save me

josh and i were out yesterday, helping some friends from china shop for laptops. tsk - girls, can't wait! they better not regret their laptops lol.

anyHOW. i found out something, that questioned my tech-savviness. for quite some time now i've been wondering why my laptop memory card reader won't work. so while they were browsing i stole the chance to ask the shop assistant, and she told me perhaps to try other memory cards, since it seemed everything was working fine.

so i got home and happily inserted a different memory card. and then i found out, to my utter embarassment, that in previous occasions i did not push the memory card in fully. so there was a springy response, a click, and it worked.

hoping to feel less embarassed i inserted the older memory card in question, and voila, it worked.

oops.

well, you learn something new everyday.

Crazy Friday.

I haven't blogged in a while. For good measure. Had the craziest friday recently. Seriously. The 17th July. Anyway, here are the stooges.




It wasn't all smiles at 11am.

We go up to Beat Merchants and set-up. Day before, I get told by Ernie the songs and to learn them. Great right? Anyway, back to 11am.

• Justin (other guy in red in the middle) says he's got a sore throat. Strike 1.
• Nick (chinese dude on the right) says he's not really a bassist. Strike 2.
• The whole band couldn't really come together. Strike 3.

Needless to say, I was pretty upset at what seemed like a wasted day. So after 3 hours, we went down to SP @ Dover. Taxi fare, everything.

• I've met Justin once before in my life, Enrico (drummer, Eurasian dude) once in my life and I've never met Nick before. Justin has never met Enrico and Nick before and Enrico has never met Justin, myself and its his first time seeing Nick. Great. Strike 4.

We get to the Auditorium after walking like what seemed like a mile, lugging all the equipment.

• We walk into the the place and all we could hear were metal bands. Some good metal bands too, Strike 5.
• Then they told us that our set would be at 940pm, it was only 3pm. Strike 6.

I think for a 5-hour old band, we were pretty daring to play a competition. Of course, its not a dare if you didn't know about it beforehand. I just wanted the ground to swallow me whole and spit me out at home.

Eventually we played. Surprisingly, we got good reviews from the friends that came to watch us. I was skeptic because I thought it sounded like crap. Anyway, so we wait for the results.

And now, I'm $60 richer. Yes.

Moral of the story? 5-hour bands go somewhere baby.

josh hasn't posed like this in awhile.

the greek volcanic rock version.

oh dear, the holidays are sloowly but surely coming to an end. just look at Jay's pained expression.
it has been a pretty fruitful holiday though, i'd say, despite the absence of a job - i've made quite a lot of friends! and had the opportunity to meet up with old friends, though some not under the best of circumstances.

also, thanks to ms chang's generosity, i've had the kang for about 2 weeks now, been putting it to good use, though probably not as much as she would've!
I can proudly say that i know singaporean roads slightly better now though. it was funny though cause the kang actually broke down, (ok technically not broke down - did i blog about this?) and when i picked it up with dad, i followed his car and got lost when we got seperated by a traffik light.

and i've fallen sick only once so far this vacation! just two days ago. i think it was just lack of sleep plus sentosa - recovered more or less in the next day, but missed out a meeting (which i have to make up with today) and dwayne's play. however, i did get to mingle with the one singaporean cousin i don't see as often!

audrey audrey. my, she devours books. seriously. reminds me of myself when i was younger. i hope she doesn't grow up wearing specs too though!

this photo also reminds me that i was thinner.

haha!

lesson learnt.

thank God for local anesthesia.

seriously!

i mean, people thank God for giving them jobs, saving their lives etc... but how many people thank God for LA?

haha.

i am now one tooth less-wise (wiserless?). the doc (dent?) said it was too big he had to break it into like, 4 or 5 pieces - so i couldn't take the tooth back :( plus what was supposed to be 2 teeth in 45 mins turned out to be 1 tooth in 1hr 15 mins. yeah. major jawache!!

it was also one of those moments where you hear and feel a lot of things happening in your mouth (i can still hear the zing of the instruments on the tooth), and you're really glad you don't know exactly what's happening. haha! ignorance is bliss huh...

the worst and absolutely most terrible part is the pain.

the pain of not being able to eat everything.


nevermind - maybe i'll lose weight!

photo update!

Ahh... this week has provided a wealth of photo opportunities :) Especially when long lost cousins return:

(qiyang, relaxing one corner)

(kton, getting older)

(qiyang, striking fear in the hearts of man)

(i need a car like that)

And...

(josh the hedgehog!)

Hmmmm...

Hmmmm...

Today:
We saved a poor parakeet that was being attacked by 2 ravens so we chased em away and picked up the parakeet and drove off...although we missed church *le oops*, i still feel good... then we went and eat our favourite DUCK! *Mmmmm~ **Finger Licking Good** * ...i like cor yang's hair in the 1st pic not the second...

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HOLIDAYSS RAWR!!!
Still learning guitar

Thats all folks...until next time