Riding in the Rain...

2007-03-11T18:42:00.001+08:00

kaze
Originally uploaded by Xepheiro.

This is the last post of this blog... *sob* It's been 4 long years since it's first post. From JC, post JC riding days, Army, and a little till of poly and now!

This blog has gone through 1124posts, 4-5 revamps in layouts. 3 tag boards. And 10k hits.. heh, i wasn't expecting that much at all. Seems knda sad to just leave them all here...

The posts are not just words. They contain lots of memories in the past. That's what journals are for. You look back, see how far have you changed, how far have your improved or fallen. Some of which you wish to relive the days, some which you wish that never happened.

I have moved onto my personal hosted blog at www.kazesuki.com. Come find me there. Updates and relink to the updated address please!

Domo, arigatou onegaishimasu!

Prepare for Glory!

2007-03-11T02:04:00.001+08:00

Prepare for Glory!
Originally uploaded by Xepheiro.

Gore has never being this beautiful. The movie has a lot of slow motion stuff. The blood spilling was very artistically dramatic. I was never intrigued by blood and gore, until now.

Lots of naked bodies, 8 packed hunks. All hail the Queen of Spartan =)

After the movie, the group of Sean, Leon, Jonathan and Me went to youth park for makan and chit chat.

What's left later in the night was Leon and me, talking at Macs at Shaw house. We talked about a lot of stuff. Life, future, girls (or rather the trans that were walking about), and our close ones. A pretty good talk till morning 630am. Then we parted our ways.

Later in the afternoon, a try at mahjong landed me as the second highest winner! Bought ice cream for the family =P

Bored.

2007-03-09T16:36:00.001+08:00

Raze...
Originally uploaded by Xepheiro.

bored

adjective
1. tired of the world; "bored with life"; "strolled through the museum with a bored air"
2. uninterested because of frequent exposure or indulgence;

I can't work on the next site for the blog, due to the stupid nameservers refresh rate of 24-72 hours. I understand now the different between wordpress.org and wordpress.com. After a fee of $15 bucks...

the .org is uploaded to your web host and you blog from there. The .com one allows you to blog online with lesser flexibility. Uber flexiblity is with the .org one.

So the stupid me signed up for the .com one, paid $15 bucks to direct the domain name to the blog at wordpress.com. Only to discover, i need to pay more to edit the css...

Ooo... Gonna go for my T100 lesson! later!

The Sony T100

2007-03-09T00:38:00.001+08:00

The Sony T100
Originally uploaded by Xepheiro.

Ah, the Sony T100.

Here's how it came about:

I was just walking around the IT Show with my bro. With nothing in mind to buy. I was looking to try out Sony's latest digicam, T100.

*Caught eye of the Sony booth signs made a beeline for it*

Then there, the salesperson introduced the T100 to me. I fondled with it, pressed, went through everything in the cam. Man, it's a beauty. A powerful one too. I wasn't really into getting it now as I was saving for my bike. So.....

The next thing you know, it's in my hands at home. There, look at that photo.

Compulsive shopping will be the death of me someday.

Plus, the Japanese desserts at Marina square are pretty tasty. I want to eat there again. And again! and AGAIN!

The Sin Food

2007-03-08T01:02:00.001+08:00

The Sin Food
Originally uploaded by Xepheiro.

Got this from my neighbour who went to US for a business trip. It's freaking sweet!! Pure peanut butter covered by Uber-sweet milk chocolate. One of the sweetest things i ate ever.

The other was Coffeeclub's Mudcake. Just thinking about it just made feel so bad eating that stuff.

I'm staying far away from those now.

Threadless sale! Consolidated orders here and then and the bill accounted up to the two hundreds! Thankfully, the US rate is back to S$1.50. (stupid deflict) More shopping to come!

Oh, Playstation 3 launch today! Woot~! I want a T100 more than a PS3...

Ion Cannon ready.

2007-03-05T23:20:00.001+08:00

Bigg!!
Originally uploaded by Xepheiro.

What do you get when you have 2 boys with some high tech toys and a HDTV?

Living room has turned into a temp war room for CnC 3 demo... Wireless keyboard and mouse. Wireless network... Ooo.... Big screen!

I kept reading Haruki Murakami's book. It's a good book. So dreamy. So surreal. Then suddenly i think that there are people that do nonsensical things too, like me! I shall not elaborate on that.

Mostly to think about stuff. About life, past present, future, the uncertainty and nothingness. I should go buy more of his books =)

A few days ago, I met up with Mauricette and we chatted up a little on holidays. She was going about why didn't i go overseas for this holidays? Regardless with company or not, it'll be fun. And get to make friends there... Get to rot somewhere out of home.

Hmm, i'll make a note for that during my next holidays.

The night life

2007-03-04T02:05:00.001+08:00

Pinku Shuffle!
Originally uploaded by Xepheiro.

So fun today! talking cock late into the night. It's been a while since i cycled to meet up with the rest for some chit chat at TP. Seems fun.

Anyways, got how around 12. Poured myself a cup of whisky. Drank. And i'm reading a book.... lol. The wonders of life. So blur so confusing...

Rain...

2007-03-01T23:45:00.001+08:00

NannnnO!
Originally uploaded by Xepheiro.

It's been 2 days since i became a Prisoner of Rain (PoR). I'm stuck at home, with nothing to do. Maybe playing Dirge of Cerberus and Okami on PS2. That's about it. I WAS suppose to do some intervals training... Thanks Rain!

The new 2nd G Nano is so slim! I need a leather pouch to thicken it a little bit. Shopping on Sat, i hope.

It was still drizzling when i met JM to pass him his 'pinku' Shuffle. Borrowed some books to kill time if it rains.... I'm so never gonna finish reading all my mags.

*hugs RED Nano*

Normalised

2007-02-27T00:41:00.001+08:00

Emo...
Originally uploaded by Xepheiro.

Normal day, normal life. yay! I need some excitement.... That would have to wait till April. The nights would different then. Much cooler, much colder. More sweat, more body heat... I can't wait till April!

Photography needs to the right moment and the right time. Here it is! The legendary pose of Fifi lying on her head is finally caught on the cam!

She never poses for me... zen zen...

And,
Happy Birthday, Miki!

lol.

Girls smell like shampoo

2007-02-24T00:49:00.001+08:00

Huh?
Originally uploaded by Xepheiro.

I went down to Tay cycles only to find out the stock fo the Giant 2007 models haven't arrived yet. The shipment is due in april. Hopefully...

Then had dinner with Rose and watched "Just follow law" at Tampines mall!

heh, it's a beautiful day. But then, i feel so tired going out the whole day.... ah...

Acute Morning Musumeitis (AMM)

2007-02-23T01:06:00.001+08:00

Caged
Originally uploaded by Xepheiro.

An acute syndrome of attraction to, or, mesmerised by the most famous girl group in the Hello! Project family - Morning Musume.

It is caused by the 'Morning Musume-san virus", only found to spread by watching MM videos and MTVs for more than 5 hours. Apparently, this syndrome affects mostly men that are exposed to MM. There are causalities, yet to be be found in the female gender.

Possible symptoms:
- Having more than 5GB worth of videos on MM in their comps
- Handphone wallpapers and ringtones are from MM
- Will faint on the sight of their favorite girl in MM doing something cute/ stupid
- Would watch their mtvs and videos repeatedly
- mimic the actions or sounds of the girls in MM. Eg, "Charmy!! Happy! by Rika Ishikawa"
- Feel happy when watching MM dancing and singing
- They think about MM throughout the day
- Know all the names of the girl in the group. Be it graduated or not.
- Spent time looking for more video feeds like youtube on MM
- listening to MM songs for hours

It seems that AMM doesn't have much detrimental effects. Possible non-detrimental effects are increased standards in ratings of girls, Increased attraction to Kawaii-ness, and increased levels of devotion of MM.

More research are being conducted on the long term effects of this intriguing new syndrome.

Please be advised that the symptoms varies with subjects. Please do not use this as a absolute guide for self-diagnosis. Consult a doctor if needed.

Day 2

2007-02-20T00:27:00.001+08:00

The Family
Originally uploaded by Xepheiro.

More visitations to other relatives. Both paternal and maternal sides. Lots of food and tibits to feel sinful for a lifetime. Luckily, self-control is still functioning. I felt pretty wore out by festive moods by this age. CNY is pretty fun as a kids where everyone would come play with you give you hong baos and force feed you with sweets. Nowadays, they force feed you with wine and liquor. How do you feel about CNY this year?

A pretty nice photo of my family, and the family dog too =) We do this every year on CNY! heh...

I wanna go travel around the world. That's my aim in life. I'm a wanderer. I like to discover new things. Explore. See new stuff around the world. Not really starting expeditions into unchartered lands. Just wanna see life outside of this island. So, anyone wanna go on a trip?

Gotta plan a proposal on Wednesday to Europe.... Argh! i hope there would be some help at Orchard Library...

2007-02-18T23:50:00.001+08:00

Mew....
Originally uploaded by Xepheiro.

Chinese New year! Or was it called Lunar New Year? Heh, as time changes so does traditional customs and stuff.

Computers attract the young in their games. So they rather play games than go out visiting relatives and friends. It's just like those wow days of mine. Argh...

I think i just screwed myself. It's just so hard to understand... Whatever? That's denial and reaction formation... grr... Every time that word is said, 3 kitties get squashed by cars.

Silence! The mystery! The gift...

Back here, I'm pretty much into reading books on medical stuff now. Kinda interesting. Hopefully it can help with my attachment somehow. Still need to work on my social skills, which seriously suck.

It's pretty weird that i didn't get asked the question "Do you have a girlfriend?". Oh wells...

Back to reading...

Peace?

2007-02-17T00:05:00.001+08:00

parallels
Originally uploaded by Xepheiro.

now with the psychology test out of the way. The holidays have officially began! Yay!

For this 3 weeks of holidays, I'm planning to enrich myself with learning new stuff...

Japanese would be one. Read up on health and medical stuff. Social interactions and behavior stuff. London trip. That's about it.

Then throw in a course on 'how to ride a road bike'. And go walk walk at MacRitchie! Train up for road cycling again.

Grab the same people for road cycling on weekends. Yay!

Next few things in mind
- Guitar
- more to come

Fananas!

2007-02-15T00:47:00.001+08:00

Fananas!
Originally uploaded by Xepheiro.

Happy Valentine's Day! woot~!

Went out shopping with Bro at Ikea. Got some stuff for my bookshelf. Tried the meatballs too! Not that bad!

Then the taxi ride was pretty entertaining with the taxi driver complaining about the jams on Valentine's day at couples places like Orchard, ECP, Sentosa areas. I was pretty much laughing throughout the jam.

Ran for abut 3km at night. Lovely breeze... I ran without stopping! Finally! Played a little wow here and there.

Oh Valentine's Day.. Where have all the love gone to? lol

Personality with a twitch

2007-02-13T00:21:00.001+08:00

Peaceful rest
Originally uploaded by Xepheiro.

Read through this personality book to find out my own categories... Then i was the same throughout the year.

I'm so call emotionally neutral...
Relationship dependent and emotionally self-sufficient. Good balance between emotional warmth and distance in appropriate situations. Aren't too emotionally needy, neither aloof or detached. Enjoy a little spontaneity as long as i have some order in life. I maintain the balance of relationship dependence and emotionally self-sufficiency BASED ON situations... Consciously or subconsciously.... Thus, switching personality at different environments.

That is all so true.... My true colors revealed. A chimera, a shapeshifter.... Bite me.

And the freaking left upper eye lip twitching has gone into it's 1.5week run. Read up a lot on the net, either it's spasms, tumor in the brain, something wrong with nerves or a good luck indicator or someone is thinking about me! Argh! the horrors!

Sleep. Peace peace.

Kimochi...

2007-02-12T00:27:00.001+08:00

Kimochi...
Originally uploaded by Xepheiro.

This photo.. I'm really touched by this photo. Taking a shot at Fifi being steady is really rare. As in wide awake, not those prank shots of her sleeping and dreaming about chasing after ice cream. i would definitely print this out someday =)

Last night was just another day at MJ's house trying to save the world from Dr Doom in Marvel Alliance ultimate. It took 3 players, 9 hours, tonnes of drinks and snacks to stay awake. Pretty interesting game play with the point addition system. Each of us trying to be the 1st in the scores.

Then i gotta save my own arse from being burn by my parents for not calling back or for missing 15 calls and 24 smses.... You can see the panic level rise up in the house... Some explaination and a tub of Ben's and Jerry's ice cream did the trick.

Gonna go wash and cycle tomorrow... And cut my horrible hair lol...

Vivo Viva!

2007-02-10T02:44:00.001+08:00

A cup of tea
Originally uploaded by Xepheiro.

I was out the whole day today.... Morning Dim Sum at harnourfront became a ala carte lunch dim sum buffet. Then shopping at Vivocity! Yay! got a pair of nice black leather shoes. Pretty simple design. More for a walking kinda shoe... Then got a shirt from Zara... Still thinking about that brown coat from the shop at Sembawang.... Should I? Need to take pictures of it. Went around window shopping with the girls, looking at jap stuff at Daisho. And the furry pets at the Safari shop.

Then met up with Rose for dinner at PS. Pizza at Pizza hut =) Haven't had it for a while. Then went walking around and caught the 'Miss Potter' movie! A nice heartwarming show about the author of Peter Jack The Rabbit. I used to read them a long long time ago. Like when i was 6? Oh well! Those were the days....

Did i mention i bought Burning Crusade? lol! I'm back to casual playing on WoW. Was pretty surprised that i wasn't kicked from the guild yet! I think i shocked quite a few people =P

Great day! yay!

New Routine

2007-02-06T21:56:00.001+08:00

Towera
Originally uploaded by Xepheiro.

Gonna start a new routine every morning when i wake up. New segment of 30mins of mini excerises to start the body going and another 30 minutes to look good and fresh =)

hopefully i'll stick to it somehow.

One more test to go for this week and it's the holidays! Yay! CNY! Yay! Morning Musume! Yay! Rika, Abe-san, Goto-san! YAY!

YAY!

Morning Musume!

2007-02-05T01:06:00.001+08:00

p-wp-hpmm-w016b
Originally uploaded by Rihas.

After spending a night with this lovely ladies at Mj's house. I'm impressed. So honored to be in their company lol!

I'm like looking at their mtv at least once a day... So Kawaii! omg!

Went to Vivocity for dinner with the ODAc people that went for surf and sweat at sentosa! ZeBin got 4th in the Open Cat! Grats ZB!

Did some shopping at Gap... bought a pair of jeans and a checkered long sleeve shirt. I wonder how am i gonna wear that with... lol

Then we had Dinner at White dog cafe and lovely desert at Ben's and Jerry's!! The ice cream was fabulous! And the waitress is cute too! lol!

Then went back home for some much needed rest for more studying tomorrow. I don't mug. I hate mugging...

Decisions

2007-02-02T17:45:00.001+08:00

wink wink
Originally uploaded by Xepheiro.

This is so rare. I'm blogging in the afternoon. I can't study for my exams due to the freaking NPCC group in the school next door. I'll leave it for tonight...

Twenty one years and 3 months have passed since i was born. I have made a lot of decisions that has affected me in someway. Well, the progress of the future to be exact. The choice of school, the choice of colour of the socks, the choice to change, the choice to smoke, the choice to have fun, the choice to have sex, the choice to study, the choice to be a delinquent, the choice to be nice, the choice to be an ass. What would i have become?

It was pretty intriguing that if what if i chose the other choice? The few thousand million infinitely large number of choices that have gone missing in time. Is life just a linear line that is ongoing with lots of choices you can choose, but you can only choose one path? One outcome? What if the other 'you' chose the choice that you didn't? A choice can lead to different choices in the future of your life.

Imagine the life you have now is just a small part in the infinite web of other possibilities. Like infinite parallel dimensions with a 'you' in each of it. All taking a different decision and a different path for a different outcome. A different future. A different you in some way.

i thought about this sometime back when i was a small kid... But then, since Einstein published his quantum theory way much earlier.I haven't even read his theory at that time....

Decisions do change your life. Some come with joy. Some with regrets. Some choose to run away from making a choice. They are all choices in the end.

So the next time you do a 60 multiple choice question test, think carefully! lol

A Conversation?

2007-02-01T00:21:00.001+08:00

A dog's pride
Originally uploaded by Xepheiro.

3 days of studying is over! Taking a small break today, i shall continue with more tomorrow.

Got a 'book' from Jie about "How to talk to any one". Pretty interesting. I was halfway through it on the first read. Teaches how to make a conversation good and easy with a few trick and there.

I admit. I suck at conversations. I listen a lot... The output is little =(

I shall see how this little 'book' improves me.

The Wind is calling...

2007-01-28T00:09:00.001+08:00

Candlelights hanging
Originally uploaded by Xepheiro.

Another game of badminton. Another new racket. Another pair of shoes destroyed. Badminton is a destructive game. Lots of explosive moments that that bound to destroy your most trusty shoes. Period.

I was pretty in a light-hearted mood when strolling back home from the station after the game. I saw this couple practicing ball-room dancing at the big shelter for events. Pretty interesting =)

Then it reminded of what MJ said earlier in the evening. " Why do people fall in love? Why don't people don't fall into friendship? But they make friends?" Hmm, interesting thought. In my opinion, people 'fall' into love because it it just happen unknowingly. This attachment of love isn't premeditated. It 'just' happen. It's a mysterious phenomenon. Ooo...

Then, there was a breeze.

I love breezes. Especially at night. It feels so comforting, soothe the soul =P Just like the times when I was cycling late in the night. Alone, as usual. Since no one was interested in a little self torture in the most enjoyable way possible, I'm always cycling long distance by myself.

I got used to it after a while. Thanks to the windchill and night breeze. Hah... I got numbed by it. I kept on cycling into the night. The tiredness in the legs, the blurness in the mind, the thought of going home. Subarashi ne! Feels like i was reborn better and stronger after every long ride =) Testing limits of my body and mind....

The Wind is calling me....

Giant TCR Alliance TM

2007-01-24T23:59:00.001+08:00

Giant TCR Alliance TM
Originally uploaded by Xepheiro.

Bike porn! heh!

Well, it's about 2.4k. Fits nicely into my budget. I'll throw on a Crankbros Quattro and a nice spd shoe for it =)

It'll be one lovely ride in the holidays. I'll most prob start getting lost int he roads of Singapore again. Just gimme a call, i might pop up at your house on the bike =)

More to study tomorrow morning. How boring life can get when schoolwork interferes with it.... pfft! A balance must be sought.

Ananda, Tim, Me

2007-01-23T00:01:00.001+08:00

Ananda, Tim, Me
Originally uploaded by Xepheiro.

Here's the 3 of guys. I still can't produce a smile for a photoshoot. Someone need to make me laugh... So it's more natural... ha!

I found the bike i have been waiting for.. will talk about it more next time. So anyone wanna chip in for the "Road bike Fund"? I'll buy you a drink! Contributions must be $10 or above =P

So the saving begins...