ManMeng's Lifepad

Wandering Elsewhere

Time has really passed undefinitely fast without me realizing it. This is the third month. And being abroad feels, same…What is really different that I’m really almost on my own. Learning more things by the day and had to deal with various stuff that previously was helped by my friend or parents. Enough rambling, let’s see what’s up for the past April?

Some weird advertisement I bumped into one of the bus stops at Tiong Bahru.

Some delicious insta-snack from Taiwan, courtesy of my Studio Manager/Art Director.

Once you pop, you can’t stop. Much harder than your Pringles.

Stumbled upon this weird looking Vitagen-ish bottle. And at first I thought it would be chocolate flavoured milk.

But upon the first sip, I realized it’s coffee.

The big launch, Hardboiled Magazine

And as I talked about the previous project I was working on, it was really an adrenaline rush up to my brain.

But it was fun nevertheless, missing the rush with my fellow colleagues as well. My workspace (last time, now switch). Was right directly below the air-cond.

And was addicted to this drink, tastes weird, but nice? Kinda like ribena on weed.

And a walk out the street is like this. I wondered why people around me keep on saying this would be one of the safest street in this country, I wondered. And now I know, it’s the residence of the Chief Minister. Mr.Lee.

Phew.

The nearby Nasi Campur, also known as Dirty-Place by my colleague. But to my surprise, the smoking area is far more spacious and comfortable at the back of the shop.

The night of the magazine launch. http://www.hardboiledmagazine.com

And it was in conjunction with Earth Hour Singapore. Yay, 1 hour off of electricity.

Not mine

The supporters from inside out.

Limited edition 20$SGD.

My paycheck. To my suprise, in contrary to Malaysia, you only need to write the name and account number of yours at the back of the cheque directly. Clearance is about 1 day for local and oversea. Nice.

Milk addiction.

Another nice souvenir from my colleague that is just back from Taiwan.

And for the past week has been some crazy unpredictable weather, heavy rain. that led to sudden power outage.

This is how it looks outside 6 AM in the morning.

First coach from Novena Square. Up until now, I am satisfied.

And this is right outside of Aeroline Sunway. I am TOO satisfied.

spacious.

And with food served. The plus? They provide you blanket to sleep at late night journeys.

You areee MyYyy Beautiful Girll..
And I am surprised again, had a chance to drop by Sean Kingston first gig in Singapore.

Looks like Zouk KL. But more spacious. Since it’s targeted towards a younger age audience, no alcohols are allowed inside. *cough*

Nice right? Wait until you see the size of it.

More nice.

Chillin with Wii.

Was at here to celebrate farewell with one of the colleague.

Great cozy place to be at.

Racing with times. Side by side. Konsortium and the big guy Aeroline.

Hands – Chaos in UNISON

This is the famous spot for live performance and art show. KLPAC (Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre)

Downing Up

It has been 2 month? That was a fast time looking back being here. And I was almost on the verge of bankruptcy due to misfinancing from myself. Doh. Really stupid. But I learnt finally no matter how, every purchase made here or contract signed on those broadbang/mobile phone. LOOK and look millions of time before making a commitment to it. It sounds even scary when you are tied 2 years to the same plan after you purchase a mobile phone with them. So gay.

What’s up for the past month here? It’s been rampant here with this. It’s like the Prison Break ala-live action I told you. I even had mms from the police about this.

Some local herb tea. Not bad. Its brand is as big as Yeo’s back from our lovely home country. But perhaps, I still prefer Yeo’s brand revamp, which this is still pretty, old school.

The infamous Kung-Pow Chicken Rice near the place I stay.

This is some really weird cat I stumbled.

Basically if we are to meet cats back in Malaysia, they fled even before we are close to them by 10 metres. This is weird?

Who’s there?

Some morning blue that I had with some chilly rain.

The usual bus I took to work, N.195

But out of some magic, guess who I stumbled across? It’s not once! But twice! That’s more than being coincidence! Oh well, that’s Winson Ho that we knew. He’s real good.

The poster is literally everywhere. If you notice the second image on the right, they photoshop’ed the face of him.

Visit Back To School

I had some opportunity to drop by one of their biggest design faculty? Maybe I’m wrong, but I was informed that in SG, there are only 2 places that is offering design courses. *cough* hint mr.hoi *cough.

But surprisingly, I found out that most of my college graduated from here, NYP, Nanyang Polytechnics.

The main door, saying ”What A Catch?“. It seems like that they are looking for employment opportunity after graduation.

One of the student’s namecard.  This student was also an intern back in the office few months ago.

Basically there are 3 disciplines inside that is exhibited. Animation/3D, Interactive and Games Design.

The hall are…big.

Some colleagues in front. Some looks even younger than me.

What’s back at home?

This is my new room! *Jumps*

But as I were excited to go back Malaysia during the weekend, which it seems across the Malaysia Custom doesn’t seem to be flooded with people because back in SG, they’re really strict in letting car and lorry to pass. You know.

But it seems like I end up in a hole of CONage. Some mother-fucker sold me a ticket back to KL during the eve of election at RM45. And what kind of bus I’m in?

Yes, school bus.

What the  fuck with this place? Why isn’t there is a control for this?!

My lovely newphew. Love them so much.

Chilling Genting

Weekend over Singapore

Near the place I stay.

Some really exciting food here. Superdog, what do they sell? Hot dog! It tastes really good.

What’s next after that? A trip down to the south. First time. Took the cable car.

Look below. The size is humongous, the comparison side by side to the ship. lol.

Some really weird coconut tree.  It looks anorexic to me. Compared to some we usually see back then.

Some spinning tower that allows you to see the aerial view (almost) of the place.

The exhibition ticket.

No it’s not human.

It was a sunny day. But it seems, we didn’t go down to the beach. Perhaps, next time.

Got this toy at some weird shop. Who wants a lucky draw?

Going back. Again.

This time around, took FirstCoach from Novena Square, Novena MRT. Was pretty comfortable with the price of RM60++. Was fucking better than the school bus.

And they are soooooooo on time that they literally move the bus as the clock struck 4:30 P.M. Amazing.

And it stops at Bangsar.

But what are these?

LRT from bangsar. To KL Sentral. Ticket = RM1.

I was shocked when I saw this on the wall of KL Sentral. Noticed is from Shieko and friends. Interesting.

Back in SG.

Some really interesting poster I was back when taking MRT in SG.

Everchanging Carousel of Luck

It has been a month since I’ve posted anything in here. It’s due to my ever changing direction in life. Some really ups and downs that happened all the while, be it happy stuff or challenging stuff. Finally I can sit down right now after a nice bath and dinner on a chilly Thursday midnight. Friday morning.

The birth of a new start in two

This is a temple near Brickfields. Which supposingly to organise good deed for the good ones. Such a long time since it is established.

It’s really so hot that you can barely open your eyes wide enough to see what’s in front of you.

A beautiful loving couple

And so again I express my congratulation to both of David and Tsuqi. *claps• •jumps• Nice cake and food

I have almost forgotten how beautiful the sky is always be, that I have not taken up on my fetish in clouds for the past year.

And so that day itself passes happily ever after.

Yumcharing With Housemates

It amazed me how I missed foods back in Malaysia especially when I started to feel so weird about myself that my home country is a fucking friendly loving place with great food.

And so that yumchar lasted about 2 hours after a hefty day that took my whole day driving around meeting up people.

Finding Refuge

This bus is actually the Airebus which supposingly to be decent in comfortability? But after 2-3 trips with it, the question of doubt start to goes around me, due to some really angry driver and rude skills in driving. It has been a rough ride I would say, except the fact that it uses a different route to goes away from the normal hectic Causeway that is crowded with people. I would like to thank million to Joanne and Vince kahki for this great tips.

The Second Link highway which leads into Singapore. Less people?

It has took quite an amount of time to travel down South, approximately around 5 hours. By then, I guess this would be the first time I’ll drop by the newly rented room in a place far far away called Bukit Panjang. Yes, mind you the name, the place is really panjang from the place where I’m working. It has been taking me 1:30 hour trip daily to go 1 ride from home to work. You can do the rough math on how long it will take for me to reach home at night.

And so here it goes. How it looks from outside the door. Lots of flats known as HDB owned by the goverment?

Some typical type of door you will get, but I will share with you more on my experience on this absolute-fabulousing-fucking-Singapo-nese-Kiasu-Lord-of-paranoia.

Heading back home

Enough of random chatter, this is the Woodlands Bus Interchange which you can take bus No.950 to the custom checkpoint in Singapore to go back to Johor Bahru. Quite a decent place compared to Kranji which you will need to tear people’s clothes to get up the bus.

As soon as I woke up from the stop that I took the bus back to KL. I was shocked. KIM GAR……

KIM GUAN…

Being even closer to home

This time around, I’m back to Malaysia to celebrate Chinese New Year with my family before starting my job right after this holiday.

And my dad took an alternate route back to Teluk Intan due to some weird massive jam occurred in Kapar.

This is home. Back in Perak. And it was much quieter since my grandfather left us last year. According to the Chinese beliefs, the celebration for Chinese New Year before any elderly passes one year, it has to be done in low-key setting.

Nothing unusual, just happy and laughing chatters with relatives.

Rolling back to work

And coming back to KL. This Airebus is taken from Crowne Plaza KL due to the seats from Sunway/Bandar Utama is fully booked. So I need to travel down here waiting for it.

It has TV. Mini one.

And it has food! Normal one.

Living in a hole

This is the lift back in the place I used to stay, why I say used? Because I moved And I’m glad I did. Looks as much dodgy like places in Chow Kit to you.

Anti Rape machine? I’m not really sure behind these urine detection if it works. What if the entire elevator is covered with detergent?

Going to Work

This is the LRT which I can take from the place I ‘used’ to stay.

It runs on tyres. That is magical. But this LRT trip will take me 30 minutes to reach towards the main interchange and change to MRT towards my working place. Cool eh.

The MRT Station. I’m suprised to know that you can be charged with summons if caught crossing the yellow line before the train actually stops in front of you.

Some letter, from mobile telcos.

My cubism. Looks familiar?

Lenovo always gives me the impression of a Cantonese foul language, Lei Lou Mou, Don’t ask me why. I have no idea it sounds just like that.

Applied for a banking system. Minimum deposit 500SGD. That’s like RM1141. If you have less than that they will deduct 2SGD from your bank account monthly. Makes me feel Maybank is so much better.

Some weird techy stuff to verify your online transaction, just like our Maybank’s TAC code. But I felt holding this is much more like a hassle?

DBS? Equivalent to our Maybank. But perhaps I prefer Maybank2u MORE.

Going back home at night through the LRT.

The lane itself.

The people themselves.

And some shopping done over the weekday.

A mobile broadband from one of their local telco. Looks decent.

And I’ve been informed that I’ll need to bear an amount approximate 300SGD if I damage this. LOL.

And this card can be used as normal mobile phone SIM card. Cool.

And yay I’m online.

Waking up to work

Priceless expression from the picture. And yes, everyone’s sleepy. Pity.

And everyone’s busy.

But one thing here. Cat’s appearing right in front of my company means…

I’m too early that I have no key to go into my office.

Doh.

Some food I have at Bugis Junction. Looks cool. Tastes like…food.

And it’s actually just vegetables inside. No meat. Eh. And it’s like 5SGD.

Here’s this outdoor cinema that has been going for a while, and installed at the Somerset MRT station which has the skating park.

Much or less like our version of…somekind of outdoor cinema. What is it called again…?

Yong Peng.

Random bits of rant.

Moneys from elders.

Random pictures. Thanks to Kakak for this gift.

MOS Riceburger. Was expecting it to be really. But it turned out to be just nice.

Probably because I felt too full to actually really feel any taste from it.

So it’s just…nice.

Being Sandwiched

How about some sharing on bus taking experience? I guess the expression from the girl inside the bus tells everything. Massive sandwichism. And this is actually driving me crazy from all these mother-pushing bastards.

Poor girl.

And everyone felt that it’s a normal thing. well, perhaps it is.

Even for the second bus. Phew.

Celebrating Partners

Was lucky to be invited by my company’s partner that deals with PR for their new opening of thier office.

As usual, lots of booze, and talking. Notice something glowing inside this picture?

It’s right upstairs.

I almost drunk. LOL.

Cool bunch of people. And the next morning…

Again…

I have decided to move out from the shithole I was living in. for 400SGD per month it’s like you are living in a prison filled with nails up your ass. Lesson learnt : Try not to stay with a landLADY. That is old. And perhaps, a chinese (no racism, but really, and I’m a Chinese).

You might be interested in what happens right? I guess the list continues if I go on and on. It wouldn’t stop. Due to rising price of property in Singapore, rent in this country is massively gone up high and sore. That is why we could drop our jaw the moment we hear the rent compared to what we paid in Malaysia. But that isn’t too much of a good thing as people taking advantage of travelling workers that is not used to this place, like me.

Of course going through an agent gives me an expectation that this would be at least a trustworthy place I could stay comfortably after work without much arguments. Which in the end, it’s not argument, but mind rape of me. Mentally torturing which I felt I wouldn’t want to argue, else I might end up beating people up. It’s so stupid that I can get mistaken as a bloody cheapskate runaway foreign worker. I have nothing to say if I am stereotyped like that from my face, I know I can’t change that perception if they want to think like that. What’s so cool about this superwoman I was staying with :

-Lock door must be silent, as if you didn’t open the door at all
-The lock must face correct direction
-The washing machine can be use, but only one day cause other day I want to use (her), and after 10pm cannot use, later other people wake up (i was like wtf)
-call me (her) if come back late or didn’t go back home, don’t make me(her) call you cause it will waste my money (WTF)
-socks my put inside your room, no shoes allowed at all if can (WTFF!)
-must go out your room and to work before 9am, i want to clean the floor (WTFBBQ)
-and on and on and on…

I’m so tired that I felt this is a pointless thing for me to live on. She works like an antivirus software update that comes with a new update everyday, almost.

I wish I could make use of this.

All these photography are done right outside the office.

And the postman.

Money lender.

The crack.

And even eagle.

Time I’m inside.

And due to all these troubles, I have been rapidly finding myself a new place.

And eeriely this appears right inside my dream before, call it DejaVu. But I actually like this place.

Known as Bukit Purmei, more cozy and chilly.

Less dodgy.

Prison-Break Season 2 – Live Action Movie. 

This is what I experienced way back last week to Malaysia. The traffic was massive due to a prison break from SG. The escapist was the leader of some terrorist network in SG.

And due to some heavy custom check. The buses in Malaysia are fairly empty on the early weekend.

But tough getting through the custom was a breeze. I was stupid to be conned by this mtherfking company that made me paid RM40 for this trip and waited until 1AM (almost 2 hour) before they start to move!

This is utterly stupid. I was at the station around 11 PM.

Some random running around KL

And I’ve only realized this ticket can be used anywhere around the town or off town under RapidKL bus once you made a payment to it! Sweet. It is recycable on the same day.

The skate park in the morning.

That should be the early part of what happened for the past 1 and a half month. But I’m really glad that I can finally settle down in a place that I can sleep like in home. Phew.

Happy Flower Chinese New Year!

Masaaki Kishibe – Hana

May the best wishes from you will be granted. Good luck to everyone out there. Much Luvs. *ps – ehem, i will practice more.*

Time Intersection

Finally I get some breathing space to rant here. And I forgot on most of what I wanted to blog now. Damn it.

Growing Up. Looking Back Then, Seeing Through Now.
It’s an interesting weekend back in Klang for me at least. Walking the familiar environment that it is so scary because it’s so familiar like what it is back then when I was 5 years old, 10 years old, 20 years old and now. Perhaps what is changed that people around has grown so much that its beyond recognition, some really became really old…white hair, hunch back, roads altered…kids grew up. Even at one day out of nowhere that I decided to go to this old familiar and famous chicken rice shop, I stumbled across friends that I knew back in college and even during my earlier days in cyber cafe, my youth and rebellious era. But of course I’m not surprised to see that my college friend still recognized me. I’m happy. Of course I did, and most heartbreaking one would be a person that might recognize you but pass right in front of you without even saying hello or wave the familiar hand?

It happens to me quite a lot of time. To certain extend that I feel so unreal inside me. At times that we might grew up in the past during school times by playing and studying together but as time goes, we went separate way and now, it’s nothing more than just a stare. How ironic. Of course at times when it’s like 2-5 years that I have not seen a person, and happen to stumble across them in front of me, either through the usual dramatic ‘escalator’ going up vs going down scene or meeting up in a chicken rice shop. I will be happy for those have grow and improve or progress much from their life seeing how many things in their life have changed and inspired me. And also to those that just give me a stare and look away, as afraid I’ll eat them up, (wtf?) I wish them good luck in their afterlife, this life also. And made me realized how lucky I am for not being their friend anymore. Talk about being materialistic.

Malaysia? The joke!
I’m not sure anymore if I’ll able to hold my temper and start randomly slap this country’s citizen one by one in the shopping mall. But I guess I learnt from Joanne that there’s a lot more thing than being a real jerk and lose our temper to something that is not even worth our words. To even just buying ice-cream in MCD. This auntie can’t help but to take as if I learnt the INVISIBILITY spell and cut queue? I guess that was alright considering my McFlurry might cool me down afterward, but it just adds to the fire with she looks back at me, like…a cold stare as if I’m blocking her way. WTF? Tell me. I’m surprised how I can endure that.

Red Packet 
Well, what’s next? Again this question comes to me again and again. Of course this is a golden year for people around me, a lot got married! And I’m definitely happy for them. Congrats to Tsuqi for being *cough*Madam*cough*Lee (Don’t kill me ). Jaclynn as well for being Mrs.Tan. And MayLyn this coming weekend.