Entry on 28/8

27/8: ok, so I'm overdue on this post but anyhow.

Saturday morning, I woke up, and got on MSN chat (again.....). I was chatting away with Max and Deko, when all of a sudden, the doorbell was ringing like crazy. "What's going on? Why so urgent I thought to myself?" Anyway, Mum was in front of me as both of us walked towards the door. The door opened and there was someone from Singapore Post, and he was holding a parcel in his hand. My eyes fell on a piece of paper I've seen somewhere before. First thing that came to my mind was "*a certain name*!!!". I was too shocked to even sign for the package, and my Mum had to do it. "He did it again?" I thought to myself. The first thing I did was to pull out the invoice slip from the side of the box to check what was inside the box. "1 Life size Zebra New style" Then, I started to tear a little. It was definitely a surprise. I wasn't expecting anything like this at all.
Then I saw something a little different. There was something on the receipt that wasn't there before the last time. I thought to myself, "I thought I told NCH specifically not to tell *a certain name* I really loved the zebra". So I gave NCH a call, who apparently hadn't woken up yet. So... he picked up the phone, and he told to me to wait, and he hung up! Oh well, I just waited at the computer to see if he shows up. Then he drops the bomb on me. The zebra was HIS present to me!!! I was stunned speechless.
It was definitely hard to swallow. Besides the fact that the present would have cost him a lot, I've never experienced such generousity before. I'm not a person that accepts free gifts too... it's just not... me. (Some reasoning huh?) But, somehow, I think God lately has been teaching me to learn how to accept things. As I continued to chat with NCH, I accepted his gift to me with joyful tears. I was really touched.

Thank you again, NCH. It is really generous of you. *hugs*

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Later on in the evening, I went for Science D&D 2005. By then, I very much calmed down from the shock. Anyway, there were 13 of us from Batman OG who turned up. Yuhan was the only one that came dressed up in our OG. So we ate, and watched vids from the previous FOP that passed. Good memories... To me, this was sort of a closure to all the fun things that happened the past few weeks or so.

Entry on 21/8

Ok ok... I know it has been 1 week since I last posted, but I've been really busy.

Week 3 of my semester in a certain university doing a certain course (you're not getting anything out of me you stalkers!!!), is going to start tomorrow. It sort of sucks because I've been really busy. I've haven't got time to chat with my MSN chat aka my fellow inflatable collectors (esp. Max) the way that I've used to during my semester break.

My schedule is kinda screwed up too. For 3 of the days, lessons start at 8am @_X (sorry to steal this from you Kiyo). What's even worse is that I've got at least 3 days in which I don't get home till 9pm +. This leaves me with very little time to msn, lest time studying. Why the late nights? It's because 1 of the days is due to giving tuition, and the other 2 due to extra curricular activities after school hours.


Oh yes, on Friday, I took this DISC personality test. For those that know about it or have taken it, I'm a C!!! with a bit of S, and I thrown in for good measure. I heard about the description of a C and it totally describes me perfectly. Finally, I understand more about myself and the reason why the way I do the things I do.

Part 4

Ok ok, so I don't have time to really finish it off at one go, sue me.

Anyway, as we were walking towards the toilet I knew off at the other beach, we happened to pass by one temporary toilet. I opened the door and guess what? It was empty. The toilet had 6 cubicles with showering facilities. We figured no one would turn up in the toilet until the rain stopped, so we decided to have a takeover. Muahahahaha. >_<. At least the toilet didn't smell as bad, so we could wait it out in the toilet and wait for the 'storm' to subside.

Whilst in the toilet, I hung up my wet stuff to dry in front of the fan - my towel, trunks, shirt, shorts (from getting wet in the rain). Also, I took the opportunity to hang my whales to dry and let all the excess water drain off. NCH also did the same. Also, we had a shower and got into our spare chnage of clothes.

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For the life of me, I can't remember what I talked to NCH about during our 2+ hours in the toilet. It was just him and me only, trying to come up with anything to talk about to keep ourselves occupied, with once in a while checking on our stuff. One thing for sure was that we were much better off staying in the sheltered toilet than to be left outside to the mercy of the elements.
The only thing I remembered was that I helped him deflate his final Bestway whale, and that when the rain subsided, I started packing up and teased that I would leave immediately when the rain completely stopped. XD Oh yes, remember I said that this was done during SOW right? Well, I called the guys that was supposed to come over to Sentosa for beach games, but apprently the weather put them off and they headed back to school to plan for talent night.

Finally, the rain stopped, both of us packed up and decided to have lunch at Burger King. On our way out, I met the guys who were from Enigineering O-week (namely my ex-JC classmate Eugene). Obviously, I was dodgy with what I was doing before I met him. After lunch at Burger King, I changed back to my still wet shoes because I hadn't got any space to put them. Then back on the main island, I sent NCH off at Harbourfront and I too headed home. It was already 2pm by then.

Part 3 - The saga continues XD

We took several runs to manage to get all our stuff under the shelter, but even being under the shelter didn't help very much as the wind continued to pound us. I couldn't take it anymore and decided to wear back my shirt. And then, it poured heavily. The lashing of the sand turned into lashing of rain onto us.
Max tried the best as he could to help arrange all of our stuff, and packing at the same time. We also pushed our stuff as far back into the corner as possible to avoid or stuff from getting wet. NCH was at one corner holding down his 5 whales from being blown away by the strong winds. While I was continuing to get the all the remaining air out of the last 3 remaining whales.
Minutes passed, Max didn't find the weather too promising and decided to leave, since he had to rush off and do some packing at home. And boy did he run, under the pounding rain and wind. Now, only NCH and I were left.
NCH was trying his best to deflate 3 of his whales at once, which was a very slow process. I was starting to soak in all the strong wind and rain blowing into our shelter, so I decided to take off my shirt again. This wasn't really a good idea as I soon found out. It was awfully cold from the wet weather and it affected NCH badly. He was shivering and was starting to get numb from the rain. I could see little progress from the inflated size of his whales. I asked him to hang on and hoped the rain would stop soon. Then I thought of an idea to rinse/fold my whales in the rainwater that blew into our shelter, doing my best to hide my shivering from NCH.
After 10 minutes or so, I noticed that NCH had curled up into a ball with his almost deflated whales, and it looked like he wasn't moving. I asked him again if he was alright, and he was complaining feeling very cold. Then I decided, it was time to go. We couldn't stay in the shelter any longer as I also couldn't take it, otherwise the next day sure fall sick. I told NCH that it was time to go to the nearest toilet where we could finish off packing, but NCH just wanted to stay there. After much encouragement, he finally budged. I wrapped 2 whales around me to shield me from the rain and helped NCH to carry some of his stuff. (To be continued again)

Part 2

4/8 (Yes, am guilty for doing this during the SOW itself but it wasn't as bad as I will explain later).

The plan was to meet at Harbourfront MRT station at 6.45am and leave for Sentosa to take the whale shots. Then at 6.45am itself, NCH called me on my handphone and told me he just woke up. I could tell Max was quite peeved *sigh*. Anyway, Max and I went to have breakfast and went to meet NCH at 7.15am. We headed straight to Tanjung Beach where we continued to inflate our whales (5+5+1). I also slipped into my flip-flops. This time, I got Max to take all the shots, while NCH and me went into the water to move the whales around. Yup, it was my turn to join in the fun of riding and playing with the whales on the water since no one was around.
Suddenly, the sky from afar turned very dark, and it was closing on us fast. I already had enough of fun and began to deflate my whales, and so did Max, while NCH wanted to grab more shots of his collection. Then it just hit us. The wind was very strong, either that or the sand was too light. It seemed there was a sandstorm on the beach, and being bare-bodied didn't help as the sand literally pounded on my back. OUCH! All 3 of us grabbed our stuff and ran into the nearest shelter we could find..... (to be continued)

Entry on 11/8

It's been too long since I last wrote in this. So I'll try my best to pen down the many exciting things that has happened. It's not that nothing's happened in my life. I'm just lazy to pen it down that's all...

First off, 28/7 - 06/08, Science Orientation Week. Amazing period of time. Lots have happened and lots of new friendships have been made.
Batman OG seniors: Sky, Yuhan, Zhihui, Kar Heng, Peiyi, and me.
Members: Aini, Jiahui, Felix, BengHwa, Kailing, Kaiting, Anni, Johann, Peiying, Zhonghong, Alvin, Shaokai, Nisha, Rachel, Sarah.
Throughout these 1+ week, there was so much... insanity lol. It was so fun, so much better compared to last year's orientation week. Our OG clinched Best Sound (noisiest OG lol), Best house (Hero), and Sci fac won the Chancellors Shield and I was there to witness it all. The whole experience was indeed overwhelming.
Apart from all the hype and fun, I was reflecting on the events gone past. This was indeed something I felt for the first time - a sense of belonging. The atmosphere created just made you want to give more even though I was physically tired. I even told my parents: all we needed was to show a bit of enthusiasm, and the way the freshies reciprocated the energy was enough to keep us going even though we were physically and mentally exhausted.
Oh oh, I even told myself that I was bound to get sick after this SOW, but it would be worth it... and sure enough I did fall sick... oh well...hehe...
Dad even replied that this sort of scene was something like the tower of Babel, where all of humanity once bonded together towards a common goal. I wonder whether God was afraid of humanity's bonding that he scattered mankind.

Entry on 2/7

I think it is essential that I put this down today. SO much has been said about my life as a Christian.

READING THE WORD OF GOD IS IMPORTANT!!!

It is so important that I don't know why I can't bring myself to read it often enough, that's way I need to put it down here. Someone said that the reason why there's so much confusion between the choices we make, or why we don't hear from God, is because God is changing the principles we have made ourselves and does not answering the question directly. It's almost as if my decision that I will never do honours may not necessarily be a good thing either, as this might stifle God's plan for me.

I digress here: Lately, I've come to realise that maybe the whole 80's "flower power" and "free love" has not totally died, but instead, it has evolved. I would dare say that it has now manifested into what the world know as the FURRY lifestyle. Indeed, the Furry lifestyle has a lot of grey areas that one can continue to wallow in. But, is that really all necessary? The confusion of what's right and what's not? What has God have to say about this? More importantly, is it worth it to continue this debate? Maybe the answers will all be revealed when I start acknowledging Him first. I've been receiving prompting that the reason why God is using me is because He is using me as a vessel to get what He wants to say, through to others. But, I'm not there yet as to why I can't fully understand the gravity of the matter and, thus unable to help fully.

Seeking God's direction and purpose is of utmost importance too. Someone even mentioned going to extent that every thought and action be committed to God, or ask his permission to seek His will.

Entry on 24/6

Now that everyone's read their part, it's time to move on to other stuff. It's been a busy week about a fortnight ago (hence the delay in reply). The day finally came where I did the ultimate stunt when my parents weren't around and I had the whole house to myself.
12/6. Pre-preparation day. I moved out all of the furniture in my house, except for my cupboard and bed (for obvious reasons)
13/6. I inflated all my animals and someone else brought along his collection too.
14/6. Another friend came along and we took the necessary pics. Later on in the evening when the second friend left, I inflated more stuff, which was most of my beach balls and filled up 4/5 of my entire room. I couldn't really sleep in such a pile, but since I can't stay awake through a night for nuts, I still eventually KO'ed at 3 am.
15/6. Woke up at around 8 am, and started to help my friend deflate his toys. Then, prepared this pool of water to wash his toys with. At the same time, I was deflating all the beach balls. We finished washing his toys at around 2 pm, then took a taxi at 3 pm to his place so as to beat his parents back home. I returned home and started washing the smaller beach balls. Later, my friend dropped by again too help out.
16/6. Woke up early again, took more pics, and then deflated and washed all the animals and bigger beach balls, which were already deflated the night before.

This event was a definitely not one would forget easily: being squashed by inflatable toys all around you to the extent of literally pushing the toys away to get from one end of the room to the other. Alas, after the event, I was thinking it wasn't really worth it. For the simple fact that the ratio of the time taken to play with the toys to the time taken inflating/deflating/washing was too little. I doubt this would be done again anytime soon. But, the whole event was still memorable (I can't stress this enough)

Also, to mark the end of the event, I gave away 1 of my 36" Looney Tunes Beach ball (the older more colourful version) to my friend. *edit* *edit2*

Entry on 7/6

Let's continue from where we left off yesterday. This should be quite long, as this would describe the people I've chatted with on MSN. MSN has been taking up a lot of my time.. hehe.

First off... (if you're reading this), welcome back Fox aka silverfox-5213. Indeed, you have been dearly missed. It doesn't really matter how bad your connection is, so long as I get to chat with you, bro. ^^.... Hmm, take good care of yourself, k?
Ric, all the best to you starting your new semester and your life in KL again.

Srmaedis, we haven't been talking much, but all the best to your studies. You're lucky to have friends like Moth and Sno.
Moth, wished we could chat more often, but I guess it's kinda difficult given the timezones. You've really got a lot of friends there to support you and give you hugs too. Smile more, it helps.
Sno(blissea), (hmm.. where to begin)... It's been real nice chatting with you, even if it's like for an hour or so. I confess I have been following your blog closely, and feel your pain each time you post something sad. Cheer up, and remember those who care for you whenever you're feeling down, especially your other half, Shema. She really seems to be a nice girl... lucky you. May I suggest that you continue to stay strong and don't let circumstances get you down, so that you can better support Shema through her tough times. I also hope you will get along better with your parents, I'm sure they want the best for you.

Kiyo, I can't thank you enough for the joint setting up of TDF with Ceralor. Hope we can chat more often too, though the thought of adopting an inflatable character hasn't yet crossed my mind. Digimon rulez!

K'hast, it's been quite sometime already, but I want to thank you again for that long chat about furs. It made me understand more about your world. Hope everything stays well over your side.

Pongo, thank you for bearing with me as I bombard you with the many questions. It still amazes me until this day with the number of toys you have in your possession. Indeed, a true collector you are. It's been fun chatting with you too... ^^

Wolf(gang), formerly known as coloweirdo. *sigh... What can I say, dude? You and your increasing furry instinct. It's just disturbing... honestly lol. You've made some biggy decisions, but remember where your true priorities lie okay? I wish you all the best with her,..... and nice artwork again... you're getting there.

Deko, (soon to be formerly known as SSTI). It's really been great to have known you. Thanks for the randomness, hardware info, randomness, constant contributions to the inflatable community, randomness, lively chats, and did I forget to mention randomness? :P Hope you manage to get over your sleep problems too... lol

Back to Singapore,
IMJ, it's nice to have a friend like you and local too. Though sometimes what you say can really be chat-halting (because dotted), you're still fun to have around. Remember to take care and not fall ill because of work-related stress.

NCH, NCH, NCH... what can I say chat buddy? I see you online every night without fail, and the best thing is that we can always find something to chat about most of the time... (omg, is that normal?) I just love your artwork, it leaves me in awe without fail each time. Your flash elements too. Here's to the one of the most prolific artists on DA and NG. Cheers! Thanks for joining me in this project. Don't think I need to say anymore, since I still see you often. :P

Wow, this was long, and to think I wanted to post something else here. Well, guess I'll leave it till tomorrow.

Entry 6/6

Hmm... interesting day to post again after such a long time. It reminds me of eyesight, which I don't have - 6/6 vision.

Let's see... a lot happened within a span of a month plus. But I really don't know whether I should post everything here though.

For one, I'm glad I'm still alive and kicking... gotta be grateful for that, otherwise I won't be able to experience whatever that is that's coming.

Studies wise: I'm having my holidays now, quite relaxed. I'm not working although I have a 3 month break, because I want to feel what it's like to have a 3 month break doing practically nothing.
Also, my results for last semester just came in not too long ago. B+ for Physical Chemistry - this is the 3rd time already that I scored this grade for something I thought I'd do well in... oh well *shrugs*. I got B- for 3 other subjects. Organic Chem (didn't study so the grade was expected... my area of interest too... '-_-), the S'pore studies mod (was quite a surprise... guess I've got a lot to improve on essay writing), Geog level 1000 (it was quite a relief actually given the lousy CA). I cleared my other GEM and English too. All in all, my CAP dropped, but I'm not complaining... (the power of a positive outlook to life... *thinks of Pat Mok in My Sassy Neighbour and cringes*... no no no... I'm not that lame... I hope)

Music wise: This might a shocker for some but I bought a Jap album, called "Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Complete Best". I was addicted to the cartoon, and I also fell in love with the music. I sort of bought this album for the fun of it :P, also because of keepsake... I own a piece of Gundam Seed fandom XD. I'm beginning to change my perception of non-English music, but the progress is still slow. Chinese music is still the last thing on my mind now.

Hmm.. that's all for now... it's too long for a post already.. :)

Entry on 28/4

Wow, the second last paper already... Time has flown past real quick. All the better for me, cause that means my exams are going to be over soon. Yay!
Weather's been extremely hot these few days, hope the sun will be kinder on Singapore soon, because of the upcoming photoshoots.
Oh well, just now, I was studying until I was giddy. Also, this feeling was something like what I felt last semester during my study break. It makes me wonder whether I'm still cut out for university education. Then again, I should probably rely more on paying attention in class, so that I don't spend too much time mugging at home. And to think that while I was studying just now, I didn't put in maximum effort, and I'm beginning to feel tired already. I've stopped studying for today's paper... cannot take it anymore.
Hmm, I think I need to use my hands more. I just inflated (pump) my black killer whale and my hands are starting to shake already (symptom of tiredness)

Second one today

I'm out from my 4th exam... apparently, it wasn't all that good. Was quite pissed off with today's paper. I was thinking what in the world is this paper trying to ask.... oh well... All is not lost. By some divine intervention, I actually declared that this module will not count towards my overall grade. *Phew* for me.

Off to study for my next paper....

Thoughts....

I do not know why I was a bit crazy to think of the collaborative project I'm having with my Internet friends last night. I mean, I'm having a paper today... Probably I'm too excited to start on the photoshoots already.
Anyway, here are just some thoughts I thought about last night. I can't fully remember all of them though, but will continue to write them down here as and when I remember them.

- Check with xydexx whether his website is a personal and paid account to manage it (host).
- Check whether xydexx and ebertsoft wouldn't mind hosting popping related stuff.
- Check various hosting sites about limit of info allowed (pics take up a lot of space)
- Check with lelola.net about the scripting (her links are 'hidden' unless you hover over it).
- Approach a friend to help (Jon Lin) with HTML stuff over the holidays (cross fingers he's won't be working)
- Ask whether nch would have the time to do up a flash intro? (Hahaha... I know nch you're reading this)

As for the actual photos, I'm most probably heading to Labrador Park after my paper on Friday. And I'll go check out the place. According to a source (IMJ), the place is quite rocky. But then it just hit me, why not move the sealion scenes there instead of the pool... after all, there are fewer animals to handle, and therefore lesser chances of injuring our toys, rather than say, our whales. But I'll go check out the place first. BTW, I got this rad idea about going to Labrador Park because IMJ, said it's secluded... heck, so why not?

Oh oh, and another thing, I figured out some other stuff that I'll just write here for the fun of it, as a form of remembrance. First, I figured out that popping isn't necessarily a bad thing. This story is something part thriller, so actually the general public would just see the popping as a thriller scene. But I guess out of courtesy, I'll put it on a separate page, and put a warning for those who are anti-popper.
Second, I know this maybe a stupid idea, but why not have a pending prequel in the works. Reasons for having this include the introduction of new toys in my collection in the future (?), or something else to backup the story to this. Anyway, a lot of websites suffer the fate of non-visitation anymore because there isn't anything new left to see. This could be a buffer... *shrug*....
That's all for now, need to get back to studying... can't wait for Friday's paper to end, am so excited about finishing the picture story.

Second one

Hey, you can't really blame me right? I mean look, I'm in the midst of exams now... but guess I'm doing fine... must be someone up there who's watching over me...
Anyway yah, tomorrow's the start of the 3 day and consecutive papers. It ends off with my core module too... oh well...
Me ar, I also don't know why I'm haven't got the mood to study. Also, I'm not the only one who feels this way either...
Oh well, time to pick one of my animals you see in the pic, and snuggle it...

wow?

Test 1

Ooh... what do we have here? *starts to fiddle around with buttons... what does this do... Ah... ic..
Oh well, will try to post something everyday... hee