Maximise Your Potential Award Ceremony (16th Sept 2006)

Well, folks the RunForFunds Project marked a successful milestone with the Maximise Your Potential Award Ceremony where the intended money we raised from last year's marathon has safely reached that hands of the kids. No golden taps, no gold peanuts. The full proverbial dollar. Not a single penny less.

For more information, goto http://runforfunds.blogdrive.com . In the mean time, I will mirror that latest entry on the awards to share with everybody.

For those who have helped along the way or would like to help, how about mirroring this post so that more people can be aware of this project. Bear in mind this is not an appeal for funds. We don't accept money from people we don't know. What we do need is well wishers to continue to motivate us to keep this project going as well as in the hope that more people would be inspired to join in the effort and/or start new projects on their own.

With the cumulative effect of all the little efforts around the country, this island would be a better place for you and me.

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 (MYP award recipients, their parents, Run For Funds Superfriends & Sponsors)

Hi folks,
The Maximise Your Potential (MYP) Award Ceremony was held @ Geylang Methodist Primary School (GMPS) on 16^th Sept 2006.

(GMPS Principal Miss Mabel Wee addressing the students and their parents)

This is the 3^rd MYP ceremony, since its inauguration @ GMPS in 2004. This year we have 14 MYP award recipients (3 new students). Each received $200 cash, $50 Popular Book Store Voucher and $100 training fund.

 

(Sharing a lighter moment @ MYP award ceremony)

We also celebrate our first batch of graduates from the MYP programme. Terence Teo and Alfie Lim (MYP 2004 & 2005) have done well in their 2005 PSLE and qualified for the secondary school of their choice. Terence (PSLE score 223) is now at Geylang Methodist Secondary and Alfie (PSLE score 243) at Chung Cheng Secondary School.

Thanks for your support for the Run For Funds movement. Below are pics of the kids you are sponsoring.

But first, here's a thank you message from the kids (they made this card)......

Tan Zhiwei (Pri 6) with Ms Mabel Wee, GMPS Principal
 

Allamaysah (Pri 6)                                       Tan RuHui (Pri 6)
 

 

Chan Qiu Qin (Pri 6)
 

Karin Low ( Pri 5) with Superfriend Gaz      Li Su Ru (Pri 4)

Wong Yong Kang (Pri 4)
 

Sim Huiting(Pri 5) with Superfriend Meng Hwei

Len Fong Xin ( Pri 5)                                     Leong Weiye (Pri 5)

Nyio Boon Keng (Pri 5) with Superfriend Kelvin

Jacky Thng (Pri 4)
 

Chen Xiangwei (Pri 4) with Superfriend Wei Ming
 

Tan ZhiGuang (Pri 3)


Gaz mulling over Adrian's request for him to run 42km this year ...

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- Voxeros

1. spinnee left...

Wednesday, 4 October 2006 12:57 pm

limbu has put up the link in my blog liao.
wahahahahhaa

2. Meepoktah Maihiam left...

Wednesday, 4 October 2006 12:58 pm

Thank you Brudder for posting this blog. Hope more pple will start something to help those who are disadvantaged. While our Gahmen's social security safety net is quite wide, there are still a lot of gaps. We can, in our own small ways, plug these gaps. No need to be superman and save the world. Every little effort makes a difference.

3. JayWalk left...

Wednesday, 4 October 2006 1:00 pm ::

Spinnee: Lim Peh kum siah very much! 

MeePok: Well, with about 2 months before the marathon, looks like we are going to start preparing our PR Campaign for the year 2006. Are you ready?

Rude Vegetables

 

Got this photo from Deek who saw these when out supermarketing. While this blog is not about "ooo... how sexy Deek is out there grocery shopping!", interested parties are still welcomed to apply via this blog.

Win a hot date with Chick Magnet Deek!

On a less serious(!) note, Deek chanced into some vegetables with interesting names. I wonder how much Kow Bu cost? How would it taste if you eat Kow Pek and Kow Bu together?

Then there is the Kana vegetable next to it. If not wash properly, would it be Kana Sai?
If you ask me, they all look like siew pak choy to me. But, what do I know? I will never be half the chick magnet that Deek is.

Send in your applications today! 

 - Voxeros

1. aloe left...

Tuesday, 3 October 2006 10:06 am

Can see the stems of the Kow Pek and Kana ish different. One is white and one green. =P
Kow Bu should be $1.20 also la since Kow Pek is $1.20. So add up ish $2.40 loh!! But sollie la, Kow Bu ish sold out le... hahahha!

Sometimes, people will mix up the vege cos when they chose, they put the vege tt they do not want to one side. Then sometimes, when one type of vege is sold out, the other vege next to it will "spill over" to the sold out vege side mah. So maybe it is the same loh.

Anyway, I also dun know what are the diff la. Can eat can liao!! haaa!

2. JayWalk left...

Tuesday, 3 October 2006 11:35 am :: 

Anna: Wah... you got quite the sharp eye there.

3. spellbound left...

Tuesday, 3 October 2006 5:00 pm :: http://verniceloy.blogspot.com

is chick magnet deek a male or female? or half of those kind?
if it is male, how come got a chick?
if it is a female, how come named deek?

4. akk left...

Tuesday, 3 October 2006 5:53 pm

spellbound 's comments had me spewing kopi all over....
first got deek, then got chick lah. No Deek, no Chick, ok?!

5. spellbound left...

Tuesday, 3 October 2006 8:30 pm :: http://verniceloy.blogspot.com

aiyah, must clarify mah...
*arghhhhh*

6. JayWalk left...

Tuesday, 3 October 2006 9:59 pm ::

Spellbound: Deek is the magnet of chicks i.e. chicks are attracted to him like all things to gravity.

Akk: Thank you for helping to clarify. We have a new chick here. Must slowly educate her. :)

7. spellbound left...

Tuesday, 3 October 2006 11:18 pm :: http://verniceloy.blogspot.com

oic...
thanks for clarifying...

so how does deek look like? post a pic of him la...then maybe i will send my application in.
*blushes*

8. Chocolate left...

Wednesday, 4 October 2006 12:22 am

Deek is a cute uncle!!!

9. JayWalk left...

Wednesday, 4 October 2006 9:22 am ::

Spellbound & AKK: Ahem... not uncle ok! It's kor kor.

10. Jaslyn left...

Wednesday, 4 October 2006 12:13 pm :: http://precious-jas.blogspot.com

Wah.. call Deek uncle ah? Later he give you the crying sad face then you know! Hahhaha... Where this veggie pic being taken? Bkk? He in Bkk now right?

11. JayWalk left...

Wednesday, 4 October 2006 5:40 pm ::

Jaslyn: The picture was supposedly taken at the Japanese supermarket where Daimaru used to be. Liang Court. What is it called now?

12. Jaslyn left...

Thursday, 5 October 2006 12:01 am :: http://precious-jas.blogspot.com

Liang Court lor.. Got change name again meh? The supermarket name is ... err... I suddenly don't rem! Hahahah

13. JayWalk left...

Thursday, 5 October 2006 12:06 am :: 

Jaslyn: I know Liang Court lah.... I meant to ask what is the name of the supermarket now?

Sian XMM Episode VIII

September must surely be a bumper month as I have not one, but two Sian XMM Episodes! Forgive me if I keep making reference to our beloved SBS Buses.

One come, all come.

Cute Button, like me, is also an expat away from home and we got to chatting about the stuff we left behind when we ventured overseas. While we started off chatting about normal stuff, our conversation took an unexpected twist.

Enjoy.

p.s. Hmm.... at this rate I am going, I wonder if I can hit 10 episodes before the end of the year? I wonder.....

. Session Start (Cute Button): Thu Sep 28 23:33:41 2006 [23:43] Cute Button: do you still own a house in singapore? [23:43] JayWalk: yeah. [23:45] Cute Button: anybody staying in your sg house now? [23:45] JayWalk: nope. [23:45] Cute Button: oh [23:45] Cute Button: u dont intend to rent out? [23:45] JayWalk: too many barang barang leh.... all the antiques. [23:45] Cute Button: wah, [23:46] Cute Button: give me your address [23:46] Cute Button: i go rob [23:46] JayWalk: can can.... i stay at 399 Orchard Road. [23:47] Cute Button: what is that address? [23:47] Cute Button: near where? [23:47] JayWalk: next to plaza singapura. [23:47] Cute Button: wat is the apartment name? [23:48] JayWalk: you go there hor, just tell the guard you are jay's friend can liao. [23:48] Cute Button: is it? [23:48] Cute Button: real or not? [23:48] JayWalk: what d'ya mean real or not? [23:48] JayWalk: of course real lah! [23:48] Cute Button: okok [23:48] Cute Button: haha [23:49] JayWalk: oh yah... i haven't tell you the name of my condo estate. [23:49] Cute Button: wat? [23:50] JayWalk: Istana. [23:50] JayWalk: whahahahahaaha....... [23:50] Cute Button:  [23:50] Cute Button: i hate u [23:51] JayWalk: man... congratulations. [23:51] Cute Button: what? [23:51] JayWalk: Your are Sian XMM Series Episode VIII [23:51] JayWalk: hee hee........ [23:51] Cute Button:  [23:52] JayWalk: dum dee dum dee dum....... Session Close (Cute Button): Fri Sep 29 00:03:25 2006 .

- Voxeros

1. spellbound left...

Monday, 2 October 2006 5:54 am

wah! so lucky.. xmm let you fooled again! you must be one lucky guy!!!
i really felt sorry for that xmm.
btw, have you been balding lately?!?!?!? or should i be keeping a secret?!?!?!?
:P

2. JayWalk left...

Monday, 2 October 2006 8:08 am :: 

Spellbound: No, I have not been balding. Thank you very much.
With such a irrelevant outburst of me going balding, it kinda make you highly suspect, doesn't it?

3. aloe left...

Monday, 2 October 2006 9:36 am

If u continue hor.... nobody will dare chat with you on msn liao... wahahhahahahahahaa!!!

4. spinnee left...

Monday, 2 October 2006 10:15 am

suddenly i very happy. jay dun suan me on msn like that... heng ah...
*sweat*

5. JayWalk left...

Monday, 2 October 2006 11:00 am :: 

Anna: au contraire, mon cherie. There will be more. Trust me.

Spinnee: I where got suan people one? Haiz... I am so misunderstood. :(

6. sunflower left...

Monday, 2 October 2006 1:02 pm

ha, worried!

7. spellbound left...

Monday, 2 October 2006 7:36 pm

he is out to trick ppl!!!! beware of him!!!

8. Gary left...

Monday, 2 October 2006 8:30 pm

when i see '399 orchard road'.. next to plaza singapura..' the bait is hooked..

9. JayWalk left...

Monday, 2 October 2006 8:46 pm :: 

sunflower: Worried for what? Don't think too much about it lah...

Spellbound: Two-way street, my dear. One bruff until shiok shiok, the other kena bruff until happy happy.

Gary: Oh well, as obvious as it may be, some willingly kena bruff one. heheheh

10. spellbound left...

Monday, 2 October 2006 9:39 pm :: http://verniceloy.blogspot.com

*grrrrrr*

11. JayWalk left...

Monday, 2 October 2006 9:41 pm :: 

Spellbound: Dum dee dum dee dum.....

12. winter left...

Monday, 2 October 2006 9:49 pm

i help u hit your 10 espisodes.. want anot??
heh

13. JayWalk left...

Monday, 2 October 2006 10:08 pm ::

winter: Which xmm you want to kai siao? Or are you talking about volunteering yourself to be sian-ed until song song gao jurong?

14. xcake left...

Tuesday, 3 October 2006 1:08 am :: http://xcake.blogspot.com

Bwahahahahaha...Istana! LOL. The last emoticon from Cute Button is super cuteee!

15. JayWalk left...

Tuesday, 3 October 2006 8:54 am :: 

xcake: I think it would be an even greater shocker if I were indeed staying at the Istana. Oh well.....

16. sunflower left...

Tuesday, 3 October 2006 11:18 am

Spellbound, next time we must plot to trick this uncle!

17. JayWalk left...

Tuesday, 3 October 2006 12:26 pm :: 

Sunflower: Bring it on!

18. yanZzz left...

Tuesday, 3 October 2006 3:09 pm

wa lau! cute button really cute sia ~ when i read the address already knew where was tat place.. still ben ben -ly ask where is tat place.. so LMAO ~~

19. spellbound left...

Tuesday, 3 October 2006 4:55 pm :: http://verniceloy.blogspot.com

ya!!! must trick this uncle till shiok shiok lor or not buay song!!!
wait for the revenge!!!!
*Dr Evil's laughter*
heeheeheehee

20. sunflower left...

Tuesday, 3 October 2006 8:42 pm

Jay, you will need to pay your evil deed leh... he he he

21. JayWalk left...

Tuesday, 3 October 2006 9:56 pm ::

Yanzzz: Welcome to the blog! Cute Button is really cute isn't she?
Spellbound: Now, now, let's not get too worked up here. Revenge? Could Cute Button be you??!

sunflower: Bite me!

22. Chocolate left...

Wednesday, 4 October 2006 12:20 am

Actually hor,i also don't know that address but when you said beside PS, i know you are up to no good. Lucky i don't msn with you a lot.. heng hengz..

23. JayWalk left...

Wednesday, 4 October 2006 9:23 am ::

Chocolate: All in good time lah. Why? You in a hurry to kena bruffed issit?

24. Chocolate left...

Wednesday, 4 October 2006 9:31 am

Errrr... no lah.. no need to target me.. me not XMM liao...

25. JayWalk left...

Wednesday, 4 October 2006 9:38 am :: 

Chocolate: Me target you? Where got? Don't anyhow say hor? *innocent*

Picture Week Part 5 - Summer's End

Summer's coming to an end soon and Mid Autumn's Festival marks the day when the climate over here starts to cool. For here, the Dumplings Festival marks the beginning of summer where temperature will start to climb until Mid Autumn Festival where the mercury falls back steadily to make way for winter.
Anyway, before it's too late, I just wanted to post a couple of photos that I took earlier during the summer season.

 

It's the caterpillar of a giant moth. While some may find it ugly, I thought it was rather beautiful especially how the shade of green complements the white of the strips.

As humble as that of a caterpillar, I am still in awe of God's beautiful creation.

There is beauty even in the ugliest of things. We just need to remove our blinkers in order to see it.

- Voxeros

1. aloe left...

Friday, 29 September 2006 8:57 am

Zee Caterpillar Ish Huge!!! =OOOOO

2. JayWalk left...

Friday, 29 September 2006 9:15 am :: 

Anna: Yah. The giant moth is quite big itself. When fully grown is about 1/5 times the size my palm. Very beautiful despite the lack of bright colours of its butterfly cousins.

3. winter left...

Friday, 29 September 2006 12:05 pm

i agree with the part where we have to remove blinkers to see the beautiful side.
or rather, instead of seeing the now situation.. we should see things long term

4. winter left...

Saturday, 30 September 2006 2:04 am

& I just realise the banner got my name.. wah.. very touched by the gesture leh

5. sunflower left...

Saturday, 30 September 2006 10:58 am

walau... so BIG

6. JayWalk left...

Saturday, 30 September 2006 5:40 pm :: 

winter: The beauty has always been in front of you. We just need to open our eyes and truly look. Only then would you be able to appreciate it, for after all we are all God's creature, great or small.

Sunflower: Yah man... like a wriggly green sausage.

7. aloe left...

Monday, 2 October 2006 9:34 am

sausage.... eeeuukkksss.... -_-"'

8. JayWalk left...

Monday, 2 October 2006 8:47 pm :: 

Anna: Yah... green has never been the most popular of colours for sausages....

9. aloe left...

Tuesday, 3 October 2006 9:46 am

actually, this reminds me of an episode of fear factor where the couple contestants are supposed to eat a "sausage" of real live bugs and critters or decomposing eeky parts..... I 'pei fu' them for being able to stomache the 'food'....

10. JayWalk left...

Tuesday, 3 October 2006 11:32 am ::

Anna: It's all about the psychology. We know for a fact that they are edible i.e. the networks won't include stuff that would endanger lives right? Ultimately, like many things in life, we are our worst enemy.

Picture Week Part 4 - Irony

That's a freight container you are looking at and the driver sleeping in a hammock under it. It's the summer and with a little breeze, it can get very sleepy even in 30+ degrees heat.

Loading a container usually takes quite a while and so while waiting for my guys to finish loading the container, the driver decides to catch 40 winks. A good plan if I may add. Otherwise, I risk having my goods strewn all over the highway as a result of the driver dozing off.

Hmm... better to let him sleep.

Here's the thing. So there I was, looking at a guy who drives a container truck for a living and earns a fraction of what I am earning.

Yet, ironically, I am the one looking out the window, from my air-conditioned office, at him in envy.

Sigh.....

- Voxeros

1. sunflower left...

Thursday, 28 September 2006 11:52 am

Don't envy ppl. You see me good I see you good....
In the end... all not good but we still need to be stay alive till we die naturally....

2. spinnee left...

Thursday, 28 September 2006 12:12 pm

swap position lo... u take his pay and sleep there la. hahaahha

3. aloe left...

Thursday, 28 September 2006 2:30 pm

He looks so comfy!!! I wanna zzzz too liao...

4. JayWalk left...

Thursday, 28 September 2006 3:32 pm :: 

sunflower: Yah. True.

Spinnee: While I get what you are driving at, it may not be all bad to take his place. To everything there have their respective merits.

Anna: Reminds me of my NS days where we koonz under the 3-tonner in the blazing heat.

Picture Week Part 3 - Weird Delicacies

Strangely coincidental that MeePok was blogging about eating stewed rabbit heads while I have 2 dishes to introduce today. The common denominator between our culinary adventures was that we both didn't order it but had to eat it to avoid offending our respective hosts.
Welcome to Spitland, folks.

I went for dinner at a Japanese restaurant last Sunday and this was ordered. It was smoked whale specially flown in from Japan. While it tasted very good, I was somewhat feeling guilty as I had this feeling that the whale before me was killed despite being on the endangered list. Over the years, Japan has been tactically maneuvering in world politics to justify commercial whaling in the guise of marine research. This obviously didn't go down too well with the WWF, Green Peace and other environmental activists groups.

I tried asking what species of whales, in the hope that it could be one that was not on the endangered specie. Not of the waitresses knew and the chef speaks Japanese and hence no answer from him either. My guess is that it was either a Humpback Whale or a Minke Whale.

I felt guilty because while I know I owe a responsibility to the world to be a Green citizen, the smoked whale tasted really good. I am most ashamed.

Next dish was Horse Sashimi. Granted that I have already tried Donkey (and its pen1s), horse didn't really intimidate me except that it was sashimi i.e. raw i.e. uncooked. Imagine if I were to run after the horse in the field and sank my teeth in the animal. It would have tasted the same, only more bloody.

I will never look at My Little Pony the same way ever again

- Voxeros

1. sunflower left...

Wednesday, 27 September 2006 10:38 am

eeeeeeekkkkkk, this is sickening!
*faint*

2. spinnee left...

Wednesday, 27 September 2006 3:54 pm :: http://spinnee.blogspot.com

*traumatized*
u blogged about it?! omg.... *faint*
that horse sashimi...wow lau! how could u eat it... *horrified*

3. JayWalk left...

Wednesday, 27 September 2006 6:48 pm ::

sunflower: This type of thing hor is the type you eat only one in your lifetime for experience's sake. Given a choice, I won't touch that thing ever again.

Spinnee: My little pony!!!!

4. ruok left...

Wednesday, 27 September 2006 8:17 pm

horse sashimi?!! OMG

5. JayWalk left...

Wednesday, 27 September 2006 9:09 pm ::

RUOK: Really no horse run siah.... kekekekek

6. xcake left...

Tuesday, 3 October 2006 1:18 am :: http://xcake.blogspot.com

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEKKK!!! You ate a donkey pen1s!!!!!! OMG! *shiooook*

7. JayWalk left...

Tuesday, 3 October 2006 9:32 am ::

xcake: Yes, it was a most awkward moment for me. But overall, taste not bad lah and I meant it in the most non-gay gourmet sense.

8. xcake left...

Tuesday, 3 October 2006 12:37 pm :: http://xcake.blogspot.com

Ahhhhhh! Can you watch Shrek the same way ever again? LOL
I recently read this http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/5371500.stm
read it!

9. JayWalk left...

Tuesday, 3 October 2006 10:17 pm :: 

xcake: Don't say Shrek, My Little Pony already funny funny liao....
 

Picture Week Part 2 - Funny Pic At Bao Gong Temple

On a lighter note....

 

Photo courtesy of AFP.

"Tourist in traditional dress wait to have their photo taken beneath the status of judge Bao Gong in his courtroom at KaiFeng, HeNan."

- SCMP , 21 Sep 2006

- Voxeros

1. aloe left...

Tuesday, 26 September 2006 8:55 am

So cho loh!! Are you sure that's a "gal"??!! Looks like guy... =P hehehehe!

2. JayWalk left...

Tuesday, 26 September 2006 9:52 am :: 

Anna: You know, I was asking the very same question myself. I think the one on the left is a man but with make up and all, I thot for a moment that there were the working staff there.
Interesting.

3. spinnee left...

Tuesday, 26 September 2006 1:31 pm :: http://spinnee.blogspot.com

gheez where those faggots come from!~?

4. JayWalk left...

Tuesday, 26 September 2006 6:38 pm :: 

Spinnee: Don't call people faggot lah.... although I must admit the person on the left looked pretty freakish.

Picture Week Part 1 - Thai Military Coup 19 Sep 2006

For some reason, writing the Name Series has left me mentally exhausted. This week, I just going to give my brain a break and keeping it simple for introducing a Picture Week.

Like they say, a picture speaks a thousand words. Perhaps, photographers are more efficient writers than we are. Go figure.

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Picture courtesy of AFP.

"For some Bangkok residents, Tuesday's coup proved to be a little more than a source of entertainment."

- SCMP 21 Sep 2006.

I believe that the children are the most powerful people in the world. They are the ones who would shape the future of the world. They have tears that can drown a thousand souls as well as a smile that can melt a million hearts.

- Voxeros

1. aloe left...

Monday, 25 September 2006 10:50 am

at least, theirs has the support of their king and is more peaceful than the t..w.. one.... which is still ongoing...

2. JayWalk left...

Monday, 25 September 2006 10:54 am ::

Anna: They were saying that this was by far the friendliest coup in the history of Thailand. I am just glad no blood was shed in the process.

3. akk left...

Monday, 25 September 2006 5:47 pm

i think its always pretty volatile if a country allows its military to take political sides. but then, i can see why the ppl are much happier being in the hands of the military, it's either that or rely on a corrupt police force. probably more safer in the streets now than ever.

4. JayWalk left...

Monday, 25 September 2006 6:29 pm :: 

Akk: Well, apparently during this coup, the Police were involved alongside with the military.

5. xcake left...

Tuesday, 3 October 2006 1:20 am :: http://xcake.blogspot.com

Ah..why got password for the name series?? I want to readddd. Please?

6. JayWalk left...

Tuesday, 3 October 2006 9:30 am :: 

xcake: Go check you tag board on your own blog. ok?

Name Series Part 7 - Christopher II

Toby is actually Topper in my earlier Lorbert Series.

If you have been following my Lorbert Series, you would have been aware that Toby was supposedly meant to be one of the episodes but was pulled down at the last minute. Back then, I just felt that it was not appropriate to write about it at that time.

Well, the time to bare it all has finally arrived and perhaps now is the right time to pick up where I left off earlier and finally tell the story of the Sweet Barracuda.

Sweet Barracuda's real name is Sandra and Toby got to know her through GF 2.0, whom the 2 ladies were very good friends. So Toby liked Sandra but problem is, Sandra like another guy (let's call him G). To make matters even more complicated, G is after another girl (A). People have love triangles but Toby had to choose to start his first ever love affair with a quadrilateral. Yes, Toby was a late bloomer as far as BGR is concerned.

It was tough for Toby for he was totally inexperienced and to add salt to wound, a very very very nice guy. As you would agree, girls like bad boys and nice guys end up trampled like a doormat. Yes, Toby was a virgin doormat.

Toby was shy and given that Sandra was pursuing other interest, he could only pined for her from afar. His strategy was to be that steadfastly strong nice guy and just wait. Hopefully, his enduring patience would make her see his feelings for her one day.

Funnily, it was the same for Sandra who was pining from afar as G finally got together with A. Now G was one kind of a player and was ironically attracting the girls like moths to an open flame. By the time, G got tired of A and dumped her, Sandra came right in after.

If you were a cat and there was a fish jumping into in your mouth on its own, what would you do? Eat it, of course. Well, Sandra was that proverbial fish and G, unfortunately was that proverbial cat.

So it was blissful for the new couple and certainly heart-wrenching for Toby. Yet, the goodness of Toby's heart felt that as long as Sandra was happy, he should be happy for her as well.

Now true to G's style of operation, the flavour of the month didn't last very long and Sandra soon found herself dumped. She became depressed and Toby being the true gentleman (to a fault) refused to take advantage of the situation. Instead, he provided the shoulder to cry on without asking for anything in return. Sandra's depression became more serious that we had imagined as she was admitted to hospital one day for severe anorexia and had to undergo psychiatric counseling. Her studies were badly affected and she had to repeat her freshman year as a result of missing her final examinations.

Toby's heart ached silently at the sight of Sandra's fading health but nonetheless continued to be that strength of pillar staying by her side as a "friend".

Sandra eventually got better and just when Toby felt that it was time to finally make the move. Tragedy struck. Sandra and G got back together. G, at that time, just ended a relationship with another girl (B) and Sandra decided that she would reenact the Cat and the Fish scenario. (WTF??)

Toby this time really geh tio to see Sandra slipped away from his arms so easily. After all that he had given, it still came to nought.

It was really tough on Toby for all the dating experience that I accumulated over the years, Toby caught up to speed in just 6 months. Anyway, Toby figured out the emotional mess that he got himself into and decided to finally throw in the towel. While the quest had been abandoned, Toby nevertheless still carry a small torch of hope, hidden in the deep corner of his heart.

We fast forward to 1995 when the semester was over and I was serving my internship at Shittybank. It was the final day of my internship and we all decided to party at Barracuda (Marina South) to celebrate after work. Towards the end of the evening, we found Sandra slumped over the patio table on the upper alfresco deck. It was a pitiful sight as Sandra was half passed out drunk, puking her guts out and sobbing her eye sockets away at the same time.

G dumped her a second time.

I can imagine the heart ache that Toby had felt that night as he pulled me aside and said,

Toby: Jay, can you help me send her home?

Looking at Toby's eyes, I already knew what he was going to ask even before he opened his mouth. I'd never say no to a brother. We cut the party short and carried her to my car with the plastic bags and the paper napkins.

I put the two of them in the back seat with Sandra's head on his lap snoozing and sobbing intermittently. As I got into the driver's seat, I look at Toby through the rear view mirror. The excruciating heartache could be seen from his pair of bespectacled eyes.

He heart pained her.

I heart pained him. 

It was a uneventful drive before we reached her block in Ang Mo Kio. He sent her up before getting back into the car.

The journey back to Toby's place was a quiet one. Neither of us spoke. It was as if our conversation had already call it a night before us.

We learned that Sandra was ok the next morning and Toby got a call from her to thank him. He spent the next few minutes offering some words of comfort and that was the last time we heard from her.

We did run into Sandra in school from time to time after that incident but things were permanently changed after that night.

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Dear Toby,

I am not sure if you would ever get the chance to read this. It would really be awkward for I am writing about somebody who would be reading about it. While I am not sure if everything is absolutely accurate but this is merely my recollection to the best of my memory.

I apologise if airing your laundry will upset you. But still this is part of my memory and my life. I need to archive this. As a show of respect, this is under password protection, which I don't even know if I would ever give you the password.

You are a good person and Adelyn is lucky to have you. Frankly, I think it's Sandra's loss not to realise what a wonder and decent person you are. Pity.

- Voxeros

1. akk left...

Monday, 25 September 2006 5:32 pm

what was it abt Sandra that Toby liked so much?

2. JayWalk left...

Monday, 25 September 2006 6:26 pm :: 

Akk: This type of thing hor, hard to explain lah. Like means like lor.

3. xcake left...

Tuesday, 3 October 2006 1:02 pm :: http://xcake.blogspot.com

He's nice but he was trampled. I don't understand why he took so long to decide to make a move on her if he liked her so much. :( Hopefully the girl learned her lesson too. G is such a jerk!!!

4. JayWalk left...

Tuesday, 3 October 2006 9:53 pm ::

xcake: G may be a jerk but girls seemed attracted to him for some strange reason. This type of thing takes 2 hands to clap.

Name Series Part 6 - Wilma II

Wilma II 

It was at the time between ex-gf2 and Kheng. The calendar was showing July 1993 and I was in my "second" freshman year. July has always been my favourite month of the Uni academic calendar. One word to explain why.

Orientation.
Orientation was a period of great fun for me. Lessons won't really start formally until the 4th week and it was fun, fun and fun all the way. There were new freshman chicks to tackle. Orientation camps and Jam n Hops to go to, etc.

I was heading my faculty's Social committee and it was a particular hectic period for me as I was putting up a Faculty Pagaent and a Faculty Jam-n-Hop at the same time.

So there was this one night when the NUS Arts Jam-n-Hop was going on and all my roommates went sans moi. I had to stay back as I have my own Jam-n-Hop to set up. We were staging it later that week and hence had no time to go party with the rest of the gang. It was there when Wilma got to know my roommates and I guessed they had such a good time that they decided to take her on a Night NTU tour after the event.

I was exhausted from all the event preparation that I passed out on my bed without realising that they had returned and chilling out in my room. I briefly remembered waking up to the introductions (Hi. This is Wilma.) before falling back asleep. I was really tired.

The next day when I woke up, I did remember a girl the previous night but have no idea what her name was. Heck, I didn't even remember what she looked like. I didn't have class that morning (Thursday on a 3-day week timetable) and I was chilling out in my room with the music playing softly while I catch up on my assignments. My roommates were all Engineers and so I had the whole room to myself that morning while they were out attending classes.

There was a knock on the door and there she was. Although I have no recollection of her face nor her name, I knew by gut feeling that she was the same girl from the night before. She came by to ask me out for lunch.

Here's the interesting part. She was from NUS and she traveled all the way to NTU just to ask me out for lunch. Wow. I like her already! As it turned out, we hit if off right away. She was smart, funny and witty. Just hanging out with her was a joy and I believed that there were definitely sparks flying all over place. I asked her to be my Plus-One for the coming Jam-n-Hop and she readily agreed.

Fast forward.

It was Sunday night and I had the entire Zanzibar (Le Meridien Hotel) booked for the party. I must have packed 500 people in an establishment that was legally allowed to admit only 300 for fire safety reasons. Oh well. Can't keep people out of a good party, can we?

The program ran smoothly as we had a blast of a time. Especially so when the head-bartender sneaked me 50 bourbon cokes. Technically, it wasn't sneaking as the barman sure wasn't subtle about it as he lined all 50 of them from one end of the bar to the other. Great party, I tell ya.

Being the head-honcho of the organising committee automatically made me the host of the party and people were coming around making small talks and congratulating me on a very successful party.

As wonderful a time as I was having, there were some isolated incidents that marred what could have been the perfect party.

Among the people and the small talks, I had a few occasions of being pulled to one side for a "private talk".

Below is a sample of the gist of these "private conversation".

Friend #1: That's you new gf? Wah raoz. Can be better looking or not?
Friend #2: Eh, Jay. You are the most happening guy in school. Surely you can do better than this?
Friend #3: Eh. Leave her here lah. I got a friend, Yvonne (insert any other girl's name) over there wanting to know you. Come lah! Come lah!
Friend #4: Aiyoh, her complexion so terok. I be your gf lah.

Ok ok... I could go on and on but you get the idea.

I was offended but kept my cool for their intentions were good albeit very misguided.
Sure, Wilma was no beauty queen nor model material but she was a very fun person to be with. I liked her and I think that is all that mattered right?

Anyway, we broke up after a month. I haven't gotten over my break up with ex-gf2 then and I didn't want to be with her under rebound circumstances. In short, I wasn't ready for another relationship so soon.

She left and I've not heard from her since.

- Voxeros

1. sunflower left...

Saturday, 23 September 2006 3:21 pm

Whip your back side

2. JayWalk left...

Saturday, 23 September 2006 6:31 pm :: 

sunflower: Now now... let's not get kinky here..... -- "

3. OLLie left...

Saturday, 23 September 2006 10:57 pm

kinky? woooohoooo.. I like kinkiness. hahahha..
But seriously, I wouldnt have the courage to go to a guy's room just to ask him out for lunch.
Oi. time to train me in that area. Quick! Then I'll get brownie points!

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Saturday, 23 September 2006 11:08 pm ::

Ollie: Patience, my young Padawan. All in good time where I will help you to snag that dream guy of yours.

5. piki left...

Sunday, 24 September 2006 10:54 pm

i asked a guy out for a concert and snagged him, but dumped him a year on, cos he was *sheepish grin* too nice.

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Monday, 25 September 2006 10:38 am

wah! she's good... brave.. Applauds... I dun have the guts to do that too. Fear of rejection..

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Monday, 25 September 2006 10:51 am :: 

Piki: Kudos for the womenfolk to make the first move and help share the burder of crash and burn. Granted that he was dumped a year later, trust me. He enjoyed that one year together.

Anna: Rejection is just part and parcel of the game. It stings a little at first but it is easy to get over it. So I won't be too concerned if I were you.

8. akk left...

Monday, 25 September 2006 12:05 pm

i chased down my first bf, 2 years. dumped him cos he didn't know treasure when it blinking right in front of him.

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Monday, 25 September 2006 3:34 pm :: 

akk: Blinking of course cannot see. You need to FLASH him mah.... kekekeeke

10. xcake left...

Tuesday, 3 October 2006 1:50 pm :: http://xcake.blogspot.com

Your friends... jialat. Say until like that. Actually, when you wrote "She was smart, funny and witty" , I was wondering where the 'pretty" part is. This is sad. Why are not-so-good-looking girls always sidelined? The better friends that I have are not the prettiest of the lot, but their personalities more than make up for everything else.

But I'm not worried la, I'm pretty one. haha. I just feel bad for that Wilma that guys said those kinds of stuff before knowing her better. Then again, after knowing her, maybe they wouldn't say such things.

11. JayWalk left...

Tuesday, 3 October 2006 9:50 pm ::

xcake: Truth to be told. She was pretty to me coz a woman's beauty isn't all about the external appearance. A smile and a heart of gold goes a long way too.