au revoir mes amis

the time has come for the closing post.

wish all readers take care good health and success.

i quit gambling n i m determined to do that, since the divinity lot i asked for tells me that all things will be good after this.

good bye!

stunner

my best pal in gambling (i quit gambling but frenship stays ok) sent this to me...

how cool is it to win $14390 with $10? :P m damn happie for him man this dude.

power. awesome. stunner.

quote: brother only once alifetime leh money can earn one! *touched*

its like a dream

i m home. its kinda weird. everything is basically the same at home. i duno... it is home and it feels like home. but somehow i havent let go of the walk-in-str8-ahead-last-room-on-the-right 'home' of mine in grenoble.

it was kinda cool when i was still in the cabin and i smsed steven of my arrival. instantaneously i received an sms from him! aha it was kind of telepathic!

then angie couldnt make it eventually cos she was stuck at dinner at geylang... well, i didnt and couldnt reallie blame her. the gesture is already sweet enuff for some1 from woodlands who said she would go all the way to changi to pick a fren up, what more could i ask for?

i wldnt want her to rush over her dinner n disrupt a gd evening with her frens. i wldnt have wanted her to speed to bishan n then to changi to pick me. pragmatically, i dun think i wld have wanted to wait 1hr for her to come either.

initially i muz confess i did have some resentment that she dun take my word seriously. 9pm means 9pm right? i can be humourous at times... but.... ??? but then i cant blame her la. pple have their own lives. they dun live for me. anyway, she was so apologetic on msn. :S maybe we all shd learn to be on time n/or not promise anything which u cant fulfill? so much for the instantaneous response. the enthusiasm. the exclaimation in the smss. i deleted them.i think at times like this, what i m hurt by is the betrayal of trust. i m alwayz silly enuff to believe that the other party would fulfill their obligation. how many times has this happened on my big european trip in march n april, i duno. how many times at the mahjong table. how many times with the old gf. bahh. ahh... maybe i shd learn to be a bit more flexible. on the other side of the coin, 'promises r meant to be broken anyway'. (just fyi, the evian bottle is with me unscathed!)

well, maybe a twist of fate: when i got home myself mum n dad were out, i called them to buy supper and mum immediately suggested supper from blk 85.

guess what? bahchormee stall not open. maybe it was juz not meant to be.

some fotos b4 i go...

Budapest - see the magnificent bridge? its the most famous one that links Buda with Pest.

Praha / Prague - Old Town Square... I was in Czech jersey! muhaha.

Munich - @ the beer garden ... the main culprit causing me to put on 3kg weight during my travels. Pork Knuckles + 1l of beer.

London - was at Highbury (Arsenal football club) the 2nd last day b4 it was closed.

Salzburg - Me with Mozart, a native Salzburger...

Wien / Vienna - Qiqi & me on the streets of Vienna... notice i look a bit slim in this pic wahaha..

Milano - Duomo the church...

Roma - Colloseo! at the colleseum with Stella and Roxane the ladies who are putting (up with me LoL) me up for now...

Copenhagen - Kenny & me @ the legendary mermaid... gosh didnt cut my hair it like shit.

Paris - at Trocadéro with Michelle & Jeremy soaking up the atmosphere b4 the big game...

Madrid - football pilgrimage once again... home of Real Madrid - Santiago Bernabeu!

i quit

will any1 believe that i am reallie quitting soccer toto n 4d betting from today? :S

*self ridicules* nvr expected that my 'career' will end like this.

ps: mahjong continues ;) chinese cultural activities... hee.

离开以后

last night re-discovered an old song by jacky cheung which i learnt to sing 4yrs ago. the tune is those kind of classic canton tune la... the lyrics which i thought was quite nicely written.

hope any1's canton is good enuff to read this? it juz sounds more right in canton... while u can read mandarin u can get a ruff idea though. this is the chorus, the title is 离开以后.

离开我以后我会习慣自卑
明天再偶遇我也不敢偷望你
离开我以后季节冷暖天气
我也置諸不理 愿名字也再不记起

离开我以后我会长留这地
晨早到午夜扑进漆黑想念你
离开我以后醉了会看到你
梦中方可永久地 接近你

Just in case u didnt get the meaning right behind these 2 paras... the 1st para tells of the guy's initial determination to try to severe all ties with the babe.... then somehow useless him end up become nua-ed in the 2nd para n start to think abt her again.... haiz.

back in france.. paris... then grenoble

decided to give my dear feli a run for her money.. may i present to u readers... Praha. ;)

its 745am on my laptop now... singapore time. which means its 145am here in grenoble.

it was like a dream meeting sister kristl (love u babe) in paris. well it is actually like a little dream compared to the big dream of staying in france n travelling all over europe for 1/2 yr.

i brought qiqi, joe n sister to see le tour eiffel from trocadero at 1050pm last night. at 11pm the eiffel tower came to life with the flashing lights n stuff n it was captivating. simply gorgeous. i m glad they liked it. and so the lights was not juz a new yrs eve thing.. :)

2day i spent whatever time i had catching up with gd old sister... for a moment i tot sth was wrong with her when she held my arm as if i was her beau when we walked along ave des champs elysees and inside le Louvre.. i realised that we actually missed one another quite a lot! lol. it was a gd time bitching in the lovely louvre not looking at the pcs of art/statues n chit chatting. SGD$17 for the ambience :P

2day she suddenly told me sth which made me think abt it a while: "bro ah, u noe ah, u this kind of nice guy, next time sure end up with a 霸道 belle one... surely kena bully until jialat jialat one. but that only complements u." ha. i duno what to say~

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right now... i m starting to feel i made a bigbigbig mistake of crashing roxy n stella's place. with all respect to these 2 wonderful frens who graciously allowed me to crash for 2 nights, it is however a bit messy... a lil untidy, warm, the bed has no sheets nor pillowcase n nothing my dearest travel companion wld have ever wanted. i m so sorry i neglected that. its terrible.

i think i muz have screwed myself up at this last stage after a mediocre performance (self reviewed after a thought provoking have-u-been-taking-gd-care-of-her qn came from the US) :( save me n my guilt now.

later at 830am she will pack up n leave this lil town... i will be escorting her on the 40min bus ride to the airport, wait for the plane with her for 2hrs n then take the 40min ride back to pack my stuff n get ready to go home.

now i have my own problems. overweight luggie physically... (with the 2 newly acquired crystal vases from czech)... n emotionally as what the babe's msn nick says: luggage full of memories.

是时候收拾心情回家了。

HELLO EVERYBODY

where did i leave off from the last post?
right now i m in prague, czech republic.... the weather here is hot n comparable to Singapore standards and so me n the babe decided to seek shelter in a nice cosy cafe with free wifi internet n 3 plasma tv to enjoy soccer over kopi n cake. :) the sweetie ordered a berry cake for me :P
ok this place is really gorgeous... but still we conquered the old town square in a few hrs... but the shopping for crystals was good. good stuff they have here. i bought my WC06 jersey... a Czech one! of the player number 10 Rosicky! Here no BK, surprisingly, but got many KFC (we had that for brunch) and Mac, of cos.

Previously in Krakow, Poland... that was a small place. and i mean reallie small. the basic sightseeing stuff.... food is cheap... and we did our favourite - grocery shopping. it was the best hostel/apartment i stayed in... we home cooked our own pasta dinner over World Cup action... :P

Previously b4 that we were in Budapest... i thought it was a gd city liao... the Buda (yes, essentially Budapest are 2 sectors of the city - Buda on the right side of the Danube river and Pest on the left) side of the city is gorgeous... but the sights were on 2 hills... the babe almost killed me for making her climb the 1st one for 20mins with me then the 2nd one we juz took the tram up. There is nothing much on the Pest side, except for the extremely touristy street of upmarket shopping. There isnt much cheap local food, we ended up eating burger king... got Mac oso la, but BK is like everywhere in Budapest.

We took a 11hr night train from Budapest to Krakow... totally cannot sleep man! the train was rocking then every 2/3 hr kena *knock knock* *passport control* whenever we crossed the borders Hungary - Slovakia, Slovakia - Poland. piang eh.... n hence the babe was like how irritated, grouchy n grumpy when we reached the hostel at 8am and we couldnt check in... :S i think she must have murdered me at least 3 times in her mind. lol.

ok the babe is now getting a lil bored with my long post... i will tell u all more abt Munich, Salzburg... Vienna and Bratislava i think u all noe liao.

till next time... i m gg home next wk liao!

HELLO

HELLO readers

heh me now in Wien (Vienna)... just back from a day trip from Bratislava (Slovakia) it was more like a grocery trip to JB kinda thing.... it was a sunday, few pple spoke engrish then we found ourselves in a place of civilisation called a shopping centre. ha. basically we went to carrefour again and bought food n makan for tmr's trip to Salzburg (in case u duno its the home of Mozart)...

last night we had an incredible dinner with the folks from cr8.... it was crazy the food we ate. show ui the pics next time.

milano was great... had the best icecream i ever had in my life. thats all. the babe is asking to use the com. ciao folks! i m doing fine dun worry!!!!!

d-day

Happy June to all...

The day is here. Heading to my big term-end trip. Nvr mind that my money does not seem enuff. Nvr mind that I dunno what i really want, i have been disoriented since Sunday.

Its not easy to leave a place you lived in for 5mths+. today bid farewell to Charles... and the walk down the 5storey flight of stairs was not easy. he was a gd fren and more, a gd brother. bonne chance mon frére~

My place is cold. I mean really cold - 11deg without heater? Why the french shut down the heater in Spring? then there's nobody... my 'family' all gone. sian. I know i will miss this apartment 6 rue des champs elysees. :)

frens on smu modified term... work hard. the crap will be over soon. guys, next friday... world cup! :D

goodbye all.