Hooray for drunk lonely people!

Yay! I finally got myself drunk. Symptons of which include jumping off boat quay railing into the stairs below (muhahaha bet my friends though i was jumping into the water) and jumping on my car and opening the door while moving.

As of now, i am still slightly high. Catch your friend neighbourhood lipjin drunk and more fun than EVER! Tickets available at 6 teq. shots any night of the week, depending on propensity for drunkedness. Come join me in my extreme escapades and daredevil stunts that COULD GET YOU KILLED!

I seriously need someone to get my life in order again. Lol. Jesus, where are you? Maybe I should name my daughter Lily Lee Lili and my son, Jesus Lee Ye Shu. Well done.

Thanks everyone! and HAPPY BIRTHDAY KEV!

Slightly iNSANE, Happily intoxicated and hopelessly lonely. Whee!

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Getting really lazy

So here I am, home again on a friday night. How sad. Looks like the next phase arrived sooner than I thought it would.

Brought Grandma to the hospital for checkup again today. Doctor says she's fine. Met some interesting folks there as well, just like I did at LASIK consultation the other day.

Let's talk about LASIK first. Met this gal at LASIK who was damn cool. Well at least I find quitting your job and going abroad for a round the world trip a cool thing to do. Hehe. Never talked to her again after that.

And today, there was this feisty young lady with a prosthetic eye. And mainly old men and women who had to go there (government subsidised mah) for various eye problems.

And I starting chatting with grandma about stuff. Mainly she told me about how they used to play in the kampong, and how life was $16 for a doctor (specialist, no less) and 30c for a meal back then. Nowadays, my lunch costs $16 and my doctor's appointments cost $3k.

The wonders of Economics and inflation.

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LASIK

Well, I'll be going for LASIK surgery next friday, hopefully can get parental permission and financial support. Haha. $1780 per eye, no need to waste the extra $500 on the interlase cut.

Went to TTSH yesterday morning after 2 hours of sleep, dead tired. Had to undergo battery of tests, more or less like what I gone through before during the contact lenses test at eye centre. So used to it. See red light, blue light, white light. Blur vision etc etc etc.

LASIK is safe. I think. And I hope. Hope it goes well. Oh well.

Oh, and I got my US visa. Hooray.

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My Blog Counter Searches

21/07/2005 04:07:34 mtv wanna come in blogs (Yahoo)
21/07/2005 02:20:26 blogspot brunei (Yahoo)
20/07/2005 04:12:57 purple dinos (Yahoo)
20/07/2005 04:09:57 blog: (removed names) (Yahoo)
20/07/2005 03:06:57 The picture of the old yio chu kang secondary building (Yahoo)
16/07/2005 06:37:00 hanting + blog (Google)
16/07/2005 00:28:40 kwok kah meng (Google)
13/07/2005 09:43:06 "kwok kah meng" (Google)
12/07/2005 09:01:01 single parent families singapore (Yahoo)

LOL. See anything funny in there about how people come to my blog?

1) Purple dinos. What they looking for? Barney? Kid's programmes? WARNING: THIS BLOG IS NOT SUITABLE FOR MINORS.

2) Wtf. Yio Chu Kang Secondary School building. Ermm right.

3) and the one that is removed: someone trying to nose around. IP address 210.9.15.114. Visitor number 2887. HELLO! You can call me if you want to know anything more about those two. But I won't tell you because I value my friendships:)


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My University

Ok, So after I found Singapore on the Google Map, I decided to google my University.

Guess what I found?

THIS!




HOW COOL IS THAT! Ok ok, I shall let you match the map to the satellite picture! GO GO GO!


University Map

You can't do it? Lemme point out some landmarks for you...


Landmarks

and sooo.. HERE IS MY UNIVERSITY!


Where I will STUDY!

This is wayy cool.

The Google link can be found here

Go google your neighbour's house, your Lover's apartment, and your own university TODAY!

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Singapore Satellite Map

This is WAYYY coool.

If you wanna know how Tekong looks like, well Ladies you can see it now. A whole of a trees and 1 long winding road:)

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GEPs

Interesting post on hanting's blog about the myths of being a GEP.

Stereotypically him.

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Get Your Tickets!

My ex-band leftovers, have gotten themselves into a CHINESE songwriting competition finals.

So buy your tickets now. Cos i'm gonna be there as a *sob* soundman when the finals come.

Good luck guys, be rooting for ya

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Bloggers.sg

I wasn't there.

Didn't see a need to be there, though Joses was apparently very very excited about it (check out http://01s70.blogspot.com for his post).

In fact, I was only near the place because I went down for Baybeats at around 11 pm. only to realise that they had already closed for the night. Nevermind. I did catch electrico the following night. My band does need a huge improvement.

Anyway, on to bloggers. So, Singapore has a HUGE blogosphere. Why, because we are Oh-so-small, our little tiny red dot of an island. This huge blogosphere stems from the fact that we are able to afford $2000 laptops and broadband, and thus spend most of our time socialising over the internet. You never read about Africa having a blogosphere. It's more like a few people blogging.

And frankly, Singaporeans have a tendency to be shy in person and a lot more "extroveted" when hidden behind a 15.4 inch wide screen LCD display. No wonder the IRC backchannel (i read, heard and saw in pictures) was so much more interesting than the auditorium itself.

So, congrats on Bloggers.sg 2005 being a success, as far as socialising goes. And of course, we all need our quick fixes on saturday nights. Be it, alcohol, drugs or just plain blogging.

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Closure

-closed-

LASIK, glasses and Clubbing

I went Chinablack last night with Wendy, Maria, Debi, Weng, Alan, Jesse and Yihui.

Got in without queuing (thanks be to wendy!) who knew some manager at Chinablack. (I think her name was Caroline?/C-something). Entering Chinablack with spectacles certainly has some novelty in it, because as far as I remember, I always wanted to look "okay" for clubbing. Which in my book is contact lenses. Strictly.

So it was a good day when I looked nerdy clubbing.

And promptly, when entering the darken arena, the blast hit me at full force. 185 db of full on speaker power (BMG speakers no less), and to talk, we had to scream at the top of our voice with the ear right next to your mouth. (which is a good excuse to accidentally "kiss" a girl if you "happen" to get too close).

Needless to say, Wendy, being the resourceful darling that she is (I have pai1 some ma3 pi4 here), managed to get us seats in the VIP area. Wow. And promptly, we got 2 bottles and few mixers. Sadly, it was just delivered to the wrong table. In fact, we had 2 jugs of i-forgot-wad and 1 jug of coke.

We left after 45 minutes. I actually think clubbing and loud music is DAMN sian nowadays. You can't even talk to your friends, and the social interaction consists of grinding and bumping on the dance floor with some decent looking girl you don't know. I always siam when I get some ugly girl. My stomach can't take it.

Oh, and the title. Yes. I'm going for LASIK, so no contacts for 2 weeks. Had fun. And after clubbing supper at Newton was interesting for the conversation and also the "hen" who served our oyster omelette because she was getting married on saturday. (CONGRATS stranger. Hope you read this). and 3 guys, being the gossips we are, proceeded to comment on how pretty/beautiful/ugly/fat/thin all our class girls were.

Want to know the results? Another time:) Or if you can cajole me into telling you.

tata

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Wow. Haven't Updated for 4 days

Been a long long time since i last updated:)

Good things happened last week. I met up with the Chicago people. Good, fun-loving batch. At least, the seniors were. My batch, well, haven't talked to them that much yet, but there are at least 3 maths olympiad people going, according to Serene.

Yeowch. Kenneth, Calvin and herself. So smart in Maths. I'm like. ermmm.. limit. Whatever. Maclaurin expansion. Duh. Calculas. Get away from me.

So i'm so stressed, I picked up a sec 4 maths textbook to study:)

And i have to find my airline tickets too. Apprently, Northwest Airlines has a Visa Platinum Discount, so I'll check that out. But I have to get 3 lowest ticket quotes and pick the lowest priced ticket. That SOOOO sucks.

Maybe i'll get like 1) Private jet. 2) Luxury Yacht. 3) SIA. and then IES would have to give me SIA:) lol.

And seriously, I think I may just work for IES, partially to fulfil my obligation, and also, because I think among my friends, I'm the most champion of NS and national pride liao. SO cannot break my reputation.

Not much to break anyway.

hehe

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Pages of a diary

Some pages of the diary are better left in the washpaper basket. They contain memories of wonderful times with people you missed for the rest of your life. And you continue to miss these times until your love for them turns to jealousy and hatred. And ultimately, you are angry with them, because they are those who form those memories you truly treasure and you hate them because you want them to never have been in your life ever so that you could be spare the pain of reminiscence.

Fuck you all.

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Wanna Come In?

Ever watched the show Wanna Come In by MTV?

These supposedly "dorky" guys who would never score on a date are given secret coaching by "Date doctors" whose ultimate goal is to get the girl to say "Wanna come in?" at the end of the date.

Well, this afternoon, I was invited to go up to a lady's house. I had a cup of coffee, had great conversation with her. Before that, we went for a spin in my car and had a great time together.

I remember the look on concern on her face when I told her my passport wasn't ready. And the concern she showed when I told her about the London bombings and my joke that it might happen in Chicago while I was there. *touch wood of course*.

And then there was the talk about my family and my cousins as well as my uncles. How I had at least 5 educators in the family (teaching at various levels from Primary School to University level) and how my uncle who is the Assistant Dean at University of Illinois would be my closest relative when I went over to the state.

That was followed by the promise that I would make a trip back to Singapore every year to catch up with her. And also how I must save money for my dad and how I shouldn't waste my life away by frittering time away on the computer.

You see, great things happen when you talk to grandma. For she knew you since you were in diapers to when you had your first girlfriend, to when you went through your pimply stage, your rebellion and angsty stage and hopefully, come back full circle back to what is most important in you life: Family.

And she urged me to hold a 21st birthday party before I leave for the U.S., since that was what my cousins and my uncles/aunts have held ever since I was in liquid form. And so, to honor her request, perhaps a small family celebration should be in order, to celebrate the coming of age, to celebrate finally joining the work force *groan*, and of course, to celebrate the fact that her grandson had finally grown into a mature and responsible adult.

And it all started with a tiny eye infection. Sometimes, things work in funny ways, when you start ferrying grandma to and fro the hospital, you get to know a little bit more about your family and your cousins, for grandma always knows what's best.

And of course, I have to pick up hainanese soon, if not she'll just keep on insisting talking to me in hainanese and hoping I'll pick up some of the words. Yeah right.

And Hainanese guys are supposedly the most "shuai" of all the dialect groups. Don't believe? Look at me:)


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Female Rejection Lines

From Mr.Brown.com

Not familiar with rejection lines? Here's what we really mean. So get a hint, ok, guys? Sheesh.

10. I think of you as a brother. (You remind me of that f**king pest. And I'm not into incest either.)

9. There's a slight difference in our ages. (You are one jurassic geezer.)

8. I'm not attracted to you in 'that' way. (You are the ugliest freak I've ever laid eyes upon.)

7. My life is too complicated right now. (I don't want you spending the whole night or else you may hear phone calls from all the other guys I'm seeing.)

6. I've got a boyfriend (He's my male cat and a half gallon of Ben and Jerry's).

5. I don't date men where I work. (Actually, I wouldn't even date you if you were in the same 'solar system', much less the same building.)

4. It's not you, it's me. (It's not me, it's you.)

3. I'm concentrating on my career. (Even something as boring and unfulfilling as my job is better than dating you.)

2. I'm celibate. (I've sworn off only the men like you.)

1. Let's be friends. (I want you to stay around so I can tell you in excruciating detail about all the other men I meet and have fun with. It's that male perspective thing)

I get a lot of the Let's Be Friends crap. Time to turn gay.

Sob sob

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Blogger images is up!

This is so cool. Finally, can add images to my posts easily without uploading with Hello!, and then finding the html link and writing a whole new post just to put the pictures in.

And my first try to post pictures just timed out on me. Twice.

Nevermind.

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Learn Chinese In 3 Minutes!

English: it's very dark in here.
Chinese: Wai So Dim?
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English: Has your flight been delayed?
Chinese: Hao Long Wei Ting?
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English: I thought you were on a diet.
Chinese: Wai Yu Mun Ching?
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English: Your body odor is offensive.
Chinese: Yu Stin Ki Pu.
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English: He's cleaning his automobile.
Chinese: Wa Shing Ka.
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English: This is a tow away zone.
Chinese: No Pah King.
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English: Is there a fugitive here?
Chinese: Hu Yu Hai Ding?
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English: Small Horse.
Chinese: Tai Ni Po Ni.
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English: Did you go to the beach?
Chinese: Wai Yu So Tan?
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English: You know lyrics to the Macarena?
Chinese: Wai Yu Sing Dum Song?
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English: I got this for free.
Chinese: Ai No Pei.
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English: Phew! Does this bathroom stink!
Chinese: Hu Flung Dung?

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Social Butterflies

Observed a butterfly lately? How it flits from flower to flower, landing softly in the midst of one, fleetingly saying adios to another, always exploring, always moving on to the next.

That's pretty much how my life is at the moment. Being a social butterfly, and knowing, just knowing, that one day, I'll have to leave all these friendships behind, form new ones, then dust them off my cabinet of social relationships when returning back to this sunny island.

Maria commented today that I had the ability to "tune" myself to different wavelengths to suit different groups of people. Do I feel like a social butterfly? Sometimes. There'll always be a close knit group of friends who form my social core: Jesse, Clarence, Jo, XY and gang, the guys from 70 and the bitch gang. Other then that, I guess it's pretty much hello, goodbye and how do you do,

The social networking has been getting to me lately, and I really am torn between staying home and boring myself to death and meeting all you wonderful people out there and chatting about the latest fashions, the new hairdos and rather self-depreciatingly about my ugliness and lack of machoness/alpha-maleness. Thank you very much.

So if you would like to meet me one day, take a queue number, make an appointment, and the doctor will see you when it's your turn.

Or rather not. Sometimes, all we have to sustain us in the monotony and loneliness of life are our friends. Albeit fleeting reminiscences about secondary school follies and JC parties or Army stories. But nonetheless, very real and very important friendships that keep you sane in this insane world.

Sometimes, I wonder if ever I died. Suddenly, abruptly and silently, who would be there to celebrate my life? Who have I touched, to say that "Yes. Lip Jin was a true friend"? And who would NOT mourn my death, but say that while I was alive, I had been a friend, a confidante and a soulmate?

So let's look beyond the customary "How do you do?" and really start getting to know the people around us, to be interested in their lives, to be genuine and less "fake". Sometimes, fakeness just takes away that touch of genuine friendship that you may inadvertently torch in that person sitting across you during dinner. Be yourself, for good, for bad, or for ugly.


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Poloroid!

Finality

The finality of the moment just bears down on me as I wait for my impending departure off to the US of A.

Friendships here would cease for around 3-4 months while the wonders of MSN would offer a virtual persona for people on the other side of the world to look at while I party away and study away at the cold acadaemic confines of the University.

Mmmmm... All of a sudden, MC/MR, option trading, Theories of firms, Samuelson and Krugman seem to be very appealing yet again.

Or maybe my moods just swing in accordance to the soup of the day at NYDC.


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July

4th of July. America's Independence day. With fireworks and free-flow beer and lots of fun, joy and laughter.

Back during the revolution, 4th of July was the day America gained her independence from Great Britain way back in 1776. It was a day gained with much death and suffering, through wars and pain and illnesses and disease.

And today, we celebrate it with fireworks, song and dances and family holidays across the United States.

Which makes you think what Singapore's national day would be when the Founders of Singapore have passed on and generations of Singaporeans lived and breathed the air of freedom that has been passed down. Would it be appreciated? Or would families take their loved ones to a trip overseas, thankful for a day of rest and relaxation away from work?

Think about it.

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