Spade, Shop n Shots

(Long photoblog.... I'm feelin' generous)

Some quibs of the happening of lil ol' me for the past few days or so:

In Army:

Went through Exercise Spade, which means dig a hole to bury 6 adults and then cover it up. Lame useless way of exerting unneccessary energy.

3 days straight with 3 hours of indecent sleep. I know. It's inhumane.

Out of Army:

Immediately after bookout, went home, changed and went to play mahjong at my bro's place.

Call me a maniac, but I didn't felt all that shagged considering the amount of winks I had.

I plonked out eventually at approx 4am to be awakened comfortable by a snugly blanket (ah heaven!) at 12 pm.

Lazed around the entire day with Xbox and PS2 before heading home at 11pm at nite to build more sandcastles.

Saturday (Today)

Tore myself out of bed to wash my dirty Army stuff which is sandy and gritty.

My SBO needed rescue and had to dismantle the whole damn bra.

Met up with Gareth, Jason, Chun Kiat, Farid and Daniel for lunch over at Far East.

Basically plonk ourselves on a window shopping tour for penniless peeps where we wandered from the North to South of Orchard.

Dispersing at Orchard Point, and later at Marina, I went on a shopping spree.

Alone.

Sue me.

I had to.

Too much money in the bank is no good for health.

Quoted by me. Copyrighted by me. Authenticated by me.

I went to buy more books ! Not that I will read it immediately due to lack of time.

I have amassed a great amount of books ever since I entered OCS, which is rather impressive considering I would NEVER buy books.

I try to convince myself the need for literay indulgence is due to the supressive need to whitewash out weekday activities of mundane conformity (aka stupidity).

I've suceeded so far.

A view of what my brain has been feeding or about to feed itself so far.

I'm ready to start my 2nd hand bookstore

Small note: My Dan Brown collection has been passed onto the endless links of the human chain.

Also note that I've yet to start reading books which I borrowed from Gwen, the mini 'Tuesdays with Morrie' which I heard is quite heart-felt and the Gargantulan book that inspired the book 'Lord of The Rings'.

In addition for my brain feeding activites, I've also stepped sideways to drop down the pothole of un-neccessity shopping.

Yes, it's called shopping for yourself (aka or your wants).

First off, I bought something which I needed.

A wallet. Because my old wallet's coin pouch had a large hole where coins keep plonking themselves out due to Mr Gravity.

As I was too lazy to stitch, I got a replacement.

Yes they are the same but I adore this range of wallets

Now the things that I wanted but not needed but still bought-ed (added the -ed becoz it had a nice ring to it-ed.)

You can go ahead and say it. Sigh and exclaim:

"Benjamin is such a shopping sucker who will drop his pants for anything he desires. You know the look especially when his eyes are glazed like sugary doughnuts and his knees are wobbly.'

Anyway, I got a pendant.

Straight as an arrow, sacrasm to the core

I needed to accessorize. And besides my sparkling sunnies & armband (yes, I ripped it from Benjamin Bratt from the TV series 'The OC'), I was basically naked.

BTW, I bought these 2 ^^^ long time ago okay .... and yes, I'm vain

Not naked per se but just felt empty and I needed more 'voice'.

I swear I can visualize images of people puking right now.

And inside my shopping cart too was a shirt from Topman.

Yes, I'm going thru this 'Grunge Intellectual Funky Punk' look right now. Have a current crave on white/black basic arty farty tees.

I'm a punk wannabe with the soul of a bookworm

Speaking of fashion, this month is having Singapore's Fashion Festival.

As a tribute of respect to the organizers, I have done what most Singaporeans wouldn't normally do at this time of day or even any time at all.

I arranged my wardrobe. Yessire.

From collar polos to jerseys, beach shorts to jeans and from shirts to tees.

My Pop bought me that Arsenal jersey thru a fren from London. How thoughtful!

An accomplishment of my own right. Call me lunatic. I'm organized. Sue me.

Oh since I was like in town the whole day, I kept bumping into people from various pasts of my life.

Finally met up with a long lost pal Yuen Keong whom I used to be closed to. So weird to see how far we have drifted apart from the awkwardness of our short convo.

All in all, it has been an awesome day for me.

I was bored during TAR7 rerun on AXN.

Muffled on the buzz of life,
Benjamin