Secret War Journal[23 December 2009]
Hi, it's me again! :)
Okay, that didn't sound really cheerful. (LOL.)
You know, I'm a bit behind time in blogging since I keep losing the mood to blog lately. (Hopefully, that ends soon. Hahas!) Let's make this short so that I can move on to my next post (Hopefully, all done in one day! Woots!)
Johnston and I went to Bugis on that day to look for a job. The original plan was to find a job at the Suki Sushi Restaurant where Keller was working at.(See last few post)
But by that day, that restaurant ran out of vacancies. Grasp. Oh well.
We went to Bugis to look for a job at Fairprice Supermarket.
That was done at a surprisingly fast speed and we had nothing to do all of sudden. :o So we head to somewhere near Johnston's House and played LAN: Left 4 Dead 2.
Well...what can I say? That's one fast way of killing time. *Shrug*
Homed.
P.S: Don't cry foul at me. I did warn you I wanted to end this fast. What about the details you say? Opps? :D
Secret War Journal[22 December 2009]
Wee...finally have time to blog again!
This Tuesday, I finally have an outing with friends since god-knows-when. (Probably since 2 weeks ago...T.T) On that day, I did not work so I was basically using the computer since I read finish the newspaper and read finish all the storybooks that I borrowed (you know, the one about the runes).
The original plan was to meet at 2pm at Plaza Singapura with Johnston, Keller, Darian, Dalton, and Samuel. Trevor could not make it. (Sad Sad)
Plans...
Oh well(as I always say..hahas), as I was saying, that was the original plan, in the end, I met up with Johnston around lunch time to look for a job that Keller got -- Suki Sushi Restaurant.
Supposedly, it was located at Hougang Mall which was near the MRT Station.
When we were entering the Hougang Mall, we chanced upon a boy asking for donations to a (unknown) charity. The Minimum donation was $10. (I'm going to be broke...) Since it was so expensive, John and I shared the cost of donating.
After donating, this conversation took place: Leroy: You know, I'm very scared it was a bogus charity. Johnston: (Laughs) Yeah Leroy: Reminds me of the video "What to do when you're bored this Christmas -- Ask people to donate to bogus Charity" Both: (Laughs)
Well, we definitely hope not!(Though I'm afraid we may well never know. ;) I mean, we want the money we donated to at least benefit someone(as is the purpose of Charity, in the first place.)
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Back to the main point, we could not find the Sushi Restaurant called "Suki Sushi" but "Ichiban Sushi".
Opps?
Now, either we got scammed or we went to the wrong place. Hahas.
Anyway, since we already came we tried our luck at that restaurant and applied for a job. ;)
Back.
Hoho. Guess what? When we were heading back to MRT Station, we met Keller on pure coincidence (he was supposed to meet us at Plaza Singapura). Immediately, we asked him where the Restaurant and walaa! We were in the wrong place. LOL!
Nevermind. Now towards Plaza Singapura!
The Movie
Erm...let just say the majority of us says it's not really nice. We should had watched Avatar(if it wasn't thanks to my father and my stepmother, we could had. >|)
Thankfully, the humour used in the movie made the movie watch-able in general.
But not really worth your $6.50 for the movie tickets.
After the movie, I need to head off towards home immediately so I can't exactly say this is a outing, more like a brief gathering or something.(no thanks again to my father and stepmother)
Secret War Journal[20 December 2009]
Today, I woke up sorta later than usual since my work won't start so early.
While waiting for my parents to get ready to go to the temple to meet up with our relatives, I was trying to finish this trilogy.
It's a book based mainly on Norse Mythology and Runes(WOo la la!). Sorry, I'm a big fan of magic. :p
On the last book, which is the third book, there is a guide to the Runes used in this trilogy.
The only defect, I believe, would be that the book uses some french which were not translated by the author, which leaves you confused as to what was the conversation about. So you might arm yourself with a translator when you this book. :p (Kidding! French were only used sparingly. You could still understand the story without knowing French.)
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This time, my family is way late, the last(in fact), to arrive and all the praying were already done. =.=
Oh well, it's not like I wanted to be late(my family's good at this, hopefully not me. :)
Paid my respects to my grandfather and mother.
P.S: My family kind of anti-social that day, they sort of avoided contact with the relatives, very emo-ish, like sitting in one isolated corner or something. Brr...
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After that, I went off with Aunt to start work! ;)
Secret War Journal[12~21 December 2009]
Hello guys! Well, yeah ,I'm bloggging one day earlier than usual (Woots?)
There's a reason for that, but for now, let keep it a mystery. O.o
What happened after the Job Hunt...
Okay, so the post on the Job Hunt would had left you, "What?...Cliffhanger!"
Opps? I did not do that on purpose! Sorry!
I just got severely sidetracked. (and ran out of time halfway? hahas!)
Okay, before you start entertaining murderous thoughts, let us move on. (hee...)
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After applying, I pretty much wasted the next three days waiting for calls(which sad to say, really impossible since my stepmother took the handphone away so yeah...)
So yeah, I guess it's fate that even if they did want to hire me, they can't. Haiz...
T.T
Well, just then, a ray of light shone on me(okay, I'm bullshitting but yeah, just for the sake of making it more significant. :)
My aunt got a job for me! Woots!
And so I got a job(yeah, the same one as last year's) Well, since it's pretty much the same as last year, I will skip the redundant details, here's something new!
Tadaa!
Obviously, I modified the flier so that you can't, you know, reproduce it. And I removed the vouchers too. But yeah, lemme do some advertising, would yer? :D
Since my post was so discriminatingly targetted for males.(hahas!) I think it's only fair that this advertisement only concerns the females. :p
So yeah, Manicure and Pedicure! LOL, frankly, I have no idea what's the difference between this two...
So,...yeah, can't do much in this segment, (moving on...)
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Since I distribute two fliers at once, I get double the pay! Woots!
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Time's up. Aww...
I'm still considering if I should take a job at Reuben's workplace though I'm not sure if Trevor's company has vacancy for me. (I prefer working for Trevor. :p)
Secret War Journal[8 December 2009]
Boo! Guess what. I intended to post last Sunday but I ran out of time. (you know, I got sidetracked and then blah, blah, blah...)
Anyway, let's get this thing up and running...
We all overslept...
Hahas! Can you believe that?
We planned to meet early in the morning because I need to be at home by 5 so as to fetch my younger brother from School.(..Haiz...)
When I woke up, I knew at once I was going to be late. So I rushed to the meeting area...
Johnston was nowhere to be found!
GASP!
Okay...you know what's the first thought that came to me?
"Okay....I got a feeling I heard the wrong location to meet at..."
CRAP...so I thought. But hey, there was a possibility that Johnston was late(but never this late because it's almost half an hour past the meeting time!)...so I pondered whether I should head towards another possible meeting location. (At this moment, I regretted exiting the MRT station, which meant that I paid the fare. AHH!!!)
Then another train of thought came, "What if I was so late that Johnston went ahead...Oh great..."
So there I was struggling with my feeble mind in agony(okay, virtually)..when Johnston arrived.
Thank the gods!
Turns out that Johnston overslept too..Hahas!
Since both of us overslept, we had not had breakfast, Johnston didn't feel hungry so only I bought breakfast(at Breadtalk! :)
And so it begins...
Now what?
I think this was the first time I went out to hunt for a part-time job. (I doubt this would be my last time. :p)
So how did it went? Hmm..Let's see, I applied for a job at:
Subways (EAT FRESH!)
Build-A-Bear
Golden Village
The application for Subways took the longest, boy do they ask very comprehensively.
Sad that I did not give them my Home number then, it was down which leads us to our next section...
What happened?
My phone line went static the day before. Why? I had no idea. Thankfully, by the time I posting this, the phone line had been fixed. Thank you. (Meanwhile my alarm clock died...)
Things that went faulty since last post:
Home Phone Line [FIXED]
Gas Stove [FIXED]
Alarm Clock [Hopefully Replaced]
Things are always falling apart at home, no? Okay, we're going to sidetrack a little here (ignore these if you do not know Chinese)
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Secret War Journal[1 December 2009]
Okay, this is seriously overdue. My bad! :p
Without further a ado, let get this up and running!...
Meeting up
As is tradition, I would always meet up with Marcus first at Compass Point. :D
Since this meeting is unique, we met up earlier than usual, in fact 10AM.
Jackie requested us to be present by 11AM. I don't mind. It's been a long time since we met and we would sure to have lots of things to talk about. XD
Meeting place was the usual though I felt seriously out-of-place when Marcus had not arrived.
10:02AM: Arrived at designated location, no sight of Marcus. A group of youngsters are around too, but for different purposes. Of course. 10:07AM(I think): More people arriving for the same purposes as the first group. Starting to feel out of place. Marcus, you better get here soon. 10:10+AM(I think!): Marcus arrived. Phew!
Note to Marcus: See? I'm seldom late! The previous time was a isolated case! (okay so you already knew, but I was trying to clarify. :p)
Preparations
Well, we(rightfully, I should say Marcus) had prepared a surprise for Jackie. Hee...will not spoil the fun yet but no worries, I will reveal in a few sections later. XD
Since we're all in a Christmas Mood, it's no wonder that Compass Point is selling Christmas Tree.
Marcus: The trees are so expensive! Wait...do you recall that we met here around this time too last time. Leroy: Exactly! How come these trees cost so much?!...oh yeah, is it just me but we had this conversation before. *Laughs* Marcus: And these trees are fake...
Just for the sake of clarifying, the trees we were referring to were Christmas Trees. :p
They were also selling Console Games so we went to take a look.
*Looking for PS2 games(since Jackie owns one)* Manager(I presume): Erm, sorry, we're not open yet.
Ohhhhh....anyway, there ain't any PS2 console game displayed there(and little wonder in that too.)
Man, I'm hungry. Time for breakfast!
Went to Old Chang Kee for Breakfast since it is one of few food stalls open then, :o
It's okay, I'm into Old Chang Kee recently. :p
Mmm..Fried Chicken and Fishball. (yeah, me and my randomness. No idea why I ordered those. Hahas!)
P.S: I just need $0.10 more to get a free cup of Soy Bean Milk! Nooooo!!! LOLs?
After buying the food, (I sort of tempted Marcus to buy as well, I think. :p) I realised that I can't board the bus. HA!
It's okay. We finished the food and I went to clean my hands and we're ready to set off! ;)
Reaching the Bus Interchange, the Boarding area for Bus 83 is empty. I think that means we just missed a bus. Great....
Waiting...
Waiting...
Waiting...
Jackie called, reminding Marcus to reach there by 11AM. Tut Tut. I was confident we could reach there punctually.
How memory fails us all
The bus finally came! Woots!
Alright! As we wait for the bus to reach the bus stop that we want to alight, let me enlighten you on some background information.
So what's the surprise that we have for Jackie? Simple, a birthday present. (that cost a bomb)
To be exact, Chocolates.
Now here's the problem. We weren't sure if Jackie's Birthday was tomorrow.
Big Opps?
Hey, we both used our rusty old minds whose instinct tells us that Jackie's Birthday SHOULD fall on tomorrow.
And yeah, with that uncertainty, we got him a birthday present. Hey, I mean if we're wrong it can be a door gift. :D
Right?
Marcus: Is this the stop that we're supposed to alight? Leroy: Not sure. I know we need to alight at the stop opposite a supermarket and I don't see it...
*Bus moves* *Supermarket opposite prior bus-stop comes into view* Leroy: Erm..I think we just missed it...
*I think Marcus gave me a glare(okay, Marcus say he did not give me a glare so there's there :D) or became crestfallen*
So, given the circumstances, we alighted at the next stop. Main worry? Ironically, it's not about we reaching there late but the melting chocolate. And so we walked fast.
The distance from the two bus stops seems surprisingly short. Wow.
Leroy: Okay, I think we have another problem. Marcus: What? Leroy: Where's Jackie's house? I've no absolute idea! *Laughs* Marcus: I know. Leroy: Thank god!
Did I mention that my memory sucks? I probably did. XD
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Going up the lift, yet another conversation occurred. (C'mon, I'm forever talking! Yak Yak Yak.) Marcus: Do you think Jackie's mother and sister will be there? Leroy: I think so. They always do.
Well...our conversation was cut short since we reached the floor and there were people outside.
Two people, in fact.
One adult and one child.
And the adult is very familiar....now where had I seen that before.
Adult: Marcus?
Oh...now I remember, she is Jackie's mother, then the younger one must be...
I think that's rather self-explanatory.
When the two of them entered the lift and left...
Leroy: Speak of the Devil! Marcus: LOL! You took the words out of my mouth! I was going to say that!
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Reached Jackie's House. (Yeah, it's just the beginning and so much already happened! OMG!)
Now for the burning question: Is tomorrow Jackie's Birthday? Let us find out.
(Bear in mind that this conversation took place at Jackie's House's Doorstep.) Marcus: Jackie, is tomorrow's your birthday? Jackie: No. Why?
*Oh crap. Oh crap. (Basically chanting)* Marcus: Nothing. Jackie: Actually, it is. Marcus: You!
No offence intended. That's Jackie for you! :p Heehee!
And if you thought that's why I choose such a heading, too bad! Hahas!
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Apparently, Jia Xing already reached and he was playing Starcraft. O.o Getting trashed by A.I.
Somehow, I ended up playing it too, sort-of trying exact revenge on the A.I.
Leaving out the details, I lost too. T.T *emo* LOLs!
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Then we started talking about our primary school life and how it changed so far. Some way or rather, we went to facebook to find our 6/5 classmates.
And boy, had we forgotten so many people that we never knew was part of our class. It was not intentional! We're really sorry!
But we remembered now, thanks to Jackie's well preserved class photo. :D
(now you know why the heading was named so? XD)
Lunchtime
Some things changed, no more fried rice (can't say I don't miss them. :o) but chicken rice instead,
Thank you, Jackie's Mother for spending time to cook for us! Appreciated!
Meanwhile, Marcus pretended that he was a smoker and he is suffering from withdrawal symptoms and he's on a diet. (unfortunately, he's not on a diet. Opps? :D)
Talked for a while before Zhi Wen arrived.
Sad that Jia He could not make it. Why you fell sick on this day?! LOL
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One of Jackie's PS2's controller turned out to be faulty. Jackie did not know beforehand because he only plays that when we come. Oh well.
(bet marcus must be glad that he did not buy a PS2 game after all. Hahas)
Talking resumed....about what is anyone's guess. ;)
Video to show
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Did I miss out anything else that is of interest? Think not. Guess I sign off here now. :D
Secret War Journal[6 December 2009]
Well...what can I say? I wished that I started blogging today on a happier setting but we all know that's as good as impossible these days...
Well...we all do as we must and so I shall continue...
Things I left out in the last post
I wanted to Post about my visit to Jackie's House but we will save that for another day(when I'm in a better mood than today, which may well never come...)
Interesting Snippets of Informations recently
Well, that's one way of getting happier (since I guess when you feel better, you get happier easier, I think.)
Well, my family hardly ever says thanks. Maybe none at all. Or none sound sincere to count anyway.
My house is like a stage, a place to act. So you can say my family are all hypocrites. (maybe I, myself, am one too)
The 'peace' at home is like an mirage. Hatred between each other. I'm not surprised you threaten me so.
Tsk tsk, the more you threaten me so, the more you prove to me that you stand to lose more than me.
The merits you told me in maintaining such a show is pathetic and pales in comparison in facing the truth.
You say we should not judge based on Pros and Cons, gains and losses. Well, too bad, I'm a practical person.You didn't know? What a shame.
Funny that you treat me like an idiot when I'm smarter than you. Ironic, I would say.
So I let the anger out today. Actually, I did not intend to. Thanks to some people who decided to placed their foolish blame on me, this show is starting to warm up.
And so far the results are not bad (save my current mood.), they left me alone at home. Finally, some freedom since last week! Not a bad course of action to execute since I can regain my old peaceful life before a certain someone dragged me into this mess because 'they think a family should be together'.
Funny you said that when you say the Family is already in pieces, and you claim this is my bloody fault.
This rift, this existence of camps did not even involve me until you dragged me in. To what end?! To place the blame on me? That just proves what 'nice' family I have got here.
You think I'm very forgiving? Then perhaps the years you spent me were for naught. You should known better. Since when I let thing lay as it is? Fool.
I swore and I do not have a single regret. One day ...I intend you to be rapid the wrongs you did to me tenfold. And everyday the stage threatens to tremble, that day draws nearer.
You think I won't walk this path, huh? Wrong. I will not suffer as much losses as you would(though you would think otherwise, I'm not longer the old leroy you knew, fool. The things that you think I'm afraid of losing are nothing compared to what you shall suffer.). And that's some-what enough to have your own taste of the very hell you forged.
Of course, if the stage stabilises, don't think yourself safe. I intend to see it so.
It's always someone else fault, never yours. And you say that I'm just trying to pass the blame? If the family is breaking into even smaller pieces then it was before, shouldn't the blame be on the head?
Of course, you could say that these words are said in a fit of anger. Whether that's true, we shall see(as shall I)...
Secret War Journal[29 November 2009]
Wow. It's been a week! Time passes so fast when you're busy!
But wait, wasn't I hardly even going out this week.
I'm so glad I did not went out as often as I planned since I was already this busy without going out for lesure. :p
Really wanted to blog some days back but couldn't find time. (Shows you how busy I was...:p)
Well, today(okay, so it's already late), I decided to take time off and blog! Woots!
Library Trip @ 24 November 2009
This is one of the few days that I went out. Hahas.
Johnston wanted to research on Energy Sources. So we went to Bugis where the great (and large) Nation Library lie.
We went to the Reference Library and this was the first time I came here.
For those who never had the chance to enter, prepare for some surprises, (ignore this text if you don't want me to spoil the fun) for example:
The reference Library is 4 Storeys High! (okay, that's rather duh)
You can only bring in a piece of notebook + pen and/or Laptop
You cannot bring in your other belongings
The reference library is guarded. O.o
It's really quiet in there! You will get glares for talking! So shh!!!...
You get a locker when you have forbidden items with you before entering the library. How cool is that?
BTW, I shall quote the Guard: "If you lose the Locker Key, you will need to pay $15"
We were walking into the Library.
Me: "okay..."
Johnston: "Thanks for telling us?"
In this hard times when cash is precious, it is best that you take extra care not to lose the locker keys. ;)
Well, about the research thingy, we hardly learnt anything. The level of intelligence was something that is currently beyond our understanding. I saw some very complicated equations and more accurate values of the speed of light and Avogadro's Number.
It's information overload! Einstein's everywhere in the books of Physics! Kind of tell you where this all leading to, huh?
After killing our brains reading those thick books, we ended up looking the World Atlas.
After spending roughly one hour reading the Atlas (yes, it's that thick too), we went home...
BUT!
Before that, we went to the normal library that normal human beings venture to check out the huge collection of books available. Surprisingly, I can't the items that I wanted. Wow.
SITEX 2009
Lost a job during this period. Sad. Nevermind. The employer says he would employ me during January. He better keep to his words. :|
Anyway, I still went to SITEX 2009 @ EXPO (TWICE! OMG!...) because we were considering whether we should get a laptop/netbook.
But we did not, in the end, what a perfect waste of my 7 hours. =.=
P.S: We seriously need to upgrade the MRT system. It's freaking overcrowded in there!!!
Saw Dylan today at EXPO! O.o
Before I say goodbye...
What? It's ending already? C'mon, it's late at night already!
Nope, I did not start blogging this late on purpose. I ONLY started blogging after I finished most of my To-do List for today.
Did I mention my stepmother threw away my school shoes already? She acts so fast. I'm starting to get worried of my other shoes, they might just disappear one day!
Lastly, please help me pray that I successfully graduate because I already passed my Secondary 4 books to my cousins (and my stepmother already threw away my school shoes. :p)
With that, this is goodbye. I hope I can blog more (if I have the time, of course).
Secret War Journal[21 November 2009][Long Post][Picture-Heavy] Will elaborate on this post.(I give up.) For now, I must keep my promise and post this. So sit back and let the pictures do the talking...>=D
