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Weekly updates on my happening life
So i'm blogging once a week now. Too lazy to do it on the weekdays cos i'm always tired on weekdays. Slping 4 hrs every nite. If i'm lucky i might get an additional hour in sch. And i'm training everyday after school now. I have my 6 pac la.. U guys are blind..

Hung out with the PTIs on Friday. Met them for lunch at 1 plus and talked till 4 plus 5. Guys talk a lot of too so its not just a gal thing. Went to Pasir Ris Park with the usual 4. I think we can call ourselves that now. It has been just the 4 of us for a few outings alrd. Went there with the purpose of accompanying chiewyee. But got bored after awhile since she was walking ahead, didn't seem like she needed our company so we went off to cycle. Pasir Ris Park playground is fun man. All the spinning discs and UFOs and kids, its fun being a kid. I seem to recall being there with Sam and some others before, and its like everytime we go there we're playing with kids. And the kids love us. Are we really turning 21 this year. I feel so old. Time to grow a moustache and play chinese chess in the void deck.

Went to Samtosa after Pasir Ris. Martin joined us for Samtosa. I got to say, the pool water is really dirty. Doesnt matter if there're floating particles around, but the water was oily. Either there was an oil spill or some really fat guy was squeezing his fats in the jacuzzi. Even as i'm typing this, i feel my whole body oily. I bathe when i reached home last nite and even dettol could not get rid of the oil. Maybe its cos i took such a long time to bathe after swimming. Which btw is due to ziyi irritating chiewyee and chiewyee just not wanting to let ziyi have his way. So the innocent parties, me and sam were tortured with their shieks and screams and threats of affectionate 'favours' which apparently is a bad thing for both of them. Best part is, they went on for 2 hrs?

Kids really do have the most fun. The mature ppl on the deck chairs next to them are the ones suffering. I was prepared to take a bus home in the morn when chiewyee made a run for it. Hahaha.. Thanks for the ride chiewyee.

That's all folks. Tune in next week for more adventures. I'm gonna bathe now and attempt to remove the oil stuck to me.



Copy and Paste Wahahaha
Happy Valentine's Day!
Today Valentine's day. Happy V day to everyone.. Shall send a message to all my dears and darlings later. Haha. Since today is V day, talk abit on love.

There's a difference between like and love. I rarely use love because I think with love comes great responsibility. When you love a person, you care a lot for that person. And this care and concern and what nots, goes beyond what you can ever imagine. Liking someone is simple. You either like or you don't. But love comprises of many many other more things that you will only want to commit yourself to when you truly love someone.

Love, I think sometimes you can't explain why you love someone. Sometimes, you just love somone a lot. Overwhelmed with emotions for this person. When the person smile, you feel happy too. Whether or not, that smile was for you or because of you. And when the person frowns or become upset, you feel sad. From within. You feel like you will abandon everything else just to exchange for a smile from that person.

When you love someone, you could be doing nothing with the person yet deep within you, you feel very xin fu, very blissful, very blessed.

When you love someone, you will not do anything to hurt them. You want them to be happy and never upset. Hence, you give in. To an extent that you never thought you would. But just because you love this person, you will.

When you love someone, you hope you can proclaim to the whole world how much you like this person.

When you love someone a lot, I think you will find yourself missing this person a lot. And always thinking of that special someone.

When you love someone, even when you are right beside this person, somehow you find yourself missing this person a lot.

When you love someone, you are willing to change for that someone. Totally.

When you love someone, there can be two extremes. One is (I learn from KS) your expectation of this person becomes much higher. Way higher than you would expect from a friend. Two is you become extremely forgiving towards this person. A friend may do something similar and you won't like it but now because it's by this special someone, you will just smile it away and it doesn't matter at all.

When you love someone, you find yourself being unable to be upset with this person. Somehow, everything he/she does is right. You find millions of excuses for him/her.

When you love someone, you find yourself starting to be more expressive of your own feelings. You tend to tell the person, you miss the person or you love the person. Something you won't do with others.

When you love someone, you just love. No questions asked. No strings attached. You just fall in love. So much so that you often wonder to yourself why you love this person.

When you love someone, even though deep down you know this person is not perfect, this person somehow just seem so perfect in your eyes. 情人眼里出西施。

When you love someone, everything that person says matters to you. Everything that person feels means so much to you. You feel like eliminating all the possible negative emotions in the person's heart.

When you love someone, you care about what they feel. You take better care of yourself because now you are not only responsible for yourself, but also for that someone.

When you love someone, you just want to do everything for this person. You do everything to make this person happy. You do everything you can, within your means to please this person. Cause all you want is that person to be truly happy.

When you love someone, you will think that you found happiness when you found that person.

When you truly love someone, it doesn't really matter who loves who more. In your mind, all that matters is that the feeling is mutual.

When you love, you love unconditionally. That's true love. You just love without asking for anything in return. You won't do anything to hurt this person. Cause hurting this person is the last thing you'll ever want to do.

You know people always say that when you are in love you look different. I think it's because of the joy that comes with love. You become happier. You smile more naturally and often. And when a person is happy, they glow. Glow with joy.

Loving you.. is easy cause you're beautiful. Nice song, but I think beautiful in this sense doesn't just mean pretty or handsome. No matter how the person looks, when you fall in love with that person, the person naturally becomes beautiful to you. That's why loving someone is just so simple.

Love is a magical thing. You don't know when it comes. You don't know how it comes about. It just comes and catch you unaware. By the time you know you are in love, you probably have been in it for a long while. And you are often puzzled by why you love this person.

Through love, you'll learn more about yourself. You learn that maybe you are capable of many great things. You learn that everyone you see is actually a person filled with tons and tons of emotions. It's just whether or not they have met the person that's able to make them reveal their emotions. Through love, you learn that you are able to love and be loved. You find yourself full of love because you're giving love and receiving love. It is in giving that you receive more.

My sentiments exactly. Thanks Von Haha



Breaking new records
Haven blogged in awhile.. Haven't found the time or energy to do so. It has been a crazy week. With some crazy people. Its Chinese New Year week!! And that means holidays. And this year we get a 5 day break. Tts almost 1 week. So shiok!!

Been out with this bunch of crazy frens like almost everyday this week. And every time we meet we're trying to stay out later and longer. Started wif the day b4 CNY eve. Went to Chiewy's hse to play I'm the Boss. Yes.. we bought the game so we no longer have to go to Minds to play it. Hahaha.. Cost us 70 bucks. Actually it cost me 40 bucks, Sam 20 and Chiewy 10. I think i'm spending way too much money. Some ppl still owe me money, better return!

And now i think we have broken a new record. From 6pm on 09/02/2008 to 8 pm 10/02/2008.
Seems like we're always trying to outdo our last record of staying out everytime we meet. Haven slpt in more than 30 hrs nw. And Sam is spreading this deadly epidemic around causing everybody to fall sick.

Went to send Sek off on the 9th.

For Sek,

Take care my fren. Study hard, don't party too much. You should have reached Aussie by now. U missed all the fun we had last nite. But its not the same without you too. Playing I'm the Boss without Sacks is not fun.. Especially with all the traitors and uneven alliances. Hope you settle down fast and start planning our surfing holiday in Aussie. All the best man.

From the crazy norturnal gang in Spore which currently has 5 permanent members - Me, Alex, Sam, Ziyi and Chiewy. More will join our club.

Fortune and Predictions for CNY : You will experience a severe lack of slp this year.



Fridays
What a friday! Started with school. I gave my fellow relief teachers some love letters for cny. And i realised i'm damn popular with them now. HAHA!! But that wasn't my intention la.. I jus wanted to buy something for them cos they've been really nice to me. Moving on to my students, finally there's peace and quiet in my sec 2 classes. Not because i scolded them, but because they were having their class tests. At least i got to experience them being silent before i stopped teaching them. The teacher whom i'm relieving was back yesterday too. Handed everything over to him, which meant that i have no hmwk this wkend. Wahahaha.. But it also means no more fun interactions with the kids. Yea sure they drove me crazy, but i really enjoyed talking to them.

After school, went to Queensway with sek to get shoes. Cool i love my new shoes. I love the 40 bucks discount even more. (Price of shoe - $79) While i was changing in the Queensway toilet, my phone dropped into the toilet bowl. AHHHHHH!!! Have you had one of those moments where you didn't know what to do but if you kept stoning there you know it'll get worse. So guess what................ My hand went into the toilet bowl. BUT! But, I thankful there wasnt solid stuff in there, and that the water didn't look yellow to me. There was some shit on the rim though. Lucky my phone din hit it on the way down. And lucky for me, my plan expires next week so i can get a new phone. Moral of story - Things aren't always bad as they seem. You might be in the position where shit comes your way, get out of there fast and be thankful you don't have to go through worse Shit. Literally.

Headed to Far East Plaza to get a haircut after that. Waited for like close to 2 hrs for my turn cos we din make an apptment. And i don't really like my new haircut. I realised its not how good the hairstylist is, but if they know what you wan, and if you can make them understand what you want. Think i'm sticking to Braddell. Cheap and good. (Price of haircut i din like - $27) We parked at some hotel opposite Far East. What a ripoff for the parking fee man!! The carpark was so rundown so cramp so old like it survived World War 2, and they freaking charged me 8 bucks for 3 hrs. What a waste of money. (Price of leaving my car in a dump - $8) And so to cut cost, i parked at Sunshine Plaza. $2 per entry after 5pm. (Price of shifting my car from dump to a better carpark - $2)

Next program - Rocking the World. Took NEL to Chinatown to meet Martin. As usual we wasted a lot of time preparing. When we were ready, there was just 1.5 hrs left from the 3 hrs we booked. It was fun. Playing better than last week, but still noob. See.. i don't always praise myself. (Price for training to become a superstar - $15) Bet you would now think the nite is over. Hahaha.. Its not. Went to meet the rest at minds for some boardgames. I think they should have round tables there. Its hard to play games with their long tables when you got more than 6 people. ( Price of minds - $16) Headed to cine for Sweeny todd. It was a musical. Listening to the songs, i fell aslp in the first 5 mins of the show. But i still the story. Amazing. Woke up at all the essential parts. Or rather, the essential parts were loud enough to wake me. (Price of movie - $10)

Total Spent on an amazing friday = $157 + 1 Samsung Phone + Many litres of handsoap + Many Litres of Petrol

Cost of time well spent = Priceless

Total amount of money saved = Priceless - $157
Think i saved quite a lot. And you know what they all say. I have mastercard, but there're some things money can't buy.

Sent everybody back home after the movie and i slpt at 7. What a day.. And its sat. I got a feeling today is going to be the same. Bday party, reunion dinner, meeting the rest at nite. AWESOME LA!!!! I love my wkends.