GEEK IS CHIC!!

A geek and his life(the happy one)

Looking back. December 23, 2008

Filed under: Uncategorized — bennycan @ 5:31 am

The year is coming to an end and this has been a hell of a year for me. A bitter sweet one.

1 Got dumped by my ex-girlfriend early august I think(this one dope)

2 Stepped down abruptly from my club as president, still miss the time when I dedicated most of my time to the club.

I guess I aint as great a leader and multi tasker  as I though I was.  Nonetheless I learnt a great deal from the seniors who took me under their wings and the juniors who supported me and dedicated their time for all that was worth.

100_1956

222

3 Sold off almost all my fishing tackles because I decided they were too much of an addiction and the hardest was to sell them at a total lost. My biggest damge was my  favourite set of rod and reel worth almost 500-600 SGD, sold it  for only 200 SGD.

Sentimental values and market values are total bitches. FYI Fishing was my life like lapping kidos is to Micheal Jackson.

dsc01417

dsc00330

dsc00115

4 This  fish tank which I poured blood sweat and tears in building was recently scrapped and given away as well.

dsci0010

5 Cousin Jeff passed away, God bless you wherever you are. Hope you liked the Subaru WRX Sebast and guys gave you. we’ll always remember you as you have been, A good friend with a sense of humour :)

On a brighter side

of life.

1 I’ve gotten a GOLD for my NAPFA:

Pull up-11(A)

Standing broad jump-230(C)

Shuttle run-10.28sec(A)

2.4km-11.30(c)

Sit ups-44(A)

Sit&reach-54cm(A)

That effectively gives me 26 points which is a GOLD, heck I even beat/match some of the dragon boat guys at  the various station.

2 Graded PES A for my medical check up.(Can I be the nation’s shortest commando?)

3 Completed the final phases of FYP except for presentation.

4 The girl who dumped me has finally decided to chase me back, okay maybe its the other way round but HAHA!!

5 Gathered enough courage to reject my manager’s offer to work at another outlet with him ( I’ve gotten use to the way things goes at my current outlet.)

6 Wash a Travellator for the first time in my entire life

7 Knowing  that I have friends around me from all walks of life with me.

From people I’ve never even met before to people I knew all my life. From collegues at work to strangers at pubs. From someone who loved me  to someone who hated me to the gut.

Thats life isnt it. You  destroy, you create and you hold dear to what you think you have.  You win some and you lose some.

Celebrated one of my buds birthday recently

Hidden among the shop houses along Haji lane lies a rather popular hang out joint.

Blue Jazz Cafe

n615860778_1590553_6512

One of the many "things" which fascinates Huda

n615860778_1590549_5356

n615860778_1590552_6233

Whats the rational huh Mel?

n615860778_1590542_3427

n615860778_1590572_2173

n615860778_1590566_336

n615860778_1590564_9733

n615860778_1590595_9774

n615860778_1590594_9425

n615860778_1590571_1871

n615860778_1590579_44111

After the birthday brownie cake we headed down to sahara for some beer and Shisha. Along the way the Lim yang yang girls wanted to take some pictures with the famous lovely lovable pillar so we stopped for awhile.

n615860778_1603236_1802

That was when something else caught our attention. Our very own fiery AH Beng. Pretty cool dude I must admit.

n615860778_1603234_1258

n615860778_1603228_9653n615860778_1603229_9917

n615860778_1603239_2651

n615860778_1590598_830

n615860778_1603241_3203

Simple guy, Heineken and Shisha. Satisfied.

Sahara Bar was the usual:  Shishas, Heineken to help chill the night out.

The rest headed to double O while me and Huda headed home because we had work the next day and I didnt want my work to be affected (so I though.. )


Well the next day at work  this was what happened:


photo313



photo317

yes, my colleagues and I are cleaning the travellator linking to the carparks in Causeway Point. This was what happened:

A customer had bought about 4-5 cans of 5 Liter paint and I volunteered to helped him transport his paints to the taxi stand at level 1(my store is located at basement1 ). I loaded everything on a trolley and went  to the taxi stand. When I returned back to the store another customer needed help to get his cans of paint to the carpark at basement 2.

With the empty trolley in my hand and being the thoughful personnel I am.  I reluctantly agree to help him. That was the biggest mistake ever.

I and the customer pushed the loaded trolley through the Sunday crowd towards the travellator. That was when shit started to happen.

Gravity & friction co-efficient decided to teach me a lesson in physics  by sliding a can of lilac purple paint off my trolley and down the travellator.  I repeated the word”shit and Mati” a gazillion times when i saw paint leaking out onto the travellator and tiles on the floor.

Kept my cool and told the customer to bring the rest of his stuff to his car while I grab a new can from store. By the time I ran back to store and down to the travellator, security guards had already blocked off the route and had created quite a scene as if Someone’s limb got severed off by the travellator.

Curious eyes were looking at me as guards were taking down my particular and asking me what happened. Being me I chao keng, smoked and Sabotage the customer.

wahahhahaha!

We cleaned up the purple travellator anyway.  It was as though the homefix team was doing some live demonstration with “Stanley” brush and scrapers and “3M” cleaning products.

The weird thing is that that particular model of paint was the  Easywash® range in Nippon’s catalouge.  Our normal sale pitch was that this paint can be washed easily if stained with it being teflon based. Talk about product knowledge now!

It was funny as hell. Looked as if Barney took a shit on the travellator.

photo316

Probably the first wash since 9 years

Look at the difference in colour, the top portion is the original colour of the travellator while the bottom is where all the dirt and grimes are.

photo314

Cleaned till about 12.30pm before the guards were satisfied

Did I say  I loved my work?

n615860778_1590547_4799

Off course I lub you abit more!