The cakes of Clare and Evan

Imagine the shock we felt, when I visited Clarence & Evangeline together with Rachel last night... In my #dream. They were at home when we decided to drop by.

Visiting their kitchen, they showed the well over 20 birthday cakes of all sorts, for their kid, that they had in the many display fridges hanging around. We helped to tabao one back to finish.

"I guess no curry potato bun for me tomorrow morning", I told Sherman, who for some stupid reason tagged along.

A talk with a God on an office phone

A room with a PABX phone. That was where I was in my #dream earlier. I was in an office with bare minimum furniture. In order to build "stuff", I tried contacting a few people looking for help. They answered their phones but told me they couldn't help either. Eventually I gave up.

Then a call came. It was an Indian lady looking to contact me. She sounded like she was the personal assistant to an omnipotent big shot. After a brief discussion, she put me through to a guy while she stays online in our conference call. I managed to ask her boss if we could request some "resources" so that we could build the stuff we needed. In a brief debate, he ultimately gave up negotiating, and promptly hung up on me. The lady apologised saying there was nothing she could do.

I placed the receiver down and my assistant... I vaguely drifted awake... and the assistant was Rachel. She asked me what's wrong, and quietly pointed to the lights on the aircon in the room. I instinctively knew that because the guy was powerful enough to still be able to hear us because the lights were still on, and tried to describe the situation, but couldn't mutter the words to complete my sentence.

And I woke to take a piss. Yeah, I totally went there.

Note that I'm not particularly religious (more agnostic than atheistic) so I'm not identifying with any particular religion in this one. I was merely describing the feeling it gave me, plus the helplessness in my being denied my "resources" by the big guy.

Police and zombies

Just recalled my #dream from last night.

I was observing in third person. The scene was of a bunch of undercover cops outside the door of a wooden house. They were about to break down the door to carry out a bust on a counterfeit money operation. I suddenly switched into joining in as one of them.

The next bit was a blur but we had a brief chase with our target suspects. Then they reached a deadend with a high wooden fence and fell over it. There were zombies there, and they were promptly eaten.

RDJ on The Late Night Show with Ken

So I interviewed Robert Downey Junior on my own talk show last night.

That was it. Yup.

A cool adventure with a hot ending

Finally able to settle down to recall the #dream from this morning. The location was an ice cave. I was on an expedition with 劉松仁 aka Damian Lau. We entered the cave in our thick winter clothings with our group of about 20-odd people. It was larger than the Bat Cave, I reckoned. The ice appeared in a hues of whites and blues.

As the expedition inched deeper inside, we arrived at some steps. It was the foot of a spiral staircase, cut into the ice. Our few of us climbed upwards following the steps, and shortly after noticed the ice around the outside cut to resemble grilles. We could see the ground surface that was outside. We were not alone.

A group of tribal people were chanting in a ritual. They appeared to be Inuit, but my mind framed them as Tibetans. They also had flamethrowers, and they were about to aim the pair of incendiary weapons towards us as we were still observing behind the grille. Clearly, we had to make our escape by retreating downwards.

I pretty much woke up, but had the final vision that the flames came down upon the ice cave, melting a gloss around everything.

The banana phones

A bunch of people (don't know who) made a group purchase of banana phones in my #dream earlier. Mobile devices shaped like the actual yellow fruit. And then they made slow-motion movies shooting small arms fire at them on high FPS cameras.

Ring ring ring ring ring ring ring, banana phone?

Legend of the Condor Hero's Mobile Phone

What happens when reality merges with  random fiction from Legend of the Condor Heroes? I was basically a modernised Yang Guo in last night's #dream.

Joining a band of pugilists who turns out to be my colleagues, we ventured to explore a place called NTU. We were searching for the legendary hidden branch office of NEC in the compounds of the university.

After being welcomed and introduced to the welcome committee, the receptionist assigned to us a tour guide to show us the facilities. Our profane office was nowhere to be found. Even the guide had no knowledge of its existence. Disappointed but desperate, we called a former Project Manager on my mobile phone. She told us the rough whereabouts and we continued the search.

After a long while, we finally chanced upon it. Yang Kang (or whoever it was, I'm not sure, because he never met his father in the actual story) was waiting for us at the cafeteria with his goons. Having met him, we sat down at last. I'd placed my phone on the table as he violently rammed an iron nail through it.

My colleagues drew their swords and a fight broke out. We exchanged blows barehanded. Angered, I expelled the nail out of the device with my qi and continued the fight.

Xiao Long Nu appeared from out of nowhere to come stop us. She was dressed in white, but her face was a blur.

Oh, and happy teacher's day, Singapore.

Zombie tropes

Post-apocalyptic zombies #dream waking up earlier... swimming out of a river, I reached a building by the water. Meeting up with a few human survivors, we banded together to stay safe. While searching for some tools and weapons, we came across a couple of fire axes for self defense. We explored the area, taking care to remain cautious about any encounters. It was a supermarket of sorts. We dispatched a few zombies by having one person pin it against the wall, while another swings the axe to decapitate the nasty abomination. As we started getting comfortable with the area, standard tropes started showing up. A few would ignore warning signs in case the zombies were not entirely killed off yet, reaching over the carcass to grab merchandise off the shelves. Despite nothing bad really having happened throughout, it was still rather cringeworthy. I'm just glad that I didn't turn into one myself.

Spying on magician, and then CATS!

Corner unit shop working for a magician. Trying to discover his secrets to exact revenge for my father while not letting him find out I can pick locks and safes. Locking up the shop a cat inside the shop reveals itself. I tried chasing it out but the boss says to let it stay. The cat meows back in agreement. A few more cats appear and they come brushing on to me. It got ticklish. #dream

Where the hell are these coming from?! What have I been eating?!

Corn people

Corn people have come alive and are plotting to turn humans into "corn" food to feed other humans. They secretly run farm operations that grind humans into non-messy corn kernels. #dream

Some humans get selected to enjoy a one last helicopter flight around the outdoors of a farm before being brought back in to be "harvested".

The ones I loved and lost, both literally and mentally...

2x bad dreams at once...

#1
I was a police detective working on a recent case of a fraud/scammer person. A colleague came into our office with information about a new victim. Asking for the IC number, I keyed in as she read out... without realising that it belongs to Rachel. The details loaded in front of me before I noticed that it was her... "Rachel Chilli Cxxx" was in the police records. No idea why "Chilli" was in there.

Anyway, I rushed down to the last known location with another guy. A petrol station. We asked the employees for the CCTV and stuff. I was anxious and upset that I didn't know where she went, and that she was possibly in danger. I only knew that she was on her way to meeting somebody about a job opening. I couldn't locate or contact her, even as a police.

#2
I was at home with Rachel, somebody else, and my dad. We were about to start having a meal, but my dad felt tired so I brought him to his bed. He complained of a pain in his leg briefly, and then almost immediately forgot about it. He was very feeble-minded and had dementia. Almost as soon as I walked back to the dining table, I crumbled, squatting on the floor crying as everyone else came over to me.

Woke up feeling very sad from my 4-hour nap. Wondering about that "Chilli", but still unhappy. :(

A transforming petrol station in Johor? NBD.

I drove into JB to pump petrol into my Mercedes last night. The car encountered some sort of accident that left scratches on one side prior to arriving at the petrol station. A police in Singapore uniform saw it and advised me to get it fixed before returning to Singapore.

As I approached their in-house workshop to make enquiries about repairs, the entire station started shifting to accommodate the arrival of their petrol tanker. Like how Boulder Hill in MASK transformed, the pumps rotated on the spot, and the entire base elevated one meter above ground.

Everyone was behaving like it was a regular thing. And yes, obviously,  this was in my #dream.

There's a troll in my dream! There's a troll in my dream!

We were a bunch of TV crew that just set ourselves up at a low-rise apartments. We were about to prank a guy who bragged to his friends that his father was the head of the SWAT team. This was how my #dream last night started. He was telling them how he could get the team to storm an apartment just for fun. Just as he said it, to his horror, we stormed the unit. The rest was a blur, but it was pretty hilarious trolling him on camera. A side glance showed the SWAT gear laid out neatly after we were done.

Cut to the next stupid scene; I was racing with my friends down escalators at an empty shopping mall. I was slowly gaining on one of them. The end.

Porridge is a zombie weakness

Although I had a #dream about fast and clever zombies, I was surprisingly unfazed because the group of humans I was with had a plan. We were going to feed and kill the zombies with... porridge?

Possessed car wanted to kill me

Just had one freaky #dream, wrong #nightmare about a possessed car owned by a guy I know. He's quite an old fella who, because of the vehicle had stopped driving for a long time.

The car was parked in the dilapidated garage building near where I stood. And because I somehow convinced him to go behind the wheels of another car now, it was now combusting and making a lot of noise. I was apologising and was screaming in my sleep until Rachel woke me up. Damn it.

Speedboat action sequence

Last night's #dream is already a blur; all I can recall now was that it was mostly action sequences involving myself tagging along Alfred conducting some investigations, and then it somehow turned into us running away on account of some ransom money.

We had a team of people that included Jason behind the wheel of a getaway speedboat that picked us up as we jumped off a bridge. I'm sure our gang had a granny in there too, be it real or disguised as. The speedboat shot over a ramp in our bid to escape and landed safely in open water. Yeah it sounds pretty awesome, I bet it was.

I am the student, mentor, infiltrator.

I was a student with a bunch of friends in the #dream last night. We were trying to get enrolled into an exclusive school. We had to prove ourselves in some test. As I was the guide for the main protagonist, I managed to somehow get him to pass the written exams. He was then questioned on his capabilities in a classroom by a teacher during orientation.

The school nearly found out that we were really there to rescue our friends from this system of theirs, as we infiltrated the compound.

High level projection

The Mercedes-Benz Centre was where I visited in the #dream last night. Looking for my car sales agent, he greeted me as he walked away from an important meeting. Ushering me to the exhibition area, he attended to somebody else as I took a look at the exhibits.

There was a Panther tank (it was just in my mind, I had no idea if it resembled anything like it) on display. The focus was on the cloth material as I inspected camouflage that wrapped the entire vehicle. Sitting down at a lounge close by, in front of me was another item on display - a forward command HQ tentage - made of the same material.

While taking a closer look of the tent, LHL (no, I wouldn't exactly count myself to be in their camp) approached me and had a brief chat. He behaved like a fatherly figure and excused himself politely after a bit of bantering. Couldn't recall what the topic was about.

Then I was "girlfriends" with a colleague, to which another more manly colleague (who was strangely also present) was laughing at my antics.

Man, my memory nodes are all over the place last night...

Shopping and Titan

Scene 1 of my #dream: shopping for a bag to match her prom dress with Rachel. Leaving disappointed, we crossed over to another room that's mostly white; it was a bridal salon and there were people being attended to.

We took the stairs down to find a cafe of sorts. Looking out the windows, it said "Middlewhere Hotel" (reversed of course, since we're on the inside) and they were just opening for business for the day... not that they had much business.

Scene 2: The reason why the shophouse cafe wasn't having any business? There was a bully commandeering a Titan robot that could transform into a giant hammer to smash down on everybody. We were in a field of tall grass with a cool guy that was about to dish out some payback.

The captain of the Hammer was pretty cocky about it and demonstrated the transformation. Our hero approached the robot calmly and gave him an ultimatum to leave this place alone. He then proceeded to squeeze the trigger in his hand. Part by part, the Hammer started getting disabled or malfunction.

Cut scene to the interior of the Hammer; the crew reported seeing red dots along the entire body of the mech.

Titanfall much?

Jackpot treat by a friend

As it turns out, Clarence and Evangeline struck a big prize from 4D last night, in my #dream. They treated Rachel and I, amongst other guests to fine dining at their home. The table and plates were all ivory white, and the cutlery were gold-plated. While we were waiting for the food to be served, I checked up on Fruffie, our rabbit, who was holed up in a cage in the back of a van, being his usual naughty self... and then I woke up. Dammit!

Delivery to a beach resort with my family

Recalling the #dream from last night (yes I'm doing it again), I was with my immediate family at a beach resort. We had 2 sedan cars to fit everybody, and we drove right up to the sandy beach. Parking near a pavilion, we alighted and supposedly was going to make a delivery, removing boxes of goods from the boot.

The scenery was not fantastic, but there was the resort, beach and it was by the water. In fact, it was reminiscent of a jetty scene I ever dreamt about. The sand was golden yellow, but everything else was basically in muted grays.

Reliving my days as a conscript dramatically

The only thing I could recall from my #dream last night involved me as a guest/usher, in a dinner banquet, and was about to defuse an IED discovered in a sports bag. Wow I think I got indoctrinated hard.

I know it's 1:30am and I'm about to sleep but I'm referring to the previous night of sleep that this occurred. I only just remembered about it.

Inherited rundown bar on creepy ship, exploration leads to classy tux out of kiddy pool

It's one of the deja vu #dreams today. I inherited a bar of sorts from an unknown person. Made my way to the location with a bunch of people I'm acquainted with. The road led to a pier of sorts. Kinda ulu. Being night time, visibility was poor. We took a small boat out to a floating platform with people receiving us. Entering the location, I was stunned. Although the place was big, there was hardly any customers. The bar was actually a disused cargo ship. I led my entourage to explore the rest of the vessel.

It turned creepy very quickly. We found mushrooms that I identified as being able to turn people into zombies festering in dark corners. As we made our way to escape, we found out we were being followed by a very large eye outside the vessel. It was a giant squid. As we ran along one corridor, the squid smashed into the ship overhead and cracked a large portion of where we stood. It became unconscious as we swam past it in the water. While I was swimming, I came across fish as large as our heads. They were Marlin and Dory from Finding Nemo (I know, I know!).

Reaching for the surface, I stood in a kiddy pool filled with children. I was in a tuxedo, and so was my entourage. Our suits came out of the water dry. Looking dapper, I spotted a magazine by the pools at this resort. The headline read something along the lines of me being a genius editor who decided to write for kids because they're our future.

I'm pretty sure I had this dream before.

Holiday, celebrities and action in Turkey

I travelled to Turkey last night. This is going to be an action film. I flew there by myself for work, but after a phone call with Rachel, she immediately flew over (beats me, it was a ‪#‎dream‬ after all). While touring the town, we were at an above-ground train station. The view was pretty good. We had a mysterious-type bodyguard with us.

Bumping into an Indian guy who was also a tourist with a camcoder, we had a chat and realise he was the kid in some Coca-Cola advertisement when he was young. As it turned out, he left Turkey after that due to some family problems. Right beside was another tourist I recognised, Danny Glover. Or some actor that looks like him. After much discussion, we all decided to head out to explore the city.

I left a bag of our food at a seat some way from where we were talking. As I went to retrieve the bag, I realised some gang in black were walking towards my group. They had 2 cameramen tagging along, and I realised I was the bodyguard. It turns out I've been evading any form of recorded video surveillance the entire trip and these cameras were not going to get the better of me. Sensing trouble, I trailed after them unnoticed.

Too bad I just woke up from it. Fascinating trip.

Losing my belongings at the mall

I'm so hardcore my #dream last night was about me on a sweep with my unit guys at a mall for some goodie packs. Unfortunately, I'd also misplaced my bag in which my wallet and other belongings had been left, including my car keys. And I realised it was missing only after closing time. It might have been MBS.

There was also this open area I came across that looked familiar from my previous dreams. It felt like The Cathay but resembled more like the area issue Watson's at Parkway Parade.

I tried telling myself that I know this is a dream and assured that I didn't really lose my essentials.