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Thursday, July 12, 2007

Thu, 12 Jul 2007 10:58:16 GMT

hmm haven't written anything here in 3 months. awesome.

1. today I heard Funeral for a Friend playing on the radio. That would be a good thing. They played right after Paris Hilton's Stars Are Blind. Which is a not so good thing. I feel insulted and ashamed that I have been generalized into the same demographic as a manufactured girl-with-too-much-money pop lover, and thats really not cool. :( Nevertheless, I'm still gonna watch FFAF play here in September. If anyones free, please do come down and watch it with like jon, jerome and I.

2. chemical defence training today. Gearing up for that is a troublesome bitch. I swear, if there really is a tear gas situation, I'm not gonna remember any of the crap I learnt, and i'll probably forget something extremely important like pulling out the gas-mask canister stopper, which will result in me suffocating to death. Lame... if i close my eyes real tight, they still sting a little.

3. i dreamt about her last night.
just thought i should let you know.

p.s. it's been almost 2 weeks since I came back from HK and not a day goes by that I don't wish I was back. the last time u guys checked, I was what.. 590 days away from ORD right? now check it out. 470 baby :)

Sunday, April 15, 2007

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 14:12:14 GMT

updating just for the sake of doing something on a Sunday night before the week starts again and I don't have time to breathe.
anyway hope everyone's doing great and yeah.

Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Tue, 20 Mar 2007 11:30:17 GMT

sometimes the things i talk about with my mom just crack me up.
just fyi, paul one eye refers to this like 'emo' contestant on singapore idol whos hair kinda liek covered his right eye so thats what a lot of ppl called him. and uh.. ST refers to the singapore newspaper.

ET says: i've been reading alot abt emo kids in singapore in straits times
ET says: r u an emo teen?
dom -.... says: haha i guess so
ET says: dont laugh, i was hoping u'd say no
ET says: emo kids do wierd things as they want to feel pain, like slash their wrists and break bottles on their heads etc
dom -...says: mum thats just a really stupid generality
ET says: i got so worried about you when i read abt it
dom -...says: that is starting to get on my nerves
dom -...says: its like saying all priests molest young boys
dom -...says: just because a few do
ET says: only a few kids do it?
dom -...says: no i mean kids do but its not because theyre emo or anything
dom -...says: i mean people commit suicide everyday
ET says: i thought it sounded quite serious like ST said parents should look out for their kids in case they are emo
dom -... says: haha thats just really ignorant of them
ET says: they even interviewed paul one eye who is no longer one eye
dom -... says: haha ya hes never cut himself i bet
ET says: as he now pushes his hair behind his ears
ET says: no he hasn't even pierced himself coz he admitted being scared of pain

yea haha gg. so like emo is getting pwned even here in sg
i guess its not good enough that the world frowns upon violent video games and premarital sex. now they've gotta screw with the one last thing that we have going for us. :(

anyway.

so like this new local tv drama series is apparently set at my camp, so over the past few days there've been like camera crew and celebrities hanging around filming and stuff.
whats cool is that they said that they're gonna need the office i work in for filming, so we'll get a half day off (i think) when they come in to do whatever.

so now im praying hard that like fiona xie will come in to act. :)
and i swear that if she comes to my office, i'll never ever bitch about the army again. and if i break my word i will sign on and serve singapore for the rest of my life. seriously.

but i doubt im that lucky really.

take care everyone.

Sunday, March 11, 2007

Sun, 11 Mar 2007 09:51:53 GMT

hi everyone so yeah while i was in shanghai over cny i found this documentary movie thing called Before the Music Dies and basically its like about how pop and whatever jack is ruining the music scene in general (i think) anyway this video is from the movie so uh yea it's pretty cool.

okay... um what else.

i watched 300 last night and so far it's the best movie i've watched in 2007. lots of blood and gore and witty Spartan dialog (dialogue? dialog wtf it looks weirder and weirder everytime i try to spell it) but yeah when the dude with a goats head came on screen and started playing his sitar or whatever it was just like rofl persians, don't know what you've been smoking but I want some of that : D

anyway. want to see something really sad? like homeless old people getting set on fire sad?
okay.

Finding oneself in such murderous shame,
Playing roulette with a flower,
Mislead devotion into seclusion.
-- <3 chiodos.

Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 09:09:54 GMT

edit once again!! this is a continuation from the post a few sentences below, so if you haven't checked that one out, watch that video first. then watch this one, which i put up because as anto pointed out, that one was just really really ignorant and misleading and so i found this video to cheer me up cuz its a bit more accurate XD enjoy

you may resume resuming your lives now :)
btw, also do check out sonny's new songs

[edittttt] so i just realised that as of yesterday (26th Feb 2007) ive been officially promoted to private :) just 6 more months to lance corporal ~

hihi okay kinda soon since my last post but yeah just had to post this cuz it makes me sick.

i mean wtf... so emo's a threat to like national security now. thats awesome.

also, other depressing news, Sonny Moore has left From First To Last.. to pursue a solo career apparently. gg haha wonder how that will turn out.. but yeah i'm not sure what FFTL is gonna be like now.

ummmmmm yeah okay that was all. u may resume ur lives now XD

Saturday, February 24, 2007

Sat, 24 Feb 2007 08:18:52 GMT

so yeah the ends not near, it's here. the o.c. kinda like got me through the last 4 years and im really sad to see it go, regardless of how much closure we got and how good the ending turned out to be. but whatever... guess i have more time to dfg and stuff now XD

hope everyone had a great cny. i spent it here in shanghai with my parents but i gotta go back tmr.
not looking forward to it at all cuz the next time i'll be back in shanghai would probably be cny next year :(

but yeah.

Oh, it's time to let go of everything we used to know
Ideas that strengthen who we've been
It's time to cut ties that won't ever free our minds
From chains and shackles that they're in

Well life is a dream 'cause we're all walking in our sleep
You could see us stand in lines like we're dead upon our feet
And we build our house of cards and then we wait for it to fall
Always forget how strange it is just to be alive at all

-- Life is a Song, Patrick Park (the last song to ever be played on The O.C)

Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:35:07 GMT

"If I were your iPod, you'd have to send me in for repairs,
because all you would hear is I love you."

happy valentines day everybody. <3
(btw a new ffaf song is out and it's pretty good.. so.. go get it.)

Friday, January 19, 2007

Fri, 19 Jan 2007 09:47:21 GMT

arghh my army friend ORD-ed today.
i don't really know what the letters stand for, but basically its the day we're reborn into civilian-ism and no longer need to waste our time doing nothign.
i feel happy for him and its sad that i'll probably never see him again, but all the same it pisses me off to think that i still have 644 days to go till perhaps the happiest day of my life.

btw everyone let me know when you'll be back in hk for summer so i can figure out when to apply for leave

Thursday, January 11, 2007

Thu, 11 Jan 2007 12:39:17 GMT

^funeral for a friend dude playing folk music.. it sounds pretty good lol
anyway yea jack bored in army.. had a pretty rough week. getting owned for like being 2 minutes late and now the like warrant officer dude probably hates me or something.

fasdf my life has become so routine lol seriously. i wake up at 6, shower, read the papers and leave the house at 6.45 and hopefully reach camp at like 7.45. then theres first parade at 8 and that lasts for n minutes depending on how much the conducting officer loves the sound of his/her voice. then the rest of the day is just sitting there like o _ o until 5.30 and then i go back for last parade which also lasts for n minutes for the same reason. and then i take the bus and get home by like 6.45 (which is exactly 12 hours after i leave the house if u remember from earlier in the sentence paragraph thing).

anyway once im at home, i download the tv shows that show that day and then i shower and have dinner. at around 7.30 i turn on the ps2 and play the Godfather game for like.. one hour, just taking over businesses and robbing banks and crap cuz im like an underboss or something so theres not much more storyline to cover. ok anyway during this time i also play guitar during the loading times. then at 8.30 i come back to my room and like ..watch the shows that i downloaded lol and like facebook or like tonight update xanga and whatever jack until like 10.30 and then i sleep and wake up the next day at like 6.

rinse, repeat.

my life is sucking and regardless of how many ppl think im crazy i wanna go to college or just go back to school in general NOW. cuz right now im stuck in this hopelessness, directionless pit and im selling my soul to the government for 350 dollars a month and theres nothing i can do to help myself.

another 652 days till im free.

Monday, January 01, 2007

Mon, 01 Jan 2007 16:19:37 GMT

i spent the first day of this year half dead at home, playing the godfather on ps2. its fun. nothing beats hijacking a car gta-style and driving it straight into a bunch of dudes from another gang. and then getting out and watching the car explode.

and now that the hangover from 31st night is gone, i can finally focus and reflect on all thats happened in the past year and what's to come in this one. but then again, maybe i won't. i think of my 18 years in this world, 2006 has been the most eventful and the most important. so much has happened, some good, some bad, some really bad, some just plain shit. and so there's really no point in bringing up the past. what happened in 06 should, in my opinion, just stay in 06. start this new year without any of the burdens regardless of how memorable or unforgettable (there's a big difference there) they are.

so yeah i just wanna wish good luck to everyone and all the best for 07. it doesn't look to be very promising for me, with army and all, but nonetheless i'll try to enjoy it. hope you all do too.

take care

dom.

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[edit]
rofl tonight i was sitting in my room talking to zhang on msn when suddenly my helper bursts into my room and was all like 'dom help the kitchen is flooded!!!1' and im like 'uh.. okay' cuz it's raining bitches outside and my house is like 200 years old already so these things don't really surprise me.

but then my helpers like 'theres water pouring out from the lights and the whole of downstairs is short-circuited quick wtf do we do???' and i was all like 'fuck i don't know!!!' cuz i didnt know if the house was gonna explode or something. or like maybe fry me and my helper and my dog inside. (o yea my parents and brothers were out but i was tired so i stayed home) so yea i was like gg and called my parents who didn't pick up the phone so yea.

anyway nothing u guys should worry about. just enjoy the pics of the destruction of my kitchen and general downstairs area.

u can actually see the water pouring down from the lights. wtf is that. well actually i do know.. theres a water heater above the ceiling and it kinda exploded and flooded the ceiling and the water had to find somewhere to escape so it leaked through the lights. and yea that caused the electricity to die and we had to like climb a ladder and open up the ceiling and turn off the heater tap thing.

it was fun in a lets all get wet and could potentially slip and fall and die kinda way.

yea i had to liek evacuate all the kitchen crap. like my dog. whos now soaking wet and needs a new place to sleep. and also now the fridge is dead and the foods probably gonna like. unfreeze. and rot or something. and then i'll starve to death. : (

uhh yeah i brought down like 10 million candles cuz as u can see from this last pic not so much the previous 2 that it was fricken dark. so now you understand how easy it was to like just slip from the ladder and fall and die. and and also when i was holding up the candle to check out the ceiling i burned my hand with wax lol.

what an awesome night. i can't wait to wake up early tomorrow morning and go back to camp!
once again happy 2007 to everyone. beware of exploding water heaters this year.