~ Yet Another Week Of ZERO Exercise ~

hahaha. Like the title suggests, i have not been exercising at all for almost 2 weeks. Since that night when i sprain my ankle. I can walk with it now definitely, but its not fully recovered yet. Still feel quite weird when i pick up my pace abit. And theres still this pain when i try to bend the ankle outwards.(like the sprain position) haha. So yea... Guess i wun be running for at least another week? Im thinking of swimming though. hmmm...

My phone is getting abit cranky these days, sometimes it cant detect the memory stick, other times it shuts down by itself. Guess i cant blame my phone entirely as i have the habit of leaving my phone on overnight while its charging instead of turning it off. Because its a real pain to on it after i switch it off...

Luckily my phone plan is a one yr plan so i will be "upgrading"/"extending" the contract soon and prolly be getting a new fone! haha. But its all only in the "i tink that should happen" stage. Phone's not on the top of my priority list right now. As long as the current one doesn outcrank it's economical viability.

I've been watching D.grayman recently. Just caught up to the latest episode yesterday. haha. I must say, i notice that there seems to be this trend in shounen animes. The main charc tends to be the hot blooded young underdog and almost all the time he will have an act-cool, smart and capable friend who tends to appear at the back of group shots looking at somewhere else. AND, the act cool guy will usually have black hair! haha.

D.grayman kinda reminds me of full metal alchemist though. I didn watch that series, although its apparently very popular as well. Only caught a few episodes and roughly know what that world is about.

Both the main charc are around the same age and both have a weird arm each. Even the villains they fight seem to originate from the same source. Some stuff that popped out from the bible. In D.grayman its the Noah clan and they have certain traits each. In FMA the villains are named after the 7 sins. Gluttony, Lust, Greed etc.

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Ohh yea. I caught "Get Smart" yesterday with my frens. haha. Its a reaaally funny show. Kept me laughing through the entire show. The pace was quite well set. And Steve Carell was doing what he does best. Acting as the not so bright but still dependable in times of need kinda underdog charc.

You'll prolly recognize many familiar faces in the show. Duan "The Rock" Johnson, "Hiro Nakamura(dun noe his real name)", the black guy from white chicks to name a few. haha.

So yea, i really recommend that show. Go catch it in yr spare time yea. If you have no spare time, then MAKE spare time.

~ Goodbye To You My Trusted Friend ~

This song is quite an old song but not very well known. Its by goo goo dolls and i think its really nice. Give it a go. Fits the theme of this blog entry too. haha.
(p.s i found out a way to click those embed objects already! right click first then left click the play. try try!)

Yea. Just came back from the airport. Sent shaun off, who is going aussie to study. Thats the first of the people in one of my closest knit groups who went overseas for studies. Not like he's gonna die but his presence will be missed. haha.

Some pictures:

Terminal 3!

Last group shot with shaun(the one in gret vest beside me)



Just saw this place at tiong bahru plaza just now. Its expanding quite abit now so ALOT of new shops...



Pie Kia?!? Wth? haha.


This next shot may seem totally ptless and out of pt to you...



But sometimes the prize is in the process. lol.
This was a shot of the backview of shang's driver seat while he went pass a speed camera. Taken with flash. Naturally. =)

I've been at home the past 2 days due to a sprained ankle in an earlier post. Looks smth like this:



Does it look bad? haha.

Hmmm yea. So now we're short of one なかま and short of a drummer. Next to go is shang. Going england somewhere in... October? hah. No wonder everyone's doing the "good old days drill". Time REALLY Flies.

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On another note. My mom started her chemo sessions yesterday. Shes been puking quite alot =( Its really tough on her. But again its great to see she has many friends surrounding her who gives her support and encouragement. Not forgetting the fact that she herself is strong too. I'll try my best to do all the things that can lessen her worries... (Like clean up my room). Hopefully she'll get well soon... This time also have to go for op. hah. but hopefully she will get well after the op. hmmmm.

~ Photos! ~

haha. the sun was really nice and warm today and alot of different clouds were out. That made a perfect day for a little shooting at the sky. haha.

Here are some of the shots that i took. These are not edited in anyway, except for resizing, basically these are exactly how they look like in my camera.











If you noticed, the buildings on the last picture were actually tilted. Didn notice for this picture until i actually finished uploading. haha. The next picture suffers from the same problem but i managed to photoshop it so it looks more straight.

Before


After


OK...... I just saw the preview and its not THAT obvious that the "before" pic was any more tilted than the "after" pic. haha. maybe cos the buildings were more or less silhouetted so cant discern the patterns and windows clearly. hahaha.

Im gonna throw in a few more photoshop edited before and afters. This time the difference will be quite obvious. haha.

Alright i took this shot this morning as i was walking to the bus stop. Lacks the contrast and color to translate into a more powerful image though...





So... I did some retouching and wala!

This one was done the other day. Same thing, horizon morning shot with a lamp post sticking out. hahaha. I dunoe la. Just feel that the lamp post gives the photo something to focus on. lol.


After photoshop edits.


hahaha. quite a major change isnt it! lol.

Lastly i have a macro shot of my name tag on my work table. Initially the picture was already composed to my liking. Cos i like to play with depth of field. But it just seemed abit washed out. so i adjusted the contrast settings. Then i added in some noise and burned in some shadow to add to the overall effect of the "depth of field" and really bring out the tag to the foreground.

So here goes:

Before.



After.

Thats the last of em for tonight. Sorry if i bored you and the pictures were not as interesting as i thought they would be. But i welcome your comments! haha.

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This is gonna be a LOOOOOONG entry. haha. Now im just gonna blog bout "normal" stuff. hah.

Shaun's gonna fly off to study at Monash this coming wednesday. Hah. Time really flies. Ppl are flying off for overseas studies and what not already. Just as more of my gang start getting interested in musical instruments, we gotta split liao. Sad. No more drummer.

Recently kept going into conversations of "the good old days" or topics that went along the line of "those were the days". hahaha. Wow. Making us sound so old, like we already lived through a decade.

(Sidetrack abit, after my run just now i was in the lift with a mother and her kid. The mother was saying:"See kor kor go exercise. Next time you grow up must also exercise!" Then she looked at me and went:"kor kor or uncle?" I was like WTF?!? inside but i just laughed it off. That REALLY made my day. oh man. Plus i sprained my ankle while running. -_- hopefully i'll be well enough to walk around tomorrow to collect ward forms and stuff... hah. But the nice sky and weather was really nice today. =) haha)

SO YEA. lets get back to topic! hahaha. Its really nice to talk with friends and laugh about the stupid things that we or other buggers did back in sec sch days.

I wonder if we'll still be enjoying ourselves doing stupid things as we enter tertiary education and subsequently the working class. i can only hope that we will still get enough time to meet up and chill together. haha.

OK. End of the long entry. haha. i know i've done this before but.. i picture says a thousand words. So i've effectively blogged lets see... 12 x 1000 + a bonus chunk of words. hahaha. ciao ppl. slp slp.

~ This Is Old ~

If you haven already seen this...



haha. cute.

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dunoe wad to put as title la. haha. more than one week haven update blog already, so... just try and squeeze out smth to update. lol.

Ahhhhh... I need money... lol. Until now, i still haven buy my wii. Plus i really really wanna buy a dslr to shoot photos with. =( Plus i haven gone overseas in what, 3yrs? 4yrs? haha. dammm... Then my bday aso dunoe how. prolly have to treat diff groups cos i tink will be abit too messy... haha. OH OH. And i dont even know if i will be getting a laptop/macbook(currently i hate mac os)

where have all the moolah gone? long time passing... where have all the moolah gone? long time ago...

but wow. i cant believe how fast time flies. very soon i'll be going to sch again. but hey at least this time its something diff, something which i will like. haha. just hope i made the right choice...

well since im on the topic of my bday maybe i should start planning it out abit. hmmmm. i was tinking of treating the gess ppl tgt with peter. since his bday is just 2 days away from mine. hah. but he still in NS and officer. so also dunoe what will happen then. Then prolly give a treat to my jc clique who i hang out with. Relatives i aso dunoe how leh. hahaha. dammm... ah then i also dunoe if i split up the things lidat, what to do with lott. LOL.

if i just throw the whole bunch tgt, maybe can just get a big pot full of fried rice and treat everyone. lol. that will simplify things. haha. the problem is i dunoe how to "integrate" those ppl. I might end up just running around the place here and there... so aso abit no pt ah. haha

still have to think through it. well at least i have some time to do that. heheh.

Dunoe if my frens going overseas or not leh. just hear abit here and there about going overseas but also dunoe who going where. i just hope they dun all go overseas at the same time like how my outings tend to clash with each other -_- i was just telling godwin the other day, we can go "overseas" without leaving SG! No. Not sentosa or ubin. Thats so lame. I was talking bout Singapore latest acquisition! Pedra Branca! Yea. Sea breeze and the sun on a relatively uninhabited offshore island! All without the commercialized feel of the likes of batam or bintan!

so thats bout it. nth much to type liao. still doing stuff to my room but little by little. hopefully can finish before sch starts! LOL.