phusion – life in shadow.

Went to shop at Bugis today since afternoon; had lunch with my baby at the temporary market, then shopped for hours in SimLim Square as I was thinking of getting a NAS for my school and get her an external harddisk.. then walked over to Bugis Street and got myself a new shoulder bag & cap:

Took a bus over to Funan to buy her a Western Digital harddiskWatched the fireworks on the bridge and Im pretty surprised with my dad’s Point&Shoot camera being able to set Manual mode but I can only adjust the ISO; the aperture and shutter speed is still pre-determined by the camera itself thus I have quite afew blurry and unclear shots:

Countdown to 2009 at the Fullerton Bridge was great.  I didn’t get the chance to really count down (5, 4, 3, 2, 1) because people where pushing and shouting everywhere and I was totally lucky to be in the walk way of the bridge.  They closed the walkway from public from 11pm onwards and thankfully I was there since 9pm (ok i’m really kiasu lar!).  At first I was wondering why the barricade out the walkway and the road but after that I realise they had their reason.  The road was completely filled and looked so out-of-control at around 11.45pm!  The cisco ushers had a hard time controlling the crowd as well.

Anyway, the fireworks was really fantastic.  It was like, just before the front of my eyes and the sound of the combustions was like rapidly fired guns!

View more photos here!

2008 passed really fast, with the following summary:

• Im officially out of army (ORD loh!)
• Im a student once again (studying in NTU)
• I neglected most of my friends
• I’m pretty stucked up
• School is both fun and boring
• I’ve made new friends from school!
• My result sucked
• Taste of freedom; yet again.

And my 2009 to-do list, uncompleted list but have been running through my brains:

• Study better
• Make more friends
• Keeping our relationship stable
• Priorities things better
• Time management; reject procrastinations
• Quit puffing (smoking) officially (thanks to the god damn 2009 new bans on smoking areas)
• Keep things as easy and simple
• Less temperamental
• Make my house IN2009 (saving to install network access storage to share files in my family with RAID1 (for backup) and network media player so that my big plasma TV is not under-utilized by just cableTV)
• Proper file management
• Be nicer to friends (requested by Sunny; he’s saying Im not treating them well enough =*)

Nevertheless, HAPPY NEW YEAR!

There’s a bigger note that says: Its darling’s birthday tomorrow!

Joined my girlfriend’s company for christmas celebration at Waraku in Cuppage road, watched a performance at cuppage plaza by danzpeople (and Lilian) and followed by KTV at the partyworld in Liang Court..  Drank & Sang our lungs out till 2am!

This rose was bought by yours truly and pinky for Lilian who performed with the danzpeople for their performance in celebration for their first year anniversary!  I love the post process.  Bloodly red.

Then went to Marina Square this afternoon for lunch.. had our favourite ban mian and you mian, watch christmas carol, helped sunny to collect his flash diffusers, wasted $20 on the ‘UFO catcher’ thing of soft toys..  I have a love-hate relationship with these machines!  Sometimes its too easy, and most of the times it’s not easy.  Damn it!

Walked to Bugis to get our mum handbags, and then met Kelvin at the MRT station before heading to Somerset to meet Miguel as he invited us to join him and his friends pre-xmas celebration at his friend’s place in Somerset.. it was really a fun party man.. get to meet new friends and play alittle bit of rockband..