Sleepless~

Yet another sleepless night... I tried to go to bed early (about 12am~), felt thirsty so had some water, went back onto bed~ felt hungry so I had a snack, and went back to bed~ had some wild thoughts running through my head so woke up and flipped through a book, went back under the blanket~ felt warm so I took off my shirt and switched on the fan, lied back down again sans blanket this time~ Still too warm, so woke up walked around the house aimlessly and repacked my bag again for tomorrow, and decided to switch on my computer, at the glorious time of 2am, a good 2 hours after I went to bed, and out, and in, and out, in, and out...~ Ok, time to try sleeping again, if there is another post right after this, then it's back to square one~

Labrador 20 Jan 2008

Actually my first time viewing a sunset at Labrador during low tide~

Explored a new short extension to Labrador Park... including this vast beach being slowly swallowed by the incoming waves~

Donated blood... Left me tired and sleepy for 2 days, and a pretty good appetite as well~!

Plaza Singapore, with all the fire curtains out...

This was meant to be a half-boiled egg for breakfast... not my first failure already... I stink at boiling eggs~!

Water Cooler Buddy

Don't know for sure if he's really thirsty... But surely not everyday you see a big grasshopper at your friendly convenient water cooler on the first day of school~!

Strangely, school's Canteen A kopi is still my favourite kopi... Makes taking time off for kopi breaks worth it~! Same for the milk tea, judging from Qingfa's love for the "big cup milk tea"~!

Sunday 13 Jan 2008

Went for my Sunday afternoon bike ride. Was contemplating between going to Labrador for the sunset and sounds of waves, and the muddy BT trail - In the end I chose the cool fresh forest air and the challenge of bullfighting the bike in the mud... It rained at the start of the ride, and again towards the end. The trail was a hellish mud festival after all the rains! The sun peeked through the green canopy intermittently, and the forest looked really beautiful, as steam rose from bLuR's sweaty skin in the humid air~

The slipping and sliding through all the slop made for slow riding, but at slower speeds more can be seen~

Ghost Sotong~!

Just got this picture from Mas... Scary~~

Just got promoted to the rank of "FD Sotong-fish" hahaha~!

Back in Business!

Surprise surprise, pleasant surprise! I was looking through my toolbox, for a couple of stuff to put on my Bike No. 2, when I stumbled upon an innocent-looking ZipLoc bag of nuts and bolts... and found a pair of old crank screws from my old bike! And most importantly, they fit pretty nicely into my Bike No. 1's cranks despite being of different brands and different ball bearing systems! Bike 1's back in business!

Spent a little time reflecting on reality - Classes start again next week, after a good 7 month hiatus... Long enough to make it feel uncomfortable to be back in classes again. These 7 months had been a life-changing experience, albeit on a relatively minor-scale... partly from the attachment experience, largely from the many human characters in my life during this time period. I enjoyed the amount of free time that I had, doing stuff that I had wanted to do since ages ago - most crucially, I had the time to think about stuff, and have people around to stimulate my thoughts and accompany me on this thinking journey. Among the wilderness ahead, the road beckons~

Damn Screwed!

Damned screw! Of all times, haunting me on the last few days of December vacation, somemore just when the weather is starting to get better! The screw thread of this crank screw wore off after I tried to tighten it smidgen more on a routine post-ride bike health check. Now my cranks are not secured by anything, rendering my bike unriderable. Now I would have to try to source for a replacement screw, although that is near-impossible... Only feasible choice left would be to get a new crankset, which costs money... Damn the "knnbpcb" designer who proposed using such soft aluminum for a highly-torqued screw!

Most of my spare change in my bank has been used to build up a second bike using Internet-sourced second-hand parts. This second bike would be my choice of transport to school, and on weekends to my ah-ma's place. This "mistress" bike would have to take priority now, since all her parts are more or less gathered and only awaiting assembly... My "wife" bike can only sit in the corner of my room, pushed out of the picture by a missing crank bolt, waiting for the day I have enough money to send her for surgery and resurrection... Damned screw tonite don't think I'll be able to sleep in peace~

New Year 2008

It's 2008 already! It has been a busy time leading up to the new calender year... bLuR is still as bLuReD as ever haha! New Year Resolution? To become sHarPeD... ok ok I know... cold~

Jingru's concert... She's so pretty lor~! I especially love her in this white dress! And she really got us laughing with her little snippets and jokes! She's at her best singing with a live band, even though I did find the sound systems a little too loud sometimes... it did help shake loose all my ear wax! Photo courtesy of FishDreamSg.

As usual, whenever there's fireworks to see, I'll be there haha! I love fireworks! The wind was against us, literally! Not only the smoke from the fireworks were blown to our side, we were pelted with all the little granules of expired firework gunpowder throughout the show! Dunno if that's the reason why I woke up to the new year with yet another sore left eye~ Photo courtesy of CSWei.

My little home video of the fireworks, with plenty of little kiddie commentary...