above is the pix of the singapore fireworks 2004. no, they don't launched all at the same time. in case some idiots thought so. it's just me( yes me again playing around with photoshop) putting shots together. and abit of tricks here and there. For those who didn't know a.k.a. sua gu( mountain-turtle), this is the 1st time in 39 years that we have a fireworks display which last for 3 weeks on 3 sundays. the fireworks used to suck at all national days. except one which i remembered a couple of years back watching from my house. they called it "the little boy's head" ( how lame could it be); which is extremely big. the launch was the last blast where you see one strand of light went real high up and disappeared and KABOOM!!. it formed the head. that's the best one so far... the rest (-_-!).

I was on my way to Lip's house on bus no.196. and realised this is the 2nd time i took bus no.196. it took me a while to recab back when's the last time i took the same bus no. During the secondary days, it was a trip to east coast beach with my newly found friends from the 7th National Geography Camp. why 196? 'cos this stupid xiaoqiang wants to take a look at New Town Secondary so he travelled west to Commonwealth MRT and waited for the rest to go there together. those were the days. all you need is a student transilink card and pay 35cents per trip. you can travel around singapore like crazy. oh oh not forgeting the bus stamp where you need to stick on your bus pass every month. when it always give me creeps when i have more than $50 and when it's time to purchase the bus stamp. HAH!

Gone were the days of 35cents for a bus ride and 45cents for MRT ride. Gone also were the days of having a bus stamp. Now it's the formidable Easilink Card. you can use it to pay for bus/mrt ride. you can even use it to pay for Mcdonalds' meal. *yum yum* i also remembered Mcdonalds used to house almost every burger in a styroform box, except hamburger and cheeseburger. blue styroform box for filet-o fish, brown styroform box for big mac, ermmm Machicken burger...ermmm can't remember. curry sauce don't come in a container-wrap. it used to come as a enlarged chilli/tomato sauce-liked packing. they used to have samurai burger too. they don't used brown recycled paper for take-aways. they used real good quality white paperbag.

just when would you know you are getting old? probably when you start to think about what you do in your younger days. now 24, young, promising, vibrant looking back at 12-16 neatly gel hair, spectacled, nerdy yet mixed with a bunch of BSLH( ah Beng, ah Seng, ah Lian , ah Huey) gang where designer labels were the uniforms - Burberries sleeves folded up shirts, metal gold studs MCM/ Armani jeans, long pointed comb and long JPG wallet sticking out, white canvas shoes or converse slippers. *giggling* now where did i put those photographs?

sigh~ where will i be when i looked back at my 24, young, promising, vibrant self?