Sunday, May 25, 2008

all the wrong sizes,

i'm tired and i want to sleep.
that's the easiest thing to say but too often, the hardest thing to do.

will i one day deplete the night solace?

.

you. i wish you won't have to work so late.
three seasons passed and winter will soon knock on the door once more.
worryingly, you're still in my daily mind.

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Lata Cemerong


i'm back. with a nasty ant bite on my big toe.

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

kick my ass

travel and diving plans and proposals for the last couple months have fallen through with alarming regularity, no thanks to the dreaded uncertainty of the taboo word, work.

diving at pulau dayang with my krabi fans. failed. backpacking through vietnam with xuemin, peiying and seb. failed. diving cum backpacking in the philippines with alda. failed. backpacking in taiwan with yq and ass, i can't rem if they asked me, but i shall assume so. failed anyway. kelong trip with the study gang. failed. diving at layang layang with weilong. failed. travel around india/taiwan with zhuomin/jo. still failed.

you know life kinda stinks when there's money that u can't spend and leave that you can't take. however beyond all these dispiriting flops arises some glee in the skies.

alda and i managed to sign up at the last minute for yet another waterfall trek with the good people of ODAC, this time to Lata Cemerong in Terengganu. a sudden call from her last wed night with an immediate response from me brimming with determination not to waste the rare long weekend over vesak day.

BUT it's only possible because the original vesak weekend plan to dive at redang/perhentien failed as you may have already guessed and we change it to a dive trip to Tioman over the following weekend. With the faithful dive gang of lingjun, xiangyi and alex minus weilong who's been diving way too much anyway.

AND there's still the long surviving trip up Mt Kinabalu in Sabah come June with dive gang minus lingjun and our breakaway plan to go dive down Sipadan or somewhere after that in order not to waste the air ticket. How can we not.. especially after splurging a bit on some dive gear. Just can't wait to get them wet.

why the sudden number of travelling, i've got no idea. though i'm immensely glad and thankful that i got invited by seemingly disparate friends to go see the world. dare i conclude that having me as company isn't that bad? .. or maybe they just need someone with a camera.

Have camera, fins, backpack and many ziplock bags. Add money, time, and life will nearly be complete.

Monday, May 05, 2008

today quietly crept into the 6th of May, 2008. in a sense, it's strange to see this day arrive. it's not any fancy occasion, just that it's been a while since whatever, and i do find the need to think back and journal down certain memories before everything gets left in this backwater.

after which, i'm gonna say something funnie and end it with a laugh.
tee hee

it remained a good idea till i remembered that i'm not exactly feeling well now. kinda nauseous and groggy from this sinus infection/dust allergy that i picked up while attempting to clear up my room which also resulted in a 2 days MC.

but time flows on nonetheless.

and further up that same river last year, i accidentally graduated from NTU after 3 years with a Bachelor of Engineering majoring in Computer Science with Honours, 2nd Class Lower. One of the first thing i decided was that I don't wanna do this computer shit any more. neither do i wanna work, so i bummed around for a great long while, for about half a year.

much of that period in 2007 was spent rolling about in mud which was formerly good fertile earth till i peed upon it myself and it wouldn't dry.

thankfully though, i have good friends who stood by me in times of need. some reminded me how to live


even as my body got more streamlined. while the rain was unforgiving in october. The merry men of PE3 in a farewell photoshoot. I became Alex's photographer/sales manager/publicist for a few of his gigs. we sold enough CDs to have dinner at a hawker centre. And Jermaine is beautiful.

countless hours were spent with yanqing and shirly mulling about. I miss school so much I went back to study with them sometimes.




then i took some commemorative photos of our film gang.





to be continued...

hee hee.