Here comes

a doozie of a post. Hmm, i went to Helping Hand almost every weekday this week. Been Kinda fun and fulfilling to do something selfless I guess... Hmmm, managed to make friends with the 'manager' there and some of the uncles staying there. Just chit chat with them as I helped out in packing, labelling and moving the stuff that came in. Interesting to note the diversity of opinions and thought patterns of the different people there. Like the engineer uncle who was there only once but had a tendency to encourage my cousin and I at the oddest times and in the weirdest of ways, haha. Then another of the uncles who managed to sway me over to his cynical view of why the Singapore govt is being so generous and helpful in light of the Tsunami disaster. Hmm the different reactions of people was also interesting to note. Some were happy to help out(i.e me), others felt a sense of duty, a few were there due to coercion, etc etc. Only thing that made me irritated/disgruntled about the time is spent there is the items some people had the cheek to donate. USED underwear with stains on them, skirts with holes the size of a soccerball, a single shoe(not a pair), a comb, these are some the examples of items people donated. Rather appalling don't you think? Oh yeah another thing I noticed abt the clothes donated... I feel there should be a box labelled 'Unisex'. The sheer number of t-shirts and jeans donated is one thing. The best part would be the fact that all these shirts and jeans would've fit both men and women, posing a dilemma during sorting... Ended up throwing most them into the Men's boxes tho, Womens' boxes already outnumbered the mens' 3 to 1... Anyway for those interested in goin to the Helping Hand to help any day of the week, they open at 10am everyday and close around 8.30-9pm. They'll be opening the place for packing until february. It's located really near to Kovan Mrt Station, jus walk in the direction of the burgerking at Heartland mall from the Mrt station and continue until you see it.

Ok enuff said abt the Helping hand, recently found 2 old poems I wrote sometime back(actually most of my poetry is created due to failed songs, venting of emotion, on a whim and cos of a girl, sad i noe)(btw when i mean a girl is the same girl in all the poems haha, sadder still). Well here goes...

The Feeling
Did u ever get the feeling,
Of something not quite right?
Or that you might be preparing,
yourself for a fright?

That in the darkness an evil prowls,
Stalking, closing in inch by inch.
You tense ready to flinch,
Anticipating the sinister growl.

Or when u wake,
In the dead of the night,
Robbed of your sense of sight.
Feeling watched, you start to shake.

But give praise, give thanks
That you feel this in darkness,
Rejoice, that unlike the select few,
You do not feel this while basked in the light.

The girl(erm kinda obvious due to what lah)

I think of her everyday,
Just hopin one day she'd say.
The fateful words of magic,
That can change thy very self.

When she is alight I will be too,
When not I do my best to cheer her up.
I love the way she gives me a smile or two,
The way we talk like old friends, over a cup.

I pray to God we will be more than friends,
That at least we will continue as friends.
I don't know how to make the first move,
I leave all to Him, to help me prove.

Yup, Yup ok enuff of embarassing poems... Hmm what else is there... Oh yeah went to Jae's party, pretty cool, had loads of fun, tho i didn't drink much, didn't smoke, didn't dance, as usual... haha, had fun teaching this girl... Charmain aka sharnz? how to play taitee properly and mahjong... Dun think she got it tho, she was pretty far gone in alcohol land :P Yeah and also met two old acquaintances from ACS(I)... Oh and also one from VJC, Eunice, forgot to ask for her number again... Oh well, she seems to like Jaes, that's good I gues... Hmm ok i'm running out of things to say, so i'll stop here. To all my friends, take care yeah. God bless.

Tsunami

I know I haven't blogged for a while.. jus haven't the inclination to do any blogging recently.. anyway... Hmm went to Helping Hands to assist in packing boxes of clothes for the Tsunami survivors earlier...The situation there was kinda sad and typical of Singapore... More people preferring to donate, and few willing to lend the helping hand... Ah well, will go back again tmr to help out..., ok so this ends this short post.. ja ne.

Holiday mood

Haha, i'm in the holiday mood, mainly cos most of my frens are finally free and i can make some time to go out with them. Don't care if i have the flu, jus wanna get out of the endless cycle of mindless work and mindless play. Hmm it's been pretty good so far.

Heh, I've watched 2 movies recently, 'Shutter' and 'Alexander', well both weren't exactly unmitigated disasters, but ended up rather disappointing... Problem with shutter... Immature audience, lol, teenage girls were screaming in the intro, the scary parts the NON-scary parts and even the parts that only looked like they were going to be scary... Other than that the movie is kinda obvious in some ways (*spoilers ahead skip the rest of this paragraph if you plan to watch 'Shutter' and don't want me to spoil it) The girl whom they bang isn't reported in the papers( almost standard in most ghost stories), they find a way to tell if a ghost is around them(some ghost stories use an ouija board, they use a polaroid camera, fitting it's name), the scene in the male toilet where he is handed a toilet roll(dun u jus hate it when u have to go and there's no paper?), by something/someone? with long painted nails, he bangs the door open to find...a Transvestite that asks him if he'she can 'poo' first. Then when the ghost finally appears, as standard, she(also another standard, female ghosts are scarier) she is always behind him... Lastly cos of the hints of the doctors office of his weight anomally, my best fren and i were taking bets halfway through the show as to the ending. He bet she was sitting on his shoulders, i bet she was gripping on, like piggyback. He won the bet.

Now for 'Alexander', have you watched 'Troy'? Take the movie, compress it, and rerun the battles 3 times from different angles, and you have a rough approximation of what 'Alexander' is like. My friend was wondering if he saw the movie before, he had a sense of deja vu, then realised two of the scenes in 'Alexander' if seen in a mirror image, was found in 'Try' exact positions and props... Cool Yeah.

Haha, even camp has been weird the past week or so, nthing gets done in the upper echelons of power as everyone's on vacation. As a happy result, no one in the 'small fry' divisions gets to do much work... Yours truly is actually looking for work to do for once... I mean the only work that's increased is the number of leave forms to process. And i can pretty much do tt in an hour's work... The rest, preparation of paperwork etc is practically non-existent right now...

Lastly, the 1 thing that's been taking up my time this past week... Maplestory, haha, was influenced by a friend of mine(hi pris) to play this game of mindless slaughter of creatures that actually look pretty cute. It's 2D, a almost complete rip off of pristontale, yet the reason i guess it's so popular is the multiple channel system and it's simplicity (i mean i've met and chatted with 7 yr olds in there, how diffiult can they game be?)

Anyway, the popular science website and the howstuffworks.com website are calling to me now, love those two sites... Fantastic new things to learn about, like the W16 engine(consists of two merged V8 engines), etc etc... Fun to read haha, with post again another time... Peace out