Moind the gap between the train and the platform.

*Blows the dust off the blog*

It's been so long since the updates, and you know why? I've been working 14hour days everyday....with only a couple of hours sleep in between. It's scary walking home at night after I knock off, so i went to get a car...yes...that's right, i'm now the unhappy owner of a Ford Fiesta 1992 model. It's a wreck, it's fit for the junk yard and i'm afraid of taking it on public roads. The fuel injector's jammed, the water pipe's burst and it won't move from halt without heavy accelerating. It has side mirrors missing and it's blue. But nevertheless, it's my car!! haha, not to worry, i've got my eyes set on a Mazda MX5 now!! It's only about a thousand quid....but ah well...

I was doing stock checks at an American military base last week, and boy, these guys are paranoid, about everything. Raise your handphone as if you were about to take a picture and get ready to be arrested for spying. Park your car outside the camp, and you might as well dress up as bin laden.

I'm learning how to cook too! At least now i know how to properly handle my ingredients and how to use strange spices like...like...well...strange spices...heheheh...

Okiedo, times up, gotta run, update later y'all!!

New year. New everything. Bah humbug.

News about the tsunami everywhere... sometimes, when there is too much media coverage on any topic, it has this numbing effect on a person. 10 people die, it's tragic, 10 000 people die, it's a disaster...but now, it's 150000 swept off into the deep blue, it seems like no more than a statistic to me. I'm not cold or evil or anything, but apart from giving money (and you can't help but wonder if these people on the streets collecting money are genuine or not), what more can you do? I just thank God that I do not know anyone personally from these places. And I still find it amazing that Singapore didn't even feel the ground shake even though we're right smack in the middle of this chaos! Ah well, exciting things like this never happen in the city of cleen and green....

...and I started the New Year!! A good chance to start everything on a clean slate. Everyone's doing New Year's resoloutions, i'll join the crowd and start one too! Here goes:

- Take up an advanced course in communications
- Learn French
- Learn to bloody cook...decently.
- Cancel all subscriptions to UK FHM. I'm kidding. Or am I?

That's on top of advancing my job and finally move into a studio apartment by the end of the year.
See, that's another exciting thing. If i manage to get myself a work permit, and live here for 4 years, I can apply for an "Indefinate leave to stay" visa. That's legalese for Permanent Resident!! Now isn't that just dandy! This ice box could just become home for me! Ah well...

How did I spend New Year's eve? Like 8 million other people, I marched myself right into the middle of Trafalgar Square. Bloody nightmare, must make mental note never to go there ever again. Not on New Year's eve at least. Every street out there is crammed packed shoulder-to-shoulder, wall-to-wall with people!! And the public roads are all closed for people to squeeze themselves in!! Man, should taken some pictures to post up here!!

And I finally got a place to stay as well, I'm living on Woodford Green now (Zone 4 on the Central Line), nice little room, pathetic shower, shared kitchen... it's a nice place, but not somewhere that i'd stay for too long... ah...money, money, money... it'd be nice to have more of those £££ so that i can move to somewhere a little nicer...

Cold, dark and lonely....urgh...I long for some of Palawan Beach!! ...or Majorca!! ...beach...any beach....must have beach now...must...