Bangkok Day 2!

Day 2

Day 2 started with awesome breakfast! First I had a bowl of cereal, before spamming bacons, baked beans, sausages and eggs! Love western breakfast! However, the desire dies down rather fast. The bacon was not that fantastic. I never stuffed myself so much for breakfast before, and that day I really stuffed myself until I had no appetite for lunch!

That day we went to the malls to shop for cheap stuff! The location was rather far, and we had to take a long train ride. If this were Singapore, I would just flag down a cab. However, Bangkok roads are really congested, and if we took a taxi the cost would probably be ridiculously high. There were really a lot of shops, yet I did not find what I was really looking for. CR was searching everywhere for size 46 shoes, and apparently size 45 is the largest. I tried this bear hat and was tempted to buy it, but decided to walk around and see if anywhere else sold it at a lower price. In the end, I bought some shirts. That day we took down whatever we spent our money on, to keep track of our expenditure. Lunch/dinner was at some place like shabu shabu. The beef there was really nice! Enjoyed cooking the food. Plus, free flow of Pepsi! Why can't Singapore be like that? We had some problem with the prawns, because we were suppose to finish it up. In the end the remainder was hidden under some tissue.

After dinner we went back to the mall to get groceries, supposedly for drinking games that night. We saw some huge-ass durians while there, and CR bought some big lollipop which did not sound cheap! On the way to the train station we saw this place which had a lot of cars on display, apparently put up for sale.The cars were cool, and CR looked like he was in heaven!

That night the guys went to cook the leftover carbonara from the previous day. Oh, we ordered carbonara and pizza the previous night because I was suddenly hungry and craving for pizza. Took quite a while to call the right number. I kept calling the desk! LOL Anyway we did not play drinking games in the end, probably because we were damn tired. I went to bed, but ended up playing my PSP (P3P!) and got up when I heard CR and Kenny cooking carbonara with banana, alcohol and mango juice. I decided to join the fun and ate their concoction, which did not taste as horrible as I thought it would be. After that weird meal, we all went to sleep, with CR leaving the television on as usual to "soothe" us to sleep.LOL I played PSP and waited for him to fall asleep before turning the television off and going to sleep.

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Driving today was quite alright, and my instructor asked me to apply for my driving test soon. I did the e-trial today too, and managed to pass! Even though I only read 400 out of the 600 questions, and did not read my final theory book.

Hope the vocalist will show up! Please! All depends on you now!

Still in love with Persona 3 Portable!



Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life
~ The Fray - How To Save A Life

Late

Played my P3P on PSP until 4am this morning! Crazy right? I just wanted to enjoy the summer break in the game! Rather hilarious moments! I only slept at 4 plus...

This morning I woke up at 10am, and something kept bugging me to check my driving, because I was not sure when was my driving for this week. And I found out I have driving every day this week! And today's one was at 10:20am! Rushed down to the driving centre. Did directional change, with the instructor biting my head off as usual. He asked if I was a very quiet person, seeing that I did not talked much. Why would I talk? I'm too busy trying to make sure I drive properly. Went to book my auto car lesson too, earliest I could get was 13 April at night. Which is okay, because by then, I'll still be going for loads of driving lessons. I've still quite a lot of lessons ahead of me, even though I'm sure I've met the criteria for minimum number of lessons. I feel like I need more practice on parts where I still lack confidence to ensure no failure.

Today was spent mostly transferring my stuff to my new cupboards. Damn boring.

I've e-trial test for final theory tomorrow and I have not studied even a single thing yet. Waste my lesson.


It may mean little to you,
But it means the world to them.

Back From Bangkok!

Back from Bangkok! Actually we touched down last night, but only now am I free to sit down and blog. Gosh! Ages since I blogged! Feeling quite happy right now because there may be hope for the band after all! Anyway, I shall recount the whole trip!

Day 1
Our trip starts with me waking up very early in the morning... like 4am? I was so un-awake I skipped breakfast. Fortunately my mom offered to drop me at the airport so it was not so bad. I was putting on my contact lens when I received an SMS from Kenny asking if we are awake and on our way. Probably scared we overslept? XD Anyway I got a free ride to the airport. CR called me while I was still on the way, at exactly 5am(our meet-up timing) asking where I was.

Feels so... excluded when the terminal is totally not connected to Changi Airport. It's like Singapore Airlines does not want to be shown connected to Budget Airlines. And I actually can see why. When I stepped into the terminal, I could really see why it was "budget". There were only two eateries; McDonalds and some small food shop. I was not really surprised that McDonalds planted an outlet there; I'd be more surprised if they did not. Kenny and CR were there already. Jeff apparently left something at home and had to return home halfway to get it. We decided to grab a bite first before the flight. And there were only two queue for the tickets in the big, empty terminal. The people in front of us were just amazing. One whole big group, which made us wait for nearly half and hour before it was our turn. Plus, we saw a couple that looked like some commandos.

The inside of the terminal is not exactly fantastic either. I was only impressed with the sofas in front of the television having speakers installed on the sides of them. Apart from that, nothing much. The boarding of the plane is the best. You know how the terminal is connected to the plane by some... what do you call that? Some passageway. Budget Airlines uses stairs. Means we have to walk out of the terminal and up the steps into the plane. The best part was that it was raining. So they provided umbrellas for us to shelter ourselves to the plane. Rather amazing, no? The plane is rather small, being more cramped than JetStar if I recall correctly. CR and I spent the whole flight talking cock while Kenny and Jeff were catching up with sleep. I did not want to sleep because I feared I would feel groggy when we reach, which would suck because once we checked into the hotel we would be shopping right away. CR and I bought a can of Coke just for the sake of spending money.

The airport was more or less like how I remember it to be the last time I was in Thailand. We went to grab a bite before taking the train to the hotel. I bought Dunkin' Donuts! Yummy! Fortunately the train had seats(because it was at the end of the line), us carrying our huge bags. The ride was rather long, with us having to change trains a couple of times. The turnstiles look a lot like Singapore's! And the people there wait for trains in a very orderly manner. Singaporeans would simply block the entrance of trains, only thinking for themselves and wanting to squeeze in. The people in Thailand queue up to enter the train. I repeat: queue-fucking-up. Singaporeans should be damn ashamed of themselves. Really. However, Thailand people leave the train kind of like Singaporeans. I swear I felt like I was washed out of the cabin rather than walking out by the waves of passengers alighting. And the way the announcement says "Sala Daeng Station" is rather gay. It sounds more like "Sala There~".

Did I mention that it was bloody cold?! I packed clothes, picturing a sunny Thailand where T-shirts and berms were ideal. But no! Fortunately I was wearing jeans and my jacket over my shirt, so I was relatively warm! The weather totally caught us unprepared!

The hotel we stayed in was Ascott. And it looked rather classy! Much more impressive than Penang. Only thing I did not like was that it was in the middle of the business district. It's like planting a hotel in the middle of Raffles Place. While waiting for Jeff to get the cards to our apartment, they served us some green drink that was super sweet. I think I got diabetes just from drinking it. The apartment was really nice! CR and I somehow picked the master bedroom unknowingly, so yeah. We put down our stuff, took some cash, and headed out!

We had lunch first at this place that sold all kinds of food. I ate Japanese curry! Yum yum! We then had dessert at Swensens.The awesome thing is that most of the stuff in Bangkok is cheaper, so the ice-cream was really cheap. Plus, the Swensens in Bangkok only sold desserts. The guys tried some Burnout game in the arcade, thinking that it could play multiplayer, but they were wrong! Fortunately it was super cheap! There were a lot of cheap stuff, and so began our shopping! After shopping we wanted to kill time before going for dinner, so we went bowling.

Dinner was at some seafood restaurant which was really good! For the first time in my life I see why crab is so nice to eat! The food there was really nice, and we ate till we were close to puking. That evening we spent it figuring out where all our money went. It was rather messy, and we decided to take down whatever we purchased the rest of the trip. Also, I persuaded the guys to buy some hair dye to dye our hair, but we failed. Our hair had to change. I think it's because it was meant for one person, but we shared among three of us. Because we were exhausted, we did not play any drinking games or anything. We watched some television and went to sleep!

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Shit. This is tedious! I'll write day 2 tomorrow or something! If I try to write it all tonight, I'll just anyhow write!

I heard that the creator of Pokemon was one of the casualties of the Tsunami :(

Love Persona 3 Portable!



Tell me all that you've thrown away
Find out games you don't wanna play
You are the only one that needs to know

~All-American Rejects - Dirty Little Secrets

P3P

Yesterday I downloaded this game called Persona 3 Portable for my PSP. It came out last year, and I heard good ratings for it, but I never bothered to try it. Which I kind of regret right now. Because this game is really good!


Like Valkyria Chronicles 2 this is a Japanese game that is in English, and converted with effort. I like these kind of games. You get to enjoy Japanese games yet understand what the hell is happening. This is a role-playing game, where you take your protagonist to the Tartaraus during the Dark Hour to explore it and kill monsters with your allies. You can choose whether to choose the guy or girl at the beginning, and I wanted to choose the gal, but the game said it was for experienced players. The guy is just as cool, so no problem! I really like his hair!


The idea of Dark Hour is rather cool. Dark Hour always occur at midnight, meaning every day has more than 24 hours actually. And the Dark Hour gives you this eerie atmosphere, kind of like Silent Hill, just not as confusing. The main fun of this game is your Persona. Think of it as your weapon/guardian/Pokemon, and you can have several! I'm only at the beginning of the game so I only got 3 starting Persona. Like Pokemon, Persona can gain EXP and level up to learn more skills. The best thing about them though, is that you can fuse 2 or more together to form new Persona. There's a total of 170 Persona in the game, meaning your variety is a lot.


Also, you attend school during the day and socialise with people. This game ensures you socialise, because your social link with people tend to help your Persona. Your actions will or will not help with your academics, courage and (can't remember last one). You can work part-time at malls to earn some cash, and you can buy weapons and armor for your characters at the police station.


I've only played a bit, so it could be still too early to rate this game. But with what I've already played so far, I'm in love with the game. I spent the whole night playing until 3am!

Building From Scratch

Wow. Finding a female vocalist is really hard. I scanned through SOFT and Youtube, but it's really hard to find anyone. I've already found potential lead and rhythm guitarists, and drummer should not be much of an issue. I've already decided to form a band purely doing Hey Monday, and posted on SOFT since the weekend. Why? Because Hey Monday was what inspired me to jam in the first place. Back to basics, if I call it. Genre is too wide, I need to narrow down to music taste. I'll get people with identical music taste and we shall move off from there!



Blow the candles out
Looks like a solo tonight
But I think I'll be alright

~ Hey Monday - Candles

Catching Up

Not been blogging for many days. Tsk. Better update now since I've nothing else to do!

Saturday went to Padang with my mom's side, and had dinner at this awesome place! All the hokkien mee, chicken wings, omelette... damn good! And the band performing at the Mosiac was really inspiring too!

Sunday was IT show! And Razor sure knows how promote their goods.lol Had some Japanese buffet, which was mostly spamming beef and ice cream! The ice cream machine was quite a hassle. Only one machine, and you need to get one of the staff to serve you the ice cream. Plus, Only a few servings can be taken before "need to wait for ice cream to be ready. It's too soft." It's suppose to be all you can eat -.- And our way home was rather...delayed! All thanks to CR suggesting taking taxi, which all went downhill from there! XD

Went down to Yishun yesterday to meet my army friends and play lan. On the way home, this lady took bus 969 and sat beside me. Apparently she mistook the bus to be 169, because as the bus was heading towards Tampines on the expressway she asked me where the bus was heading. And the thing about bus 969 is that there were no stops from Yishun area all the way to Tampines. But I would not blame her. The bus numbers tend to be difficult to decipher. Even I need to look really carefully at the bus number, which has all its digits mashed together. And that poor lady stays at AMK.

Gathering the pieces. 2 left.


Lol

Another Friday

Squash yesterday! Rushed over after driving to meet the guys at 1pm, but I did not know that the meeting time was pushed to later. At least I got to read some comics at the library at White Sands! There were more comics than expected. I thought there would be very few comics since so many students went there to hang out, and probably would take all the comics. Plus, finally got volume 2 of Ore no Imouto ga Konnani Kawaii Wake ga Nai!

After squash went for dinner! And an after-dinner! LOL

Yesterday DotA was epic. Wizzed saved the day! Never seen all of us gang heroes so much! Most satisfying match ever :)



Play me down my lover
Like we're undercover
Like we're in a fresh veneer
Like all the girls and boys in school

~ Neon Trees - Girls And Boys In School

"Alan! Alan! Alan!"

Had a really freaky dream last night. Kind of like Silent Hill kind. Until now, the images are fresh in my head. The dark bathroom, the disfigured creatures, the woman who got her neck snapped while on the chair, the running on the fence... if I were good at drawing, I would sketch it all out. Maybe I'll do so later...

I just realised my Cabal character from before is level 38! So high! I can continue it, but I decide not to.

Walk On The Wild Side is hilarious! I've only watched two episodes and so far it's good! However, there were some repeated ones, so that is some minus points. The Harry Potter joke was damn funny! And the series started with... "Alan! Alan! Alan!" LOL

I was listening to Avril Lavigne's new song on radio, and I think it's because they keep playing it on the radio, but I'm starting to like the song. Okay, maybe not like, more of not dislike the song as much.

Keep failing at the same SWAT 4 mission. Frustrating :<


You are a mirror,
Telling it as you see it.

Good Isn't God

Okay. Took hours to download Maple Story, and when I finally wanted to play it there was some problem when updating. I did not bother to try a second time because I could not be bothered to. Ended up playing Cabal Online.

I do not understand why drivers on the road are so impatient. Today while driving on the road, I saw a lot of idiots swerving in and out of lanes, horning for no reason, etc. Kind of reminds me of those gamers who, just because they are good, can talk like they are king of the world. Seriously, why do people think that they are so good they are almighty? Maybe it's just Singaporeans...

Yesterday's The Noose episode was hilarious! Although I think the overseas newscasters are quite redundant.

Shall move my ass out of the house tomorrow!



Say what you mean
Tell me I'm right
And let the sun rain down on me 
Give me a sign
I wanna believe

~ Panic At The Disco - The Ballad Of Mona Lisa

Last Thoughts

It's quite frustrating to see your torrent download reach 98% and suddenly stop. Considering it took me some time to find the torrent. I want to download it, but that means I have to find the torrent all over again, which I'm quite lazy to do.

Need to apply for SMU special term tomorrow!

I should blog more often. I've been blogging less and less recently.

Made by me!

Just Gotta Love It

Justice League never fails to be entertaining! And found a website with loads of comic scans! Nice!

There was a Justice League movie planned a couple of years back, which got scrapped. And I found out Megan Gale was supposed to be Wonder Woman in it. Although I think making the Justice League into a movie is quite hard. How will they make the costumes look good? (Just see Superman Returns!)



Wonder Woman: "And what's wrong with the way I dress?!"
Flash: "Uh... you wanna take that?"




Superman: "What's with them?"
Green Lantern: "Man. For somebody with like 50 different kinds of vision, you are so blind."



Classic



Every man has his pride

Day After Day

Finally added all my new songs from the computer into my iTunes! However, that was probably the second most productive thing I did today, the first being driving lesson. Somehow, there were less hot girls today. Or maybe I'm just not in the mood to look at girls today.

Saturday was some performance by the guitar teacher of Kenny and Jeff. The food was okay, and I have to enjoy it either way considering the price. As for the performance, I kind of did not really listen to them. Heh. My mind was elsewhere I guess.

Mash up Mondays on Youtube is awesome! Hearing Neon Trees do "Baby" and Hey Monday doing "In My Head" is nice! Love these two bands a lot! Plus, all those new anime songs to add to my collection! :D

You know what I really miss most right now? My army friends.


Today,
Is just another day,
Like every other day,
Simply a day.

Blogging Is Dying

Should I give tuition? I'm not sure I'm ready to take responsibility for someone's academic results, for fear of failing.

Driving has never been better! I'm "one" with the car now! LOL

Nowadays, there's nothing much to blog anymore. Probably because I'm too busy playing DotA. In fact, I've just been playing games the entire week, which is quite pathetic of me. Shall get out more once my ass recovers from the squash! Cannot wait to play again! Better fix the handle first though.

I think I need a lot of sleep to make up for all the late nights =3=


What's left to talk,
About this life I'm in?

Another Day Gone

Today's driving was fruitful! I was kind of late, and today I got a different driving instructor. Yet, he helped me with the problems I've been having since day 1, and I feel like I learnt a lot from him! Too bad he's not my instructor... at one of the turning I would have done it properly if I was not distracted by this other learner. I was just stunned by her looks, and I'm pretty sure she saw me looking at her. I turned my attention back to the road a bit too late and turned too late.

Saw Jeff at the driving centre! We took the same time slot so we ended at the same time! Got lunch and headed to CR's place. Shall learn Allergo Cantabile Sound piano piece! That shall be my goal in my piano lessons! Today I finally tried playing both hands simultaneously. Cannot wait to practise again tomorrow!

Went Katong Laksa for dinner with the usual, and I must say I love the laksa! Apart from the fact that there are prawns in it, I never recall laksa being this awesome! Now I'm in love with it! Even though I'm several years late. Played lan after many weeks of not going there, and we got thrashed in Left4Dead. We have not been thrashed so badly before. But I kind of had fun scolding the crap out of the people for fun... we are always quiet or polite online, I just want to be a dick and scold everything over nothing for fun once in a while.

Recently had a dream with her in it. Second one ever. And as usual, it has her saying she loves me, which makes me happy in the dream, but stabs in when I wake up. "Because I love you". I wonder how it feels to hear it.

Beautiful,
Is what you are,
In my eyes,
And in my heart.

Squashed

Woke up super early for squash yesterday! We were to meet at 9am at White Sands, and in the end everyone were late. I too was late, although I was earliest in the group. I went to Burger King first to grab breakfast, and I found out you must pay extra to add the hashbrowns to your meal. What the hell? That totally sucks. Like how KFC online ordering prevents you from ordering fries. What's wrong with delivering fries?

Squash was fun! Although I need more practice, I kind of got the hang of it already. I think squash is kind of a dying sport, where it was really popular with my parents' time and less in my time. The Red Bull/Coke mix was crazy! It was like my eyes switched to "high beam" or something!

We played squash till afternoon, then jumped into the pool to cool off. I had no intention of swimming prior to yesterday, but after sweating so much, and seeing that the pool was so tempting, I just swam. Only problem is, I had my contacts on, so I could not dive, for fear of getting my contacts washed away. At one point we saw the male toilet door closed, with the "Cleaning in Progress" sign in front of it. After a while, I saw the sign still there, the door opened, a cleaning auntie mopping the floor, and an uncle  leaving the toilet. Wasn't the toilet closed? Unless... they were doing "it"! Haha

We had very late lunch at White Sands before going home. We were too exhausted to hang out, and just met up online at night to DotA.



It messed me up
Need a second to breathe
Just keep coming around
Hey, whataya want from me


~ Adam Lambert - What Do You Want From Me