A bit of Stong

and fro

back from Gunung Stong, Dabong, Kelantan, Malaysia. Failed to take better photos.

In fact, the bloody batteries ran out. All 4 sets of them.

Off to Gunung Stong

Off to Gunung Stong, Kelantan. shall take better photos this time.

bits and pieces

suddenly sleepless on the first night of the lunar new year.
some random shots from whatever's on my laptop..


caught a rainbow in school a couple days back, and happened to have the camera with me.


after upping the shadows.. rays of light beaming from the rainbow

some gifts from Friendship Day. i suspect only girls know about such a day.

from Iris.. some Hershey nipples chocolate.


from Jasmine and Clare.. more chocolates and cookies


from Yanqing.. some hand-made cookies..


with their powers combined.. i'm prolly due for another sore-throat.

Thanks ladies.. how nice of them.. and in return, I give them ... my friendship. i'm nice.


I cut my own hair again. i think it's not too bad.

At the airport, night of 18th Feb

Boy Exuberant. Panning shots are difficult with my cam, when the viewfinder blacks out once you hit the shutter. it's time for a better one..


testing my settings while waiting for Charlene. somehow i like this shot, despite it suffering from a poor 0.3s handshake. didn't realise that was her in the background, surrounded by friends and family.


Finally we met again. Farewell, small one. Another one off to Australia for studies, perhaps staying there for good. Weiting's flying off to Sydney as well in a couple hours. Zhuomin's happily in HK for this semester. blah.. I'm departing in June to play reserve league football for Liverpool too.


A lorry with huge ass joss-sticks tied to its side. Spotted numerous other cars with aunties holding such joss sticks out of the window at Selegie, 2am. thoughtful souvenirs from late nite temple outings.

The sum of life.

I'm still alive
yet dead broke

Diving trip to Pulau Lang: $460
Trekking trip to Gunung Stong: $95
Hostel fees : $658.75
Misc. sch fees: $62.85

Sub-total: (-)$1276.60
Monthly allowance: (+)$200
Currently working income: $0.00

Balance: (-)$1076.60

More often than not, life just don't add up.

The benefits of striking Toto: Priceless.

Animal instincts

I saw this strikingly pretty bird in school yesterday, it flew past and above me to a tree across the road. Following its path, I stood transfixed for at least five minutes as i watch it pecking away at the branches. Then hop hop, upside down it stood, just as firmly, and peck peck away, all over the tree, sounding it out for worms perhaps.

A caucasian student walked past me and smiled. Maybe she would have smiled wider had she seen what i saw. Nice. I later identified it as the Pileated Woodpecker. Not a rare bird as I thought it may be, but still something hardly ever seen in an everyday life of Singapore.

Still on birds, last Sunday while on the bus to sunday soccer (which was fucked up by some people who lacked faith and integrity), I saw a brown hawk-like bird soaring above Sungei Punggol before it dived down head first into the river. Wonder if it caught a fish. Nice.



Of course the somewhat rare eagle who lost its way and landed up in singapore, and eventually found by us a couple years back. White Head Eagle is it? can't remember.

Maybe i have a hidden talent and passion as an ornithologist.

More on wild-life, sort of. Funny incident while running in school last night. On my left was Hall 14, on my right was a forest that buffers NTU from the army training ground. This guy was standing on the pavement and staring intensely across the road. As I ran past him, he waved his hand and pointed towards the forest.

I turned and saw a couple in the weirdest of dating place, sitting on the sloping grass patch which directly face the dark and hardly romantic forest. They were hugging in the dark.

'What's that?' .. he asked ... 'Monkey?'

Animal instincts, primitive needs.. whichever is weirder.