Trip to Legoland Malaysia!!!

Trip to Legoland Malaysia has finally been published. See here.

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Chinese New Year Steamboat Dinner At My House

It's steamboat again! This time at my house. And loads of meat, as well as veggies. Cindy's boyfriend, Lucas, came over for the dinner as well. Dear came over of course. Popo was staying at our home for the period and hence it was quite a big family dinner with a total of 7 people. Ate like a pig and ended up hardly able to move lol. Happy New Year everyone! Huat ah!!!

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Chinese New Year Steamboat and Yusheng At Dear House

It's CNY steamboat at Dear's house with her family again. It's all veggies and mushrooms etc. Very healthy meal lol. And first time I had vegetarian Yusheng as well. Everything veggies. A totally different experience from the normal Yusheng with raw fish. Huat ah!!!

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Happy Chinese New Year!

Before you know it, time passes by in the blink of an eye. It's already 初三 of the Lunar New Year of the Snake. It's pretty shiok to have holidays for four days in a row. It's been a very very wet Chinese New Year. Almost everyday it's been raining. And it's not just slight drizzle, but 倾盆大雨. Best thing to do is stay home and sleep. Of course we can't sleep the whole day. Plenty of nice movies shown on TV.

On 除夕 I went over to Dear's place and we watched Ah Boys To Men again lol. Then we had steamboat lunch with Dear's family too. First time tried vegetarian steamboat. No meat but still ok lol. Healthier also. Of course not as tasty but still something interesting to try out. Evening time I went home to grab car to fetch Dear and family down to Golden Mile for them to take their coach to KL. Bye Dear =(...

On 初一, it's a stay home day. Totally rained the whole day. No choice but to play games and watch TV lol. Was attempting to complete the game that cousin Eric introduced. More on this later.

On 初二, we had our CNY lunch gathering at Tung Lok Signatures at VivoCity. Our families are getting bigger and bigger. Holy shit just look at the number of people in the picture.

Our newest member in the family is Yumi Ko, the daughter of Junfei and Xinru. What a unique name eh? Can be mistaken for a Japanese lol.

On 初三, it's more of playing games the whole day. Continuing from the top of the post... If you've played Dungeon Master back in the 90s, this game will make you feel like you're playing the sequel or something. This game called Legend of Grimrock looks and plays exactly like DM. The only difference is better graphics and placing of items on the floor is more flexible whereas in DM it's only at an exact location within the tile. Come to think of it, I've never completed DM, but I actually did it today lol, with the help of walkthroughs though LOL. I just finished the ending sequence right at 12 midnight just now. Finally can wash my hands off this game. Haven't been playing such scary games for a long time. Scary cos you never know when the creature will jump out of the corner and just be hiding at a corner while you walk into it.

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JCS Gets A Facelift!

The place where I've studied for 1.5 years. And also been there several times to meet up with Dear after her lessons. It gets a complete makeover! From the super rundown place to this brand new, freshly-done and more professional image! Too bad I don't have any pictures of the old place. Otherwise it's really a Heaven versus Earth kinda comparison. Makes me feel like studying there again hehehe.

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Welcome to 2013!

Haven't been spending so much time fiddling around with PhotoShop and Blogger. Just managed to change to a new skin for my blog, and before that, edited some pictures to end off 2012. Here it is. It's a collage of 16 different pictures taken at different times in 2012. Just suddenly thought of this idea. It's uploaded to FB as well.

Happy 2013!

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The End Is Also The Beginning

And what do you know? Before you know it, in the blink of an eye, it's the end of 2012. But that also signifies the beginning of a new year, 2013! It's amazing how things have changed within a span of a year. How all the great stories happened throughout this eventful year. From the Euro, to the US Presidential Elections, to Hurricane Sandy, to more localized news like all the sex scandals and stuff. Of course not forgetting the most influential YouTube video of all time which surpassed 1 billion views not too long ago, as well as the supposed end of the world on 21 Nov 2012. All these events have affected every single human on Earth in one way or another.

So how the year been for everyone? For myself, it sure is another eventful year. I can remember that I had 3 jobs last year, and this year, quite an improvement - down to 2. LOL... Nothing much eventful besides a change of job and phone - iPhone 4 to Samsung Galaxy S3. Well... I wasn't given a choice, since my iPhone 4 gave up on me and decided to stop displaying anything on its screen. It could still work perfectly fine - picking up calls, even playing songs etc, as long as I know where to tap, without any display on the screen. Took almost two months for me to retrieve my iPhone 4 from this handphone repair shop at Sim Lim Square. This guy kept procrastinating and assured that the next few days he will be able to repair my phone, but according to my memory, it took me up to 8 to 10 calls and he still couldn't deliver. Hence enough is enough, and I collected my phone by hook or by crook two days ago. It's still unusable, but at least I know I won't let him hold onto my phone over the new year. What a bad experience. The least he could do is tell me he can't do it, and not to hold onto my phone for so long.

Change is certainly not a bad thing. At least that's what I realized after I got my Samsung Galaxy S3. Even after my i4 died, I was reluctant to change to a new phone, thinking that it could be repaired. Hence it could be partly my fault that I allowed the repair guy to keep procrastinating. I didn't want to change to a new phone, specifically an Android phone. Neither did I want to get the iPhone 5, since it isn't really much different from an i4. Even till the day when I was queuing up at the Singtel shop at VivoCity, I was still undecided between the two. I didn't really researched much on the S3, nor even wanted to learn much about Android phones, as I was an Apple "fan" ever since I got my i3. I even waited almost two years to get my hands on the i3 and didn't want to get a new phone over my previous phone, the Sony Ericsson K700i. Holy cow, it's still in my drawer! (Just took it out and couldn't find it's model, so had to google it.)

I never really paid any attention to any Android phones. So I never knew how good or bad they were. Ever since I got my hands on the S3, I also wasn't very enthusiastic about using it. It's my Dear who was happily playing around with it lol. What stopped me from getting the S3 was also because I couldn't use all the apps that I was using on the i4, like the Japanese apps, some games, etc. Worse was the S3 doesn't even have any default Japanese input option. That really put me off. Luckily Dear found out that installing certain apps could produce the same effect of having the Japanese input on the iPhones, and even predictive text. So in no time, I was pretty used to using it already. In fact, I honestly think that the S3 is really much more useful and has more functionality than the Apple phones. Best of all, all you have to do to transfer any media onto it is just like any thumbdrive or harddisk, just plug and play. iTunes is really a headache and waste of time.

What has this post become an iPhone vs Samsung phone article? LOL

This IS the last post for the year 2012. 2013 will be an even better year definitely. 明年会更好!

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