It’s that time of the year again where a lot of people make resolutions but most of them do not follow them until November of the year.  I am one of them.

I forgot what was my 2006 resolution but I am pretty sure I didn’t fulfill any of them.

So for 2007, this is my new year resolutions in no particular order:

• Get a job before Chinese New Year.
• Pass and hopefully get good results for my MBA course (I registered today)
• Save enough money for holidays
• Lose weight.
• Do more excercise.

I think the list is not complete.  I might add more stuff in the very near future, when I can think of what to write.

Last but not least, HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Yeah, I know in my previous entry I said the trip was cancelled, but I never said I am not going to drive down south! It was a last minute decision.

Eileen and I drove down south to Singapore on 23rd December, it was a 4 hours journey, a bit tiring, but I’m fine with it.

Reached Singapore at about 9pm, went through immigration an customs, spent numerous calls and roaming charges calling Wei Yih to get to his place. Got to his place at about 11pm, we went to his place and have a look-around. After that, we went to a few hotels as I didn’t book a place for the night because I was supposed to arrive on 24th December.

So we went hotel room shopping in the middle of the night. We went to a few hotels but all were fully booked. We settled for Hotel 81 near Wei Yih’s house and we went for supper.

The next day, we went for brakfast, then to Wei Yih’s church, The Corner Stone. I am not a Christian myself but I must admit that I really liked their optimistic thinkings. They see death as a way to get closer to God. I admire that. After the preaches, we went for a drink just next to the church with some of Wei Yih’s church-mates. Nice bunch of people. One of them even gave me and Eileen a ginger bread man and a, eermm……ginger bread woman.

It started to rain, but no big deal, I have my car! So we went to checkin to my room at Lion City Hotel, also very near to Wei Yih’s place. We drove to Vivo City AKA Mid Valley of Singapore. The crowd was unbelievable there. There were so many people there that I hardly see shops, only heads.

We had lunch/dinner in Vivo City’s food court. It has a very nice old chinese style setting. The food was not too bad as well. After that, we went to Orchard road for the Christmas celebrations. It was a nightmare.

There were so many people that we could hardly breathe. People were quarreling and fighting, Cloud’s mobile phone was either stolen or she dropped it as her ourse is still in the bag. Overall, Christmas in Singapore is nothing more like New Year’s Eve in Malaysia, only with a bit more light decorations. We went back to the hotel, had some rest and went for supper.

On Christmas day, we went to Bugis junction and later to the Esplanade, Merlion and the National Library of Singapore (yes, I do go to libraries, but just on the outside, taking pictures).

We started our journey back to Kuala Lumpur at about 5pm, detoured to Malacca for dinner, the infamous “Satay Celup” and we reached Kuala Lumpur at about 10.30pm.

I would like to thank Wei Yih and his girlfriend, Cloud, for the hospitality while we were in Singapore. Thank you!

A little update on what I intended to do from my last post:

• Get an iPod Shuffle. It’s cheaper in Singapore than in Malaysia; I got my iPod Shuffle for SGD$138.

• Go to the Merlion, and mimic its water spraying mouth; Been there, done that.

• Buy 4D, 7388, SGD5 big, SCG10 small; Didn’t do that, because Wei Yih doesn’t know where to buy 4Ds!
• And some boring sightseeing stuff; Done that.

A little trivia about me and Wei Yih:

• I’ve known him since we were 10, that’s more than 13 years, we are childhood friends, as quoted by Wei Yih
• I’ve known Cloud before Cloud and Wei Yih know each other. She was my classmate in Form 1 and according to her, I sat beside her, although I have no memory of that
• Wei Yih and Cloud knows each other longer than Eileen and I.
• Eileen and I are couples longer than them!
• If I am not wrong, I influenced him to study in Chong Hwa Independant High School after we graduated from primary school. He wanted to go to Catholic High School. I dropped out 2 years later and he continued on, and met Cloud.
• I know who his first love is!

 

 

 

I just called up KTM and asked about the trains schedule tomorrow since they did not update it on their website.

The lady told me that all trains are cancelled and I could get a full refund or change to another date to travel.

What’s the point of travelling another date when there are no christmas trees in Singapore?

Maybe this is a blessing.  We are not meant to be in Singapore this period of time.

I’ve written an itinerary for the trip.  I’ll keep it for next time.

Here are some of the things that I wanted to do in Singapore:

• Get an iPod shuffle.  It’s cheaper in Singapore than in Malaysia;
• Go to the Merlion, and mimic its water spraying mouth; 
• Buy 4D, 7388, SGD5 big, SGD10 small;
• And some boring sightseeing stuff;

Well, I guess everything is over.

Maybe it’s a blessing not to go there.  I don’t know how the almighty works, but I’m a bit let down after all the exictement.

On another note, I went to Pudu station to buy a ticket to Singapore for Wei Yih’s girlfriend.  She’ll be spending Christmas with him in Singapore while I’ll be staying in Malaysia watching the flood in Johor subside.

Merry Christmas!

I am supposed to go to Singapore this Saturday.  I got my train tickets ready, my passport ready and I am going to get some Singaporean Dollars changed tonight, until I found out that all train services to the south of Malaysia has been halted due to SUPER heavy rain that flooded Johor.

I have been planning this trip forever, although it’s only a one night stay in Singapore, but Eileen and I have been wanting to visit Singapore since long time ago. 

I haven’t been to Singapore since at leat 15 years ago.  So I was quite excited to go, but Mother Nature forbids it.

I hope the rain will stop and the flood will subside within this couple of days.

Time to sing a song I learnt loooooong time ago:

“Rain rain go away, come again another day, so that Justin could go visit Singapore.”

I know I don’t update my blog a lot.  It’s just that I don’t really have anything to write, yeah, I am a very boring guy.  Anyway, a little update:

• My brother went back to Autralia 2 days ago.  He is comming back on Chinese New Year.  He has to go back as his air ticket is expiring and it would be a waste just to leave it like this.
• The air cond in my room is finally fixed.  It’s no longer dripping water.
• 2 of my friends from England is comming over for Christmas.  Racheal and Geri are comming over.  Gonna meetup with them and the rest of the gang.

Enough on updates, I slept the whole day today.  From 12.00am to about 6.00pm.  I am sick, had a fever last night, felt like vommiting also and having a major case of diarrhoea.  I went to the toilet for more than 15 times today.

I feel better now and I lost some weight

I was about 83kg, now i am 79kg…Go me!