Not the first non serendipitious discovery but... (Part 1)

One year ago, i was a raging fatso at 120K.G! Yes people, i was that heavy / fat / obese / "well rounded". Well i still am now, although much lighter now.. I still am quite on the fat side, although no longer obese.. 30Kg lighter now makes a Fking lot of difference. Not only do your old clothes look like tents and skirts now, but you really do feel and see the difference. I do get a lot more attention than i do in the past, and many of my family / friends / minions from hell commenting that i really lost a lot of weight and look quite good now... As usual, i say " Thanks, but i'm still working on project SlimSter and am still under renovation.. LOL!

I was fat ever since from secondary school and had been like that for quite some time. Many people do ask " How do you get so thin, man? or " What made you go on such a drastic weight loss?"

Well i guess its a related series of gals that i been trying to chase and almost always got myself rejected, with the most obvious clue saying " Lose weight then come find me again, fatso..." although they didn't say that, the expression on their faces and their eyes say it all *ZOMG, FAT SLIMY FATSO GOING AFTER ME, A BEAUTIFUL GRACEFUL GODDESS! HAH!* Time and again, i was hurt but never gave up trying. Recently, at a not too long ago period ago of 2 years, i got to know of this online game called Ragnarok Online. I fell in love with it and played it religiously. Then i got to know this gal called Sawatari. Its kinda funny that her nickname was such so, and even stranger still was how we met. I was playing a lv 58 High Priest and she was playing some other character that i couldn't remember for some strange reason. It had to be me running into some group and introducing myself to them, and this gal became attached to me for some reason and started to call me her "ah gong".

Well i ain't that old but because i was playing a priest , i was instantly labelled that way. We did talk on msn and phone and quite liked each other, as well as getting to know her friend, Irene. A series of humourous events happened, and "Ah gong" married her granddaughter of 9 years difference. (As i'm typing this, i am sniggering away profusely ...) As we became husband and wife in the world of Ragnarok Online, Sawa had the idea to adopt Irene as our daughter... (You see, this game of RO have marriage, yet you don't produce kids on the drop of a hat so you have to adopt another character, and that adopted character becomes a baby, literally shrunk to 2/3rds the size of a regular character) Omg, it was a nice series of laugh. I told that to my camp buddies and they couldn't stop guffawing away. So much things happened between me and Sawa as our relationship grew to that of LLLLOOOONNNNGGGGGG phone chats during my duty days in camp.

It was during December when Sawa had the brainwave to call for an RO meeting in real life in Orchard MRT. In the end, only Sawa, me and Irene turned up. I had earlier dragged a friend along to accompany me. I could tell that Sawa was shocked that i was at that time, a raging fatso... And we literally didn't talk past 3 sentences, but it was us guys tagging along after the gals. Our "relationship" broke off and we were never be, and i felt very very very extremely bitter about it. And it was a photograph at the Istana that my camp mate took of us that became the straw that broke the camel's back. I was sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo fat in the photo! I couldn't believe it... I told myself, that's it , Shaun! No more being fat , time to show the world what you really are!!

To be continued..

My first entry in .... 3 years?

Its been a while since i gave a thought to blogging. Initially, i couldn't be bothered to blog my thoughts / perspectives and stuff like that online and let some random bugger see this. But i guess people do change over the years. Three years... Has it been that long? People say that a year is a long period over which anything can happen to you, be it positive and negative and they can affect you in a big way regardless of whether u're concious of it or not.

My best pal in camp, Joshua a.k.a. Joshie is having an operation tomorrow > 18th October 2006 , 8AM Bangkok time. This operation is operating on his brain and there's a high chance that his memory might be wiped , and he joked to me that he might forget me. A gear in me must have twitched and that's why i started this blog.

Josh, i know u're always a good pal and have always regarded me as someone you look up to... Honestly, i do not know if i deserve that kind of recognition, whatsoever.. But i do cherish the times we're hanging out together.. short and yet sweet memories. Do you remember being in the auditorium where i used to hang out with you and you were always quizzing me on the your Brian Brains / The Angry Link script? Its a creative script that is worth finishing but i find it a pity that you do not wish to continue it for the time being.. The fun times we had when i was kidding you about Brian's patients and stuff... haha.

There was the other time when i brought you to my friend's condo's house to swim. We had a lot of splashing fun when i gave an impromptu coaching lesson on how to do freestyle stroke better. I still remembered that you said i was a good swimmer but i find that there's always room for improvement. It must have being our loud talking and guffawing as we were talking about girls that the security chased us out of the pool... Crappy but since we were in the pool for more than an hour, i let the matter rest.. Then, straight after that, i brought you to this teochew porridge stall where we ate quite well. I surprised everyone by eating plates of "taokee" and nothing else (Ok, there was the minced meat and egg tofu) .. and i remembered very well everyone was stunned and bemused by it.

Then there were many times when we consoled each other from our down times. Me consoling you about your ex (To that dumb gal: "You're a real fool to give him up, seriously"..) and you talking to me about me being single all these while and how i find that it sux... Till this day, i still am but at least i don't break a sweat over it like i used to.. Thanks yet again Joshie.

So here ends my dedication of my first blog to one of the greatest pals i ever known.. Joshua / Joshie, be strong man! I know you can place your faith in God and come out stronger and happier.. (although i'm a Buddhist, i'll fax a memo to Jesus using the fax machine in our camp's duty room... LOL!! xD )

Signing off,
Shaunz