[ 26th may 2005 ]

on my way back from narita back to singapore ... during this flight of sq 12, it's our only chance to be in toyko for our japan flights .... cuz on all other japan flight of ours, we only stay near the airport village. due to the jam from narita airport to tokyo, we only stay in narita village hotel when we do the short 3 days pattern. as for this long flight of tokyo LA flight, we will stay in tokyo for 2 nights ....

been away from home for so many days, i really miss my room .... coz everything was in such rush when i left for this flight .... i find that time really flies when i started to fly... so far had joined the company for 1 year plus, i feel that i'm getting abit tired of this life.... need to stay focus with the things i want to do... cuz in this current job, i find it hard to focus and concentrate on the things i want to do. gotta stay very very disciplined. but so far i feel i can't bear to get out of this luxury of the high paid salary ... coz with this pay i'm drawing now, i can easily buy a car and start a family at such a young age already.

when i was in Los Angeles, i went on to Santa Monica this time .... lots of shops and stuffs to see ... you see street performers there earning their living by performing and selling their own CDs there. Lots of talented performers on the lane of Santa Monica. Didn't really shop. Or should i say i never spend a single cent on shopping .... Throughout my stay in Los Angeles, i only spent 30 USD on food .... so happy .... now am departing Tokyo .... in tokyo, i only spent my money on food as well ... and kept my money well ... coz the things here are far too expensive already .... can't bear to really shop ... 1 piece of shirt and belt easily priced at 12,000 yen ... which is around 170 singapore dollars. So better keep my finger crossed and hands locked .... during my stay in tokyo, i spent only 5000 yen ... which is 75 dollars on food and some drinks .... had also saved alot for this trip as well ... hiakz hiakz ....

So sad .... i miss my team so much .... during my next month roster .. i won't be seeing my team for the month of june !! arghhh .... why is that so ?? maybe because i have my business class training during the next month ... and i'm rostered to do manchester flight !! hurray !! i'm so happy that i can finally go to my favourite club to see the stadium and see how's old trafford like !! yeah !! well ... i'm signing off now ... going to reach narita airport already .... i miss singapore !!!

 

[ 19th may 2005 ]

was about to fall sick ... now on the way back to singapore. feeling very sick... not having much rest in hong kong . had spent total of around 3000 singapore dollars on food and shopping with my family..... weather was not as good, had been raining on the last night i'm in hong kong. didn't get a chance to bring my younger brother and family to the peak where we can see the night scenery of hong kong.....

before this flight, was actually doing colombo turn around flight..... went to work on the 15 night and finish my 12 hour shift work only at 8 am.... thereafter i drove back from the airport to home and was stucked in the traffic for 1 hr 20 mins. what a day with all the jams when i was so tired and have to drive home under raining conditions that had made the slow traffic on our highways into a big zone of massive jam islandwide.... went back home and took shower, i was only able to bathe and get ready to go out of home by 10am... missed the 11am flight. i'm like "oh shit" . the next flight to hong kong will only be in the afternoon 4pm and only reach hongkong by 7pm. but still i managed to squeeze myself to sit in the flight deck with the pilots on my flight to hong kong. definitely a good experience to see how take off and landing was like and the process of the whole flight....

really miss my family so much... they are still in hong kong till the 24th of may .... and i won't see them until 27th .... and i haven't spend much time at home ever since the 15th of may, i was doing a overnight turn back then on the 15th night and then i went off to hongkong on the 16th noon .... when i got back from flight on the 16th morning .... it was so rush !!

in hong kong we had our fun ... shopped and bought lots of things for my younger brother and myself ... we share our clothes and lots of things ... spent like $2000 on shopping and $700 over on food... but this trip is truely worth while .... this is the first time our family go on holiday apart from genting ... really love my family alot .... i was planning that hopefully we can arrange our trip to taipei or las vegas by september ... this is what i'm looking forward to. really love to bring them around and share with them the things i have and the privillege to travel. 

heading home now .... i will have prepare for flight on the next day morning ... so sianz .... gotta wake up at 5.30am to prepare and i'm still packing my bag !! ciaozz ...

 

[ 07th may 2005 ]

in seoul just touched down in incheon airport on 7th may in the morning .... was busy with my mum as usual during my past few off days and of course planning our family trip to hong kong .... going on holiday with my family and my most doted younger brother .... finally have the chance to bring them overseas ..... hotel was like around 600 dollars for 3 days .... i'll be joining them on the 16th to 19th of may and they will reach in the evening of 13th may .... during 13th may to 15th may, they will be in shenzhen mostly ...

as for me i'll be reaching hongkong on the 16th noon mostly ... joining them in hongkong itself ... cuz i'll have to work on the 15 till 16th morning ... doing a stupid colombo turn around ... 

during the past few days, starting in may my mum still wasn't too alright .... until i went mad and broke down in front of her telling how stress our family is and she's meant alot to us ... how much we need her to recover from the shit that she had been going through .... i also used violence on myself in order to get her attention and her sympathy. i shall not elaborate on what i did to myself .... you all won't wanna know .... but true enough ... i'm her dearest and of coz i did make an impact on her .... and the impact was really good that she starts to behave herself and start to do things and get on with life .... the last time she was like this was around 1.5 years ago .... and that time the only way to stop her from all these shit is burning or stubbing myself with a lighted cigarette butt. sounds horrible right ? and the burn mark was on my hand .... anyway whatever that had past just let it past ... things are gonna be just fine... always look at the bright side of life....

in the recent days or for the past 10 days, i've been practicing singing all day during my off days at least 2 hours a days singing to songs and doing vocal exercises .... hoping to reach perfect pitch and hoping to improve my singing techniques. and i'm invited by my younger brother to join his band, singing for his band .... happy to say i've join them in the band but yet to start any jamming session. one thing in this band, all are pretty gift in their own areas of instrument and all have experiences in their own field as well.... all started on their own and was hand picked and found by my brother to join into a family of 5 boys i would say .... boys should be the word .... cuz i'm the oldest and the youngest one is only 18 years old ....

we gave our passion in practicing every free moment we have. guess in 1 year time we can see the results of the band .... of coz in every band we have our influence. as for our band the main influence is visual rock / jap rock. like x japan and glay... will start to sing japanese songs and have to learn them as soon as possible .... though the jamming session is not confirmed yet. but all have been practicing in their own instruments to make the best out of it.... being a musician is not easy ... hope we can be the best chinese band around who can evolve from j-rock influence and create our way and style of music.....

had been listening to slyvester's album for the first time .... trying to find out the x factor and trying to find the special thing that why he could cut an album, i still don't know why he manged to do it .... cuz one thing is that, talking about looks, he don't really have them .... talking about singing style, he don't really stand out .... he sings well ? i doubt so.... but he really have the luck. cuz there's lots of talented people around that i know, and they didn't take part in the singapore idol contest. it's really luck..... good for him .... but i guess his exposure in singapore is really too high that any other event also have him and taufik .... and taufik last time use to play soccer with our group of friends from the same secondary school.... it's really luck sometimes .... well we can't just grumble and eat sour grapes. ...

in fact i feel i should work even harder to make things happen and do the right things at the right time to get my future and dream moving ....