the ben identity

sat... woke up bright and early at 545.. snoozed till 555... zzz... slowly got up and prepared...still zzzzz... lol.. 630... met with chairperson... and count stores and gather participants.. shooed pple up the bus.. oh yea there were 30 tioman goers in all.. lol. reached second link pretty quickly.. then onward to mersing jetty... ferry to tioman! damn choppy sea... a few pple got sick. doled out seasick pills and tended to the sick.. stupid ferry ride took so damn long.. argh. from estimated 1+ hr became 3 hr cos ferry went to drop off pple at another stop first... zzz.. reached there... check in.. woah. culture shock. the "resort" we were staying in...

Hm updates.... cant remember much liao. getting old.. tmr will be older still.. lol.

i shall start from 2 sats ago... went to phil's house after lunch.. quite fun playing banlat... maybe cos i won.. hahaa... thanks phil for offering his house again.. who's turn ah next yr? pls get ready hor.. dun say no warning.. =P had to leave halfway to go big aunt's place... more banlat! lol! biggest i bet this yr.. average amounts of 7-8 bucks. luck was pretty good. managed to banlat quite a few times.. haha. overall quite a gd day! lol!

sunday went to airport to see phil off... bye phil!! see ya soon.. so for the moment.. we cant go to phil's house anymore... unless we call his brother... hahaha... whose no. we have... hahahahaha!!!

hm nothing much happen after tt day.. well not tt i can remember at this moment.. probably too busy looking out the window to see if it starts raining... need to collect laundry if it does... drats.

friday night went to bee(ah ma)'s house to play mahjong... not bad won a few bucks.. lucky. managed to zi mo a few times.. sat had a bbq at my uncle's condo in simei.. quite a nice bbq pit... its circular and slightly higher than knee level.. so everyone could pull chairs around it.. sorta like campfire.. lol. note to phil>> how about installing one in urhouse hahaha...

hm tis week.. pretty hectic.. especially.. tues.. sucks. stupid module actually has a lab test on tt day. wtf. no prizes for guessing wad module... its DATA STRUCTURE AND OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING...ie.. JAVA. sianism. and guess wad.. i have a lab report to hand in on wed.. and the lab test report also on wed. stupid no life lecturer. sian.

sat.. finally mid term break and i will be going tioman! for 3days.. coming back on mon.. only $160 thinkis quite cheap la. hm.. wad else.. cant think of wad else happening next week..

anyway.. after coming back from tioman really got to try and pia studies liao.. i'm so dead lor. argh.. someone help me!!!

Managed to finish my java lab work on time last thurs.. barely made it.. though my programme had loads of room for improvement.. couldnt be bothered. lol. yeah thats the kinda attitude i am having. shucks. got another one due on fri.. and havent even read the question. lol.

2 Sats ago had the hall event at sentosa... went to sentosa to camp and set up bright and early at 2 am.. yeah u r seeing right. its 2 am. crazy man.. the event was overall quite a success.. though it ended a tad too quickly. 2 hours before schedule. lol. glad tt that event is over.. lol. thanks everyone for the support. haha.

last thurs had a hall 12 cny dinner at zhen fa live seafood. turnout was fantastic.. about 100++ pple i think. dinner was delayed superbly long.. but was quite enjoyable and hall spirit was quite good. the programs were quite fun.. haha. everything ended at about 1... even had a game of bowling.. lol.

realised during bowlin that my leg aint really alright yet.. i cant walk straight with weight on my left leg.. lol.. in the end just did 2 steps. lol.

cny.. eve.. reunion at 5th uncle's(father's 5th brother) house.. lol. quite boring at first.. then my cousins and i started looking at some old photos and luffing at ourselves when we were young... then we counted.. then i realised there were 21 grandchildren in all. lol. didnt noe the exact figure at all until then... gave ourselves numbers according to age.. haha. damn funny. i'm no. 6.. we were like.. oei who's no. 19.. get me a drink leh.. haha. lol. then gambled. quite heng didnt lose. didnt win much either. but satisfied la. haha.

1st day.. church at st teresa's early in the morning.. then grandma's place.. then home and sleep. lol. evening 2nd uncle's (father's 2nd brother) place.. 3rd aunt(father's 3rd sister) gave out ang pows by calling nos. eg.. NO. 4 collect ang pow!!! lol... funny. haha. i suggested next year install a flashing queue system.. lol. played cards again.. won a few bucks. lol.

2nd day.. slacked the whole day.. then night went dinner at jumbo seafood east coast seafod centre.. service was crap! take super long to serve each dish. oh havent mentioned dinner was a treat by my mum's elder sis who's kiunda estranged from grandma. not very familiar with her children( my cousins)... so heng didnt sit with them and their husbands.. lol. didnt noe big aunt(mum's big sis) got 6 grand kids liao.. lol. ya.. i'm uncle of 6 kids. lol. after that went to 2nd aunt's(dad's 2nd sister) place to play more cards.. haha. won a few bucks again.. lol.

3rd day.. afternoon went to godma's(mum's sister in law) place for scrabble.. haha. quite fun la.. me godma godbro godbro's gf. played 2 rounds.. i was 2nd both times.. godbro's gf super heng won both times. i won $2. haha. 1st place win $2, 2nd place win $1, 3rd place lose $1, 4th place lose $2. after that went to godbro's gf place. play more cards lol.. didnt lose didnt win after like 5 hours.. but received one unexpectedly big angpow. tot they put wrongly.. but they didnt! feel so paiseh.

hm.. so far that's all.. week ahead.. hm.. tmr back to sch. drats. fri java lab work due. sucks. then evening father's fren place.. doubt got gambling. lol. sat... big aunt's (father's big sister) place.. one of my favourite aunts. yeah its the one who offered me lodging for almost 2 yrs of my life and made me a part of her family. should be going early to help. more cards... and hopefully mahjong.. should be have la. haha.

oh... i'm going tioman in 2 and a half weeks time! yay! hall activity again.. lol. during mid term break.. lol.

ok la. quite late liao... gonna sleep... ciao. till next time.. hope its soon. haha. oh yeah... next time then i do those silly thing pple doing on their blog about listing 4 things.. haha