The Great Spy Experiment @ BayBeats 2006

We will be playing at BayBeats 2006. Come catch us live at the outdoor amplitheatre on 14 July 2006, 8.30pm. We will be launching our second batch of T-shirts there too.

The Bob hairdo is in again. The look that was the brainwork of Vidal Sassoon. 1920s.. 1960s and now 2006. With the improvised geometric cuts, the Bob haircut is here to stay.

my 4th cycle: my second last chemo

I just did my second last chemo today. One more to go. Just one more...

my weekend update

Friday:
I went for my doctor appointment in the afternoon. Headed home after that and waited for Khai to finish with school. We went to Bugis Market. Then to Gashaus for jamming.

Saturday:
Spent the entire day at Hougang Sports Hall, watching Khai's school soccer boys battled it out at the street soccer challenge. The boys came in fourth. We had lunch at Punggol and went to his place to assemble Fifi's skateboard. It's a Chocolate deck. Nice... The soccer thingy ended at about 4pm. We went back and took a quick nap, before our gig at 9.30pm, Gashuas. The sound wasn't too good and we were dead tired after the set. We headed to Cocolatte after that, to catch Saiful in action. I love Satuday nights or should I say Sunday morning. Sweetie and I will come home, chill and watch the pool competition programme on Channel 5, which comes up at 2am. I will lie on his tummy and read my book or we will buy supper and eat infront of the TV. I love spending quality time like this, with him.

Sunday:
We watched 'Over The Hedge', at Marina Golden Village, today. We went to Candy Empire at Millenia Walk and bought ourselves some chocolates and cookies. We ate Carl's Jr for the very first time. We ordered the Mushroom Burger, which comes with onions. Yum. We ordered the beef chilli cheese fries, the onion rings, the salad and the blueberry cheese cake. We were so stuffed after all that.

I love weekends with my baby.

Sore throat. Tender. Mind, an opus of restiveness and discomfort. I’m refraining from feeding my disordered mind, with proscribed imagery and thoughts. The Devil comes to play when our minds are empty and when our hands are free. My iniquitous melancholy subjugates me once again. I hope it don’t stay too long.

'The Da Vinci Code' opens today

The secret behind Mona Lisa's smile. The Da Vinci Code. A secret so powerful that if revealed it would devastate the very foundations of mankind. Conservative Catholics believe it's blasphemous, a mockery of their faith. Unorthodox and controversial. It reminds me of Martin Scorsese's "The Last Temptation of Christ".

I have not really read the book. Got to read a couple of pages of it when I was in London. Khai wanted to get me the book as he has no idea where his copy went to. The movie opens today. Tickets for the day are already sold out. I really would favor reading the book before I catch the movie.

MI: It's not Mission Impossible, It's Moral Inventory

Woke up this morning and watched abit of Oprah Show on TV, the episode on the victims of Hurricane Katrina and the Oprah's Angel Network. I saw the footage of the destruction and the victims, the homeless, the children.. I listened to the stories of the kind souls who offered their help to rebuild homes, gathered food and donations. There was this one volunteer that made the deepest impression; a man from Illinois who brought his own airboat to New Orleans and rescued more than 55 people and animals stranded by the floodwaters. These stories just blew me away. The spirit of giving.. The selfless heroes.. What an inspiring way to wake up to, in the morning. I knew today will be a good one.

I went for my morning jog and headed for work after breakfast. As I was heading to work and listening to EITS's 'Snow and Lights', I saw this girl from school, walking as her Grandma yelled at her from behind, "I will sell you away if you are so naughty!!" I saw her yesterday; she was walking as her Grandma yelled at her from behind, "I will sell you away if you are so naughty!!" Strangely, I smiled to myself. I like waking up, not feeling sick and feeling well enough to go to work. With seeing the girl on both days on my way to work on two consecutive days, I feel so normal, all of a sudden. It's strange that I like normalcy nowadays. I used to abominate, loathe and absolutely detest it. I hated been like everyone else. I wanted to be distinctive, exclusive, different, unique.. Now.. I just want to be able to do what everyone else is doing.. I wonder if it's because I'm ill and that I can't do many things I normally could do. But I do hope I see the girl from school once more, the one walking as her Grandma yells at her from behind, "I will sell you away if you are so naughty!!" Cos when I do, it sure means I'm feeling well enough to go to work once more.

my second nephew, Royce

Lying on my lap, looking at me. Royce is growing. I love holding him. Each day as he grows, he is looking more and more like my bro. Babies are God's gift...

I miss our travels

Everyone seems to be getting out of the country and yet, I have to shelf my holiday plans. First is Mike and Leigh. They went to Bangkok. Then is my bro and sis-in-law. They went to Bangkok too. The last I heard is that Bert is going to Bangkok too. Sigh.. We were supposed to go to London this June. However, due to my medical condition, we can't go anywhere. I guess the furthest we can go is Sentosa. Can't wait to get well soon so that we can start filling up our "travel sticker book", as planned. London. Barcelona. Italy. Australia. Amsterdam. Paris. Hong Kong. Tokyo. New York. Oh.. I can't wait to get well.

Utopia in Spottiswood Park?

Was at the hospital, killing time as I waited for my blood test results. Took a walk outside the hospital and found 'UTOPIA'. Heheh..

My 6th Chemo treatment

I will be going for my 6th chemo treatment tomorrow, with much trepidation and anxiety. My treatment has been scheduled in the morning. I am apprehensive, not because of the treatment but more with the side-effects that I have to handle thereafter. Each time comes with a different set of side-effects, ranging from tingling sensation in my hands and feet to vomiting to emotional outbursts, the mood swings. But all thanks to the Internet, the advancement of technology, I have been reading up on my condition and so has Khai.

The weekend has come to an end. I have thoroughly enjoyed it, which had somehow prepared me for treatment tomorrow. I guess it helps quite abit to ease the apprehension I am feeling.

Somebody just don't get it

If you are reading my blog to get an update of what had been happening in Singapore when you were away in Phuket, then this posting here is specially meant for you. Yes.. you. First and foremost, thank you for informing us that the ‘jackass team’ was in Phuket. I suppose that piece of information was much needed and very enlightening indeed, with the much predictable ‘Wish you were here’ hidden insinuation. Anyway, our weekend in Singapore was an incongruous concoction of longboarding and politics. I hope you had a delightful time in Phuket.