.:: The Kite Runner ::.

Sun, 30 Sep 2007 16:07:22 +0800

I've finished reading the second book which is A thousand Splendid Suns. To me, it wasn't as powerful as The Kite Runner but still it's a moving story. Here's a Theatrical Trailer of the Kite Runner. Enjoy!

.:: New Apartment ::.

Sun, 30 Sep 2007 11:37:04 +0800

My family finally got a new apartment somewhere in Telok Blangah after so long waiting for HDB to revert to us. We moved in to the new apartment last night. It is so close to my workplace that I could even jog to work every morning.

Well, all these mean that I will need to pack up my stuffs at Bukit Batok where I'm currently staying and move my stuffs to Telok Blangah. Funny part is, the apatrment we've got is just by the Basketball court where Tom and I used to play soccer on Sunday morning.

It has been a tough ride this past few months, but as a Capricorn, I see it as a challenge and climb to a higher ground. I think it's about time I pull myself away for awhile from the people around me and just have a time by my own. A reflective moment, a form of meditation, relaxation, away from the busy life, away from thinking too much, away from trying to be there for others, away from any commitments, responsibility and all.. it can sound selfish but I've learnt that sometimes, you do need to be a little selfish for yourself in order for you to move on and feel better.

Helpless is what I'm feeling now... thing about me is I cant see or come to know that someone around me is having problems.. I would, no matter how try to be there and try to help however and whenever I can. I wouldnt care what that person might say or how that person pushes me away, I would still be there for them in one way or another. The least I would do is to just be there, not talking, just listening, or just leave the person alone to have their space until they're ready to talk or until it's over..whatever it is. That's a Capricornian's promise. Loyalty and selfless are bound to our nature. we could be sacrificial at times like the saying- I hurt myself in order to give you happiness- sort of thing.

I'm at work and discussing with Audrey about how true our Horoscopes are when it comes to describing our traits and flaws. I would like to believe that this is more to psychological point of perception. For example being a Capricorn, we tend to look forward towards a new year as the year end is near. We will start to plan ahead, have goals, resolutions, etc..

Anyways, enough about Zodiac signs, tonight I'll be having dinner with my cousin's and our childhood friends way back since we we're in primary school!! Last Friday I had to miss out for a dinner with my batch of 1999. So I wouldn't want to miss out this one. Next week would be another with another bunch of friends. I'm still looking forward to go Geylang Serai with her..but when?? Only time will tell...

That's all for now I guess.. Will update again soon...I promise.

Helpless.

Sun, 16 Sep 2007 14:00:08 +0800

Something I'd like to share...Taken from my Cuz -Russian Tomcat's blog...

GOSSIP..
There is so much good...
In the worst of us...
& so much bad...
In the best of us...
That it hardly becomes...
Any of us...
To talk about...
The rest of us...

.:: !!أهلا و سهلا يا رمضان ::.

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 08:03:43 +0800

!!إلي كل مسلم و مسلمة... رمضان كريم!! كلّ سنة و انتم طيّبين

.:: You know what I did last summer? ::.

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 10:55:41 +0800

Today marks the day of my 9th month with the company. Nothing special really, just that this is by far the longest time I've ever stayed with a same company. Alot of things happened since the last time I blogged about anything here. Some may even have slipped my mind while updating this blog. So let's just make do with the things I could or I want to remember.

First off, I'm now staying at Bukit Batok with my cousin. I finally got a room to sleep in after we cleared some space in the room. Baby Sofia always brighten up my day whenever I was down.

Secondly, Tom's birthday. I smsed him after work asking him where to meet up. We ended up meeting at Bugis, had dinner, played games and then to Graxs. Tom wasn't really in the mood though for reasons I'd rather not say here but that was part of the suprise we had for him. To cut the story short, or even shorter, it was a great fun! Tom appreciated me for coming as I was the only person from the office who came. I'm a good bro am I not? hahah!

The next day, Rusli, Alvin and I went for a weekend trip to Batam. Though I wasn't really excited in the first place for no apparent reason, I found the trip was suprisingly and unexpectedly delightful!

The hotel suite was nice, Thanx to Big Boy- Rusli. Though I had to share the room with Alvin, still the bed was comfortable enough for me to sleep through the night. And thank God there were no snorings or else I will be aggro in the morning due to sleepless night. lol!

The ATV (all Terraine Vehicle) was AWESOME! -next to the food, of course!

Too bad we had to cut short the trip due to Alvin having class the next day.

Random- Cik Yan, is safely back in Singapore.

Went to Eunice's birthday with Jimmy, Vincent, his girlfriend and Alvin. Met Alan and the rest at Slegie. It was a fun night! Had supper at Bencoolen St. and headed home at about 4am.
The misunderstanding between Tom and I is all good now- forgive and forget and start off on a clean slate. Fasting month is just around the corner and I just dont want to harbour bad blood. Furthermore, I don't like holding grudges, as I said many times I'm lazy to hold one. LOL!

Huda was persistence when it comes to asking me to sign up for a Facebook account, afterwhich she indirectly forced me to send her some stuffs in Facebook. She finds it fun, so why disappoint her? heheh!

Had dinner with Tom yesterday at Bencoolen St. before we went to Graxs for the last time before fasting month starts. Close to midnight, Nadrah called me to fetch her and Sofia up at the National Library. Nadrah then asked me where I was from and I told her where I was. She repeatedly apologised to me and requested me to tell Tom and the other friends that she was sorry to hve me pulled away from the party. I was really puzzled by that. lol!

As I reached there, I met with Salim, Ainon and her new Soccer Player Boyfriend, Raudha and her Partner in crime, Zee & Wan Cornelius, and Imran. We exchanged short hellos and went on our seperate ways.

Well, overall it was tiring but all's great!

I'm at work now and having headaches.. blogging this takes my mind off the throbbing pain... oops! there it is again... Damn!

.:: (",) ::.

Mon, 6 Aug 2007 12:36:16 +0800

It has been a while since I last blogged about anything here -I've been saying this again and again that it has become passe overtime. I have been really busy over the past few days and haven't been home for the past week. Yeah, the same old reason again.

Anyways, I'm in the office and I dont feel like blogging now... hahaha!!

Nos vamos pronto!

.:: Finally up and running again ::.

Fri, 29 Jun 2007 16:08:55 +0800

I've finally managed to get this up and running though it's not all done yet, but we'll make do with it for the time being. Things have not been going smoothly for me, though work is still okay... many people come and go... office politics... still I try to have as much fun at work as I can... Kinda feel lonely since Rusli is out of town and Tom... Tom has been promoted not long ago and had to move his workstation away from us... so I think I have to get used to it not having him around as much as before...

Thank God Huda is still around, though I've only worked 2 days with her this week! And she finally took over Tom's workstation and now I have someone to disturb when I'm bored... not saying that she's a replacement or something but it's always nice to have her around. She called Tom and I the Bullies yesterday..hahaha! But to think of it.. I always disturb her no matter what or where she was seated.. all and all we had fun.

I finally learnt not to be the always Mr. Nice Guy anymore... I guess I'm just tired of not being appreciated and being taken advantage of... I would say NO if i couldn't and I would tell to their faces why I don't like what they're doing.. but I'm not that blunt.. maybe just that the sarcasm in me has finally got its voice back fully... or maybe I'm about to crack... hehe..

Tomorrow I will have to work early... Louis had called me earlier in the week asking me to make myself free tomorrow night as he has a plan up his sleeves. So I managed to swap my shift with one of my colleagues. To think of it, tomorrow is the first day in this week I will have the chance to go for a smoke break with Huda... hahaha! It's going to be like old times when we used to go for smoke breaks every now and then... save Cass who left us earlier this month...

I just hope that Rusli will come back soon.. so I could personally say my condolences to him for his loss. I'm also glad that Tom is finally coping better with his current situation...

Lastly, I would like to congratulate Mr. & Mrs. Faizal for their lovely marriage... and thanks to Florian for helping me out with this site... I don't know what I would do if I were to lose all the data on this site..

I'm going to be going through a rough time... there's a huge storm ahead of me but I will make it through.. what doesn't kill you will only make you stronger... and I know I have my friends to look forward to at the end of this storm...

I'll blog again soon.. I'm late to head to town...

.:: Latest Update ::.

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:33:10 +0800

Latest update about my dad.. he's been transfered to NUH..finally.. The doctor said he was transfered because the specialists in TTSH were afraid to do the surgery on him..

If he goes for surgery, there's a 95% chances of surviving but if he refused, there's a 50-50% of seeing through a year. That, of course if nothing goes wrong along the way...

Now that he is in NUH, he is unfit to go for surgery... few days back his eyesight blurs and he keeps vomitting. So, after much scanning they found out he also had a mild stroke at the left side of his brain. And yesterday, Diabetes.

The doctors wanted to retain him for two more weeks and see his progession.. if things go as planned, he will need to go for surgery after that..yet the chances of pulling through is still ambiguous. I havent had the time to go and visit him this past two days but I do call up just to check upon his progress.

So that's all for now.. do include my dad in your prayers, dear readers... thanx alot! God bless!

.:: The Ones Who Were There For Me ::.

Fri, 6 Apr 2007 12:47:56 +0800

Too many things happened that I don't know where to begin with... I guess let's start with my dad...

He's admitted a few days ago... 90% arteries blockage.. that's what the doctor said after they made a small incission to insert a tiny camera in to identify the problem. He'll be transfered to NUH sometimes today I hope.. Doctor said we can't risk waiting any longer -the operation on the heart has to be done ASAP.

Everyone's trying to be strong for each other as the doctor said anything could happen at this stage and we do realise not all operations turn out well.. As the eldest, I'm trying to be stronger than the rest..trying...

I'm just glad that at these difficult times, I still have a FEW friends who care.. those friends who would sms me every now and then just to know how's everything with my dad...eventhough at times, it's really late at night but I still would reply to it even when I had to do it with my eyes closed..I appreciate it...

And those friends who offered me company just to being there when I needed them the most...

And those friends who would include my dad in their prayers...

These are all the friends whom I would hold close to my heart...you know yourselves who you are.. and I thank you all so much..I love you all!

Moving on...just the other day when Tom and I were heading to town to meet up with Rusli for dinner, we boarded service number 111 and when I was tapping my EZ-link card to the reader, I heard the driver saying something but I didn't really catch it. And I realise he is saying the same thing to the other passengers.. I asked Tom what did he say and Tom told me he's wishing everyone a good evening!! And it was a full house double decked bus!! He should be getting some recognition for this... at least a simple "..Thank you, and to you too" or just a smile would do? Or maybe I should write this to SBS?

Well.. work is still doing great for me inspite of the server downtime... other than that, it's fine... Oh! And I had another haircut - short this time and everyone at work kept telling me I look younger! haha! Thank you guys!!

I'm having dinner tonight with Huda and Midah.. they're so kind to treat me dinner somewhere near to the hospital.. I appreciate the notion..

Lastly, Thank you all!! Thank you so much!! And to those who read this, I would appreciate it if you could include my dad in your prayers.. Thanx!

.:: Aching like hell ::.

Sat, 17 Mar 2007 11:13:00 +0800

Had another round of 300 and it didn't bore me.. We went with Tom this time and when I say we, I mean Mr Rusli Potato and I. We booked the tix a day before and what a suprise when we realised that the tix were for yesterday's show. Luckily we managed to talk to the manager who did an exception for us 3. Went back home at 3am that night as I chose to hang out for a bit with Tom and made some other new friends and met up with some old friends.

That was on Wednesday.

Tom and I hit the Gym yesterday. It was my first time ever...really! After 9 years of letting the fats rest in me, it's time to burn them up to hell!!!

After Gym, I took a shower at his place. Louis the "mat Kental" came by to help us configure my lousy psp....and finally it worked! Thanx dudes! After dinner I went straight home and forced myself to sleep.

Today, my body aches like hell... the toxic in me have been disposed this morning..hahah!

I guess that's all folks.. it's hard to type when your arms hurt.. or was it just an excuse?? hahah!