<body> marc . cram <body>
Sunday, January 30, 2011 7:14 PM


(late 2009) 2010


i think i'll do this slowly. it'll take some time before i'm finished. (23/12/2010)


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i distinctly remember the orgasmic feeling of sleeping/lying on the bed face down after i got discharged from the hospital on the 7th of November 2009. it was pure bliss.


the 2009 December holidays started off with "what now?". there wasn't any school to look forward to, there weren't any exams to be afraid of, there was just army. but my pes wasn't even confirmed then.


so i just enjoyed my time then, at east coast, amber road. just wasting my life away. then in late December, i started job hunting with clement and ryan. clement got a job at Giraffe, opposite the Istana, and ryan and i got sales associate positions at Robinsons Raffles City. ryan was in the toys section while i got posted to the lifestyle/homeware section. that was when i met my Robinsons friends, elaine, kass, jc, joyce, su, weihua, elan etc. my time there was really fun, not lying haha. but was just a little unsatisfied with the pay. only 5 per hour during weekdays and 6 on ends.


ryan quit after like 2 days, saying that he worked long hours and was too much for him to take hahaha. ah well. i just continued. because it really was fun with my friends there, although it took quite sometime for me to know all of them and talk to them. had to really "apply" my "sales knowledge" lol.


Christmas 2009 was spent with amanda, jf and dan @ marina square rooftop, just crapping our way from the 24th to the 25th. then watched sherlock holmes in the midnight with yiqun and then lan-ed till morn.


Eve of the start of 2010 was spent with yiqun dan jf and zh at clarke quay. i remember zh getting drunk and hugging all of us cos we were quite pissed at him with all the pangseh-ing. sigh. but we've since gotten used to it haha.


Then came 2010. and the "what now" turned to "ah whatever". continued my job at Robinsons until late Jan, when my surgery wound started to hurt from all the carrying of products and all. decided to resign when the doctor told me to rest. yeah, i'd rather be a pussy than to get a second relapse of the injury. but at that time, i was the only one left in lifestyle/homeware section after all the part-timers left, so no hard feelings there haha. just that i miss the time when we all worked together.


in February, the class guys were one by one enlisting into the army. CNY was spent at matthew's house with edmund and siyuan. had a mahjong session if i remember correctly and bai nian-ed. also at gensen's house with the class. and also with bros and siyuan at dan's house and my mum's place. im actually looking at the facebook pictures to remember what i did exactly during the chinese new year hahaha. also had an outing with chulian+lisa and jiahui around this time. hahaha, it was fun.


Had 2 BBQs for T31 and primary sch people when i received news from my dad that we were gonna move out to maybe woodlands soon. it was like a "last bbq" cos i realised that almost all of the BBQs i planned for my class and primary sch friends were all held at my houses at east coast. fernwood and amber road. kinda miss the east now.


Feb/March, Ocean View became a little uncomfortable. I've always had that feeling when my family is going to move house. kinda hard to explain, but i just felt like just leaving the place as soon as possible. Wanted a job again and i landed myself at Aston's east coast as a kitchen crew. most, epic, evar. it was tough at first, and i couldn't get used to it no matter what. frying, grilling, assembling, washing dishes, meat cutting. i swear, the job never ends. but the cooking part was fun because we got to cook whatever we wanted to eat as a kitchen crew, but no beef for me, and no lamb because it was expensive haha. had an epic picnic session with siyuan and matthew at my place wearing GREEN. it was the MOST pictures i've taken in a day hahahaha. and i enjoyed that day :D i started hanging out very often with EMMS, celebrating each other's birthday, prawning, going everywhere around singapore and etc. hahaha.


I seriously got sick of astons. zzz. but i didn't stop eating even after i left. the food was addictive haha. remember sometime after i quit, edmund siyuan and i joined matthew at his company's triathlon event as marshalls. -_- moral of the story? never drink late into the night and NOT sleep. it could kill you. it was around the last few weeks at work that i started getting close to a girl called grace, haha. it was really fun talking to her. and after i stopped working, i went out on a date with her. it was really my very first date with a girl, no kidding. hahaha, i remember bringing her for lunch at soup spoon and then shopping, going to the arcade etc. was really attracted to her :X BUT, i lost my phone, and then i lost all contact with her because i lost her number, and it was the only way i could contact her. lol, what a dumb way to lose contact with someone i wanted to chase. sigh. but i soon got her msn and got her number as well, but i didn't really keep in touch with her after that. kind of a sad story lol.


it was sometime around march that i received my letter from mindef announcing that my enlistment date was on the 19th of April at BMTC school 2. was seriously looking forward to it since forever, only difference being that i was looking forward to a combat vocation than being a clerk/storeman. the 5 days at tekong passed super fast. and i already lost contact with my section mates after like 2 weeks? disappointment to the max. and i thought army was where you made the best friends or whatever haha. sigh, so i got posted to clementi camp as a storeman, got an interview and requested to be a clerk instead. so a clerk to maju camp 9 sir i go. hell. yes, it was hell. "but clerk wad, 9-5, slack in air con room type in computer only" MY ASS. R&D Clerk was a level below the 18th level of hell. lol.


I soon got used to it. and time really flew.. MY ASS. time crawled like nobody's business.


And so i finally moved to woodlands in May. When i saw the house, i was surprised, i never felt so at home before. previously, whenever i shifted house, i took maybe 2 weeks to get used to it. but woodlands was so smooth. it was cozy, quiet. dont really know how to describe the place, but it was kinda perfect. for my god altars too. it seemed like fate that we got this place lol.


and so i started contacting wesley so much more often as he lives only 2 streets away from me now haha. and it was pure crap everytime i meet up with him and joel and cheng lol. we tonned at each other's place more often. and i'd always pasar malam (even until now) with wesley hahaha.


had various outings in the year. like the USS outing with the whole formation. USS/Ben and Jerry outing with the class. Sakura with camp mates, azman's birthday, ZOO OUTING with emms, and many many many random outings, tonnings and dinners with the bros. and not forgetting about the REAL LIFE inception i had with qy. what the hell.


the later part of the year passed with just me passing every single day with such angst and impatience to get out of the inescapable routine of going to work at camp. as jc ended, i started hanging out more with bros. went out less often with EMMS as edmund got posted to tekong and siyuan got more busy with school and her "events" lol. we'd nevertheless meet up on our free days (:


December 2010 finally came! celebrated my birthday with clement qy clarine and marilene on the 10th watching rapunzel and having lunch at marche. then at fish and co with the class on the 12th.


finally had my first "COLD COUNTRY OVERSEAS TRIP" of my life! :D to hongkong! it was the best place i've ever been. at that point of time lah. the disneyland, the food, the shopping, the weather, the food, the weather, the fun, the weather. owned me flat hands down. really missed hongkong after i came back to singapore. swore to myself i'll visit another cold country AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. prefably with friends of course haha.


thanks to belle. i was really addicted to disney movies suddenly hahaha. got the songs and the movies and rewatched/listened to them again LOL. rewatched rapunzel with amelia because the urge to rewatch it as a disney showcase was too tempting hahaha. beauty and the beast, lion king, the little mermaid, mulan. you name it, i think i've most likely rewatched it already xD


Christmas was spent at matthew's place with siyuan, edmund, clarine, jit yong and matthew's classmates like eileen and sean. it was really fun! the feast was good, the drinks were good, and the games fitted the mood really well. hahahaha. one of the better parties definitely.


And on New Year's eve, as usual, went out with the bros for dinner and then a simple ton at dan's playing ps3. naise. thanks to edouard for the fifa11 and jf and dan for the ssf4 hahaha.


All in all, 2010 hadn't really much bad. the good was definitely better. it was also a year i got closer to family. especially my mum's side as i started making more trips to visit my grandma/grandpa, and cousins. spending festive seasons with them too. same as with my dad, we talk more and there's more understanding rather than quarreling. my grandmother was totally nonsensical at the start of the year. but i got used to it rather quickly and learnt how to avoid quarreling with her too.


friends too. with so much time, no homework etc. there were much more outings, although when there was school, everyday seemed like an outing day haha. but we treasured the time together more. and i guess the same can be said with the bros. or should i say, there's no more need to discuss anything with them because the mutual respect and understanding between us has already surpassed those of normal friendship. chemistry, as we call it haha. but dan will be moving to potong pasir/sengkang soon. and jieying to punggol. but i think nothing will change. i've been moving around singapore for so many years but nothing much has changed lol. singapore is just too small i guess. but i'll miss all the tonnings at dan's place. jf will agree haha. i'd want to kbox more often before everyone enlists into army lol. and hope we can plan some epic overseas trip soon :D


i think i'll meet clement more often soon. plans of opening a restaurant wont just pop by. if we're serious, we have to make it happen for ourselves lol.


2010 was a step closer to society and everything else, a little scary, but unavoidable. i already miss that year. but i do want to get closer asap to my ORD. so it's goodbye 2010. goodbye.


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finally done with this post. have been procrastinating with myself for quite sometime hahaha.


Jan 2011 is ending! that's fast. clement introduced a new manga to me. it's romance and it's epic. i remember how i first read love hina and got hooked. the story remained in my mind for quite some time before i finally got over it hahaha. kimi no iru machi, a town where you live. truly a wonderful but a little screwed up story. but it's still ongoing! irritating. now i'll have to wait for it every week on top of fairy tail, naruto, bleach, one piece and bakuman. oh and negi magi. bakuman's another one i came across. a manga about manga. a curious one, but interesting in it's own right. but it's also ongoing. wth.


anw, chinese new year's coming! but i just dont have the cny feeling this year haha. just cant wait to reach December again i guess.


time for some spring cleaning.


peace out.







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