Sandwich

I've gotten myself a Samsung Galaxy S3. So happened that the shop I went to had a shipment of 5 sets of pebble blue colour today, so yeah I gotten a blue set.

And with that, welcoming myself to the world of a touchscreen phone and auto correcting texts. Took a little effort to transfer the contacts over from the berry.

Hoping for a pleasant experience on the droid.

Isn't because it is sour, or I'm bitter.

I am this close to ditching the berry. By far this phone is the longest one that I have had, a good 2 years 7 months. I've dropped it multiple times; the battery casing fell off, the battery pack flew out, disfigured exterior. Despite these, it never failed me once, working tirelessly. I don't think I even had to restore it to factory setting any once. I can list many reasons why I should have gotten a new phone months ago, yet I didn't. For one, I really like physical keypad, among other stuff.

But now, everything seems to be going wrong. I seemed to be always needing to charge my battery, it can barely last a good 8 hours with regular texting. I literally see the battery bar dropped after a convo haha.  The keyboard that I've grown to love is always giving me repeated letters with a single press, especially S and R. There seemed to be too many a thing on the phone that is slowing it down, hanging every now and that I have to do a hard reset. I've actually ran out of space to install apps on the phone. The camera was never the best in class, and the picture quality left much to desire. The scrolling gets jammed once too often after such a long time, think non-optical mouse ball and you'll get the idea. And if I were to be really anal, the fabric on the back casing had developed a 'cancerous tumour' (coined by my friend). It actually meant that there exist an air bubble in the middle of the cover and the rate of detachment is growing like a tumour as the air bubble grows :P.

Well, I've said all those to make me less guilty in ditching the berry for a phone that I've repeatedly told myself that I would never get, a touchscreen phone. Hell, I'm not even getting the other fruit. I'm potentially going Korean, yes looking at you S3. With that I'm ditching the physical keypad that I've love, the chance to simply be different from others. RIM why you so chui?! You are walking the path of Nokia, albeit on a smaller scale. Sigh. To be honest, if the 9900 were just to have an auto focus camera in it, I would have gotten it already. RIM why you so chui?! I'm going to miss the push mail in a way also.

I actually surprised myself with how long I've stuck this, despite being a sucker for technology myself. Might have hung onto it a tad too long. So perhaps this was a delayed decision that I should have executed long ago. (Still trying to justify the potential jump) Well I guess going Korean while waiting for RIM to tide it over may seem like the best option now. So OS10, will you be the savior, or would RIM have drown by then. We shall see at the end of the year.

Though I'll be off diving in 2 weeks time, I've got the urge to jet off a little much further. Europe + late next month sounds very tempting.

*edited, fuck, wait, for that last statement, Olympics season next month.'_'

A Sunday of an epic long bus wait in the morning followed by dim sum, then coffee, waffle+ice cream; more ice cream and the group of us stealing glances at that lady with the rather good looking pixie cut to end the hot afternoon. Lazy and fat. :D

Crazy Saturday. From early morning floorball to lunch @ Kallang Leisurepark to YH's house for dvds and Sha. Dead tired. I'm gonna sleep till tomorrow I reackon.

Hot and hot, the weather these days. Summer's in full swing and the Coca Cola song that I posted below is stuck in my head.

Crashing the dive theory class was perhaps the most boring stuff this week; but all for safety which I tried to self-justify. Yup, considering that the last time I breathed bottled air was a couple of years ago. '~'



Always associate California Dreaming with the movie Chungking Express.



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The thing is, who is that you that I've not yet realised?

Always the real thing

The real thing.



You can always count on them to come up with the coolest adverts for Christmas; the cola trucks and lights, can't miss them.



This.



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And this vending machine one.




for the rest of the year stuff like this suffice. :))




In the meantime, tracking Apple WWDC, and feeling rather awake from the unintended short nap that I took after the run just now. :(

The plan to 杀, run, supper, 杀 on Friday was somehow transformed to TV, jog, supper. And like YH puts it, we need to just 杀, and 杀 only. No distractions.

The weekend went by in a flash. Headed down to Gill and waited for rest to make their payments for the trip. But it turned out to be an afternoon of waiting and being stuck with horrendous traffic before we finally had our meal at 1600h+. Talk about a car full of angry men. Heh :D

Had weird bouts of sneezing spells today, irritating no less.

Come next week, we shall try to complete what we didn't.

Meanwhile, kiss the rain if you can't sleep.

I was looking over the stuff that I have written over the years, ramblings to be precise, cyberspace or physical notes. Cryptic, morbid and somewhat cynical; the conclusions that I drew from them haha. Those that are public tend to be a little more restrained, I made them that way. Unless I really want you to know. While those in the book tend to be a lot more personal and safe in the knowledge that I'm the only one with access to it. I cannot say that I remember what all the individual posts are about, I confuse even myself sometimes with the crypticness rofl; but the more significant ones of course I do, and some of the emotions that were imbued then when they were written. Though I feel that the notes are pretty senseless and illogical. Anyone interested to read them? 

Just on Sunday I was reminded of how much we must have changed over the years of growing up, and how we used to be.

There has always been this sense of idealism in my life. But usually everything is far from ideal. I try to manage.

Every time we feel that life is unfair, we may have already been compensated in ways that we never realised. So take a moment, stop, and appreciate.

Steamboat on Thursday follow by dessert from the opposite shop; movie plus dinner and then drinks at Holland Village on Friday; an early morning 'detox' swim on Sat, pretty fruitful (for the stomach) weekend I would say.