lollerskater

There's a really good reason why I haven't been blogging. I've just been really swamped with work lately, so much that it's not funny at all. Nutrition exams and papers due, MGT exams, law tests. I seriously feel damn burned out right now. But alas I still have to keep up the steam, catch with online lectures and do endless reading...or else every little hint of work up till now goes out the shitter.

Ok academics have been run over, on to the good things.

We've been toying with the idea of waffles at work. Who else to test this delectable delights on other than the nice kind folks working. Yes that's me and my other co-workers. I swear I think I've put on shitloads of weight while working at Island Creamery. My efforts to work off my spare tyre through exercise have proved to be futile up till this point. I've got just about 2 more months till I have to take my army fitness test.

Well until then, it's reverso shakes and waffles for me all the way!

I tell you it's damn bloody shiok, when we have it in store you better do yourself a favour and forget about putting on weight...BUY ME! EAT ME! YOU KNOW YOU WANT ME!
BLOODY MOUTH WAFFLING LAH!

In order news, today was a good day, a really good day. I haven't been spending that much time lately with Valerie. I got to do so today. And yes as a result of which I skipped Law Class! We had lunch at food republic at wisma...killer hokkien mee and char kway teow there I tell you! And also damn good teh. I bought myself 2 new tshirts today so I don't have to wear the same clothes to class since semester one. Nicholas on the other hand bought $7K worth of shit to prepare himself for his job in Japan. 2 bloody $2.5K trenchcoats from Zegna and BURR-BELLIES!

YOU KNN YOU.

Your bloody one year of shopping is akin to the GDP of a 3rd world country.

Well most of today was spent at home with me playing guitar.

Yeah what's new right?

Here's a picture of me playing the newest Ashlee Simpson song!

I played so much today I broke 5 strings. Not funny at all. I spent the last half hour restringing. Today proved to be rather productive as well. Went over to Suffian's place with Benson *Members of my band!*. We composed 3 new songs...or was it 4 new ones? And also had some really shiok mee goreng courtesy of the culinary skills of Suffian. Benson has a new toy...a $450 multi effects pedal that has a wing span of an endangered predatory bird.

My fellow classmates are probably still partying outside at MOS getting drunk and waking up to regret it tomorrow. I wish I could have joined them celebrating Stef's birthday, but duty calls. Sorry guys.

Anyways, HAPPY BIRTHDAY STEF, may you have many more Old Chang Kee to come!

Also I've got an appointment with Mr. Misse tomorrow, hopefully a new octave pedal will be a nice addition to my pedalboard. And of course I will be meeting for the first time, killer guitarist Brandon!

Together we shall lust happily like catholic schoolgirls over MORE MORE MORE PEDALS!

Christopher.

Yeah I just got back today's jam session. Haven't jammed with my band for 2 weeks. Benson got caught up at last week's IT show at Suntec. The studio today was somewhat sparse. Located in Waterloo Centre amid a Block of HDB Flats. It keeps getting weirder, 2 weeks ago it was at a shophouse in Arab Street along some road called Jalan Pinang. I'm not really sure what Pinang means but right next to it is Jalan Pisang, or Jalan Banana. My linguistic grasp of malay is currently crap status, besides being able to name my favorite dishes I can't say shit.

Aku Ta Tau.

Anyways todays' place was very downsized. Dark, with the absence of windows, the only source of illumination a lone flourescent tube on the wall. It's about the size of my room. My ears are still ringing from the bouncing reflections off the walls of the room. The amps were really jialat...line6 digital modelling amps. Everything was so close to each other that the sound of the drums could be heard bleeding into the P.A. system's echo. But it's only for practice, locations don't matter much to us.

But on a good note, we were tight today. Really tight. Like my secondary school uniform shorts.

So tight it inspired the jam studio owner to come in and take a picture of us. I'm joking of course, he might have taken a picture to put us as the noisiest band to have ever played at his studio. LOLOLZ

My pedalboard performed as promised. Really nice tones from my gear. I'm pretty damn happy with my current setup but as the G.A.S. monster looms over me, I don't know how long my spirit of contentment will last. I've already set aside a few bucks for Mr. Misse's new shipment of fulltone effects.

Dammit I want so many damn things! New effects, pedals, WAH WAH Pedal, Amplifier...
I secretly want a new guitar. I say secretly because I so so love my floral. Everytime I play something else I feel bad. Seriously. It sounds crazy, it's like the feeling you get if you cheat on your girlfriend or something.

Don't worry ok, I'll always love you.

I've grown pretty sick of jamming within the confines of studios, it's time to get gigs. My bro is helping me out on this, I really hope everything pulls through. :)

In "Training for IPPT" news, I just came back from another run. I'll be doing the same old 2k route for the rest of this week and then increasing it next week to the 3 plus k route. I hope to become Macho Man in no time.

I've got shitloads to do in school next week.

MIS Test tomorrow, MGQ and Nutrition Test on Friday.

Best buy right?

I bought new wheels and some bearing for my LOLLERSKATES. Skating in the rain the other day with Avis and Valerie really screwed things up for me. My wheels can't even move now due to my laziness in getting the damn bearings cleared of rust.

They're the rear 2 black wheels. The usual skate shop was really nice and gave me a great discount along with 2 free bearings!

Heck Even Domo Loves them.

I'm currently waiting for a meal of Swedish Meatballs to come from Ikea for me.
My folks are so sweet.

Christopher.

My computer totally went berserk on me the other day. A simple restart turned into a hard disk failure. Best buy right? But what can you expect from a Pentium 3 550Mhz. Anyways numerous attempts to revive it followed by means of vain attempts from my brother, Cecil, and myself. Instead we made matters worse, confused my bios by installing 2 operating systems on my PC. Yeah so I went computerless for a few days, best bit was that my mind was totally made up to watch my online MGQ lectures and do my law project research. A rescue package came in the form of an intel celeron which belongs to my dad. That sufficed for the rest of this week.

My miracle worker and guitarist extraordinaire, Benson!

He fixed the thing for me in less than 24 hours.

Now I have a new hard disk, processor, power supply, operating system and loads of nice software to play around with! Thanks so much Benson.

I've been working so much it's crazy. Saturday crowds are really the craziest. The people come in hordes. Anyways the fruits of my labor have finally taken shape. Since my first paycheck I've bought myself 2 new pedals, a pedal board and a whole bunch of cables to go along with them. Long gone are the days I would show up to jam sessions in ziplocked bags containing my pedals. How pathetic right? Oh yeah Benson also sold me his 60 dollar Ritter Gig Bag for 20 bucks too!

So here it is...the pedal "Orgasmoboard"

Case closed...so pro looking!

Opened.

One shot is not enough...


So here it goes, my guitar into my Bad Horsie Wah wah pedal, ToneBone Classic, RC Booster, Voodoo Lab Analog Chorus, Line6 Echo Park!

Here's the best bit about me getting the EchoPark, some guy posted an ad online about selling it. He explained to me that he bought 2 just to try and see what they sounded like together...in the end he didn't like it. He originally intended to sell me the older of the two, but brought the newer one down by mistake! LOLOLOLZ.

So anyways, getting all the pedals and the pedalboard was probably the easy part of the whole equation. Next I went on a Velcro hunt with Valerie. I had to find suitably strong velcro strips in order to stick the pedals to the pedal board. I went to handifix at centerpoint *probably the only hardware store in the vicinity of my house*. The guy at the store tells me the 3M Velcro I bought "WILL CONFIRM WORK"...I went home and to my dismay the thing slips off like a lubricated toothbrush!

So stuck at home I was, whole pedalboard arranged nicely tell I remembered that a fellow guitarist of mine, Brandon told me I could get it Home-Fix....NOT HANDIFIX! Everything put in place, nicely arranged. But there was no way in hell they were going to stick on.

So I made my way to Marina Square. Valerie was really kind and sent me there, and joined me on my wild goose chase of a velcro hunt. Went there and BEST BUY they didn't have what I was looking for. I bought the next best alternative and to much of my Heng-Ness it worked!

Now I can turn my pedal board upside down and nothing will even budge!

I'm a happy man right now.

In other news I've started training for IPPT. I have to take it before my next birthday, surprisingly enough I have not slacked that much in terms of my fitness. Though I might not look like the part I still can run pretty well and knock out 12 pullups! Since I've started I've manage to run twice this week already while doing other exercises on my rest days. Hopefully I will prevail in the end and win myself some free money!

400 DOLLAH LEH!

I'm dead tired from work.

Christopher.

Yes, I got the best buy phone call that every NS Man dreads. I was relaxing at home after having lunch with my Dad and Valerie. Just sitting around doing nothing and I get a phone call from mindef saying that I have been mobilized. "Please report to your mobilization centre immediately." THANKS MAN! I feel like I just strike lottery or something, but instead of winning first prize, I end up claiming the money after my ticket has expired. So I proceeded to put on my uniform, shirt fits fine as it always has, I got a rude shock when I tried on my size M pants. Dammit they don't fit. Well yeah I managed to get them on, but they'd probably burst the moment I sat down. The realization of "NAH BEI" only hit me when I was putting on my boots and tying the boot lace in the typical "Lazy man knot" army style. I have not worn my uniform in like 2 years.

The uniform to me, feels like some sort of security blanket, a technicolor dream coat of some sorts. Whenever I wear it, I can fall asleep anytime anywhere, I feel mentally challenged, and most of all it causes me to speak in the language exhibited in my previous post.

But honestly speaking I did have fun when I was in army, I really enjoyed it. It's like a childhood fantasy come true, get to wear uniform go run around in the jungle and explode stuff. Yes most guys might not agree with me. I'm freaky like that.


GOOD TO GO SOLDIER!

I proceeded to camp, Valerie was really sweet and sent me there, I really appreciate it. Anyways I got there within slightly above half an hour of my phonecall. I was told by my friends that mobilization just consisted of you scanning your army card and then getting the hell outta there. But things turned out to be very VERY different. Inprocessing, scanned my army card, went to form up...and I ended up sitting there doing nothing for the next 5 frickin' hours! I shit you not, I did absolutely nothing productive, other than talk to my men and catch up. The only good thing about the whole mobilization other than catching up with my men was going to the Emart and buying myself some free army stuff. Can you believe it, now soldiers got sandals to wear! I got myself a pair, my new urban male slippers broke on me and forced me to walk home barefooted once. Next Zouk Out I'll be in army sandals. And now they even have a duffle bag with rollers so you can look like an SAF Stewardess! LOLWTFBBQ~!

Well anyways I was lucky to get the camera on friday, I took some silly pictures as usual in school during law class. Sorry correction *after* law class.

I'm sorry but I can't think of a logical explanation why anyone would want to wear sunglasses indoors, especially so when it comes to Mara.

Hence I had to conjure up a picture to illustrate what she was hiding behind the glasses.


Well as soon school ended I went LOLLERING with Valerie at East Coast Park. Yeah I got like a hundred days or so before I need to clear my IPPT. And I can't even fit into a size M pants! Exercise is definately in the priorities of the agenda. We skated so damn much from Macdonalds all the way to the END of east coast park. It's the first time in my life that I've seen the END of east coast park. I always thought it would lead to some big ass air field like changi beach or something but instead it was a golf course with funky smells.


All in all it's been a great week, I got most of my midterm results, did well for them. Now all that's left to go is LAW! Pray pray pray. I'm getting it back on wednesday...

Jamming today was excellent! I got a big ass marshall stack to play with, just like a RAWK concert sial! Please ah....don't ask me whether it's like Fort Minor or what crap like that. My band was VIRGIN TIGHT today. I made less mistakes. It was a great session we accomplished everything we set out to do last week.

Oh yeah if you need eggs, ask EGGY THE EGGSPERT!


Christopher.

Wah lan eh, I today super buey tahan, go AHLAB STEET go jamming with my band kaki. Jam session damn super kenna one, we all damn good today. Guitar oso SUPER POWER SOUND SIAL. That place down there got MARSHALL STACK man. Amplifier as tall as your girlfriend neneh. Wah Kaoz! After we all jamming ah we go eat Bryani downstairs...WAH...I tell you ah, Wa Kah Le Gong, down there the Bryani is like Marshall Stack oso, eat ah can make your ballz vibrate sial.

But in the end oso make my stomach vibrate, that's why I super cannot tahan I go bugis junction go down there pang sai one time big big one. Wah lan eh that place toilet oso supper cannot make it one.

WAH NI NEOH HIAH!

Toilet KAN NA SO dirty, shopping centre somemore, I tot GAHMEN say must keep toilet clean, wah lan eh, wall oso got people write what ah call this number for dunno what kind of gin nah, got many name many number for you to call for special, no need go dickson health centre at sim lim down there.

Good day lah today.

Christopher Kia.

Yeap my midterms are all over right now. A big ass burden lifted off my shoulders. But there's much more to come, so many damn projects. The awrd for the worst module I'm doing this semester has to go to Nutrition. I seriously have no frickin' idea why I'm studying this. I hardly eat nutrionally well and I work in an ice cream shoppe. Furthermore I've got a waistline most mortals couldn't wrap both arms round....well at least in my own eyes.

I can't believe the speed of which my midterms were graded, I have already got back the results for 2 of them. I did pretty well for both, I'm so damn relieved. I thought I would totally botch Operations management. I did well for MIS too...thank you so much Uncle Benson! If you're nice maybe I'll let you play my RC Booster.

Work today was pretty good, I was slightly worried my boss would fire me for the potential of my absence from 2 work shifts this week. I took off on tuesday to study for business law midterms. That turned out to be pretty good as well. But in my haste to study all the different types of business torts and other lawful stuff. I totally lost out on technicalities, I couldn't distinguish between executive and legislative...oh well..2 marks gone. 2 of my co-workers got their A level results back on wed. It sickens me somewhat, that such an emphasis is placed on results that it transcends into the mental esteem of a person. Such an unforgiving society we live in. I remember the time when I got my A level results, the first time round I got O F F , second time D D E.

Shiok right?

Honestly speaking, I don't ever remember studying in my life. I shit you not. I don't think I've ever really studied till the time when I'm in uni. Results didn't mean crap to me then, but now I lose sleep over a whacked out midterm.

Anyways my big pimp friend Nicholas came to visit me today while scooping ice cream. Nice gesture my friend. He's in the midst of beefing up his command of japanese so he can go to tokyo and make big bucks while playing golf with japanese executives, play pah-jin-ko, drink sake, AND CHOCO-PARTY EVERY SINGLE GIRL THERE! Good luck Ni-co-ras San!

My Sweetie sent me to work today, yes yes I know. I have to go get that thing normal people call a drivers' license soon. But how???? I wanna use all my money for my guitar fetish! Other than all the sweet things that my babe does for me to give me warm fuzzy feelings all over...she also sent me a link to an SIM student's blog documenting some sick mofo MASTURBATING in the library!

SURE NOT????

I tell you no lie my friend!

We have a LIBRARY SHAKER IN OUR MIDST.

I use the term SHAKER (with the strategically placed caps of course), because when I was in JC there was such an individual. But he went by the name of LT SHAKER! LT of course stands for lecture theater. There was this sicko, who probably spent his nights at home, cutting a small hole in his pocket anticipating the event whereby which he would SHAKE in the LT! And he really did it. He SHAKED off in the LT while looking at some pretty young ACJC girls. Sicko!

I present to you the LIBRARY SHAKER.


Apparently this guy had a bible with him and some lubricant. What a strange combination right? Well you mofo, if I ever see you shaking off in the library, I hope you pray damn hard. A security guard led him off upon knowledge of the event. He just got chased out. I'm not really sure whether he got more than that. But in my opinion people like this should be sent to prison, to become a prison slut.

Ok I'm going to sleep now.

Tomorrow I'll be rollering all my worries away!

Christopher.