i kept hearing the names before i sleep
those pictures in my head says i'm in too deep
so i'll rewind the scene and see it once more
and drown myself in this encore

the first was awkward, quiet and messy
the makeup on our faces were really funny
we left that day still not knowing all names
but all that was just about to change

we started as many, we ended as one
we won't forget how this journey begun
we'll tell our stories and people will know
we'll keep these memories wherever we'll go

we built our house with metal and wood
we painted it blue, added our love like a real house should
people stopped and stood in awe
we tasted success and wanted more

then came our camp, for six months we toiled
down to those three days, all our efforts boiled
the smile on the faces were plain to see
the campers were happy and so were we

we started as many, we ended as one
we won't forget how this journey begun
we'll tell our stories and people will know
we'll keep these memories wherever we'll go

today i learn something which i felt was very important.

'i want to train hard, so that I don't have to feel AGAIN the agony of seeing my team lose and not be able to do anything.'

if 2009 is going to be special, its going to be because of God, Studies, Church, Hall and Floorball.

I dont think i would be staying on next year, but floorball is something i dont want to give up yet. gotta find a way to train/improve and continue playing the beautiful game. 

There's no combination of words
I could put on the back of a postcard
No song that I could sing
But I can try for your heart
Our dreams, and they are made out of real things
Like a, shoebox of photographs
With sepiatone loving
Love is the answer,
At least for most of the questions in my heart
Like why are we here? And where do we go?
And how come it's so hard?
It's not always easy and
Sometimes life can be deceiving
I'll tell you one thing it's always better when we're together

[Chorus:]
MMM it's always better when we're together
Yeah, we'll look at the stars when we're together
Well, it's always better when we're together
Yeah, it's always better when we're together

And all of these moments
Just might find their way into my dreams tonight
But I know that they'll be gone
When the morning light sings
And brings new things
For tomorrow night you see
That they'll be gone too
Too many things I have to do
But if all of these dreams might find their way
Into my day to day scene
I'd be under the impression
I was somewhere in between
With only two
Just me and you
Not so many things we got to do
Or places we got to be
We'll Sit beneath the mango tree now

It's always better when we're together
Mmmm, we're somewhere in between together
Well, it's always better when we're together
Yeah, it's always better when we're together

MMmmmm MMMmmmm Mmmmmm
I believe in memories
They look so, so pretty when I sleep
Hey now, and when I wake up,
You look so pretty sleeping next to me
But there is not enough time,
And there is no, no song I could sing
And there is no, combination of words I could say
But I will still tell you one thing
We're better together.

its exciting to know that in less than a months time, 1 semester would have ended and i'll have 1 month of break before another nightmarish semester begins.. 
but before all the magic of the december holiday begins, there is the exams that are coming in less than 2 weeks time~ sighs!
and i'm supposed to be studying but lazeeeeeeeeee is thy middle name.

just the other day, i watched HSM 1 for the first time in my life, and i finally got the whole hsm feel to culture night, kinda late i know but, yup.
i still think its overdramatic and gives too many girls false hopes. hahaha

 Time for an update!
Life has been totally crazy since I've moved into hall. From altering my body clock to a point where i don't cant sleep before 3am, to late night suppers which has become a daily ritual to weekly talk cock sessions with my neighbors, it's been rather crazy but given a chance, I would still wanna spend my time here in KR. sweeeet!

it's been an awesome mouth; SEPTEMBER! all great things happen in september! most notably my birthday partaye, which was a huge success (to me). Much thanks goes out to the family and sister and also for everyone who came on that day. Love the presents! A whole wave of parties at prawn farms are going to start cos of this. HAHA!

Andddd i got into KrX, which is like the drama group of KR, one of the K6 and i must say that the manner of introducing us into the group was rather memorable. We also had a supper for the seniors, another 'initiation' processs.

what else?

the only reason i'm updating is to satisfy cecilia t. p. (the pig) who's enormous appetite has grown to reading my blog. haha

I'm currently going for touch rugby and floorball trials too. hoping to make it into the floorball team although the sign up list was like.. WOAH! but the next trial is on friday, so we'll see how it goes. And i'm going to have to miss the next touch rug trial as i would be attending a Goldman Sachs Recruitment Presentation! One of the last survivors in these troubled times. haha

i have a pain in the ass mid term on thurs for the most pita modue - financial accounting. 2 term papers - Biz Law and Ops Management due next week and the week after next, respectively. Projects including - MNO video project, Changing Landscape - Geylang Power and FnA (which is not out yet)

this is rather depressing. and yday, dawn L finally 'enlightened' me on the amount of readings i have to do.
i seriously need 48hours a day now.

Alright back to biz law. i think i'll upload pics soon. 

i wish i could play the guitar like that.
whoever Angelina was, she must have been beautiful.

it's been a good week, spent most of my time meeting up friends, some of whom i havent met in the longest of time.
so anyway, today was spent with the RHG (racial harmony gang) with Gladys being our honorary guest. tea/dinner @ Suki Sushi in cine was a pretty bloated affair. i would complain about the poor service of the place and how the sashimi was not the freshest i've tasted but the company more or less made up for it. And which brings me to the highlight of the day, something that was legen - wait for it - dary! (haha, i love barney from HIMYM!)

so here we were after our meal, walking around far east and we went into a shoe shop and loi was admiring her tummy and rubbing it, the effects of the buffet was clear to everyone.
*translated*
gladys: guess how many months she's into?
shopkeeper: ehhhh...... 2?
elissa: -_-
gladys: actually she's not pregnant, she just ate alot
shopkeeper: *looking super uncomfortable* Dont eat so much.
andre: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHA

it's lovely how i'm allowed to be so outspoken and verbal when im with the rhg. haha and if only i took a photo of mother loi. little loi's running around. sounds bad.

and i've been offered German for LPP when i opted for French. crap! I'm hoping I can appeal though and will probably call them up on monday. Ironically, cass' friend melissa was offered French but she's looking to drop the offer. -slap from nature-. haha (watch HIMYM)

and i got a letter from NUS about pre registration but it's so wordy and i'm lazy to read it now. and here i was, thinking that going into UNi was going to be a piece of cake.

and yes! I GOT A PLACE IN KR! sweeeeeet!
and huixiang and i are planning on going furniture/accessory shopping for hall at ikea and we THOUGHT of asking those who are going to KR. but like krist said, it would be bad to be remembered as the guy who organised the big shopping trip. and for the longest time last night, i was thinking whether i should go for kr dance audition. didnt go in the end. but deo told me there's going to be a 2nd one. dang. haha

my mj crave has also been satisfied, meeting up @ cass' place to play with chew and ranon (the recruit). thanks for the lift home cass. and BTW, cass just bought a beautiful pair of heels from guess, so everyone should check out her blog and see how we camwhore-d after watching, dont mess with the Zohan, which is by far the lamest movie i've seen this year.

annnnnnnnnnddddd, i have a dream that one day, in the not too distant future, i can go to club @ a time nearer to midnight and still get into phuture and use my citibank card for free entry and not worry about it being too crowded that i cant move. and i went clubbing with some of the people from PP and i'm glad that jasmine enjoyed mambo (i think).

i need to change myself. something.

You’ll always be a part of me
I’m a part of you indefinitely

i want a new phone. i think it's time for a change.
SGH-U900 vs iphone

the samsung soul phone is pretty cool on its own. it's camera already wins the iphone. but i dont reckon it's 3G. the new iphone that should come out by sept is. internet is king. haha

this is somewhat overdue-ed but i reckon i should blog about this cos it was truly a life changing experience. well somewhat. haha

painting is seriously tough work. no joke about that. thanks to D for helping out.

presenting the secrets of how to paint your room

i'm finally done with working as a beauty consultant. one helluva experience i must say. and on my final day i did $800 worth of sales!

and for the first and last time. my first sale was to a man. and he bought $300 worth of products. sweeeet

P.S a $612 meal for 6 is seriously no joke. crab overdose now.

my colleague mr V is a master of words and his way with women is incredibly fascinating!
so over the course of the past 4 days, i've realised that the absolutely BEST place to meet all the desperate housewives and 'possible' sugarmummies in singapore is to do SALES and sell specifically, female beauty products that would appeal to them. nail kits, facial serums. anti age capsules. you name them~

today i witnessed a terribly incredible scene which proved the above point(s). haha kudos to navot! unfortunately, i have yet to attain such a high level of proficiency with the gift of my gab. (is that how you even use that phrase?) and looking back, though i may whine and bitch whole day, this experience was not really THAT bad, less the standing up maybe. tmr my aim is half of a 1000!. break that and my combine over a week hits 2000. say hello to commission and bye bye to foot aches.

more familiar faces today included isrin and shiyun! maybe tmr will be my big day where i pass 1k. muahaha

here's to a good day of (lack of a better word), 'pimping' to impress.

WEDNESDAY has finally come which means i'm halfway through the week and which means i only have 2 more days to go with the current Job i got sucked into! Looking back, the experience i gained is indeed priceless but seriously, one of the most important lessons i have learnt is that I am SO going to study in uni so that i dont have to do such part time sales jobs again! i'm going to have to paste this huge sign in my room. "STUDY or else SALES!"

and today was really quite bad cos i only did about $200 in sales which was a far cry from my 2nd day's total of close to $1000. even my first days' total was higher than todays. the only highlight of today would be the fact that my first sale today was to this lady who after purchasing the nail kit, asked me for my contact so she could get me for events. it seems, she's this event organizer and she said she liked my style. HAHAHA! let's hope something good happens outta this. it's quite irritating how so many people tell you how good a salesman you are but still not buy whatever you're promoting. it's like.. hypocritical? *pffttt* 3 ladies told me i should choose marketing over finance~ maybe i should consider a double major. hmmmm...

OH YES, another highlight would be the appearance of cass who was to be so generous and deliver a packet of HELLO PANDA which totally saved my life today, someway. Moreover, the girl's sick yet insists on pushing herself and go for dance prac. tsk tsk.


i think it's also how much crap u can conjure up and how well your expressions are and entertaining people from all walks of life. and you really have to get a style suitable to yours. in 3 days, i've worked with 3 different people and they all use opposing styles to draw customers. the good thing from work is also getting to know people who work beside me @ my kiosk. thats freddy and cheryl. freddy's this funny carefree guy who dreads going back for reservist haha while cheryl's my age and she's from malaysia but i admire her for being so simple and innocent(in a good way). and they are lovely to talk to although they converse mostly in chinese. a pity freddy stops working today but maybe he'll be back.

P.S my feet has not hurt so bad since 28km route march in sispec. standing up 9 hours a day for the past 3 days aint a joke. and there's still 18more hours to go. ANDRE YOU CAN DO IT! it's all for the moolah!

Tomorrow marks the last day (technically) I spend in Melbourne, Australia before I head back to Singapore. The past week or sorts have been no less wonderful, marvellous even, with all the nice people I've met and all the nice places I've visited. And although I've been telling everyone that my initial Holiday destination was USA, looking back on the past week, I don't feel any regret at not going to US. I even think God intended me to come here for I really saw some things on a totally different perspective here.
The worse feeling I fear, would be this hesitant feeling within me with regards to going back Singapore, as I am greatly blessed with the freedom of actually extending my stay. In fact, I even told Cass that it is fortunate that she has her party on Friday, if not I would have no reason to go back and judging from my stay here, I would no doubt want to extend my stay for a couple of days. Even if it was just till Saturday, just to spend a few more days with my friends here or some of the people whom I've met and know that I would probably not see them again.
It's a semi-bitter feeling knowing that now I do have somewhat a chance of studying in Australia yet thinking about my tertiary education, I've already come to a conclusion that NUS is my final decision, if only sticking to it was easier. Haha.

Think this entry is getting a way bit emo and it should not be since I've been having a great time here in Australia. Will  blog again  about my trip and upload pictures too~! The hidden camwhore  within has taken no less than 400+ shots, and there's still tomorrow!

Thanks to Liwei and his family and also tee for spending so much time with me even though their exams are so close! And Gladys too!