Lotsa Events

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.

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iMac-ed!

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!

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It's Voting Day!

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!

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My First Ever Rally & Labour Day in BNS

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...

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Start of Week 2!

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.

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T-1 Gogogo!

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.

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Counting Down To Last Day

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

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