Have not been updating my blog coz I was just to lazy and I couldnt be bothered. No one reads my blog anyway. =P

Anyway, someone did read and she was grumbling why I never write about her. Honestly, I have no idea what to write about her. I met her two weeks ago. A strange coincidence that I even met her. According to her, I am a "ba mei gao shou". Oh well, I disagree with what she said. The mouth is hers though, so she can say what she wants. Its kinda strange that most of the pple that I have met these 1.5 yrs were born in the month of June and July. Yup, Bella was born in June. Wait was it July? Or was it June? LOL. July. Lucky for me, her birthday was just over and unluckily for her; mine is just around the corner.

Did I mention that she is from Taiwan. That makes 2 pple from Taiwan that I know. Haha. And yes, Taiwanese gals can drink. Scary shit. Of course, she cannot be compared with the alcoholic who drinks as though the wonderous drink is water. And I must say this again:"Alcohol is the key to communication".

We kinda clicked the moment we met. I was amazed that for a Taiwanese, she speaks pretty good english and can actually catch what I was saying. For one, speaking proper english was amazing enuff. The fact that she understands what I say when I am a motor mouth is incredible. Anyway, its kinda cool talking to her as I can insert phrases of chinese proverbs that I learn from Taiwanese variety shows. =) And one very important thing, she has cute good friends. LOL. ATM, cannot think of anything else to write. Hopefully she doesnt come hunting me down with a chopper after she reads this. If she does, I will be ready to fight. o-(''.Q)

Today is a wonderful day. I woke up and went for my run. After my run I washed up Wayne and my car. As I was going in to the house, I went to pick up the mail. Guess what? I got invited to do honours. HAHAHAHHA. So many months of worrying. It feels so good. HAHAHAHA. I BE HAPPY.

Humans are so wasteful. Wasting money, time, friends and many more. I just feel so disappointed with some pple. When they needed someone, you stood by them but once they stand on their feet, you are forgotten. I was raised not to forget gratitude. Its just a darn shame that pple who were once close in the past slowly distance themselves as they breeze through life. Its like the rites of passage of adulthood. If so, I choose not to grow up. LOL. I am rather disappointed. Distance is a problem but if you choose to create time for pple you care about; you will find means to the ends. Everytime I hear that someone has no time, busy with work, etc. I try to convince myself that there is a greater world out there and not all pple think like me. However, I think its good that I am headed a different direction. I once read that if you mimic someone with traits or values that you would like and if you follow exactly what that person is doing in life, you will get what the person has. To me, I am glad that I am acting differently from those pple. I do not want to make pple who are trying to make time for me to feel that our friendship is not worth my time. Hence, I choose to make time for pple whom I think are my friends no matter how busy I am. That is my value: Creating time for pple whom I care about. No excuses. No regrets. =)

Actually I shouldnt even be bothered about these pple. However, the half bitch in me says otherwise. Oh well. Its good though, it gives me a clearer insight of what I want.

I have been exercising almost everyday for the past 2 weeks. I feel kinda good. Exercising works away the excess energy, takes your mind off the worries of life and make you feel good after that.

I am kinda excited though. I just paid for a Golden Retriever yesterday. I know I shouldnt be buying a big dog but I am always prefered big dogs. I went looking yesterday and Ben, Xiao Bai Chai and me ended up at this champion breeder's door. I looked at the parents and they were gorgeous. And so I bought a creme one. Cute little thing. Imagine this baby growing up to be three times the size of Snowy. =) Btw, after thinking the whole nite for a name for the dog I decided to just keep her name that the breeder gave her. Cloud. Wanted to either name her Junior, Summer, Glory or Snowy again but then Cloud seemed better. Might as well. Hahaha. Cannot wait to pick her up in four weeks. ^ ^ I dun know why I just found out that I love dogs no matter what breed. I should have worked harder and become a vet. Or I could work to be a trainer. Hrm.... Time to read more on dog training.

Pictures are finally loaded. ^^

Have not been blogging since I came back from Albany. Didnt really feel like it. Anyway, going to try to fill in the gap as much as I can.

On the third day of my solo trip, the weather was turning bad. The lucky thing was that I was able to get to the few places of attraction in Albany before it turned really bad. Was at the Albany windfarm. I think its a cool place to put the wind farm cause the wind was really strong there but what I think was a even cooler place was that the prison was beside the windfarm. Convicts being there are constantly jia-honging given that the wind is so strong.

I was kinda disappointed that I couldnt go to the Stirling Range as it was the highlight of my trip. Oh well. Nothing I can do about the forces of nature no matter how much planning I do. So I decided to drive home through the night.
I think driving at night on a stormy evening is quite an experience. Its hard enough driving at night in the country, with the tough weather it becomes a a form of cheap thrill to get the adrenaline flowing. It quite irritating when pple do not off their high-beam when they are driving pass you. When the high-beam hits your eyes, you get blinded for that spilt second. Now I know why they say driving with the high-beam on causes accidents.

The next day I was rather edgy, I wanted to go do some trekking but the weather says otherwise. She says:"Drink and get drunk in the city, stay out of the country." Oh well. Talking about that, I have been going to this beer boutique. Its a belgium cafe on Murray street. They say wine is to france, drugs to holland, porn to japan and beer to belgium. And so I have been drinking quite a few nice exclusive beers there. So far I have tried 8 types another 20 more to go. And almost every beer comes with a unique glass and coaster. Its so nice that Shps have been collecting them. For me, I am just satisfied collecting the taste and enjoying the ambience.

Been reading quite a fair bit recently. My gendre of books are mostly non-fiction and self-improvement. I dun really like fiction cause they cloud my judgement. Reading the satanic book is enough for me to have second thoughts about the existance of jesus. Enough that I have a place in hell, now I am going to be there for a while. =P

I think I am such a muggle-head. I thought Shps's birthday was on the 29 Jul but it turned out that it was on the 29 Jun. Oh well, so I asked her to pick a place in Lonely Planet Western Australia where she wants to go and looks not bad. She picked Mussel bar. I think it decent that in the 3 years in Perth we have not celebrated Shps's birthday with her. This time although I missed it. I want to make it up. ^^

Mussel bar is a nice and posh place. The food is good. The service is excellent. The view is not too shabby. I think its a nice place to celebrate V'day. Oh well, what am I doing there with Shps? HAHAHAHA.

Pancetta wrapped kilpatrick oysters and wasabi, avocado, seasame and granita oysters

lamb cutlet in pinenuts

The fish of the day, sea emperor

After that we headed to Westende Belgium Beer cafe. Been going there pretty often nowadays. Its like my favourite chill out place now. Anyway, shps ordered a Kwak. This is what it says on the tasting notes: "It will cost you a shoe. This fine brew was created in 1971 by Mr pauwl Kwak...... blah blah blah". When they said shoe. I thought they meant figuratively. They actually took a shoe from all the customers who ordered this beer. Unique eh. Hahahaha. After that it was home to finish up my Penfolds Bin 28 Kalimia Shiraz. Its really good shit. I think it will cost like 100 bucks in pubs in singapore if they do carry it. Its like 30+ here.

Kwak

Timmermans Peche

Chimay Grande Reserve

Hoe Garden Grand Cru

Still considering if I should go to Adelaide. There is only a few days left before I have to make an important decision. Oh well. =.=''

Been chatting alot with J nowadays. I think its kinda good. She is pretty optimistic. By that I meant that she is pretty and optimistic. Hahaha. Anyway, her positivity on relationships have rubbed off me slightly. Either that or the books on self-improvement do work. ^ ^

6 Jul 06

7am Departed for Walpole. Reached Walpole at 4pm. Its pretty amazing that a 1.3l 4wd is able to make the trip. Equipped with a max speed of 85, even monster container trucks are moving faster than I am. Oh well, watch them buzz by me...... Wheee. The crosswinds are really scary. The car got swept around like a rag doll. OMG. In the end I managed to reach my destination in one piece. Stayed at the YHA lodge in Walpole. Its a really nice place, quiet and peaceful. The perfect place to do some reflection. Started to write little notes to someone that I care about. =) 2100, Bedtime.

7 Jul 06

Went for a WOW wilderness cruise. Its like a must go for anyone who visits Walpole. They bring you around the coastal areas in Walkpole and describe to you the place, its history and things you wun ever read about in books. The guide explained the meaning names of the island and told us about the animals that are native to Walpole. After that I went on a 4WD trail at Long point. The trail starts at 15km west of Walpole. I was mentally prepared for something to screw up and something did screw up. When it did, at first I was like...hrm. I am stuck in the mud. What should I do? So I started doing all the things I read about in the 4WD handbook. After 1hr, I was like. KNNBCCB!! How come dun work? I have tried every trick in the book and the car was still stuck. TMD. I did not want to get stuck in the wilderness and since it1 was only 1400, I took the GPS, a bottle of water and ran to find help. Its not very far. Just 5km. Heng, I managed to find someone. In the end I found out that for the car to be in 4WD mode, apart from the switch in the car, there is a mechanical switch I have to toggle. TMD. Well, it was a lesson learnt. And since there was like an 1 1/2 hr before sunset, I decided to carry on my journey. After like 1 hr, I managed to reach long point. I was absolutely breathtaking and totally unspoilt. Well worth all the drama. I could get used to this shit. =)

8 Jul 06

Went to the Tingle Tree Walk and the Valley of the Giants Tree Top walk in the morning. The Tingle tree walk was like this big Eculuptus tree that can fit a car in its hollow trunk. The amazing thing about these trees is that even though its core is damaged due to fire and rotted away by fungi, it is still alive so as long the outter few layers are intact. Amazing eh. Ripped off at the Tree Top walk. $6 for a walk in the canopy of all the giant trees. The bloody scaffolding was like swaying from left to right and excarbated by my movement and weight. Heng I never fall down. Its like $6 for a 30 meter walk in the canopy. After that, I went to a toffee factory. The toffee there was damn good. I bought some.... Ho Ho Ho. Santa Claus is coming to town. $70 bucks. Damn ex. TMD. Then it was this Bartholomew meadery. Dun know how to spell. Its where they make honey. I think I ate so much honey that any one who licked me will find me as sweet as honey. They also made wine here. MUUUAhHHHAAa... Anyway I tasted alot of wine there. I bet the lady was like bitching that this chinese guy is drinking so much alcohol. Ha ha. Another $70 bucks on alcohol. Ho Ho Ho. Then I finally reached Albany. Dun quite like it. Too modern, too noisy, too much traffic, too much like Perth. Damn. I ran away from the hustle and bustle of Perth to end up at a mini Perth. And I almost fell down a cliff. I was like trying to find a good spot overseeing the sea so I can eat my take-away KFC. I thought I found a good spot until I realised that I was like 1 meter from the edge. I have not felt my heart beat so fast since the time I dreamt of Jessica. Heng nothing happened to me.

9 Jul 06

(to be written)

I have been feeling rather dejected lately with Snowy dying in the freak drowning accident. Since then I have been thinking. Why all the negativity? Why all the despair? Why all the agony? Why the persistence in making myself feel miserable? The answer?

I HAVE NO IDEA.

I have been reading a few self-improvement books and been thinking about my life, my lack of confidence in relationships and the pessimism about life. All this negativity is rather leeching and is causing serious damage to my relationships with my friends and my loved ones. It also dawned to me that for things to change I have to change first. Napolean Hill once said:

"If you believe in something hard enough, that belief will come true."

I think in a certain aspect this is true. All my negativity in relationships is draining my energy from things that matter. This energy can be channelled into making myself a better person. That way at least it will be more constructive. I thought that loniness is my destiny, there wun be anyone for me and that loyalty is passe. I once had a furious arguement with one of my friends from my younger days about loyalty and the right mate. This was right after Cheryl left me, followed by dear Faith and I was pretty upset. I was insistent there is no such thing as loyalty and that there are no decent gals out there. Not saying that Faith and Cheryl are indecent, just that I was not the cup of tea. Nowadays, the preferred beverage is alcoholic. Anyway, her claim was that me, being who I was , attracted the kind of gals that I have around. It is sorta like a self-fulfilling prophecy. Right now, I believe in that there is love. I look at my mum and I envy my dad in that he found such a loyal woman. I look at Jiaxi, Jun's parents and around me, I noticed a few more such cases. Its not many but it offers a glimpse of hope in that there is love and loyalty in a relationship is not extinct. The gf is a part of a complete life apart from being financially sound. Its the joy of finding someone to share your every joy, every tear and fear. Right now, I believe, for me to find someone to make my life complete, I have to change first. Its going to hard and its going to be gruel. But at the end of the rainbow there is a treasure chest. I look into myself and reach for the strength to bring me to my pot of gold. ^ ^

Preparing for my big trekking trip alone has made me think more than any other time. I have to make this trip. Its a symbolic journey of self-discovery and awareness. To allow me to appreciate the comforts that I have right now and that things can be so much worse. Its kinda tough, especially when initially Snowy was supposed to come with me. I think its all part of a grand plan. He was taken from me in order for me to grow and become a better person. I say out loud:

"Snowy, Daddy misses you! Thank you for everything"

I think its about time I appreciate the people around me. Its karma and fate that our lifes are intertwined and everything happens for a reason. I am thankful that these people are present regardless of whether they bring great tidings or bad news.

I think I should apologise to Michelle who came to visit me but due to certain events and emotions, I am unable to be a better host that I normally would be able to. My bad.

And Shirley, thanks for the emotional support. =) You have been great!

Lastly, to all the Cancerians, Happi Birthday to all 6 of you. =) The wonders of life's crabs.