A new pair of eyes..

Well, I just came back from Chennai.
My plane touched down on home soil at about 5.25pm local time. The feeling of getting back home has never been so liberating before.
Though I spent less than five days there, I have had the opportunity to see so many things that makes me proud of my motherland.

For the record, no, I am not the type of person who goes to another country and start comparing and complaining about the differences. I bathe and shower in cold water for most of my life and my homes has never had a water heater installed. In fact I live by the principle think globally and act locally.

One thing hard about being in Chennai was trying to be local. The only way was being able to speak the language. So I asked the Indian people in the group how to say no in tamil.
Elijah told me to say "venna".

So it works, whenever I said the word, the other locals would actually hear and tell the people that would stalk us to back off. However, it was pretty sad cos I actually researched on the word and "venna" in Chennai Tamil means useless person. I have said the word to so many people and some were not really useless, the were just in poverty and they were really old. So why the locals had asked them to back off was to save their own face. I feel so bad right now.

Lesson learned, always be prepared for the language barrier and to bear in mind the localised usage of the words. Anyway a trip will not be complete without pics. So I hope I will have the time to upload them or to at least tag myself on fb. According to isaac and andrew, we have thousands of pictures from the trip!
So be patient!
Lots of love,
Soon to be globe trekker,
Afikko.

nalliravu

Dreary dread..

Well, i dunno why but I have no mood to update anything but I just felt that I should update..
Anyways.. Been up to nothing much... Just working and studying hard I guess..
Past few days have been working nights... In the day I just try to repay all my sleep debt.
If its a school day I will go to school..
The routine is really killing me...

I seriously need to embark on a new adventure or i will die soon... The next vacation break would be in a couple of weeks time. 5 weeks of vacation with most of it during the fasting month. So what can I do.. Nothing..

Class chalet coming up at I forgot where.. but i know its a great place to chill out and have fun..

YOG photo shoot and assignment deployment is this saturday..Hope I get a cool assignment and hope I can lose enough weight before the photo shoot.. need to research for look thin poses.. =)
I need to lose weight before monkey gets back.. or else I cannot eat with her.. so "dun eat now so i can later mode" ACtivated.


I'll be going to India at the end of the month for 5 days for IT shite and thats the only thing I can look forward to. Other than that I have to figure out ways to paint color in this dull monotonous, non-existent life I'm having.

okok... i gtg now.. will update again soon!

wohohoh!!

well okay.. wats up??
nothing i guess.. had a couple of UTs recently.. java and web multimedia being the most recent..
have loads of confidence in the 2..
nyahahah..
but what can i say.. sometimes what you feel is the opposite..
hahaha..
so keeping my finger crossed..

on the lighter side of life, trip to india's all set...
going to the traveler's clinic to get my some vaccinations..

i think i should need a tetanus injection soon.. cos the last one i took is like 5 yrs ago..
so should be expiring... hahahahha
maybe that explains why i dint get infections when i get cuts doing camps overseas...

well so looking forward to india...
nothing much actually except for the culture...
temperature's abt the same..
weather also so-so...

so yeah..
wanna look forward to it..
and maybe i might work dere in future..
nyahahahhahaa!!!

anyways been looking out for language classes..
French sounds good...
but the price is nyehhhh...
400++ for basic.. havent go to intermediate and advance yet..
but hey!!
if it helps for the future..
im up for it..

well i have already thought out what I wanna do actually..
tentatively i aspire to be a foreign service officer...
job is basically to work at singapore embassies all over the world..
So most european countries uses french.. so it could give me a jumpstart...
well im at work now...

tmr got school.. asu usual..
i couldnt care less how i type nowadays...
nyahahahhaha!!!

anyways.. update....
i made it to the yog sports presenters club..
its like so many downsizing..
if im not wrong 400+ to only 120 now and im part of it..
i cant wait to find out where im assigned to...
so yeah!!!!

catch ya later alligators... =)

bi..
WAKE UP!!!!!!!!

instant gratification

whoa!!! its been such a long time since i updated!
last post was in 7th of june.. now its july!
omg!

well anyway, loads of things have been happening.
went to town with some of my classmates recently and its been like donkey times since i stepped foot into town. there's like so many changes!
ion orchard is now opened and i could see dolce and gabbana from the opposite side..

when to zara to look around and i realised that it was probably the first time for me to see so many singaporean gay couples shopping together. seldom get to see straight couples.
i was like wow.. dere's so many of them!!
isaac was obviously checking them out and i was telling cecelia like wah lao they are quite handsome and all.. probably girls would check them out but they're gays..

isaac had to rebutt and say there are more handsome ones..
the sale was great..
the prices was really rock bottom..
but guess wad...
i saw mats there too!! so no zara for me man...

so tomorrow will be my first day trying out the water diet.. probably haf some practice b4 the fasting month really begins..
it has been proven by scientists that water diets are useful and i can swear by it as back in the army i was averaging 10-12 litres a day thats like 24 bottles of 1.5liters mineral water a day..
and i lost alot!!

but after the army, water was always a secondary option as there's so many types of drinks to choose from.
anyway the water diet does not mean drinking water ONLY.
it means drinking before, during and after a meal so that we will feel full quicker..
drinking water also helps the liver.
this is becos if we dun drink sufficient fluids, out kidneys dun function and our liver, which is our metabolism generator has to take over the kidney's duties and that causes lesser weight loss..
but if we keep ourselves hydrated, the kidney will be activated to do their job and the liver will do their job.. every sunday, i will try post up my amount of weight loss..
and my exercise activities for the week. so keeping my fingers crossed.. let the work begin!!!

bi come back soon.. i hate it that i cant tok to u on our anniversary...
hope ur enjoying urself out there...
love you!! muacks!

Great Circle of Protection

Well, it has been quite some time since I last updated.
Was busy but yet not busy at the same time.
Wee, Bhai and Zul could vouch for that.
Hah!

Last tuesday. (02/06/09)
Had a class BBQ with W65F-kers.
They are seriously a great bunch. Had fun eating and chatting and crapping.
My favourite things to do.
The food was great but too lazy to cook. The girls were seriously hardworking..
How often do you get to see girls setting up the fire and cooking. Hahahaha..
BUT, it was freaking hot!
BBQ-ing at a condo is different from BBQ-ing at east coast where the beach is right in front of you and there are constant sea breeze.
So we went to KAP macs to chillout a bit. and i reached home like 12.30. quite early cos the bbq facilities closed at 10pm.
Well, Hope to do it again okay guys!!! =)


Wednesday.(03/06/09)
Woke up like at 5 am to pack my bag.
went out abt 6am..
met up with the zul, bhai and wee at bedok to get a bus to tanah merah.
we reached our second home and work began.
we decided to recheck the tents to make sure all serviceable for coming camps.
in the evening, we went to some villages to see the conditions at night.
We even went to the mangrove reforestation area by pong-pong(a local motorised huge sampan) to see fireflies as some schools requested to see fireflies.
Since the moon was bright we could see only only some.
Locals said that if it was a dark night with no moonlight, the trees would be filled with them. We managed to catch some and hold it in our hands. Nice to see the creations of god.

Thursday.(04/06/09)
We woke up late. woke up at 9am. went for buffet breakfast.
We then went to Mapur island by speedboat to do some snorkelling.
The corals and the lifeforms were totally beautiful. It was something that I have never seen before and I was really astounded by the beauty. Its like looking at a totally different world underneath the water.

In the afternoon we went back to our rooms and showered and all. I began not to feel well.
Like my head was throbbing and about to explode.
The guys continued work without me and they let me rest. Actually I was gone while waiting for them to shower. In the end, I woke up when it was about 4pm. went down and helped them finish up.

Then our boss treated us to durian before they went back.

At nite, after dinner, we went to play pool at the reception area and we went to swim at the swimming pool till about 1am. after that we went back to our rooms and soaked our feet in hot water.

Friday.(05/06/09)
we woke up early and we finished our work. and we had to rush to check out from our room and we took the van to tanjung pinang for the ferry back. Reached sg at 8pm and i reached home at 9 plus. I also had to work that night. Damn tiring.

So basically thats the nice things i did the past few days... other than that its all the same old thing. Okay, will update again soon.

bearish cablegram

I seriously do not know what came over me today.
I woke up and thought, "Maybe I should make my room over today."
And I did. I moved all the furniture by myself. It was so strenous I actually thought of giving up.
But I kept telling myself that since I have already started, I should finish what I aimed to achieve.

The end product was SWEET.
I liked it. My room can now be declared my retreating heaven.
All I need now is a portable air-conditioner cause the nights are seriously getting hotter.
I love the new arrangement of my room. But it certainly could use some improvements. Like lesser stuff. I'm more to the simple kind of designs. Less stuff, more space kind of guy.
Will try to throw out more things without my mom knowing of course. She would certainly be like trying to save junks. Its not in her room, that's why she doesn't care.

To the simple life.

So Contagious..

Nice song... Thanks!

So Contagious

Oh no, this couldn't be more unexpected
And I can tell I've been moving in so slow
Don't let it throw you off too far
Cause I'll be running right behind you

Could this be out of line? (Could this be out of line?)
To say you're the only one breaking me down like this
You're the only one I would take a shot on
Keep me hanging on so contagiously

Oohhh, when I'm around you I'm predictable
Cause I believe in loving you at first sight
I know it's crazy but I'm hoping to..
To take a hold of you

Could this be out of line? (Could this be out of line?)
To say you're the only one breaking me down like this
You're the only one I would take a shot on
Keep me hanging on so contagiously

Oh you're everything I'm wanting
Come to think of it, I'm aching
On account of my transgression..
Will you welcome this confession?

Could this be out of line? (Could this be out of line?)
To say you're the only one breaking me down like this
You're the only one I would take a shot on
Keep me hanging on so contagiously

Could this be out of line? (Could this be out of line?)
To say you're the only one breaking me down like this
You're the only one I would take a shot on
Keep me hanging on so contagiously


bi.. im sorry la... tok to me pls...