Tuesday, May 31, 2005
Trick Or Treat
Woah! Namco X Capcom has actually 46 stages to boot. Looks like it will be a long time before I complete this game. This game is much more easier than the Super Robot Wars series and I like the Namco's
Tales Of touch to it. And also just like Gabriel said, it's a major assortment of famous game characters.
Here, I wish all the best for Rongqiang who will be in China for his attachment for 3 months. Last Friday, we organised a send-off gathering for him. We had dinner in the food market in Chinatown and also had some beer. We treated him and Kenneth treated us the 3 bottles of beer. After that, we kinda did some mindless walking to Chinatown Point's McDonald and eventually went home. Well, it's not we didn't do anything but we shared some future plans for us.
Something amusing happened on Saturday night after I watched Madagascar with my gaming friends. Well, I actually got wind of it on Sunday after a tip-off from a friend. Other than I have expected the issue to happen sooner or later, it got me thinking.
Kenneth is older than me than a year and he has a much stable job than the rest of us. Due to this reason, we can always expect treats from him. We tried to refuse or pay him back but he insisted. But we don't always take him for granted and we will offer him our services or help if he need us. Maybe you will wonder his motive for doing so. Kenneth is a good friend I learnt while in ITE and he was an outstanding student. He's very outgoing and honest. He can be a fun person to be with as he knows the good spots in town or the best places for good food. For example, we had a trip to Genting and he brought us around almost like he lives there. I remembered the time he encouraged Stanley and me at Singapore River when both of us had some problems with work. Seriously, I have never felt so comfortable talking to him. Talk about doing things out of goodwill. At least, he don't give us treats for his own good and boasts about it or uses them as a handle against us. LOL
How much do you value trust? Is it the point where you expect a person to tell you every single detail of him/her including his/her inner secrets and thoughts? Is it also the point that a person follows your every single bidding or demand? If there is such a person, he/she must be a zombie. Retarded or without a soul. I can say he/she is pretty naive and petty if a person fails to do above stated and he/she claims that person as a betrayer. A person can agree or disagree depending on his/her mentality or characteristics. Everyone have his/her own reasons or motives for everything for example lying. And most importantly, anyone can err. People will try to protect themself by lying or doing other things. People live with pride and privacy and wish not to be abused or better to be humilated. All that's needed to do is to give them respect. Respect their decisions and in return, they will respect yours. Well, at least I don't brand a person a betrayer over trival issues. Unless there is no trust between both parties in the first place.
It seems that it's quite easy for me to go into deep thoughts when all's dark and quiet in the night. Okay, I confess I'm a night owl. Time to sleep.... ^^
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Posted by Kairyu at 4:16 AM
Saturday, May 21, 2005
Over
Looks like the wait has proved in vain again. The letter came and it's negative.
Well, it's not much of a disaster for me. Once bitten, twice shy. Instead, I am feeling much better right now. No more anticipation and no more false hopes. Time to get myself busy again.
The holidays are
really over. Period.
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Posted by Kairyu at 1:07 PM
Sunday, May 8, 2005
My Life (Part 1)
Well, it dawns to me that now I seem to blog about what I does on
every weekend. Today's going to be different though. I'm going personal today and most of you should know. I will talk about my life.
Ever since young, my sister would tell me how she spent her childhood in a big family. I have to agree that the living standard in the past was not as now. Imagine living in a kampong, not much entertainment and no flushing system in the toilets. But then it was a perfect growing up environment for me. Since the whole family lived together, there was much interaction between my relatives. Children would play in muddy fields, catch frogs or fish and swim naked in ponds. Well, self-made entertainment and being close to nature itself. According to my late mother, I managed to
enjoy 2 months of this lifestyle before I moved to a HDB flat. This lifestyle also made what my sister is now. She's simple-minded and can be pretty naive to a lot of things
(Luckily....she don't know I have a blog... ^^).Every year when I celebrate my birthday in any form, I'm also celebrating something else's birthday.
MY HDB FLAT! Okay...I'm not on dope. But I do have a special affection to my little haven. The flat has seen me through my life, my sorrow and my tribulations. In the past, my mom worked as a freelance babysitter and she once had this little girl. We were studying in different schools and she would come to my house after school till her mother came to fetch her home. You can also say we were childhood playmates as she was with us for a long while. We would build our own
fortress with towels tied at the ends and tied to the door knobs of the bedrooms. We share our toys, play together and she was pretty much like family to me. We even wrote our names on pillars facing each other. Well, frankly...if I think of it now...my 1st
crush?
All good things have to come to an end. I had an accident and I believed her mom felt that it was her fault. The girl left after that accident. One fine day, we were playing "Ghost" and I was the ghost. I had this towel covering my head and I was supposed to chase after her. A fact that I could still see what was ahead of me even though it was not totally transparent. I chased after her and I rammed my head into the hinge of the door frame. Well, I was a playful kid... The next thing I could remember was that my mom was carrying me to the clinic downstairs with the towel pressed on my head then nothing. I also remembered waiting in the clinic with my mom and my eldest sister
(Now married...). Then I found myself at home with a bandage above my right eye. I eventually saw that towel. It was blood-stained. To tell the truth, I will feel like vomitting every time I think about it...so I don't feel good right now. The award from that accident? A scar on my eyebrow and a very "sensitive" right eye. Erm...I don't see dead people if you are thinking about that but I do sense them. I'm not your normal Singaporean...lol
(Adapted from someone...).This haven was once a cell for me. Four solid walls and only a way out. My parents had the key. This is kinda expected as I am the only son. My freedom was kinda restricted within the house radius. I would envy my classmates of being able to go to play together even not in school. The only times with them were in schools or outings. My only entertainment at home were the toys that I had and I would actually dub voices to them to make them
alive. I was indeed lonely. Luckily, that girl was around and I thank her for making my life happier. After she left, my life went into complete darkness. I became much quieter than before. That's when my sister decided to get me a game console and it totally changed my life forever. But it only kinda filled up that void inside me. It became my only entertainment. Nothing else interested me anymore.
I kinda opened up when I was in secondary school. Maybe it was due to the fact that all my friends in primary school were separated into different schools and I wanted to find new friends soon. But I was naive and conservative then. I was in a notorious school and everything was pretty much complicated for me to understand. I carried this thinking during my time there.."If I treat someone good, I will get the same treatment back." Of course, I got a shock when this thought backfired on me. Along the way, I became more offensive. That's when I got into trouble with some of my classmates. Well, they were hostile to me in the 1st place. I became a target of bullying but I kinda proved I wasn't affected at all by acting indifferent. But the funny thing is when I meet up with them nowadays...they are apologetic about what happened then. Well, who was never rebellious during his/her youth?
I have to thank the heavens that I met quite a few special people. Other than the
bengs and
lians, I met a couple of interesting people along the way. My class had some foreign students and I befriended one of them. Bruce Wong. We would try to trash each other in Sega Rally Championship in the arcade. Then there's this guy. He shocked everyone with his debut appearance by going around and saying hello to total strangers. Well, he's good-looking and a heart-throb to the gals in the school. Was my class monitor. A excellent runner and swimmer. Had his own band before and acted in the teen drama
Spin. Voted as one of the most wanted bachelors in Cleo in the past. Does a song in the local movie Chicken Rice War. He's none other than Shayn Phua! Well, he's way too cool. ^^
(To be continued...)
Okay....I went to my usual hideout as usual. Had dinner then home sweet home.
TADA! I love to be short and sweet. (^^,)>>
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Posted by Kairyu at 1:30 AM
Monday, May 2, 2005
Seduction
Others might think I'm a person who is quite outgoing and quite hype by judging from the way I look and dress. But only those close to me will know that I'm pretty much innocent and conservative. Well, that's why the saying "Don't judge a person by looks". Time to get a haircut...as I've been mistaken as a girl...again. -_-"
I woke up quite late on Saturday due to the past night gaming. Then the weekly league at X-Square. Finally, of course, GameScore. Someone probably will be bitching at me for being there but hey, I went there to meet up with the Gamersquare gang
AND also to meet up with Kenneth. It was convenient for us to meet up as he's working in Konica Minolta. We were
supposed to meet up with the rest of my friends for dinner and pool. Then begun a long walk and chat to Somerset from Funan. Met up with the rest and had dinner
(TREAT!) at Ohshio, located at Cuppage Plaza. Then the usual pool session at Park Lane. There's a reason why I said earlier that it was
supposed. Kenneth suggested to go for drinking. We went to Fine Bar and I was completely freaked out. For a moment, I thought it was an illegal joint then I realised how naive I was.
Personally, I have
NEVER stepped into this kind of pub yet. Loitering around the pavement were Filipino babes. More of them inside. The ambience of the place is quite okay but what I can't stand...is the seduction methods the gals use just to get men to buy drinks for them. They will sing, touch and even kiss. Two of my friends bought drinks for 2 gals and I actually spoke to one of them. Okay, I don't know how much of this is true but this gal claims she's 21 and came to Singapore to visit her friend(Also loitering in the pub...). She works in CRS Marketing in Phillipines and she have a boyfriend. If I am her boyfriend, I will *beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep* her to death if I know what she does here. I was downing my two glasses of beer
(Won pool, so free as well :P) among all the hanky panky happening behind me. Well, two old men were behind me. One in his forties and one look like my grandfather. -_-" After the drink, home sweet home. Before I go on to Sunday, here goes....
FREAKING ^#^%^$#%%#@#$!#%@^^^$ OLD MEN~~~~~~~~Met up with my friends again for a morning swim on Sunday. Chatted about a future trip to overseas and had lunch. Then we went our ways. I went home and off I went to GameScore to give Adam his Midnight Club 3 Dub Edition. JL bought two bags of magazines and I learnt that Kinokuniya Liang Court is having its 5th Anniversary sale. Dinner was at Sakae Sushi and I was quite disappointed with the standard in Funan. It was different from what I had in The Heerens before. Home.
Well, before I end this entry, my Friendster account has some "auto-filtering" done and I still do have someone disappearing and appearing. Wondering if any of you have this problem... For the "auto-filtering" part, well...that's being "Zhi Dong" enough???
A brand new day's coming up! ^^
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