Optimism and Confidence

2007-03-13T00:54:00.000+08:00

I am so so excited becoz my choir is singing a HOKKIEN song for the competition at Pattaya..

We are singing that hokkien song for the FOLKLORE category!

It's called Yu Ye Hua...Blossoming of flowers in the night rain... Yea..cool.

2007-03-12T12:01:00.000+08:00

Hmm got 32 for my probability test, out of a total of 50 marks. I think i should be contented ba...even though it's below the average mean which is 35.

Today is another choir practice day and we are learning 2 new songs, namely What a wonderful world as well as Day and Night.

What a wonderful world obviously many of you all have heard about it and had been covered by alot of singers. I think the original singer was Louis Armstrong if i am not wrong...

I would love to hear this song sung by a choir...wonder how it will sound like...

Hey ppl, if you want the music cd for the concert do let me know ok? The cd is jus a recording of that evening's concert. =)

2007-03-10T00:34:00.000+08:00

I am so freaking pissed!

Come back home, relaxing, watching my fav american idol...and then i have to wash the dishes..etc. My brother who is supposedly the last one who finish the dinner, refuse to wash the dishes. I am utterly fed up doing all this for him. I am so freaking tired. My second brother who had jus come back from field camp, also went to wash and dry all our clothes. That idiot, youngest brother, happily talk to his gf over the phone. Trust me, i knew when he is talking with his gf.

I have my temper alright? Not always a mr nice guy especially ppl are testing my patience when i am so tired Ugh.

I was telling linda jus now that i almost wanted to bring those dirty dishes to my brother's bed. I really seriously almost did that.

Sometimes i really want to know what he is thinking. Even if i have a gf, i won't talk with her everyday. I mean ....seriously everyday...wat can u talk about.?

gf: Hey eat already?
me: ya.
me: you?
gf: ya.
me:ok.
me: wat are u doing?
gf:talking to you.
me: ok.
gf: hmmm
me: ya..

Anger is never good. I was praying to God to take it away from me. Shout to the Lord..yes it will help :>

2007-03-09T21:47:00.000+08:00

Yes...my friends took a snap shot of me and i jus so happen to grimace...so yea..haha

These are jus a preview of the pictures during Varsity Voices...i regretted never take pictures on that day...but i am waiting for those nice pics to be out!

U know i am always mentally prepared for any slight discrimination...and it was so fast that i started to hear that there is this guy in choir who had been spreading rumours about me..and yada yada..etc

I am supposed to be sharing bed with 2 seniors for the PATTAYA competition who had last minute left me out without informing me :( "why didn't you ask them?" was the most common question that my frens had asked me. I mean since they had already found in all 4 persons in a

room.. what's the point of me still asking? So in the end i am left sharing with 2 guys, one of them was the one had been gossiping behind my back.

Frankly speaking, gossiping and rumors don't reallly affect me...wat affect me is the fact that this "friend" was supposed to be a newbie , same as me, and also a fren to me. While conversing with him, he seemed fine and jovial. I was pretty oblivious to the stuff he is spreading to ppl, until a gal fren came to tell me to back off from him.

Oh well..i never want to get involve with politics. I mean sing to live and live to sing.. I mean though at times, i feeel left out as a newbie...but i do have my own friends in the choir..friends whom i can easily chat with. I mean i am quite an easy-going guy, so if you choose to put on an air, and refuse to open up while i try to make friends with you, then never mind lor. Or worst still, if you choose to stigmatize me coz of my singing, then sorry, since when do singing become a critierion for friendship? =)

HUMILITY, CONSIDERATION for others, DILIGENCE, and PRAYERS are all i need to stay alive in any kind of social interaction.

2007-03-08T10:34:00.000+08:00

Ha ya..now i realized how easy it is for someone to search for any blog with the desired keyword you enter.

Yes the nus choir forum is jammed packed with messages, messages of congratulations, thanks, appraisals, tease...etc. All of us have started to miss the concert, inevitably developing a post-concert depression. It's time for us to go back to our studies, back to mugging, back to projects (that's for me). This coming thursday(which is later), we are having a post-concert celebration and all of us are seriously looking forward to it.

The concert was simply breath-taking and one that i would never forget. Thanks to all my lovely friends who had attended the concert despite their packed schedule. Sorry that i couldn't take pictures with you guys..not much time..

Big thanks to Zixian and Angel who had come despite Angel's lousy mood(from her blog) and also despite Zixian strong antichrist sentiments. No doubt, i am glad they did enjoy the concert! Oh ya also to my brother Jim who came down even though he need to rush back to camp at Kranji straight after that. Thank you to Joanna Pearly, Iqbal,Zechou, my uni mates who had come down for a great evening of visual and auditory stimulation. =)

Thank you to my ex colleague, Zhou and his wife who had come down, thank you to Travis and his fren, Andrew and his fren, Alvin and his fren,....etc

Once the pictures are out, i will post it here!

The gals were gorgeous that night, and i was one lucky guy to be surrounded by them, standing in such a conspicuous position that my frens had no trouble at all in finding where i stand in the choir.

"why is there a guy standing among the girls" ...usual question that my frens were being asked upon. Ya...oh well..

I love you all sopranos, you gals did well that night!!!!!!

2007-02-13T23:07:00.000+08:00

Monday.. choir till 930pm
Tuesday tuition till 9pm
Wednesday no lesson
Thursday choir till 930pm
Friday lesson end at 6pm
Saturday bp mentoring at 9am, tuition at 2-4pm.
Sunday church at 1130am-130pm

Ya i know it's jammed packed...and alot of priorities ought to be sorted out. Eventually i know that i would have to pull out from Bp mentoring.

I am very very appreciatve from the bottom of my heart to those who had supported the nus choir.. I know that using the fact that i am singing soprano as publicity is pretty lame..but it's a good try haha.

To those well wishes from friends, thank you too. Thank you for your quick responses in confirming as well as prompt reply.

NUS choir may not be the best choir..but they showcase a bunch of young ppl who had to continuously balance studies and practices all in the name of MUSIC. This is the first time i sing until my back aches...ever since my sectional leader urges me to breathe through stomach and not chest. Never hear of that in my life before haha.

Also...i used to hear of how ppl train themeslves to make their tongue relax enough to open up the throat more. I heard of friends who put oreo cookie and place them at the back of the tongue...and that will be the correct position of the tongue. In nus choir, my sectional leader teach me to yawn. WHen we yawn, our jaw automatically relaxes and the tongue automatically go back to its relaxed position and the throat is opened up more.

Also..by feeling for the vibration on the back of my neck... my voice coach teaches us how to find our REAL singing voice..and to my expectation..my original falsetto range is in ALTO. As i go for soprano notes...the vibration at the back of my neck is no longer there..and would have to work on it to produce that gentle vibration.

Indeed...the main reason why i wanted to join choir is to learn these interesting singing techniques....and also thank God for those nice christian songs. At least it mean singing out of conviction rather than solely music alone..

The next thing to look foward to is in fact the choir competition in thailand pattaya :>

2007-02-07T18:15:00.000+08:00

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Varsity Voices '07 - MUSICA SACRA
The highly acclaimed Varsity Voices concert series will be back on 4 March 2007, with promise of more exciting and vibrant repertoire!
Conducted by esteemed choral director Nelson Kwei, the NUS Choir proudly presents Varsity Voices 2007: Musica Sacra, an evening of divine melodies and sacred music, a testimony of the Choir's continuous musical exploration of a diverse and exciting genre.Varsity Voices promises an enjoyable and uplifting evening as the NUS Choir presents a repertoire of sacred music that spans centuries and continents. The first half will feature classical pieces such as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Missa Brevis (Sparrow Mass), reminiscent of sprightly sparrow chirpings, and Franz Joseph Haydn's festively grand and symphonic Te Deum, a combined item with award-winning guest choir, The Vocal Consort. The second half will feature sacred pieces by contemporary composers such as Vajda Janos and Ralph Hoffman, demonstrating musical colour through the use of dissonance. The Choir will also perform a collection of upbeat African-American spirituals arranged by Moses Hogan. These spirituals, borne out of the hardships of servitude and slavery, reflect a poignant optimism and reliance on the divine, through emotive rhythms and catchy melodies. Come and join us in an evening that promises to uplift your spirit and charm your soul.

Date: Sunday, 4 March '07Time: 7.30pmVenue: University Cultural Centre Hall.
Ticket Information : Tickets are priced at $13 (inclusive of SISTIC charges) and are available now at all SISTIC outlets, SISTIC Hotline: (65) 6348 5555.You can also purchase your ticket electronically through SISTIC website: http://www.sistic.com.sg/cms/events/index.html?content=635

2007-01-27T20:47:00.000+08:00

Today went down to the tailor at Chinatown to have our measurements made. Hmm this was the first time i am getting a tailor made suit and pants for myself. Hmm 80 bucks for a black suit and a pants i think is quite reasonable, considering a suit in G2000 on offer cost 69(without pants of coz). So ya.. the uncle told me my waist for 27.5 and i told him that i want it 28..if not suffocating sia.

So i went with Bryan, the filipino and Hong Juen, the msian. NUS choir is really an international choir per se. I have known one African American, Canadian, Flipino, Msians, Indonesians and Spain. Interesting. What a cultural exchange it is.

So after the measurement we decide to walk around and so i jus bring them around chinatown, eating at some stall. I wanted to find this famous porridge stall...but i jus couldn't find it :(

So ya another saturday, back to mugging. Yes i know it's a saturday. But this semester i have 3 group projects in all they could have taken my breath away literally. Quality engine had thus far been the easiest to cope compared to the rest. Engine Econs..is another one big mathematically demanding module. Software engine is a bit abstract and theoretical...but hopefull the drawings and stuff will get me moving..

Nothing exciting for the modules these sem but i know this sem could be one of the worst semester to cope for my 4 years, as told by seniors. Oh well.

2 tuitions and i am coping fine. My dear source of allowance is from there. So thank GOd for the lobang.

Sigh...was having a conversation with a city harvest gal on my way back from choir practice. This fren of mine is still in jc, but she came to nus choir on the basis that she can get into nus using nus choir as the appealing factor. First of all, she gives me the impression as being boisterous. Second i feel old talking to her, coz she is 19. Third, she is from city harvest, and when i told her that i am also christian, she started to tell me things that only city harvest church-goers will atypically say. "Touch of God's power, Dreams and apparitions, Pray for good results, pray to get into NUS...etc" Hope i don't sound as if i am bad-mouthing or wat, but i am jus hoping that Church these days can teach proper doctrines. What you pray can be what you are before the Lord. Ok may be i should quote something that she had said which personally i don't find it offensive..but find it uncomfortable.

We were talking with a canadian chinese fren who had jus come to singapore for the first time.

That city harvest gal started to tell her " Wa, you know ah, Nick is from vjc u know, smart ass lar he, go and kiss his ass".

First and foremost, at our age, WHO WILL COMPARE JC to JC>??? Then again, may be coz she had jus finished her A level, i don't blame her. But the kiss the ass part...i feel embarrassed for that canadian gal. Coz weirdness is written all over her face. Sigh.

Where has all the demure, quiet, meek and gentle gals go to?

2007-01-21T22:11:00.000+08:00

Ok so i am in NUS choir.. jus in case any of you do not know. Ya...i am thrilled to finally be in my own niche, singing as a countertenor. I trust that people aplenty are not sure what exactly a countertenor is..

Actually i am not too sure why the "counter" there. But countertenors are simple males who sing high in their falsetto. David Daniels and Andreas Scholls are two of my idols who have quite a different way of delivering their falsetto.

Remember the CHICAGO movie starring Catherine zeta jones? I was told by a german fren that in the original stage musical, there was this role that was sung by a countertenor. The role was a reporter and this was of coz taken over by a lady in the movie. I thought this was interesting.

When i went for audition, i sang Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again, a piece from the Phantom. Not really a very high song and eventually manage to pull it off..even as i off pitch for one note. After that was the normal piano scaling. So the student conductor was testing my range and stuff..etc.

The day i went for the first practice...i never imagine that they will put me in Soprano 2. I thought perhaps they will mercilessly put me in TENOR...which i think i will faint. I am quite happy yet uncertain about being in Soprano 2. Goodness gracious and thank God i am not in Soprano 1..which is lagi higher.

So there i went to the CFA studio opposite YIH. So as i stand close to my sectional leader, Xuefang..one gal came forward and told me, "hey guys stand over the other side" , pointing to the tenors' section. My sectional leader told her i am singing soprano. She was like "ohhh..." with bewilderment written all over her face.

Deep inside my heart i was praying to God that, i mean since u give me this gift..i should be able to go past the stigma of being the only countertenor inside nus choir?

So ppl were pretty curious of me..like some exotic animal from some exotic island.

Yes indeed as i sing some of the songs...i was trying my very best to side read the notes..and follow the student conductor. Off pitch was a certainty coz it was the first time i have seen those songs..

To be frank, those songs were in foreign language..and may be coz i am used to listening to classical songs..they became less difficult to grasp (not trying to be boastful here) The only difficult part is the some of the really high notes... which is why i make it a point to have 2 water bottles with me. I was told by a fren to stay away from caffeine, milk before practice too..

The interesting about being in a place with music lovers is that..none of the guys there actually got turn off by my singing...they became appreciative of it.. So..ya. GOod lar. No more discrimination. =)

So July i am going Thailand Pattaya for International choir competition. =o

So here i am..in nus choir..singing soprano..

2007-01-07T18:10:00.000+08:00

Ok first of all i want to thank Angel, Zixian, Guojun and of coz Sini, a special guest for friday's treat.

First it was the 2-7pm KTV. Was elated that they have the Sodagreen song right there in Kbox. The most suprising thing was that they Think of Me from Phantom in there ha ha, as well as I dream a dream from Le Miserables. How come i never realise that?

Zixian sang quite alright in some of his favorite songs by Weilan and coz the One Night in Beijing..

One night in Beijing was one of those few songs i had used my original voice to sing and Zixian on the other hand use his falsetto ha ha.

I like the ambience in Ma Maison very very much. With the free slice of cheesecake and the free polaroid photo, everything is just so nice about that place. So a big THANK YOU to Sini.. =)

So right after the meal we headed to the TANG SHUI place for dessert along one of those alley streets behind Bugis Junction. I have to tell a lie to Angel that i want to go toilet when i actually went to pay the bill. Cannot lar, they pay the ktv and the meal.. (though the dessert was not alot) =)

My second brother bought me Gwen Stefani and Justin Timberlake's new album . Yeah!

My little brother bought me...Gwen Stefani too..but in the end we went to change to Scissorsisters and Whitney Houston. =)

2007-01-04T23:38:00.000+08:00

Thought that i should dedicate this first part of my entry to all the staff in Sasol Chemicals Pacific Ltd. Had a super enjoyable part time stint over there for the dunno-how-many times. 2005 and 2006 December is spent in that company. Despite doing the same old stuff. There were new faces, as well as an accountant call Swee Leng who was leaving the company.

I get to be invited to their buffets too. One was the farewell party for Swee Leng, as well as the welcomin gof Yaku's wife. Yaku is the south african caucasian IT guy who wedded his bride in Singapore this the december before. Have to constantly remind myself that this is 2007. In 10 minutes' time and i will be a year older than any of my fellow comrades. Yes so what ? :P

Indeed, the ppl in Sasol Chemicals were so nice...it was literally like a dream working environment. Every morning, the ang mo sales director, will greet u will be a "good morning", as well as those constant hilarious laughter from the ladies and their cranky jokes.

The pantry had never ending snacks haha. The managers often travel and brought back some food to share..and we often simple help ourselves to those finger snacks. I can even msn as i work..but of coz discreetly and to also do my work lar..if not i will feel very guilty one.

All in all...besides the spare cash earned from this vacation..i like to work in Sasol.

Yesterday went to Settler's Cafe with Yihao Jordan and Guojun. Small group, but a good effort in catching up especially with Yihao who was in Bio-engin. The rest of coz is stiill in ISE, so we see each other everday. We played very intellectual games until i propose Halli Galli..which reminds me of angel's fast hand, and red hands lol. Nice game to get everybody active. Yihao's strategic games were interesting, duration about 45-60 minutes yet..it's engaging to certain extent. Sorry to guojun but i think i have to upload ur pic..that one is too classic... We played a sheep game..and it was very intellectual and the sheeps were very cute ha ha.

2007-01-04T23:05:00.000+08:00

Yes it was 2nd Jan..and we were going to food hunt for our bbq items in 3 locations Tekka mall in Little India, Toa Payoh ntuc and Suntec city Carre four.

Yes it was BP mentors' outing and it ended off with a bbq of the items we had been hunting for.

At each location, each team is supposed to do some embarrassing task and I being the facilitator, have to pass the envelope for them to complete the task. The respective tasks at each respective locations are:

1. Grab an ANG MO take a pic with him.

2. Sing a song to a stranger.

3. Ask a stranger to say "ahhh" for 30 seconds.

Amazingly, my team, becoz of 2 thick-skinned gals, managed to pull the task off effortlessly. I, being the cameraman, also pai seh lor. Especially the second task....my team went up to 2 bus drivers who were sitting down at the toa payoh interchange..then the group of 5 ppl appear in front of him and started singing Happy Birthday..why that song..dun ask me..:P

We end the day with a bbq..and with a short heavy rain that lasted for 5-10 minutes?

I know that i am one of the birthday boys whose birthdays will be celebrated with sabotage going on...yes that cherry passing from mouth to mouth..THANKS ah..whoever think of that will get it from me. Muz be that Tengfu's whacky idea. And also..whoever make that super strong alcoholic drink for the 3 of us...really make my throat burns once i started to take a sip...Tengfu's face was as red as lobster, not becoz he was the birthday to drink tat forbidden drink but he enjoys drinking haha :P He promise to keep 2 shirts for me from the Philippines trip.. Glad they like the design i submitted :>

A real tiring day indeed.

2006-12-04T18:35:00.000+08:00

What does this pic reminds you of? Yes it's Christmas soon! This semester had been one hell of a rollercoaster ride..but thanks to those group of frens who had together ride coaster together. Complete madness. I promise myself not blog too much about academics. Well i am try hard not to. :P

Iqbal was recently sending me this song called MAD WORLD by gary jules. Quite decent yet depressing song ha..but it belongs to the James Blunt, Daniel Powter's genre. Nice piano music though. This semester i had been listening to some new exotic songs. Like from new zealand Bic Ranga, who reminds me so much of Emil Fujita. Not to mention Clay Aiken's lastest cover of Mariah Scary's "Without You". My fren flew to HongKong for her concert and the HONGKONG authority in the end cancelled the whole concert citing due to "unreasonable request" by Mariah Scary. Alright you sing well, i adore you, but i had heard enough of people complaing that your arrogance is pissing everybody off. What's with you? Back to Clay Aiken's rendition of that song...was quite refreshing actually, together with his new image and everything. I still feel that he is a geek. Well do listen to that song.

Chuantian asked me to ask around who wanted to go watch HAPPY feet on tuesday. That penguin show...

Also, i had been very very addicted to Deathnote. Especially gluing to my laptop every friday for it's realise of the episode. Now episode 9..and it's getting more and more exciting. It's more than jus an animae. I like to see how the 2 main characters battle out their wits in the extreme sense. Also, as the sequel is going to be out on 28 this month...hmm i wonder what the ending will be like...anyway that guy who acted as L really look the one in the MANGA. However that LIGHT dun look like the one in the manga at all.

Today's last exam ended with a BANG! Yea..so what if i can't finish the paper..isn't that like so common in nus nowadays. Something muz be really wrong with me to actually reach school at 7 am for some mugging, if it ever helped for the paper today. Ya and of coz i witness the legendary inhabitants of tutorial rooms in nus..ya..those mugger who slept on benches, tutorial rooms..and brisk walking up and down the corridor..ma chiam like the rooms are their hostel. Some ugly sights were of coz noted by my spy cam :P Not to forget the ugly NUS ppl who in the midst of studying had forgotten how to behave not like animals..with those loadful of rubbish at the bin...the stench really filled the air.

Ya..after this whole shit of trauma from Operations Research module..i finally felt that relief that i had never felt before... Ya i know that seniors do warn that year 2 is the most siong part of a typical ise course...so..this hard earned break is really one that i am looking forward to it.

My buddies and i went to get subway sandwiches and we decided to head down to IKEA tampines to take a look. Please next time if you are going to IKEA don't go after 1pm..becoz you have to wait for an hour for the 2pm shuttle bus. The rest of the timings has half an hour of interval in between..but we have unfortunately chosen the 1-2pm shuttle bus..

Once we were there...we immediately felt as if we were in some foreign land..All of us felt that this was very "malaysia". For those who had gone to IKEA you will know what i mean. GIANT right opposite IKEA, and it's in the midst of construction, and the COURTS is just next to IKEA. All around that area..what you see is some trees, forest, barren land, whatever you call it. Like what jordan had mentioned..Malaysia GIANT is built in that kind of environment..OUT OF NOWHERE. Wait till i get those pics from Jordan.

As usual we were in our crappy and goofy mode...

At ikea...it was like some MEGA warehouse...esp on one of the floors..the shelves reached so high up in the ceiling..and we were simply awe by it.. It's the Christmas festive reason..and the IKEA no doubt was packed with that atmosphere. I am addicted to my handphone camera's MACRO mode..coz it's can really give great depth to pictures at close-up. This is esp useful when i am in a mood to take pictures of insects and flowers at close-up. The subject will hence be sharp while the background is blurred.

Some decorative dolls from sweden? I remember Songing gave Nassera this as a bdae gift when he came back from SEP. All the following pics are from ikea.

I personally like this picture of cacti. Love it with the macro mode. :>

Not to forget IKEA famous $1 hotdog..and i dun see what's so nice about it..I prefer their meatballs..

2006-10-07T20:42:00.000+08:00

Woah finally clear the two papers. First and foremost for that Linear Algebra on friday evening 7 to 8pm...and then c++ test the following morning. What a mad week...

Having to cope with lectures, tutorials and tests is cruel to go through... Well..yes i know..year 2 already..should be jaded by now..yet i am always not sick of complaining.

Guojun today vomitted about 5 times. Half way through the c++ tests he also went to toilet to puke. I think this week most of us sleep barely 3 hours. Seriously speaking..this was equivalent to preparing for exam sia... At least i sleep around i sleep for more than 4 hours. Cannot dahan lar. At 130am already start malfunction liao.

Ok so after my tests today went to Pasir ris for tuition. Jordan offered to send us back to pasir ris, because we need to discard the initial plan of staying back to do some stuff till my tuition time. So he drove us back to pasir ris lor. After that lingering around Guojun's house while i do some work and he was dozing like a pig.

And so it's another hazy day out there huh?

My little brother had jus gone to KFC to work...surreptitiously .. I mean he went straight for the interview without telling any of us. I was surprised my parents weren't pissed. I strongly object to his working stint coz i believe he should focus more on his studies. I was over-ruled in the end.. coz nobody objected in this motion of him going to work :(

Why am i always calling him my little brother? Coz i am still treating like a little brother haha. May be that's why i am feeling all the more weird that he is working right now. Yes even as i am blogging now, he is slogging at KFC...for that meagre sum of salary. I told him that he can always ask me for money instead out seeking a place to earn some quick bucks. Part of him hated my dad for not providing enough for him..sigh. I know part of the reason why he has chosen to work becoz somebody has always told him off for lazying around and not contributing to the family. well.

About a week ago my second younger brother sms me that my dad has the idea of taking a 50,000 loan from a credit card company, and he intend to then declare bankruptcy, and transfer the house under both my brother and i's names. I was alerted by this sms..and was not really prepared to think rationally. My dad is always out to think of some ways to get quick fortune. Yes that is my dad, or may be it's his culture. I dun blame him at times...but declare bankruptcy?

My brother told my mum, and my mum call my dad and took him to task immediately. My dad said he was jus joking.....-_-""" BUT BUT BUT, how can anybody joke about such a serious matter?

i need a break.

2006-10-03T21:53:00.000+08:00

THIS VIDEO is really very touching :>

2006-09-23T18:05:00.000+08:00

First and foremost...let me clarify something..i am not a hardcore mugger...jus in case many of you out there are wondering HAHA.

Stacie Orico has this song called, "There gota be more than life" and i definitely strongly stand by this statement.

Ever since the fact that NUS has decided to use bulk of my MOE bursary to actually pay part of my school fees..i have to re-shuffle my budget till the end of the year. Somehow it's still a good enough news that NUS has made the move to pay my school fees. What irritates me is the very fact that they fail to inform me of anything. I actually have to bug them, send them deluge of emails..jus like what my friend Joanna had done. Alright, 800 is not a meagre sum ok? At least thank God for this sum which could alleviate some burden on my mum. =)

My dad kind of fixed up my squeaky fan today!! The fan is really driving me crazy...and believe me...that stew-pig old fan needed some lubrication becoz of some rusty internal parts, thereby causing that painful squeaky sounds..

Today had our first board meeting for the 8th committee. It was quite a short, chop chop one. Prior to that, Tadmond, Stella and I went to Far east plaza..and the SUPERBAND happened to have some autography session, QIAN MING HUI. So we kinda linger around to see what happen and how the superband constestants look in like realilty. We were really late for the meeting but we reckoned that there will be more people who will be later than us HAHA. In the end, our risky assumption was absolutely correct =)

While waiting on second floor and gawking at those young student-fans dressing in their "costumes" inspired from the J-pop culture, we saw this small little boy who was lost. I asked stella: Hey look, that boy looked as if he is lost. We were not sure and observe to see if he is following his mother. After a few moments, we realised that he was really lost..as he kept crying for his mother..

Stella and the rest of us brought him to the information counter. The security guard told us they doesn't have the broadcasting system here and the boy can only be placed here until the mother came to look for him. Hmm i nearly wanted to bring the boy to the stage arena and asked the 933 host to call out for the boy's mother. HAHA.

I went to watson to buy a strip of MENTOS and asked stella to pass it to the boy. After eating one mentos, the boy say "ok, enough already, can only eat one". The way he said it was so hilarious and innocently adorable sia. Not long after that, his mother came and asked him "how come never call mummy's handphone.."

Both stella and i were thinking..hmm he looked too young to even know how to use a handphone lor...and what's more to even memorise the mother's handphone number..

Oh ya.. nassera said my designs are always kiddish..time to go for some design-maturing course man... :> HAHA.

2006-09-08T01:22:00.000+08:00

Our faces are on the CAKE!!!

Our banner hanging aloft on the stage ~~

Gathering on stage one last time on the night before's dry run!
The students from Riverside secondary were having a gd time.
Prizes for amazing race !

At the reception counter.....

Finally the anniversary is over...and all of us have put in a tremendous amount of time and sleepless nights into making this whole event a successs.

We'd just met up last saturday for a post-mortem of the whole events...basically a "complaining" session...

It's exhilirating to see all your works being displayed in LT 13. Not to mention the appraisals for my video collages =) GMPS principal had actually wanted a copy of the video to be played to their primary school students. Cool.

Basically my decoration commitee on that day was Shiva and myself. And all of us, had to multi-tasked on that day....

My letter opener finally landed in the hands of the guests. Hope that they like my design =)

I guess after this whole event is back to my intensive mugging mode already.

This sem i have 3 maths modules to be done in Science faculty. Actually i kind of like the food in science canteen..but gj and jordan seem to prefer engin's more.

Tmr is ENGINE DAY!! and it's half day by the way...sigh..if SCIENCE got science day then i don't have to attend my linear algebra tutorial in the later afternoon liao... :(

2006-08-28T22:51:00.000+08:00

Ya it's been such a long time since the last time have blogged. Is it the school? May be =)

Or may be it's jus the upcoming BP Anniversary day that is keeping me busy all the way till around 9 September.

A video collage is on the way, now that the anniversary poster is done.

Today met up with my mentor, AP Lee Loo Hay. He is jus a nice mentor that when all 7 of us gathered in his office for this annual meeting, my year 4 senior Huixian, capriciously gave him all the laurels of appraisal for being the only enthusisastic mentor who initiated to meet us all, buy macdonald for us for lunch..and of coz, providing us with the latest juicy news in Industrial and Systems engineering...

The question on the lastest average salary for the graduates is and will always be a hot question...well 2700 for average is ok and i duno understand why frens around me see it as too meagre. Different yardstick of measurement i guess?

I sent out an email to my year4 seniors to ask them for my Operations Research textbook. I ask them if they'd wanted to sell or lend to me. They are actually so kind enough to help post on the ISE forum to ask their batch mates for the book. They can't sell it to me coz of the same usage on the same book for the higher level of operations research module. Welll...really touched by their effort.... =)

Nothing can describe my fatigue now.. ...

2006-08-13T15:49:00.000+08:00

Antbully is quite a decent hilarious movie...do watch it when u have time! =) Lady in the water is quite a let down. Another flop for M.Night.

2006-08-13T15:43:00.000+08:00

I think the waitress mus have some real trembling pair of hands...so dun bother to enlarge this pic coz it's pretty blurred.

This game is way too intellectual for me haha.

Foraging for the Food..with our leader Songning in front, who almost got ran down by a Monster Truck...haha.

Yes i know that i am always the one screwing up this game, so what? :p

~~Nick~~

2006-08-13T15:42:00.000+08:00

The mentees all think that this is a rabbit...not a garfield.. haha.

Liang Qiao and the singing mentees, with their rendition of "home" by Kit Chan. The mentees had failed in trying to pyscho LiangQiao to let them play with his Laptop. In fact, when they couldn't get what they want, they storm out of the class, refuse to practise in the song singing...

Sean cultivating his greatest patience ever for Jianyong(hunter) and Jingyuan (another monster kid) It was one real strenuous task just to get these J-boys(Jianyong and Jinyuan) to settle down and do their work.

Vivien with Yicheng.... Vivien sure has her own ways of interacting with the mentees. Kudos!

The birthday celebration! Mischief is written all over on Jinyuan's face.

Tadmond and the obedient Ridhwan. Sometimes a bit TOO obedient. =)

2006-08-06T20:57:00.000+08:00

Yea..wat a great night with a guest appearance of Si Ni.

A splendid night of fireworks never fail to light up the fire of your life. People everywhere were screaming in elation, in joy of the spectacular outbursts of fireworks. We had met at Hans at this obscure Wooolooo place, and we'd decided to take a walk to marina...had a quick dinner, and headed down straight to esplanade, hoping to get some good view.

Aftermath of this whole fireworks thing was this "War of the Worlds" scene, where people have to squeeze side by side, walking like PENGUINS towards the bottlenecked entrance at the esplanade which led to marina. Crazy massive group of crowd.

We had our encounter with a traffic police who saw a massive crowd trying to jay walk. We were amongst the crowd, and the traffice police jus signalled us to cross the road..(no fine!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCYj6be5eNA

2006-08-03T13:36:00.000+08:00

Whatever that has happened to the ancient value of 尊师重道？

What has happened to that once glorious Ngee Ann Secondary School?

All the stories from Linda and Guojun really start to make me feel so ...outraged? Can't really find one word to describe.

With that dramatic transformation of our once fearsome Mrs Sundram to now becoming a meek and gentle dovey counsellor...anything can change in NASS.

With the ignorance of the useless principal...

With students spitting on teachers...

With miss Gan and mrs pong all becoming adjunct teachers...

With students scolding u "bitch"

With students in express stream behaving worse than those in NT.

With the school principal helplessly side with parents than teachers.

Jus imagine that now the classroom need to have 2 teachers in it to maintain the order...

Just imagine that residents are complaining that the school is way too noisy?

So tell me...whatever has gone real wrong with this education system.

Both guojun and linda realised that ruling them with an iron rod is futile... Soft approach is even worst...

To hell with the "teach less learn more" theory... now every school has its own woes ...the newly breed of spoiled brats..who have the backing of parents who simply pushed the responsibility of disciplining their children to the teachers.

By the way no more are there theories that "oh, may be these children come from problematic family background and we should talk nicely to them about it".

The fact that they have this disrregard for authority means that they behaved in a similar manner to their parents too. Now the question is, "why do parents fail to instil that sense of respect for authority to these brats?"

Have u seen a principal going into a classroom in the middle of a lesson to sweep the floor?

2006-08-03T13:32:00.000+08:00

2006-08-01T21:38:00.000+08:00

Finally the poster is ready for matric fair...

Finally the banner is up!

Ok busy with invitation cards, posters, notepad cover...today finally ended off with the banner! My job is done here! I am still wondering over my continuation in the board for next sem of a new appointment..publicity director. This title of course means more loads of designing work to do...No doubt i enjoy doing those stuff...but once the school term starts i will be one hell of work to do.

I think the five of us really did a good job today. We met at 2pm..and finally finished everything by 8pm...with some painted "scars" all over our hands. Jan actually sit on one black paint tin cap, and her shorts got this black patch. Yulong her bf then manage to get her change into one of his extra shorts (he came well prepared huh?) The shorts was too big for her! In the end she had to use this elastic thingy to tighten the berms.

Yesterday was the last day at Raffles Holdings..bidded many farewells to many nice friends that i had made there. Gracia, the receptionist that i had worked closely with really made my job so much easier while i was there. I think that i had told xiaoting once about my unreasonable boss..and his weird temper. There are times where i had to put up with his temper. Especially when he had asked to OT till 7pm and had to report at 7am to finish my task he asked me to do. There are jus too much things to complain this character in this company. Yesterday before i left, he (James my boss), asked me for my email. I asked him why..he said "you will know". Apparently he asked my receptionist for her email too... I will be real shocked if he is getting marrried. He is the worst boss that i had ever encountered in my whole life.

This morning received a couple of SMS from some colleagues who weren't around yesterday during my last day in office. Nice messages. Will always keep them in mind.

Whenever i grumble to my mum..i realise that my mum and i really belong to a different world. My mum rules with an iron fist in her workplace, fighting for her own rights, and never let go of people who accuse her. She sees me as someone easily being bullied, and why i had put up with that boss of mine. My mum even says : " Go give him one tight slap, tell him my mum ask me to slap you". Win already. This is my mum.

Sometimes I do agree it angers me when people take you for granted..but then again..sometimes tolerance brings about nice returns. There are times when someone who berated at you suddenly take a step back when he realise how calm you are in face of his ranting. There are times when someone actually feel touched by your sincerity, and in return doing things that incredibly touched you. One lesson that i had learnt in this holiday..which i must always remind myself. That is, it's impossible to please everyone....

Well at least i promise them if i am free that i will still meet them for lunch at city hall =)

2006-07-22T19:30:00.000+08:00

As usual for primary school kids, we waited for half an hour or so for the latecomers. Jin Hong was way too late, and we have no choice but to leave without her. On my way there, she kept calling, to ask us to let her go by herself, and Stella even wanted to go and fetch her...

In the end, we feel that we really could not afford the time and manpower to let Jin Hong come along...

That Kai wee and the rest of the boys were the clowns on that day...when i say clowns, i really mean clowns. You should watch the video that i have uploaded onto Youtube. The one with the balloon demonstration in one of the auditorium. GMPS was bringing up the excitement of the whole demonstration. Way to go!

So we tagged along with the mentees and Mrs Yang was pretty enthusiastic in sharing with them the explanation behind the exhibits. The only so-called trouble that we get from the kids were that some of the boys were playing with the paper-rubberband catapult thingy. They even accidentally hit some of the strangers....

The mentees were always deriving pleasures out of simple things. Balloons, balls moving around, water.. ..you should really see how wet they were. We decided not to restrain them, and juz let them be. After all, perhaps these are rare moments haha. That doesn't of coz mean that the mentors ourselves wanted to get wet too. We were simply onlookers.

Quote of the day is the conversation between Liang Qiao and Jian Yong(hunter):

Liang Qiao: Hurry up, do a chop chop one.
Jian Yong: huh? chop chop? (apparently he couldn't catch what chop chop means) Erm, not lamb chop..or watsoever.

All in all, the whole trip was pretty alright, with less involvement in the actual quiz, but with some effort that was good enough. An excursion with primary school students will always be test on ur strength of your legs; you will have to keep running with them or even ahead.

Jin Yuan and Kai Wee were having this Mosaic Picture being done. A pretty cool software huh?

Please go to these links for the videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHCIup-4MQM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4un6x3nSgs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f8uiaXfdYc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN58qg6RWIE

~Nick~

2006-07-19T10:47:00.000+08:00

Monday met up with stephen and naseera discussing about the invitation card design, the banner design and the science center trip on this coming saturday. Hmm what a coincidence that i would be going down to science center with the primary school kids, juz when i thought that i haven't been going there for a long time... so it's going to be cool! Well too bad we r not going to omnitheatre... BP is not going to sponsor us for that haha. So almost a whole day of saturday will be spent there..

Ya...another Tsunamis, a new death toll in indonesia..sigh..when will all these calamities ever stopped? Everywhere is wreaking havoc...Timor Leste, Indonesia, India train bombings..etc. One thing for sure, even if the survey results revealed how much unhappy Singaporeans are, please be greatful for the fact that your family and yourselves are safely under a shelter with proper food and drink. I couldn't ask for more.

Singaporeans has the proclivity for making a mountain out of a molehill. Was reading the "Wo Bao" today and happened to peruse the news on the BAK GUK TEH issue. Believe me, it's such a small little trivial issue that had been blown up by too much a scale by the media, and of coz the public...boring news.

Next week is my last week in my company..and seems like my company have to close down real soon..As you might have known. ...after the shareholders' meetings, it'd been agreed that Raffles City will finally be sold to CapitaLand, the property giant...so now Raffles Holdings..have nothing left..they sold off Swisshotel and Raffles hotel..and now selling the last asset, the Raffles City.

The basement of Raffles City had finally been opened over the last weekend. It's really cool and nicely down. If you guys have the chance, do pay a visit there. Nice cafes..shops..etc. Even a big MPH bookstore!

2006-07-13T11:29:00.000+08:00

Yup..finally turned up for the jc gathering yesterday..see a couple of familiar faces...not to mention that atypical nonsensical behaviour coming forth from a dentist-to-be Shi Cai. His customary "Yo brother, wassup.." is so darn classic that it never fails to bring back the reminiscent memories from jc times...

And of coz...that bickering Shuhong and enhui..bla bla

There are also missing characters here and there...and i have come to realise i wasn't the only person who had gone missing from s14. Clarence is one. :P I am sure you heard of the incident on tekong island previously i have spotted Clarence in one of the tekong ferry. He was like "Erm...erm, you are.....", his words kind of trailed off into silence. Well in the end i retorted with "hi clarence, how are ya doing?". Wa lau eh..like that also can forget.

By the time i rush down to meet them after my tuition, it was close to 9pm. They had finished their dinner at the marina square food court. Amazingly, it was marina square food court and not the initial proposed venue of Glutton square. I was told glutton square was a "outside" eating place where there are no air-con. Yea, call us spoiled brats for all i care :P

Allen, shu hong,ziyang and Shicai were quick to leave not long after that...coz some of them working tmr, some of them have to wake up early for sch the next day. Yea..they are the brains of s14...except for one.

Eugene is back from melbourne..and was sharing with us his experience in studying medicine in australia. Can u imagine that he is so sick of singapore food back in australia? Back in jc times, i have already known that Eugene can cook. WHen he is in australia..he had been cooking..and even tried cooking laksa to sell in australia. He told me that there was once he had to prepare the soup and noodle till wee hours like 3am..until he is so freaking scared of yellow noodles now..

Yvonne can't make it coz of her grandmother being diagnosed of cancer.. and we were juz wondering if she and andy will be the first wedding dinner we are going to attend...well 5 years since jc times.. Enhui was also telling me how "cool" andy was fetching yvonne from sch in hall in his motorbike and stuff etc.

It was quite a good old times talking about those victorian days..and how much things have changed..and how much Daryl could have change haha. Enhui was telling me how matured he had become mugging at the medicine library. Well..kinda hard to imagine :P

By the time they were done at the marina food court, we headed off to this pub with live band near the millenia walk..didn't really catch the name. Eugene and i shared this munich beer lager..which was quite nice to drink.. well the gals order some tequila thingy...pretty fruity.

2006-07-09T22:57:00.000+08:00

Best Victorian friendship award!

Hui Boon with second upper class honours!

Presenting to you Miss Zhuai 2006 of NUS alumni.

Finally see the real Si ni. =)

The whim ceremony...with that explosive action of the falling balloon..wat a blockbuster.

Linda with Estee, before the donning of the graduation gown.

2006-07-02T19:18:00.000+08:00

Yesterday was my cousin's birthday(on the left). It was his 21st birthday..so my brother and i went down earlier to his place to help out my aunt. He don't many friends and out of 30 plus people, only 3 girls hehe. Most of his frens were his VS frens.

My other cousin got him a very interesting birthday cake! It has the mahjong tiles on it which is made of white chocolate and taste yummy. And the dice can be eaten too! After the cake cutting session..everybody was rushing to grab the "fa" mahjong tile to eat...but the white chocolate is sweet but nice.

I left the place at about 4pm for ktv at Paradiz once again! Yea had a good time singing my hearts out.

Today is stay-home day. Tidying my room, sweeping,mopping, laundry..etc. Have to do all that before my parents come back from KL.

2006-06-26T19:24:00.001+08:00

A monday always means yet another week ahead... I was going to Temasek Holdings today and passed by the underground passageway. I was walking past a girl when a guy in front of us started to asked me:

"Hey are the both of you all together?"

I was like "Huh??". Almost immediately the gal started to mumble:

"No no no."

The middle-aged man, apparently some insurance guy or some guy doing some survey then said to me:

"Ok ok i am talking to her." After which i promptly walked away.

Hmmm so weird. And this reminds me of this incident i had when i was outside the mrt on my way to Tampines mall to meet my fren. This super young gal, tap me on my shoulder from behind and tried to ask me do some survey of hers. I say politely no no. Then she started to chase me from behind...and believe me it was quite a distance, coz she even cross the traffic light! Don't ask me why, but i started to run a bit too..until she finally gave up.. Oh man..wat is this??? Silly me.

While my boss was signing my timesheet for last week, he started to ask me how come i always leave so promptly on time. Erm..i only have to smile away...coz i don't think i can give an answer to that question. I mean come on, if u ask me to OT of coz i wan..if i have nothing on. If not i juz go lor..i don't have to sneak away ok =P

2006-06-25T23:18:00.000+08:00

Happen to come across this photo blog which i LOVE very much!

http://www.tonos-world.nopper.net/index.php

2006-06-25T21:18:00.000+08:00

Singapore idol is such a let down! Jus take a good look at the standard of M'sian Idol!

2006-06-25T19:30:00.000+08:00

Finest moment. My song clip comes from this movie...

2006-06-25T18:59:00.000+08:00

Trailer: http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/ladyinthewater/trailer2/large.html

Yeapie..finally this movie is going to be out soon..it's out on the 27th July! =)

Hopefully the ending for this movie is better than the cliffhanger in "The Village". Storyline..don't ask me..all i noe is that this woman is a "narf" who lives in another world..and creatures from the other side is determined to bring her back..another "narnia"? Maybe..

2006-06-25T14:35:00.000+08:00

With the courtesy of Xiuting, i manage to kapor this pic coz i find it rather unbelievable in embracing the fact there is a flood in Novena mrt! Jus take a look at the water that seemingly flowed down like a waterfall thingy and ppl in the mrt open umbrellas juz to shelter them from the leak. Wat a scene huh? Nothing is so perfect in this world afterall..

2006-06-25T09:43:00.000+08:00

Want to make a guess where this place is?

2006-06-25T00:08:00.000+08:00

There are always some reasons why i have to go down to Eastpoint. Trust me, the reason can never be coz i wan to go there and shop. Obviously there is nothing there!

Today went down there becoz Ken told me he is queuing up there for the Miss Singapore World 2006. At first i'd thought that my memory muz have failed me. I thought that Miss Singapore was juz over? Not until i realise there is this Miss Singapore WORLD. Yea the WORLD word is there... and the champion is supposed to represent Singapore as a tourism ambassador...some sort of an iconic representation of Singapore.

There are few nice ones, and definitely there is this eye-catching eurasian who confidently wooed the judges with her charisma. Today wasn't the finals of coz..but juz some prelimary rounds with some small little awards.. and believe me..the awards have a very...corny name to it.. something like the most beautiful legs award, and miss dazzling eye award....While ken was busying taking professional shots with his bulky digitial camera, i was like snapping away using my mobile phone. Good enough lor. I stood there for 1 hour plus juz to accompany him there to wait. Didn't noe cameramen muz queue up to take shots one hehe.

2006-06-22T22:00:00.000+08:00

Let me juz grumble abit about Singapore idol...as far as i am concerned personally, i think last night's performance only showcase a single talent from Mathilda D' Silva. She started off the night with the over-sung aretha franklin's "Chain of Fools"...not with that quacky donald duck voice of coz. She is the best out of the rest..but good enough..Pretty disappointed with the Meryl's rendition of "I turn to you", one of my fav songs by Christina.. and here i am thinking she muz have sung well to be predicted by ST and other magazines. Booo to that RJ gal. Anyway she is booted out already.

Yea read about those criticism hurled at Jacintha. I think she really deserved it. The comments she gave can be given by any body you can grab at Bugis Village. She give short and often nonsensical remarks which are of no professional contribution to the whole talent-seeking show.

My fav singer in this whole competition thus far is him on the left. Hady!

Today went to have lunch at Suntec Food court with my colleague zhou. I was queuing up for Fish sliced soup when a flying cockroach dropped down from those ventilation vents above. The cockroach landed on a young woman's long hair and seemed to stay there for a while until she ruffled her hair. It quite a big one. She shrieked and the flying cockroach started to fly around..scaring the hell out of the gals around..but it was a super gross scene to witness a flying cockroach...

2006-06-19T18:41:00.000+08:00

Don't know if you guys have went to the STOMP but i personally find it to be quite an informative and entertaining site. Esp the star blog, coz some of them are quite hilarious. Not to mention those transcripts of some court cases. My new addict.
By the way, Ju-Len on left mentioned this in one of the issue of why local gals tend to go for the Angmo...

Angmohs have an easier time here when it comes to acting cute

You know in my office building area, caucasians are a common sight. There is no sighting or watsoever. There are juz everywhere. Sometimes they are juz big u noe..and then they seem to hover above the gals they are talking to. Yea i meant the singaporean gals. Did i tell u about the Gelato ice-cream incident? I was like buying ice-cream and they were 2 angmo guys standing next to me, apparently staring at the weird looking ice-cream on display.

Hey bro, look at those tits!

This was what one of the angmo had said..and the gal who was serving me the ice-cream suddenly grimaced in disgust...

What's with the teens nowadays ah? Bashing, stripping, video-ing and posting on the internet? This really sounds absurd. The worse is when the parents of the victim had decided against blowing up the whole matter by reporting to the police. Why why why..

You should read the reason behind why the assailants bashed up the poor gal..something to do with condom and staring...it's damn dumb and insane.

What's with the parents anyway? Girls are now involved in public bashing? Unbashfully showing their faces in the video, not even feeling any pain while kicking the victims? Aiyo, parents ah parents...where are u...

I always believe that the blame should be on the parents. I may not have seen everything, but so far i have seen a clear match between a parent's behaviour and that of the child.. I think i have already mentioned a fair share of my uncle's case, when he married this Indonesian lady. The kids, one p1 and the other p3, spewed strings of hokkien and occasional vulgarities when they came to my house for some gathering thingy. Sigh. The kids even doodled on my sofa! Ughhh.

Anyway tmr is going to be my another dental appointment at marina square. I think it's fun in going for dental-hopping. Ever since i got the nus dental insurance scheme, everything is free ma..so might as well juz go check and wash teeth whenever i have time lor. So tmr my appt will be at marina square 6pm, after work. Hope everything wil be painless hehe.

2006-06-18T09:29:00.000+08:00

was freaked out by the movie last night..

.....

Haven't been so freaked and disturbed by a movie for such a long time...may be it's because of how real these creatures are identical to those in the game..

There are hilarious parts too..like the nurses on the left..Why funny? Coz their big boobs are distracting and they were like doing some dancing-like thingy. The whole cinema were filled with laughter.

I am not going to give too much spoilers..but let me assure you Nc-16 should not be the rating of this show...should be at least m18 ba.

If you want the link to all the creatures' wallpaper/pic, here is the link:

http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/silenthill/characters/

Overall this is a splendid movie, really held me rooted to the seat for that 2 hours plus. Though the plot really makes no sense, with a ridiculous ending..but the process of watching the whole movie is really making me sick to the core.. Kudos to the actors and actresses inside. I love the climax towards the end of the show! Thanks to the computer generated creatures, it really makes this whole film one worth watching!! By the way, i really as if i am playing the game in the whole movie..

Does it ever occur to you that Silent Hill had been inspired by a real town>? Not the gory creatures of coz. As you know the Silent Hill in the movie has this underground mine fire that had been burning for 40 odd years. This fits exactly the description of a town in Centralia Pennsylvania. It also has this underground mine fire that had been going for for 40 years. There had been engineering students who had gone there to try to think of ways to stop the fire but had failed. The idea of an underground mine fire kind of fascinates me. I mean..can u imagine that underground there had been fires going on for years and years? It's like a burning hell thingy. Sounds creepy huh?

Here is the link: http://www.offroaders.com/album/centralia/the-story.htm

underground coal fire...

2006-06-17T10:17:00.000+08:00

Today is a saturday..and it's rare occasion that my dad have the cab in the day. So my parents dragged me to the Bendemeer market with them. My parents like the Yong Tau Foo there..so it's of no suprise that all of us were having that for breakfast..kind of too spicy for my stomach early in the morning :(

So my mum today was buying the food for the steamboat at home tmr. Tmr is father's day..and my mum said we could juz have some steamboat at home instead of eating out. I guess cold war between my parents is temporarily declared over. Thanks for all ur concern dear pals.

How many of you will buy clothes from market? My mum does..and i kind of commented that she is really entering auntiehood. My mum as usual retaliated with the very acceptance that she is already one auntie. So i kind of took an impromptu pic of this market store...and i muz admit that not all of the clothes are deemed "auntie-wannabe".

Lost the momentum to sleep after waking up so early..so i am glued to this blog..boring.

Anyway..the pic on the right is the slippers that my brother bought for me..Ok lar..feel guilty that i am complaining too much..it's not so bad after all... I mean my youngest brother have to point out to me that it's really unusual that he bought things for us. LOL. $36.90 for slippers...kill me and i will never buy!

Find this site interesting! It's poster contest for Silent Hill!
http://images.google.com.sg/imgres?imgurl=http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/silenthill/postercontest/assets/D19_100R.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/silenthill/postercontest/download_art.html&amp;amp;amp;amp;h=846&w=1052&sz=332&tbnid=he3pTxEvCKh2JM:&amp;amp;amp;amp;tbnh=120&tbnw=150&hl=en&start=15&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dsilent%2Bhill%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26safe%3Doff

This poster is interesting becoz i remember this exact scene when i first played this game. It's quite a creepy game because of the sound and everything. And the creatures are really..weird-looking, nothing i have seen before. The resident evil can never match it. I remember passing by the cemetery also, with the thick fog and everything..

So, when the papers mentioned that this movie follows exactly according to the game..i am quite looking forward to the movie, though i am super lousy in the game. =)

2006-06-16T21:34:00.000+08:00

Today saw a rainbow outside the glass window of my office. My colleague pointed out to me the rainbow and i immediately took this pic down. =)

Not an eventful day today..pretty dull...brought my lap top to play but still cannot connect..

Today sinfully bought a scoop of Gelato icecream after my lunch to eat. The chocolate mint is always my favourite, follow by the coffee and mango. Yummy.

2006-06-15T22:12:00.000+08:00

Thursday, another day to the looming weekend liao..
This morning sent a document to Holland Village..and believe it or not, this was the first time i was exploring Holland V. Previously, i always passed by the place in bus.. So it was pretty fun, coz the shops there are pretty exotic-looking. I delivered a document to the Party City Pte Ltd. In fact it's a shop which sells partying stuff..like wigs, maggots(fake ones of coz), balloons..etc. So after the gal at the counter signed off and chopped my log book, i juz look around the shop lor. The gal then had this puzzling look on her face..like a postman is forbade from shopping for partying stuff like that. Since i am here in buona vista, and there's nothing to deliver after this, might as well jus linger around lor..

Saw a 2 storey Coffee Club while waiting for bus 200 to get back to the mrt. But it is situated out of nowhere..

Today is tuition day...and it was my second lesson with him. This guy and his family really resembles my family sia. The way my student talk also freaking resemble my younges brother. So i start to ask him if he plays MAPLE STORY when he is free. He was like shocked in his face that i knew maple story. HOWEVER, that is if he assumes that i play the game, which obviously i don't. GUNBOUND may be.. but not that maple syrup game. I rather have that with pancake..and not playing it on computer. He is quite ok with his subjects..juz need some drilling..totally the same situation as my brother lor..

Today i was being another kind good SAMARITAN by helping PEARLY my job agent to ask if any gals interested to take up an admin job in paya lebar... So i first call angel, then xt..then i dunno why that as i flipped through my contact lists in my phone, i juz called Xiuqing. Xiuqing told me that she is currently looking for a permanently job rather than a part time one. She asked me to call Meiqi. Machiam like transfer call like that right. Too bad cannot transfer call but i have to call Meiqi. I think she don't have my number or she is juz too speechless that i will call her. So i have to say "i am zhongxian" like twice then she realised that it was me. So Meiqi was the final candidate for this job assignment and she is waiting for confirmation of the job.

So that's the episode for today..yea. If the job offer had been for guys..i would have plenty of frens on my list to call. lol. Guys easier lor, gals are fussy :P

While i was despatching some documents within Raffles city tower itself (internal despatch), i came across a document for this company: NEOPETS(ASIA) PTE LTD. Ladies and gentleman, pls tell me that this company has nothing to do with that neopets we all came to know. I mean NEOPETS(ASIA)....u mean what? It has some headquarters? It's some big corporation which manages the NEOPETS' living expenses, managing the users' funds? Come on. Can't be right.. Ok enough of my crappy shit, but seriously came across this company. May be if i juz drop by their company, their receptionist will be dressed in some dragon costume>? Cool huh.

So bo liao mr nick went to do a research and find an astonishing website:

http://info.neopets.com/presskit/compback.html

This link kinda narrates to you the history of NEOPETS..lol you should go read.

Juz an excerpt from there:

History
The website, www.neopets.com, was founded by British college students Adam Powell and Donna Williams. The Neopets website initially went live on November 15, 1999. The development from a simple website into a viable business took Neopets, Inc. company founder and CEO, Doug Dohring, just a few short months. With the guidance and expertise of an experienced management team, Neopets, Inc. developed into an operating business by April 2000 (following its February incorporation), and reached initial profitability by July 2000. During that same period, the Company brought on the artists, writers, programmers, sales and support staff, and many of the additional senior management that currently comprise The NeoPets Team.

In just four years, the Neopets website has grown from operating on a single server to over two hundred servers currently. The site peaks at just under two gigabits of bandwidth each day (the equivalent of approximately 1400 T1's), and generates over 20,000 new account registrations daily.

This is a Chihuahua..not NEOPETS!

2006-06-14T21:47:00.000+08:00

I still don't get the idea of how come my brother bought that slipper...

I guess i have no right ground to complain since it's a gift from him. The one he initially asked me to choose has now become a slipper.. :(

He told me the slipper is worn for going out one. The problem is, other than swimming, i don't see why i should wear a slipper to town or shopping, instead of sandals...

A pair of slipper juz looked too weird...i still prefer to wear slipper to go downstairs or nearby... HOWEVER, my little brother kind of persuaded me that it's nice enough that he bought slippers for both of us. K lar credits to him lor. :)

2006-06-14T19:47:00.000+08:00

Shall start today's entry with this picture of a Chihuahua inside this box which obviously were used to put the POLAR cakes. The owner had sent this pic to TODAY newspaper and it'd been featured. . Kinda cute and peaceful.. isn't it?

Today at work was pretty hectic, travelling all the way to Ayer Rajah crescent, which is only few minutes away from NUS. City hall to there. When i had alighted at the bus stop, i still have to travel about 10-15 minutes of walk to my destination... In the end since i have to travel back to east side from Buona Vista, i might as well juz leave my stuff in the office first. I reach the office around 1800, half an hour past my knock off timing. I dun care, i wan my OT pay hehe, even though it's juz a meagre 3.25. However, never underestimate the power of accumulation. This is not the first time i have OT. Cheers.

I have to go Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore twice today...boring place...it's in Novena by the way.

I realise that the internet cafe at Stamford House is called Chills Cafe. No gaming stuff, juz a chilling out place, with WIFI/wireless, some finger food..etc.

http://www.chillscafe.com.sg/about.shtml Think it sounds nice..perhaps not for gathering, but for rushing of projects? Or a real nice place to study and surf internet>.? Once a while..not too often i guess.

2006-06-13T22:11:00.000+08:00

An excerpt from the book i am reading:

I remember when you see President Clinton get up in the morning and go for a jog with his Secret Service guards to Mcdonald's. Advertising Age said his infamous morning jogs were worth millions of dollars in free publicity for the company. He would eat so much fast food that he joked, "When my daughter started preschool and she was asked what her father did, she said that he works at Mcdonald's." He also had Domino's pizza delivered to the White House. An intern named Monica Lewinsky was given the task of ferrying it to the Oval Office. As The New York Times later joked, that was one "fateful pizza".

Also, reading the book really makes me grateful for not being obese.

Today, my colleague and i was like suddenly talking about the idea of "entrapment" because of the recent apprehension of the young trainee doctor. Were the CNB officers really entraping him? If that's the case, is the young doctor really a culpable criminal or a victim due to the persistent SMSes by the undercover officer to "bring the drug out for fun"? My colleague who used to study in canada told me that if this case were to present itself in the court, the accused will be acquitted... Then again, he did have the drugs wat..so..?

Lawyers run away with money, Doctors drugging themselves..these are jus black sheeps, yet it reflects that sometimes successful with a bright future is not a lifetime warranty to happiness. Somehow or rather, the lawyer and doctor are still not satiated. They crave for something more...a risk which backfired at them.

Hey superman is out soon at Omnitheatre! Who wants to go there to watch? Hardly a soul i guess. Freaking far right? My fren works at the sci center. Everday he has 5 free entrance ticket, and the omni theatre is at half price! You can take a look at this link:

http://www.science.edu.sg/ssc/otmovie.jsp?artid=7321&type=8&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;root=0&parent=0&cat=78

So some of you guys might have seen this urinal? So guys, are u offended to pee inside this suggestive urinal? Apparently Malaysia is pretty notorious for their foul smelling toilets. Take a look at the comments of some readers. Interesting. Most expressed disgust, as well as a waste of taxpayer money. This indeed doesn't solve the problem. Does it?
http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/nst/Wednesday/National/20060607100429/Article/index_html

Alright lastly, going to end this entry with this pic from mr brown webbie.

Tuesday

2006-06-13T21:22:00.000+08:00

Everyday have to pass by this Swisshotel stairway and i was wondering, if each round of staircase got 2 paintings on them, does it mean that the rest of the floors all the way to 3o plus floors all have the paintings? What a waste of resources. Anyway dun you think that this stairway looks like some prison stairway, like those in torture camps. :P (ya as if i have been to one right?)
Saw this gross air-con advert in TOday newspaper today. That is a bacterium by the way, not any housefly :P
THere was this artist performing an artwork today in Raffles City, so i kind of took down this shot. He painted with nippon paint and kind of painted it upside down. When he flipped it over, then i kind of realise it was Elvis he was painting.

2006-06-13T20:26:00.000+08:00

Typed a long entry..but suddenly something went wrong and whole entry was gone... :( lazy to type again...

monday blues

2006-06-12T21:12:00.000+08:00

Today after work rush down to pasir ris to realise that my student had forgotten that i am coming down for tuition today.. so kind of a wasted trip there. I borrowed a book from the pathetic pasir ris library today. A super crappy book with tons of statistics..but funny enough to make me laugh at some of the descriptions.

Kind of understood who angel referred to in her blog of the death of that fren. I guess life is really that fragile isn't it?

A colleague of mine was in the pantry with me today, telling me about the woes of being a family man...as how exactly one defines "success". What is success to you? So since i was slacking with my job all done, i was listening to him telling me about the values he had been imparting to his 3 daughters. Virtues like spendthrift, filial piety and bla bla... Kind of a boring topic to hear anyway...ma chiam entering the age of unclehood...

Today bought a small container from ART Friend to contain my saga seeds. I think picking up seeds at the st andrew's cathedral sooner or later will become a protocol for me to follow...

saturday

2006-06-10T21:44:00.000+08:00

Today had my BP mentor board meeting, regarding some structural changes to the management in BP and bla bla. After the meeting we went to walk around Plaza Singapura...nothing much to blog about today actually juz pics. =)

What a view..

2006-06-06T19:21:00.000+08:00

Nice orchids..

2006-06-05T21:08:00.000+08:00

dun be a father if u can't be one..

2006-06-04T21:10:00.000+08:00

My mum cried while complaining to me about my dad.. You know, sometimes i wonder how come my dad always failed in making my mum smile the way she used to...

Could he have been a failure in our species, failing the QC..?

I loath him, hate him...for all his indifference in contributing to the family.

I hate him for making my mum so upset...hate him for shouting at my mum at the coffee shop...

I hate him for never returning my mum the full sum of the dental insurance.

I hate him for turning my mum into the sole bread winner...

THere are so many things i hate about him, yet i remember that he used to provide for me. THat is the only reason i remember about him. Not much of any fatherly love thingy.

Sigh..if only my mum can be happy again..

2006-06-03T11:39:00.000+08:00

spending again...

2006-06-01T20:37:00.000+08:00

Ok today nothing exciting at work, coz basically the later half of the day i got nothing to despatch. So i was like playing minesweeper or solitaire on my lap top, since the network there is secured. Not that my life is really that good lar, juz that these few days really got nothing much to despatch. My working principle is simple, as long as something to send out, i will juz go and sent out lor. May be thats the reason why my boss thought i am hardworking. Seriously i am not hardworking lar. Juz that..i dun like to procrastinate. I mean sometimes they have document that isn't urgent and can send out at anytime, but somehow i rather send it out now then later, you noe what i mean?

It could be because the despatch guy before me was really a utter slacker. So may be under such comparison they are proned to think that i work hard...the truth i do slack..haha.

After work today went to the PC fair myself. It was really super darn crowded, and bounced into 2 of my ex recruits doing sales there. They become so fat until i can't recognise them...sigh. it's a pity that they dun maintain their fitness. I finally got my wireless mouse today..and it works on all kinds of surface..and the ease of moving the pointer on my screen really brighten up my evening!

wednesday

2006-05-31T23:04:00.000+08:00

Everday day at work is always a new adventure. For one, today is dumpling festival, so i can actually got the chance to indulge in good food. Apparently the company always has its staff lunch on special festivals. So today, my pantry(suppose to be my hideout place when i am free) has become a place for the waiter from Raffles hotel to collect the dishes. So when i came back from a delivery at Kaki Bukit (juz behind my house..so i went to take a quick shower, coz i was soaked in sweat), Gracia asked me to go and have my lunch inside the conference room. I would love to eat else where because all the senior managers were all inside the room eating. I had to go the right corner to sit down by myself to eat, feeling so uncomfortable.

The food is simply exotic and delicious..and i happen to take a peep at the receipt of the buffet. 1500++. Simply a horrendous sum for a buffet. The food is extraordinary, like lamb chop with rosemary sauce, some smoked salmon, some tandori chicken, lots of dessert. Guess what, my favourite is the cheesecake...it's really nice to the core..and everybody is also praising the excellency of this cheesecake. Simply irresistable. Those that they can't finish, i juz sit down at the pantry and eating away..

Before i left for work, my boss even passed me box of dumpling from Raffles Hotel. Apparently each staff have to take one box of 5 rice dumplings, and will bring home for my mum's breakfast tmr before her work.

Sorry for the unsightly pics of the leftover food...=)

Gracia jus got herself a new basket of flowers for her reception desk. Nice exotic flowers..(real flowers)

tuesday.

2006-05-30T20:41:00.000+08:00

Today my boss passed me this small little box with my post-sticked name on it. Was wondering if it was some voucher? Haha yea i can dream on that. Juz a stack of discount coupons. The basement 1 of Raffles City is called the Market place. The discounts come from the shops at the basement 1. Most of the shops are shops that i never patronise in my entire life. Like natural source? some restaurants there...etc bla bla. So if any of u guys plan to have some dinner with ur the other half and needed some discount, pls let me know..dun wish to throw this away =)

Today i spent my day as usual wandering around, yea, juz like when the hungry ghost festival is around the corner. From wheelock, to scotts shopping centre, to bugis, ..etc. Eventually had my lunch in bugis, at one of my favourite hawker center. Basically this 3 month holiday is really turn me into a rather hawker-savvy person. All the real nice good in chinatown, geyland, paradiz, the 24-7 places bla bla.

1.I realise that if u really need a good chilling out places and don't wish to travel far, you can actually go down to Siglap center. There is a Coffee club express with real nice desserts, next to it is a Cafe cartel, then some restaurant, then finally a Haigen Daz cafe. Further down the road is a starbucks...and one more cafe i can't remember wat.

2. It's about 2am and you wanted to find some cafe to chat,talk, sipping coffee? I think Mr Bean might be a nice place, which is right opposite Paradiz. Another one could be the Phil Steak House opposite Bugis Junction. This alley behind Bugis Junction sure have alot of its nice eating places, cafes and etc. The lounge next to Phil Steakhouse. I chose to order juz some blended coffee when i went there. Quite cheap compared to other places. These 2 places operate 24/7 i think.

3. It's the durian season man! Yea, good thing i have a few biker army frens and they always like to go there to eat. For me, i really can't take that much you know. Feels rather heaty the next day. Breakout will then be imminent. Geylang got 3 prominent stalls with the tables there, and each table got this big basket for u to throw the seeds. Some even sell u the coconut drink..etc. I suggest if u are going there to bring a bottle of mineral water. Well..if u go to the real GOOD stall, the taste is really heavenly! Be ready to spend around 30 bucks...

4. There are a few nice things nice about mud pies..yummy. They are so sinfully delicious... NYDC always have one of the best mud pies not juz because of the variety they have, another one of coz is the Coffee Club Express which has won some award. Also, we have the new one at Marina Square..selling some Japanese dessert...if i am not wrong the name of the restaurant is Changing Appetite..

5. Talking about cakes... lim teh and i are always addicted to the Chicago chesse cake. In addition IKEA got this delicious cake which they sold over the counter at the first floor. I have never bought it back home, but having eaten there, the cake is simply crunchy and delicious! yum.

6. Any idea that if u were to rank the most inaccessible shopping malls in town? Mine would be Tanglin Mall, UE Square, Great World City.

Thank God that i finally found a new tuition in pasir ris once again. Teaching sec 3, combined chem/phy. 25/hr. 1.5 hour per week. Good enough. =)

Saving up for 3 things to buy now: printer, 1 GB memory stick, wireless mouse. Let's juz see what the coming PC fair ought to offer.

Bowling cum mini angel bdae celebration =)

2006-05-28T22:31:00.000+08:00

Hi here is the link for the 4A Youtube videos. The username is ngeeann4A and the password is our graduation year.
http://youtube.com/profile?user=ngeeann4A
So make sure u get access to this hot site for latest videos. I think this is going to be fun coz out outings can actually be recorded into videos! (Cheap thrill i noe).

Pics if u wan the original quality u can get from me or angel.

2006-05-27T08:55:00.000+08:00

Yea i got the financial aid package...but they asked me to choose a package. It seems like i have no choice but to choose the 800 dollar one. THe reason is because the other package requires me to be a holder of the NUS Study loan. I am only on the Bank Loan thingy, so in the end i can only choose the 800 bucks one, which is good enough lar. =)

Second day of despatch, still = FUN

2006-05-26T20:16:00.000+08:00

Today i had a problem locating this place called Kim Keat Link, suppose to deliver a gift voucher to a colleague who was pregnant. What a weird job scope i have huh? Anyway, i in the end asked a fren of mine to help me locate this place which was in Toa Payoh.

Tmr is my CEO birthday. There were so plenty of flower baskets delivery today! And i have to carry them to the secretary lor. Oh ya not to mention the big cake she had today for her bdae tmr. It was a cake made by Raffles Hotel specially for her. It's called something like chocolate mousse, according to one of my colleague. When u bite into the cake, there this crunchy thingy inside, ma chiam like the CHOCO CRUNCH like that. Plenty of assorted wild berries on it. Simply scrumptious to the core! She also had this OLD FASHIONED lotus buns.....Why old fashioned? I mean, come on, you mean you want to have lotus buns for ur birthday? No doubt they are delicious with the NIAN RONG inside, but once it'd chill down, it kind of lost the initial freshness...

Today Maggie a temp staff was standing in for Gracia(pregnant). She is waiting to go NUS, going for ECONS major. But as u noe, the first year is kinda like common modules for all in ARTS. So i kind of chatted with her little, never really intimidate her with the gory NUS staff. Oh well, nothing much to talk with her also since i dunno much about ARTS fac ma. She was at the reception, busying with her SUDOKU. Oh ya she's from SAJC by the way.

As mentioned earlier, i was in Toa Payoh today, so i kind of walked around and saw the FABRIC OF A NATION thingy. So i took a few shots of the "blankets" thing and here it is.

Once again, second day of work and ppl in this company are super nice to me, helping me and correcting me when i made mistakes. So i should not slack :P

Before I forget. THis is for my fren, angelina.

2006-05-25T23:50:00.000+08:00

Since she hadn't post it onto the blog, may be i should unveil to my readers our 4A beauty bdae gal.
Thanks for being such a great fren. =)
Muz thank Xiaoting for the effort in compiling the greetings, and especially sparing the ink from her printer. Cheers.

THURS

2006-05-25T23:24:00.000+08:00

Ever since the advent of my free outgoing to 3 m1 numbers, gj and i machiam nothing better to do keep calling each other to chat about the upcoming results. Boy, am i nervous, and more or less we are affirmed of the results already. Undoubtedly, i should be relieved and glad for the slightly high jump in cap score. Not asking for more already.

Today is the beginning of my job at Raffles Holdings limited. The pic on the left is the pic(unedited, no time) i have taken from my phone while staring out at the window at the pantry. I am pretty fascinated with the capaccino machine and almost drowning myself in those cups of rich coffee. Ya i need to keep awake. It's an honour for me to work in this company, because it involves seeing some of the people who manage the swiss hotel, raffles hotel, getting to walk past the raffles city convention center, and many other corners i'd never been to in my entire life. You could never believe some of the grandeur that comes along with this temp job. Besides the plenty of opportunities for me to slack at Raffles city whenever there are no despatch work (allowed to do so). My admin lady told me i am allowed to go jalan jalan around the area until there is some despatch documents to do, or else i can choose to stay behind at the pantry reading my stuff.

Ya...i guess my wait for Pearly was worthy. SHe offered me the best jobs and this is by far the best. Considering what i have mentioned in my previous entry, the new 50 dollar EZ link card, a monthly 30 dollar handphone fee, can claim cab fare for ugent documents, 6.5 per hour.. it's simply more than i'd asked for.

Ok enough of the jubilation and obnoxious indulgence in satiation.

Back to reality check. Happy for lim teh that she'd finally secured a job for her. She has been an epitome of determination for me. She is not competitive, taking things in her stride, crazy as she is, yet simple and decent. Happy for her because she got this research job that she had longed for, a job that even got her to travel to china and indonesia. Considering the description of her interviewing process, it was a nice suprise that the interviewer actually replied that fast to her in welcoming her on board the company. Sometimes this job may be too big for her, coz she had wanted to juz stayed inside the lab and do research, yet i think the interviewer caught that intense passion in her. ALRIGHT ENOUGH OF FLATTERY comments! haha.

It seems terribly fast that gals our batch are thinking about adult things. ABout career, may be settling down, marriage? The latter being the least prioritised, i presumed. Angel herself had her own woes to be concerned about. I guess it's quite a turning point her at this juncture in her life, where decision seriously play a critical role in manoevuring her life. Well, wishing her all the best in capturing, kidnapping, one professor to support her project. Cheers.

Pls understand i am typing this entry rather fast coz it going 12am and i am still awake, i should be sleeping...for another long day tmr.

Oh ya, i am still pondering over taking linda's student in queenstown, physics, sec4 exp. Thats the updates for now. Make sure the next day you stay here, same site, same url, same time, same day. Goodnight, Ma-re-gem.

2006-05-24T21:57:00.000+08:00

I am simply elated because i'd jus passed the interview today. It seems like a very solemn company with some still air of seriousness inside. I am working in Raffles City Tower as a despatch, everyday work from 830 to 6pm, provided with an EZ link, and spare cash for cab. Quite a good deal, not to mention the 6.5 per hour . Quite a good rate. =) THis will be keeping me occupied till sch starts.

Pretty dismay to hear from 2 frens separately that X men sucks. Could it really be due to the change in director? My brother and my fren both gave the same criticism for the movie...not much of any coincidence huh?

Oh well..i still LL have to watch it this saturday. Hope the results released at 3pm will not affect my mood for Xmen though. =)

Well...miss Ethyl? May be abit..coz i like to play with kids ma...like playing "dragon and princess" with them. Ethyl will be fairy, Ashley will be the princess and of coz i will be the evil dragon chasing them. The standing fan will be "charging area" for both dragon and the fairy. The princess only have the folded stars to protect herself (ya she have alot of folded stars at home).

Ok childish things aside, i may be taking over one of LInda's students for physics in the west. I thought in the long term wise, it will be convenient for me after sch to go down and give tuition. But of coz during this holiday season, it is pretty inconvenient.

End of tuition..

2006-05-23T16:57:00.000+08:00

Sob sob...no more tuition liao...Ethyl's mum wanted to change her tuition to group tuition..coz she said Ethyl preferred group tuition...

In need of tuition lobang...

X MEN RULEZ

2006-05-22T18:51:00.000+08:00

Monday..another week of no job

2006-05-22T18:22:00.000+08:00

Who is the hero in your life? This video specially features a very young Mariah singing..Hero..one of the best song sang by her thus far i think... il divo, the 4 italian singers also did a rendition of this song with another unique flavour to it, as it was inclined towards the classical side.

I think the lyrics are pretty apt to anybody who is searching for that hero in your life. Nobody would be looking for heroine haha. I am not being a sexist here or wat...but the idea of a heroine ...doesn't really fascinate me much enough to blog about it haha. Oh well..i think Mariah sang this song during the "Tribute to Heroes"....around the period of the Sep 11 disaster. Celine also sang a song called God Bless America with a yearning hope that no more such disaster shall befall upon these people. The tribute to heroes was comparable to shows like the NKF charity show, but it's not about Mariah and Celine dancing indian dances, or doing their stint of walking on high rise buildings, or eat swords, ya you get my idea and i shall stop elaborating haha. All you need is juz powerhouse celebrity to bring the show to a climax great enough for ppl to avoid thinking twice about calling the charity hotline.

TOday is like another slacking day for me, while i try to convert some of the music videos i rip from Youtube into 3GP format, to upload into my handphone. The quality is not excellent, but still passable...at least i can watch some music videos enroute to my tuition tmr..or anywhere on bus.

dad's birthday

2006-05-21T22:10:00.000+08:00

Today is my dad's birthday and my whole family went down to tampines to shop for some clothes for my dad. We ended up in Giordano coz my dad got discount due to his actual birth date today. =)

My youngest brother and I went to queue up at the m1 shop to get a new phone for my dad. Expectedly my dad has chosen the nokia 3G phone, the sliding one...can't remember the model name. Never trust me to remember these models' name, esp Nokia's. So fork out 50, my second brother also 50.

I also got myself a new Sony ericsson k750i at 57 plus bucks. Furthermore, my student plan will be 13 bucks per month for 1 year, after which the last year of contract wil resume back to the normal price of 25.20. I am still happy, coz the guy told me he could activate the 100 dollar voucher i had gotten via mail. The voucher had supposedly expired, which is why i didn't bother to use the voucher today. When he told me he still could activate that voucher for me coz the expiry date is juz recent made me so freaking happy to save another 100.

The phone was 0 dollar with a 200 dollar trade in. My motorola worth 50, so i am supposed to pay 150 but the 100 dollar voucher helped me save alot!

Because i was using the student plan, i have to put down 3 m1 number with free outgoing. In the end, i choose my dad, my second brother and guojun one lor. Since guojun is going to be in the same course as me the rest of the 3 years, might as well put his number lor.

Oh ya, my dad got the 100 dollar off too... So i was telling myself not to be so happy about the voucher..it could be juz another marketing gimmick, i can never be that sure.

My family and i then headed to bedok avenue 3 for the Fish steamboat..and other side dishes which amount to 50 plus...good bargain.. so filling now..

tuesday

2006-05-17T00:04:00.000+08:00

Pic with super duper lousy quality coz of my lousy camera phone. Then again..manage to upload it..and the one on the right is Ethyl and the one on the left is Ashley. You should hear her younger sis speak chinese. Really super awkward. Typical english-educated kids..

Ashley is primary 1 and Ethyl of coz primary 4. I think Ashley is adorable, always laugh hysterically like a witch. (yea and i call that adorable).

Kids will forever freeze in those moments of innocence, oblivion to those politics of the world, always indulging in whatever simple pieces of toys and tools they have. Ya and today is my tuition day, and as usual Ethyly never fail to amaze me with her paucity in concentration thru out the whole session.... I am definitely not the source of problem :P

At least one thing to be thankful is their amiable parents who never look upon me with distrustful pair of suspicious eyes or even ordering what to revise with the student, like what Eugene's mum did.

You ask me if i ever look upon each tuition session as a source of income. Sadly, sometimes i do feel like this way. However, sometimes at least i love seeing them smile and laugh while teaching them. Eugene for example, once ask me, "How come you always like to say kena this and kena that ah?". For that split second, i was kind of loss for words. I jus say.."aiya..i am used to it already ma..may be i will change into other words lor".

How terribe i can be right? Sometimes when i am teaching Ethyl, i always like to countdown to her going her room to take some stuff, counting down to her getting back to the table..and bla bla. Why counting down is so inherent in me...i am sure most of u all might noe why..but being found guilty of doing that,..i see now harm doing that too. At least i manage to get her back to Earth. Her mind might be floating somewhere in some unknown planet X, where powerpuff girls are in dominion.

2006-05-16T14:15:00.000+08:00

Yesterday went to suntec with eric my army fren and then i bounce into two 4A couples in suntec. First i saw Ailing with his bf, and then i see Jianheng and Fengling. Bought a shirt and berms from giordano yesterday. Spent money again. Well, at least my objective is met. Coz i need 2 shirts and juz one berm. Running out of clothes to wear u know. haha.
Then after that went to marina south not to eat the steamboat, but actually tried the curry rice. Actually to me it was not so spicy, but i didn't know the poor buddy of mine was struggling with the curry. He used in all one and a half packet of tissues for the amount of perspiration he had. This was the first time i see someone sweat until like that when eating curry. Scary hehe.
Today back to at home, after going out 4 days in a row. Later on still got tuition with Ethyl at pasir ris.
Better go back to reading my C++.

Celine & il divo

2006-05-16T13:58:00.000+08:00

2006-05-15T00:57:00.000+08:00

You Are 23% Selfish

In general, you are a very giving person who treats others very well.
But at times, you insist on getting your way - when it matters most to you.

How Selfish Are You?

HAHAHHAA

2006-05-11T20:13:00.000+08:00

Perrrshed

2006-05-11T16:09:00.000+08:00

U noe wat kind of ppl can really piss me off?

1. People who talk so loudly in the bus, that figuratively the whole world can hear him loud and clear.
2. People who act as if they are some long time buddy with me, always babbling nonsense to you, and never-ending anecdotes of theirs. The worst is when they miss all the subtle and obvious hints I give him.
3. People who make use of the weakness in myself to exploit to his gain.
4. People who snatch my handphone to read my sms. :P
5. People with high ego that he feels that nothing is comparable with himself. This is often due to a super lack in EQ.

I am not that hard to get along with right ? hehe :)

2006-05-10T21:58:00.000+08:00

I forgot to mention that Ryan Seacrest called Paula Abdul a two-dollar hooker tonight in American idol. Actually it was one-dollar but it was still great television. He said something to the effect that he feels he should be giving her a dollar after her dance moves, though he didn't really use the word "hooker". Randy and Simon got all offended, yet Paula said nothing. A note to Randy and Simon, Ryan doesn't like to watch women dance. For ur info, ryan is dating the desperate housewife, Teri Hatcher.

As a whole, Katherine has slowly follow the route of sensationalisation. Meaning, everything about her singing comprised juz actions, no sense of genuine passion in her singing. No doubt she can sing, but she has been trying to prove the audience that she can sing, and obviously this is back-firing on her. I do agree with Simon that she was really like a some crazy chick in her first song. Tonight's theme was Elvis Presley. I thought zixian should have tuned in to the performances today. Katherine's second song was the over-played "can't help falling in love". Yes, there are some of the Katherine flavours inside the song....but towards the end it was simply too much. I mean, you can't juz convert this ballad and all-time favourite love song into some climatic powerful song right? Jus too sudden twist of tempo did no good i guess.

I guess Taylor is the one that i will fully support for now.

Ryan seacrest ought to be more cautious of the words he used. Week by week, his comments really can start to piss ppl off. Spiteful comments. It's a pity that in this season, the judges has failed to give professional comments.

2006-05-10T21:39:00.000+08:00

Why there are very few Blonde Doctors ?

2006-05-10T21:32:00.000+08:00

This one is hilarious. Before you start out, pleasekeep some towels
handy...there're going to be tearsstreaming down your cheeks.
This is the story of a Blonde who took a medicalentrance test.
Given below is a portion of the testanswers he gave.
Read on.......

Antibody - against everyone
Artery - the study of fine paintings
Bacteria - back door to a cafeteria
Benign - what you be after you be eight
Bowel - letters like a, e, i, o, u
Caesarian Section - a district in Rome
Cardiology - advanced study of Poker playing
Cat Scan - searching for lost kitty
Chronic - neck of a crow
Coma - punctuation mark
Cyst - short form of sister
Diagnosis - person with slanted nose
Dilate - the late British Princess Diana
Dislocation - in this place
Duodenum - couple in blue jeans
Genes - blue denim
Enema - not a friend
False Labor - pretending to work
Impotent - distinguished / well-known
Labor Pain - hurt at work
Lactose - people without feet
Lymph - walk unsteadily
Microbes - small dressing gowns
Obesity - City of Obe
Pacemaker - winner of Nobel Peace Prize
Protein - in favor of teens
Pulse - grain
Red Blood Count - Dracula
Rupture - Ecstasy
Secretion - hiding anything
Subcutaneous - not cute enough
Tablet - small table
Tumor - extra pair / you die
Ultrasound - radical noise
Urine - opposite of you're out
Vein - at what time?

Utilizing fren

2006-05-10T18:31:00.000+08:00

A fren of mine who is working as an engineer shared with me a office politics of his. He'd known this female colleague of his for 4 years. Let's call her miss A. Miss A lives in Clementi, and my fren Jason lives in Bishan. There is another mutual colleague of theirs call miss B. Initially Miss A wanted miss B to drive her to work. Miss B lives in Bukit Timah. However on that morning, Miss B would have to reach the office by 8am. Miss A dun have to reach so early, as she juz need to reach by 815. So Miss A was saying, aiya, like that i have to reach earlier by 15 minutes, that means i have to sleep short of 15 minutes. In the end, she asked my fren who is stayin in Clementi to pick her up.
Jason usually wakes up at 645 for work. Because of picking up miss A, he has to wake up around 6am to make sure he picks her up on time. However, he couldn't sleep much that night and ended up waking at 5am. He didn't dare to sleep, for fear that he will sleep past the time. So in the end he went breakfast with his parents early in the morning. He sms miss A and told her he might be early and asked her to get ready.
Miss A's reply was : "Aiya, if i know that u are picking me up early, i would have juz asked miss B to come fetch me, i think is ok lar, u go urself i go myself".
My fren's reply was : "i dun dare, you make me wake up so early, i am already on my way, i will wait until you come down."
When the both of them reached the office, Miss A started to grumble :"aiya, like that i might as well juz take the lift from miss B..sian".
At the end of the day, Jason, sms miss A and told her he was quite disappointed about the whole thing and how miss A shouldn't utilise a fren in this way.

What do u think? I think miss A deserves one tight slap on her face. Didn't know this kind of gal exist in the world lor. Never ever take a fren for granted. Never ever.

Discovery of the Judas Gospel

2006-05-10T18:10:00.000+08:00

I think it will be interesting to have SCV. For one, i would love to catch the Judas Gospel that is featured on National Geographic Channel. Angel told me that ChannelNews Asia is gona broadcast it and i wonder when the date is.
My youngest brother always got the lastest copy of National Geographic and the topics covered in each issue never fail to fascinate me. Of course, the lastest copy is about Judas' Gospel. It was termed as a heresy by the Orthodox Christians while some feel that it's the truth to the complete narrative description of Christ sacrifical role on the cross.
Angel was pretty disturbed by the scene where Jesus was kind of laughing at something, according to Judas' gospel. Many had thought that if Judas Iscariot wasn't around, there wouldn't be the famous kiss of betray, the hanging of guilt, which eventually led to the final persecution on the cross. Does that mean that Judas should be "best of the disciple"?
"you will be cursed", Jesus warned him. Is it really true that Jesus actually wanted Judas to betray him to fulfil the prophesy from the Old Testaments? These are questions running through my mind as i peruse the National Geographic mag. They will forever be controversies.
It took the experts five years to translate the ancient script of the Judas' Gospel which was made in papyrus. It was so brittle that it started to break with slight touch. Experts were using tweezers and in that five years, only 80% of the gospel is completely translated.
It was found an egyptian village trader who now had passed away, and the secret of how he had found the script remained unknown. His family members shunned away from the media and refuse to provide any information on that origin.

For those interested in knowing about how the gosepl looks like and what it really says after thousands of years, here is a wonderful link: http://www9.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/gospel/

below is an excerpt from the National Geographic website.

The second page of the Gospel of Judas presents a dramatically different retelling of a final meal Jesus shared with his disciples. "When he [approached] his disciples, [who had] gathered together and [were] seated and offering a prayer of thanksgiving over the bread, [he] laughed," reads the manuscript. "The disciples said to him, 'Master, why are you laughing at [our] prayer of thanksgiving? We have done what is right.' He answered and said to them, 'I am not laughing at you. [You] are not doing this because of your own will but because [it is through this that] your god [will be] praised.' " Jesus laughs, scholars say, because the disciples do not understand that the God of the Old Testament, to whom they direct their prayers, is not the true God. In this gospel, only Judas, the disciple reviled by orthodox Christians, understands God's true nature.

Jus another day..

2006-05-10T17:55:00.000+08:00

Ya, sure i know that my blog loads slowly because of the Youtube videos. THousand apologies about that. I juz simply can't resist sharing some of these interesting videos to you guys.
Today is quite a pathetic yet fruitful day. Pathetic coz i went all the way to lakeside to collect textbooks from a fren, then go back to causeway point library.
Steve is doing maths major, so i thought i could borrow some of the linear algebra and operations research textbooks from him. I AM so BORED! I need books to juz read. Furthermore, OR is whole new topic to me and i would love to read up to find out what exactly it is. When i went Causeway point, i dun understand why i feel like an alien there. May be coz it'd been years since the last time i went there...and everything there is so different.
In the end, i was like carrying so many books with me, and when i finally reach home, i am glad the load is finally off me.
No more tuition with Eugene tentatively, which means tonight i can happily watch my American Idol! Yeappie.
I'd juz asked my mum where she wanted to eat on sunday, and she told me she preferred to eat out on saturday coz it's less crowded. She wanted to go to our fav eating place at Kembangan. The place where they went to eat for my bdae this year. Sometimes, i wish for something novel, instead of patronizing the same venue over and over again. Well, i guess it's Mother's day, so i will leave it to her to decide. My turn to treat this time round.. :( hehe.
Guess what this 21st May is my dad's bdae. Erm..so who's treating? I dunno :P
March April and May are always Peak periods for my family. July also. Coz July is my youngest bro's bdae. Usually i have to spend alot of money too.. bo bian.

Are you alright, you little man? LOL

2006-05-07T19:37:00.000+08:00

Lovely song..interesting video

2006-05-07T15:15:00.000+08:00

Beep!

2006-05-07T14:45:00.000+08:00

General election 2006 results

2006-05-07T12:47:00.000+08:00

Can't believe that i actually could sit through the wee hours of the night glueing my eyes to the tv for the results of the 2006 general election. Some would say the results are obvious. Is it really that obvious? I dunno.
Channel 5 did quite an average job on reporting live of the various reactions from various corners of Singapore. However, the two broadcasters were most of the time caught by surprise by how swift the results were out. They had to be interrupted several times due to the release of the results. Hmm... I thought they could have done a better job on that...
There were some technical error here and there too. For instance, when one of the chinese reporters had to interview PM Lee, PM Lee started to speak juz when the microphone failed to work. To PM Lee's oblivion, he kept on talking, until the chinese reported had to apologise to ask him that question again.
I was pretty annoyed by some of the reporters' rude behaviour. I can never understand the difficulty of their job but why should they stick out their hands with the recorder, resting their hands on the shoulder of Chiam See Tong? The police guards have to, on several occasions, push their hands away from resting their hands on the shoulders of Chiam. As you know, they are not juz determined to make sure the recorder in near his mouth. They had to be that desperate. I guess it's juz their job ba. That kind of act isn't professional either.
Ultimately, my area has to be the last to be announced. Angel and i were like sms-ing each other, about how close the votes were and how the opposition had retained their seats for HOugang and the Pontong Pasir.
It's a pity that i am the only person in the family tuning in to the live news last night. Kind of boring... second bro out, little brother playing game in room, mum sleeping, dad working night shift.
You know, it's great to realise how the different losing parties had such sportsmanship. You can roughly tell that the comments they made were not juz made out of "wayanging" but they were sincere congratulations to the winning party from the losing parties. More often that not, the losing party also ended up with a "i will be back" assertion. Jus like Anorld, i will be back.
It's a splendid idea to arrange the different parties at different assembly area for the arrival of the results. Considering the past historical conflicts, it's definitely a noteworthy idea put forward.
PM Lee demonstrated his multi-lingualism in yesterday post-results speech. Yes he had won in the AMK grc and he muz have been exhilirated considering this being his first contest after his reigning as a PM.
For better or for worse, the legacy will continue for the reigning of PAP in Singapore's political history. World Health Organisation had called SIngapore a role model for the SARS epidemic, the security of Singapore is never threatened, the diplomatic ties with various international empires, it's newwater. All these endeavours will continue to put in SIngapore in poise for continual survival as Global city without hinterland.
Sigh...global city without hinterland had been my choice for essay in my SS...wonder how i would fare in this paper.

2006-05-06T13:04:00.000+08:00

只想爱你
作词:小米作曲:彭妮演唱:杨丞琳杨丞琳

我终于还是说了一句我爱你
还记得那个微凉夜里天空正飘着小雨
心跳的声音像舞动奇迹
你看着我说千万不要爱上你
因为你只会让我伤心别傻了快点喊停
你那么冷静忽远又忽近
我知道我对你来说也许太年轻
我想我猜我问我终于了解
原来为爱流的眼泪也是种甜蜜滋味
只想爱你
当我和你走在一起就已经决定不看不听不问也不会放弃
是你让我了解自己可以为爱那么坚定
只想爱你
好想每天睁开眼睛就能看到你
我知道我偶尔有一点任性不管你做任何决定究竟爱我还是逃避
sorry我还是不会放弃爱你
sorry我还是不会放弃我还是不会放弃爱你

Laughter is always the best cure of all medicines

2006-05-06T11:17:00.000+08:00

Today jus made the vote. You know "the vote". The next one will be 5 years down the road you know. You ought to be excited, you ought to be eager to know the results of this seasonal election. Who shall emerge to be the conqueror i dunnno. All i know is that i kena taken to task by my dad because of my obvious choice for my vote. His rationale was, why "your vote is different from your mummy and i?"
I have tons of things to argue for if i wanted to. But i guess i juz give quiet ba. Anyway, i play no big role in the election also wat.

After the vote, nothing extraordinary happen. Life still resume normal, mundane, ennui, whatever you may call it. I finish my work yesterday. I am one jobless guy now.

Yesterday went out with xiaoting,chuan tian and yongxing. Basically, i was the first to reach. Then coz chuan tian was helping yongxing to troubleshoot his router, they took quite a bit of time to reach. Xiaoting was the next to reach. We walked around, and finally ended up in the long john at century square. Finally the last 2 of them finally reached. Ended up talking cock in the long john till about 10 plus pm. We were like talking nonsense, talking about extinct characters in our class 4A. About the indifference of Seng wee when Chuan tian saw him in mrt. About kok wee, about lindy, about ..that frenster cupid thingy haha. Ya i noe lar, started by me lar, can?
Yongxing started to ask him, "you know who is yixing's father?" (yixing was our mutual fren in engineering). Then i say..."oh no...no another one..who who?". I thought her dad mus be some important guy. Then yong xing solemnly mumbled " Your recruit". And i laugh hysterically. Obviously his sarcasm is good. LOL.
Finally today is a day of no work, and pure slacking at home. Feel like going out, but i bet it muz be freaking crowded everywhere. Right?
I juz realise Yongxing has so many nicknames for ppl in our class. Nicknames that are so...mad. Haha. Like who is Gan Eng Seng's sister? Hello kitty? Big face? You should hear from hiim lar. One big joker lar.

Woo la la

2006-05-04T22:35:00.000+08:00

If having rushed down from Raffles Place to Pasir Ris to give tuition is not bad enough, Ethyl has to give me one kind of attitude today. I was really burning in fury. Anger is written boldly on my forehead.

I mean, primary 4, ...dunno how to count square? Or for that matter, 10 squares can count as 9 squares. Sometimes it's not a matter of being careless, but a matter of no effort. Absolutely BO CHAP. I started raising my voice at her, forcing her to one corner with all the questions, since she like to give me one word answer with no thinking process. I started to ask her, but why this, why cannot like that, then why like that, how come? And she thinks that it's a joke to her somemore, when tmr is like her maths exam.

Forget it lar. I have tried my best. She simply refuse to put in effort. And her mum is always absent.

Today Jessica gave me a loadful of paper to update. Basically all the price quotation for the chemical products Sasol sells. Again, i am sure Longrun and LImteh will love this. All the MIK, MEK, Propanoic acid, Acrylic acid, Acetone, Butyl glycol, all the weird weird names that i have hardly seen before, for the very fact that i am still stuck at the benzene stage u noe haha.

Jaded...after coming home. Had a late dinner, not interested for LOST on tv. Tmr is yet another day of working.....i wan to go town..

wuliao

2006-05-03T21:48:00.000+08:00

For the first time in my life, i am going to regret being such a lame and crappy guy, that one of my fren started to strongly believe that the story of the frienster is "staged". Wait a minute, did you mean the both of them are staging..? Haha.

Anyway, i wonder how xiaoting can straight away give me that correct answer for this mystery gal while angel i have to give several hints before she gave me the answer. Before i told angel, i told her that she will confirm say " CHEY...!"... In the end, she really chey, coz it was really a "chey" disclosure. I mean , ppl were expecting Jolina, Meiqi..Xiuqing.. ( I dunno why). Is it coz they look like they are going to be single forever? NO lar..may be they are juz too quiet in nature to be those type who can succumb to the cupid frenster love thingy.

THe four of us Yihao,Jordan,Guojun and I were studying together for the exam period. First it was Yihao who went tumbling down some steps i think, and his lap top got some dent. Next, it was myself who fell below the central library on a saturday, injuring my knee cap to my oblivion, until my jeans was stained red from outside. The third came jordan after one of the exam(statics i think). Jordan fell at YIH bustop on the concrete steps, but he kind of do a "break-fall" stunt and manage to escape the clutches of the falling monster. So now, the three of us were eyeing guojun closely. We ask him if he needs some help, it will be better for us to shove him now, then to fall unexpectedly with a drastic end. HAHA.

I know today i am working and u still see me online. This is not the first time, and perhaps you have realised that i am working at the same place. Yesterday they had this wonderful bufffet after a monthly meeting. Irene asked me to join them, theni say ok lor. Deep inside my heart, i was thinking..yeapie got buffet lor. Cheap skate lar i noe. I My time with sasol chemicals is always short lived coz they dun need me to stay for that long. After my work, i have to rush back home to my tuition nearby my house at 7pm.

I came home, managed to catch few glimpses of Paris, Katherine Chris and Taylor on American Idol. For the first time, i can watch tv with a full ease. With nothing behind the back of my mind.

What do you think of that Gourmet guy? Oh i mean Gomez. He is simply such a redundant character in the worker 's party. I mean, today's newspaper wrote about PAP's disclosure of Gomez's hidden agenda. That is, to discredit the electorial system in Singapore. I mean, if there were no surveillance camera, i wonder what will the outcome now. I have colleagues who feel that PAP is kicking up a big fuss. I am of coz thinking otherwise. What i envision of an opposition party is one capable of lending another voice to the government. This voice could be from the minority, could be from the poor. The opposition party should have strong arguments for their cause, and not rebuking PAP with words like "dare to die is better than scared to die". Or even to ask PAP to move on and not be distracted by an issue stirred by Gomez. As you can see MM Lee Kuan Yew told the worker's party, "go ahead and sue PAP if what we say about Gomez is untrue". Instead of having some brilliant tactics, the opposition is playing into the PAP's hands. Lousy. Minus points.

Friendster-Play-Cupid?

2006-05-01T17:23:00.000+08:00

How many of you actually believe that friendster can help you look for some steady partners? Well, i am definitely not one of these believers.
I am holding on to another one of the juicy news from ngee ann 4A. One of us is getting attached...and this guy has to be my ex recruit. You know, first it was Lijin with my ex-recruit, and now another one. Seriously, pls dun think that i am expressing disapproval of their relationship or what, juz that i am suprised and it came too sudden thats all.

Shawn, one of my ex recruits from 3 Sir, once excitedly tried to show me his gf's photo from his wallet. I took a glance, and believe me, all that i can say was "Lijin???". Shawn then asked me how i had known Lijin...and then that kind of became the topic of the day.

As some of you all might have guessed, Lijin brought along Shawn to my 21st bdae last year. So it was kind of weird, that ur subordinate become one of ur frens' bf. Nevertheless, it was pretty fun. WHy fun? Dun ask so much, juz interesting.

So now u must be wondering who is this person from 4A. Time will come when she will bring him along for 4A gathering, coz he told me the gal(4A) wun alllow him to go. HAHA. I told him i will psycho her to bring him along.
One thing to admit, this guy has a very complicated dubious background. He used to get into some trouble and i have to clarified with him over msn, over some alleged trouble he got some of my fellow specs into. I guess his explanation is satisfactory enough and all i can do is to ask him to take good care of the gal. I ask him how he get to noe her. His reply was " from you lor..".
Almost immediately, i retorted," From me? WHat you mean?"
"Your friendster lar", he exclaimed.

Part of me is wary of the way the both of them knew each other, the other half of me is taking this with a pinch of salt. I guess i can't intefere too much and let them be ba.

This week shall be a hectic week, with work at Sasol Chemicals as well as extra tuition for my kids who are having exams.

2006-04-29T23:37:00.000+08:00

Today manage to drag Ken out to go Bugis with me. He later suggested accompanying him to the NAFA graduation exhibition and i juz tagged along lor. It was quite an eye-opener for me, having visited their exhibition at their new campus for the first time. There were the multimedia section, visual com section as well as the Interior design section.

So i juz walked around, looking at the drama series they made, the movie-alike shows, the designs and photos, while Ken talked to his fren who is graduating.

After the whole visit to the exhibition, Ken suprisingly propose going to ktv...coz he seldom wanted to sing. So in then end we went to the Kbox at Paradiz and sing until 9pm, until the guy have to "chase" us out. I always thought that if the time is up they will tell u that it's the last song on the tv screen right.? Hmm weird.
Ken never fails to sing all his old classic chinese songs. Those from Wang Jie, and some that i forgot wat the name is. And as usual, my choice of songs is so so predictable. We have our dinner there and by the end of the day i am so so tired.
Today i saw the atm machines being packed with people. Could it be due to the PP?

Yesterday jus received the election notification thingy. So, now it's time for me to vote. Obviously..i am going to vote for....hmm some party. (crap lar).
Exams are finally over....really have to thank those group of frends who have helped me along for this sem.

cool ad

2006-04-28T00:40:00.000+08:00

U think nus students will do this?

2006-04-28T00:25:00.000+08:00

mummy birthday...13th april..

2006-04-26T21:21:00.000+08:00

HAHA

2006-04-26T13:32:00.000+08:00

2006-04-23T00:56:00.000+08:00

Great performance!

2006-04-23T00:43:00.000+08:00

You guys will love this. The song is great!

2006-04-21T20:37:00.000+08:00

Yew......

2006-04-21T20:32:00.000+08:00

Lara Fabian- Broken Vow...wonder diva!

2006-04-18T23:11:00.000+08:00

2006-04-18T15:55:00.000+08:00