Weekend round-up

Another weekend's gone, and before I dive into the big pile of work that I have waiting to drown me, let me just quickly do the round-up.

Went jamming on Saturday afternoon with Satchit, Anoop and Shruti. Was special coz I broke in my Crybaby and distortion, and also it was the first session in a very long time. There's more on this at the Block 75 Blog, thanks to Satchit.

Made my annual NTU trip after that with Shruti; coz at 1 am a couple of nights before, I agreed to judge the Western music event. Anyway, I was pretty well rewarded with excellent performances of Enter Sandman and Purple Haze, led by NTU's Garuda. They won of course. It was also good to catch up with Srini (who was the judge from NTU) and Angshu.

Sunday was just a sunday, except that I watched Constantine (sheer time-pass movie with a strong computer-game feel to it), and enjoyed watching Chelski crash out of the FA Cup.

Valentine's day massacre at Highbury

Had a nice Valentine's outing at New Asia Bar. Enjoyed the nice seats with the awesome view, and the decent happy hour prices. Came home not too late and woke up for the Arsenal-Palace match at 4 to be rewarded by some fiery play and 5 brilliant goals.

I got confirmation that I passed my medical. So I will be a Motorola employee in a months time.

All in all, a good day it was.

Post-CNYHolidays Post

To remember what happened on the good Friday night outing, let me borrow the good words from my good friend Anoop from our good Block 75 blog.

Anish Shruti Satchit and I went off to watch "The Machinist" post-(8 hours of wondering how long 8 hours can take). Not bad, not bad at all. Interesting with some psycho-thriller feel and a bit of an unraveling at the end. A touch of Fight Club here and there. I never felt so strongly an urge to run out and donate some fat.After a meat-laden dinner at Yoshinoya, we carried on and forward to Clarke Quay yet again (we really ought to be walking there in our sleep by now).

Crazy Elephant was rocking, with John Chee completely in the mood to coax, fondle, rape and even play his six-strings. After Voodoo Child, Freebird, Sweet Home Alabama, Johnny B Goode and a catchy rendition of Sympathy, we, the tired and simultaneously broke, carried forward bravely to relax our bodies and minds such as they are - some satay, tea and shisha. Nice, a lifestyle we could get used to.

Saturday saw me take Part 1 of my Motorola medical (successfully), and go to Swee Lee to satisfy my longing for a Crybaby Wah. I also got myself a Boss Mega Distortion. Close to being broke now. But very happy.

Sunday was Part 2 of the medical (successful or not I'm waiting to find out). Spent some time at Borders after that. Couldn't get myself to buy any of the books I wanted to, after my Swee Lee trip the previous day.

Have a rockin Valentine's.

Its the year of the rooster

It's the Chinese New Year holidays. And it's been a good mix of bumming, boredom and partying. Tuesday night was at Clarke Quay, and last night was at O'Reillys at Katong Village. Should go to O'Reillys again.

Ah well... dont feel like writing much; thanks to the general air of laziness that surrounds me during the CNY holidays.

Fun weekend, 2.5 day work week

I had a damn good weekend at Genting. The place has been built to keep people entertained. Well done. I had only 24 hours to spend there, and found myself planning out every 10 min segment to squeeze in as many things as possible to do. Amusement park rides, food & drink, casino, some shopping - it was all really good. Already looking forward to the next time, when I will definitely spend more time there. (That casino could be the answer to all my financial worries. Hmm...)

The only thing I missed out on was the good match Arsenal had on Saturday. I read some good things about it, and I'm waiting to catch the highlights tonight.

It's Venkat's b'day today. Had the usual cake and gathering at midnight. Dude's 23 now.

Thanks to Chinese New Year, this week will see me working for a maximum of 2.5 days. Thats today, tomorrow morning and then Friday. Probably the best week in every calendar year for a person working in Singapore. So I am finding it considerably easy to overcome any Monday blues and make a pretty decent day of it at work.

More holidays please.

gym >> beer >> ice-cream

I did go to the gym yesterday, and had a pretty decent workout on the treadmill. But then couple of hours later I'm wondering whether it really mattered, as I follow it up with a beer and some ice-cream. Hmm... Guess I would have had the beer and ice-cream anyway, so let me just be happy that it's all good.

I came in to work only at 2 today. Used the first half of the day to pay a visit to the HR lady at Motorola (my future employer, hopefully). She gave me a walk-through of all the job benefits and stuff, and urged me to get with the medical checkup asap. That will have to be some time next week.

5:30 am. That's how early I'm gonna have to be up tomorrow. But that's not really a bad thing, coz at 7:00 am I should be on my way to Genting (near Kuala Lumpur) for a weekend of highland, amusement-park, shopping, casino fun. Yeah, so I'm looking forward to that.

Now, to somehow get through the rest of today...

10 hrs of sleep

What an amazing night of undisturbed, near-death sleep. Today should be good.

That after the previous night when I slept 2 hours in between guzzling down beers (6 as far as I can remember), and watching my sorry Arsenal team come out of the half-time break to hand victory over to the scum from Manchester. It was quite a miracle that I actually turned up for work yesterday after that sort of a disorienting experience.

I better beat myself into doing some work now. I guess anyone would forgive me when I say that I didn't really manage to get much done yesterday.

I also have to leave work around 8 today, get back home and head down to the gym. I MUST!