Okay, all the guys have gone up to KL to attend a friend's wedding. But, I can't make it because I am going off to Hong Kong on Sunday, which is the day that the lunch is going to be.

And now, I have got a slight itch in my throat, which has changed my voice a little, maybe a bit more manly. But, I will still go for that flight because I did not wait TWO weeks rotting and giving free labour and missing a friend's wedding just to say that I am not feeling well.

Apart from that, nothing else happening. More rain that's all.

Had a mini course gathering in Tampines Mall this evening. Just a few guys meeting up to talk about how we are getting along in our training and the usual banter. Then, it started to rain and we retreated into Burger King where I grabbed my dinner. The rest didn't because they had nice dinners waiting to be served at home. Sad.

Seems like the monsoon season is here. Strange, back in secondary school, we learnt that the north-east monsoon season is at the end of the year, not now. Must be climate change.

PapaBear was complaining to me that he is having a major headache with his new apartment. He can't think of how to do up his place. At breaking point, he is deciding to go with just a mattress in his bedroom. That sucks. I told him to just get a copy of some Interior Decoration magzine and copy the designs from there wholesale. But he doesn't want to. Instead, he insists on some really funny ideas.

I think he needs to play some Sims 2. Don't laugh.

I have a really long break before my next flight out, which is this Sunday. So what did the office do? They made me do free work at the sims. And I am not paid extra for it! Sigh. Nonetheless, good practice since I will be doing the exact same exercises in two weeks. So I should not really complain. But, I would still rather rot at home instead.

It's been really hot these few days. Although the skies tease us with some drops of rain in the afternoon, it still remains humid and hot for the rest of the day. Night times are the worst. I guess this means that TwoDoorsUp will stop using the water heater and use his own bathroom again.

I was on my way to Punggol the other day in the bus when this kid just let go a deadly bio bomb. Everyone in the bus could smell it. Luckily, the bus driver was a strong man. If not, we would have crashed and burned.

I was listening to my music the other day and realized that I can relate some songs to different phases of my life. For example, the first song that I can ever remember is Beat It by Wacko Jacko. Then, when I discovered that there is more to music than what I played on the piano and my dad's Red River Valley era songs, I discovered songs like Winds of Change, 2Legit2Quit, Ice Ice Baby and a whole lot more. Then in secondary school, I started to listen to the radio stations like Time Highway Radio (before they lost the FlyGuy and went downhill after that), Hitz and Mix FM stations. Then, in Singapore, I realized that those radio stations actually were quite boring when I started tuning in to Singapore radio stations. I can't really remember that many songs from JC, but I remember the particularly irritating song called Big, Big World. During university orientation, I particularly remember Bent by Matchbox20 and Kryptonite by Three Doors Down (not related to TwoDoorsUp). In Perth, it was Gwen Stefani, Stereophonics, Black Eyed Peas (Thanks to GNeo). And now, when I look at my playlist and I see all these songs, which I actually consider as new, I realize how old I really am.

Ten years since secondary school. Haven't heard anything of a reunion, if anything is going to happen.

Time to get ready for free labour tonight...

Woke up late as usual. TwoDoorsUp suggested we go out to have lunch at Siglap, which we did. Introduced the "world-famous" bak chor mee. Apparently, better than the Block 85 one. While we were there, we spotted a Lamborghini Gallardo, a Nissan Skyline GTR32 and a 350Z. The Nissan Sunny that we drove there paled in comparison, but it still got us there so who am I to comment? Also, we spotted a group of middle-aged men, wearing checkered shirts and khakis. Basically, the STC uniform for pilots. And we could spot them from a mile away.

So, lunch was so-so. It was the chilli sauce that made the difference. If not, it would have been really plain. Came back home and decided to reformat my computer for the second time this year. For some strange reason, the whole system just decided to slow down. I would not have thought much about it if not for the fact that my music and tv show frames were jerking. Wasted 2 hours getting everything done.

And still nothing on the roster.

Back from a long one week trip, which was supposed to be only 4 days. However, it was extended, and although it was a good thing, I was totally unprepared for it. Luckily I had enough underwears and shirts for the trip.

So, now I am back in Singapore, and it seems like I won't be going anywhere for quite a while.

Got back from Sydney two days ago. And it was a really tiring trip. I left on Tuesday night and flew through the night. All three of us were really tired. On top of that, my stomach started churning the moment I got into my seat. And it continued churning all the way until I reached way up there. And based on the built-in timer, I was able to hold my bowels for a grand total of 65 minutes. It felt really good releasing the bomb. And unfortunately for my colleagues, I released a few biological bombs before that. Lucky for them, they were relatively smaller bombs.

By the time we reached Sydney, I just went to bed. Had an early dinner before going with my colleague to the Sydney Opera House. It was good to be back there after 10 years. Still looked very grand. So much better than our durianade. We saw that the weather was getting really bad. The clouds reminded me of Independence Day. Later that night, I found out that the airport was closed and Canberra was hit by hail. Probably from the same thunderstorm cell.

Next day, we woke up at 530AM and dragged our feet to the airport. Flight back wasn't as bad as the one down. Only problem was my eyes were stinging from the lack of sleep.

Reached back to find out that it has been raining for days in Singapore. And it was raining yesterday too. Hope it stops raining soon.

I hate doing rain calculations.