Symptoms of A Failing Heart

i'm back again! because its tuesday today, and you should know by now why i'm so free. haha. well, i'm sorry that there isn't any new photos updates because i really haven't been taking any. just consider me a busy man now.


so lets hope rowdees organise some fun activities soon, if not you won't be seeing each and everyone of our individual rowdees' pretty faces. for example, there's the popular albert which i'm sure most of his fans are DYING to see. haha.


anyway, alex and i had our last training of starhub roadshow job and it only last 2 hours! what the fuck right, it is that SHORT, which is considered good though cause it means for time to enjoy! finally the 3 days of training has ended and now we're waiting for the roadshow itself on 28th april. i hope i can cope with the crowd when the time comes. but please don't give me those fuck up subscriber with alot of stupid questions.


when we got released at 12.30pm, we proceed to plaza singapura to meet up with amy. gaming at arcade was next and then we had lunch at the food court. after that, we walked around for a short time before playing pool at singapore shopping centre while waiting for wenyan and tian nee, who had their interview today for our roadshow job. mond joined us soon.



with free time on our side, we took a bus to orchard. to think that we were suppose to go for some kind or abit of window shopping, we didn't. we end up buying snacks and THATS ALL. but it's not just any snacks, they're DONUT!! one of my favourite food ever. not forgetting they sell the BEST DONUTS over at B1 of takashimaya. i think the shop name was *** *** donut house, something like that. (*** means something something)


they're so good that you shouldn't miss them at all. seriously. plus they're currently having a promotion now of $5 for 5. WORTH IT. though the donut are rather small and expensive (without the promotion), they're fucking AWESOME. trust me. i'm the snack expert here.


ok, let's forget about food now for the time being. cause i'm almost starting to drool already. so.... after our snack time at taka, destination home sweet home was next. mond sent tiannee back to yishun while the rest of us headed to tamp. rowdee greeted me at 7pm.


for now, most of the rowdians now are over at ben's place but i didn't joined them. mainly because they are currently mahjong-ing and it simply doesn't interest me. maybe i'll meet them after they go slack or something.

since that i have so much time now to blog due to WoW still in maintenance. i'm gonna give you the answer to the one question people bound to ask me when they first know me. and that is, why am i called senget?


everytime i come across new people whom i introduced myself or people introducing me to them, i NEVER, and i mean NEVER tell them that my name is xinyi. because it sounds really girly to me and i totally dislike it. i know it is my birth name but i just can't help it. i would just tell them to call me senget instead.


for your information. senget is the malay word for crooked. most of the time, their reaction would be like, "huh? senget?, as in crooked?". and i have to explained, "yes, that senget". then, as expected, they would mostly laugh.


so how did the name came about? well it all started when i was in secondary one. already at that time, i was playing soccer every evening with some of the rowdians. then one day, my classmates, kaisang saw me and shouted out my name 'xinyi', but it kinda ended up sounding like 'senget'. therefore, qingan mishear it and thought he was calling me 'senget'. and just nice, i was always shooting the ball senget whenever i was playing soccer. so a few of them started to call me senget.


next day in school, i was with suffian, the first friend i made in my secondary school life. we were talking cock at that time when i told him that some of my friends nicknamed me senget. he laughed.


few days later, some of my classmates were actually calling me senget. i was like, weird, how did they know that? so i went around asking and finally got to know that suffian told melvin about it and then melvin told chenhuixia about it. so like most girls would do, she went around spreading it! in no time, thanks to them, my name became senget overnight.


so it all slowly began.


schoolmates i didn't even know of starts to know who i am by the name of senget. some walk past me and was saying, 'hey thats senget'. even my teachers started calling me that. rofl. somehow, my feelings for that nickname grew and has used it eversince. at first, when i didn't know how to spell it, i remember writing 'san-act' in my wordsheet and got scolded by a teacher. hahaha. thats when i find a malay friend to ask him how to spell the actual word.


now, everyone is calling me senget. it has became my permanent name and i even thought of putting it in my identification card. HAHA.

HOHO! my deadline was almost up. it's time for me to serve my nation. i finally received my NS letter which i'll be posted to the 46th singapore armour regiment on 9th june at 9am. but the thing is, the letter stated that i didn't pass my nafa test, which i did. therefore, after keong checked with CMPB, i was then told that cmpb only got to receive my nafa test results recently. so now, we shall have to wait for another more updated letter from them at around may to tell us our actual date to serve our nation. what a false alarm.


the same goes to all my fellow rowdians in ite and my ite friends. anyway, i'll update you guys more about our NS thing once we received their letter again. argh, i can't imagine myself being botak!! i need to buy a cap asap.


oh, and now, after much trouble of looking around for jobs, i eventually found one. thanks to recruit express, we got our interview at starhub ltd today and confirmed that we'll be working as a starhub roadshow assistant together with alex chong loo po. though we're only working from 28th to 30th april and 2nd june to 9th june (11pm to 8.30pm), the pay is actually $7 per hour (not forgetting, OT and shift allowance). well, the 4 days of training which includes getting paid, will commence tomorrow from 10am to 6pm. now i wonder if i can wake up.


sadly, now i won't have much time left to WoW now. better make full use and enjoy most of my time while i can. plus i really need to catch up with some of my long-time-never-contact friends. haha.


last saturday, was out to meet albert, ben, qingan, terter, hock, black, kuku, sharon and nini at 7pm to celebrate ben's 20th birthday which falls on the 10th of april.
HAPPY 20th BIRTHDAY to BEN THE FUCKING SCARY CAT JABRONI!!!


also, HAPPY 20th BIRTHDAY to terter which falls on 4th of april!
then HAPPY 19th BIRTHDAY to amy which falls on 5th of april!
lastly, HAPPY 17th BIRTHDAY to sharon which falls on 7th april!


hmmm, first thing we did was dinner at pavilion's kfc before we went century square to purchase our tickets of a 11.30pm japanese movie, "reincarnate". as it was still early, we headed to pavilion to kept ourself busy by playing pool first.


i must say it was "brave" of ben who initiated of watching that movie BUT throughout the movie, you can see his hands kept covering his face. hahaha. it was so fucking funny. he sure got no guts! about the movie, it was alright lah but i still think we should have watched other movie instead. not really that worth it unless you're a big fan of japanese chicks screaming., you'll know what i mean. haha.


after the movie, it was supper at macdonald's before we finally got ourselves home. and i didn't even slept at all, i was playing WoW till the early morning and i left straight with my family to visit my ancestors graves.


whole sunday, i was WoW-ing at home and i didn't even went to meet the other rowdians who were watching the big match between man utd against arsenal at james' place. i guess my life revolve around WoW now. because of it, i've been sleeping so late, like 8am everyday. i may need to reset my life.


for yesterday, it was over at wenyan's house during evening to watch the movies, "euro trip" and "the girl next door" from the external harddisk i brought. we watch till around 11pm when weitong left to meet chris while keong, wenyan and me went to meet felki for prata supper at 825. because felki missed the movie, we proceed back to wenyan's house again to watch "euro trip" again. haha. in the end, it reached home at 3am and continued WoW-ing till 5am before i slept.

i've been wanting to post this entry long ago but i just didn't have the time until now. because WoW is currently having his weekly maintanence. haha.


past visit to plaza singapura has actually brought back old memories to me. it was the time when i was learning drums at the yamaha contempo music school over there. it was the loneliest time of my life then. as it was a really long journey there and the only thing that accompanied me was my dicsman or walkman (i didn't have a mp3 at that time, how pathetic).


at first i didn't plan to take up drums lessons because it was rather expensive. and for that, i want to thank my mom for sponsoring me. the one who influenced me was my secondary school classmate, sha'ari. he was learning guitar at yamaha and was trying to form a band. thats how i joined him. as i was new to drums (not counting the time i play percussion freak at arcade), he wanted me to learn the basics first.


so i did. it cost around $25 for the membership, $75 for the beginners lessons which consist of four, one hour lessons per month and not forgetting the textbook that cost around $20. so yeah, it cost a bomb! at that time, i was still sec 4 and my lessons was at 8pm every thursday. therefore everyday after school and after i finished playing soccer with my schoolmates, i have to get home early to prepare. by the time the lessons ends at 9pm, the mall was already started to close and the more lonely i felt.


imagine how tired i was and the fucking 1 hour plus to and fro journey with only have my music to spent the time. i just have this weird undescribable feeling everytime i have my lessons and i don't know why.


well, every class consist of only 10 students and there's only 6 drumsets and 4 drumpads. first come first serve basis, and i was always the latecomer (that's me). slowly month by month, as the fees goes up from $75 to $82, the student gets lesser as they either got sick or too poor to afford it. but i stay as i was getting keen to learn more.


though my drum teacher is really skilled, but to me, he don't teach that well. i'm also proud to say that i was sort of the more skilled student there due to my previous experience from the arcade. yet i suck in the stupid chords, it was hard to remember them well.


when the class finally left with 4 person, we end up combining with another class. which also means our lessons on thursday would have to change to 2pm on saturday instead. saturday! argh, it was always crowded on the mrt and the mall. i had to leave especially early to get there on time. most of the time, i have no choice but to eat ALONE before i left for my lessons. how gay can that be.


my heart felt so empty during those time. it was like, "where are all my friends when i need them the most?". but it was more like i didn't wanted to trouble my friend to just have lunch with me. how i wish i have someone by my side at the time. anyway, i would have already been happy just to bumped onto someone i know.


about the lessons, just when the fees goes up to $90. i didn't want to waste anymore of my mum's money and not forgetting all the things they taught isn't really hard. i could surely learn them all by myself if i had a drumset. and that was the reason i quit. in total, i learned about two years of drum at yamaha.


sha'ari left yamaha soon after. at that time, we were already jamming songs by metallica with just the 2 of us. slowly, he got to find more classmates to join but it just didn't work out. finally, after time and time again of changing members, we call it quits. something like that, cause he didn't contact me anymore.


all i can say is sha'ari is really skilled at guitar. he could mastered all the guitar solo from "fade to black", "master of puppets" and stuffs. i have never really listen to metallica before and he was the one who influenced me. now, i'm quite a big fan of their old songs.


speaking of a band now, i actually formed one with emily months back but it isn't complete yet. apparently, the band is more to powerpop/punk/rock which is not really my type either. after a few jamming session of our original songs and completing only one song, we slowly didn't contact again.


i guess i just can't find the perfect band. erm, music, jamming and drums used to be important in my life but time flies and i've changed. i've come to accept that i do dress differently from my great friends and our taste of music are always different. but one thing for sure, we love soccer!

just today, i was still sleeping so comfortably before my mom called to wake me up at 12pm to ask if i wanted to catch a movie. my brother didn't join us so i took a bus to tampines mall alone to find my parents. my parents were at singtel to help a friend buy a handphone when i met up with them.


so we caught the movie, "the hills have eyes(m18)" at 2.15pm. it sure was one bloody, frightening and gruesome movie, yet it's a great interesting show. i had my eyes glued to the screen eversince the film started rolling because it was just so intense, you can hardly catch your breath. i swear it's worth every single penny.


after the show, it was lunch at 'viet-thai'. the first time i ever dined there and i should say the food was pretty good though. then my parents went back home while i went to meet mond, wenyan, tian nee and peggie. we walked for a short time before proceeding to century square to help my mom get her sour plums.


wenyan still haven't ate at that time so we accompanied her to eat at 'new york pizza'. well, i got my share of food as well over there too. i simply love the pepperoni, cheese and stuffs.


it was gonna be 7.30pm soon which they've been waiting to catch the finals of campus superstars at ben's place. so they left first while i when to meet keong and felki as they were going to change their faulty pirated pc game at 505.


ben's place was next as soon as we're done with buying food at 7-11. anyway, i was really sleepy watching the whole superstar thing cause the genre wasn't even close to what i listen. to my agony, it finally finished at 11pm when they left for 844 for dinner and home for me.


pretty much now i'm done reading the fhm magazine i just bought and i'm bored. gonna turn in soon but before that, i'm gonna share the 2 eventful day that happened the last few days.

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firstly, last friday, i was at wild wild wet together with keong, ben, albert, zhenfai, terter, black, wenyan and felki. we had vouchers with us, therefore it only cost us $4 each. cheap bargain. before that, lunch at century square's 'long john silver' with ah ni first.


wild wild wet sure was fun, fun, fun and more fun! except that it could have been better if the area is more huge. cause there's only a limited variety of rides/thrills they have and they're always crowded. rain and lightning almost spoiled our day but luckily it only last for a mere 40 minutes. a vast amount of chicks as well. hahaha.


we spent like almost 5 hours over there. i can't possibly describe the fun we had there. so you have to go there personally to go through what we've been through. but if we have the time and money, i would rather the whole rowdees to go to malaysia's sunway lagoon to play. i'm sure it would be more enjoyable there, or if only fantasy island still exists.


back to tampines for dinner at pavilion's kfc. home sweet home to sleep was next.

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secondly, last thursday, it was trip to pulau ubin with qingan, keong, black, hockang, weitong, wenyan, felki and sharon. we met up as early as 9am to take a cab to changi village for breakfast. then it was to the jetty to board on the bum boat which cost $2 each.

the night before, keong, felki and me even stayed over at wenyan's house to prepare ourselves for the trip and had macdonald's for supper with weitong. we slept so late and yet we still felt so energetic about the trip. i guess we were all too excited for our adventure.


for the trip, rented a mountain bike each, took some maps (luckily some of us can read) and finally we're out to our very own adventure at pulau ubin! i can't remember well but i think it's the first time i've been there. the technology there sure is old school and i can never imagine myself living there.


in total, we cycled almost half of the island, avoiding clashes with cars, other cyclists and mosquitos as much as possible (thanks to felki's insect repellent). past through rough rocky path/terrains, spider webs, dangerous slopes and even watery roads. explored the quarry, thai temple, orchid garden, beaches and some other places you don't normally see in the city. also, we spotted a rare species of bird, long green snake and cute doggies. sadly, we didn't get to find the wildpig we've been anticipated. haha.


at the end of the day, weitong, with the help of others, caught alot of mini crabs at the shore before we finally board the bum boat back to changi. luckily, it only started to rain after we left. and we were all so tired after that, therefore we postponed our dinner to after we get back home to rest. but i was so weak that i didn't meet them up like we promised.


overall, we spent alot of money just on the drinks alone cause the weather was so fucking hot at first and we got so thirsty just by cycling around. seriously, i don't mind going there again next time.


by the way, these 2 fruitful trips actually remind me of these lyrics from a song.


"been grown up isn't half as fun as growing up.
these are the best days of our life."


ok below are the photos we snapped during our trip at pulau ubin. enjoy! cause i do.