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My fav song of all time!

Last Friday was awesome! hahaha I started out with meeting Natalie in the late morning for lunch and also to receive my long awaited birthday present from her. hahaha... She got me a bottle of 'Cool Water'  and yes... she was right in saying that i've been wanting to buy Davidoff fragrance for quite sometime now, the fragrance that most girls are a sucker for... i dunno why.... i personally like Burberry Weekend. Thanks Natie!

So i went to have dessert in the later part of the afternoon, chilling out at Frolick @ serangoon gardens, where Pam works!  Matthew and i agreed to drop by...
Oh and i bumped into Aaron(CSB) and Hoy Meng in town so i invited them along too.... haha

Time passed by so fast and it was around dinner time, so i had to rush down to Lido to meet Jerilyn to have dinner with her and to watch "Get Smart".

Oh and i met up the rest of the REM cast, Ming and Jamie too!

To give you a review of  "Get smart" , it was HILARIOUS! i didn't catch the trailer so i didn't know where to expect the funny parts. Apparently those who watched the trailer complained that Most of the funny parts were from the trailer... i guess thats the purpose of the trailer was to GET you to watch the movie rite? Its a good thing i didn't see it or else it would be a spoiler.

Jerilyn suddenly was feeling hungry and i had a craving for cake after the show..... but that craving just became craving for food... so we could not help but go for the most sinful dessert, Fried Mars Bars! arrgghh.... hahaha... Ming had never tried it in her life so she was in for a REAL treat.... true enough, she was addicted by the love at first BITE!We shopped around after that to kill time as the night was still so darn young and we ended up getting some vintage T shirts from the roadside stall just outside Shaw centre...

There was no fitting room so Ming had to wear the t shirts over. I did the same too as i needed to see for myself which colour suits my skin tone best..... Jeri said the blue one was ideal... but i felt i could've chosen a yellow of red one cus i'm tanned and it would've made my tann stand out more.... by somehow the blue one suits just fine.   

I went over to PUMA at Taka yesterday and found a very attractive Ferrari jacket! Please comment on what you think of it cus i'm gonna consider buying it! Priced at $129

The t shirt on the inside just happens to compliment... i think its around $60... but i'm only interested in the jacket! kindda reminds me of that actor from RedLine.

Lets just say I have NEVER enjoyed myself SO MUCH since i was born. Why? I'll give you ... reasons why

No.1 : It tops everything else that i enjoyed in my life....it somehow does
No.2 : It was physically tiring BUT thrilling.
No.3 : It made many of my wishes come true... its too difficult to have it down in black and white.
No.4 : I spent my day with the 3 most important people in my LIFE (Best friends with mark, Pam and Tim for over 5 years)

Pam (main organiser), along with mark and tim tay (secretary under PCC), planned a WHOLE day of activities for me to enjoy.

Mark and Tim stayed over at my place the night before and we woke up at 9 to get ready for the day.
Had Brunch at this place Pam brought us to which sells REALLY good chicken rice




Look at tim tay go!



Then we made our way to the first stop, Mark blindfolded me on the way there in the car.
Well not exactly blindfold, its just Tim's jacket over my head


When i reached the second stop, i got out of the car with the jacket still over my head, i looked like a fool la. Then Pam took both my hands and told me to place it on some wall saying that i needed to scan my fingerprints. It turned out to be me placing my hands on another car. I looked so silly standing in the hot sun with a jacket over my head la.
Then they led me to a lift lobby of some place cus i could hear the sound of the bell and the doors. Pam and Mark tried to poke me for fun till i decided to swing my arms around in order to hit them. I couldn't see so i ended up hitting the shoulder of a stranger who happened to wait at the lift lobby. I really thought i hit Mark and so i scolded the fella.....Pam had to apologise on my behalf.
As soon as they unveiled the jacket, i was standing right in front of a bowling alley of Keppel Club!!! I was so surprised and happy to be there at the point in time as i wanted to go bowling with them and the place was EMPTY! just the 4 of us. So our game was rather peaceful, just the way i like it! :D

We were about to leave for the 2nd stop and so i decided to take a picture of myself for fun. Suddenly, some slapped my shoulder from behind! I turned around to discover it was the man i hit him by accident earlier! I knew this because he said jokingly with a smile "Thats for hitting me earlier on!". I was so embarrassed.
so i put back the "Blindfold on" for the next stop

When i took off the jacket again, there i was standing in front of escape theme park!!! hahaha
Although not all the rides were open, we managed to sit through 4 different rides for 2 ROUNDS! I felt like i was floating as my head was spinning and my stomach was unsettled!

We went GO-kart racing too! and it was SO fun! hahahah had the time of our lives there as we raced each other.


FINALLY! the last stop for the day was dinner at TIMBRE! Pam knew my dream part time job was to sing and play the guitar at a bar so i really appreciated the live band there! The atmosphere was very "chill". We ordered few thin crust pizzas and ALOT of drinks.

I went to the zoo yesterday with Rachel and shu Anne! It was the most memorable time spent with such good friends in a LONG LONG time. hahahaha We practically walked everywhere finding fer spots to take pictures and basically we stoned quite a bit cus we were waiting to catch the animal shows at time intervals... if we miss it... we'd have to wait a few hours to see the next one. So we caught the "Splash" performance. The penguins were adorable... some of em are kindda attention seeking, while the others are quite lazy. OHOH... almost forgot to mention that the emcee for the show was kindda cute... hahaha but i bet she's a few years older than me (WHat? you have a problem with me checking out girls? i'm just being a man lol). During the show i volunteered to come on stage to throw a frisbee at "Carlos", the Sealion, and if carlos did not catch the frisbee, i'd have to get thrown in the water. But fortunately for me, he did, hahah... and my reward was to get my picture taken with Carlos kissing me as you will see from the pic below. hahah my OTHER reward was that i got to shake hands with the emcee.... hahahah ( pathetic i know but thats the closest i could get).

The zoo was so fun but the day wasn't over. The three of us headed over to Causeway point after that to catch "Narnia". Throughout the movie, Shu kept whispering in my ear "Prince Caspian is so hot".... "Enough already! " i said. during the loud parts of the movie i took the opportunity to shout at Shu anne "ENOUGH already! He is FUGLY!!!" i just wanted to disturb her by saying that...hahha but oh well... she did listen to me after a while. (I'm not being mean)

And so the most terrifying thing happened to me in a long while! I almost got got into a fight with a "pai kia".
As a "NEWSWRITING" assignment for school, I headed down to boat quay yesterday to do a report on the Arts festival where they featured the world famous "Water fools from France" - Specialists in their fireworks display and their acrobatic acts on water - since i don't appreciate art, i found it boring. But after the event i went with a group of my schoolmates to head over for Tau huay at Rochor road. While i was driving them there, we noticed how freaking crowded town was with traffic and so it took me a bit of squeezing into some lanes to get into the road. It just so happened i squeezed into a lane a little too early and therefore angering one driver behind. This particular driver, lets give him a name shall we? Lets call him "Sir Jack Asston son of Dick James"(okay i shall shorten it to Jack Ass son of a dick), started horning me for a deafening 20 seconds! when i got into the lane and continued to travel towards Rochor road, he chased me with his car! I tell you it was THE SCARIEST moment at that point. He even tried to play tricks that would involve ME hitting him instead of him hitting me with his car... he went in front of me and tried to jam brake the car so i would end up knocking him behind and i'll have to pay for his damages, but i quickly changed lanes. Then he followed at my right side and was traveling almost 1 foot's length away from my vehicle... i tried to slow down to let him pass but he decided to follow me all the way to rochor road where i was waiting to park the car there. That Jack ass (i'm not swearing! its his NAME what) got out of his car and walked towards mine as i could see him by the side mirror. He knocked really hard on my window, i tried to remain calm by staying in the car and wind down the window. The moment i winded down the window, there was a burst of colourful fireworks display of LANGUAGE even more spectacular than the Arts Festival (I was true Art!)

"OEi, do you F***ing know i was trying to turn into my LANE and yOU cut in? do you know how F***ing dangerous was that?"
I apologised softly to him and repeatedly. Goodness, He scared the daylights out of Verena as she was sitting beside me, hong Zuo and Xun were behind and they were observing the girlfriend of that Jack ass (still not swearing wat) who was sitting in the car. I too was freaked out but i was my focused on getting the matter resolved quickly by apologising.

That man was just so unforgiving. Just because he sees i have a triangle plate, he thinks he can bully me
for the sake of impressing his girlfriend. Xun was saying "that was your chance to get a quote for the Arts fest report! haha can you imagine how the scenario will be like?

Jack Ass: OEi, do you F***ing know i was trying to turn into my LANE and yOU cut in? do you know how F***ing dangerous was that?

sam: so sorry! I didn't know it caused you so much inconvenience. Eh btw did you watch the Water fools at Boat Quay just now?

Jack Ass: Oh ya! i DID! i thought it was wonderful.

Sam: Thats GREAT! so can you describe what you felt?

Lol. The other scenario we imagined was that when Jack Ass knocked on my window, Xun Ping, hong Zuo and I will get out of the car with Bats and clubs and started hitting him till he bleeds. Then he'll crawl back to the car and say in a shriek voice "call ambulance!" HAHAH the way Xun Ping did the facial expression and the voice sent the whole group of us reeling with laughter while eating tau huay later on at the table.

The morale of the story is, NEWSWRITING sucks!

Some pictures from yesterday

Okay, so heres a quick update on last week. I celebrated Pam's passing of her driving test! (horray for her and FYI for those who don't know about it. Well... it was such a shock to me cus i never expected Pam to have her test at such an early date. But ya la, i knew she was ready for it, she's a fast learner. So last friday night PMS headed down to Pepperonni Pizzaria at Hillcrest. Over there, they make the biggest pizzas i've ever seen. 21 INCHES! Thats about as large as a TV (Anyone ever heard of bigger in Singapore? i doubt it... but if you do LET ME know) It was a memorable night as the three of us PIG'ed out till we ballooned our stomachs. i wish i could show you pictures but i have problems uploading it.

Yea... the night ended off with gelato at a parlour nearby and we all headed back to my place. Mark and Pam stayed over. And we watched a horror movie on DVD! Believe it or not... Mark and i got cozy and snugged up to Pam.. so whenever we were scared, we'd hide behind her muscular shoulders. SHe's really our security blanket la... i feel like she can be a good husband next time man...SHIT i mean WIFE (sorry that was unintentional).

The next morning i had to wake up early to meet Jerilyn at Alexandra to be on the set of "REM - the next generation" (a series on Kid's Central). i got to rub shoulders with the beautiful cast (including Jeri herself) Gaaawwwddd.... They're all so HOT i tell you... okay... i hope they don't see this post... I think i have a secret crush on one of them. But i won't tell you who! CAn't i have them all? hahaha


So when they were done filming at that place, i had to rush off someplace else. OH how great it is to meet them and get FREE pizza on the set (sponsored by the "Disney Cafe", the place where we were)
i waved goodbye to Jerilyn.... then just as i was about to walk out the door of the shopping centre... i heard a girl shout out "BYE SAM!!" ..... I turned back to see who it was. IT was one of the REM girls!! hahahha .... i tell you after that i could not sleep that night ah!

Ladies and gentlemen! I now present to you my FIRST Official CAR offence! For those of you who are not drivers, This pink slip of paper is a notice of a traffic offence that occurred YESTERDAY(sunday the 6th). ie. My car kana SUMMON ah!
(heres what it said on the paper)
Offence Description:
1. OFN 276 R 20 22A 1 AMT $70 PTS 00
Parking opposite continuous white line under rule 22(a) RTR

I parked my car along a residence area cus i couldn't find a lot in the public carpark AND i was in a rush for church service in the morning so i didn't wanna waste time. It was not long till after service that i got back to my car only to discover the slip on my windscreen. I noticed there is a whole row of cars parked at the same place with Pink slips on their windscreens. I drove off with my face still in shock cus i couldn't believe i got summoned for the first time upon the other dozen times i parked at that same residence area. A few hours later i got a call from my brother. He asked if i got summoned. I wondered how he knew... i didn't tell him the news yet you see. Turns out HIS car got summoned too....cus it was one of the cars parked further down the row!

When one of my friends saw the summon in my hands, he told me to write a letter to wave of the charges cus he was in the same boat before... the excuse he gave was that he was visiting a few friends that lived IN that area. So keeping my fingers crossed, I'm hoping and praying that my case will go through too.

AND if THAT wasn't enough for the DAY....


I celebrated Pam's birthday yesterday too. Had a party at My house. Mark and i cooked up a storm to surprise her (with GREAT help from my mum, maid, evelyn and liz wong so that made the work alot easier).
Let the pictures speak for themselves.





After the party, i had to fetch Pam, Lala and Liz back home. At a traffic light junction, i was waiting for the green light. All of a sudden the WHOLE car jerked forward. I Was in a state of shock. My first reaction was... what could i have done to make the car jerk... did i change to the wrong gear? i panicked so i quickly switched off and on the car again and quickly and drove off from the junction. Lala was sleeping and was awakened by the incident. When i got home i inspected the car's exteriors and discovered a few scratches on the back of the car. Worse still... The boot couldn't even close properly. Bottom line is Someone KNOCKED the car! I told my sis and she was fuming....sigh.... I felt bad the whole night. till now. In a day i met up with my first summon and my first minor car accident. I just thank God i'm alive as well as Pam, liz and lala

People! one night ago i learnt a painful lesson. I lost my 30GB ipod video! Yes! all the THIRTY giggs of entertainment GONE! Why? because i forgot to lock my car! "thieves" broke in and stole the ipod from the front of my dashboard. YOu may ask... WHY WAS IT THERE? WHY WOULD you PUT IT THERE YOU FOOL??!! Yea... cus thats where i leave it to play my ipod in my car... i have no where else to put it. I was darn moody the whole DAY man! i went out for dinner with Choo, tay, Liz Pam and Rong. My face was downcast man.. i couldn;t eat! Music is like my life. Felt like an organ was missing from my body. sigh.... Pam tried to cheer me up saying that she'll buy me a new ipod for my birthday if i dont get it back! i was like WOAH... either shes SO confident that ill get it back or She might have stolen some of her dad's cash. HAHAH (wait... why am i laughing?) Yea... i felt sooo FREAKING terrible! i went back and told my DAD, sister , Mad and my bro what happened. They all pounded me with the same questions. "ARE YOU SURE You REMEMBERED to Lock your Car?" "Try to remember the last place you put it!"

I slept through that one night without my ipod. I was suffering in silence. I sleep without my ipod anyway. Who does right? yea so i woke up the niext morning..... dragged my solemn feet to the breakfast table. My bro was up and ready for work. He said "any news of the ipod?"

I said "no, i really have no clue where it is"
He said " well its too bad.........." then he added ".... cus i have it!"

"really??!"

My HEART STARTED POUNDING! i Was OVER THE "SUN" at the point in time i tell ya.

I learned two lessons!
1) get a cheaper ipod, maybe a nano.
2) Steal your bro's ipod before he steals yours


MOre importantly,
Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. I'm assuming you know i'm not referring to my ipod.

Ladies and Gentlemen! Sam's blog has reopened! It took me more than a month to consider my decision. I came to realise blogging is important to me. I'll give you a few reasons why.
1) Lifes precious moments ought to be cherished and recorded
2) Theres nothing else i can do on my Laptop besides surfing for youtube videos, loggin in to Friendster and Facebook to stare at my friends photos! *yikes! sorry i had to admit that*
3) Year 2 of Poly is gonna be a hell lot of bitching so i'll need an avenue to do it

With that i shall continue the rest of the post with my purpose of bloggin today. I am finally getting somewhere in my canoeing team! Now alot of you don't know this but .... I used to be one of the slowest in my canoe team. I used to wonder how guys who are shorter and alot more scrawny than me can row their boat faster than me. It took me a few trainings to get the technique right. You see i've not been attending trainings for a very long time and i suddenly turn up a few weeks ago. My canoe mates thought i quit. anyway, i focused hard on every stroke. Pushed real hard to make sure my paddle entered the water at the exact right angle so it can fully utilize the stroke. All this while i had been training so freaking hard at the gym. ever since my days in the CJ canoe team... i trained in the gym and became one of the strongest in the team. BUT i Still rowed my boat SLOWER than the REST! i left CJ and joined the Ngee Ann canoe Team earlier this year.... and i have been there ever since... and i STILL didn't get the technique!!
It was not until today! Today is the day i' will always remember the GRACE and mercy of the LORD! I went for training in the morning and had warm ups. When it came the time for mini races. I got hold of my technique. I can't believe it myself! the first race started off with 2 guys ahead of me( there were 4 of us), i focused on my strokes cus i kept remembering that technique is more important than your speed and your strength. I paddled without looking straight, just looked down, and bout 10 seconds later i looked up and found myself in 2nd place... so i finished that first mini race 2nd place. Then one of my seniors decided to challenge me. When the next race began i started out with using my strength and not focusing on technique, my senior was leading far in front! then i quickly switched back to focusing on my strokes, then i thought to myself, since i've got the strength and the technique, why not execute both at the same time. Together with technique and strength, i got POWER..... it felt like a Nitrogen tank had been released into my system! BOOOM! I went and caught up with my senior and then i was ahead of him. i finished the race 15 seconds FASTER than my senior and i was first place! Gosh i couldn't believe it la. I had to contain my excitement and my complacency with a tiny grin on my face and pretended not to look tired. sigh... today is a good day. Can't wait for tmr again for another training. Goodnite fellas

HEY GUYS! i know i've not posted in ages! today i have to break it to you guys... So sorry but i don't think i will find enough time to blog about my life. Because life has been going so great i find it so hard to describe. a quick update... i finished all my projects and my hols have just began! Planning to work soon... need to find a job at MOE as a relief teacher. Oh and er... need to hit the gym alr man,.... i've lost my trim stomach due to all that bak kua.... can't even do as many chin ups as b4... i feel like i'm back to my p6 days where i found sausages and beef patties more interesting than girls. Okay i've got to go catch the sleep i lost on mambo night yesterday. Had to fetch a few friends back home so i ended up coming back at 5.30am. Oh when i sneaked into my house that morning i found my parent's room light on.... that could only mean that my mom has woken up alr and preparing to go to school to teach. I swiftly tip toed down the hallway to my room and plonked on the bed. when i woke up later at 11am... i sent my dad to work. He asked me what time i came back.... I was trying my best to avoid tt question by looking as though i was too caught up with driving... He asked "2am? 3am? 4am?" I couldn't ignore him so i said " about 5am..." strangely his reply was " 4am??! *Lei mu lei* la you (dialec for "you know what you're doing") " I was like.... was he deaf? i said bout 5 ... hahah i'm not complaining.... i just continued driving hoping my dad won't ask anymore. I didn't drink that night thats for sure.

Hey people. I'm very sorry for my post before this! hahah i just realised it was my first and only post that i ever did sound so hostile and depressed. I wasn't feeling myself last night. My posts are usually humorous but I've used this blog to pour out my other emotions. I guess everyone's human after all ya? (forgive me :S) and i guess its also human to have dreams and fantasies. well... i just had a dream while i was asleep this afternoon. I am writing exactly what i dreamt of now cus the memory's still vivid and fresh cus i JUST woke up from it. I dreamt i went into a very posh looking hotel in Hong Kong. I was dressed in a black tuxedo walking into a lunchtime or high tea. I stepped into the hotel and the doorman and the rest of the hotel staff welcomes me in. I felt some sort of big shot.... Like an actor or an up and coming big businessman to be. I had a room in the hotel so i decided to make my way up there. On the way to the lift lobby, i saw camera flashes at the corner of my eye.... I traced the source of it.... it was coming from the main lobby. I walked till i saw where the flashes were aime at. Out of the wooden finishes of the walls stood the most flamboyant and bright crystal'ly figure of a woman. She was wearing an evening gown with shiny silver sequins and she had a bare back. She was like a white crystal pebble in the sand. She turned her amidst the continuous camera flashing. That was when i saw.... that flawless and demure face of superstar ZHANG ZI YI!
Soon as i saw her face, One camera flashed so brightly, and Poof! i was in my hotel room dressing up... I was wearing a pearl toned white vest over my matching white pants and tie with my white blazer.
I was making my way to another funtion from the hotel.. so i was walking to the carpark. O my gosh... you won't believe it (acutally you can la... its my dream what) I had my keys to my very own SLK mercedes convertible and its PEARL coloured as well (same as my whole suit). I at that moment recognised i was in the shoes of a HK actor. You know how some carparks have a spiral way to exit? yea coming down through the spiral... i met Zhang zhi yi's black convertible merc along the way and she was in it too! She was driving upwards while i was driving the opposite. So she and i exchanged glances at each other and we stopped our cars side by side. If you'd imagine the the top view of our cars looked complementing; black and white... ebony and ivory (like two piano keys side by side). Just then the paparazzi came with their cameras and there were flashes. Despite the two of us surrounded by flashes... the time stood still for the two of us.. we were still looking at each other... i don'know what she was trying to do in her car but i never took my eyes of her while i was still trying to adjust my hair and making my smile as charming as possible by trying a few different glares. Yea i was doing that at the same time... i felt vain... but Zhang zi yi looked as though she didn't mind me doing that. I plucked up the courage to ask her.
I said to her " can i have your picture?"
She said softly but confidently " SURE!" sealed with a smile and leaned in towards me with her head on my shoulder. Then one of the cameramen stood at the right position in the middle of the two cars to take that perfect shot. So we focused on just that camera alone. That final flash woke me up!~~~~~~~
Sigh... i looked at the clock... its only 6.45pm! not time for dinner yet... so i wrote this post.

Just got back my results for Speech Communication. I gotta C... (Gasp) i know i know.... like those of you who know... my standard has dropped. Why ? well... my lecturer said my speech didn't sound like a speech. No doubt it was well spoken but it sounded too wordy. ARRggh... and i couldnt help referring to my notes. She said i better work hard for the final assignment. My radio standards have dropped too !!! WHY WHY WHY now??? i start off the year so strong. My tutors said i have so much potential and i didnt perform up to expectations. (Sorrys guys.. its no use telling me "at least you're not failing" cus i know i deserve better if i worked harder) This is a point in time where i've slackened a BIT! (yes i've still got room for improvement) 3 out of my 4 module assignments got a C grade each. So yea... its like .. woah... how can it be so suay man? Like did i just hop on board the C ship? I'm on the wrong boat. I better ACE ALL the final assignments for my modules in order to pull up my GPA or else i won't stand a chance of an A at all... Thank the Lord for this wake up call (Thanks for your encouragement Suwan- your pushing has helped me alot for my final assignments. those that were C graded were b4 you started pushing)

I've still got my BEST FRIENDS Mark, Pam and tay ready to pray for me anytime i call them.
PAm... i thank you for your reassurance during our phone call last night. I am now understanding the crunch time is setting in for some areas of your life and mine. Since your love language is Words of Affirmation, I have no other way to put this but simply an directly say You are still very important in my life- that very sentence has so many connotations. Yes, i'm not gonna be a puss and beat myself up and take it out on myself. Everything happens for a reason and NO one is to blame I proudly say it.

For the rest of you who are reading this.... I don't CARE what you think alright? Yea.. this isn't some Cheesy love letter to Pam cus SHES my SISTER in CHRIST alright! I'm sharing how i feel deep down inside and its not complicated!

About two nights back, I went with my family to Have dinner at JUMBO. We were celebrating Madelaine's new job!
We had such a great time! Nowadays i tend to write even less... Because i personally feel that pictures do speak thousands of words so heres a preview to sum up everything that happened on that night :)