I got myself another latest gadget! =) That's SE k750i. The phone come with auto-focus lens (2mega pixel), function just like any normal digital camera. Good stuffs! Radio, mp3, bluetooth, infra-red, and lots more.....It's small and pack with alot of wonderful function. =)
Compare to my old nokia 7710 (pda phone), it like david vs goliath, hahahah .. Anyway i have just sold my phone. I loss quite a fair bit, but its like expected because Pda phone are normally harder to sell away. Moreover i bought it when its first launch, definately will incurr losses if i sell it now. Nonetheless my current phone is so good and small as compare to my "big elephant" where i find it so bulky when i put in my pants small pocket or when i'm holding it.
Anyway gonna send my parents off at the airport later. They going to CHINA!!! Ok, prolly u guys think it's no big deal, but to me even though i'm almost finish travelling ard asia region, i have yet been to China. so....... yup.. one fine day, i make sure i'll go there!
Feel so excited for them. I mean they work so hard all their lives, it's always good to take a little time off and enjoy themselves overseas. =)
*ok.. gonna play with my phone now.... *snap snap snap... keke
Sunday, June 26, 2005
Tuesday, June 21, 2005
Life been pretty normal for me compare to most of the Singaporeans.
Woke up ard 7 plus, reach office at 9am, and then stay till 6.30pm before rushing off to Temasek Polytechnic to coach the swim team / lifesaving team. Only theoritically end work at about close to 9pm. Oh man! i work 12 hours!!! That's gonna happen for like thrice a week, which leave me only 4 free days in a week (two weekdays free), but i have vocal classes on thursday, saturday which we oredi started recording for the album. I'm one big culprit who havent been reallie go down. Guess will wait for them to write me a piece of my solo piece before i reallie go down more often. *guilty guilty
Guess that's pretty much working life.... hardly have enough time for ppl ard me. I used to have alot of time, but now i have to try to find time. How ironic is tt. I wonder what lies ahead for me and my dearie, since we only left basically tuesday, sat and sunday for us to meet up. I mean i can meet her up on any normal day in the week but i have to make sure i wont be tired or look tired the next day as i need to meet clients. Oh well... tt's life ah.... and i guess that would pretty much carry on for years.
Suddendly it set me thinking what am i doing in life, what i reallie wanna do, what i reallie wanna be, what i reallie see in life? what kind of life would i wanna be living, thousands of qns just awaiting for my brains to solve. oh well i guess, its gonna be sometime before i would really figure it out, or would i ever gonna figure it out -_-???
Anyway celebrate Father's day on Saturday instead of Sunday , so as to avoid being slash by those horrendous prices charge by those companies. But then i guess somehow it didnt make any difference. For the first time in my life, i brought my family out for dinner. For the first time in 23 years, my dad's lovely son gonna treat him a wonderful feast. I guess he was happy, very happy in fact. He couldnt hide his delight, the look in his eyes told me he's gleaming with joy, his eyes just betrayed him. He was proud but happy at the same time. Come to think again, who dont wish that their son could gave parents money, treat them dinner, give money to them to go on holiday. While many wish, few actually got it. So for my dad to finally able to enjoy that feast was something he waited for 23 years i guess. And finally, i feel that i did something as a son.
Everyone was happy, i'm happy as well. $200 bucks was all it takes to cap a memorable first father's day celebration dinner for my family.
I think somehow, i have to curb my spending.... Ok, i boughts clothes ytd and today, and some other stuffs needed for my work. I calculated, i have spend ard $450 so far in just three short days. Its like averaging $150 a day. That's more like what i earn for a day! and to think i have more things to buy. I need a spectacle badly, i need a watch, a guess watch of cos (something that i have eye for like dont know since when) anyway its look good on my formal clothes, ok , at least that what i think.
I think somehow i have to stop myself from getting suck in into the rat race. As i notice that once i earn more - more residual income, i tend to spend more, i tend not to think so much abt money. That's kinda bad, i need to learn from mistakes, i need to learn to save money for the rainy days. I mean being an ex insurance agent, i'm aware of the high rising medical cost and hospital cost. I need to get prepare for all this. Yes, i might need it yet, but as a only son in the family, i need to support my family in the event anything happen to my parents. I'm so afraid, very afraid, the need to earn more money and to get protected seems very much in my priority list now. It's no longer fun to grow older, its like there so many burden, responsibilities to take care. Its that what we call life??
Hmm..... guess i need to sleep now, sounding so pessimistic at the moment. That's like so unlike me yea....
The moment i wake up tml, i should feel must better, more fresh, and i'm just so excited to go to work!
*Do ignore the last part, typing while i was closing my eyes..... utter rubbish!
Woke up ard 7 plus, reach office at 9am, and then stay till 6.30pm before rushing off to Temasek Polytechnic to coach the swim team / lifesaving team. Only theoritically end work at about close to 9pm. Oh man! i work 12 hours!!! That's gonna happen for like thrice a week, which leave me only 4 free days in a week (two weekdays free), but i have vocal classes on thursday, saturday which we oredi started recording for the album. I'm one big culprit who havent been reallie go down. Guess will wait for them to write me a piece of my solo piece before i reallie go down more often. *guilty guilty
Guess that's pretty much working life.... hardly have enough time for ppl ard me. I used to have alot of time, but now i have to try to find time. How ironic is tt. I wonder what lies ahead for me and my dearie, since we only left basically tuesday, sat and sunday for us to meet up. I mean i can meet her up on any normal day in the week but i have to make sure i wont be tired or look tired the next day as i need to meet clients. Oh well... tt's life ah.... and i guess that would pretty much carry on for years.
Suddendly it set me thinking what am i doing in life, what i reallie wanna do, what i reallie wanna be, what i reallie see in life? what kind of life would i wanna be living, thousands of qns just awaiting for my brains to solve. oh well i guess, its gonna be sometime before i would really figure it out, or would i ever gonna figure it out -_-???
Anyway celebrate Father's day on Saturday instead of Sunday , so as to avoid being slash by those horrendous prices charge by those companies. But then i guess somehow it didnt make any difference. For the first time in my life, i brought my family out for dinner. For the first time in 23 years, my dad's lovely son gonna treat him a wonderful feast. I guess he was happy, very happy in fact. He couldnt hide his delight, the look in his eyes told me he's gleaming with joy, his eyes just betrayed him. He was proud but happy at the same time. Come to think again, who dont wish that their son could gave parents money, treat them dinner, give money to them to go on holiday. While many wish, few actually got it. So for my dad to finally able to enjoy that feast was something he waited for 23 years i guess. And finally, i feel that i did something as a son.
Everyone was happy, i'm happy as well. $200 bucks was all it takes to cap a memorable first father's day celebration dinner for my family.
I think somehow, i have to curb my spending.... Ok, i boughts clothes ytd and today, and some other stuffs needed for my work. I calculated, i have spend ard $450 so far in just three short days. Its like averaging $150 a day. That's more like what i earn for a day! and to think i have more things to buy. I need a spectacle badly, i need a watch, a guess watch of cos (something that i have eye for like dont know since when) anyway its look good on my formal clothes, ok , at least that what i think.
I think somehow i have to stop myself from getting suck in into the rat race. As i notice that once i earn more - more residual income, i tend to spend more, i tend not to think so much abt money. That's kinda bad, i need to learn from mistakes, i need to learn to save money for the rainy days. I mean being an ex insurance agent, i'm aware of the high rising medical cost and hospital cost. I need to get prepare for all this. Yes, i might need it yet, but as a only son in the family, i need to support my family in the event anything happen to my parents. I'm so afraid, very afraid, the need to earn more money and to get protected seems very much in my priority list now. It's no longer fun to grow older, its like there so many burden, responsibilities to take care. Its that what we call life??
Hmm..... guess i need to sleep now, sounding so pessimistic at the moment. That's like so unlike me yea....
The moment i wake up tml, i should feel must better, more fresh, and i'm just so excited to go to work!
*Do ignore the last part, typing while i was closing my eyes..... utter rubbish!
Tuesday, June 14, 2005
Working life....
Recieve a call ytd, seems like Citib*** reallie wants me to work for them! wahhahah.. feel so priviledge and honours, they even wanted to wait for me for 1 month... Oh well never feel so wanted in my life before! it sure feels good man! keke~ Too bad i choose to accept another job offer. =) Well probably will move to Citib*** in near future bah. =)
Today nearly fall asleep during a trainnin session in my company. Back in my poly days, I never able to concentrate properly during my 2 hr tutorial, attended lectures only fortnightly or even less. During my degree course, it was kinda worse, and it was no surprise that today i was fidgeting like mad on my chair trying to stay awake and alert for that bloody 6-7 hrs of trainning (meeting). Welcome to the corporate world!!! I wonder will i have to get use to this kind of thing. I look so stone, even the manager sitting next to me was aware of tt! hahahaa.... oh well i think those managers cant take it also, and they kinda pity me when they saw my stonney look. =p
Overall working life's in my coy not too bad la, probably its still pretty much in the honeymoon stage bah, when everything settle down, everything and everybody will start to show their true colors?!??!!?!?....
Anyway I got my notebook! woooo.... solid man.. no need to buy..... wanted to buy a notebook ever since dont know when, and now i do not need to pay a single cent for it! its all provided! Steady pomp pi pi man! Guess that's one of the benefit of working for my company! Coolz~
Guess there still many other perks ard, will slowly find out and utilise it. Right now i'm gonna try to plan my MC leaves and my annual leaves........ hahahahahah~
i'm a calculative employee......*grinz
Dear is coming back tml..... finally something for me to look forward to tml!!!! Yeah.... I bet you wouldnt wanna see my happy face now! ahahahahahaha
*Dear , I'm Waiting for you......
Today nearly fall asleep during a trainnin session in my company. Back in my poly days, I never able to concentrate properly during my 2 hr tutorial, attended lectures only fortnightly or even less. During my degree course, it was kinda worse, and it was no surprise that today i was fidgeting like mad on my chair trying to stay awake and alert for that bloody 6-7 hrs of trainning (meeting). Welcome to the corporate world!!! I wonder will i have to get use to this kind of thing. I look so stone, even the manager sitting next to me was aware of tt! hahahaa.... oh well i think those managers cant take it also, and they kinda pity me when they saw my stonney look. =p
Overall working life's in my coy not too bad la, probably its still pretty much in the honeymoon stage bah, when everything settle down, everything and everybody will start to show their true colors?!??!!?!?....
Anyway I got my notebook! woooo.... solid man.. no need to buy..... wanted to buy a notebook ever since dont know when, and now i do not need to pay a single cent for it! its all provided! Steady pomp pi pi man! Guess that's one of the benefit of working for my company! Coolz~
Guess there still many other perks ard, will slowly find out and utilise it. Right now i'm gonna try to plan my MC leaves and my annual leaves........ hahahahahah~
i'm a calculative employee......*grinz
Dear is coming back tml..... finally something for me to look forward to tml!!!! Yeah.... I bet you wouldnt wanna see my happy face now! ahahahahahaha
*Dear , I'm Waiting for you......
Monday, June 13, 2005
I'm waiting for you...
2 more days to go!!!
I'm so happy to hear her voice despite knowing she is nowhere near me, but its rather comforting to know she's fine and enjoying herself. I dont wanna her to spend too much money on phonecalls, i would prefer her to use the money to buy nice things over at HK for herself, but then again, i miss her and i miss her voice. I know i'm contradicting myself. Oh well... guess i'm always like tt.... =p
i'm waiting for her to come back. 2 more days.... Gambatte yo!!! ;)
I'm so happy to hear her voice despite knowing she is nowhere near me, but its rather comforting to know she's fine and enjoying herself. I dont wanna her to spend too much money on phonecalls, i would prefer her to use the money to buy nice things over at HK for herself, but then again, i miss her and i miss her voice. I know i'm contradicting myself. Oh well... guess i'm always like tt.... =p
i'm waiting for her to come back. 2 more days.... Gambatte yo!!! ;)
Saturday, June 11, 2005
Feeling weird
On my way home after my coaching. On the radio in my car, feeling weird throughout the whole journey home. Feel like a small part of my heart is being chip off. Wait, i'm not having some heart problem or whatsoever, it's just that i'm missing someone and that someone is my darling of cos.
I guess my life revolve ard her bah, i spend most of my time with her other than my work of cos, and suddendly she's not ard, my time schedule just feel not so right. Oh well guess she has slowly become part of my life, a very important part that is. I guess sometimes u need this little bit of seperate period to aware u not taking yr partner for granted.
Guess absent make the heart goes fonder, oh wait a min..... tt apply only if that's short period of time, cause if absent for too long a time say years or so...... it will more likely make the heart goes dull / feelingless rather than feeling fonder.
Whether u agree or disagree, that's just a personal opinion. =)
I guess my life revolve ard her bah, i spend most of my time with her other than my work of cos, and suddendly she's not ard, my time schedule just feel not so right. Oh well guess she has slowly become part of my life, a very important part that is. I guess sometimes u need this little bit of seperate period to aware u not taking yr partner for granted.
Guess absent make the heart goes fonder, oh wait a min..... tt apply only if that's short period of time, cause if absent for too long a time say years or so...... it will more likely make the heart goes dull / feelingless rather than feeling fonder.
Whether u agree or disagree, that's just a personal opinion. =)
Dear Going HONG KONG
My dearie went to Hong Kong ytd, So happy for her, because it;s her first time leaving for that place. Hope she will enjoy herself while i'm here missing her.
Wanted to go over there with her, but spend quite a big sum when i was away in australia and also need to work so its just not the right time! hiaz.....
Its gonna be another 5 more days before i will see her =)
I torture her with 2 weeks of waiting when i was in australia, now she's giving me back the same treatment but i'm luckier because it's shorter duration! keke~ *grinz
Oh well its coaching again later and Inter-con swim meet tml. My whole sunday is burn again.......
*counting down the days.... =)
Wanted to go over there with her, but spend quite a big sum when i was away in australia and also need to work so its just not the right time! hiaz.....
Its gonna be another 5 more days before i will see her =)
I torture her with 2 weeks of waiting when i was in australia, now she's giving me back the same treatment but i'm luckier because it's shorter duration! keke~ *grinz
Oh well its coaching again later and Inter-con swim meet tml. My whole sunday is burn again.......
*counting down the days.... =)
Thursday, June 09, 2005
Welcome to Madagascar
I like to move it, move it
He like to move it, move it
She like to move it, move it
You like to ................. MOVE IT!
Welcome to Madagascar =)
Finally catch that show after so long =p Oh well, e show pretty funny but i think Roborts still much a better show than this.
Gonna be a Personal Banker @ a bank real soon, guys if u need any financial services, personal loan, housing loan, investment give me a buzz yeah....
Before i forget, i got an article on Team Singapore website, its already up since like 2 weeks ago, view it before its taken out from the database yea....
Click Here
ENJOY! =)
He like to move it, move it
She like to move it, move it
You like to ................. MOVE IT!
Welcome to Madagascar =)
Finally catch that show after so long =p Oh well, e show pretty funny but i think Roborts still much a better show than this.
Gonna be a Personal Banker @ a bank real soon, guys if u need any financial services, personal loan, housing loan, investment give me a buzz yeah....
Before i forget, i got an article on Team Singapore website, its already up since like 2 weeks ago, view it before its taken out from the database yea....
Click Here
ENJOY! =)
Friday, June 03, 2005
Arafura Games 2005
I'm Back! Yup that's like a quite long ago.... =p
Paiseh lah.... Been busy getting stuffs done, spending time with my loves one and trying to get back to normal life again. (ok and of course abit lazy! hee~)
Well, it seems like i'm not very use to my normal life again after a two weeks break, hahaha.... i mean sometimes u enjoy yr holiday so much that you dont even wanna start work again... =p
Just love being carefree and dont bother about money issues... =)
Ok let my recap what's going on for my 12 days trip to Darwin, Australia.
Day 1 and 2
Parted with family and dear @ airport, saw how reluctant dear was when she's letting go my hand, she nearly teared though, oh well i reminded her that she's not suppose to tear easily, anyway her dear dear is gonna do his country proud!!! hahahah =)
Took Qantas plane, the taking off wasnt that smooth, abit afraid that something might happen, CHOI!!! but luckily nothing happen in the end, heng ah!! Finally reach Darwin airport ard 2 plus in the morning. ( australia time about 3 plus going 4, the time difference is abt 1 1/2 hr ). In the airport, there were airport staffs patroling with their trained dogs, the dogs will sniff us and our luggage for suspected meat or drugs!??! yup, the dogs pretty well train cos they never stick out their tongue and lick u, they just use their nose to sniff around. Custom check kinda long cos the australian quite particular about bringing poultry food in or issit any kinda food in!?!? Well finally done with everything and took a group bus to the hotel which were then 5 plus 6 (australian time). I was feeling tired and sleepy and the worse part is we cant check in till like 2pm in the afternoon. It was pure torture waiting ard and cant rest because there simply no place for us to sleep! I was feeling totally exhaust by like 7 plus 8 in the morning. The week before i fly i didnt get to rest well, sleeping like 4-5 hr everyday and did have a trainning session on my own before i go to the airport and then i didnt even get to sleep because of that night flight and that stupid check in time!. gosh! it feels terrible. I nearly collapse when i was walking ard the supermart buying food.
Yup that's how tired i was! After lunch, checking in, spend the rest of the day sleeping in my bed. Zzzzzzzzzzzzz...........
Woke up and had dinner which was prepared by my team mates. Yummy, after that went back to bed again! hahahaha.... i was literally a pig on that day. =p Eat and sleep.
Cant blame me, i was too tired to do anything and need to recuperate before my competition starts!
Day 3
It was the opening ceremony for the Arafura games, not too bad, quite grand, the crowds are great, the atmosphere was good, i feel pump up for the games! yeah!!! =)
Day 4, 5, 6
Spend the rest of those days, go to beach and pool to familiarise the competition place. Meet my competitors, made new friends, their hospitality was great. Did some walking ard the area of our residential. Have fun making breakfast, lunch (if got time), dinner at the hostel there (anyway its a backpackers inn, place). Did have some fun there however the bed sucks! cos it remind me of my army, navy life. However some are the beds are worse than the one i get in my NS life, cos some of those bed were badly out of shape. (sunken bed, can even feel the spring when we lie on the bed) One thing is good at that place is that there is a pool! a very small scale swimming pool, but is good enough for me though! i love water cos i'm a water creature! =)
Day 7
Competition day! It the start of a three day competition, beach competition was first. Didnt reallie do well, anyway beach events are not my cup of tea, anyway my fellow team mates didnt fare to well either, we will like kinda badly trash!?!?!? yup ... that;s the cruel fact though.... well we were determine to make something happen the next day at the pool, in fact i was Determined to make an impression in the pool competition the next day! However i was so shackled by the events i took part in beach. For the first time i feel like my arms are cramping! gosh it never happen to me before. I know i'm in bad shape now, never did i feel so tired before, i need to get rid of those lactic acid in my body. After returning from the competition, i went straight to the hotel pool to warm down. Yup, trying my best to warm down properly so that i can burn off as much lactic acid as possible and trying to loosen up the muscle so as to be more fresh the next day. I was determine to do well and claim a stand for tml competition.
Day 8
Pool competition in the morning! Beach competition again in the evening. Woke up and determine to do my best at the pool. Prepared and ready to go then. Did a personal best (PB)for the first event, miss out the bronze medal by 0.3s, that sucks! Though i did a PB, i know i can do a better time than i clock. Oh well if only we had pool competition as the start of the three day competition. I was feeling not too good before the pool races.
The next event is comin up, i feel like giving up because i was kinda tired and anyway it wasnt the event that i like to swim. However surprisingly during the swim, i found myself leading the pack, and i decided to use a little bit strength instead of slacking and for the last 50m i find myself in medal contention. This shock me and i decided to start to speed up and when i saw my teammates jumping up and down asking me to go faster, i realise i reallie in for a contention for medal chances, i reallie go as fast as i can. Luckily for me i came in third! beating some of the guys by a few microseconds! Phew~ Thanks to my teammates and if only i chiong at the very start of the race, prolly i can get better placing!?!? hahahah... oh well.... that's the first bronze medal for Singapore lifesaving for this arafura games and i'm glad i'm got it. *grinz =)
The team manager were relieve after i got the first medal for our sports, cos at least he got something to write in the report and for me, i'm happy for myself and i will try to get another again for tml pool competition.
Once the pool competition finished, we head back to hotel(hostel) to rest a while before heading to the beach competition which was held at mindil beach. This beach is famous for its night market, which only operates on thurs and sunday night. After the beach competition we went to the night market to walk abit. Just briefly scan tru cos the next day early morning we had our last day of competition which is pool competition.
Day 9
The last day of competition!!! Had some great fun, Was kinda in a more relaxed mood because of my bronze medal ytd, however was looking forward to adding more medals for today competition. Finally manage to claim another bronze medal and surprisingly a gold medal for the last event of the day. =) During the gold medal presentation, finally able to sing our national anthem at the podium as our national anthem was being played. Its been a long time since i last sing national anthem, its almost like 6 years!!! ahhahaa.... to sing at the podium there was great! a proud moment definately! =)
At night, we had a treat from our team manager and coach at a chinese restuarant! yummy! finally some "luxury" food for our stomach, Then its free and easy. Some of us then went over to a Gay and lesbian club to look look see see. Sometimes i hate to go clubbing, cos as usual it is very smoky, and its like not very healthy for my lungs and my eyes teared as a result of those horrendous smoke at tt place. Saw some interesting things and of cos feeling kinda gross when i saw two man kissing and caressing each other. Yukes! pukes!
Day 10
Finally no more competition, it's shopping time!!! hahahaha~ went around to tour around the place and do some shopping. Evening time went for the closing ceremony of the arafura games. The closing was kinda different, is more like a celebration kinda thingy, cos got stage performance and 5 mins plus of fireworks! Didnt stay till the end cos our team went straight to the casino which was just next to the closing ceremony place.
The entrance to the casino is free and as usual is smoky inside due to some smokers smoking heavily in that place. Saw lots of ppl with different expression, some is either stress that they losing or are so excited that they winning quite a fair bit.
Went to play jackpot there, at first i was losing quite badly, more than $10 plus then like some season gambler, i was hopping around those different jackpot machine. That's the theory of some gambler stating that when u win money in that certain jackpot machine, it is time for u to go away or another machine because the jackpot machine is tuned in such a way it will build a hugh money bank before it gives out winning again. Hmmm... so based on this theory, i was reallie hopping around searching for unoccupied jackpot tat didnt give out winning before it was left unoccupied. Not long after, I managed to recoup my loss and earn $1 in profit! ahhaah. That's enough for me, cos i dont wanna lose money .... $1 still a profit yeah... =) Anyway its like kinda late so we decided to go back to our hotel. Took a cab back to our hotel(hostel), Australia cab meter jump faster than compared to our singapore cab, and its more expensive as well. So i think i'm not gonna complained about our Singapore Taxi charges! hahahahah......
Day 11
Went walking around again, and its like kinda the last day of shopping, cos the next day there wont be any time to travel and shop. Boughts souvenirs and foods, yup food, cos some of those food flavours (chocolates) we cant find in singapore =)
At night we went to chill out in a nearby pub.
Day 12
It's home sweet home!!! Did some reallie last min shopping nearby our hotel(hostel) then off we go to the airport. I cant wait to go home, because i just miss my bed too much!!! hahahaha... Didnt reallie sleep too comfortably for 12 days because of those bunk beds!
The taking off and landing was much better this time round compared to the day we left for australia, i guess its all depend on the pilot flying skills or was it the plane!??!?!?!
Finally saw my family and my darling at the airport! It was great to see them again. Show them my medals and took some photos there. Finally i'm home!
That night i reallie sleep so soundly, Mmmmmmmmmmmmm.......... Wat a wonderful Bed i have!!! =)
Paiseh lah.... Been busy getting stuffs done, spending time with my loves one and trying to get back to normal life again. (ok and of course abit lazy! hee~)
Well, it seems like i'm not very use to my normal life again after a two weeks break, hahaha.... i mean sometimes u enjoy yr holiday so much that you dont even wanna start work again... =p
Just love being carefree and dont bother about money issues... =)
Ok let my recap what's going on for my 12 days trip to Darwin, Australia.
Day 1 and 2
Parted with family and dear @ airport, saw how reluctant dear was when she's letting go my hand, she nearly teared though, oh well i reminded her that she's not suppose to tear easily, anyway her dear dear is gonna do his country proud!!! hahahah =)
Took Qantas plane, the taking off wasnt that smooth, abit afraid that something might happen, CHOI!!! but luckily nothing happen in the end, heng ah!! Finally reach Darwin airport ard 2 plus in the morning. ( australia time about 3 plus going 4, the time difference is abt 1 1/2 hr ). In the airport, there were airport staffs patroling with their trained dogs, the dogs will sniff us and our luggage for suspected meat or drugs!??! yup, the dogs pretty well train cos they never stick out their tongue and lick u, they just use their nose to sniff around. Custom check kinda long cos the australian quite particular about bringing poultry food in or issit any kinda food in!?!? Well finally done with everything and took a group bus to the hotel which were then 5 plus 6 (australian time). I was feeling tired and sleepy and the worse part is we cant check in till like 2pm in the afternoon. It was pure torture waiting ard and cant rest because there simply no place for us to sleep! I was feeling totally exhaust by like 7 plus 8 in the morning. The week before i fly i didnt get to rest well, sleeping like 4-5 hr everyday and did have a trainning session on my own before i go to the airport and then i didnt even get to sleep because of that night flight and that stupid check in time!. gosh! it feels terrible. I nearly collapse when i was walking ard the supermart buying food.
Yup that's how tired i was! After lunch, checking in, spend the rest of the day sleeping in my bed. Zzzzzzzzzzzzz...........
Woke up and had dinner which was prepared by my team mates. Yummy, after that went back to bed again! hahahaha.... i was literally a pig on that day. =p Eat and sleep.
Cant blame me, i was too tired to do anything and need to recuperate before my competition starts!
Day 3
It was the opening ceremony for the Arafura games, not too bad, quite grand, the crowds are great, the atmosphere was good, i feel pump up for the games! yeah!!! =)
Day 4, 5, 6
Spend the rest of those days, go to beach and pool to familiarise the competition place. Meet my competitors, made new friends, their hospitality was great. Did some walking ard the area of our residential. Have fun making breakfast, lunch (if got time), dinner at the hostel there (anyway its a backpackers inn, place). Did have some fun there however the bed sucks! cos it remind me of my army, navy life. However some are the beds are worse than the one i get in my NS life, cos some of those bed were badly out of shape. (sunken bed, can even feel the spring when we lie on the bed) One thing is good at that place is that there is a pool! a very small scale swimming pool, but is good enough for me though! i love water cos i'm a water creature! =)
Day 7
Competition day! It the start of a three day competition, beach competition was first. Didnt reallie do well, anyway beach events are not my cup of tea, anyway my fellow team mates didnt fare to well either, we will like kinda badly trash!?!?!? yup ... that;s the cruel fact though.... well we were determine to make something happen the next day at the pool, in fact i was Determined to make an impression in the pool competition the next day! However i was so shackled by the events i took part in beach. For the first time i feel like my arms are cramping! gosh it never happen to me before. I know i'm in bad shape now, never did i feel so tired before, i need to get rid of those lactic acid in my body. After returning from the competition, i went straight to the hotel pool to warm down. Yup, trying my best to warm down properly so that i can burn off as much lactic acid as possible and trying to loosen up the muscle so as to be more fresh the next day. I was determine to do well and claim a stand for tml competition.
Day 8
Pool competition in the morning! Beach competition again in the evening. Woke up and determine to do my best at the pool. Prepared and ready to go then. Did a personal best (PB)for the first event, miss out the bronze medal by 0.3s, that sucks! Though i did a PB, i know i can do a better time than i clock. Oh well if only we had pool competition as the start of the three day competition. I was feeling not too good before the pool races.
The next event is comin up, i feel like giving up because i was kinda tired and anyway it wasnt the event that i like to swim. However surprisingly during the swim, i found myself leading the pack, and i decided to use a little bit strength instead of slacking and for the last 50m i find myself in medal contention. This shock me and i decided to start to speed up and when i saw my teammates jumping up and down asking me to go faster, i realise i reallie in for a contention for medal chances, i reallie go as fast as i can. Luckily for me i came in third! beating some of the guys by a few microseconds! Phew~ Thanks to my teammates and if only i chiong at the very start of the race, prolly i can get better placing!?!? hahahah... oh well.... that's the first bronze medal for Singapore lifesaving for this arafura games and i'm glad i'm got it. *grinz =)
The team manager were relieve after i got the first medal for our sports, cos at least he got something to write in the report and for me, i'm happy for myself and i will try to get another again for tml pool competition.
Once the pool competition finished, we head back to hotel(hostel) to rest a while before heading to the beach competition which was held at mindil beach. This beach is famous for its night market, which only operates on thurs and sunday night. After the beach competition we went to the night market to walk abit. Just briefly scan tru cos the next day early morning we had our last day of competition which is pool competition.
Day 9
The last day of competition!!! Had some great fun, Was kinda in a more relaxed mood because of my bronze medal ytd, however was looking forward to adding more medals for today competition. Finally manage to claim another bronze medal and surprisingly a gold medal for the last event of the day. =) During the gold medal presentation, finally able to sing our national anthem at the podium as our national anthem was being played. Its been a long time since i last sing national anthem, its almost like 6 years!!! ahhahaa.... to sing at the podium there was great! a proud moment definately! =)
At night, we had a treat from our team manager and coach at a chinese restuarant! yummy! finally some "luxury" food for our stomach, Then its free and easy. Some of us then went over to a Gay and lesbian club to look look see see. Sometimes i hate to go clubbing, cos as usual it is very smoky, and its like not very healthy for my lungs and my eyes teared as a result of those horrendous smoke at tt place. Saw some interesting things and of cos feeling kinda gross when i saw two man kissing and caressing each other. Yukes! pukes!
Day 10
Finally no more competition, it's shopping time!!! hahahaha~ went around to tour around the place and do some shopping. Evening time went for the closing ceremony of the arafura games. The closing was kinda different, is more like a celebration kinda thingy, cos got stage performance and 5 mins plus of fireworks! Didnt stay till the end cos our team went straight to the casino which was just next to the closing ceremony place.
The entrance to the casino is free and as usual is smoky inside due to some smokers smoking heavily in that place. Saw lots of ppl with different expression, some is either stress that they losing or are so excited that they winning quite a fair bit.
Went to play jackpot there, at first i was losing quite badly, more than $10 plus then like some season gambler, i was hopping around those different jackpot machine. That's the theory of some gambler stating that when u win money in that certain jackpot machine, it is time for u to go away or another machine because the jackpot machine is tuned in such a way it will build a hugh money bank before it gives out winning again. Hmmm... so based on this theory, i was reallie hopping around searching for unoccupied jackpot tat didnt give out winning before it was left unoccupied. Not long after, I managed to recoup my loss and earn $1 in profit! ahhaah. That's enough for me, cos i dont wanna lose money .... $1 still a profit yeah... =) Anyway its like kinda late so we decided to go back to our hotel. Took a cab back to our hotel(hostel), Australia cab meter jump faster than compared to our singapore cab, and its more expensive as well. So i think i'm not gonna complained about our Singapore Taxi charges! hahahahah......
Day 11
Went walking around again, and its like kinda the last day of shopping, cos the next day there wont be any time to travel and shop. Boughts souvenirs and foods, yup food, cos some of those food flavours (chocolates) we cant find in singapore =)
At night we went to chill out in a nearby pub.
Day 12
It's home sweet home!!! Did some reallie last min shopping nearby our hotel(hostel) then off we go to the airport. I cant wait to go home, because i just miss my bed too much!!! hahahaha... Didnt reallie sleep too comfortably for 12 days because of those bunk beds!
The taking off and landing was much better this time round compared to the day we left for australia, i guess its all depend on the pilot flying skills or was it the plane!??!?!?!
Finally saw my family and my darling at the airport! It was great to see them again. Show them my medals and took some photos there. Finally i'm home!
That night i reallie sleep so soundly, Mmmmmmmmmmmmm.......... Wat a wonderful Bed i have!!! =)
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