this time i decided to post something other than a regurgitation of my entire day or week… enjoy…

The User’s Prayer

Dear God,

Help me log on without fretting
Guide me as I’m interneting
Bless my downloading and uploading
Keep my browser from exploding.

May my website be protected
Let not my password be rejected
Keep my line connection clear……
and let tech support be always near!

Please keep all my programs alive,
and be sure to back up my hard drive!
And protect my computer from catching
……a virus and end up crashing!

Amen

12 Step Program of Recovery for Web Addicts

1) I will have a cup of coffee in the morning and read my PAPER newspaper like I used to, before the Web.

2) I will eat breakfast with a knife and fork and not with one hand typing.

3) I will get dressed before noon.

4) I will make an attempt to clean the house, wash clothes, and plan dinner before even thinking of the Web.

5) I will sit down and write a letter to those unfortunate few friends and family that are Web-deprived.

6) I will call someone on the phone who I cannot contact via the Web.

7) I will read a book… if I still remember how.

I will listen to those around me and their needs and stop telling them to turn the TV down so I can hear the music on the Web.

9) I will not be tempted during TV commercials to check for email.

10) I will try and get out of the house at least once a week, if it is necessary or not.

11) I will remember that my bank is not forgiving if I forget to balance my checkbook because I was too busy on the Web.

12) Last, but not least, I will remember that I must go to bed sometime… and the Web will always be there tomorrow!

yaye!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! happy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hahahahahaha….

i finally got my new phone after an agonizing 1 month living without one… look! look!!! haha.. nice rite? nice rite?

the real thing - airy blue OLED screen

just added my forever friends wallpaper… NOW it’s perfect.

so far i’ve been living of joey and sc’s phones… it’s amazing i’ve lasted this long… i dun think i ever wanna buy samsung phones again… it konks out so fast… both my samsung phones konked out in slightly over a year. now i’m trying out sony ericsson… i got the z610i… pretty bling bling… :p it has this OLED screen that displays the songs i’m playing, caller id and this sparkly fairy dust looking thing when i’m talking on the phone! hee…

this time i signed for the phone line myself… 200 bucks deposit… but oh well, alot easier for me since i can make any change or enquiry on my own! went to the bukit batok singtel branch wif joey… gosh… the number of ppl there makes u think that singtel is throwing out free phones! i got my queue number… 5155.. uh-oh… approx 2 hour waiting time…. good thing joey was there to accompany me… if not i’ll be so awfully bored… we went for dinner… sakae sushi… he treated me to my early birthday dinner there… haven’t had sushi for so long… wah… that fella can sure eat… our entire table was so full of food… a unagi bento set for me and a soba set for joey… his noodles are quite interesting… has this tiny raw quail’s egg dat he’s supposed to pour into the sauce (which i find rather gross…)… his noodles come with ice… brrrr…. mind u… that was not it! we ordered the octopus thing… jellyfish… sea urchin… fish roe… and this very very very sinful but delicious scallop in garlic and mayo… joey gave me a intro course to the different kinds of jap food there… (dun think i can remember anything now though :p)…. wait…. i haven’t finished yet… we had dessert too… we shared some frozen strawberries and a tempura ice cream… it’s amazing how we managed to pig in everything… joey is a cow! :p (never mind the fact that we felt so bloated after the meal! haha!) the bill was… errrrr…. lets just say it’s nearly enough to buy my handphone… i feel bad for leeching off such an expensive meal but it is nice to be spoilt once in awhile… thanks joey!

now back to my bling phone… finally reached my queue number… completed the registration and all…. traded in the stupid old phone of mine for 60 bucks… so i only needed to top-up $30 plus for my phone… even better was the pleasant news dat my $30 sim card fee was waived coz i was signing up for a new 3G phone line… yaye!! smiling fr ear to ear… joey’s annoyed wif me coz he thinks it’s a sarcastic smile… keeps threatening to poke me… grrrrr…. i’ve changed my number now… so sad to leave my old phone number behind…. i liked that number alot… anyway… ppl… pls update my number, k? buzz me over msn or sumthing. tata!

just came back to singapore today… phew… tiring… i hate travelling… nearly immediately after changing my sim card over to the starhub one, i got this msg fr weihan saying that our next outing was tml, 6th jan. checked my calendar… yes today… shucks… i just arrived… but oh well… i sort of agreed to go out with them a few weeks ago to watch death note 2. we watched death note 1 as a class, and now we’re watching the ending together… yaye… so anyway, i just dropped my bags at home… took a quick shower and scooted off to vivocity.

same bunch of ppl more or less… but this time the bears were reunited.. haha… naren and suren, weihan, pearlyn, dacia and me were the first to come… went to thai express for lunch… the guys left early to get our movie tix….( btw… it’s great to go out wif them coz they get discount on the tix!.. 8 bucks per person on weekends…) while they got our tix, dacia, pearlyn and i indulged in the dessert… the tapioca thingy… and a ice kacang sort of thing…

this time, pearlyn and dacia din join us for the movie… pearlyn had youth group and dacia was accompanying her mum shopping… so it was just me and the guys for now… lihui joined us just in the nick of time, just as the trailers and advertisements ended… entertaining show… but sometimes rather dumb… i just think the animation part just spoils the whole show… dat stupid thing eating apples… dots….

show ended and we met up wif dacia again… the guys told us about this sort of fountain/wading pool at the rooftop.. so we went to take a look…. i wish i were a kid again… haha… so many of them playing in the water…. to my surprise, there’s quite a nice view from up there… we can look across to sentosa island… can see the cable cars in the sky, ships in the water… and this interesting tram thing that goes to sentosa and back… looks like a tiny green caterpillar fr where i stood… hahaha… took some pics and went back into vivo to walk….

later on, wei wen fr 07 joined us… he’s now like our adopted classmate.. haha… seems to come for all our 08 outings… now we consider him from class 7.5 =p before we even knew it, it was already dinnertime… couldn’t really make up our mind on where to eat… but we finally ended up in pastamania… well… ok… pasta is not exactly my favourite kind of food.. but i think i could do wif the pizza instead… one thing i notice… we 08 ppl never really change… the guy-girl separation is still there! hahaha… we have the girls talking in a bunch… and the guys on the other side talking about their stuff… haha… we had some leftover pizza at the end of our meal and dacia tai tai insisted we da pau it back =p good thing we didn’t though.. coz dun think anyone will eat it..

dinner was over and weihan suggested we go back up to the roof top again… after all.. it was the nightscene that was not to be missed there… indeed the view was pretty nice… the place was lit up… and u can see the merlion’s eyes from there… never really noticed sentosa was so nicely lit… another romantic pak tor place… haha… but of course cannot beat the riverside outside the esplanade…

next outing… my birthday… dat is if i call them up i guess… maybe bbq or sumthing? dunno yet.. still quite a long way to go anyway… so i’ll just KIV dat for the moment…

christmas is way over and we’re still feeling a little christmasy… The Continentals from Brazil came to Alor Star to perform a Christmas concert in AOG Church. We had a lil workshop before the actual performance to teach us some dance steps as well as sing one of the songs “Let The Glory Come Down”. cool song… i think the original singer is David Phelps if i’m not mistaken…. was wearing jeans so… HOW IN THE WORLD AM I SUPPOSED TO STRETCH?????!!?? gosh… anyway… so old edi… sure la inflexible edi.. i bet you all those dancers have some kind of ballet training of some sort… so bendy… they really taught us fast… in just like 3 or 4 rounds.. they would play the music, which was like so very fast, for us to dance to… we looked like we were simply jumping and hopping ard! hahahaha… they made it like girls vs guys… thank god there were many girls! at least we can hide among the others…. haha…. the guys weren’t so lucky… so few of them… they were made to spread out and we can really see the hopping and bouncing about… muahahahahahhaha…. we had fun though…

evelyn, joanna and i went over the pacific for dinner before the actual concert… mcD… sigh… i see mcD so often… so sick of mcD… walked back to AOG church and got ourselves a nice spot where we could get a really nice view of the stage… the whole concert was basically the story of jesus being born joseph and mary and so on… done in dance form… there’s this really cool part where the lead dancer climbs up a black piece of cloth which hung down fr the ceiling.. and did some dancing up in the air… she’s good… dad was on the video cam and usurped my nice seat and i had to sit behind the camera tripod and look through it… ugh…

nice show.. but i heard not as nice as The Continentals fr US that came last year… bought one of their cds entitled “Dreamer”… it’s about the story of Joseph in the bible… not too bad.. too bad i didn’t get the other cd “Committed”… sarah bought it last year but she doesn’t know where it is.. i think that one has nicer songs… oh well… it’ll probably turn up somewhere sometime….