I was working on my Singapore tuition agency website as usual before I went to sleep at 4am. I woke up at 10am and started working on Tze Khit’s eNets payment. After taking a nap, I went to Vivocity to meet up with Mike.
After reaching the place at 3pm sharp, I tried to contact Mike to check if he had arrived. I had another shock of my life against caused by my phone again for his number was no longer inside my contact list. I had never expected anything like that to happen for I had always been keeping my contacts inside my SIM card. After my phone died on me and I started using the old Nokia 3120, I had the same shock quite often.
There was nothing much I could do. I thought he would contact me once he reached. I went to the Starbucks and waited a while until there was empty space, I quickly tried to log into the internet using my laptop. I also called my younger brother to try to get him to insert his SIM card into my dead phone, which the numeric buttons were still working. However, Mike messaged me through MSN and we agreed that internet made wonders. He reached soon and explained that he had sent me an SMS followed by a call, which another guy picked up instead. He was using my old number probably.
We had a very long conversation there. He went through my tuition agency website and gave me feedbacks. He showed me his plans and I was very stunned by his ideas. We went to Carl’s Junior for dinner before he collapsed from famine. Then, we went to the Harry Potter movie. It was a bad start for my stomach was torturing me and I did not expect myself to last through the movie.
Harry Potter was reasonably a good movie, however, it reminded me of “Lighting Thief”, which the characters were looking for items one by one. It was just like a RPG game.
It was quite pathetic for me as I rarely went for movies and yet, I went with guys instead of girls almost every time. Nevertheless, I benefited a lot from the trip for it was much clearer to get answers from Mike face to face rather than using MSN.
After reaching home, I started working hard to “gain back” the time that I had lost. I had a very hard time trying to work on a software and web utility that Mike passed to me. My brain was almost bursting when my brothers were discussing over holiday trip and they repeatedly bugged me that killed my mood for any trip entirely.
After working on Facebook, I went to Vivocity with my mum to meet up with my elder brother and his girlfriend at the Carl’s Junior. Even though I only had a bowl of green bean soup for the entire day, I was not very hungry. I requested the staff to slice both burgers I bought into halves so that I could exchange with my mum easily but he refused. The BBQ chicken was extremely small and it cost over eight bucks, which I thought it was daylight robbery.
We went to shop at Daiso and I was quite surprised that my mum only took a packet of sweet. Our trip at Giant was quite decent. I was attracted by the concert of Tae Yeon over at the Plasma TV area. Then, we camped around the camping stuffs section. I quite missed the furniture section where my younger brother and I drooled over the cheap sofa. In the end, we purchased nothing and went home.
On Wednesday, I had lunch with Magdalene, Jingkun and Weitat at West Coast Plaza’s Thai Express. It was my second time having lunch with Magdalene, and also, at the exact same location. The food was great. After that, we went to the bubble tea shop for the $1 cheap drinks and once again, the girl placed the pearls in before I could stop her.
I hurried my existing work and had to wait for further instructions before continuing, thus I was able to do my own stuffs without any burden the first time in the past two years. It was a pity that the office had to close by 7pm.
I went down and saw students arriving for taekwando and I could sense problems. Uncle Jiaming had arrived and I started talking to him. Mr Peh arrived to solve the problem by requesting the coach to have the training outside the MPH instead.
Mingfa helped me to packet fish and chips over and it was instead lousy. The french fries were similar to botak Jones’ but they tasted much awful. After eating, I joined in their second game and it was an easy match to us. Everything turned over completely since Mingfa stepped out of the court and everyone was restless. We could never get back our forms even when Mingfa was back. My energy was optimised but I could only stroll around the court most of the time. In the last game, we finally regained some spirit. We had fun finally.
During a spike, my right calf cramped and I collapsed on the floor. I missed the next few chances to perform myself since I could no longer jump properly.
We went to Carl’s Junior at East Coast Park. For the second time, I felt dizzy after the travelling. I was afraid that I could not finish the set meal and thus, I chose not to eat for the first time.
Last Saturday, I stepped onto the volleyball court again. I had been missing Saturdays’ sessions.
I was totally not in good condition to play but since I had promised my buddies that I would go down, I tried to keep my words.
I was busy with my phone and thus I left my house quite late. The hangover was still dwelling me and my head was spinning. My brain and body were partially numbed but some of them claimed that I jumped extremely high that night, and joked that I should have taken alcohol before any volleyball game in future.
I suffered an injury on my left ear when I went down to get the ball and Oliver dashed over in his usual childishness for the already lost ball. The pain stayed with me for many days.
That night, we went to East Coast Park’s Carl's Junior where I had my late dinner. Initially they wanted to catch a movie but dropped the idea. I was quite worried that they purposely made the way down to the east just for the convenience of sending me home after that.
I had a great volleyball game on Thursday, other that my face was smashed by the ball at an extreme angle from the opposite side.
The fun started off before the game as Kachua arrived at the campus early and I joined him together with Weitat to Jurong Point. We did not really know the exact way but decided to try our luck with the uncertainty. Sitting at the passenger seat was more relaxing and I was certainly blessed.
The old food court at the main Jurong Point shopping centre was under renovation and we changed our plan to the duck rice stall. It was one of the rare times that I did not finish my meal because of Kachua’s brother, the little cockroach, who flew on my food. To think that I thought he was a fly at first...
Walking around the shopping centre was great although it made us tired when we got back to the campus.
I was able to recover my skill slowly, using more of my wrist power. I was not confident with my servicing skill, which I used to be powerful and almost error-free in the past. The lack of practising caused a great dealt to my confidence. I would not have put in so much effort until my spectacle dropped off and I poured in my strength to jump.
We made our way down to the Carl's Junior fast food restaurant at Big Splash after the game. I wondered why so many teenagers could be there on a Thursday midnight since the place was not so accessible.
It was all good and I was happy throughout the evening and early morning.
My Saturday started off late. After finishing the design work for a flyer, I went to Marina Square with my mum and younger brother to re-contract a Starhub line.
While waiting at the bus-stop, two smokers were just right outside the shelter and the wind tried to murder us by blowing from their side towards our direction. I was wondering how effective NEA’s law to ban smoking inside bus-stop was. We took bus 75 and alighted opposite Marina Square. One of the escalators was spoilt and I was surprised that the management kept the working one moving downwards. We got a new phone for my mum.
I was trying out the free wireless network but it was not as easy as I expected. I could not login into my Gmail somehow and that some websites took forever to load.
Dinner was at Carl's Junior. We shared two sets of meal and chitchatted over there. It was already nine PM and every shop was beginning to close so early on a Saturday night. We walked towards Suntec City to search for phone pouch. My younger brother got himself one good quality pouch at Popular bookstore and he bought me one at the Wallet Shop. I hesitated for quite a while before buying because I found the pouch not very pretty but it was ultimately interesting for a heavy Internet user like me dealing with all the advanced sites. We book bus 196 home after that.
After eleven PM, I went down to jog with my brother with his phone to try out the Sport Tracker using GPS. Unfortunately, at some places, there was no signal and thus we could not totally trust the results.
I attended the gathering with my ex colleagues at Vivocity on Sunday, making me a really sinful kid who had done nothing productive over the weekend. It had been quite some time since I last met them and it was really good to be out with comrades who had been showing me with care, concern and respect.
I woke up late, but early enough to make it at around 3.30pm after my lunch. We watched Indiana Jones. There were humours and actions all over the scenes but Ashqi was asking me what the movie was exactly about when the lights came out. Basically, there was no link between the first and last part and I could not really answer him.
The restaurants were too expensive for us and we wasted quite some time deciding what food to take as Food Republic was crowded. Finally I suggested Long John Silver's but we passed by Carl's Junior and Terry gave a green light to go inside. I ordered BBQ chicken and I found it normal. Anyway, the French fries sucked and the entire meal was so expensive. Whereas, the size of the burger used to be very big years ago and I totally thought it did not worth the price.
I felt quite stressed after reaching home when I realised there were still many things waiting for me to do.
I had Condition Zero with my elder brother again until 5am before I continued to work for another hour. I ought to be shot for I had always wanted to have enough rest before going down to the beach for another exhausting day but it seemed that someone had to knock me to unconscious.
After waking up at 9am, I lazed around on the bed for some time before begging the massaging chair to cure my back problem but it only offered me a little and short anaesthetic. I was so happy to have my half boiled eggs again, especially when my mum told me she had to heat them up more and I thought the result would be perfect; unfortunately the eggs were overcooked. My mum loved to play with words but it was good enough to be served.
I had to start giving morning calls to people at the same time. When I called Ruoci before leaving the house, she sounded sleepy and I knew it was a waste of time immediately. She told me she slept at 6am and I knew since beginning she did not intend to go at all; if she was interested, she would have kissed her bed much earlier unless she had insomnia like me.
I was exchanging SMSes with Jenrine all along and I went straight to Harbourfront Centre’s MacDonald’s to search for her. I saw two tiny girls with caps besides the counters and one of them looked like Ying Ying. As I walked near to them and smiled at “Ying Ying”, she did not react at all. I started to suspect my sight and felt so embarrassed. The girl with back facing me, whom I suspected was Jenrine, did turn back but I could not see her clearly with the cap on and she did not react at all as well. Bianhong messaged me that he was at the hawker centre and I decided to just walk over to join him first.
Bianhong was eating and soon, Jenrine and Ying Ying arrived. I started questioning them whether did they see me at the MacDonald’s and they claimed no but they were sitting at that area which I had gone to. It remained a mystery whether I saw the correct people a not.
After giving Anqi more calls, she did not pick up any and replied me immediately that her mum insisted her to finish her breakfast before going out. I started to get suspicious for she could simply pick up my calls instead of messaging me.
There was a ticket booth at the interchange and the bus sent us directly to the Beach Carpark, which was much more convenient for the beach lovers. We took the beach tram to Tanjong Beach where Bianhong met up with his friend. I was surprised to see that the beach had only a volleyball court. I started calling John again, followed by Khong Wee but none of them picked up the call. Just then, Anqi was beginning to message me to ask if it was going to rain and I knew she did not feel like going down; I could be a good psychologist actually and that was too simple to guess.
We made a quick decision to go to Siloso beach instead since both the cute girls claimed that they had seen volleyball courts over there just a month ago. Bianhong brought his friends over to join us and I was so turned off that there were only a few of them and not the gang of over twenty people which he claimed on the phone. I could have guessed it for he was famous for being “big hole” and that he would not have to meet me at Harbourfront if there were many people in his group.
We took the next mini bus over to the Beach Carpark and walked down towards the hotel’s direction. The beach was very “dark” and “smelly”, which was a very big turn-off. We could only see two volleyball courts at the old Sunsetbay’s location and thus we were very lost. Just then, Tiffany messaged me that she might not be going down for the “rest of them” could not make it. I roughly had some ideas who were going to fly aeroplane again. Meanwhile, I was busy messaging Mingfa and others that we had changed the venue.
Just as we were sitting down by the edge of a small stage, Bianhong saw princess and Fenghui and I was quite taken aback for John had told me that he was going down with the guys only. Soon, Khong Wee reacted to my missed call and told me they were at the hotel’s side where there were two volleyball courts. We decided to go over to join them.
My Star Player CYY
The wind was trying to blow away all the sand and I was smart enough to stand by the side to watch Jenrine and Ying Ying “making fools out of themselves”. The ball flew away just before reaching their hands and it was difficult to play even if they were national players. When the wind speed began to subside a little, I joined in with Bianhong and his friends. The only male friend of his impressed me with his efforts to run after the balls.
We took a rest at around 3pm and I was quite shocked to receive many missed calls and SMSes. Anqi, Apple and Tiffany told me that they were not coming anymore, which was somehow expected. Siewchin and Kachua were on their ways and Mingfa had already arrived. I called Mingfa, Weitat, Wilson and Mingen but none of them picked up the calls and I knew they must be enjoying themselves at the previous two courts I passed by.
After stoning for some time, I decided to walk over to find my gang. It was a pretty long walk over and somehow my legs were very tired with the feet giving some pains. I finally got to see them and they refused to change the location as they were happily undefeated. Since the early birds had already shifted location a couple of times, it was not a good idea for them to move again and I supposed my juniors were not comfortable with it as well. Whereas for my gang, I had told them earlier that we were at the courts near the hotel and they could have gone over in the first place. It was very disappointing for I needed a few good spikers in my team to challenge the teams over my side.
I went back by myself, feeling so abandoned. Kachua called me soon to inform me that he had met up with Mingfa’s group and I lost hope of having a good game inside the court.
Siewchin arrived soon and we continued playing by the side of the volleyball court. I was very well entertained by teasing her. She had become so weak that she had a cramp but recovered in no time. I managed to make her famous by calling her nick throughout the day. When she hit the ball onto a guy, I went to his side and told him that the ball was from the person who looked most like “ren yao” (transsexual).
As time went by, I asked the girls about playing inside the court and they were very “on” despite the fact that we would most probably be defeated. After waiting for quite long, we got to play with outsiders. By then, the aching on my back had conquered me and the feeling was like sprained. Jenrine played as the setter while I took the centre position. I was pretty sure we could pose no threat to the four male opponents since we were all shorter than them. I was impressed by Ying Ying for she played well after losing touch for so long. My digging improved tremendously throughout the game and even though we did not have a blocker, I could easily save the spikes from the opponents. Weitat would certainly love my team if he was around to witness our team spirit. However, our servicing was very poor as the length of the court was shorter than usual ones and the girls had rusted too much. With the aching on my back, I lost a couple of points during spiking and shamefully, hit the ball onto the net when I was standing still; my entire body could not coordinate when my back was stiff and there was no momentum. In the end, we lost the opponent by 20 against 22 points and we might win if there was a lineman to certify to them that they had spiked a ball outside the court.
We waited very long for another game and we played against my male juniors – John, Felix, Khong Wee and Shujian. After making a small mountain and lying over it, my back’s condition improved a little. Siewchin did better at the subset’s position for she was left-handed and Jenrine could not set over to the main spiker’s position. Ying Ying continued to amaze me for she managed to spike the ball over and made only a mistake with her short height. My weakness was lack of confidence but somehow, something, or perhaps someone, had distracted me from the thought of my lousiness. I continued to make astonishing saves to entertain everyone and we were addressed as “cannot be killed”. I had also overcome my back’s injury and gave them a few good spikes. In the end, we lost as well and I could not reach the last ball being spiked down away from my judged position.
After resting for a while, we decided to go to take our bath since we were all very worn out already. Since the two and a half girls went to the bathroom nearest to the Beach carpark, Bianhong and I took a mini bus over to the station. I got myself a cup of big gulp and Bianhong went to survey the toilet and make some donation. I positioned myself good enough to look at a stylish babe wearing a nice top with denim skirt. She looked simple yet flawless. I gave Bianhong the best position upon his return and it took him some minutes of staring to tell me the babe was not pretty.
When my dearest sister, my star player and the Thai came over, we took bus out of the place since Ren Yao took a cab in and did not have the card for taking the monorail. The view on the bus was not bad for a girl in red was standing near us. She was the “sunshine” type of girl, fair and average sized. Jenrine was too tired to realise I had messaged her to look at the babe. Upon reaching the interchange, Bianhong got himself an ice-cream and he finished it in the short distance before going down the escalator towards MRT.
We went to Vivocity and paused at the directory area. I remembered it was flat and everyone used to crowd around it, especially the males, since the females would usually bend over and give them the free show; but the directory seemed to have changed and one side was actually higher this time.
We went to Carls Junior for dinner. It was a very bad idea since the taste of the food had never impressed me and the burger was too big. Bianhong was supposed to help me to take the order but he passed the batten over to my poor sister at the queue. When she was at the counter, she had to dash over to retake our orders for the restaurant had no chicken burger. We had some fun writing comments and suggestions on the feedback form. I had never failed to embarrass myself at Carls Junior’s outlet. This time, Bianhong and I took the lemon tea which Bianhong claimed was pure, unlike the one among the gassy drinks. Bianhong filled his cup with so many pieces of lemon and finally realised the drink was hot. We filled the cup with so many ice cubes and finally went back to our seats. It was only when I complained that it was tasteless, Jenrine enlightened us that we had to add some sweetener and we embarrassingly made our way back.
Ren Yao finally made her way back, looking so tired and slightly upset. She did not order anything after her long talk over the phone. Shortly, she left for her dad had arrived to fetch her. It was around 10pm when we made our move. Jenrine and Ying Ying took the train while Bianhong went to invade the toilet again before throwing money at the cab. I took bus home and dozed off for seconds numerous times.
I began with my work after reaching home. The “Four Famous Constables” was more of romantic scene in this episode. I made effort to search online for the nice song this time but had no luck. At least, I got the midi file and also realised the male lead actor was a Korean.
After a few days of revisiting the Haig Road flat, I finally had an unpleasant experience. Kelly and I made our way down specially for this agent called Nadine who claimed that she would be late as her buyer was not on time.
Meanwhile, Kelly took me up to the top of the flat to “advertise”. We met a china girl on the lift and we passed by her door when she had changed into her short shorts; she looked so charming despite her face was not that pretty. This was one of the good things about walking around Singapore.
Anyway, suddenly Nadine called I realised she had mistaken Haig Road as part of Beach Road. The appointment was cancelled. Luckily for Mingfa, he was involved in the Zhenghua Secondary’s volleyball invitational match and he did not make the wasted trip down.
I walked alone to Paya Lebar MRT and waited at Outram Park. Then I realised Vivi had not even stepped out of her house. The usual waiting was quite awkward for I was so afraid that I would arouse the suspicious of the SMRT staff. I felt like sitting down somewhere but the place seemed too high class for anyone to do that.
When she finally arrived, we proceeded to Jurong Point. The purpose of this trip was to retrieve her lost wallet. It was a great lost for there were our neoprints inside, together with some thirty dollars cash and some of her cards such as Ez-link card.
This was not the first time and I was not surprised at all since she had been carelessly neglecting her stuffs like mobile phone so much. However, the point that the guy had tried so hard to get her number to contact her directly instead of going to the police made me so worried. I was so worried that I insisted to go down together with her.
We went to the KFC right away and I began to feel weird. Then, she finally told me the guy who called her was the manager of the KFC branch; she only told me that she could collect her wallet anytime. My worries eased off. She was so rejoiced after retrieving it back but within minutes, she left it on my hands.
We went to the 7-11 store for I was so thirsty. She suddenly became so sensible that she wanted to share the drinks with me to cut down on expense. She chose an expensive chocolate drinks and even though I knew it would not drench my thirst, I decided to please her and satisfy my urge for chocolate.
We went to Plaza Singapura to meet up with Jenrice. This time round, we managed to get to the basement directly from the underground. Then, we found her at the Spotlight before going to look for drum sticks and then down to Carls Junior.
Eating messily
My cute sister
I bought a set of whatever chicken meal and it cost over ten bucks and I was shocked for I always thought it was only seven plus. Then, I tried to peel the big burger apart but it became so disgusting that Vivi decided to get herself one instead. I regretted it so much for I still preferred the price, especially the taste of burgers in KFC or MacDonald’s.
A Japanese girl at the other side of the glass kept screaming and trying to get our attention. I put two fries into my mouth while playing with her and she started to imitate me; luckily her mum did not see me doing that.
After the dinner, we left the place and I sent Vivi home by bus 124. It was such a rare day that I could finally go out with her.
