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2012-01-19T23:37:00.001+08:00

伤心到没话说.

RWC 2011

2011-09-24T15:39:00.005+08:00

It's the Rugby World Cup again!! Will New Zealand be able to break the jinx and clinch the webb ellis cup this year? Their squad looks pretty strong with the injection of some new blood..

Those who got to watch a match in New Zealand is really lucky.. It will be many years later before I can watch it in New Zealand again as God knows when they will host the RWC again.

Work has been busy as always and may we finish off this work year with more sales!! =D

Happy Birthday

2011-08-03T00:30:00.002+08:00

Thanks to everybody who did their part for making my birthday celebration so enjoyable!! Happy 25th birthday, quarter centurian!! =D

SupeRugby

2011-06-26T08:53:00.008+08:00

Work has been kinda busy lately as we hit the 3rd quarter of the year. After undergone many planning sessions in the first two quarters (i presume), it's time to come up with new products!!

And that is where my workload starts to pile up with every company getting back to us to run trials for various products. Running trials and making the products are fun but if there are too much trials, it'll be like a total war.. However, I have managed to schedule it and finish bit by bit so it's not that bad..

Sometimes, you'll be drop dead at the end of the day with other evaluation jobs and reports to write up. Nevertheless it still gives me a high level of job satisfaction and i can really feel that my company really does values its staff.

Take example of the ice cream course which i went to 2 weeks ago. It was about the same as what i learnt in school but more in depth and i really learnt so much more. Going on courses is fun but when you get back to work the next week, everything's gonna pile waiting for you. However, it's worth it because sometimes i really miss lectures back in school..

Besides work, i have also been catching up on the SupeRugby matches. Actually i am rooting for all the NZ teams in the competition but my favourite is the Blues. The crusaders play very well too. So do the Highlanders, Chiefs and Hurricanes. So whichever NZ team is playing against other teams from Australia or South Africa, I would want them to win. =)

My training regime was started since the poly days and i am carrying it out til this day. Maybe it's a sign to go back to a sport which i missed playing and only watch it on tv now. Hope that after some of my teammates get back from their studies overseas, we can join a club and be in competitions again!

*BAM!!*

work and GE

2011-04-30T07:59:00.007+08:00

Work has been fun and yet challenging as well.. learning to use all sorts of equipment, meeting all kinds of clients and answering all kinds of queries. It is indeed challenging but fun nonetheless. i get to deal with so many products and it will really add value to my experience. Not forgetting to mention that the people around are also very nice. Guess i will be staying around for some time. =)

General elections are coming soon and it is the first time that many of my peers have the power to vote. The power has finally come to the people of our age. I really admire the people in opposition willing to step out and stand by what they believe in and oppose some of the current policies in the country. This time round, there are SO many of them whom are scholars, doctors and lawyers. It will be an exciting GE indeed.

No doubt our government is doing well but there will still be some flaws. With more opposition, the debate in parliament will be taken to a whole new level. I can really see that the campaigning is heating up. May the best win and win in a clean manner. Hope we don't end up like Real Madrid and Barcelona whereby there are so many controversy with all the play-acting and diving in the match. Vote wisely and responsibly for our future as well as to represent the young ones who can't vote as yet.

Not being able to answer questions

2011-03-12T15:20:00.005+08:00

After working for slightly more than 2 months, i felt that there is actually sooooo much stuffs to learn. It really suck to not being able to answer questions asked by other people. Although, i am not supposed to know everything but still it is not a very good excuse.

Well, at least i answered most of the questions that i know and moreover, i am considered a newbie and still have so much more to learn. Working is indeed fun but also not mentioning that it is quite tiring. However, i have to be grateful that my current job is like a 90% lock-key match to what i was doing in school.

I swore upon that day when the next time somebody asks me a question relating to work, i will be proficient by then and give my best shot in answering queries.

The encouragement which Prof. Winger gave us before he left is what makes me strive to be better than yesterday's me.

May strength be bestowed on our institution whom once gave us so much and made us to be what we are today.

work environment

2011-01-11T21:04:00.004+08:00

Work had started for a couple of weeks now.. it's not too bad working in my new company as the environment is great.. The people there are nice as well but i am still adjusting to the new lifestyle at a rather slow pace.. School is really fun and i am already starting to miss it.. If only some of my classmates were here and it will be more fun during work..

Working is not as what i've expected but it did turn out better than i expect it to be. Just have an open mind and have a 'learn as much as i can' attitude.. And also to be contented as my company is not too bad and the job scope is quite fun as well.. Just that i need to learn some equipment which are massive. It is a challenge but i take it as learning something new to enrich myself.

Hope that all my classmates find their dream job and have fun in their working place.. =)

Work, work

2011-01-03T00:40:00.003+08:00

Here i am transiting from student to working adult!! hope it will be fun.. Had fun during the holidays.. with various xmas and new year parties.. Happy New Year to all and may 2011 be a great year!! =)

interesting obituary

2010-12-11T23:15:00.002+08:00

Chanced upon an obituary paged D8 of the Straits Times when i was reading the papers yesterday. It really caught my eye because it was special and not like the others which were solemn and so dead. This was what i read..

He lived life to the fullest

He loves to drink
He loves to dive
He loves to dance
But has no time

Our gentle giant
Was a little imp

Friends who love him
Come celebrate with us
As he is relaxing in heaven

XOXO

There was even a caricature of the person printed in the obituary. If only people could remember us how we lived and not how we died. I would want mine in the future to be like that too!! People to be rejoicing and be happy and not in the sad and mourning mode. =)

Superhero

2010-11-30T16:40:00.002+08:00

Being somebody's superhero and getting drenched in the process is totally worth it! Glad that i saved somebody's day!! =D

holidays

2010-11-01T17:44:00.010+08:00

It was a long time since i wrote anything!! Trip to Tioman was fun and relaxing which i enjoyed very much personally. Cutting yourself away from the known world for a few days was indeed rewarding. After weeks of fyp and months of mental torture, the trip really recharged my mental state of mind known as the brain.

Although school was hectic but it has all come to an end after 2 years and we'll be graduating this coming wednesday. Applied for some of the jobs and got called up for some interviews but some of the companies didn't even reply. It is very discouraging but on a happier note it also means that i get to relax and rest for a longer period of time. =)

However, one must not slacken during the rest period. If not, the lazy bug will kick in and it will be the end of YOU!! Thanks to gab for introducing me to work in the Korean restaurant. It was fun and the people there are quite nice. However, the restaurant is closing down soon.. It is kinda sad as the dishes were cooked by an authentic korean auntie.. she's leaving due to a dispute with the boss (i think). Time to look for another job!!

Learnt a bit on the culture of eating korean food. There are so many sauces which go with so many different kinds of foods. I also learnt that koreans like to eat soupy stuffs. They like to add soup/tea into their rice to make it taste like porridge. They also like to add those salty sauces into their beancurd.. *yucks* It was kinda an eye opener and their food was like so super spicy. About 60% of their food was added with chilli powder or spice of the same sort. They provide meals for their staff and after eating their food, my tongue really got burnt. =x

Although i learnt to appreciate that bit about korean food but i still do not really like it. However, one exception is the kimchi.. it has a weird taste but when you eat in the long term, it kinda taste pretty awesome. Their culture of eating is interesting but i can't seem to really eat it in the long term..

All the best to all peeps/classmates looking for jobs at the moment and in the meantime remember to relax and enjoy as the next step towards working life would be a long one.

the end of school

2010-10-04T21:30:00.003+08:00

Finally that settles it!! thesis is finally done and it's time for graduation. Got a couple of job offers but they don't seem to be interesting and fun jobs to me.. Guess i gotta go search again.. In the meantime, time to relax and off to Tioman we go for 4 days.. WooHoo.. =)

disppointed

2010-09-05T23:58:00.001+08:00

a bit disappointed to be treated like dirt.. seems like i am one who's easily forgotten..

Twitter!!

2010-07-10T13:33:00.002+08:00

Twitter makes blogging looks so 'laychey'.. Go to http://twitter.com/RuiSong_RouSong and see me Tweet like a bird.. =)

prof ray!!

2010-06-10T07:34:00.015+08:00

Well, back again after few weeks of hell.. alright i admit this sem was siong.. much more than the previous ones.. just had my last exam yesterday.. it was as if i had my last testimonial match.. no more exams in uni lo.. woohoo.. unless Brian decides to fail me due to too much crap which i wrote.. ahahaha..i'm just so glad everything is over (except for fyp)..

First highlight of school was the arrival of Prof Ray Winger.. he really did instill fear (some) when he came back as he is one person you cannot smoke through due to his extensive knowledge..the practical carried out with a protocol was not as bad as outfield in army but i have never done a practical that was so long.. approximately 8 to 9 hours.. phew.. really did learnt a lot from the entire exercise.

Prof Winger is really a genius!! he might seem like a person with a iron rod in his hand but actually he's a nice chap la.. i did give him names such as stingray (newton's circus' one is nice.) that time but i take that back now because he's such a respected person. After his debrief, really felt quite sad for him. Since he was the only real true blue professor specializing in food technology, he was like so called the scapegoat to be the simulated Gordon Ramsey and be as unfriendly, serious, stern and grumpy more than the usual person..

Many students in NZ might just see his simulated side because he said he did fail them before.. but they did not see the better side of him which was how he put himself in the hot seat to educate us to be better future food technologists. Some did, fortunately and i am sure they learnt a great deal just like what we did.

What he say really strucked me.. it's not about how smart you are.. it's about the attitude.. he also said that the difference between us and him is just the experience and we pretty much know the same stuffs.. a great level of humility is being displayed here.. reminds me of my rugby captain who urges us to teach others and be humble so that we will grow together as a team..

He also said that making mistakes is okay because it is through mistakes, we learn.. and i am glad i made so much mistakes during the pilot plant experiment and that made me learn as the memories are deeply etched in my brain.. i am really glad that our lives are touched by him and he indeed made a difference by imparting what he knows unto us..

pic of prof Ray Winger which i found on google.. haha!!

kudos and all the best to him!! although we might not see him again but i just hope his newly set up company will be a success in UK.. =D

Forgive and Forget.

2010-05-13T21:42:00.000+08:00

To err is human, to Forgive is D.I.V.I.N.E.

chelsea won =(

2010-05-12T21:31:00.004+08:00

alright!! no sour grapes here.. maybe chelsea deserved the title more this year.. they thrashed quite a number of teams by a big margin this season.. man utd got 2nd place and lost the championship by 1 point. but it's alright!! we still got the carling cup (though they say it's a worthless cup as all teams field their reserve players) and we'll come back stronger the next season.. i'm sure of that.. =)

aftermath.

2010-04-25T21:05:00.008+08:00

alright, here i am again.. just glad that the episode is all over. can't say who's right or who's wrong.. maybe both are right and maybe both are wrong.. well, but i've decided to let it be and let bygones be bygones.. i even took my previous post down although what is said can never be taken back.. just hope everybody will be happier this way.. however, this is still my space for penning my thoughts down.. and one should really not come and read if it pisses you off, especially to all Chelsea fans. Because this post is gonna be about the victory against spurs yesterday!! =))

well, Man U won yesterday!! yay!! let's paint the town red!! anyway, it was kinda nerve wrenching watching them score only one goal near the 60th min.. and spurs levelled at the 70th minute with just 20 minutes to go.. all remaining matches have to be won in order to beat chelsea to the trophy.. so it's really an important game.. fortunately the lads stepped up and did their job.. phew.. the final score was 3-1!! woohoo!!

Berbatov ran around like a bull and it was so unlike his usual snail-like movements. Although he didn't score but he created a lot of opportunities up front.. Next, was Nani who chipped one over the goalie and that was really one spectacular goal!! he got better, shrugged off being under the shadows of ronaldo and is one hell of a star now..

Last but not least.. my fav player ever since i watched them play when i was a kiddo.. no. 11: giggs!! scored 2 penalties which were almost saved by the keeper.. really requires composure to take penalties in important games like that.. the welsh wizard is like 36 years old?? and he's giving all the young lads out there a run for their money. no signs of him stopping there despite his age.. just hope he'll be able to stay on for another season. =)

Gooooooaaaallllll!! Giggs!

alright, Rooney is still injured and sidelined for the rest of the season.. but i think we're so gonna nail the last 2 games without him.. i just hope that stoke city beat chelsea later, even a draw would be as great!! =) anyway, really miss rooney's runs and shots and since he's injured, there's not much action of him.. For those who wanted to read more about rooney in my previous posts can just get the archive from me yea.

i just hope that the title is ours for the keeping this season. =)

protests

2010-04-10T19:18:00.009+08:00

it's me again.. haven't updated for aeons of months.. actually it's not that long.. maybe only 2 months.. work has been hell.. it really is.. this semester is really the most jialat it can ever be.. but so what?? bring it on.. it's the last semester already!! a bit more and it's graduation then i'm bound to miss school when i get my ass out in the work industry.

well, sometimes i don't know if i am too sensitive, read too much into things or whatsoever. actually it's just me. i am super curious, kaypoh and maybe poke my nose into too many stuffs. but when i see something unfair or wrongdoing being committed, it's like a big piece of thorn in my flesh.. i need to remove it or do something and make me feel better.

i know i am too straightforward and i sometimes don't give face but this is how i am. pardon me for my straightforwardness. i will say how i really feel and think if i feel things should not be the way it should. i admit i have offended a couple of people in school since poly til even now. but i do that for a reason. i saw grievance, unjust, unfairness, shortchanges and that's when i do something about it. i don't go out to confront and beat the shit outta the person because that's too barbaric.. talk things out through when problems arise and use force only if somebody beats you up first. =)

so there i go and do my peaceful protest and write my rants to show my protest. at least i dare to let people see how i feel and don't go around bitching behind people's backs. cutting corners and injuring people's backs is so uncool and not my style.

well, most of the time it might just be misunderstandings and i read too much into things but i'm sure something is really wrong there, isn't it? if everything is fine and A-ok, i won't go about doing my little peaceful protests. i just want to set things right and help people see my point of view. i might be wrong sometimes because i might not see the whole picture but i do it to make it a fair and better environment for everybody. just like how me and one of my fellow mortar buddies, peter dared to write down all the wrongdoings of our encik, made it into a report and sent it to the rsm office before we O-R-D-ed.. it really made his balls shrink and he treated our guys better after we left. having met peter was like re-enforcing my 'setting things right' ideology. =)

some people might say that i am biased and 1-sided but i beg to differ. i am quite neutral and i will choose the correct side and set things right. well, that's me and i apologise to all whose tails i have stepped on. there is a risk of awkwardness, losing friends and even making enemies but my straightforwardness is still part of me. i never regretted what i always did because in the end people communicate and things got better. =)

p.s.: i still think honesty is the best policy. =)

happy cny

2010-02-14T21:56:00.007+08:00

happy cny to all!! have a roaring tigerrr year, collect more angbaos and win more $$ in mini gambling.. =)

oh ya.. not forgetting a happy valentine's day as well.. though it kinda clashes with the lunar new year but we must still not neglect it.. =D

happy valentine's day dinner.. =D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qqg9yUkLb8E

watch this!! she's so chioooo and pretty!! =D

hello 2010..

2010-01-03T22:46:00.005+08:00

alright.. 2009 has come to an end and it's time to usher in the year 2010.. year of the tiger again.. it means peeps around my age will be hitting 24 as well.. haha.. anyway, the fireworks this year were crap.. so budgeted that it was too plain-jane.. the fireworks to usher in 2008 was still much much better!!

new year comes along with new hopes, new wishes and new everything!! here are the new year resolutions..

-get stronger in terms of character, physically and mentally..
-graduate in one piece with somewhat not too bad grades..
-assists more in soccer matches instead of shooting..
-make peeps around me laugh more..
-cook and bake more.. (really neglect this area due to busy school schedule..)
-be more bearing of others despite all the shit they've done..
-shower more care and concern to dearest goldfish.. =)

happy 2010.. may all have a blast and great year ahead for 2010.. =D

2009-12-26T08:42:00.004+08:00

Merry X'mas and happy boxing day to all.. i am finally back again.. was kinda busy.. initially with work but later busy with shopping stuffs.. i'm still alive and feeling great.. =D currently it's attachment time and there's not much work to be done.. suddenly life's gotten easier and less challenging without the assignment and reports.. i dare say we all deserve this break.. be it the seniors or the juniors because i believe we've all gone through the mill and strived pretty hard..

me currently doing my attachment at cp kelco.. the gums/food ingredient/ hydrocolloids company.. we're dealing with gluey stuff to change the texture of food products.. i've made some drinks and jellies and learnt so much.. the peeps there are also great.. like my supervisor, who's so funny and so much like kelvin, our school director.. if i were to do gums together with them in future, we'll be a group of funny gum champions.. but they are super pro whilst i'm super noob.. HAHA.. =D

happy holidays, people!! =))

Suay day..

2009-11-22T21:40:00.001+08:00

Although it's such a bad day today but it still end up being not too bad.. Honesty is indeed the Best Policy!!! i won't let it happen again!!! =)

work work work!!

2009-10-05T21:10:00.004+08:00

well, well.. it marks the end of year one.. one more year to go.. results for the year wasn't too bad but i thought that i could have done better!! but still i'm quite satisfied with the overall outcome.. =)

here it goes again.. this month's gonna be hectic with all the work and assignment.. let's all tide it through as we used to.. still considering whether to go new zealand for final year project.. weighing the pros and cons and still judging..

despite the hectic workload.. stay happy, positive and have fun peeps..

ps: try to curb your anger by thinking this way.. when you're getting angry, you're actually punishing yourself at the expense of others.. =p

holidays..

2009-08-30T23:16:00.028+08:00

well, time really passes dam fast when one's having fun.. i really did enjoy and cherish my precious month of holiday.. it was fun going to redang, going to the botanic gardens for picnics, to east coast park for cycling, visiting some museums and attending of many birthdays in the month of august..

here are some of the pics..

the 3 guys on the trip.. haha!

the momo tea inn..

the momo tea inn again.. =)

garoupa spotted during snorkelling..

eel spotted during snorkelling..

group jump.. =))

arts museum trip!! =)

picnic at the botanic gardens..

now's really back to school again.. and here come the juniors.. they seemed quiet and shy but after meeting them officially, actually they aren't so bad and we just need to know more bout them before making any judgement. i love my holidays.. =)))

happy birthday!

2009-07-29T23:57:00.010+08:00

thanx for the pressies, greetings, wishes and everything!! love the pressies to bits and thanx to everybody for making my b'day a memorable one.. =D

this is the only pics i have currently.. more pics coming up after i get them.. really grateful to everybody who made my day.. =)

happy birthday goldfish!

2009-07-06T22:18:00.019+08:00

well, so long since i last posted any entry.. school was really busy.. now it's the holidays and it's time to update a slight bit.. =)

firstly, it was goldfish's 22nd birthday celebration.. the operation was carried out in school.. no choice because we're still dam busy with school and work.. but it's still fun nonetheless.. =)

her hair is so cute and funny!! HAHA!! =p

ok, my sis nibbled a bit of the cake off when i kept it in my refrigerator at home.. well, at least she wrote a sorry note for eating the cake.. so funny!! i like this pic anyway <3

ok, got tekan by classmates.. i'm supposed to do that for 5 seconds but i stopped at 3!! i thought it was enough already.. so shy and embarassing lo!! but i guess being sporting just puts a smile on everybody's face after such a orduous day in school.. =)

happy 22nd birthday!! hope ya liked the pressie and everything!! =D

so much fun!!

2009-06-25T13:03:00.045+08:00

wa!! back again after so long.. after the exams are over.. well, we all kinda miss our spanish lecturer, dr lara who's so funny, dynamic and teaches so well.. and her accent was quite funny so we follwed her accent sometimes.. she even pronouced the words in a funny way too.. that made the lessons more engaging and interesting..

her paper was ok.. not too bad.. it was one of the most interesting papers to study after all the pipes and valves from the engineering modules.. with all the assignments all done, i guess this week's new business module was considered slack.. but still it's too early to tell as well.. alright, 2 more exams before the holidays come.. we are so going to redang.. island, island wait for us all.. we are so gonna invade the island and have fun.. in the meantime, we'll just gotta endure and ensures everything goes smoothly..

oh ya, i passed my ippt.. 23 points.. 42 sit ups, 234cm for my SBJ, 12 pull ups, 9.8 sec for the shuttle run and 10:40min for 2.4km run.. not too bad for a first ippt test taken as an NS man.. gold is so hard to get ok.. if my running get 1 min less, will get 400 bucks.. but i think it's not worth it to endanger your life over the 200 bucks so i am contented with the 200$.. =))

watched monsters vs aliens.. it's a dam funny show.. and there's also a 3D version.. long time never watch with the green and red specs.. so fun!! all should go and watch.. =))

and here are some expired pics which i've not got the time to post since i had too many assignements.. the pic below is taken at quan han's 21st birthday party.. i got him a honda as he said he wanted one but the remote control car is spoilt and i threw the receipt away.. so paiseh!! haha!! but it was fun nontheless as the theme was occupation.. you see all sorts of people.. construction worker, lab technician, terrorist, roti prata man and etc..

here's deborah dressed up as a hawker, me a bouncer and goldfish as the bouncer's assistant, quan han as a house-husband, lynn as deborah's helper ba.. eric didn't wear any occupational wear as this is his house's function room.. haha!! and lydia as the business manager of firc.. so funny!

next up was goldfish's poly classmate's 23rd birthday.. it was held in east coast park.. a BBQ!! it had been aeon years since i had a bbq.. bbq are just so fun.. funny thing is that i missed the ECP exit and i need to go ALL the way to changi airport to do a U-turn.. so funny.. i knew the way but it has been so long since i last went there.. i love to bbq man.. though it's hot but it's really nice to see everybody eating so happily and i get to eat the food first hand from the bbq pit as well.. =p

me taking a break from the bbq with goldfish behind..

next up, jen's 21st birthday.. theme was purple.. fortunately i had some stripes of purple on my shirt as well as having purple socks! haha!! it was very fun and the function room was awesome.. not forgetting to mention that the food was good.. the gao lak chicken.. power! but the curry chicken a bit spicy though.. the games was very funny though.. tio 1 forfeit from the 007 game.. ps never sing the song.. i don't know what's a summer song and how to sing it.. but if it's other songs maybe i can still try la..

ok, many chairs broke when we were sitting and fooling around.. according to cheryl, it's a guy's thing as all the chairs deformed and made guys fell ONLY.. haha.. and i learnt that inhaling helium can make your voice sound like a chipmunk.. soooo funny.. =) after that stayed back to play the huh, what who game.. dam funny as well.. Tommy is dam HILARIOUS!! wahahahaha!! here comes the pics..

group pic with jen..

alright.. they all absorbed the helium to make the chipmunk voice and placed the leftover ballons on me.. wenyang and gab enjoying my look with the extra ears..

here's another pic again which shows everybody enjoying themselves..

alright.. there'll be another bbq again this week.. woohoo!! time to meet up with the peeps again.. in all, i am sooo happy and glad with everything going so smoothly, not much work that needs to be done currently, having fun with all my pals and goldfish, the love of my life.. =)

so long so long

2009-05-30T09:40:00.010+08:00

ok, i am so dam busy after the exams due to more work, assignments and presentations.. that's why it took me so damn long to write something here.. alright.. man u won the bpl title weeks ago but they lost in the champs league.. it's ok, i'm sure they'll come back stronger next year and attempt to win it again.. =))

as for the exams, it was kinda tough.. there were some questions which i didn't know how to do but should be able to nail it.. because i've given my best.. well, few weeks back, off we went to malaysia with my classmates.. jb was kinda different from what i see when i last visited there 4 years back with the rugby peeps.. however, the back alley street where we had our meals were still there!! i still remember the spot where we ate the roti john, mee goreng and soup tulung.. so reminiscing..

then there was this funny incident whereby i saw a label at a dessert stall which writes momo caca..so i said what's 'momo kaka'?? they all burst out laughing.. alright, me should have seen the chinese translation of bur bur cha cha.. well, as you can see, in the melayu terms, the ca is not pronounced as 'ka' but pronouced as 'cha'.. but normally people will pronounce it as 'ka' so it's not my fault that i got it wrong.. i didn't study melayu man.. but it was really fun to be there on a short trip to eat, chill and shop.. but i still have that wee bit of uneasiness when out in the streets of malaysia.. it was as if somebody will come out from nowhere and rob me or something.. fortunately, nothing much happened and my pen and metallic chopsticks for self defence weren't of much use..

alright, afterwhich it was time for us to go home and goldfish's parents came to fetch her and i was like hiding behind everybody else.. haha.. i know it might be kinda rude but i did not experience this kinda of situation before so i didn't know what to do, so i just became a blockhead and hid behind everybody though i still could be seen.. =) in the end, it wasn't so bad, i just went up to greet them and say hi.. well, i guess i should try to be more friendly and approachable next time ba.. =)

after the trip was back to school again.. well, i'm sure we all have a love/hate affair with school.. at times it will be so fun such as having peeps from ingredients company to come and show demos and teach us the basis on the applications of their ingredients.. SOOO fun plus no reports need to be written and we got to learn something new.. and on some occasions, we'll have so much stuffs to do.. =/

it was kinda intriguing to see goldfish crying the first time.. wisdom tooth extraction.. was it that painful?? i don't remeber mine to be that painful.. and i remember eating so much curry chicken, popiah and kueh pie ti at a chinese new year celebration during attachment time.. and they were like asking me if i really went to remove my wisdom tooth.. well, perhaps i didn't get gum infection then so out comes the tooth and it's over.. as for goldfish's condition.. it was so painful that she can't get to sleep.. and she needed a surgery to remove the tooth.. but i'm glad i was there for her.. now she's not that in pain anymore cause the tooth was removed successfully.. =)
alright, back to some more work before the exams at mid june again.. so envious of those peeps having holidays now.. =p

Contentment is what really makes one happy.

happy 1st month annie =*

2009-04-21T23:25:00.015+08:00

school has been kinda tough.. the last exam paper was like!!! omg!! one of the toughest papers ever faced.. 2 questions that i did not know how to do.. sadly another of my classmates, comrade in arms dropped out of school.. it's saddening but i sincerely hope she'll enjoy herself wherever she goes next.. =) school might not be a walk in the park on some occasions but sometimes it's kinda fun and ya can't help but to enjoy the process..

maybe i'm living in my own little world in class for too long.. i didn't know there is so much nonsense happening in class.. is it now time to choose a side?? to answer the call for a super hero?? in order to protect the weak and kick ALL the evil doers' asses.. perhaps i am being neutral for too long and it's time to really do something about it instead of ignoring some of the injustices suffered by some people..

work is piling up and now i really got the burning fire and desire to finish them all.. engineering stuffs are not my forte but i'm really trying my best with the help of some pals in class.. i really want to do okay to get my ticket and go to new zealand next year.. i want to go there badly to get an all blacks jersey and to maybe play with some of the peeps over there..

sorry for merlion-ing on siew hua.. didn't mean it.. just shocked to see her in the blind spot.. haha.. well, me going to kl this long weekend to one of my colleague's wedding.. think it will be so fun because i've never been to kl before..

as you all can see in the news, pork flu is here!!! yikes!! shoo shoo, go away pork flu.. please don't infect us.. haha!!

xxs & xxm

our happy feet.. =B

thanks for the pressie and i'm very touched to receive a damn nice hand-made card.. =D

happy 1st month annie.. =>

goal!!!

2009-04-06T23:02:00.013+08:00

well, sensational win from man utd yesterday.. yea, liverpool did score an injury time winner.. but so what??? so can we too!! and let's bring the title race back on again!! =p thought all was lost until an unknown 17 year old named macheda whom scored in the dying minutes to secure the 3 points for united.. really am feeling so motivated to study now because of their sensational win!

pic of macheda after scoring.. this was what he said before kissing the camera after scoring as claimed by peeps whom watched the match.. kinda crude but it's damn funny!! haha!! =p

despite being a goal down 2-1 and bouncing back to win 3-2 is really remarkable! it's just like what we're feeling during the exam period.. down and stuck when doing the questions at some point in time but should we persevere, we'll be the gradually emerge winners by overcoming the odds, just like man utd.. =D seeing them bounce back from defeats in the last 2 matches really gives me the adrenaline to tackle the exam questions.. BRING ON the exam questions, please.. i'm sure we'll all be able to slay them like chickens in the battlefield.. jiayouz, all.. RAWR!!!

smile for me please!! =>

school and goldfish!! =D

2009-04-02T22:02:00.004+08:00

alright.. here comes the same old cycle again.. school starts.. more calculations stuffs.. kinda confusin at times but on other times they might be quite easy to handle and you can be friends with them..the teachers that came were not too bad.. firstly, was jones.. he's quite zai in teaching and he's pretty much a funny person.. he says there's a song named dr jones by aqua!! because we kept callin him dr jones.. so funny.. in return, i also say to my classmates that we might know some of his relatives.. botak jones and indiana jones!! ha!

the other guy was dr jason.. he didn't teach as well as dr jones as he's kinda new but dr jones has been teaching for a so damn long time so cannot compare.. he teared yesterday because his wife is having complications in pregnancy back home.. really a family man because i can really feel his anxiety and helplessness.. though his teaching not that good but ok la not too bad.. and he kinda professional, still continue to teach.. i know it's hard but when you're overseas and some shit happens back home.. and you can't really do much bout it really make people feel helpless.. =/ all the best to him and family though.. =)

well, other than school.. been going out with goldfish.. she's kinda quiet at times, funny, likes to tickle me and is very sweet to me.. well, the tickling is kinda scary though.. =p but overall it's nice to have somebody who's appreciative of you and it's just a special feeling that is indescribable.. =) alright, time to go back to the calculations because the exams is less than a week away.. jiayouz to everybody for this upcoming paper!! =D

goldfish

2009-03-22T07:24:00.006+08:00

greatness goes to those who have a wicked sense of humour, perserverance and most importantly sincerity .. am really touched by what you've done.. thanx for the pressie, goldfish <3.. =D

holidays..

2009-03-09T00:49:00.004+08:00

so busy with work at attachment.. finally school starts tomorrow and i really enjoyed my work there.. other than work, i too pretty much enjoyed myself as well.. few weeks back, went to watch campus superstar live.. first time attending a live recording.. now i know that a live recording is so wayang!! well, there'll be people giving you the cue to scream, shut up, clap and all the nonsense.. not just the audience, but also the hosts, judges and etc.. it was a fun experience though. =)

on that same week or the next, went to eat dinner that day.. chose a ban mian stall but they serve sour ban mian.. luckily i could detect the sour stench if not she would have finished all and lao sai!! =p in the end we only finshed the veggies, meat and egg but not the noodles.. and off we went to eat something much better..

after that, while we were waiting, saw a doggie coming in front of us to poop.. what a sight i tell ya.. the owner was like putting a bag and the doggie was squating its shit ot right in front of us live.. can't it do it a bit somewhere further.. i guess the doggie not shy la.. and after finishing the business, the doggie just troddled away and we just laughed it out by saying there goes the male lead after one of the shitting scenes in the movies.. =p

well, she said weird things always happen when i'm around.. at least it was some weird and funny encounters which tickles us quite a bit..

few weeks ago, there were some stuffs that really bothered me.. sometimes i feel, it's not how proficient in what people do, how intelligent one is or how awesome one thinks he/she really is but instead it boils down to the right attitude, humility and respect that you give to peeps who deserve it.. just like in army terms, when we were commanders, we would rather teach men who learn at a slower pace but with the positive attitude than those who picks up stuffs damn fast and think they are super smart but with a stuck-up attitude.. well, the volcano almost erupted but fortunately it did not if not things will look damn ugly.. instead i chose to bear with people and to forgive.. also thankful that she's there to hear my rants.. =)

marley & me is a heart warming movie for all doggie lovers.. those whom have not watched it should go catch it soon.. time really flies.. that time when the exams ends was december and now it's march then school starts again.. oh ya, i passed driving for a year lo.. no more probation-plate on my car.. and i got 24 points to demerit instead of the probation's 12.. =D

anyway i forgot whom did i lent my pink panther dvd to.. anybody out there whom i might lent it to, please get back to me.. haha!!

she likes to tickle me with her wicked sense of humour.. =)))

happy saint valentines'!!

2009-02-23T00:00:00.018+08:00

happy belated saint valentines' to all.. i know it's kinda late.. was kinda busy recently but it's better late than never.. so i hope everybody had enjoyed themselves on this day.. though some of the stuffs such as flowers, chocolates, gifts, etc will experience an incredible spike in the pricing due to it being so commercialized but it's really the time of the year where you can convey your true feelings..

some peeps might think it should not be celebrated because everyday is already v day for them, so there is no point for them to especially celebrate on the day but since it's already been set as v day.. why not join them in the fun when we can't beat them?? actually it doesn't have to be lavishly, extravagant or whatsoever.. what matters most is the thought that comes from the heart, the sincerity and also not forgetting the fun in it!! besides it's known as friendship day as well so all should just get our asses out to have some fun!! =D

actually i was just shopping around solo on the day itself and headed back home to make some chocolate truffles and some fruit tarts later in the day.. buying chocolates is like so boring.. might as well make some ourselves.. tastes better, cheaper, involves more fun and the thought comes from the heart as well.. =D and here are the pics of the fruit tarts..

anyway, i am just glad that she's touched by what i've done.. =))) it was considered a decent first attempt i should say.. though it was good but i felt i could have done better.. really really need to work on improving the surprising skill of mine!

school's starting soon.. gotta enjoy the holidays and my remaining working days.. have fun all~~ =)

happy CNY

2009-02-08T15:22:00.002+08:00

happy CNY!! hope everybody had a great time eating all the new year goodies as well as collecting ang baos.. more ang baos was collected this year as compared to the last though there was recession.. let's all work hard together and i'm sure this will be a great year ahead for us all.. =D

well, lost like 30 plus in mahjong on the first day but won back 20 plus on the 2nd day which is not bad.. but in the end black jack lost quite a bit and overall lost 15$.. alright, lost a bit ok la, most important thingy is that everybody had their fun and enjoyed themselves.. =)

this year, the theme is KUEH LAPIS!! i ate like 1 kg of them during the festive season.. and 1kg approximately = 67 thin slices.. courtesy from may who went to weigh 1 piece and see how much i ate.. the one my aunt made was damn good.. so good that i ate so much of that.. the pineapple tarts were not made this year but bought and they taste like crap.. bak kwa was not that great either.. the last time i ate a fabulous one was from jm's house.. that one was tender and juicy just like bacon.. since then, no other bak kwa tasted as good as that..

visited father's side granddad's place, mom's side grandmom's place.. some of mom's frens place.. this year quite a number of people got dogs!! my mom's friend got a husky.. dam shuai like a wolf.. my cousin got a toy poodle and it's very active and cute too..

catching up with cousins and relatives are fun until they ask those weird questions la.. like got gf le ma, study where, how ya get so big, army finished le ma, etc.. those are like redundant questions la!! boring..

class steamboat is damn fun as well.. with all the pics taking and catching up with each other on what was done at work and other stuffs.. ate at chin huat steamboat.. not too bad, it was the same stall at marina south with live crabs and prawns.. that place kinda closed down so i guessed they moved to the current place which was at novena..

work place also got lou hei.. nice of the company peeps to conduct a yu sheng activity to toss the flying fish slices as well as having other goodies in ushering the festive season.. and i am surprised surprised that i can chomp down so much of the food despite removing my wisdom tooth the day before.. kueh pie ti, popiah, curry chicken, bee hoon, kueh lapis (again!!), etc.. the removal of the tooth was a painless procedure and it costs only 60$.. fortunately never exceed 100$ =)

by the way, work is very fun and my mission is almost accomplished!!! haha!! feel so satisfied as i really felt valued and i contributed what i had to offer to the company..

all the best to one of my rugby buddies.. shawn, who's flying off to aussie to study.. all the best to ya, take care and meet up soon when ya get back.. i'm sure we'll all miss chong's funny short stories!! ha! xD

other than that.. getting to see her smile is just one of the next best thing that has ever happened to me.. =D

happy new year!!

2009-01-15T00:00:00.003+08:00

the new year celebration was okay.. lesson learnt was that you could go anywhere but K-box.. it's dam expensive at 50 plus bucks!! luckily got buffet in addition to the singing session, if not really get diced like carrots.. but the fireworks was good though.. nice to get my ass out after hiding at home during christmas.. however, it was super crowded and there are so many banglas everywhere.. so tough to get your way around.. =/

other than that, cycling with classmates was great.. can't believe i could still cycle after like so many years.. i didn't officially learn how to ride a bicycle.. i never fell before, just that i will collide with so many things.. however, this time i rode in addition with load, that's my bagpack.. that's kinda an achievement.. so when you believe in it, you're bound to do it somehow or the other..

the peeps said the bicycle was too small for me and it was as if i was competiting in a motorbike race whereby the body needs to be arched and be close to the bike.. that was how comical i looked.. ha! i could ride at high speed but not at low speed.. i couldn't manoeuvre past people at low speed as i would inevitably collide onto them..

so i gotta brake, get my ass down and walk the bicylcle past them before getting up to ride again.. that's such a hassle.. if not i could just ride at super high speed and knock right through them.. i think it'll be kinda fun having the big bang knocking everybody outta the way but got kids la.. can't bear to injure the kids.. =)

i'm so glad the government finally banned smoking in more places.. not that i detest smokers.. just that i anti-smoking.. i had some pals and family peeps whom smoke too but no offence there.. actually i think no need to be so troublesome.. just get the smokers to get an astronaut bubble helmet.. they could then 'enjoy' and 'savour' the smoke all to themselves in the bubble helmet!! =)

work in school was not too bad.. just that it might get kinda routine sometimes.. so i would kaypoh around and help out with the others.. do more stuff, learn more stuff, have more fun ba..

Bench press-22.5kg
squats-20kg
dead lifts-25kg
inclined bench press-17.5kg

ran 5km 3 times every week at timings of 25 to 27 minutes..

think not peak yet.. the weights still can increase while the timings can decrease somemore.. training just to 重出江湖 in case i'll get to play rugby again..

had not have this feeling for such a long time.. going on dates can be such a fun affair.. haha!! =p I'm slowly and eventually falling head over heels for her because she's so just like a replica of me but a girl version.. =)

happy 2009

2008-12-31T17:57:00.010+08:00

alright.. i really did hibernate this xmas.. just felt like staying at home.. new year's coming.. 2008 was a good and bad year.. for the good.. goodness sake we finally ORD for me and my fellow mortarians!! (yay!!), me getting a place to study in massey and also getting to know a group of classmates whom i seemed to know forever..

bad.. so many shits and nonsense this year.. financial disasters, some of the american banks folded, AIA almost folded too.. terrorist attack in india and one of our fellow singaporeans was killed.. she was so pretty, talented and had a long way in life ahead of her but still she has to go.. that's so unfair.. but i guess sometimes life's like that.. china got this earthquake in sichuan which killed many.. the great escape of MSK which made security forces around town so tight, the chaotic and volatile political situation in thailand whose airport was closed and many could not even go home after their holidays.. the Sanlu Melamine milk scare which scares the shit outta everybody when we're about to put a milk product into our dear mouths and much much more..

i don't usually ask for wishes and i know x'mas is over.. like what my officer, mr chewy said, if you've been good this year, you're supposed to get your wishes.. well, i just want everybody to be happy.. i just wanna graduate in one piece and of course finding a soulmate who really appreciates me in the year ahead..

i've got my own desserts.. taking people for granted and now it's coming back to haunt me.. it really does sucks.. i don't know and don't care what this dead end means but the past should be left behind and all should look forward to the future.. i'm half man and half machine so i'll just tune to my rugger mode and i'm sure i'll be undaunted by any obstacles that come my way whatever they may be..

oh ya.. though 2008 might not seemed such great a year but i wanna thank this special person for adding a bit of spice into the end of this year for me and something to look forward to in the incoming year.. =D i'll take 2009 as a reset button, have an open mind and embrace all that comes my way.. hope it'll be a great, happening, prosperous and 长长久久 year for everybody..

her..

2008-12-16T23:34:00.004+08:00

exams over.. kinda tough but i'm glad to tide through all of them.. currently having attachment in school.. AGAIN!! damn fun though and much better than going to school actually due to the pesky reports and other stuffs.. just glad it's the holidays..

so cute..
such a crazy person..
so damn lame..
likes to laugh out loud..

can't believe there's actually somebody who's so like me.. =p

party after exams..

2008-12-10T21:00:00.002+08:00

1 down, 1 more to go.. mugging like a nut for the past 5 days.. time to party like crazy after food chemistry paper on friday.. =D

RIP Seck Wang

2008-12-04T00:28:00.009+08:00

this post goes out to my bmt friend who passed away on monday.. may it be a gf prob, $$ prob or whatever prob i still believe that all puzzles can be solved no matter how hard it is.. just that the amount of time taken to solve it might be long or short for different people.. i don't know why you chose to end it this way but i just hope you'll get to a better place which you may rest in peace..

2 years back, we went to tekong together every week when we booked in as we lived quite near each other.. last time i saw him was when i was having training in tekong and i paid him a visit at my bmt company, Hawk on 07/11/07.. 1 year 4 months after we all enlisted.. it was very fortunate to be back as not many people could go back to the place where their army life started after they were posted out.. we were both from there and he was an officer being posted back there again.. the scrapbook made by the platoon with all our pics and all the shit we wrote were still there, then.. though not all the people are there but the memories were vividly remembered and the buildings were still unchanged..

he was a strong, dam strong person who can run so fast, do so many chin ups and you name anything physical, he'll be able to do it.. it was him and the other strong peeps in the platoon that motivated me so much to become what i am today.. but it seems that no matter how strong a person is, we will still falter..

Life is indeed fragile.. really can't accept that a friend, at my age, so strong, full of zest and have such a long way ahead of him gone just like that.. cherish your pals and the people around you.. ya don't know when will be the last time you're seeing this pal of yours or your loved ones.. the feeling of not able to letting people know how much you really care really sucks.. i know because i've experienced this way too many times..

rest in peace, S.W

the lost warrior returns..

2008-11-23T01:38:00.004+08:00

was like a machine for the past week and the human part of me just ain't functioning.. after a week of thinking and sorting out thoughts.. i still didn't know what to do.. till i saw my bro's 300 shirt.. the 300 spartans.. they died but they gave their all.. their valour and bravery shook me and told me to wake up and get my ass moving again.. and here i am.. getting slightly better by the day though i still felt a bit weird.. however, now i know what to do.

the Spartans NEVER gave up and fought to the very end.

sobz.

2008-11-14T06:57:00.008+08:00

i finally got it off my chest.. though it's not an answer i always wanted but i'm glad i did it.. was a painful experience though.. though it was not the first time i experience this but it was indeed more painful than the previous times.. but i know she had my interests at heart.. she made it kinda less painful as possible.. i don't want things to change but i know it will never be the same again.

i don't know how it turned out like this but it seemed to happen everytime.. maybe it's that i didn't put in any effort, i look like a monster or i just really suck. well, time to get the sleepless nights again.. hope i can bounce back like i used to but don't know how long it'll take this time round though..

in the meantime, i am so lost but life still goes on.

it was as if my armour was stripped in battle.

lost my motivation and fighting spirit.

i don't know how to take my exams.

i really don't know what to do.

exams over

2008-11-09T23:48:00.019+08:00

exams finally over!! what a strenous month.. engineering can really kill us all.. and heard form my professors that there's ANOTHER 1 coming up in the near future.. that is really, really bad news.. think i won't do so well in this one.. didn't put much effort as i wasn't that interested in it.. the reports passed up were also kinda 'chui' due to the time constraints.. too many pipes, valves and all that nonsense.. as for the questions i attempted in the exams, think i used the wrong approach to do 2 questions and i didn't know how to do one 20 mark question!! just pray that dr carr will have mercy on me and give me some method marks..

dr carr here giving a lecture..

he's a nice teacher who gives interesting and funny lectures.. he told us the reason why teachers like to point with the middle finger was that the other fingers were used to hold on to the markers.. so no choice but to point with the middle finger.. haha!! some background information about him was that he was previously working in the industry and we're his first batch of students so he told us to bear with him if he didn't teach that well..

farewell pic for dr allistair carr

but he did a pretty good job for a first timer i suppose.. he will really go all out to explain everything until we understood all that he said.. kinda guilty that we didn't listen to him for the last few lessons as we're all busy doing the dreaded reports.. he knows we're doing that as all our laptops were up in class.. lolx.. but he still continued teaching.. really a very patient and knowledgeable teacher.. no wonder all the girls are so swooned by him.. other than that, we're pretty amused by his weird sound effects when he was drawing or getting zeros and cancelling the equations off..

after the exams, classmates and me went to eat shokudo then we also went to try ice skating.. eric said that my shitty skating techniques were okay for a first timer, so it's pretty good to hear that and he also said ice skating's tougher than roller blading.. so this one can do it, roller blading sure can.. time for some roller blading as well!! fell 2 times in the ice.. feeling is shiok la.. like playing rugby match like that.. just that no mud on the ice.. however the bad thingy was that you'll get wet patches on your butt when u fall and it's like u peeed in the pants or something.. haha~

me and classmates having fun at shokudo

this might come a bit late and due to time constraints didn't get to post pics.. bee's 21st b'dae party!! it was a fun bbq.. although i was kinda a party pooper by bringing my lappy to do my dreaded reports.. nevertheless, hope ya enjoyed it..

bee's 21st b'dae party.. kinda a crazy party.. but fun!!

some random thoughts here.. i feel like as if i'm at the crossroads now.. 2 routes to take to a destination.. one is the route that i want to take as this route was attempted before though i didn't exactly complete the trip and get to my destination but the journey gives good memories due to some of the nice places visited on the way although now it's kinda different and it is slightly fraught with dangers and not the same as the way it is 2 years back.. in contrast, the 2nd route is a slightly easier route and also a safer one.. although the route was not attempted before and much is not known about it but it seems like a better and wiser choice to take..

i need some sense of direction.. a compass to set my bearing.. i really don't know what to do.. only time will tell because i believe 一切随缘..

reports, reports, reports..

2008-11-04T00:21:00.004+08:00

omg.. finally finished those pesky reports.. they are really a pain the the butt.. it's so tough to understand, so difficult to do.. and another problem is that the different teachers gave different explanations and some of the things taught as first were known as incorrect.. most of the time is spent to understand and redo the entire data analysis due to SO many changes.. if not i could finish early and revise for my engineering exam this thurs..

never stayed in school for so long and til so late.. never once did i went home for dinner for the past 2 weeks.. and last fri, me and my mates worked through the night til 2 plus in the wee hours of the morning before i drove and reached home about 4am. school is just like a second home where i spend more time there more than any other place..

time is a bit tight for revisions but i'm sure we'll all be able to make it nevertheless like the last time we had our advanced chemistry paper.. though this time it's kinda like an uphill task.. sighz..

sometimes i just ponder.. what i am to you?? everything, nothing or something?? definitely not everything 'cause i'm not that important, hopefully i fall into the category of something as this shows that at least i meant something to you but if it's nothing, well.. i don't know what to say.. that's life i guess..

time to embrace the wrath of the engineering exams.. runours were that only 1 in 3 could pass the paper in class.. it is that dreadful.. just wanna tide this through..

*prays for me and my classmates*

driive!!!!

2008-10-21T01:48:00.018+08:00

busy like hell as usual.. finished my food chemistry test and i felt it was such a lame test as the questions asked were like so funny and weird.. guess i fared ok though there were some uncertainties and doubts while doing the questions.. other than the test, more engineering principles reports are needed to be completed by next thursday and the data analysis was like so tough and crappy..

with regards to the 1st report, the class kinda discussed about it and did the same interpretation of the results and it turned out to be wrong and the teacher asked us why was there such a similarity in our answers.. and you know what?? it's due to him not trying his best to answer our doubts so we have no choice but to assume a correct way to do it..

not trying to play the blame game here.. yes, different teachers have different expectations and their styles of teaching are also different, some may be nice to tell you everything but some won't even give a hoot about ya and wants ya to go figure.. but we tried out best, made some mistakes but still, no help was given despite getting the wrong answers..

the course director tried to get feedbacks from us as it's kinda a big matter via video conference due to him being in new zealand.. he asked me if i had any comments and i told him that one particular lecturer didn't try his best to give us help after we tried our best to solve the problem.. he said he would look into it and asked too if the course was too intensive and if people would liked it to be conducted for 2 1/2 years.. more than half wanted it to be held for 2 1/2 years..

i would rather study for a longer period and enjoy the learning process rather than what me and my classmates are experiencing now, like chasing trains and meeting deadlines everyday.. the director also asked us out of a rating of 10, who feels stressed?? surprised many felt the stress level to be 9 but i felt the level to be only at 4.. tough as it may be but it can be done still, after draining the life outta ya that is.. lolx..

on a lighter note, i know how to enjoy, play as well as gym and exercise so it shouldn't be much a problem.. other than that, i drove around about a quarter of singapore last week.. kinda like a mini road trip and i never did drive to so many places in a day before.. drove to vivo, to kallang lesuire park, got lost in little india, town, etc.. let the pics speak for themselves..

wa.. serious driver.. safety first because scared langa.. =p

chilled at balcony at heerens.. surprise, surprise, they allow entry to peeps like me who wear singlets and flip flops.. =)

monster me bite!!

kinda bored while waiting for drinks so we made some weird faces.. >_<

borrowed wenyang's nice specs.. not bad right?? =D

on the way back.. got time to pose due to red traffic light.. ha!

it was fun driving around though i need to ask for directions but there was smooth driving and alright parking though the parking is a bit crooked and like shit still.. and i'm glad i went out after studying for the test.. if i never went out and stayed at home to continue mugging, think i won't do that well for the food chemistry test as i never have fun and enjoy myself.. but still too early to say how i will fare for the test but i suppose it should be ok.. this proves that people should work hard and play harder and there should be a balance between work and play for best results.. and most importantly is that you're happy and back to the smiley you, girl.. =) back to the reports and also revision for the food chemistry prac test though i still like food chemistry.. =/

the chauffeur and his xiao jie.. =D

busy, busy, busy

2008-10-15T23:46:00.012+08:00

didn't get much time to blog about what happened much after the exams as there was so much to do and a few more lecturers came over to teach.. after the exams, we had dinner with professor dave harding at some thai seafood restaurant in yishun.. the food not too bad though and it's pretty cheap.. and prof dave harding treated us to the food as he and prof jameson promised to treat us after our first paper.. he just sent an email telling us we've passed the paper more or less but whether we get good results anot, still not sure bout that..

here comes the pics!!

lunch with prof jameson before he flys back to new zealand

in the laboratory with prof harding

dinner with prof harding before he flys back to new zealand with our exam papers!! ha..

professor harding again!! he look like the colonel sanders from kfc but without moustache.. >_<

The problem with yishun is that you get to see a flock of birds flying in the sky in numbers of 60 to 100 while walking on the streets and you're afraid some droppings might land on you and it really did land on one of my classmates that day lolx..

classmates posing before the birds come to shit on them..

me telling the birds to please drop them some showers of joy and blessings of shit on them.. =p

the following week, new teachers came and the cycle repeats.. time to learn new stuffs and exams are coming at the end of the month,, sighz.. dam busy clearing the reports that are piling like shit.. managed to finished two but there are still 3 more and more on their way.. =/

recently, went to k box with classmates at chinatown and stayed overnight in school.. only paid 13$ to sing for 5 hours.. uber cheap.. staying over is kinda cool but dam tiring.. the k box session was dam fun and i found some more songs that are within my range that i can sing.. though still sing like shit but i think not bad le..

previously, i've mentioned about missing the bus ride 2 years back and it'll be hard to get back on it again.. but now i've got the chance to board the bus again.. is that a sign or what?? guess i'll just let nature takes its own course and see how things goes..

school is getting more and more strenous day by day with the accumulating amount of work.. and i realised i sucked at communicating with peeps.. i'll not give up but i'll try.. at least i dare to try because i don't want to live my life with regrets again..

em pleh

2008-09-30T21:28:00.003+08:00

EM PLEH!! the preparations are frying my brain.. just hope i will tide through this thurs paper!! come and smack me on the head, punch me in the face and kick me in the balls if anybody finds me slacking around!! oh ya, Happy Childrens' Day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! =D

fun but siong

2008-09-18T23:56:00.022+08:00

school was as busy as usual.. more pracs, studies and the forever piling work.. that's why i never got much time to write what happened in school recently.. since dr love left for new zealand, came a new professor, Professor Geoff Jameson.. he's a damn smart man and he can answer almost any questions you shoot him.. really enjoyed what he taught us though i only understood about 40% of what he said most of the time..

he said he would love to try and eat other weird stuffs in singapore such as durian and century eggs.. so i went to bugis to get him some and it was kinda a weird experience when you bring durians up the bus.. the smell is so pungent and everybody would be pinching their noses.. haha!! the people must be cursing who the hell brought up the durians.. fortunately never got chased down the bus.. and i'm not gonna do that a second time..

here are some durian feast pics!!

dr tay and us opening the durians..

dr tay and Prof Jameson enjoying his durian..

who say ang moh scared of durian?? he loved it so much in the end, he said he'll be back to eat more the next time he comes to singapore.. haha!!

anyway, prof Jameson is a very nice person but when you make him dulan, he'll really fight back.. another of my professors, associate professor dave harding came by to disturb when prof jameson was teaching us practicals.. he kept saying the physical chemistry prof jameson was teaching is not the real chemistry and all the stuffs to run him down.. so prof jameson strikes back!! and here's what he have to say to prof harding's organic chemistry..

organic chemistry=WHOREganic chemistry.. lolx.. =x

watched Wall-e with my classmates after my test day.. it was a pretty good show.. telling us what would happen in the near future if we didn't take care of Gaia, Mother Earth.. other than that, it shows love can also exists between non living machines!! damn cute and funny..

unwinding is so important after so many long hours in school.. went clubbing and didn't get to drink much.. sighz..

group pic!! access denied into phuture.. kinda bored at zouk.. =/

mooncake festival just passed and it was kinda special this year.. i never celebrated it in recent years since like primary school or secondary school.. learnt how to make mooncakes last friday and my class all went to east coast to cycle.. anyway, i suck at cycling so i stayed back in school at my old work place to make mooncakes.. soooo fun la.. better than colliding and crashing onto other people in east coast..

other than that, on the actual day, up we went to the southern ridges to do some moon watching, carry laterns, play sprakles and etc.. the view up there was pretty good!! i lived so near it and i see it everyday and now i finally knows how the view looks like from up there.. i could spot my room from the tall bridge.. so cool!! and here are some pics!!

this's not from the bridges but from central.. they have nice and bright latern figures there..

the lanterns we lighted up!!

sliding down.. the design of the bridges are so bent..

the sparkles.. see my chopstick to the right.. =p

nice colour combi of the lanterns.. so innovative of us to hang it there for deco.. =)

other than that, we were pretty amused by the bubble blowing whereby we made weird looking faces!! damn funny!! >_<

some of the spaces have little headroom so must be careful not to hit your head on the bridges..

had lotsa fun in the past few weeks despite my flow of piling work.. but i really gotta start studying now.. exams coming in 2 weeks' time.. 50% of prof jameson's physical chemistry and 50% of prof dave harding's organic chemistry.. gotta read up and prepare for the big exams!!

i am so "loving" WHOREganic chemistry.. >_<

induction over!!

2008-08-30T23:18:00.026+08:00

induction course is finally over!! 1 month of hell.. so, so glad.. yesterday marks the end of the bridging and the start of the real stuff coming next monday.. this month had so much work to do so much stuff to learn and so not enough time to sleep.. :x it was siong because we had to finish the syallabus of half a year in like a month or so..

we were supposed to go for out class dinner at shukudo, the japanese marche at raffles city but dr tay said we are to stay to 630 for extra lessons..=/ we thought we're gonna have a mock exam again!! until he asked us who likes beer and who doesn't? then he said those that don't like can stay in class to look after the classroom while the rest can follow him to staff centre for some beer and food.. so it was a dam good surprise.. we all got tricked into believing there's a test or lesson..

me with proj mates plus my new zealander lecturer, dr richard love!!

i've seen my time table for the next following month.. looks kinda cool!! no sch on some fridays!! =) looks so different from that of the first month where it's like 9 to 5pm everyday.. but still, looks can be deceiving.. the time table might look slack but might still have tons of stuff to do.. wanna thank all the teachers, professors and doctors whom came and taught us.. they are really dam good and knowledgeable.. think i will learn tons of stuff from them.. now can finally breathe a bit..

some pics that i've not posted yet due to the reports, presentations and tests from school.

BBQ at jiehong's birthday.. though there was a big rain, we still mange to start a fire and bbq indoors on the aluminium tray..

BBQ is so fun!! =)

me, jiehong, matt and minghui..

all the poly peeps that came.. oh ya.. that mango cake is dam nice..

the peeps that went to eat steamboat and bowling that day.. i looked so dumb in this pic..

haha!! jackson must be thinking.. catch me if you can!!

baggage carrier service for girls during shopping :x

birthday celebration for jm and sharon!!

today's start of school was.. omg.. why am i still so slow at understanding stuffs?? sighz.. the new stuff is so cheem and difficult to understand.. but i believe what doesn't kill you makes you a stronger person.. i've survived the hellish induction bridging!! i'm sure i'll be able to take it.. endure and excel~

it seems that i still can't forget you.

2008-08-21T00:49:00.004+08:00

olympic fever!! this might come as expired news but these are the highlights of the sports i've watched and they are just so nice!!! michael phelps broke the record of 8 golds plus his 6 golds in the 2004 olmpics, he've got a total of 14 golds in 2 olympics!! known to be the greatest olympian of all time.. well, he almost coudn't got one of the gold medals as the competition was so intense, he beat one of his opponents by a mere 0.01 second.. and the replay was so cool, the way he won it was just by a mere fingernail length..

next up was rafael nadal la.. his semi-final tennis match was so exciting.. he saved two deadly balls which seemed impossible to catch.. and he did it two times before the world no. 3 smacked the ball out and that handed the victory to nadal.. oh ya did i forget to mention, he de-throned roger federer as world no. 1.. kinda supported him since he was world no. 2 and always under the thumb of federer.. so glad he finally made it to be no. 1..

100m sprint was also nice.. usain bolt.. that guy is supeeer fast.. he beat his opponents by a big margin and he could still tap his country tag just before the finish line and guess what, he still broke the world record.. read from the news that his laces came off and that meant he could still go faster.. how cool is that??

argentina beat brazil 3-0 in soccer!! with lionel messi.. when you watch him, it's as if you're playing him on playstation.. damn good la.. they're going to the finals to face nigeria.. matches with argentina are just so nice.. brazil's era of dominating soccer is over~

other sports i watched included gymnastics, weight-lifting and pole vault.. also quite nice.. seems like i really spent quite some time on the tv.. but actually i was doing work and watching at the same time.. my test was like... i knew how to do most questions but some questions were kinda cheem.. i tried my best la so whatever results i get, i'll be happy but they say never count in the marks.. so for the past weekend, i was just like studying for fun.. =/

my life now is just like a stuck toilet bowl.. the sai just never seems to finish.. before i can flush the sai away, more new sai come in and it just piles up, up and up until the toilet bowl become overfilled with sai, becoming damn filthy and smelly.. SIAN man!! fortunately, i'm slowly un-stucking the toilet bowl and removing all the sai.. this month coming to an end soon!! heard they wanna tekan us for the first month so we won't slacken.. getting the hang of it though..

time to go eat, play, shopping, soccer and stuffs this weekend~ yay!! but still need to clear up some sai.. the reports.. =x

chaotic sch!!

2008-08-13T23:15:00.004+08:00

school has started!! it was kinda fun at first until all the work and projects kept piling up like waste generated at the incineration plants.. in addition to that, i've got a professor whom i don't understand what he's saying.. well, i can get his 'kiwi' new zealand accent as i've watched soccer and rugby matches whose commentaries were also spoken like how he was speaking.. however, i just don't understand what is he teaching..

i know he's knowleageable, i mean VERY knowleagable and he knows almost everything foodie under the sun.. he's quite a nice and funny lecturer but i guess i can't get used to the style how caucasians give their lectures.. too used to lecturers in singapore who'll go with the slides and give tips, etc.. time to change a mindset and embrace a new method for learning.. problem based learning which inculcates thinking.. hope i'll get used to this new type of teaching method from overseas..

last week was hell for me.. after not studying for so long.. 24 hours never seems to be enough.. sometimes i wonder if i'm just stupid or too dumb to understand the work.. i know these coming 2 years would not be a easy one.. but i shall perservere on.. i'm seeing some bit of improvement though work is still piling up after 1 week of school..

thanks to BBF, yeting and also Jen for listening to my rants and my craps about school.. need to release the energy some way or another if not my body will explode like some processing system due to unreleased pressure.. and i'm so starting to write, speak and think like a technical person.. that's like so 'technologist'.. =/

to pull me through lessons, i will think about how sucky army life was and now i'm so fortunate to be in class, to do what i want although that's plenty of unfinished work.. looking at the big picture now, getting a degree is so different from poly days.. TOTALLY different!!

been living like a hermit for the past week.. stayed at home most of the time to study and do reports.. i really don't want to turn into a geek whose life revolves around school and work.. so save me by asking me out to eat, play, etc.. although i might not go due to the overload of work but it will really make my day by just a simple gesture of asking.. =)

other than that, i would ask myself what motivates me?? then i would start to think of my parents toiling to put me through school, the quite high expectations from my teachers and various shi-fus from my previous work place, matt who was my role model whom i'm always trying to reach or even try to surpass him though he still seems so far away from my grasp.. and lastly, not forgetting YOU.. =)

b'dae

2008-08-02T23:36:00.055+08:00

first celebration was at sushi tei.. celebration for the july babies.. isabel and me.. never eaten sushi tei before.. it's quite good with all the nice looking stuff..

here comes the pics!!!

my chicken kat-su don.. nice!!

my fav egg sushi and the fresh salmon sashimi

me and isabel blowing out our birthday candles..

they mashed up the cake i made, added chilli, wasabi, green tea and i don't know what.. spicy!! bee was the victim of the day.. she ate the most of it when we played the last showhand round of zhong ji mi ma.. haha!!

the pressies!! bee and isabel got me a shirt from ck.. jen got me another shirt from fcuk.. like it a lot.. thanx!! =D

group pic!! thanx for everything once again..

next was poly classmates celebration for me.. went to eat steamboat at bugis.. matt, minghui and jiehong got me a cake and a jamie oliver cookbook titled happy days with the naked chef..

yummylicious bluberry choco cake..

me cutting the cake!! the shirt was what bee and isabel got me.. fitting!! my mates said.. =D

following next was on the actual day itself.. the guys told me to go out and eat while i was working and guess what, other than the guys, jen and bee came along to eat with us.. was kinda surprised!!

went to eat swensens and go to the arcade to take photos.. and here they are..

they bully me with guns!! =/

some illegal trading going on here.. tommy helping to 'see water'.. lolx..

punching fists pose with wenyang..

another punching pose with jianming and that's the fcuk shirt jen got me..

this guy over here tried to strangle me.. so with my instinct i held his arm with my right hand and my left hand was going behind his back to throw him forward.. in the end, tommy flew forward.. fortunately, i restrained myself if not he'll be on the ground and i'll be doing some submission move on him.. haha!

ok, i know the guys are envious of this one.. >_<

me doing the rock's signature people's eyebrow!!

thanx for accompanying me for dinner!! and also thanks a million for the ck cologne from the guys..

ok, last one is belated b'dae dinner with pri school pals at sakura buffet place.. nice food, nice people and not forgetting the funny conversations!! haha!!

me and pri school soccer buddy, tak yam.

me, yeting and tak yam

ok time for a group pic with the addition of jolene.. thanx for eating with me and also yeting for getting me a card and kino vouchers.. i'm so gonna get that gordon ramsay cookbook that looks so cool~

oh ya, almost forget to thank my aunt whom give me an ang bao, parents who got me a lappy for studies and the newest elva cd from sis.. and also thanx to my colleagues for getting a cheesecake and surprising me when i was cooking and doing some food product.. though i'm only there for 1 month, but i really feel very appreciated and i wanna thank all my shifus for taking care of me.. and my 2 juniors as well.. learnt so much from all of them.. of course, not forgetting mrs ngan for giving me the golden opportunity to work and let me refresh and learn new stuffs..

school starts and i bet it's gonna be so fun.. =D

Happy Birthday to me!!

2008-07-29T23:55:00.003+08:00

thanx to everybody who wished me, celebrated with me, bought me pressies.. Bless you all!! will post all the pics and update soon!! may the presence of the b'dae boy shower you with joy!! =)

hanging out!

2008-07-24T22:14:00.016+08:00

meetup with primary school peeps was kinda.. hm.. how shall i put it.. nice, relaxed, warm and also funny!! it wasn't awkward at all, to my surprise~ though we all went to different places after primary school but it was still nice seeing all my pri school peeps..

we reminisced about our so called childhood memories.. the beloved teachers.. the peeps that we do not like, best buddies and all those childish and funny stuff that we did.. tak yam brought his autograph book!! it was filled with so many awesome pictures!!

and we all saw what we wrote in tak yam's book 11 years back.. it was kinda funny looking back where we do all the funny stuffs.. and 1 classic pic had kok leong when he was damn huge in pri school.. tak yam added a comment on the pic which was something like the big and mighty kok leong.. that was super uber funny..

so glad to be able to keep in contact with a number of pri school friends.. they really meant a lot to me as we came from such a long, long way back to be re-united.. and guess what.. we're gonna have a BIGGER and BETTER pri school gathering with MORE peeps that we haven't seen for years.. that is gonna be interesting!! =)

my beloved pri school peeps..

some funny stuff happened at work.. one of my shi-fus at my work place, dreamt of my 2 juniors and as well as me hiking near bukit timah hill with our girlfriends near her house.. she said to my other shi-fus that it was a total nightmare to dream of the boys!! lolx.. we asked her if she remembered what the girls looked like but she said can't remember just that they are less taller than the 3 of us.. alamak, if not we'll know who our future girlfriends are.. i guess she must be thinking of us a lot, that's why she dreamt of us.. =p

went to get bel's pressie on sunday.. played pool and go sing kbox.. played like shit and sung like shit as well.. pool is just too boring for me.. too slow paced.. too no-adrenaline.. unlike soccer and rugby.. ya gotta prevent opponents from getting your ball as well as getting their ball away from them.. much more adrenaline.. and adrenaline turned out to be more addictive than drugs, i tell ya..

k box was more fun though.. i was reminded of my poly days where my classmates would be all

crazy singing, singing and having fun.. i really enjoyed myself though..

yesterday, was a advanced b'dae dinner and a belated b'dae dinner for isabel at sushi tei.. thanks for eveything to the girls and guys.. i love the pressie and the cakes a lot.. pics will come soon though.. =)

oh ya, here comes a pic from k box..

k box is fun but k jm (sweetalk uncle that sells bubble tea) also not too bad.. HAHA~

alright, can really smell the start of school.. just 1 more week!! gotta miss my work place where i get to cook and bake all day long.. =/ and i'm just informed that we all gotta wear formal and there's some dumb opening ceremony for my degree course.. must be for the big shots to parade or something.. i don't like ceremonies as they are so ever serious, boring and so un-fun.. and i thought i could go back to school with a big bang.. in my slippers, bermudas and singlet.. sighz.. however, still so glad to be going back to school.. =)

i just want to make you smile and laugh when i'm with you.

birthdays!!

2008-07-15T23:00:00.040+08:00

work was damn fun as usual and i get to make so many different food products.. well, came across this pic and i found it kinda amusing..

the artist incorporated the incredible hulk in it.. taken from the sunday times 2 weeks' back..

i see all the hype about being green as our world faces global warming and other environmental issues as well.. i know when some people are helping the environment, sometimes they might be actually doing more harm than good.. like the live-earth concert last year, they are creating public awareness on the issues of being green and the terrible effects of global warming.. but did they know that the 24 hour concerts around the world are actually not 'green' and they are in fact polluting the earth due to the electricity used and by the exhaust fumes of planes which the performers flew in when they travel around..

all i can say that it's all a grey region actually.. some peeps might think it's dumb to protect the environment and you'll be labelled as a tree hugger or captain planet but i feel every bit counts.. so no matter how small, we should all play a small part.. even we cannot prevent, we should at least try to reduce.. education is the key to success.. so we should spread the word around and parents nowadays should educate kids about these issues and i'm sure they'll turn out to be much more environmental-friendly peeps in the near future..

celebrated matt's advance birthday last sat at the decoders cafe.. damn fun la.. i'll get to that soon.. it's like a 15 minute walk from newton mrt to a balmoral plaza.. it's like settlers and minds cafe but it's better la.. their packages seems better and more value for money.. in addition you can see people at other tables do their forfeits.. HAHA!

first game we played was some monkey game where we gotta pull out sticks but also to prevent monkeys from dropping at the same time.. the monkeys that dropped will go to the person who pull the sticks.. the loser is the person who collects the most monkeys..

Look at me!! i got the most monkeys =(

however, i seem to get the last laugh in the end!! =D

alright.. in the end i am the ultimate loser and i've gotta do a forfeit.. the place has a jar full of weird and funny forfeits for people to pick and this makes it a lot more fun!! so off i went to draw my first forfeit and this is what i drew..

the big jar full of forfeits!!

haha!! i drew a it's my super lucky day!! pick a forfeit for all my friends.. the shop staff said i was damn lucky as there's only one out of the hundreds in the jar.. in the end i never kena any forfeit..=B

and here are the forfeits as follows..

jiehong- wear a wig and take a picture with us..

toongyeng- try to mimick as the winner of miss universe

lihua- act like a ninja and do 3 ninja poses.. (was pretty tickled by this.. =p)

linghui- shout and scream and cheer for 30 seconds non-stop..

minghui- talk non stop from the start to the end of the next game we're playing..

sirong- pick 2 more forfeit cards!! (this 1 is suay but in the end the 2 i picked was to get somebody to smack his ass and i forgot the 2nd one but it's easy la..)

matt our birthday boy- pick somebody to carry out a sexy dance..

and here are some of the pics..

matt doing the sexy dance~

lihua and her ninja stunts!!

jiehong and his wig.. sirong was also sporting enough to join in the fun!! haha!!

then we played our 2nd game.. called citadels.. damn fun.. about building lands with your gold.. it's like a strategist game where ya gotta outwit everybody to win!!

some group pics~

group pic one!!

poor lihua tio bully by jiehong.. =/

candid pic

yummylicious cake there.. hope you enjoy your birthday celebration, matt~

after that, met up with rugby mates chong, jim, shawn and hermann.. last meetup before chong flies off to sydney to study.. all the best and study well there, chong!!

some updates few weeks back.. jen's b'dae celebration at waraku.. i've always wanted to eat there but the queue was super uber long and it was also the first time i ate their pasta.. it was not so bad, not so spectacular and i feel it's kinda overpriced..

happy b'dae, jen!!

went to play pick up sticks after that at the chocolate place and the sticks were given to the b'dae girl by the manager.. good service there.. later on, went to clarke quay to drink next.. called the arena.. what a weird place that was.. a lot of ang mohs, old aunties, people with poodle looking hair dacing like crazy and i dunno what.. =/ but they offer lychee martinis as their free drinks on ladies night so it's kinda worth for the ladies..

what a week~ time really flies when you are having fun.. especially at my workplace and i'm sure i'm gonna miss that place.. 2 & 1/2 weeks before school starts!! =)

pics, pics, pics..

2008-07-08T21:12:00.051+08:00

sometimes, have you wondered what your childhood dream was?? relating to my entry before the last one, the dying professor who gave a talk.. i thought back what my childhood dream was.. and it was to be carefree and getting to play soccer everyday.. it was kinda amusing to have such a dream but kids have big dreams so never deny kids their space for imagination for their humongous dreams..

to be specific.. my childhood dream was to be a soccer player.. to be the best goalkeeper around or to be the top prolific striker and score many, many goals.. the feeling of being a goalkeeper is just great.. so exciting, thrilling and you get to fly in those short moments stopping shots.. however, people often neglect the keeper.. he'll be the hero if he saves the goals but if the opponent scores, he'll be labelled as the zero.. but did they not know that often it was the defenders who were supposed to protect the goalkeeper that cause him to let in the goal though he attempted to prevent the opponent from scoring??

secondly, it is easy to fathom why i like being the striker.. it gives a sense of satisfaction.. all the attention is upon you when you score though it was a team effort that produced the goal.. and people remember you for it.. who remembers who saves the most goals?? people only remember who scores the most goals and we all know it's Pele la..

though childhood dreams are very hard to achieve, we should never stop.. like me, though i know it's kinda hard to be a professional soccer player 'cause those pros start training young.. so i try to 'realise' the childhood dream of mine in another way.. by playing soccer for leisure every sunday.. not playing as a striker nor a goalkeeper but as a midfielder that creates goal for people to score.. much, much more satisfying than saving goals and scoring goals.. =)

as promised.. some of the pics have landed.. and here they go..

found a good bar/chilling/coffee place at the cathay.. the movie place near PS.. this eq max bar has a alfresco or rather open air concept of a chilling place.. very nice!! drinks are not too costly and you get to play wii for free!!

the results screen!!

jen's character

bee's character

jm's character called bobo.. haha!! bobo shooter!! =p

and mine!! walao.. jerko sounds like a jerk.. >_<

ok, i just sucked at it.. supposed to swing front and the golf ball will be hit but when i play it only hits when i swing back.. i just don't know why.. maybe i was so afraid i might fling the controller off the building because too much strength was used so i kinda controlled the force and it just went haywire.. in the end, jen was 1st, jm 2nd and bee 3rd while i took the most strokes to finish the holes and i got last place as seen above..

next is minghui's 22nd birthday..

her mom was very nice to prepare all the steamboat stuff for us all..

the 3 musketeers..

me telling jiehong not to touch my arm before it comes alive and becomes a weapon of mass destruction.. warped expression on my face though..
=/

b'dae girl, minghui and us..

as requested by the b'dae girl to show some arm power!! =D

and got this personality quiz from wenyang's bloggie.. it's kinda accurate.. go try it here!! http://www.quizbox.com/personality/test82.aspx

these are my results~~

Your view on yourself:
You are down-to-earth and people like you because you are so straightforward. You are an efficient problem solver because you will listen to both sides of an argument before making a decision that usually appeals to both parties.

The type of girlfriend/boyfriend you are looking for:
You are a true romantic. When you are in love, you will do anything and everything to keep your love true.

Your readiness to commit to a relationship:
You are ready to commit as soon as you meet the right person. And you believe you will pretty much know as soon as you might that person.

The seriousness of your love:
You are very serious about relationships and aren't interested in wasting time with people you don't really like. If you meet the right person, you will fall deeply and beautifully in love.

Your views on education
Education is very important in life. You want to study hard and learn as much as you can.

The right job for you:
You're a practical person and will choose a secure job with a steady income. Knowing what you like to do is important. Find a regular job doing just that and you'll be set for life.

How do you view success:
You are afraid of failure and scared to have a go at the career you would like to have in case you don't succeed. Don't give up when you haven't yet even started! Be courageous.

What are you most afraid of:
You are afraid of having no one to rely on in times of trouble. You don't ever want to be unable to take care of yourself. Independence is important to you.

Who is your true self:
You are mature, reasonable, honest and give good advice. People ask for your comments on all sorts of different issues. Sometimes you might find yourself in a dilemma when trapped with a problem, which your heart rather than your head needs to solve.

looking back these 2 years, i really feel like an idiot!!!! why did my courage escape me when i needed it the most?? like what my colleague said, once you miss the ride on the train, you gonna miss it for good.

spain wins!!

2008-07-03T00:54:00.013+08:00

i know this might come as late news but spain are the european champs of 2008.. they totally deserve to win after not being in any cup final for like over 40 years.. they played pretty well.. the solid defence, creative midfield and the lethal strike force up front.. i actually would anticipate a spain and portugal final but the portuguese were knocked out by the germans after tabloids of their coach going to another team as well as Cristiano Ronaldo's transfer saga to real madrid.. at least 1 of the 2 teams which i support won la.. =p

time passes damn fast la.. before you know it, the week has come to an end.. working in firc for almost 3 weeks le.. learnt a lot from all the peeps there.. and i'm still having fun there.. most importantly, i don't feel like as if i'm working at all.. =D

watched a couple of movies with the girls this week.. driving lesson is stupid and boring show.. typical arts film.. don't mess with the zohan was funny though.. tickled me tremendously.. go and catch it..

got a lot of pics but i haven't got them yet so shall post later.. 1 more month before school reopens.. can't wait..

anyway, i just feel like some stuffs are so hard to forget and holding on might not seem like a wise decision but sometimes following our heart rather than the brain is the more rational choice.

inspiring..

2008-06-23T22:58:00.003+08:00

just felt like sharing this with everybody.. this professor gave a very inspiring lecture although he knows that he's gonna die.. should watch this.. it may change the perspective how you look at your life..

watch it at here.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loSSKMVzyKI

what i've learnt..

-achieve your childhood dreams!!
-never stop dreaming as anything is possible!!
-when you're doing something bad and somebody points it out to ya, it meant that he/she cares..
-brick walls are there for a reason: to let us prove how badly we want things..
- a car or any wordly possesion is just a thing.. your loved ones are much, much more important..
-Never underestimate the importance of having fun..
-tell the truth..
-apologise by saying i'm sorry, it's my fault and how do i make things right?
-wait and people will show their good side.. (like what i've always said, patience is virtue)
-show gratitude
-don't complain!! just work harder!!
-lead life the right way and nature will take its own course and your dreams will come to ya.

like what i've always said.. inspire somebody today!!

i got in!!

2008-06-18T21:38:00.027+08:00

guess what?? i won't be flying to australia to study afterall.. will be continuing school for the next 2 years in massey university at SP campus.. i thought it would be kinda hard to get in but me n yh managed to squeeze in and guess we won't be flying to aussie anymore.. however, we're in the pioneer batch and that means we get to become guinea pigs (again!!) i was also from the pioneer batch of the new age mortarian vehicle.. so sometimes i wonder it's a golden ticket i got or i've just missed a great chance to go to the outback to study and live independantly.. nevertheless i will continue to strive and get good results..

alright, the night before the interview was kinda like a war zone.. actually i didn't prepare much for the interview but my pals told me i'd better go prepare and learn how to answer some questions such as 'tell me more about yourself', 'why should we accept you?', etc.. and i had a marathon on the next day so wanted to sleep early but i practised til kinda late and this is how the interview went..

me: good afternoon, sir!

Interviewer: good afternoon, did you bring your ic?

me: i did, which one you all want.. pink one or green one?? (and i showed it to him)

Interviewer : 'Laughs out Loud', how come you got two ic?

me: one is army one the other is the real one, which one do you require??

Interviewer: we'll have the one similar to the photocopy you sent to us

(yh say i'm mad.. come out this kind of stunt in the interview..)

*interview continues*

Interviewer: so what you doing now? finished army??

me: finished army and now dipping army uniforms into pesticideas as a part time job for my uncle..

Interviewer: won't that kill the people that wear them.. *chuckles*

me: Haha, don't think will kill them..

Interviewer: so what you do for your 4th year fyp?? (i only study for 3 years leh??)

me: i did a project which was on high fibre puff pastries and it's a nice project to work on as we can formulate a product as well as improve the nutritional value of the food without compromising taste and texture.. anyway fibre is also the top 3 health foods sought by consumers.. so we though it would be fun to carry out a R & D project just like the one i did.

Interviewer: okay, would you be happy if i told you, you've got a placing??

Me: OMG, yea!!

Interviewer: you've got in and our package will be sent to you next week and have a great day ahead..

me: thanks, you have a great day too..

the content was something like that.. weird but funny.. i don't know if that was considered an interview or not but i made it nonetheless

previously mentioned about the marathon before the interview.. the run was kinda arduous.. i know it's only 10km.. no kick to some.. but it was kinda siong because you will need to run all the way up to the tip of mount faber.. i think 2 to 3 km worth of slope.. when i was about to finish near the 8km distance, can really feel the shagged effect.. i know no big deal but i finished it approximately 1 hour or 1 hour 3 minutes, forgot the exact time but it was near that.. considering me dipping uniforms for the past week and i never trained for the run, i feel the timing was satisfactory.. i got to see more scenery around the place i lived which i've never seen before and it's kinda worth the money as i got to know more about my place.. and my number tag 1539 came out consolation on sunday's 4d.. actually wanted to buy as it's like the first marathon i signed up for but in the end never buy because that day i was kinda tired and i needed to go back to prepare for interview.. in the end, the other 4d obsessed fellow (dad) in the family saw our numbers and bought them.. no wonder, he so happy.. i'll take it as contributing as a Father's Day pressie..

no more of washing digging equipments and dipping of uniforms.. will miss the jobbie.. i resigned as my teacher asked me to go back school help her to do projects.. and i really enjoy doing all the stuff in the food laboratory and being a food technologist is really fun afterall.. it'll be useful to me when i get back to school in future.. the 2 years in army made me kinda stupid, i feel.. i take a longer time to learn but i'm beginning to absorb and it's all slowly coming back to me.. Moreover, the people there are damn nice and the working environment is great too.. really thankful to my teacher for giving me the chance to refresh and learn new stuffs.. i really am utmost grateful.

some bad news here.. july the 7th 2 years back was the day i enlisted army and this year, july 7th, we've got more ERP gantries being set up.. R.I.P to the pockets of drivers in singapore.. price hikes are really the last things we need here.

some pics..

watched kransky sisters with the gals at esplanade.

matt's piano performance at NUS.. he played that chopin don't know what sonata .. looks kinda tough to play..

wa, wear same clothes in the pics though it was taken on different days.. so coincidental.. by the way, i'm so enjoying work before i start school.. it really feels damn good to be back in school!!

R.I.P the old car

2008-06-08T22:28:00.006+08:00

finally found a job!! currently working for my uncle in some army logistics place .. washing changkols, spades, baskets and various digging equipments.. other than that, still got soaking of army uniforms in those pesticide liquid.. ok la, same old army stuff.. i know a bit bangla but it's kinda fun and time passes quickly also.. pay also not bad.. then need to hang those clothes up to dry in the sun.. but when rain comes, we'll all be scrambling to take in the clothes..

i will also be able to go around bah long long in my singlet, shorts and flops.. and also get to laugh at those army peeps who have not yet ORD.. =p and you get kinda dirty doing all that kind of work.. but getting dirty is fun nevertheless!! =D okay, people might think i am crazy, liking such a tough and dirty job but it's really more enjoyable to do than those office ones whereby time passes like damn slowly..

R.I.P to the old car toyota corolla 8659.. my dad changed a new one.. to a corolla altis.. the orlando bloom 1.. slightly newer and bigger but harder to drive la.. the steering wheel is like damn light to turn unlike the old one.. the brake and accelration pedal also damn tough to step on.. haiz.. kinda missed the old car which brought me to quite a number of place and it's the first car i drove after i passed the driving test.. now want to borrow car a bit harder because my dad will be scared of this and that as it's his new little baby and need to re-learn to park with this car.. i only learned parking halfway from the old car..

caught the kransky sisters the previous week with the girls at the esplanade.. ok, their jokes are kinda amusing but some of their jokes, i can't get what they saying.. maybe it's just some ang moh australian jokes la.. but their singing is damn powerful.. 3 lao char bohs or rather middle aged women having such a good control over their powerful voices is really remarkable.. and the musical instruments they used are so cool.. one which was a saw.. yea, ya heard me right.. a saw and the stick used to strum a violin to make an eerie tune.. they also disliked boys as they feel they are dirty, smelly and full of germs and it would be bad to be marked by them.. haha.. lastly, not forgetting their thick make up with dark eye shadow and red lipstick.. so gothic and scary!! their grotesque appearance still leaves a deep impression.. =/

last week, i got kinda sick.. don't know what happened.. must be some wrong stuff i ate.. puke n laosai, laosai and puke.. back to back sia.. went to see doc and i was as good as before the day after.. either the doc's medicine was very good or i got super healing powers like wolverine.. =D

caught 2 movies this week.. narnia: prince caspian and kung fu panda.. both shows are good.. go and catch it.. the girls will surely drool at the sight of the prince caspian la.. but i feel he's crap!! don't know how to fight, only know how to run, have dark rings and almost caused the white witch to be freed again.. i think Aslan the lion better than the caspian la.. he's a talking lion, possesses great powers and more cool looking.. =)

kung fu panda was damn funny la.. fat panda don't know martial arts but he loves food so his master taught him using the 'food' way.. watch and you will get what i mean.. in the end he defeated the bad snow cat by using tai chi la.. i feel it's like tai chi.. countering the opponents' moves by unleashing their strength back onto them.. also learnt an important lesson here.. gotta believe in yourself.. when Po, the panda was destined to be the dragon warrior, he got the dragon scroll to learn the secret martial arts inside.. however, the scroll was blank and it only showed the reflection of himself.. so the secret formula of the greatest martial arts in that case is to believe in oneself as it is in us all along.. if we choose to believe in ourselves, we can attain greatness!!

yay, i'm shortlisted to be interviewed by the massey uni peeps!! though rejected by nus and ntu.. the interview's requirement is that they wanted me to talk about my fyp the other time.. gotta read up on my curry puff project lo.. hope i can get in after the interview!! i believe in myself and i know i can nail this one. =D

grad lo!!!

2008-05-29T22:48:00.017+08:00

well.. still can't find a suitable job.. but ain't it ironic when you've found one that interests ya but you can't get the job.. that's what happened to me.. came across an ad that stated a logistics assiatant job which is only require me to work on weekdays from 9am to 6pm at kinokuniya bookstore.. and i can get to move books or do whatever shit they wanted me to do..

however, when i got to the place of interview, i was informed on the outside of the door that all vacancies had been filled up.. so sianz and so paiseh man.. go all the way from home, photocopied all my documents but still didn't even got a chance for interview.. the feeling is just so shitty.. anyway, i don't wanna do admin work.. wanna do those more outdoor stuff.. like plucking grass, move rice, or some other physical work..

went to the food expo with yh before that to see if there were any interesting food products that are unique and very special.. because we're gonna go into the food industry in the near future so we went to check things out..

some of the interesting foods were like the cheese tofu, fried durian, pork nugget and pork floss sushi.. the fried durian was the highlight of the day.. like fried goreng pisang de skin just that it was substituted with durian inside.. power sia!! however i feel can be better la.. if they didn't dilute it with something else and we can eat the fibers from the real durian fruit, it would be much better..

yesterday's were the girls' graduation.. finally graduated man.. all become 'laochiau' aka old bird already.. gonna embark on another chapter of their lives.. and also saw jackson, alex and dickson.. all the best to them in army.. have fun inside.. =p and also not forgetting the girls, all the best for future endeavours and studies..

looking back at my graduation pic.. time really flies.. 2 years already and i've ORD-ed in a blink of an eye.. now gonna study for the future.. but nobody wants me leh.. sianz.. ntu rejected.. nus never send letter but i think also most probably rejected.. i've pinned almost all my hopes on the sp-massey collaborated degree programme.. this new zealand uni offers quite a good food degree.. if all is lost, then i've no choice but to fly to australia to Uni of new south wales to pursue my dreams.. because that's what i really want to do in future, creating new food stuffs, learning how food is made and etc.. wanna become a food scientist and also a lecturer to teach people and let them know my knowledge as well.. these are dreams but you must dare to dream as men are great because of his dreams.. if never dream then you won't be able to ahieve anything..

here's me graduating 2 years back getting the diploma from a french guy, some big shot or vip or what (i forgot)..

looking like a puffed up bird who's gek sai.. =x

my batch didn't get to wear the robes but it's kinda cool la.. and as usual they like to lisiao me.. say i damn stiff and they just coordinated the stiff posture.. HAHA!! Stone Giant..

and i know this is kinda expired news.. but still must say la.. david cook the rocker david beat the poppy kiddish david archuleta.. =p Rocker still reigns~ although the judges say cook's songs were not as good as arculeta's but he still win by a whooping 12 million votes.. i feel his rendition of the other singers' songs were very original, nice and also adding in the 'rock' factor and that's what made him victorious.. the next Daughtry i should say.. his rendition of mariah carey's always be my baby's got the rock factor man!! and it's gonna be the bloggie song this week~

You'll always be a part of me

I'm a part of you indefinitely

Girl don't you know you can't escape me

Ooh darling cause you'll always be my baby

And we'll linger on

Time can't erase a feeling this strong

No way you're never gonna shake me

Ooh darling 'cause you'll always be my baby

From David cook's rendition of always be my baby

p.s: new oven coming soon!! =D

Glory Glory Man Utd

2008-05-22T23:00:00.015+08:00

What a match!! the champions league finals between chelsea and manchester united was so exciting.. kept me on my toes all the way.. and i was praying for man utd to win all the time.. and they triumped victorious!! now they are the kings or rather winners of not just england but also the whole of europe after winning the champions league trophy..

the champions league trophy!!

man utd dominated the first half of the game and they scored one through ronaldo.. could scoreed a few more but the chelsea keeper, cech was dam good to keep the strikers at bay.. unfortunately, chelsea equalised near half time due to the confusion between defenders of a deflected shot and also the united keeper van der sar slipping while trying to save that goal..

the header by ronaldo which gave man utd the lead

2nd half was dominated by chelsea though.. they kinda woke up and were more in the attacking mood.. they had 2 shots that hit the goalpost but man utd was lucky not to concede those goals la.. soon, the match led to extra time after both sides refused to budge..

2 halves of extra time at 15 minutes each.. no goals still.. both sides almost nailed it at extra time but the score was still 1-1.. however some shit happened though.. chelsea striker, drogba got a red card after slapping a man utd defender.. that was a dumb move la.. and the morale of the chelsea players kinda dropped.. no score in extra time meant it was the penalties next!!

i never liked to watch penalties.. it's like you're deciding the winner by luck and i feel it's kinda unfair to both sides as both already gave their all for their respective teams but football's like that.. you will need the smile of lady luck to win.. and guess lady luck was on man utd's side..

2 penalties to chelsea and man utd scored and here comes the turning point.. ronaldo missed the 3rd penalty.. i thought everything was over but it happened otherwise.. when it was the chelsea captain's turn to take the 5th and last penalty, he kinda slipped and the ball hit the post.. instead of helping chelsea to lift the cup, he gave man utd a chance to redeem themselves.. so both sides missed one penalty each so whoever misses a penalty next will hand the trophy to the othr side.. in the end chelsea missed the 6th penalty and man utd was victorious!!

van der sar ecstatic after saving the last penalty!!

all i can say it's that man utd have the devils' luck la.. they always do!! in those big competitions, they're always the luckier ones.. other than that, i think it's fate also la.. this year is also man utd's 50th death anniversary for those that died on the plane crash in munich at 1958.. maybe the legends were watching over the man utd lads.. and another lesson learnt.. that is money can't buy everything.. in the example of chelsea, all or most of their players were bought instead of developed and trained from the junior team la.. and their players were like so attitude, full of themselves and egoistic.. that's what happens when you put a group of super stars together la.. and they don't have the team spirit la.. drogba and ballack were quarelling about who to take a free kick the other time they played against man utd.. unlike, man utd, whose team spirit was so immense and as if they were playing for the team mate shoulder to shoulder beside one another..

once again, congrats to man utd for being crowned champions of england and also europe!! =D

let the celebrations begin!!

made of honour

2008-05-16T22:41:00.012+08:00

made(maid) of honour is such a nice show.. all should go watch.. it's amusing, funny and a nice build up to the story.. from how he became the maid of honour and tried to 'infiltrate' the wedding planning and in the process win the bride over.. though the ending was a bit predictable.. but won't it be very disappointing if it wasn't a happy ever after ending for the best friends?

learn about never to give up even if all seems lost.. and not be a 'pussy' like what the male lead's dad commented.. just do it and bring the bride back instead of the cliche 'she's happy, i'm happy' mentality.. haha~ and it seems kinda fun crashing into a wedding and steal the bride from the groom!! there are 2 songs in the movie which i always liked listening to.. they are 'stop crying your heart out' by oasis and the ending song in the movie, 'stolen' by dashboard confessional which is also my bloggie song!! =p

since i ORD-ed.. i've been bumming around.. not coming out of the house on some days.. on the other hand, some days i went running, gyming and soccer!! that's it.. need to pick up a new sport la since i can't find a suitable jobbie.. muay thai looks cool.. might go down to a fighting gym my bro's fren's been going and see how it's like.. always wanted to pick up boxing but can't find time.. now's the time to explore and go EXTREME!! hm.. is it even considered an extreme sport?? well, i'll find out in due time..

some pics taken a few weeks back..

pre ORD celebration dinner with the girls..

group pic here~

kinda forced by the girls to pose this one.. very embarassing but it was kinda funny mimicking the painting!! =/

O-R-D lo

2008-05-06T23:38:00.008+08:00

i've finally ORD-ed!! i wanted to actually find a place atop a hill or at a beach that's near a coastal area and scream the 3 fukin letters O-R-D.. alright, this hella 1 year and 10 months seems like a roller coaster ride to me!!

the 1st 3 months bmt was like a prison to me when i walked in steps to my company building.. it was like you are forced to do this and that.. another thing was that you're like the lowest and smallest life form in the military hierachy and not forgetting to mention that we're not even a piece on the chess board in war!! HAHA~~

sispec was like another level of training platform to train us to be commanders.. slightly tougher than bmt but it was fun running around the hills, ambushing people and other stuffs peeps in a section do..

after that, we got our vocation.. alright.. Artillery Institute.. the heaven everybody wanted to go.. more of the lectures and more 'mental training' rather than siong training in the other vocations.. in the end we all pass out as 3rd sergeants and off we go to our units..

off i went to my unit.. it was like, i don't know.. we're motivated to do all we can for the unit.. but as time passes by, we just felt like we're taken for granted.. do right also wrong, do wrong still wrong!! sometimes just feel like shit and not doing anything at all.. then we become the elders, 长老 in the company.. know all the tricks and stuff le.. know when to work and not to work.. haha..

and now, army's not quite an episode that's kinda ended.. it will still haunt you.. we're still eligible for reservist man.. so it's like kinda sianz.. army don't sound that fun, ain't it?? but actually being in the army is kinda fun, seriously!! just that sometimes i just don't like the way it's being run.. i feel the people who run it could have done it better.. and we're screwed by somebody in there somehow or another..

other than all the fun things we do such as using the sophisticated weapons systems and all the outfield stuffs, it had also taught me a lot of things.. such as i didn't know the human limit can be stretched til that much.. didn't know we can endure and carry so many stuff and run here and there without feeling that tired.. also taught me to enjoy and cherish my times outside camp with friends, family, etc.. not forgetting that tiny bit of fighting spirit burning in each and everyone of us that would bring us to greater heights if we were to use it..

and that is also the place we got to know so many brothers in arms.. this is where you get to know true friends.. who'll stand by you when you go through shit together and who'll sit you out.. made quite a couple of good friends, especially my fellow mortarians..

also got to hone my leadership skills la.. learn how to lead the guys.. how to do public speaking and also giving lectures to that many peeps with so many eyes looking at you.. not forgetting finding solutions for every teeny weeny problems that come our way.. it also kinda widens my horizons on how the working world will be like in the future..

in all it seemed to transform me!! i just feel totally different from that me 1 year 10 months back.. felt stronger, faster, better, more confident and much much more.. all that i didn't thought i could do, i can now!! it seems like there are much more things that we all can do, just that we WANT to do or not..

like what our minister mentor, mr lky say to parents.. you give your son to us, a boy.. we'll return him to you, a man after 2 years that is!! kinda cool huh!! sound so spartan!! Hahahaha~

all i can say is that it was once a part of me but now it's kinda gone.. actually i wasn't that of exceptionally happy la.. not that exhilarating but just glad it has ended.. also felt kinda lost la.. loss of i don't know what.. it could be the loss of my 2nd home or maybe some other stuffs..

wanna thank all my sergeants who've trained me and taught me valuable lessons.. the warrant officers in sispec.. they are the most experienced and pro i should say.. officers as well.. and all the fellow peeps that pass through everything with me.. bmt mates, sispec mates, AI mates and fellow mortarians, including my platoon sergeant and mortar officer (who ord alone in september).. and of course that special somebody who helped me tide through difficult times though she was not physically with me.. thanks for the experience and all the best..

it doesn't stop here.. challenges will still continue to be a part of my everyday life..

ps: ntu and nus still haven't reply me!! but maybe massey uni wants a piece of me

square root of 3

2008-04-30T23:09:00.003+08:00

square root of 3 (3√)

I’m sure that I will always be
A lonely number like root three

The three is all that’s good and right,
Why must my three keep out of sight
Beneath the vicious square root sign,
I wish instead I were a nine

For nine could thwart this evil trick,
with just some quick arithmetic

I know I’ll never see the sun, as 1.7321
Such is my reality, a sad irrationality

When hark! What is this I see,
Another square root of a three

As quietly co-waltzing by,
Together now we multiply
To form a number we prefer,
Rejoicing as an integer

We break free from our mortal bonds
With the wave of magic wands

Our square root signs become unglued
Your love for me has been renewed

From Harold and Kumar: Escape from Guantanamo Bay

movies, movies movies..

2008-04-24T23:05:00.018+08:00

finally got to stay at home and not go back to camp til the day i O-R-D on the 6th of may.. currently looking for a part-time jobbie.. any ideas or any lobangs please, please inform me?? will really appreciate that!!

for the past week, had been watching movies la.. movies, movies, movies.. nothing much.. so i'm gonna comment on some of the movies i've watched la.. so far, they're all quite good, i might say!!

sex is zero II is better than the first.. this time it was more of a love story rather than all the sex humour and stuff.. though the sex humour is till present in the current installment.. same old male lead.. but the female lead this time was different.. she was a rape victim and they both met in the hospital.. she was so agitated she wanna kill herself and even tried holding the guy hostage with a knife..that's how they met la.. the guy kinda emphatised with her and was with her all the way in the hospital to tide through the darkest hour of her life.. all the comforting and consoling til they got together..

then the girl got back to her feet and the guy proposed to her and they were scheduled to get married.. and there came the twist.. the girl went for a swimming competition and kinda broke her ligament in the ankle and it was told by the doctor that she won't be able to swim again..

her mom then wanted another guy who was their old neighbour's son to get together with the girl.. her mom talked to the male lead to leave her as he won't do her any good as the other guy was a prosecutor and he can afford to bring her to the U.S and A for treatment..

so the male lead deliberately not send any message or get anything for her birthday.. did not pick up her calls and just said that he wanted a break up.. in order for him to really bear to break up with her, he told her something like 'it's hard to accept somebody who was a rape victim to be his girl' and that really broke her heart but actually deep down he still loves her and wanted to be with her.. just that he wanted the best for her so he would rather give her up so that she could get to America to heal her ankle..

in the end the girl got to know about it and she was so touched by his actions that they got back together again.. eventually, they got married and lived happily ever after.. lesson that i learnt was that it's not how handsome, how rich you are just like the prosecutor in the show.. but how much shit you and your other half had gone through and this brings 2 halves together to become a whole single entity.. and of course not forgetting the happy times shared as well.. go watch it man!!! it's damn funny expecially the lollipop that was inserted into the butthole.. hahahaha~

2nd show that i watched was called charm school.. it's actually a mexican show called Niñas Mal.. it's about the female lead named adela who's a 18 year old teenager finding her place in society.. her dad's a politician who's running for governor position in mexico.. due to her rebellious nature, tattoos and having a habit of getting into trouble, it kinda dents her dad's chances of becoming the governor.. so he sends her to a charm school.. kinda like a school to transform girls into ladies and also to prevent her from getting into trouble as well..

she met a few others in the school.. a girl named Maribel who was sent there by her mom to be the perfect woman/housewife as she blows up some of the kitchenware and causes their dog to get diarrhoea.. Heidi, a bitchy, conservative and spoilt girl was also there to learn to be a A notch housewife so as to marry into a good family.. Valentina, a lesbian sent there by her priest uncle to change her for the better.. and lastly Pia, who's a intelligent geek who has a degree or masters in economics (i forgot) and was forced to enrol so that her mom will stop trying to hook her up with the young guys she sleeps with.. hahaha~

Adela tries to learn what was taught in the school but she ruins everything.. Screws Heidi's wedding, causing of the school to be closed down and also the downfall of his dad's political career.. and that's when she starts thinking of others and stops neglecting how the others feel..

so she tries fixing heidi's wedding and that got her dad's political career back on track as heidi's father in law is an influential guy who can support adela's dad's campaign for governor.. it's a great show that's funny, sexy and also meaningful.. reminds me of the days of being rebellious and just about getting what i want.. but it also taught me that the world's not just about me.. no man is an island.. for people to live together, you gotta spare a thought for others.. by the way, out of the five girls, Pia's my favourite!! so smart, pretty, knowledgeable and not forgetting to mention having the x-factor as well!! =D

Pia looking sexy here~~

the 3rd one i watched was the forbidden kingdom.. a very slick action/kungfu film featuring an ang moh kid from boston that got transported back to ancient china after holding a golden cudgel resembling that of sun wukong's.. was quite predictable la after seeing that weapon.. the ang moh kid's mission was known as the seeker to free the monkey god from imprisonment in a stone statue..

quite a cool twist how the good old traditional journey to the west becomes an original and exciting storyline.. and you get to see jet li and jackie chan fight it out for the cudgel due to a misunderstanding.. there are also pretty girls in the show.. liu yifei as the swallow and the white haired demon girl..

fortunately, the monkey god was freed and he kicks all the baddies' asses and the ang moh kid got back to his hometown, good ol' boston and all the skills and kung fu he got to keep after learning from the 2 martial arts experts..

go catch these movies.. they're value for $$ shows.. and i'm pretty bored at home.. ask me OUT!!

3 weeks more!!

2008-04-14T01:28:00.002+08:00

back from camp again.. ok.. days in camp are harder to pass coz there's nothing much left for me to do.. but my days inside are getting shorter!! 3 more weeks to O-R-D!! haha!! =p drove around to bugis.. it was tough getting around there due to traffic but i made it nonetheless..

destinations i went so far..

1) bukit batok

2) bukit merah

3) mandai

4) bugis!

driving's okay but parking is still kinda hard.. fortunately my uncle gave me some crash course on how to park without the poles.. so currently still practising.. and another great news, Man U came back from a goal down to win the match 2-1 against arsenal.. the title race this season is just so exciting!! nice free kick from hagreaves by the way!!

some of my fellow mortarians going india soon.. all the best to them and bon voyage.. and before that, gotta go eat with them!! all things are good except for the results of my university application!! some of my friends already got replies.. reply me man!! don't forget about me.. reject also must tell me.. don't let me wait in vain!!

all the best to all peeps taking exams now.. as for those that are working, may you have a great working experience at the work place in the coming week!! =D

SOC!

2008-04-04T22:07:00.006+08:00

sometimes, life's like that.. 1 second can change a lot of things.. it's just a thin line away.. between pass and fail.. or sometimes in that second if only ya could say what ya feel like saying but ya just can't seem to.. anyway took my soc test today.. got a timing of 9min 30sec.. and i failed by a seocond!! if i ran or inched a bit faster.. would have passed and not do it again though it's not a criteria to pass it for O-R-D-ing.. i gave my all today.. every cell in my body.. puked all my breakfast out and felt like shit.. out comes the fan choy.. haha.. =p

but i beat my personal best timing of 9min 44sec.. so not that bad considering a 2nd year soldier going to O-R-D.. fitness supposed to be dropping and when we're nearing civillian, ya're supposed to get the fats back.. but mine seems to be improving.. gonna keep that up and pass it that next week.. RAWR!!

ORD soon!!

2008-04-01T22:22:00.001+08:00

5 more weeks to O-R-D!! =p Happy April Fool's Day!!

nice show..

2008-03-24T21:40:00.013+08:00

today was the last episode of the show '我们的饭店'.. it was such a good show with the sad, sentimental and touching ending to the show.. starring thomas ong, michelle cheong and some other peeps.. i don't know their names.. this show kinda accompanied me almsot every mondays when i was in camp..

learnt a lot of stuffs from the show.. the cooking stuffs expecially.. didn't know got such methods.. may seemed far-fetched but i'm gonna try them out someday.. other than that, the jokes, kinship and the sentimental values are the plus points to the show.. kinda sad the show's come to an end but all good things gotta come to an end somehow..

it's like a 1 hour serial shown every week.. every week, a special dish would be prepared by the peeps in the restaurant to help somebody in some way or another.. there's this lady who don't dare to eat rice due to bulimia and she need to do an ad with her eating rice so Big饭 (thomas ong) ,the boss of the restaurant came up with this idea of coating the rice with chocolate since she like chocolate, adding some almond nuts and cooking the rice with chinese tea to reduce the smell and taste of rice..

today episode was kinda sad la.. Big饭 hired a private investigator to find his girlfriend who was missing for 7 years to find that she's dead.. he drops into depression and wrecks his restaurant until his lil' bro brings a woman who looks exactly like her to see him and to help him to move on as the woman's married and has a kid..

but he's adamant she's his girlfriend because she loves his fried rice, uses the same perfume and everything about her was so familiar and warm.. in the end he found out from the woman's husband that she indeed is her past girlfriend but she takes on another identity now because she was involved in a car accident 7 years ago while she was on the way to meet Big饭.. and he was waiting to propose to her.. in the end she was sent to hospital, her brain operated 2 times and she forgot everything..

so, her current husband, the brain surgeon kinda lied to her that he was her boyfriend and married her in the end with her new identity.. one condition of knowing the truth from her husband was that Big饭 will not tell the truth to her and still keep her in the dark.. at least now Big饭 knows the truth, still loves her and he didn’t want to break up her family and wishes her happiness..

the twist of the show was that her 7 year old daughter.. she was missing for 7 years and that means she was already pregnant before the accident and the daughter was Big饭's daughter.. because she was pregnant before she married the surgeon!! well, at least he had a daughter with her..

how i wished everybody could get a chance to watch the show.. think only can go mobtv.. haha..

The fried rice recipe is somewhat like this the way i remembered..

overnight rice cooked with pork bone soup kept in the refrigerator overnight without cover.. use egg yolk instead of whites as whites will stick on the wok.. fry til all the rice is covered with yolk like gold colour.. use butter instead of oil for fragrance.. cook the prawns over boiling water before adding in.. put in the chopped scallions and stir-fry before taking up rice..

feeling so, so empty..

slack week in camp..

2008-03-16T17:54:00.011+08:00

as usual, everybody goes outfield and the remaining of us 'retired' specs get to stay back to look after the coy line.. played monopoly, risk and watched movies.. music and lyrics, lake house, 50 first dates..

i don't know man.. i just like to watch the lovey dovey shows.. because they're just so full of emotions, cool plot and has a happily ever after ending..

music and lyrics was more of composing a song between the guy and girl.. it becomes a hit but the song was for another star bigger than christina and britney on the show.. and the song's tune was changed to the indian kind of music and that's when the problem comes in.. the guy suck it up and though the hindi version of the song sounded kinda weird, he didn't voice out because he was a 'has-been' star in the 80's so he wanted the song to help him get a boost for his career while the girl wanted to retain the original tune and in the end they got together and the guy kind of sacrifaced his big break and told the star that the original was better and in the end it wasn't changed to the indian version like the sun yanzi's song.. haha.. ya know.. that kind of music..

lake house was more of a time machine show.. he was in 2004.. she was in 2006.. they got into contact with each other via the lake house's letter box.. the letters kinda travel through time to reach one another.. kinda painful for them as they could only keep in contact via the letterbox but they just couldn't see each other.. so, in the 2006 timeline of the guy, he went to find the girl on valentine's day as she told him before in one of their letter conversations where she would be but the girl in the 2008 timeline knew that he would die being knocked down by a bus as she was the doctor on the scence trying to resuscitate him in her 2006 timeline 2 years back.. so she sped to the lake house in year 2008 to write a letter to him whereby he was in 2006 to not come find her, if not he would die.. she told him to meet 2 years later in year 2010 at the lake house.. and when both their timelines integrated in the year 2010, they finally found each other.. cool!!

50 first dates was another funny one.. the least boring and the most funny amongst the 3.. guy likes girl but she can't remember him due to a short-term memory condition from a car accident.. so they got together nonetheless.. but it was kinda painful for the girl as she needs to cry one time everyday knowing bout her condition through a video tape made by her husband.. imagine, ya gotta add on all the new stuffs to the tape for your spouse just to make him/her remember you and everything after the accident to the present..

oh ya, caught another one in the theatres this week.. the leap years.. ok la.. it's a nice show.. quite funny as well.. enjoyed it.. from the title i guess everybody knows what's it about.. about a girl and a guy that meets every 4 years on february 29th.. and omfg, guess what.. 2 complete strangers whereby ya only know the other person's name meet every 4 years for 4 consecutive cycles.. that's 12 years mind ya!! through many arduous obstacles and stuff they got together la..

so all i wanted to say is that.. don't need to be so dumb like the show, right?? is it that hard to leave your msn, email or phone no.? see la.. waste 12 years just trying to be romantic.. hahaha!! and in the show, it was said that there was a tradition in Ireland that women had to wait too long for men to propose. According to the legend, Saint Patrick said any females yearning for a proposal could ask the guys instead on February 29th. and if the guys refuse, they would have to pay a fine!! so amusing.. imagine the guy would rather pay a fine, then the girl very paiseh.. haha..

there're some phrases in the show which is kinda meaningful

1) Coincidence is God's Way of remaining annonymous

2) A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it

3) It's not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves

4) In 3 words, i can sum up everything i've learnt about life: it goes on

5)If you are not too long, i will wait for you all my life

above is a cute emu i saw in aussie last year!! short week again next week.. good friday, army museum visit, armour road relay and dental FFI!! This is Great!!

haiz.. i still miss her!

2008-03-09T16:34:00.006+08:00

well, just what can i say?? it just pains me to see ya like this.. when ya felt terrible and all i could do was to watch ya go through the uncomfortable ordeal.. fortunately i'm glad i was there for ya, to do what i could.. i always will be there and i hope ya know that!! hope ya felt better!!

dunno why got this weird feeling.. why will feel like that?? was the regret so deeply etched that i just can't seem to forget? i guess some stuffs won't be so easily forgotten and some words just can't seem to come out.. sighz.. gonna book in soon.. damn early!! need to help the guys prepare vehicles.. will be back soon!!

passed driving!!

2008-03-08T12:11:00.004+08:00

OMFG!! i finally did it.. after 4 previous attempts i finally passed my driving test.. i knew this time it was different.. the feeling was different, test route was different and everything was different.. screwed up a little bit in the warm up.. was a bit demoralised, then we were told to sit in the waiting room and wait for like 30 mins!!

i felt that this 30 min was the key to success for my test yesterday.. i did some pep-talk to myself.. saying.. can't fail anymore, fail somemore going to reach 4000$ le.. and also that time i never pass, ah ma never got to sit the car i drove so i MUST pass this time round so at least ah gong can get a chance to sit in it on behalf of ah ma~

then came the balloting and i got test route 4.. well, it was kinda an easy route which nears my maternal gramps house.. so i was quite familiar with it.. just that the place a lot of pedestrians.. but there were no other vehicles so i drove very smoothly.. the usual humps, right turns and stuffs.. not like the previous times i damn suay and always get the teck whye route whereby i failed!!

i only minus 2 points in the circuit!! the slope la.. kan chiong so roll down a bit.. lucky i step brake.. now i get what my friends always say to encourage me.. when ya drive properly inside, ya'll get more confidence to drive properly outside.. and outside i minus 14 due to some mirrors, checking of blind spots and some change lanes error.. all small errors and it didn't hit 20.. so that means i pass!! =p

so excited when i got up the room and the tester said i PASSED!! omg.. i was smilin from ear to ear man.. dunno how to describe that.. it's like better than winning lottery and medals!! and i'll get the 'arhm chioh' symptom for the next week whereby you'll just smile and laugh out of the blue.. not forgetting laugh or smile in your sleep also.. my bmt mate told me this that time when i was still taking driving lessons..

wanna thank my parents for their constant encouragement, Peter for his reverse psychology to make me pass saying after i pass all the kids crossing the roads should be doubly careful, guan tat, Han Soon, Boon Kai and Soon Heng for believeing in me, my pc for telling me to drive well if not sign extra (clubbing extra), other mates who were silently praying and cheering me on!! thanks for all that!!

above all that, i was supposed to go outfield next week.. but my name got off the list so get to slack in camp with a few platoon mates.. what a week!! WooHoo..

csm strikes back

2008-03-02T21:11:00.004+08:00

omg.. the csm strikes back!! guess we really did piss him off this time and he's gonna make us sign extras liao!! but come to think of, it was his unreasonable personailty and arrogance that make us so sick of him and kinda ignore him.. he printed the whole informal punishment thingy as a warning to prevent us from commiting mistakes such as failure to pay compliments, failure to do this and that, etc..

and he's kinda a wily and sly guy.. interviewing the men about us, commanders and then when they said only good things, he said they were so dead wrong.. don't know where he got the information from and he kinda put those words into my men's mouths.. saying, glenn chaokeng, ck everytime nowhere to be found and me easily psychoed.. haha.. guess i maybe too nice but i demand standard also.. my guys know that.. if he said i'm a psycho then i think that's more true!!

it's really war le!! RAW is WAR!! he's really a 'xiao ren'.. commented my guys were fat as pigs and disrupted our peace in camp.. can't believe that's still such people in this world.. really i can't even respect him as a person but i have to suck thumb and no choice 'respect' his rank.. anyway, the rank can be bought in the e-mart with credit.. so rank's nothing worth mentioning la.. :p the remaining 2 months would be hard to go through.. we've decided to note down in a diary all the bad things he's done to us and when before we go, we're gonna hand it over to the higher authorities to settle it..

finally, the long waited anticipating driving test is here again.. this fri i'm gonna try again!! i'm sure i gonna do it.. all the best to me!!

bad week with csm

2008-02-22T23:13:00.009+08:00

this week was kinda a slow week in camp.. life in camp's not that fun anymore since that new csm came in.. and he is prejudiced, biased and has something against the mortar peeps.. most of us really don't give a shit about him anymore.. we were once hardworking peeps and did our field of job that the old csm delegated us but now the new one tells us to do work.. we won't do unless til it's damn urgent like your 'sai' that's gonna come out and you desperately need a toilet..

and he still dare asked why most of the people hates him.. since he already knows, why can't he change and make everybody's lives better and happier? all i can say he's unreasonable, don't give a shit about us but still wanna make life difficult for most peeps.. i thought my remaining days in the company life would be fun.. instead it's just torturous..

don't worry.. we're all gonna leave soon.. then he'll know what he's missing out.. once our mortar's gone i think there will be nobody to anchor the company's stuff and everything will be in a mess.. then he shall regret but it's all too late!

enough bout the you know who.. mentioning him for an extra second just makes me feel like shit.. the new specs just came in were pretty good.. most of them knew what we taught them but i felt some of them just wanna 'chao keng' and siam all the work.. hope they will change..

secured a silver for my 2nd year ippt.. no more ippt for me lo.. unless i wanna get gold la.. my 2.4km running shortfall of 32 seconds la.. 10:16 min but not bad le la.. because as most people would say when we firstly enter army, we'll all be fit due to the high intensive training tempo at first.. but when you reach the near O-R-D stage, you'll be back to the same before you enlist.. fat and unfit.. lolx.. so my results not bad le.. it proves that i am not unfit!! results for other station all gold le.. only left running.. think 100$ enough le la.. later chiong too hard for the 200$ in 32 seconds then heart failure how?? =x

this happened the first time i ever came to this camp.. a MP raid.. check for drugs, banned cigarettes, pirated vcds and camera handphones, etc.. they even brought the dogs!! and it's our cohesion day la!! so suay.. happened when we were about to leave.. fortunately, none of us good soldiers brought any illegal stuff and the checks done were carried out quickly and off we went to cohesion!!

went to eat steamboat in bugis la.. 13$ not bad le.. compared to those i ate the other time kinda cheap le.. other than a platoon cohesion, the lunch was also to send sgt sum off.. our platoon sergeant!! wait a min, not sgt sum.. it's gonna be Mr. Sum by the end of this month because he's gonna O-R-D!! haha.. he don't wanna work for army lo.. think he wanna be a swimming instructor.. really wanna thank him for all he's done for us all..

thanking him for bringing me to my current camp with my fellow 12 mortarians.. if not i don't know where i'll end up.. and also thanking him for teaching us so much lessons be it military or about life.. not forgetting the joy and fun he brought us and making our stay in the camp much more enjoyable.. hope we can all stay in contact and wish him all the best in his future endeavours.. (p.s: we're gonna O-R-D soon also.. wait for us!! =p)

back to the show p.s i love you that i watched last week.. it's about the life of a couple that changed tremendously when the guy just died out of the blue due to a brain tumour.. the female lead of the show was so upset and she can't seem to forget her dead husband..

then, the letters he wrote came one by one, month after month for a year and those are written for her when he realised that his days were numbered.. though at first i thought he wasn't dead and the letters were written by his ghost.. haha~

the letters he wrote are for her to deal with the loss, reminisces happy memories they had and finally to help her get over his death and move on in life..

so what are you waiting for?? even a dead person can inspire somebody to be happy, pursue their dreams, to find new love and get on with life with the letters he wrote when he was still alive.. So inspire somebody today!! =)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVrIiMxFj6U&feature=related movie trailer here!!

p.s i love you

2008-02-17T21:58:00.002+08:00

on leave and off since last thursday.. took the time just to rest at home.. nothing much.. stand by coming to an end!! this coming tuesday that is.. no more of being paranoid on whether i would be activated and keeping my phone by my side whereever i am.. that's a pain in the arse..

went for geannie's b'dae celebration.. it was kinda a fun affair with all the food, games and company.. haven't had such a fun bbq in such a long ancient time!! seemslike everybody did enjoy themselves

after that went to watch movie.. p.s i love you is such a nice and full of meaning show.. learnt a lot of life lessons on the show.. all should go watch.. jumper was nice as well.. with such an interesting plot, i was kept on my toes with all the jumping-arounds.. shall elaborate about these 2 great shows after i come back from camp the following week..

p.s: hope everybody enjoyed their valentine's day.

cny!!

2008-02-11T12:25:00.000+08:00

chinese new year's finally over!! well, as the years go by, the cny celebrations seemed like meaningless.. less fun as years went by and more bland while time passes.. i don't know why that's happening but that's how i felt.. the feeling of anticipation of the new year was so great when we were kids that we pretty much looked forward to it.. now it's just another public holiday to rest.. however, it was great to see everybody else again and they were doing great!!

ang baos collection was okay.. my sis counted the $ and it all tallied to 300$++.. not that bad for just 3 days of visiting.. food was okay.. all the usual stuff and the thingy that i ate the most this year is fish.. fish, fish and more fish.. favourite meat compared to others.. however, lost quite a bit during gambling about 30$++ ..

this year never wear red.. i chose green instead.. that's to remind us to be environmental friendly.. and i really did boycott sharks' fin this year.. and i think it will continue for subsequent years.. some people might think it's dumb.. but, i tell ya, the worst thing is not about the killing of the sharks, chopping their fins off and throwing them back into the waters.. however, it's people who knows about it and not doing anything about it.. so although it's just me but i believe everything counts so i guess all the little bits will add up, sometime..

Stop Shark Killing and whaling activities!! it won't hurt to stop eating them.. got many other stuffs to eat.. and if we were to eat something, just kill it and get it done and over with instead of making them suffer, degenerate and die..

was not disturbed by any of the stand-by stuff during the festive season.. that's uber great news!! and the swelling in my eye has subsided but still need to go back review see got any more side effects or whatsoever.. new year is celebrated for 15 days so let's all bask in the cny mood!! well, at least try to..

back!!

2008-02-05T09:08:00.000+08:00

alright!! everybody's wondering why the hell am i still here?? i'm suppposed to be in camp la.. but.. i'm on mc.. went to see MO yesterday and he referred me to NUH to let the EYE Specialist see what's wrong with my eye.. got one pimple-like bump on the right bottom eye lid.. it's not painful just that it's a bit irritatin hiding there and rubbing against the pupil of the eye..

in the end i waitied from 530pm to 12 midnight.. walao.. patience is really a virtue.. 6 1/2 hours of rotting and watching movies on the hbo channel there.. there was this show called house arrest.. quite an old show.. whereby a group of kids kinda kidnapped their parents under their house basement just because their marriage is on the rocks and the children are trying to salvage their marriage..

got some eye drops and antibiotics!! the medicine looked kinda familiar.. those i get from my family doc for the eye!! because i got tio this eye infection before.. just that this time it's a bit bigger!! really felt like an idiot.. waited for for more than 5 hours just for that..

and i applied for university again!!! hope can really get in.. if not go become chicken rice seller liaoz.. dunno what to do?? should i fly to other places to study?? it's back to square one to the days where we just got our o level results and goin for JAE admissions exercise~ sighz!!

well, time really flies!! it's been 2 years already, since the last valentine's day where i had a memorable first time date la.. =p but this year i think no date la.. other than that, it also means it's down to 3 months to O-R-D!! HAHA!! =)

cny entry

2008-01-27T23:19:00.000+08:00

nothing much this week!! everybody went outfield except us.. pretty shiok!! stayed back to touch up our vehicle though.. now they're slightly in a much better condition..

other than that, i've signed up for inter-formation rugby competition.. playing for armour la.. time to crash, smash and run!! alright.. last year got third.. this year think can do well also because my sp team mate, shawn is also playing!! cool la.. so i think it'll be much more fun since there's somebody i knew..

2 more weeks to chinese new year.. bought some new clothing.. everlast shirt, new pair of jeans, some t-shirts.. well, i'm still short of a nice pair of shoes and long sleeved collared shirt!! gotta go get them in the upcoming week..

well, nothing much to write bout.. still a bit confused and vague what i wanna do in future!! think gotta apply for uni again.. feb 1st.. and thanx mrs ngan for writing such a good testimonial for my university registration.. i wonder how she wrote until so god-like while my results are quite shitty..

haha.. something random here.. hope everybody's happy for the upcoming year.. take care and have lotsa fun!!!

bad week!!

2008-01-21T09:23:00.000+08:00

what a terrible week this is.. in addition to the monday's blues, got to know another bad news la.. i'm selected for standby.. arghz.. don'y know why so suay.. draw lots still can get me.. out of 10 peeps, i'm the last to be selected out so i gotta do it, i guess..

seems like i won't get to spend my february in peace!! i will get free metal plated body armour and a pager.. and if activated, i gotta fly back to camp to prepare for all the stuffs to deter any thingy during the month.. but usually it's just a turn out to test our readiness.. saded.. =(

i was so down til i never talked for like 2 hours, didn't eat a lot for lunch but later i thought it through and found that it might not be that bad, they might not call you back too.. guess they don't wanna go back during the chinese new year as well.. and besides me, there's also other people who can't go back on the new year so i guess i'm pretty much lucky la.. so it made me felt kinda better..

and that's not just it!! my csm has changed.. arghz!! a guy from training school before he came.. so it's like he's kinda strict.. area cleaning non stop.. very clean le still need to clean.. stand by area til dam late.. never had this kinda thingy for so long before.. seems like everybody is not very happy in the company line nowadays.. all would prefer the old csm to be back though sometimes we're not happy with him as well..

people are always like this.. people compare.. people or rather human beings are 'fan jian' one.. when some stuffs are gone, they would regret not cherishing and treasuring it.. when the stuffs are usually around, nobody bothers to give a shit about it!! so i guess that's human nature.. =/

i just hope there isn't that much a turn-outs and i can spend my february in peace.. oh ya, other than chinese new year, valentines' day is also in the month of february.. it's also known as friendship day!! so anybody wanna have dinner with me on that day?? well, think better not.. later they activate me then i gotta leave like super hero answering the call to save those in trouble.. then, my date woule be like so alone.. haha..

borin!!

2008-01-13T16:57:00.000+08:00

camp is just so boring!! everything's back from aussie.. time to start cleaning!!! clean this, clean that.. wash this and that.. felt like a full time cleaner!! basically that's what we've been doing for the past week..

anyway, i applied for the new south wales uni for my course in the aussie university open house.. the professor was very impressed with yh and my results, with a gpa of 3.4.. i didn't expect it to be that good.. thought it was just like a low 3.. he said we gurantee plus chop 100% will get in and other than that, a 2 year exemption as a bonus.. he said my results only shone in the later years in poly and i know i screwed up pretty bad in the first year!! =/ anyway, i applied just for the fun of it.. i don't think i'll be getting my ass to australia..the fees are kinda expensive, ya.. 24k per year and it's like not inclusive of living expenses.. i don't wanna burden my parents.. if i were to go, i think i will have to find some means to go there myself or borrow loans ba..

i really wanna study this course!! guess i will have to try the NUS 1 again.. too bad only 40 spaces.. and i would have to vie for it with the dragon poly peeps (again!!) plus the remaining jc peeps.. now that's kinda a challenge..

woohoo!! anyway.. 4 more months and counting before i O-R-D.. wa, the more i countdown the slower the day will come.. sianz.. already thinking what jobs to do before going back to study again!! really looking forward to going back to a nice decent school again..

Goodbye 2007, Hello 2008!!

2008-01-01T18:09:00.000+08:00

2007 gone.. the fully anticipated 2008 is finally here!! alright!! 2008 comes mean i'm nearing to my O-R-D date once again.. and i' so sure that 2008 would be a much much better year compared to this year with all the disasters, bombings and the price hike in so many shit.. thanx to everybody for your new year wishes!!

went to eat at waraku yesterday before going around to find minds' cafe.. the japanese cuisine one was okay.. next must try the pasta one.. that one looks even more tempting.. afterwhich, we advanced to minds' cafe but nobody knows where it's situated so we went around in circles in clarke quay for 1 hour before heading the correct way towards boat quay and reach our destination.. good exercise i should say.. haha..

played a few cool games such as snorta!, taboo, uglydoll and etc.. lots of fun games there.. really enjoyed myself very much.. now let's let the pics do the talking!!

near clarke quay!! the place where we thought the cafe was!! lolx.

attitudez man!!

the 1st set of 3 muskeeteers.. dudes with no girlfriends!! like what matt say.. haha!!

the 2nd set of the 3 musketeers.. me, matt and my mortar junior, sirong!! so cool to see somebody trained in the same platform as me!! =)

cool peeps!! i like the hopping deers behind.. haha!!

The Big Bullies!! HAHA~

here comes the fireworks!!

so next year if you wanna get a super uber cool view, can consider the minds' cafe at boat quay.. can have the bestest view and there's no need to squeeze with other peeps!!

everybody present!! fun la!!

so that's the end of 2007 and fresh start to year 2008!! went to play mahjong at kok leong's house la.. tried to make some nice cards but didn't play money so anyhow play.. play drink water la.. it was quite a funny affair and there was even louder laughters than the peeps on the next table that are playing with money!!

wait, wait!! new year resolutions!! all right.. the first is to O-R-D in one piece.. second, is to pass my driving!! (wa.. i like take super duper long liaoz)

Next, is to be bigger, stronger and not forgetting being slightly more wise for the studies world soon!!

chabal the 'caveman' who's 1.92m and 114kg.. now that's big and strong.. haha..

eh, still got some more.. that's to be more environmental conscious.. no more sharks' fin for me.. also will try to influence others to not take global warming for granted.. my platoon mates called me a 'tree-hugger' when i told them to turn off the fans and lights when they're not using it.. but i don't care what they say and still gotta take my stand and be an mini-environmentalist by doing my little bit for the blue planet..

of course not forgetting to look for a soul mate out there.. that'll stop my grams and mom from pestering me!! =/ embrace the great year ahead with open hearts!! =)

merryxmas

2007-12-27T09:19:00.000+08:00

Merrie X'mas!

dinner outings..

2007-12-23T23:00:00.000+08:00

passed my advanced theory (again!!) a second time.. not that i failed my first attempt.. i passed mine the first time two years ago.. just that it is kinda expired after 2 years le.. that means i took 2 years for 4 tries of practical test.. think i'm the only idiot in singapore to need to take it 2 times because the validity of the advanced theory expired.. =/ well, do not fear, my dear dad's car!! march 7th (that is if i pass..) will be the day i become a real hazard in the roads.. all should watch out for that..

went for dinner at ding tai fung yesterday.. the food was okay la.. though i still prefer crystal jade.. well, it's just a preference la.. but the ambience of ding tai fung was slightly better.. with the cool looking walls (you'll see)..

here are some pics to share..

prawn fried rice.. it was good~ less oily than that of the crystal jade one and it smells good!!

fried prawn pancake with the wu xiang skin.. it's good as well.. kinda special..

all time fav everytime if there's handmade noodles.. zha jiang mian!! the crystal jade one was nicer though.. this 1 not spicy at all.. crystal jade 1 spicier, the noodles's better and they will give the chicken stock soup..

prawn xiao long bao here.. the pork ones are below la so cannot see.. hm.. feel the crystal jade 1 MORE meatty.. and got alcoholic smell.. maybe they put 'hua tiao chiew'.. so crystal jade still win this round..

dessert yam xiao long bao.. hm.. never eat before.. can't compare also.. it's not bad nonetheless..

and of course with the good food, it must also be complimented with good company as well.. that's we!!

me, geannie, toong yeng and matt with our xiao long paos.. see the nice walls..

us again.. my ear kena chopped off.. last time at qiuyin's b'dae my head tio chop also.. people like to cut me up.. HAHA.

after that go uncle house warming to eat, drink and gamble.. won 4$ in card games..

today, went gym again, then go buy some pressie.. really like the x'mas mood.. everybody was like buying stuff and enjoying yourself.. fun!!! watched man u match in the evening.. heng they win due to a 88 min penalty.. ronaldo scored the first goal that was damn nice..

goal la!! nice left curler..

celebrations after the first goal!!

but still my currently favourite player is the silent worker whose work rate is 10/10.. carlos tevez.. he's just damn good with all the bursting runs.. may he become a better player in the team!! oh ya, merry the eve of x'mas eve.. :)

holiday mood..

2007-12-20T20:59:00.000+08:00

nothing much in camps nowadays other than it's the holidays season!! clearing my leave from the 18th to the end of the year.. shiok.. previously kinda helped out in the men's parade as armoured troopers.. shiong for them though as when the parade commences, rain started to fall and they were drenched like dunno what.. nontheless, they made it through and off home we went on a late saturday evening.. =/

been resting at home and gyming the whole week.. other than games, movies, videos and finding nice bands to listen, i've been reshuffling my thoughts.. the no. 1 thingy currently is what should i study?? i wanna do food science but it's kinda hard to get into the nus 1.. overseas study?? hm.. i think i'll miss out on a lot of stuff back home.. study some other stuff other than food?? i'll be forcing myself to take up something which i don't wanna do.. it will be the same as taking something just for the sake of entering university..

the best option is to wait for sp to set up a degree course with massey university from new zealand.. but god knows when it'll be set up.. well, only time will tell what i'll do.. currently, these are just some facts done from my analyzing..

Read from shumin's bloggie the other time, without a gf/bf, life still goes on and it's not like there's something lacking in life.. and the way that i'm living had been great for the past 21 years.. maybe i'm missing out on something good out here but it's still time for other more important stuff..

alright, time to enjoy x'mas, new year and when before you know it's over, 4 more months before O-R-D.. :B

holiday mood!!

2007-12-10T11:00:00.000+08:00

didn't update much for the last 2 weeks.. was enjoying my 1 week of leave since coming back from Australia.. stayed at home most of the time to rest.. there was kinda a jet lag for the first few days whereby i would feel like sleeping when it's near 9pm and i would wake up at 5 plus in the mornings.. but after a while the jet lag subsided so my biological clock was tuned back to normal..

went out to see what has changed in singapore.. well, nothing much.. besides what major changes could happen in the 1 month when i was away.. other than the newly constructed bridge linking the telok blangah hill park, mount faber and kent ridge park was progressing towards the finish line.. and i could see it slowly finishing from my window..

met up with the mortar platoon to have dim sum buffet at red star.. remembered that the dim sum was damn good when i was a kid.. i used to go there so often.. but the standard kinda dropped la.. the teahouse dim sum and yan palace ones were much much better.. went to try out jonathan's dad's bak chor mee stall and it was damn good!! chewy noodles and well marinated mushrooms.. makansutra gave it a 6 chopsticks rating and it was maxed out 6/6!!

here's a pic of the noodles.. it's at hong lim food complex.

other than that, also met up with sec sch peeps for qiuyin's surprise b'dae celebration at hollad village~~ had some drinks and bought her a cake.. hope she liked it.. and here are some pics..

me with xuan2, shumin and xinyu.. damn funny la.. xuan say to make my shirt mr strong more convincing, i should try carrying one of them and take the pic.. HAHA.. other than that, i was called mr strong the whole time that particular day.. =/

the guys with the b'dae gal..(my head kena cut off.. *ouch*)

everybody present.. glad to see everybody doing great.. meet up soon again!!

went back to camp and there wasn't much to do.. 'cause our vehicles are still in the midst of transporting back.. lessons for the troopers and nothing much.. checked that all my leaves have been approved!! well.. almost all.. some of the days weren't approved though.. but it's okay.. i will not be in camp from the 19th to the start of next year.. :B

went for cohesion in sentosa last fri with the mortar peeps.. had fun playing soccer, volley ball and touch rugby.. in the evening went to see matt's singing performance.. well, it's actually a song writing competition.. so those peeps whose original song's good will get selected to perform in front of the judges..

he wrote the tune and melody of the song while the lyrics were penned by a gal from taiwan.. during the performance, he was the key boardist while another friend of his was the singer.. and guess what.. he won the best lyrics award.. and the prize was 500$ and a keyboard from creative.. damn cool la..

met up with pri school peeps on that sat.. went to watch the golden compass.. alright.. kinda like a fantasy, magical show out from a story book.. (again!! seems like the in thing in making movies nowadays..) watch out for the trilogy like the lord of the rings..

the ice bear damn cool la.. so big and strong!!

went to play mahjong at jm house and i won 10$ la.. ok, it's not about the winnings but i tell ya.. mahjong is damn fun.. keeps you thinking and at the suspense whether ya'll throw the wrong card and other people game! or you'll be so excited and be kept at the edge of your seat waiting for somebody to throw your card and you game also!! or you can pick cards and finally the one that you've been waiting for comes to ya.. then you GAME!! haha.. damn fun.. :D

watched a couple of movies at home nowadays.. Step Up was okay, 881 was nice and super size me tells us all a lesson.. CUT down on that fastfood!! not forgetting good luck chuck.. damn amusing and hilarious.. HAHA.. going back to camp again tonight.. when i'm back again, you won't see me in camp again til next year.. =p

finally back from the outback!!

2007-11-25T21:01:00.000+08:00

i'm back!!!! australia was okay.. though there were some tough times but there are also some fun times as well.. reached there on monday, wee hours in the morning with the slight drizzle hitting on me.. was kinda a sad sight.. but we all pulled it through well, i should say..

A 4 day outfield training, plus 2 live firings there sums up this australia trip.. fired about 73 mortar bombs.. because we're firing a longer distance compared to the firing done in singapore so the impact was kinda big and my knee kinda hurt for a while .. other than that it was just running, running and more runnings!! the sky would illuminate by 5am then we'll all run to some forested areas and mind ya, it was kinda a long distance.. but we got used to it after runnin almost every morning..

also got to see kangeroos, emus, kookaburra and other animals in the wild in the midst of the training.. other than that, the stars in the night are also damn nice.. think i saw a couple of shooting stars as well.. that's the cool part.. the uncool part was that there was a lot of sand and i bet everybody ate quite a bit of sand.. and of course it would be all dark when it's just 6 in the evening.. and it gets kinda dark so you can't see no shit and it makes it a bit more dangerous when night driving was carried out..

the meals there were kinda like singapore.. rice with several dishes.. but sometimes it was slightly better.. with ingredients such as mussels, clams and prawn.. seems to be infested with seafood.. bathing was done with a water bag whereby ya have to fill it up with a tap.. there's cold and hot water as well.. i didn't use the water bag and the hot water at all during my 1 month stay.. i just used 2 pails and voila, i was done bathing~~

no bunks for us!! only tentages with safari beds.. during the day it could be as hot as 36 degrees but cold as 16 degrees in the night.. it was damn hot but the strong wind was there to compensate for that and i liked the wind there.. made our own chess sets, uno and sudoku for entertainment.. and not forgetting my rubik's cube!! finally mastered it~ :D

most of the times were spent in the canteen when we're free and had no missions.. watched shows and feasted there.. i never watched so many shows in my life in a short period of time.. these are the shows i watched..

MI 1 & 2
Sniper 1, 2, 3
Final destination 1, 2, 3
Gen X n Y Cops
Robocop 1, 2, 3
James Bond series
Saving Private Ryan
Black Hawk Down
Jet li series, romeo must die, unleashed, the one
Speed 1 & 2
King Kong
Into the Blue
Godfather Series and many more~~

the food sold at the canteen are very expensive.. they're the only guys there who sell the food so they would jack up the price a bit and monopolise the selling of canteen stuff.. drinks were at 1.60$ per can, fries at 3$ a packet, kebab and other foods at a range of 3$ to 5$ and the portion ain't that big as well.. i spent about 2oo$ on canteen food alone!! =p

the day we left camp growl, we were so glad.. finally exercise over.. going for rest and recreation in the town area.. visited some caves for the educational trip and went to the town to shop.. there's nothing much to shop there as the stuff are kinda expensive and the malls are unlike singapore's.. they have only 1 level of all shops and that's it.. anybody can finish combing the area in less than an hour.. the town's kinda dead.. all closed at 5pm and there's no night life there.. all's so quiet and the only thingy that is to be done is to go to bed.. haha..

new zealand airlines was great!! with all the all blacks rugby matches, movies and various entertainment, it made my journey slightly shorter and much more enjoyable.. can consider taking their planes again..

this is just about the general stuff that was done there.. good experience, an okay place to train but leaving singapore for a month made me cherish what i had back home.. missed out on a lot of things.. and missed a lot of peeps as well.. there was this 'what if i couldn't make it back in a piece' thought.. kinda enlightened me and learnt a lot of stuffs as well..

lastly, this had nothing to do with my ex wallaby trip but to a dota mate i didn't get to know more about.. condolences to everybody who knew reuben.. one of the peeps who fell into the cambodian waters during the dragon boat competition.. though i dunno him well but i played dota with him before and saw him once at minghui's birthday dinner that time.. it was saddening to see somebody near our age to falter and go away just like that..we shall all pray that a miracle happens and he would come back.. if God were to bring him back home, may he rest well in the heavens..

off to australia..

2007-10-20T22:46:00.000+08:00

finally off to australia after the anticipated trip that we heard of since february.. will lose contact with the world for a month because there are very little power sockets there and the reception there ain't very good so it's a bit sad and sianz.. but i'll be back in a month's time.. 22nov.. take good care everyone.. i'll enjoy myself there, i guess.. =/

rugby world cup..

2007-10-15T18:11:00.000+08:00

the rugby world cup had come to an end.. only left with the finals and the fight for the 3rd and 4th placing.. didn't get to catch many matches but the matches i caught were nice nonetheless.. sadly, the all blacks were knocked out by the french in the quarter finals by a mere 2 points.. now there's the final between south africa and england..

will the defending champions england reign victorious again with their golden boy, johnny wilkinson with his lethal kicks that score drop goals or would it be the pace, strength and skill of the south african team??

should be clearing some offs before leaving.. and i guess i would be able to catch the final match as well.. =D

live firing

2007-10-14T22:58:00.000+08:00

back again with an arduous week out in the field.. though we were instructors but we had to go through everything with them.. the outfield was kinda more challenging than that of when we were corporals going through the MTC commander course.. but we all endured it, and did pretty well for the exercise..

Live Firing was also carried out smoothly.. it was fun and not forgetting to mention 'deafening'.. finally got to see a real mortar bomb.. got to feel the impact as well.. like a king coil bed with the recoil.. haha..

i guess we're pretty much ready for australia.. though it would be tough in some point of time but it'll be fun as well!!

packed stuff..

2007-10-07T21:36:00.000+08:00

the previous week at khatib was alright.. though it was a bit tiring due to the intensive training with the troopers.. they learnt well and hope we'll do well in the summary exercise in the upcoming week and not forgetting the mortar live firing this coming sat.. oh man.. it's kinda exciting and scary because we've not done it before.. hope everybody will survive it..

stayed at home most of the time this week other than going out of the house to get some stuffs.. stuffs to prepare for australia.. time really is flying so fast.. troopers are here, and i'll be off to australia in 2 weeks' time.. sighz.. though it will be fun but i feel nobody will like to leave home for such a long time..

bronco license and artillery

2007-09-30T21:29:00.000+08:00

finally got the bronco license.. haha.. it was like an auto car la.. just glad to pass cause i didn't get to participate in the course earlier this year due to the operation on the ear.. can get to drive around australia and crush kangeroos.. HaHa~

anyway, my men or rather troopers are finally here.. i don't like to call them 'men' because it's like classifying them as being a lower class group of people or what.. so trooper sounds better a word.. and all of them come from bmtc.. well, all poly graduates, just like me.. hope they'll be nice and good to work with..

for the next two weeks, will be attached back to artillery to teach them all the stuff we learnt when we were corporals.. cool.. get to skip duty and time to have fun.. Khatib camp here we come!!

Wallaby stuff~

2007-09-23T18:04:00.000+08:00

the past week had been just packing stuff for australia.. all have been packed and sealed.. the checks were kinda strict though.. the quarantine peeps would be picky bout any grain of sand, grass or any foreign material on the thingy.. glad it was all over..

last sat, went for toong yeng's b'dae party.. it was kinda a grand affair at her house.. many peeps came.. and i'm glad she loved the pressie we gave her.. glad to see all my poly classmates again.. thanx to eric and kiap who ferried us around with their cars..

the following week was kinda quiet because csm was not around.. was supposed to clear lots of leave this week but last minute cock-ups don't allow us to.. so i performed duty on mon.. cleared leave on tues.. went to gedong for some safety regulations test.. cleared leave on thurs.. then came back on fri for a combat shoot..

was supposed to clear on mon, wed and fri but in the end only cleared tues and thurs.. and i gotta come to and fro to camp.. a bit sianz but i enjoyed my leaves as they helped to recharge me..

combat shoot was relatively easy.. a section of 6 will carry out the shoot from 60m taking turns to shoot random targets at your own lane.. if those that didn't do well will have their points covered by those who did well or score full marks.. everybody went was 200$ richer and are certified marksman.. yay!! haha~ =p

went for han soon b'dae party at costa sands chalet yesterday.. glad he enjoyed his b'dae with his family, friends and us.. the mortar platoon!! and also not forgetting wenyang's 22nd birthday also.. all peeps should have an enjoyable b'dae..

well, i've thought bout it~~ i'm gonna conduct a b'dae celebration next year because this year never celebrate and it shall cover the 21st one and shun bian celebrate.. it'll be great fun as i would already O-R-Ded.. and all should be able to come..

men coming tomorrow.. hope they're nice if not they're gonna get it from us.. haha.. going back to artillery to train them.. it will be fun going back to where we trained once too.. =D

tekong week

2007-09-10T20:19:00.000+08:00

the previous week in tekong was fun.. too bad there weren't any pics to share.. ya know, cameras not allowed.. first day was just bronco driving around the forests in tekong.. knocked trees and overcoming small drains.. kinda exciting because the vehicle looked as if it was overturning but it ain't..

there were bunks for us in the outfield.. safari beds, cupboards, toilets, bathroom, etc.. just like a normal camp.. just that it gets a bit cold in the night, had plenty of mosquitoes and is a bit sandy and muddy around the premises..

2nd day was just doing camouflage drill on the vehicle.. timing worsened a lot.. used to do it in a much shorter time.. 3rd day was just only vehicle maintainance.. went back to bmtc to see my old company but no1 was around.. also went to the mess at tekong called 'scabard'.. those place weren't allowed to recruits the last time.. now entered as a sergeant.. feeling's a bit different.. also went to bmtc hq where all the Company Logos plagues were planted.. those of Hawk, Jaguar, Falcon, etc.. it's situated near the ferry terminal so didn't get a chance to go in see because everytime near the terminal is chiong for book-out.. Haha.. those were the days as recruits.. i'll come more to that later.. was expected to go back on the 4th day as many of vehicles were damaged due to the bashing into forests, etc..

did contact drill on the 4th day.. like what we're supposed to do if we were to be contacted by the enemy.. dismount from vehicle and did stuffs what we used to learn in infantry.. good' ol days.. went back to mainland by takin rpl.. those big squarish ships that ferry large vehicles.. dam slow ship.. washed vehicles til 11pm++.. after that ate dinner outside..

thought that we could stay and have fun and slack in camp til saturday when the rest returns but we had to go back tekong (again!!) for a battalion cohesion and movie night.. because my sergeant major took us for the whole week.. learnt a lot from him by the way, he's damn professional.. so he said all must go back.. we were like...

so i decided to go back to my old company good, ol Hawk again in bmtc.. on the way there i saw my sispec buddy!! zijian.. he's posted to ocs since were parted on the sispec days.. damn nice to see him as a officer in Whiskey.. he was from Hawk too, by the way.. but he did not go back with us due to commitments in his current coy..

met up with Boss, Hawk platoon mate/Alpha section mate.. he got posted back to bmtc as a clerk sergeant because he got pneumonia when he was in taiwan the other time.. went back to find out that, seck wang, our Hawk platoon mate was back there again as the 2IC of the company.. damn cool la.. he said he would give the incoming recruits have a memorable experience even better than ours and he want to make the company a better place for the recruits.. nice vision there..

the scrapbook that we all did was still around!! the one we did in bmt days.. the pull up bar was still there and it was the same old soc ground.. we kinda catched up with all the stuff in the bmt days and also what have we been up to lately.. from a Hawk platoon of 50, now in my mortar platoon only left Han Soon who's in the same place as me longest from the Hawk days til today except for the sispec phase..

finally, we parted and bade farewell to them.. and i look at the Hawk Comapny building again.. with all the memories.. Happy, Sad, Tough and not mentioning Fun.. God knows when would i ever have the chance to come back here again.. very thankful to be there.. and guess what.. that day i went was the 1 year and 2 month anniversary since i enlisted.. what a coincidence!! and it made it a more memorable trip..

back to battalion bbq and movie night.. ate bbq and watched 300 for movie night.. cool right.. in the heart of tekong.. projected it on the big white screen and stuff.. went back mainland the next day for more packing of australia trip..

that sums up a fruitful and fun week at tekong.. it's rare for armour peeps to go there to destroy trees and the terrain.. don't think will set foot upon there again.. 8 months and counting more to go.. though O-R-D is a date all have been anticipating but there's this phrase from my friend's officer.. 'In the beginning, you want it to end. But in the end, you want it to start all over again'.. though we all wanna get outta army but it has become a part of us and we sure enjoyed part of it, made good buddies and it sure will become good memories etched in our minds..

the notice board logo was still there. =)

fast week

2007-09-02T07:08:00.000+08:00

Nothing much this week.. came back on tues after ahm and went for bronco driving.. was supposed to stay overnight out in the field but i clocked 18km fast so no need to stay overnight for night driving and friday's clocking of mileage..

going tekong this sunday.. will be back on next saturday.. happy 21st birthday to jianming.. hope you enjoyed yourself.. take care everyone~

sianz week..

2007-08-27T23:47:00.000+08:00

this week was just army half marathon preparation.. dam suay.. kena the bag deposit point.. 12,000 bags to jagah.. and the space given is like kinda small.. the yellow sector at the floating platform.. luckily captain jacky thought of joining six 5-tonners and tied nylon strings to hook on the bags.. i was in charge of making the tags..

i made all the tags in one day but on that thursday, they say the numbers made were wrong.. not that i typed wrongly but safra gave the wrong numbers.. and i gotta re-do everything.. well.. i need to think out the number ranges, laminate, cut into small pieces and punch holes.. the worst saikang one can ever get.. luckily got laminate.. can re write everything on the other side with permanent marker..

everything went well on the day itself except for the time people came to collect bags.. rowdy and ugly singapore people.. some even spewed vulgarities and screamed for their bags.. we actually opened two lanes for the collection but they all chionged for the other lanes and all 8 lanes were jammed to the max..

i know there are number tags i made to guide people to finding the bags.. but there are some peeps who brought such big bags that it overlapped to the other bags.. how to find?? 12,000 bags.. i thought they were reminded not to bring such big bags.. why they still bring?? racked so much brains from the planning and then run up and down to find peoples' bags.. instead of appreciation, we got scoldings and kaobei-ing from the people.. really can't take it lying down.. why not they put themselves in our shoes and come and do the bag deposit point?? i think people won't come up with such a brilliant plan because the space given is so, so limited.. i know some of the men put the bags at the wrong tags but because, the budget given was 0, i can't make colour tags.. if not it will be much better..

however, captain jacky was very encouraging.. he said whatever don't kill us will make us stronger.. actually he's the one who got all the scoldings and shit form the public at the counter.. we were just exhausted physically from all the searchings and stuffs.. he also helped out in the searchings of course.. really liked working with him.. he's like so open with other people's ideas.. he's so funny, full of ideas, witty and not mentioning a welfare person.. he's gonna be my oc this december.. look forward to working with him again~

the whole crowd only cleared out at 11am.. didn't sleep the entire night.. reported on 11pm plus the night before, went out to eat.. captain jacky's treat at xin wang.. 3plus the people come put bags.. 7am came to collect bags til 11am.. 4 bleedy hours of frantic search and i dare say it's more siong than my operations or what i usually do as a mortarian.. damn exhausted lo.. i can even sleep when 3 people are in conversation with me, when i'm standing and when i seeing people play arcade games.. that's HOW shagged i am.. come to think of it, i take it as a challenge and we all overcame the shit and we are stronger than the time before we did the bag deposit point.. that's the important thingy, we all experience some new hell and learn something valuable..

cool but duty week..

2007-08-19T11:21:00.000+08:00

well, the week after the national day week was kinda slow paced because of too much rest the previous week.. csm not around due to a course selection.. so everyone was kinda glad and things slowed down but we still did work that was assigned to us..

it was a duty week for me.. was so nervous cause there's a new thingy called the guard mounting drill.. fortunately, i managed to learn it well and all was okay.. the time during guard duty passed so, so slowly.. but it was better than doing the weekends one whereby it's 24hours.. =/

after that it was a stand by area from CO himself.. never expected the biggest boss of our battalion to check our area.. all was well, except the scouts did not lock their cupboards and punishment awaits them when they return from taiwan..

had soc on wednesday.. failed it with a timing of 12 min plus.. long time never run le.. haha.. but actually fail is not about the running but i couldn't do the low rope (again!!) so the fighting spirit just died off without me trying my best for the various stations.. or maybe my recovering pinky is getting in my way.. haha.. nevertheless, i'll pass next week..

duty again on thurs.. cos.. look after office and stuff.. very afraid the people will come and check our place.. if errors were spotted, the cos will get punishment.. fortunately, nobody came on that night and i got a good night's sleep.. there was also a mock close combat grading.. passed it and there was the real deal tomorrow..

passed it and no more of breaking falls, locks and slamming people around.. though the pugil fighting was kinda fun.. with all the padding and helmet and the sponge pugil stick to smack the shit outta your opponent..

followed by a 8km run before we go outta camp.. haha.. speaking of slack.. this ain't that slack a week.. actually, it seems kinda packed.. ahaha.. seeing my weekend again only meant rest and not much of a big deal.. my weekends are well, kinda worthless..

and those whom are telling me to take up a new religion, i will say balls to you.. because i truly believe in my own beliefs.. that is

I believe in

-being happy
-being thankful
-being caring to people
-being nice to people
-being helpful to people in whatever ways we can
-Forgive but don't forget (lest people screw you up a 2nd time)
-making things happen rather than waiting for things to happen
-giving in your Best
-avoid vices if possible (because nobody is perfect)
-Love and care for friends and family

Period.

Injury

2007-08-08T23:31:00.000+08:00

the past week had been my b'dae celebration followed by jon's on 30th.. though the rain kept coming to disrupt our bbq but we managed to cook all the food.. the chalet was held in sentosa.. almost couldn't make it back in camp.. luckily reached the gate at 1155pm.. phew.. if not we'll be locked out.. never came back so late before.. but just hoped that he enjoyed the bbq..

cut my pinky on the next day while moving one of the oil drum barrel.. quite a deep cut.. blood dripped and trickled down my arm.. i just washed with the water cooler and found some tissue to stop the bleeding.. went to the medical centre and waited for more than half hour before the doctor came to clean the wound.. it was deep but not so deep.. however, the wound was wide so it required some stitching.. 4 stitches.. not that painful actually though there were some medics and 2 fellow specialists watching.. i didn't grimace in pain but they looked as if they were the ones getting the stitches done and they just covered their eyes when the mini procedure was carried out.. maybe the hook used to stitch was kinda sharp.. and i just removed my stitches today.. though there will be some scarring..

met up with yeting and jianming for dinner last sunday.. fun!! please meet up again.. and thanks for the pressie from yeting.. like it a LOT~

had a soccer selection today.. quite fun to play in the field.. though it's quite a pain in the ass to run more and hard to do tricks on the field..

tomorrow's national day parade.. time to become toilet guard for the last time.. haha.. long weekend.. fri, sat and sun.. WOOooo~

Happy Birthday to Me~~

2007-07-30T11:58:00.000+08:00

I would like to thank these following people for making me feel like a king and making me enjoying myself so much..

Thanx to my Mortar Platoon for buying me a gigantic chocolate cake from secret recipe and they wrote 'Happy Birthday, Cockster!!' and not forgetting forcing me to drink 7 to 8 bottles of NeWater.. *puke*

Thanx to yiming and sharon for making the lunch at hog's breath cafe, movie outing possible and the books are Great!! and also jamie oliver cookbook from Wenyang and Yihang.. NICE~ Canterbury shirt from Tommy and Gab.. Everlast shirt from Huichoo.. nice colour there.. and not forgetting Jianming who couldn't join us due to his national duty.. i like the belt buckle he got me too.. Cool~ oh ya, and i saw one of my pri school friend who was working there~~ thanx a lot for that cake!! haha~

The movie that we went to watch was the Simpsons.. it was dam lame and funny.. anybody that is feeling down and needs a good laugh and go watch it..

and also more people to thank here.. Thanx to weekian and Jiajun for the Nike shirt.. Cute shirt! Kiap, Matt, Toon Yeng, YeePei, Jiehong, Yixian for the stussy shirt.. dam hip man.. and not forgetting Minghui who helped gather the peeps and making the dinner possible with a superb cake with Matt and the rest..

and also not forgetting those that wished me~~ You guys realy make me feel so blessed and i appreciate all that YOU have done for me..