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Another summer day
Has come and gone away
In Paris and Rome
But I wanna go home
Mmmmmmmm

Maybe surrounded by
A million people I
Still feel all alone
I just wanna go home
Oh, I miss you, you know

And I’ve been keeping all the letters that I wrote to you
Each one a line or two
“I’m fine baby, how are you?”
Well I would send them but I know that it’s just not enough
My words were cold and flat
And you deserve more than that

Another aeroplane
Another sunny place
I’m lucky I know
But I wanna go home
Mmmm, I’ve got to go home

Let me go home
I’m just too far from where you are
I wanna come home

And I feel just like I’m living someone else’s life
It’s like I just stepped outside
When everything was going right
And I know just why you could not
Come along with me
'Cause this was not your dream
But you always believed in me

Another winter day has come
And gone away
In even Paris and Rome
And I wanna go home
Let me go home

And I’m surrounded by
A million people I
Still feel all alone
Oh, let me go homeOh,
I miss you, you know

Let me go home
I’ve had my run
Baby, I’m done
I gotta go home
Let me go home
It will all be all right
I’ll be home tonight
I’m coming back home

it's Jaime Kong!

After nearly 8 months in Brissy, i finally caught up with elusive Jaime! yea! Great catchin' up with ya.

fisherman's platter, can feed the whole damn fishing village.
Fauzan after his hot coco.

fantabulous.

flew from sydney, delivered by andre.

it's a big funfair

First post since I came back. Been real busy with books and such... and golf.... and cooking.

Finally a holiday to chill out a bit. Ekka holiday that is. Ekka is a day of super-big fun fair cum pasar palam cum mini zoo cum ring show cum fireworks. It is so big that the aussie decided that they needed an official holiday to celebrate that. Nice. No one is complaining, except the entry fee of 16 bucks.

flashing dancing lights

Mr Ross.

Fauzan on his ride. He didn't puke. Yey!

Pain is temporary.. quiting is forever...

Dale visits!

Dale Mason pop over to singapore for a short stopover before flying off to his China teaching trip. Dale is a tutor cum dean at Cromwell college, Irish australian! I promised that I would show him around our little island paradise. Told by his sister that Sentosa was a brilliant island resort, he wanted to see it for himself. All he wanted was a swim really and boy can he swim. Fella went all the way out of the lagoon in his snorkel, for a moment I thought that was it...... nope. .. 60++ and going strong mate.

I brought him to the most southern point of the Asian continent.

To be honest I didn't know that there was a southern end point in Sentosa.
The highest point in Singapore, all 164 metres of it.
The meal at the indian eating place with sheila:

Meal included soup kambeng, roti john, murtabak, paper prata, teh terik, murukuk and lotsa chatter.

Meal at the best pork rib soup restaurant with my dad. Yup, we eat all parts of the pig here; tail, liver, blood, leg, stomach and intestines. Dale was game enough to try the braised pig trotters (TER KAR), and he absolutely loved it
Yup, what a bloody mess, that is how we do it here mate.

Good luck with the rest of your trip, see you back in Brissy.

9holes

First 9 holes. sweet.

LEARN CHINESE IN 5 MINUTES

Say the words out loud.

1) That's not right..........................Sum Ting Wong
2) Are you harboring a fugitive? ........Hu Yu Hai Ding
3) See me ASAP............................Kum Hia Nao
4) Stupid Man.............................. Dum Fuk
5) Small Horse..............................Tai Ni Po Ni
6) Did you go to the Beach?..............Wai Yu So Tan
7) I bumped into a coffee table..........Ai Bang Mai Fa Kin Ni
8) I think you need a face lift............Chin Tu Fat
9) It's very dark in here...................WaoSo Dim
10) I thought you were on a diet........Wai Yu Mun Ching
11) This is a tow away zone.............,No Pah King
12) Our meeting is next week............Wai Yu Kum Nao
13) Staying out of sight...................Lei Ying Lo
14) He's cleaning his automobile.........Wa Shing Ka

Stole this from ronny's facebook!

feng shui

Remember I did mention the fengshui of this cottage is not that wonderful? Well here it is:

The entrance to the the cottage faces the rubbish dump! The aroma from this big green tin can sometimes drift into our rooms.... hmm...

The balcony opens into the laundry line! Golly!

Every so often we are greeted by the colours of different national flags.

These two combination I believe blocks the flow of qi... bugger.

Somewhere over the rainbow

Somewhere over the rainbow

Way up high

There's a land that I heard of

Once in a lullaby

Somewhere over the rainbow

Skies are blue

And the dreams that you dare to dream

Really do come true

Some day I'll wish upon a star

And wake up where the clouds are far behind me

Where troubles melt like lemondrops

Away above the chimney tops

That's where you'll find me

Somewhere over the rainbow

Bluebirds fly

Birds fly over the rainbow

Why then, oh why can't I?

28th

I wish we will all pass our 1st sem

Special thanks to wenjing, agnes, joyce and andre for the surprise celebration

It was truely memorable. : )

I feel like a tourist in Brissy

without the classes, the stress and exams, I feel like a tourist in Brisbane.

Day one of the tour brings me to West End market.

West end marker reminds me of London's Camden town market with the mix of eccentric wares and colourful vendors. There are fabulous vegetables, organic foods, plants, flowers, bric-a-brac, and buskers.

Mr Hungarian chef and our Lepeny

me and agnes enjoying our curry puffs.

It's Party time!

With the papers all done in 3 days, the books are out and the party is in!

All of us cramp into a cozy little cafe and and a crazy bbq dinner and booze all night long.

Everything is kinda blurry after the wine and beer...

Jessie and me
Nessa and Jeppe
Andre, Ziggy and Aspi

Cold Cold Cold

temp dropping

Come on Maggies!

Tough luck on the boys. Have not won a single game this year. Things are pretty rough for them.

The club gave them a choice to relegate to a lower division, but they unanimously decided to stick it through. Good on ya boys!

I have followed them close to 4 months now and look forward to their training and games. Really fun treating them and feel like I am really part of the team.

Morale booster after a match, this one was in Mt Gravatt, about 10 min drive away.

One of the fellas, rocca... all damn big size lads.

Lil fella

Hey congrats edric on your first offspring...does look a bit like you and he is just in time for father's day too!

10 more to form a football team, so better get back to work mate!

Lil raphael

Crawling out

Thousand apologies for the lack of update.... work has been simply overwhelming. I have been really busy climbing out of this pithole. The climb was arduous, back breaking at times but boy was the air fresher higher up. Exams is just round the corner, and the going is gonna get tougher.

Wish me luck

Rockbottom....

Golly.... all of us has just started our clinics for a few weeks now. It is funny how when we are thrown back into the student mode, it totally screw up the brain. Maybe we have been taking for granted the dr diagnosis all this while and now the part of the brain that has not been used is suddenly triggered alive. Maybe it is the new approach of manual therapy and TDT. Anyway the learning curve is unbelieveably steep now, so steep that I feel that I have slide down beyond the x axis.

THE LEARNING CURVE
The crawl out of this pit is gonna be a painful one. It is friggin' depressing but thank goodness for the few friends who help lift each other's spirits.
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So guys.. chin up, I know it feels like the fuel is burning low.......
As Mr Walker says....... LET'S..................

I am getting out of here

Just received news that I will be getting a new place next semester, yes, I am moving out. I have nothing much to complain about cromwell college really, it has treated me relatively well except:

1. the feng shui is not very good (I will compile some pics and show you guys the horrendous feng shui orientation)
2. the walls of the cottage is a little too thin, meaning I can hear almost everything that is going on next door.
3. the dinning hall food is not too bad, occasionally recycled and not very healthy (yup, belly getting bigger)
4. the fees is a little too ex, the new accom will save me a cool 2k.
5. not much social order sometimes, kiddies being kiddies like to have fun and party all the time. I don't really blame them, perhaps I was like that at their age.

See, overall I have nothin much to complain about. I am glad that I have stayed at the college. In a way, it has allowed me to mingle with the local kids and of course make some good friends.

Old website

I was clearing some of my bookmarks fav site, when I chance upon a website I did about 5 years ago. I was still in UK then and must have been really bored to make this pictorial site. Have a look:

the then younger dareklam

Attacked at the golf range

I was having a quiet practice at the Oxley driving range last friday.

Out of the blue, someone shouted for us to run for our lives!

"its coming your way!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

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Me and Andre instinctly grabbed our equipment and ran as fast as we could.

Managed to get away in time before......

The friggin' water sprinkler got us.

Nabei... someone turned the sprinkler on early

The noozle will periodically swivelled and sprayed the articial grass mat as well. Talk about saving watter. Pui!

Quite a beautiful spectacle actually.

Hot Pot

First decent meal for a long time. Few of us gather at Kevin's house and had steamboat/hotpot taiwanese style!

Nice!! It was absolutely lovely.

Everyone really enjoyed it!

Our taiwanese host Throw everything in... anything is better than kandang.

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Few days before that, I had the most savory dream. . . I so clearly dreamt that they were serving roast duck rice at the dinning hall, I remembered taking a hugh drumstick and before I took a huge bite, I woke up. Bloody cruel dream. . . so I decided to make this dream a reality

I will never take another roast duck drumstick for granted ever again.

Pretty tough Paper

Gosh, all of us got the shock of our lives, pretty tough paper I must say.

I thought they will go easy with us and give us question like that.

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Save water campaign

It has not rain in brisbane for a long time now. So the queensland garmen wants us to shower for only 4 minutes a day + no washing of cars + no watering of garden.

Someone installed a hourglass in my shower to remind me about the water restriction. Thanks! Now I know how much time I need for the bath tub to fill to the brim. keke.