Back again

Well to start it off the reason I'm blogging is because while sitting in my small, quiet, dimly lit room in Brisbane it suddenly hit me. I'm going back home to Singapore at the end of the year. But as the word "home" entered my mind it no longer held the meaning that it used to. Long before I enlisted in national service, I was your typical Singaporean, complaining about the weather, being stuck in the endless rat race in which every Singaporean is made to go through since they were first born on Singapore soil. Some of them were different as their parents had to migrate overseas due to work or other issues, nevertheless they still held their Singapore passport and they had to make the decision when they turned 18, weather to go back to Singapore and serve national service or renounce their citizenship. I’ve got a cousin who is currently experiencing this dilemma.

But I digress, as I’ve mentioned this blog is just to release what’s pent up in my mind as I’m almost certain that my posts would be lost in the bowels of the blog-a-sphere and go mostly unread except for myself whenever I feel like revisiting my past.

Anyway, back to the topic of going back to Singapore, it’ll only be about 3 and a half more months before I officially return to Singapore but somehow the prospect of going back does not cheer me up. Over here in Brisbane though I do not go exploring as much as my other friends, its brought me a peace of mind in which I’ve never felt before. Well with Brisbane being one of the most boring cities in the aspect that almost everything closes at 6 its totally fine with me.

But some would say “Fabian what about your loved ones and friends in Singapore”. And my answer to that would be although I love my family and friends and I want to be around them, I do not want to be around them as well. Strange isn’t it? But have you ever thought of living a whole new life? One where you can choose who do you want to be, what do you want to do without conforming to the pressure that the society in Singapore expects of you?

A change in career paths

Throughout my degree in QUT, I’ve come to realise that I do not just love to do marketing, but advertising as well, so what I’ll probably do is once I go back to Singapore I’ll probably be enrolling in award school which is a school that teaches you about advertising copywriting and stuff and builds up your portfolio at the same time. The course would take about 4 mths to complete and I’ll be working part time during that time.

BIG DECISION?

Well currently I’ve been thinking that although I’m expected to work straight away after school, what I want to do is backpack around the world taking in the sights and cultures of different countries and states while holding part time jobs to get me by. I’ve already been looking into places in which I can travel to and if anyone whose reading this post has any suggestions I’ll be more than happy to look into them. Well before all that happens I need to convince my parents that it’s something I have to do before embarking on my next step which is the work life. So that’s all for now and I’ll prolly be blogging again when I feel like it. 

Argh the powers of procrastination!

Damn you almighty powers of procrastination! not just in my blog but my assignments as well. Just finished my portfolio which is worth 50%. Damn this is the first time I've ever hit a writers block that big. As in i'm perfectly fine with just coming up with creative ideas but then the part that kills me is researching for information to back it up. hiax i now see advertising copywriters in a new light and can now relate to what my lecturer is trying to say. Anyway heres a quick update of what i've been up to since i last blogged.

 04052012 (fri)

I finally mangaed to meet up with Fadila, she was my classmate for direct marketing and a Singaporean as well.  Well we were initially supposed to meet up for lunch and then go for a hip-hop open class at Mad Dance House but she had a game the day after and as she had aches after the last time we went to MDH she decided to give it a miss, so in the end we ended up shopping, i bought a new cross stitching hoop which is wayyyy bigger than my last 1 hahas so excited. Anyway while watching Fadila pick out dresses and stuff, i suddenly realised just how many different types of clothings there are in a women's dress show and apparently dark blue seems to be the in colour right now. As once i left the shop there seemed to be a number of girls wearing dark blue dresses with different cuttings. well so i pretty much spent the whole day with Fadila and bought bangers and mash from MYERS centre on the way home, but damn they were disgusting.

05052012 (Sat)

Saturday was a freaking awesome day as I finally got to watch Avengers with Simon and James Chew. hahas the funniest part of the movie was when the Hulk punched Thor out of the screen after they took down the giant mutated turtle.

Well after the movie we went to the Job fair in the expo but was rather disappointed as its mostly about education and stuff with the various universities there, well James kinda sorta learned to drive a digger of some sorts hahas.

We then walked around the buddist festival at south bank and ended up eating the samples that they offered. LOLS Simon has damn thick skin, he kept going back to the same store for samples until the girl offered him  the whole bowl.

Dinner was rather interesting as i had dinner with Dexter and  Sheryanne with 3 other of her friends. and only one word was used to describe it "Awkward" as Dexter totally rambled on and on about how bad his house mates were and what he did to get back at them. the exact content of the conversation will not be mentioned here but u can ask me if you happen to see me. I was like "damn is this the kinda person I've been hanging out with for the last semester??". Alright this blog is not really to bitch about people so I've move on to the next topic.

Oh yeah dinner was at this place called the Greek Tavern which serves (you guessed it) Greek food (here have a cookie). well maybe its just me but I totally do not get their style of dinning with the salad and stuff (not a big fan of salads, the only time I get a salad is so that I can put it in a corner and laugh at it) but i have to admit that the lamb was to-die-for as in the meat was so tender that when i pulled it apart gently with my fork and knife it just gave way (EPIC!). and the taste, so full of flavour, the juice just bursting out with each bite. So i guess unless you have a very small appetite or maybe you just wanna try the lamb u can go to the Greek Tavern which is at west end.

06052012 onwards

well to be honest lots of things have happened but i cannot for the life of it remember what happened.

Oh yeah i got Diablo 3 as well so if you wanna add me you can add me via my email toon_world01@hotmail.com or my battle tag which i might post up later coz i'll just to darn lazy to log in to check.

Weight watchers

Alright back to this segment, well truth be told I've not been very discipline in going to the gym daily i seems that my body wants to get 7 hrs of slp no matter what even  if i sleep early or late, so i end up overslping. As of now my weight is still the same but i noticed that my arms are getting bigger (no its not coz of the fats). I guess its coz of all the arm intensive workouts that i do. well hope to get motivated soon and i'm currently so tired of typing as i just typed a ton or stuff for my assignment so i'mma gonna go catch some ZZZZZs soon. Till next time 

-Peace out   

OMG there are actually ppl reading this blog

For shitzzzzzz!! lols yeah actually alot of stuff happened to me this past week. Sooo wanna talk about it but so far I've not slpt for like 28 hrs and I'm torn between eating lunch or just hitting the sack. but I've got like clothes in the washing machine!! argh... oh yeah the big bang theory season finale just aired and I'm being so hungr.. i mean random lols seriously its been so long since I've not slpt for more than 24 hrs.. my body and mind is acting weird. but not to worry. I'll post again soon... LOLS u should totally see what I'm typing b4 the auto correct. my fingers are to lazy to lift up oh i just might post the unedited version below.

-Peace Out (maybe till later)

For shitzzzzzz!! lols yeah actually alot of stuff happened to me this past week. Sooo wanna talk about it but so far i've not slpt for like 28 hrs and i'm torn between eating lunch or just hitting the sack. but i've got like clothes in the washing machine!! argh... oh yeah the big bang theory season finale just aired and i'm being so hungr.. i mean random lols seriously its been so long since i've not slpt for more than 24 hrs.. my body and mind is acting wierd. but not to worry. i'll post agian soon... LOLS u should totally see what i'm typing b4 the auto correct. my fingers are to lazy to lift up oh i just might post the uneidted version below.

Its the middle of the week!

Anndddd its the middle of the week now!! woohoo.. which means one for day of lessons and its hello long weekend. Well one thing I learned about myself this week is that i really pay attention to the lecture if i do not have my laptop with me. But I've got like a whole day of classes next week in which a laptop would be super useful. 

Advertising lecture

Anyways, a rather interesting thing happened during lecture today as we had a guest speaker who was a graphics designer and in order for him to get into the mood for whatever work he's doing, he puts on his metaphorical hat. But for our viewing pleasure he brought some physical, tangible hats hahas e.g.

These are not the students you are looking for

Other stuff

well i figured for the weight section it would not make sense to have it everyday so i'll prolly update it on a weekly basis or maybe fortnightly.

Well for my next cross-stitch assignment i'm still torn between doing a pokemon card or the One Piece pirate flags.

Lols got sidetracked for an hour as i went to ebay to look for threads but ended up buying cross stitch fabric. well it looks like i'll be doing the pirate flags instead hahas cool TTM. wonder how many can make.

oh well thats pretty much all that is today so till next time.

-Peace out 

Spanish Spanish

Well i finally gotten down to the spanish lessons now and to my surprise the first thing that they teach is not how to introduce yourself. Its more of differentiating between the male and female gender for example una nina which means a girl and un nino which means a boy and una mujer which means a woman and un hombre which means a guy. Its kinda confusing a first but once i found out that most of the "o"s are directed to guys while the "a"s are for gals it makes learning so much easier. what sucks now is that i still cannot get my mic to work. On a side not, i should totally get speakers.

Rest week

yeah this week is kinda a rest week for me (no its not coz i don;t have school) but more because i don't have any assignment submission till next week (I've got 2). So this gives me time to do it, but knowing me I'll probable leave it till the last minute again =(

A perfect example would be last night, I went with Simon to the lag after Yuans to do work but i ended up playing SC2 till about 2 am. Simon left after finding out that I wasn't keen on spending the night in the com lab as I had to get some sleep before my lessons today. 

Lecture today

For today's Service Marketing lecture there was a guest lecturer from Big Pond and i surprised myself by actually listening to her lecture. Well i think most of it was because i did not bring my laptop to school today... but all in all it was a rather interesting lecture. I thought of dozing off at the start but she brought in new ways to segment Target audiences and i sorta just realised that doing the STP is actually kinda fun as you have to get into the mind of the consumer and find out what do they actually what instead of just throwing your line in the water and hoping the fish would just bite. You gotta source for the best fishing spot and find out what's the best bait that the fish like.

Okay, just for those who are like wondering what the hell am i talking about or why am i talking so much. I'm kinda sorta using this blog as a way to improve my typing skills which means that i'm just typing out what comes to my mind without looking at the board except for the occasional punctuation marks and stuff.

Weight progress (NEW)

Okay as I've said in my previous post I'll be adding a section about my attempts to get fit, so i'm not really sure how to do this so I'm just starting with the weight section and maybe adding more stuff if i feel that it might be useful. So hopefully my weight does go down.

Oh yeah on a side note the only thing i'm sorta doing to lose weight is gym, which involves cardio and some weights but i'm not really counting my calories (but its not like I'm gorging myself with loads of sweets and chocolates). 

My Weight CAA 01052012 is 

99KG

OH yeah i realised that i forgot to pay my rent for the week so gotta go and pay it now and might go to the lab again with Simon later hahas so till next time

-Peace out 

Procrastination

Anddd I'm back, it seems that whenever I've got assignments to do everything else seems super desirable. Maybe I can use it as a motivational tool for me to go to the gym lols. Ever since my follow up programming session although i lost like 4 kg i lost 500 grams of muscle. So i was asked to eat more meat, snack pack at woolies here i come! 

Languages

Oh yeah I've just gotten the email for my Spanish class and its all systems go, except for the small little problem that my laptop has some trouble installing a mic. Well if it all goes well I'll be adding Spanish to the list of languages that i can speak. But i guess before i go back to Singapore i wanna learn Korean and Japanese as well. How cool would it be to be multilingual. Well since Spanish is the second most spoken language in the world besides English. Well all this is possible thanks to NS with the credits they provide you to learn a new skill before you enter the work force.

Diablo 3

oh yeah before i almost forget, i ordered a copy of Diablo 3 with Simon @ 65 bucks each. hahas once may 15 comes its bye bye social life (not that i have any right now). Come to think of it on the 15th of may if you notice a sudden shortage of guys around the streets this is probable the reason. Its soon gonna be a boob-fest at the clubs hahas

Something else

Since so much has happened in the 2 years that i was MIA I've got loads to talk about so i'll prolly just sneak in a little here and there whenever i remember it. As I've said before this blog is more for me to look back in the past and remember the mistakes I've made and lessons I've learnt so as to move on. 

Well one thing that I've learnt about myself is that i am not a very tolerable person when it comes to regimentation and discipline. especially if you were the one handling the paper work for everyone in your unit which comprises of 5 Companies 16 platoons and god knows how many sections (bout 3-4 sections per platoon). well thank god most of them are well behaved with the occasional misconduct. Nothing big it can probably be settled in about an hour. But the messed up people are the "regular customers" we've got this fellow who got court martial-ed about 3-4 times and he's still not repentant WTF rite? and a few others who are either uncontactable when you wanna update their ORD dates and stuff. i feel that stuff like SOL and extra duties are not really effective as they strut around the unit like the own the place. So well with a shitload of work comes well somewhat an under-the-table crap load of power. As its usually the CSMs that decide the punishment but as you know they've got a ton of work to handle they can't handle everything so I'm usually the go-to man for such problems. and that means i well pretty much have a say as to what punishment is recommended. Well.... i can't really same more as i guess what happens next is classified and stuff. 

So i guess thats it for me at the moment. Oh yeah i'm thinking of adding a weight monitoring section just to keep myself motivated (god knows i need all the help i can get). So till next time then.

-Peace out 

I'm Back!! After 2 years...

Catching up to 2012

As the tittle says it all, its been 2 long years since I've last posted in this blog and truth be told I've  had really no intentions of continuing posting stuff on this blog. But as i browsed through my blog last night, i realised that this blog has lots of memories from my past (during the friendster era) and things that I've forgotten about both good things and bad, and as i guess no-one really reads my blog (no way am i gonna spread the world out that i have a blog). So if by any chance u happen to stumble across this blog Welcome to my world. Would you take the red pill and journey with me to see how far the rabbit hole goes?

So I've got about 2 years of catching up to do. Much has happened these past 2 years. I enlisted in National Service lost like 20+ KG in 3 mths and gained it back in like the other 1 year 9 months. was posted to 41 SAR, became a clerk, went to Wallaby and Taiwan for overseas training. Went to Japan twice in 2010 and 2011. and ermmm... i don't really remember what else at the moment so if your interested to know do leave a comment (not that I'm expecting any)...

Update

Okay on to where i am at the moment. I'm currently in Queensland University of Technology doing a dbl major in Marketing and Advertising. Well the marketing units are rather easy but the Advertising ones are being a bitch (yeah i ain't gonna censor any words like i did in the past). Hahas funny thing is that as i was reading through my older posts i read that i never wanted to go to Uni but here i am. funny how much as changed.

well i can't say life in Australia is going smoothly. I realised that there arn't many like-minded Singaporeans in Australia as i would have hoped. Sure Gaming is one of the things that bonds us guys together but outside gaming? there aren't many Singaporeans who enjoy dance and to top that off the dance scene in Brisbane is rather small. Though its growing.

"Friends" in Brisbane

Friends in Brisbane, well as this is the second sem that I'm here i realised that some people here really have their own agendas and was unlucky enuf to be at the receiving end of one such person. Someone (still will not name him just in case this blog gets found but if your also in QUT chances are that you probably know him) whom i thought was a friend agreed to help me with one of my assignments (marketday) by performing magic tricks, this was agreed upon like 2 mths before hand, and to top that off i constantly reminded him. But on the day itself, YES!! ON THE DAY ITSELF that asshole actually had the balls to not show up. and when i finally managed to contact him like 5 mins before the event started he told me he wasn't coming. Well i guess one of the things is that many Singaporeans have already been used by him. How many of us have this friend when only shows his/her face when they need something and totally shuts you out when your of no use to them? 

Another great example of this would be facebook friends, especially those who will suddenly chat with you after a long time only to ask to to like a particular friends photo. i only have 2 words for em "FUCK YOU!!"  oh and if you happen to be one of those friends who are reading this right now. I'd appreciate it if you delete me from your friends list. I've recently been deleting people from my list but its exhausting (only got around to deleting 150+) so do yourself a favour and just delete me.

PRCs in SG

Next on to local news, hmms now when i say local news should i mean Singapore or Brisbane. on well I'll just say Singapore. I reaslied that Singapore is getting more and more  fucked up. as the current issues are more focused on PRCs and truth be told not all of them are jackasses. Sure we have the occasional "scholar" case and before that the stabbings. What if all the gangsters focused on killing off the crappy ones. Coz I've got PRC friends and they are in no way like the ones in Singapore (I'd like to stress that this comment is not aimed at all of the PRCs in SG). And if you take a look as STOMP madafaking Singaporeans!! or maybe just the uneducated ones. All stories about rape, looting, pillaging and stuff have one thing is common, PRCs. I mean seriously guys, are you that fucked up to pin all the blame on PRCS?   

On to local ( Brisbane) news

Winter is finally approaching and damn its getting colder. but it sure as hell is raining alot. Its been raining for about 24 hours now without stopping (there goes my weekend). Well that gave me time to finish my little project.

Tada! the Triforce took me a total of 24 hrs to make em.

My next project would be One Piece. Still conflicted as to weather i should do the flags or the characters.

And that's pretty much the end of my rants for today. I've got a ton more to say but i feel completely exhausted so till next time 

-Peace Out

Mi Vida Amorosa

Damn cupid sure has a sense of humor. I met a girl that i liked and if I'm not wrong she likes me to but shes just an exchange student, SCUMBAG CUPID! well anyways i guess its never gonna happen but we still whatsapp each other though.

Well I do have another issue as well but i don't really feel like sharing it with the world rite now. Maybe some day when its been settled.