1912hrs


I'm back at home.

Feeling more restless and out of sorts than I've been for a long time.

Anyone wants to grab an ice-blended, a Hoegaarden, a Milo peng? Call me please. Hopefully you live nearby though...

1134hrs [edited]

Listening to: Hootie and the Blowfish - Hold My Hand


And hold my hand she did... this one's just for you:



Friday the 13th@Coffee Club


Okay, so everyone has certain skills that they learn in the course of their lives. For me, I can swim fairly well, drive anything from a car to a 27-ton lorry, operate a small sailboat...

... but the one thing I hadn't learnt how to do: ride a bike.

Yeah yeah, laugh all you like, but no one ever taught me okay? And in recent years, it'd become a case of "why do I want to cycle when I can drive", lol.

I think it's the one thing about me that nobody knew.

So anyway, I recently told agent s. about it. She took it pretty calmly: "Oh." And so we decided to try adding one more "life skill" (as she puts it quite aptly) to me. :)

So last Saturday, after a yummy breakfast at Killiney Kopitiam (Siglap):



... we first headed to get some socks for me, 'cos she thinks ankle socks are really nice. Errr, okay loh... hahaha :X



Tadah! Quite nice lah I like my new socks. :)

Then it was off to East Coast Park... we spent some time trying to recce an area that was less crowded. Finally, we found a petrol bike kiosk near the Big Splash and rented a bike for 3 hours. $9 only!

When I got onto the bike, it felt like every time previously I got onto one: no balance leh. (w) Hahaha. The first 20 minutes were quite frustrating... think we must have gone at least a kilometre just rolling along! Hahaha.

Then suddenly, I could pedal for a few metres. Progress! (y) And some time later (about one and a half hours after we started), I could cycle fairly steadily. :)

Sharon is usually quite a reticent kind of girl. But as I looked back at her while pedalling furiously away, she was jumping up and down with delight and excitement... something I've never seen before. It made all the huge ugly bruises on my shins (still there after three days, lol) worthwhile.

She was super patient and held my bike so I wouldn't topple over and break my head. She walked holding my bike in the hot sun and never once complained... even when I told her quite rudely to "give me a break". :$

We turned back to the kiosk and rented another bike so we could cycle together. Cycling is quite fun, haha. I will remember turning smoothly into the little jetty where we took a short rest before returning the bikes... do you remember? That was nice...

Someday soon, we will be able to cycle side by side.

Dear is the best. :)



Feeling tired but happy, May 14, 2005

0828hrs

Did you know that...

1) George Lucas once hinted to the press that there would be nine, or even twelve films in the Star Wars series, before mysteriously changing his story as he was writing Episode One in '97-'98?

2) Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope is the Number 1 film ever, beating Titanic when box office figures have been adjusted for inflation? (US box office: $1,012,785,986)

3) Carrie Fisher (who played Princess Leia) was a major junkie who was stoned on the set?

4) the first movie tie-in toys that were produced in mid-1977 was called the "Early Bird Certificate Package"?

5) There's a woman in Bedok who owns 45,000 Star Wars action figures?


Well, I do. Everyone please read tomorrow's papers. In the meantime, I'm going back to bed. (w)

1403hrs

Listening to: Mika Nakashima - ���F�������� [sakura iro mau koro]


"Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
Bright copper kettles and warm woollen mittens
Brown paper packages tied up with string
These are a few of my favourite things."


What are a few of your favourite things?

I like...

... making star-wands out of plastic straws. Drinking Seasons ice lemon tea. Eating hot dogs from MOS Burger. Meiji chocolate. Sitting in a comfortable couch at a nice quiet coffee joint, with an ice-blended in hand. Listening to Mika Nakashima...

... watching you make funny faces, like ^o) and :X. Listening to the sound of your voice when you speak, and especially when you sing softly. Receiving messages from you, no matter what the subject is. Talking about how crap our lives are, and bitching discussing about our friends and enemies. Driving everywhere and anywhere with you in the passenger seat, feeding me all sorts of tidbits...

... being amused by how the most trivial and silly things can capture your rapt attention. Being grossed out by the way you play with your leftovers. Watching you take pictures of plants. Listening to the sound of you breathing. Smoothening your messy hair...

On this day, at this time, I'm thinking about all these things.

0930hrs

Listening to: EIC - Fiona


Everyone bought new sneakers yesterday:



Except for me! Humpfh. I'm so going to get new sneakers this week. Haha.


In other news, from Puunkroc:

2359hrs

Listening to:



Electrico - So Much More Inside (2004)


It's been a really long time since the POW gig, and the last I heard there are none coming up soon. (w)

But I still really like the album. I rarely like to be alone, but on Thursday night I was cruising down the expressway by myself, singing along to "Studman" turned on at full blast... now that's something I wouldn't mind doing again.

2254hrs

Listening to: Matchbox 20 - 3AM


It's been a long and memorable day. In the past 12 hours, I've:

1) had yummy kaya toast and mee rebus at Killiney Kopitiam
2) bought got my first pair of ankle socks
3) rode a bike for three hours (this is a big thing... but later then tell you all the story haha :X)
4) had very good Japanese food

Okay, it doesn't sound like a lot of things but it is lah hor! Damn tired now. More tomorrow...

Oh yay it's raining now. Great weather to sleep. :)