welcome back sire

there's sumthin weird tat happened... it all began when i went for the friday gig at dhoby ghaut and nic sparks's notebook... i got off the train and was really emo and full of awe of the station... really i was... i was so, majestic... haha... anyways, den got a nice surprise to know tat i was doin sound... well, not so nice but a good surprise... minus the fact i was there abt 6.10 and the gig starts at 7... and i didnt set up the place... the wonderous horror of doin sound in which you have to figure out where everything is connected to and the technician/those who set up isn't there... in less than an hour... so got the show started... had a late nite meeting/chill out session ever since a few weeks back...

got a kind of part time job... one indian production... so itz no evenings for me... oh well

den sat went to johore wif ma parents... went to eat at the place where me, ducky and azim was eatin(well, they were, i was jus puking the entire time at tat restaurant cos of the mushroom i ate at ducky's house a few hours prior)... well, abt 2 tables away was a grp smokin sheesha... *gasp*... hahaha...

den sunday was back at PS... i guess now dhoby ghaut is quite an emo place for me to be... it was the same feelings again... well, minus the fact i was abt to finish the notebook... lin gave me a hug which kinda made me feel better i guess... dunno why though...so anyways, den we sat at mac for a while before goin back...

was readin lin's blod... den tis flash of memory came back... maybe wat was whispered to me on my birthday the same phrase.. though i cant be sure... love me if you dare... seriously i forgot... but suddenly it sounded so familiar... so oh well....

i guess i will kind of drop my status of a dead poet... there's words forming inside my head... jus nuthin yet to write abt... sadly, i haf yet to find sumthin to write abt... though tis make up artist nearly made me write one... but sumhow it jus never really erupted... sighs... i'm too lazy to write abt cambodia todae... so wont write abt it... hahaha

jus got a job... kind of... freelance sound recordist... whee... at least for a few days... like abt 20 days... not as if i cld understand wat i'm recording... a tamil drama series in which i do not know the name of the series... well, i was told once, but as if i cld understand like tat...

so anyways, shld be a fun week for the next 2 weeks... quite a busy weel no doubt... so, i'm off to sentosa on friday... wheee...

welcome back for the 2nd episode

so on the 3rd day, i think, i started on brick layering with sarah A.M aka sam... jus not to confuse wif sarah tan aka ms taitai wannabe... hee... so yea... never haf i luaghed so hard with anyone on this trip before... i guess her laughter was infectious... so we were eating lunch (white rice and chicken bones - which wld be the menu for lunch for the next few days) together and sittin by each other... we were jus too lazy to get up... so sumhow we ended up sleepin on each other's shoulders... later on, she decides to make a pact... we were gonna act like a couple durin the trip... a no strings attached pact... so there began my summer fling in cambodia... well, every started askin me if i was together wif sam or not after a few days... since we were always hanging out together and stuff... the first to ask was tim... he was quite adamant abt askin me... he kept askin every few days... den there was benita who kept askin me too... den there was jeremy and kiff too who asked me once... we didnt do anythin... jus were quite close... but on the emotional level, i guess the both of us made sure we were never on the same frequencies... it was easier tat way... so in between, we were warm and cold... sumtimes warm, sumtimes cold... she's jus as much as a loner as me... favouring to be alone, away from the crowd... jus being by urself sumtimes... but i sumtimes try not to be like tat when ere's a lot of ppl ard since no use bein alone when u got friends around... so sumtimes we wld spend time jus staring into space...

on the trip, i kinda learnt how to find the north star... if i still got the theory right, under orion's belt is the south star... so directly opposite it is the north star... also learnt that if guys poked their ass, semen will come out... dunno how true it is... might haf jus been a prank... tats wat supposed to happen when u go for a STD test... (or watever the test is called)... oh well...

then there was the dumb information we told to teach other... like volcanic ashes, vietnam on the opposite side, the human smugglers, the boats being pulled by a string attached to trees, kallang river startin in cambodia, red ants abt the size of your hands... dun remember any thin else la...not yet at least...

then there was the hundreds of pranks being held... from me gettin my nails painted, to lan xi havin her face vandalised with the word donkey(well tat was because they were playin uno and she lost 6 times in cumulative total.... to sam and beni gettin the 96, to jeremy and eddy gettin the white moisturising cream on their pants while they slept, to sherman gettin his leg vandalised with marker pens, to eddy gettin his face rubbed with tiger balm, him gettin his shorts pulled, to beni bein carried out, to sumone runnin away from gopi and fallin and hurting her finger, to j gettin punked... the first one was mascara bein applied to his eyebrows... on one side since he kinda woke up a bit... well, he moved la... den the a pad coloured red was placed under him and video-ed it... not sure if there was another one in between or not... heh...

will update as i remember... stay tune for another few more episodes... maybe 2 or 3 more

Welcome to the Hotel Combodia

i'm back!!!!!!!!! well, more of yesterday... back to proper roads, proper vehicles travelling at the right lanes (hopefully i dun imitate the locals in cambodia while driving), good food and DRINKS, wifout the fear of gettin typhoid/diarrhea. arrghhh... so how do you catogerise what has happened during the whole trip?? let start from the beginning...

5th April 05

was abt an hour early for the gathering... so was jus walkin abt in the airport before goin back to BK after knowing serene was also at BK... flew there on flight MI608 (SilkAir)... there was a cute air stewardess... haha... flight took abt 2 hours i guess... got the window seat... sat wif sarah tan and tim... so anyways, it was pretty how when we first touched down at Phnom Penh International Airport... there we were greeted by tis lady who gave us all a bracelet(kind of) made from, i tink it was, jasmine flowers. den we headed to tis place to eat... *checks the photos for the name*

we ate at the Baan Thai restaurant... anyways, had plain rice wif other stuff i guess... first contact with Khmer food... which basically means white rice wif a soup and another meat and veg... had bottled soft drinks... tat summarises our first nite... went straight to the hospital after that... we had tis cottage lookin house.. 2 storey high with electricity/light/fan/attached bathrooms... quite cool actually... so anyways... abt 12 of us were upstairs and another 11 downstairs... slept next to eddy the first nite... so there was like me, charlene and hanizah who can't sleep tat nite... had fun hearing eddy waking himself up with his own noise tat he made at night... it was sum scary shite noise made by him... and he jus woke up... me and hanizah were like laughing away...

morning came and i was the first few to wake up(which will be the only time i was to wake up very early)... went down to take pic of the land we were to destroy and build a playground... not tat it was much use anyway since it was basically sand and a destroyed building... in which bits of foundations still stood... so the first day was basically changkol-ing the path... the whole 140 meters... so there we spent the whole of the first day digging trenches to lay the bricks... dam hard work really... especially the breaking of bricks and rocks... and if u hit the rocks accidentally and was holding the hoe really tight, u'll get some good vibrations on your lower back and wrist... and u'll be like shite... had chicken and rice for lunch... jus white rice and bits of chicken... den dinner was tis whole fish and soup and veg and unlimited rice... chinese style...

next day was spent leveling the trenches and making sure it was abt 1m wide... den laid the bricks and cement... had our first taste of cement mixing... shite job i tell ya... to mix 50kg of cement with god knows how many kgs of sand and water... basically it was 1 bag of cement, 8 large pails of sand with 2 pails of water... so yea... back breaking... so the ppl took turns to make them... then there were the brick layers, cement makers, the sand brigade, brick passing brigade... in which everyone was part of... so not much of specialist there... but we each found our lil niche and something which we were good at... jeremy found his at the making of the cement volcano... i found mine in brick layering... but i did very lil since needed more ppl at the cement mixing...

arrrghhh... running late to meet up wif khai... so shall write sum more later on...

apologies to those i neglected

today i learnt a new word, coruscated... To give forth flashes of light or To exhibit sparkling virtuosity... i like that word, gonna use it the next time i can... haha... okies... produciton has jus ended... whee... i'm finally free now... well, i'll be in cambodia on tuesday... for two weeks... so wont be updating... like duh... haha... do drop by my tagboard and tell me how much u miss me... mua hahahaha... i havent packed anythin yet... ahvent done any preparations yet... i'm gonna be screwed on monday... sighs... abt to go out wif ma family to celebrate my belated bdae... my camera's not back yet... sighs... sighs sighs sighs sighs... Y????!!!!! oh well, anyways, now on loop is 6 songs by gerhana skacinta... i lurrveeee senyuman ragumu... sighs... dunno y... itz the most comforting sounding song... jus finished my reports and journals for my final year project... monday's the due date...

well, rai came for the last show... the only one i waved at... haha... not many ppl i noe la who watches the shows i do... not tat i'm complaining la since i cant really talk to them on last days of production cos we need to bump out... an almost perfect final show... no msitakes(at least on my part) or tat i remembered... haha... the memory is an excellent liar... i guess tis will be my first perfect double bill... haha... woots...

i guess i'm on my way to no where ness till i get directions and get called for national service... i wonder where i will go... i hope where ever i go, i would be coruscating to those around me... haha... whee... used it once already... haha... always fun to learn a new word...

and so, to all those whom i have to say good bye and havent yet... good bye all... will be back 2 weeks later ya... do miss me along the way... haha... ciaoz....