kiwi-ed...

i'm still in new zealand now. driven over 3000km so far... and somemore to come. killed countless number of bugs with my car windscreen. got a seriously shitty car called a ford mondeo. note to self... don't ever buy a ford. turning radius damn bloody wide. no power to move. 4 freaking gear car... cannot climb mountain and can hardly go above 130kph... basically it just crawls... the only good thing is the steering is rather responsive. but the car still sucks! don't buy fords!!!

that said... the roads here are really good for a car to run. quite smooth... some really straight parts, but some parts are really windy. up the mountain, drive up into the clouds. surrounded by mountains, trees, goats, sheep, cows... whatever farm animals u can think of lah. killed a hell lot of bugs as i was speeding down the highways hahaha stupid ass car didn't allow me to go too fast

so far i've seen glowworms, kiwis which are rare coz only at night and they're really secretive animals. uhhh... alot alot ALOT of beautiful scenery... and the cool stuff was the 2 huge glaciers that is basically 2 huge valleys between 2 huge mountains being filled with ice!!! and i went tandem paragliding! it was cool... running off a cliff hahaha kinda crazy. all the guy said was "1, 2, 3, run run run!" so i ran... and off the cliff i went. it was an expensive experience but it was definitely memorable. didn't do the bungy and parachuting... but i'll wanna do that with people other than my parents lah. do with people who can do with you is more enjoyable hahaha but next time i'll definitely come back to new zealand again. it really does look quite heavenly at times. but must remember to come in the summer again. coming in winter will be quite shitty. gotta pack more clothes too, so summer is the best hahaha

the food's been good too. gst here is 12%. so 7% in singapore doesn't seem so bad again. but then again singapore has compulsory 10% service charge, so in the end it's higher WAHAHAHA i'm talking in circles. a bit siao liao. standard of living here is alright. can get a really good solid juicy steak with all the extras for under NZ$30. it's really alot more reasonable than back in singapore. ice cream is nice too! hahaha since all the milk is damn fresh. and driving on the roads is really quite good too. because people actually GIVE WAY TO YOU! not like singaporeans who will do anything to get ahead of you.

it's just an entirely different experience driving in the open road... got so much space to run, but also must look out for cops lah. oh well... will blog again when i'm back home =)

we're all waiting for something... something to come our way

ugly yet wonderful...

i've finally gotten my hands on my IC yet again. can't stand the picture on it, but it's still wonderful nonetheless. i even got a watch from the brigade, which looks good, but i'm guessing that once you drop it or hit it against something, it'll probably spoil. so i'm just going to keep the watch in the box. the box is KIND OF personalised too i guess. i got my testimonial exactly the way i typed it hahaha and i'm quite surprised that i got a better grade in SI than in sispec. honestly i felt more on the ball in sispec, but oh well. it's all over now. at least i'm done and dusted with that part of life. now in HQ Armour reserve for the next 6 months until i get my next posting. really wonder where i'll go man...

this is going to be a really really busy chinese new year for me. definitely the busiest i've ever had. not a bad way to start a new part of my life hahaha. today the celebrations sort of started already. had lunch with wendy's family. tonight got reunion dinner with my dad's side of the family. tomorrow morning onwards there are going to be relatives visiting, then there'll be the huge huge lunch. after lunch will go visiting until about dinner time. then at night will be watching an 1130 movie with wendy, her mum, and some of her friends. latest time i've been out on a cny hahaha tuesday morning more visiting, till afternoon. hopefully not everning. night time bang, rao and wendy will be coming over for a meal, then we'll all be adjourning to bang's house for mahjong. saturday is t19 visiting day hahaha going to start with shufang's house, then mine, many's, koons, josh's, and finally derek's. whole day will be gone already. at first was wondering how we were going to do lunch and dinner, then we realised that we'd probably be eating at every single house we go to, so there wouldn't be a need to worry at all it seems. now just waiting to see how early we can all gather at shufang's house. she's kind of slow in getting back to me... slow yet again hahaha sunday morning church, afternoon going to wendy's friends places, then back to her house again, then out to even more of her friends houses. then at night RAO IS FLYING AWAYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!! so damn fast lah! people ORD today, then sunday flying overseas for study already. i'm sure rao will have fun over there hahaha

now that i've finally ORD-ed, can look through all my plans before i start school in may again. let's see... fix my bike and start cycling again, learn to rollerblade, start playing piano again, pack up all my army stuff and keep it nicely in the cupboard, do some maths revision (as advised by neo jr), and finally get back into the rhythm of running regularly again. haven't been running regularly since way before ex wallaby, which was LAST NOVEMBER!!! and the belly is starting to show thorugh the shirts man. damn gross. and this cny won't improve the situation one bit! oh and i wanna play more badminton too! i still love the game, even though i'm not wonderful at it, but it's a game i can play for quite long heehee *hint hint to wendy & many* and one day i wanna go check out the ntu hall. dropped clar off before once, but still haven't been in to see what it's like. seen many's one already, single room, which is nice and cosy, so it's really no problem. just wondering what double room will be like, like how much space each person will have at the end of the day.

oh well... for the sake of saying it, ORD LOH!!!

we're all waiting for something... something to come our way

MY MOUTH IS FREEEEEE!!!! CHINESE NEW YEAR HERE I COME!!! MUAHAHAHAHA

we're all waiting for something... something to come our way

can you feel it?

the hours and minutes are inching closer and closer to cny... and the closer it gets, the more excited i get. finally will get my hands on my IC already. even though i can't stand the photo on it, but who cares, it's a symbol of civilian-ship =p and i can finally change my handphone!!! no more nokia 8250 with it's blue screen and screwed up battery life. i can finally use a camera phone again without having to worry about being charged and sent to DB =X

oh and tomorrow i'm finally removing my stitches. giving me some problems man... holding my mouth back hahaha

we're all waiting for something... something to come our way

3 more days... well 2.5 actually. wednesday morning is all that matters right now!

we're all waiting for something... something to come our way

february is here!!!

haven't blogged for a month i realised. have just been lazy i guess. much has happened over the past month. so just some highlights... taken out all 4 of my wisdom teeth. the left side is a much tougher customer than the right side i must say. the hole is much bigger and it's giving me much more problems too. mainly with food being stuck hahaha and somehow there are 2 stitches here as compared to just 1 on the right side. but overall it isn't that bad an experience as some have described. just have to deal with blood in your mouth every morning when u wake up and some times in the day tt's all. but it's definitely survivable hahaha just hope when they remove the stitches last tuesday i don't die =p

concerning my 2nd removal of wisdom teeth, it just got really complicated because i was supposed to have them removed in camp, but those buggers cancelled on me at the last minute. so i got a referral to alexandra hospital. luckily it's near my house, but the earliest appointment i got initially was actually today!!! and that really just ruined my day totally. so i just accepted it and went off, intending to call again on monday. so that's what i did! i called but unfortunately the nurse there said that there weren't any last minute cancellations, so i hung up and was going to try again the next day, but then an hour later, the same nurse called me back and said that she managed to push away an appointment on tuesday, so i could pluck my teeth on tuesday!!! wah i was really damn happy. 1st of all, the fact that she actually bothered to call me back and ask the doctor whether they could change another appointment for me! simply because i told them i was going to ORD this coming week and i had to have it done soon. damn nice right! alexandra hospital rocks! hahaha i just hope they don't torture me when they remove the stitches, cos i wasn't fully numb before they pulled out my 2nd set of wisdom teeth =p so that was really an intense 10 minutes hahaha

this year's going to be the year of 21st birthdays. i guess everyone goes through this in the year that they turn 21, cos all their friends turn 21 too hahaha so yeah it's going to be a year of big celebrations and parties, and hopefully lots of nice gifts too hahaha

i've decided to enrol into uni early. just to get more time to settle back in the whole cycle of studying and life in school, where chiong sua-ing isn't mandatory, the physical aspect of it at least hahaha

we're all waiting for something... something to come our way