The Urban Starfoil

While I Was Away

2010-01-19T07:59:00.002+08:00

Good morning Readies, it's been quite some time again that I've updated. No New Year's greeting even on here. Anyways happy new year to all Readies. I've been away from work, home and loved ones for the past week or so until yesterday.

Had to go for re/ser/?vis/t. So they've revised the so-called syllabus, and the duration has been extended from 8 days to 18 days. Thank you previous batches for your constructive feedback. So 8 days of training, followed by 10 days of sta/ti/o/n attachment.

Training was fun but then my heart was missing my loved ones so much. We could book out, but will have to return by midnight. Cinderella. Absence does make the heart grow fonder.

The guys in my pla/t/oo/n were great, cooperative, communicate well and enthusiastic. Hope to see the same batch of people next year, or maybe I won't be able to if I have school.

I applied for a degree in an arts school. Apparently they did not receive my supporting documents, which I sent out a week ago. Could my envelope be of suspicious nature? Hope not, I have to get it in by this 25th or my application would be forfeited.

Today I aim to clear all administrative issues with regards to my ma/ke u/p pa/y for my re/ser/?vis/t. I'm not too sure if I can check the status of my documents which were supposed to be mailed to the arts school, but if possible, yes I will do so. Last but not least, start on building my portfolio.

Dear Readies, have a splendid Tuesday because it won't be like Monday and will never be like tomorrow. Take care :)

hatiku..

2009-12-28T02:51:00.001+08:00

"...merasi apa-sahja yang kau merasakan, percayalah (K)(K)(K)"

Just Like The Wind - HHC

2009-12-26T12:44:00.002+08:00

"Just Like The Wind"

In The Dark You Tell Me Of A Flower, That Only Blooms In The Violet Hour

2009-12-24T22:27:00.003+08:00

Dear Readies, it seems that one by one, we are getting sick of working at where we're working now. Somehow the environment seems like chocolate coated vanilla.

I have my mind set, and next year shall see the end of this career and I shall hit the books once again. I thought the next intake is going to be March, but turned out to be January, followed by July. I guess my stay there would be extended till then unless I have something else popping out of my mind.

I dig the The Twilight Saga: New Moon soundtrack. It has some fabulous tracks, but I think it only or probably appeals to Indie listeners. Got sounds of the Editors, Death Cab, Sea Wolf, etc. "Mama, I love you..."

So my parents are safely back from their pilgrimage, Alhamdulillah. They had the opportunity to buy stuffs for us despite their focus. So we got pistachios, sweet delicacies, prayer beads and mats, and more sweet stuffs. Now there's whole lot of love outside of this room that I'm in; relatives, siblings, nephews and nieces.

Will we be getting end year bonus? I could use some vacation next year. Furthermore I'm looking forward to next end year, even when this year's isn't over yet.

It sucks to know that I can't go for Yeah Yeah Yeahs and The Killers live this year because of my in-camp training which will be on from 11 January 09 to 28 January 09. I managed to sell of my YYYs ticket, thank you buyer, and thanks to others who were interested.

"It's not easy, to be, me..."

The crowd at home is clearing now, and I can hear the crickets once again, together with my mom's hysterical laughter.

Shall pack my bag now for tomorrow. I haven't been to work today and the day before due to fever. Goodnight and Merry Xmas to those who love Santa's snowy beard.

On A Jetplane

2009-12-24T01:13:00.000+08:00

"I'm coming home"

Happy Birthday To Me 2009

2009-12-19T13:44:00.003+08:00

Dear Readies, Happy Birthday to me :) Thank you all for the well wishes, ad me being me, I changed my birthday on Facebook to February 06.

"Birthday wishes from Abah"

My parents are doing their Haj pilgrimage, they'll be back 24th December insya'Allah. Much love.

"Tik Tok - Ke$ha"

"Breaking Winds"

Bought myself this for my birthday. I'm not sad that I don't get gifts or anything, I just felt that I underspend this month and though I deserved something from myself.

"Rapha - BFF 2009"

BFF this time is not Best Friends Forever. It's Bicycle Film Festival.

"HanCKief"

Last and certainly not least, something I really need and want and love <3

From Sun to Set

2009-11-24T21:56:00.001+08:00

Today was the most beautiful off day that I have ever had. It started with this,

"Hood Morning"

After which I had breakfast at McDonald's after such a long time.

Afternoon was spent at home alone and it never felt better. I just miss those "after-school" afternoons, when you just get home from school at prob 1400hrs+? Did some housekeeping and I just lazed and tried so hard not to fall asleep. But I had to go out for lunch-dinner and also to beat the Z-monster.

I brought Dopey out for a ride, and it was thrilling. I got butt cramps for not cycling for a long time. Had Maggi Goreng at a hawker centre around Tampines, waited awhile and headed home by the same opposite route. Thrilling again. And it was mad nice to stumble upon this

"Sun Hide"

It felt so nice, it's been so long since I've seen sunsets, enjoy the afternoon breeze and see the sun-setting. My working hours made me miss them. When will I see them again?

SE Lager Remixed

2009-11-12T18:27:00.000+08:00

The days have been raining and there's nothing best but to stay put at home, enjoy the weather and rest your ass off. Today I decided to place the stickers I have been buying onto my fixie. And for some reason, the fixie now has a name, Dopey. So I have Unity and Dopey at home.

A couple of days back I spray-painted my riser bars and fork flat white, to make it look less stock. My grips are cheap and are torn on one end because my itchy fingers slit them, and after stretching it, it looks vaginal. I masked some printed details on the bars (brand and model) but it looks horrendous but managed to cover it up with stickers and it looks like this now:

"Dopey"

I like to do what I do best, kind of mish-mashing stickers from same or different set to change it to another outlook. I also pasted some stickers on the seat-tube of the frame comprising of Tokidoki and The Hundreds, looking like this:

"Lovin' Hundreds"

I also have a thing for slicing up a sticker and displacing them. Makes it look more interesting to me :) So overall my bike looks like this now:

"Dear Dopey"

Thank you for viewing Readies, really appreciate it and hope to see you again!

Inhuman Work Welfare

2009-11-11T00:51:00.002+08:00

Sorry for the non-update, been busy and rather dry on things to blog about, apart from the mundane things I would usually mention; bicycles, work, shoes, life in general, etc. But to sustain the interests of others, I shall do the thing I do.

There's been some kind of unrest at work. Apparently the related department has been screwing up the staffs' pay and the overtime pay and shit like that. And some kind of non-compliance with the ministry's words with regards to replacem.en/t offs. Ballshit.

I think the company should be thankful to have staffs like me, who don't bother much about the pay. It's my lost, but I just can't be bothered. If somehow I feel like they owe me something I'll just utilize the medical benefits accordingly.

New store opening early next month and all the best to the staffs who are proceeding there. I was given a choice, but preferred to stay for my own good. With the late nights, its better to stay. A number of resignation due to new better jobs, non-satisfaction, etc. I think I've mentioned this before, but the direction where the store is going to is pretty ambitious, with the cut in manpower, which they deem as the most expensive 'thing' they're paying for.

My fixie has a new look now, pictures up soon or later or prob will not be up at all. New colors here and there, and I have been collecting stickers wherever I can. I feel like producing stickers which I designed years back, but never brought them out for production. Like vinyl ones, cool.

The shoulder still hurts and I don't see it getting better anytime soon. I've only got painkillers, which I have not been taking. I don't like to lie to myself, like there's no pain but you know that it isn't anywhere near okay at all. And the only "therapy" I've got is carrying boxes of variable weights in the stock room.

I'm going back to the sketchbook, will update you Readies soon, nights.

-Online

2009-10-31T00:04:00.001+08:00

"-Online"

I <3 BBC

2009-10-30T00:55:00.003+08:00

"i ♥ bbc"

So I heard a very favorite band of mine, is coming to Singapore early next year. Super psyched, tickets would be out soon, this coming November. I cross my toes that the tickets won't be sold out. I would stay up and queue in line to get them. You can see how desperate or determined to get the tickets. SUPER. I tell you, heads will roll. Don't paitao okay?

Should I get a haircut? My hair now looks rather unkempt, supposedly "long", but with thickness and some dryness. I think I should just get it cut, sometimes I look at myself in the mirror, and I look hopeless, not that I am of any hope right now, but it's the impression yo.

Do you think this month's pay is in yet? It kinda sucks to be eating bread daily at work since the days of my brokeness. Haiz, financially broke, shoulder broke, what else? I shall abide by my monthly budgets now (actually I don't have any).

Brain dead now. Have a good rest, weekend's on the way. TGIF Readies.

Individualism

2009-10-28T11:29:00.002+08:00

"Depth-inition"

Good morning Readies, time check 1130hrs, leaving my house in 15 minutes time for work. Yesterday was like an anal day for me, and not a really good start after my three days of medical leave. It made me want to extend my leave, but these are just initial thoughts. I shall get over it.

I don't like the idea of how some staffs at work are being pretty individualistic. It puts me off quite a lot. Work as a team, work alone, then some how or another someone else will suffer. You can probably stay put at one area and just tidy that bit of items for a couple of hours and when it's time, "Ok, time to screw off, my time is up!" Then the next person who strolls into work, will receive a gigantic mess, something like what you'll see under an octopus's skirt.

Please have thoughts for others. "There is no "I" in team" - Taking Back Sunday. Well have a great Tuesday and let's move on!

What Should I do

2009-10-27T10:57:00.002+08:00

"Berkecamuk"

The injury somehow is taking toll on me. Ok, physically the pain comes on random basis, as and when it wants. Yesterday I read a bit more on my injury, and thankfully Grade II injury is not the worse (Grade I being the least severe), and does not require operations. So it's only dependent on physio, etc but I will still have to avoid heavy load, which I doubt will be avoidable knowing my working condition. I feel like asking for suspension from work, if it makes any sense.

I guess I'm just being a December baby. I don't quite like the idea of people thinking that I'm faking this injury just to take a break from work. If it's alright, it's alright. But now it's not.

Financially drained now, looking forward to pay day, just like anyone else. Got to settle my phone bill and my father wants to transfer the insurance thing to me, so I have to pay the premium monthly now with effect from? This coming month I themed it "Tee/ Sprint Spree". Basically it's made up of t-shirts and accessories for my fixie (just lights for safe mash-ability).

Got work later at 1330hrs, so I will have to take a bathe around 1200hrs, and leave the house by 1245hrs. Closing, closing, then offs on Thursday and Friday. It's a Tuesday after a Monday, just before a Wednesday, so have a rocking week Readies!

Subluxation?

2009-10-26T11:53:00.003+08:00

"Acromio-Clavicular (AC) Joint"

Good Monday Morning Readies, I just came back from the polyclinic and got my x-ray results. According to the radiologist, I had a subluxation of my left joint. What is subluxation? According to Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary: sub·lux·a·tion \ˌsə-ˌblək-ˈsā-shən\ noun: partial dislocation (as of one of the bones in a joint).

"sub·lux·a·tion"

I don't know how many levels of injury there is, and whether grade II is of any severeness, but anyways I was referred to an orthopedic (again; previously for my scaphoid injury) and the next available date would be January 25th, next year. By then my shoulder would have probably healed or probably sustained some complications. For now, all I have are my painkillers and I'll do my own physio, hopefully to make it feel better.

The doctor issued me a light-duty slip, which doesn't really matter, and asked if I needed medical leave. I thought, it's alright, because work needs me. How loyal. Do you know that my managers even asked me to come back last two days during my medical leave to work; "Yah, you can do light work like cashiering, etc". But there will bound to be situations whereby you have to get into the room, carry some heavy and light boxes and get new stocks for the customers. So I'll just report for work tomorrow on, it wouldn't make any difference.

Anyways work has been pretty mundane recently. Being in a senior post, there's higher expectancy and dear superiors just pass on instructions and we have to do it, and sadly sometimes there isn't much manpower for us to utilize and I feel a little less accomplished at the end of the day knowing I drained myself and yet not much has been done. I think the direction the store is going to now is different from what it was some time back. Now it's more towards acing great standards to win over the auditors. Sadness.

Oh well, it's just another phase, have a good week ahead Readies!

Pre-Order Eastern Completes, KHE Parts In

2009-10-25T22:55:00.004+08:00

"Eastern Completes/ KHE Parts"

Readies, pre-order your 2010 Eastern Completes now. BMX, MTB and even Fixie available. KHE parts are in, visit Red Party for more details.

SE Racing Lager

2009-10-25T16:31:00.002+08:00

"SE Lager"

Swollen Acromio-Clavicular Joint

2009-10-25T15:19:00.003+08:00

Hi Readies, recently I injured my left shoulder after falling off my United last two Fridays. Since then I have been experiencing joint pains and unable to raise my left arm fully by itself (able to with support). It was really challenging to put on my clothes sometimes. I delayed my visit to the doctor due to work commitment. I finally paid a visit yesterday and the doctor said that my Acromio-Clavicular Joint is swollen, and will have to get it x-rayed this coming Monday.

"Spot the difference"

I didn't notice the coloration on my left side till I took the photo. Interesting.

I read up about the joint and there are two injuries associated with it, and one of it would be Osteoarthritis. Because the other injury would be dislocation and the doctor and myself doubt it's dislocation. If so, I won;t be able to move my arm/ shoulder at all.

So I was given three days medical leave till this Monday (since last Saturday, inclusive). Hopefully it's just some tnedon inflammation or something and some medication and I'm done. Work needs me haha.

Hope for a speedy recovery and take care Readies, have a superb Sunday. Weather looks nice after the rain :)

Mother of Sweetness

2009-10-20T12:32:00.001+08:00

"Thank You :)"

A Little Less Conversation

2009-10-15T23:43:00.003+08:00

So I didnt have work today, I woke up got my dose of Koko Krunch and daily scoop of the world I'm deeply into. Was supposed to get out to get the Nike x Todd Bratrud "Brain Wreck" Dunk Hi at Far East but my initial intentions got diverted to what I have been eying for quite a while.

"Krunch Time"

I had some conversations with my friends and best friend, and surfed through some fixie sites, and the conversation with Killer moved me to check stock over at Monotine and I was glad they had new stocks. Decided to pop by soon after that.

"What you see, is what you get"

Soon enough, I was rolling out of the shop with my new S.E Lager. Not used to the nature of it and I was feeling a little phobic still from the BANG exactly a week ago to the extent of avoiding that junction while on the way back.

"My hairy arms blown by sea breeze"

My brother and I fixed the wall-mount in my room, and I headed out to town to meet Persis for dinner. We are true best friends, I'm sure and I'm proud of it. Now I'm home, finishing up this blog, and I'll be heading to sleep soon; tomorrow I'm scheduled morning. Good night Readies.

"Dry beef kway teow for me"

Red Partayyyyy

2009-10-08T23:44:00.002+08:00

Fellow BMX readies, I'd like to announce that Red Party BMX is now in Singapore. It's a famous BMX shop in China, and it's now expanding here. Currently Red Party SG is distributing frames and parts from Total BMX, parts ridden by the rad, Mark Webb.

"Total BMX now in Singapore"

So please spread the love please!

She Wrecked The Bike

2009-10-08T22:56:00.002+08:00

Today I thank God for letting me stay alive after being knocked down by a car earlier on tonight. Apparently the driver (she), checked blindspot and revved her vehicle without looking forward, and BAM! I flew off the bike, my shoes and my watch came off. I have no idea how the watch came off, it didn't tear or anything. I walked off with just very minor scratches on my left knee. However now I feel some strains on my right side of the neck.

My dad was giving me a whole bit of "Oh you should have..." The thing is that's the first time I got knocked down, so I had no idea what I had to look out for, but I got her name, identity number, car plate number and mobile number. Should be enough. Gonna claim for damages. My brothers gave a number of things to inform the driver, so thank you and thank you.

"Who Wants Some Chips?"

Basically the rear is totally wrecked since it got under the car, the right side of the bike suffered some impact too, gonna get the bike technician to check it out tomorrow. But I'm just fine, no worries Readies :) Have a good rest, goodnight.

getting myself fixed

2009-10-08T12:36:00.004+08:00

Hi Readies, non-update for quite some time, much apologies. Must be the day job, sucks man, but gotta stick to it. My mom was on the phone with me for awhile yesterday. She complained about how my working schedule is so irregular and she hardly sees me at home (therefore resorted to talking to me on the phone), how I'm missing out on my daily prayers and so and so forth.

For the fact that I also go out during my off days, she mentioned about how God will question about my expenditure, like how I used my money while I was on the face of the planet. She mentioned about how my dad didn't prioritize his savings on going to pilgrimage, and how he is starting work again after retirement, to get to Haj.

All these isn't blabbering to me, because its like direction based on experience and wisdom. I will heed her advice sooner or later. So those words won't be fading into the background or into the darkness. Listen to mama while she's still alive, brothers and sisters.

Anyways been into singlespeed/ fixie bicycles now; not that I own any yet. Just plan on getting one. Its not for the trend or the coolness, it's for the feel good inc.. I'm such a noob and I've so far got information from 2 individuals, Bum and KGB himself. Thank you and thank you. Still blur and undecided on how I should go about getting it. It's either I get a mid-end bike and ride, get a low-end, mod and ride, or I modify my old hardtail mountain bike (I would need new drivetrain (cranks,etc), wheels, handling (headset/ fork/ stem)), which is currently hibernating at my brother's place. Need to think money. Some references I shall share with you: Lockedcog.com, Chari & Co NYC, Crank Arm Steady, and Custom Star. Guidance greatly appreciated.

I don't understand though why some people from another activity society would diss people from another. Say for example some BMX riders dissing on the Fixie scene. Stop the hate and appreciate please.

Oh its sucks when the pay gets higher, but after $1500, the deductions get higher too. Damn. What to do.

I got rants at the back of my head, but skipping because I don't feel like digging into it for now. So have a nice day Readies :)

Interviewing Me

2009-09-24T22:13:00.003+08:00

"street steeze says: (10:10:26 PM) you sound like a scientist"

Thanks Irfan, Founder/ CEO/ Chairman 21 Streets Visual for the interview.

Testing Lights

2009-09-24T20:56:00.001+08:00

"At Such New Lights"

Reza Shot Me

2009-09-08T15:49:00.000+08:00

"Reza Shot Me"

I like this shot taken by Reza. I look oh-so fashionable with the top boots, haha!

Red White Play

2009-09-04T22:30:00.000+08:00

Morning Readies, this morning Reza and myself headed over to North-East to take some photos, after a long time of not doing so.

"Red/ White Play"

Buy Of The Months

2009-09-03T23:33:00.001+08:00

So Readies, yesterday I spotted my what seems to be the buy of the month, or perhaps for a couple of months. As you all know, I've been looking for a shoe, preferably a dunk, but seems that I was not fated to have them somehow, and decided to pass on the shoe thing till further notice. But yesterday, while waiting for dinner, I stepped into my 'most visited' store, and found myself a good deal.

"Vans Era White $19.60"

Period. Best buy for now since whenever. Bought myself a pair of school shoes, haha. It was 60% off $49.90, what a steal. Was looking for other colors, there was the red one but size 12.

Happy-fied, have a good weekend Readies :)

Torn

2009-08-29T10:10:00.007+08:00

Morning Readies! Ah I'm so torn between two things now. As much as I am enthusiastic about getting my new shoes, I just got news of another product, which I have been waiting for, for quite some time; rims. Bicycle rims, in blue.

"Odyssey Hazard Lite Hard Anodized Blue VS Nike SB Dunk Mid Premium"

Both items are defined as wants, and I certainly don't need them, but you know, I know. The shoe is just a KIV, I'm still sourcing for other colorways at the moment. The one pictured above is readily available and costs about $140?

The rims, I don't need them as well, but they're new stock arrivals from I can't remember when, probably limited in numbers, and the hard anodized blue is wicked. Each rim costs $110, so a pair would be $220. Getting both items would make me eat grass for the rest of the month. Damn.

I won't make any decisions yet, I'll probably let myself to think about it for another week, we'll see how. I'm not so bothered by it that much.

Alright, seems like a wonderful Saturday, and I'll be working n he afternoon shift later. So take care and have a great weekend Readies :)

The Ring of Completeness

2009-08-28T21:28:00.006+08:00

Good evening Readies, today work was fantastic. I had a nice half an hour break, thanks to Chrys's initiation to bring out a new line of hats. More details later.

Anyways for those who were wondering, if you ever did, I did pass my promotion test, thankfully. The format was very unexpected, multiple choice, but nonetheless it was pretty tricky. Next would be interview and evaluation.

While I was in the stock room today, I spotted a damn humorous "thing" on one of the box labels. So we had new stoles or scarves if that's what you would call it. There were those in zebra prints and, check this out, REOPARD print. "Pengsan aku.."

Ok as promised. So just now when me and Chrys were trying to get the new hats onto the floor, there were these sponge ring-like things, which were used to maintain the shape of the hat. No need for an explanation, the following pictures will tell more. So right after that was my 30 minute break, and I made use of those rings to play Props from 'Whose Line Is It Anyway'. Damn fun.

"L>R Mickey, Toothache, Cyclops, Pochong, Prince.., ..Kaeko, C-Collar, TMNT, Boobies!"

Fantastic, there were other stuffs like halo, a ring, which I used to propose. Imagine a ring you could wear up to your neck. Sick. Much thanks to those who helped me "decorate" the rings. I brought three of them home, seriously, it's self entertaining.

Such a playful day, but I enjoyed it. Goodnight Readies :)

Fake Truth

2009-08-25T20:00:00.001+08:00

"This Is Not A New Label"

People Who Listen To Pharoahe Monch Also Listen To..

2009-08-25T11:04:00.000+08:00

Good morning Readies, today I'm off work, and I plan to stay home and mug for a promotion test which will take place this Thursday. So I'm left with less than two days to study. It's so hard to concentrate on what I am supposed to do, knowing the various distractions I have in my way. But today's attempt was better I think. First and foremost, I am not theoretical, best by practical.

Anyways, today's distractions would be shoes. While I was taking a bathe earlier, I was thinking of how nice it feels to have old flavors come back into your life. Like currently I'm back to the blackbook sketching, listening to sounds of Cannibal Ox, Pharaohe Monch, etc. Next was the image. And I have been lacking that one thing since day one; a fresh pair of Dunks. So deprived, I know. Every now and then, I'll be looking about online for what I should go for in terms of colorway and how I can match it and stuff.

"Pick And Mix"

I thought if I did well for the promotion test and interview, I would reward myself with two shoes, one pair of Dunks and another like some Vans Era or something. If not, I'll just get myself a pair of Dunks. I feel like it's a Win-Win situation nonetheless.

The fact that I probably won't be spending much this fasting month, amplifies the possibility of me getting two pairs of shoes. I hardly text people for the sake of keeping my social circle close, so lesser to pay for bills, and it's fasting month also, so means no excessive eating or drinking. Tell me about it.

Ok back to studying, wish me all the best. Tell me I can do it :) Have a great day and take care Readies.

Back Up

2009-08-23T23:28:00.000+08:00

"Back Up"

Blogger An Ass

2009-08-23T20:30:00.002+08:00

Hi Readies, I dislike the way Blogger is being such an ass for quite some time already. To a point where some of my friends convert to Wordpress or some other. But I shall stay true, just because I'm lazy to redo and start afresh. My blog is getting old, time for an anniversary.

Fasting month has started. 2nd day today, and it seems alight, been working morning shifts, so there was ample time for me to get home and break fast with my family. Tomorrow I will be working afternoon shift. I heard some unhappiness among some staff who did afternoon shift yesterday, complaining of some non-welfare issue. I shall experience it tomorrow and see what it is about.

Some of my colleagues mentioned that I got more irritating during fasting month. Come to think about it, I never knew since when I got so talkative and loud. I shall consult my secondary school friends to see if I had this character back then. I knew myself being a quite boy. So days at work are now filled with me joking with/ at people unnecessarily, most of the time. Sorry, but please bear with me.

Recently I've been visiting 12oz Prophet and I'm glad I'm picking up my pen again to sketch or at least doodle. Some kid just defaced my tag, around the hood. You got me started.

Alright out for now, more form me hopefully soon, take care, to Muslims, Selamat Berpuasa :)

J.U.S.T

2009-08-23T20:18:00.000+08:00

"J.U.S.T"

Shagadelic Funk

2009-08-18T10:54:00.000+08:00

Good morning Readies, my body feels so so weak and it seems to be aching everywhere. I ended work at 1830hr yesterday, and fell asleep in the bus. As soon, as I got home, I place myself on the floor beside my bed, and fell asleep right back again. Only to wake up several hours later to change my clothes and get myself into bed. I slept for more or less than 12 hours. I slept for too long.

I have been substituting water intake with Mug Root Beer. I hardly drink water these days, probably which is why my joints and muscles are like hurting. Thanks to the all convenient vending machine at work, access to Root Beer is a breeze. This habit ends today.

I shall withstand the challenges for today and make it through :) Have a nice day Readies!

Obligation

2009-08-13T20:45:00.000+08:00

"Obligation"

Unity

2009-08-12T21:33:00.000+08:00

"United Trinity 09"

Thanks to a new found friend, I have a new frame to ride with, it's a United Trinity 09, not the heat-treated one. I lie to my friends about having it traded with Teri (my black Fly Tierra frame), but it wasn't. How could I trade my love out. And to tell you the truth, this friend of mine, gave it to me.

He's from China, and apparently has no friends to ride with, and I take it as he's trying to buy friendship or he's just being nice. I found it weird for him to give me something brand new at no cost at all, to someone he hardly knows, me. I was also skeptical, thinking if he had something up his sleeve. But so far he seems to be in need of someone to just show him around here and give him some lobangs with regards to BMX part resales. He just reached here like probably 2 weeks ago, studying at Kaplan.

I think there are people out there, who think like, "this guy doesn't play any better than me, and yet he's changing frames like he needs to.." Trash talk and stuff. Basically I just enjoy what I'm doing, it doesn't have to be super progressive for me, and to me variety rocks, and gives me a new spirit in riding. So it's just fun, and the company of friends I have that I really appreciate.

Happy Anniversary Parents

2009-08-10T23:29:00.004+08:00

"We Have Sunsets"

So this is what I've been missing these days when I come home from work late. I didn't know that my area of residence homes sunsets. So breathtaking, and there were no graphical enhancement made to make this image the way it looks now, snapped with my love, E71.

Today's my parents' wedding anniversary and our family (except one) headed out for dinner, small decent one. I was feeling a little bit grouchy, prob the aft work kind of feel, and the kids, oh my, so noisy. Kids will be kids.

And I believe I've yet to introduce the latest addition to the family, Aqil :) So adorable.

"Aqil Round"

Work has been sort of taxing lately. Apparently we're kind of running short of staff, and constantly sending staff over to the new outlet ever since the opening last Friday. And we have staff extending their working hours. I think for that reason, staff are afraid of coming to work, and thinking that others might take medical leave, they have to carry the burden of others. Scary don't you think. But I'm coping well, it's just the customers who get on my nerves, as usual.

Wrists are hurting from typing, gonna rest for now. Take care Readies and have a nice day tomorrow.

Back From Reality

2009-08-05T23:58:00.002+08:00

I have been on hiatus, because apparently the blogger did not have the format bar thing for quite some time, and when I checked back today, it was a-ok. So I'm back. I can't do a back to the future kind of post, because I just don't know where to start, and I think let's just forget about it, the past is the past. Can?

Job, job has been alright, coping well, nothing much to cope actually, just going with the flow. I guess people are leaving due to studies, and so on. New staff are coming in, but doesn't really feel the same. Like the family is breaking down. You can probably adopt new siblings, but it will never feel the same. I cherish the original members. Always will.

I hurt my back a couple of weeks ago, after over exerting myself at the new East Coast skatepark. Hurts pretty badly, tried to endure for a couple of days before calling it quit. Visited the doctor and got paracetemols, pain killers and some muscle relaxants. Works for awhile, but now the pain is kind of getting back. I think it kills the pain, but condition wise, it's still the same.

I also did not participate in BYOB 2009, because the event got postponed, and I couldn't get an off from work, so I had to skip the competition.

Feeling tired, right now, I'll keep updating soon, goodnight Readies.

Fakie Launch: Invitation

2009-07-14T00:01:00.002+08:00

"Fakie Launch"

Visit here.

BYOB 2009

2009-07-12T10:15:00.000+08:00

"DUOWHEELS Presents"

So this year's BYOB Ghetto Jam will be on the July 25th. Quite a handful of sponsors and I believe should be more exhilarating than last year's. Last year, it rained, and had to continue on the next day, and I only took photos. This year, I'll be participating, representing team "There Is No I In Team".

"There Is No I In Team"

Team members: Home (King of Rail), Nico, Shah, Mail and myself. Looking at myself I am not so sure how I can contribute to the competitiveness of the team, but i shall try my best. Sometimes competitions churn some kind of spirit in you, which enables you to do things you never thought you could do. Need to ride Teri more and watch more videos for inspirations. I've already uploaded more videos into my iPod.

That's all for now, till next time, have a nice day Readies.

Who Needs Santa

2009-07-11T22:05:00.002+08:00

"Nokia E71"

I am so broke back mountain. No I do not have any gay tendencies. That sentence was supposed to simply mean, "I'm broke". I decided to fork out my savings to get this thing they call technology, this month. I think neither myself nor the phone can wait, for the fact that there are limited stocks available, especially for this color.

Much thanks to my sister-in-law for the help, and sorry for troubling you with all the bugging and questions. It's all worthwhile. I've yet to figure out some functions, the phone is smarter than me.

So till next time Readies.

Wasted So Aimless

2009-07-07T09:44:00.002+08:00

I woke up early today (0600+hrs), despite the fact that my work will only start at 1330hrs. Usually I would wake up around 1100hrs, just sufficient time to bath, get ready, grab some bites, and proceed. But I accidentally fell asleep last night around 2200+hrs after being online for awhile.. I calculated and I have gotten sufficient rest i.e. 8 hours.

But now I feel like waking up early now has been quite a waste, or has it not. There isn't much that I am doing, which I think is beneficial or of much value. Let me recap what I have done since I woke up: 1. Did my prayers 2. Soaked socks which were long due for washing 3. Took photos of my new purchases 4. Had coffee 5. Surf Facebook 6. Clipped my fingernails 7. Listen to Indie 8. Edit some photos. 9. Blogging.

I just remembered that I could have edited or continued working on the poster for our BMX team. Sorry Home it slipped off my mind. After this.

I received an SMS the other day and it read:

"Khairi I need your help. Honestly I've been sleeping at playgrounds and mandi (bath) kat (at) downtown. aku blom gaji (I've not received salary) n i reali have no wher to stay. Mak aku takde kat singapore and die halau aku (My mom is not in Singapore and she kicked me out of the house) b4 she went germany . I didn't know its so difficult. Aku lft wif 1 dolar je (I'm left with just a dollar). Is it possible 4 u to lean me money?i need to rent a rm. Pls get back to me once u read this."

I didn't know who this was initially because it was an unknown number and avoided 2 calls from it. Eventually I bumped into him. He was my primary school buddy. He came to the sore earlier that day, saying that he lost my number, asked if I was staying at the same place, and what time I will be finishing work. I thought it was all a 'long time no see' bunch of questions, but when I saw him at my void deck, it all made sense.

I shall not share the reasons why his life was led this way. I couldn't loan him the money that he needed to rent a home, but I just lent him some money I think is sufficient to sustain him the week, since he mentioned his payday would be the following week. I hope he is able to spend accordingly. I question the genuinity of his words. Its like I've not been around him for so long, so what if it was not true of what he said? Well it could be true too. Hope things will be alright for him.

I lost my train of thought, so till next time, have a great Tuesday and take care Readies :)

Retail Therapy: July

2009-07-07T07:59:00.003+08:00

Hi Readies, been away for awhile, apologies for the long non-update. Anyways, not gonna back date or anything, unless it is big of a deal, but I can't think of anything of that nature at the moment. Another month, another set of bills.

Decided to go on and join the skinny parade; bought the Cheap Monday jeans in OD black. It was weird initially but I think I'll get used to it soon enough. Furthermore my friend assured me that it'll stretch sooner or later.

I was torn between Cheap Monday and Insight, because Flash & Splash actually has a couple of Insight jeans which are really nice especially the City Riot cut, and they're 40% off their actual price. So they cost around S$78.

Bracelet from Massimo Dutti and Roll-up check shirt from Topman.

"Retail Therapy: July"

Live Fast

2009-07-02T13:21:00.000+08:00

"Live Fast"

Slims Unite!

2009-06-14T22:50:00.003+08:00

Hi Readies, I', fine, how have you guys been doing? Good too right? Yeah I guessed so too. So lately I have been looking out for shoes to buy for the next month to come or the next. And I've solely decided to go for slim shoes this time, so I can wear my skinny pants and polo tees.

"Slims Unite!"

Pictured above are some options that I have, but the only question would be the availability of them. Frankly I almost bought myself a pair of the red Jack Purcell after work. I think I would most probably settle for the Jack Purcell. It is available easily and the red is just orgasmic and the look is just classic. But my budget stopped me just now, and we'll see if fate will bring us both together.

Vans are pretty common, and I have I think three different kind of pairs at home. Lacoste is nice too, but gotta search high and low. Let's go hunting.

Buys This Month

2009-06-09T00:16:00.002+08:00

Buys this month, despite financial crisis.

Cheers.

Reza Has Onegina

2009-06-07T08:15:00.001+08:00

Hey Readies, so my dear home-boy Reza now has a disease, Onegina. He's married! Photos of friends and myself at his wedding are up on my Multiply. It was nice to meet up with old pals and chit chat, catch up, etc. Reza, by the way, the food was great.

After the wedding I headed over to Tampines One to just do nothing but make my presence felt at the store? Something like that, but I left soon after that, and stumbled upon this:

"Floss Clouds"

"The Moon Has No Shame"

Perfect day for the wedding :) *thumbs up*

Work's Been Fine

2009-06-06T13:18:00.002+08:00

Hi All, Readies, and Spies from the H//R/.

"Random Photo Booth-ed Self"

Sorry for the non-update for quite awhile, been pretty occupied with work I guess, I've neglected most of the things in my life much, like my Teri, Izyan, BFFs, my buddies, etc.

"Teri!!"

But I haven't been ranting about work also, so I guess it's been fine and I probably grew out of the irregularities. More like I don't give a shit or something. It's probably a phase that I went through, and got over it now. I guess. Probably there are still some outstanding issue at work , not directly pertaining to work, which are currently on-going, like gossips and shit. Talk and talk and talk.

Anyways, what we heard we true, our welfare benefits are surfacing, and we're earning if not a lot, a bit more than what we used to learn. But of course with the increments and benefits, we gotta live up to their expectations. Fair enough. I still wished those who have left, did not leave.

"Selamat Pengantin Baru"

Today is one of my buddies' wedding day. I feel happy for him that he's settling down already. I wish him all the best for now, for future, till death do them part. Much love, see you later on the dais :)

No Pay Day

2009-05-30T06:55:00.002+08:00

Sadly, pay has not come in yet. Most of us were hoping it will be in like today as of 12AM. But, nope, the answer is no. Today would be my first weekend day off, and I have no money with me, not even in my EZ Link card. Poor, deprived, damaged, circumcised boy I am. I'll see what I can dig out later on today.

For some unknown reason, I was thinking of restructuring my savings plan. Save more than $200 every month. There may or may not be sufficient for me to last the month, but at least the money isn't gone, it's inside another account. I thought I'd rather have it there, than I spend it off on other stuff like food and drink. I'm still giving it thoughts and calculating.

The sun is out. Good morning Singapore.

Yesterday morning I gave some thought to education, and was looking at the programs at S//IM. I want to study, I need to exercise whatever intelligence I have before I become less inclined into studies. Help.

There's been word at work that there's been negotiations with regards to employee welfare and pay scheme. It's good that they have considered our job more taxing than any other re/tail//ers out there. I just wished that they have given thought about this before the numerous resignations. This Sunday, another member will be leaving, sadness.

Anyways I'm going back to sleep, have a great weekend and take care :)

Status Updates

2009-05-27T21:15:00.002+08:00

"Left Goes Right"

Since the last update I've been fine, both physically and mentally and emotionally super balanced :)

I still bump into people and receive comments such as, "You're skinny now..." And my only reply would be, "Really?"

I decided to measure myself today to see if there will be any change (increase or decrease). So I'll try to be religious in measuring up every month. Besides trying to increase my nutritional intake, I will also do my daily routine work out (which isn't that intensive).

Shoulder: 17¾" Chest: 32½ Waist: 27½" Hip: 29¼" Weight: 53kg

Please do not envy my measurements. Anyways the measurements were taken after meal, relaxed and not flexed. Measured the shoulder myself, which is actually impossible, so it's a plus-minus thing.

I tried on a pair of skinny jeans the other day and surprisingly I could fit in, as in pull it off, so it's a next investment kind of thing. The jeans from the store I work in expand like shit, mine were size 29, and I decided to measure, and it's like a size 32 now. Weird.

Alongside the jeans, I would have to wear some slim shoe, like the Vans Era, or some shoe which is slim and not overly cushioned and oh-so comfortable. Something like this:

"Terrem Brown"

I can't wait for the end of this month, for reason, and yes you probably guessed it right, PAY DAY. I've never felt so broke before. Raisin or kaya or some other buns are my lunch, well yeah at least I'm eating something, though it's not satisfying. Be thankful, the days are almost over.

I heard the PC show is coming soon. Not that I have any intention of getting anything, but it's like a thing thing people just buzz about. I do need to get a new phone, but not anytime soon, will have to wait for my current contract to end, probably around August this year. I wanna get the Nokia E71.

I feel like it's been quite a long time since I rode with my dear friends like Azhar, Shah, Nizam, and so on and so forth. Hope to ride with you guys soon.

I wanna talk about some "crisis" at work, but I got to put it on hold, I somehow am feeling tired, So I'll keep you updates Readies, take care and goodnight.

No.2 from No.2; Aqil

2009-05-25T13:29:00.002+08:00

This is my latest nephew, Aqil. He comes from my second brother, thus the title. He's I think about 4 months old?

"Himself/ Mother/ Grandma's Gold"

"His Shoes"

My Black Coffee

2009-05-20T21:23:00.002+08:00

"Coffee Swirl"

I've been drinking quite a dose of coffee these days; one in the morning, probably a second one during lunch. Lunchtime coffee would be with or without milk, depends. Have to break the habit, or else I might invite diabetes. I don't depend on coffee to keep myself awake, in fact I don't even think it has that effect on me. I just drink it, because I want to.

Lunch is based on super small budget for this 2-3 weeks. Either home-packed food, or the $1.80 chicken rice, or $2 nasi lemak. I thought of making it an effort to cook up my own nutritional lunch packed with protein, iron and some other stuff, because I think I lack in those. Still researching.

Too many people saying I look slimmer now. I do eat, maybe lesser now, like less junk. I only skip dinner sometimes, like if I work the afternoon shift which ends ar 11pm. So I got a couple of, "..eat more, eat more." Will try to yeah.

Anyways off for now, nights Readies.

Moving On The Dollar Curve

2009-05-20T00:29:00.002+08:00

I heard the $a//les for today was terrible. Like barely hitting the target. Miss V once gave me a furious look when I told her, "..the hype is dying!" Come on, you know it too, don't try to act as though you know more and that I'm wrong. Everybody knows.

I heard the superiors from upper HQ will be pretty upset about the issue. So they will screw someone below, that below will screw someone below them, and so on and so forth. This kind of chain reaction runs in every damn organization. At the end of the day, they would blame the smallest living matter on the chart, us; Not working to our fullest potential. Blame everything but the store, the products, and the dying hype. Like us Malays always say, 'Semangat Maggi'. Like 2-minutes kind of enthusiasm. They should probably work up a market survey.

"Against the meadow skies"

Anyways enough about work, I got colleagues talking about how I look and stuff. I think it's interesting and therefore I would share it with you Readies. Miss Fa said I look like Michael Scofield played by Wentworth Miller in Prison Break. Not exactly look like him, but like have his looks. I got my dear bicycle friends saying I look like Malaysian singer, Mawi, from the side. And I got Miss J saying sometimes I look cute and sometimes I look retarded, haha! It's so funny, be it good or bad, I like it when people talk about me in general. You only live once.

"My TNT II Mid"

Been getting compliments with regards to the outlook of my shoe, thank you. Well performance wise, the shoe grips well on the pedals, absorbs impacts well, haven't had the "chance" to test the ankle support. I probably have to sprain an ankle if the ankle support fails me, and by then I would say, "The shoe doesn't give much ankle support." So yah, for the price, it's a good buy, sadly only comes in the Anti-Hero colorway.

Computer says, "It's 1 o'clock." I got to go sleep, working morning tomorrow. Good night and take care at work or school tomorrow readies :)

Time Flies

2009-05-19T00:06:00.002+08:00

I think time really flies, like it is now halfway through May and soon it will June, which is also known as mid of the year. Another 6 months, and that's end of 2009, hello 2010.

I should be sleeping now or soon, I got work tomorrow morning, at 0800hrs. But I just feel like typing something, for whatever reasons. Randomness? Man, that word is so overrated. But it probably is the reason.

Anyways to Mr. A, please grow up, be more sensitive, think about what you are going to say or do, reflect on what you have done or said, and look at yourself in the mirror. Please do not think that you are the biggest deal ever around, and that we respect and bow down to you. Never. You are not as cool as you think you might be. Think. Long live O.A.T.H!

"Ion Orchard"

This is Ion Orchard, which I think would be opening by July this year. Dressed with so much lights. It reminds me of the new building opposite Bugis Junction. I have no idea what it is called. It has also been ages since I've last been to Bugis. So much for saving the Earth by saving electricity.

"kaeKO"

This is myself. I just got a haircut last Saturday morning because I was getting pretty bored as my life is mostly work and home, not that I dread it. So I thought, let's get a haircut, since Izyan said my hair looks a little terrible, fly-away and stiff and stuff. And surprisingly, it got the attention that I was to expecting at work. "What happened to you hair?", "Why you cut your hair?", "You got time to cut your hair?". Yes, yes, yes. It was just a normal, non extraordinary haircut. But oh wells, thanks for the compliments. I like my hair actually. I use less shampoo and I spend no time at all doing my hair. Just wash, dry and go.

I'm at a local bicycle forum. I am thinking of getting myself a pretty bad looking bicycle, so I can cycle to work and park it in the public, without having to see my bike with lesser parts at the end of the day when I want to go home. Seems pretty tough, obviously most people would be selling bicycles which are at least mint in condition. Tries harder. Hopefully with a bicycle, I can save costs on travelling, and use the money for other purposes.

Ok time to go, goodnight and have a great day tomorrow Readies :)

Where's The Humanity

2009-05-18T01:37:00.002+08:00

More and more people are actually tendering their resignation, one after another. If I were the management, I would seriously feel like something is not right somewhere, as staff are taking their leave. Of course they have their reasons, but the reasons they spell out to you, isn't the actual, come on, don't tell me you don't know.

It's sad to see like the so-called family is breaking down sooner than I expected. From what I see, working would not be the same, like the people whom I enjoy working with will no longer be around, and probably there won't be nothing much or at all to look forward to other then payday.

I do not have any plans of leaving as yet. As I am still unsure of my path, so working here right now, is just to sustain my spending and payment of bills, and some savings. If I quit, I will not know if I could get another job soon, etc. So till I found a path suitable, I will continue on working here.

Friends are calling it quit, because of shitty working environment, the people who manage us, the shit load of work, and probably but certainly more. Some are fed up with the pay, the roster, the hours.

I think that our managers there are sometimes overreacting. Like they wayang too much, and think that they are the only ones who wanna be successful in life, be happy and earn a living. Come on, somehow somewhen, you will feel sick and tired of your job, and the last thing you need is someone to nag at your for something. We know our roles, and we know when to execute. Don't just because, you're like of a senior position, you wanna be out there, making known to the others that, you are doing your job. We know you are lazy too. You, just like us, aren't robots.

Miss F came to me and said, "Where's your greeting?" You had to come when I was not greeting, as in I as greeting a couple of seconds ago, and I just had to look down at the piles of shit clothes awhile, and you came to me saying that. Why don't you come to the toilet while I'm taking a dump, and say "Why aren't you at the sales floor?" You probably were waiting for the right moment to come and show some direction.

Miss V said, "I purposely gave you more manpower to see if you could handle and organise larger number of staff." Well before that you told us to complete whatever tasks by 1050PM, and you gave me manpower roughly 5-7 minutes to 1050PM. So if I were to utilise the manpower (who are looking forward to 1050PM, because it's time to go home), would you come and say, "Oh I purposely want to assess your time management." ? Bullshit ok, I just think that you know nuts of what to do with the unoccupied staff, so you just chuck them to me, and try to make it seem like you're doing something.

Miss J said, "Tomorrow if you don't improve, your promotion will be affected." I don't give a damn about the promotion, for that extra $100 in my wage, you expect so much of me. I can live without the promotion, you can keep it and give it to someone you think can do a much much much better job than I can. Looking at the situation around the store, no one gives a damn. Seriously. One way or another, they will also make their exit.

Selfish. Where is the humanity? We don't care how much money you make everyday, and if your pay sucks as well.

Big Savings

2009-05-15T08:59:00.001+08:00

So I re-applied for My Savings Account (MSA) with POSB. I had it once but had to close it when I had no income for a couple of months.

With my current income of 900+ per month, I've applied for monthly auto deductions of $200 to go to my MSA, which is like 20.6%. I actually thought on $290 which is roughly 30%, but with inputs form Izyan, I might not have sufficient to last for the month.

Going big would be great, the thing I like about saving is that, you'll get to see the returns in like months or years, and you will feel rich or something. But I will have to start small, since I have a small income and gradually increase, if my pay increases as well.

Current plans so far for this year of '09, is to attain a Class 2B license. Somehow, motorbikes has got me interested these days. I just hope and pray hard I don't end up snaking around and get myself involved in some nasty shit.

I always wanted a car, but it is like so off my financial league, for now or the couple of years down at least. Having a car, is like one of the few properties which can cost you bankruptcy as I've read before, same goes for credit cards. So let's dream ons.

Future savings would be for traveling, investment (God knows on what), emergency purposes, and so on and so forth. Always be prepared and ready!

Good day!

IPOD, I'm Lost

2009-05-11T12:27:00.002+08:00

Hi Readies I just got broker, as in financially. But in exchange, I got myself an Ipod Nano 8Gb. I seriously don't have any idea, how I ended up buying this gadget. But of course I'm glad, it is sleek, smooth, black, and sexy. I wanted other colors like probably red or maybe blue but they don't have it. So resorted to black. The rubber protection aka condom thing i put on is also black, I should have gotten some other color. Next time.

"Ipod Nano 8Gb"

I think I ended up buying the Ipod because of these two factors:

1. The earpiece jack to phone connection sucks on my Sony Ericsson K530i. I think it is a common problem, like it comes lose and stuff. I've seen people place rubber bands on their phones, I did that and I swear it was ugly and unglamorous.

2. If you've seen my Creative MuVo which I skinned myself with some Shadow Conspiracy stickers, that uses alkaline batteries and I have to replace them once inawhile. I so wanted to get rechargeables, but it didn't happen. Furthermore it was falling apart, and size was 512Mb.

So currently I've been busy getting songs and album art for my Nano. I figured 8Gb is a lot as compared to 512Mb or 1Gb on my Sony Ericsson.

Now I'm just looking forward to my next pay, and I need to set up my Savings Account again. I shut it down the other time because I didn't have any monthly pay. The past two pays I've received had no savings. Sad.

I much aplogize to thos people on MSN Messenger. Lately I've got a couple of night shifts, and I come logged into Messenger. chat with people like Izyan, Persis, etc and I end up sleeping on the floor. Initially it was supposed to be "..arr let me just rest myself here awhile.." That's why I was not on the bed. But turns out, I fell deep asleep. Sorry about that. I shall just not log myself into the Messenger if I were to switch my iMac on after work at night.

I think I might just be entertaining my tiredness which accumulates day to day. I don't think my job is that taxing, like it requires me to lift super heavy boxes and ran miles across the floor. Sleepwise I guess I'm the one who might have deprived myself of it. Perhaps I havent had proper dietary and nutritional intake. I lost weight and mom says I look like I've not been eating. I have been, but not as much and I don't eat much junk as well. Supposed to be good right? And also, the unnecessary food intake, has made my tummy flatter. Smiles.

It's raining heavily again. Yesterday, where I am, it rained heavily on two different occasions. One was around 0700hrs and the other around 1000hrs. That was when I was going for work, when I was going for break, it was super shiny. Like hello Mr Sunshine. Today seems like the weather pattern's the same. The weather thing on my iMac shows a thunderstorm cloud, current temperature of 30°C, highest 32°C and lowest 24°C. Bring your coats and rubber boots.

I feel much awake now thanks to blogging. If not earlier today I was feeling very lethargic and kept going back to my bed to get naps. Short ones, seriously. Alright I'm gonna look for things to do, probably edit some photos. Have a great Monday Readies!

Off Work

2009-05-04T10:21:00.002+08:00

Good morning Readies. Today is another off day. I think my working roster right now is good; Mondays and Fridays off. As compared to having off days on two consecutive days that is. Understand what I mean?

For example:

If your off days are on Mondays and Tuesdays, that would mean you will work straight from Wednesday to Sunday, five days straight.

For cases like mine, I work Tuesday to Thursday (3 days), then Saturday to Sunday (2 days). I don't work five days straight.

I wanna ride so badly, its been almost a week of not riding. I wanted to ride early this morning, but i was awakened by strong winds and heavy showers; which in turn lullaby-ed me back to sleep. I think I should stop watching BMX videos. Later on I'm accompanying my mom to ICA Building, for her passport collection. I think I should spend some time with her, shopping or what. It's been a real long time since we did that.

It's nice to have friends come over the store, while you're working. Recently it was Herman with Girlfriend and Ranvier. Super nice to see you guys after such a long time. I had one colleague telling me yesterday noon, that a lady was looking for me when I was not around on that particular day, and she sounded professional? I had no idea who it could be. So if you're reading this, please revert back to me, thank you.

I always had this idea Malays and Malays can't work together, sometimes. Like we call it 'mengada-ngada'. I searched for a translation but it gave 'being silly', not exactly the same I guess. I was folding clothes doing my usual routine, then this Malay aunty turned around and "You don't want to serve me ar?" Like hello, if you need any assistance just ask can? but I pardoned her, probably she just didn't choose the better words she can use. But it is real nice to assist real real real nice customers, I feel so appreciated.

Herman, I am not complaining about work ok, I'm just telling true stories, haha. Herman came by yesterday with his girlfriend. And he told me that I am wasting my time. Yeah I think so, but I seriously know nuts about what I can do right now. I don't have any clear objectives or not sure what I want to achieve right now. There are so many possibilities, and it's about choosing the right one. I wanna study, but study what?

Anyways, there seemed to be a couple of people are resigning already, some have no choice like due to enlistment (N//S rocks!), while others saw better opportunities. All the best people, may the force be with you.

Ok I shall proceed with other things to do now, have a great day at work my Readies. Kick the Monday Blues away, lunch is coming soon. Take care.

Shoes for a Purpose

2009-05-02T09:03:00.003+08:00

Its a beautiful Saturday, and you're sleeping the morning off, what a waste. Are you? Haha oh wells, yesterday was Labor Day and today it's back to work.

A couple of days back was payday, I'm glad, and I bought myself a pair of Vans TNT Mid 2. Got them from Miz29 for $89 bucks, which I thought was a steal, for its features and design, as compared to other brands.

"TNT Mid 2"

Sadly they came only in the Anti-Hero colorway. It looks very fresh and Celtic. I thought of painting black accents onto it, but can;t be bothered, so I'll just let it blacken by itself as time goes by. Anyways Tony Trujillo rocks. Oh and by the way I bought these for riding, so its not for collection or anything. My Nike Swindle that I have been wearing so far are actually serving me well, been using it for almost over a year now? I thought I should change up to something with more ankle and heel support.

Apparently there seemed to be lots of sales going on yesterday while I was out in City Hall, especially shoes. I wonder why. I was at Royal Sporting House and was amazed to see other Vans skate shoes going at 30% off. Heart kinda bled but I shan't regret buying what I bought. Good buy. So if you're looking for shoes, go around, there's lots of like stock clearing sales.

Today work starts half past 12, we're still running our polo promotions till tomorrow. I think it's cheap to pay for a polo tee under $20. If not it'll cost close to $30 which I think is not worth it, because frankly I think they don't look that outstanding. So if you need any do come down and grab, limited sizes also, for your info, so all the best.

Is tomorrow Mothers' Day? I seriously have no idea. I got colleagues telling me it is every first Sunday of May. 23 years of my life I didn't know about that. How silly. So if it's true, then Happy Mothers' Day to all yo mamas out there. Thank you for giving birth and contributing to the global population.

I think I'm done for now, well have a great weekend and take care Readies.

Rain

2009-04-28T20:52:00.002+08:00

Why rain? Like today? I know that most of you have been complaining about the hot warm weather which has been going on for the past couple of days, and are so happy about the cool spring rain. I'm so disheartened.

Usually on Tuesday, after work, I'd love to go down to Bedok Bowl to rite Teri, but due to the rain, cancel.

Teri now has a hubguard on her rear wheelset. To protect her hub of course, during grinds. I have decided to put the pegs back on her, so I could grind her. Haha sounds so erotic. She's just a bike.

"BSD Jersey Barrier on Hazard Lite"

Work by the way has been fine so far. No hiccups no nothing, kind of smooth sailing perhaps. Just the occasional funny customers that step into the store. "What if we see daddy and the girlfriend here, how?" People can just talk openly about their dirty laundry anywhere can't they?

My aunt came by the store the other day and she was like, "You got diploma why you work here?" Another colleague of mine was also shocked to learn that I'm a diploma holder working retail for a measly pay of $1.2k per month. I'll just let you wonder.

I finally cleared my craving for rojak today. I have been having that crave since almost 3-4 weeks. But it doesn't feel satisfying, probably because I've been delaying the delivery, so it's not exciting or something.

Off the computer, probably gonna eat or just rest. Nights Readies!

Unwell, Hungry, Unmotivated, I'm Not Crazy

2009-04-25T11:22:00.002+08:00

Good Saturday, I am very hungry, the hunger which was brought forward from yesterday's dinner. To much dismay, I could not find a partner or friend to go eat with me, after I found myself developing a sense of hunger when I got home. I soon gave up and went to sleep.

It is not like I can't eat alone or anything, I can, but wouldn't it be nice if you had company? Teri, my bicycle, could also be my company but I couldn't find a nice place that would be safe for her. I thought and I thought and I slept.

Probably I should alter my eating habits, because currently, I won't eat unless I feel very very hungry. I shall adopt a eating habit, whereby I will eat at designated intervals and timings to eliminate any unnecessary discomfort or nuisance to my friends. My appetite also fluctuates these days, due to work I guess. On some days, I fail to finish up my double cheese burger.

It's lunchtime, my stomach is grumbling, and I shall grab something now, after this post.

I am not reporting for work today, I'm on medical leave. My sore right eye is bettering, but I feel sick, somehow. I woke up with a splitting headache, my nasal is like ass, everything just doesn't feel good. Not a good way to start a day, also known as. So I called in sick, since I already paid the medical fees last Thursday. My pay will be prorated, sadly, payday is next week, and it'll probably be lesser than what I would get during N?S//.

I also don't feel motivated to go to work right now. I think my workplace somehow is unhealthy mentally physically whichever way, or maybe it's just me. I probably should just don't care and like I said, work like a dog. That will be the way tomorrow.

Today I shall rest my ass, and just rest. Unless Teri asks me out or something.

Anyways if there's anyone who could cheer me up, it'll be Kylemonkey. I think I've talked about him before in one of my posts, if I remembered correctly. He's young, dynamic and crazy, in a good way. Please view him here on YouTube. "You rock son.."

Off to lunch, (still deciding where and what). Have a good weekend.

Changing

2009-04-23T12:57:00.002+08:00

Hi Readies, did not report to work today because I got sore eyes, and the doctor gave me three days medical leave; today, tomorrow and the day after tomorrow.

Tomorrow is actually my off day, and the day after tomorrow I think I will just report for work, since my eye is already getting better, all thanks to the 3 different kinds of medication the doctor prescribed me. Furthermore I think that the store would seriously be under-staffed considering the fact that it's a weekend and there will be a new campaign running this weekend.

Yesterday one of my younger cousins, Ari, was at the store, and he said, "Hey how are you, you look so different now, I barely recognized you.." That got me thinking awhile, it's either he has not seen for quite some time (possible), or I really underwent some change. But can't be, I certainly doubt so.

I always have had the goatee/ beard going on. But somethings I noticed were my darkening skin tone (bye bye fairness), and the dirty old eye bags. I probably lose some weight, as my cheek bones are now more prominent. Perhaps it is just a thing called aging. Bye bye youth.

Have a good day Readies and take care :)

April Bikecheck

2009-04-20T15:37:00.003+08:00

"Teri Tierra"

I took this and a couple of other photos to pass them to Flybikes, cause they are compiling photos of riders with Tierra to commemorate Earth Day (22 April). Tierra by the way means land or earth.

So I just took the opportunity to do yet another bike check. Kindly excuse my "pose", as I was rushing for the self-timed camera.

Man Lose

2009-04-20T02:13:00.002+08:00

So I just came back from Simpang Bedok for my dinner cum supper. I was so hungry when I got home from work just now roughly 12am this morning. And in the end it came to my conscious to sneak my dad's car out and have a well deserved meal. I think I should give myself up with sleeping off my hunger.

Well I didn't really sneak it out, I wrote a note and left it on the table, informing him of where I went incase he goes roaming out of the room in the middle of the night while I'm out. But it's still considered without permission, so probably it's still sneaking out. Whatever it is, I drove his car out.

Anyways, when I arrived I learnt about the match between Manchester United and Everton. I knew there was that match but I didn't know it was still going on. So I saw a couple of minutes of it, and final score, 0-0. Went to penalty, and ha ha ha, Man(loser)chester United lost! Lousy.

I wonder what the Man(loser)chester fans are gonna say tmr. Probably these: "Oh give chance la, too many trophies already..", "Oh give other people chance..", "Oh I never play lah". Like haha, give chance? I didn't know your dear Sir Alex Ferguson is playing Monopoly. Lose means lose. Period.

The Man(loser)chester fans left immediately after the match, such losers, no sportsmanship. Those wearing the jerseys can consider hanging them out to rot for now.

I'm such a lazy ass. I actually rode my bicycle to the carpark and back home then after, when my place is a couple of blocks away. Well I intended to go ride my bike today, but couldn't find the inspiration to do so, since I got a empty stomach, so I took it out for dinner instead, but she stayed in the car while I eat.

So full now; Nasi Goreng Kampung. I'm going to rest and then sleep now. Goodnight and sweet dreams Readies. Remember, You Will Never Walk Alone.

Rant Rant Rants

2009-04-19T00:44:00.002+08:00

Hey Readies. I have concluded undeniably without any doubt, that most Singaporean shoppers are just letting their money do the talk.

Two customers walk into the store, after queuing up for approximately 30-45 minutes. "Wah nothing to see leyy..." I shook my head.

Singaporeans just enjoy joining a queue, and assume that long queues would be proportionate to the results at the end of it, which is probably true most of the time. Or maybe they just will have to force themselves into thinking that they just ran into a casual clothing shopping haven, offering great value, since they have queued for long.

Frankly to me, the prices on display are roughly nothing too sweet of a deal. It looks normal to me. The campaign and publicity just got the advantage and reaped the benefits of believers and followers. What are you spending?

13thWitness

2009-04-18T11:05:00.000+08:00

Check it out.

Fitting Rooms

2009-04-18T09:12:00.005+08:00

Good morning Singapore and of course, my dear Readies, yesterday was my off day and I was out doing something not far from what I do at work, window shopping, etc. I felt like spending on somethings but fate led me to a decision not to. Shall save those dollars and wait for the following months or so.

Anyways, this isn't cam-whoring. I just snap in the fitting room, to look at the picture when I get home, and consider if it's worth buying. I hardly shop on impulse, and it will probably take me a couple of trips down, to actually make a purchase. Money, doesn't drop from the sky baby.

"1. 2. 3. 4."

1. Stussy Los Angeles

I like the print, it feels and looks lush, but sadly, the cutting is different from the usual S size; it's long and a little bigger, as you can probably see. The SLA print takes the form of YSL, nice. But this is gonna be a pass.

2. Lifetime

Tried this on at Spin The Bottle (Cathay). It was on offer (30%) off but M was the last standing size. Skip.

3. Muji Men's Cardigan

This thing is cool, it is actually a cardigan. The collar flaps can be flipped up and buttoned, so it looks kinda like a turtle neck thing, but not exactly like a turtle neck. Understand? But I thought and thought and wondered if there'll actually be a time when I will wear this. KIV.

4. River Island Flannel

Love the color, and on offer as well. Got other colors available, the one I tried appealed to me, made me look like an eggplant. There are some non-outstanding embroideries on the shirt though. Nice but I don't think I might need it for now. Pass.

This is cool, like a new experience, I don't usually try stuffs and not buy them. I'm thinking of making myself a lookbook for the stuffs I have at home, so I don't have to spend time thinking of what to wear, and what to match it with, everytime I'm going out. We will wait for that leisure time to come.

I'll be working later in the noon, so do drop by if you do not mind the queues; to enter carpark, to enter store, to try on, to pay, etc. Hope I have a nice day, and you guys too, and take care :)

Screw TGIF

2009-04-17T08:16:00.000+08:00

"Screw TGIF"

Thanks Adam22

2009-04-15T20:36:00.001+08:00

"Thanks Adam"

It has arrived. I like mail order, it is kind of surprising, and when I receive it, it feels as though it is my birthday gift which I paid for. Visit TCU.

That checkered bottom I'm wearing are bermudas, not boxers.

The queues in and outside the store are still ridiculous and horrendous. I've come to a point whereby working has been so mundane that I start to somewhat hate the customers.

I don't like the attitude some customers carry, like they have all the money in the world, and the globe has to spin their way. It's even more hate-able when the ones carrying that attitude are from Mainland. You don' own anything, shit.

And please, shop with your brain not just your cash, damn it.

Well well well, goodnight! I'm so tired. Yawn.

Help Me Help You

2009-04-14T20:42:00.003+08:00

"Help Me.... Help You - Jerry Maguire (1996)"

I am dying to help you, but I just don't know how. Sorry.

Dear Customers

2009-04-13T12:31:00.002+08:00

Hi Readies, thankfully today is my off day, and I'm at home resting my ass. The crowd like most have been saying, "..massive"

I don't know if its because of being JA/PAN//#1 or is it just a typical Singaporean thing, to just flock and and join, what looks like a endless queue. I think both "play" a part, in contributing to this massive response. And probably this brand is just alien to them Singaporeans. Or perhaps the other way round, them alien to the brand.

This scenario happened, and my colleague was at the door (aka door bitch). Basically no more are allowed in; store closed. This guy came and, "My wife is inside.." Colleague while referring to another customer waiting outside, said, "Oh his wife is also inside.." Guy just kept quiet. Don't push your luck man.

Basically, Singaporeans will be Singaporeans, no matter what, when and where. Agree?

You get yourself in a queue, which you know is dog darn long, and you complain, why so long must wait. While asking yourself that, you actually prey on us who are working. So who's doing the shopping by the way? Regardless of whether we're facing an economic crisis or not, Singaporeans will still have the money, and with that money, they have the talk. Whatever man.

I'm not pissed by this actually. Just being random (shit, random is like so Hollywood now), and at the same time updating my blog. So yeah I'm just fine and :)

Well have a good day at work or school, don't do drugs, and take care!

Uniq Mayhem

2009-04-10T10:01:00.002+08:00

"Mayhem"

This is just the beginning, and the lines just gets longer, and never ending. Good Friday to all who are Good Friday-ing, or perhaps, TGIF. Good luck to me and the boys.

It's All In My Mind

2009-04-08T10:59:00.002+08:00

It started with a low light
Next thing I knew they ripped me from my bed
And then they took my blood type
They left a strange impression in my head
You know that I was hoping
That I could leave this star crossed world behind
When they cut me open
I guess I changed my mind

And you know I might
Just float too far from the floor this time
Cause they’re calling me by my name
And they're zipping white light beams
disregarding phones and satellites
Oh that was the turning point,
That was one lonely night

[Chorus]
The storm maker says it ain’t so bad
The dream maker’s gonna make you mad
The spaceman says, "Everybody look down
It’s all in your mind"

Well, now I’m back at home
And I’m looking forward to this life I live
You know it’s gonna haunt me
So hesitation to this life I give
You think you might cross over
You’re caught between the devil and the deep blue sea
You better look it over
Before you make that leap

And you know I’m fine
But I hear those voices at night
Sometimes that justify my claim
And the public don’t dwell on my transmission
Cause it wasn’t televised
But it was the turning point
On a lonely night

[Chorus]

[Chorus]

My global position systems are vocally addressed
They say the Nile used to run from East to West
They say the Nile used to run from East to West
I’m fine

But I hear those voices at night, sometimes

[Chorus]

[Chorus]

It’s all in my mind

Honesty

2009-04-08T00:19:00.003+08:00

Pronunciation: \ˈä-nəs-tē\
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural hon·es·ties
Date: 14th century

1: obsolete : chastity
2: fairness and straightforwardness of conduct b: adherence to the facts : SINCERITY
3: any of a genus (Lunaria) of European herbs of the mustard family with toothed leaves and flat disk-shaped siliques

Synonyms honesty , honor , integrity , probity mean uprightness of character or action. honesty implies a refusal to lie, steal, or deceive in any way.

How great is honesty? I've been questioning myself that since almost 5 years ago. Is honesty all positive, will it give you what you want or need, will it, actually make you say to yourself, "..I'm glad I turned to honesty.."

So far nil for me, with reference to 2 out of 2 events. I thought being honest, would be the best, would actually show how sincere I am, but nope. I was denied of that satisfaction of being honest. BIG TIME.

Facts invades the heart and mind first, then later, or probably not at all, the sincerity. It sucks, I seriously loathe honesty for now, till God knows when. It hasn't been fair for me, and apparently the receiving party.

Honesty shuts me down. Or is it just a matter of being honest at the right time. I doubt so. I certainly doubt so.

I'm sorry Khairi, but it just failed you.

Yours,
The Honest Jerk.

p.s., ~~IMYSM~~

Don't get fooled

2009-04-01T23:46:00.000+08:00

ITS APRIL

9th April, Who Needs Air-Con

2009-03-29T22:16:00.003+08:00

Hey Readies, THE STORE will be opening really soon, and I don't know how to react, currently we're doing a whole lot of stuff in preparation and it seems like out store is the only one doing preparations and such, but yeah there's a lot to do.

WORK LIKE DOG.

The air conditioning has been a failure not technically but I think they can't switch it on or something for some reason, so most of the time we're working under "harsh" conditions.

Today one of your man/ager/s said this,

"Sorry today the air-conditioning won't be on, but we've switched on the refrigerator for you....."

To that point, it sounds funny to me, it's like she's suggesting us to get into the fridge or something.

LAUGH OUT LOUD.

Oh well goodnight, gotta get some rest, got more stocks coming in tomorrow.

This Is Not Cloud 9

2009-03-26T13:47:00.003+08:00

Hi good afternoon Readies, clearing some photos off my mobile phones. Upload some clouds onto here. They look like candy floss sometimes. Candy to see a disease to eat. I don't feel the hype to eat that thing these days.

"This is not Cloud 9"

W.L.D has begun

2009-03-24T22:17:00.002+08:00

"..has begun"

Hi Readies, got home quite sometime ago. Work Like Dog has begun for me and my other colleagues at YouKnowWhere. Kindly ignore the colors on the image above.

Today was the first day since the break, and I've never worked so hard in prob a couple of years? yeah it's even worse than spring cleaning for the festive reasons. But in the name of fun, it was fun. As friends, we should stay cheery and try to cheer people up. So you're the UP, you try to UP other people. Understand?

Had the $2.50 breakfast at McD, lunch I had ice jelly cocktail. I didn't feel the need to eat at all, physically drenched and just wanting hydration. Got home, ate some rice with sambal goreng, and now downing a big mug of bandong, which is sweeter than I usually make it. Everyday dose of it and off goes some body part fo mine.

Tomorrow's another day. "..Tomorrow won't be as hard as today.." Yeah we'll see about that.

Gotta go, plan to sleep in 7 minutes time :) Goodnite Readies and take care!

Liverpool 5 Aston Villa 0

2009-03-23T14:32:00.002+08:00

"Liverpool 5 Aston Villa 0"

Good game. I'm a fan of Liverpool but I don't actually follow or even watch their matches for the full length of play. But with wins like this I take the opportunity to whatever.

Yesterday I watched the match when it was 0-0 and went off to go on my computer, came back it was 5-0. Amazing.

Monday won't be blue. Have a nice day at work :)

In The Name Of Simplicity

2009-03-22T12:37:00.002+08:00

This site rocks. Simple and yet effective. The shoes are nice too :)

"www.clae.com"

Marina Barrage @ 0100hrs

2009-03-21T11:26:00.002+08:00

New photos up on my Multiply. Went there with Reza, and it was a nice and cool experience, like really we didn't perspire and we agreed that shooting at night is more calming.

I intended to place a 2-photo stitch but my iMac can't do it well and I don't have Photoshop on here, so I gave up :P

My lens are getting real dirty, the last time I attempted to clean it, I think I just made it more dirty. Pretty bad, sometimes the photo has some dead pixels, if I'm not wrong, but there's always post-production.

The photos I took early this morning were also not satisfying to me in terms of quality. Even though I used an ISO100, it's still grainy and shit. A friend of mine told me it's the lens, well yeah I was using the kit lens. I actually brought 2 other lens but was too lazy to swap.

So yeah, it's a Saturday! Have a good weekend and take care!

Updating Links

2009-03-20T16:05:00.002+08:00

Hi Readies, today I've tasked myself to update my links; Friends, and the Link link.

I removed those blogs which are no longer available or removed. They are Rasyidah's, Cate's and Hyder's. If you guys got a new link for me to link you up, please inform me.

There are also links which are stagnant, with no updates for a couple of months. They are Adilah, Aznita, DeeAnna, Jasper, Locase, Mandy, Mazze, Oracle, Sheila, and Trena. Keep me updated, or I'll contact u either one.

I've added new links as well both under Friends and Links. There's Home, Heider, under Friends and HypeBeast under Links. How cool coincidence, all three starts with a H.

Anyone of you who wants me to link you up as well, please feel free to inform me too yeah :)

I was proud of myself that I figured out the drop down list for the Archives, because I think it'll be quite a problem to have a long list of dates on the right hand side of my blog, considering the fact that this blog has been around for almost 5 years or less. Le'ts celebrate.

Ok I'm out.

T.G.I.F!

CLASSIC LEATHER PU LUX "LIMITED EDITION"

2009-03-19T17:29:00.004+08:00

REEBOK CLASSIC
LEATHER PU LUX
"LIMITED EDITION"

With its simple colorways and unaltered makeup of leather and sole, Reebok Classic Leather became a must have sneaker in everyone’s wardrobe in 1980s. A few months back, Reebok announced the return of the classic, this time with the additional features of premium Italian leather and a PU wrap around the EVA midsole, in contrast colors.

Available in brown with yellow midsole, black in pink midsole. Both will be release n very limited quantity in late-January.

Selling EXO XPro Apple Keyboard Cover

2009-03-19T17:19:00.002+08:00

Hi readies, selling EXO XPro Keyboard Cover because it doesn't fit my iMac. It suits only older versions of Apple keyboard and current Apple wireless keyboard. Selling for S$25.

"So fresh.."

"..so clean"

Specs:

EXO XPro is 0.5mm thick, flexible, tough, soft, washable, helps muffle typing noises, made from the best Japanese silicone, has a perfect molded fit and loaded with Lajo design features.

Brand new, just bought last 2 days from iShop Cineleisure. No packaging since I tore it off but I still have it if you want it. Spread the word! Kindly contact me via email or mobile, thank you!

Busy or Can't Be Bothered

2009-03-19T11:45:00.003+08:00

Sorry for the massive non-update. 26 Feb 09 was the last update, almost a month or less now. Just been busy being tired, which led to a feeling of laziness and thus, lack of update.

So like 2 weeks or so has passed with training with UN/I/QLO. Everything I think seems fine, except for the alteration bit. And last Tuesday was the last of it, no more training. A bit stoked and nervous. Al the best to us. What I can see is that we're starting to have the bond. The next thing to know is who would show their true colors first. That's the most interesting part of a friendship, seriously.

Yesterday I was out to Tanjong Pagar, had lunch at the KTM (Keretapi Tanah Melayu) and the food's good. Very good. Then we were out walking with no objective, so We just took photos of basically anything. You may view them on my Multiply, but not much photos though (11 only). I was being very selective.

So when we at Bras Basah Complex in the evening, there was a book fair on the ground floor and comics, old ones, were on sale and I like. Haha the sentence sounded very amateur. I was actually looking for one part of my Star Wars Dark Empire Series. I have Parts 1, 2, 3, and 6, so missing Parts 4 and 5. But in the end I found something else:

Union #1 JUNE1993

Avengelyne/Glory VOL.1 NO.1 SEPT1995

I've never heard of these titles, but damn, the covers are like foil. So visually intriguing and I had to get them. It also reminded me of the Marvel cards I collected while I was in Primary School (I still have them, holographic, foil, transparent, canvas, etc).

I finally got my shoes via post. They're so nice, but I seriously have no idea what model it is. Its like leather outer, a union jack on the underside of the tongue, a luminous yellow base. Reebok Classic remake. I'm still searching through the internet about the shoe.

Reebok ???

Cool? I know. Haha I'm done for now. Anyways I'd like to thank those who actually come over to my blog. :)

Have a great day and take care!

Rain Comes Again, Circa 2003-2006

2009-02-26T15:43:00.003+08:00

It's another wet day; heavy rain with thunder and lightning, Readies you are kindly advised to bring along your shelter (umbrella, raincoat, cardboard, etc). Strongly advised.

I am cold but not freezing in this art gallery. I had 2 packs of cheese sandwich biscuits (with each pack containing 2 biscuits = I had 4 biscuits) and some distilled water for lunch. I'm on diet, no.

I hoped for better weather but turns out the other way, with heavier rain plus the thunder and lightning. Saturday has got to change if not, my plans would be ruined. I plan to BMX at Somerset after work. If Friday afternoon rains, I assume Saturday will too, and if it doesn't I'm gonna swear, to myself for not taking the gamble.

Let's do the Sun Dance. I googled "Sun Dance" and there's the Sundance Festival 2009. Heh, no not that, probably we can tune in to the sounds of Barney & Friends yeah? "...Oh Mr Sun, Sun, Mr Golden Sun..."

I was walking to the gallery this morning, as in from the train station, and I reminisced my poly days. It's the time where I was heavily on street art, a bit of graffiti, graphics and illustration, its like the bloom years, unlike now. And I really miss those days.

It included dosages of Wooster Collective, my all time favorite, The O.C., Indie Rock music mainly New Order, Interpol and whatever else, and many more I can't remember. It was like a projector playing ahead of me this morning. Felt so nice, till the rain came down. The films got wet.

My full-time career will commence soon, unsure if I can relieve those days and be super productive. I'm so creatively unsound for a few years already now. Like what I do is generic and I usually exit to photography, an easier option.

Speaking of which, much apologies for image-less posts for the past few ones. But I just uploaded some pictures onto my Multiply here, but its some riding pictures if you don't mind :) It's featuring Rolando, Azhar and yours truly.

I can't accept the fact that some kids these days (or they might have been existing, that should be it), are so spoiled or lazy and needed to be spoon fed regardless of what it is, be it information, products, etc.

I came across a post on a local forum, and the kid started a thread asking, between 2 numerical figures of different units of measurement, which was lighter. And said that he has no idea how to convert them both to a similar unit. FAIL!

Yesterday I was on the verge of shouting at a couple of secondary school boys at my block after one of them simply threw a drink packet onto the ground. It's the kind of thing I get in my head when I shouted (the only one incident in my N/S life that I shouted) at fire-f/i/g/h/t/e/r trainees when they failed to march in line. I got sick and tired of the school boys. After school hang around my block, making so much noise, smoke, then use our staircase landings as toilets. You like?

Eee.. grow up and have some responsibility boys, anyways have a great day after work Readies! Haha what a way to end a post but my left shoulder is hurting from don't know what :/ Till next time!

Slumdog Millionaire

2009-02-24T12:44:00.002+08:00

Hi Readies, I caught the film, Slumdog Millionaire last Friday, and in my opinion it was not a waste of money, seriously. It was full of impact (I just learned that there's no such word as 'impactful'), and original.

Furthermore, the recent 81st Academy Awards saw Slumdog Millionaire nominated for 9 awards, and won 8 of them; Best Motion Picture of the Year, Best Achievement in Directing, Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published, Best Achievement in Cinematography, Best Achievement in Editing, Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score, Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song, and Best Achievement in Sound Mixing.

Its a kind of film, which kinda shows you the unfortunate side of life, that most people don't know or know but choose to ignore. I've heard of stories of kids being kidnapped and being 'sold' off in India or some other countries for slavery and such. The show confirmed the story, and it's saddening.

You should really watch this show, worth you dollars.

I wonder when a film about Singapore will come out. As in the part where the grass doesn't get to see the light. Haha anyone who might produce it will surely face charges. Everyone knows what's going on here, in Singapore. We just keep quiet, so will I, just right now. Save my ass.

Lunch time, take care don't choke and have a nice day at work/school.

Alliance Francaise, Bus Fares

2009-02-17T17:59:00.004+08:00

Hi Readies, I'm bored and currently holding my pee, after drinking a whole lot of distilled water. After this, I'm heading for the toilet, for obvious reasons, to wash my hands.

Anyways wazzaaahhh?!?! How you guys doing? great? No great? Ok lah ar I guess, how bad can it be for anyone, can it? Oh well, all the best.

I'm currently sitting in at an art gallery over at this building called Alliance Francaise, situated somewhere in Newton. Will be doing this job till the end of this month, after which, I'll be off for my UN//IQ///L/O training!

Sitting for this exhibition called 1x Suitcase. Read more about it here. This building is almost all French, and there's an irritating fruit fly around my head. People come here for lessons and the library and stuff. Feel free to visit, entrance is free.

I thought I read in the papers that there was going to be a revision in bus fares and stuff, as in reduction. Though people tell me that public transportation here in Singapore, including taxis, are cheap, I would say our bus fares are not justified. I pay for an air-conditioned bus ride home, and all I get is accumulated perspiration around my body. I believe I'm not the only one who have had this experience before. Air-con, my ass. Whatever SBS Transit, and sometimes SMRT. Lucky you're the only public transport providers, if not you guys would be long gone I think, somehow.

Oh well, all hopes for the best in the world's economy.

Till next time! :)

Kids, This Is Not How You Spell Bicycle

2009-02-01T23:31:00.002+08:00

"Bicycle not Bycicle"

Hey Readies stumbled upon this at a Japanese Supermart. Hillarious, I just like to spot these kind of spelling errors. I find it ridiculous that such errors can be made on a production scale. (Remember my post on the Acer advertisement on the MRT platform?). Isn't there like any kind of proof-reading prior to production?

Enjoy and have a nice day tomorrow!

Joey Tribbiani - "How ya doing?"

2009-01-30T22:54:00.001+08:00

Hey hey Readies :) I love Joey Tribbiani, a character in Friends played by the one and only Matt LeBlanc. You're so NOOB if you don't know this man, I've got no comments. So yeah he likes to say "How ya doing?", especially to ladies. I'm not gonna say further, if you don't watch Friends, I think it's about time.

Anyways I'm fine fine. The last time you heard from me, I had a sprained ankle. Well it is still sprained to a certain extent, getting better of course, and I think. The swell is running off (big diff from Day 2 to Day 2Day :D). But blue-black marks are appearing on the bottom of both side of my right ankle, but my brother said that it's a sign of healing. Oh I hope so, yeah I think so, he plays soccer and he sprains himself too sometimes. And Nizam told me at this point of time I should be stretching my feet/ ankle.

So till today I'm just wearing the ankle support when I can and ice it when I should.

I just wanna share with you what some of my friends shared with me.

Azhar introduced to me the R.I.C.E. technique. R= Rest I= Ice C= Compression E= Elevation. Basically you rest sufficiently and do not impose more stress on your injury, you ice your injury, compress your injury by means of bandage or some kind of support and elevate yourself like what David Blaine likes to do. Nah nah elevate as in lift your injury up so it doesn't get blood flow, like just ensure your injury is of higher level than your heart (this part I'm not too sure). Understand?

Aznita, a poly friend of mind who frequents soccer, introduced me to soaking towel into hot water with garlic in it. After which you wrap the warmth around your injury. I think the garlic's supposed to remove the "wind" in your injury? I THINK.

My brother who plays soccer, just insisted on soaking the injury in ice water for at least 20 minutes. Like that is how he gets treated at the sports clinic he said.

Last but not least, Mother says, "..Dudok rumah diam diam..", direct and alien translation would be "..sit home quiet quiet.." You get the idea.

Ok so next time you get a sprain (hopefully you don't), you can probably try one of these (hopefully it works).

Ok night night Readies and have a good weekend.

Sprained Ankle, HLNY

2009-01-26T13:17:00.001+08:00

Hey Readies, and a very Happy Lunar New Year to my Chinese counterparts. Hope you guys get loads of hangbaos and part some of it to us jobless friends of yours. That would be so nice.

Anyways I sprained my right ankle yesterday night, nope not because of BMX-ing, but skating. Yah yah yah the 4-wheeled skateboard. I know you know, I don't skate, though I know how to ollie a little, and used to kick some 360-flips without landing them.

So yesterday I met Kai Ras and gang who were skating, and I decided to try skating his newborn Chocolate deck. Ollie-ing was ok until I tried to kick-flipping and *kepraaaap!*, "ARGHHH~!! HAHAHA!"

It's those kind of stupid injuries whereby its painful but it tickles you a bit when you wiggle and stuff. Damn, how nice, I was supposed to go Somerset today and I sprained my ankle the night before. Sorry Azhar and gang, didn't mean to let it happen :\

I tried to take some shots of my ankle for you to see, but after awhile I changed my mind. I think you'd probably be disgusted not by the look of the sprain but the leg hair and my chipped toenails.

There goes a saying, "..skate buat hal skate, bike buat hal bike.." I can't figure out how to translate, ok it's like if you skate, you skate, if you bike, you bike. Something like that.

Ankle sprain to me is a pain in the ass, and is the most idiotic injury anyone could have. For now, I could hardly walk and boy do I hate it. Haiz.

Oranges anyone? Have a good holiday Readies :)

Me and Colors, Nonstop

2009-01-23T16:12:00.000+08:00

"Pentel FabricFun Color Dyes"

I bought them a couple of days ago to paint my seat. It was like Kinder Surprise, because the packaging did not state what colors were available in the pack. They had two, one was 6 colors, and the other 14? I can't remember. I bought 6s since I only needed one color, black. But wow, when I got home, I was kiddishly excited to see them colors. Wee. Cobalt Blue of all colors, FTW!

Save My Readies!

2009-01-22T00:26:00.003+08:00

Hi Readies, so I probably should stop it with BMX and stuff, for the sake of my non-BMX-able Readies.

I'm starting to crack my head about what else I should blog about, like day-to-day routines, what my mom cooks, how the left TV speaker is softer than the right, why my neighbor's clothes pole is always dropping off the rack, etc. That's maybe for the subsequent posts, but not for this one.

Updates with regards to the previous post: Job, Mixing colors, and the 3M Sandblaster sponge.

Carrying my mobile phone wherever (toilet for bathe and business, etc) paid off. Finally got a call today. Chapter closed.

Mixing of colors was kind of a failure. I tried to so called dust mix clear and black to produce the supposedly translucent black, but it failed. Because it's clear and black, it came off rather uneven (knowing the nozzle, and painting with two hands simultaneously is rather dumb). So I decided to give up the other mixes. Chapter closed.

The 3M Sandblaster sponge works wonders. Initially I used it as a sanding block to really strip the paint, which I think was ok but not cost worthy because it will wear the sponge off faster. So I suggested, sanding off or stripping paint with paint stripper and then, scraping off residues with the 3M Sandblaster sponge. It not only scrapes but also polishes the surface. This was what I got after stripping and polishing my cranks:

"Polished Raw Arms"

Much thanks to local hero, Nizam, for helping out on the right crank arm, and chapter closed.

Alright I guess that's that for BMX for this month. If there's any photo updates kindly head down to Multiply for it yeah. Thanks Readies.

I'm pretty stoked on getting a new job, I hope I'm up for it. I'm thinking off getting back to the nearby supermarket and working part time just to pay my bills for the next 2 or 3 months. The last time I was there (after my 'O' Levels) was for I think 3 weeks, then I busted off with proper resignation of course, because I hated the (ugly female) manager, BIG TIME. I think the management has changed and it has also been like so many years already (counts) 6 plus years?

I need to go out and take some photos around Singapore, anyone?

Time for bed now or maybe some Friends as bedtime stories :) Goodnight Readies and take care at work, and for those kids, be good at school, Papa's paying your fees ya know.

Retailing, More BMX Colors!!

2009-01-18T23:28:00.006+08:00

Hey Readies, the bulk of this post would be pretty much the same as what was talked about for the previous post; BMX and colors. So I shall skip that later and talk about something else, to cater to the needs of my non-BMX-interested Readies.

So tomorrow I will be anticipating the results for my second interview at W/i/n/g T/a/i as a full-time retail assistant for this new outlet called U/N/I/Q/L/O, which will be opening in East Singapore. I bet some of you read it in the papers sometime last week or something. So yeah, if everything goes well, I wont be jobless by like end March.

Full-time, long-working hours, customer service, and low starting pay for a Diploma holder. I don't mind because: I don't have experience and I seek experience in retail, I wanna work my ass off for the months of slacking (really work like a dog), and I believe that from retail I can somewhat veer to the graphic line, somehow. That's what I think, and please, good luck to me, thank you and much love.

By the way, as much as we are talking about the China Republicans here in Singapore, it is as much as they are talking about us as well. As I observed them in the train just now, some of the guys were talking about our behaviors while we are on the train.

"..kaeko, you Malay how you understand? Anyhow only.."

Trust me, I understand, somehow. But I still think that their behavior sometimes is a little off, considering the fact that they are in someone else's country. Don't you think so?

Ok this part onwards would be about the BMX and colors. I'm very sorry for like I have nothing much else to talk about other than this, for this is what I'm close to everyday when I'm at home. Please bear with me. I swear I was going to do some illustrations and sketching since last week, but didn't happen, hopefully by next week.

So today I went to the nearby paint-shop and chose Pylox's Metallic Bronze, over the Metallic Brown, which I thought would be too dark and non contrasting. I got home, and test-painted it on some of the small parts as shown below:

"Pylox Metallic Bronze VS Rustoleum Cobalt Blue"

"Metallic Copper on Matte Pearl Grey"

As you can probably see, it's way off from what I wanted (copperish-brown). It looks way too light, looks a bit like gold, something diarrhea like, and as I expected, Pylox's Metallics aren't as blingy as Rustoleum's. I have yet to gather feedback and comments from my fellow friends, till then I will let it be as it is.

Tomorrow if the weather's great, I'll be experimenting with the spray paint colors. Something like dust-paint-mixing. I shall see if it's possible to make the metallic bronze darker, and if I can create translucent black.

I also bought some paint stripping sponge from a hardware store today. It's 3M's SandBlaster Sanding Sponge. I'll try sanding paint off my cranks and paint on the translucent black (if the mix is perfect) tomorrow as well.

Looks kinda like a well planned day tomorrow, hope it goes as planned. Goodnight Readies and rest well cause tomorrow's a Monday!

Splattered My Mono

2009-01-18T00:40:00.004+08:00

Hi Readies, how's the Saturday going by?

Being jobless for the mean time for like four months running, has got me looking deeper and deeper into the BMX product catalogs almost everyday. Not to buy them products, but probably just to gain knowledge and just gaze and the wonderful colors painted on them.

I believe the sports of BMX now is kinda like inclining more into a fashion thingy with all the wonderful splashes of colors. I remembered the time when I started riding, which was roughly when I was 14; the colors we'd see most of the time would be black, white, chrome, yellow (euurgh!), basically the foundation colors. But now, wow mixtures and not to mention textures and finishes from gloss to metallics to mattes. Variety at its best!

Well I was looking at the purple-rain colorway on the Odyssey products. Kindly refer here. So darn sexy, and it's kinda hard to see these things in the local market, unless you import them, but from what I understand these are usually produced on limited numbers. So I figured out I do my own version:

"Rustoleum / Odyssey Mono Lever"

Probably not a fraction close to the Purple-Rain, it's more of splatting. Well yeah those you see on Odyssey's are products, for sale. I do mine for... self satisfaction let's put it.

I figured out I could do it better with some thinner to make the splats, thinner. Some idea came to me to also mix two paints of different densities, so they won't actually mix and hopefully produce a marble-like effect when applied on a surface. Research.

My friends and I visited the paint shop yesterday, and sad to say the Rustoleum's I've been using are really off the shelves. They do have other series like Non-Slip, High Temperature Paint (in copper), etc. I guess it's back to Nippon, RJ's and Anchor.

If you referred enough to the photos of my bike, you'd notice that my bike has blues on certain parts of it. I kinda thought about it, and have decided to give it a swap to something like copperish-brown. Something like brown but with a tinge of orange, and not to forget the shiny metallic flakes. Not too sure if Nippon's Metallic Copper are close to what I want. One way to know is to try.

Alright enough of BMX and probably colors for now. Have a goodnight sleep yeah :)

New Photos Re: BMX

2009-01-11T23:02:00.002+08:00

Hey Readies, photo updates.

Uploaded couple of photos, one is pretty recent of the BMX boys doing their thing, and another was some older photos taken in Terminal 3.

"Click here for BMX.."

"..and here for Terminal 3"

Thank you and goodnight Readies :)

KaeKO is back from Phuket

2009-01-06T13:50:00.002+08:00

Hey Readies! I'm back from Phuket already since yesterday, the 5th at night. It was a really nice experience for me, even more nice when it is free :P

"I'm Back"

So we had a lot of photo taking trips around Phuket and highlight would have to be the sunset location we were brought to on the second day, nothing like I've ever seen before (I know... noob).

I had the hotel room to myself, and the hotel I stayed in (The Courtyard, Marriot) was opened last year December 20th. So it was not even a month since it was ready.

I got friends asking how was Phuket, and what's there. If not for the photography trips, I'd say if you live for paradise, you can probably just lay back and enjoy the beaches; sun, sand and the sea. I was around Patong Beach by the way.

I'm not too sure about the nightlife though. I just passed by the area, kinda looks happening but I only looked and as you all know, looks can be deceiving. I also found that Phuket is like a Caucasian-flooded area. I think I see more of them than locals there.

Anyways for some pictures that I took while I was there you could visit my Multiply or by just simply clicking here.

Well I think I might wanna go there again for the sun, sand, and sea thingy, or perhaps I'd find somewhere nicer :)

SS/LMF

2009-01-02T17:31:00.000+08:00

"SS/LMF"

Happy New Year Readies

2009-01-01T04:15:00.002+08:00

Kaeko would like to wish all his Readies of all shapes and sizes, a very happy and prosperous new year. Let's welcome 2009 with our fat arms spread out and a whole lot of positivity and mashed potatoes.

Be all happy but don't build up too much on those calories and go on bragging about gaining it in the months to come. Advice of the year.

Take care and lots of love from me!