Monday, September 25, 2006
this will be a more of a soul searching post here, this evening as I'm making my way back home, I spent some time doing some reflection and started to think,
hey after all this years am I playing too safe and coup up in my comfort zone?,
am I not risk-taking enough?,
am I always being too hard on myself?,
am I not daring enough?,
am I too shy to get a girlfriend?,
am I too over-self-conscious?,
am I thinking too much too many a times?,
I guess I'm screwing all the constrictions inside of this little comfort zone of mine, I'm going all out to do all I have to do without thinking too much and being overselfconscious...
guess Its gonna be a good thing and a bad thing also, and no pain no gain right? no input no output right?...
the revamp of myself is gonna hit ya real soon yea...
chill and cya readers around
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Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Last Week was a mixture of work and play and hang outs and chill outs, many late nights
had a day off work on last monday and played badminton with Moses and Mark, I'm improving a little and not as rusty as the week before...
work as usual on tuesday and wednesday, I was working at Isetan Orchard last wednesday and had a little of an eye-opener or should I say a culture shock, saw this guy who was at the ladies shoes department wearing a pair of heels and trying and looking at some ladies heels...
bought an Ipod AV cable during lunch time, now I'll be able to plug my Ipod to my TV to watch videos = )...
had a day off on thursday again, did a little cycling and kenna some rain downpour on my way back, went back wash up and play my Ps2 winning eleven game till the evening and headed down to church to have dinner at Father Tay house, tat day full house, had this nice visiting pair of Priests, an Indian and Caucasian...
after tat chilled out at Punggol park with Luke, Louis, moses, ben-tan, christina, mark, aloy Lee/Ng, Mark Jason and so on...
talk alot of cock with Luke and Louis, haha...
saturday work and met up with Gabriel after work for supper and chill out at 401 and watched some soccer...
sunday was fun, chill out in the morning with Bryan, chit chat a little aftertat had breakfast at 401 with Aloy Ng, Kurt and Theresa, after tat attend cat class with aloy lee, kinda sad tat the teacher and the students jus cant click with each other, u see the teacher putting an effort to give a good lesson while every single student were busy doing their own things or purely stoning and day dreaming, after tat had legion meeting followed by lunch, then Youth Council meeting, was caught dozing off during the meeting by louis but was kinda awake for the rest of the meeting, took down the minutes for legion, after tat went to play dota at hougang plaza with Louis, Christina, luke, shaun, buis, sam, sebas and many more people. sitting next buis playing is damn funny, like can get a permanent laughter, keep hearing him make funny comments and swearing when he cant find louis in the game...
after gaming went back to church with the guys and ate a little buffet, knowing tat i cant eat chilli, louis sam and sebas prepare me a chilli filled kueh pie tee and dared me to eat it up, i ate it, its freaking hell of a spicy man, there was like an inferno in my mouth, immediately gunned down all of the drinks within my sight, they thought i was high man... suddenly the guys were talking about playing catching the next day,
after tat went to 401 to watch soccer with gabriel, Man Utd vs Arsenal, freaking sad Man utd lost the game...
monday had work, after work went for Music ministry, after music ministry played catching and Ice&Water with the guys, luke aloy lee&ng, sebas, sam, shaun, louis & chris marcus and iggy, freaking funny and retarded, felt very slow tat day, guess i needa work out and keep fit man, damn shag after tat...
tuesday work again after work met up with ben tan at orchard to do some shopping and chill out at the takashimaya basement fountain area, after tat sat a long bus ride home and talk about loads of stuffs man...
wed thurs and today like almost the same, WORK...
well i learned a lot of things this week...
Thursday, September 07, 2006
The meaning behind my name...
After a Little research...
Manuel is actually in Spanish
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German, Spanish, Portuguese
Pronounced: MAN-yoo-el (English), mah-NWEL (Spanish), mahn-oo-EL (Portuguese) [key] Short German form of EMANUEL, as well as the Spanish and Portuguese normal form.
This was the name of two kings of Portugal and two Byzantine emperors.
EMANUEL Gender: Masculine
Usage: Scandinavian, German Scandinavian and German form of EMMANUEL
Pronounced as: e-man-WEL (French), e-MAN-yoo-el (English) [key] Means "God is with us" in Hebrew. This was the foretold name of the Messiah in the Old Testament.
so after this I probably cant blame someone who cant pronouce my name well or profoundly, so many versions from so many languages...
Started in the morning, planned nicely to go to work on time but ended up late due to slow traffic, today (WED 6/9/06) I'm stationed at metro woodlands 1st time there though, sales not bad today...
had some great and fast and easy to deal with customers today, all my sales were before lunch and was kinda bored after lunch, so I sat on my counter designer chair and started spinning like a lunatic,spinning anti-clock & clockwise each time i sat on the chair untill I got a little giddy and felt like throwing up, the security guard probably thought I was crazy and cranky as i was spinning around getting into a man-made daze...
okay towards the end of work, was doing a countdown, knock off on the dot, changed my attire and head straight down to orchard for a movie with Ben-Tan, Nicole, joanna and phyllicia, "The Devil Wears Prada"...
also we bumped into Mark Jason, Aloy Ng, Mitchell and bradly's sis..
the show was kinda funny with ben sitting next to me, he kept saying tat Anne Hathaway is damn hot, well kinda true though...
well worth the box office movie ticket money...
well the show is kinda hilarious and not to suitable with muts, minahs, ah bengs and lians as they probably wont understand half of wat the actresses say in the movie... profound english are evident throughout the movie... early in the show I suddenly felt high tide in my bladder and I tolerated untill the movie ended, had to much drick b4 the movie... freaking relieved after i went to the toilet, off loaded my excess fluids befor my face turn green or purple...
got to know the 3 girls a little better, didnt even know tat phyllicia lives in florida untill today, a stone throw away from my block anyway...
they were kinda funny also, they didnt even knew i was in the music ministry all along untill recently...
walked the lady who lives in florida home and saw mark on my way home, wat a coincidence...
well kinda good day for me, probably God's way of rewarding me for all the positive things tat I've done throughout the week...
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Tuesday, September 05, 2006
Ok Here I am to update on this blog...
over the weekend was kinda great, 1st was saturday, went to church in the afternoon to help set up the game stall and also move all the tables and chairs to get the preparations ready for the following day, was extremely taxing on those who helped out...
had to also do some touch up on the dunking machine banner, waited for the guys who went to cloocet the dunking machine from ST. Joseph church in bukit timah...
took extremely long to fill up the machine...
dropped by the hall where the rest of the guys were still doing some sound check and practice before the BIG event... helped to blow some ballons and also blew some of them till it exploded...
everything was done by 7pm, rushed home for a bath and headed straight to the hall for the youth mass...
Father Kenson was celebrating the mass the crowd was good, the worship leaders (Singers) were great and the bands were excellent, the ambience was perfect, the aftermath of the mass was great too, had time to chill around and took some group photos, will try to upload the photos when i get my hands on them...
Sunday morning, the food was good had to go for 3 rounds of great food jus to appease my appetite...
I was the 1st person to go up and sit on the dunking machine, bryan hit the target 2 times but wasnt enough for me to take the plunge... another 6 balls hit the target before I finally fell into the water...
had some more food...
got dunked a few more times...
tried out the shooting range stall which used real airgun...
hit the target 8 out of 10 times, not bad yea?...
at the end helped to move the gas cylinders and then return the dunking machine with Corn, Clement, Louis and Calvin to St. Joseph church...
after tat came back to church, returned the gas stoves and stacked the tables and chairs, freaking shag man...
then went to Hougang Plaza with louis and Luke for some dota, got trashed in the game and observed the second game, the chair I was sitting on could recline, so as I leaned back I fell into a deep sleep (The sleep was good man!) and kenna disturbed by the guys till I woke up but could not recall wat they did to me, jus knew they were laughing at me...
okay tats my weekend
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Friday, September 01, 2006
After Lunch with Gwyn headed down to compass point to submit my work paperwork and also collect my cheque, $600 woo hoo...
Banked in my cheque, (queues in POSB banks are hell of a long and no thanks to hard to please customers who take a bloody 10-15mins jus to transfer-deposit-withdraw money etc...) I think it will probably take 5mins at most to do the most difficult transactions, I feel tat singaporeans are getting more difficult to please and conduct of us singaporeans are rather undesirable...
ok after tat went down to kovan to get 2 big pieces of cloths for the banner of the dunking machine for this sunday funfair...
headed home rounded up all my colour pencils and crayons, those tat I havent used since Sec 1, and headed for church as I had a usual thursday evening dinner with Father Tay and the usual people there, (Luke, Christina, Louis, Aloy, Moses, Marcus etc...)...
After tat went to hall and see the guys practice and also to do the poster-banner...
Very fortunate to have so many girls and a few guys too, around in the hall to help me out, People who help me were, Nicole, Andrea, Phyllicia, Cheryl, Louis, Dennis, Luke, Ignatius, Michael, Elvina if I didnt spell worngly and those whom I didnt state here, the practice was great, could feel the overdrive tats gonna happen this saturday...
Sorry guys for the dust covered colour pencils, thanks for really being so 'ON' to do the banner, I wouldnt have been able to have done it alone...
each and every one of the letters and words are uniquely cloured by each of us who coloured didnt want it to be fixed so tat the creativity of each and everyone of us would be revealed, I will particularly remember the $10 sign tat louis coloured, looks like a bruise or a mangosteen, lol...
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I really miss Montfort, the culture of an all boys school would be an eye opener or a culture shock to many... the people there, the teachers, the friends there, the environment blah blah blah...
It's kinda ironic that whe u are in there u always wish to get outta there, but once u leave for good, u feel home-sick to get back in there...
well I was there at the main gate to the school, the security guard said tat we could not go into the school untill 11.30am, I was like bloody hell, u want me to wait for 90mins jus to get in there?... the weather was wet and raining... my exclassmates started cursing the OM for not letting us in...
in the end got in at 11.30, said hi to all the good teachers who helped me when i was in there, did some catching up, but I also couldnt help but notice this very pretty teacher, who was unbelievebly a chinese lang teacher, (anyway saying tats she's pretty is an understatement, she's got the looks to kill man)...if she would haved taught me chinese, I would probably have gotten an A1 for chinese flat without a doubt :p...
I saw my second godma (yuji and kenzi's mum) there too, she seem so happy and pleased to see me again after so many months...
Well I talked to most of the teachers and left after I accomplished my mission... had lunch with gywn..............
To be continued...............................................