Yes, I know you are waiting in anticipation with bated breath to find out if I passed my final theory on my 3RD attempt. Well, nothing new really. Let's just say the road to disaster continues, the train wreck to never-ever land keeps speeding on, and my catastrophe is so great now that it makes the sinking of the Titanic look like just a mere slap on the wrist.

The bitter taste of defeat yet again. The thought of not getting my license before ORD is causing a tight stranglehold on my life, and now the reality that I'll only walk away on 18 June with a basic theory pass is really hard to swallow.

But, what really pisses me and drives me up the wall is not failure. I can accept failure, contrary to what many people think. (Just ask any Newcastle fan) What pisses me is that I stayed at home to study the whole night and not playing futsal at The Cage! What a waste! I think I shouldn't study anymore. The more inputs I get, the worser the situation gets.

Mels - I think chiongster is going to scream at me tomorrow.


But it's over now.
Go on and take a bow.

The latest craze to hit Singapore is now in Simpang Bedok.

Simpang is already filled with so many vices, it's probably just a matter of time before a donut shop joins in the party, along with 3 prata shops, 1 Western eatery and 2 mee pok outlets. It's no wonder everyone here has a belly.

So how did Donut Master fare? Let me deliver my verdict.

Donut Master donut-o-meter: 1/5

I opted for the Oreo donut, synonymous wth donut shops everywhere. This version, however, suffered from a case of 'adding feet to a snake' with a layer of chocolate in between the Oreo bits. And this what was disappoints. The weird concoction of Oreo and chocolate just didn't complement each other, making the whole base way too sweet. The dough itself suffered the exact opposite fate by being too bland and tough to chew.

Overall, I'll say give this a miss, unless you want to try other flavours and let me know too :)

How about a round of applause?

A standing ovation..

Can I just say Windows Vista is one horrible program. No wonder Bill Gates is not the World's Richest guy anymore. Wonder how many fans he lost by introducing Vista. It's soooo slow, I could crawl to China and back and my program would still be loading. And the wonderful Vista has just screwed up my entire itunes. Great. My Dad actually sent me a long email he received that stated all the flaws of Vista and advising all to avoid Vista. So please follow suit!

Anyway yesterday was the front row midnight movie for Harold and Kumar - Escape From Guatanomo Bay. I could feel my neck straining just 10 minutes into the movie and I wondered how I actually stayed awake all this time.



No one should take this movie seriously, but if you compare it to the first instalment, this was obviously a huge disappointment. Stale jokes, slapstick humour, and on the whole nothing really much to laugh about. Verdict: Don't pay a weekend price.


Ok today was Shokudo with my family, and this time we were at the puny outlet in Cineleisure instead. Unfortunately, I have to take back all my good comments I had about this restaurant because it was a totally different experience. My main course was the last to arrive, but what peeved me was that other diners who came later got served before me and no server came up to explain. The manager said he will check but instead went off to do his normal duties. Another waiter checked on it and said my fried fish was overcooked and they fried it again from scratch. PUR-LEASE. You think I was born yesterday or what. If you forgot my order, just tell me straight in the face (and I will splash water on you)

Sorry for my rant. I'm just so allergic to bad service. It pisses me off!

After that was Forbidden Kingdom.



The story of the Monkey King as told by Jackie Chan and Jet Li. It was better than I expected considering I'm not really into all these ancient Chinese rubbish stories. There was an East-meets-West element with an American Boy in the picture as well, and I was saved from an uncomfortable movie reading subtitles as 90% of the film was in English. But still, on the whole, not my type of movie.


On a side note, there was a gargantuan number of people wearing Man Utd jerseys in Orchard today, and I would have assumed they might have picked something else to wear.

I cannot describe how tired I am now. 3 consective days of staying late in camp and now I'm totally sleep-deprived. My colleague commented that I look absolutely panda-fied this morning. You will know what I went through very soon, after I finishing uploading my 200 photos of the event, which was, fortunately, a great success.

For now, though, let's make do with a tongue-in-cheek email I received about Beijing's preparation for the upcoming Olympic Games. Obviously, their visa woes for visitors are last on the list of problems. Here's why:


Beware - there are robbers who carry human-sized bags when robbing shops.


Beijing's goal for the year 3000 is to be the 10th planet where all human life forms are non-existent. So start now, and let's start avoiding everyone.



In Today's Sports section, Kevin Keegan's latest signing is Frodo from Lord Of The Rings, who will join the 3-pronged attack with Michael owen.



Join the queue, please. The potatoes' autograph signing will be at 4pm today.



If you accidentally slipped, please get up and slip carefully. Plan your slips to perfection.



This restaurant is competing for business with the one opposite which sells dogs and Coke.



Trim the foot service, starting with my big toe please!



Other children are okay..



A very difficlt meal indeed.


He calls his set pieces the 'Ronaldo Rocket'.
Right...how appropriate!

Some overdue photos from the past week:



Having curry pasta at Shokudo.

Yet another restaurant added to my list of F & B establishments with excellent service. 5/5 for me. Polite staff, attentive to details, taking initiative - are these really so hard? Yet 99% of eateries in Singapore can't even accomplish such simple tasks. Shokudo is at Cineleisure and Citylink Mall.



The latest player to join the Singapore national team.

Name: Jermaine Tan Liren
Position: Midfield/Attack
Height: 1.8m
Weight: 80kg
Influences: Michael Owen, James Milner
Fee: Free transfer from Simpang Bedok FC

Wonderful. Please revive Goal 2010 for Singapore to be in the World Cup. No reason why they can't achieve it. Your striking woes have been promptly solved. The finals will be Singapore vs England.


Hong Kong Cafe

The famous Tow Huay at Selegie Road, but I still the geylang one wins hands down.

4.20am and it's time for bed. Legs still as wobbly as jelly.

Yesterday, 18th of April, was my Mum's birthday (Happy Birthday! She's having a great holiday in Macau) and the cruel realisation that if I had attempted and passed by NAPFA test in poly, it would have been Happy ORD for me already.

And I unearthed yet another cruel realisation during yesterday's 4-hour Futsal session, that NS has really made me more unfit. Yes of course through the binge eating every day in camp, I'm leading a glutton's life, but the sad fact is that I haven't been able to maintain a good shape, and at the end of our gruelling game my legs just turned to jelly and I was left with little choice but to cab home.

Although, my team mate commented 'wah jerms! You have been playing every game. Are you on sterioids?' Nah, I just wanna push myself as far I could.

But that could change in a split second! I'm very determined - more futsal, swimming, and maybe tennis.

And I need a break. Someone please get me those tickets to Madonna's 'Hard Candy' album party at Zouk. I'd do anything, from being a Material Boy or doing that zany Hung Up dance on stage. PLEEEAASSSEE.

AH BENG PTE LTD

Ah Beng : Doctor, In my dreams, I play football every night.
DR: Take this tablet, you will be ok.
Ah Beng : Can I take tomorrow, tonight is final game.

Ah Beng comes back 2 his car & find a note saying 'Parking Fine'
He Writes a note and sticks it 2 pole 'Thanks 4 compliment'

Teacher: 'I killed a person' convert this sentence into future tense
Ah Beng : The future tense is 'u will go to jail'

Ah Beng told his servant: Go and water the plants
Servant: It's already raining
Ah Beng : So what? Take an umbrella and go.

Today was the day I finally started circuit. And obviously, what more can I say. Horrendous experience. If I can't even drive properly on the roads, circuit will be a killer, and that's what happened. I can't believe the amount of parking I had to do. I absolutely loathe parking; maybe next time I won't even bother going out unless the place has valet parking. Can you imagine the amount of poles I knocked down today. And my brilliant instructor didn't even bother putting any back to its position. Haha. Good luck to all those who used the circuit after me. And Sarah, I know the feeling of rolling down the slope. Immediate failure for rolling down more than one metre. Haha. What a joke. I rolled down the whole slope lor.

And you know what's the worst of all? Of all days, it had to be today at 5.30pm that a tsunami-like rain decided to punish me. So I was drenched and soaking wet in the freezing car driving around the circuit.

BUT..but..good news, managed to move my final theory to an earlier date! End of the month now.

BUT..but..bad news nonetheless. I took 2 e-trial test and failed both. Hahahaha. What is freaking wrong with me man.


Buy Wes Brown? I rather buy Chris Brown.
Liverpool is going sell us Peanuts and Mr-my-grandmother-can-head-better-than-you!

ARE WE JUST PLAIN GOOD OR WHAT?




That just made my day !


Just updated my resume again. I think writing your resume is not easy. What are you going to reveal to your potential employers? What strengths and weaknesses will you try to show and hide? And how do you sell and promote yourself without being too egoistical?

And in a moment of slight madness, I actually applied for a job in the civil service despite my lifetime insistence that I would never work in the public sector. Do I really want this job? Let's just say I can pass, that's not a problem. But will I get the job? Hmm, highly unlikely. So there you have it. I'm always doing something that I have no confidence to achieve it but I just do it anyway.

As the saying goes, you'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take, but you'll usually miss 99% of those you take.

Classic.

Street Kings today.




Frankly I have absolutely no idea what the movie is about, and if you think I'm just plain shallow then read the online reviews, because it seems no one can figure anything out as well. But watching this movie just brings back the Prison Break withdrawl symptoms because Fernando Sucre is now acting as the bad guy and well, too bad, got his ass kicked by Scofield in Prison Break and then now his ass is kicked by Keanu Reeves. Ouch.

And did I mention about my entire hike around East Coast Park on Thursday? Daniel and I were on bicycles the whole day planning the amazing race and I ended up like mutton satay at the end of the day, chao tar face yet again. The dehydration has continued on till today. I keep waking up at night feeling extremely thirsty and drinking everything off my mug.

And for the last time, JAMES MILNER is definitely not leaving Newcastle! Lennon or Pennant can come and I don't care because they will be on the bench as long as Keegan is around.

DIAN XIN DIAN XIN!

CHI DIAN XIN!



Have you ever met a guy so crazy over dian xin? No, of course not.



Today it was dian xin at TUNG LOK EAST COAST !



Unfortunately, I can't being camera phone to work so no photos.



But yet another dim sum buffet unearthed! Let's see - har gao, siew mai, char siew bao, ling yong bao, dan tart, lo mai kai, har jeong kai, pei dan chok, chee cheong fun, fried chicken wing, carrot cake, fried calamari, sushi, (YES sushi!) braised duck, char siew, kway teow, baby kailan, sambal kangkong, fried salmon head, sweet and sour fish, gui ling gou, hong dao shui, or nee, ice cream puff ball and so many many more...!



Only $18.80++



And since I'll be at east coast park tomorrow, I may consider going again!

Today I got an email from my soccer mate which started with "Yo kawang!" ...

And I like have absolutely no idea what kawang means, so I nudged my colleague and asked him. Fortunately, it means 'friend' lah! Not that I was suspecting it meant something else (because the contents of the email were light-hearted) but at times, the colloquialism that army mates use just baffles me! Or maybe I just need to brush up on my non-existent hokkien??



*ring ring*

Guy: Hi, Ubersports arena.

Me: Hi, I would like to book your futsal pitches on 22 April from 9 to 12.

Guy: Oh, we're only available from 10 onwards. 9 is booked.

Me: Hmm, ok I'll take from 10 to 12 then.

Guy: You'll be having an overnight event at East Coast Park?

Me: Nono, after that we'll go for lunch

Guy: OH CHEY 9 TO 12 IN THE MORNING AH? I THOUGHT AT NIGHT! AIYAH IN THAT CASE NO NEED TO BOOK LAH, NOBODY PLAYS IN THE MORNING!

Me: ..........

HMMMM....

Went to watch 'TEETH' with Nicole.



I don't want to elaborate on what the movie is about. You can find out yourself or just watch it.

Let's just say many people commented that guys will come out of the theatre squirming uncomfortably, but instead it was the opposite sex this time around, or in Singapore at least.

But overall, the storyline was really crap lah.

I can't help but notice all the comments in blogosphere on how great this season of American Idol is. Everyone's saying how this season is the best season ever and it's gonna be very difficult to find a winner. For the girls, of course the choice is clearly David Archuleta, cherubic 17 year old kid who croons ballads from day one till now.

But I have to disagree with everyone. I think this season is American Idol's worst season by a mile. There's clearly no breath of fresh air that I was expecting, and all the singers are too old-fashioned and not in tune with the music movement of today. To sum it up, it's just plain boring, and seriously I don't give 2 hoots about the results show because it seems week in, week out, the singers don't out-perform each other. To make matters worse, the contestants are now allowed to play musical instruments, and for the guitarists that's just suicide for me. They don't look any different from the buskers at Clarke Quay. For the pianists, well my standards are rather high considering I've just been to Jay's concert, so that's not working out for me either.

Bring back Singapore Idol please!

HAPPY APRIL FOOL'S DAY

Although it has no significance.




Oh dear oh dear I am so in love with this phone. 5 megapixel camera phone; why would I ever need a digital camera ever again? Hmm the gadget gene inside of me is starting to mature already. Or maybe I should wait for the iPhone.



Madonna feat. Justin Timberlake
"4 Minutes"

I can't think of a better combination; Madonna with Justin Timberlake, and I can't get enough of this song. Please start playing this in the clubs and I will go wild.

Madonna releases her new album 'Hard Candy' on 29 April, and her world tour follows. Time to save up and see her perform for the 2nd time!

Ellen Degeneres dancing to '4 Minutes' by Madonna and Justin Timberlake: