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Happy New Year Two Zero One Two!

2012-01-01T14:21:00.006+08:00

We're into a new year once again! How time flies! It's like the older you get, the faster time passes. Scary!

Time for a new skin for 2012! It's springtime once again for many countries, but unlike sunny Singapore, spring is not an option. However spring signifies rebirth and youth, and all good things start all over again. And what's more, my name has 春, which aptly goes along with this theme. =)

It's been a rather eventful 2011, full of ups and downs for me. Held three jobs in the same year. Nothing much achieved. Must aim for greater heights in this new year. Everything will be better! Ikke!!!

Lunar Eclipse 2011

2011-12-11T23:00:00.000+08:00

Last Total Lunar Eclipse of 2011. Next Total Lunar Eclipse happens in the year 2014 on Apr 15.In fact just back from Patrick's wedding dinner at Orchid Country Club. Ken gave me a lift and dropped me nearby. Dear reminded me of this lunar eclipse happening around that time. When I looked into the dark but clear sky, I could see the eclipse almost finishing. Therefore I went straight home and took out my DSLR to shoot the last remaining minutes of the eclipse.

Taken at 11:52pm 10th Dec 2011

Taken at 12:03am 11th Dec 2011

Taken at 12:12am 11th Dec 2011

unXplained Guild Outing 2011

2011-11-25T23:00:00.000+08:00

It's another guild outing for guild unXplained! It's been almost two years since we last had one. This time round we had many more members joining us. Quite an interesting gathering, with so many new faces, old faces and good food.

Steamboat buffet at 鲜得来.

FuryUnicorn and newbienoobx.

After the dinner, we walked over to the TCC next to Seah Street. And continued our chatting and slacking session before we bid farewell to everyone. See you next outing!

Moomei(Elise) and Moojie(Claire).

Kironchan and the Sleepies.

We organized all this for Yang.

Pet food for Claire's pet cat, Silver.

Yang and TCC.

Guild unXplained ROX!

The godly Level 200s. (Only KW and Yang are from unXplained)

A Visit From A Weird Insect

2011-11-20T23:00:00.002+08:00

This weird but interesting looking insect flew into my home. Looks like a piece of leaf and is merely 1cm long at most. Didn't hesitate to take pix of it. Even put it inside a glass bottle and took pix of its underside lol.

AFA 2011

2011-11-12T23:00:00.001+08:00

Went to check out Anime Festival Asia 2011 with dear. The tickets getting more expensive each year. The organizers must be thinking that it was such great success on the previous years and therefore increased the prices of the tickets. This time round there wasn't much at the festival. Not many figurines on display. It was more on maid and butler cafes, performances by AKB48 girls, anime movie screenings etc. We eventually went to watch Naruto Shippuuden movie 8: Blood Prison. Quite a boring storyline. $10 some more. Got a free poster though.

Check out the other pix in FB here.

Got dear to try out this kawaii animal outfit lol.

First Ever Company Event: Bowling

2011-11-04T23:00:00.003+08:00

My first, as well as the company's first. There was shuttle bus to bring us to Mount Faber SAFRA for this bowling competition. Our department's team comprises of all of us except Da Chin. And then because there wasn't enough players for some other teams, therefore it ended up with every team to be made up of 4 players instead of 5. So our boss, Dominic, sacrificed himself and joined another team.

We had a small table of food prepared for us. But the moment we entered the bowling alley, we saw SembCorp's food spread was much better than our's lol. No wonder their share price is much higher. After the short dinner, we started warming up for our games with a few throws. Then the actual games started at 7pm.

Our first game's total team score was not too bad: 369 pts. And I barely made it past 100. Wah really rusty lol. Second game all of my teammates deteriorated but I got a 137 lol. Final score is 374 though. Too bad we didn't get to win anything. Cos anyone who got a double or turkey actually could get toblerones and vouchers respectively. Too bad I'm too rusty lol. Didn't even get anything, not to mention no top three trophies.

The trophies so cute eh? But..Milo!? Toblerone???

Our team name is "Risky" cos nobody came up with a name, so they just anyhow named it.

Round 1 results

Round 2 results

Our boss gave out prizes to this team with the lowest score.
They get T-shirts with the words "Team Longkang" lol.

Christmas Came Early

2011-10-31T23:33:00.004+08:00

Yea right. Late, in fact. My stationery finally came, all in a DHL packet lol. My new neighbour's came together with mine as well. Wow inside got all the stationery I need and do not need. Now that's what I call welfare lol.

Happy Deepavali!

2011-10-26T22:40:00.006+08:00

Woohoo my first holiday happens just two days after I start work! It's Deepavali! Dear had planned for us to go to The Line @ Shangri-La for the lunch buffet promotion @ $29++ per pax. Great deal! So we brought Nut Nut along since it's her birthday, as well as my parents.

It's been several years since we last stepped into Shangri-La. Nothing much has changed except for the carpark lol. We then proceeded to The Line. Fwah really nice decor and the food were laid out beautifully. Got the usual sashimi, sushi, pizzas, Chinese dishes like gongbao chicken, sauteed veggies, even prata, laksa, wanton noodles, fresh seafood like cold prawns, crabs, mussels, sweet pastries, teh tarik, ice kachang, ice-cream etc etc. Really damn worth it during this promotion. However I would think twice during normal prices of $49++ lol. Overall a nice experience. Could hardly move after the meal.

Father in the middle. We reached the place quite early. Nice interior decor.

Dear and Nut Nut checking out the dessert sections already!

Looks great! No wonder they were checking them out.

Woohoo seafood!

Wanton Mee

Laksa

It's Nut's birthday, so we sang her a birthday song!

Momorange conquers another buffet!

And also visit Shangri-La for the first time together.

And So Here We Go On Another Journey

2011-10-24T22:41:00.003+08:00

Not we lah, but me. Who can imagine this is my third company within a year? Yes today is my first day at Golden Agri-Resources Ltd., situated all the way at Pasir Panjang. In fact, I am under the employment of Golden Agri International Pte. Ltd., a subsidiary of GAR lol. And I have to take a bus, 3 different trains, walk for another 5 mins to reach my workplace. Holy crap! The good thing is, if I get a car, the parking lot at my workplace is free. Hmm... Time to get a car soon?

Another good thing is, I can go to work with Dear again. It's just 3 more Circle Line stops after HarbourFront MRT station, so we're very near each other. Going home is easy too, cos we can take train to Boon Keng and then take 23 all the way home. Many options for me to go home actually, but all depends on the traffic conditions.

Today was a start learning already day. The moment I stepped in, my teammate, who was here just one month ago or so, guided me on some of the processes that he is currently doing. And I'm expected to take over by Friday cos he's going for reservist! WTF! Only left with two days to take over his stuff. Hongganz... Our other teammate is a girl who has been with the company for less than a year. So is our secretary. We all sit in a square of desks, and beside me is an empty table, supposed for the new guy coming next week, and in front of him is the Bloomberg terminal. That's our Risk Management department. Our direct boss has gone to Jakarta for a meeting and will be back later in the week. The HR lady brought me around to introduct and shake EVERYONE's hand in the afternoon. Even the cleaning/pantry aunties, receptionist, dispatch drivers, but just introducing them to me only lah, no handshakes. And I noticed tonnes of empty desks. The company is expanding rapidly. Interested people please email me your resume and I'll forward it to my HR lol.

Let's hope my next two weeks or so would be fine, cos my senior won't be around and I will have to take over all his current processes. Holy shyt!

The reception on the 6th floor looks damn cool.

The view of the artificial grass and waterfall garden from 4th floor.

Even the caps for glasses for guests got GAR logo. PRO!

The corridor that leads to my office area.

My desk is on the left. Damn new and nice-looking environment.

Outpro liao!

2011-10-21T22:44:00.003+08:00

Yes it's the last day of ICT. Today was a totally boliao day cos we booked in at 745am and slacked all the way to 12pm or so before S3 addressed us and gave out certs and stuff. Then we had the lunch catering and then got out of BBH to then out of PLAB. Woohoo! 5 cycles down 5 more to go!

Should update on my ICT happenings, especially the 3D2N outfield. This is the most tiring and siong ICT out of my 5 ICTs so far. Crapz. Now back still aching. My fingertips still feel numb or something. Dunno what happened. Must have been bitten by poisonous spiders during the outfield!

Ex/Current Citi Outing

2011-09-16T23:59:00.005+08:00

A lil' gathering of ex and current Citi people.

Yeow Koon's Housewarming

2011-09-13T21:38:00.001+08:00

The link to the post.

Terracotta Warriors At Asian Civilization Museum On National Day

2011-08-09T23:59:00.000+08:00

Just one day after dear and I returned from our trip, we went for this museum visit which we had planned to go long ago. And it was National Day too.

We went to the Asian Civilization Museum for its Terracotta Warriors exhibition. Looks kinda interesting. They really brought the real Terracotta statues over to be displayed. How cool is that? It was free entry for the month of August so it's really worth the trip.

Right after the visit, NDP was starting very soon. Managed to capture the chinooks flying the giant Singapore flag right above our heads. Woo...

We then went to Marina Square food court for dinner, and at the same time hoped to see the fireworks from there. The whole window area of the food court was swarmed with people by the time we reached the place. We also managed to find a table near the windows, but obviously we couldn't see anything from our seats. When the fireworks started, we could catch a glimpse of the sensational atmosphere. Happy Birthday Singapore!

Hong Kong Macau Trip Updates

2011-08-09T01:01:00.003+08:00

And my travel to Hong Kong and Macau has been blogged!
Read all about it here from Day 1.

Carlton vs Goodwood Park

2011-07-12T20:49:00.001+08:00

It's the battle between two hotel's durian buffet! We went to try out the two buffets within two weeks. What's the verdict? Don't eat durian buffet! Hahahaha! Cos you'll get sick of it if you're just eating durians and durians and more durians for a meal. There may be different variety of food made using durians, but the taste is essentially the same. Therefore I conclude that it's best not to eat a durian buffet. I would say both hotels' durian cakes are one of the best items on the menu. The other items are pretty normal. That's about it. It's best if you try it out yourself.

Carlton Hotel, 19th June 2011, Sunday

It's Father's Day too! Which was why we decided to go for this buffet. I personally chose this place out of the other places because this is one of the most expensive one hahaha. Nolah there's a buy 3 and free the father promotion for this Father's Day. The international buffet is quite normal. I did not take pictures of them though. There were sashimi, sushi, live oysters, mussels, clams, prawns, steak, sausages, and all the other normal dishes like salad, veggies and stuff. And on top of that were desserts, fruits, ice-cream, chocolate fondue etc. So to eat all that, plus durian desserts, it really is quite a huge test to our stomachs. So my suggestion is to go for the international buffet, or durian dessert buffet, but not BOTH at the same time.

Now let's let the pictures do the talking.

Goodwood Park Hotel, 2nd July 2011, Saturday

Finally! We actually wanted to try this first, but decided not to and went for Carlton's instead. So there we were, going for the durian dessert buffet only. There's Taiwan Porridge A La Carte Buffet too, which is $39.80++ for pax. And I'm pretty sure it'll be a waste if we go for both. There wasn't as much durian desserts compared to Carlton's, items were a bit different too, as can be seen from the pictures. Personally I think Carlton's variety and presentation win GWP's just a little bit.

Lucky Day

2011-06-09T23:58:00.002+08:00

Yeah lucky day indeed. Was sending Momo home as usual and parked at the handicap lot. After talking for a while, we heard a loud bang and then another. When I went out to take a look, I found a weird looking two-wheeled thingy on the ground just next to my father's car. "Holy crap, did that thing just hit my car?" I looked up and saw a few heads popping out from the top floor, 12th storey, looking down. Then I thought "of all people, why those 3 guys from the top-most floor will look down?" Could they be the culprits?

Then Momo came out of the car and told me to call the police. Ok what an exciting night. I made my first police report ever. And then few minutes later, a pair of male and female police officers came and took our statements. They took some pictures of my father's car and the object. And they told me they might contact me if they need further details and gave me a "Singapore Police Force Case Card" for the report number and contact details of the Investigation Officer in-charge.

Holy cow, what a night.

Could have been killed by that thing.

The "killer object".

Never park there again lol.

The black marks suspected to be due to the thing dropped from above.

Nafimuya's Happiest Birthday At Age 30

2011-06-09T20:52:00.006+08:00

27th May 2011, Friday (NaFiMuYa turns 30 holy sh*t!)

First of all, thanks to Momo dear for taking the day off just to accompany me. =) And it was an awesome day at Universal Studios Singapore. It was our first time ever visiting this theme park.

We took the Sentosa Express from VivoCity all the way to the stop at Universal Studios. Reached at 12pm! Wasted 3 hours of play, cos USS opens at 9am.

Our first visit to a theme park! Universal Studios Singapore!

Woody Woodpecker!

Dear with a nice jester's hat.

Orange hits the big 3!

1st stop: Attraction 17: Hollywood - Lights, Camera, Action! @ Hollywood
Time visited: 12:15pm

It's our very first stop. Didn't take too long to queue and get into the theatre. Didn't expect something so stunning. The whole theatre was filled with props and equipment that you wouldn't expect. Real rain, fire, wind and windows getting ripped off the walls, columns and pillars falling all over the place, explosions, a ship actually smashed through the walls. We were standing at the front platform, and that's as close as you can get to the 'live' scene. The 'tornado' swept across the city and we could feel the magic that's being conjured up. Way cool. The best thing is we were right in front of the place where a column fell right in front of me. I was taken aback and even stepped back and stepped on someone's toes lol. Cool stuff! Although it happened for mere minutes.

2nd stop: Attraction 15: Sci-Fi City - Battlestar Galactica: HUMAN (RED Track) @ Sci-Fi City
Time visited: 1pm

And our very next attraction would be the most exhilarating ride for the day. This ride took quite a long time to queue. Throughout the queue, we had butterflies in our stomachs. LOL. It's my second time taking such a huge roller-coaster ride. Dear was very excited but I was getting very nervous lol. However during the ride, I was shouting and screaming at the top of my lungs, dear was so stunned that she couldn't make a sound at all.

After we're done with the ride, dear immediately dragged me to queue for the blue track. Holy shit. That one was worse! It had corkscrews, 360 turns etc. Way more damaging than the red one. After the red ride, my back muscles were aching, possibly due to being over-stretched. Should have done some stretching before taking the ride. And dear was worried about me, so we decided to abort the mission. And luckily we did that, else our locker would have incurred charges if we had taken the blue ride.

Therefore we went ahead to take other less exciting rides for me to rest my muscles first. I met Yok Hian, Mr. Yokipedia right outside our next ride.

3rd stop: Attraction 12: Ancient Egypt - Revenge of the Mummy @ Ancient Egypt
Time visited: 2pm

Kissing Anubis.

The two guardians to the tomb. How majestic!

This was a rather short wait too. We had to walk through winding pathways along the Egyptian building. Crates, pillars all set up like a maze, but it's just a one-way passage. We reached the ride area with two sides for people to take a ride from, but ultimately they will end up on the same track. I told dear to close her eyes if she's scared, and she really did! It was a long ride along the indoor roller-coaster. Total darkness except for whatever they wanted us to see will appear along the ride. Imhotep is placed along the ride and he says things which make your hairs stand. (nah..not really) At one point, the ride was even reversed and turned around about 270 degrees to the left, where we go for a downhill ride, in pitch black conditions. Totally awesome ride.

The castle which Shrek resides in.

4th stop: Restaurant A: Discovery Food Court @ The Lost World
Time visited: 2-2:30pm

Dear is hungry! Look at her mouth!

So is this tyrannosaurus rex!

Oh no! Dear is gonna get eaten!

Nah...this laksa set is. $10.50 omg!

Famished Momorange eats up everything in their path, I mean bowl and plate.

Oh no! Dear gonna get eaten again!

Nah... dear gonna eat these dinosaur eggs.

Momo is going to a Far Far Away place.

5th stop: Attraction 8: Shrek 4-D Adventure @ Far Far Away
Time visited: 3-3:15pm

It's 4-D adventure time! It's dear's first time watching a 4-D movie. I watched one before at the 4D Magix showing "Honey I Shrunk The Kids". This time it's Shrek. Very entertaining movie with plenty of wind and water. Surely one of children's favourites.

Ain't we cool? =P

Momo loves this picture. Orange too.

We're like in the middle of the story of Shrek itself.

6th stop: Attraction 7: King Julien's Beach Party-Go-Round @ Madagascar
Time visited: 3:30-3:45pm

Dear wanted to try this carousel from the moment before we went in. So since I'm not very into it, I decided to stay outside and take pictures for her instead. See how happy she is? Feels like she's turned into her three-year-old self.

Oh, dear sits on a giraffe. Yes, it's another version of me.

Took a picture with this cute hippo too.

And the penguins gave us a "I Like To Do It" dance.

The newly-opened Madagascar section is more for kids, but very entertaining for adults too.

7th stop: Attraction 6: Madagascar: A Crate Adventure @ Madagascar
Time visited: 3:50-4pm

The Madagascar area was more for kids. But the very colourful and lively place full of dancing and smiling animals surely made even adults feel like they're kids once again. We took the crate ride along a river, which brought us into a Madagascar area full of the characters from the animation. Nothing very fanciful, just nice for kids, who may not have a chance to take a ride on the roller-coasters.

And off we go on a crate ride along a river in Madagascar!

Both dear and I love this picture I took of the front of the crate-boat we're sitting in.

8th stop: Attraction 5: WaterWorld @ The Lost World
Time visited: 4:30-5pm

The Water World is quite an old movie. Can't really remember its plot. But this show should be one of the must-sees in this theme park. Very dedicated actors and actresses who put up this awesome live show in front of us. Full of pyrotechnics, water, guns, speedboats, water, action, smoke and lotsa water. Those who were seated in the front few rows are told that they will get very wet. We didn't want to get wet so we sat on the highest rows. Definitely a must-see. Salute the actors and actresses.

Let's swim into Water World!

Awesome finale - a seaplane flew into the scene.

9th stop: Attraction 2: Canopy Flyer @ The Lost World
Time visited: 5:30-5:32pm

Yes it only lasted at most 2 mins! For a 40 minutes wait. OMG. But it's quite fun, with our legs dangling in mid-air from over a few storeys high. Too bad the ride is toooo short.

10th stop: Attraction 12: Ancient Egypt - Revenge of the Mummy @ Ancient Egypt
Time visited: 5:45pm

Haha we went to take the ride again. This is because dear told me she closed her eyes throughout the ride, so I dragged her into the ride again.

Loved the movies, as well as the ride.

Poor me have to do it like the slaves.

Battlestar Galactica: Cylon. We'll conquer you the next time!

Can't imagine being one of them. Eeeks!

And dear wanna visit the Gingerbread Man.

We finished off our last tour around USS by 6pm because it was the soft opening for USS. They invited many celebrities for this event and therefore the park was closed to public by 6pm instead of the usual 7 or 9pm. As we approached the entrance, the staff were laying out red carpet in the middle of the road for the celebrities to walk on later in the evening.

Momo is the world's greatest girlfriend hehe.

Why would you pose with such goodies? EAT THEM!

Hungry! And we decided to try out this Italian restaurant, Palio, at one of the hotels.

Momo drinking wine... nah, it's just water lol.

The free bread was nice. So is the soup. Pasta still ok. Pizza normal.

Another happy day of Momorange.

To end off the wonderful day, we went to National Museum of Singapore to watch "Fantasia" in this live outdoor movie event. The movie was already showing halfway when we reached, but still it's a nice experience.

Lotsa Events

2011-05-22T21:58:00.003+08:00

So busy with so many events lately.

No time to update sia.

Just back from Huimin's Adele's one year old birthday party at a chalet at Changi. Wow they really make so much effort to do such things for their kids these days. Wonder what I'll do next time lol.

21st May 2011, Saturday

Took a cab down to Wee Khiang and Peh Yee's wedding lunch at Crowne Plaza. 2nd time I'm there for a wedding function. This time I was there for the solemnization event and then had a quick lunch before rushing off to another solemnization event. Phew...

Cabbed down to One Rochester at Buona Vista. Wacauz cost about $25 sia cos of airport surcharge. Aaron and Annie's solemnization event was held there. Quite a beautiful event with nice decoration around the place.

Pix are here.

iMac-ed!

2011-05-17T22:40:00.004+08:00

FINALLY! After hesitating for several months, I got my hands on a new toy from Apple! It's a 2.5GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i5 iMac! Got it from Challenger at Tampines One. Might as well, since they have 30% on AppleCare, and can get points for Challenger membership. And it's 24 months 0% interest installment plan. Totally awesome deal! Now my desk have this PC and an iMac just next to each other and my Starcraft II mousepad is home to my PowerLogic GMX-3 mouse and the Apple Magic Mouse hehehe.

PC: Intel Core2 Duo E8200 @ 2.66GHz (Wolfdale 45nm architecture)
CPU Benchmark: 1943

iMac: Intel Core i5-2400S @ 2.50GHz (Sandy Bridge 32nm architecture)
CPU Benchmark: 5137

See the big jump in processing power from my current PC to my new iMac!

It's Voting Day!

2011-05-07T01:23:00.004+08:00

Went to the Workers' Party with Alex after work yesterday. Almost didn't wanna go. But then felt like it's once in a 5-years' time thingy. And WP's influence on Singaporeans is so strong now that we die die must go and join in the last rally for this GE. We took the NEL to Serangoon and even dabao-ed KFC to eat along the way to the stadium. It is said that there were around 30,000 people who attended the rally at Serangoon Stadium. When can you ever find such a humongous congregation of people except during NDP or IT shows?

We stood there from 9pm all the way to 10:30pm, with Mr Low Thia Kiang ending the rally. It almost felt like everyone was united, shouting "Workers' Party" repeatedly. Even little kids were shouting too lol.

Wait till I upload some pix and videos of the rally. Stay tuned!

My First Ever Rally & Labour Day in BNS

2011-05-03T00:33:00.005+08:00

Never would I have thought I would go for a General Election rally. Been reading up a lot about the latest developments of the GE thanks to Facebook. Almost every post is related to the GE. Plenty of parodies and articles all help to make everyone, especially those of vote-able age, to notice the various problems we as Singaporeans are facing. More and more people are concerned politics in Singapore.

Went to the one at Kallang for the Kallang-Moulmein constituency. Momo and I reached the place at around 8pm and still plenty of people were walking towards the large open field, where probably thousands had already congregated to listen to the Workers' Party's rallies. We listened until 9pm before we decided to go for dinner. Luckily the weather was pretty good, otherwise we wouldn't even have lasted more than 15 mins perhaps lol. Looking forward to the NSP rally Tampines Stadium on Wednesday. That one die die must go since it's for Tampines GRC.

Earlier in the day, Momo and I went to watch Thor! Have never missed a Marvel movie, except for Iron Man. Watched all Spiderman, Iron Man 2 and now this movie. The plot is pretty simple. Lotsa awesome graphics in an alternate as well as present universe. Natalie Portman is rather redundant in this movie. Could jolly well cast any female actress, since she didn't really make too much of an impact on the plot. Thor, played by Chris Hemsworth looks stunning, meaning his abs and biceps and all the other muscles perfectly chiseled. Certainly god-like for the female audience. Watchable movie. 3.5 stars. I won't give 4 or 4.5 since it's really a simple plot with just plenty of computer graphics.

30th April 2011, Saturday

Went back to office to work at around 4pm! Boliao sia. Even had to dabao dinner from Lau Pa Sat before leaving office at around 9pm+. All these because it's a quarter-end.

1st May 2011, Sunday

Labour Day so what? Had to go back to office to do labour anyway. But then it's good cos we get to get paid. Not too bad a deal hehehe. Went back at 11am until around 4:30pm. Woah now that I counted, I worked for around 10 hours for these two days. Hmm...

Start of Week 2!

2011-04-18T22:59:00.004+08:00

Wow...time passes so quickly without you noticing. It's my second Monday at my new workplace. Yeah I'm now working at The Bank of Nova Scotia, or Scotiabank, situated at One Raffles Quay. Yea first time working in the CBD. Hate the sardine trains and crowded eateries everywhere. Still prefer the not-so-crowded Changi Business Park, although it's still damn packed (with ANs some more). Have been having lunch with Wei Loon, a Malaysian guy who is with another department. My department has only 7 people, including myself. And all are aunties with kids, except for a younger girl who is getting married next month. Omg what a young environment. I'm back to the situation of being one of the youngest in my workplace (like when I was at DSO). Wonder how long I can last working there ahahhaa!

15th April 2011, Friday

They decided to go for a KTV session before our drinking session. Therefore I met up with Nic, Kian Hong, Aaron and Eileen at Partyworld at Liang Court. Haven't been there in ages. The last time I was there was also with these Citi people. Kian Hong really sang his heart out on that night. Then Eileen left and Mckenzie and Leonard joined us for an all-guys drinking session at Mulligan's at first, then to Beer Market. Really interesting experience, especially at Beer Market. The prices of the beers sold really fluctuate with time. I had to go after a bottle of Little Creatures as I had to wake up early the next day to go JB. Crapz! But cool drinking session. Haven't done that in quite a while hehehe.

T-1 Gogogo!

2011-04-10T23:28:00.007+08:00

One more day till I start work at a new place! It's my 3rd job since graduating from NTU. First time working in CBD too. Wonder how it'll be like.

8th April 2011, Friday

JPot! Finally went there with the Citi peoplez (Aar, Eil, Jus, Joc, Joy, Kiw, Ser, Ros). First time there too. In the end I realized that it's got a nice ambience but you have to pay quite a lot if you wanna have lotsa good food. I'll prefer to go to the steamboat restaurants along Liang Seah anytime than to go Jpot ahahha! Cheap and good food.

Pictures to be uploaded soon.

6th April 2011, Wednesday

My last day in Citi. Kinda sad to leave that place. Made so many friends there and I like the environment too. But all good things come to an end someday, so we should just look forward to the future. I went to get cupcakes from the Icing Room at T1, as well as some cheesecakes for vegetarians from Emicakes, in the morning. Realized that I could only take cab since the cakes were contained in two big plastic bags, so I grabbed a cab from Tampines Mall, after seeing that the taxi queue at T1 was super long.

At 4pm, they asked me to go out for this little farewell session. And so I took the chance to take one last group photo with them.

At the end of the day, I also took individual shots with most of them who were still around. Goodbye Citi! It's been nice to work there for the past two years.

Pictures to be uploaded soon.

Counting Down To Last Day

2011-04-03T23:11:00.004+08:00

Wah 3 more days only. That's fast. Back then when I was leaving ST Electronics, it was such a painful wait for my last day. Now when I am about to leave Citi, it's such a painful thing to leave that place. It's been a great place to work in. Made plenty of friends and widened my social circle even more than at ST (I think). Can't really bear to leave this workplace of roughly 1 year and 11 months. But as we all know 天下没有不散的宴席, and there are people leaving every so often. Hopefully my new workplace is a great place to work in, with great colleagues too.

2nd April 2011, Saturday

And it was supposed to be a dinner at Suntec with the GIP people. But there was a sudden change of plans to go JB instead. Then we waited at Causeway Point for ET and KW (he only knocked off at 7pm). So we waited from 6 to 7+, and eventually we decided that it was too late to go JB, and we changed our venue to the Bottle Tree Park. Haven't been there before. Rongxuan, who came back from the US, ET and KW, all drove cars and therefore we had plenty of space for the rest of us. There was also Alan, Kim, Nana, NZ and I brought Momo along too. So there we had a zichar dinner at the restaurant. Just some simple dishes for dinner. The main part of the program was chatting and reminiscing about the times in Beijing under the GIP. With Rongxuan around, which we hardly got the chance for that to happen, we were entertained by all the jokes and experiences both by him and everyone else.

The later part of the night was a suggestion by Nana to go to Sentosa Boardwalk to chill out at one of the restaurant pubs. So the three drivers drove us to Vivo and we walked over to one of the place called Queens. The interiors was quite lavishly decorated. Felt like a Roman or Greek palace. We had some snacks and two towers of Hoegaarden. RX even "flirted" with the waitress as she was also quite friendly lol. We ended up drinking about 2.5 glasses of beer. *burp*

Hazelnut something. Tastes like Ferrero Roche with crusts.

Apple Crumble

First Ever Tomb Sweeping

2011-03-25T15:32:00.005+08:00

Haha what a title for this post. But this whole trip to Malaysia was indeed to do some tomb sweeping for my grandma, great-grandparents and grand-uncle. First time doing such stuff. Yeah I'm a free-thinker but have no choice cos my father, being the eldest son, have to go back and perform his "duty", and so me, being the eldest grandson (the only grandson in fact), have to go back as well. Ok I guess, cos it's an eye-opener for me too.

On Saturday, 19th March, we drove all the way to KL, to my mother's younger brother's home. His wife and son went to fetch us somewhere at KL cos father did not know how to get to their place. We had lunch before going to their house, which was quite a distance up a hill of sorts. My auntie reared tortoises. All of them roaming around the house freely.

We left grandma (maternal) there to stay with them. She stayed with us for around two months already and so now she's going to stay with my auntie in KL. So poor thing being kicked around like a ball. No sons of hers wanna keep her by their side. Why have so many sons in the first place?

Well we continued our journey to Mentakab, Pahang. Took about two hours or so. Then we checked into Bukit Bendera Resort (a hotel) as usual to put our stuff. Then we reached my grandpa's house. We then had dinner with him and the uncles and aunties around at the nearby town centre, as usual.

The next morning, we woke up at 5am to get ready to go to my grandpa's house! When was the last time I woke up at 5am? We went to this graveyard with tombs all over. Visited all four graves belonging to grand-uncle, great-grandfather, great-grandmother and grandmother. Took about two hours to finish everything. Luckily the weather was great with clouds above our heads. There were plenty of other families doing the same rituals.

Taken in March 2011

Taken in January 2010

In the evening, we had dinner outside again. Then we went to the night market as usual to walk around and get some foodstuff. Next morning, we visited grandpa for the last time before we headed to Genting. Nah not really Genting, but at the midway point, at the cable car station, to meet mother's younger brother, who always provided us with honey. Yes he's a honey hunter (is that what you call them?). We had lunch at the area before bidding farewell, and after getting lotsa honey from them.

A small waterfall around the cable car station at the midpoint of Genting Highlands

Then it's a long drive back to JB. I only drove for two hours out of the five hours journey. Got stopped by the TP and pulled to one side. Several cars were told to pull to one side like us. Father got out of the car to speak to the policeman, telling him we've been going at 110 kph only. So the guy then told us to continue. Beware drivers! Don't tell them you've exceeded the speed limit even if you did. They most probably don't have evidence and merely wanted to scare you into owning up.

We reached JB at around 6pm and we had dinner there before coming back to Singapore. What a long ride it has been. Never liked going back to Malaysia lol.

TGIF! Duh...

2011-03-25T13:19:00.001+08:00

Duh, because I'm on leave! No difference whether it's Monday or Friday. Cos for the whole of this week, including last Friday, I haven't been back to office. And all these have ended tooooo soon.

Quick recap since the last update:

24th March 2011, Thursday

Saw this ad about some free seminar on apps development for smart devices. Therefore decided to go take a look since I'm free. It's at a place called ERC at the building opposite Bugis Junction. The speaker barely touched the surface of Apps development. It's merely to introduce this Apps Millionaire programme. It's a 3-day course to learn about the business opportunities and actually doing it, to start an Apps business. Total waste of time. Luckily it lasted less than an hour. Decided to go to the Central Library just a short distance away to look for books on Apps development. Lucky! Found one which is published in 2011, therefore borrowed it straight away.

23rd March 2011, Wednesday

Went to Cap Square for the Technical Analysis and Advanced course conducted for employees. Very insightful. Should have learnt it long ago. There were only about 12 participants. It was actually in a small meeting room at Level 8 of Cap Square, the place I went to for COB previously. And Yee Wen's desk was right in front of the room. Therefore Wei Keng, Peiying and I joined her for lunch at a kopitiam nearby. After the lunch it was the Advanced course. Was pretty tired but luckily the trainer was very entertaining with his jokes and stories and anecdotes.

22nd March 2011, Tuesday

Went for medical checkup at Equity Plaza for my new job. Ok! Everything is done. Looking forward to a new beginning.

19th-21st March 2011, Saturday-Monday

Trip to Malaysia, to be updated in the next post.

18th March 2011, Friday

Was on leave. Supposed to go to Nex to see the MMK in action. In the end the weather and laziness prevented me from stepping out of my house. But still, I had to go to Sim Lim to help Boon Leong to search for a suitable desktop pc. Just nice met Li Teng there. Therefore he also helped to search around. Then BL arrived and we then decided to get the i5 system for his father. Cost around $500. Good enough to last him for at least the next 3-5 years.

Is This The End?

2011-03-14T23:03:00.004+08:00

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12733393

End of the world?

Last Friday, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake rocked the waters off eastern Japan, creating a massive tsunami which swept through most eastern areas of Japan. As I watched the news on the TV in the office, I was wondering "what happened?" Videos show the tsunamis sweeping across the fields and residential areas like what you would see on when waves wash up the shorelines, just that now it is magnified many times over. It also reminded me of the movie "Japan Sinks" I watched several years ago. It was really like a disaster movie shown on the news. As of now, more than 1800 people are confirmed dead and more than 10000 missing. And the threat of a nuclear meltdown which could kill even more people once the nuclear radiation is released into the atmosphere. Not even people as far away as here in Singapore will be spared.

I've been watching the news and reading on the latest developments in Japan. Why am I so concerned? Japan really is one of the nicest place to travel in. And it's cultures and picturesque scenery is a must-see in one's lifetime. Our favourite animes and dramas originated from there. So let's hope no further calamities befall on the land of the rising sun.

One of the world's most favourite travel locations is now a land of graves. Let's hope the rescue workers can find more survivors. Be strong Japan!

But just over a month ago Christchurch of New Zealand also experienced a giant earthquake killing 100+ people. Armageddon is coming? Is this what humans deserve for killing the planet? Are we gonna see more devastating natural disasters in the future? I don't wish to find out. Let's hope Mother Nature has stopped venting her anger for good.

The Long Awaited Long Post

2011-02-22T23:34:00.006+08:00

Walau I actually haven't been updating for more than a month! Holy cow!

Ok 长话短说, just a summary of what's been happening around me.

18th January 2011, Tuesday

It's Peyyong and Siying's ROM. Sharon and I also took leave specially to be their brother and sister. It was a pretty simple gatecrashing and plenty of visiting to many elders to have tea ceremony. Then it was a short photoshoot at Marina Barrage, in which Sharon and I had the honour of helping them to take some pix. And of course it's free photography shoot for them. Expect the same from Peyyong when I'm the one getting married ahahha!

23rd February 2011, Sunday

Went to The Regent for Peyyong and Siying's wedding lunch. Congrats to Peyyong and Siying!

30th January 2011, Sunday

It's Ah-ma's little Keagan's one year old birthday bash! They actually booked the whole pavilion area next to their block and hired live bands playing Hokkien songs and also an MC to host the whole birthday event. Even got lion dance. Holy cow first time we all witnessed such a celebration for a little kid haha.

2nd February 2011, Wednesday

Wow I actually survived work by doing all OTC stuff by myself, with a little help from Ros, and was able to end work at 5pm to go for reunion dinner at Sam Yee's house. Aaron's father fetched Ros and me from Changi Biz Park back to our homes. So I then went home to bathe before the whole family went down to Sam Yee's house. There we had a sumptuous feast and then I lazed around while Eric, Junfei and Longfei, as well as Sam Yee Jiong played their gambling games.

Pix to be uploaded soon.

3rd February 2011, Thursday

Went out for some sightseeing with family. Mummy long wanted to visit MBS and finally she got the chance to do it. We went around taking pictures. And guess what. I brought them to the area where we could look straight down into the casino. But on the way up, we entered the lift together with Ling-En (the cute female actress who mostly acts as calefare on Channel 8 dramas) and her parents I suppose. Then when we reached the 2nd floor and walked towards the open area, we saw Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew walking along towards the lift, together with plenty of bodyguards. Mummy waved at him, in which he waved back with a smile. Then later on, we saw the Flying Dutchman with his family too. Lol it seemed to me that all the famous people were walking around on Chinese New Year instead of staying at home.

Pix to be uploaded soon.

4th February 2011, Friday

Sentosa Flowers here we come! Nolah next time won't go liao. Unless really nothing better to do. Plenty of Ahnehs and AhTiongs crowding all over Sentosa. OMG. And the Ahnehs climbed all over the place just to take pix with the flower, but in the end destroying most of the them. WTF?!?

Pix to be uploaded soon.

忙しい新年

2011-01-19T23:23:00.005+08:00

Wah haven had the time to breathe at all. So busy ever since the start of the year. That includes work and personal activities. Just finished a company event in which I was a committee member. And Peyyong and Siying just finished their ROM yesterday. Lotsa things to update but no time and too lazy/tired to update. Sorry to all my loyal fans out there hahaha!

2nd January 2010, Sunday

It was the birthday bash of Juncong's one-year-old baby boy, Shao Kai, held at CrazyWorld Cafe in Chinatown. Never been to that place, which is supposed to be like a 名歌餐厅. Quite a small place, but big enough to hold a birthday party for little Kaikai. All of us joined in for this little bash. Momo and I got a little jacket for Kaikai from Fox. I'm pretty sure he looks very cool in that jacket we chose for him.

CrazyWorld Cafe - A cosy little place for gatherings

The happy Tang family.

Elmo birthday cake, with his hands removed.

15th January 2011, Saturday

It's the long awaited GOC Party, aptly named Maskquerade, since the theme was to be wearing masks and dressed in black. Had fun organizing the event, which was planned much earlier starting from mid-2010.

Didn't get to drink at all! Only sipped on half a glass of white wine. Didn't even eat much too. -_-... Was busy taking pictures the whole night. Thanks to the selfish Ah Tiong (don't wanna name him) who was busy eating and drinking away instead of sharing the role of photographers. Aaron and I were busy with taking pix throughout the games. But oh well, I enjoyed the process anyway. Lazy to upload so many pix. Just go here for them hahaha.

Ok very tired now. Will create a new post for Peyyong and Siying's ROM soon.

Can You Believe It? Another Year Has Passed

2010-12-31T00:36:00.002+08:00

It's the year 2011 in less than 24 hours! How fast time flies... Realize that I always use this sentence. I'll be turning 30 in less than 6 months! Holy shit!

It's been a great year for all of us. Economy is picking up, got almost everything I wanted, but of course things could be much better.

Let's look forward to a better and prosperous new year!

Post Christmas Updates

2010-12-28T00:38:00.004+08:00

Hohoho 'tis the season to be jolly! Mummy decided to hold a Christmas party at our house again and therefore we prepared loads of goodies as usual. Will upload pix soon.

And here's a song that I like from the series Bleach. Been wanting to look for its MTV for a long time and finally found it. It's by YUI and called "Life". Enjoy!

@ Yahoo! Video

24th December 2010, Friday

It's Christmas Eve! Went to meet up with Liyang and Selina, Zhangjing and Bobo at a place called Brussels Sprouts located at Robertson Quay. They serve some interesting Western dishes, but are quite expensive. Some of the mains come with free-flow of chips, cool! And it's been ages since I met up with Bobo. He's changed job too. We enjoyed the food and the choir caroling Christmas songs just right behind our table. Pretty awesome experience, but too bad the other FDS guys couldn't join us. Let's pray for a bigger group to attend in our next gathering.

Pictures to be up pretty soon =P

Some Outdated Updates

2010-12-16T00:55:00.001+08:00

Haha I actually forgot to post about my ascent to the highest building in Singapore during the Swissotel Vertical Marathon on the 21st of November 2010! So here it is again.

21st November 2010, Sunday

So I finally entered this challenge. Always wanted to participate in a vertical marathon but couldn't find the kakis to do it. The previous years Hongming went but bojio! Finally this year he remembered to jio me and therefore we went together. This year there's only the two of us. Previously he participated with one or two friends. Chian San also participated in it, as I realized after I already registered for the event.

HM and I met then went to Swissotel The Stamford to get ready for our climb. CS was at an earlier category and he started first. He was wearing something unusual for such an event and caught the eyes of the organizers. They invited him on stage to interview him as to why he wore such an outfit. He said he decided to wear something different since this is a fun event, or something along that line. There was a another man in the 50+ category dressed in full Venom costume.

I clocked 15:50 for my climb. HM clicked 14:50, exactly 1 min faster than me lol. Eh but I was interrupted by CS while on the 6th and 60th floors cos he called me! Slowed down my pace hahah. Shall attempt to break my personal record next year, if I'm participating again hehe. Well the registration fee of $40 is quite steep actually. HM says the fee is increasing every year. The goodie bag and the shirt aren't really worth $40. So probably will reconsider participating next year hahaha.

9th December 2010, Thursday

Ok not quite an event but it's something interesting. It's cardinal day at SAFRA! Looked forward to it since the starting of ICT. We get to enjoy good food and play some games of bowling or pool or LAN-gaming this time (choose one only). Of course I opted for bowling. Managed to play up to 5 games hahaha! That's because most of the guys left after playing one game. I live so near so what's the hurry of going home when there're free bowling games to play? In the end Sam and I were the only survivors playing up to 5 games each haha. Then Kenneth and I went to Blic to have some ice-cream before we went back and enjoyed the rest of the afternoon off.

Hehe my scores were 123, 147, 147, 129, 153.

Reservist shiok right? But nobody sees the kinda siong things we do inside T_T... This year we did a 2D1N FIBUA at Neo Tiew Village. After reaching the place then I realized that it's the very same place that I went during my year two FOC in Hall 4. It was a place for nightwalk. It's actually open to the public! Quite a fun overnight stay actually. We did FIBUA and watched some of our guys play with trip flare and handheld rockets (it's handheld flares actually). We saw all the 10+ flares being shot into the sky on a rainy night, all lighting up the sky and floating down like being on parachutes (I think they really are on parachutes). Too bad I couldn't take pix or videos lol. Then the next morning we had a company level FIBUA movement. That was damn siong but rather fun.
The next 2D1N exercise was in base. Shall not disclose too much info lol. This not as siong as FIBUA physically but we hardly got any sleep throughout the night. Zombified the next morning...

Friday 10th December we outpro-ed. Kinda sianz cos had to go back to work in three days' time already. Kinda glad that the siong part was over. Indeed reservist was a good break from work and a good catching with all the good old buddies of FDS-PLAB.

ICT Commences

2010-11-24T23:29:00.002+08:00

Sianz... the annual ICT has started. Ok lah first day always very slack. Doing all the admin stuff, going to e-mart to get our barang barang, then go back to the new Buiding 303, which we saw it being built when we went back last year, for lectures and other boliao stuff.

Tired man... woke up at 7am. Gonna have to wake up even earlier later, at 5:30am! ZZzz... Oyasuminasai~~

AFA Weekend!

2010-11-14T23:28:00.004+08:00

It's the long awaited AFA X! Anime Festival Asia 2010!

Ok I'm lazy to edit and upload so many wonderful pix from Anime Festival Asia 2010. Shall upload my favourites.

Please see the full album here on FB.

Li Teng and I bought the Festival + Stage access tickets which cost $15. Actually quite wasted. The stage access area is worth it if you go early in the morning to watch the free movie screenings. Later will be all the interviews and artiste appearances. Luckily we managed to catch Milky Holmes voice actors doing their dance routines on the stage. The rest of the festival area were the usual booths. They added a new butler cafe in addition to the existing maid cafe. There were cars with all the AFA designs, as well as new games featuring the Vocaloids. Freaking cool AFA. Can't wait for next year's and next next year's and next next next year's...

Zoo & Halloween Horrors & Chester's ROM

2010-11-13T01:07:00.005+08:00

Finally got my pc back up after a long hiatus. Crapz... my motherboard decided to R.I.P. It's only 2 years and 8 months old! SighzZzz...

And of course, I was sick for like more than one week or so. Therefore didn't have the energy or will to post any updates. Sorry to all my faithful readers out there. Will update once I'm done with AFA this weekend. Gonna have plenty of updates. OH EM GEE!

And so I'm back to update. Here goes...

30th October 2010, Saturday

We're going to the zoo, zoo, zoo.
How about you, you you.
You can come too, too, too.
We're going to the zoo, zoo, zoo.

It's been more than a decade since I last stepped into the Singapore Zoo. And of all times, it started pouring when Momo and I reached the entrance. Craps! Then after discussing with Liyang and Selina, we decided to get the 2-in-1 ticket for Zoo + Night Safari for $32, which we will top up with an additional $28 for the Halloween Horrors event. Too bad Auntie Annie's zoo card cannot be used. -_-... Well it cost $50 for the Halloween Horrors event anyway so $60 ain't a big difference since we get to go to the zoo.

Spent the whole afternoon walking all around the zoo. It's like back in the primary school excursion days, except that I remember nothing about it at all haha.

We met up with L&S to go for the HH together. Wow there were huge crowds outside NS already. We went around taking pix of the ghouls and ghosts at the entrance of NS. Awesome! They really put effort into making themselves look as real as possible.
All rides start at 7pm and we can only choose to queue up for one first, therefore we decided to go queue for the Train of Terror ride first. Not scary at all sia. The tram MC was dressed in a long white dress and spoke in a deep supposedly scary voice. And throughout the trip, most of the "ghosts" appeared from the left side, whereas there weren't much to amuse me since I'm seated on the right side of the tram. BORING!

After that we went for the Trail of the Undead. It's basically a normal walking trail around NS, but they added Halloween elements and "ghosts" to scare the shit out of us. Quite a few of the "ghosts" were hidden amongst the leaves and trees and would just jump out of nowhere accompanied with shouts or screams.
Next up we went to queue for the Creatures of the Night show, also with a Halloween twist. What a disappointment. Boring like hell. The final piece of music and the guy doing boliao moves to the tune of The Undertaker's theme was a total waste of time. By that time we had no more time to enter the Haunted Village at the Zoo anymore because the staff told us we had to queue for 2 hours and 45 mins! SIAO!!! What a total waste of our money. Sianz loh, so we left the Zoo missing out on the scariest venue. Sighzz...

We then decided to go for our very late dinner at 11+pm! Hungry like mad. Luckily we didn't queue. L&S brought us to this restaurant called Silvery Moon, at the Fisherman's Village area at Pasir Ris. The whole place was also decorated with Halloween stuff, but there was no real celebration there. Momo and I tried the sausage platter. Quite nice. And the sausages went very well with the special curry sauce. What a way to finish a Halloween night, with a sumptious meal. Awesome!

3rd November 2010, Wednesday

Aaron's parents were gone for a holiday in Japan and thus we could drive to work. So we planned to go to With A Pinch of Salt at Tanjong Katong area sort of as a small birthday celebration for Kiwi. A very nice place. Set meal only $6.90 if I remember correctly. Nice place to hold a birthday celebration too.

7th November 2010, Sunday

It was my roommie's ROM at Park Hotel Clarke Quay. Only Don, Charles, Zhongming and me from Blk 22 were invited. The rest were his other older frenz. He got a total of 40 people for this afternoon ROM event to witness the day he and Jessie were announced man and wife. Kirakun is married! Congrats to him!

Mummy!!! It's Over!!!

2010-10-25T01:14:00.008+08:00

Walau what have I been doing for the past 9 days? I wonder if I should have taken 5 days leave in a row in the first place. Oh well... take it as a much needed break to recharge my batteries for the remaining 2 months of 2010, cos there are plenty of things happening which requires plenty of energy i.e. more wedding dinners/ROMs, reservist, AFA, TGCC, Christmas and NYE!

22nd October 2010, Friday

Was cleaning up the remaining left side of my room, i.e. my computer table and the 3 drawers, as well as the shelf above my pc. Now half of my room is spanking clean and neat. The other half are the display cabinets, TV and other cabinets. Will be another round of headache when I'm clearing that area O_o...

Went to meet up with the kiddos and Aaron and gf for some card games at TCC @ Bugis Junction. It's Friday night and therefore they decided to come out for this thingy. Since I'm so free for the whole week, decided to join them for Monopoly Deal there. Played from 9 plus to 12+. In the end we had to take cab home again lol.

23rd October 2010, Saturday

As planned, Selina and Liyang picked me and Momo up to have dinner at The Garden Slug. Wow... I've been to this restaurant several times within 3 months lol. This time we had to sit outside since the whole of the indoor tables were booked for some event I think. Saw the plenty of cats and parrots around the area. The parrots at the petshop at the end of the block kept saying words like "happy birthday", "hello" etc. There is a resident cat seen sleeping at the bench at the front door of The Garden Slug. Lazy kitty.

Resident cat. Resident evil.

First time had to sit outside.

Big and juicy portobello mushrooms! Each one as big as my fist!

Tried this bolognese. Quite ok.

Momo got this dory fish. The fish and mashed potato goes very well with the tartar sauce.

Selina ordered this "baby food"

And Liyang got himself an MMM - Mouthwatering Meatball Melts. The meatball is heavenly!

Ate until wanna puke again. Their portions are really out-of-portions! I'll definitely pay half price to get half of the portions instead!

Then Selina drove us all the way to the Night Safari to the highly anticipated Halloween Horrors event. Wacauz the queue of cars along the road leading to the entrance of NS was so long, and we were asked to park our cars along the road as there weren't enough carparks. Had to walk a long way in. Coupled with the fact that the weather forecast shows thunderstorms throughout the night, we decided to go to the NS on the 30th instead. CrapZZz... Oh well, 30th October DIE DIE MUST GO!

Spring Cleaning 2010

2010-10-20T20:39:00.003+08:00

Wacauz I see the amount of rubbish/treasure in my drawers can cry.
Now still at the first two drawers only.

Threw away lots of stuff found in my drawers:
- Transistors, LEDs from SC30X (those to be placed on circuit boards)
- An organizer with metallic casing from Singtel Mobile dated 2000
- Lots of namecards/business cards (some which I don't remember who or what it is)
- Dragonball cards
- Various expired cards
- Lottery tickets (those that I share with MKG or other groups)
- A watch (forgot who gave it to me, doesn't really matter now lol)
- Spectacles + case
- Matchboxes
- Angpows (with no $ inside of cos!)
- Empty (and non-empty) medicine bottles
- A packet of 4 pens (I remember this! They cost $2 each...for charity back in TOTs in NTU)
- Shit I found another packet!
- A stick of cream (no idea what it contains)
- PDL x 2 (2 slips of papers for Provisional Driving License dated 2003)
- Bus tickets
- Final Fantasy VIII cards (extras)
- Leftover stickers from Megaman figurines (the remnants from peeling off the used stickers)
- Fifa World Cup 2010 Stickers (extras)
- Summon Ticket ($30! WTF!)
- My whole set of ST Electronics namecards

Found and still keeping:
- Receipt for my Specialized Hard Rock mountain bike. $657. Always forgot how much it cost lol.
- Ayumi Hamasaki armbands (went to wash them)
- Plenty of other miscellaneous things

Ok now all 3 drawers are empty. The next thing is to put them all back into an organized manner. Faint...

Long Overdue Post

2010-10-17T23:48:00.013+08:00

Once again, laziness (+ busyness) prevented me from updating my blog eheheh. So here goes:

9th October 2010, Saturday

So we went for our JB trip as planned. First time going to JB with the kiddos. And best of all, it is the first time Joy actually stepped into JB. Have to make sure she's taken care of like a little girl (well...she is...ahhaha). We went to get our tickets for two movies: "Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen" and "Eat, Pray, Love". Think must be the first time I watched two movies on the same day at JB. We then had lunch at Nando's, my first time trying food from this supposedly very famous restaurant, as can be seen from the long queues outside its outlet at Bugis Junction. Not too bad, but not to the point of having to queue like mad for it.

2 movies in a row.

Sides are pretty good.

The chicken is quite nice too.

Momo is HOT! Joy is MILD.

Then we went to watch Chen Zhen. Momo and Kiwi and me had already watched the show previously but since Momo wanted to watch again in Canto, we went ahead to watch it lol. WE MISSED THE OPENING AGAIN! WTH... Think we were one or two minutes late. Watching the show again within one week didn't really bore us, or at least to me. I like Donnie Yen movies, for all the action and fighting scenes. But they actually cut off a few scenes from the movie, making it shorter by roughly 15 minutes or so. DiaoOOoo... But still, worth to watch for a second time.

After that, we went shopping for our stuff. I went to shop for my own clothes alone while the three of them went to grab their girls' stuff. I managed to spend up to RM200+ for the first time on my trip to JB lol. Haven't been shopping for clothes since dunno when. Then we met up again to watch Eat, Pray, Love. Quite a nice movie. 3.5 stars.

Next we took a cab to Taman Sri Tebrau Hawker Centre, which was in my usual JB itinerary. First time the kiddos were there, so I brought them to this place I frequented. Ordered quite a bit of food including crayfish, veggies, beggar chicken, salad youtiao, pepper crabs. End up only Momo and me were finishing up the crabs. Yumz I love crabs. Especially pepper crabs. Crayfish was awesome too. Spent about RM30+ per person. We then took a cab back to City Square before making our way back to Singapore. Don't you just love to go to JB for cheap and good movies, food and clothes? =P

Pepper crab! YUM!

Momo so happy that she kena giap by crab.

See lah? Play play play!

10th October 2010, Sunday (101010)

Nice date eh? Went to ECP with Momo. There was some dog events there, so we went to take a look. So many cute doggies running around with their owners. These dogs got such good lives huh?

HDR of the evening sky at ECP. Will use it as my next wallpaper!

18th October 2010, Monday

The start of my week long leave. With NO PLANS at all. Then again, I have plans to do some spring cleaning to my room. Time to take out the trash. And also of cos, to update my blog. Takes lotsa time to blog you know? Especially with plenty of photo-editing.

Suddenly I saw Claire saying meet up for some drinks or dessert on FB, therefore since I have nothing planned for the afternoon, I went to meet her at Iluma. Had some yogurt at Berrylite. Yea it's her birthday so I thought it's nice to meet up for a while for some birthday dessert lol.

Get Down (ゲッダン)

2010-10-08T00:19:00.008+08:00

Wahah didn't know there's such a meme craze of Get Down (Get Down). Just heard the 1997 Hirose Kohmi's "Promise" on Japan-A-Radio. Didn't know it's made super famous by this meme. I even saw the Megaman video before hahaha.

Anime Version nice!

This version the best hahaha!

Oh and here's a boliao pic I made, from a pic taken by Aaron when we went to Play Nation for games hahaha!

Mid-week Wednesday!

2010-10-06T22:15:00.006+08:00

Yay! 2 more days to weekend! Today went for the One Citi Orientation held at Pan Pac @ Marina Square. Had to wake up at 6:30am! Feeling sleepy like siao. Attended the boliao orientation program with Peiying, as well as Huiyun, our office-mate. The lunch was nothing much lol. Ended about 2pm. We decided to clear the remaining half day as we were too sianz to go back to office after the morning half of boring talks. Therefore we decided to check out the movie theatres at Marina Square and finally chose to watch "The Switch". Wah when was the last time I watched a $7 weekday movie? Finally my SAFRA card came into good use lol. The movie wasn't really anything fantastic at all, although Jennifer Aniston was acting in it. 3/5 stars at most. After that we had no more programmes and therefore I went home while HY went to Esplanade library while PY went to Taka to buy her things. Feeling super tired sia...went home and slept for two hours lol.

1st October 2010, Friday

Can't wait for the day to end. Went to get Ros' 50mm lens from Li Teng at Tampines after work. He and Meiqi came down to Tampines to shop. I then went to Tanah Merah to wait for the other people to go down to Bugis together. We then visited this Thai restaurant at Sunshine Plaza called Aroy Dee. The place is so small yet super packed. Super good business. We waited for a while before we could get tables. The food is really good. WAYYYYY better than the Suan Thai Restaurant @ Liang court that I went to with my family.
After that, it was Play Nation! Woohoo! First time going there. Wah the place actually quite big. Behind the main area is a whole stretch of rooms and TVs for people to play Wii and Xbox. We got the super mega ultra big room. All 10 of us could fit into the room very comfortably. There were sofas and tables and 1 Xbox and 1 Wii. Nice sia. It cost $14.90 for the 1st 2 hours of gameplay. Up to you to play Wii, Xbox or the tonnes of board games inside the room. We even extended for another one hour after the initial two hours cos time really passed so quickly when you're having fun. There was this very fun dancing Wii game called "Just Dance" that I discovered almost at the end of our 3-hour playtime. Only managed to try a few songs. Next time shall play again!

[Pix to be uploaded when I get them from Aaron and/or 010]

Then almost everyone wanna go home liao. Only Joce and Kiwi wanted to stay out and do something. But since nobody had a solid plan, we all went home... -_- Then Joce and I were very hungry so ended up looking for food again. Had supper at techno kopitiam again. This time it's dim sum. Kinda sux. I think only their buns are nice. 豆花下一次 ok? =) Then we chatted and chatted over everything until super late lol. Zombified... At least I know again that the 3 stars are called Orion's Belt lol.

2nd October 2010, Saturday

Met up with Naizhu, Hock Seng, Alan and special guest appearance, Wenyao, for dinner at 313 @ Somerset. We went to try this German restaurant Brotzeit. Nice outdoor setting with good ambience. We ordered plenty of exotic food and a 500ml glass of Oktoberfest beer each. Alan and I shared this 2-person serving of pork knuckles. Damn nice but awfully sinful. I'm pretty sure I'm gonna store most of it in my spare tyre argh.

Celebrating NZ's end of job-hunt.

WY's Medallions

NZ's white sausage

HS's sausage and potato wedges

Alan and my Pork Knuckles

We then went to watch "Legend Of The Fist: The Return Of Chen Zhen" at Orchard Cineleisure, with Kim joining us and WY not joining. Momo and Kiwi also joined us for this movie. Missed the first few minutes of Donnie Yen supposedly stepping over bullets -_-. Think should be watching again this Saturday at JB hehehe. The movie is quite alright, but not as fascinating as expected. Of course can't compare to Ip Man... but then still worth watching. Every Donnie Yen show is worth watching. Just that there weren't much action and fighting sequences in the show. 3.5/5 stars.

3rd October 2010, Sunday

Need to get wedding angpows for the wedding dinner later on at night. Therefore went downstairs to grab them, and also pei Momo go down see how much it is to repair her sis' lappy. Walau $100+ for a fan!? 杀人放火! So she didn't choose to get it repaired. We then went to Blic Ice Cream Cafe for some ice-cream. And was made to do something silly ahahha.
After that I prepared to go for Adrian's wedding held at Pan Pacific. Almost all the Blk 22 guys were there. It's been a long time we all met up. And as usual, now the only time we can gather so many people is during a wedding liao.

20 Minutes to Children's Day!!!

2010-09-30T23:38:00.004+08:00

And why should I be happy about it? Not as if I have holiday tomorrow... -_-''' But then again, it's a Fridayyyyyyyy!!! And looking forward to playing bored games and Wii at PlayNation tomorrow with the Citi people.

Just met up with Zhangjing, Derrick and Kenneth for dinner at Ding Tai Feng @ Tampines Mall. They've completed their RT at last! Come to think of it, it's only one month ago that I completed my RT Phase 1. Time really passes so quickly. And to even make it scarier, just now Shirlyn was mentioning that I told her last year something about Children's Day, then it's now Children's Day once again! It's like..."huh? really one year has passed since we talked about it?" I've said it before, that working life really passes much faster than schooling life. Haiz... Dun like the way time passes so quickly. The only way to look at it in a more positive way is to make sure everyday passes with wonderful and happy things happening in one's life. Which is what my blog here does in each and every post. BK always says he reads lotsa happening things happening in my life. He likes to say "if you wanna know what's happening in Singapore, just read Lam's blog" Hahahaha! I choose to live my life with all the interesting and fruitful things I do. So can everyone of you!

What better way to end off this post with an awesome website full of the most wonderful things on Earth: Cutie pies!~! I saw this link posted by Chew Soowei, the ex-98.7FM DJ, who's in my FB list. Damn nice lah! Must see!

Asian Poses

Oh oh oh! And I saw this cute MTV of 瑶瑶 with her song called "Honey". It's actually a cover of the Kpop girl band Kara's original song, also called "Honey". Act cute MTVs...but that's what all guys love ahahhaha!

And just as I finished this post and went to watch episode 10 of Sunao Ni Narenakute, the lead character's father told him this: 生きているかぎりはちゃんと生きおうっか。(You should live your life to the fullest.) How zhunz sia haha. Came back to add in this paragraph. Ok...time to continue watching Sunao.

Another Threesome

2010-09-28T23:46:00.002+08:00

Well who else but HM, BK and me again. HS flew us kite once again. Wonder if he's really sick. If he is then hope he gets well soon then.

We met for dinner at Marché @ VivoCity. Had rosti as usual, as well as some pork steak and root beer. Eat until super full and couldn't even finish my rosti! But now reach home liao feeling a bit hungry already! What are the dinosaurs in my stomach doing sia?

We chatted over everything as usual. Nothing new lol. All we know is BK got promoted and salary increased again! Holy shit. I'm earning peanuts! When's my giant chunk of meat coming? Hmm...

It's F1 Again!

2010-09-26T22:16:00.027+08:00

Just finished watching the Singapore F1 and Alonso wins on Singapore soil again! This time he is driving for Ferrari instead. Lewis Hamilton was out of the race due to an accident. This probably puts him out of the rest of the championship, in which Mark Webber is the leading man. Went to watch the F1 yesterday with Li Teng, thanks to free tix from his gf, Meiqi, who volunteered in this event. Cool man, didn't think that a girl like Meiqi was so onz about F1, and even so onz until wanna be a volunteer. Thanks to that, she got free tix for all 3 days and thus giving me and LT the Saturday tix.

22nd September 2010, Wednesday

It was COB at Capital Square. Me and a few other people had to go there for work for that one day. Quite an interesting experience, although there were plenty of cock-ups. Got to see the other people that we liaise with at Cap Sq, as well as their workplace. We had lunch at Beppu Ramen at China Square. It's a totally different atmosphere compared to what we have at CBP. Plenty of eye candy lol, as compared to our "Little India" zZZzz... The only drawback would be the rush hour jams and sardine trains.

After we were done for the day, we proceeded with our plan to meet up at Marine Parade for dinner and Koi, then to ECP for a mid-autumn festival celebration. Feels like being a little kid again, playing with lanterns, lightsticks and sparklers.

We bought loads of sparklers and lanterns for everyone. After lighting up all our lanterns, we then decided to draw our names using the sparklers. Luckily we brought some lightsticks and we practised drawing with them first. In the end, it was very beautiful ART we've created. All 9 of us will definitely have this beautiful memory etched into our minds forever.

Pictures courtesy of Aaron unless otherwise stated.

25th September 2010, Saturday

After collecting my passport at the ICA building, I went to meet up with Leonard at VivoCity for lunch and then went to check out Cafe Del Mar at Sentosa. We took the Sentosa Express to the last station, Beach Station, and walked for just five minutes to reach Cafe Del Mar. We talked to the Assistant Manager, who is called Baillie (makes me wanna drink some Bailey's). He showed us around the place. I also took plenty of pix so that we can show them to the Year-End Party Committee.

After we're done with our site visit, I went to meet up with Li Teng for the F1 event at the Marina Bay Street Circuit. We met at Esplanade station and walked to Gate 3 of the circuit. Grabbed a Survival Kit each at $2 from the people standing around the entrance. Trigger-happy mode till we reached our seats at the Dark Green Block of the Bay Grandstand area. Some Porsche racing event was going on. I then went to check out the other areas around the circuit while LT stayed on to shoot at the Bay Grandstand area.

Got myself a survival kit. Will go deaf without those earplugs!

Lotsa merchandise for the F1 fan.

Porsche racing cars.

There were plenty of performances around the circuit and I walked on to check out the Daughtry concert held at the Padang. It was an awesome atmosphere. Daughtry belted out their hit songs one after another, ending with "Home". Then it was time for the practice round starting at 8pm. I went around to shoot at the viewing platforms on the Esplanade Bridge.

Capoeira performance.

Very energetic dance moves.

Can you do that?

Series of pix showing the guy doing a backflip. Awesome!

These dudes doing their melodious African sounds.

Daughtry live at the Padang!

Jam up the place Daughtry!

The fans love you!

Time for the final practise round.

If I only I had such lenses...

Panned shot.

Was pretty close to the cars at this part of the circuit.

Can you believe they actually pay $100+ to rent this thing for the night just to see/hear the live results?

After that me and LT had dinner at Ichiban Boshi @ Esplanade. Freaking tired, hungry and thirsty after all that walking and shooting. We charged up our energies before the qualifying round started. Shot a few more pix before we called it a day. Meiqi then met up with us and then they went off to do some shopping (at that hour!?) lol. It was 12 midnight already. I continued to check out the Adam Lambert concert at the Padang again. That chow ah gua really can sing and put up a magnificent and energetic performance for the fans. Nice way to end the night. Woo! F1 rocks!

Nothing like a good Japanese Yakiniku set to charge up our batteries.

Back at Bay Grandstand to witness the qualifying round.

Even MBS lights up with F1 designs.

The pass that I cannot keep >_<...

I'm almost as tall as them. Who needs stilts? Hahaa!

Podium finish for the three of us.

Victory!

To top it all up, Adam Lambert dishes out his hits.

He sure got the crowd moving!

Great concert to end the night. Woohoo!

TGIF

2010-09-24T21:33:00.018+08:00

It's Friday once again! Time to rest! Haven't had a good rest for a long time. No time to update my blog even if I wanted to...so now's the chance. Cos it's gonna be a long and tiring but surely fun weekend ahead.

17th September 2010, Friday

The long awaited Digital Nights was finally here! Well I think only me and Jocelyn were looking forward to it, cos we were the ones who discovered this event some time earlier. I decided to organize this outing to capture some pix at this event. Gathered the photo enthusiasts in the office to go for this outing. Eventually there were Aaron, Joce, Joy, Kiwi, Serene, Kian Hong, Leo, Peiying who turned up for this first ever Digital Nights held at the Singapore Art Museum. Was expecting more works on display but there were quite a few only. Nothing compared to Night Festival. But still, some of the works on display were quite interesting.

Digital Nights album on FB.

Lazy to edit and upload so many pix that I already uploaded onto FB haha, so here are only a few of them:

We decided to go for drinks after shooting so many pix. So we ended up walking to Timbre @ Old School. The band only managed to play a few songs only before the staff shooed us out of Timbre at around 1am+. We barely sat there for an hour! So we decided to walk all the way back to Selegie and settled down at Mr. Bean. There we had an interesting gossip session. So fun to listen to all the gossips lol. Best thing is, we left at 4am, and I had to wake up at 8:30am later! Bester thing is Joce and I even went to have breakfast because we were so freaking hungry! Eat already went home and sleep at 6:30am! Bestest thing is only 2 hours of sleep! How to wake up later!?

18th September 2010, Saturday

Well, it's just 2 hours after the previous line actually lol. I went to this Alliance Francaise at Somerset. Was asked by Nic to watch this premiere of "Mobile Suit Gundam 00 The Movie: Awakening of the Trailblazer". It's shown at 10am, the earliest session we can watch the movie, meaning we're the first people in Singapore and the whole world to watch the movie! Was late for a few minutes, but luckily didn't miss quite a lot. Wasn't very impressed with the movie. I would give just 2.5 stars for it's not-up-to-standard graphics, lousy plot etc. Li Teng and some of Nic's friends bought some limited edition GNT-0000 00 Qan[T] for $34 only!
The management decided to make it only 5 sets per screening and removed them totally from the display areas when we came out of the theatre. Poor Nic was so disappointed because he didn't buy it before the movie started. He got a 3D poster though. We then went for lunch before I proceeded to Gah Mee's house at The Pinnacle@Duxton for her baby Zachary's baby shower.

Kian Hong taking his 101st picture of Zachary!

Zachary got a stylo sideburn!

There were plenty of people in Gah Mee's house, including several babies. Sharon and Erwin also brought Giselle along. Peiying, Weiqin, Shirlyn, Kian Hong were there too. Even Melville was there. I took a few pictures and then left the place, to go to Jeremy's place which is just at the next block.

Tham's unit is on the 9th floor, whereas Gah Mee's is on the 34th. From the 9th floor, can't really see much scenery. Tham just moved in not long ago, so it's pretty neat and tidy. His wife, Fangxuan, was in her wedding gown. It was the first time I met her. Very beautiful in person indeed, especially in a wedding gown lol. Tham had changed out of his suit and was resting until I knocked on their door to disturb them of their rest lol. Yijie was also around, who was Tham's official photographer. He was using a 5D Mark II I think.

We chatted around before they decided to go for their shoots around the house and on the rooftop. I tagged along to shoot a few pix together with Yijie.
After the shoot ended at about 5:30pm, I went to look for Li Teng at The Promontory @ Marina Bay. Was damn shag by then cos of only two hours of sleep, but was determined to go for the Kite Festival anyway. When I reached, there were a gazillions of kites in the sky already. Looks like the whole of Singapore's kite-lovers were there to fly their kites at this annual festival. Was wondering how they manage to not entangle their kites together. Well actually I did witness some kites getting all entangled up in a mess lol. I ain't a big fan of kites. Don't even remember flying a kite, or even if I did, when I flew a kite. Shall try it one of these days!

We went around individually to shoot. But for the most of the time I was sitting at the sides resting my tired mind and body. Didn't really shoot a lot but I think it was enough for the day. As the sun set, kites of various designs with LEDs could be seen. There were a few which I thought were pretty small, were actually quite huge when I went up close to see the actual size. Some had LEDs laid out in concentric circles and multi-coloured LEDs light up the whole kite in different patterns. It was quite enjoyable to witness such beautiful sights.

Kite Festival 2010 album on FB.

The event ended at 8pm and so we walked to MBS to check out for any nice eateries. In the end we found nothing edible there and so ended up taking a bus to Funan for Pastamania lol. Then it's home sweet home to concuss till the next day...

19th September 2010, Sunday

Didn't have much rest... And had to go for Tham's wedding lunch at Grand Park City Hall. There were plenty of AHS people as well as FDS guys who turned up at the wedding lunch. Wedding lunch/dinners always felt like mini gatherings. See all the familiar faces. Come to think of it I also know Tham for so long already. Since Sec 1 in scouts, and also were in the same JC, army, uni. 16 years omg! Lucky Tham to marry such a beautiful girl. Lucky Fangxuan too cos Tham is a really nice chap. So when's my turn? Ahahaha!

Took the chance to take a few pix with my old pals. Wonder when we'll meet again. Maybe the next wedding lol.

Taking a pic with Jeremy and FangxuanAHS DudesFDS Eagles

After the lunch, I had some time to spare before meeting Liyang they all for dinner, so I decided to go to the Kite Festival again. Shaun also wanted to take a walk, so together we walked all the way to The Promontory. Had a bit of catch up session with him. He's got a girlfriend recently! Nice one dude!

There were fewer people on Sunday, the 2nd and last day of the Kite Festival. And I bumped into many people, like Jocelyn and Kiwi, who BO JIO me! As well as Chan Chee Wei and Tat Yeong. Weren't many nice kites around, and it was damn hot and humid. We sat around chatting till 5:30pm before we went to take the trains.

One of the performers playing on a harp! My favourite musical instrument.

I met up with Li Teng, Liyang and Selina at City Square Mall to try out the Kichi Kichi Rotary steamboat restaurant. Cost about $28 per person including one drink. I always think steamboats were 大同小异, the only difference between each restaurant is the way food is served, the variety of food, and the soup base. For Kichi Kichi, the conveyor belt is quite nice but certainly I wouldn't pay extra to go there again just for the convenience of no need to grab food ourselves.

Kichi Kichi

Couldn't really move after eating so much at the wedding lunch, and THEN at Kichi Kichi. It's buffet you know? I'm a glutton!

Next up, I went to Clarke Quay to meet Aaron and gf at Brewerkz. He finally found a place at Clarke Quay where we can sit and watch the match between Manchester United and Liverpool. When I reached it was already 15 minutes into the game. Luckily there weren't any goals yet. A highly up-tempo game with plenty of action. Liverpool was clearly the POO of the night. They managed to get two goals courtesy of Steven Gerrard's free kick and penalty kick. Man U on the other hand had Berbatov doing a hat-trick to secure 3 precious points for the Red Devils. Awesome performance from him.

I realized that there was some "special" at Brewerkz if you check-in using Foursquare. If you check-in with a tip, you can get either free fries or onion rings with any purchase! How awesome is that!? So I actually did the thing and we got ourselves quite a big basket of fries absolutely free! Cool stuff! That got me to check-in at almost everywhere I went after that hahaha.
Jocelyn and Kiwi also came to meet up after their meal, so we walked along Clarke Quay for a while before going home.

Rooster rules!

On our way home, Aaron told me to shoot this guy sleeping in such a funny posture. The lady beside him knew that I was shooting him and tried to siam. She looks a bit buay song cos she knows I'll surely capture her in my picture as well lol.
Phew finally finished my long-winded post! Still have the mid-autumn festival post to be updated! Will update once I get my hands on the pix that Aaron took for us hehehe.

Happening Long Weekend

2010-09-12T21:11:00.009+08:00

Today is slack at home day. Need to recuperate after spending several days and nights outside meeting up with friends and colleagues.

9th September 2010, Friday

Organized a drinking session for the Citi people. Not too bad got Aaron, Ah Nan, Seetoh, Leo and Kian Hong joined in the fun. We met up for dinner at Bedok 85 Market first. After the scrumptious meal, we then went to Happy Days pub at the interchange. Finally we managed to meet up to finish our Chivas hahaha! The pub was almost empty, except for a few uncles and aunties. We then finished up the bottle as we enjoyed the live band singing to Kings of Leon's "Use Somebody" for their first song. Then I also requested them to sing any songs by OneRepublic, hence they sang "Apologize" and "Stop and Stare", my favourite OneRepublic songs.

Next, we decided that the night is still young and we should continue our drinking session at a more happening place. So Aaron suggested we go back to his place to grab his car so that we can check out Timbre @ The Substation. All were ok except Ah Nan >_<. We then picked up Yiwen at CBP who just finished work. The Timbre at the Substation was very crowded, with a long queue in front of us. So we changed to Timbre @ The Art House instead. We got a nice table in front of the stage, where Iris ft. Liza were playing for the night. This time I drank Erdinger beer. And then for the last song of the night, the band played "Use Somebody", the second time we heard the song for the night.

A famished Yiwen can't wait to bite into something.

Roasted Duck Pizza! Nice!

Next, we decided we still haven't had enough, so we walked down to Clarke Quay and had our third round of drinks at The Highlander. We got a bottle of Chardonnay, which didn't really taste very nice lol. And there it was again, "Use Somebody" was being played by the band inside the pub. Such a popular song to be played by bands.
So in one night, I tasted Chivas (whisky), Erdinger (beer) and Chardonnay (wine). Become 酒鬼 already hahaha!

10th September 2010, Friday

It's Hari Raya Puasa, and I'm meeting up with Liyang, Selina, Serene and Kiwi for Vlee Conference at Zirca. Interesting to hold a comedy performance at Zirca, and it gave me the chance to finally visit it for the first time, since the demise of Ministry of Sound. This was Vlee's 4th year running and features Irene Ang, Chua Enlai and two other guys. Chua Enlai put up a fantastic performance, as usual. I saw Alaric (Andre Chichak of the Noose), Nat Ho, Patricia Mok at the event. Nat Ho really damn handsome in person, but shorter than me lol. Selina grabbed the chance to take a pic with him. And so the show was roughly from 8 to 9:45pm, with a 15 minute interval. They parodied many current affairs, people and events such as the YOG, Lady Gaga, Jack Neo etc. Totally hilarious. Quite expensive though, with a 10% discount it's at $49.50 + $3 ticketing fee. But still quite an interesting experience. Suddenly so onz to watch such performances, the previous one being Boeing Boeing lol.
After the show ended, we went out to take a walk around Clarke Quay, before Serene and Kiwi went off, and so the three of us decided to go back to Zirca to chill, since we had the chop earlier to enable us re-entry to Zirca. The place became sort of deserted lol. We got a table near the bar counters and ordered some cranberry vodka. Luckily it's 1-for-1, cos it cost $50 for the two jugs. We sat around listening to the pumped up music, and the crowd started pouring in by 11pm. I also walked around the place, and realized that Rebel and Zirca connected. The chops on our wrists also allowed us entry to Lunar, so we went in to check out the place too. There was a Cantopop band performing on the stage, making it seem like we entered Dragonfly of St. James. We left after checking out Lunar. Woohoo finally visited three places at Clarke Quay. Now I know: Lunar, Rebel, Zirca all can enter with one cover charge. Nice!

11th September 2010, Saturday

It's MKG gathering day! See my updates here.

After the lunch, I traveled to Compass Point at Sengkang to meet up with Li Teng and Nicholas for the Gundam Fiesta. There was a huge display of Gundams from the Three Kingdoms, and also a huge hand of the RX-78-2 Gundam on the stage.

Cao Cao's red army.

Haven seen this model around. Nice smile.

The kids totally ignore the models standing behind them.

On our way to Downtown East, we saw this beautiful sunset.

Decided to try out HDR on this view. Finally created a HDR picture that I'm satisfied with. But still, I'm sure it can be improved.

After that, Nic and I went to Downtown East to meet up with Liyang, Selina, Derrick and Zhangjing for dinner and then to watch Resident Evil: Afterlife 3D. Pretty cool effects for the show. I totally can't remember what happened in the previous three prequels to this movie. Still, worth the money for the 3D and action and gore. I'm sure I'll be watching the next sequel when it's out in the future.

Foodie Weekend

2010-09-05T21:12:00.014+08:00

This ain't a good way to "celebrate" the end of my RT sessions hahaha! Haven't been enjoying food and drinks like that for a long time. Now my stomach still feels bloated lol.

Today Liyang and Selina jio go for Blic ice-cream. So we met there to enjoy some ice-cream again. The night before, we had Ben & Jerry's already haha. I got myself a Peanutella and Bailey's.

Then we went to this place called The Garden Slug at Telok Kurau, near East Coast. It's quite a nice place with a western food menu. The usual pasta, pizzas and other things you can find in a western food restaurant menu. Liyang ordered salmon pasta, Selina ordered carbonara, while I ordered shepherd's pie. We also got some Wasuga chicken wings. The wings were pretty normal, but the pasta's servings was so huge, we all were pretty stunned when the waiter served them to us. The pastas were pretty good. Liyang managed to finish his whole plate of pasta. Pretty nice ambience and nice food. Definitely worth going back again.

Wasuga Chicken Wings

Salmon pasta

Carbonara

My shepherd's pie.

2nd September 2010, Thursday

As usual, Nic and I went down to Bedok Camp for our RT. It's the final session of Phase 1, so it's the IPPT for us. We left the office at around 5:20pm because Nic said he wanna go early and leave early lol. We reached there at 5:30pm and found that we were at least the 200th in line! Everyone super kiasu wanna finish and go off early. I got a 368. ZJ, Benedict, Derrick arrived much later and got 700+. I wanted to run with Derrick and Benedict cos at least can encourage each other to complete the 2.4km together. Each of us were released in batches according to our number tags. I decided to do the static stations first and wait for them to finish theirs. I chose to do the chin-up first. Holy shit! I sort of strained my back as I was doing my 6th chin-up cos I was using my whole body to jerk up. In the end I felt so much pain that I had to rest for a while before continuing on the other static stations. Luckily it didn't create much impact for the rest of the stations. I was doing my static stations with Liangwei and we went down to the stadium seats to wait for the rest. But after waiting for two batches who started off the 2.4km run, LW decided to try it out himself as he didn't wanna wait anymore. By the next batch, the rest had completed their static stations and joined me at the seats. I could see Liangwei started walking on the 4th or 5th round. I think it's Phase 2 for him.

So ZJ, Ben, Derr and I started on the next batch. We had Derr running in front of us for us to pace him. He indeed was pretty good at running. I completed the 1st round in 1:50mins. Then by 2nd it was 4:0x. 3rd was 6:00 exactly. By the 4th round they had started to overtake me a lot, as I was losing steam and started walking! I was thinking...."cham liao...Phase 2!?" Then Derr saw that I was lagging so much that he turned around and started to shout at me to run faster. Then I put in all my energy to try to keep up with them and then finished the 5th round too. I was almost dying when we hit the 5th round and Derr was saying "c'mon last round and you have 2 mins exactly! Follow my pace and you can pass liao!" By the last 200m, I was overtaking Ben and I encouraged him to chiong instead. Derr and I then did one last burst at the last 100m, but seems like Ben couldn't chiong anymore. Der and I both crossed the finish line at 12:36min. But Ben got a timing of 12:43! He was so sianz that he had failed by a mere 3s! I was also super grateful to Derr for encouraging me and pushing me, cos I would DEFINITELY have given up during the last round and would have thus failed my IPPT. No more RT woohoo! So in the end I treated them to dinner at the Bedok market. We also encouraged Ben to pass his IPPT on the 14th session of RT, which would be two Thursdays from the current session. We will ask him to treat us to dinner then lol.

4th September 2010, Saturday

Saw this article about free entry to art galleries all over Singapore on that very day. Decided to go take a look at some of them. Jioed the people I saw online at that time and only Joce was interested. Rabbi was chionging the Liar Game dramas that I passed to her lol. So Joce and I went to check out the art galleries at the MICA building just next to Clarke Quay. There was some art exhibition going around and there was some catered food. Joce and I almost wanted to mingle into the crowd and eat some of the food, which looked so enticing lol. There was also free wine there. Wait a min! We're there to see the art galleries, not the food! So there were plenty of art pieces all around the place. I've gained level in Art Appreciation once again!
We then went over to Clarke Quay to check out the floats which some of the workers are preparing for the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival celebrations. There were the 十二生肖 all along Clarke Quay, on the Central side of the river. They look damn ugly, except for the Rooster ahahha! Serious! The rest looked so shitty. Only the floats featuring the 四大名著 were nice.

So we then took the train and Joce went on to the Chunkfest, which I had intro-ed her to check out. I went to meet up with Liyang, Selina, Zhangjing and Li Teng at Australian Outback at Millenia Walk. First time trying out this restaurant. We ordered mushrooms, some buffalo wings which weren't hot and spicy at all, fried onions and steak. Eat until wanna puke lol. ZJ ate medium rare steak. It looked so raw we could hardly bear to see ZJ sink his teeth into the meat.

The bread that looked like a potato that looked like a bread.

Juicy mushrooms yum yum! Buffalo Wings, not spicy at allLooking at this big slab of succulent steak makes my mouth water again argh!

After the meal, we went to check out the Chunkfest held at The Promontory @ Marina Bay. It is the 3rd such annual event organized by Ben & Jerry's, and they always hold it at different places. I went to all three lol, with different people each year. As usual, they invited some local bands to perform for the crowd. This year's venue is probably the best compared to previous years because there's a great scenery to enjoy, as we can see the MBS in the background, and all the lights and buildings in the area.

LT went off much earlier cos he was very tired, so the four of us went off to find a place to drink, cos it was ZJ's initial intention for this outing. LY suggested trying out the 1-Altitude bar at One Raffles Place as he's been there before. Aaron was also talking about this place earlier, and therefore it was a good chance for me to check out this quite recently established bar. It claims to be "the world's highest al fresco bar located 282m above the ground". We took the lift to the 62nd floor, which was the floor containing the restaurant Stellar. We then paid the cover charge of $15 which included one drink. Then we took a seperate lift which goes only to the rooftop.

There the view was breathtaking. We could see (almost) all the lights all over Singapore. Definitely a good place to chill out after a long week of work. You'll definitely feel like shouting "I'm the king of the world!" when you're there. The whole area was triangular in shape, with the 63rd floor being the counter area where you order your drinks and stuff, and if you climb up the stairs to the additional "floor" you'll be at the topmost area of the building and presumably the whole of Singapore. There weren't many seats around, and even lesser tables. We just found an area of glass, which was actually the top of the lift area of the 63rd floor, to place our bottles and glasses. There we walked around the place to enjoy the picturesque view of the whole city of Singapore. And luckily I had my DSLR and therefore was busy snapping away. It was pretty windy too and it's such a cool sensation being at that height, enjoying the cool breeze brushing against our faces.

We hung around for about 30mins or so, before we decided that that's about enough time to standing around, without any seats to rest our tired legs. We then checked out Citygolf on the 61st floor. It was an indoor pub area with several large projector screens for guests to play simulation golf. Very atas sia. Will go back again to try it out if have the chance.

The neverending triangular staircase.

Level 61: Citygolf

Awesome mini outing with the FDS guys. Quite a fruitful day of arts, steak, ice-cream and top of the world feeling. This is pure ecstasy!

September Looming

2010-08-29T22:51:00.006+08:00

Wow before you know it, it's gonna be Christmas again. Scary! Just had my 7th RT session today. It's the trial 2.4km run. Holy shit the weather was so hot, everyone's timing got screwed. I also started stitching on the 5th round. Jialat. In the end walked a bit on the last round and got a timing of 14mins hahaha! Let's hope nothing like this happens on the actual IPPT this coming Thursday...

28th August 2010, Saturday

Watched "Step Up 3D" with Nic at Iluma. We wanted to watch the non-3D version but the almost empty theatre when I checked few hours earlier suddenly became almost full when we went down to buy the tix just 30mins before the show. In the end we settled for the 3D version. And as I expected, the 3D wasn't very convincing or fascinating. It's $14 for the 3D version some more! And worse of all, I think Step Up 2: The Streets, is way better than the 3rd one. Probably due to the groovy tunes of Flo-Rida's infectious "Low", as well as JabbaWockeeZ appearing in the show. This 3rd movie wasn't as memorable and the dance choreography was not as interesting as the ones in part 2. However the last dance in which the main cast were dishing out their last battle in luminated costumes was quite awesome. Wonder if it can be done in real life or it's some computer graphics. 3 stars for this movie.

I went to look for the GIP guys (Alan, KW, HS, Kim) and we had dinner at a Chinese restaurant at Bugis Junction basement called 红锅. Its signature dishes were noodles in large red bowls called 招牌米线,状元米线, so we all ordered either of these two to try, as well as some side dishes. The soup was very tasty, and the noodles were just nice, not too hard or too soft. The waitress would dump the little saucers' ingredients into the big red bowl in front of us one by one. Actually nothing very interesting about the whole process. We ordered some sticks of meat, forgot what kinda meat it was haha, which reminded us of the times we ate those 羊肉串 on the roadsides on a winter night back in Beijing during our GIP days. ET joined us after we finished our dinner and we went to TCC once again to finish up our last $20 vouchers lol. They then went to catch Grown Ups, with Nana joining them, while I went home instead cos I didn't feel like watching that movie lol.

Notice got special lighting? They were using my iPhone's camera light to light up this dessert!Kim was forced by me to put on her helmet for me to take a pic ahaha.

Have You Boeing-Boeinged?

2010-08-24T23:41:00.002+08:00

Who would have thought that I will go watch a play? Some more it's something I dunno anything about. But the girls suddenly wanted to watch this play and jioed everyone along, so I thought ok loh, just go try try. Haven't watch any plays before anyway. Quite a refreshing experience, but the only thing that dampens the experience was that we took the cheapest tix, thus having to be seated at three-storey high seats. I would definitely have paid more to get a better view. We had to look almost like 45 degrees downwards to view the actors and actresses from our seats.

Tue-Thurs & Sun - 8pm
Sat & Sun - 3pm
Standard - S$64, S$54, S$44, S$49 (Restricted View)

Fri & Sat - 8pm
Standard - S$69, S$59, S$49, S$54 (Restricted View)

Just checked out the ticket prices. Diaoooo I will definitely pay for the most expensive seat if I knew it's not much of a difference from the cheapest one hahhaa. But oh well, next time, if I'm watching a play at the Drama Theatre at the National Library ever again, I know which tickets to choose.

The play was adapted from the original French play which first premiered in 1960! Now it's been rewritten to a Singaporean context. I'm pretty sure the angmohs in the audience understood only 50% or less of the conversations and jokes. Luckily I could understand most of it cos they were speaking in Singlish, Cantonese, Japanese and Malay. Adrian Pang did a marvellous job, as expected, as he portrayed the architect, Bernard, who had three fiancées, Janet (SIA girl), Jelly (Cathay Airways) and Junko (JAL). The three women also did a fantastic job of bringing out the flavour of each of their nationalities. The other male actor, an angmoh, got to kiss the girls many times lol. He also did an excellent job. I think he had the most difficult part of the play as he had to interact with everyone in the play. But the most memorable character would have to be Rosa, if I spelt the name correctly. She's the maid in Adrian Pang's house. She did a splendid portrayal of a typical Malay women, with her Singaporean Malay slang.

Interesting experience. Probably will get me more interested in such plays in the future.

"Level up! You have gained a level in Artistic Appreciation!"

Tired...

2010-08-15T20:56:00.003+08:00

Ever since RT started last Sunday, I've been sooooo tired. The RT sessions are getting more and more siong. Only looking forward to the dinners after each RT at Bedok Market hahaha. Today no chance to have the lasagne from the stall operated by the twin sisters. Decided to try out one of the Malay stall's nasi ayam penyet. $4 for a set, but it's not too bad. The soup also very nice. Zhangjing had kambing soup.

14th August 2010, Saturday

Slacked at home and then went out for dinner at Suan Thai Restaurant @ Liang Court with family. This restaurant was featured on one of the Channel 8 or Channel U shows, therefore we long wanted to go and try out the food there. The tom yam soup wasn't really very nice. And the pineapple rice was pretty normal. Only the stir-fried beef was good. The rest was so-so only. Definitely not recommended to go back again lol.

After dinner, as we drove past the padang and stopped right outside Raffles City waiting for the traffic light to turn green, it just so happened that the final fireworks display started right in front of our eyes and over our heads. All the buildings around us were shooting fireworks. So zhunz. Quite a magnificent view. Too bad I wasn't there to take pix of the fireworks. It's the inaugural Youth Olympic Games held right here in Singapore after all. So proud to be Singaporean, isn't it?

Happy Birthday Singapore!

2010-08-09T22:49:00.005+08:00

It's National Day! And I was slacking the whole day at home. Was watching Liar Game, a Japanese drama which first aired on 2007. It features Erika Toda, the actress who played Misa in Deathnote. Season 2 aired in November 2009 and the movie was out in Japan in March 2010. Now Singapore is showing on 12th August. Looks like no time to chiong the drama before the movie is out.

7th August 2010, Saturday

The long-awaited Nite Cycling was here again! Shirley and Jacenta were dying to do nite cycling again during this long weekend, therefore I organized it. Didn't expect so many people to turn up. Yaokun actually forgot about the event and NZ thought we start at 9pm -_-... Nevertheless, with Shirley's friends, we had 10 people for this event. I met up with Shirley and Jac at the round market bike shops to do some last minute shopping for Jac cos she was using her uncle's bike. She got herself a seat cover and a backlight. We then cycled down to ECP, and had dinner at the Food Village while waiting for the rest. Then we all changed the rental venue to one of the bike shops around the MacDonald's area, instead of at Family Corner, as what I proposed earlier. The 5 of them without their own bikes rented a bike each. Then we started at about 9pm. NZ would have been able to join us if he insisted on coming down lol.

So we met up with our last member, Shufen, at the end of the ECP stretch. Thus the Fellowship of the Bike was complete, and we proceeded with our plan. Dennis, took charge of leading us around the Cosy Bay area, a route which I never took before. It was a more beautiful route to take since we're just next to the river and it was solid, level ground all the way. Took the chance to snap some pix along the way. We reached a dead-end unfortunately, but it gave us a magnificent view of the CBD area, with all the spotlights shooting into the sky.
We then took another route which brought us to this place just below Benjamin Sheares. We had no choice but to climb up the staircase and onto the bridge, and pushed along the bridge. We stopped at the highest point to take some photos and just as we were about to leave, some fireworks started shooting again. Lol so zhun. It lasted just a few shots, and we were still wondering what event it was. Probably a rehearsal for YOG. When we reached the bottom of the bridge, there was no road in sight. We were stranded on an area which was all fenced up! In the end we took a route through the darkness, right between some "forested area" and then out to Nicoll Highway next to Suntec. What a crazy adventure it was. It was like an obstacle course as we had to climb over single wooden planks, push our bikes over gravel and rocks, in semi-darkness. Luckily Clifton had two Cat-Eye torchlights to light up our way.

We made it out into civilization once again. Then we stopped by the Padang and snapped some pix, before going to Clarke Quay and all the way to a prata shop, Spize, along River Valley Road. It's the same one at Simpang Bedok lol. Coincidentally I met Alvin of SCE and Chao Kiat of AHS there. So zhun. We ordered our supper and ate like we were starved for days.
After the meal, we cycled to Orchard Road. It's been a decade since I last cycled along Orchard Road? We cycled down from Central to Ion, slacked there for a while, then back towards Plaza Sing for a toilet break. Then next stop was Raffles Place. They placed some interesting art pieces just next to the MRT entrance.
Next stop, The Promontory. We cycled along the riverside and then slacked right on the outside of Marina Bay Sands.
We then carried on our last leg of our journey back to ECP. Shufen then left us to go back to Toa Payoh, on her own! Daring girl to cycle alone back to TPY late at night. The 9 of us then continued back to Tanjong Rhu and slacked in the middle of the suspension bridge. There were some Muds and Angmohs at the other end of the bridge. A few of them even jumped into the river and swam around, half naked! WTF?!? These sickos may become news headline if anything bad was to happen. At a further distance away, some groups of guys were gathering around and driving their cars onto the grass patch. And all of them were making so much noise. Those people staying in the area should be woken up by the noise, cos we saw a police vehicle driving to that area when we left later. Stupid people doing silly things.
Then it was all the way back to ECP. We stopped at Mac for some Mac breakfast. Everyone were zombiefied by then. After a full meal of hotcakes, I was all ready to chiong back home. The rest of them who rented bikes were so lucky to end their journey earlier, as they could then take a cab back home while resting on the cabs. Clif, Shir, Jac and I had to cycle all the way back.

My palms and butt were aching badly lol. But still, such an adventurous Nite Cycling is worth the all the pain, I guess.

Went home and slept all the way to 3pm. Then went down for some wanton mee, before going to Bedok Camp. It's the start of my RT session. Zhangjing and I already knew we were in this RT. Benedict was there too. Even Nicholas Chia from my office was there lol. There was ZJ's friend, Derrick there also. Also Liangwei from AHS. Also saw Nelson the ah beng there. So many familiar faces. All kena RT lol. As expected, we did very little stuff on the first session.

After the session which ended at 6+, ZJ, Derrick and I went to the Bedok Market for Cheng Tng! Haven got a chance to eat it at the last RT I had with ZJ, which was two years ago. Finally got to eat it. Wasn't very spectacular but still quite a refreshing dessert after all.

Then they left while I wait for Papa to fetch me to Expo, where the whole family then had dinner at Macau Express. Then we bought some ice-cream from Orange Julius. They actually served the ice-cream upside-down. Lol so cool. Then Mummy and Cindy went shopping at the Metro Sale. while me and Papa went to the Harvey Norman sale. There wasn't much at the Harvey Norman sale, neither did the Borders sale manage to grab anything from my wallet. All I knew was I was falling asleep while browsing through the books at Borders. All I needed was plenty of sleep lol.

Dunno What To Title

2010-08-04T23:02:00.003+08:00

It's mid-week Wednesday! So fast! Gonna be a long weekend soon! Well it's been quite a while since I posted anything here. Laziness sets in again lol. Been joining the Citi people to run for the last two days. Didn't think I would run on two consecutive days. Now feeling like a jellyfish. Time to update a bit...

31st July 2010, Saturday

Met up with LT and his frenz, as well as Nic and his fren, Alex, and Jacenta, at Lau Pa Sat. Then we proceeded to station ourselves at The Promontory, this new piece of land right at the other end of MBS. There were probably hundreds of shutterbugs there ready to capture the magnificent moment of fireworks lighting up the darkness above us. Even though I was there two weeks ago, this time it's a different position, therefore it will be a totally different experience. However I felt that my shots pale in comparison to my first set. Nonetheless it's another eventful outing. Then Jac and I rushed off to Suntec to meet up with KW and JH to watch Inception. Woohoo finally caught the show. And true enough, it was a pretty good show, but probably too overrated. I will definitely watch it again soon, just to further comprehend the complex details of the plot. 4/5 stars imho.

24th July 2010, Saturday

Went to catch The Sorcerer's Apprentice with NZ, Kim, ET, YM at Iluma. Quite a nice show. 3.5 stars. Love the way they incorporated the song "Secrets" from OneRepublic into the show. After that we went for dinner at Manhattan Fish Market, then finally chill at TCC, finally using the vouchers ET got from the management after that incident last year. Well we still saved up $20 voucher for the next outing since not everyone were present lol.

Cousin Junfei Gets Married!

2010-07-18T23:59:00.003+08:00

My cousin, Junfei, who is two years younger than me has gotten married! He and his wife, Tracy/Xinru, really got 夫妻相. On Friday, my whole family went to 三姨's house in the morning for the tea ceremony. In the end the bride and groom and the brothers and sisters only arrived at aroun 1pm. So it's the usual tea ceremony, then we went back home to rest. At night we went down to Orchard Parade Hotel for the wedding dinner.

After the dinner, I went to the Singapore Art Museum where Night Festival is being held. There were plenty of people, as expected. Went to meet up with Aar, Eil, Joy, Joc, Jus, Ros and Ser, who were there much earlier to take pix of that event. When I reach, they were pretty much finished, so in the end we went to Starbucks at Raffles City to chill instead. Didn't really see much of the Night Festival. Luckily I see many pix that Sin Shoo took and shared on FB, so didn't really miss much ahhaha.

17th July 2010, Saturday

Met up with the FDS guys, Liyang and wife, Kim Mong and gf, Boon Leong and gf, Elvin, Zhangjing and Jeremy. We took the Singapore-Johor Express at Queen Street. First time taking this, and I must say it's really faster than taking 170 at Kranji. $2.40 per ride, brings you all the way to the Woodlands Checkpoint without stopping. And there weren't many passengers waiting at the checkpoint bus-stop some more. Realizing that my passport was gonna expire in less than one month's time, I tried my luck to enter the Malaysian customs. Alas the officer noticed the date and directed me back to Singapore. T_T In the end Ah Tham accompanied me back to Singapore. We bought some chewing gum at the convenience store before taking 170 back to Singapore. Ah Tham said he was half-hearted in the first place and din mind going back with me. LOL silly Tham. And silly Lam. We then took almost two hours of bus-ride to reach Queen Street. Goodness! That's a wrong move. Then we had lunch at the Bugis hawker centre, before roaming around in Sim Lim. We then pre-ordered our Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty set @ $99! It's gonna be released worldwide on the 27th of July, 2010. We can go down to Funan to collect our set, which will be release at 12 noon. Hope Tham can go down there to collect our set, plus T-shirt and dog-tag. Only limited to the first 1337 omg! Can't wait to get my hands on the game! Woohoo!

15th July 2010, Thursday

We went to watch Despicable Me! Joc watch for the 2nd time some more! The first time she watch in 3D, so she din mind watching again with us, in 2D. It is a really entertaining, crappy but hilarious animated film. I'll certainly watch it again, but not in the theatres lah hehe. 4.5 stars!

Counting Down to the Final Moment!

2010-07-11T23:14:00.005+08:00

It's almost 3 hours to the finals of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Woohoo can't wait. Let's hope what Paul had predicted will come true - Spain lifting the World Cup trophy for the first time in their history. There are many Holland supporters but surely Spain has more due to more Barcelona and Real Madrid fans around. May the best team win! (And hopefully win me some $ to recoup my losses for this WC hahaha!)

10th July 2010, Saturday

Went to Erwin's place to see Sharon and Giselle. It's Giselle's one month old celebration so we MKGians went over to visit them. Giselle was lying on its stomach on the bed, sleeping soundly. Then Huimin also brought Adele over, then the baby room had two babies sleeping haha.

Sleeping also can get angpow!Adele also sleeping.

Took this to show the double chin haha!

After that I met up with Li Teng and his gf at Marina Square. Supposedly to have his other friends but they last min all din make it. So the three of us headed over to the Nicoll Highway bridge beside Esplanade and found a nice spot to set up our tripods. There were plenty of people with DSLRs and tripods, all waiting for that few minutes of splendor.

The very first shot for the night. No smoke yet.

Supposed to see a moon and 5 stars. Exposed for too long.

Very hairy fireworks.

After that I went to look for Tat Yeong and his friends, who were there much earlier to take pictures around the area. We went to Suntec for dinner before going home.

1 More Week to Post-World-Cup-Boredom-Syndrome

2010-07-05T21:05:00.009+08:00

Wonder what I'll do after the new World Cup champions are crowned within less than a week. Will be freaking bored cos will be deprived of soccer matches until the new season of Premier League begins. Maybe I'm gonna get a new Germany World Cup jersey, with 4 stars on it of course! Hehehehe! Let's hope Paul the Octopus gives an accurate prediction of Germany winning Spain, and then to win at the finals!

2nd July 2010, Friday

After work, went to Ding Tai Fung (again!) just two days after we went! Jocelyn and Joycelyn wanted to try out those dishes that we didn't on Wednesday, therefore they decided to go again. They got another friend to join us, and together we ordered the 小菜, as well as some shrimp dumplings, chili crab xiaolongbao, normal xiaolongbao etc. Eat until wanna puke hahaha. After dinner Jocelyn wanna walk home instead of taking bus, and since we eat until so full, we then walk all the way back. We went to check out the Tampines Central CC, and I found Changyuan sitting there, waiting for Kong to join him. Bo jio! Then I took bus 69 to Bedok to meet Aaron while Joce continued walking around the neighbourhood -_-....

I then went to the Happy Days pub just above the MacDonald's at Bedok interchange. Aaron and I decided to go there and he jioed Kathy along. We got ourselves a bottle of Chivas @ $98 nett. Not too bad. Saw Huang Shinan there lol. There were plenty of uncles at the pub, all waiting for the Brazil vs Holland match to start. I staked about $70 for the night's matches, which all went up in smoke at the end. Thanks to a stupid own goal and sending off of Felipe Melo. Now that's a very stupid way of getting famous. Brazil left the field with a 1-0 lead after the first half, but thanks to the above-mentioned moron, Holland managed to come back and even won the game. Wesley Sneijder was blessed with good luck and was at the right position at the right time to score from a header. Even the earlier free-kick goal which resulted in Melo last-touching the ball and into the net, was credited to Sneijder. Holland is really damn lucky. But I'm sure even after winning Uruguay in the semi-finals (if they can), they'll be totally destroyed by Germany or Spain (should be Germany). Lol!

3rd July 2010, Saturday

Met up with Li Teng and his gf Meiqi (he still don't wanna publicly admit -_-) and Claire at Ion. We tried 4 Fingers Bonchon for the first time! Nice! The chicken skin is very crispy and the spicy chicken sauce makes it soooo delicious. Definitely can go there again.
We then went to check out the Youth Festival and Mascot Parade at the *Shine Mall just behind Orchard Cineleisure. Didn't know of this new mall until now. The maid cafe Moe Moe Kyun is finally open in Singapore and right at that mall itself! Saw MYnT as well as other maids doing some recording outside the cafe. Miyake-chan looks cuter everytime I see her lol. There were plenty of mascots parading around the place. Even Merly and Lyo, the Youth Olympics Games mascots were there. The Muttons were the MCs for this event. It was drizzling throughout the event and I was kinda sick, therefore didn't feel like shooting much. The picture below is one of the only few pix I took lol. Nicholas was there helping out as a photographer for his friends' booth. We also got some free iPhone cases and fans from the Animax booth. Nice cases sia.
We then hung around until 7pm then I went back home to get ready to meet up with Hongming and gf, as well as Boon Leong, who also brought his gf along, at the Tampines Central CC. HM reached at 9pm but all seats were already taken. By the time I reach at 9:05pm, I could stand at the edges. So I ended up having dinner at the food court and then slowly took my time to find a good standing spot at the second floor. There were some technical difficulties and they finally managed to get the screens showing the match after the game had started for like 8 mins or so. We missed Thomas Mueller's 3rd minute header goal! But nvm, there was more for German fans to cheer about in the second half. They totally thrashed Argentina 4-0 at FT! Magnificent performance by this very young German team. I was so lucky to get the 1st scorer bet right hahaha! But my other bets had no luck. BL and gf and I then walked all the way back to the kopitiam below my place where we had some supper. I then watched the Paraguay vs Spain match at 2:30am. Spain were lucky enough to win by a solitary goal. Let's hope the Germans can keep up their standard and continue thrashing Spain in the semis. Although I had long ago bought the bet of Spain winning the WC, but I would love to see the Germans as champions now instead. They're really damn good.
4th July 2010, Sunday

Not going for Jap lessons anymore >_<... Firstly cos Jiahao decided to stop going, secondly very tired from watching soccer for the past few weeks, thirdly, there's a kanji test and have to submit a report (essay)! Doesn't seem like I can do anything about it, therefore decided not to go for lessons anymore. Oh fourthly there's Cosfest at Downtown East! NZ and I then met up to go there together. Wow it's jam-packed with youngsters dressed up as all kinds of anime and movie characters. Damn awesome. The whole place was so vibrant and colourful and full of energy. I quickly went into semi-automatic mode and fired off at will. Shot for almost 3 hours before I called it a day and had to rush home to change and then leave again to attend Lishi's wedding at Sentosa.

These boys surely haven't gone through NS before hahaha.

This Sasori damn cool, don't you think so?

First time see people cosplay Nami, Nico Robin, Vivi and Ms. Valentine of One Piece

This girl very cute. Anyone knows from which anime?

Predator Jr. and Keisuke Honda takes a pic together.

Lishi's wedding dinner pix:

Lishi and I were Primary 2 and JC classmates! It's been almost 22 years OMG!

TPJC 98S18 gathers once again.

Almost At The End of Round 2

2010-06-21T21:52:00.005+08:00

Realized that I haven't been updating for so long. Why? Busy watching the World Cup of course hahaha! Totally neglected other things. Can't recall what I did man...but I'll try...

5th June 2010, Saturday

It's FDS gathering at Harry's Bar@Esplanade. It's been a while since we had an FDS outing. Thanks to Boon Leong, this was quite a success. A total of 9 of us were present as you can see from the picture below. Jarvis' face was half-blocked haha. We then ended up at The Coffee Club@Millenia Walk for further chill-out. Let's look forward to the JB trip in July!

12th June 2010, Saturday

Met up with NZ to visit the PC Show at Suntec. Nothing much. Went to squeeze with the crowd only. Then went to watch The A-Team at Iluma. Plenty of action, but too much of plot. They tried to squeeze too many tactics within a scene, making it quite difficult to grasp the idea of their plans. Still, quite an entertaining show, but for men only.

Then we went to have dinner before watching the South Korean vs Greece match at 7:30pm at a pub just next to Raffles Hotel. Very quiet place with not many people. We had a comfortable place not too far from the TV. $19 for a jug of beer, which lasted us through the match. South Korea won 2-0 for that match, with Park Ji Sung scoring quite a nice goal.

13th June 2010, Sunday

Went down to the kopitiam to watch the 2:30am England vs USA match with GM and Mahesh. England sucked big time. Gerrard scored a beautiful goal within the first few minutes, only to let USA equalize later on, due to Robert Green's mistake. What a big disappointment.

18th June 2010, Friday

Organized a get-together session with the Blk 22 people. Wanted to have dinner and watch the clash between Germany and Serbia. It the end only managed to leave office around 7:30pm. When I reached Paulaner@Millenia Walk, Jason, Shenggui, Charles and Naizhu were there already. The pub was full of Germans. And it seems that they were out of luck that night as their national team was on the verge of losing their first game of this World Cup. Junie and Diana joined us later on. The service there sucks big time, as sucky as Germany's game. Miroslav Klose was red-carded earlier on in the first half, and Podolski actually missed a penalty kick! We waited quite a long time before our dishes were served, then took another 10 to 15 minutes before our CUTLERY were given to us. Do we look like barbarians? Then the best thing was, I ordered a similar dish of "World Cup" pork knuckles as what Jason and Seng had ordered. In the end they gave me a different one which costs double! We only realized until the bill was paid. DAMN! Tio tock! The bill also took quite a while before they returned it to us. Sucky!

After the match, Seng, J, D, NZ and I then went to the HK 茶餐厅 at Marina Square to sit, chat and relax.

19th June 2010, Saturday

Organized another outing. This time is for our GIP guys. Kim, Nana, Alan, Hock Seng, Wenyao, Naizhu were present. I also managed to get Kah Wai to join us for this Netherlands vs Japan match at 7:30pm. We grabbed a table at an Indian restaurant at Chijmes. There were plenty of Dutch fans all donning orange shirts and jerseys. Only a handful of the crowd were Japanese supporters. I wore my brand new blue Japanese World Cup home jersey. Although I'm not a Japanese soccer team fan, I feel that it was quite refreshing to be wearing something unique, compared to everyone else wearing an orange shirt. The game was quite evenly matched, until Wesley Sneijder managed to have a shot at goal, and the Japanese goalkeeper actually touched the ball, but instead couldn't deflect it enough to parry it away from goal. It would have been a draw. After that we went to Mac at Raffles City before going home.

20th June 2010, Sunday

Went to meet up the Citi gang at Beerfest Asia 2010. Quite an interesting event. Furthermore, can have beer while watching soccer. How cool is that? There were plenty of babes promoting the beers too. Went to support one of the girls I added on FB, Christina, who was promoting for Sol beer, a Mexican beer. In fact the beer was really quite good. The match for the night was Slovakia vs Paraguay, which wasn't quite an interesting match, for me. We weren't really watching the match, just walking around checking out the booths, babes and booze. The event also was kinda cool in the sense that they used poker chips as tokens for us to pay the booze with. I brought home one of the chips for souvenir haha.

Haven't seen any of these beers around.

Yes, we're beer promoters.

Leonard apparently enjoyed himself.

There were many different types of beers at the event, but I only managed to try a few, namely, Jaz, Sol, 333, some Taiwanese lychee-flavoured beer, Magners. Would be cool to try others but I wanted to stay awake for the Brazil vs Ivory Coast match later at 2:30am.

Beerfest not only teaches us to drink,
but also to gamble, put on tattoos, and have (safe) sex. -_-'''

We left the event halfway through the Italy vs New Zealand match. WTH world champions were drawn at 1-1 by a newbie team. Sucky World Cup!

I stayed awake all the way until 2am until I decided to take a quick nap, cos was having a headache already. The next thing I know is I saw the clock on my wall reading "7am+". WTH! So I went back to sleep Zzzz...

10 Days to World Cup!

2010-06-01T23:08:00.005+08:00

Woohoo! Can't wait!

And anyway I've just turned 29 few days ago T_T....old man! As a common practice, the office people celebrated my birthday for me with a nice chocolate cheesecake on the eve of my birthday.

27th May 2010, Thursday, birthday

I took one day's leave to slack at home on my actual birthday. Then of all places Mummy suggested eating at Sakura @ Tampines Safra for dinner. Aiyoo... not really the best buffet around.

28th May 2010, Friday, Vesak Day

Went to Ubin with Peiyi, Jiajun and his gf, Xingyu, Clifton and Jacenta. Clif drove us and our bikes to Changi Village, saving us the trouble of cycling there. We had breakfast before setting off for Ubin. It's $2.50 per person and $2 per bike. Woohoo cycling in Ubin is always shiok.

The oil spill has affected the Chek Jawa area. Sux man! Destroying our nature! All some stupid tanker's fault. After the cycling, we went back to Changi Village for nasi lemak. ShiokzZz! I ordered extra chicken wing some more hahaha.
I went home to wash up and then went out again. Weiqiang and Peiyi picked me up to go to Thomson Medical Centre to visit Huimin and her newborn Adele Tan! So CUTE! Looks so much like Huimin. Albert was holding Adele in his arms, like a loving father would. See here for the pix.

Then I went off to meet Edwin and gang. Finally managed to grab hold of Edwin. He's so busy with work and everything else that we could hardly meet him for dinner. This time he also had to go to work. But he met WK, KW and me for dinner at some Japanese restaurant near his workplace, then we went to Ooster, a pub nearby, for some drinks. After the drinking session, Edwin went back to his office while WK suggested we go to the Marina Bay Sands link bridge to take a look.

We walk all the way from China Square to the link bridge and then to Marina Bay Sands. KW brought us to this spot where we could see the whole of the casino. Woohoo nice view. Too bad there were so many security cameras all around us that we could not take out our phones to take a pic ahhaha. Seems like the "secret" passage is still not closed yet. Only a single path leads to that area to view the whole of the casino. Cool man. But not as if I've not seen the best casinos in Macau already. Marina Bay Sands is just small fry lol.
29th May 2010, Saturday

Went to the Singapore Expo for the License2Play gaming expo and food fair. Asked Kong Hooi and Chin Keat to go. I also met up with Hong Ming and Naizhu. I decided to drive there cos felt lazy to take bus and switch trains. In the end I got stuck in the stupid jam for 1.5 hours! I swear I'll NEVER drive to Expo on weekends again! Worst still was after I got into the carpark, while waiting for a car to drive out of the parking lot, another female driver drove all the way behind my car and blocked my way to that parking lot. Once that car drove off, she immediately reversed in to occupy that empty slot. Awesome! Any blind fool would have noticed my car waiting for that slot. I immediately got off my car and went to ask her "Hello! Din you see me waiting there for the slot?" She gave me loads of rubbish and told me that she's the organizer of the expos. Why the f*ck would I care about who she is? I said "Oh so it's like that huh? Never mind!" and turned back to find other lots. She shouted "You can go complain if you want!" I was noting down her license plate number on my phone, actually just to buy 4D later ahhaha. But then after I found a lot quite soon after that, I proceeded back to that lot to take a picture of the car and the parking lot. That lady who had walked off to a distance was so kanchiong I suppose and quickly turned back to approach me and told me "I took your picture and blah blah blah" I din remember what she said but almost as if was threatening me. I think she felt kanchiong and then said she can give me a complimentary ticket to the expos. I was thinking in my head "WTF? Now scared I will go complain then trying to please me with a ticket? KNS!" Then she also offered me her namecard. I thought again "Why the hell would I want your namecard for? Date you out ah?" From her looks I think she's at most late 20s, but dun qualify for my definition of pretty. Duh! She gave me plenty of crap reasons for her taking my slot. And after I asked her one simple question "did you think what you did was right?" She did not give a "yes" but continued arguing her way through. In the end she apologized and even extended out her hand and I said "Ok you've apologized, so I'm ok already" and proceeded to give her a handshake. Haiz why got such people? I already waited 1.5 hours and now gimme such crap. If I wasn't so frustrated over the jamming, I would have just drove off without getting out of my car to confront her.

Enough of such nonsense lol. I went to the License2Play event and met up with NZ and HM. CK and KH went home already by the time I finished parking my car and going through all that ordeal. Walau further disappointment. The event was so small. Nothing much to see really. In the end the food fair was more entertaining. I even bought loads of food back. ZZzzz... What a day.

Later at night, I went over to Charles' home in Hougang for the second time. This time we were there for Guitar Hero and poker. Woohoo! Guitar Hero is so fun sia. But then not too many songs to play with. Aaron and gf, Justina and Eileen were also there. So the 6 of us played GH and then poker until 3. The cheaters A, C and E were the last 3 winners while the rest of us lost money T_T... Cheat us beginners, but never mind! Next time win their socks off lol.

One More Month to World Cup 2010!

2010-05-10T23:53:00.002+08:00

Woohoo! Soccermania is here in a month's time! Gonna have some sleepless nights watching soccer hehehehe.

9th May 2010, Sunday

After lessons, KW, JH and I went to Iluma to watch Ip Man 2. The highly-rated sequel to Ip Man didn't disappoint us at all. Plenty of fighting sequences to pump up the adrenalin. Woo! No wonder so many people liked Ip Man 2 more than Iron Man 2. Dunno why they release both IM at the same time. Now also release IM2 at the same time. Wanna make people blur is it?

After movie, JH decided that we should try the Japanese maid themed Tora Steamboat Restaurant. It was my second time to try it. This time the maids were totally different from a year ago. And they wore either black or red maid costumes instead of just the black ones a year ago. We had Business Class buffet which cost about $28 per person. ShiokZzz ate quite a lot. Die loh I'm gonna fail my IPPT next week argh!!!

Late at night I was gonna try streaming the Chelsea vs Wigan match but somehow the tvants doesn't work. SianzZZz... so I went to do all the housework I could do before I went to fetch my family from Terminal 2. They were finally back from a week's trip to Hokkaido. They brought back one whole box of foodstuff. And they managed to find the JLPT N3 textbook I asked them to buy for me. According to a forum, this book can't be found in Singapore and therefore I since they were going to Japan, I decided to ask them to help me get the book. Wooohooo! But then I realized that it was only one out of three books for N3! The one I asked them to get was only for vocab! There were other books for grammar and kanji! Faint........ Shall try my luck at Kino to look for the grammar one at least. That's the most important book to get -_-...

And as we drove our way home, Chelsea scored a total of 8 goals to prevent Man United from being four-year champions. What a magnificent display of power! Next up is World Cup!

Fantasy Scifi Soccer Weekend!

2010-05-03T00:06:00.004+08:00

What a good way to enjoy the weekend!

Just back from a long day of Jap lesson, Iron Man 2 and Chelsea vs LiverBOO!

30th April 2010, Friday

Who would have thought that someone would actually create a video games and anime concert, right here in Singapore? After I missed all those video game concerts like Video Games Live, I tell myself I shall not miss another one! And this time it's the inaugural Fantasy Comes Alive! concert held at NUS UCC. And luckily Nicholas mentioned about it that he was going to this concert. I would never have heard of this thing coz it seems like there isn't much publicity about this concert. Luckily I went to help out PY for the volunteer shooting last weekend. Looks like 好心是有好报的 haha.
I also managed to jio Zhongming and Kong Hooi along, who were also quite hardcore gamers. Nic was able to get half price tix for us so we all got the $50 tix. What a bargain! It's a total of $25 + $3 booking fee for a $50 seat. We were at row M, which is considered very near already. The VIPs were seated in the same rows as us. The composer for several games like FF12 and FF Tactics was just a short distance from us. He went up to stage to say a few words and everyone cheered ecstatically for him.
The songs played were from very popular games and animes, with those notable ones and those that I have heard/watched are Chrono Cross, Castlevania, Bleach, Neon Genesis Evangelion, FF8, Megaman, Tetris. I was unfamiliar with the other half of the playlist but it was still quite an enjoyment. Those musicians on stage were truly brilliant, with some of them playing a solo part in some of the songs. I snapped a few pix inside the hall and also recorded some songs using my digicam, but someone more pro actually recorded everything and posted them on YouTube the very next day hahaha!
The whole concert lasted for around three hours! Woot what a steal! They gave us encores after encores. Played the opening to Neon Genesis Evangelion again at the end. It's the one I love the most out of all the songs. And here's the video of that song which someone took and posted on YouTube!

At the end of the concert, there was a queue to get autographs from Hitoshi Sakimoto himself. Nic and all his enthu frenz all queued up for the autographs, so I also joined in to get it hahaha. They even got interviewed by the crew of Animax and they were so enthu to shout some slogans for them. Woot awesome! Hope to see more interesting and popular songs next year!

2nd May 2010, Sunday

After Jap lesson, I went to watch Iron Man 2 with JH, KW, NZ, Kim and Nana at Iluma. Hmm not much plot for this movie, no wonder so many people said Part 1 was better. The post-credits scene showed Thor's weapon, meaning another sequel is coming up. Marvel superheroes sure make good money.

We guys then had dinner at Empire State, before NZ went to meet his frenz at Yishun while the rest of us went to meet KW's frenz at Boat Quay, all for one purpose - to watch the Chelsea vs LiverBOO match. Initially KW wanted to go to the Chelsea pub Turnstyles but it was pretty full already, so we ended up at The Penny Black. Quite a cool place just good enough to watch a nice game of soccer. But it all turned out that LiverBOO was there to give the championship to Chelsea instead. Gerrard actually did a backpass but got intercepted by Drogba and poor Reina had no chance of saving it at all. Then Lampard finished it off to make it 2-0. Game over! Lol KW was enjoying the match while the LiverBOO fans can only hide their faces in shame.

Another Tiring Weekend, Sort Of

2010-04-25T23:37:00.003+08:00

Slept for about 4 hours, then woke up at 7am to prepare to help out Peiyi with another of those volunteer events together with Nic. Nic and I helped to take photos for the day. We gathered at Shan You at Katong as usual, and the bus took us to Buangkok, to a place called SILRA - Singapore Leprosy Relief Association. It's a home for those elderly who suffered from leprosy but have since recovered. There were about 40+ volunteers visiting these 45 elderly. Peiyi and the organizing committee organized games and a little food fair for them. Quite interesting to interact with them. I spoke to a few, some in Cantonese, some in English. They were very happy to see us. And one kept thanking us for visiting and organizing this event for them. I wonder what their unfilial kids are doing out there. Ended just before 12. Freaking tired liao cos only slept for 4 hours. But if you see the smiles on those elderly's faces, it's all worth it. Damn you 不孝子/女!

In the end we took the bus back and Nic and I rested ourselves and filled our stomachs with food from Spageddies at Bedok. Don't try the ramen or Jap food there! Sux! Order Western food rather than Jap food!

Nic having fun shooting around.

This auntie got ticket number 100! Got a Colgate as prize. Look at her radiant smile!

Some of the cute young volunteers singing their idols' songs to entertain the elderly.

La Viva

2010-04-20T23:42:00.005+08:00

16th April 2010, Friday

La Viva? Oh it's the name of a Spanish restaurant located at Chijmes. BK, HM and I met up for a little dinner outing and so we decided on one of the many restaurants at Chijmes. After walk around the whole place, we decided to patronize the very restaurant we see when we entered Chijmes. Quite a good ambience with Spanish decor and lighting. The waitresses were very polite too. The dishes were quite nice too. We ordered a few tapas and a paella, plus a jug of Sangria. Amounted to $125 for the final bill woot. Pretty ex for a little bit of food, but ok lah since it's Spanish food, can try try. But we all agreed Tapas Tree @ Clarke Quay would be a better place for Spanish food.

After that, we went to Raffles City's Mac for some ice-cream and more talking cok session before we went home.

Weekend Burnt

2010-04-11T20:43:00.003+08:00

Damn tiring weekend. Haven't been waking up at 4+am since dunno when. I joined Hock in his AD wedding photography journey from gatecrashing to the final church wedding.

Quite an interesting yet exhausting profession. Which is why Hockie has got tired of it and is looking for a job with a stable stream of income. And since DSLRs are so cheap and good nowadays, there has been more competition from other AD wedding photographers than ever before. Still, as a part-time job, it's really quite a lucrative business.

It was quite a budget wedding for the couple of A & D, and with minimum sabotage from the sisters. There were only 4 sisters and 2 brothers for this gatecrashing. And the couple went to Clarke Quay for a bit of photoshoot before having a church wedding at St. Theresa's Church at Kampong Bahru yesterday. The whole thing ended at 4pm. Phew almost 12 hours. But according to Hock, it was one of the least tiring of all those wedding photography he did.

So many animals and insects came to congratulate the couple.

Coincidentally one of the wedding couples' parents were saying they wanted to buy 1026 for lottery since the wedding day was 1026 on the Chinese calendar, whereas my unit number was 1026 too. And the 1st prize was 0162! Too bad nobody bought System Roll. Otherwise it's a whopping $2000 prize! Dammit! But luckily I thought of buying iBet and so got a meagre win of $83. Minus off the amount I spent to buy, I can't even treat my family to a nice meal at some restaurant. Hahaha... but small win is also a win right? Seems like my luck is changing for the better woohoo! Tio toto next? Wahahha!

ABU vs NBU again!

2010-04-04T19:34:00.004+08:00

Hehe just applied the anti-glare film set from Power Support to my iPhone! JH got it online with a price of $25 for 2. So we shared 1 each. Nice sia. No more oily surfaces!

Ok yesterday I met up with Nic to watch Clash of the Titans at PS. I even watched the 1981 version the night before, just to make sure I can make a good comparison between the old one and the new one. I would say there's plenty of action in the new one, cos of plenty of CG, but somehow the old one gives a better picture of the whole story. And they twisted the story for the new one. And Andromeda played by Judi Bowler in the 1981 version is much prettier hahaha! There were many mythical creatures in each version but some were only exclusive to each version's.

1981: Pegasus (only one white), Vulture, Satyr(Calibos), Cerebus(2-headed), Gorgon(Medusa), Scorpions, Kraken + a Metallic Owl

2010: Gargoyles(from Hades), Pegasus (one black and many whites), Djinn, Gorgon(Medusa), Scorpions, Kraken + the Metallic Owl made a cameo hmm...

After the movie, I went to HarbourFront Mac to study for the kanji test for the next day until KW and JH arrived. We then went to the foodcourt for dinner before heading to Peppermint Park.

Since we only had 4 tix, we did a kawarimi no jutsu to bring in the rest of us into the pub. Luckily the operation was a success. The whole pub was much more crowded than the previous ABU vs NBU match. Plenty of MU fans as expected, but plenty of Chelsea fans as well.

This time it's Manchester United vs Chelsea at Old Trafford. Can really see that MU ain't playing very well. Without Rooney they're like a bowman without a bow, a warrior without a sword. Kinda sucky. And the goals scored weren't very beautiful either. Very kelong referees. Let the winning goal scored by Drogba to be valid, even though he was offside. And there were supposedly two penalties. Sucky game lol but quite entertaining nonetheless. We were at Peppermint Park @ St. James once again for the ABU vs NBU match organized by the New Paper. Cool man. This time round I got the NBU T-shirt. Now I have both shirts hahaha. I even wore my pirated MU jersey bought for RM$10 in Malaysia lol, although I dun really support both sides.

We played the prediction game and none of us won anything. Suay sia. JH guessed the 1st half's score of 0-1 correctly but din managed to get picked for the Loreal hamper worth $300. When the match ended at 1-2, Chelsea fans were ecstatic. And they suddenly asked for Mr. LKW. KW was stunned for a while, then he went up to the MC and took pix with TNP people, Ivan Lim and some other lady. KW put a prediction of 0-9 and hence they decided to reward him for being such a Chelsea fanatic. They will give him $90 cash + 1 year free pass to IMH hahaha. Rox man 无缘无故 tio $90. Therefore after the match we went to Toastbox and he treated us to some teh and snacks haha. Nice soccer-watching session!

又是病猫一只

2010-03-28T21:45:00.010+08:00

短短的两个月内又生病了。真是可怜。只能怪天气象女人的脾气一样，一时热，一时冷，琢磨不定。今天既然旷了课。根本不想踏出家门半步。现在也咳得半条命。*cough cough*

21st March 2010, Sunday

After lessons, Jiahao and I went to have tea-break at MOS Burger. Then I went to find my parents at Suntec, where we then picked up Cindy at her school before going to the new Aston's Specialty outlet at Beach Road. It's only 2 months old, and there wasn't a huge queue outside like the one at Katong.

After the dinner I rushed down to Peppermint Park @ St. James, where the ABU vs NBU event was held. It is a live screening of the Manchester United vs Liverpool match. There was some pre-match chill-out thingy. We were to guess the time the first goal was scored, as well as the half-time and full-time scores. Winners get to win cash and hampers! Woot! For a mere $15, we get either an ABU/NBU T-shirt, a goodie bag, 3 drinks, and finger food. Pretty awesome deal. So there we were Aaron and gf, Charles, Eileen and me watching the match with 95 other fans. Rowdy fans they were. According to Charles, the guys who kept chanting songs and cheering throughout the whole match were from SMU gym club members. Pretty nice atmosphere to watch a soccer match though. The match ended with Man Utd 2 Liverpool 1. What a shame for Liverpool lol. I thought they could at least give a draw. Let's see what Chelsea can do in the upcoming clash of the season, where the championship could be decided on that match alone.

27th March 2010, Saturday

Went to check out the World Cosplay Summit Singapore held at West Coast Plaza with Hock. Haven been to WCP at all, so it was a pretty good chance to go there and also to be able to capture pictures of cosplayers at the same time. We had a bit of food at the dim sum restaurant before going around for a shooting spree.

There was even a live performance by the Singapore Wind Symphony. They played songs like Pokerface some more. They even had a medley of Final Fantasy songs. Cool stuff! I took the video too. May upload it soon.

So after that we went to Suntec for the Jobsdb Career Fair. Hock is looking for jobs so this should be good for him. But then when we reached the place, we found that it's not very useful at all. You can actually just log into their website and apply online instead of going down there. What a waste of time and space. We then went for dinner at the Suntec foodcourt. DON'T ever order the ramen from the Japanese food stall. $5 and SUX BIG TIME! I met Sin Shoo there who was having dinner too. Still looks the same. Then I ordered some Potato Salad from another Jap stall. With combo of soup and side dish is only $4.80, and much nicer! WTF!

And so after that we decided to walk around to Esplanade to catch what Singapore is doing during Earth Hour. By the time the clock becomes 8:30pm, most of the lights on the buildings in the CBD area were off. There was even a concert of sorts near the padang. Plenty of people had gathered there for some celebrations and fun, mostly burning candles when the lights all went off.

Saw a few celebrities like the two magicians, JC Sum and Ning, the magic babe, as well as Jamie Yeo. We then walked around taking some pix before retiring for the day.

日本語の映画週末！

2010-03-14T18:52:00.003+08:00

はい！昨日と今日も日本語の映画を見ました。

まず、夕べ私はニクさんと一緒にダウンタウン・イストに「カイジ」を見ました。それ映画はあまり良くなかったですが、ストーリは面白かったです。「カイジ」の男のキャストと「デスノーと」の男のキャストは同じです。（３/５星）
その反面、今日の「サマーウォーズ」はとてもすごいだと思います。素晴らしいコンピュータグラフィックスに使うし、ストーリもとても面白いし、絶対二度に見て欲しいんです。一緒に見たの友達はJH, KC, TCC, TY, WK, ZCでした。（４．５/５星）

Zhng My PC

2010-03-12T01:33:00.003+08:00

Wootz got new speakers finally! Was using the laoya cheapo $10 speakers when I bought together with my CPU. One side of the speakers hasn't been working since dunno when some more hahahha! Went with Aaron to the IT Show. Haven't been visiting such IT shows for a long time. Next thing to get is either a Wii or a PS3! And also to upgrade my 500D to a 550D, if possible. Wahaha pok liao!

The new speakers is a SonicGear Tatoo 320e 2.1 speaker system. Costs $39.90, and according to them, it's a very cheap price. Hmmm.... Oh well. My neighbours are gonna complain liao hahahha! Time to rock the house!

When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Gets Going

2010-03-10T21:36:00.002+08:00

One asshole to spoil the day, or maybe two. The Hongkee is fine, but a bit pesky. This one is still ok. The Ahneh... Walau see his twisted face and fker attitude, makes me wanna give him a headshot. But I dun wanna spoil my homepage with such rotten people though. Just that I wanna keep a record of the shitty things I encounter.

And now for the good stuff! I saw the girl again! Haven't seen her for a long time. And this time with a shorter hairdo, which makes her look younger and cuter! Woohoo. We were having a fire drill and there she was standing not too far away from me. When will I have the chance to know her? Maybe she's unavailable anymore... But let's keep our hopes high!

And then I heard the voice of a sweet lady at the other end of the line. Brightens up a hazy, gloomy and shitty day. Why is it all the girls makes my day whereas the guys are the fkers? Should I be a bigger fker than? Wahaha! But then that's just not me. Just don't try to step over my head you morons!

Ok complain finished. It's mid-week Wednesday! I haven't looked forward to the weekend for a long time. This time I really hope weekend comes faster.

Let's March into March!

2010-03-07T23:19:00.004+08:00

It's already 7th of March loh! Lazy to update recently. Hahaha. Jap lessons getting more demanding sia. Information overload! 頑張ろう！

6th March 2010, Saturday

Was slacking at home and trying to stay away from the freaking hot weather. But suddenly Ah Hock jioed me to take pix with him. So we met at city area and then decided to go to Fort Canning for some shooting spree. Tried his powderful lens for a while. Damn heavy sia, but the bokeh effects were awesome. We then shot around Clarke Quay too. Wanted to watch movies but all good seats were sold out, so we had dinner and went home. Duh... need to book tix earlier next time lol.
28th February 2010, Sunday

Met up with GIP people. This time there were Kim, Nana, Alan, HS, NZ, ET, WY, KW and me. We went to try the which is quite far off from the rest of the steamboat restaurants. Quite good interiors, and special grilling on paper, as well as the normal steamboat. It's $17.80 flat. Quite good. The food variety is quite standard. Not too bad. I wouldn't wanna squeeze with the crowd at the Liang Seah street side. Not too much of a gathering, more like a steamboat dinner that's all. Nvm we'll have more meet-ups soon.