Trick or treat! [2006] {Weird eh? LOL}

Sunny in the morning, Rainy at night
PSI: 46+ [Start: 10.40pm]

No, I didn't go T&T-ing.. Come on... I don't even believe in H'ween..I just thought to make this post title interesting.. Since it's not every night that we get H'ween... right? [lol]

Today..Well, woke up at around 8.45am [Father woke me up...] However, since my lessons were later in the day, I had plenty of time to stay at home and slack...

So, after I done the usual eating and bathing, I went on to listen to this brilliant CD that i borrowed from the School library.... "A New World" by [Maksim]. For those who have yet to listen to any of his CDs, this is HIGHLY reccommended... He is a wonderful, brilliant piano player... I tell you, Once you've heard of his music, you'll want to listen to it over, and over, and over.... [You get the point]

Anyways, I also went about doing some spring cleaning on my laptop... Before I did it, there was A LOT of junk in my laptop.. Trust me on this... Whoever heard of a "My Documents" that was like 30 Gb worth of space?? Madness right?? I got so fed up, that I cleared out 20 Gb worth of unnecessary junk..

Once it was done, I felt a lot better... [at least I didn't have to deal with all that junk anymore..]

Soon enough, it was time for me to leave for school...

{oh yea, I almost forgot.}Last night, when I had just returned home, I found out that the main metal door to our home was stuck. When I tried to unlock it, I couldn't! The inside keyhole was at an unusual vertical position.. [Usually the keyhole was horizontal to allow the key to be removed, but last night was just unusual..] Anyway, in the end I had to enter from the back door.. [I live in a Semi-Detached House, a private property kinda thing, rather than a HDB flat.]

When my father returned this morning, he managed to dismantle the door, and found out the source of the problem.. Some parts of the lock were loose... His solution? He switched the front door lock and the back door lock, then tightened the [ex] front door lock so the same thing won't happen again..[I'm lucky to have a father who is a handyman... lol]

Ok, back to the story.. [lol]
I went to school just in time for my lessons, which for today's case, was a practical lesson...
[Due to me repeating a module of my course, it turns out that this semester, my whole timetable has become crazy, with weird gaps here and there..] Anyways, for today's practical, we had to do another titration...

To cut it short, my lesson ended at 5.30pm... Once done, I went straight to the Main school library, as I suddenly remembered that i was planning to borrow a DVD to watch: "Garfield & Friends".. This is one of the funnier cartoons that I watched... I remember reading it's comics as a kid, so now watching it as a cartoon, was just pure luxury... It is soooo funny!! [lol] I had just finished watching it... It is another reccommended borrow...

So, when at the library, I decided to call my DGL, Jason, [Discipleship Group Leader: something like a Cell Group Leader..] to see what he was doing.

As it turns out, he was about to go eat dinner with some of the other Crusaders {friends of ours from Crusade} When I heard that they were all going to eat, I decided to rush over and eat with them, since the place they were going to eat, was somewhere I had only heard them talk about before... It's name is: Botak John's [botak= bald, in malay]. It's a western food stall that sells very delicious Western food.. This i must praise.. Although it may come as a little pricey, but trust me, it's meals are really worth it..

Jason and another Crusader took the MRT [Monorail Transit System.. The train system I mentioned a few posts before] there, while Khalis and Fiona, fellow crusaders, took a bus with me to the closest bus stop to the MRT to meet up with Jason and "Auntie",the other Crusader [lol]...

Then, Botak John's was just walking distance from 'Clementi' station, so the 4 of us chatted while walking there....

Once there, we found a table, then sat down to order... While skimming thru the menu, I saw it was quite unique, as there were some jokes printed as footnotes under certain pages of it...

Basically, we had a filling meal, and it was quite memorable, as quite a few things happened...

Ah well, it sure was a great way to spend a night:: To spend it with fellow Christians!! I will cherish all the moments like this...

Peace out, and God Bless!!

Serxerius [aka Alvin.]
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[Endtime: 11.48pm, 31st Oct]
{Listening-- Ride of the Valkyries by Maksim}

Eve of H'ween. [Strange days...]

Moderate weather, P.S.I- 50+
Rainy in the morning...

This morning, I woke up at around 8 plus, but then due to my [extremely bad habit---sloth..]
I continued to lay on my bed minutes after the alarm clock rang.

[Note to self--Kick you bad habits. Seriously..]

Sadly, I went on to sleep until I next woke up at 11.00am. By the time I left the house, it was almost 11.30am. [My lesson starts at 11am, ends at 12nn. Sigh... I seriously need help..]

Anyways, I went straight over to my Spreadsheets lessons, and clarified some doubts about spreadsheet [Excel] during the lessons... {We're having a test in 2 weeks' time.}

After lessons, I went over to my favourite spot.. Crusade Room!!! [Note-- No, this is not a club dedicated to the Crusades of the Middle Ages... It stands for "Campus Crusade for Christ." Yep.]

Anyways, I went there, and stayed for quite a while..

Ok. I shall end it here for today. [PS: My parents just arrived home... lol]

Peace out,

Serxerius.
[End: 12.36mn, 31st Oct]

Troubles?

[Start: 12.13 am, 30/10]

Rainy

What has been on my mind?

Nothing much, I must say. It's just that I never thought about the things I did to people so seriously before.

Especially not before today.

Recap--

I went out with Mr U. again.
However, today, the person who was late was me.
I ate my lunch a little too late, thus delaying the time I left for our meeting place.
Coincidentally, We met at 'Somerset', the station after 'Orchard' on the Red line.

Well, anyway, I was so late that instead of arrivin at 4.30pm, I got there at almost 5.
[Note to self- I seriously need to be more time conscious.... sigh...]

So, I got a whole lot of scoldings from him, and in the end I had to apologise to him again and again...

After the whole lot of apologising, we went to the nearest "Mac/Apple" shop to go take a look at the products. It was quite interesting looking at all the iPods and iMacs...

We had stayed there for about half an hour. As I was feeling bored of staying at the same place, I told my friend that we should leave the shop. Thus, we walked out of the "Cine-leisure" Shopping Centre {Where the [Mac] Shop was}, and went over to "Heeren/HMV", to do some more shopping...

It was sort of interesting to have this shopping spree with my friend, as I usually did it by my friend. Thus, it can be said to be quite enjoyable and dun to have someone to talk to and just like see clothes and all that.

Soon,I started to hear my stomach growling, so we decided to grab a bite. We went over to this 'sort of' outdoor food outlet, called "Kopitiam" [Essentially, it means "Coffee Shop" in the Hockien Dialect].

We found a seat, ordered our food, and were starting to eat, when my friend realised something. He had forgot to mention to the chef that he didn't want chilli added to his food. He ended up needing to get a drink from the drinks stall nearby.

Halfway thru our [windy] meal, I started feeling tiny droplets of water falling onto my hands and body. I realised that it was starting to drizzle. The instant it dawned on me, I quickened my eating speed, and finished my food in no time.

My friend, however, couldn't catch up with my speed, due to the fact that he was eating a chilli laced food, and he wasn't used to eating things that spicy. As the rain steadily got bigger, we had no choice but to shift places. By that time, I had opened up my umbrella, but my friend didn't have one, so he rushed to the nearest shelter, which was something of a sheltered platform.

While my friend found a seat to eat at, I watched this group of youths practicing a dance routine... It was interesting, as I never really had the chance to really see people dance and all that.

Very soon, my friend finished his food, and we decided to leave that sheltered platform to go to somewhere more "cooling" [lol]. So, we went over to Cine-leisure [again], and went up to the [Mac] shop {again! lol}

We stayed there for quite a while, as me and my friend went around like learning how to use the iMacs by ourselves... As I had iTunes in my Laptop, it was a much easier job for me familiarise myself with the controls... However, it still felt weird as I was not used to the Mac OS.

My friend too had learnt something. He learnt that he could use the internet on Mac OS via Safari. It was quite interesting, as neither of us used the Mac OS.

As all things must come to an end, we soon had to leave the [Mac] Shop, as it was closing time!
[Sigh..]

My friend and I parted ways soon after, as I had to take a bus, while he, took the train home.

Thus here I am, now typing away, at the middle of the night.

Just before I leave, I've been thinking about something...

I've just had this online conversation with this other friend of mine, and I just suddenly thought about the topic of BGR [Boy-Girl Relationships]

Well, the thing is, I never really put much thought into this topic before, as dating was a thing that I never really like concerned myself to anyway. In my opinion, I think that it's just not really appropriate for us to find a "partner", or something like that, while we are still studying.

I'd very much rather devote my time onto studies, or more importantly, spend more time with God.

I feel that at times, I just feel as though I have lost touch with the world or something.. Thus like making me feel sort of alone... I don't know..

Many a times, I may just get bouts of sadness, and feel as tho there are things troubling me, as though my heart is just filled with unanswered questions, and all that.

Perhaps I just have avoided my problems and questions for too long.

Perhaps the best option, and most effective solution to my problems, is this::

That is, to FACE my problems HEAD ON. And also, [more importantly] to PRAY for God's help, in giving me the strength to face whatever obstacles that may lie ahead of me.

May this last sentence that I just said be a reminder and prayer for us all...

Peace Out,

Serxerius [ 01.27am end]

"You were meant for me"

[Start time:12.01 am 29/10]
Rainy

This post is dedicated to my fren- The Unknown One.

Well, let's see.

For the past few days I've always intended to type something, but every time I sat down, I just didn't know what it was that I wanted to write.
So in the end, the day passed on without me writing anything...

But I have to say, that yesterday was really... eventful. I would say.

Let's talk about yesterday then--

Well, the lessons I had during friday were quite common...
The usual VB.Net [Visual Basic.Net] lessons...

Straight after that, I went to find my friends, whom 1 of them is, none other than, Mr Unknown.

Well, we met up, then my friends left, leaving me with Mr U.

We then had our meals together, and he talked about his project.

When I heard that he had finally completed his project, you could never know how happy I was for him. "Well", I said to him, "at least now it's over, you don't have to think about it anymore". He agreed with me.

After Lunch, he asked me what I would be doing, I just told him I'd be going over to the Esplanade area.[This was going to be a source of debate between the 2 of us later].

"Oh, So you're going to esplanade alone?"
"Yep."
"Ok. Cause actually, I have a friend who sms-ed me this morning, but I have yet to reply him.."
"Reply to him then..."

My friend proceeded to reply to his friend thru sms..

As all that was going on, we were walking towards the Train station, which was quite close, of course.

Upon reaching the train station, he went to make his phone call with his friend, while I went to top-up the value for my fare card. He then told me that his friend had told him that he would go over to the Orchard area. I said nothing.

We then went thru the train gantries, and boarded the train towards 'Pasir Ris'.

{Note: This train line [Green line] has 2 interchange stops, 'City Hall' & 'Raffles Place', where all the lines [Red & Green] intersected. Thus it was sort of a common stop for me and him, as 'Pasir Ris' was on the Green line, my stop was 'City Hall', and his was 'Orchard', which was on the Red line.}

On the train, we just chatted about like where we were going, and what we were going to do once we arrived. It was at this point when I committed, on hindsight, my worst mistake: I assumed that he knew that I was going alone. I also wrongly assumed that he would want to go the Esplanade with me.

When we reached 'City Hall' I then like sort of told him that I was going. He thought that it was like just a parting of ways, so he said bye.

Then I told him 'sarcastically' this:

"Nevermind, Nevermind, you can go to your friend. Since you want to go with him, then go.."
"What? What do you want?"
"Nothing.. Nothing. Since you want to go, then go... It's ok.."
"Eh.. Please understand, I have already promised him already..."
"Nevermind..."

Then I just walked away, thru the gantry at 'City Hall', and headed to Esplanade.

After that, I recieved a call from him:
"If I knew that you had wanted to go to Esplanade with me, I would have went with you.. but you didn't... So you can't blame me!"

I was like quite angry for him not understanding me at time, so I just like rebuked him..

Upon reaching Esplanade, I went over to the library.

As I was looking for books, I walked past the "Arts Cafe", and heard this song that I heard "You were meant for me" by Jewel.

I once heard it at the Cafe, sung by a wonderful lady, and this time, it was sung again! So i was so shocked that I just heard it again that I rushed to the cafe.

I just sat down to hear it.

It was wonderful.

Ok. [Sorry for sounding so rushed.. I have to do some changes to my site. Thanks. Bye]

Peace out.

Serxerius [29/10, 02.00am]

Hazy Days

Well, another day has passed as I write this post.

Some of you must have wondered, why have i taken the luxury of posting this much recently? What has spurred me on all these writing sprees?

Perhaps it's just that the haze in these areas have driven me to just have this ranting review of life in this region.

NAH. That's not it.. I just felt that too often have i neglected the fact that even normal days have their eccentricities, but I've just not bothered to note them down.

So here I am, typing away on my Laptop at home... Contemplating.

Let's recap, shall we?

Today-- I went [again] to the JE Library for a little studying time...
Went up to the 4th Level Comics secion again>>

Today I took quite a few books to read. Namely::
Camelot 3000,
Lara Croft: Saga of Medusa Mask,
Sandman Vol3. [Yesterday I read Vol1.],
Jack Kirby: New Gods[Yesterday I read 4th World],
[and some other books that I just roughly skimmed through...]

Ok. It was only today that I discovered I had once borrowed Sandman [3] before. I can only assume I read it just out of curiosity the last time. This time, when I read it again, it was like reading it from a new perspective.

Never had I expected that this time, I would see so many new things about it. Now I know more of the context of the events. Whereas the last time I read it, it was more of a fun read.

This makes me want to get "Absolute Sandman" even more.

Okies, Digression again.

Soon afterwards, my [Old High School Senior] friend sms-ed me, asking me if I had time for dinner. I told him it was fine, then asked him for a location. He told me JP.
JP was fine with me. [ JP= Jurong Point].

On the way there, I walked pass this video store selling CDs. And they were showing clips of X3!!

Cool. So I stood there for a while to watch. I must say, it has whet my appetite. It's time I go to get it. [Note: Just one problem-- I'm a little short of cash these days. Due to my excessive spending habits. I'm lucky I didn't go bankrupt. Goodness knows what might happen If I did.]

Sigh. I shall have to [which I currently am doing] curb all excessive spendings.

Continuing on-- Reached JP to have dinner at Long John's [My friend arrived late, as per normal..] then we went home.

Yep. So here I am now.

Woah. I must have typed for almost an hour.. [Ha. This is THE side-effect of multi-tasking!]

Tomorrow is the day where my relatives from China go back.
I will miss them. They have given me so much inspiration... Although they're of my grandparent's generation, it seems as tho they are also much more approachable.

I guess it's because I don't meet them everyday, so I cherish them more.

Ah well, all good thing must come to an end, some day...

As must all posts. So, I bid you all, aideu.

Au revoir, Messrs et Ma'mes..

Peace out,

Serxerius. [18/10, 00.40mn, end.]

Sandy Times...

Today, I've been to the library, during the little break I had between lessons...

My initial plans were just to get rid of some of the books I had borrowed, and get some that I needed to read.

I had 3 books on my "To-read" list.

However, by the time I reached the 4th Level, where the books on the list were, I found myself mysteriously attracted to the comics section..

[Note: This is not the first time... I tend to drag some time at the comics section for a while.. However, there was something new to it today....]

Usually, I would just spend some minutes drifting through some ridiculous books, and things like it... However, today was the unique.. I could feel it...

The moment I walked to the shelf, I felt attracted to a title.. and then, the instant my eyes laid eyes on it, I couldn't get them off.............

The book was "The Sandman".

Yes, Neil Gaiman....

No doubt some would have heard of it... For those who have not, have solace that you can find his titles easily....

The Sandman must have put a spell on me... Now I crave and desire for him.. To be him... To learn from him... His powers are wonderful... Much like the Endless.

I have fallen in love in his books...

Kudos to my newest obsession!!

PS: I also have to do a little update of my health:: This haze that is plaguing my side of Earth is getting worse... It peaked to PSI-130 today... It was terrible... So is my health...

My nose is now runny, much like a faucet with no closure, dripping, dripping... & my throat... I can feel pain.. soreness... Much like how anyone would feel in my state....

Sigh.. It's ok. I can stand it. These things are small compared to what Sandman has experienced... With his confinement, and destruction of his Kingdom....

It's ok...

I shall now rest well, knowing I have said what needs to be said.

May we all have a good night.

Blessed be, God Bless...

Peace out,

Serxerius. [11.51pm end]

Fowling around..

Hi.

Long time no type. lolz.

How are you ppl? Good?

This is bizzare. Yep. It's been long. Lots have happened since I last had to type something.

However, today is totally just out of the blue. There have been many times the past September/October period that I wanted to type something...

In the end, nothing came out. Has to be my mind, I guess. It seized up when I had to type.

Just like... now. Lolz. Nah, no really.. Was just screwing around my mind..

Dear, dear... I digress..

I've been caught up with Fowl Fever... lol. So now, it's like I've been reading the Fowl books like mad.

This must be really the newest obsession of mine, I guess..

So, any Fowl-ers out there? Find me or comment if u are... lol

See ya ppl...

Blessed be. God Bless.

Peace out.

Serxerius. [12.57am end]