Kennyster

Saturday, January 31, 2004

DOUBLE O

Made plans to go Double O tonight.

Reached there at 11.30pm and spent 30 'enjoyable' minutes in the express queue outside the club before realising that the queue wasn't moving at all.

But what really pissed me off were the smarmy gormless pricks that stode past the queue to the entrance and greet the bouncers by name, just to prove to one and all that they were regulars -- yeah, REGULAR ARSEHOLES.

Queue up u bastards!

Ugh. Wat else cld i do? Short of cutting all of their throats and flushing them bit by bit down the toilet, there wasn't much i could do other than giving the pissed off look which quite frankly resembles a bulldog..

We ended up heading to one of the pubs to catch the FA Cup match between Arsenal and Boro instead, which was actually surprisingly enjoyable. haha

Kennyster @ 3:38 AM

Monday, January 26, 2004

My ICKT ( infantry commander knowledge test ) is in 2 days time. 300+ MCQs to study. And i havent started a single page of revision since i left my notes in camp ( fucking genious! ) before leaving for Chinese New Year break.

Looks like i will have to start burning the midnight oil from tonight, whole Iraqi oilfields of that goddam stuff to be exact....

*mentally stressed*

Kennyster @ 8:50 PM

Sunday, January 25, 2004

"I love the lines that men use to get us into bed. 'Please, i'll only put it in for a minute.' What am I, a microwave?" -- Maxim November Issue.

Kennyster @ 8:52 PM

Played soccer at VJC ( my alumni college) today... 5 days of chinese new yr celebrations.. non-stop munching of Bak Kwa, oh-so-sinfu-yet-i-juz-cant-stop-eating Moven Pick chocolate chip ice-cream, caramel-chip famous amos cookies, Vodka cocktails.

And it freakin' shows. haha. God, i probably played like Maradona ( e REALLY-overweight Argentinian legend who lasted roughly 12 mins in his testimonial match last yr ).....i was always second to the ball ( if i actually touch the ball to begin with, i was sweating bucketloads, and i swear i saw stars at some pt of time....

*snort*... That's it. i know i know, i haf always said that i am always in shape because round is,well, technically a shape.. ..But seriously !!! Get Real!

So from tomorrow onwards.... POWER-gyming and NON-STOP marathonic runs!!

Ta-ta *drum rolls*, there u have it, my New Year Resolution for this year ,... EAT LESS AND WORK OUT MORE. But knowing myself, it'll just disappear into the Bermuda Triangle of resolutions along with last yr's 'i'll-do-200-crunches-n-120-bench-press-every-day"(oh pls!) and "i-will-save-half-of-my-pay-every-month"(hey, i have peanuts pay to begin with!).......Hmm, u guys gotta help me...

If u EVER catch me eating ANYTHING... SLAP ME!!!

Thank you.

Kennyster @ 7:44 PM

Saturday, January 24, 2004

Went house visiting today.

Came to the conclusion that some kids are actually pretty adorable .

Take for example, Vanessa.. She has to be the cutest 6 yr old girl in Singapore.. nice hair and the sweetest angelic smile...she's gonna be some serial heartbreaker when she grows up. haha. Anyway, she was happily drawing when she came up to me showing me her masterpiece ..

Frankly, vanessa's drawing was rubbish. To represent her cat ( i think, i honestly can't make out wat the fuck she's drawing..) , she had taken a brown crayon and scribbled it up and down on a piece of paper...

"oooh.. That's a super picture Vanessa!"

With that, she started giggling and gave me one of the most heartwarming smiles i have ever seen....

She absolutely made my day.

Kennyster @ 8:37 PM

This is very very funny crap... Saddam Hussein's spoof of Outkast's Hey Ya MTV....
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Kennyster @ 8:52 AM

Friday, January 23, 2004

Men can read maps better than women because only the male mind could conceive of one inch equalling a hundred miles. -- Beverly Hawk

Kennyster @ 8:00 AM

The Last Samurai!!

Pretty solid movie, visually spectacular and it goes a great deal to promote the samurai's code of conduct and the japanese culture... But since this is a Tom Cruise movie (oh well..), everything works out for him, even if it meant bending logic ( him mastering the jap lang. and kendo stick in a couple of months), reality and just about everything else to make him the ultimate last action hero....

Honestly i think tom cruise's japanese co-stars deserve special mention though... As Katsumoto, Ken Watanabe brings an awesome balance of warmth, ferocity and sadness to Katsumoto in a performance that quite frankly, overshadows Cruise every time they share the screen. Koyuki, the dazzling-super-duper-freakin-oh-my-God-okay-I-juz-forgot-what-i-wanted-to-say hot babe, undercuts Cruise’s heartfelt but transparent emoting with a mixture of hatred, relief, embarrassment, and deep sadness.

But no prize for guessing whos going home with the 20 million dollar paycheck.... Screw tom cruise and his "great white hope" for a foreign culture man...

Kennyster @ 12:50 AM

Wednesday, January 21, 2004

SPRING CLEANING!

Woo hoo! Probably the only time of the year where everybody gets their arses moving and clean up the whole area.

In the process of area cleaning, i discovered $4.80 in loose change scattered all over my bedside, fungus the size of a small yukka plant at the side of my bed frame (ewww), and Kevin's beloved car mag ( 2003 march edition) lodged below my locker. ( so thats where it was!)

But before u guys complain about my sloppiness, i have to say kevin's spare cupboard was worse . Apparently it was a penitentiary for food sentenced to life imprisonment. We found potato chips whose expiry date read 'When Dinosaurs Roamed the Earth!'. Not even the homeless would want to eat anything out of it k. They would walk in, take a look, give a disgusted look, and bend down double with derison....

hmmm... but i think our bunk is actually pretty clean now lah. We wld prob. bring in new food next wk.. haha... So in the mean time, Happy Chinese New Year to everybody! Gong xi gong xi!

Got this from a SMS from Guanhua, which i thought was pretty hilarious... haha
"In the year of the Monkey, take this advice seriously: TAKE GOOD CARE OF UR BANANA!"
Funny right? hmmm.. or do i have a low threshold for humour?

Kennyster @ 9:38 PM

Tuesday, January 20, 2004

ANOTHER field camp!

Spent Monday and Tuesday at Lim Chu Kang for a 2 day battle course there. Fancy spending Chinese New Yr Wk walking past cementries? What the fuck right!

The feeling sucks big time man. Doesnt help knowing some of my friends were leaving for exotic locations like Japan and Australia for a holiday, prob. returning in a week's time with a golden tan and bargain buys. While I went camping in bloody Lim Chu Kang and came back with oh-my-God mould between my toes. ( the sky was vommiting rain the whole fuckin' afternoon! arghh )

Blah! I ought to be getting huge chinese new yr bonuses. I deserved it alright! All i ever wanted was a honest week's pay for a honest day's work. ..

Is that TOO much to ask for???

Kennyster @ 9:30 PM

Monday, January 19, 2004

Mad World ( by Gary Jules, Donnie Darko's soundtrack )

All around me are familiar faces
Worn out places, worn out faces
Bright and early for their daily races
Going nowhere, going nowhere
Their tears are filling up their glasses
No expression, no expression
Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow
No tomorrow, no tomorrow

And I find it kinda funny
I find it kinda sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very, very mad world mad world

Children waiting for the day they feel good
Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday
Made to feel the way that every child should
Sit and listen, sit and listen
Went to school and I was very nervous
No one knew me, no one knew me
Hello teacher tell me what's my lesson
Look right through me, look right through me

And I find it kinda funny
I find it kinda sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very, very mad world ... world
Enlarge your world
Mad world

Oddly enough, it calms me despite its depressing lyrics, his slow soothing voice and haunting words burn into my memory... it can almost be a lullaby to the echoing shrieks of despair resonating in my mind and heart... Captured a few of our attentions when we first heard it in Brunei last month. Enjoy. )

Kennyster @ 9:49 PM

Saturday, January 17, 2004

Self-Improvement Books!

Decided to head to Times bookshop in the afternoon to look for a good novel to read. anyway, walking ard the store, was bemused to see that there were now 2 ailses of 'Self-Improvement' books... Hey, a couple of yrs ago 'Men are from mars, women from venus' were the ONLY self help bks around rite? anyway, there must have been a thousand or more books in the section marked 'Relationships' alone. Round the corner was 'let your money work for u!' and 'Making Friends!' (WTF??).....

Out of curiosity and plain boredom, i picked up this big orange book: Dating For Dummies -- The Down-To-Earth Guide to Dating Success! ... Flipping through, the chapter headings were promising , bouncy and full of encouraging present participles such as 'Polishing your Social Self' and 'Getting ur Outside Ready' ( Followed by 'Getting your Inside Ready'-- I was having visions of renting a home X-ray machine at this pt of time... haha) .

Then it started to get ridiculous. There was one chapter entitled 'Your Date Hates You!' and another called 'You Hate your Date!' and lastly a third that began 'You Hate Each Other!'

Jeez...SERIOUSLY! Who buys such crap?? *shakes head*

Then came the patronising and pretty much useless advice.
"Remember sulking isnt sexy and it isnt productive!"
"Look at your shoes. Do they match?"

hahaha. At this pt i was really giggling pretty loudly to myself in the bookstore, prob. oblivious to other ppl's rude stares..

The author ( i cant remember her name ) must have been a frustrated poet. "Charm must include eye contact', she says. "In short, its a butterfly's touch on a flower petal, the breeze of a humming bird's wing.... " ( Shd be something like that lah )

Gosh. some of the crap advice made me wonder if the writer had decided that love might well have rendered her readers stupid or something.

Ended up going to the library and borrowing a book called "The Bank Robber Diaries" by Danny King.. which is a hilarious book about a robber's diary of cock-ups.. haha.. i know i know *nods head*.. i read stupid books .. but well.. haha...

Kennyster @ 11:20 PM

Tuesday, January 13, 2004

Don't tell God how big your problems are... Tell your problems how big your God is.

Kennyster @ 3:55 AM

Monday, January 12, 2004

Went Orchard to meet up with Patrina in the the afternoon.

After 6++ years of friendship, i have come to realise that our friendship has evovled into a whole new level....

Somehow, i have evolved to become her primary sounding board.

Or punching bag.

( Whichever you prefer.)

haha. For the better part of the afternoon i was subjected to her incessant whining/ complaining/ moaning/ lamenting about her unreasonable seniors and hectic university life... during which i was telling myself "oh boy, this is going to take more than one freaking afternoon... " *shakes head* *grinz*

Anyway, besides lamenting about her senior, pat concludes that im a nerd AND a shopaholic... both allegations which i strongly deny. I mean me shopaholic???!! Quite obviously, she hasnt seen some of my female friends, especially those from the arts faculty. My gosh. Once ,i was out with two of them when they embarked on a 5 hrs non-stop shopping blitz which till this day, remains a truly frightening experience for me. Not only did they not bother looking at a single price tag the whole time we were out that day, one of them deliberated over a pair of sandals at ULRS for 2 hrs and STILL didnt buy them... I admit defeat.

As for being a nerd, jeez, i really don't think im one... But wats so bad about being a nerd anyway? Come to think of it, nerds actually do have a lot of good qualities. They contribute immensely to the economy. I mean, who else buys all those calculators, those long white socks, glasses, plaid shirts, laptops, encyclopedias, sci-fi books and most importantly pays their library fines on time? Nerds! Who are the world's richest ppl? Nerds! Who runs for President? Nerds! Nerds rock!!

( Since apparently patrina reads my blog occasionally, tot i shd be obliged to say something nice about her... haha... kidding..actually to be honest did enjoy myself today and you were really fun to hang out with ya.. and you are definitely a gd friend of mine, one of those who have walked into my life and left footprints in my heart. thanks!)

Kennyster @ 5:07 AM

Wednesday, January 07, 2004

The highlight of our trip would be 4 day 3 night mission which begun with us being heli-inserted onto the foot of Mount Biang, after which we started an arduous and tough journey through the thick vegetation and slippery ground.

It didnt help that it was raining heavily most of the time. all through the 4 days, the sky was a grey catheter bag, leaing, sour, sooty rain over the Temburong jungle. It had been raining so hard and for so long that the wild boars and snakes were starting to pair off and bleat for Noah.

But its through tough times that tough men emerge. Particularly impressive would be my OC ( Officer in Command ). His attention to detail and ability to focus throughout the 4 days seemed almost supernatural. I never once saw him slouch or yawn or scratch or express even the merest hint of ennui. My OC has to be some Terminator machine or something.. ( in the words of Ali G.. RESPECT!!)

Kennyster @ 9:26 PM

Thursday, January 01, 2004

Spent New yr's eve and new yr day in the Temburong jungle doing a navigation exercise. Split into groups of six to seven, we were given checkpoints to locate ( quite like Amazing Race, minus the glamour and modes of transport. ) bleah.. ie: HAVE TO WALK ALL THE WAY!!

Looking back, this was actually one the most fun and memorable new yr's eve which i had experienced. Setting up hammocks, crowding around a camp fire, cooking, chatting, laughing... it was a great time to bond with my camp mates.

Only complaint wld be the sandflies and watever fucking flying pests which was gathering ard us. Swatting merely encouraged their interest in me, and the more i swung my arms in desperate and hopeless self-defense, the more they were attracted by the commotion, flying in to "join in the fun", while sucking a generous amount of blood from my skin...

Also spent a short while talking to one of my men, who was pretty homesick and felt that it wasn't fair that he was away from home during the festive season. Did my best to comfort him, telling him to steer clear of such thoughts, because i knew that way madness lay. Nothing was fair or unfair. This was how the universe worked. As soldiers, we work at a pace that knew no hours, no limits....

Which was, of cos, according to my man, was bullshit of the highest order......

ARghh.. incorrigible bastard!

Kennyster @ 8:56 PM