town o' abyss

深えんの町 ---------------- Zhen Yuan
しんえんのまち ------------ Spencer Siew

镇渊 --------------------- 'spenzz'


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Tuesday, December 08, 2009

The Reunion

I could stay out for my reservist for the 1st night...Thoughts???

Seems like a big reunion of old army friends and mates...felt really surreal and kinda nostalgic when you see old army friends and talked how each of us is doing currently in part of our own lifes and reminisces about old good times while we were all still serving NS.. Many familiar old faces...:D

the only good part of reservist - Old army friends reunites :D

Ciaos~ Tomolo be in camp b4 0800 @.@ i'm damn sleepy ~_~ i'm seeing green the whole day.

Quote for the day: Hydrates before dehydrates.

-End of Routine Order for 7Dec2009-


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Monday, December 07, 2009

Dreaded Reservist

Dreaded! Hateful!! Pissed!

after 3 years since ORD, i had to serve my 1st reservist..i had to pack all those army stuffs again although it's only a 5 day affair...i seemed to dug every corner of my room and house for army stuffs...my room is a in a mess!!

it's near to 3am but i have not packed finished yet..It's a total pain in the ass irritating chore to pack army stuffs...so many unnecessary stuffs as if a real war will break out during the 5 days.. had to dig out where i dump my green socks, my army boots, my admin shorts, admin shoes, uniforms, my army name tag, slippers, lots of stuffs..toiletries for the 5days..end results is 2 huge bags..>.<

Had no idea what i'm expected to do these 5 days..asked my friend, he said most of the time will be slacking in time and spending ur time sleeping.. the letter i received stated some "Armor Unit Parade"...might be involved it i guessed..

had to book in by 8am tommorrow...Dad will fetch me there(thankfully)..

I cut my hair at QB house Yew Tee Point right after my JLPT exam today. Might probably scrape through it...hopefully will pass it!

***Pretty much done with packing i guessed...Cya all 5 days later..do miss me k:) Ciaos~


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Monday, November 30, 2009

The Sick Weekend =(

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I'm sick this entire week since getting back from KL. Suddenly feeling cold and warm from aircons and the Sun aggravated it worst. Took all kind of cold medicine yet seems ain't effective. In the midst of being sick, i still had to revise my Japanese (actual exam this Sunday!) combining with numeral bouts of stuffing my nose with tissues, think i just finished the ply of tissue in my room. ~_~
Basically, stayed home the entire weekend aside from attending Sunday's last lesson for Jap which i need to submit homeworks. Got home near to 930pm with Subway takeaway as my dinner -_-||

My mum got sick too..same symptoms as me =(=(
Gonna try get some rest now then revise Japanese later..sighs..

**Recover real soon for both of us!


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Tuesday, November 24, 2009

The Family Wedding

I returned to KL for my 堂哥's wedding last weekend. Joyful and euphoric occasion it was. It's so wonderfully delightful to see 2 persons finally tieing the knot. I had not seen my 堂哥 for afew years now and this time it's great to hear he's getting married. He kinda 'persuaded'/'insisted' me on attending his wedding along with my parents as he spoke to me on the phone, i just couldn't reject the offer. Even though i have Japanese mock test on Sunday.

A wedding can sometimes be a good time as i get to see some my relatives which i hasn't seen for years all gathered together for the occasion as me staying in Singapore had made myself not as close to my Dad's side's relatives who are mostly staying in Malaysia. Everyone seems to have grown and is living blissfully in their own family. Gratifying sight to see my younger nephews/cousins all grown tall and all..last i saw them they were still kids but now they looked like little adults.

Even more astounding is that when my Mum goes saying "This is your so-so dad's brother's son's son or dad's cousin's daughter/son-inlaw or eldest auntie's daughter's husband, etc etc". I never know my family tree was so huge as it could linked till so distant and for the 1st time i knew they even existed. HAHA! My reaction was only to nod to my mum and addresses them whatever my mum told me. Can't it just be uncle/auntie, less confusing and simpler...ahh the formality..

My 堂哥 went thru his wedding the traditional way.. where the wedded couple had to offer tea to their senior relatives as a sign of respect. Angpaos and wedding sweets was exchanged between them. Sometimes i couldn't stand my mum as she can embarrassed her own son infront of all the relatives by saying "zhenyuan, eat this wedding sweet so you will have a girlfriend". Nice way of announcing your son is still unable to get a GF! There's another taboo sentence which i hate to hear from other relatives "You're of marryable age liao leh..when's your turn?" -_-||

Aside from the minor embarrassment, the wedding was great and blissful till the end of the wedding dinner. Took quite a few rare photos with some of my distant sisters, brothers, relatives, etc. Wedding is the other occasion where only relatives could gather all together besides Chinese New Year. Maybe i'll upload the photos someday later if i managed to get them from my distant big sister.

Sunday morning then we drove back to SG..reaching late noon just in time for my Japanese class/mock test. I have to find time to study while on the car ride back to SG. Ahhh...the stress...2 more week to actual JLPT exam.

**I'm off to study my Japanese liao...ciaos~
Really delighted to see my tang-ge getting married..so xingfu! wish them bliss!


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Thursday, November 19, 2009

Retro childhood show!

One of my friend linked me these 2 videos..




LOL my childhood show...not sure if u guys watched b4...LOL!
Remembered used to wake up early just for this show...HAHAHA very funny show! Nostalgic times!

***BTW leaving for KL on friday for my 堂哥's wedding..be back Sunday..Remember to miss me wor~! ^^;


Random quote from FB:

Spencer just got a love quote

"We can't gain if we can't let go. There's no love without tears, there's no happiness without sacrifice, and there's no forever without goodbyes..."

Alas, goodbye! ;)


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Tuesday, November 10, 2009

HELL YEAH!!

(Fm: MINDEF) You are reminded to attend your Annual ICT from 07/12/2009 08:00 to 11/12/2009 23:59 at Khatib Camp. For more details, go to www.ns.sg. Also be reminded that no image capturing devices, like camera handphones, can be brought into SAF camps and training areas.

HELL YEAH!! Thks for reminding me via email, SMS and snail mail, my great MINDEF>>annoying and yet unavoidable. My 1st reservice call up since my ORD after like 3 years? or wassit 4 years?? I hate going thru all these again - wearing that green uniform, keeping a short hair, living in a stale bunk, doing shitty stuffs, being w/o the comp for days.
ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

GOING FOR 5 DAYS ICT ALSO MEANING I WILL MISS AN ENTIRE WEEK OF SCHOOL>>LIKE 5 LECTURES GONNA BE MISSED>>5X3HRS=15HRS!
HELLLLLLLL!!!! =(=(=(=(=(

To make matter worst - it can't be deferred 'coz i required at least 20hrs of school to be entitled for deferment. UBER ZZZZZZZ!!!

/END RANT


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Monday, November 02, 2009

It's Xmas Again!

It's November!!
Today after Japanese class, saw Xmas decors were already all done and lit in Orchard Road.. Very Nice! Think i will bring my canon for some shots next week. Stay tuned =)
It seemed like last year's xmas just passed and now it's xmas yet again. 2009 is buzzing by in a flash when i least noticed it. Xmas already meant it's gonna be a New Year soon - 2010. Gonna be older =(

I admit to having a slight phobia for getting older.

2010 i will be 27years old. OMG plain thinking gives me the creeps. 27 years old - late 20s. Seriously i'm getting old. I'm yet still struggling with my degree and not yet earning a stable income. I had a few friends of my age already married with kids, yet i'm still trying hard searching for that particular person 'carrying my torch'.
2 weeks later i'm attending my 29 years old cousin's wedding in KL. Wish them bliss.

"think about what you can achieve before 30,
not feeling afraid of it"

A friend told me the above words..yeah i guessed so.. degree, 1st employment are my priors at the moment i reckon. Couldn't ask for 'affairs of the hearts' as it all depend purely on fate and faith. Anyway, i am quite skeptical that i will ever be married before 30. 32 will be my ideal age though. LOL!

***this post is so random and redundant..hahaha... ciaos new week ahead =)


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Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Skipped Class

it's 815am now.
I had soci class at 830am.
i dun feel like squeezing on the stuffy MRT today,
i'm doing things slow,
i'm gonna create a scene by being damn late,
i'm just plain lazy today.
Hence the eventual thing happened - sorry Mr Sunny.
Back to sleep!
Wake up later for noon's marketing class instead.


Bad Spencer! Shame on ya! =(

**Sidenote: Mcdonalds is damn cunning nowadays. Evil marketing by them with that monopoly promotion. In return for some prizes that had puny chances of winning, they had gained alot of sales. Marketing is evil and humans are foolish!
Evil Mcdonalds


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Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Today Gonna Be a Good Day

Warning: Great Wall of Texts Ahead!

Friday

No class day! Cooped at home self studying marketing. Evening went to AMK met Ryan,ah Seng and Xianpeng for steamboat dinner. Xianpeng is leaving the next day for Aussie to visit his GF. *envious*

Saturday
Boring sat! Nothing on was planned for this weekend's sat. Laze till evening then felt that i couldn't just waste my sat hence called up and met up with Ryan. The freaking Shell petrol promotion had jammed up lots of the roads. I was damn late and after finally 1hr30mins later i reached Sim Lim Square. I got the Snow Leopard Mac OS while Ryan bought his new hard drives. Went Illuma for dinner at that Japanese Restaurant. Was pretty awful and not worth the price. 1st and last time eating there! Sorry! LOL!

After that, Timbre@Substation! Got there pretty early, ordered a few drinks. *2 lone guys in a pub*(We're perfectly straight fyi, don't be mistaken!) Waited quite a few moments, chatted, drinking. Ryan and i were talking on how we could spend our weekends more constructively and our diminishing social circle. It's really sad sometimes...

As we grew older, we tend to have smaller social circle, people whom you used to see and hang out nearly every week had slowly disappeared in our lifes. I missed the good old days, the good company, the great fun times. During my poly days, i used to hang out with a group of great friends. During that time, i dunno what stucked us, our group seemed to grew great interest in BOWLING. We nearly met up every weekends for bowling sessions. It was pretty fun during those times, although being quite pricey. i picked some skills in bowling too, getting over 100 points became a norm easily. But but but good times doesn't lasted long, like the whole group suddenly drifted apart, maybe 'coz of each other's commitments..i.e work, schooling, relationship, etc. None of us took initiative to organize a met-up, years passed and i had not met them for ages. Great Pity!

Sometimes i was thinking maybe i myself should take my own initiative and asked people for met-ups but sometimes things don't turn out well. Rejections of met-up usually happened largely again due to personal commitments which i of course will not put the blame on it entirely. *it takes 2 to clap* I was afraid a friendship would turn stale if we kinda lost contact or had never met-up for quite some time. There will bound to have some awkwardness whenever friends that hasn't met up for sometime try to 'reconnect' back the friendship. It's weird, feeling like u suddenly dunno that person totally, as if he/she was a 'new friend' although the friendship kinda lasted since years ago?

Anyway back on the topic of my weekend. Around 1030pm then finally Good Fellas started their singing. Ryan and i was complaining they were taking too long to prepare their performance. Thankfully, they compensated it with their great singing and performance. They did "Nobody but you by Wondergirls", "I gotta feelin' by Black Eyed Peas" "Don't look back at anger by Oasis" "Viva La Vida by Coldplay" to name afew.
Good Fellas

Super cool performance of "i gotta feelin" by Black Eyed Peas

It was Ryan's 1st visit to Timbre and he agreed Good Fellas was really goood and we go on to listen to 2 sets.. Think we ordered more drinks to that, recapping - 3 long island teas, 2 tall Heineken pints, 2 normal pints, 2 bottles Heineken. All gulped down by the both of us. Crazy! HAHAHA, surprised we're nt drunk yet. Around 1am then we left and took nightrider home. Lucky that NR3 returns me home just neatly at my doorstep's bus stop. ^-^
Got home near 3am and finally hit the sack near to 330am. Damn sleepy! Gotta wake up 4hrs later! HELL!

Sunday
Woke up 730am. Why 730am on a Sunday? Thks to that Sociology make up class. Hated sunday classes coz it seemed like BOOT CAMP! Canteen closed, no food,drinks = HUNGER! >_> What A marvellous sunday! Anyway it's gonna to be damn tiring sunday. After soci class went orchard and met up Melissa and Kian Leng to rush our Japanese homeworks and revisions. 430PM! Intensive JLPT class, stressful as usual, 2X homeworks were given since next week gonna be a mock test. I was damn sleepy during class and was trying hard to open my eyes. Argh as if SIM were'nt stressful enough. *Major informations influx to brain*
Class ended 730pm then i could return home, i was a walking zombie by that time. Gonna sleep any moment. In my zombie state, i was still able to grab dinner takeaway and got home near to 9pm finally for dinner.

I remember the big match today - Liverpool vs Man Utd. I was so so so dead-beat but i couldn't miss the match. Somehow, i managed to last the whole 90mins and gladly Liverpool beat Man Utd 2-0. HAHAHA! Seeing Liverpool beat Man Utd somehow gave me back some energy. And yeah that energy somehow made me lasted till near to 330am. I dunno how i stay awake even when i was already that tired. Guess i'm becoming superman?

Sometimes i wander why i exhaust myself to such an extend this way? I really prayed there's some voices to ask me "Hold on spencer, endure spencer, i'm rooting for u, jiayou!" Regrettably, there's none.

Thank god, monday had no classes, i could sleep the whole day. Which i did, slept, slacked, lazed, whole monday!

Adios/Ciaos/Sayonara/BYE thats all last week. Halloween week this week. Ryan was saying we should go Timbre this sat again...ah ben will be in Singapore.


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Monday, October 19, 2009

I Started A Joke



i'm so hooked onto this song currently...Damn nice!! It's a cover song of Bee Gees' version by Angela Zhang fyi.

Ok some updates of my weekend...

Friday morning went food hunting with Yvonne and Ryan @ Beach Rd Market. This is what i ate..

FAMOUS CHAR KWAY TEOW WITH IKAN BILIS! YUMS!

BTW Congrats to Yvonne for clinching her 1st job employment!

Saturday was rushing my Japanese homework. Then evening went into J.B with Ryan. Met up with ah-Ben and co at a live band club for another JB friend's bday celebration. Situated near the M'sia checkpoint, a place called "de Bali". Quite a nice place to chill and relax. The live band was great...they could sing chinese pop and english songs quite well. My friend told me that SG's Dragonfly(gotta pop up there someday) is quite similar but i don't think it will be as good 'coz in SG english songs were mostly performed in live band pubs and it's not easy to gather a group with such potential for a good performance. Best performance was the rendition of The Cranberries - Zombie. Love the song!! Anyway everybody was drinking beer and liquor without being sane till 3am. A few of us were dead drunk except me..HAHAHA coz i kinda avoided drinking by running off afew times. ^o^
As usual we returned back to Ben's house to stayover. It's so convenient to have a friend in JB! We can drink at prices half of what u pay in SG and not worry about the damn exorbitant cab fares or the TP penalising you for drink driving. Gotta love clubbing in JB. ^_^

Sunday woke up near to noon and rush back to SG. I got back home but then in less than half an hour, i was outside again..Japanese class! Woah tiring! Class was tiring and stressful. Very very intensive and we were going at very fast pace! Lots of homework given again >_> Got home finally near 9pm with my MOS burger meal takeaway(i'll rather die than to dine alone outside).
Wasn't that pleased when at home 'coz home was intruded once again. My uncle from KL came and will be working with my dad in future. It's like not that humane to reject them or ask them to stay at a hotel.
Serious note to self: Don't get married with someone who is not of your same nationality. You'll have to sacrifice your home whenever relatives do annual overseas visits on many occasions.
It's not that i dislike my relatives but i don't like having my privacy invaded and don't even feel at ease doing things at home. When that happens, it's not even home anymore =/

***That's all this weekend..ciaos/sayonara/bye. Start of another week to come...YAWNZ! DAMN TIRED NOW :S


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