What are my demands?? I demand world peace and love!!

















a thief in my room???



the balaclava - standard issue for Siberian grunts, bank robbers, would-be thieves, with AK-47s, half the Counterstrike skins, Rainbow Six NPCs - for headgear in the not-so-distant past. now, it has become a symbol of fear.

Pre-trip thoughts

Today went out with louis to get a bag / haversack / backpack for my trip to The Philippines. got a balaclava for $3.5 and a penknife for $4.5 at The Army Market..

The balaclava is for sleeping (yes, in case there are freaking mosquitoes there) and while its not currently in fashion due to the infamy caused by that #$%^&*&^%$er Osama Bin Laden, it can still be re-used for fright night. There are no black balaclavas for sale though and what i bought was the last one. Seems like it really has gone out of vogue.

One way to get a minimum of 10 laser sights coming from fully-loaded mp5 submachineguns held by red-beret police officers wearing full body kevlar armor and helmet: wear the balaclava in the airport. ok, not funny. kids dont try this, at home or anywhere.

How do i use the thing for sleeping? Well. since it covers the head entirely, with a blindfold, long-sleeved shirt, gloves, track pants and socks, no mosquito should be able to get my skin other than via the nostrils. muhahahhaha.

Oh yes, the penknife cannot be brought onto the plane. mustn't forget. damn those terrorists.

Decided to bring clothing for 06 x days to PP. They said can wash the clothing. Toothpaste, toothbrush, soap toiletries etc can buy over there, so don't need to bring. Oh yes, don't forget the drugstore: my medicine for 20 days, some Panadol, Clarityne for running nose, some charcoal for diarrhoea, no sleeping pills though.

Entertainment: one pack of cards, one recorder, one x mp3 player (still thinking of whether to bring it there), the rest of the group. Was thinking of bringing my book of e-tales there but decided against it. No guitar - too bulky. My precious laptop is not leaving Singapore either.

Sigh. i think i'll prob get homesick very fast, since i've not stepped out of the country for like, 5-6 years. Being stripped of basic amentities such as clean water and my laptop sucks. Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs is like totally gone - no electricity sometimes. well. that's outfield.

wonder if i'll be able to sleep there? i can't even sleep here well in Singapore. darn.

i'd wish i'd get back to Singapore here asap. it's like, so many things are gonna happen to focc during the 18 days that i'll be away, and it's a shame for me not to see it and perhaps provide some ideas. not that my ideas are absolute: some of them are totally crappy... well i think yuantai should be able to handle it...

thus said, i've been handling much of the programme stuff like a dictator.. well i think i should have more autonomy, but well its just too bad that i have only 10-12 days to 'settle everything' and fly off to pp. And i must really credit joy, huilin and charmaine for putting in so much effort on my team, as well as yuantai, co-head in programme. progress is good, i can safely say we're probably halfway done. i guess a good part of the ideas that will eventually be put to use will be from these people.

still totally blur of what to do and expect from philippines... suddenly i just wanna do focc all these holidays. it feels like i just wanna bang straight into a brick wall... as i had done so many times.

one third of the hols gone after i come back.