Letters to my future self

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Letters to my future self

25th feb - confusion in the moving castle

more drafting action today. not gd thou, i dont seem to be winning the drafts. i've been in 2nd place for several times, but i havent won a single one, even without our world number 4th player around ;p

today's 1st draft was the funny thou. both me and orrrrrrrrry were at full wins, he proposed a split, since regardless of who wins, the 1st 3 picks would definately go to the 2 of us. i agreed to the split, but only if i get the wild ride. in any case, he ended up taking dr strange and foil mystic chains. i took wild ride and x statix hq when it come to my 2nd pick.

heh, juan dao. the wild ride was enuff to cover for the 2 rares he took already and i got a hq for throw in. tsk tsk, i shd split more often with orrrrrrrry, i dont even need to win to 'win'

then again, i think i'm spending a tad too much money on cards this month. its killing me literally. i have 2 weeks until next payday and even so i'm counting on the pcq month to tide me thru this month. that, without taking into consideration the $180 loan that i took from celia *sigh*

went to plaza sing in the evening to catch 'howl's moving castle' with kun. i dont normally watch movies but i'm a sucker for animated movies and i dont mean the 3-d animated types. i dont think, maybe i've learnt to appreciate classical animation more aft i've actually done it myself b4.

anyway the movie was great, i love it. however, towards the later part of the story, there was something i didnt quite get abt the plot. perhaps it had a deeper meaning to it or there are some translation issues with the subtitles.

even if it was a translation error, i'm still glad that they showed it in original japanese dialogue. dubbing might take away some of the background music and made the show duller. besides, its still possible to make translation errors when dubbing anyway... so... yea...

bah, i have to work tomorrow. so sad. -_-
time for bed
-out-

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Letters to my future self

23th feb - close brush with death

late nite at work was perfectly fine, except for 1 matter. both me and my junior failed to see something and nearly endangered the life of the entire crew. i probably wont say it out here thou, nv know when those pesky ppl from up there will come probing into my blog again. but all i will say that it was close... very close. i'm thankful it didnt happen....

with abt say... 7 months left, not counting my leave, my boots are slowly startin to give way. part of the rubber sole on my left boot is coming off. theres this saying amongst all of us that the boots they give us is jus enuff to last us thru our duty for 2 yrs. how true. ;p

off work and onto the draft tables, i dont seem to be doing very well with the new set. while it didnt take me very long to understand DSM, i'm still quite lost on this set. alot of the key cards in the set are uncommon. there are also alot of team stamped plot twists which makes it more restrictive when drafting. doubling the common print doesnt help, in fact i feel it makes it worse.

currently i seem to be drafting x-statix more often then i should and only because ppl tend to ignore them. they have very strong uncommons, like go in swinging, grandstanding, tike alicar (who is perfect with the 2 above mentioned plot twists), nv give up, mind over matter, etc. the burning desire of pulling a dead weight, mai kar fei, zeitgeist combo is so great it hurts.

the 2 most powerful teams however i feel are MK and CL.

MK is probably the best and only because they have midnight sons and access to atk pumps like bring the pain and headshot, crime and punishment is also more powerful when u still can atk aft playing it. and did i mention punisher's armoury and war wagon? *shudders*

CL is up next cos of their ability to play very defensively. face the master and drive by shoot in are not very funny cards when u have to play against them. jus let them beat u, then counteratk.

king take knight questions still fog my head. this thing abt init and passing init. does it mean that we have been playing wrongly with power cosmic and silver surfer all along? cant seem to find any clarification on the matter, not on the rules list, not on the official card referance. hmm...

alright, time to log off and get to work. praying for a quiet night...
-out-

20050221

Letters to my future self

20th feb - had a blast

its pcq day again~! the most anticipated day of the month. having not touched marvel knights at all since i was working yesterday when its released, today was more or less a prerelease for me. lucky thing i went thru the spoilers several times, so i was farmilar with some of the cards.

well apparently because this is the 'prerelease' event for mmk, there was ALOT of ppl playing in the event, and the rounds tend to drag on because ppl dont think the card text well enough and are playing slowly, having to pick each and every card up to read.

my 1st 5 boosters yield alot of gd stuff, i was very upset cos i didnt get to keep the 5 packs. in there was probably the most expensive card in the set, coupled with another card that i heard ppl were buying within the tourney area for 12. ><"
the cards that i got passed was much much more inferior and was really a challenge to play.... *sigh*

bye, win, win, loss, win, loss, win, win gave me a 6-2 record and put me into top 8. the fear of not making top 8 was so great that in the 8th round, i offered 1/2 my packs to my opponent for the win. he agreed, we played out for fun, but i beat him anyway. oh well, somethings u jus cant leave up to luck, buying insurance is well.... gd in a way.

into top 8 i had a pretty decent draft, sitting besides keng yin, we drafted cooperatively. somehow his plan to draft underworld was marred by the fact that he had no 7 drops. 7 drops were seriously lacking in the pod, 1 myself only had 1 when i opened it in my last pack and had to 1st pick it.

in the quarterfinals, i won orry, who was pretty high in rankings in swiss and was almost bragging all the way. i beat him the 1st game fair and square. 2nd game i was actually quite confused as to how i won him. he made an atk that would have put me at -9 and him at -8. i thought i lost and flipped my scorepad over and prepared for the next game. he scooped up his cards and when the judge asked if the game's ended, he said, "yea, i lost... by 3 endurance."
i was like "huh?" i dont know, one of us must have made a calculation mistake. but hey, no one complains abt a free win.

the plan anyway was to get into top 4 and propose a 4 way, the games were dragging on for too long, all of us, tired and hungry. for me it was worse, cos starting from the 3rd round, i was having a really bad headache. i thought i had a fever running. luckily jus aft the draft, i asked around and jon yeo happened to have brought along panadols. popped one in and i've stayed in 1 piece since then.

the semifinals was pretty random, we played 1 round to determine the winner. by turn 7, i was winning already, then wenhan took the game to turn 8... then suddenly, i lost. its like... wad the....
*sigh* i thought my deck was actually quite finals capable, randomly losing to nonsense combos.
on the lighter side of things, kengyin won his 1st PCQ today! yes, despite having a bad deck, he mauled jon koe in the semis and then won wenhan in the finals aft a really close game.

for the record, this is the 1st PCQ that both of us didnt have to play each other. *we would have, except i had to lose to wenhan. bah*

anyway interesting fact, qoute from kengyin's blog:

"Now I need to do is find a Yangg. Ying and Yangg. Sheesh."

my chinese surname is yang. lol. yin and yang. YLK and LKY. our names are so fun. *heh*

rewarded with 12 packs+5 packs and abt $100 at the end of the day, not too bad for a $35 entrance fee. not to mention i opened my 2nd wild ride foil (the expensive card that i had to pass away at the start of the day) of the day in my prize packs together with other useful cards, like weapon of choice, phat, scarlet witch, etc.

whoopi-dooo....

ok, now really time to cathc some sleep b4 i really go down with a fever.
-out-

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Letters to my future self

18th feb - stories from the workplace

today we had surplus manpower. so much so that i was told to stay back at base to do some odd jobs until 5 when some of the attachments had to go back.

bumped into wad should be my most violent drunk case to date. this daredevil drank and supposingly smashed the beer bottle on the table, u know, like in the movies and stuff. end result: cuts on his fingers.

when we got there, there was a reasonable amt of bleeding and he was restrained by 2 other men. attempts at bandaging his wounds failed as he kept tearing the bandages off. didnt help that he was shouting NBCB on top of his lungs non stop.

when the police came, he actually spitted at the police in charge when he tried to talk to him. tsk, ended up being tied down to the stretcher. asking for it, if u ask me.

thru out the ordeal he actually shook his fists at me once and some of the blood coming out from his fingers actually went onto my face. yuck.

bah, there was also alot of stuff to clean up aft that. !$%@$^%&#

i hate drunks.
dont know wad possessed the 1st person who decided that alcohol can actually be consumed as a beverage....

back at home, jus found out that naruto has been liscensed, which meant that animesuki, where i normally d/l my anime from will no longer be hosting their eps. how awful, the story has reached one of its climaxes and i wont be able to find out wad happens in the end, say for buying the comic. darn.

oh well, on the other hand, thats 1 less anime to d/l, if that can be considered as consolation, that is....

-out-

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Letters to my future self

17th feb - more random thoughts

-broadband plan upgraded to 1500. i dont really see the need for this upgrade, but i cant find anything to complain abt either. besides my brother can hook up to the router and stop tapping into other ppl's routers.

-computer looks horrible now. until i find a new place to reposition the router, it looks like a small monument with wires sticking out. my newfound temp solution to my hardware woes doesnt help either. my old cd rom now sits on top of my cpu, taking over the duties of my newer, yet malfunctioning combo drive. my hard disk drive is standing(really standing) outside my cpu, because i suspected that the power cable that it used to be connected to is faulty and the only other available one can only be accessed from its current position. if my cpu was a human body, the description for it would be "... with all its innards sticking out..."

-comp hit by a trojan. and the worse part is, it seemed to have left a backdoor that perpetually allows some keylogger program to install itself into my comp. attempts at cleaning it totally from my system has been a failure, it jus keeps returning. think i'll need to reformat my comp... again.... soon. sigh.

-registered for my basic theory today. the test date is on the 15th of apr. went with keng yin. little did we expect the nearest test date to be so far away. in the end he didnt register, cos he would have been enlisted by then. $11.25 for the whole process, pretty expensive, if u ask me. the pains of ownign a car in singapore is already beginning to show.

-went down to chk with apple corner today. stock's not in yet. the last time i chked, they told me estimated date is 17th. today when i went down, they wont even give me an estimate. darn. looks like i have to sloooowwwllllyyyy slooowwwwlyyyy wait. bleh.

-bought modern art today, a game that i played once when eugene brought it down. simple game, deep concepts. wished it was cheaper thou, i paid nearly $40 for a stack of cards, a cheapo looking bag of plastic chips, some cardboard and the rules, thats it. sometimes i wonder if i should stop doing this to myself, i'm like throwing money into a bottomless pit. my play group isnt big, in fact its damn tiny. even as i write now, its existance is waning. i really wonder say if 2 months from now, these boxes of cardboard and plastic will sit in my shelves, collecting dust, nv to be played again... forever...

-sometimes i feel damn tiny, either that or suddenly, the world feels like a very very big place to be in....

-out-

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Letters to my future self

16th feb - random thoughts

-wednesday night, dinner was on janus. went to some restaurant by the street somewhere in lavender. the food there was great, cant say the same for the service there. lao'ed yu shen, the 1st time that u actually ended doing so... btw, if u're reading this, janus, thanks for the dinner.

-weilun went back to beida early thursday morning. prob wont be back until mid of the yr. meanwhile, matters btw the few of us have not settled properly, it jus that no one really talks abt it now. then again, its probably something that wont be resolved so easily. i've more or less given up....

-i suck at poker

-when i comes to rolling dice, i'm pretty lucky sometimes.

-expenses will be really tight this month. havent been watching my expenditure properly. despite getting a reimbursement for last month's missing allowance + getting full pay this month + angpow money, the tension in the pockets is still there. only to be made worse by the fact that pcq's this coming week, and MMK will release towards the end of the week. maybe time to wire funds out from paypal again. sigh.

-shirts from threadless come in, they look great. might get some more in the future, if anyone wans to purchase any, drop me a line. shared shipping sounds like a gd idea.

-ruien's made 2 magazine cover appearances this month! 1st it was 8 days, the I weekly. she's also made spokeswoman for tianpo jewellary if i'm not mistaken. unfortunately, the fan club get together seems to be postponed almost indefinately due to her busy schedule, much like her 2nd album.

-had a low self-esteem atk for the past few days. didnt show it on the surface, but as usual i've been reviewing my life again, cursing and swearing at myself for not studying harder when i had the chance to do so.

-reading mr brown's blog seems to bring much insights to life. stories of his family nv fail to brighten up a bad day.

-having minor hardware problems, one of these days, i really need to go down to simlim and do something abt it. aft all, its still all under warranty.

-work at station has become more relaxed. new ppl are coming in and my responsibilites are getting reduced as bulk of my duties are slowly delegrated to the newer guys.

-if i get a dollar everytime i recieve an email that suggests the following "hi, i've a hidden stash of money somewhere, if u help me wire it out of this ulu country, i'll split the money with u", i'll be a really really rich man

-less talk, more listen!

-out-

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Letters to my future self

jan 12th - yo yo yeo, happy new year yeo

tried to plan for some upcoming events in an attempt to salvage the bad situation. then suddenly, we ended up meeting for movies. watched 'ray', which isnt too bad except towards the later half of the story, it pace became slower and well, i think i drank too much water for my own gd. started to squirm abt in my seat.

the feeling of hanging out with them felt no different from normal thou, i mean aft wads been happening this past week. either we have gd actors, or we're seeing improvement.

btw, mel i've said this b4 in the cinema, that was some very cowardly behavior. locking urself in doesnt solve problems. lucky u didnt really write it down, i would have been very disappointed.

anyways, apparently my planning isnt so superior aft all, the plan required influence the choices of some of my friends and it isnt an easy task. all attempts to do so yesterday failed.

fast forward to today. nearly got close to 50% of the whole thing done, except when it came to the other 50% it failed miserably.

precious moment figures are girly and breakable huh?

ever wondered how those simple porcelain/clay figures are really similar to relationships?

breakable - fragile, handle with care
as dust collects, colors appear faded - fades over time due to neglect, requires constant attention

wadever. plan failed miserably, thats all i need to know. its not so easy to led other ppl to share the same train of thought aft all.

went out with my family today for movies (2nd movie within 10 hrs) caught 'shall we dance', cos my mum's sort of a richard gere fan. not a bad movie, its one of those happy ending movies, not so interesting, but cant go wrong.

then its to my aunt's place for dinner and more family bonding
oh well... think i'm jus going to leave this post hanging in the middle of no where

the cranberries - dreams
-out-

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Letters to my future self

10th feb - enough

this is dragging on far too long. its really a very very bad timing.
it had to be my birthday that pulled the plug and not to mention, mel's coming around the corner, and lun's flying off.

i'm sure u know better then me that the f-word is a very strong word. despite the fact that i'm very outspoken, angry and bitter, i've abstrained from the word so far in all my replies to u. u on the other hand has mentioned that one word no less then 10 times in all ur posts so far. if u truly wanted to salvage this friendship, u know wad to do.

by now its evident that we have varying definations of friends.

i do not have the privilages of having friends as friendly as all of u do. then again, i nv had many friends. they are countable with my fingers, really.

having setup my blog for over 1 yr already, the number of comments made to my posts or to my tagboard is pretty much countable, which is y i nv borthered to renew my tagboard, its jus going to sit there until my acct expires again.

when ppl msg me on msn, very often it starts of with "koon, have u got xxx?" or "going down today?" or "wad do u think of xxx deck?"

does that mean that these ppl arent my friends or mybe i should start roaring that them too?

this is not to specifically counter wad u have said, but honestly, i keep my blog as a personal referance. something that i can look back and read when i'm much older. it catalogs wad i feel during a certain day.

step 1: collect feelings at the end of the day.
step 2: compress them into 1 page.
step 3: archived!
there u have it, no more bottled up feelings or pent up anger, all in 3 easy steps!

i've rarely had ppl feedback to me wad i've written, neither do i see the need for that to happen. theres not much need for ppl to share my feelings, like say 1 or 2 days aft i've been hit by it.

u on the other hand have all the right to criticise us for not showing concern, because ur friends do otherwise.

our lives have drifted apart. one of u has gone back to studying. one of u doing an internship. the remaining 2 of us are still in ns. as compared to secondary skool, we no longer have common topics to speak of. sometimes we choose not to comment on topics on blogs or even msg ppl abt them, so that it gives us an opportunity to tok abt it when we meet. didnt that happen when i ended up 9th place and we spoke abt it during the stayover during that week? during the short stopover at the hawker centre during our short trip down to chinatown, would the topic on bylines come up, assuming we had commented abt it b4? all the tan hong leng jokes are way past their due date, they cant be used as conversation fillers all the time.

a chinese saying goes "yi tui wei jing" - to achieve progress, by 1st taking steps backwards. i think it applies here.

its not abt making concessions, its abt mutual understanding. understanding ur friends' actions.

the fire has stopped burning in my heart, which is y i'm not going on the offensive today. i'm tired. well anyways if i've made any false accusations yesterday, i'm sorry. angry ppl say silly things.

btw, additional thanks to the person(s) who choose to get me the sandman companion, its a great book. it made me go back and reread all my sandman issues i have so far to catch all the stuff that i've missed previously.

also, happy new yr guys. i've been caught up too much by recent events that i've forgot abt this simple new yr greeting. better late then none, i say.

*interesting pt to note: our different personalities show so much as to how we responded to each other's comments. i actually felt quite amused when i took a step backward and saw the picture as a whole*

alright, its to bed, then to work
-out-

Letters to my future self

9th feb - the greatest way to kickstart CNY...

is to have a heated discussion over msn with 3 other ppl whom u consider as close friends, on whether u all are really close friends anymore.

if theres anything i'm thankful for last night, it would be that the msn network decided that it needed to overload itself and prevent anyone from logging in. so its 'ceasefire' for a while.

we would think that aft so many yrs of friendship, there would be some sort of mutual understanding amongst all of us, apparently not.

this is a tragedy, really. i've rarely been this upset, or angry. multiple times last night, there were so many thoughts running thru my mind, so much so that i dont know which i should put down 1st (or if i shd even put it down at all).

wad do we truly wan to achieve really?
for all of us to celebrate each and every of our tiny milestones in life?
for all of us to huddle together and cry over each of those bad days that we need to go thru?

i thought we've gone beyond the need for that.

u know very well that we chk each of our blogs regularly. even mel who only gets to come out so many times a week take the effort to read wad we've written in the week, and wad has happened recently.

when u had ur 1st byline, we congratulated u from the bottom of our hearts and wished for many more to come. we shared ur joy thru wad we read. so exactly how will messaging u to congratulate u achieve anything else thats not been covered? unless of course u chose to think that aft reading each and every gd thing that happened to u, we would be cursing in front of our computers.

when u 1st revealed ur shocking news to all of us, i'm pretty damn sure many ppl tried to contact u to show concern or support or both. i personally would know, because i msged u too much and got a tongue lashing out of it.

"its easy to forget wad ppl have done for u, but much easier to remember wad ppl havent done for u...."

u think it easy keeping u guys as friends? think again. u're not the only one with fustrations.
y do u think i made it a pt to try and organise gaming sessions at my place when i can afford the time? because i had too much time to burn? or simply because i had nothing better to do?

or maybe i had too much money to spend on boardgames, which for ur info, is bought solely for our gaming sessions. i seriously would save alot of money if i didnt have to organise all this.

and wad normally happens during our gaming sessions? melvyn will go and lie on the bed to sleep or pretend to sleep, wadever. and the rest of us will sit around the table and go "how now?"

whoopi.

play boardgames and rest of the shit indeed.

i find ur arguments weak and ridiculous. if u want out, jus say it, no one will blame u. stop making it sound like u're the only one that has a hard time here, because we all do.

"u're locked urself in n swallowed the key to the exit"

either we work to break down this door, or this is really the end.
i personally dont wan to see that happening.

its back to work tomorrow, lucky thing, cause i really need to take my mind off some matters
-out-

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Letters to my future self

7th feb - of friendship erosion and new alliances reforged

my head hurts now. too many things have happened in the past 48 hrs and i've had too little sleep to see me thru the whole thing.

last night work was pretty busy, ended up with only 2 hrs of sleep. when i got back home, i proceeded to do my daily chking of mail and stuff. a abrupt event took me by surprise, i already knew things dont look so gd, but i didnt expect it to turn out this way. if this goes on, i might actually lose a few friends that i've had since secondary skool.

attempted to fix the situation by leaving him a comment.

went out aft that for lunch with the other gang of eugene, kengyin and ewan. eugene bought us lunch at shinma's (or something liddat) japanese buffet. refreshing idea since i've nv really eaten a gd meal of japanese food b4 (at least not up til now). great food, thanks for the treat eugene!

hung around at meridian aft that, b4 heading home.

back at home, things have taken a turn for the worse. i suppose keeping the distance for now helps until the fire is put out.

tonight, its back to work again. by the time i knock off, it would be CNY eve already. the speed at which things are happening is way too fast for my liking.....

for now,
-out-

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Letters to my future self

6th feb - other thoughts

1. i'm not an incredibily smart person, so maybe you're right when u said its my fault that i couldnt follow the planned trail correctly. but i truly tried my best, many times i wanted to give up and jus wait til dinner time, but i didnt. and only because i knew that all of u put in alot of effort to make this special for me and if i gave up, i would ruin it for myself and everyone else who put in their bit.

2. janus, thanks for putting us up at ur place for the night. hopefully it has not caused you or your family any inconvinences. in any case, if u read this, can you thank ur mum again abt the angpow?

3. everyone who turned up. its not easy for everyone to find the time and meet up. for those to missed the treat, i'll buy dinner the next time k?

4. i'm not complaining, but i'm really quite happy if all of u chip in and buy me a present. getting 6 presents is like quite alot. i personally wont wan anyone to fork out so much money buying so many presents for me, sincerity alone works for me.

jus once again, from the bottom of my heart i would like to thank again, the ppl who made yesterday possible.

off to work,
-out-

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Letters to my future self

5th feb - lvl up! (warning: VERY LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG POST)

yay, i officially become 22 from today onwards. i have to say, this birthday is very memorable, aft all its has been planned for very elaborately.

yesterday night was dinner at fish and co. with ewan, adrian, tim and alvin. dinner was great and ewan got ambushed by the resident singer there during one of the sing along sessions. there was alot of laughter.

today however, i was caught totally off guard. i know the guys are planning something, but i didnt know that i was left out of the planning. they jus told me that they havent decided where to eat yet, so they would msg me at abt evening, then we meet there, which was fine by me.

so i hung at mart for a while, since i knew that the place would be in town. at abt 4.50 hansen suddenly passed me a note, there was some confusion for a while when i thought the note was for ah long or something. upon opening the note i was like.... "wad the...."

it read:

rules of the game-

1. from now until u complete the game, do not attempt to contact the following: mel, kun, lun, weihao, janus, kelvin

2. each clue is related to a board/card/computer game you know. each clue will lead you to a specific location within the revealed general area. some clues however may not reveal the general area

3. some of the specific locations are large - you are expected to as every sales rep, manager, cashier, etc before drawing conclusions.

4. u are expected / allowed to ask for help excepting to the above mentioned persons. feel free to utilise any other available means of help.

5. at the end of each clue, and aft recieving it, only read it. do not do anything else.

6. there is no limit to this game, barring operational hrs. dinner, howver, starts at 20.15

first clue:

first stop - taka

picture shows an infinity symbol, below it is written, synonym.

wah lau. treasure hunt? Zzz

bid the guys at mart gdbye as i left for taka. synonym for infinity... hm.... the 1st thign that came to my mind is endless, as in sandman and the endless. which would led me to kino.

jus before i arrived at kino, i recieved a msg saying that aft i solve the 1st clue, i'm supposed to go to the toilet entrance next to the place and walk in until i see the fireman lift exit, i'm supposed to walk all the way in until i reach a dead end. the 2nd clue lies there.

ok, so i got confused for a while, i didnt quite know if this msg appies to the current clue, or only aft i solve this clue. anyway i went into kino to take a look. nothing. den i decided go to the toilet side and give it a go.

1st door in. sees fireman lift. 2nd door in. sees stairs. 3rd door in. sees small corridor, quite filty with trash all over and it looks like there more then 1 door in this small corridor.

so i thought to myself, maybe this applies to the next clue. i'm beginning to doubt of that symbol standed for endless. so i went out and headed for the shop directory. i walked around the whole building like 2 times over b4 i decided to give up and msg the one who setup everything. great, his phone is purposely turned off. nice. i msged one of my other friends for help. and abt 1 min later, the trap setter confirmed that the previous msg is for my current clue. ok, so the 2 of them are together huh.

walked around taka somemore before i decided to go back to the toilet area again b4 i totally give up and sit around until dinner time. 1st door, 2nd door, 3rd door. i went in to the door i see straight ahead, open, there is a short turn to the right, followed, dead end. on the floor lies a box, with a post it msg stuck on it. doh. so its here all the time, well done.

2nd clue:

next stop - heeren
clue: FLUXX

i cant figure this one out, so i thought that maybe i would understand when i got to heeren. apparently not. i walked around all the shops hoping to find a shop that sells fluxx or even games. nope, the clues arent there. so maybe its the shop name that had something to do with fluxx, went to the shop directory. no rules, nope. changing rules, nope. chaos, ok theres 1 shop by that name. so i went there and.... ladies boutique? nah, cant be. sigh. this is going to be a very very loooong day. tired to msg for more clues, no response. i was at the verge of giving up again.
then i thought, maybe the location was written wrongly, so i went over to PI where i bought my set of fluxx. upon arriving, chi yong told me, "hey leck koon, someone left something here for u"

upon looking over the counter, there was a huge box and the usual post it stuck on it. i asked him for a big plastic bag, chucked the boxes into it and went on to solve the next clue.

next clue:
next stop - taka (not again?!?!)

looks like: theoden, last words of my titles - lotr, rohan culture

i couldnt solve this. to cut the really long and boring story short, i walked up and down taka multiple times, turned the whole place upside down, but no, no clue. i gave up trying to msg anyone else since i knew he wont reply me. at 7.50 i finally gave him a call and hoped that his phone is finally turned on. it is.

i told him my current status, to which he told me that the clue fluxx leads to something else, and not the one that i got. -_-"

fine, went to heeren to meet the bunch. he brought me to the shop directory again and re-emphasize "fluxx". nope, nothing. then mel popped in and said 4th floor. THEN, i finally saw "love and peace" which is one fo the goals in the game. dot dot dot. turned out that it was a ladies boutique, and like chaos i probably wont have gone in anyway. bah.

we went around picking up all the other presents b4 we went for dinner, anyway the list of presents and their clues

1. infinity synonym(taka) - kino- the sandman companion

2. fluxx(heeren) - love and peace - pouch

3. barrel of coffee from PR - PI - princes of florence

4. looks like theoden, last worlds of my titles, lotr, rohan culture - kalms - beanie dog (last word of my titles refer to the card game subtitles, by combining king of the golden hall and lord of the mark, i'm supposed to get hallmark, which kalms is supposed to resemble.

5. hand drawn layout of a magic card, reads: forbidden orchard. in the picture box, the word "clue" is written. - apple corner at plaza sing - ipod shuffle. apparently the picture for forbidden orchard is suppose to depict an apple tree, thus the apple shop

6. hand drawn layout of a VS card, reads: robot destroyer. small rectangle is drawn at the lower right hand corner. the rectangle is pointed out and a reverse arrow is written next to it. (lucky plaza) - 7-11 at lucky plaza - 1x DSM booster and a $10 bill (?) anyway, robot destroyer's collector number is 117, reversed gives 711.

7. 3x empty card frames - borders - RO CD

8. RO CD (heeren) - korean restaurant. RO is supposed to be a game that has korean origins, and the only korean related shop in heeren would be the restaurant

so thats how the whole thing is supposed to work. it didnt. i say its too complex and the train of thought chains way too far with so little clues. kun insists it isnt. oh well, wait til ur birthday i tell u...

anyway the $10 dollar bill is supposed to be for a pack of condoms. how nonsensical. in the end i didnt buy it anyway and returned the bill ;p

dinner was at han ka ram, where i offered to pay for dinner. i didnt really expect to get so many presents from so many ppl. korean food is quite refreshing, i didnt quite get used to some of the spicy stuff, but the rest of the stuff's pretty gd.

anyway, jus to wrap up, many thanks to the people that made this occasion special for me. this is one that that i'll nv forget. THANKS ALOT~!



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Letters to my future self

jan 2th - the rock and the hard place

bah, today i had to work with THAT guy again. lucky today we didnt have alot of cases to attend to, but still, its a torture. a new guy joined us while i was off last duty thou, went with the new guy today and taught him some stuff. needless to say, he was subjected to my relentless bashing of THAT guy.

tomorrow shd be even worse then today, not only is THAT guy working, THAT woman is also working. thats like u noe, getting caught in the rock and the hard place. or a more original analogy by me "its like standing on top of a building and asking me if i would like to jump down from the left or from the right, the results from either is likely to be equally painful"

my t shirt order thingy doesnt look gd, it hasnt been shipped yet, which also means that with each passing day that its not shipped, the less likely the clothes will arrive before CNY. darn, i so wanted to wear "ah munna eat choo"

yet another one of my friends put up a blog, this time round it melvyn, who decided to sneakly put it up without tell any of us (well, at least not me) i found u anyway when u linked me up from ur blog. here is it anyway : mel's ramblings

to bed
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Letter to my future self

feb 1st - looking into the future

went to the regional language centre today to find out more abt the prospects of studying in australia. apparently with my diploma from informatics, i shd be able to get a 1st yr entry into a university program.

picked up several booklets of information which i'll go thru over the next few days and like the guy said, the next time he sees me, i'll probably have more specific questions to ask him... so there.

up to now, i still dont really have a gd idea wad i wan to study, if i'm heading to a university, hopefully aft going thru the bookets, i can make a decision.

was walking today from borders to meridian, halfway thru, passed by paragon. silently made a promise to myself that one day, i'll make so much money, at any pt of time i need a change of clothes, i'll jus walk randomly into any of the shops, pt at any of the clothes and jus purchase them. without even looking at the price tag.

random daydreaming....
back to work tomorrow.
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Letters to my future self

jan 31st - shopping for new yr's clothes

aft buying some bottoms yesterday, the hunt was on for tops. was tinkering with the idea of printing my own designs on shirts. i mean how cool is it when relatives ask where u buy ur shirt from and u say u designed it urself. anyways, was asking pang if he knew how to get it done. still i didnt quite get the information i needed, cos wanted to print white on black, and last i recalled, thats classified under special printing. he did however refer me to this very cool website:

buy t-shirts here

this website allows ppl to submit their designs up onto the website for ppl to vote. each design has a voting duration of 7 days. at the end of 7 days, if the design is well recieved, it will be printed and put on sale at their online shop. the designer will stand to gain $400us cash and $100us store credit. its abit like the american idol concept, really.

anyway i ordered 3 shirts (less talk, blitz, and ah munna eat choo) total cost inclusive of shipping is $48us, which is abt$25+sg per shirt. hopefully these shirts arrive b4 CNY.

went down to far east earlier today with weilun, hoping to find 1 more bottom (jeans, 3/4's, wadever). the whole aftnoon was spent walking around from far east to wisma, then to heeren. i ended up only buying 1 t shirt. shopping for clothes is a torture, i dont understand how ladies can enjoy doing it.

bah.

tmr will be out researching on the possibilty of going over to australia to study aft i complete ns. i dont know how it will work out, but lets jus wait and see....

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