6.11.2004

 

[2.5 years in the making]

i meant to do a proper long post on this, but considering that i've blogged so many long posts in the past few weeks its time to take a break - a long and well-deserved one, I might add.

when you first enlist it's as though you'll never see the light at the end of the tunnel. but you acclimatize quickly and then all of a sudden you realize that you don't really miss civilian life all that much; it's not all it's cracked up to be. (either that, or i hadn't really started all the hedonistic stuff that i now do!) you go through thick and thin, rain and sun, all sorts of unimaginable crap (for want of a better word), and find that you develop bonds forged in blood, sweat and tears with those who have weathered the storm with you, for better or for worse. then the time comes when you have to leave - and it's hard to leave all those you've been through so much with together. to all those who i have had the privilege of serving with, thanks for bearing with me. i salute you, from the bottom of my heart. ^^;

but i still look really weird in my pink IC. do we get to update the photo? i so do not look like that anymore.

also wound up having my wisdom teeth extracted.. so now im only half as smart as i was before. *sigh* had it done at NUH, which is a teaching hospital.. so there were like 5 final-year dentistry students in the room watching the procedure. how can i mind, i'll be doing that myself in a couple of years' time.. did i mention eye candy? but i digress. i really really miss solid food now. you know the conventional wisdom (ho ho unintentional!): you never miss something until you lose it. it's all my chips and fried stuff, mostly ^^;

The Streets - Fit But You Know It

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'Scuse me girl, I know it's a bit embarrasin',
But I just noticed some tan lines on your shirt there...

See I reckon you're about an 8 or a 9,
Maybe even 9 and a half in four beers time.
That blue top shop top you've got on IS nice,
Bit too much fake tan though - but yeah you score high.

But theres just one little thing that's really really,
Really really annoying me about you, you see,
Yeah yeah like I said you are really fit
But my gosh don't you just know it.

I'm not trying to pull you
Even though I would like to
I think you are really fit
You're fit but my gosh dont you know it.

So when I looked at you standing there with your hoard,
I was waiting in the queue looking at the board
Wondering whether to have a burger or chips
Or what the shrapnel in my back pocket could afford
When I noticed out the corner of my eye
Looking toward my direction
Your eyes locked on my course.
I couldn't concentrate on what I wanted to order,
Which lost me my place in the queue I waited for, YEAH.

I'm not trying to pull you
Even though I would like to
I think you are really fit
You're fit but my gosh dont you know it

Whoa!
(Background: Leave it out)
Are you smoking crack or something?
Mike, just leave it, just leave it.
We cannot have that behaviour in this establishment.
S'not worth it Mike, just leave it.
Dont Touch Me! S'not Worth It!
Dont Touch Me, Don'.. I'm Alright, Dont Touch Me.

For a while there I was thinkin' - yeah but what if?
Picturin' myself pullin' with bare white hot wit
Snarin' you as you were standing there opposite
Whether or not you knew it I swear you didn't tick
And when that bloke in the white behind us lot queuing
Was clockin' onto you too yeah I had to admit
That yeah yeah you are fit,
And yeah I do want it,
But I stopped sharkin' for a minute to get chips and drinks.

I'm not trying to pull you
Even though I would like to
I think you are really fit
You're fit but my gosh dont you know it.

Now I bashed my head hard earlier due to the brew,
But I am digressing slightly so I'll continue.
I didn't wanna bowl over or gaze around rude
Not rude like good but just rude like uncouth,
You girls think you can just flirt and it comes to you
Well let me tell you, see, Yes Yes you are really rude,
And rude as in good, I knew this as you stood and queued
But I just did not want to give the satisfaction to you.

I'm not trying to pull you
Even though I would like to
I think you are really fit
You're fit but my gosh dont you know it.

Oy, just as you started to make your big advance
With the milkshake and that little doughnut in hand
I was like nah, I can't, even though you look grand
But you look sharp there smilin' hard suggesting and
Gleaming away with your hearty hearty lookin' tan
But I admit the next bit was spanner to my plan
You walked towards my path but you just brushed right past
And into the arms of that ****in' white shirted man

I'm not trying to pull you
Even though I would like to
I think you are really fit
You're fit but my gosh dont you know it.

Oh what do I give a ****, I've got a girlfriend anyway
(whoa, we've all had a drink mate)
We're all a bit drunk, yeah we've had a few, fair play,
I got this stella I bombed from that last cafe
This night's not even begun, yes yes oh yay.

I did fancy you a bit though yeah I must say
I would rather I hadnt mugged myself on display
But this is just another case of female stop-and-play
In an otherwise total result of a holiday.

I'm not trying to pull you
Even though I would like to
I think you are really fit
You're fit But my gosh dont you know it.

You're fit but you know it (3x)
I think I'm going to fall over
I think I'm going to fall o.., ****in 'ell.

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The Streets - one man, Mike Skinner, really, despite the name! - is absolutely wonderful. His first album, Original Pirate Material, was released to great critical acclaim. This is from his second album, A Grand Don't Come for Free, which is actually a concept album: it tells a story of how he loses a grand (pounds, so that's gotta hurt) on a day where everything goes horribly wrong, then how he meets this girl and everything looks up, then they have a fight (Dry Your Eyes, perhaps my favourite on the album) then .. the ending (don't wanna give anything away). It's like.. a very british brand of hip-hop, only slower and ridiculously funny to boot, if you actually listen to the lyrics. *bliss*

UPDATE: i've found a more accurate source for the lyrics and put it in instead. you'll notice the song is actually more (mildly) R-rated than the earlier version of the lyrics suggested. here's an album review of A Grand Don't Come for Free.. with track-by-track plot summaries. haha!

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