now, i dont think i've told anyone yet. but i've recently taken up a new hobby of fishing for lobsters at the reservoir near my place...its really a fun and economical way to pass time, esp on fri/ weekend nights when i got no place to go and yet dont want to waste money on boozing.

it started out on the weekend after cny when i had off for the following monday. with nth to do, i called up alvin and he suggested that we go fish for prawns at the nearby pay per hr fishing/ prawning establishment. so off we went and came back 3 hrs later, 30 bucks poorer each, with nt much of an achievement.

well, this was actually due to the hooks supplied by the place, which were for fish, not prawns. this kind tend to be thicker/harder and will easily tear through the fragile mouth of the prawns..so although we had many hits, most of them easily ended up as misses instead..between us, we had at least 50 hits during the 3 hrs, but we only managed to bring up abt 12 or 13 of the critters at the end of it..really, we thought we could have done better.

anyway, during our little prawning trip, ah huan came up with the idea of catching lobsters at the nearby reservoir. at first, i totally dismissed the idea, thinking like so many ignorant others, that lobsters could only be found in seawater..as i had nv heard of freshwater lobsters before. but well, somehow, huan managed to convince the both of us of the possibility of actually catching the critters, and so the following night, we set out on our very first lobster catching encounter.

this being our very first time trying our hand at catching lobsters, we only had minimum gear ~ bunch of prawning hooks attached to unbreakeable, waxed spider lines.. a loaf of gardenia bread to bait the lobsters (this was very important, huan said it had to be gardenia and nth else, as apparently the lobsters will not eat any other brand, but up till now, i still dont knw whether he's talking cock..haha.), couple of drinks, white LED torches that we always bring along for fishing trips - to shine on and find the critters who tend to be elusive and love hiding under rocks.

so well, off we went, and not surprisingly, it ended up quite disappointing, with only 2 small lobsters caught by huan, who was the more skilled fisherman among us after 2 plus hrs of squatting ard the rocks.

but now that i had actually seen many of the little buggers crawling ard the rocks once we baited them with little balls of bread rolled between fingertips (so that they would sink to the bottom), i was open to and excited at the idea of returning again to catch more of them..but of course better equipped..

so, over the course of the next 2-3 weeks, we went again and again..each time refining our equipment list, from small sticks picked up along the way to act as rods to self-fashioned ones made from rattan canes, of all things, and tongs to grab the buggers once we had them and they tried to scram.. we even went and bought sinking fish food to bait the lobsters as it got too tedious to continously roll the bread and throw them in..

so now, 3 weeks after our first unsuccesful trip, we are going every weekend to catch lobsters, and its becoming more of a hobby than anything else. heck, i might even take up fishing after this..as i went and bought myself a handsfree LED torch with both white and red light to better spot the little critters hiding between the rocks.

well of course, you are going to ask, if the lobsters taste good..and well..actually they don't..being freshwater breed and all. nth freshwater taste good except soon hock..so the lobsters are no exception..and since we've all taken turns bringing the night's catch home to cook and eat the next day..we don't really want to eat them anymore..in fact..the ones from our latest trip are currently residing in an old glass tank back at my home..i've decided to keep them as pets. i don't have any pictures of them yet..will post them next time when they have more or less settled down in to their new environment..so ttz all for now.

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v day was a flop, didnt manage to get any 'unlucky' girls to go out with me, so to say...instead i ended up at my local gym pumping away at the bench in a bid to kill my frustration...

really, i think its damn gay to be gymning on such a day, but what else to do? get drunk in a singles bar and hope to pick up some equally depressed/drunk chick? little chance of that i shld say..thought my time would be better spent making myself more attractive to the fairer sex, and hope for better chances next time. hah. anyway, i sort of managed to put away those unhappy thoughts at being still single at my age/ the pain of rejection, through putting all my energy into my workout and run after it. lol.

and surprisingly, fat ass joined me, which makes it even more gay. initially thought he would be dating some runner working for him, but end up he said he couldn't stand talking to her since she's all giggly and tampo bo ho sei and the like..and he's also broke..wtf..haha..i told him to gfy instead.

but..to all those ppl and friends who still read my boring posts, dont worry, i am not turning gay.. nv will. cos i love the female body and anatomy way too much to even remotely consider letting another male get near my behind. i am definitely still 120% hetero/straight and will be for this entire lifetime and the next and the next.

anyway, came across some crazy quizzes this morning while searching for that hilarious don and drew rendition of 'be my valentine' that i've been hearing on the radio for some time. quite long since i posted any quiz results on this blog.

first one
$4225.00The Cadaver Calculator - Find out how much your body is worth.

wow, i thought my corpse would at least be worth double or triple more than the lousy price quoted here, but guess not, since i indulge in so many unhealthy vices ald.

second one
24

seriously, this is a gross underestimation of my owning prowess..i definitely could take much more than 24! and not just 5 year olds, be they even 10 or 12 year olds..just bring it on! i have no morals whatsoever and most definitely be piledriving, f5~ing all of 'em and the like until they all beg for mercy, lol..to quote my favourite action hero john j. rambo, with a twist my own.. " when pushed, OWNING is as easy as breathing" hahaha!

but hey, thats not all..there are still many more weird quizzes on this site that i took them from,
JustSayHi.com
can try them out if you are really really bored..hah

oh yeah.. i almost forgot.. anyone got that don and drew song pls email to me at beni_tora@hotmail.com, or at least tell me where to find it, really love that song even though its kinda crappy..lol..

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played texas hold'em last weekend again..i think its fast becoming my favourite card game, surpassing even dai dee or ban luck..cos its so simple and fun to play.

last fri, was planning on gg minds cafe with the 850 gang, but instead we ended up playing texas hold'em at the 2nd floor landing of a deserted block. haha..without booze or chips or any form of stakes, we played squats for forfeit. min bet was 3, max 8. doesnt look like much, but after everyone upped the stakes, and the pool became 30+ to 40 squats, its damn shag..and 40 squats 2 hands in a row is no joke if u lose. at the end of it, i counted a total of 325 squats, which gave me a fucking cramp in my quads and hamstrings..cb..until today still aching slightly.

i think i was the champion tt night, of doing squats, nt the game, but al insisted he did more than me, close to 400 he said. oh well, nvm..he can say what he wants, but my thighs still did the real talking..haha.

we were so into the game that we brought our own cards along when we went to halo bar on saturday nite..the moment our beer arrived, out came the cards and we started dealing..stakes was sips of the beer this time round..but towards closing time, when we were almost out of booze, we reverted to squats again...and we actually did them a couple hands, right in the middle of halo bar, lol..but nt many ppl ard at the time liao, so it was nt too embarassing la..

saturday nite was actually quite fun, aside fr texas poker, there was also a fight outside the bar, which got us partly involved, when some idiot pulled fat ass' hair so hard, he turned ard and gave said idiot one right in face, making it all bloody. somehow, the blood also got onto fat ass' pants, and he even took a photo of it. there was also blood splattered all over the corridor, nt to mention clumps of fat ass' hair tt got pulled out..

in the end, the idiots who started the fight actually called the police, and they got questioned while we retreated back inside amidst the confusion and resumed our game. later, there was even a crime scene van there to take photographs of the blood splattered corridor and stuff..lol..csi: singapore!

ytd, spent an afternn at home tidying up parts of my room and watching 'meet the spartans' and other stuff on movie6. i thought it was really stupid, the jokes were really crass and all..but fat ass said it was hilarious and tt he was laughing his ass off the whole time..well, to each his own la..but, in order not to do the show injustice, i still think there were some bits tt were quite funny.

went out at night for a simple dinner with poly frens at fish and co, glass house; a farewell dinner of sorts for gab who's going to australia to study next week, wish him all the best..both in his studies and with the ang moh cai there, haha..

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seems like i've been neglecting this blog again. nvm, no one reads it anyway.

my 23rd bday came and went, without any celebration whatsoever. got a polo ralph cologne fr gcb and the rest of the 850 gang for my present, and various other sms bday wishes fr frens. to those who rmbred, thanks. others who did not, nvm, cos i also dont rmbr everyone's bday. anyway, im back today just to record down some stuff that made my previous weekend, quite fun and enjoyable, i should say.

to start with, all this while that i have been away, my life is still the same old work, sleep, eat, workout, play games and watching downloaded shows; though i dont really play so much games now, gotten kinda sick of both dota and wolfteam liao, haha... rather, i've been busy watching mobtv~watching all those old mediacorp chinese dramas that i missed or reminisced watching during my youth. and no, i did not actually go subscribe to mobtv...the password and user account to watch all the programs was courtesty of gcb, who got it out of some stupid fren of his who had subscribed, and was actually dumb enough to tell gcb the userid and pw, which was in turn spread to everyone in our clique of frens via gcb. lol.

anyway, back to my enjoyable weekend. saturday started with going in to jb with al, sebast and another fren. although we went there to eat and shop as usual, we didn't get much time to do either, since we got there too late, we ended up catching stallone's latest flick, rambo 4.

its really one hell of a show, i'll say. even though its a short 90 mins, maybe less, its still highly rated. its realistic, plus the action is damn shiok, esp the final battle scene. its a great movie, for both fans or non-fans of the 80's rambo trilogy, and i just so happen to be a fan too.

its not for the faint hearted though, cos there's more than the usual score of blood and gore in this installment. stuff like rambo physically tearing out his opponent's throat in single combat, eviscerating the burmese army commander with his bigass combat knife, and making mincemeat out of the burmese army with a .50 cal anti-material mounted mg will make some cringe. not me of course, i thought it was really shiok. seriously, i dont mind watching it again. heck, im even thinking of getting the dvd and watching all the blood and gore fight scenes in slow-mo..haha.

anyway, after the show, we rushed back to singapore, cos al was playing in the chong pang basketball cup, where they got matched up against whye nam sports club in the first round, and ended up getting owned 83-46. lppl la really, since whye nam was too strong.. they had this ang moh centre fr france who's like 2m tall, and 2 national players..even al, who could jump the highest amongst all of us, got rejected by the ang moh, leng leng. said ang moh even made a reverse dunk near the end of the match also.

after the match and dinner at some coffee shop in chong pang, we made our way to safra for ktv, and had a great time singing and fooling ard.

sunday started out with a workout at my local gym with fatass. after gym we made our way to suntec together with gcb and al to do some shopping and have dinner, which was carl's junior at marina sq~fatass's favourite cholestrol and protein laden fast food joint. i think the person clearing our table after we were done must have thought we were monsters, since between the 4 of us, we consumed a total of 8 beef patties; gcb had a single, al and me double and fatass triple, 4 boxes of chilli cheese fries, and four large drinks. lol. great pro meal, as fatass would say.

our after dinner shopping was quite sad, cos even though i planned to buy shoes, clothes and trg gear, i ended up with only a strength trg glove for gym. usual suspects like budget, lack of sizes, unappealing designs, blah blah contributed to our failed shopping trip.

nvm, we took a cab to arab street afterwards and had our first taste of shisha! but not for fatass, who ald tried the poison before. sebast joined us soon after and we played texas hold'em poker, with betting stakes of not money or chips, but puffs of the shisha, which was neverending..even shared amongst all 5 of us, since it could be continuously refilled with charcoal and whatever else that we were smoking. seriously, i think i'll stick to cigarettes for my daily dose of poison. had quite enough shisha to last me for a long time last night. our last hand before we sua tiu was extreme. minimum bet 10 puffs, max no limit. fatass ended up the loser with 40 puffs, with al following closely at 30. lol!

so ended my enjoyable weekend, which was for me, one of the better ones i had in recent times.

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heh, first entry of 08. happy new year everyone. so fast, another year has gone by in a flash.

in the last year, many things have happened, none of which more significant than ord-ing, or issit rod-ing fr army. as of 7th may 07, my 2 years of conscription in the saf has come to an end, a permanent one i hope, lol..altho i dont really mind going back for reservist, but still, i can only say, its good to be a civillian once again after 2 long years of blood, sweat and tears slaving away in the singapore army.

even tho some events of those 2 years will stay with me forever, remaining clear as day in my mind's eye, very quickly, 7 months had gone by since i ord-ed, and also nearly the same for when i started working at geberit, as i chose to rest just 1 week after ord..since for me, working is definitely better than nuaing at home everyday waiting for time to pass; of which i have also done alot during the last half year, esp when im on leave or during ph when im not working, i was almost always at home whiling my time away doing essentially.. nth at all. lol.

made some new friends in the last half year, but some of them were essentially friends of yester-years fr my neighbourhood whom i had ceased contact with when i entered poly and army. well, its actually due to the fact that i tend to have lots of contact with only one grp of friends at one time, neglecting the others..lousy way of putting it i guess.. but i think it concludes that i have a small social circle really, so much so that when everyone in a particular grp of friends are engaged with their own activities, im left with alot of spare time to waste at home, playing computer games and watching movies and anime online.

and so, new year's eve was spent almost entirely at home, since i got drunk on red wine and bailey's at fatass's house on the 30th..hahah..and i only woke up late afternn on 31st. met a couple friends for late dinner at ard 11pm, and after dinner, almost got into a fight with one of them over some stupid comment i had made earlier on, because said friend had an even hotter temper than me. what a spectacular way to end the year eh? nah. i chose nt to fight and walk away, as i have been doing for the last few fights i got into..cos its really stupid to trade fists over stupid little things, end up only both of us will come away bruised and du lan.

so once again, new year, fresh start, as many would say. how cliche. for me, new year, but im still doing the same old things i did before..cos i dont believe in setting resolutions like i said long ago before..they nv get done.

anyway, im currently embarking on a weekly cardio and gyming routine with an old friend, as we both aim to get back our old fitness in the army..mostly for vanity's sake i guess, but also because it'll really benefit us in the long run. hope i can sustain longer than 2 months this time rd, lol.

as for what im gg to do this year, i guess its continue working, as i have nice job at my company, good upcoming opportunities, and also the possibility to get a sponsored local part time degree..just that i still have no idea what i want to study, even after pondering for half a year in 07. haiz..

i think i also need to widen my social circle and activity scope to more than just gaming, watching movies and stuff and the occasional drinking; all with the same old ppl. and mayb gcb and fatass are both right, the key to changing my lifestyle and personality is to get myself a gf. hah. so, any hot girls out there want to hook up? or anyone want to introduce some nice girls to me? lol.

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seems like its been damn long since i came up to nutang and updated my blog. but then actually its only been a month.

well, nth much really happened actually. what i actually did during this period was go on another trip to kl. but ttz also like 2 weeks old stuff. anyway, i will be gg down there again in the beginning of 08, and probably many times during the coming year. since my job scope is widening into sales and product management and my boss has assigned me to the malaysia market.

wanted to come up here and bitch abt stuff tt im unhappy abt last week, but found tt nutang was down fr some hacking crap, lol. i actually even thought of starting a new blog at blogspot, but was just too lazy to go abt designing a brand new page with all the little things here and there. and when i finally got down to doing it, i couldn't get the domain address i wanted, so fuck it i guess, since nutang was back up after a couple of days.

anyways, during the last month or so, i also got hooked on a new game called wolf team, which is similar to counterstrike, a fps, but with some twists. i was so hooked on it that i played everyday after work and even stop playing dota totally, haha.. i guess deep down inside, i just have to urge to shoot and snipe ppl with rifles and stuff..which explains why i really like fps games. lol.

ytd being christmas eve, wanted to come out with poly pals for a gathering, but since its too last minute, everybody also had their own plans liao, so forget it. nvm, heng i got backup, went bbq at seletar dam with my dota, bball gang. i nv knew bacon tasted so good when bbq until last nite..lol. went to partyworld afterwards and sang until 6am today. great fun, except tt the booze was too ex, otherwise would have gone for more, cos seriously 3 guys to one tower is really nt enough; we had to drink really slow to make it last the full 4 hrs..sian.

very fast, 2007 is gg to be over liao, and i dunno what to think and say again..but nvm, we shall see..merry christmas all.

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