::: [F]usion[S]tream :::: October 2006

Wednesday, October 25, 2006

How I spent my Birthday

Ok. I didn't want a party but that seemed to open the flood gates of anti-luck on me.

10.00am

Woke up. Got ready for work.

10.15am

Reached work (Didn't I tell you? Working from home today)

06.00pm

Finish work

06.10pm

Late for meeting with CatEYE to get Rechargable CR123a

06.30pm

Can you tell I'm frustrated?

Finally reached his block and was drenched.

Opened my pouch to find a shallow puddle of water inside. Everything was wet. The AA and AAA batteries for my "useless" bicycle light, the wallet, and the fucking handphone.

Broken Slipper of my heart... LMAO

I tried to get down my bike but my sliper slipped and it broke by the side strap save for 2 strands.

Tried for about 20 minutes to get my phone working but I could see it was shorting out, jamming, refusing to accept button inputs at times and finally, the lcd backlight simply went dark.

I believe if I had just switched it off immediately it would have worked fine. BUT. I needed to get in touch with CatEYE to get the rechargable CR123a batteries

Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

06.45pm

That's when I gave up and sat in front of the lift, dripping from
the rain for about 5 minutes.

I finally decided that I needed to get in touch with someone who could help me contact cateye to come down from his block.

So i went up to this man to ask to borrow his phone.

He looked flatly at me and "No."

I was shocked that these kind of people existed so I just mumbled back an "Okay".

Then this other dude came to the lift landing and he seemed to know that other selfish bastard and he wished that bastard Selamat Hari Raya.

So I tapped the new guy on the shoulder and asked if I could borrow his phone.

He said "Ok". I asked if he wanted to use my sim card cause I tot that the call was gonna be long. Not because CatEYE's number was inside. My numbers are all stored on the phone, not the Sim Card.

He said "No. It's ok". I now realised it was because he was afraid I might steal his data or something.

He didn't want to let me have the phone yet so he asked for my name and number first. Then he called my mom and said something to the tune of "Is this the mother of Shawn?".

Neh Neh Sia! My mom had heard this phrase many a times before.
When I bust open a gash in my head in primary school.
When I fell off my bike and knocked out my teeth
etc

So when the dude finally let me talk on the phone, she sounded worried.

After assuring her I was ok and realising that my mom was also unable to help me locate CatEYE (Nokia Suite doesn't keep a user-friendly backup of one's contacts), I gave up and gave the phone to the gentleman who was oddly still wary of me and thanked him.

07.10pm

So I sat under the block for about the next 10 minutes just contemplating my luck and how bad things usually happen all at once to me and how it always happens after good thing(s) happen to me.

~7.20pm

That's when I finally remembered that CatEYE had PMed me his number and so I went out in search of a coin phone(also just realised I could have used a coin phone) to call my mum.

My mom told me to wait for God knows what and I ended having to call her again which was extremely frustrating(had already waited so long) but I finally got his number and called him immediately.

I explained the situation and managed to get the battery and charger from him. There, he showed me his new torchlights before I had to go.

07.30pm

Left for home with a slight drizzle still going on.

Dumped my now turned off phone(it magically turned back on when the battery was still in) in the bag CatEYE had gave me to keep my stuff dry.

Broken man

The "Pierre" in Pierre Cardin

OMG!

Looks like I need to get some new footwear. I'm thinking about this one. What do you guys think?

To quote from Erin in a non-related article,
Sars: Dude.
Erin: Duuuude.
Sars: What. The. Fuck.
Erin: I. Don't. Know.
Sars: But…DUUUUUUUDE.
Erin: I know, dude. THE FUCK?
Sars: I…dude?
Erin: Dude. Just…dude.
Sars: See? Uh. I.
Erin: With the. In the. How the.
Sars: Dude?
Erin: Dude.
Sars: And, in case it hasn't been said enough: DUDE.
Erin: Totally.

Feng He dropped by later to drop off my present. Which was really sweet. *Lowers voice and coughs man-like.*

Freakin Huge (The Box)

A Model Replica of SP Rover's Campsite

Thanks mate! (but don copy my "Cheers" signature =D)

Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Overnight @ ECP

Went for night cycling with the guys the other day at East Coast Park.

I cycled there and ended up waiting for them for like forever cuz they got lost. Lol. I even cycled the entire stretch of ECP looking for them(only to find out later they were lost outside of ECP).

I brought my own bike but the rest rented their bikes for $10 for the whole night.

The "ancient" Cable-Ski park

The guys eating supper

After we saw the whole ECP, we headed to Changi but not before making a detour to see Gary's workplace and his and Weili's primary school friend's house, which was like in the center of a roundabout on the main road. After that, Gary wanted to eat so we went to a coffee shop near his workplace that was open 24 hours.

Home-Made Noodles

Angry Smoker

After that we left for Changi. However, some of the guys were getting very lethargic and after stopping at the bus stop, shown below, which was like half way between ECP and my house (distance between Changi and my house is twice the distance between ECP and my house), I realized that they'd never make it in time. So we decided to go back and stake it out at Macdonalds.

The bus stop of Sloth

At Macdonalds, Sam decided to play with his food and come up with new concepts for increasing Macdonalds' sales. He presented this to the cashier who promptly stuffed her finger in Sam's donut hole.

Sam and his Donut Burger

Macdonalds is cold at 6am in the morning but many of the guys still drank cold drinks.

Sam describes the Donut Hole	Jinghao's towel fetish
Gary	Roy

Everybody was getting a little sleepy just because we were sitting down. In fact, my butt was beginning to get too comfortable on the seat. It was bad for me because I still had to cycle home and if my butt felt comfortable here, it would begin to feel painful on the bike seat.

Yours Truly	Jinghao getting sleepy
Sam sleeping and eating	Gary measuring mouth size

Those who were not used to pulling overnighters began to slowly give in. It would seem that staying up all night playing DOTA versus staying up all night doing labourous work were 2 entirely different things. doh

Sam gives in to sleep	Roy prays for Sam
Gary thinking deeply	Jinghao has turned to stone

At about 7.30 am we went out to "cycle" but ended up passing by the shop and saw a lot of people waiting to return their bikes so the rest of the guys gave in and decided to go return their bikes so they could go home. But we found out that the shop hadn't opened yet so we cycled to a nearby bench and sat down and relaxed.

A trap set by Jinghao and Weili. lol

I followed them all the way bus stop and so ended up cycling further than I usually had to to get home. I passed by an Esso station and bought mineral water which only costed 50cents. Back to the good ole days of cheap water.