Ukulele

Ling says she wants to learn Ukulele for some time...
It's like a mini guitar with 4 strings instead of 6.

Wanted to surprise her with one but she seems uncertain...
Also, what if I got one which she didn't like? eg. colors and shape.

After the meetup with Wanyu and Janice after our Hard Rock stay, she wanted to go see an ukulele shop.

We went, we looked, she likes,
and I bought it for her...

Learned the guitar while in prison.
Bought myself an electric one upon release.

Had fun with it playing alone in my room mostly.
Until an accident at work which got my left hand's fingertip sliced off.
Unable to play for months...

Sold my Fender Stratocaster and Marshall amp to another deserving guitarist.

That was many years ago...

Now... the Ukulele...

Ling says it sounds cheerful and wants to learn and play for me.

The chords are different from guitar's, the frets are smaller and it's rather difficult to hold the small instrument.

Nonetheless, I think I will have less difficulty learning it compared to Ling.

We shall see...

Hard Rock Hotel @ Sentosa

Weekend spent at Sentosa.

2 nights at Hard Rock Hotel.

KiCo, Kann and Maricar joined us on Saturday morning.

Our room

Room's entrance

Poolview window with daybed

Happy Ling

Hugs

Traumatised DiDi



She loves me, she loves me not?

The gang

Lunch at Ding Tai Fung

Dinner at Big Easy

'Undertable' business

Another 'first'

Surprise gift which didn't surprise

While doing nothing when they're resting in the room, sneaked to the girly shop nearby.
She ran out of perfume and I'm told that Ling is fussy about fragrance choice.
Salesgirl let me sampled and was torn between these 2...
Bought both in the end.
Hope she likes them...

Ling, Kann, Kiki, Didi and Maricar went to watch fireworks at 9pm.
After the short firework display, they left for home.
Wondered if they enjoyed the outing? Nah...

Met up with Ling and strolled back to our room.

Spent some 二人世界 time and checked out in the morning after breakfast.

Gardens by the Bay

Went to the almost completed Gardens for site survey.

While on the way, boss asked me how does the +/- shift works on his beemer.
Said that the gear will not upshift when he hits it into the +/- shift... Faint...

Engine roared in protest but still no significant pull...

Told him should have gotten a M5 instead...

Anyway, first lookie:

Spotted this kangoo at the carpark.

Those are real grasses and plants on it's roof.

These 8 panels will be making me uber busy and tired.

Forgive me being MIA lately guys...

The Dome from outside.

High powered air conditioning inside.

These fish ornaments remind me of a special someone...

Madagascar?!

There's a bar inside too?!

White cactus.

I'm not really a nature's person but this entire place seems nice.

Some bistros setting up at the main foyer.

Another potential paktor venue?

Sun, Sand & Sea

I like the sea...
The waves...
The mystery it holds at it's depth...
Large fishes, small fishes, corals, half decomposed corpses etc etc...

Ling had a wakeboarding session with her cousin (Janice) yesterday.

I woke the sleepy Ling at 5.30am and went to fetch Janice.

After they boarded the boat, I hanged around Marina Country Club.

Firstly, the fishing pond...
Began as a swimming pool for kids then modified into a super mini sized fishing pond.
Or should I say pathetic?

I was there for the first hour, watching some hopeful anglers casting again and again towards the holding net area. All of the paid fishing ponds I'd been to, the 'hotspots' are always around the holding net.

All were using ultra-light spinning gears with lines not exceeding 12lbs.
Anyway, none caught anything during my hour's worth of observation.
No baits were even stolen.

This reaffirmed my dislike for such paid fishing ponds.
I'll stick to my illegal but free freshwater luring.
That's where the real wild monsters are.

Saw a few familiar fishing boats at the berth thinking that it has been quite a long while since I last went offshore...

Lunched at Hougang and off we go to East Coast Park.

Kann, Kiki, Colin, Maricar.
Ling & Joe.
Me.

The last time I took a shoreline walk was with Ling at Labrador Park.

This time is different:
Our hands are locked in each others'.

Followed Kiki around in her little pink Mini Cooper.
Initially, she seems to have trouble correcting the car's steering.
After some time, she got better.
Ice cream treat for her.

As I look out onto the beach where Ling and Colin are, I see happiness.
I felt an unknown bliss...

Saw a nearby breakwater and wanted to walk to it's top and look out into the far distance.
But I resisted...
It will make me think of Billy...
Not this day... This is a day of happiness.

Ling's amazed by my polarised oakley.
Everthing seemed so clear under the glaring sun.

Ling's unlike most other women.
She is not pretentious.
She's not afraid of the sun or getting tanned.
Most women out there thinks they're white/fair and take great pains to maintain that.
But actually, most are in an unhealthy yellow.

Anyway, I felt calm and relaxed walking side by side with her following Kiki's motorised toy car.

Caught Kiki peeping at me many times.

I'm not really a 'children's person'.
Kids cry or hide behind their parents when they see me.
I see fear in their eyes when they look at me.

Not Kiki...
What I see are curiosity and shyness rolled into one.

Until the point when she got cranky again...

We went to Kann's place and relaxed for awhile.

Ling & me headed off to 112 Katong.
Kann and Kiki joined us shortly after.
We watched 'Madagascar 3'.
Kann's treat.

Ya, I know... It's a cartoon... Quit your laughing, Pearl...
Many 'firsts' ever since I'm with Ling...

After the funny cartoon, Kann's got something urgent cropped up and left.
Ling & me plus little Kiki went to Katong Mall to buy some toothpaste for kids.
While on the way, Ling patiently explained to me on why kids these days need special toothpastes.

She left me and Kiki alone in Joe and walked in to buy them.

This is where the funny part starts...
Every question I made, I paused for a short while, giving Kiki time to absorb.
After awhile of silence in Joe:

Me: (putting on serious face) Now that there's no one else, let's talk.
Kiki: (silence)
Me: Ok?
Kiki: (nods head)
Me: Is Yiyi (Ling) pretty?
Kiki: Yes.
Me: Is Mommy (Kann) pretty?
Kiki: Yes.
Me: Uncle Ken handsome or not?
Kiki: Yes.
Me: I know you like me right?
Kiki: (silence)
Me: You like Uncle Ken?
Kiki: (looks away) Yes.
Me: Don't be shy lar. We are both adults. Let's be honest.
Kiki: ......
Me: (leans over nearer) Next time you want to look at my handsome face, just tell me straight. Don't bio until like that. Uncle Ken is used to pretty girls looking at me all the time. Ok or not?
Kiki: (looks at me and nods head)
Me: Yiyi coming back anytime now. We shall stop here and continue next time.
Kiki: (gives wanna cry face)
Me: !!! Oui!! Don't cry lei!! Later Yiyi thinks I bully you then jialat liao!
Me: (quickly whips out my phone and starts showing her random pics)

She got engrossed with the pics and resumes 'normal' face.
Heng ar...
I put away my phone and true enough, Ling came back.
Phew...

Tears are indeed women's best weapon...
Sent Kiki back home and this is the end of the whole episode...

Kann took a very nice pic of us at East Coast Park.
She didn't realised tagging Ling on facebook will expose me to Ling's entire friend community.
Turned out to be a false alarm...

Should I be relieved or disappointed?

Nah......

......

Life is too full of stupid decisions, blind guessing, hurt, problem solving, creating even more problems, denial, lying to oneself, etc etc etc etc etc...

Things are obvious.
Yet, humans make themselves believe otherwise.

Being too smart is not a good thing at all.
Even worse if brain outsmarts the mouth.
Best to feign stupid if it's this way...

Multi-tasked the entire day.
Hands moving all the time, brain split into 2 sections.
One of which I'd rather shutdown but couldn't...

How many can truly enjoy playing second fiddle?

Curiosity really does kill cats.

Heck care attitude is what I used to have.
Got unbelievably high tolerance of physical pain.
Hope the same goes for psychological.

I'm a charred block of wood.

Don't hope for things which are impossible.

Don't ever ask me.
My mouth is dumber than my brain.


Need someone to get me drunk...
So that I can just laugh all these away.

hahahahahaha

The Brothers...

14 years...
That's how long it is...

19th July 1998 is the day when 3 hot-blooded youngsters sworned themselves into an eternal bond of brotherhood at a huge temple in the presence and witness of countless deities...

Desmond the eldest.
BakTiong the middle.
Me the youngest.

Over the years, we changed...
We matured.

Although they're still kids as far as their spouses are concerned...

Glad that they are doing well in their lives, family and all...

I'm the only 'unsettled' one now...
The only one still turning in circles...

Yesterday night, we went drinking.
It's been quite awhile since we last drank together.

Last time was Desmond's birthday in March...
Thinking back, that was the day I met Ling after so many years.

We went to 'Office Pub'.
Finished up my balance (they kept it!) and the towers of beer followed.

Talked about Bitch which got us angry.
Talked about Ling and me.

Desmond's friend (Mike) joined us soon after. He's a funny one...

Pearl joined after some lorsohing. lol

Ling came after her appointment.

At some point of time, the girls went to gossip.
The guys played pool, chatted and monkeyed around.

I walked around, looked around and kaypohed around.

Sang a song.
Killed Mike at pool with a 1 cue finish.
Shooed by a cute girl in blue dress.

And lastly, took a pic...

Fingers behind are from that cutie...

Some Bitch Just Don't Get It...

Pasir Ris Fishing Pond.

A place where you cast your smelly bait into the waters...

Then, proceed to check the end of the line at every available interval for signs of a bite or whether your bait is still attached.
If any unwanted or undersize fish is hooked up, it will be removed and the wait continues...

To Bitch, facebook is just like a fishing pond...
Bitch likes to post stinky comments but will never have the guts to name it's targets.

Bitch will write stuff as their facebook status, then wait for acknowledgments, comments of encouragement or sympathy.
Those comments which do not fall into these categories or contradicts Bitch's original post will then be promptly deleted to prevent Bitch's 'friends' from seeing them.

Just like fishing...
Except that Bitch likes to 'fish' on facebook to gain support from others...
Others who don't even have the slightest clue of the entire story.

Bitch wants to be pitied on.
Bitch enjoys to be sympathised by others.
Bitch likes to gather supportive comments so that it can feel that it's right and is not alone.

Worst of all, Bitch likes to construct cheem cheem sentences with her kindergarten level angmoh trying to show people how 'deep' she is...

What a joke...
She's making a fool out of herself.

Bitch should go do something constructive for once in her miserable life...
Something like signing up for english lessons.
Something like getting a life and moving on.
Something like washing her foul mouth with dettol (not that it will help).
Something like killing herself.

The last one is good... kill herself...
At least Bitch will stop wasting our already depleting resources on earth.
Should give them up to more deserving humans like us.

Another thing stupid about Bitch (out of countless others) is that it likes to use god's name to pass judgement upon others.

Bitch assumes god will punish those who chose not to stand on it's side.
Those who go against Bitch or contradicts it will incur the wrath of the almighty.

But hey! Look!
Bitch's targets are still alive and happily living their lives together!

Bitch failed...... again......
and again......

Bitch likes to imagine itself to be a supreme being above all others.
Everyone have to give 'face' to it.
Everyone must agree to what it said.
Everything it does or says are the truth.
Contradict it and you're damned for life.
Step onto it's tail and poof! You're deleted from her facebook friend list.
Then, the flaming starts on it's own facebook homepage.

Hahahaha...
Juvenile I know... but, that's all that Bitch can do.
Cowardly hiding behind a pathetic screen and typing stuff not daring to name her targets.
But still, a Bitch is still a bitch...
No matter how many times it showers itself, how hard it scrubs, it will never get rid of it's bitchy smell... until the day it goes 6ft under, it's grave will still reek...

No matter what lies it makes, only those ignorant will believe...
Bitch thinks all others except itself are ignorant and stupid...

Keep going like this, Bitch.
I'm relishing every single moment of watching you digging your own grave.

Many evil plans are being concocted in my mind right now...
I'll just put them on hold for now.
All it takes is just a trigger to execute them one by one and I'll have the front row seat reserved to watch Bitch's life turning into a heap of ruins.

I'll be patiently waiting.
Just like fishing... :)