Almost At The End of Round 2

Realized that I haven't been updating for so long. Why? Busy watching the World Cup of course hahaha! Totally neglected other things. Can't recall what I did man...but I'll try...

5th June 2010, Saturday

It's FDS gathering at Harry's Bar@Esplanade. It's been a while since we had an FDS outing. Thanks to Boon Leong, this was quite a success. A total of 9 of us were present as you can see from the picture below. Jarvis' face was half-blocked haha. We then ended up at The Coffee Club@Millenia Walk for further chill-out. Let's look forward to the JB trip in July!

12th June 2010, Saturday

Met up with NZ to visit the PC Show at Suntec. Nothing much. Went to squeeze with the crowd only. Then went to watch The A-Team at Iluma. Plenty of action, but too much of plot. They tried to squeeze too many tactics within a scene, making it quite difficult to grasp the idea of their plans. Still, quite an entertaining show, but for men only.

Then we went to have dinner before watching the South Korean vs Greece match at 7:30pm at a pub just next to Raffles Hotel. Very quiet place with not many people. We had a comfortable place not too far from the TV. $19 for a jug of beer, which lasted us through the match. South Korea won 2-0 for that match, with Park Ji Sung scoring quite a nice goal.

13th June 2010, Sunday

Went down to the kopitiam to watch the 2:30am England vs USA match with GM and Mahesh. England sucked big time. Gerrard scored a beautiful goal within the first few minutes, only to let USA equalize later on, due to Robert Green's mistake. What a big disappointment.

18th June 2010, Friday

Organized a get-together session with the Blk 22 people. Wanted to have dinner and watch the clash between Germany and Serbia. It the end only managed to leave office around 7:30pm. When I reached Paulaner@Millenia Walk, Jason, Shenggui, Charles and Naizhu were there already. The pub was full of Germans. And it seems that they were out of luck that night as their national team was on the verge of losing their first game of this World Cup. Junie and Diana joined us later on. The service there sucks big time, as sucky as Germany's game. Miroslav Klose was red-carded earlier on in the first half, and Podolski actually missed a penalty kick! We waited quite a long time before our dishes were served, then took another 10 to 15 minutes before our CUTLERY were given to us. Do we look like barbarians? Then the best thing was, I ordered a similar dish of "World Cup" pork knuckles as what Jason and Seng had ordered. In the end they gave me a different one which costs double! We only realized until the bill was paid. DAMN! Tio tock! The bill also took quite a while before they returned it to us. Sucky!

After the match, Seng, J, D, NZ and I then went to the HK 茶餐厅 at Marina Square to sit, chat and relax.

19th June 2010, Saturday

Organized another outing. This time is for our GIP guys. Kim, Nana, Alan, Hock Seng, Wenyao, Naizhu were present. I also managed to get Kah Wai to join us for this Netherlands vs Japan match at 7:30pm. We grabbed a table at an Indian restaurant at Chijmes. There were plenty of Dutch fans all donning orange shirts and jerseys. Only a handful of the crowd were Japanese supporters. I wore my brand new blue Japanese World Cup home jersey. Although I'm not a Japanese soccer team fan, I feel that it was quite refreshing to be wearing something unique, compared to everyone else wearing an orange shirt. The game was quite evenly matched, until Wesley Sneijder managed to have a shot at goal, and the Japanese goalkeeper actually touched the ball, but instead couldn't deflect it enough to parry it away from goal. It would have been a draw. After that we went to Mac at Raffles City before going home.

20th June 2010, Sunday

Went to meet up the Citi gang at Beerfest Asia 2010. Quite an interesting event. Furthermore, can have beer while watching soccer. How cool is that? There were plenty of babes promoting the beers too. Went to support one of the girls I added on FB, Christina, who was promoting for Sol beer, a Mexican beer. In fact the beer was really quite good. The match for the night was Slovakia vs Paraguay, which wasn't quite an interesting match, for me. We weren't really watching the match, just walking around checking out the booths, babes and booze. The event also was kinda cool in the sense that they used poker chips as tokens for us to pay the booze with. I brought home one of the chips for souvenir haha.

Haven't seen any of these beers around.

Yes, we're beer promoters.

Leonard apparently enjoyed himself.

There were many different types of beers at the event, but I only managed to try a few, namely, Jaz, Sol, 333, some Taiwanese lychee-flavoured beer, Magners. Would be cool to try others but I wanted to stay awake for the Brazil vs Ivory Coast match later at 2:30am.

Beerfest not only teaches us to drink,
but also to gamble, put on tattoos, and have (safe) sex. -_-'''

We left the event halfway through the Italy vs New Zealand match. WTH world champions were drawn at 1-1 by a newbie team. Sucky World Cup!

I stayed awake all the way until 2am until I decided to take a quick nap, cos was having a headache already. The next thing I know is I saw the clock on my wall reading "7am+". WTH! So I went back to sleep Zzzz...

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10 Days to World Cup!

Woohoo! Can't wait!

And anyway I've just turned 29 few days ago T_T....old man! As a common practice, the office people celebrated my birthday for me with a nice chocolate cheesecake on the eve of my birthday.

27th May 2010, Thursday, birthday

I took one day's leave to slack at home on my actual birthday. Then of all places Mummy suggested eating at Sakura @ Tampines Safra for dinner. Aiyoo... not really the best buffet around.

28th May 2010, Friday, Vesak Day

Went to Ubin with Peiyi, Jiajun and his gf, Xingyu, Clifton and Jacenta. Clif drove us and our bikes to Changi Village, saving us the trouble of cycling there. We had breakfast before setting off for Ubin. It's $2.50 per person and $2 per bike. Woohoo cycling in Ubin is always shiok.

The oil spill has affected the Chek Jawa area. Sux man! Destroying our nature! All some stupid tanker's fault. After the cycling, we went back to Changi Village for nasi lemak. ShiokzZz! I ordered extra chicken wing some more hahaha.
I went home to wash up and then went out again. Weiqiang and Peiyi picked me up to go to Thomson Medical Centre to visit Huimin and her newborn Adele Tan! So CUTE! Looks so much like Huimin. Albert was holding Adele in his arms, like a loving father would. See here for the pix.

Then I went off to meet Edwin and gang. Finally managed to grab hold of Edwin. He's so busy with work and everything else that we could hardly meet him for dinner. This time he also had to go to work. But he met WK, KW and me for dinner at some Japanese restaurant near his workplace, then we went to Ooster, a pub nearby, for some drinks. After the drinking session, Edwin went back to his office while WK suggested we go to the Marina Bay Sands link bridge to take a look.

We walk all the way from China Square to the link bridge and then to Marina Bay Sands. KW brought us to this spot where we could see the whole of the casino. Woohoo nice view. Too bad there were so many security cameras all around us that we could not take out our phones to take a pic ahhaha. Seems like the "secret" passage is still not closed yet. Only a single path leads to that area to view the whole of the casino. Cool man. But not as if I've not seen the best casinos in Macau already. Marina Bay Sands is just small fry lol.
29th May 2010, Saturday

Went to the Singapore Expo for the License2Play gaming expo and food fair. Asked Kong Hooi and Chin Keat to go. I also met up with Hong Ming and Naizhu. I decided to drive there cos felt lazy to take bus and switch trains. In the end I got stuck in the stupid jam for 1.5 hours! I swear I'll NEVER drive to Expo on weekends again! Worst still was after I got into the carpark, while waiting for a car to drive out of the parking lot, another female driver drove all the way behind my car and blocked my way to that parking lot. Once that car drove off, she immediately reversed in to occupy that empty slot. Awesome! Any blind fool would have noticed my car waiting for that slot. I immediately got off my car and went to ask her "Hello! Din you see me waiting there for the slot?" She gave me loads of rubbish and told me that she's the organizer of the expos. Why the f*ck would I care about who she is? I said "Oh so it's like that huh? Never mind!" and turned back to find other lots. She shouted "You can go complain if you want!" I was noting down her license plate number on my phone, actually just to buy 4D later ahhaha. But then after I found a lot quite soon after that, I proceeded back to that lot to take a picture of the car and the parking lot. That lady who had walked off to a distance was so kanchiong I suppose and quickly turned back to approach me and told me "I took your picture and blah blah blah" I din remember what she said but almost as if was threatening me. I think she felt kanchiong and then said she can give me a complimentary ticket to the expos. I was thinking in my head "WTF? Now scared I will go complain then trying to please me with a ticket? KNS!" Then she also offered me her namecard. I thought again "Why the hell would I want your namecard for? Date you out ah?" From her looks I think she's at most late 20s, but dun qualify for my definition of pretty. Duh! She gave me plenty of crap reasons for her taking my slot. And after I asked her one simple question "did you think what you did was right?" She did not give a "yes" but continued arguing her way through. In the end she apologized and even extended out her hand and I said "Ok you've apologized, so I'm ok already" and proceeded to give her a handshake. Haiz why got such people? I already waited 1.5 hours and now gimme such crap. If I wasn't so frustrated over the jamming, I would have just drove off without getting out of my car to confront her.

Enough of such nonsense lol. I went to the License2Play event and met up with NZ and HM. CK and KH went home already by the time I finished parking my car and going through all that ordeal. Walau further disappointment. The event was so small. Nothing much to see really. In the end the food fair was more entertaining. I even bought loads of food back. ZZzzz... What a day.

Later at night, I went over to Charles' home in Hougang for the second time. This time we were there for Guitar Hero and poker. Woohoo! Guitar Hero is so fun sia. But then not too many songs to play with. Aaron and gf, Justina and Eileen were also there. So the 6 of us played GH and then poker until 3. The cheaters A, C and E were the last 3 winners while the rest of us lost money T_T... Cheat us beginners, but never mind! Next time win their socks off lol.

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