Friday 21 December 2007
Kota Tinggi.

Haha, never easy to update whenever your brother hogs practically majority of the computer time, leaving you with little time to do your own stuffs. Ah, oh well, here comes part, er... one out of er.. two! mega post weeks.

Saturday..


Right. what did I do then. Hmm. Woke up at 5 plus in the morning just to head to Mum's office headquarters. Or whatever. Once again, her company organises another outing, this time to Kota Tinggi. Bro gets to see Goh Chok Tong's "Great Wall of China" house this time round. So off we go at 7.

Long forgotten about how people at coaches get a separate checkpoint for themselves. Breakfast was at some place called Ah Koong stall or sth. Basically they sell fishball noodles. I was skeptical about how tasty it is, but it was actually rather nice, the noodles do not have the kind of weird noodle taste like those in Singapore, something that put me off.

Headed to some Tau Sar Piah confectionery. Or at least a shop. Ok ar, the piahs. Bought sme peanuts here, some piahs there, some wife biscuit there... too bad no chewing gum sia. Or they stock is mint gums and mentos.

We headed to Kota Tinggi later. I just spent time continuing to sleep. Time I got up, we were in the middle of nowhere, the tour guide talking about those plantations and how they earn money or sth along those lines. Kota Tinggi was nice. That little waterfall area got turned into some resort place. Nice view too. And the mist that touches you from the cascading 'fall. They have big black ants too. Bigger than those red ants near Yung An Primary...

Swam in the river with mum later. Stubborn bro didn't wanna get wet. Oh well, least I get the single towel for myself. And phoar was the river cold! Like ice water sia. Swimming about there was different, other than the cold water. Grounds are uneven. One moment you are walking on sand, next step and you are on rocks. Once my foot almost got caught in one of them rocks. So you have shallow area at one point, and sudden drops to deep ends at others.
There was one area where the rocks are manually carved to simulate a waterfall. I placed a leaf there, and the once slowly flowing leaf suddenly caught the flow of the waterfall and rushed down real fast. Kinda like those movies eh.

Lunch was at some restaurant. Poor chili crab, too spicy for me sia. The way there was odd. One area had a huge bunch of crows circling about an empty space. Like some Batman scene where Batman is among lots of bats circling him. Hmm. Birdman.

Was at some fruit stalls later. Not really interested in those, so I checked out the nearby areas. Spotted some family rearing turkeys and chickens. lol, not expecting turkeys in asia. whole place there sure smelled like poo, but not that I care. Still got a black lizard in the longkang. Took a stick and prodded it. It stared at me and went back to basking in the sun. So I left it alone. Filthy canal nearby. water flowing was orange, and some fluffy things hanging about at the bed. There was a few fishes.

Crocodile farm next. We get to touch little crocs! Rubbery skin, not scaly at all. Wapiang, first time hold, then the dude peed. Lol, owner shouted huat ar! Guess really huat ar, such luck. Lucky never grab near its hole. So now we follow uncle, while he goes about prodding all his big old power crocs. All the crocs splashed and bite with heads and tails. Like seeing its ferocity in front of you. Mum says beats those other croc farms, those crocs like dead one, feed them also don't want to move. Prod the stick into their mouth, and they sure snap it off with one bite. Still got resounding jaw close sound sia.

Shopping at Tebrau City. Some big shop place called Jusco. Looks bigger than our Vivo. Nth much to do there. Walk about, see the shops, buying clothes (which I don't really like) and they don't seem to stock the 360. No time to walk whole shop anyway. Crazy bro throw tantrum. Because never got do some bookstore called Harris. What the heck is that. Nth special mah. Just a part of Popular. Nvr stock 360. He should learn to live and let go ar. Simple mah. Better than everyday act like godzilla.

Dinner was at another restaurant, duuo called what ar, also at some outskirts of JB. weird if you think about it. Everyone in Malaysia virtually has to have a vehicle to travel. everywhere also got one little place, more wilderness, and then another civilisation. Outskirts, outskirts, outskirts, jungle, jungle, jungle, jungle, town, town, city. Starting to feel sian eating more prawns and braised chicken. bet that is how those rich people feel eating restaurants non-stop. weirdos. wonder how they enjoy their food. I prefer my hawker centres anytime of the day.

Had a little argument at SG checkpoint. So what kinda people can use those auto gates ar. The tour guide and what others did seem to be two different things. I have kids using it, and people who don't seem to be bio-passport also using it. aiya. confusing sia.

Friday 14 December 2007
drainage clearing.

Due to work limits on Pa's side, he worked on clearing the pipe at night. Aw, not nice process.

Dark, murky, grimy water, smelling like firework smoke, with a huge pong. Phoar. I just helped out a bit, holding torchlight, pouring water, clearing stuffs.. now the kitchen's kinda in a mess, though the problem seems to be solved.

Oil is supposedly white in the drains. And hair with god-knows-what dirt residues all over it. Urgk. Clearing the pipes using those bought snake like cords to puncture through whatever blockage is messy.

Those dirtwater sure still erode stuff, there were actually rock sediments at the bottom of the pipes, I guess from the bricks.

Dad sure is the handyman around. He seems to know just what to do with everything about the house.

I wonder if I felt awed by that as a kid, kinda like a superdad in one's eye.


I sure clear memories real fast. I guess.

Thursday 13 December 2007
handy mAn.

Well, looks like I'm gonna be the next handyman-in-training.

Fix door magnet holder.

Fix cabinet part.

Learn light-bulb changing.

Removing junk from under door.


Chinese book review, really don't feel like doing it, now I read the first few pages of "Hong Lou Meng" I abit buay tahan eh.. maybe switch to "Shui Hu Zhuan"? Least I've completed maths long ago.

Man, BIA takes long to finish. Maybe another 8 days.

Wednesday 12 December 2007
The Godmother.

Went to godma's house, but headed to Pasir Ris first to borrow some book from there. GEPs are nuts.

Went about White Sands after that, mum saw some nice clothes and thought might as well buy for New Year's. Sian. Least we did it fast.

Didn't do much at godma's house actually, "played" a little with the two birds and the arowana, but mainly slacked at her place watching TV, while she mahjongs with her NTUC kakis.

She still cooks nice food though. Well, maybe not so much of the bitter soup.

Inspri(red)'s link sure is nice, watching television programmes over the internet..

Well, I'm done with Rise of The Videogames, what else to watch?

Monday 10 December 2007
library madness.

Crazy bro.

Just to clear some booklist, he borrows a crazy ass amount of books.

dang, how to do we go about returning 31 books next time. hmm.

dinner's at causeway point, bro didn't get his western fix, so we headed to yoshinoya. salty soup, still ok.

swimming was cold today. water's freezing, and the weather's nuts. rain. stop. rain. stop.

Itma turn me into ice popsicle.

Damn, night com time is really troublesome and blood boiling.

Wednesday 5 December 2007
homework.

right. so I've been doing work at night, so now left 2 more maths subject to work on.

now, will anyone tell me in detail of other schoolwork? pl0x?

before i bash you all with, er... scotched butter. Ya.


Found out the music on the Halo 3 "Believe" advertisement was actually parts of Chopin "Raindrop" Prelude No. 15. Wow.

Guess I really listen to almost any kinds of music.

Saturday 1 December 2007
curry bread

Had curry in bread with butter today.

Tastes nice, in a soggy kind of way.

And now I'm proud to say I have improved in Battle City, reaching lvl 34 with score 203600 by myself.

Guess one gets better with age.