I am bored, so I am reading Wikipedia, looking up some information that were conveniently left out in our secondary school history books. I found this:

Remember JWW Birch who was killed in Perak by the local hero Dato Maharajalela? Well, apparently, Dato M was a slave trader who sells orang asli, and when JWW Birch outlawed slavery, he wasn't too happy. So, that was why Dato M killed the white man. I never knew Dato M was a slave trader. Wasn't mentioned in our text books.

Of course, the source of this information is not really very reliable. Maybe our books are right after all.

Had dinner with some of friends from hall. Was quite an alright turnout considering it was quite a last minute arrangement. Total of six made it. Most of the absentees were still in Malaysia possibly still celebrating the new year.

Anyway, meeting time was supposed to be six o'clock. But as usual, people were late. Only adigal wasn't late, if we go by her definition of late being 15 minutes after the stipulated time. So, the others met up with TheGirl, adigal and I at the place that was a few minutes walk from Bugis.

Place was done up pretty nicely. It could have been a nice residential pad. Surprisingly, it was very quiet for a Saturday night. I think we were the only ones there for dinner. I wonder how they survive.

Time to go to bed. I have been awake for a grand total of 14 hours.

Sleepy.

Ok, am back from KL. The bus trip back to Singapore was uneventful. Slept the first two hours because I was rudely awakened at 630AM to make it to the bus station on time. The previous two days, I was waking up at 12PM only. That was heaven.

I was supposed to be going to Korea tomorrow. Note the past tense "was". As expected, removed. So, all the jealous aunties I met over the New Year need not be jealous anymore. I won't be visiting any Korean hunk or Winter Sonata gibberish this time. Which means I will be idling a bit until next week.

Went to watch Protege today. Nothing special. So far, all the Hong Kong movies I have watched have involved police, gangsters and undercover duties. Which gives you an idea of what Hong Kong movies I have watched to date...

Just now, TwoDoorsUp amused me.

TwoDoorsUp: Hey, are you off tomorrow?

Me: Yes (refer to second paragraph above".

TwoDoorsUp: Eh, so could you clean the house? Vacuum the floor and all that?

For a few seconds, I just sat there staring at him. For once, I was speechless.

That was, as Ris would put it, legendary.

Ok back in KL. The bus back to KL was, as expected, quite crappy. It was a last minute thing getting the bus so as I sort of anticipated, it had problems. Main thing was that the aircond kept going out of commision. So, the bus driver could only turn the aircond on for about 5 minutes before switching it off. And to get some air into the bus, he had to open the bus door. For us guys at the front, it was okay. But not for the old fogeys at the back. Understandably it was really stuffy at the back. However, the bus driver did at least call for a mechanic to meet us at our rest place to get the aircond fixed. And it was, after an hour.

So, reached KL about 40 minutes too late. By the time I reached home, I was dead tired. Furthermore, I had to wake up early to...

...meet the parents!

Okay, I give myself a "Pass" rating. But I don't know what grade I got. Hope to find out soon.

More updates soon, from the new laptop in the house.

Had my annual medical a few days ago and it put me back more than a hundred dollars. Have to renew my licence next week as well and that will also put me back by a hundred dollars or more.

Papa Bear got his car on the day that the prices of COE dropped. He sounded pissed when I told him about it. But nonetheless, he still has the car. Can't really predict how the price of COE will change.

Will be going back to KL tomorrow and will return to Singapore on the 20th. Few days to catch up with family and friends. Time to meet the parents too.

Wish me luck!

Back in Singapore for a number of days already, but have just been plain lazy to blog anything.

Trip was uber eventful. Think it was too many things for one trip. No wonder I have a breather until after the new year. Time to recuperate.

Had dinner tonight at a restaurant just next to the Seletar Airport. I remember having a drink or two with some of the guys about two years ago. It was nice to be back there reminiscing the good old days. Not exactly the good old days when you think of how we really whacked the books.

So, I have two weeks off. Can't say I am complaining. It's good to have some time for myself. But at the same time, it is probably a bit too long a break. Guess this is the time to sort out things like my money and the little issue about looking for property. Hopefully, there will be good deals with the new year around the corner.

TheGirl is looking for a new laptop. Was at Sim Lim looking around and I found that for the same amount that I paid for my laptop last year, I can get a really much improved laptop now. I mean, I understand depreciation and all that economy jargon, but it really is a big improvement. I guess technology has really caught up with my old faithful laptop. Which led to me reformating my harddisk just a few days ago. It took about 5 minutes to start up the O/S and when that happens, its just time to reformat. Good as new again.