Mr. Bean

Haha finally made this bean bottle as taught by Dajie aka TinWhistle. Let's hope it can bring in lotsa good luck and fortune for the new year!

Last Day of Jan 2010

Wow so fast one month is gone for the year 2010. How time rockets. It's another new month tomorrow with plenty of things to look forward to. Well maybe just CNY cos no V Day to celebrate ahahaha. Just back from a dinner gathering to celebrate Peiyi's 29th birthday. Ya it's our last 20s already. I went on a haircut + clothing shopping spree at Bugis Junction after my lesson. Spent a bomb today sia. After that I went to Marina Square to meet MKG. We had dinner at ThaiExpress and then went to play those UFO catcher games at level 2. Haha for once I tried the Ben & Jerry's game and got an ice-cream! Seems easy enough. Next time want $1 B&J ice-creams can go there to try my luck/skill again hahah! Yaokun got a cookie monster cushion with built-in massager! It's those $2 games whereby you need to slot a 50-cent sized thingy into a hole roughly the same size but just a bit bigger. He got it on the 3rd try! Nice one hahaha.

Oh forgot to post this video of the guild unXplained bowling so here it is:

Updates

Been quite tired and kinda lazy to update. So let's make it a short one.

15th January 2010, Friday

After work, Eileen, Aaron and I went to Novena Square 2 to play Guitar Hero! It's my first time playing sia hahahaha! There was this place at NS2 for people to play consoles like Xbox or Wii etc. Had to sign up for lifetime membership of $10. Then we get to play console games at $6/hr. We played Guitar Hero and it was like not very interesting songs at all. We hear the other group of people playing Rock Band with plenty of interesting songs. So we decided that we should play Rock Band the next time we go there. The layout of the consoles and seats were kinda stupid because there wasn't any sound separation between groups of people. Therefore we could hear other peoples' games as well. Super noisy sia. We could only manage to get a 9-10pm slot, after which they will close for the day. So it was just a one-hour of gameplay. We then went to pick up Charles and then went for dinner/supper at one of the Cha Chan Ting in Siglap to end the day.

16th January 2010, Saturday

It was to be a surprise birthday party for Eileen. All of us waited in one of the party rooms at the Kallang Mac. Initially Eileen thought we were going for high-tea at Conrad, but after some careful planning/scheming from Justina and Ronnie, we managed to surprise her with a surprise birthday party. We played some boliao games meant for kids and then had Happy Meals just like little kids. Lol I've never celebrated any birthdays at MacDonald's before, so it was kinda interesting. Luckily I volunteered to be the photographer and therefore escaped playing those silly games. I also took a short video of the whole celebrations, therefore decided to make a short clip and post it on YouTube.

After the celebration, Father came to pick me up and we went to the Irodori Japanese Restaurant at River View Hotel for Cindy's 21st birthday celebration with a spread of Japanese ala carte buffet. The variety was the standard ones you find in all Japanese restaurants. Food was quite nice and service was also good.

After a scrumptious meal of Japanese cuisine, I joined KMS, Zhangjing and Yipeng at Holland Village for a drinking session. It's the long awaited drinking session that ZJ was looking forward to since last year. It was also my first time going to Holland V at night for a drinking session lol. We ended up at Breko with their beer promotion of $12 for 2 bottles. 3 bottles each. ZJ had dinner there.

Looks like a lot of beer right? Dun be fooled by the chili and ketchup bottles hahah!

Then we went for a quick meal at the nearby kopitiam. ZJ had another meal of chicken chop there!

What makes ZJ more happy than having an awesome meal?

KMS wonders why ZJ can eat so much.

KMS suggested taking this pic. I wonder what they do on this street every night.

Next we went to another pub for another round of drinks. This time ZJ ordered his flaming lamborghini. Feeling that it's not enough, he ordered another! YP and KMS also ordered one each. I gave it a miss cos I needed to go for lessons the next morning hahaha.

If I posted a larger picture above, you can see ZJ's face full of sweat kekeke.

17th January 2010, Sunday

After my Japanese lessons, which now start from 2pm to 4:10pm, Jiahao and I roamed around Bugis before we proceeded to Hotel Rendezvous for Yee Ket's wedding dinner. Kai Hock was their photographer. We saw Jack Neo, who was somehow related to Yee Ket lol. Met up with the old colleagues over at DSO.

18th January 2010, Monday

Mummy received a call before 6am from 2nd Auntie from Malaysia, telling us that Grandma (Ma-ma) has passed away. Got Mummy all flustered and panicking. After that we all woke up and got ready to take urgent leave to go to Mentakab, Pahang, Malaysia to do all the funeral processions. Had to take a 4-day urgent leave. We drove all the way in and luckily got cousin Ah Wah who drove much of the distance back, we reached at 9pm or so. Over the next few days, it was plenty of funeral stuff. First time I had to do such things, following the Taoist priest do all kinds of rituals. I feel it's rather stupid but too bad it was for Ma-ma, so I just did as told. Father was the eldest son and I was the eldest grandson, therefore much of the responsibility was given to us to do most of the things. -_- Finally when everything was over, all of us were pretty exhausted. Oh well... hope Ma-ma is finally happily on her way to paradise.

Welcome to 2010!

It's a new decade and plenty of things to look forward to. Been gone for one week for a trip to Macau and Hong Kong. Woohoo finally went there. That completes another two of my must-go destinations. Been slacking for these two days cos was too tired after the trip. Laze and nua at home. And so now here's a recap of what's happened so far.

29th December 2009, Tuesday

It's Justina's birthday on the next day, so we celebrated her birthday for her. And since we were going to Sharon's wedding dinner later on in the night, I brought my DSLR along to office and thus I get to play around with it by taking loads of pix during the celebration.

Later on at night, we went down to Pan Pacific Hotel for Sharon and Erwin's wedding dinner. What a day. Another MKGian down, few more to go.

31st December 2009, Thursday

It's New Year's Eve! The last day of the decade! Brought my DSLR along to work since I'll be taking fireworks pix later on at night. It's also Faye's birthday celebration too since her birthday is on the 2nd of Jan. They weren't too keen to take any pix, so I just anyhow snapped a pic or two.

Later on, I went to meet up with Ron, kireichan, yang and An at Kallang MRT station. Yang had came to Singapore earlier on and went to meet us for this "guild outing". We then took the shuttle bus to Leisure Park Kallang. It's been a long time since I went there. Not much difference and still very few people there. We had dinner at KFC and then proceeded to play bowling. The rates were different for this NYE. It was $30/hr for a lane. We playedfor 2 hours. Edwin joined us just as we were starting our games. Throughout the games we witnessed more and more faults with this bowling alley. Firstly, the pins will drop from the top of the machinery and smash the already neatly-placed new pins. And sometimes one or two pins would go missing from a new rerack. And then the LCD monitor started turning black. WTH! What a shitty bowling alley. And it was supposed to be quite new. And then sometimes after the first ball was thrown, the score wasn't registered! The pins had to be reracked. Wow I'm never going back there to play again. Claire joined us for a while, just to watch us play bowling. Then she and I logged onto MSN using our iPhones and chatted with Moomei simultaneously. It was kinda funny chatting with crappy Moomei.

Guild unXplained NYE Bowling 2009!

Took a pic with Moojie aka Claire too lol.

So then we finished our bowling and then it was left with Ron, kireichan, yang and me. We went to kireichan's office at Shaw Tower to wait for the New Year fireworks display. There were already several other groups of her colleagues and their friends in the office when we reached there.

1st January 2010, Friday

We then waited for the stroke of midnight and then witnessed the world turned one year older and entered a new decade with a wonderful display of pyrotechnics from floating platform area right next to the Esplanade. We had a superb view of the fireworks. Too bad I didn't bring my tripod and therefore couldn't take good pix of the fireworks. After about 8 or 9 mins of non-stop fireworks, it all ended and so we then rushed to the MRT to grab our trains back home.

The picturesque view of the celebrations area from 34th floor of Shaw Tower.

The best fireworks pic without using a tripod.

Happy New Year and Decade!

The decade of chaos, violence, epidemic, digital evolution, and everything else is coming to an end. What's gonna happen in the next 10 years? Certainly another decade of unexpected events coming up. Technology is gonna grow by leaps and bounds, but like everything else, there will be a balance and surely Man must do his best to save Gaea from being destroyed by his own hands.

What about my next 10 years? No ones knows for sure. Will I meet my destiny? Will I achieve my goals? Yes yes yes! Yes we can! Obama did it so why not me? Nolah I dun wanna be President. What a waste of my youth (not much left of my 20s). 明年会更好! 加油! 加油! 加油!

It's An MKG Christmas 2009

24th December 2009, Thursday

Well this time we have a Christmas dinner right in the comfort of a home, thanks to Huimin and Albert hosting it. We got lotsa food for the dinner. Shepherd pies (woohoo finally tried it for the first time, damn nice), pizzas, chicken wings, logcake from Awfully Chocolate. Then we watched a bit of movies and then Uncle took out his pix that he took at New Zealand during honeymoon to show us. That completed the night. Nice! OMG feeling hungry again... Want more shepherd pies!

And Rudolph Came Early...

...in the form of me and my red nose. Been sick since the weekend. SianzZZzzZZzz... What a way to usher in the Christmas season... Haven't been so sick for quite a while. Wonder who passed the virus to me. But then again the weather has been rather weird. Sometimes blazing hot, then suddenly stormy weather, then stop raining, then downpour again. WTH...

16th December 2009, Wednesday

It's another one of those impromptu drinking sessions with the guys of Blk 22. We went to Timbre and it's been rather a long time since we met up for drinking. Charles, JJ, Jason, Adrian, Wilson and I then had a few drinks, and grilled Jason for the truth about the recent happenings. Conclusion is: Jason is an @sshole. LOL... But oh well... Perhaps it was all for their own good that things turned out this way. So we then finished up our drinks and said goodbye....

17th December 2009, Thursday

I had this sudden urge to take half a day to play bowling, and also a good chance to watch Avatar since it opens on that day. So I planned this bowling outing with Ron, who was on leave for quite a while. Oh before that I went to the Fila sale with Eileen and Justina during lunch and I got myself a waistpouch. It's been years since I last got a pouch for myself lol. Then I rushed down to Bugis Junction to meet Ron. He initially suggested playing a few rounds of L4D but since I don't really enjoy FPS, we walked down to Marina Square to play pool and bowling instead. We played almost 2 hours of pool before we finally got a lane to play. Ended up playing 4 games each. Woot I got a highscore of 180 this time round. Last time at Hougang Superbowl was 196. When can I beat my personal high of 203? Then Zhangjing joined us for dinner and then it was 161 mins of Avatar! I didn't really watch the trailer before but after reading reviews from GV's website, and thinking that it should be a really good movie cos of James Cameron, I went ahead to watch it anyway. Initially I thought it was a purely animated movie, but it actually has real actors and actresses in it. Only one word to describe the movie - AWESOME! I may want to watch it again in 3D. Should be damn worth it. As we finished the movie, it was time to dash for the MRT, cos the last time for Ron and ZJ was less than 10 mins away. And we were at MS! So we made a mad dash for City Hall. ZJ was panting like mad halfway through lol. ZJ needs more RT! In the end we all made it for our trains phew.


19th December 2009, Saturday

Alan jioed a GIP gathering at City Square Mall. Those who turned up were ZH, HS, KW, NZ, Alan and me. They had lunch first while I joined them after that. We then walked around Singapore's first Eco-Mall. Got some free LED candles from a shop. Then we went for ice-cream at Swensen's.
Then all left except NZ, so we both wandered around Little India, with me snapping pix here and there. And I finally ventured into the flea market just behind Sim Lim Square. Everytime I take bus 23 and move past that flea market, I always see tonnes of people there. Always wanted to take a look for myself what kinda good stuff there could be. I finally found a chance to go there. It was really interesting to see so many people place all their stuff there to be sold. From old CDs, DVDs, games, electronics, souvenirs, handphones, whatever you can think of, are sold there. I even found a similar doll that we see on top of the box near Expo everytime we go for lunch! So eerie! Like it followed me or something O_o!!!
NZ then brought me to try some Bak Kut Teh near Bugis. Quite good but damn ex! $6 each. But ok lah when I asked for extra soup, they gave it to me free. Hmm... We then walked around Bugis Junction, Iluma and I continued my shooting spree. I even wanted to check my Japanese Advanced I results back at JCS but the whole place was locked and closed. Can't have the experience of checking my results like what we see on the Japanese schools lol. Then NZ left while I hung around until it was time to meet up Eil, Cha, Jus, Ron at Settler's Cafe at SMU. I didn't know there was a SC at SMU until they told me. We played TransAmerica, and some game which tests reaction speed by doing some handsigns. Forgot the name of the game. We then ended the night with Balderdash, another silly game, but you actually have to kill some brain cells to play it well, contrary to what they claim - a brainless game.

20th December 2009, Sunday

Wow my weekends are so tiring. Had to help out as a volunteer photographer for Peiyi's company's Volunteer Appreciation Day 2009. Yes it's Shan You's VAD2009, held at Geylang West CC. Was to take pix of the whole event from 3pm to around 8pm. Actually it was quite fun but I wasn't feeling very good already since Saturday, so the shoot was kinda taxing. Still it was kinda interesting to know that there are so many volunteers out there willing to lend a helping hand to those in need. Saw people of all ages at the VAD. Got some very cute young girls too. But I shall not post their pix here lol. At the end there was a lucky draw, in which the very first name being called was mine. Wahahha! Prize number 10. Am I lucky or what? Or is this really 善有善报? I didn't really think I would win anything, just wanted to help out only lol. They also gave us a goodie bag each. Walau ended up bringing lotsa stuff back home, inclusive of my bag of DSLR.
Saw this mother or father cat with his/her litter of kittens curled into a mass of fur when I was on my way to Geylang West CC. So cute lah...they kept staring at me and ready to flee as if I was some enemy lol.

Peiyi interviews one of the volunteers.

The volunteers got down to work to design some posters.

21st December 2009, Monday

Holy shyt was feeling sick the whole day. Wanted to take MC but many people are on leave, and got lotsa things to clear in office, therefore didn't. Evening time, I rushed off to M Hotel, where Ken and Angie's wedding were held. It's the 2nd Blk 22 wedding I've been to. I was one of the last few to reach, with all the other 10+ over Blk22/Hall4 guys there. Yeah all guys, except Charlene, who went with Ah Liang. Saw Nana there, who happened to be one of Angie's Sisters. Saw Terry Tan from FDS too, who is related to Ken somehow. And this must be the most interesting wedding dinner I've been to, cos Ken and Angie both prepared a surprise for each other. Ken got someone to do a short animation about how they got together and how he proposed to Angie. It was so touching and fun. Angie on the other hand also prepared something for Ken, by singing on stage with the song "Because You Loved Me" by Celine Dion. What a loving couple. And they're just 25 years old this year but got married already, while the rest of us seniors are either still unattached or still no money to get married lol.