Things i should have done!

this is a new thing which i just tot of doing.. its titled.. Things i should have done.. i will post things that have already passed.. what i should have done.. but did not do.. this will be interesting i suppose.. in my opinion.. i hope it will for u too

Estimated date it happened : March 2006

Wat happened : First time i saw Chermaine with her new boyfriend in the same mrt.. same cabin.. i smiled at chermaine... turned my face the other way for the rest of the journey..

What i should have done : Go up to her new bf.. introduced myself.. tell him what a great girl he has and ask him to cherish her and then walk off

does it sound corny? or redundant? from this point on... with all the courage ive mustered.. im gonna let u go... after all this time ...

Disasterrific!

Day 4

todays day can be summed up in one word... Disasterrific! u mite be wondering wat tat means..
but i will leave it up to u to think about it haha!

Day started early... we had to pick up the car pronto and the good news was tat we manage to borrow a card from regina's housemate's boyfriend.. but .. bad news was more to come .. like i said.. disasterrific

we took a train down to dandenong station and halfway in the train.. tummy ache started.. it was a bad one at tat.. i was really really really holding it in and when the train finally stopped at dandenong .. OFF I FLEW!! i went into the first toilet i found and *kaboom* hiroshima nagasaki ... *15min later* i walked outta the toilet and the first thing i saw was this muslim girl at the sink(she was wearing the tudong thing) so i pushed the door open and i saw regina sitting in front of me.. i looked back .. i saw the sign.. i looked back at her.. *cue insane laughter by regina* apparently... i went into the girls toilet when i was in a hurry ... after tat regina couldnt really control it .. she was laughing her ass off all the way to the car rental -_-

when we got to the car rental, apparently we needed the guy with the card to be there.. so in the end... we couldnt get the car *sadness max* so since we were both hungry .. we walked the other way and decided to find food.. and we found it .. in the form of fish and chips... honestly it was bad... and i started asking regina how she couldve gotten a car if she didnt have a credit card.. and she said ' well.. i wouldve used my debit card' then suddenly the gears in my brain started turning and 2 mth old cobwebs started to loosen up.. i opened up my wallet and looked down.. i showed it to regina and gave the widest grin u would ever possibly see and braced for IMPACT!

for the next 30 min or so (well it felt like it) she went on and on and on like a energizer battery.. telling me OMG I CANT BELIEVE WE HAD ONE DEBIT CARD ALL ALONG~~ and on and on and on.... thx god im a guy.. its times like this our brain goes into sleep mode and every word that comes outta my mouth is ya... ok.. sorry.. um...repeat*

anyway WOOHOO we got the car!! at that time lixin was getting ready to go to the airport already and since we had the car, we volunteered to give her a ride all the way to the airport!! woot..

we picked her at about 1 and her flight was at 5 .. so since we were taking the car... there was obviously gonna be lotsa time to kill.. so we went to DFO for abit of shopping b4 we sent her to the airport...

funny how we didnt bring the camaras with us although we had it in the car...but we kept on forgetting!! Bugger... although the DFO was supposedly the harbour town of melb... but.. harbour town win hands down!! SO COME TO BRISSY!

after DFO we sent lixin to the airport and did the normal chk in and stuff.. we sat down chat a lil b4 sending her off at the gates... i went to the toilet for just 1 min when i got a call from regina to hurry back to the gates.. i rushed back to see lixin back from the gates . apparently her hand carry luggage was overweight and she had to take out some stuff.... pfft... omg.. in the end she unpacked 10 tim tams!! and some supre bags... madness!! lolz... and guess who has to bring it back... if u guessed me.. ure right.. P.S IM NOT COMPLAINING!!

yea well that was it for the day... we went back to Berwick and planned for the grueling trip tomorrow... THE GREAT OCEAN ROAD! STAY TUNED!

QV market day

Day 3 in seany's adventure in melbourne..

today was surprisingly a warmer day than usual... sun was shining brightly and when i looked at my watch!.. 7.15am -_- it feels like the afternoon already..

did my morning rituals ad everything and finally got outta the house at 8am... we had to meet up with lixin at 8.15am at berwick station. honestly .. regina and i were late haha so we hurried outta the house and brisk walked our way to the station. it was when we met up with lixin and her friend, Candy from Taiwan(tot it was Kelly at first), that regina realised tat.. she didnt bring her mobile, train timetable and everything.. lolz... i asked her whether she wanted to get it but i tink she didnt want trouble anyone so we just took the train to melby central

honestly i still cant get used to the train rides due to the Uber long time it takes to get to the city which is approximately 1 hr -_- not onli tat... the train prices are so expensive!! it takes me 12.60 just to get to the city alone.. cos Melby doesnt believe in giving its international students concession.. wheeee

We talked and had fun on the train and everything till we got to melbourne central and then we took the tram to Queen Victoria Market aka... the daytime pasar malam!! apparently in Brissy we have the city cat.. here they have trams that stretch out to everywhere in the city!!

we got to QV market and did our shopping around.. we kinda split up once we got to the market cos the girls were busy buying... Cherries -_-... they were nice to eat la.. but expensive..
so regina and me went to do our own shopping instead.. but honestly .. HARBOUR TOWN IZ BETTER!!!

shopping was nice la.. wanted to buy a Biker sunglasses but all so expensive -_- in the end.. i didnt really buy anything at all except for a bottle of coffee liquor and some xmas pressie's (cannot divulge whose)...

Apparently when i finished going all over QV market.. the girls.. were still.. looking at cherries.. proness man...

So we walked around and sat down at a Pancake place where we met up with Yokie~ I ordered a pancake tat was huge man.. regina ordered a sandwich (also huge) and Yokie ordered.. Fish and Chips.. honestly theres too much fish and chips in melby..

After lunch we called up lixin and candy but they were already at south bank so too bad for them... cos.. we went... TO WATCH ERAGON!!! if u havent watch it.. go watch it!!!

anyway tat was how our day more or less went.. our onli problem now is.. how to get the car without a credit card cos regina lost hers haha ..

Sean in Melby (part 2~)

DAY 2

today i slept like a pig and waited for regina to get back from work haha! the real fun started when she came back!~~ she was obviously very tired then she told me... 'lets go buy groceries for dinner' then i was like... dun u need rest?? and she said.. im already resting ( brain thinking : SALUTE REGINA NOW!!!) so after tat we went to Springvale to buy the groceries.. she was making sambal kangkong, curry chicken and coconut rice *yum yum*

when we arrived at Springvale aka little vietnam.. suddenly i remembered jonathan from army warning me about the viets in australia.. he said something about.. dun mess with them or they will bring out their ak 47s and shoot u down *thx jon.. u really made my day today* but regina told me their alrite la.. its just tat their language is a mixture of mumbles .. then she tried to enact it out in the middle of the market.. which was like the worst place and time to do it -_-!!

so finally we finished our shopping of food and we went back and almost immediately started to cook!! i prepared the food... regina cooked... haha after almost 2 hrs of cooking.. Lixin, our first and onli guest came!! just nice too cos we just finished cookingz~

we ate and talked our way thru dinner till the next big thing (or small) appeared.. regina was actually expecting a kitten today.. a black one at that.. haha then suddenly u can see all the motherly instincts coming out from regina.. AWWW SO CUTE .. so we kinda played with little kitty till around 10.30++ cos we had to buy something from safeway aka woolies and at the same time send lixin back.. cos its very late at nite and not that safe. so while walking back, lixin actually whipped out a torch and went TIU TIU TIU (imagine a techno song) and played with the torch light as though it was disco haha was damn fun actually .. when we reached the train station however there were these xiao hun hun(coined by lixin meaning little gangster) so they promptly went to walk behind me haha ...

our first stop however was to go meet regina's friend, yokie, to give her our leftovers first and talk abit haha.. then we went to send lixin back to her hostel (which was uber small haha)

by the time we left it was already late at nite and we were going to Queen Victoria's market the next morn anyway ... so we skipped safeway and went back to prepare for Day 3 in Melby

Sean in Melby~!! (part 1)

hey peeps~~ did ya miss meee!! i missed everyone too =p (even if u didnt miss me) lolz..

finally in melby liaoz!! so happy.. but my trip here.. honestly didnt go as well as i planned.. in fact... it was close to disastrous!! see.. wat happened was that i was supposed to leave the house at 5pm to catch my 6.50pm flight.. but to my horror... tony (my housemate) car broke down on the highway while he was about to fetch me.. sianz 1/4 it was then all hell went loose... i began calling all the taxi numbers i knew... but it was peak hour and no one picked up !!! SAD RITE !! so i had to thick skin abit and ask Samuel to drive me there.. he came around 10 min later to pick me up (THX U SAMUEL I OWE U LOTS) and proceeded on our way.. then we hit at least 3 traffic jams b4 i got to the domestic airport.. i was supposed to check in 30 min b4 the flight took off.. and i reached there... 6.18pm?? too close to count.. then after tat when i took my flight ticket and chked in my luggage bag.. i went to the security bag chk place... there.. i was very flustered and went thru the metal detector without the guy chking me... the security guy saw me and directed me back with a very angry stare and the finger pointing back..i was kinda shocked by his reaction.. cant he be a LIL bit nicer... anyway... i waited for my turn and went in lor ~.~

the flight.... was delayed by 15 min for some reason and we boarded late... i was so panicky considering it was my first time going on a trip to anywhere else... alone..haha.. so when i finally boarded the plane.. i realised that i sat next to 2 HUMONGOZOID WOMEN!!! which meant.. little or smaller place for me to sit -_- sianz 1/2 .. but had to make do la... to top it off i couldnt sleep cos they were laughing and chatting all the way ~.~

after about wat seemed like foreva.. i finally landed after 2 hrs of flight time .. i finally reached melby!!! woooohhooooo then i realised... i needed 1 hr to get to my destination.. Southern cross station ~.~ sianz 3/4 almost pulled my hair out cos.. PSP NO POWA LIAOZ!

Finally after arriving at southern cross station.. i finally met REGINA~~ honestly havent seen her for the longest time already and she happily accomodated me into her house =) (well hopefully happily) so we took... another 1 hr just to get to her place at Berwick pronounced as BEAR - ICK ... dun ask me why.. just know it... SIANZ WHOLE!!!!
Finally after an hrs ride we finally got to berwick and rested for the nite.. ultra tired day.. but well thx god alls well ends well =)

Singlish is wrong.. funny..and Singaporean

K.. i just talked to Ruth my cousin in the States.. and it was all nice catching up till i went singlish on her.. she laughed her ass off.. she was going.. U SAID LA!!! WAHAHAHA THATS SOO FUNNY!!.. then when she tried it herself obviously she LA'ed at the wrong part of the sentence something along the lines of... "Haha la.. its so funny... (ZOMG NOOB ALERT)" but cant blame her.. she grew up in the states all her life.

but i mean making fun of my american cousin is not the main point here (but yea i gotta admit.. its funny) ... it dawned on me... im a singlish addict... no matter how politically correct i am in english.. it all flies out the window once i relax and talk to ppl that i am comfortable with... LA, LOR, SIANZ and etc come out... in fact.. when i was doin my team project with my australian friend thomas... eric and me taught him how to speak singlish... considering i spoke it all my life.. its just so natural for me.. for us from the asian region to speak and understand it.. but then when it came down to thomas, he told us it was like learning another language... and in the end after a few laughs we kinda just gave up..
this topic has been debated upon so many umpteen times.. and finally to put all questions at rest... i FINALLY came out with one conclusive answer!!.. YES! singlish is another language.. not a variant of english but a totally different language.. something like.. why japanese characters have chinese words in them but is a totally different language!! and also i can proudly write down tat i know more languages than i tot i knew! kewl rite! v(O_O)v

*side note*
Robbie is here in Brissy which leads me to wonder why Shing went to Sydney to see him.. can anyone tell me why?? hahaha anyways.. IM GOING MELB TOMORROW!!! WOOT haha *laughs at cass* stay tuned for Sean in Melby~

A tribute to mummy and daddy

U know though these few days ive been a wee bit less active .. but during this time.. ive read a book called For One More Day by Mitch Albom.. hes a really good author, his style of writing really touches ure heart and gets u all fuzzy wuzzy and also my housemate Tony also passed me one japanese drama called '14 sai no haha' and its about this 14 yr old girl tat got pregnant and how she is shunned by society which leads me to think.. why isit ok for sex b4 marraige but not the by product of it.. interesting tot huh..

But anyway.. the thing these 2 have in common is mama's unconditional love for us.. in For One More Day .. he writes about this guy tat was given a chance to see his long dead mum .. and how he was too proud to see that all that his mother has done for him when she was still alive.. and when it came to the times his mother stood up for him and the times he did not stand up for his mum... he loss by a landslide.

14 sai no haha on the other hand is also about mummies.. although the girl got pregnant.. she didnt want an abortion although everyone .. even her lover told her to do it.. actually she almost had an abortion.. till her mum told her how much she loved her and cared for her even though she did wrong things or digraced her, which led her to think that she cared for the unborn baby just as much her mother cared for her~ this show really made me tear.. not cry ... just tear.. its really really touching how she fites thru all odds to bring the baby to the world. in short go watch

It just so happens that Marilyn's mum is in town too~ and shes kewl man.. lolz she treated us to dinner last sunday and also prepared steamboat for us on thursday! i tink its a motherly instinct to suddenly treat ppl nicely and give them goodies haha.. but hey im not complaining.. she really knows how to take care of ppl man.. she kinda fed me till i was almost gonna explode, haha a really kewl mum and shes got a fun side too haha..

then i tot to myself.. have i been a good son to my parents.. have i done them proud or have i let them down and i realised .. i have parents just like the ones in the book and in the show.. no matter how much wrong i do.. i will be forgiven and loved..

So Mum, Dad, if ure reading this out there.. i thank u for all the things that u have done for me, i thank god that im blessed with 2 wonderful parents, no money in the world is enuff to repay wat u have done for me, im proud to have u 2 as my parents and from the bottom of my heart... i love u 2 just as much if not more~!

So for everyone out there.. go get a copy of the book or watch the show.. its inspiring and it also teaches u how to be a good parent when the time comes too. hahaha till next time.. Sean out..

Christmas 4 Kidz

Christmas 4 Kids or C4k in short is an event tat i joined to help out the less fortunate children~~ it was organised by hands of hope (one of the church comminities) and although i didnt choose to do anything tat had to do with children.. i was inexplicably chosen to do Balloon twisting (which was wat i didnt choose) and Setting/Packing up (which was wat i chose).. luckily for me i had some experience with balloon twisting during my teenage yrs so NO PROB! but the worst was yet to come ... stay tuned!

ok the day started off at 3.30am .. yes 3.30AM! gosh... the day b4 we just sent Karena off to the airport and i reached back at around 11++ and god knows why but i watched 2 anime episodes b4 i slept (Watched Lelouch of the Rebellion!! if u havent watch it go watch it now!! its damn good) so in the end i slept at around 12am giving me... 3.5 hrs of sleep.. IMPENDING LACK OF SLEEP!! anyway my alarm rang and the sky was dark ... but surprisingly (or not) my housemate was still wide awake.. anyway~~ i left at 4am and was the last to reach the gathering pt.. abit paiseh la.. but i mean everybody was kinda zombified also..when we went there... it was work straight away.. move here carry tat... btw.. the day b4 i had to help out with collecting stuff prior to this but we only had like 8 ppl to do it with... so we had like onli 5 ppl to carry 350 chairs here and there(which was absolutely nuts!) and 3 ppl to get 30 tables...anyway back to topic.. yea so we worked like tat all the way till.. 7.30 or so?? b4 i registered as a volunteer at the counter.. then woot straight away to work at my booth ~~!! i had like around 1 hr to acquaint with my new found honkie/korean/aussie friends and also learn new balloon tricks at the same time!! and by the time we knew it.. in came the nitemar... i mean kids =p.. haha

4.30am

4.45am

5.30 am!!

and so in came the kids.. at first it was manageable.. but soon our booth became quite popular and it was exactly like peak hr at Tuas navy base man.. non stop twisting and turning of balloons... balloons going pop here bang there flying everywhere... at first i made these angel wings for myself.. just for fun and laughter.. but someone saw me wearing it and said.. ' i would like one angel wing too!' gosh.. that took me at least 15 min to make !! and i was like.. Take mine! then.. just like ants... they called comrades to ask for more... and i was like.. NOOOOOOO!!!! HAVE MERCY!!! so in the end i had to make swords for them... i tink swords were like the most popular...i kept making sword after sword after sword.. and kids really know how to come up with impossible or very hard to do designs like kangaroo, bear, axe, shield.. u name it .. i cant make it... to top it off.. our girls (apparently the girls are better at twisting balloons) went MIA halfway!!! and when they asked for designs like flowers/butterflies.. i was like.. WHERE ARE THE GIRLS!!! ~.~ then after a few min i see them walking back with paint on their faces... obviously enjoying themselves somewhere else while leaving the poor ol boys to fend the Horde of Kids !! but at least they came back la *haiz*

this is wat happens when u wake up at 3am

rachel with her 'flowers' ----DUN LAUGH!! I KNOW ITS A GHEY PIC

after 4 hrs of Aja Aja fiting! it all ended!! at around 3pm or so.. no more kids.. poopified.. but that wasnt the end... nooo.. there was wat they call PACK UP!.. in my mind i was like... u gotta be kidding me man.. but hey .. its all for a good cause ... so yea.. pack pack pack .. move move move.. we even had to go to an incinerator plant about 10 min drive away to dump ALL the rubbish.. reminded me of an excursion i did when i was in primary school to tuas incineration plant.. yea.. it stank. dunt ask anymore... then we came back .. packed somemore b4 finally heading home... *AMEN!* came back.. took a bath.. and BAM! slept straight away when i hit the bed.. was supposed to go liwens house for dinner.. but i woke up at like.. 1am? gone case man.. total internal clock failure after tat... so i did wat everyone would do.... sleep somemore.. another day gonez~~

p.s. SORRY RACHEL!! I DIDNT MEAN TO STEAL URE EEYORE!~~