Today was that day.

Cigarette scent.
Those late nights spent.
Been long gone,
Never forgotten.

Some of the best memories
are remembered through sorrow.
Know you'll never be happier
When you've felt the happiest.

Have gotten used to not seeing you
in each tomorrow.
When there is just nothing left to know
once you've seen the greatest.

A lot has been said, they might say.
But at this time, this date,
Its stuck on replay.
That moment when life took you away.

Now you'd wish forever.
Tears even in laughter.
We're living on borrowed time,
make it count before its all over.

A lot has been said, they might say.
But at this time, this date,
Its stuck on replay.
That moment when life took you away.

It was this day,
When we tried to get away,
To some place where we'll hide,
To that place where you'd stay.

If only forever was that date,
I'd still get to see you everyday.

Today was that day.

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13/9/2006

Bookmark

Do you ever catch yourself
holding it by the cover?

Pages with photos,
Memories on a portfolio,
When we did not need to rhyme,
When all we had was time.

This is the way,
That some way, somehow,
You’d at least remember,
How someone told a story you knew
From someone else’s point of view.

Was it any different from your story?
This book has been long overdue.

It was something that I made,
Just in case I had to forget.
I have to forget.
I needed to forget
Until the moment we last met.

Time seems to find a way,
To remove & replace,
What has been set aside to decay.

Same as we grow old and our mind starts to forget.
All the brilliance & bliss, and all that goes together, even the regret.
I am already starting to forget.
Wish I saved a version of it on the internet.

This is the way,
That some way, somehow,
You’d at least remember,
How someone told a story you knew
From someone else’s point of view.

It was something that I made,
Just in case I have to forget.
I had to forget.
I needed to forget
Until the moment we last met.

We stopped without a bookmark.
If we ever get the chance to meet again,
On the last day of the last memory in my head,
Bring that book & read me the story again.

This is the way,
That some way, somehow,
I'd at least remember,
A story I once knew
That was written by someone about you.

It was something I made,
Just in case I have to forget.
I never wanted to forget,
Since the day we first met.

Run.

Far from distress, something to relieve stress.

There are no boundaries, no limits.

Only you can tell how far you can go.

It's not about forgetting nor escaping.

Run for your life.

It is what we are all doing.

To gain something,

You also have to lose something.

Just keep running.

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01/01/14

Something Out Of Nothing

3 Hours gap, 1,500 miles to cross,

2 years of being apart,

Always a single heartbeat away.

Life, existence, relevance.

Me.

Never write or say a single word.

Not before it's too late to even catch the final breath.

Kept as a secret, too deep to even express with thoughts,

Not forced, not provoked, this is inevitable.

She has given the world to you.

Absolutely perfect in every angle you see.

Blows gently on your bruise whenever you fall down,

Easily draws up a smile on your face even with your ugliest frown.

You got an F for not studying hard,

You dated a girl who just broke your heart.

You started smoking cigarette,

drank beer, shaved your head, without any consent.

Got broke, Lost hope,

Left home for Baguio, left home for Singapore,

She never saw a difference from who you were from before.

First Kiss,First Hug, First Love.

It is that same person you always take for granted for who she is

and how she feels for you.

She is the only girl after any bad day you'd always come home to,

the only person you're certain to always answer back i love you too.

She is the perfect definition of my whole being.

The living diary for all my stories.

The only reason why i'm breathing.

Definite, absolute, unmistakable.

Straight out, unconditional, remarkable,

Words doesn't suffice to even describe the exact feeling.

I was wished upon a star,

and I am just lucky to have my whole life

making someone else's dream come true

with every single day that i try to get by through.

Though I tried not to be so sweet and cheesy,

but Mommy,

This one is for you.

with Mom on a Christmas day, 4 years ago.

I miss you!

Happy Birthday Mom! See You Soon!

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Forgetting Retrospection

Making the difficult things look all easy and simple.

Having some charm and a sweet braced smile really goes a long way.

There's a lot more than what meets the eye,

the surface all kept hidden like a pinky finger with a thimble.

Not as perfect as most people would perceive it,

And makes you wonder on how many times it could play you by the ear,

You just can't judge something from what it appears to be,

but on how it could surprise you on how deep it could possibly be.

Don't stress too much as no one else is in a hurry,

Just take your time, it doesn't matter how slowly you go

as long as you don't stop.

It is the point where everything's uncertain, endless,

and all else could mean everything and nothing at the same time.

As random and casual this would seem,

It just doesn't know how it scribbled something out of scrap.

The Ground Cafe & Bar: Singapore Bar Trail #2

The next Bar that was up on my trail was The Big Bad Wolf located at 226 Tanjong Katong Road.

Since I was craving for some sweet dessert,
Lisa @callecat told me that BBW have this Apple Pie
with Vanilla Ice Cream resting on top of the pie from their menu
along with their usual alcohol products.
It was that certain dessert that made
BBW as the 2nd stop of my Bar trail.

But as we were walking along the street
where BBW was supposed to be located,
we ended up passing through
the whole street with no trace of the Bar.

We double checked the address, and we actually found
another bar that was standing on where
Big Bad Wolf was previously situated.

The Ground Cafe & Bar took over The Big Bad Wolf.

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We took a quick look at the shop, and we were  

captivated by the coziness that their place brought 

from the outside of their entrance.

So we decided to give it a go 

since we didn't want to waste the travel time

that we took just to get to this area at the same time.

The Ground Cafe & Bar brings this relaxing and casual vibe simply with their lighting inside the store and the signage right at their doorstep. Though they used wood instead of the traditional diner stainless steel for their fixtures and furniture, all they needed was a counter area with bar stools surrounding the main ordering booth to actually make it a Modern Diner that specializes with beers and other alcoholic beverages in contrast to the usual American Diner with sandwiches and milkshakes menu.

The place easily attracts customers that are looking for a place 

to have a good talk and spend some time unwinding and 

and for those who needs some escape off from the busy world.

La Trappe Quadrupel, alc. vol. 10%;Netherlands

Drunk Man's Remarks: La Trappe Quadrupel is a coffee and caramel flavoured beer with supposedly a scent of Vanilla. The Vanilla scent was almost as vague as the coffee taste in the beer with only the caramel being present as an aftertaste.

Straight up!: It was actually just like a regular beer with a hint of sweetness with a very strong beer scent.

De Molen Hel & Verdomenis, alc. vol. 12%;Netherlands

Drunk Man's Remarks: De Molen Hel & Verdomenis is a stout beer with bitter and powerful doses of chocolate, coffee, berries & licorice. The chocolate and licorice smell was just lingering all over the tip of the drinking glass. 

The taste was exactly what it was made with, but the bitterness just overpowered the other flavors since I was expecting it to be much more on the sweeter side.

Straight up!:Though I was looking more of the chocolate flavor from this beer, the overall taste and quality was just right to justify its very expensive price of 24SGD. It was more on the pleasure of drinking something that was carefully brought together as a drink, and the chocolate and licorice smell was just fantastic every time you take a gulp.

Rekorderlig Strawberry Lime Cider, alc. vol. 4.5%

*A Lisa favorite*

Drunk Man's Remarks: It is almost like a Shirley Temple with Lime Cordial, but as a bottled Cider.

Straight up!: The color is as vibrant as its flavor. A person could probably go drink up to 4 bottles until the alcohol kicks in. Definitely a ladies' drink.

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To go along with our drinks, we ordered a snack and a dessert from their very classy menu that offers items from nachos, pastas, sandwiches and pizzas.

The Chicken Cheese Meatball should be served with a warning sign, as these deadly balls are actually volcano cheese bursts waiting to happen. I luckily wasn't victimized by the cheese explosion, but Lisa sadly, was not an exception. As a substitute for my supposedly apple pie with ice cream, we ordered Affogato al Cafe, a Vanilla Ice cream with a shot of espresso and cinnamon, that just helped us to be pulled back to reality every time the alcohol from our drinks tried to take over. Thanks to the espresso that was bathing the ice cream inside the bowl.

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Tipsy Notes:

Quadrupel - is actually a brand name of a beer brewed by De Koningshoeven Brewery in the Netherlands. It could also refer to as an especially strong style of dark ale beer with nothing less than  10% alcohol volume.

Cider - is an alcoholic beverage that is fermented from fruit juice, with apple as the most common fruit to be used. Hence, Cider is also called an "Apple Wine" from time to time.

Affogato - (Italian) is a coffee based beverage or dessert.

Next Stop:

Alley Bar located at 180 Orhard Road, Peranakan Place.

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23 @ Fridays on a Saturday Night.

I know this took almost a week before i finally
had to say something about my day last January 13.

I was supposed to be resting and enjoying
my 2 and a half days off that started on the eve of my beer day,
but things as usual never turned out as it was planned.

I suddenly had to move house the morning
after my crazy birthday night, which took
almost 3 days before the moving out officially ended.
And to make things more complicated and exciting,
I have to change houses again in a month's time.
Not to mention, that I also had a fever scare a couple of nights ago.

I just want to make this quick and straightforward,
as my moment has actually passed,
and I'm not getting any younger than 23.

So let's go with what happened on the night
when we were having fun on Fridays on a Saturday night.

"I needed to be with people who will make me feel closer to home, there was no doubt, even after almost 2 years removed from where we started, this will never grow old"

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The expected surprise from my colleagues at work.

It has always been a tradition in my work place 

to surprise a person who is celebrating their birthday with a cake, 

and most of the time, 

I would be involved on how to come up with the surprise.

So there I was on the eve of my day, 

wondering on how they would pull it off on me.

Since I never got any surprise during my 1st birthday with them, 

it was a possibility that they would not care for the 2nd time around.

They eventually caught me real good and got the perfect timing

when I was trying to pass an order while making my way 

to the hot kitchen with Zhang Juan Jing almost splatting my face with a cake.

Sheng Ri Kuai Le to me!

Thank you IBNS for making my last birthday with you guys 

an almost heart attack with the way you surprised me that afternoon. :) 

It really caught me off guard. 

I will never forget that moment in my life 

when I had people hailing from Malaysia, China, Singapore, 

Vietnam and Philippines greeting me for my birthday all at the same time. 

I may never get the chance to have that experience again. Thanks.

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"Fun at Friday's on a Saturday Night"

Dining into Friday's Singapore has been in my wishlist since last Christmas,

I just really wanted to spend a special day there,

Seeing the Bar, and just feeling the Friday's culture,

I knew it would be a lot of fun.

Booked a table for 8 at T.G.I. Friday's East Coast Katong 112,

Ended up with only five person to feed for the night.

Aside from the awesome drinks, and the mouth watering entrees that we had,

It was the birthday greeting when the clock turned 12 midnight that 

made the dinner at Fridays really special.

The Friday's Staff rang a bell while marching towards our table,

and shouting happy birthday while serving me a plate of Choco Fudge Brownie

with a Vanilla Ice Cream scoop on top.

And as part of the Friday's tradition, they let the celebrant choose

either they will sing happy birthday the normal way or backwards.

Thinking that it would be interesting if they would sing happy birthday backwards,

I asked them to do so in that manner..

And INDEED, they sang happy birthday backwards,

FACING backwards away from me.

It was so funny in a way that it was so stupid at the same time by literally doing it backwards.

I was just too greedy for surprises,

T.G.I. Friday's just really hit the spot!

Thanks to all the staff there at T.G.I. Fridays East coast, especially to the lovely Miss Castle. :)

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We spent the after party strolling around the streets taking photos,

and getting some classy cocktail drinks at Bar Cocoon

*watch out for the bar trail on that one*

And drinking up cans of beers straight up in less than a minute each

at the bridge in Clark Quay.

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"You try your hardest just to make it the perfect day of the entire year,
thinking about getting all the good breaks and just feeling lucky all the way.
but once it is all over, you will come to realize that the moment has passed
and it was nothing more than just another ordinary day."


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