Been wanting to post

I've been wanting to post an entry since Monday but I've been so swamped with work that I just haven't had the time. Hopefully, I'll be able to finish this entry before my boss comes back from lunch. We both had to work through lunch so both had a late lunch. I just grabbed a sandwich from the cafe downstairs. Not sure where he's gone but then I don't really care hahaha no boss means no work hahaha.

Ok let's try and recap the weekend...I spent Friday evening and the whole of Saturday chillin' at home (so what else is new). Actually I had been feeling a little under the weather and well I knew I was going to have a long day on Sunday so thought it would be best to take it easy. As for Sunday, well I went to church with my dad as usual. Terena and Sharmeen met us there. After church, Terena, Sharmeen and I headed over to Bishan to grab some lunch which we ate at Terena's place - or rather it's her aunt's place but that's where she lives. After lunch we headed over to MacRitchie Reservoir. There's this treetop walk that we wanted to go to. MacRitchie is not that far from Bishan, in fact is was like a 10 -15 mins bus ride but we kind of took our time leaving Bishan that we didn't get to MacRitchie till like 3.45 pm. We soon found out that the treetop walk closes at 5 pm and according to the map it was like a 2 hr walk there so we decided to walk around the reservoir instead. Happened to have my camera with me so we took a few pics...

Me before we started walking

Sharmeen and Terena

While we were walking around we saw this turtle - nothing special but when we went up to it all these other turtles started swiming over to us. Here's a collage of pics I took of the turtles.

Terena decided to try and get in close to take a pic with them but they all started to swim away hahaha. They only seemed to that when she tried to get closer cos they didn't do it when Sharmeen and I moved in closer hahaha.

While we were taking pictures Terena asked this guy if he knew where the treetop walk was and how far away it was. He said it was only like 20 mins away so we thought we had enough time to get there and headed in that direction - by this time it was about 4.20 pm. Just as we started the hike (and I mean hike) we saw a sign that said it was like 4 kms away!!! There was no way I was walking 4 kms in 20 mins, I mean it used to take me longer than that to run 2.4 kms. In the end it took us almost an hour and we didn't even make it all the way. We ended up stopping with 1 km to go. If you're wondering why we stopped, easy, it was 5 pm and the place was closed. We were too tired to make the long trek back to where we started but discovered another route which turned out to be way faster only difference was the first route was through the rain forest so it was a nature hike and started at MacRitchie Reservoir while the other was along a road that went from Upper Thompson Road to the Singapore Island Country Club hahaha. We're thinking of trying again and given that we now know a quicker route will use that going up and use the nature hike going down. Also we're not going to wait till so late to go hahaha. Along the way down the road we saw some interesting things. First we saw a couple of monkeys - I think they were mecques. After that we saw a kampong and then we saw these plants that huge leaves. Just check out the pics below.

Was too tired to do anything else after that so I headed on home and cooked up a big batch of pasta. In fact I cooked so much that I had enough left over for lunch the next day hahaha.

Since that weekend I've just been busy with some work and then just heading on home tuckered out. Oh yeah I had a problem with my cellphone. It seems my number was cloned! Don't ask me how cos I have no clue but someone was making calls using my number. The only reason why I noticed was because they managed to exceed my alloted free airtime. Now I'm a person who uses my sms more than making calls so I don't normally exceed my allotment. I thought this was weird so I asked for a detailed bill and saw alot of numbers that I didn't recognise. Best part was there were quite a number of calls made in Singapore while I was away in Hong Kong!!! So I gave a call to my service provider and they said that it is possible that my number had been cloned and asked if I had any proof I was away. Told them that they should be able to tell given that I had sent quite a few messages while I was in Hong Kong and also I had made one callback call to my sis. They said they need some other proof just to ensure that the Hong Kong messages and calls were made by me, so I suggested showing them my passport. That was good enough for them and so they're gonna credit me the excess charge that was incurred and also I asked for my cellphone number to be changed cos I was getting a couple of calls from people who were looking for the creep who had cloned my number.

Other than all this stuff happening to me the last couple of days I've been busy with work - barely have time to drink let alone visit the "loo" - and evenings have been spent at home.

Future happenings - gonna watch Survivor tonight. This new season should be interesting mainly cos of the location. Can't wait for The Amazing Race to start in a couple of weeks, it's gonna be a family edition, that should be interesting but can't understand why people would want to bring their little kids along. I mean it's not an easy game for adults to handle, can't imagine how it would be for kids.

Right have to go now cos work is a calling. Vent soon!

Ventelated by MeiBao @ 2:21 PM