reading helter skelter

Saturday, December 30, 2006

Salutations people of earth!
Apologies for the very sparse blogging life in this very page,
But the lazy bug has been troubling me quite lately,
and due to that very sticky situation
things tend to get quite slow up in the old bean!
Sooo, if you would say,
Mental blocks and roadblocks did slow down some of the bean's functions.

BUT,
life has been great for this old bird here!
couldn't have been better if one were to put it so!
I don't know bout you chaps out there,
but the idea of being in a new place, with new people, and a totally new environment
in like, 4, 5? days time is kinda apprehensive no?
Both good and bad connotations meant of course..
But of course, there is still the remainder of the holidays left to enjoy,
and I, for one plan to enjoy EVERY SINGLE ITSY BITSY MOMENT.
Like you can say, i'm a man on a mission.
Yea, kinda cliche, but what the hell.

Now, judging on what a blog is supposed to be like,
i should probably now inform you guys what the few days have been like.
In a nutshell?
Pool. Movies. Pool. More movies. The occasional wedding dinner. Even more movies. photography. shopping without getting anything. have i said movies yet?
Haha... seriously, i would so not be surprised if my paycheck can't even pay for the things i've been doing!
Haha!

Well, had the occasional dinner on wed with my family,
haha food was great and all,
had fun crapping and making jokes out of EVERYTHING..
haha that was good fun!
The next 3 days i caught movies,
in a row belive it or not.

Thursday: The Holiday with Ian, who was nice; and crazy enough to come all the way to tampines mall! dude that was nice of you.. haha.. yea the holiday is a SWELL show.. got me thinkin quite a bit there!

Friday: Night at the meuseum with JY, Lissa and Jacq
Joa was supposed to turn up, but she was too tired i guess.
NATM was not too bad... not as good as the Hol, but passable i must say!
After that decided to play pool, and voila!
met kong and aaron at paradigm..
Played quite a bit! and i did have fun lettin jacq win with my careless putting in of the white/ black balls!

Saturday: Movie with HIASTER.
She was nice enough to come out with 4E lit class,
But only rachel, joyce, jane and i turned up.
how silly. hahaha! BUT, due to SOME OTHER FACTORS,
i didn't mind anyway.
Caught charlotte's web.
Now i understand why that bloody movie was a lit book.

haha yupp so that was my week in a description a little bigger than a NUTSHELL.
Tommorow:
COUNTDOWN! hahaha! meetin the christmas countdown gang again,
this time with added ppl like cedric, norman, tiff, maybe jane, natalina and some others, can't really rmb now?
sit around, chat a bit, walk a distance, booze the night away!
hahahaha.. one more day to the new year.
This year indeed has passed FAST.

So yupp. thats all i can offer you guys about my life currently,
soon to come would be the first day of school!
lets see what that brings eh..
cheers all!

--Pictures--
the wedding
Dan, grace and josh and the yummy fish !

Grace and I!

6 cousins, 1 gf, and 2 missing! the FAMILY.
I promise the trip pictures soon.

post by joshua at 4:58 AM (x)

Sunday, December 24, 2006

Oh My word!
I just realised that its the 100th post! on christmas itself!
Firstly, to everyone hither and tither,
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
haha! hope Santa did visit with a few goodies in his bag!
Today wasn't soo bad! In fact, it was THE whackiest christmas ever!
So its 4:28 now and i'm already QUITE dozing off.
Just came back like, half an hour ago.
Went to battle the orchard crowd today with Ian, Alex, JY, Jacq, Kim and Enshao!
BOY I HAD FUN!
although the foam stank, the crowd was seriously a killer, and we almost got into the middle of a fight,
It was still the whackiness of it and the craziness of the people who went that made the night so interesting!
Erm, at this point, guys, interested in the new year's one? "heavy hinting.."
Haha, anyway, we roamed around town, sprayed a few poor people, got sprayed at,
and then proceeded to holland crystal jade for a VERY early breakfast.
Congee with light sauce/ pepper and ian's beef noodle sauce for 1.50!
Very worth it! haha!

okay before that was celebrations both in grams and church.
haha, i'm very disorientated now..
forgive me..
point is, i had a LOVELY christmas!
cheers all!

post by joshua at 12:26 PM (x)

Saturday, December 23, 2006

Hey guys!
haha, i just realised that i haven't really put up photos of my trip..
apologies.. laziness and joshua click very well together.. haha..
those up soon.

Feeling the buildup day by day!
like Billy Mack might say,
"I feel it in my fingers, i feel it in my toes.."
Christmas is hotfooting its way towards us,
and whoo, am i getting happier!
Been heading out most of the past week,
scavenging around town and other spots to look for stuff for oneself or friends.
You could call it "enjoying every last bit of the hols."
haha well, feeling quite bored now actually..
oh i say..

cheers!

post by joshua at 5:55 AM (x)

Friday, December 22, 2006

It all extends from stress, as they always say.

It is quite quaint how people tend to work themselves up so much that on one faithful day, when all the stress builds up against them and squeezes them like how a kid would do to a very pitiful stress ball, they snap with a sickening squelch and lands face first into a pot of boiling hot water, (not that that actually happens, for that matter, but it just might, just…).

And then after that sickening experience, those who managed to keep alive then goes for a CLAIMED hiatus, when firstly the choice of destination isn’t even far flung and secondly when their Hawaiian shirts are still locked up 6 feet deep into their cupboards.
They then so return after a few short days, ironically, and start to sit in the pressure cooker once again, patiently waiting for things to start simmering again, and so we have the whole act once again, repeated over and over till the one faithful day when, our dear person finally falls face first into that pot of boiling water: this time literally meant.

Not that I’m stressing myself out at the moment, but right now, I’m feeling precariously perched at the edge of BORE MOUNTAIN with nothing but a small packet of Smints.

“The life in a common office bores me”, thought Joshua as he thought of what else to type to continue this life saving prose. Around him sounds and voices were at a buzz, silly plastic contraptions rang like phones, people chattered, paper shredded and the occasional rumble of the mammoth copier standing astutely in the corner of a big, white washed floor sounded in perfect rhythm and symphony with each other. “Well, I would not want to be back in this silly little rummy place,” he mused as he eavesdropped to listen to the many different conversations that were bouncing off the perfectly white walls. One about some student that failed something sometime, another about funny Chinese colleagues… “Oh the usual titter tatter gossip you find among such tittering tattering gossipy people” he mumbled under his breath as he continued to type a third person narrative story on the terminal he was using. He was told when he first came not to do things of such, but, looking at the situation around him, and the many masses and scores of mice playing due to the infamously fat tabby not being at home, he decided that he would bypass the silly rule for once and start preoccupying himself with such titter tatter. “ You see?” Joshua asked his invisible audiences somewhere over the rainbow. “I am so bored that I have to type in third person! How rummy!” It is not sure how his audiences would react, but Joshua smiled to think that they would find him a little eccentric, if not perhaps a tad bit loony. But, alas, such contrivances could not be helped when one, especially in the case of Joshua, was feeling particularly bored.

So, office life really IS a dud. A bore at top grade, and a complete waste of electricity, while we are at the blithering subject of wastage. So I hope all of you work hard, study smart and prevent yourself from getting into the thresholds of an office. At least from this one that is.

Tally Ho!
Cheers.

post by joshua at 1:16 AM (x)

Sunday, December 17, 2006

Helllo world!
Haha, just came back from a fabulous, i say again FABULOUS jazz concert!
Hiromi!, at the esplanade.
Attended with Ian, Evan goh and Yun Xing.
I tell you, THEY'RE ALL CRAZY!!
one on the piano, one on the bass guitar, one on the drums,
Totally CRAZY SEXY JAZZ!
Been a while since i've been to such a good jazz concert, and boy, did it send waves of ergonomic convulsions down my spine!
I'm sorry, but to those whom are not to familliar with me, i think playing and listening to jazz is better than making love.
Not that i've tried the latter of course, but, what can i say? I LOVE JAZZ.
TOTALLY.
haha! glad they enjoyed the crazy trio..
Ian just made the bassist his new idol. haha!
Till the next one then!
Cheers!

jane! i'm so sorry i did not have time to call you back!
was i supposed to btw?
haha sorry.. but thanks for the chat last night! you're lucky! know that! hahaha!

post by joshua at 8:07 AM (x)

Friday, December 15, 2006

Greetings World!
I am back, and DAMN, THAT place was SWEET!
Really beautiful place it is, filled with flaura, fauna and people!
haha.. i'll upload photos soon.. too lazy today..
Talk more about it another day.

Well, my enjoyment kinda gets cut short at the end of the week,
cause i'm gonna start work on monday.. for one week!
filling in for someone at mom's office.. haha!
think i'll like it there..

Well, life actually is the same back in singapore..
went out immediatly once i touched down..
walked around with aunty jac and val, caught a movie.. trust the man..
not THAT good in my opinion.. would have liked dejavu or flyboys better i felt..
anyway, was good to be out with friends again i must admit..
had dinner in the village and then headed home.. hmm.. was dead tired when i got home..
cause i had been awake for more than 24 hours, and had seen sunshine for also more than 24 hours..
so, after settling a problem that was stuck in ice for a long time,
and feeling my heart considerably lighter for once in the past many months, i hit the bed.

Next day was another outing, first had to do some errand running..
waited for quite long just to get a few things done..
and then rushed down to meet weijie, jane and carissa in town to go play pool.
met kong in meridian, and pooled for say, 3 hours? haha! pool till SIAN.
the gals came to join us in a bit.. and they started playing too..
bye the half way point i was reeling with a tad bit of exhaust.. cause i was still a little lagged.
so after dinner, arcade, and walking around we finally were able to head home! haha..
bro bought some cool mario game! haha and kept me busy for a while.. damn.. i'm young at heart.. haha!

today woke up damn late.. cause of the lag.. at 12!! misery cordia...
when i woke up, i was like ah what the hell and decided to head straight down to the barber to get my hair cut SHORT.
and damn, i did it! haha.. so i've a new hairstyle now and i like it! haha.. val says its better than the old one! =D
after that went to town to accompany val and evan goh in their shopping spree..
wow.. those gals really know how to shop boy..
evan bought 7 shirts! val 3! my goodness.. haha!
saw a cool pair of shades! but didn't have enough bread to snag them..
lent cash to val to get a really nice skirt that really suited her.. hope she liked it!
Now i'm looking for shades, a blazer, leather jacket and a big buckled belt and a canon D30 SLR. haha!
saw a really swell armani belt in whereever! a big buckled one!
but it was 123 donkeys! thats like 200 plus in sing! goodness..
anyway.. christmas is coming! so.. can't hurt to wish right? haha!

sorry, i'm actually just reiterating.. but you gotta let me get my blog-legs first.. haha..
been a while since i did any blogging.. sigh..
somehow i'm loving the lifestyle we're having.. its really great..
but what really shakes me is that its gonna end soon, and i may not see some of you all again..
that's why i'm slacking soooo much! haha..
anyway.. next year is gonna be an interesting year! have to quickly mend something, and get suited into jc life
looking forward to it? not THAT soon.. but i guess i'll have to take things in stride..
you couldn't exactly call life very predictable now could you?

we shall just see what happens then.
cheers!

post by joshua at 8:52 AM (x)

Friday, December 01, 2006

Earghh.. This is bad.. This is really really bad..
I'm tired, and all i managed to do was pile my clothes on top of my luggage..
The two idiotic brothers of mine aren't helping much too, walking around the house having a sietsta, making me fuming mad at them..
I'm screwed.. i don't have a bag to bring along.. and i just realised it now..
No wait, actually i realised it this afternoon, but my mom refused to realise it until about like now..
well done..

Damn it la.. the diesel is too small to put anything in.. one jacket and the whole bag is full.. sheesh.. let alone the camera, batteries, cards, my book and misc still have to fit in..
saw a really nice vintage one today at far east.. but my mom refused to get it, all thanks to the stupid tear at the bag..
was heartbroken.. haha.. cause i fell in love with that bag the moment i saw it..
shat this is bad.. i'm not very relaxed for this holiday..
so ironic.. a holiday is meant to let one relax, not let one blow his top and feel all stressed about it..

anyway, where am i going? i'll give yall guys a clue.. haha.

I am going to this place, where the sun would strike my face,
To there i call a rest, of all my adventures this is best.
Allow me to tell you where it is, through this little rhyme you seek,
Look carefully at these words and you'll find, the answer to this, "oh a sign". So can
You guess the place? if not i bid you, good grace.

I'll see you all in 10 days.
cheers.

post by joshua at 8:40 AM (x)