saturday morning so far

australia is leading 407-9 in cricket against england.

spun his car on the race track during qualifying just now... and i think that there will be more cars spinning on tomorrow's race =)

Egypt was rattled by bombing yesterday. but that will not stop me from going to egypt. in fact, prices of air tickets might drop which is actually good for me.

and feeling very lazy this chilling and over-cast morning....

thermal imaging

just a random thought that came to my mind when i read bout BMW's new thermal imaging that allows drivers to see further in the dark.

what if the thermal imaging allows drivers to see thru people's clothing!!! i remember that a few years back, Sony invented a infra-red video camera but it was taken off the shelves shortly after it went on sales because it was apparently able to see thru thin clothings.

hmmm... so if the technology saves lives but could possibly invade your privacy... what would you do?! what would you do?!

i have this crazy idea of...

i've gotta my mum to change my one-year return ticket to a one-way ticket. and since i'll most probably be unable to travel back to Singapore via the silk road... (no money lar)

i have this crazy idea which i'm actively looking into right now of boarding a freight ship from the Suez Canal and sail all the way back to Singapore.

basically, the idea is that when my working-holiday visa expires, i'll spend as much time and as little money as possible moving ard Turkey, Greece and Egypt from London.

this most probably means that i'll not be going to Egypt in Nov with Aaron, no more 14Days Italy Discovery and X-alantic flight to New York City.

but hopefully, prague, stockholm and southern spain is still in the bag.

am i crazy or what?!

£45 to Stockholm!!! 27th Aug to 30th Aug on RyanAir

continuation from the last entry

what do you boys and girls think???
isn't it an absolute gem!!!

This is model that i fell in love with when i first saw it. i told myself that i need to get it no matter how long it will take me to save up and it has been 12 years since... and i still haven't got the $$$

"ladies and gentlemen, The Ceramica"

"and the new babe on the blog, The V10K"

how the weekend was spent

sat morning was spent on the soccer court playing a 'farewell' footie match for one of my friend's friend's friend. sad to say, he's one of those nice people whom you meet during certain activities and will never ever meet again if it ceases.

and moving on, the rest of the day was bout the BBQ at joey's place involving Stel, Aaron, me and joey of course!
the 'hunt' for food was done at a certain Tesco-land. Tesco-land is the modern hunting ground where meat, vegetable, water and fuel is plentiful at a certain cost.
and being the skilful 'hunters' that we were, the hunt was exceptionally successful.
spicy bbq chicken wings, beef pattie, buns, sausages, coke, pork ribs and crisps were all 'buy-one-get-one free' items.
but the catch was too bountiful and we only managed to devour everything the next day over dinner.

the rest of the weekend was pretty uneventful. almost everyone has flew home and there are just a handful of us.

Oh Oh, before i forget, check out the new Rado V10K watch. it has a black ceramic face, harden with some sort of carbon crystal and it has a solid coloured wrist strap. NICE! one of the watches that i always wanted is a Rado watch. the first time i lay eyes on a Rado was when i was 14. the model that i saw was completely black and i think it cost bout 2200 dollars in Singapore then. the V10K, it cost bout 2500 pounds! =)
or you can check out the Raymond Weil, Othello. it's less pricey at 500 pounds.

7 of July 2005 - Terror Attack on London

i thought that today would just be another work day in london but it wasn't to be.

as you read this blog, you'll most probably know that there was a terrorist attack in london on the tube and bus.

honestly, it still feels very unreal till now.

and i'm not here to talk bout the obvious or what you can read on the news but what i feel is the heartbeat of london city.

today's event had indeed made the heart of london skipped a beat or two but it definately didn't kill it. in fact, i think today's event had made the people in london even more resolved to continue with their usual daily routine in defiance to terrorism.

and i think that this is the way we should all live. we should not hide in our houses, bring down the shutters of the shops, fill the streets with emptiness and live in fear.

i'll be defiant and i hope that the rest of the world will do the same.

the past 2 weeks

today's a pretty normal wednesday. went to work as usual, did my payroll and rotted for the rest of the day. the only abnormalities are i hurted my back on monday and i've been moving ard with an uncomfortable pain, london won the bid to host the 2012 olympics and the false partitions in my office has been knocked down and i have to look over my shoulders from now onwards when i'm surfing the net.

actually, lots of things did happen in the last 2 weeks:
firstly, finn my room-mate has returned to Singapore for good. i can remember the household playing 'dai-de' with stakes the night before and he lost quite badly but my sister was the first to be 'bankrupt' and we had Mac breakfast the next morning before walking him to the tube station.

then i jetted to Barcelona on Tuesday for a 5-day stay. the weather in barcelona averaged 30 degrees which was abit too high with any breeze but it's still lovely compared to london. the apartment we stayed was located right smacked in the middle of the shopping district which makes exploring the city convenient though i was the only one doing the exploring coz it was my first time to barcelona but not for the girls. i went to Nou Camp which is really impressive, La Sagarda Familia's nothing special but Park Guell is lovely and in my opinion, a must go. i didn't get to go to the aquarium though which i will if i ever return to barcelona. it's the summer sales now and it's responsible for 70% of my expenditure in barcelona and we spent bout 1000 euros in Zara alone. but the sales in barcelona was really worth it. It's a real SALES!!! prices of almost everything are slash 20-70% and only the very latest designs are not on sales. the food is great as well and we bought a fish for 5 euros, 500g of prawns for 5 euros and that cook our own dinner for 2 nights. and the seafood soup which i had on the final night was memorable and delicious. that's barcelona for me and berlin is the number 1 destination on my list.

service last sunday is great. the message was bout walking with God. talks bout the love for God and fear of God in our life which will keep us on the track in our walk.

other random stuffs:
1. i've been on NUROFEN for the past 2 days and i need to buy another box of it
2. my mobile has almost no credit for the past 2 weeks and i'm too lazy to topup the credit
3. farewell football match for a friend who's going back to Singapore
4. bbq on sat at joey's
5. bbq next wed organise by my company
6. killing lots of brain cells planning the places that i wanna go next year and my finances
7. too much thinking, too little work done and not enough money
8. experience 2-3 seconds of divine peace which make me felt that nothing in this world really matters except worshipping God (NO, i am not commiting sucide when i say nothing matters)

my new travel wish list:
Prague, Riga, Edinburgh, New York, Southern Spain and backpack Monaco-the entire Italy region-ferry to Athens and islands-ferry to Istanbul-Cairo and Israel.
but realistically speaking, its just Prague, Riga, Cairo, Athens and hopefully Southern Spain or parts of Italy.
this sucks. if only i dare to be irresponsible and return to Singapore without a single cent on me, i might be able to