Have you ever had this experience whereby you wake up from a sleep and find yourself unable to move or speak?

This has been a very common thing for me ever since I was young. It would always happen before I fall asleep or waking up from sleep. When this first happened to me, I remember seeing a blurry face in front of me, leading me to believe that it was a supernatural experience. Unfortunately for me, it happens once every few weeks - with me seeing things during the process.

People always say things like that happens because a spirit is pressing on you and I've always believed it because of the blurry faces I see when it happens. But as I grew older, this thing has became so common and I slowly began to be neutralised with it. I no longer feel fear, I just cursed whatever "spirit" (probably female) that is sitting/lying on me and muttered for it to get the hell off me.

Nowadays, I've stopped seeing the blurry face during the experience and I'm also not bothered to curse the spirit anymore, I just try to continue my sleep be it if I can move or not. And today, I learnt something. There's a damned scientific explaination for this condition and all that I've always believed since young turns out to be wrong.

Now I want to go for treatment because this Sleep Paralysis thing is really pissing me off everytime I sleep.

Heard this song playing on the radio in the morning a few days back and it's been at the back of my head ever since.

Also, I think Avril Lavigne is a really talented and beautiful lady.

Three years back, I embarked on my first overseas trip with Kelvin Chua (my really good friend) to Kuala Lumpur. There's actually a story behind the trip and it was pretty stupid.

I was surfing the net at home one morning because I skipped school that day and I stumbled across Seat61, a site that talks about train tavel from Singapore to Malaysia and beyond. I was so fascinated by the train travel, I told myself I had to go for it. I sent a message to two of my friends and they agreed immediately.

Looking at the train route, I felt that Kuala Lumpur was the best destination to be and I started the elaborate planning for the trip.

However, one backed out at the last minute and all I had left was this admirable Kelvin Chua friend. So in June 2008, we went exploring. And let me tell you this, we've never looked back.

The now-defunct KTM Train Station in Tanjong Pagar. It was pretty interesting for us 18 year old teenagers to enter Malaysia while I'm still in Singapore. For all the oblivious people, the train station in Tanjong Pagar actually belongs to Malaysia and when we travel to Malaysia via the train, we won't need to have our passports stamped since we're "travelling from Malaysia to another part of Malaysia". All the funny politics nonsense.

At first, the train journey was pretty cool as we passed mountains, villages, plantations and all the stuffs you won't get to see outside the window when you're sitting in our MRT. But I think the journey got a little too long and we got pretty restless. I think it took more than 7 hours for us to arrive in Kuala Lumpur.

All I had with me was an address of our hostel and vague written directions on how to get there and a brain. Within 15 minutes of leaving the train station, two boys walking aimlessly around with their backpacks realised they were lost because the two items that I had didn't helped.

We finally arrived at the hostel with the help from the locals. Over the next two days, we scrutinised every food stall for the best food, scaled up Batu Caves and strolled through a few sights in Kuala Lumpur.

I kind of miss the days back then where I had all the time in the world to do anything I want. I miss the days where I could so confidently tell myself that I would travel the world one day.

And after two long years, I renewed my Provisional Driving Licence again because I felt that it was really important to pick up this useful skill even though I don't own a car.

But I don't understand why I have to pay $25 so that I can drive legally with a driving instructor beside me. Singapore.