Despite the blackout tonight, I am a damn happy man. Damn damn happy. I will elaborate more when I'm up to it. Right now, I'm a bit too drunk...

So I didn't go for soccer today. Just took Panadol and rested at home. Damn. Soccer is always one of the highlights of my weeks. I hate it when I don't get to play.

Slowly counting down to the start of my working life again. I think I'm actually gonna miss my bumming days... Sigh...

I'm sick. It's a good excuse for keeping quiet and not talking. But damn, I haven't fell sick in a long long time, and of all days to fall sick, I have to fall sick on Saturday, just before Sunday soccer. Wonder if I can recover in time for tmrw...

Haven't been updating much, coz I've either been out all night every night, or at home sleeping to recover from the all-nighters... What have I been doing? Oh the usual: drinks, mahjong, karaoke, soccer...

I also cut my hair a couple of days ago, I'm back to sporting a neat and trim and super-short haircut, just to be ready when I go back to work. Sigh... No more long/coloured hair... I look like a little kid all over again. No one believes I'm 26 when he sees me for the first time. It's gonna be so hard to meet girls around my age... So I guess I'll just have to go after young girls then...

Din find anyone to go with to the Linkin Park concert after all, but I heard that they only performed for an hour plus. So I guess it was money saved... Besides, apparently the organisers didn't fence up the padang, so people can watch the screens from the streets. So many cheapos got free concert anyway. By the time my friend told me the info, I was already half-way into my mahjong game, so too bad for the cheapo in me...

Well, this time next week, I'd be somewhere serving the nation, protecting our country, defending our skies. It's the final countdown!

Got kicked in the leg at soccer just now. It bloody hurts like hell!!! It happened so early in the game that I lasted through the rest of the game running on adrenalin. And now that I have stopped, the pain is back with a vengeance. I can barely walk. I have only 2 words to say now: Ow...Ouch!!!!

I finally got around to watching Troy today. Some movie parallels: Achilles and the girl (can't remember her name) making out reminded me of Zhang Ziyi and the bandit in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; Paris shooting off his arrows just like Legolas (well, it's Orlando Bloom after all. And generally, the battle at Troy just seems like a rehash of the CGI from Helm's Deep in The Two Towers.

Anyway, it's a pretty enjoyable show. Though Helen of Troy isn't as gorgeous as I'd imagined she'd be...

And I asked about the proce of the Oakley Glasses I want to get. The Price for the frames itself is $449, throw in the price of the lenses, it'll probably set me back $500 plus... I am dead set on getting them. The only thing now is when will I bear to part with the money... Sigh... The woes of an unsalaried man...

Anyone wants to sponsor me?

Went to get more disposable contact lenses today. Found out that my degree has dropped by about 100 degrees in each eye, although my astigmatism has gone up to 100 in each eye.

Which means, while I can see further, my perspective has gotten more warped...

Which also means that I have to get new glasses, since both my current pairs are too high in degree, and that is bad for my eyes apparently. Maybe it's time to go get that pair of Oakley glasses... Buahahaha

England's 1-2 loss to France last night was a farce! 2 goals in injury time by Zizu... It left me dumbfounded!

Not that I'm a England fan, but the way they collapsed in the last 3 minutes was just ridiculous.

Anyway, was watching last night's matches at The Chamber last night. During the first match, there was this ang moh who insisted on standing right in front of the screen to talk to some people who were sitted near the screen. He totally pissed off a lot of people whose views were blocked because of him. What an idiot. Probably drunk.

And there was this local couple who were both wearing England jerseys. Quite tacky. Guess they both went home broken-hearted at the end of the night. Maybe they swapped jerseys with each other after their night was over... Doh!

Wow, I haven't been home at this time in a very very long time. Kinda bored and wondering what I can do. Guess I'll just watch one of the movies on my computer...

Wait a minute! I just looked 2 entries down and realised that I was actually home at this time on Sunfay night. Think I'm losing my memory...

Woke up from a dream
A dream I almost couldn't wake from
I felt like I was going delirious
It felt like I was going mad

I woke up with no one beside me
I realised there's no one I can call
All I could do is light a cigarette
I realised that I'm all alone

Just back from Sidat's wedding. Another wedding to go to tomorrow. I've never been to a Sri Lankan wedding before, so the ceremonies were an eye-opener for me.

But of all places for him to hold a Sri Lankan wedding, he had to choose the Meritus Mandarin...

And I almost lost my Zippo. Luckily I dropped it at the lounge where we were having drinks after the dinner. I have to make a trip back there tomorrow to pick it up.

It's not that I'm getting fat. It's just that I've been lying on my front so often, gravity is pulling my stomach more to the front...

My Hi-fi in my room, has refused to play any CDs... Bwah! Maybe one more item to add to my Wishlist...

I finished watching Season 3 of Smallville... Can't wait for Season 4

I am still listening to soppy chinese songs... Somebody please kill me...

Soppy chinese songs are still messing with my brain... Somebody please kill me...

I realise my life has been pretty aimless. Meaning, I have no targets in my life right now. I need to find a chick to target... Then again, nah, I'll let them target me...

I wish!

So I played a 10-hr mahjong marathon last night, and thank goodness my luck finally changed. Didn't win back all I lost previously, but it was a good reduction of my deficit anyway... Phew... COuld physically feel my body slowing down after about 4 or 5 rounds, but man, it was shiok... hehe

After I got home, did my usual bumming in front of the computer before I finally went to sleep around 8 plus in the morning... I didn't wake up till around 7pm at night. My hours are so crazy, I really am an owl.

Better slowly switch my hours back to that of a normal human being before I screw myself up once I go back to work.

But looking at the time I'm actually writing this post, I don't think I'm gonna be able to revert for now. I was just spending the night at home surfing, watching downloaded stuff, and reading comics. After having been out for the past few nights, it's good to be able to spend some leisurely time at home by myself.

It's gonna be a Friday night again soon. Wonder what I'll be doing tonight...

My mahjong luck has been horrible lately, hopefully i can turn it around later...

Anyway, a while back, this thought popped into my head. What is it that tells a person whether what he did was right or wrong? I'm not talking about morals or ethics, but rather about personal choices. Like whether it was right to join the airforce, or whether it was right to study engineering and stuff like that. The thing that gives people the distinction between a right or wrong choice, is regret, and unfortunately, regret only hits the person too late after a wrong choice has been made.

I've always lived my the "principle" that I do not have any regrets. If I made a wrong decision, I live with it as a lesson learnt, and I don't fret over it. Sadly, many of the lessons I've learnt, cannot me undone, or salvaged. For instance, it's too late for me to get out of the airforce now if I feel that I made the wrong choice all those years back.

But I continue to live by the "no regrets" motto. If I don't feel any regret, then how do I arrive at my conclusions whether my decisions are correct? What a paradox. Does that mean I haven't made any wrong choices in my life, or does that mean I do feel regret, which tells me which the wrong decisions in my life are? Wah...

I think I do feel regret sometimes, but I suppress the feelings and replace them with a more optimistic outlook on things. No point being hung up over bad choices and wrong decisions. Live with them and move on.

No, I'm not feeling any regrets right now. I have learnt to make do with my past decisions, and I know I am happy now. With the past year of misery over, I can look forward to getting on with my life, and doing all the things I should be doing for my family, my friends, and myself. Life is looking up and up...

I will continue to live with the "noregrets" motto, but now I've come to also realise that it is regret that validates the decisions I make. But life is just to short to worry about regrets.

Speaking about choices in life, I've been reading a lot of comics, and there is this idea of alternate realities, whereby there exists different futures and timelines, all of which represent different consequences of different decisions made by people. The whole concept is pretty wild, and tied up wth this concept is the theory of time-travel, and how a time-traveller can affect their futures by affecting what happens in their pasts... Too mind-boggling... perhaps I'll talk more about this another time.

Right now, I must go burn some incense in preparation for mahjong...

I'm not updating as much lately, coz I've been basically just going out, hanging out with friends, reading comics, and doing lots of mundane stuff. Not much exciting happening that I can talk about. But life's been pretty good these days... It'll last only for a few more weeks though, until I start work again...

Anyway, I had a couple of Budweisers at Ice Cold Beer last night, and I was just commenting that Buds taste so light it's like drinking water. And that was when I heard the following for the first time:

Why is Budweiser like having sex on a boat?

They are both fucking too close to water...