island tales #32

I got back really late tonight.

Had a barbeque session over at a colleague's place, which was really really fun. lots of food (tho the butter used on the barbequed chicken limited my appetite somewhat), and lots of fun. also i left rm35 poorer thanks to greed (and loads of bad luck)... lol. we had this card game thingie, and though i don't gamble as a general rule, i guess this was an exception. most of the cash in the final pot (and there was a lot left at the end!) went to the hostess and the rest was used to pay for the food and stuff, and in any case, we had loads of laughs over one round where a mindboggling amount of RM120 was lost... it was eventually returned to the guy, of course, that was way too much cash!! went for limteh (drink tea) session after that, and honestly i havent had so much fun in a while. i dont usually go out with my batch people to these kinda functions, usually coz the girls are there, and the rest is a pretty long story. ask me some other day.

anyway, the event probably marks the end of my more relaxed period, since work rolls in on monday. and tomorrow, a bunch of utp people will be over in penang for the 8tv concert thingie. no plans as yet, but i definitely would be staying home... no concerts for me, not my kind of thing.

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updated: oh yes, it's now 8am and im wide awake. reason: it's hard to sleep with the smell of smoke everywhere. oh yes, that's right, the haze has reached penang. not sure how bad it is, but everything's already blanketed by the foul smelling cloud. here's the pic: it might not look so bad, but take a good look at the sky, and you'll see that it is WHITE IN COLOUR... which is just how bad the situation suddenly became. hm.

gah. let's hope it goes away soon. in the meantime im going to boil more water and stay indoors...