Bowling For Soup

Was in the crew bus just now heading to the airport in Seoul, and was listening to the song Girl All The Bad Guys Want.. and one line caught my attention..

I normally think that the line is funny..

but for now it makes sense..

[snip]

She broke my heart
I wanna be sedated
All I wanted was to see her naked

[end snip]

for the benefit of those of u who have not heard of that song that came out several years back..

Itz a funny song abt this guy who likes this rocker chic who likes tough guys.. and she dont even recognizes his existence and that basically pissed him off coz he's supposedly a goody lil idiot and he tried to change his ways to make her notice him..

and what does he wants out of it?

LOVE?

wahahhaa... hell no..

He just wanted to screw her..

The Girl All The Bad Guys Want..

Some of my friends falls for girls according to seasonal change.. and they will fall badly..

the girl gives him the attention.. the girl demands attention.. the girl decides that she dont want his attention.. he gets heartbroken.. he sulk.. he gets depressed.. he meet another nice sweet girl and that girl turns to do the exact same thing as her Predecessor..

for girls that complains that guys are Bastards..

Sometimes u have to realize that some guys turned that way coz of the previous girls in his lives..

If girls have the options to choose from the guys that bid their attention and love.. well.. the same goes to guys..

We have the options of remaining after we get THE screw.

We love the chase.. not knowing whether we would get the girl or not..

And some girls, I dare not say MOST coz obviously I had never been a girl.. some girls love the chase coz of the attention that they received..

So from the suitors that she has, she chooses the best man for her and dumps the rest..

The rest of the guys that had wanted to shower her with love (this happens at the naive stage of their life) will get heartbroken and therefore goes thru the cycle one more time.. putting their head into another lioness mouth just to realise that he'll be eaten alive again..

Some guys at certain point will be *THE* Best Man and live happily ever after..

Some dont.. and they goes into a pool in which the female society labelled them as Players/Playboys, Tryers, Casanova and whatever else coz they end up being the ones that had their head being eaten a lil bit too many times..

Of course some of them are like that coz they are damn good looking and therefore they can have a reversed role being the chased ones by the females.. but for most of us.. we are not that lucky..

I grew up being ugly.

I was the ugliest fella in school and no girls would even give me the time of day unless she tells me coz she's in my class and I pestered her coz I dont have a watch at that time..

I used to wonder why the other guys have it so lucky.. they are so stylo milo and here I am.. a nerd.. and having a brother that was good looking didnt help too.. coz he was in the same school as I was and he was so popular among the girls..

The girls that I used to like, have crushes on him..

I had such low self-esteem and walked with my head down.. as in REALLY walked with my head down..

When I was in sec 3, got to know this girl from a friend.. so we chatted on the fone every night and she told me that she loved me...

wahahhaa... now.. that was funny..

But of course at that time I was elated.. we had never met.. just talked on the phone.. and I got a pic of her from a mutual friend, her schoolmate who so happened to go mengaji with me..

And she was beautiful..

And I was CRAZY about her..

One day, she came down to my school for a netball tournament.. and we were excited to get to meet for the first time..

Saw her from far, but after a while, she disappeared.. and we didnt meet at all thru the day..

Got to know from that mutual friend of ours that she said that I was ugly..

ok lor.. another ugly comment.. I just added that to my collection of insults..

When I was in Sec 4.. I started to talk to this schoolmate of mine.. a year younger.. and we chatted on the phone.. and obviously she knows how I look like.. and we got closer every day for the months that we talked daily on the fone..

now I wonder how the hell did I get so much things to talk abt on the fone..

We talked till we both fell asleep so many times..

and finally.. after abt 5 months, I told her that I like her..

And that was the last time she ever talked to me..

ok lor. another one..

So it goes on and on and on..

And finally.. I grew out of that shell.. and became more confident and then over confident..

And therefore was recruited to the pool of Bastards like any other guys..

Subsequently.. thru my life, I dont have much patience for The Chase.

I'd say that I truly had Chased someone since then, only once.. to this girl who subsequently became my gf.. who used to be schooling in Yishun.. *name undisclosed to protect the identity*

so basically.. that was the only real Chase I had done for a girl after my secondary school life..

I had another girl who was schooling in SIM after that.. and she had told me that she had crush on me for ages.. and that started the courting.. but after 2 months, she posed so much problems for me coz of her ex and her parents and all that I lost interest in the relationship and followed thru the course till The Breakup.

And now, I had been dating a girl from RP for a year.. and she didnt seem to plan to give me headaches from the beginning, so I'm happy with that.. coz I dont feel the need to give her headaches too..

I hate The Chase.. when itz unwarranted..

The Yishun Girl got it coz she was L'Oréal.. She's Worth It..

RP Girl didnt give me time to chase coz we like each other already liao..

but for most of all.. I hate The Chase.. so I have a very very very short attention span with girls..

If I ask a girl out, and she said no, that will be the end of it..

If she said.. sorry.. I cant go out with u at this day blablabla.. that will be the end of it..

If she said.. sorry I cant go out with u at this day blablabla.. but maybe we could meet up next week?

then next week it shall be..

I dont spend more than 2 days courting.. and if I dont see signals by then, I move on to the next girl that I intend to ask out..

I dont chase.. coz it think itz a waste of time.. so if u dont mind going out with me, then ok.. if u want a chase.. go get it from someone who hasnt been thru the lioness mouth..

If a girl shows that she wants attention and take it away soon after.. I'll chase for as soon as I get to sleep with her, I'll delete her number..

And if she's a nice girl, I'll call her the next day.. and prolly the next. and prolly the next.

So basically.. we in the Pool of Bastards were not really bad ppl to start off with.. just that it so happened that u girls got it a lil bit too late after ur predecessors had jilted us..

Not so much of being a Payback to the female society.. but just that it had been an evolution of character..

I think I was a really sweet guy when I was 16..*ahem*

but too bad.. time had changed and taught me lessons and therefore I dont intend to be made a fool of anymore.. and my patience level for girls dropped to being close to zero.

if I had asked u out several times before and got rejected, and still asked again, it might mean that I just want to see u naked.

itz a challenge to get the Girl All The Bad Guys Want..

ok.. anyway.. got back from Seoul 6 hours ago..

basically.. went for a 9 days trip to Seoul and Vancouver..

itz a holiday season in Korea now, called the Chusok Festival, or the Korean Thanksgiving.. so most of the shops were preparing to close for several days..

therez a celebration though before the actual holiday-weekend.. and there were lots of ppl flocking to the shopping areas of Seoul..



at Myung Dong..



and the view at night..



at Itaewon, prior going down to Myung Dong..

somehow, according to my Korean friend, local girls dont go to Itaewon coz the place is shit..

therez too many American soldiers there that cause problems, and there had been cases of the local girls being sexually attacked by them..

So only us foreigners go there coz we dont know any better..

Anyway.. so far no one wants to sexually assault me leh..



I hate poverty..

I really do..

Maybe coz it stemmed from the fact that I had gone thru it during my childhood days.. we didnt beg, but we had gone thru days without food..

Somehow, the beggars in Seoul seems to be the worst that I had seen.. in terms of their conditions.. coz a lot of them are limbless and they move around like the poor man in this pic..

One of the non-professional opinions of some of my friends were that these poor souls might have been kidnapped when they were kids and had their limbs cut off so they look more pathetic and can beg.. and a huge number of these kids were killed after they had passed their dues..

Sad isnt it..

Somehow, even in Singapore, we get ppl living in poverty..

not talking abt ppl living below poverty lines like what the National Census states.. but like those old folks who had to go around the hawker centres collecting empty cans from tables.. and some of them are definitely above the age of 80..

like the old lady who collects the cans at Bedok North St 3 hawker centre..

or the old man on a wheelchair at Bukit Merah View hawker centre..

Somehow these ppl were missed by the Census ppl.. and what kinda society will make them work till they are so close to their expired age?

hmm.. the more we look around, the more we can find.. and it seems that therez nothing that we can do about it..

Unless u ppl got ideas lor..

ok.. anyway.. back to the flight..



My Lonely Maple Leaf, pic taken at Whistlers..

went up to Vancouver, Canada 2 days after arriving in Seoul.. and spent 3 days there..

and somehow, now I prefer the Americans compared to the Canadians..

Dunno why.. but they look more genuine.. even when they dont like u they are more genuine in that.. but they try not to like everyone else too..

maybe coz I dunno much Canadians and those that I met in Vancouver the past days wasnt impressive.. which is surprising, considering the fact that Vancouver had been voted for years to be The Most Liveable City In The World, till last yr when they lost to Melbourne, Australia..

Rented 2 cars for us to drive up to Seattle, across the border in United States.. to go to the Boeing plant, at Everette..

For those who doesnt know.. Boeing is the biggest aircraft manufacturer in the world.. the ones that made the 747 Jumbo jet planes..

The other one would be the European one, Airbus, which is making the A380.. the biggest plane in the world, when it finally come out..

wasnt my luck at the beginning of that day though when I got into a stupid minor accident, which in the end, left me with S$360 poorer and a broken side mirror..

And my camera dropped and the lens was totally unretractable and I was so devastated coz it had been my handy companion for so long..



The new 777-300 Extended Range, 2 of them.. painted with the beautiful White Blue and Gold colors of the Best Airline In The World.. for real u know..

*MY* company tau..



Outside the Boeing company.. this is the last pic that I took before my camera fell and went KAPOOOOOOOOT..

damn..



inside Boeing.. pic now taken with my O2 phone..

sad rite..

Anyway, we couldnt take any pics inside the manufacturing plant anyway coz all electronic equipments are banned from there.. so no camera then wasnt that bad after all..

I didnt go thru cold turkey at that time..

Saw how they made aeroplanes there.. can see development stages from the beginning till the end.. and they are preparing to build the B787 Dreamliner.. another impressive plane when it finally gets built..

yadayadayada..

After the tour, drove down several miles back to a factory outlet at a place called Marysville.. called Tulalip..

One word to describe it

FANTASTIC..

damn.. the outlets were really GODDAMNED CHEAP..

a pair of GAP jeans that I got there cost abt S$30, while the same one cost abt S$80 in downtown Vancouver..

I bought 3 .NET books from Borders at US$15.. thatz US$5 per book.

And the amount of shops they have there.. goodness..

therez Gap, Calvin Klein, Coach, Burberry, blablablablablablabla..

except Abercrombie..



Tulalip.. pic taken with O2.. :(

but ok lar.. luckily still got my trusty handphone..

ok.. anyway.. got back to the hotel at abt 11pm that nite.. coz the distance between Vancouver to Seattle is like from here to KL.. so we drove up and down the same day..

Set off early the next morning to go to the mountains..

My favourite place in the world.. Whistlers Mountain..

This is the place that when I first came here several years back.. I felt like giving up everything I have and just live there..

And seriously.. given a chance, I might just do that someday..

beautiful Whistlers.. on an Autumn day..









The view of the mountain from across..









The river that cuts in between the two mountains.. Whistlers and Blackcomb.. from the Lost Lake..



Maple Trees.. BEAUTIFUL RITE??



my 3 Kimchi friends..

heh..

Korean stewardesses on my flight.. very very pleasant girls..

Iris, Yvette and Kylie..

Kylie is pretty lar.. just that she was hungry..

Got back to the hotel at abt 9pm.. and the drive was like 2 hrz each way..

And went off to Seoul the next day..

Didnt do much on the way back.. coz I changed my plans from going to the theme park Everland coz of the overspending due to the stupid accident.. but ok lar.. I spent another $300 for stuffs for the kids in Melbourne.. when I was in Vancouver.. including a dress for the Princess... yey..

Melbourne..

just a few days away..

and I'll get some kids to bite.. yey..