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wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee..we ran the Human Race!! but before that..
Bellini Room's Curtain Call..it was a nice night..but i was too 'engrossed' in Gallery Bar to actually take time to enjoy the final performances in Bellini Room..all i could do was smile everytime i went close enough to hear the band playing or Rob singing..over at Gallery..Dom Perignon flowed like water..and i got to serve my fave MHD bunch..Milton Chee, Danny Yong, Pierre Pinnault..got to serve my darlings Ivan Lim, Cara, KC, Jeff Low..and i even had the time to take a picture with Veronica and another girl from La Ranura and also the uber cute photographer for the night..
end of the night..the team took a picture together..probably my 3rd team picture so far..
now..back to the Nike Human Race..
got up at noon after 5hours of sleep..and then fell back asleep till Omie called me at 1pm and i got up and got ready..headed out to Linn's place first to pass her the race pack..and we trained down from there..got to City Hall and walked around a bit while waiting for the rest..Edmund came by, followed by Omie and Muriel joined us last at the baggage area..the race started at about 4.20pm with all of us 5 squeezed in the midst of the blue band in the first wave..even in such cramped areas we still manage to keep ourselves entertained and camwhore..we truly are professionals at that..anyway..once we were flagged off..we went our separate ways..Edmund took the lead..followed by me..Omie next and the girls behind..but Omie took over me after the first click and i never saw him again..partly cause i walked too much..haa..i pretty much walked the entire Clarke Quay stretch cause i was slightly faint and almost puked when i burped..haa..walking is good too cause it gives me more time to check out the cute race marshalls that were along the route..did Nike have a screening process or something cause them marshall boys were really cute..haa..
anyway..Edmund finished first with a time of 50ish..followed by Omar with a time of 64ish..and me..came in third with the staggering time of 78mins and 28seconds..surprisingly..i walked so much and only came in at 78mins..as bad as the timing sounds..i think if i were to keep running..i might have shaved off my timing to 70 or less..so..gotta train for the KPE run and try out my speed again..
after the run..chilled for a bit at the Padang before we decided to head to Maxwell Market to makan since we were all damn hungry..took many pics along the way..makaned..then headed to Tantric for a round of drinks to end the wonderful day..hee..i wont talk so much cause i still have laundry to do..dinner to buy for my boss..and work to head off to..toodles ppl..
before i blog i'd just like to bitch bout last night..Olympics Closing Ceremony..pretty disappointing..the bit where London took over..even more disappointing..overall..i should have gone to Tantric to get drunk..too bad i was too tired.
after that..Army Daze..on THE arts channel of Singapore..Arts Central..they censored out all hokkien words..like..Ah Beng totally lost any impact in the movie..like seriously..Army Daze..the signature movie of Singapore before the words Singapore and movies were put together..it is very upsetting..very very upsetting..
anyway..work this weekend was pretty fun..me, Andri and Vin were dancing so much on Friday night cause the DJ was soooo good..it was a new DJ..thank god..hope he will be around this coming Friday too..on Sat..silly nilly Viet American Boy came by with KC..so i got to spend some time with him..
after work..the usual bunch all went for breakfast..this by far was the craziest breakfast bunch..made me laugh till my cheeks hurt..me and mu stayed around till even after everyone left and we waited for Jay..who is sooooo cute..and such a man even at the age of 20..hee..after we watched him eat breakfast we parted ways..then me and mu mu headed down to Clarke Quay..it was Nike Race Pack collection day..well..it was supposed to start at 10am..but we were there by 8am..haa..ok..as much as we had a reason for being there early..it was partly me being kiasu also since the first 4000 ppl to collect the race pack would receive a concert tag to give to a non-runner to attend the post race concert at the padang..might as well right..go from after work..and get more from what i paid for..haa..considering everyone else paid so much less..or nothing at all..haa..after the collection..cam whored..and then while walking back to the MRT we became tour guides..haa..directing other ppl collecting the race pack to Clarke Quay Central Fountain..not Central Fountain of the Central shopping centre..haa..we directed so many lost ppl..we also indulged in a bit of Hokkaido Ice Cream too..haa..well..by the time i got home..it was already like 1pm..and i was soo sleepy..but i hung on till bout 3ish before i fell asleep..but all is well that ends well..i managed to readjust my bio clock..after i woke up at 7 last night..i watched the above above above mentioned and then fell asleep again past midnight..and woke up bright and early this morning..whee..
ok la..anyway..after a 9month hiatus..i'll be back to a full time job..haaa..i'll be one of the three Captains of the new Bellini Grande along with Nadine and Bryan..im looking forward to it..full time work starts next Monday..wheee..new outlet..new boss..new location..new new new..
not ours obviously..im talking bout Bush..not the down there kind either..i dont know why i never came across this earlier..maybe i did but did not take much notice of it..
Dear Mr. President, Come take a walk with me. Let's pretend we're just two people and You're not better than me. I'd like to ask you some questions if we can speak honestly.
What do you feel when you see all the homeless on the street? Who do you pray for at night before you go to sleep? What do you feel when you look in the mirror? Are you proud?
How do you sleep while the rest of us cry? How do you dream when a mother has no chance to say goodbye? How do you walk with your head held high? Can you even look me in the eye And tell me why?
Dear Mr. President, Were you a lonely boy? Are you a lonely boy? Are you a lonely boy? How can you say No child is left behind? We're not dumb and we're not blind. They're all sitting in your cells While you pave the road to hell.
What kind of father would take his own daughter's rights away? And what kind of father might hate his own daughter if she were gay? I can only imagine what the first lady has to say You've come a long way from whiskey and cocaine.
How do you sleep while the rest of us cry? How do you dream when a mother has no chance to say goodbye? How do you walk with your head held high? Can you even look me in the eye?
Let me tell you 'bout hard work Minimum wage with a baby on the way Let me tell you 'bout hard work Rebuilding your house after the bombs took them away Let me tell you 'bout hard work Building a bed out of a cardboard box Let me tell you 'bout hard work Hard work Hard work You don't know nothing 'bout hard work Hard work Hard work Oh
How do you sleep at night? How do you walk with your head held high? Dear Mr. President, You'd never take a walk with me. Would you?
I saw this vid a couple of weeks back..and got the song right after..but its not until very recently as i listened to it on the way to work that i really felt strongly about it..and i've been listening to it over and over again..i love the angst in her voice..but i love how at some parts of the song she sings it so subtly despite the underlying anger..oh..and if u look at her mic..she has the similar pride wristlet that i have..
seriously..how does he sleep at night..
things at work are not goin as well as i would like them to be..with the move and all..i fear that my move to Bellini Grande might not work out the way i want it to be..i spoke to Aladdin a few weeks back bout me going back full time when Bellini Grande starts..and i expressed to him that for me to go back to full time i would expect nothing less that my Captain position and also a chance to go for the trainer course..im not sure how that is coming along cause Ala said that he'd want to sit down to talk to me and Zila about it..but that is yet to happen..on a similar note..it seems that Nash and Jacky are not moving to Bellini Grande because of work permit issues since they are both Malaysians..on that same note..Christine and Santos from bar are not moving either for the same reason..Elf has expressed that he might rather just stay at St James and move to Movida instead..Nash was very peeved when he heard the news that he will not be going as it was previously mentioned by Ala that he would join us there..that really made me wonder if i was going to get my Captain position back..
on the same day i found out bout Nash not going..i got another piece of sad news..Jeassea is leaving in October and most possibly will not come back..i found her at the long bar by herself drinking and she looked like she could use the company and so i went to talk to her..she admitted that she was upset that night over some comments made about her and felt like all the work she had done here in Singapore over the past 7 years she was here amounted to not much worth..i really felt bad for her..cause personally i feel that she is a very nice person..she has always been nice to me..she was the one singer i was the closest to until Rob and me became much closer..if ever i pop into Bellini Room during my spare time its to either watch her or Rob perform..i loved watching her sing her Route 66..and coming down the stage and dancing with me during a song..i will never forget that one time when we danced to 'My Girl' after the last set..gosh im really going to miss her..i really hope she comes back..Rob is goin back to London in October too, hopefully for a short break..so its gonna be all new faces at Bellini Grande come October..that very much sucks..
on an entirely different note..Nike Human Race's race kit collection is this Sunday..means the run itself is a week away..which means the KPE run is 2 weeks after that..and New Balance Real Run the month after..and oh yes..all u ppl..i have signed up for the Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon happening in December..im crazy..i've been told that many times throughout my life..no need to repeat anymore..but hell..come December..when i complete the marathon..all u other lazy fat asses better get off your behinds and do something bout..ur fat behinds..
on a lighter note..i've been meeting up with tt silly nilly Viet American boy..twice in a week so far..was out with him for dinner at Vivo on Sunday and then i signed up for the M1 Mobile broadband thingy for him..since he cant sign up and he wont really be in Singapore that long..i'll take over that thingy from him when he goes back and use it for my laptop in future..then today..he asked me out to dinner at Holland V..silly nilly..i go Holland V wait for him only to have him tell me im at the wrong place..apparently he was referring to the kopitiam down the road from Holland V..after dinner..he went back to his rented room across the street from the kopitiam..i waited for him downstairs while he went to take a dump..and while waiting under the void deck..a lady(ok ok..aunty..) approached me and asked if she could borrow my lighter..then she popped in to the Residents Committee Karaoke Lounge..the other lady with her came back out to return me the lighter and said she'd bring some cake out for me..so sweet right..i got a slice of cake just for lending them my lighter..lady number two even called me 'Handsome'..haa..as in..'Handsome, i bring some cake for you..' ..that kind..haa..i had free cake..haa..
anyway..Nhu came back down and we headed over to the Biopolis where he works..cause he needed to pop back into the office to get some stuff done..ooooh..today is the first time i crossed the railway train tracks..it was on the way to the Biopolis which is like across from where silly nilly Nhu stays..so he went up to his lab to get stuff done and left me downstairs at the smoking area of the building opposite for like half an hour..thank god i had a book to read..after he was done..we headed to the MRT..but i saw the train go past on the tracks..and soon after i crossed the tracks back the way we came..so cool..haa..i love train tracks..oh yeah..Nhu was on the phone with his Prof from the states at this time and he was talking all academically..haa..like all the cheem cheem science stuff la..haa..first time hearing him speaking like that..i mean apart from the 2 other times i made him explain to me what exactly he's doing with fish..
after tt..off to Mustafa Centre cause he needed to get shoes for gym..and thats when i got my second surprise of the night..Nhu having a conversation with his dad on the phone in Vietnamese..haa..it sounded a bit like thai..but i somehow got reminded of 'Full Metal Jacket'..ppl must be wondering why this mat hanging out with this Viet dood..haaa..its just funny la..haa..it was a pretty in and out kinda thing at Mustafa cause we didnt wanna miss the train back since it was 10-ish pm..he asked to go grab a drink and finally relented to me bringing him to Domus..but apparently silly nilly Nhu is not the kind to appreciate the simple things in life like a good place to chill out like Domus..we just managed one drink there before we rushed off to catch the train..
so on the way home i stopped by Simei..walked over to Linn's place to get the Nike Human Race confirmation slip and authorization letter from her since she wont be in Sg this weekend to collect her race pack..and i ended up talking about so many things to her..and thing was she was still up rushing her work before her trip tomm..im sorry darling if i blabbered on too much just now ah..haa..safe and good trip ya..i'll see u v v v v soon to pass u ur things and to party one last time at the Bellini Room..
oh yeah..all u old boys of Bellini..how bout coming back one more time on the last night and buy me a few drinks and get me drunk before the end of operation..all before that place becomes Firefly..or Butterfly or any other fly on the wall for that matter..haaa..
i miss you..taking e bus back home fm work and it goes past River Valley..i'm reminded of e time i stayed with you there..walking Princeton night..watching chinese vcds all day..n i felt e same heartwrenching feeling i felt the day you left us..
dumboh i love u and am missing you..
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fyi..i was being sarcastic..cause apparently..after 40 plus years of being medal-less for the olympics..Singapore has at least secured a Silver..wow..like seriously..thats great..
but wait..are the ones getting the medal actually locals or imports? hmmm..
as i brought up before on my previous blog i reckon..im not against them as individuals..im just against the idea that we have to rely on imports to validate us (sports scene wise) as a nation..i mean..why not buy all of this years medal winners and send them as the Singapore reps for 2012..then confirm we get more medals right..like seriously..its crap..im honestly proud of our own local talent for even qualifying..and doing their best..isnt that what sportsmanship is about..isnt that what we should be proud of..like seriously..i mean..seriously..
anyway..im glad that when i got home today..turned on the telly at 6am and saw Jamie Oliver and subsequently Martha Stewart on tv..finally..a break from all the olympics coverage..come on..life does go on you know..i need my sustanence of actual informative shows..i cant keep watching men in tights and trunks all day..well..i could..but i rather not..
Well..its been quite a pleasant week so far..out with Cruiser baby on Monday..lepak at home on Tuesday..work on Wednesday..and i went out to NUS's UCC to catch pogi Paul di di's participation in the CMAD's( Combined Martial Arts Display) production of 'From Ground Zero'. Its like a theatre production but filled with martial arts..unlike those Broadway Shaolin shows kinda thingy..this one involved 10 different martial arts groups from NUS..it an annual thingy where they showcase the different martial arts groups..i guess to kinda raise awareness and stuff..
i must say..while i recommend that they do not quit their day job to pursue theatre..in general..they deserve to be commended for the effort put in and the output displayed..while the audience was having a blast gossiping amongst themselves and giggling about the lil mistakes here and there..the whole production started on a rather serious tone..with the main cast trying hard to get the job done..but i reckon once they loosened up and started having fun..things took to a more lighter note..i seriously enjoyed myself..i mean..yea..i was laughing to myself, and at times aloud, when boards were not broken..or even when the lead spoke grammatically improper English..but it was all in good spirit..i am pretty sure it was not easy to get all those groups together to rehearse and all..and if those groups were anything like those u see in 'Volcano High'..that would be a whole entire ball game..
pogi Paul di di was so cute..he spent most of his first act with his back to the crowd..haa..shy is it..good job nonetheless pogi Paul..
after the performance..which by the way..lasted a little over 2.5 hrs..and only had a 10min intermission after the 2hr mark..pogi Paul joined me, Fudgiewudgie, Mu Mu Mei Mei and Roman for supper..we walked 3 bus-stops up the road..and finally reached our supper place..which i realised was where me, Bazim, Rash, Chris, Yus, Gerard and Macha occasionally went to makan back in the days of 2SIR..met some of their other Noy-Peeps there and we shared a table with them..i felt small and insignifigant among them..haa..minority mah..haa..lucky got Linn..makaned and after tt..headed back..
tomm..what else..work la..i have not run yet this week..im not sure when i can find time to do it..maybe sat evening b4 work since i start at 9 instead of like 8 tomm..
pogi Paul asked if we felt inspired to take up any sports after watching the performance..rest assured..running is the first step to everything that is changin in my life..next..gymming..then start swimming again..then capoeira perhaps..or muay thai..Muahahahah..geddit..muay thai..muahahah...nvm..i've decided..im making the change..and im making it now..i was this useless inactive child when i was a child..i dont want to be a useless inactive child now that im not a child..2008 is the year for change..
and watch out world..come my 30th birthday celebrations on 5th November 2011..you will see a me that you have never seen before..muahahhahaha..
past week..uneventful..cept for my 2 rounds round bedok reservoir..of which in the end..after averaging..come to a conclusion that i run an average of 6.45mins per km..which is no good..i need to shave off 45secs off every km if i wanna do good..since im on the topic..yeah..i just signed up for the Swing KPE run..thats a tunnel run..as in the KPE..yeah..thats happening in September like 2 weeks after my Nike Human Race at the end of this month..Swing KPE is also 10km..and then there is the New Balance Real Run..signed up for that too..thats happening in October..im sorry Omie baby..i signed up for the 15km instead..gotta keep upping my mileage if i am ever to get back to running AHMs and finally achieving my dream of running the Stan Chart..oh yeah..there is a Quadthlon in October too i think..the first of its kind in Singapore and i reckon i might wanna join that too..its a 500m swim..12km blading..20km cycling..and 6km run..in the mentioned sequence..i forsee my legs giving out on me after the cycling..so i gotta wait and see how..thats on the back of my mind now..
one race a month from now till october..so cool!!
last night..sunday tt is..headed out to meet Omie..its been like 2 weeks since i saw him i think..so yea..it was nice seeing him again..headed out to city hall cause he needed to check out some stuff..went to Funan to check out the IT stuff..then walked all the way to Mustafa to buy some stuff..then walked back in the opposite direction to get some food before he had to head back to hall..then walked to Bugis to catch the train..i dropped off at Tj Pagar while he continued all the way to Boon Lay..i walked down to Neil Road and joined the usual bunch at Tantric..we bitch and gossiped a lot while downing our double shot drinks and between 11pm and 1am i downed 4 double screwdrivers thanks to them..i wanted to go home after tt but them bunch brought me to someplace i should not have been to..and managed to get me in when i shouldnt have..and made me drink some more..by 3am i was pretty high..in fact..i was high b4 i left Tantric..i was higher by the time i left that place..i got to meet Tidus and D while i was there..Aslinda..Fariz..Jay..Misha were all there too..i had to run after somebody who decided to leave very abruptly..haa..oh yeah..saw someone there too..but i dont wanna get into that..went home..puked a bit..and slept..
11ish..Omie calls me..asking me what time i'd be at sentosa..that boy ah..keep disturbing my sleep u know..haa..then when i at sentosa..he never even give me the time of day..hmmph..menyampah..bleah..hee..well..i got there at 4ish with Cruiser..went over to Del Mar and waved hello to Omie who seemed pretty preoccupied..ahem..then me n Cruiser settled outside Del Mar to tan..tanned till bout 6 before headed to the showers..surprisingly there were so many ppl in the showers considering it was a monday..not sure if schools are out nationwide today..after we got showered and dressed..headed over to Coastes for dinner..
the beef burger is superb la!! for $20!! a smidgen too ex but i definitely loved it..then we chilled over a bucket of Corona..
and waited for the fireworks..i got to watch fireworks with my Cruiser baby..i like..
then after that..we walked all the way down to KM8..to find it almost empty..
haa..but it was nice..quiet..romantic..hee..me n Cruiser baby had a drink and by then were pretty sleepy..so after my Kahlua with milk and his Mojito..we headed home..
i loved today..just because i got to hang out with Cruiser baby..hee..ok..sleepy time..nite nite!! Shared with Flock - The Social Web Browser http://flock.com
headed out to Sentosa again yesterday..im so gonna go there more often..just because i can..haa..
met up with Edward at Vivo..had lunch..and headed over to Sentosa..found a good spot in the sun..and lay there from like 3.30pm till bout 6ish..while tannin..a friend of Edward spotted him and dropped by for a chat..i saw Wy ge as i was headed to the beach too..and saw my friday regulars there..namely..Guang Jie, Dave, Dennis, Chris and Max..after the music stopped at the beach..Me n Edward headed over to Cafe Del Mar to have a drink..well..1 drink became 5..haa..cause the mood was just so right to be having a beer by the beach..watching the sun go down and the men walk past..haa..it was a great time spent with Edward though..cause initially i was worried that we'd have nothing really to talk about..seeing how we never really talked much before the past few times we've met..but duh..hello..how can we 2 boys not have much to talk about..we chatted all the way..and after 3hours at Del Mar..it was time to head home..
n today..i looked at my wrist..where my watch usually is..and lo and behold..a tanline!! haaa.. whee..
cheers to more hot and sweaty days in Sentosa.. =)
