Because life is precious and fragile.
Cherish it because life is filled with uncertainties.

A dog with a rainbow colored afro - He's Afro Ken!


I think he's A-DO-RA-BLE

Here's an excerpt from wiki on Afro Ken:
"Afro Ken (アフロ犬) is a Japanese character created by the San-X company, which creates other anime-style characters such as Kogepan. He is a dog with a rainbow-coloured afro. He is innocent and blameless and always in a good mood. Afro Ken is always willing to try new things. Afro Ken is attracted to objects that look like he does. His hair changes to look like these things as he gets close to them."

I googled several more pictures of Afro Ken in different hairstyles:



My afro-ken is the first one! The one with rainbow colored afro! :D


Other afro ken merchandises


Anyway, San-X is also the same company that created Rilakkuma, my very favourite relax-bear.
Here's a picture of him:


The yellow chick - Kiiroitori, the white, smaller bear - Korilakkuma and the relax bear - Rilakkuma himself!

It's amazing how rilakkuma is so popular now. I want to go to Japan and grab a few for myself.


A toy store dedicated to rilakkuma and friends, i think they have like every imaginable rilakkuma merchandise on Earth. *delight*

or maybe treat myself in this Rilakkuma themed hotel, abolutely gorgeous:



More pictures of the rilakkuma themed hotel, here
Every room is decorated with rilakkuma plushies and merchandises. You will be served with Rilakkuma breakfast. OMGosh, like how cool cute is that? 

Somehow, I feel young again!

*Note: Other than the top 2 pictures, the rest are not mine, taken off google.

...because it may be too late when you realise it.

My maid went for a 2 weeks vacation, back to her hometown before resuming her new 2 year contract with us. That left us, tha family, with no maid for 2 weeks. The last few days went well because I'm at work at least 70% of the time. I still, however, help out with the household chores. and at least near 50% of the chores.

I'm not complaining, or maybe I am... i've always rebut the idea of not having a maid at home because i believe having a maid at home is like the vertebral column of the human anatomy. The maid is the powerhouse, the mitochondria of the family unit, she keeps things going, she keeps the routine on and she lightens the burden of having to do household chores. Food is prepared when you get home, tired from a whole day of work. Shirts are pressed and ready for your working day and breakfast before you leave home. 

I firmly believe, having a maid is not a luxury, its a need, for our family that is. I also believe that a maid is not a slave, we don't order them around, we request, with a 'Please' and a 'Thank you' at the end. Can we have our maid back please? ..because the 2 other siblings do not understand the meaning of responsibility and the meaning of being a family. Selfish retards. 

I'm actually mad that the other 2 aren't heelping much at home, especially the sister. I bet she doesn't even know how to mop the floor. 2 things in mind: either she's being selfishly lazy to help with the chores or is a virgin with doing household chores and being selfish not to learn and try to help out. 

I can continue on and on but I shall not. 
It ends here.
I want my maid back.

Having worked in the retail industry for roughly 3 months now, it's an eye opener to see the different types of people we have living with us in this world - weird people. Here's what I've observed so far:

1) AM Changi Auntie

On my way to work, I'd always (almost everyday) see this pushing-70's year old auntie who'd be in the airport for no reason. Sometimes I'd board the train with her or days when I didn't get the chance to see her on the train, she'll be seated on the chairs nearby my working area. Funny thing is that I don't think she's an airport personnel because she comes in auntie-wear and a small pouch. She makes it a point to be at the airport every single day. She sits at the same place, wherever she was till about 8, if not, slightly later, then suddenly disappears without a trace. I've always wanted to say good morning to her... 

2) The Missing Crazy Woman

After my superior logged a police report regarding the crazy woman, she never came back, well, just once (she had a makeover and she wanted me to see it...) If you don't know who this crazy woman, I'll give you an idea how she's like. 

This lady, is undoubtly quite pleasant looking, middle aged and tries to look good... to the point of extremity. Here are some points to take note:

a) She likes guys, the younger the better (but not paedophilic). 
b) She dislikes other women especially air stewardess.

Point a) and b) tells us that she will only disturb outlets with young guys working. The few retail / f&b shops around my area, we recruit the largest number of males. That's the reason why she hangs out in the shop often. She'll never enter or stay long in a shop with a sales lady present. When air stewardess passes by, she'd make rude, sometimes funny remarks on how the air stewardess looks like. She have this little dream/hope to be an air steward but i say she'll fail miserably because she's simply crazy. I'm not saying she's ugly, she's not but she mentally unwell.

c) She loves attention and doesn't like to be ignored.
d) She will bare to get attention

Everytime she's around and when I have other female customers who wants to make a purchase or just having a casual chat with me, she'll get jealous and annoys both me and the other party. One of her known tactics used is to speak loudly, almost to the point of shouting. Or saying unnecessary things that may hurt my customers' feelings. For instance, she'd shout out something like,"Aiyah, that woman won't buy one la. No need to attend to her. I buy, I wanna buy (insert item)"  Whatever it is, she's staining the reputation of the company im working for.

She gains attention by trying to seduce me, which really didn't work. On days she feels like it, she wears a really low cut tee and purposely bent at an angular level to indecently expose herself to me, which again i didn't take interest in. If that didn't work she'll move on to her second tactic; applying make up on my counter. And looking at me directly in the eyes while applying her make up. She got a thing for looking people directly into their eyes, especially guys. It's as thought she has got this power to penetrate in to you. XD

e) She doesn't quite fancy kids

She once accused a little boy of stealing, and that boy's father who was a few feet away from her heard. They quarreled and stuff, and when I told my boss about the incident, that prompted him to make a police report. 

But anyway, we haven't seen her for a VERY long time now, which is good. At least my business isn't hindered by her. Hopefully, she'll have her dreams and hopes come true.

3) Hamburger Man

We used to sell this hamburger soft toy, i think. We sold our last piece very long time ago and I've never seen one of it since the day I first worked there. One day, there's this man who came in and asked for the hambuger and insisted that the hamburger is still available as what he was told from the other outlets. He ended up getting our numbers and email address. I don't know how it happened. But I deleted his number and didn't accept his friend request on friendster. I think he's just slightly mentally unsound. He's well-fed (i'd say fat or chubby but well-fed seems a fai bit polite), but he reeks of something, maybe B.O but it wasn't a pleasant odour. Looks aside, he's intelligent enough to know that I didn't save his number when he missed called me, so I had to pretend to enter his number into my phone just for his sake. But anyway, we only saw him once, hope he'll not come again. 

4) South Park Plushie (SPP) Man

Like the hamburger man, SPP man also insisted the availabilty of the product. He seems to be deaf or something. He talks so loud as if I'm deaf. He was practically shouting from the far end of the shop. The funniest thing he did was, to smell one of the smurf's nose. I mean, he squash his nose onto the smurf's nose, now I don't even dare to touch the smurf plushie anymore. I'd sanitise my hand if i accidentally touched. LOL, just joking okay. 

5) Airport is My Home (AMH) Man

This man practically live in the airport. I swear. i'd see him around on certain days. Thing is, he shifts his "home" every other day and he sleeps on the Singapore map, as if the seats are very dirty. I've also seen him pressing elevator buttons, touching railings with a plastic wrapped around his hands. I think he's suffering from OCD - Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Go google it. 

I was in Cold Storage getting some stuff the other day, and co incidentally, he's there as well. But standing outside Cold Storage. Overheard his conversation between him and the cashier.

AMH: I cannot go in and I cannot stay here for too long
Cashier: Why?  Is it cold?
AMH: Yeah, very cold, I only wear one shirt. I went to NTUC the other day and they say they don't have stocks, so I have to wait for them to restock then buy new shirt. 
Cashier: Oorh..

Final words: My airport, my home.



I just don't know why there are so many weird people around. 
And no, i'm not oblivious. 
I do know why certain people turn out that way.

I'm back in the blogosphere! I guess i've been away from the blogging world for quite some time already and being back sounds so good. The switch may or not may be permanent. I'm still looking for a new fresh blog host, nothing like blogger, livejournal, typepad, wordpress or anything that is available now, just looking for something different.


Life at the moment

Work is sucking most of my time, not that I'm complaining or anything, just to inform that I'm busy making money. Hopefully, I'll have get a decent pay this month, haven't been clocking as much hours as April. I really need the money, to get my wants. the Great Singapore Sale is here and I need money to shop man. I spy my eyes on a Calvin Klein bag! Or maybe I've been spending unwisely? Oh, that bad habit of spending ridiculously. Ironically, I find that a $50/- tee-shirt is way too expensive compared to a $200/- headphones. Somehow electronic items holds much more worth than what I wear, but my phone still sucks. I need a new phone. Something that plays darn good music with a standard headphone jack. *ponders*

Anyway graduation is over, i know, ridiculously quite a while ago and I've yet to upload photos, which are with my dad and that i haven't got the chance to ask him to pass me the photos. Simply put - I'm just too lazy. :D Graduation wasn't that great. I mean, the heat and everything, I was drenched in sweat. Plus, I haven't got enough photos taken. I just feel it wasn't an eventful day. I didn't get a chance to be photographed with the valedictorian - farah. Neither did we took a class photo and Saihah! I haven't got a photo with you. I just feel that graduation is the moment where we forget what we've done to each other and forgive. Even though it's hard, forgive, because in life, we only have one chance to make things right. And I have made mistakes in the past that I shouldn't, and I regret.


Friends - Forgotten
My life revolves around loneliness, don't pity me because it's the fact. I keep losing friends. Even before I hit puberty, my friends are leaving me. I used to have this chinese friend in my kindergarten years, I still remember his name, Boon Kiat. One day, he left because he shifted place. At that point of time, I felt helpless and lost, he was my best friend and we hung out a lot, I really wonder how he'd look like after all these years. i hope he's doing well.

In my primary school, I made 2 great friends as well. A small framed, bespectacled boy, quiet, timid and shy Shakur and a slightly taller, lean, tanned guy by the name of Shafiq. I remembered the werestling matches we had in school and going back home all messy and ruggardy, sometimes with some bumps on our head. We loved wrestling and we used to play the PS2 at a nearby gameshop. PS2 was pretty new then and to us it was luxury. After graduation, we kept in contact but not for long, I've lost their contacts and I don't even have their facebook. They are both studying in TP as well, once in a blue moon knocking into them but we were never as close as before, somehow distant, somewhat drifted. They didn't changed a bit. Almost the same as when we left, very contrasting to how I am right now. I'm truly happy to know they are doing well.

Then into my secondary school years, my SJAB members, my classmates, the ones whom I'm close to, I've lost everyone. Bob, Franc, me an the SJ Girls, I have their facebook but we never went out like together. I still am able to spell franc's full name - franc jon louie facun mamaradlo! I think the girls went for a short trip overseas and seeing their photos together on facebook make me envious, they had a lifetime friends, and i had none. Even my ex-classmates, when I see their photos of outings, chalets and etc. it makes me envious, how are they able to maintain a friendship for long? What I really hope is that I'm not forgotten... which is sad really.

Now just graduated from TP, I feel that I lost my friends too, some part of. We don't hang out often anymore like how we use to hang out every other fridays or weekends together. Not like that anymore. It puzzles me why I can't keep friendships together. I thought friends are like water? No matter how choppy it gets, no matter how much physical force is applied upon us, we'd still stick together at the end, like water. 

At the end of the day, I am truly alone, that's why I never liked opening up to anyone, I never share myself with anyone, because I've already experienced it. Perhaps its inborn or something. The lonliness however isn't a bad thing. It keep me focus on my dreams and what I want to achieve. That's why I harbour great ambitions. I see myself leading a top company/business one day. Because the one in charge have to draw the line between a leader and a follower. And I don't consider lonliness to be a bad thing, I mean you have all the time in the world to yourself. I see myself losing people in the future as well, but I'll keep myself strong just like how I kept myself strong the past few years. I can't stay naive and innocent in this world. Reality. the fact is that people to leave, whether for good or death, they will leave us and we just have to continue on living our life. We are born as an individual and we will go to our graves alone.

I just hope the friends I have right now, will continue to stay strong with me in the future as I wish to share my success and achievements with you guys, even if you're my online friends. Even if we haven't meet, if we could just hold our friendship till the future, it'll be godsent.


Forward, to the Future

Soon, it's time for me to enlist in the army. I'm not telling when because I want to leave as quietly as possible. This is my chance to be independent and learning how to be responsible for myself. On that day, I will be a man, I will be accountable for all my actions. On that day, i pledge my allegiance to the Republic of Singapore, the country and the people. The moment I wear my uniform, I will represent Singapore, the society, my family and myself. On that day, I will trade my freedom for honour. Honour to serve the nation.

And I am thinking of my future as well. Should I continue to study elsewhere, in the field of food science or should I submerse into teaching? I have thoughts of being an entrepernuer as well and even going to Paris to get into a culinary school, majoring in pastries and sweet desserts. I have plenty of time to think of my future but looking at the current situation, teaching seems to be the best option for me. I will have to think more deeply into this issue. Future, future, future.

Well, I guess I've poured all my thoughts into this entry at the moment.
I'll be back soon, hopefully. :D Pardon for my spelling errors