Chronicles of Cheong

Sundown Marathon

2009-06-04T01:30:00.004+08:00

It's been AGES since i last blogged. That's because I was in Japan promoting my latest music album. And before that I was in South Africa as a mercenary fighting the rebels. Also I can breathe underwater.

Anyway yah I do have some interesting stuff (the word 'interesting' is so subjective)to blog about, but always too lazy. Really im a ProcrasTinor, with the Captial P. The T is capital too cos of typo and I lazy to change it. Hmm... OK let's start with what I did last Saturday

Aloysius was like asking for volunteers for a night marathon thingy. Zuwei and GhimMeng had already volunteered and Aloy said it was for charity and since I am very benevolent and kind, I went along as well.

Didnt realise until I reached Changi V that it was the Sundown Marathon. Quite big event leh. I was thinking it would be a lame NTU NUS run or something. OK so our job was to be the 'special needs' pit stop for 84km runners. Basically they deposit their bags with us, and after the first 42km they will arrive at our pitstop, take their bags and change attire/eat/rest before going on to the next 42km.

So when it was bag depositing time, there were about 7 of us to service all 600 runners. Stress leh! where got volunteer work so stress one. i was feverishly tagging stickers on to bags cos my queue was getting longer and longer. OK so this was just the pre-race. After the race started, it was quite peaceful, until the first few runners came in!

OK imagine you are a runner. you have just ran 42km. You are tired, sore, thirsty, hungry, sweaty and your bowels are not being very friendly. So our team must get the bag ready the MOMENT they reach the pitstop! So each person is roughly incharge of a hundred bags. Den when the runners are spotted, someone will YELL the runner's tag number, then we will HUNT for the bag! Fast and Furious!

OK so there was this runner, this tall ang moh guy. He came to my counter and i passed him his bag. So i was bending down to get something when right in front of me he WHIPPED off his shorts to change! I saw EVERYTHING! I stunned 0.5 secs before i GASPED. Really shocked can! But actually its quite big and shaved. I feel inferior. :(

The run was quite cool. It's like all sort of people ran. Young skinny girls, old aunties, young fit guys, older flabby guys. All shapes and sizes. But they can all RUN! Like energizer. Then there were quite alot that were from out of town. They flew in on the day itself from Malaysia/Hongkong and run, then change and fly back.

OK topic has become boring. Change topic. Eh I next week reservist leh. So I tried on my old uniform. TIGHT FIT! Freaking hell I become so fat like pig. Fat fat fat! *points to random part of my body. I need to run!

Sundown AHM BAH SAH DOOR leh

Why my gym is not helping

2008-11-30T23:25:00.007+08:00

I am always wondering why the gyming is not helping me slim down. So I am blogging about what I ate during the week. And suddenly it all makes sense!

Went out with Aloy the turtle, GM the spongebob, Zuwei the Derek and YongQuan the muscleman to eat steak! We went to this small place called Fine Cuts at Central Mall. The place has a display case full of meat that reminds me of an NTUC fairprice meat dept. Gm was very nicely in a good mood to treat me so I ordered the more expensive steak. Lol! Thanks GM!

And zis is ze lovely steak of moi. I was eating it and made a comment about how I love steak medium done and bloody and one of the chefs overheard me and he was like "Oh yes! If you want to enjoy it you must have it medium done. If well-done you wont get the full taste" or something like that. And I was like, dude, you don't have to tell me that! After all I am a food connoissieur! HOHOHOHO! *splurts steaky blood at random passerby.

After that we went wandering around. Gm had an event to cover later in the evening, so we were playing with his cameras. His camera bag is like damn heavy la. I carry awhile already started sweating abit, inside an air-conned mall. But the pictures very nice very clear. Observe.

Singapore's next top model. And what's that in my hand? It's ORANGE FLAVORED POCKY! Rare item obtained. And eaten.

And we did a very chou thing.

In order to take this above picture...

We stood there for 5 mins grinning madly into the red shiny ball. Not very glam.

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I always get confused between TCC and Coffee Club. But, I would say that I prefer Coffee Club. Went to CC with Joelly to eat dinner after gym.

The dory fish above was really very nice. I like food cooked with herbs and spices instead of ready-made sauce. The lychee dessert was nice, but it wasnt cake. It was TART! So I didnt enjoy it all that much. Very depressing.

And while we were eating, we saw some gym trainers walking past. Scared! My worst nightmare is while eating cake, Serena Tong will run up to me and scream "SLLLLOOOWWWWLLLY! AND SINGLES!" then I would be forced to do leg lunges until my legs really cramping and then Thunder Thighs would pop up, jumping and clapping vigorously and his sweat will PIAK on my face. And then and then Pfieffer will say I CHEATED and make me flex more when already I am cramping hard everywhere and my breathing is as calm as a woman giving birth. And Rodney, Julian, Christine, Regina, Edwin and the short girl with the fat thighs would stand around me, flexing and laughing at me. :(

And also I'm very concerned about taxis! Between 11.20pm and 11.30pm, for some mystical reason, all taxis DISAPPEAR into another dimension! I shall call it the Waiting-For-Surcharge-To-Start Dimension!

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Met Nasir, James and ChingSi at Suntec to eat Kenny Rogers to celebrate James' 21st Bday. James finished a half chicken meal all by himself! I'm so proud of him. My years at SP band have not been a waste. Lol. Anyway we had dessert after that at Coffee Bean. I really really love Coffee Bean cakes. They are really the best around that is affordable yet tasty.

You see the btm right one? It's actually marshmellow with the top burnt abit so that it caramelised and has that nice wavy effect. Very nice!

Happy 21st James!

OH! And I just remembered one thing. At Kenny Rogers, Nasir and James ordered canned drinks for $2.80 while I ordered Snapple for $3. In all practical sense, I zhuan dao right? Cos for 20 cents more I bought an item that is worth much more then theirs. So I laugh at them. Den before leaving I nicely capped my Snapple which was 1/3 full so that I can bring it along with me. Halfway shopping, I gasped out SHIT! which shocked Nasir mildly. I forgot to bring my Snapple... James laughed back at me saying their canned drinks now more worth it. :(

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Went out with my colleagues for dinner at Carousel at Royal Plaza on Scotts. It costs $55 per head but we had vouchers so it amounted to abt $30 each. But it was really really worth it! The seafood was really good - the oysters were shucked in front of you. I had pasta with Pesto sauce (it's basil) and it's really good. I like to try new tastes so I tried to taste abit of everything there. I tried Shepard's pie, which is actually fried flour I think. Taste abit like you tiao but not as nice. I tried blue cheese, which was slightly smelly and not to my taste. It's actually fermented cheese, hence the smell. Oh and the dessert was really really good. One of my (bad) habits is to take all the toppings and garnishes on cakes to eat also. Meaning all the swirly chocolate, strawberries and macaroons. I dont understand what's so great abt macaroons. They taste just like flavored sugar, but cost about $1.50 per piece. *shrugs. Free so I eat. lol.

My 2.0 megapix handphone camera is not doing justice to the food. GM I need u to pop up suddenly when I am eating good food!

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Fine I geddit! Less food more gym.

Terry Pratchett

2008-11-23T03:13:00.004+08:00

I'm going to bore all of you with one of my recurring topics again! Today's topic is on books! Specifically 'Nation' written by Terry Pratchett.

I was walking around Kinokuniya and I had already picked up two books. As I was going towards the counter, I chanced upon 'Nation' stacked near the entrance. I immediately picked it up and returned the two other books. Those can wait. My favoritest author comes first.

I seriously love love love Terry Pratchett. His books are like an addiction. People who know me well knows I "get bored easily". But I can read his books over and over again. Even for Harry Potter I only read once.

Anyway, after 5 hours of intense reading, I've finished 'Nation' and I feel so satisfied. For a 60 year old man, who has Alzheimer's disease, he just wrote a book that was just so spell-binding, so thought-provoking, so wonderful that I could not put it down. It had humor, grief, loss, strength, belief, faith, joy, hope and all other things a good book shld have. Can I say he is the best author EVER? Cos he IS! AAAAH *continues with random gushing and offers of reverence.

Reasons why I love his books: His discworld series is the funniest, wittiest fantasy books I've read so far. The only series that actually makes me laugh out loud. And his endings are VERY satisfactory, if not perfect. K.A Applegate can try to learn from him sometime and stop killing her characters unnecessarily. And thirdly, his way of thinking is so warped and unique that its so refreshing.

I feel so happy after a good book.

OK sorry end of gushing. In other recent news I passed my Basic Theory. I seriously think that's as far as I can go, but I'll just give a try for my final theory first anyway.

Spent (and WASTED) $5 to buy ticket to enter the Anime Festival Asia 2008 at Suntec Convention. It was so pathtic. The only thing of interest I saw was costumed tamagotchi (They are called mamochi and papachi or something. You may call me Cheongchi) Three things that were missing that could have made it awesome instead of 'lukewarm' as Derrick puts it. 1. Needs more Freebies. 2. Needs more cosplayers. 3. Needs even more freebies. Did I mention that it was a WASTED $5?

I need to learn to shake my butt properly. And improve on chest pumping action. I think I seriously look like a dancing mad cow during Body Jam. Derrick looks like bellsprout though. Lol!

My cat bit me again. Got blood :(

I wasn't even bothering him...much...

Personality Test

2008-11-15T23:56:00.010+08:00

I have tried many personality tests and generally they are quite lame. Most of the personality 'traits' are very general and will apply to almost everyone. However my cousin intro-ed this one at www.ipersonic.com which I felt was really good, not like those lame friendster types. So I recommend everybody try it. It even shows you compatibility with a friend or lover at the end. Anyway I did mine and I'm a SPONTANENOUS IDEALIST. Sounds good! Anyway I'll just go through and add in what I feel is quite accurate. Feel free to disagree with me. I would love to know why. And then break friendship with you.

Spontaneous Idealists are creative, lively and open-minded persons. They are humorous and dispose of a contagious zest for life.

I have been told that I'm creative, although I dont particularly think so =/ I would like to think that I'm humourous and open-minded :)

Their enthusiasm and sparkling energy inspires others and sweeps them along. They enjoy being together with other people and often have an uncanny intuition for their motivations and potential. Spontaneous Idealists are masters of communication and very amusing and gifted entertainers. Fun and variety are guaranteed when they are around. However, they are sometimes somewhat too impulsive in dealing with others and can hurt people without really meaning to do so, due to their direct and sometimes critical nature.

The last sentense is true. To my friends, sorry if I've hurt u before. It's really an accident. Unless you made me unhappy about something, then sometimes I do it on purpose. *shifty eyes*

This personality type is a keen and alert observer; they miss nothing which is going on around them. In extreme cases, they tend to be oversensitive and exaggeratedly alert and are inwardly always ready to jump. Life for them is an exciting drama full of emotionality. However, they quickly become bored when things repeat themselves and too much detailed work and care is required.

Yes yes true! Very easily bored. It's a curse leh. Got situations where I'm doing something with someone, then I get bored already after maybe 5 mins. But must continue cos dont want to leave the other person alone. Den just feels sian. :(
Somemore since I'm the one so easily bored, this means it is myself making me sian and not the other party. Argh!

Their creativity, their imaginativeness and their originality become most noticeable when developing new projects and ideas - they then leave the meticulous implementation of the whole to others.

True. Shows that I'm just lazy. I'm trying to change! But not right now. Tired.

On the whole, Spontaneous Idealists attach great value to their inner and outward independence and do not like accepting a subordinate role. They therefore have problems with hierarchies and authorities.

If you have a Spontaneous Idealist as your friend, you will never be bored; with them, you can enjoy life to the full and celebrate the best parties. At the same time, they are warm, sensitive, attentive and always willing to help.

I hope you guys feel that I'm at least one of the above.

If Spontaneous Idealists have just fallen in love, the sky is full of violins and their new partners are showered with attention and affection. This type then bubbles over with charm, tenderness and imagination. But, unfortunately, it soon becomes boring for them once the novelty has worn off. Boring everyday life in a partnership is not for them so that many Spontaneous Idealists slip from one affair into another. However, should the partner manage to keep their curiosity alive and not let routine and familiarity gain the upper hand, Spontaneous Idealists can be inspiring and loving partners.

Hint to have an interesting relationship: Invest in cosplay.

Kinky.

How do u describe your friends?

2008-11-01T17:31:00.006+08:00

I thought of this little game for myself cos i'm bored. I dont know if there is like those email things that are similar but i really thought this one up myself! OK erm... So basically you take a friend/ppl you know and use one simple sentense to fully describe him as how you think or feel of him. Can be a motion he always does, how she smells, or how they look. OK I shall start.

Gabriel has birdnest hair
Gwendolin is chou by default
Meikuan is sporty and daring
Jasmine is Jasmine
Derrick is streetwise
Wendy is creative and spends too much money on weird stuff
Jiehui spills food alot
Siaheng needs to rest
Chianghui is Ms TaiTaiTai (a Taitai from Taiwan)
Dennis is streetwise too!
Kelvin is strong
Joni is in a relationship
Zhipeng is kind
Juncen has a sharp chin
Richard was in a car accident
Edmund is seriously delusional
Nasir has walked through the fire
James slaps ppl's thigh
Chingsi is dark-skinned
Zhenyang is fatter den me
Jiaming has a nose that rivals Jackie Chan
Weijie is slimmer den me :(
Kwanghong has a big didi (He told me so)
Chinsiang is Sunshine boy with mole
Kenneth ate my mee soto with my used tissue inside
Yongxuan is dickhead snow white
Youchang is skinny
Baorong farts alot
Yuanfeng bets, smokes, drinks and drives recklesssly. Lol
Tuckmun is kaopei
Aloysius is a ninja turtle
Melvin is mo peng wong
David is a Vietnamese farmer
Ryan is just a cute little boy
Hongyi is really funny looking
Serena Tong feels pumped up
Meiling is SO annoying
Hockrong has a black book
Weijian is smelly
Joelly has square head.
Rebecca stole people's handphone and she is reBLACKa
Shujun's handphone was stolen and was found in toilet with shit smell LOL
Yaowen sweats from his butt
Yiting lives near Yaowen
ShingYee had to do pumping cos of me
Yenni is assetful
GhimMeng is Spongebob Jinming
Zuwei has a Taiwanese GF
LiJwee is a vegetarian Davinci
Charles is my New Zealander mistress
Bryan Kang is really hairy
Wanyang is injured but can run marathon. Also useless.
Yongjui is sometimes just useless. Lol
Famin HEEHEEHEE

OK something like that.

*If i forgot to add you, u are allowed to beat me up. Yay!

Fitness

2008-10-20T22:15:00.004+08:00

Heyall! Womanizer womanizer! I have a song stuck my head and it's driving me crazy! Oh woman womanizer oh! And I have a confession to make. Womanizer.

I love Britney!

I feel so guilty. When she was popular, I used to say Christina was so much better than her. Then when she was down and fat, I made fun of her. But now she's BACK! And SEXY! Womanizer!

Go watch her Womanizer MTV on youtube and you'll see what i mean. It's like, she's trying to tell me, Hey fatass! Lookit me! I'm sexy again and you're still *squints at my belly* fatty!

Thus, I have joined Fitness First.

I started about last week. Me and Derrick went into the Millenia Walk outlet. For some reason, all the big gyms in Singapore dont display their prices. Cos the price is based on what the consultants quote. Which basically means you pay by how well u haggle. Like market lor! So this pinoy consultant danced the money chacha with us first. He started with the basic steps. Here he SAMBA-ed $400 off the introduction free, then he MAMBO-ed another $50 off the monthly premiums. But it was still quite steep so Derrick and I gave those smelly faces until I think he scared, he go find this female consultant whom I think needs the gym more than me. Wah the girl, she was a master flamenco dancer lor. $5 also she dont wan cut for us. But in the end we got an added extra week at the gym.

Although the price is quite steep, Fitness First really got some very nice things going on. They provide tshirt and shorts for working out, meaning you dont have to bring your own. Their toilets got sauna and soap/shampoo, hairdryer, Good Looks hairspray, cotton buds(?) and other stuff which I havent really explored with yet. They have a drink counter (soft drinks and hot beverages) and free DVD rental. But what I really like is their classes.

The first class i went to was Hot Flow Yoga. Basically they just warm up the room to a sweating 37 degree heated room, and we do yoga in there. SWEAT man! There were some poses like horse sitting stance which really made my knees tremble. But all the other women and one man were like, doing it without much trouble. Means I really need to get in shape le.

The next day, I had my orientation with a physical trainer. He basically asked me what I wanted and then intro-ed me to what i should do. He's not bad, gave alot of information as i worked out. He led me to the arm muscle machines. First he put 15kg, ok do 20 reps (he had to explain to me a while that there are reps in 1 set, den must do 3 sets of reps etc. I keep getting confused by reps and sets. Wait, actually did i get that wrong again?)

Anyway while I was doing my reps (sets?), he increased the weights after every set (rep?) Then until like 20kg, my arms couldnt take it (what? i told u i long time never work out what) so I told him "Wah I think I abit cannot le". So he smiled, said ok, den add 5kg more! Scream. But he helped me out la. He just wanted me to do the initial push, den he will guide me to close my arms, den do again. Den when he helped me stretch my arms, I think almost broke lor! Wow... but after that, my arms felt quite free.

Last Saturday, Wendy joined me and Derrick at gym. First we started with BodyPump, which was weights training. My arm was still so sore by the orientation that i had abit of trouble lifting, but it was all good. SWEAT! And after that was Body Jam, which I enjoyed. It started with an intro to all the steps. Den the full workout which consisted of dance steps with everything from Bollywood to Aussie House to Samba. And I tell u, whoever watch me do Jam will die laughing. People spin right, I spin left. But at least I can KICK! Derrick had trouble doing that which I swear I didnt laugh at.

OK that's all for now. Once I try the other classes, will update more.

**Oh yea, who wants free day entry to the gym can ask me. First come first serve

Working Life

2008-10-17T22:35:00.005+08:00

OK so after army, i slacked for a while. Finding job, finding myself. Back then, i could sleep at 6am, wake up at 4pm. Then i got my first job after army, a temp job stint at Discovery Asia. Haha made some friends there, the work wasnt tough, even met Desmond Koh and the drummer from MiLuBing during lunch lor. Actually not really a big fan of them. But Desmond offered to move to another table so my group could sit together. So i think he's nice.

Those two at the upper left

After a month of that, i found my first full time (contract) job. Haha and today marks my 1 month anniversary working there! WHOO! This is really a milestone because i never work more than one month at any place before.

I'm now working at the red lion company, Great Eastern! This is like my 3rd time in an insurance related industry. *sees all my friends start avoiding me* Dont worry la guys! I'm not an agent! I just work at the head office.

My table on the first day

My boss is really nice. She squeezed me in to attend the GE Dinner & Dance just two weeks after I came in. It was their 100th Anniversary too. Just nice. Anyway the theme was black and gold.

OK i shall give special mention to Derrick. I had a black shirt, but nothing gold. So i got him to go down with me to Bugis to look for a gold tie. Got alot of ties at BHG, and we were like laughing cos some of them looked like those gold tableclothes at Chinese dinners. Like can wipe my mouth with my tie after eating those kind. Then I took a long while to decide which tie to buy. Den took even longer to decide whether to buy at all. After milleniums, i finally bought one from G2000. Expensive sia! But i really liked it. Anyway somemore pics from DnD

These people are my colleagues. The second picture is my regular lunch khakis. The lady standing beside me is my boss.

Last week, had a section outing to Swensons. The dept does this about 4 times a year, to celebrate birthdays. So this occassion it was to celebrate the Aug, Sept and Oct babies. But my boss' boss ask me to take picture with the bday ppl cos i was the newbie. -_-" we had 20 sundaes for $98. Cheap right? Cos we had 10 1 for 1 vouchers. And i think it was on the company so free. Yay.

Last Wed was Balloon appreciation day. So people were buying balloons for friends or colleagues who had worked hard for the year. So pretty to see. I only got 2 balloons . :( Haha. One for each hand

That's my table btw. Can see those things on my computer? I put small figurines of cake there. Me heart cakes

And today was Red Tshirt day. It's all part of our service appreciation week. Here's my client acquisition division taking a pic with watermelon. Dont ask me why got watermelon cos i really dunno either haha.

Ok so that's what i've been doing for last month. Haha i got loads more to rant about but lazy liao so save for next time. Some topics that been on my mind: Fitness First, Save the last dance for me and Operation CleanUp Version too-many-to-count

Indecisive

2008-09-20T02:34:00.003+08:00

So people who know me well, as well as those in the Big Group, will know that one of our strongest and more adorable traits is our indecisiveness. A normal 30min shopping for shoes can easily turn into a 2 hour debate on whether i want the black shoes with red trimmings, or the black shoes with white trimmings. Things get worser with clothes and WORST with food. The following is a conversation between Derrick, Siaheng and me at Taka basement.

Derrick: Wan eat Central? The horfun is good.
Me: Huh... dun feel like leh. Feel like Japanese
Derrick: Oh how about this omu rice. I dont mind that
Me: Huh...
Derrick: OK lor u decide
Me: The yong tau foo looks not bad leh
Me: *thinks
Me: *thinks (5 mins liao)
Siaheng: *hovering around*
Derrick: So how?
Me: Eh... eat Central lor.

And so on and so forth. So i was reading this old copy of Reader's digest, and there was this article on 10 ways to make better decisions! OK so this is definitely aimed at me. I'll type down a few of my favorite ways. Indecisive people! Read this! Or dont. Or just read abit. Or maybe later. See how lor.

1. Don't fear the consequences - *this means dont think too much*

So this is for people who try to predict the future. So instead of making a decision, and later imagining how the outcome might make u feel, try to find someone else who has made the same choice and see how they feel. I am really guilty of thinking too much.

2. Go with your gut - *good when deciding what to eat*

3. Dont cry over spilt milk

So you had decided something and later regretted it. Well... TOO BAD! It's over and done. Try to correct it, or dont. Move on. This This is my favorite

4. Limit your options

It's easier to choose from 5 choices than 30. Trust me, eliminating options is very useful.

5. Have someone else choose

Although we believe we'll be happier with our own decisions, sometimes it may still leave u unhappy. So reliquish control. And also we can blame the person who made the decision if all goes wrong. Lol.

After NS, I thought that my path was clear. With a dip in Chem Eng, just try for a job at Jurong Island or a lab job. It took me 2 months to realise that this was not what I wanted. Another 1 month to have the courage to make a decision. (while using some of the ways stated above) So... I guess i'm more or less satisfied with what i have decided.

A few friends, who are not connected to each other, have actually questioned what i wanted to do in life. Why do this? Why dont go into the creative line? Why not study IT/Banking/teaching? I had taken every suggestion/advice/critism in my mind, thought about it, turned it over, eliminated, delibrated again and striked it off. If i feel/think it's not for me, then move on. And if i've made a bad or wrong decision, i wont cry over spilt milk.

And i have another issue. I keep getting LOST! Singapore is small enough liao, but i can lose my way in Raffles Place and find myself at Chinatown. I can't find Far East plaza without signages or phoning a friend. Even with a printed detailed map in hand, i still have to use a taxi so that I wont be late, even when i arrived at the nearest MRT 30mins early. Pek chek u know!

We dress in clothes that you buy for work and drive to work, in order to get to the job you need, to pay for the clothes and car and the house you leave vacant all day so that you can afford to live in it.

Wasabi-Tei

2008-09-13T02:54:00.003+08:00

Gwen, Meikuan, Derrick and I met at Far East to eat at a Japanese place called Wasabi-Tei which Gwen recommended. So at 5pm, Gwen made us go upstairs to this tiny Japanese restaurant that opens only at 5.30pm. I was like, its still EARLY! Since there were no people there, why bother queueing? So we walked away while Gwen still tried persuading us to stay. At 5.10pm, Gwen INSISTED we go to queue liao, and we acceeded her request. When we reached there, there was a couple in front of us already. So we queued lor.

We waited until 5.40pm before the place opened. And by then there was quite a LONG queue behind. When the door opened, I was surprised to see the deco was like those small Japanese shops in Japan that serves sushi. It looks very authentic except for those signs in English showing the cheap offers (made using microsoft word and clipart. I hate to see clipart cos I think it looks ugly and makes any advertisement it is used for look amateurish)

There was a Chinese couple running the place. The main eating room consisted of a U-shaped table, which served 12 people at a time. That means only the first 12 people in the queue can come in eat, while the rest waited outside. And the food takes about an hour to serve and eat finish, meaning the people outside really waited quite long. And the thing is, they really didnt give up.

So the woman manns the eating area, serving and cleaning. Den the cook was a man who I later felt was loud and slightly rude. Although there was no service charge there, I found it quite amusing that we had to clean the table ourselves when Derrick spilt a little of his drink. The woman was RIGHT infront of us and she wetted her rag at the sink, and she proceeded to wipe the counter in front of us but not the spill. Zzz... And whenever they serve the food, it was really with a bang, like slightly throwing the food down.

HOWEVER, when I saw the salmon, codfish and other food they served, it was like a huge chunk of meat. It was seriously the biggest chunk of salmon I had ever seen in a restaurant. And the codfish I tried (Derrick's) was really quite delicious. I had beef rice and it was alright. The miso-flavoured raw tuna that I ordered was not bad though. The good thing was the way the food was cooked and prepared was mostly visible to everyone. The guy cut the raw fish in front of us. He cut a lot of slices of different fishes like salmon and mackarel, and he remembered which goes to which customer.

So while the service could be better, the food was quite good. And that's the main draw for me. Haha. YUMMY FOOD!!! Next time i wanna have the salmon.

This actually reminds me of a DWD idea. We wanted to set up a cafe called Meanies. Where the service was horrible while the food was excellent. Then people would come just to experience good food and be bullied by the waitors. However, maybe slightly forunately, that idea didnt make it. Lol.

On another note, while we were inside, there was this woman outside who kept her face really close to the glass door looking in, so I told Derrick that she looks very funny like that. Den he said she is like the dinosaur in Jurassic park, her face close to the glass, breathing mist onto it. Then I said I will stand in front of her acting scared to turn around and see the 'dinosaur'. And after she got seats to come in (which was right beside me) She used sign langauge to communicate with her friend. OMG we just made fun of deaf people! I am... omg the karma! But after getting home I thought to myself, with or without her disability, she is a human being just like all of us, with emotions and feelings. So it is only fair to treat her as an equal and make fun of her like anybody else. Besides we only made fun of her pressing her face against the glass what... Bleh.

But I still feel the karma coming...

Deviant Art

2008-09-02T21:40:00.007+08:00

I love the deviantart website. It astounds me how so many of these non-professionals can draw and colour so well, when all i can draw are square-faced chibis.

I was going through my favorites lists (which numbers 200+ before i did a cleanup) and just wanted to share with you some of my favorite deviantarts. Click on what u like

Disney (When u've had too much alcohol, u get DISNEY! IM SO WASTED IM SO WASTED!)

DavidKawena The Disney Princesses are soooo last season. SEXY disney men!
Disney-Funker Great colour marker art
Rinoatilmitt Same person as Disney-funker, but nicer art!
Bri-chan She loves the mad hatter
lolita-art She likes bunnies. I like bunnies
mimi-na Disney pinups
Uppun A little pervy

Kingdom Hearts (Simple and Clean)

imagec0rrupt3d Cute KH comics

Harry Potter (cos i live in a cupboard under the stairs)

Auroreblackcat I like her chibi HP
makani My fav HP artist. She likes the bad guys
Sherant
Ktshy For Hp fans, her comics are a MUST

Alice in Wonderland (I do NOT have a fetish)
Bakanekonei Amazing graphic novel cover art

Monsters (weird and cute and disgusting)

Imaginism I'm using 'Bath Time' as my wallpaper
Beloved-creature
Graysapphire monsters monsters~~
irving-zero Sexy Dota girls!
Njoo
noctornal-devil Acid Boy!
pyromaniac
Vegasmike

Fantasy (Free yourself from the world)

Janaschi Pretty looking ppl
Artgerm Lots of pretty robot girls
kunkka More sexy girls. BTW he made the current dota loading screen
Varges Gods and Myth

Cosplay (NOT a fetish!)

Behindinfinity Ouran High Sch Cosplay!

Cute (No other way to describe)

QueenofDorks Everybody loves Chibi

There's many more but I'm too lazy to share those. ^..^

Books and Kidneys

2008-08-28T01:39:00.004+08:00

Recently there's been a case of illegal organ trading. A certain Mr Tang Wee Sung, whose surname is a department store, was caught and punished for trying to buy an organ.

Am i the only one who feels sorry for him? Buy the organ, kena caught and die. Dont buy the organ, will die anyway. And after die, his organs will probably be harvested for others. Isnt there another way we can come up with? The waiting period is really too long. If the poor farmer sells his kidney for a large sum of money, both parties zhuan dao what. Better den the poor farmer have two healthy kidneys and struggle to survive, and the sick person also die.

Anyway, I have diverted from what i actually wanna blog about. I was cleaning up my bookshelves (i have a crazy amount of books) and I found one of my treasures.

These are probably my very first (and my favorite) set of books, titled The World's Best Fairy Tales. The inside says "To my darling baby, Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. Love, Papa & Mummy. *frog face* Smile always. 25/11/86" I have a picture of 4 months old me with these books.

Inside are a ton of fairytales, with popular ones like Snow White and uncommon ones like Jorinda and Joringel. The pictures are very pretty too. These books are probably what made me love fantasy books so much.

I'm crazy about fairytales. I collect "Fables' which is an American graphic novels about fairytale characters escaping to live in our world. I have a wish to have a photoshoot of my friends as Alice in Wonderland characters. My wish will probably never bear fruit but it's nice thinking about it all the same.

I also have treasure number 2 with me:

Probably my first soft toy. It doesnt even have a name. If it does it's probably called 'fis' or 'weeeh'. Who knows.

On another note,

Here's what my work area looks like. I end my stint at Discovery Asia this Fri. Had alot of fun there. Now i gotta look for a perm job. Zzz...

Money No Enough 2

2008-08-25T23:59:00.003+08:00

On Sunday, went out with Aloy and Tuckmun to catch Money no Enough 2. I didnt plan to watch it at first, cos sadly I don't support Singaporean made movies. But since nothing to do...

The movie was very localised. It touched on ERP and issues which normal Singaporeans will only complain abt but do nothing against. This 'speak up' thing is his sure-success formula to most Jack Neo movies. But it is so expectant of him to do this that I wasnt intrigued by the movie at all, which made me bored. It was also extremely commercialised, such as a FULLY worded ad to the Sanyo aircon (which Jack endorses) and the OCBC child thing which pays out money for every child u spawn. If it was deliberate or not, I just dont see the link for the girl to suddenly standup and say the advantages of the Sanyo aircon. Not humourous, just blatant name-dropping.

Plotwise, it had a whole arc about health pills that killed 10 people. Sounds familiar? Again, so formulaic, so boring. The wife and daughter doing Getai? Another movie did that. The only scene i liked was when the mother of the 3 sons was being shunted house to house, keeping quiet abt her sadness. And then she sacrificed herself to save her grandaughter. It was so real. I really felt heartbroken watching it and disgusted by how such a plot was used to grip the audience. So... expected. If the plot was a graph, it would be a complete straight line.

I guess I want something new from the local movie scene. I do love formula movies like I Not Stupid and even Disney's Enchanted (I love Disney's straight-line formula though. Happy endings forever~) But if we can come up with a local American Beauty or Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, that will be so cool.

I've watched some really good short films on Artscentral. Hopefully one of those directors will come to the big screen too.

On another note, I am sunburnt. Yay! Went Sentosa with Poly friends today (been more den 6 months since we last met) and chilled at Pacific Coffee in the evening on sofas on the balcony. Chill yo!

On a final note, I was in the same unit as Joshua Ang. U know the ahbeng boy in I Not Stupid? Seems a down-to-earth guy. If you wanna gossip about him can find me in MSN. Haha.

Olympics 2

2008-08-17T17:16:00.002+08:00

The National Day Rally telecast will be held tomorrow, because the timing clashes with the Table Tennis Finals between China and Singapore.

I find that damn funny!

GO GO SINGAPORE!

I have strawberry shortcake from Four Leaves to eat while watching. Happy~

Vacuum cleaner

2008-08-17T03:12:00.003+08:00

What happens if a vacuum cleaner sucks up dirt and dust until it is overfull, but there is no outlet.

Olympics

2008-08-16T03:46:00.004+08:00

Table tennis is EXCITING can?

For the past few weeks I've been working a temp job at Discovery Asia. Nice sia the office. Very discovery channel-feel to it. Anyway, the office concept is very open. And there are flat screen tvs mounted onto the walls showing all the many Discovery channels, like travel & living and animal planet. One day someone decided to try to switch it to Channel 5 and WAH! Success! Haha! The tv is just behind me so i managed to tune in to the Singapore vs Korea table tennis semi-finals (of course i was doing work all the while) According to Yahoo, if we won that match, Singapore would win her first medal for the past 48 years. I dont really care that all 3 girls from the SIngapore team are from China.

Feng TianWei is ZAI SHIT can? She won both her singles. But she very 'jian' she like to use her far-far-near skill. The Korean girl was very talented to be able to keep up. Li Jiawei and the other girl lost their singles, but won their doubles together, so at least they redeemed themselves slightly. Wah the last set, left 2 more points to game, so exciting! FAST and FURIOUS! If me i sure kena hit by the ball, let alone hit it back.

Why Singaporeans like to complain abt importing foreign talents? Are those complainers willing to let their children devote their life to sports, instead of a certificate? We may be growing towards a sports hub, but we have so much more to do before we can achieve world-class standard.

Anyway, on a more cheong-related note, I just spent the last two hours scouring through old newspapers. Cos ChinSiang was telling me there's a lucky draw compeition in the Straits Times to win a Volkswagon. So I dug up a weeks worth of newspapers, sorted them by date, and started to flip through. It took 3 tries looking through the ENTIRE stack before I got the 10 missing alphabets as shown below. I took extra long to find the last 'E' cos it was inside the CLASSIFIEDS paper. Angry can? I was almost ready to give up before I decided to just look through the classifieds since I had nth to lose (I didnt think they would put it in there cos I think a majority of readers don't read through that)

If win, can win car leh. Whoo!

Kitty and I

2008-08-10T16:37:00.001+08:00

Amber and I reading the daily comics together

Happy Birthday Singapore

2008-08-09T21:56:00.007+08:00

Happy 43th Birthday Singapore!

I think Shine on Singapore... is kinda catchy. Better den last year's song anyway. And i love the remixes they did with the older songs. Funnily, the songs that were created in the 80s, are still as popular now as then. Who doesnt know how to sing "one people, one nation, one singapore"

Nathan Hartono sings quite nice. Didnt expect his michael buble voice.

After the NDP show on TV, there were two sitcoms, Calefare and First class. Finally, at least some standard in channel 5 homegrown shows. One reason i stopped watching tv for such a long while was the horrible singaporean shows they kept showing. Under One Roof was a disaster for its last few season. I'm sick of foodie shows because of their very uncreativeness (u know the gurmit and michelle chia food show, where they travel to different places to makan and critic? *YAWNS* Anybody also can go there, eat and say ooooh sooo niiiice too eeeeeaaat.) Even Channel 8's recycled scripts of family feuds series, and sports series are getting SO BORING! What happen to shows like the Legend of the 8 Immortals, Ji Gong and my ever-favorite The Price of Peace?

I liked Calefare because I worked as one before, along with Derrick and Joni. For $2/hr i think. PATHETIC RIGHT?! I was in Holland V (u know the channel 8 series? the one with chen liping and the nasi lemak stall) Yah mostly just walk around and sit down and stuff. When we asked Chen Liping for her autograph, she seemed genuinely surprised, like first time ppl want her autograph sia. Oh yes, the calefare must report to the dressing room to collect their clothes. As an extra needed to walk behind the scenes, I would have thought that my polo tee and pants were good enough. But nooo, they didn't think so. You needed to wear something that makes you a professional calefare. So they made us wear THIS!

YES! The striped blue shirt with FRUITS on it will NOT cause tv viewers to be distracted from the main actors. It is PERFECTLY normal for people to walk around with a shirt like that. It will NOT traumatise young children, or make the more fashion-conscious people go into coma. God, even normal people will have a strong urge to puke when they see it. And i wore that shirt the whole day! *sobs. I needed years of counselling before i got over that.

First class was good cos the acting was quite natural to me. The show was much better den Moulin high (shown a few years back) which was just boring. Moulin high centred itself mostly on its students, like teenage pregnancy and gang fights and such. They might as well made a 'teach a valuable life lesson' campaign over it. First class centred itself on the teachers as well and i find it so funny cos i can imagine my own Ping Yi sec teachers forming their own sitcom. Will be damn entertaining i tell u. Lets see, there will be a depressed teacher, a pyschotic one, a bimbo one, a very bad makeup one, the friendly favorite one, a nobody-understands one, a fab-u-lous one and a left-on-the-shelf one. Yes, it will make for a VERY good sitcom.

-Next Story-

Yesterday, we went to WCG at Suntec to look around. We would have gone off earlier but I wanted to complete a lucky draw so i dragged my friends into doing it. It started off at a red bull booth. The girl there asked us questions like where did red bull come from (i answered thailand. Wendy answered Thailand TWICE) The answer was Austria (which Derrick said out loud but nobody paid attention to him) AND they gave us a free can of red bull each. OOH! FREEBIE! Then we went around playing games, even got into a simulated car machine like the one Gab is in

Ah i want to win the first prize! A WCG computer!

Oh i also got a FREE top-up card for a game that i'm playing right now. www.highstreet5.com. It's basically a dancing game like Audition but the characters, moves and songs are nicer. Go check it out and play with me. BTW my game name is castell.

New York

2008-08-07T13:19:00.000+08:00

Bring meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Xin Fu Yum Cha

2008-08-02T00:45:00.010+08:00

I was SLOTTED by Derrick and Wendy

Slotted means when some one has free time between maybe 1 - 6pm, between school and maybe other activities. So he calls a friend to come down go shopping or something, but in actual fact just wants someone to while his time away between 1-6pm, when he can leave for his other stuff. The friend? Go home lor.

So yea at least Derrick only half-slot me cos he no activities after 1pm, while Wendy has to go home by 6pm. So i met them at 1.30pm (ok 2pm. i was late) at TCC at Raffles place. So while there i ordered a Strawberry Moussellini ($6.80) while we contemplated where to go eat from a magazine. It was either Dim Joy or FortunATE Restaurant cos I was in a mood for dimsum. So I drew lots (ok we drew tissue paper) and got Dim Joy at Neil Road.

BTW the moussellini doesnt taste $6.80-ish. Haiyah nowadays i keep having a craving for dessert, but always end up choosing those expensive yet blah tasting ones. Very sian la. I wanna make friends with a pastry chef.

It tastes blah only :(

So we took mrt down to Outram, and we walked for like 30 mins under the hot sun, looking for this Dim Joy place. We walked past it twice before realising we had past it. Cos it has like NO notice board. We only knew cos we got the address from the magazine. And ... IT WAS CLOSED! 11am - 3pm lunch. We reached like maybe 3.15pm? The funny thing was as we reached there, another group also just reached. And we both looked at the closed doors sadly... And we cried and comforted each other.

What we actually did was immediately hail a taxi and went down to FortunATE Restaurant at International Building (somewhere in Orchard) Btw, it has a 30% discount going on. I dunno until when? But if u go to WWW.KUPON.COM.SG, you can actually print out discounts for makan! I got the Kupon magazine with all the coupons and i really love it. And yes, i koped it from Wendy.

So we sat down and the manager took our orders. She seemed quite fierce, and when we asked if we can use 3 coupons (cos each coupon says free dessert. So we thought can get 3 free ones by using 3 coupons. Yes we are THAT cheap) But she was like can only use one. We were abit sad by that, but still continued to order.

We ordered puer cha cos it's the only tea i have heard of and drank before.

So we ordered 9 dim sum dishes with 2 claypot congees. The scallop congee was yum with chilli padi. The prawns were also fresh. Among what we ordered was siew mai. I was wondering why Derrick wanted siewmai. I mean, u go canteen buy it's 3 for $1. But i forgot that siew mai from restaurants use fresh PRAWNS inside, not pork. So yummy. And I noticed something else. I was wondering why on top got this orange fish roe. And then it hit me. Authentic siew mai put orange fish roe on top. Cheap pork siew mai just poke some orange colour on top. ALA! Discovery!

I initally didnt really like the manager. She seemed to be thinking: What is this 3 smelly people doing here? But as we ate, she seemed more friendly, asking if we wanted to order more or not. And at the end, we were served 3 desserts of corn+chestnut soup, which i thought was actually quite tasty, taking into account that I dont like corn or chestnut.

And this is a very DWD thing. If we are suddenly surprised with free food (like bread or dessert), we will instantly raise one chopstick point (Derrick's method of judging, based on 5 chopsticks.

Also with the 30% discount (which u don't need the coupon for), it was about $45 total, which i felt was quite reasonable.

So I give it 4/5 chopsticks =)

During the meal, we were chatting about a lot of rubbish as usual. And Derrick was obsessed about Dawn Yang, and about how she is such a plagarist (is there such a word?) On her site, there is a video of her saying 'I'm going to Sydney tomorrow. Yes! *fist pumping action and smile with head tilted.' So we spent the whole time there, reenacting her. Something like 'Oh The dimsum is here. Yes! *pumps fist and smiles*' or 'Oh I need to shit! Yes! *pump fist and smiles*'

Went out with Derrick to shop awhile. At Far East plaza, there is this shop selling designed Tees. And they really look quite nice. But the problem is, the shop assistants are damn scary. The last time I went, the guy pushed so hard for a sale i was scared away and had to get Derrick to buy the shirt for me a few days later. Now, they have 3 outlets on the same floor, and each of them got a similar looking shop assistant. I couldnt shop at any cos I was still scared. Such trauma I have suffered!

I am craving for cake.

Cake Craving

2008-07-26T22:53:00.009+08:00

It's Sat and i'm at home bored. Oh just nice Derick and Siaheng also at home. Let's go eat cake!

I had a craving for cake since very long le, like yesterday night. So Derrick and I met at Vivo to hunt. Siaheng LATE! Horrible. We walked around Vivo first and this restaurant "BONBON TEA" allured Derrick with its VERY green refurnishings while i was allured by the pastries at the counter

So we went inside, and looked at the menu. $7 for dessert, $7 for drinks. WOW! It must be fine dining. Haha. But no free bread.

Derrick had the tiramisu and chocolicious tea (something like that) while i had creme caramel and cappucino. Although i wanted cake, i decided to try something different.

So my creme caramel came...

Looks quite pretty. But when i tasted it... It tasted like... egg tart with ... burnt caramel. The burnt taste quite strong. Quite horrible! Derrick's tiramisu much, but not that much, better. =(

To be fair, i think the tea there is nice cos they come in their own pots, with a lit candle beneath to keep it hot.

Before i went home, i bought thousand leaves chocolate cake and carrot cake from Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf. SO much better.

OH and at the restaurant got these two women who went off but they left their Zara bags behind on the table. Den i noticed it immediately and laughed and told Derrick. Den we scared we tot it was bomb. =(

DWD Fine Dining

2008-07-24T17:07:00.004+08:00

DWD was planning to have fine dining at Derrick's friend's restaurant, Wild Rockets at Mt Emily. But before that we met at Plaza Sing to watch The Dark Knight, a film about batman. Oh man I was blown away. It was 2.5 hours for $7.50. Very worth it hor! I loved everything about the show. The sinister Joker, the fact that I was totally oblivious that Harvey Dent would later on be twoface, even when at the back of my mind from my younger days watching batman the cartoon that twoface's name was Harvey and he had a pension for flipping a coin to make a decision. My favorite part of the movie was probably when the two cruise lines decided to not sacrifice the other ship so that they could survive. Ask yourself, if you were on the civilian ship, knowing that it's either u or them who would die, would u still be able to press the button. Logical thinking tells u that civilians deserve to live more than criminals. But can u murder people like that and then live with yrself.

OK after that we set off for Wild Rocket. I was wearing a shirt, jeans and my Timberland Powerloungers. Wendy was wearing a nice formal looking top and safari shorts! SHORTS! When we first went into the restaurant everybody turned to look at her. An ang moh lady actually leaned out of the table to look carefully. I totally laughed. We told Wendy to use the curtains for a skirt. And Derrick was wearing a long sleeve white shirt with jeans. Formal casual for our fine dining experience. So we got to our RESERVED table and we got our menu. I looked at the prices first and they were like $28 for a main meal. And I was secretly pleased. I know. It's sick. But if u are gonna wear nice nice and go to a nice place to eat, I will only expect to fork out big money (big money to me la) for a nice meal to remember. Imagine u go to so nice place den the food like $12.90. It's... its make u feel like u overdressed. I dunno. I told u there's something wrong with me.

So we looked at our menus and keep laughing and giggling. Actually I was slightly excited cos this was seriously DWD's first fine dining experience and I was enjoying it immensely just to be there. I'm gonna say what we ate there. I dont have the menu with me and i can't remember the fancy name so i will just sort of summarize what we had. Derrick had beef bolognaise spaghetti and oreo cheesecake, Wendy had duck leg with yam rice cake thingy (which she chose ONLY cos I chose it first and then she wanted it too so I had to chose another) and poached pear and ginger pudding, while I had seared ribeye steak with 'caviar'(?) and , hot lava chocolate gateau and for starters I chose seabass capprachio (i dunno how it's spelt) which I wanted to share.

So we were there chatting first. I was like blabbering cos I was enjoying myself. Let me state the topics that were actually talked about and did at the table, in no particular order

-Pokemon (the menu had a dish with saffron inside, and I mentioned Saffron city which was a place in pokemon land, and Derrick TOTALLY knew what I was talking about, and we talked abit abt pokemon which made Wendy bored.)
-Safari (because Wendy was wearing safari shorts. We said her job was sticking her hand into an elephants ass and stuff)
-The Dark Knight Movie (I think it's really great. And they both said I was the joker cos I kept telling jokes that were so horrible that it brings us to the next topic)
-The Happening (Another movie. My jokes were so horrible that people wanted to kill themselves aka the Happening. Wendy even did a gesture of taking out her hair pin and stabbing herself which made me LOL)
-The possibility of going McDonalds if we were still hungry after the dinner
-What the yellow liquid in a small dish in front of us was (Wendy said it was Mama Ling Meng, also said it was to wash our hands or something. We even took it to smell but it had no smell)
-Showing them my book with Aloy and Tm gave me. It was about fine dining, which was totally related to what we were doing right then)
-Priscilla (DWD-related)
-Sharon (Derrick-related)
-Me pointing out that some other patrons there were less formally dress than us (I wanted to take pic of them but Derrick told me not to)

So our starters arrived. The seabass Carboracchio (another attempt at spelling it). Followed by two other starters, compliments of the chef. U know WHY! Cos the one starter I ordered canot be shared by 3 people! SO paiseh! But... free! WHOO! The other two were escargot and raw beef thing. After forcing Derrick to take picture for me, we started on the raw beef thinly sliced with sauce and peanuts. Oh my it was good! I really didn't expect the taste. I fully concede defeat to being a food critic cos I cant describe it. I was like thinking hard what might be used for the sauce and couldn't think of any, except it taste abit like yusheng, which was the best I could come up with. The seabass carroachio (third attempt) was done with raw seabass and angelhair spaghetti. Another delight, slightly cold but a small spicy tinge after u bite into it awhile. As in the spiciness only came out after a few bites. Weird. The escargot (there were 6 and I ate 5 cos the other two didn’t eat escargot much. I don't care if it's snails or whatnot. If it tastes good, why don’t eat?) Hm... oh I don't really know how to describe this. At most I would say it's eaten for the texture. It has a taste but very mild and hard to describe, like how tofu tastes. Oh and we got a bread roll too. I was complaining to Derrick like, if this is fine dining why here no free bread. And true to word, it came later. I totally ate back my words. Or maybe the waitress overheard me. Free bread = first class. That is how I see it anyway. And I asked the waitress what the mama ling meng was. She said it was olive oil for the bread! WOW! I dipped in and Wendy was like Derek u are eating OIL but I am paying big money to enjoy myself and u cant stop me muahaha

I didnt put up the pics of the starters cos the picture wasnt fit to show how nice it was. i really need to get a good camera for foodie shots.

On to our main meals. My ribeye was slightly more medium rare den the medium I ordered. Or issit I dunno the difference between medium and rare. But I have slowly developed the taste for a bloody steak thanks to mum, so I enjoyed it. I especially like the part when u get a tendon, one of those bite which u can chew on and however much u chew it just doesn’t break apart. I like to chew on it like a piece of gum. I sometimes can chew on that piece of meat for like an hour. Anyway, on the plate was this mash stuff which I really don’t know what it is made of. I decided it was made with baby tomatoes cos it was quite sour but later on Derrick told me it was an eggplant mash with I dunno what. Wendy had duck leg with yam cakes that I thought was quite tasty, almost like the ones at OldChangKee but nicer. Her duck came with a sauce which Wendy guessed was passionfruit. And Derrick had the spaghetti which I thought was nice cos I am now into olive oil stirfried pasta instead of cream based.

The colours are much more nicer in person. Here's the steak and duck

Next we had our dessert. I had this like chocolate bun thing on my plate. And I was initially disappointed cos it looked just like dry cake to me. Den Derrick and Wendy proceded to POKE my cake and I was like "NOOOOoooOOO don't poke it laaaooooooHHHHH got CHOCOLATE!" Halfway through my whine, thick chocolate oozed out from the bun. i was fascinated. It tasted so yummy. Wendy had this ginger pudding which I actually liked cos I like the taste of ginger. Derrick's oreo cheesecake came in a glass and it was very nice but I cant really comment cos I just had a small taste. But the cheese taste was strong but it was sweet too. Also, there were little rum-soaked cherries inside which were positively LETHAL. Small but very strong. I think Wendy ate one and got drunk.

Let u guess which is which

Another reason why I was probably enjoying my time there so much was cos I was reading Recipe for Disaster, the book which Aloy and Tm got me. It was about this passionate chef who started his restaurant in a small town, with quirky kitchen helpers, and the way that Miriam Morrison described the behind the scenes of a restaurant was so witty and fun and hellish. You think it's easy to cook a nice specific meal for 20? I have trouble just making a simple meal for myself without destroying half the kitchen. Even following instructions to the letter, and laying out all my ingredients. I can end up with burnt garlic in cream so that my pasta was ruined. And it was a one paragraph recipe. Sad. The author was describing the stress on the chef, the stress on the assistant chef because of the chef screaming every moment etc, down to the waitress who have to remember who sits where, who ordered what, to be on the move all the time and ending up with blistered feet everyday. It sounds so hectic... and fun to work like that. We ended our dinner at around 10pm, and i actually wanted to poke inside the kitchen, maybe cook an omelette or something, but Derrick didnt let me.

After the dinner we were at a lost of where to go. So we decided Chijmes, where we drank and ate chicken wings, cos Wendy was still hungry (horrible) I only ate cos I wanted to accompany her (LIES!) Oh my god did I just bracket and exposed myself?

Stay tuned for the next DWD saga.

Phin's Steakhouse & Shokudo

2008-07-22T21:03:00.006+08:00

Went out with Aloy, Tuckmun and Yuanfeng to makan. Actually i wanna bring them to a korean hot pot restaurant at Bugis there but it only opens at 5. Bah! So we went to Phin's Steakhouse nearby cos it was raining and i lazy to go further.

Here's is Cheong-Chan's Food review for Phin Steakhouse! HoHoHonoHO!

I had a sirloin steak for $16 and a strawberry thickshake for $7.

Let's start with the thickshake. It was more of a THINshake! It's a pun! Laugh! But seriously, McDonalds milkshake is thicker than this. The fruitjuice I once bought from that nice fruit stall near Queensway was thicker than this. It was sweet at the bottom, but almost tasteless on top. The only good factor was the pink colour looks nice. Uber expensive for something mediocre.

The steak was ok lah. I asked for medium but it was more like well done? Well done! Another pun. I'm hilarious. Taste wise ok lah. I liked that the baked potato got design. And the hot plate remained hot for quite a while. But since it's a steakhouse, I didnt really get the wow factor from it.

Pricing-wise - Over-priced. Dont recommend it. Also, the card reader was spoilt and they only told us after we finish eating. Imagine we never bring money how?

Anyway Tm and Aloy bought me a prezzie!

The nicest wrapper this year so far. Gabriel wrapped my prezzies nicely also but he lose points for using christmas wrapper. And yes, i do remember that i used calender paper and newspaper to wrap presents in the past. IN THE PAST! Dont bring it up. *sulks

Aloy bought me this. Actually i guessed the title of the book before i opened it. You know why? Cos Aloy sms-ed me before asking me "Have you read Recipe for Disaster before?" Haha. Let's take a look into Aloy's mind when he bought me this

*Magic Schoolbus sequence where we enter Aloy's brain through his ear canal

*Aloy's voice* Hmm... Derek likes books... And he likes fiction... and he likes to eat... alot... like really alot... and he will probably like the pink and white cover with heartshape *giggles to himself* Yea this is the perfect book for him!

I'm still reading it. It's not bad aha. I send both of them an sms thanking them for the present after we parted ways but i kena caught for sending a template sms cos they were still both together. Damn...

After that i went to Shokudo at Raffles City with DcFamily for makan. It's quite nice, a Japanese Marche. It's quite cheap, $8 for a main meal and desserts like waffles are $6, which is much cheaper than one at Gelare on a Tuesday (half price waffle day!) Had japanese pizza, oyster hotpot, Omu rice, some tapenyaki veggies, teriyaki beef-thingy and waffle. Very nice.

Shokudo is also good for gatherings with large group of friends. You know when you eat at Swensons or something and the bill comes and there is alot of calculating and exchanging of money and topping up (by the suay person collecting everything). Calculate no more! Just go Shokudo and each person can go dutch. Slightly abit more expensive but hassle-free.

That's how i spent my birthday. Thanks EVERYONE for your well-wishes. For those who didnt wish... i will have my vengence... muahahahahaha

22nd Bday with TBG

2008-07-20T19:42:00.006+08:00

I'm going to write down the happenings yesterday when The Big Group celebrated my birthday for me. I will also be inserting the traditions that we have been doing since like, forever. Let me begin.

I planned for The Big Group to come my place by 4pm. Although i booked the place Downtown East steamboat at 5pm, i stated 1 hour earlier in lieu of late arrivals. MISTAKE! Next time must say meet 3pm. At 4.30pm, it was raining really really heavily and only Kelvin had reached my place. Really horrible haha. By 4pm I had received 6 sms-es saying they will be late. Which was normal to me, because usually i also as late for other outings.

Tradition No 1: For every outing no matter how import, must at least be 1 hour late.

So I walked in the rain with Kelvin to Downtown East, and go to the steamboat place first, followed shortly by the arrival of Derrick, Jiehui and Siaheng. So we started eating first of course.

Tradition No 2: Who come earlier, start eating first. As more and more people arrive, just add chairs around the table.

Later, Jasmine, PingHan, Gwen, XiuMing, Chianghui, Maomao, Meikuan, Gabriel and Dennis arrived, in that order. Dennis was working at Woodlands, which is UBER far. So in retrospect Gabriel is the last to arrive. Congrats Gabriel!

Jasmine was wearing a tube dress, Gwen was wearing like a vest-top and Chianghui was wearing a dress.

Tradition No 3: Wear whatever your like when u feel like it. It is normal to wear dresses to hot environments such as steamboat, or wear slip on flats for jogging, or Bedokian wear to almost anywhere in Singapore.

Bedokian wear is close to Pasirian Wear, the difference is Pasirian wear is more laidback tshirt and berms, whereas Bedokian Wear is more tshirt and shorts for going marketing or eat hawker centre.

While we were eating, DlCLan and DcGuild were writing bday card for me in front of me.

Tradition No 4: Write and draw birthday cards in front of the birthday person. Sometimes wrapping of present even.

Later after eating, Jasmine was like Let's stay there abit longer to chat. I really didn't suspect anything. Den later I turned around, I saw Gabriel outside (he had been missing, I assumed he went toilet shit) I was wondering why he was like cleaning the tables outside cos it looks like he was carrying a tray or something. Den he turned around and I saw him with a cakebox in his hands. I totally laughed. HAHA! Zzz so lousy. He waved at me and ran off.

Tradition No 5: Gab is caught red-handed.

Ok so we all went off to my place which is 5 mins away. Halfway there we realized we left Mk's pear vodka at the restaurant. So me and Mk went all the way back to take it, also to buy ice and mixers from Cheers. Ok back at my place, people were sitting at my dining table chatting so i sat and chat awhile. Den i went into my kitchen to throw tissue paper away and caught Gabriel lighting the candles on my cake.

Tradition No 6: See Tradition No 5

Everyone sang bday song for me and took pictures. And den cut cake and make a wish

Tradition No 7: I have Black Forest Cake for all my birthdays. Since forever. Its my fav and i dunno why i dont get sick of it. Lol.

A Group Picture:

Top: Xiuming, Gwen, Dennis, Chianghui, Meikuan, Jasmine, Pinghan
Btm: Siaheng, Derrick, Derek, Gabriel, Kelvin

Siaheng cleaned my computer up for me and install anti-virus. Haha! Actually I quite happy with that. Free Computer tech support. I had been getting trouble from all my expired antivirus but i too lazy to uninstall.

Oh and my presents, i LOVE them! I got a Zebra Billabong tshirt, a Lonsdale Leather bag and Le Coq Jacket. Wow! So branded. Of cos Gab used a $80 voucher but that doesn't matter! Lol. I love the fact that they used a voucher on me. Cos i really love vouchers. On a side note, i bought Timberland shoes costing $219 nearly for free because of vouchers from my mystery shopping. Love it. And Gab chose the designs by himself. Which actually looks good. Gah am i the worse fashionista in DcGuild now...

My (almost) free Timberland shoes

Prezzies!

A low-key bday, which is just what I want. Happy.

Oh and Derrick's Bonus to me is a drawing of DlClan in Chibi style, which I’ve pasted on my cupboard.

I'm wearing a crown. If u think it looks like feathers, also can. Because i used to be called Pigeon Cheong.

Actually the best present was friendship :) And the bag.

What i want

2008-07-17T17:14:00.003+08:00

Everybody sing spice girls with me!

You: Tell me what u want, what u really really want

Me: I'll tell u what i want, what i really really want

You: So tell me what you want what u really really want

Me: I wanna

You: Huh!

Me: I wanna

You: Huh!

Me: I wanna really really really wanna friendship ha!

To make it easy for everyone, what i want is just your friendship. I appreciate all that my friends have done for me, no matter how big or small. Its the thought that counts ya. So just send me a msn or sms message wishing me Happy Birthday is really enough.

But what i really really want is listed as follows:

- An Indiana Jones-like old leather brown sling bag
- A FF8 Lionheart handphone chain
- Animorphs Book 54
- Trip to Japan
- Baby Twins
- MOE (pronounce mo-eh)
- Digital Camera (cos my SANYO camera kinda sucks)

If the above list sounds impossible (which they are), get this

- Kinokuniya Vouchers
- Anything quirky. The quirkier the better
- Anything with my name
- My shirt size is L, my shoe size is 9
- No pants pls. Cos my waist size is unmentionable
- Home-made arts and crafts

Of course, friendship is still accepted. i will not block you in msn i promise *smiles*

I'm a very shy person

DlClan + Kelvin Chibi

2008-07-12T20:00:00.003+08:00

With these, i end The Big Group Chibis lol

DlClan surrounding Gwen the birthday girl. Guess who is who.

Members are Chianghui, Siaheng, Jiehui, Dennis and Derrick

and Kelvin 'scissorsleg' Chew. Can i help chew?

DcGuild Chibi

2008-07-12T00:39:00.007+08:00

I'm using my chibis to decorate my workspace.

Here's DcGuild, let u all guess who is who :)

Members: Derek, Gabriel, Jasmine, Gwendolin, Meikuan

DWD Chibi

2008-07-11T02:34:00.002+08:00

Bored is like that. Do bo liao things.

Artistic not?

Idea from Deviantart.com.

Good Day

2008-07-09T02:59:00.002+08:00

Yesterday i had Gelare Waffle, I ate 4 times within 4 hours and for my first English tuition, I wasn't fired on the spot. All in all it was a good day.

Cosplay VII @ Downtown East

2008-07-06T21:29:00.007+08:00

I love cosplay! OK i have never worn a cosplay outfit before but i love seeing people wear them. I remember i went to one about 2 years ago and loved it. So this year it was again held at Downtown East. I missed going yesterday so i dropped by today with JieHui, Siaheng and Wendy.

There was a cosplay competition going on, to find the best teams to send for the World Cosplay competition. Apparently it is a really big even which involved 13 countries. For the last few years, Italy, Brazil and France have all been top winners. So i was hoping that Singapore can give a good challenge too.

*Derek watches the compeition and almost died.

OMG so many BLEACH entries with alot of spoken words. very tiresome to watch and i felt that not enough rehearsing had been done. But the costumes were true to the anime so they score points for that. I think the better ones would be the one with Vincent Valentine (the otaku girls screamed when he kissed the girl. i was stunned) and the other one involving two girls who were cosplaying a game involing a goblin king. I dunno what game they are from though. Their pics will be below.

There alot of types of cosplay around. Firstly there are Macha, the robot types.

Probably Gundam. Sorry i'm not much of a macha fan.

Ironman and rogue. As Derrick would put it, I see she's been eating well. haha :P

Who says robots cant be sexy?

Then there are the more popular Anime cosplayers from Dgrayman, Bleach and Naruto

Naruto

Bleach

Then there are the bevy of kawaii girls everywhere, some cosplaying from anime, some just dressing up for fun. TO be honest, some of the girls are kawaii from the neck down only, if you get what i mean. But their outfits were very nice and cute. I wanna dress DcGuild like that too. Even Gabriel. There were alot of Misas (From Death Note) but my fav has gotta be this girl. She's cosplaying Yachiru from Bleach

So kawaii she even kneeled down to take a photo because in Bleach, Yachiru is super short.

Unseen in this picture, JieHui is supposed to be MUCH shorter than me :)

This two girls are from the goblin king game cosplayers girls i mentioned earlier. I love the golden wings on the left one.

I think the pink one is from Gundam Seed

Besides anime or manga, there was some dressed from Star Wars and SWAT Team. Haha but i don't have pics of them cos i no interest. Bleah. Oh except one i DID like. Two people dressed up from the SANDMAN chronicles, an english comic novel.

The Endless: Destiny, Death, Dream, Destruction, Desire, Despair, Delirium and ...

Derek.

What i like to see most are those people cosplaying from not as popular anime, mangas and comics. I'll try to list as many as i can think of. TOo bad i didn't go yesterday. Yesterday got Sailormoon and Cooking Mama.

La Corda D'Oro. The anime that led JieHui to buying his own trumpet (and me a flute)

OBJECTION! Phoenix Wright!

Haruhi from The Melancholy of Harui Suzumiya

Rude, Reno and Cissnei (i think?) from FFVII

Zack (FFVII) and Rikku (FFX) They are from different final fantasies. Probably a fanfic.

Let's see if i'm correct. From Ragnarok Online Game: Archer, Bard, Wizard, BlackSmith male and female, and random little girl.

I dunno where she's from, but she was uber cute. She kneeled down for us to take this pic. Anyone knows where she's from?

Yeah. And there were alot of others that i dont regconise or know where to label them under. See if you do.

Stitch, unknown, Beijing Olympics Panda?

Roxas, Axel and erm... some girls

Unknown soldier

Nice costumes

Next year, I will go as Lina Inverse, Derrick will be Crystal Maiden and Wendy is Pudge. HOHOHOHO! Dota joke. Btw i've been dotaing alot lately. Alot of dota things to say. WIll blog about it some day.

Warning: Only understable to Dota-ers

**All pictures were taken by my brother Lol.

Cockroaches

2008-07-03T02:34:00.002+08:00

I am about 170cm tall and weight over 70kg. WHY ISSIT WHEN COCKROACH FLY AT ME I AM AS HELPLESS AS A BABY! Wah lau really cannot stand cockroaches. Especially the way they look on the bottom! So.... so erxin.

I was innocently wanting to brush my teeth. As i grabbed the toothpaste, my hand closed upon... A FULLY ADULT COCKROACH! It was hiding behind the toothpaste.

*THUNDER AND LIGHTNING*

I totally goosebump-ed to death. The cockroach scrabbled for dear life while i took my bathroom rag and attempted to catch it and stomp it until it is dead. Then i will try to revive it so that i can stomp on it again. After a long and hard battle, where it was a in and out fight (as in i dive in to try to catch it, and then it flew at me so i jump back, den it retreated so i moved in again etc etc) it went into the drain and hid there, the little coward. Zzz i need to buy MORTENE! or whatever that bug spray is called.

OK so there i was, back to brushing my teeth. Den i notice, why got something brown on my head? It was a brown beetle. u know the small brown one which clings onto stuff very hard to pick it off de. OK la this one i not scared. i think its quite cute actually. But i flicked it off and it landed in the toilet bowl in my pee which i havent flush. So i flushed. Den i flushed again. Stupid beetle doing the stupid front stroke sia. Happily swimming. Nevermind i leave him there.

Theres a small moth beside my bed. Its ok. Moths are cute.

Life

2008-07-01T23:41:00.005+08:00

What i really want, since young, is to own a makan place. I will be doing waitering, abit of cooking, keeping the place clean. A place to call my own. I'll probably call it DcEatz. or something. But life doesnt drop a restaurant in front of you just like that.

Bali

2008-06-22T13:14:00.003+08:00

So after 1 week of nua-ing as i ORD-ed from NS, i headed down to Bali with my parents for more intensive nua-ing.

Yup so bali is quite a beautiful place, although i was mostly sleeping in the car so i didnt get to see much scenery. But My pa took pictures, so i can see them later at my leisure. Scenery also i lazy to see haha. But its green and nice.

Observe.

Our first stop was to the Bali Zoo. We didnt really expect to go there but since we were there might as well enjoy. The place is not like Singapore, where u can roam around the zoo. It basically a safari where u take a aircon tram around the area with a guide in front intro-ing. OUr guide was so funny, she kept making remarks such as "In the wilderness the lioness hunts the prey but the lion gets to eat first. Typical." or when we drove past a zookeeper in his car she said " thats Pak Nak, he's the keeper of the man-eating lions. He may look normal but he has only one leg *laughs*" Haha funny-ed. Oh and i took picture with lion cub.

Who's Cuter?

It's probably cause its a tourist spot, but its quite expensive here. if u're going to Bali be prepared to fork out really alot of cash for food and entertainment.

I visited a temple also. On any vacations, its always good to see at least one religious place, one geographic beauty like a mountain or lake, then spend the rest of the time eating, shopping and enjoying. Anyway, I'm quite surprised to learn that the people here practice Balinese Hinduism and not Islam. They are always praying here, but its very nice cos alot of flowers are involved.

At the temple we had to wear sarongs, and a guide led us in a prayer. It involves incense and putting flowers on yr head and behind yr ears, and also rice on yr forhead. It's quite normal to see guys walking around with flowers behind their ears here.

This here's a common flowers-in-a-basket that the locals use to pray with.

The waves at the beach are quite big and strong. There was this one time, i wasnt paying attention, and a wave crashed over my head (i was already standing) and i rolled happily over and over in the water. That's why a lot of surfing can be done here

HUGE waves

Also, my parents and i took some water rides called Flying fish (which is a bit like parashooting) and Big Marble (its like a banana boat but u're sitting on something like a sofa instead) Do NOT take the big marble, i repeat, do NOT take the big marble. Its really rhorrible cos u only hanging on using yr arms and they get soooo tired and aching after the first 2 minutes. Very scary. haha.

I also had a massage and a manicure/pedicure at the beach.

The Maharajah is having his afternoon primping session

The food there is very nice, try having the Bebek Bengil (crispy duck). Its not really tasty to me and abit pricey, but come bali must at least eat it once. I also got branded stuff from there. Balibong Shorts. Geddit? U geddit? HAHAHAHAHA.

Crispy duck

Siaheng asked Derrick Lim how long was i going to be in Bali. Derrick replied "Bali long" Geddit? U geddit? HAHAHAHAHA.

Cycling

2008-06-15T02:37:00.002+08:00

Last Thurs I met up with Wendy, Derrick, Siaheng, Jiehui and Gab to go cycling at East Coast park. You know why this is so weird? Because its a Thursday Afternoon! So qiao on that day everybody is free from NS, work and studies to go out. So ok we supposed to meet at 12.30pm, eat at Bedok and reach East Coast Park by 1.30pm. So with this in mind, everybody met up around 1pm. Den we eat at the hawker centre, den go Prima Deli buy waffles, den buy bubble tea. Den chit chat and reach East Coast park around 2.30pm. Which is quite early for us liao.

BTW, I was so amazed when I paid only $3 for my meal. Because I very long never eat hawker centre le. Always food court. CHEAP!

Den once we reached ECP, we rented bikes for only $5 for 2 hours. AND they gave us each a bottle of water. Eh really much CHEAPER den the last time I went there. And Jiehui and Siaheng had to use a couple bike cos SH cant really cycle very fast and we wanted to cycle to Changi.

So we had fun cycling, screaming, singing EVERYBODY IN THE WORLD! SPICE UP YOUR LIFE! EVERY BOY AND EVERY GIRL! SPICE UP YOUR LIFE! PEOPLE OF THE WORLD! SPICE UP YOUR LIFE! AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Den we stop cos we dunno what comes after that. Den we cycled about half way to Changi den turn back cos not enough time and my leg was dying and my back was hurting like hell.

BTW, i sprained my back while cracking it the day before. U know when u twist your body side to side to make the crack sound. Yah den i CRACKED den had to lie down. Old liao. Retire soon.

Den also we took some pictures and Wendy didnt want to join in cos she was feeling healthy and so Derrick and I took jumping pics which i use for my MSN display pic. You can see it below.

Can u see the difference? Haha the wonders of photoshop.

We took a few other photos too but it is too horrible to be uploaded.

Den after that we went to watch Kung Fu Panda which i really enjoyed. Haha. If i had to choose the character which suits me the most i would probably be the snow leopard villian cos i'm cool. End of discussion no comments allowed.

Indian Movies

2008-06-10T01:48:00.000+08:00

I love Indian movies!

Hurt

2008-06-09T20:06:00.003+08:00

Whenever i feel sad or angry, i try to suck it up, tell myself that it cant hurt me, and smile.

Hurts.

ORD LOH!

2008-06-09T04:35:00.004+08:00

Alive! i am back! haha! Finally after 2 full years, i have finished my NS life. Getting my Pink IC later today~! Its been a long journey. Haha nvr thought that i would experience and suffer so much shit. Although I gotta admit my ns life have been quite smooth and sort of dull, I still took away experiences that I wont forget. Of course my ns life is not as exciting or eventful as some others, at least I can say I have done it bah. Hmm... here goes...

BMTC Tekong

Oh man. I hate being alone in a new environment. What if I don't make any friends? What if I can't take it? What if I look horrible (ok fine. MORE horrible den normal) with botak head? But as with most other people, Tekong is the place that will forever be the most memorable.

Going in, I didn't even know how to use my number lock. Lol. So that's when I first met my buddy, Dian (he taught me how to use it la). So we're both in Falcon Coy, which I later learnt is a white horse coy. Meaning slightly more relaxed than other coys. I dunno why haha. I think cos I impt =) Anyway, there goes my hair and surprise! I don't look half bad! Maybe cos everybody else also botak. Hmm den my bunk mates got who? Xiong (tall and loud), Chew (muscleman), Jeremy (blink blink), Farihan (our responsible bunk IC), WeiJie, Kiang, Barnabus (Barney), Elf, ChongYe and Yuanshan.

Everybody got a job to do. And u know what I kena??!! TOILET IC! GOD! So suay can. Somemore the IC leh. Every inspection must run to toilet with Zeus, Kelvin & Jayme to clean shiiiiiiit. *Died

What can I say abt my commanders. Forgot all their names liao. Haha! But they're nice! At least I nvr kena the plt 2 sgt. This Indian guy made life hell for those fellas. Falcon ppl (Jiehui u reading this?) should know who I talking abt. Heng nvr kena sia.

So I went through the routine, which held many firsts for me. My 24km march through the night (it was not that hard!) the 7 day field camp (my god the first time I shit in the wild. And the powdering. KINKY! Everybody in nth but powder and underwear! *Shy*) Guard Duty (a lot of walking) Powdering and chasing the sgts during one march out, (my OC f-ed everyone after that incident) And by the time my Pa put my jockey cap on my head for my POP I lost 7 kg! BMT is good for losing weight! *svelte fingure

Signal Institute

My vocation I got was signaler. So I was sent to signal institute. I dunno why, but I really hated it there. Although it was closer to civilization, I could not bring myself to like it there. We studied like almost whole day, and the food was HORRIBLE. I THINK THAT'S THE REASON WHY I SO DEPRESSED! It was really horrible to the highest peak! Like, really cannot make it food. DEREK NEEDS NICEY NICE FOOD OR HE WILL VERY MOODY! Tekong food was not bad lah u gotta admit. And hor… my plt mates 80% all fatty fat. Haha! Oh tuckmun u all reading this not? Really leh. I was like one of 5 svelte figures in the whole plt. And u know what! The last few days, I found out that I am one of the top 5 signallers in the plt. WTH! HAHAHAHA! Like, I seriously like have less den 10 frens there and my grades are nth to boast abt. Maybe cos I did quite well during the exercises? When in doubt, look intelligent =) From there, 6 signallers were chosen to go Australia for Wallaby Exercise. TuckMun, Aloysius, Johnny, Melvin, Famin and I.

Sungei Gedong

My god… why must a Pasir Ris boy be posted to a camp that is after the Lim Chu Kang cemetery. But first, my Wallaby trip, which would be the first and last time I travelled in an armoured vehicle. Slept most of the way anyway. Lol.

Came back, and then it was the dreaded sorting out. Some signalers have to go to coy lines. But… I wasn’t chosen. Nyahahaha! Instead I became S4 signaller. And cos not enough clerks, I became the coy admin clerk too. So soon my routine was between office and bunk. Weekends go out with usually the Big Group. My 1.5 years life in Gedong was eventful with good friends and colleagues. Hmm... I think I list down what happened throughout the year easier bah.

2006 - Ex Wallaby in Australia (first time)
2007 - Bold Kurukshetra in India (With David & Ah Khoo)
- NDP
- 21st Bday! Club DC at my place! (So many ppl so little space! Not enough food also lol)
- Ex Wallaby in Australia (second time)
2008 - ATEC (God! I almost died doing the harness, tag signs, admin work. Seriously)
- Hunt for Mas Selamat! FIND HIM!
- Ex High Noon in Taiwan (SMLJ! WZDDXBN DUOOOOO!)
- ORD LOH!

Put like that, it seems so small. But u gotta add in the many FTXs (where I sat in rover and didn't sleep for days), Chemical Defense training (take off yr gas mask and choke in the nice gas), ICCT & ACCT (I got so many blueblacks, and GM kicked the wind out of me so I couldn't breathe for awhile), IPPT & SOCs (I did them myself! Honest!) and all my friend’s 21sts Birthdays (Believe me! Its worse den doing SOC) And I think is the birthdays that make me fat again -_-" I blame Taiwan too! Why have so many delicious yummy cheap food!

So ends my NSF days. ORD LOH! Now help me think how to siam reservists!

ORD-ing SOON!

2008-01-25T23:36:00.001+08:00

Hey guy! Gonna ORD in 5 months. Will prolly blog more once i am out of army. dun stop reading me pleeeeaaase!

Blue Dragon

2007-06-23T23:23:00.000+08:00

Derek is very bored!

High King Dryk, Queen Gabledy and Ocir'rad (Losty-Chan) are some characters from a story made by DWD during our younger days. We were VERY bored people. Haha.

Bored

2007-06-10T22:36:00.000+08:00

I shall throw photos at u all. Just cos i'm bored.

What Gab and I bought for Kelvin for his BDay. Hot.

My plaque for band graduation. I play the Euphonium. Its a sexy instrument.

My Cd from my last band concert at the Esplanade

My aforementioned namecard holder from MUEE and my millions of lovegety

DWD's latest. We try our best to give u our chou-est.

Like i said, we try our best.

I love my NDS. I like Mashimaro. NDS + Mashimaro = above

Still bored.

Shopping

2007-06-10T20:33:00.001+08:00

Been a a long time since i updated my blog. Lazy lah. Haha. Went shopping with Gab, Gwen and Jas last Sat. I wanted to buy clothes. Gab patiently crawled with me through Bugis street. The clothes are very nice. Thats all i can say about them. I dun really know how to buy clothes la.

Think Gab very pek chek in the end i drag him to Bugis Junction to buy namecard holders. i think we spent 1 hour looking for that. I am fickle about namecard holders.

In the end i bought two, cos i saw an even nicer one AFTER i already bought one. -_-"

In conclusion.

I love to shop. Using my eyes Haha.

I am a VERY fickle shopper.

Been going shopping with different people. Always have the idea of what i want in my head, but always in the end never buy cos i cant decide. Give me a few days to think about it, then go shopping with me again.

I like shopping for books and stationeries more than clothes.

But i like clothes. Just that... i dunno. I need a shopper guru with me. Or i'll stick with Giodano.

I got $10 Giodano voucher.

Shop with me and lose weight!

Anyone free to shop with me next week?

Dream

2007-04-22T19:35:00.000+08:00

* I had a dream. It was one of the few I actually remember in whole. Usually dreams make no sense, or it has a link to what you had done during the day. But this one really no link, and got storyline somemore.

It started with this boy. He’s in this sort of prison/monastery cos his parents did something wrong so he also kena imprisoned in this small room. Den come in another prisoner a boy. But actually it turned out to be a girl! Just that she had short hair and stuff so the warden (this tall thin woman) thought she was a boy and so put them together. Obviously as they grew older they found out about each other and when it was time, a baby boy was born to them. They managed to keep him secret until he grew up to be a strong young man. And one fine day, as the warden opened the door to the room, the young man knocked her out and he and his parents escaped. Then I woke up.

Weird right?

Lovegety!

2007-03-21T18:31:00.001+08:00

Oh man it's been so long since i last took a lovegety!

India

2007-03-13T00:02:00.000+08:00

Heya guys! Loooooong time i last blogged haha i know. Just didnt got the mood to write.

Dunno la nowadays feel lazy. Really lazy leh. Nowadays i keep using taxi more and more. Bcos its so much more comfortable and faster than the bus or mrt. Haha. Think i shall employ Gab to be my chauffeur. Gab wan or not?! Good pay good working hours! Wahahaha!

Derrick says I do stuff only if i can get an advantage out of it all the time. That is so not true! I only do that most of the time. :)

Anyway i wanted to blog about my trip to India! Haha I left Singapore on 21 Feb and came back on 10 March. It really feels like a very long time. Cos it like i left in Feb and come back near the middle of March. How the weeks fly by! Yah anyway why I go India! Haha cos got Army training! But u know what? I went there and instead of losing weight, i think i gained weight. Where got sad! Haha. BUt very boring talk about NS. Shall talk about my R&R there! Its the only reason why I enjoyed myself in India.

The first day, after a VERY sian 6 hour ride in a bus to Agra, we ate lunch and then later went to the famous Taj Mahal. I was kinda excited about it. Cos its like famous and a world wonder. Actually i was excited of the prospect of take a picture of it. Haha. I was with David most of the time. We realised that when Singaporeans go overseas, we judge the standard of the trip by the shopping we can get, not the places we go too. Just a thought la.

Anyway the Taj Mahal was indeed very majestic. OK la i thought it was a very pertty building. I want my own tomb too! :( Gab make me one pls!

Proof of my trip to the Taj Mahal

Nice photos? I realised that I can take pretty good postcard-y photos. See the one below? I using it as my wallpaper aha!

Nice? Aha!

After that, we went back to the hotel Utkarsh Vilas. It looks much better that i expected from the outside so i was quite happy. The rooms were nice too. But u know what? At night, David (my roommate) went to the toilet and splooshed! he stepped into a puddle of soapy water. Apparently the two upper floors (I was on first floor) all bathing den the piple got choked up and the water was coming out of the first floor drainage. Sian diao. We called room service and sat on the bed waiting for them to come. Then we watched tv awhile. Then after that i wanted to go see the toilet situation so i stepped off my bed. Into a puddle of water. Siiiiiaaan. The water flowed all over the place! The management first told me it was because it was raining (I looked at the window it wasnt raining) then it was because of a banana skin stuck in the pipe. THEN it became a whole banana and an APPLE! I give them full marks for creativity.

OK the next day we had another 6 hours ride to Delhi. Omg really torturous la the trip. Before that we dropped by Agra Fort.

Nice building with a nice history also.

In Delhi we went to quite a good shopping mall and bought some stuff. And I had MacDonalds there. And i had McCurry Shahi Chicken. Haha cant find in Singapore leh. Hehe.

OK that's about all. Interesting trip. But so glad i'm back! I have the week off pls call me out aha!

Ps: I bought Kama Sutra AHA!

My newly refurnished room!

2006-12-27T02:33:00.000+08:00

HAha after 2 months of plannign and moving, this is the end product of my new room. Walls still need to be done up but the basic idea is there teehee! Love it!

The view from my door. The big bookcase is showcasing my millions of books plus all my beloved knick knacks. Welcome to Derek's Library! The bookcase also separates my inner room containing my bed and computer from view

This is once u walk through the partition my bookcase created.

View from my bed. My comp is right in front of me. Can lie down and watch anime hee:)

Its so cosy and my bed is near the window for the first time in years. All furniture bought from Ikea. Come call me renovate yr room! FOC i promise:)

July, October & November

2006-11-22T01:44:00.000+08:00

Spent my whole day doing these. I knew still abit noobish but i'm working on it. Look at my July. I added some Ouran elements in Heehee! And the vines by the side are real photos of vines i cropped out :) 8 more months to go.

Ms March

2006-11-21T20:05:00.000+08:00

Haha I made that all by myself! My first photoshop thingy ever! Hee. So fun. Making this for a BIG GROUP calender for 2007. But i think i will get lazy and stop halfway. March done. 11 more months to go...

*Going off to Australia until 9 Dec. See u all then:)

Blog Relive!!!!

2006-10-22T20:21:00.000+08:00

Haha I'm sorry for not blogging anymore. I really just cant the determination and patience to do it. Hmm... just wanna say i'll try harder to blog next time:) Anyway my nonsensical brain has been working overtime. I have a script in mind, just no outlet to put it through. Really hope that this wont go into the DWD Radical Plans of Failure archives. :(

Storyonline will be coming back shortly :)

Death Note was quite nice to watch. Teehee!

Happy Birthday to Me

2006-07-23T18:53:00.000+08:00

Thnx everyone for all the birthday wishes. I've kept all of them :) I gotta go off now. Field camp this week =/ Will update my bday stuff when i get back k? Ciaoz

World Cup Finals

2006-07-10T03:31:00.000+08:00

Haha I'm now watching the World Cup Finals. So nice of BMTC Sch 1 let us book in later so we can watch the final match. I first time bet on soccer lor. Hope Italy wins Haha. Just now they score one goal and i totally jumped like 1 metre haha.

Wow Been in IPPT for 4 weeks le. Going on to BMT phase. Seems like time passed very quickly now that i think about it.

Went for a Cosplay Event in Downtown East today. It was UBER COOL! Haha i didnt know got Singaporeans who are not shy to wear costumes and walk around without a care. Even they chou also they still look cool. (ok actually still depends) Yah very fun you can read more about what happened at Derrick's Blog -
http://dl-v2.blogspot.com/
Pls excuse my sweet potato head. Just cut hair the day before.

My birthday is coming. Pls show me some Love :)

Current Wishlist:
Kitty Ears
Creative Vision :)

NS - Can i survive?

2006-06-10T01:20:00.000+08:00

Oh man. i knew it was coming but i didnt know it would be this fast. 20 years just zoomed past so suddenly. My bag is packed. Like HUMONGOUS turtle shell. chou-ed. Haha. Shall be back soon. Miss me ya. :)

NTUC Income

2006-05-21T00:07:00.000+08:00

Ok long time never blog haha. Anyway I've been working at this NTUC Income Contact Centre at Tampines for the past 3 weeks. And i'm leaving in 1.5 weeks time. But I had quite an experience. Learn alot and experienced alot of kinds of people. Basically all i gotta do is pick up the phone, answer the person. If i cant answer i just pass it to someone else =x Haha. But what if some customers really say some shocking things?! Here are somethings my colleagues and I kena that make me really shocked

Customer #1: I want to talk to the CEO!
Me:

Customer #2: Ni hao. Ni hui jiang hua yu ma?
Me:

Customer #3: I'm sick and the NTUC doctor is not available to me and i dont want to go other doctors. What shld i do now?
Me:

Customer #4: My husband just died. Can i sign up a policy for him?
Me:

Customer #5: Why should i give u my IC number! Later u use it for loanshark ar! Only policeman can take my ic OK! Dont ask customers for their ICs!
Me:

Customer #6: asdashe aduhaerr pbwerhwbe asdkjahse erakehrae lhrt (Indian Accent I totally dont understand)
Me:

Horrible! But... earning your own munny is really FUN! Alright 8 more days to go~~

Pulau Redang

2006-04-29T04:12:00.000+08:00

I had a great time with ChinSiang, BaoRong, YongXuan and XiaoFen on the beautiful island of Pulau Redang! BTW the 5 of us are the DcRedangers. WHAHAHA! Anyway we set off on Sunday night and reached on Monday morning.

Monday 24/04/2006

We reached the jetty at around 7.30am but the first boat leaves at 9.30am. So we were actually the first team to arrive:) Then we took the first ferry and during the 1hr ride almost everyone fell asleep. I accidentally slept on the fat guy's shoulder beside me. Eew. Then we reached Pulau Redang, had a quick briefing, walked around the beach then we went for lunch at noon. The buffet was not bad. Then we checked into our rooms. Our rooms were connected, with 4 beds in each room. Haha very comfortable. The beach was so pretty! blue skies blue sea nice sandy beach. Totally beyond godlike.

Dominating Beach

Then at 2.30pm we chionged down to the jetty for snorkeling. Lol. Then they briefed us and they brought us to the open sea at Pulau Lima. There were like 7 boats and everyone got into the water and started snorkeling. It was FUN! Haha. Missed snorkeling since Tioman. Then we saw alot of nice corals and stuff. But didnt see any sharks or turtles. Oh they evern had a underwater camera service. Rm5 for a photo. I took one with a Giant Clam. Didnt look like any clam that i know though Lol. Cooled! Next when we got back, we went for more swimming at the swimming pool then had a nice buffet dinner. later we tried the ktv which was ok but the girls kept choosing weird songs for me i dun like to sing cos i sound like a crow i shall never sing again:(

Singing in the KTV. We ordered cocktails and i got a very nice frozen banana daiquiri but like not very worth it.

Tuesday 25/04/2006

Woke up abit late so we had to miss breakfast. Then went down to the jetty for the 9.30am snorkeling trip. They brought us to the Marina Park and gave us bread to feed the fishes. Really FUN! They even took picture of us. U can see the instructors and helpers all snorkeled alot cos they were very tanned except for a white oval on their face. Haha. Guess thats the bad effect of snorkeling too much. Then the guide showed us moral eels, there were two and they were LARGE! One of the workers lured the eel out and it was HUGE. I was quite near it den when it swam out of its cave i totally zoomed away. Then another worker smacked it on its body to make it run back into it gave. Like piak piak! And we played with the fishes and bread. And Br and Xf saw a baby shark! Then they push jumped up and yelled shark and then instead of running away we all went to look for it. Haha! But i only saw it at the end while getting on the boat. Then we saw the garupa and it was huge and ugly and it had a torn lip and an UGLY single tooth. Haha really fugly fish sia!

Br is drowning =x Hahahaha

Then we went back to the resort. We could have gone on another snorkeling trip but i think if we went we would really die cos too tired so we spent the rest of the day playing at the beach, suntanning, swimming at the pool and we also went on the banana boat. I went on a banana boat once at Langkawi and the boat brought us nicely here and there. But this time the guy really tried his best to make us fall in! We tried to balance as best as we could but then one turn was too difficult and we all fell into the water and there was a huge impact BOOM! and we all died:( Haha seriously very big impact my leg totally blueblacked. Br's shorts nearly dropped off luckily he had his lifejacket on and it helped to catch it. The second time wasnt so bad, but my shorts also almost fell off. Until my butt there. =S

Tanning is impt!

The swimming pool area

Oh and i found a tasty snack! Its milo in a packet. I never thought of just eating the powder without adding powder. How fascinating! Haha

Wednesday 26/04/2006

Woke up for breakfast at 7.30am. Then we ate finish, den really very sleepy. So Yx, Cs and I went back to sleep for like maybe 2 hrs until 11.30 while Br and Xf slacked. Then we went swimming in the sea and pool somemore. We planed to snorkel over to shark bay but in the end really lazy and tired to go. Luckily we didn't cos the scuba guy called us to come down to the jetty around 3pm. We went and they showed us a scuba video and then the instructor and helping Jimmy and Derek/Derrick (dunno his spelling) brought us to the sea and first gave us basic learning stuff under the water. Then we brought us out into the house reef where we scuba-ed excellently and saw many interesting fishes and corals. HAHA kidding. In actually fact we spent most of our attention concentrating on balancing in the water, breathing, and trying not to die of over lung expansion. Haha. OK la i managed to see NEMO. Cutest fish in the world. Fugliest is the garupa. Then we went back for dinner (super hungry) and the 4 of them went for their full body oil massage. Then some things happened i shall not say:) Then the massage guy told us about 'blue sand' Blue sand?! SO we went to investigate this side quest. We walked and looked around the beach as pointed to us but could find anything. So we asked one of the restaurant ppl and he pointed us to this small patch of beach nearby. Very unnoticeable. Then we saw 3 ppl stomping on the sand. What were they doing?! OH! Some areas where they stepped on had blue pinpoint lights glowing for a second or two before fading away. So PRETTY! Dunno what plankton/worm or something. Really cool. Then we walked along the beach somemore and enjoyed the stars and the last night at Redang.

Here are some cock photos. The really really cock ones are buried deep within the earth so u shall never see them again haha. (we took alot of fugly ones of ourselves and especially yx hahahaha)

Muscle Men

This photo is weird cos dunno why we stand so far apart

Redang is the site of the dunno what Sammi Cheng/Ritchie Yen movie with the More More Tea Inn

Having drinks at the beach pub

Haha End. Shall upload the scuba diving pics once the pisc are developed :)

Happy Bday Kh

2006-04-16T20:46:00.000+08:00

Ate at Seoul Garden with Akil, Aziah, Ken, YongXuan, YouChang, BaoRong, ChinSiang and Bday Boy KwangHong. Oh and Mr Ho also. We treated him:P But in the end he bought Kh a cake then we erm... forgot to pay him back. Teehee. Is Yc's fault =x

Playboy tshirt and funny coloured cap is nice. Say they're nice!

Teehee

Kingdom Hearts 2

2006-04-04T03:46:00.000+08:00

I won't be gaming Dota or RO in the near future cos i have to send my comp in for repair. seriously dunno whats wrong with it. BUT i have a NEW FRIEND! His name is KINGDOM HEARTS 2!!! Omg haha i'm soooooooooooooo happy. Luckily my friend's friend found it and told my friend who told me who told my other friend to help me buy den now my life is fulfilled. I can complete the game and die happily *after my Redang trip*

HAPPY!

To DcDotaers - Jio me out for dota leh. at least until my comp is back ahahahaha

I totally cannot play violent games like *Fear Night*(i forgot the title. It's a ps2 boxing game) and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. For the boxing game i kena knock out in round 2 and in GTA I died in the first mission. Where got lousy.

Comp crashed and i'm bored

2006-04-02T02:22:00.000+08:00

Anguish!

Haha its around 2am and i crashed into my little brother's room and took control of his computer by force and persistant whining. my computer has officially died. totally funeral-ed. tml shall be going to get a new hard disc or something to fix it. actually i wanted to sleep at 1am. but it's really too early for me. haha. i tossed and turn in bed until my fingers very itchy and i went to kachiao my brother. zzz. i am anguished.

today went to mahjong with DCY + Triple T. Haha it was fun. actually kidding quite boring. i wanted to proclaim myself god of gamblers but i lost money. -_-" Anguishing.

i'm so sorry Cs and Yx. i know u all really want to Phuket but Pa dont let me phuket. guess we'll be Redanging. Boo. i shall braid yr hair for u ok? somemore we made so many plans to play in Phuket already. really anguished.

haiz i'm still sad about my computer.whywhywhy! luckily i have backup of pics up to Jan and my diaries (i use microsoft words) are intact (which i will never let anyone let their eyes gain upon. my computer is really dead leh. gone-d. forever-ed.

why when i angry everybody laf at me? :(

Bored. All Ro-ing without me. i am God of Wizard. Ph43r M3! Actually i want ppl to tank me cos i really die very easily. But i make all my guild all very pekchek now nobody li me. i shall jsut be a mageroach. give me your jellopy.

Bored and Computer-less =/

Give me Pics!

2006-03-28T02:41:00.000+08:00

Haha just back from Mk's chalet to celebrate her birthday. the third person in our group to reach the BIG 20! omg this year we'll all being having the number '2' on the front end of our ages. thats... really old. omg. but at least easier for cake preparers, just two big candles instead of 1 big 9 small ones.

Boo i dunno what to do right now. totally stagnant. someone pls come by and give me a bag of money.

i'll be blogging about my class sentosa trip, mk's birthday and whatever new updates soon. my comp just crashed, all pic goned. GONED. anybody who have pics with my face in it from after December 2005 (meaning Jan 2006 onwards) pls pls pls send me:) will love ya forever.

i need my pics back!!!!!

After Poly Life

2006-03-09T03:11:00.000+08:00

Roar. I'm still alive! hahaha. Yah so now i'm finished with Singapore Poly. Finished with my Chemical Engineering. Finish studying totally at the moment. Haha. My last paper was ok. Think i did alright. After that my class and me went to PS to eat Pizza Hut. Last time i prefer Canadian Pizza cos it's much cheaper, but seriously Pizza Hut taste better i think. We ordered like two pizzas with CHEESY LAVA (everyone say oooh!) and the cheese was so delicious in the crust. The crust seriously taste better than the pizza itself haha. totally cheesed.

After that i met DcGuild to watch Big Momma's house. I shall not say anything more Hoho.

Last Sunday DcGuild went shopping for marshmellows, strawberries, apples and chocolate. cos we aim to make FONDUE! haha. Ok la it was Jas' idea. But i helped alot lor. like cutting apples. Seriously, my cutting apple skills suck. But not as bad as gwen. Her sliced apple was like... i dunno. Unedible. Haha.

Looks nice right? $20 in all. Very cheap to make your own.

Mmm... what else was i up to. Went to Ken's house overnight to watch soccer with the guys. Actually i went there for Blackjack. But very disappointing cos play awhile only. Not shiok:( Barcelona vs Chelsea = boring-ed to death. Haha.

I have a few more months before entering NS (damn! i lose interest very easily. For example O2Jam, Maple. I think NS 1 week i will bored to death!!!) Hmm have a few goals i hope to accomplished before then. Patience!

* I found it very fun to clean my room last Monday. Spend like 3 hours vacuuming and dusting. I threw out all my secondary and primary school books (yes i have like 3 big piles of textbooks and exercise books that is currently waiting for the Garung Guni man) But i kept my composition books, both in Chinese and English. If u wanna i can let u read my chinese compos. i think u all will laugh to death. den revive. den laugh to death again. Gab says i have patience for the weirdest things =/

Ending of SP Days

2006-02-19T01:16:00.000+08:00

4 more papers until i'm free. But then i will be saying goodbye to familiar faces i'm been looking at for at least 5 days a week. Dunno to be sad or happy. Lets all work hard to keep in touch and score well for our last exams. Good Luck everyone!

CLS Farewell Party

2006-02-09T02:45:00.000+08:00

Just a few days later and SP organized a CLS Farewell Party for the graduating classes. this is really it man. we're gonna be graduates in a few weeks time. sad. haha. anyway there was a short concert, with lecturers and students dancing and singing, and a high tea buffet. My class all wore this class jersey we ordered last week. looks cool. we spent like 1hr+ taking photos everywhere lol. last people to leave the foyer. haha.

My class with Mr Lee and Mr Ho. Mr Ho is cool

With Mr Edison J Lo. very fun teacher but his module very boring lol.

Mr Kong our erm... dear senior economist. very hiao wan. lol

Anyway more pics can be seen here

http://share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=0AZs27dm2ZMWLl4¬ag=1

CLS Annual Dinner and Dance

2006-02-07T03:52:00.000+08:00

Oh man i had so much fun today. Will blog more about it when i got the time k? :P

Meanwhile u can go to these sites to see and know more about my DnD :)

www.castell86.shutterfly.com
www.siewnoi.shutterfly.com
www.dcclass.blogspot.com

Happy Chinese New Year 2006

2006-01-29T02:35:00.000+08:00

Wishing u guys a prosperous new year with many angpows, pineapple tarts and baaaaakgua. Cos it's the year of the dog, pls everyone sing with me.

WHO LETS THE DOGS OUT (woof! woof! woof! woofwoof!)

Ala i think i'm funny.

Musical Delights 29

2006-01-25T00:26:00.000+08:00

Finally after 3 months of practice, the concert is over. Just wanna thank everyone that came. it was fun.

Having two concerts at the Esplanade and one at VCH, haha really quite cool. and this year was not bad. the concert (espeically the second half) was ok :) Actually things didnt go exactly as i had imagined, but it was good nonetheless.

The UFO at the Esplanade Concert Hall

Euphonium Section: ChingSi, WeiJie, Derek, JiaMing, Brandon, ZhenYang and James

My dear Year Ones lol

With our most recent Graduates Nasir and PeiYan

Yea its been a good 3 years. now its time for old ppl like me to leave lol. I will miss those weird guys. Hope to see all of u all next concert (dont quit lol) and pls work hard together under ChingSi and James. :)

3 years, 3 MD concerts, 3 groups of weird ppl

Stuff i got from Nasir(mostly), PeiYan, Eileen, Amelia, Joelly and XueChun

Our program booklet and my Esplanade stage pass

Some stuff i made. Quite fugly haha.

That's all. I'm done. I wish my section amd everyone in band all the best :)

DCY

2006-01-24T23:53:00.000+08:00

My group during MicroE lesson. YouChang, Josephine, Dewei, Me and YongXuan. We're White Ninjas!

When Derek, ChinSiang and YongXuan have nothing better to do

a nice and normal pic of DCY

not so nice and normal pic of DCY

Can u find us?

We Really Love Dustbins!

I love this pic. cos got the dustbin.

My class loves dustbin too

This pic not nice. no dustbin.

Think we're all mad haha!

Lots of Everything

2006-01-24T23:06:00.000+08:00

Haha. ok i finally got my lazy ass off my bed (mmm bed...) and uploaded like alot of pics. first i have to do justice to some people and post their birthday pics! haha! (some pics date back to last year!)

First was JieHui's 19th Birthday waaaaay back on 1 Nov 2005

The group back from our dinner at Marina Bay $12 steamboat

Followed by Gwen's 19th Birthday on 5 Nov 2005.

Gwen treated us at Pizza Hut. Actually really very long i never eat there liao cos usually we order Canadian 2-for-1 (more profitable) But i really had a yummy time there. Then the service was very good - the in-charge actually went around finding waitors and waitresses who were free to come sing Birthday Song for Gwen. haha. den even got free ice cream. after that got 2 other groups i the restaurant also sang birthday song. all copycats. haha. Mmm... pizza...

ChiangHui's 20th Birthday was celebrated on 12 Nov 2005

CH treated us to MA LA HUO GUO somewhere between Suntec and Bugis. wah first time i ate this. very cooled. the soup had these little spice seeds inside and when i accidentally bit into it, my tongue went numb for quite a few minutes. super cool. haha. after that i was very careful. The selection of food was not as much as Marina Bay, BUT the soup was very cool and worth it. really enjoyed. also first time i saw Ch's bf hohoho. he and his sister seems nice. (i am por-ing Ch haha)

11 ppl squeezing into a lovegety machine is cooled.

Next i had two Christmas gatherings (one with Poly Frens + kapoh DcGuild and one with Big Group)

Yup it was fun too

Finally the most recent birthday was gab's 20th one on 14 Jan 2006 (yay finally blogging about this year. i am super lag)

Firstly Gab and his Ns friends went over to the restuarant first to settle stuff. i think got some misunderstanding then instead of the dimsum buffet Gab wanted to treat us, we got an 8-course dinner instead. the manager didnt let us change, den Gab quite frustrated. but in the end we just took the dinner lah. wu suo wei i both also happy. haha.

actually the food also not bad.

img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v297/castell86/Gab%20and%20MD/DSCN0186.jpg" alt="Image hosting by Photobucket">
Nice crabs. Also got shark's fin soup, steamed fish etc. Macham wedding dinner

Then there was this roasted chicken dish and it was DELICIOUS. i ate alot. den i use my chopsticks to move some vegetable aside den almost screamed. cos i saw the CHICKEN HEAD! i cannot eat when the stupid head is looking at me lor. so gross. very traumatised. den of cos my dear friends when they saw this, immediately did stuff like the below pic

Can u see the chicken head? Omg...

Come closer to the Chicken Head......

Scared...

Near the end, Derrick, Gwen and I told Gab we had to go. I already told him a few days ago that i had to leave early. den he say ok lor thanks for coming. but can see he really SADED about it. so we left ... to go buy him cake. Haha. we attempted buy three big cakes, but poored. So I and Gwen bought small cupcakes and Derrick carried a big one. we went back to the restuarant to see all our friends outside and Gab missing. U know why? Cos the restuarant is the horriblest restaurant in the WORLD. Firstly, they didnt accept Gab's credit card for i dunno what reason, meaning that he got to go to Funan beside to draw money. DEN they chase everyone out while Gab was away cos they say they need to prepare for dinner. WTF? 2pm wan to prepare for what dinner. AND also i NEVER SEE any other diners kena chased out. what rubbish man. Horriblest restaurant in the world. Pls dont go there. The restaurant name is

Somewhere in the Equinox Hotel behind Funan. Pls dont go there.

But nevermind. when Gab came back, we surpised him with the cakes. Think he shocked haha. We went one floor up and the nice uncle working at a small bar there let us use the tables there to cut cake. Then he actually went down to say some stuff to the restuarant ppl. Good man.

Next is a picture dump just browse through it.

Gab's face never change one. Scary...

Anyway after that i went off to meet ZhenYang, WeiJie and ChingSi at Jurong East to go shopping for food. after buying lots of stuff we went to WeiJi's place to make Sandwiches for the band graduation.

WeiJie and his bro's room is super cool. Got xbox 360, Ipod, PSP all that.

Brandon and JiaMing came after and we sandwiches with sausages, egg and ayo, mushrooms, crabmeat and mayo and cheese (some is mixed into one sandwich) and pls believe me its really really really very very very delicious. den as per tradtion (actually started last year only) we booby trapped some sandwiches with wasabe and chilli padi. actually, 6 guys working hard to make sandwiches is really very chou.

can u see the wasabe and chilli padi?

some are booby-trapped!

we took cab down and although we were one of the latest to arrive at 8pm, our sandwiches kena eaten finished first i think. some ppl thought waaah nice sandwiches den kena wasabe. very funny.

Gave Peiyan a cap and card (her swatch on the way)

Eupho Section. Missing: Nasir, Brandon and James.

KK that's enough about birthdays:)

Some stuff i wanna say

2006-01-16T02:29:00.000+08:00

Just wanna mention a few things. My last concert with SP band coming up this Sunday at the Esplanade. actually the past few weeks, i know i've been complaining about it. cos it really took up alot of my time (but if i think about it, its just 6 hours a week) Yah den band starts at 6pm, so sometimes before that i got too much free time, when i could be going out with friends or having a nap or something more enjoyable. i was also getting quite bored of it.

but

all these complaints... in the end i still go for practice (most of the time anyway). i also dunno why. maybe feel like wasted if i dont go practice for my last concert. or maybe cos i should go because i the SL (not a great one though) or maybe cause like, if i really think about it, i like it? i also not sure. fact is i've been doing this for maybe 6-7 years? feels weird if it really suddenly stops.

i just wanna say thanks to those friends of mine who are coming my concert. i know some of u mmm... dont really enjoy band music. and maybe feel like no choice have to go cos its my last concert or what. or mmm i dunno...

anyway ya thanks for coming my concert, something which i have been doing for the past 3 years with SP band. i know like mmm... u all also have no idea what i'm been doing. so u can now come see it for awhile, just for 2 hours. (and for $16 haha). i really appreciate it.

ya tts all

*Mmm... if really buay tahan band music, den bring pillow k. aircon nice, chair comfortable. haha.

**Gabriel's Birthday party and Band graduation pics will be coming soon, i promise :)

Happy New Year 2006

2006-01-02T18:02:00.000+08:00

Times passes by so fast. These past few weeks just flew by, without me even noticing until Christmas arrived! I have LOTS of Christmas photos to show, Lots of New Year stuff to blog, but main priority = FINAL YEAR PROJECT with deadline on 3rd JAN!

*@&^!%&!(&#!!!!!!!!!!!

No time to celebrate now gotta do report. i feel totally reported now. Anyway hope everyone had a blast in 2005 and prepare for more partying in 2006! Ciao!

The Way of the Ninja

2005-12-15T19:31:00.000+08:00

There is a secret cult of ninjas hidden deep within Singapore Poly... They wear white to represent purity and virtue, and also to keep VERY clean. Here is a rare shot of two of the white-clothes shuriken masters (the photographer was never seen again)

You cant find them, but they can find you

NYAH!

Muder Mystery Solved

2005-12-12T18:18:00.000+08:00

The Mi(1) Di(3) has been solved!!!!!!!!!! The main culprit is:

The Grandma!

She is back from Malacca with my phone and cute pics with Aunt Daisy (actually i dunno about the latter aha)

*everyone bursts into song about the truth being out and Kueh Bankit from Malacca

I can't wait for King Kong and Chronicles of Narnia! Pls book me pls!

Where have I Been?!

2005-12-06T01:55:00.000+08:00

Haha. I'm haven't died, migrated or was abducted by aliens. Just really too lazy to blog. Meaning that i missed on on blogging for JieHui's, Gwen's and ChiangHui's Bday! Haha So sorry. But can always go to JH's or Ch's blogs to see the pics. Anyway the latest news is i lost my handphone. Where? In my bedroom!

*anguish!

Let me tell u the story...

On Saturday night, I left my phone on my computer table. I clearly remember this because Gabriel called me and we chatted for a while. Just before i slept, I put my phone at its usual place on my bedside table. the very next mornign, it is GONED!

i thought it had fallen beneath the bed. I checked but it wasnt there. I searched everywhere! I even called my own number but there was no sound! Meaning that my phone wasnt even in my room! where is it! WHERE?!

I very sad... all my pictures and contacts goned. If u read this, please sms me (my number is still 98473535) and tell me who u are so that i can save your number and contact. Thanks

Actually i can make a musical. "A Twist of Fate" about who stole the handphone. The main characters would be:

The Grandma - Went to Malacca on the morning and wanted to take cute pictures of herself with Aunt Daisy

The Papa - Wants to ji siao me cos he just bought a 3G phone

The Mama - Cos she wants to be a CSI

The Little Brother - Because he's the little brother

The Maid - To use it to tumbok belachan (beat chilli)

The Me - So that i can buy a new phone

Who can solve this Murder Mystery?!

I MUST get to the bottom of this Mi(2) Di(4)!

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The Class Logo is on the way. Pls stay tuned for the final design! DcClass Forever!

A little more about me

2005-11-02T03:24:00.000+08:00

Just celebrated JieHui's Birthday at Marina Bay eating steamboat. haha. ate until very full. but i admit i got quite cranky cos it was very hot and humid. den i got abit irritated at EVERYTHING but i at least i never explode haha. shall say more about JH birthday next time.

The new DOTA terrain is so... GREEN! very nice! got birds flying around lor omg so cute. and lots of flowers and pretty statues. but too bad cant spend time admire cos u must kill Kill KILL!

Mmm was looking at Nasir's blog and saw this 7-somethings list. den we hope i will do it den i tot it is very bo liao. however i am a very bo liao person so here it is haha

7 random facts about me:
- I am very touchy about money
- I lie down in my bed ALOT. besides sleeping, i do thinking and sometimes i laugh out loud to myself (scary...)
- I would love to be in the entertainment industry (but not as an entertainer)
- I hate durian and tofu
- I suck at Chinese
- I spend ALOT of money on food
- I like my name alot :P

7 things i plan to do before i die: (mostly wishful thinking though)
- Go to Japan and other exotic places
- Learn to drive
- Learn to do photoshop and java etc etc to make a cool site
- Do something historical/memorable
- See all my friends one last time (and maybe write a personal msg?)
- Figure out what to do with my diaries (burn? give to ppl?)
- Married? with children? LOL

7 things i cant do:
- I cant drive (yet)
- I cant talk fluent Malay or Chinese. (What kind of Baba am i?)
- I cant cry on the spot
- I cant twirl a pen
- I cant sleep without leaning my head on something
- I cant sleep without at least an hour of thinking
- I cant sing hahahahhahahaha

7 things that scare me:
- Losing someone precious
- Cockroaches (and bugs in general)
- Ghosts (real or imagined)
- Lightning
- Having people angry at me
- No love
- Dying

7 most important things in my room:
- My computer (it's my life)
- My bed and pillows (it's my castle)
- My knicknacks and toys (my memories collected over the years)
- My books (i collect them)
- My PS2 (cos Kingdom Hearts 2 is coming out soon)
- My photos (more memories)
- My grandma (she sleeps in my room lol)

7 people i'll love to see doing this:
- KwangHong (nice blog)
- YongXuan
- Ken
- Aziah (newly added)
- SiewNoi
- Gabriel (haha i still read yr blog)
- MeiKuan
- JieHui (update yr birthday pics!)
- Joelly
- Josephine
- James
- I dont care my list shall go on forever haha
- aiyah everyone lah (DcClass and PYSS ppl. For those without BLOGS go make one NOW)

i shall ADD MORE ppl to my list (i dont care) and they must make blog and do this thing too:

- BaoRong
- ChinSiang
- YouChang
- Gwen
- Jasmine (i dunno where's yr hidden blog)
- Wendy (Go make a new one. i miss reading yr entries)

Haha if i miss anyone, just go make can liao.

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Den i saw ChiangHui's blog den she did something like the above also. den her list got ME on top. so bo pian have to do also. hohoho.

Give 5 habits abt urself n den list 5 names of ur frenz to ask them to pass down in their bloggies.

So lets get the ball rolling now!

1. I switch on my computer the moment i wake up. when i use my comp, my tv is also on but i rarely pay attention to it. hohoho

2. I lie down on my bed and think alot. sometimes i imagine myself in an action movie hohoho

3. I prefer sleeping on my side with a bolster

4. I bite my nails when thinking or worried

5. I scratch my head when i see dead animals (birds, cats etc) because my mom told me to do it so once (pantang? i dunno) and now its stuck in my head

Hi

2005-10-31T23:23:00.000+08:00

Hi Kh

Jasmine's and Dennis' Birthday... Among other things

2005-10-05T16:29:00.000+08:00

My exams finished like 5 days ago? haha. finally got my lazy ass up to do some blogging. Been really busy with Dota and Maple and going to a concert and a Birthday treat these past 5 days. but let me start with Jasmine's birthday BBQ

Saturday 24/09/05

Jasmine celebrated birthday today. Gab, Jas and ChiangHui woke up earlier to buy and marinate stingray and chicken. Den I meet Gab and Jas at Simei to shop for bbq stuff and cake. Gab disappeared halfway to sleep in his car. He only had one hour sleep cos he watched Advent Children until 7am yesterday. Haha. Anyway we got our stuff and Gab drove us to Ch's place and we cooked magi mee for lunch. Den we watched tv awhile until Gab went off to return the car and get something. The Taiwanese game shows are really funny lah. I totally keep laughing. Got this contraption that will slap contestants what they lose a challenge. Haha. Funny!

Later took pics of Jasmine in her Hawaiian dress (the theme of the party is Hawaiian Beach Wear) Then WanTeng and Dennis came and while Dennis stayed upstairs to rest, the rest of us came down to decorate the area, start the bbq and prepare drinks all that etc etc.

Starting the BBQ

Den Wendy and Eric and gang game (his gang includes DaSheng, YinWu and a lot of other normal academic boys that I don't know) We intitally cooked for them, but we did badly and Eric stepped in so we just sit and eat lor. Hehe. The food was GOOD! Stingrays were DELICIOUS! Omg so tasty. I love stingray. Hahahaha. Den we just had fun until around 10 when Jasmine’s sisters and mom came to cut cake. Here are more pics from the BBQ

*I know my shirt is ugly. i lent my nice blue one to Gab. hahaha. Pls dont call the fashion police.

Ping Yi (my batch) had alot of small clique. My group (includes DcGuild, DlClan, DWD, Giodano Brothers) are called the Big Group (very creative name) These guys are from another cliche. I usually refer to them as the Chinese Basketballer Group. I think overall got about 5 major cliques during my batch? The Big Group, Chinese Basketballer Group, The Girls Group (Joelly, Joy, HsiLun they all), The Boys Group (most of the Malay guys and some of the more sporty Chinese guys) and the last group consists of all the normal academic and technical (i never mix with them wan haha) What to do. Express only got 3 classes and less den 100 students haha.

When it was time to cut cake:

Happily looking at her Chocolate Mousse cake

Making a Wish

As usual, because of Dennis, there's a NEW tradition where u insert a candle all the way into the cake and the birthday girl/boy must take it out with only his/her teeth.

Attempting to pull the candle out

As u can see from the many hands around her head, the final result is predictable. cake on face etc haha.

OK. Birthday BBQ was a Success. Yay.

SiaHeng burnt for me Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children. OMG! It's the GREATEST MOVIE IN THE WORLD! Hahahaha! Really cool fighting scenes and beautiful characters! Haha. LOVE IT!

OK Next Birthday was held on 1st October

Earlier DcGuild went shopping for Dennis' Birthdaqy present. got him a shirt from Topshop. Um... the shirt not I choose wan. cos the pattern of the shirt is sort of torn and got white thread around the torn parts. new fashion? haha. anyway met with Dennis, ChiangHui, SiaHeng and JieHui then we went to this fastfood restaurant at Marina Square.

Carl's Jr Fastfood.

One combo meal there is like $10?! haha. but the burgers were really huge and the fries and cheese fries all erally nice to eat. abit better den Burger King i think. we could not even finish the fries (somemore i was around lor)

Dennis biting into his HUGE hamburger (lookee! a new chao recruit ahahaha!)

Dennis's Cafe Cartel Cake Chocolate Cake. (notice i just use 5 Cs) We attempted to make him bite the candle out like Jasmine, but the cake too hard. cannot poke. POKE BU DAO!

After that we went to watch the Myth. the action very nice (of cos la got Jackie Chan mah) but the ending totally... speechless. suddenly got Chang Er. Haha. took NightRider home... 1hr plus journey. luckily Ch and Jh stay near Pasir Ris at least got ppl to chat with. haha. Oh and they told me about a new psychological thing. next time shall try on my poly frens:P

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OK that's about it. shall be spending my holidays Dotaing and Mapling like siao. haha. DcDotaers and DcMaplers forever!

DcMaplers at Kerning enjoying the sunset (Xuanaux, Castell, Emptys and ForeverFen)

Fighting King Slime (my archer is useless! haha)

Mid-Autumn Festival

2005-09-19T17:44:00.000+08:00

DcGuild were going Moonvake Festival-ing. i wanted to make my hair into two big loops like Chang Er for the occasion, but decided against it. Anyway Gab, Gwen and MeiKuan came over to my place and suddenly my house very noisy. Jas came afterwards and brought candles and small lanterns. Yay! Then we went off to Pasir Ris park.

We are armed with mini lanterns. dont mess with us!

We totally went the wrong way! we were supposed to go left to Fisherman's Village but we went right instead and reached a dead end. However we made the best of it and we must lots of candles in the wall of a hut and it was very pretty.

The small hut we arrived at. see the wall with halls at the back. that gave us to idea to...

Let's light the hut on FIRE!

Obviously, such hard work must be rewarded with posing pics!

And here we are all posing Chang Ers

I dont really know what Jas is doing behind the wall...

So we walked all the way back so that we can go to the Fisherman's village. On the way, we saw lots of latenrs just left alone in a bbq pit. So we took them. Very nice sia. Haha. The last owners strung some together on a stick (3 in a row) or (3 in a column)

Jasmine took her fav Mickey and Minnie mouse latern and swayed as she walked like a samsui chick

I took (2 in a column) and (3 in a row), Gab and Mk each took a round latern

and Gwen took (2 in a row). Another samsui chick

Anyway we walked and walked. Encountered another bunch of lanterns and wanted to kop it, but the owners came running up. :(

Den continued walk until we reached a map of the park. Omg Fisherman's Village is still a long way to go. Here, Gwen lost one of her lantern due to fire. So I gave her my (2 in a row) Very tiring to carry lah. We reloaded our candles here and continued on our way.

We reached the Pasir Ris Park maze. When I was younger, I was scared of this maze cos I was very short. Now it's just nice. Still quite tall but not as overpowering as last time. But... the path inside very dark. Mk led the way in, lighting the way with her lantern. Soon we reached a dead end. Haha. Den Gab (NS Boy) took over, reached another dead end before finally reaching the centre. Very tiring sia. Haha. Really make u go round in circles. There were many ants in the centre so we decided to go without taking any pics. Den while walking back, my middle lantern went out. Gwen's also went out soon after. So we walked faster. Quite dark and scary at that time. I dropped another lantern and Gab's and Mk's lantern went out. brisk walking ensued. We rushed out in the end. From 8 lanterns only 2 with barely burning candles left. So cool.

We continued walking... oh we saw the second bridge! So we happily crossed it. And u know what? We arrived back at the Pasir Ris park map. chong ming chong ming -_-" The maze totally ruined our sense of direction. Haha. Sian. So we went to Downtown East instead to sit down and discuss Jasmine's birthday. Ate some mooncake and went home. Haha. Fun outing! Now back to exams!

Wendy's 19th Birthday

2005-09-03T01:06:00.001+08:00

Today is Wendy's birthday! She booked a small enighbourhood cafe in Tampines and was going to organise a dinner party for us. theme was : Black Classic. with some helpful ideas from moi of cos :)

In the afternoon, Joni sms-ed me, asking me to go buy a cake because they destroyed the one they just baked. Haha. i knew something like that would happen! Wendy added MILK didnt she! tell u dont add MILK already! anyway I went to WhiteSands and got a yummy black forest cake (i was thinking fully about her and not about myself although black forrest is my favorite) Later we were going to do a sort photoshoot for the occasion so bought one black and one white rose for us to pose with too.

They had no black roses so they got a red one and sprayed it black. -_-" Bo pian

Then carrying a shoe bag, a cake box and flowers, I went to Tampines to meet Kelvin, ChiangHui, Dennis and SiaHeng. Took bus 28 to Wendy’s birthday area: FUED café. Quite surprised when I arrived. There was a long table with black table cloth in the middle, with nice sofas and everything.

Joni, Wendy and Wendy's sis, Jessie, were there already cooking (all the food are going to be prepared by them) Wendy made her sister into a French maid -_-" Lol

Best Friends: Joni and Wendy

French Maid: Ferait vous aime quelque champagne?

Anyway while they were busy making food, the rest of us enjoyed Ribena drink, kachang and um… just chilling out.

Oh we look So chilled out!

Gabriel will be late. Cos he banged someone’s back bumper, so he had to go to the Toyota Carecentre to pay for damages. But between the crash and reaching there, he had time to pick up Gwen, MeiKuan and Jasmine, and still go MacDonalds eat -_-” Anyway he had to fork out $2000 for damages. Haha. i never laugh at u hor. i am not evil. not in your face anyway :)

Anyway after LayKuan (she came wearing something that looked really classy) and the rest of DcGuild came, we started our meal. Wendy made a menu with French names for everything.

Black le Classic Dinner party!

First we had:

La soupe de creme de champignon et pain d'ail

Le Porc mielleux avec les pommes de terre cuites et la salade de pâtes

Glacer la creme

Wendy likes PEACHES

But basically we had soup, porkchops with veggies, pasta and baked potatoes and finally chocolate ice cream.

Then it was time for fun. While some of us went to play games and chat, Wendy, Chianghui and I had a photoshoot. Gab kept taking NICE photos. He really change liao. Anyway yah we spent ages on photographs

Photoshoot!

can we all say ChiangHui is photogenic together? PHOTOGENIC!

sorry to the rest whose photoshoot i didnt take! there really wasn't enough time. will take u all on Jasmine's Birthday? Haha.

Oh and see this pic:

See the hat?! STYLE?! it's Wendy's Friend's Mom's hat. we were all so excited by it that we ALL tried it on

Also must put group shots

Hey Girls!

Hey Boys!

ChiangHui, Dennis, Gwen
Jessie, Joni, Laykuan, Wendy, Jasmine, MeiKuan
SiaHeng, Gab, Derek, Kelvin

DcGuild - Derek, Gabriel, Gwen, Jasmine, MeiKuan

Then it was cake time. Wendy spent ages to finish with the cake. Cos Dennis put a candle in the cake and told her to take it out with her mouth. Den Wendy was hesitant cos she say someone will push her head down into the cake. But in the end, her face still kena pushed in. Haha.

Black Forest! my favo... Wendy's VERY expensive birthday cake!

Later we waited unti JieHui came and we had a glass of champaign each.

Ok That's all!~!~!

The Black Tai Tai wishes you Thank You and Good Night

IBM 23

2005-09-01T04:39:00.000+08:00

haha back! been really busy with schoolwork, dota, tv, dota, schoolwork. my life has gotten so boring i had nothing to blog for ages. but anyway just finished my IBM 23 concert with the newly named Singapore Polytechnic Symphonic Band. actually nowadays i dont feel like going band much. feel more like going to play mahjong or dota with friends. but always in the end i still go. haha. oh well.

IBM 23 stands for I Believe in Music. Its a concert to showcase the year 1s.

The 3 Eupho Year 1s

the concert went not bad. the first freshmen piece was impactful. Haha. very nice. Anyway here's more photos.

Eupho with their really pretty ORANGE ties
WeiJie, Brandon, ZhenYang, James, Derek, JiaMing and ChingSi

Eupho section with Peiyan

Cool Guys

I put up this pic because i like ChingSi's face. Haha

without realising it, i'm done with my last IBM concert. my last MD concert everyone must go ok :) Chope u all already

Dota

2005-08-20T02:06:00.000+08:00

Derek is totally not addicted to Dota. he does not play it everyday. he does not create server so that his friends can play. he does not chat with his friends on and on and on about last night's tactics, strategies and blatant gloating of wins with his friends. he does not ignore non-dota friends on msn while he plays dota for hours. he does not scream in joy when he wins and moans with disappointment when he loses. he does not go on and on and on about Dota.

OMGYM!

NDP

2005-08-11T03:58:00.000+08:00

i know i'm still supposed to upload all my birthday pics. and i have had so many outings to upload also. but for now just look at this pic!

taken from MrBrown.com

for those who were paying attention, this was taken from the National Day Parade show! haha. the two streamers behind him make him look like an alien. and not only that. for 5 seconds the streamers where happily flapping at his head there. the cameraman sure kena pay cut i tell u. hahaha!

my brother noticed it first, then he pointed it to DcFamily. then i saw it, and i laughed my ass off. on national tv leh. how suay can he get?

http://nettv.1-net.com.sg/NDP2005/hi_local.asx

Skip to 01hr 10min 15sec for that part.
Better hurry before they remove that portion. Haha

Derek's Birthday on 21st July 2005

2005-08-07T02:56:00.000+08:00

Haha. ok i got my lazy bum up and started downloading pics into my coputer from my handphone, uploading them to photobucket and resizing them and now writing a blog entry. so i shall start on the 21st of July.

lessons was on as usual, on this dull and mundane Thursday. i went to school and my classmates wished me scattered birthday greetings. throughout the day they assured me i had no presents awaiting me. den i abit unsure liao.

finally in Plant Design Lab class, SiewNoi and YongXuan appeared with a cake!

Chocolate Oreo Cheesecake! SO COOL! (u must look carefully to see the strawberries, which are blocked by two oreo cookies)

I waited from 9am to 2pm for this lor! =X Kh passed me a plastic bag with this inside.

Branded leh! I'm using it now haha. just nice because my old wallet super stinky

First first first first first time i celebrate with poly friends. I think cos this year is our last year, so everybody gets a celebration. we are nice people.

YongXuan also gave me a smiley face cookie

The sad and tragic tale of Mr Smiley Face.

Plant design had to be stopped for a while for singing and laughing. haha. then when i busy sms-ing people and eating Mr Tay say today he let me off cos I bday boy. haha. The cake was roughly well-distributed. haha.

Thanks DcClass
DcClass Thanks
(who ask u all dont faster decide on a class name Muahahaha!)
(One day i shall find a way to put all of u into a lovegety machine with me)

Went home and Pa ask me wanna go out eat not. Then my brother say he got work to do. then actually i also quite lazy. so we ordered pizza instead. got another cake too. haha.

My Yearly BlackForest Cake!

Family Picture Time!

PaMa, Bro and I

Mama and I

Pa gave me this very nicely wrapped present

Haha really very rare my Pa buy me present so quite happy with it. (it's a branded pen holder BTW)

Then we had Canadian Pizza yay!

Thanks DcFamily
DcFamily Thanks

after that Gabriel ordered me to go to Tampines. actually i very lazy leh. but in the end just go la. by this time already 8pm lor. when i got there, only saw MeiKuan and Jasmine. then really dunno what they doing lor. Haha. together walk around Tampines Mall and wasting time. den i suspect something liao. Met TianLai and friends while walking. then they know that my birthday so they shake heads to wish me. then i never talk to them before so really dunno what to say to them. so i said 'Happy Birthday' back. -_-"

Gabriel and Gwendolin suddenly appeared from nowhere then we took stickergety (i love stickergety) we used a new machine that had a coloured cloth background coming down every few seconds. then that stupid gabriel keep getting caught behind the cloth (the cloth shwoop come down infront of him) den aha very funny lah.

Then we went up to Tampines Mall the roof garden there. then they took out this small cake box. haha. then they wished me Happy Birthday. i quite happy about it leh. cos nobody never do this before.

It's supposed to be a cream mouse on top of a chocolate cake. then they sang song and i made a wish and nibbled on the ears. after we all eat finish the cake (5 bites for 5 people) then from nowhere Gab pulled out a proper big cake. haha. actually i really quite shocked because 1) DcGuild hates spending money and 2) There was no space to hide the cake

The well-hidden and precious cake :)

They got me a CardCaptor Sakura Vcd Box Set (something which i asked for 3 years ago:P) I was quite happy with the first set (cos got two sets. and one set already quite ex) then they took out the second set for me. haha. shocked x 2. then after that chat somemore then went home. haha.

Thanks DcGuild
DcGuild Thanks

And also all my well-wishes through sms & msn.

Havent finish!
More to come!

I'm Not Dead!

2005-07-31T03:50:00.000+08:00

Haha. No new updates for i dunno how long liao. It's not that i don't want to blog. But i really can't fint the time and energy to blog!!! i wish i can just say out what i want to blog and the words will appear. *already getting finger cramps. This 1 week holiday from school, i spent 75% in school already. how sad is THAT?! Anyway, when i find the time, i wanna blog about my birthday. Birthdays are quite important to me. so yea... haha. Thanks everyone for their well wishes and prezzies! When i find the time, all my pics will go online. But for now...

DcGuild at Siloso Beach.

I find this pic HILARIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!

Swensons, KTV and a Dead Computer

2005-07-11T13:03:00.000+08:00

My computer is DEAD! Saturday morning my bro wanted to play game on it but it wouldn't start up. i thought it was just throwing a tantrum and ask my bro dont use it first, let it rest until it's awake enough. Then late at night i try to switch it on again but... it wouldnt start. i shakily put my hand on the 19 inch LCD screen and recoiled in horror and shock at how cold it felt. IT'S BUANG-ED! I screamed! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooo!!! After two major reformating and dozens of restarts, even my father failed to resusitate it back to life. So now i'm relying on the charity of my bro to use his computer. (actually i just say 'oi, i use yr comp hor' after i logged into my msn haha) It's good that we should share what we have during times of crisis. *hope the Acer guys can help me soon. Dying without my comp!

Fri - Derrick, Gab and me hung out at my house, playing scary ps2 games like Fatal Frame and Kuon. Kuon quite scary leh. Cos they've got those eerie children singing a children's song in Japanese. Then also the whole time we played it was at night, and so bloody hard to see what's coming for us. Then later we watch Howl's Moving Castle until Lim and I almost sleep. The images are really nice, but the book is still better. Then we went Suntec City to recee for food (finally) before meeting Wendy to eat Swensons and watch Fantastic 4. Swenson's food really quite ex and common tasting, so i suggest to only go there for ice cream (we demonlished an Earthquake within minutes!) Fantastic 4 was ok. but the way they got their powers was abit different from the original cartoon.

Sat - My DcGuild outvoted me 4 to 1. So we went KTV-ing. Eh about our voices ar... let me just say we won't be joining SuperStar very soon. Very traumatising! haha. i know these ppl for years, and this is maybe the FIRST time i properly hear them sing. kinda scary. haha

Jas, Gwen and Mk scaring me by taking a pic together

Jas and me trying to act cute

Gab and Jas not exactly acting very cute

Derek not HAPPY! No English songs for me to sing!

Derek coma-ed by too much Jay and Jolin

DcGuild!~!~!

After that we went to eat Katong/Marin Parade Laksa, Then to Bugis to take StickerGety. Loooong time never take liao leh. i have a serious StickerGety defficiency liao

Then we walked to Esplanade cos really nth to do. It's quite nice to go there at night haha. very breezy and lots of nice shiny twinkly things to look at. saw a club there called the dunno what dunno what. totally forgot the name. i saw the queue of people going in. all old people can? old people = late 20s Early 30s. haha.

DcGuild in front of Merlion

We took alot of pictures at the bridge going to the Merlion. Haha. Alot of people looking at us. Then one part I was the photographer and asked the 4 of them to pose Liu Xing Hua Yuan style aka look up to one side. Then an auntie walked passed ALSO looked backwards to see what was going on. Haha! Then later she laughed and say "wah u all trick auntie har?!" Haha so funny

More pics of the 3 DcGuild girls

Pic of the 2 DcGuild boys (i look fat =( )

DcGuild Fall In items (from Jas)

We wanted to take Mrt home but the train station closed liao. Omgym what were we to do?! There was another woman also stranded and she lived in Tampines so she offered to share taxi with me. she will pay full until Tampines then i pay the rest until Pasir Ris lor. But we all thought maybe got nightrider or what can take also. but in the end i share cab with the auntie cos Gab's father coming and the rest all live around bedok also mah. (i so extra muahaha) Then actually i didnt think of anything la. but later dcguild sms me say maybe the auntie will pretend no money or what. den i abit oh too late in taxi liao haha. But actually the auntie quite friendly i chat with her abit. then later she did pay her fare full price and the uncle sent me home for free cos she paid abit extra and the fare only went up by like a dollar. haha. Derek shock-ded. i prepared to pay ok! haha. OK today's outing = success

PhilWinds Concert

2005-06-27T01:39:00.000+08:00

Yesterday, Kh, Yc, Br, Yx and me went to Br's house to play mahjong. Haha. Made me so happy... But towards the end, dunno what i doing la. totally zombie-ed out. got kang i forgot to kang. take a flower den forgot to bu another tile. Den somemore i even ZA HU. Where got ppl ZA HU in mahjong wan. Totally noob! Haha! Then the whole day Yx keep laughing and losing (but in the end she became a COMEBACK Queen!) Then Br fart whole day (he made his FIRST loss. Muahahaha!) Den Kh can RAP. Den YC can EDISON-ED! haha. ok the last sentense might make no sense to u, but nvm. haha.

Anyway today i went to Philharmonic Winds concert at the Esplanade with Ching Si and Nasir. Looooong time never go watch a concert liao. the last one i went to was quiet traumatising. haha.

The songs they played were all quite cheem and never heard before. But I quite liked two of the songs. One was Gloriosa by Yasuhide Ito. It was a mix of Japanese and western music. But what caught my attention was in the first part, when the male players started a Gregorian chant, since the song was about Christianity in Japan. Very cool. Then the second part had a flautist playing a Ryuteki (a type of Japanese flute). Nice sia! The sound can slide down like a trombone. Very nice to hear. Another song that was interesting was 'Of Sailors and Whales' This song was about Herman Melville's Moby Dick. Firstly, there was a narrator, who was speaking as if he was the main character in the book, Ishmael. The songs were all centred on different people. 'Ishmael;, 'Queequeg', 'Father Mapple', 'Ahab' and 'The White Whale'. So different people, different types of sounds. For 'Father Mapple', instead of playing their instruments, the whole band sang a hymn instead. Very nice lor. Got standard. Totally choirlike. But the band didn't got an encore ready. Haha. The compere had to come out saying that heeheehee they had no enore ready. So they will play the first piece again. Haha. Ok that's all for today. Overall rating of the conert: Good.

Mahjong

2005-06-19T17:35:00.000+08:00

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Just some stuff that are on my mind...

Balloting for Final Year Projects

2005-06-14T02:56:00.000+08:00

The 14 groups without a project yet waited anxiously. It was gonna be a Royal Rumble, wth lots of bloodshed.

The system is like this. There are 14 projects. U can choose 4 and put them according to ranking. If more than 1 team has the same project for their first choice, they have to send a representative to ballot for it.

Ms Ong Lay Choo announced the first 4 walkovers - those who chose projects that nobody else chose. This included Akil's group

*tatatata ta ta tat tata* Akil gains "eCourse of Crystallisation".

Next was those projects which had more than one team fighting for it. First up was Farhan, BaoRong and Farok against an DCHE3A class. Sadly they lost.

*Game Over. Play again?*

Next up was Kenneth, ChinSiang and Adzmin. Kenneth whoo-ed to himself so as to increase luck +10. He picked a piece of paper and wondered what the star on it meant.

*tatatata ta ta tat tata* Kenneth, ChinSiang and Adzmin gains "Optimisation of Continuous Distillation Pilot Plant"

Aziah was ready. She almost lost, but used "Quick Snatch" in the nick of time, defeating her opponent, who could do nothing else but whine.

*tatatata ta ta tat tata* Aziah, YongXuan and Ulrika gains "Production of a Recombinant DNA Polymerase used for Class Practical"

Finally it was my team's turn. All the other groups were battling 1 on 1. This time there were 4 groups competing for this project. Our team lom cham pass-ed and KwangHong was our contender. But Kh had slow agility and could only take the last out of the 4 pieces of paper left. BUT! He pumped his Luck maximum and WTH he got the project!

*tatatata ta ta tat tata* KwangHong, YouChang and Derek gains "Development of Novel Magnetic Nano-particles for Protein Purification" at NTU. So cool!!!! Hahaha!

*Play Again* Farhan, BaoRong and Farok restarted the 2nd stage and got a walkover! Farhan, BaoRong and Farok gains "Pretreatment of Sludge"

All the DChE3B managed to get all their first or second choice. Haha. So cool!

The other teams had a bitter battle to the finish, with the last losers gaining only a "An overall learning package on Chemical Engineering" which can probably be sold for less than 100gil in the shop. They were so distraught they left the hall without a goodbye.

*Game Over*

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'Helena' by My Chemical Romance is the coolest MTV ever!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tioman Island Trip Scenery

2005-06-13T23:47:00.000+08:00

OK i swear! no more about Tioman. But just wanna put some finishing touches

I love the last pic the most. Such idyllic scenery. Sigh...

and other non-scenic pics (kena forced to put up haha)

And a hermit crab Ulrica found while picking seashells.

OK END! no more! *smacks Yx and Cs. Don't tell me to put any more up ar! or else mahjong i will KILL! Muahahaha!

Tioman Island Trip (Day 3)

2005-06-13T22:48:00.000+08:00

Finally...

We woke up on time today. But the weather was not so good. Abit scared cannot go snorkeling. But after a while the air cleared quite abit so the guide told us we could go. We chartered a whole boat for ourselves. So cool right?

The guide (with nearly 25 years experience) guided the motor boat at Coral island, quite a distance away. I heard suppose to take 40mins but like take must lesser time to get there. Really very shiok lor. I sat front seat, so got a great view of everything. The water skimmed past us very fast, and a lot of drizzle and sea spray was on my face. There were a few spots in the middle of the sea where birds were flying in circles. I think got lots of fish there. But the boat scared them off. The ride was very fast and bumpy. The first row seat was wooden den the second row got cushion. But butt nearly died lor.

First Person View at the front of the boat

The type of motor boat we sat in

Anyway we got to Coral Island. Cos of the light drizzle, we went into the inner part of the island to snorkel. Walking with flippers very difficult. Looks very funny also. Then we went into the water and started snorkeling. Luckily we have lifejackets on to help us stay at the surface, or else I long drowned liao. Haha. Snorkel snorkel... saw a few fishes and corals. But very fun la. With the mask on really cannot breathe using your nose. So had to adjust breathing with mouth. Then we took like a few years to take a photo (I brought underwater cam) of our flippers together. U know how difficult not? Everytime everybody got together, the current will float someone away. Den in the end I take picture of sand. Haha. Sian-ed.

Ulrika, Jerry, Cs and Yx posing mid-water at Coral Island

Me, Yx, Cs and Ulrika strugglinh to stay afloat at Coral Island

After that we went to Salang Village for lunch. OH! Finally I can eat cheap seafood! We ordered sambal sotong (omg nice), butter prawns, black pepper crabs and kailan (must always have veggies. But I never eat haha) Mmm... good so good. Again the place was deserted lor. I think we came at a really great time. Cos the staff could pay more attention to us.

Omg see see see seafood! cheap and good!

Enjoying!

No more food :(

The chalets at Salang. not as good as the ones we're staying at but cheaper i think

Bo liao ppl taking pics of mating cats haha

Anyway after that we went to -

Marine Park. We paid Rm5 each to maintain this place man. Anyway the boat didn't stop here to let us snorkel, although actually can. We bought bread from Salang to feed the fishes. A lot of BIG fish here lor. U throw one small piece of bread in and they all really go grab it with their mouths. The water will bubble lor. Can somemore put a bigger piece of bread near the water to let the fish nibble on it. The honeymooner couple from Singapore also later went there to snorkel. Quite brave of them. Cos the guide got tell us that got poisonous fish there. Yellow spotted lor and I saw it somemore. All the fish well fed la. The guide told us not to finish our bread because Reggis Island have much more fishes

Lots of hungry fishes at marina Park

Reggis Island! We all went into the water and when just throw a bread in, SO many fish come. I think all got scream in our snorkel at least once. Cos I put my head in the water and the bloody fishes is like just in front of my eyes. Then somemore as I swam with the bread in my head underwater, the fishes nibble right out of my hand lor. So scary. Haha.

ARGH! BEING ATTACKED BY *forgot the name* FISHES!

Posing underwater. This shot took HOURS to take (ok a few long mins la)

What look look?

The others still can throw bread at each other so that the fishes all attack the bread right at their bodies there. Scream den throw den laugh den scream again. Haha. YX saw a poisonous seasnake. Then u know what we all do? We all swim closer to look at the poisonous seasnake. Haha. Now that I think again, we really toot right?

After snorkeling, we went to jet ski. I think CS very excited about it. Den CS drive... no problem... Ulrika drive... no problem... den I drive… WAH capsize. I sian. Haha. I really dunno what happen actually. So sorry to Ulrika get to swim in the sea with me. I promise not to capsize or to drive full speed towards a boat (where Jackie Chan?) again. Jia lat la. Think I cannot drive car already. Or else sure can use my car number go buy 4D liao. Haha.

Ulrica ready to speed while waiting for YX to get onboard

We had dinner at the BBQ buffet there. Quite expensive but the selection quite good? Although not all very very tasty la. But I liked the grilled chicken leh. Anyway we went to the beach Bar to watch D'Shakers for the last time. And they never failed to say "Hi Chin Chang!" One of them even pulled him up to dance lor. But he erm... sort of danced only. Haha.

D'Shakers were again very entertaining. At one part, the woman on keyboard (incidentally, the kisser of CS) sang 'Sweet Child o' Mine" by Guns & Roses. And the other 3 girls swinged their hair nonstop. As in bending down, and swinging their hair in circles for NEARLY the whole song. And violently too. So scared their heads get screws off and fly~~~ When the song finished, they calmly just started on another song. Pro sia.

Group photo with the D'Shakers!

CS drank Long Island Tea until MABOK! Den dunno what he talking to YX about what tourists and peak season *all blur-ded.

Artistic pic by Cs

Not so artistic pic with Cs (fake wan la)

Then at the chalet, I dunno what he doing la. Go to my bed to see what I'm writing, den bom! sleep liao. Shock-ded. So Ulrika and YX kop his bed and we watched Frankenstein on Vision 4. I think halfway liao I also sleep liao. Ulrika win she the longest awake survivor.

And finally… Friday arrived. And we all went home =(

Time to start Year 3

Tioman Island Trip (Day 2)

2005-05-30T01:20:00.000+08:00

We all woke up quite late and decided to go redeem our free snorkeling. But the water was too choppy so we had to wait. Spend our time swimming and tanning instead. The beach really very nice.

Proof of the nice beach

Water babies

Jerry got his hammock and bom! slept liao. Haha. After 2pm, the water was still choppy, so we decided to go for a cab tour to the village instead. Just a short ride to and fro. Our guide brought us to the duty free shop, and as we were driving, pointed out the ONE police station, airport, school and bank among other things to us. There was a seafood place there but we decided to give it a miss.

Going into the village

one of the homes

There was a donkey ranch at the resort, but we didn't go trekking, so no chance to ride donk-key =(

Donkey peeing (this one is Cs take one)

For dinner we went to Pasta Pronto.

At Pasta Pronto

Difficult to pronounce our food la. I ordered something with seafood (since I reach Tioman have been craving for seafood but no chance u know :) ) Let me prove to u something:

This is my seafood pasta with flash.

This is my plate without flash. See! The ambience is so much nicer right? Love eating in an ambience like this.

Another example: Cs's lasagnia. Which i'm sure Ulrika, Yx and Jerry can say looked really good on that day *stomache growl

The staff was really nice (I think cos really very little people there, so they were willing to spend their attention on you) we had bought a cake for Cs from Shady's Bakery in the village, and the staff was only happy to prepare everything for us.

Pic taken with the cake and staff. I have no idea where they come from leh. i think from under the table or what. Got waitress got chef got cook all jump inside. Haha.

Jerry and Cs

Jerry, Cs, Yx and Ulrika

Oh and we got him a shirt for his birthday present la. We not so evil give him seashells only la. Haha.

Billabong shirt nia! And my shirt nice also yes?

After that went to play mahjong a while. Toot right? Go so far to a Malaysian breach resort to play mahjong. Haha. Then I dunno how to play. So teamed up with Ulrika to learn from her. Now I know abit la. Haha. PONG!

daidee queen on the left

We walked past the Beach Bar and the D'shakers all said 'Happy Birthday Chin Chang!' We went to the Sunken Bar instead. I don't like Mai Tai, but find Bloody Mary quite nice leh. Pina Colada and Margarita also nice, but the latter is like super salty!!! Got a layer of salt in it lor. Whoo!

Pina Colada (not bad), Margarita (nice and sour, but very salty), Mai Tai (eee), Bloody Mary (I like it leh haha). Oh and a Heineken

After drink and chat finish, went back to chalet and play. CS, Yx and Ulrika keep lauging non stop lor. Haha. And den u know what? I lost my wallet. Sian-ed? Then everybody had to go out to find… make security get keys and stuff. Den in the end I found it outside. Er... Thanks everyone for their effort. Haha. =P

End of day 2!

Tioman Island Trip (Day 1)

2005-05-29T22:01:00.000+08:00

Yay people. Back from Tioman and had so much fun. i got too many pics, so shall have to blog in big sections. Haha. The trip started on Tuesday morning. After spending the past three days dicussing what to bring, I brought... a lot of clothes. Haha. Should I bring this or this? Den end up bring both. Anyway took taxi with KwangHong to reach Golden Mile Complex by 6am. *so sleepy* Went there and meet somemore classmates.

Group Mountain: XiaoFen, SiewNoi, Aziah, BaoRong, KwangHong and YouChang

Group Sea: Ulrika, YongXuan, ChinSiang, Jerry (CS's brother) and I

Group Mountain will be going Genting while we will be going Tioman Island. So cool. Haha. Group Sea will be going off first at 6.30am so we bid farewell and boarded the bus. The whole bus hor... only 9 people. An angmoh couple (going Mersing), a Malay neymooner couple and us. Haha. Each person can take two seats. I also not very sure what happened cos I slept quite a lot. Woodlands Checkpoint, den Johor Checkpoint den drove past Mersing to the Jetty at another place which I forgot the name already but nevermind cos the place not very important also. From there, we took a ferry to Tioman Island. Due to practice from our CPTC era, we on ferry also can play daidee. Haha.

Reached Tioman Island, this nice guy offered to drive us to go makan first for RM10. By right is RM5 per person u know. But we all not hungry so never go. Den later we found out that it's onli RM2.50 per person usually. So fast almost kena conned u know. Thus we are now officially tourists! Yay!

Took a free tram ride to Berjaya Tioman Beach, Golf and Spa Resort. The girls had a chalet just a stroll away from the guys. Our room was very nice and big.

Inside our Room

Outside our Chalet

At the beach a few steps away (this is the view the girls get from their chalet!)

Jerry in front of the standard chalets

But we dumped our bags and went to look for stuff to do during our stay here. Walk walk abit den decide to go kayaking. Haha! So fast lor. Some guy told us Reggis Island (a small island that can be seen from the shore) was quite far away. So obviously we kayaked there. Haha. Hand tired sia.

Our kayaks

That's Reggis Island in the background

The sea is like bloody clear there. Can see the seabed and corals. And have a lot a lot of black spiny sea urchins. Not dangerous la, but can cause swelling. I keep getting an image of a sea urchin stuck on someone’s head. I dunno why. We kayaked over a beach and played in the water there. Whoo very cooling in the sun. Ulrika teach that can use sand as skin exfoliator. So spent a few mins exfoliating there. Den I also learn why YX is called BubblesXuan liao. Cos she went there make BUBBLES. What bubbles? Bubbler system la. To measure level.

Dinner was at Fortune restaurant. Sweet and Sour Soup, Tender Beef, Lemon Chicken, Fried Squid and veggies. Quite nice la. The restaurant qas quite empty (we went on a off peak season) so the staff was every attentive to us. But the restaurant music very the horrible.

Went to the Beach Bar for drinks at night. D'Shakers were performing on stage. These three women sing very nice sia. Also very funny. They can remember the people's names and keep on dedicating songs for the drinkers. After they found out that CS's birthday was the next day, they dedicated a Black Eyed Peas song for him – "Shut Up" Haha very funny. And they kept calling him Chin Chang.

Here is one line from the song they sang: "What the Hell's going down, Chin Chang?!"

Jerry treat us Heneikens

YongXuan and Ulrika say Cheers!

Then after that, they asked him come on stage to sing song. And u know what? Chin Chang went up to sing "Better Man" by Robbie Williams I and Yx tio shocked. Haha (but I only hear him sing the phrase "to be a better man" den the rest D’shakers sing. Haha.

Rare picture of CS singing

The left girl looks like HuiLuan right? Haha

On the way back, one of the women on stage wanna give CS a birthday kiss...

See! Lipstick mark somemore!

Shall tell u which one next time.

Went back chalet. Jerry straight away bom! sleep liao. CS treat us pizza and we played games den sleep. And this is only first day...

New News 3

2005-05-20T00:40:00.000+08:00

Haha. Been quite along time since I blogged. Dunno whether people still come here or not. Anyway for the past two weeks been really really really busy. Everyday must go out and do dunno what stuff. Very tiring for little fatty me u know. I think I almost lost 0.0001kg. Almost.

Anyway I dunno where to start leh. Actually I also forgot what happened since the 3 of May (my last blog entry) Luckily I have a diary (which u all will never ever see unless got down payment of 100 bucks) so I think I'll do this blog roughly diary style. also I got some older pictures which I'll put here first haha.

BaoRong posing shuai with his birthday cake (see last last last entry)

*sorry Aziah nobody had camera phone with them at the time so no pics

=P

Taken beside finfan cooler E-109. my cheeks dunno why suddenly so high like Fann Wong. Muahahaha. I think my cheeks spoil-ded. (YongXuan behind twisting)

Me with YongXuan and Ulrika. I look damn fat

Taking picture at the no camera sign. Haha. U know hor, if u bring handphone into the plant while its running, the radiation or whatever can ignite something and

CHEE

BA

BOM!!!

But so far I think nobody cares. All suicidal wan. Haha

The walkway into the plant and the control room

Ok back to the entry:

4th May: A prototype of the Ultra secret 'Project Deweder' is created. The designer and engineer is still in development stages (mostly due to the engineer *glares*)

6th May: After band (about 10pm) YouChang called me up and jio-ed me go watch Kingdom of Heaven with Ken, KwangHong and ChinSiang. Actually I very lazy to go, but in the end kena psycho-ded. So I went to Cineleisure find BaoRong, XiaoFen, SiewNoi and Yongxuan (these 4 going to KTV until 6am. Crazy singers) please note that I ate a Long John Silver meal. Waited until the 4 guys came. We wanted to buy tickets at Cine but no space, so we went to Plaza Singapura and watched the 1am show at the 2nd row. So front sia. Haha. I happily ate leftover cheese nachos from Ken and Cs, Fried rice (da bao-ed for me by YC) and I already ate LJS earlier. Haha. Pig sia. The movie was not bad. The battle scenes had blood splashing all over the place. After the movie, we wanted to go Ken' Habour Front condo sleep, but no taxis were willing to take 5 people in one cab. Such crap la. So in the end we walked around and ended up eating Giant Earthquake at 24hrs Swenson’s at Orchard. Quite fun eating and chatting lor. Then at 6am, we went to meet YX and BR and u know what? We saw a empty London taxi..st nice for 5 people. All sian-ded.

8th May: Mother' day today. Went to Komala Villa' to eat. Mmm! Got Mm a recording soft toy with me and Bro’s voices on it.

9th May: I got my camera phone today! (Nokia 6230) Bwahahahah! Nobody shall be safe from the power of Derek' camera phone!

11th May: Haha. First day of CPTC Shift Work. Group D will be taking the Day shift. Woke up at 5.30am to reach Jurong East at 7am. Went to CPTC, changed to my overalls and we all went to start work. We watched the other 3 teams trip the furnace 3 times. Haha. Luckily on the 4th try they got the flare working (AFTER Mr Han went over there personally to turn the hand valve. He was in the control room with us before that, teaching us how to use the DCS) After that we had to wait for the furnace to raise to the needed temperature so u know what we did? We played daidee from 3pm to 6pm, then went into the classroom to watch I Do I Do (Catherine from class 23 brought her laptop that plays DVD) sian right? Haha. About 6.20pm the furnace tripped again so we went out to relight it. Then we could go change and wait for the night shift to arrive. So while group 4 was in the control room (meaning Kenneth, JieTing, YongXuan, UlrikaAkil, Farhan, Adzmin and I), the group 3 (rest of the class) came in and starting singing Ken a birthday song. Haha. He damn surprised! Cos his birthday tomorrow. But because tomorrow we all have shift work so cannot meet. So anyway, using BaoRong’s idea, they bought Ken a $10 kueh lapis cake. Haha. Bengawan solo hor. Don’t look down on it. Haha. Den on the way out, there was a cardboard on the side of the way. It was Ken' Birthday cardboard. The whole class put small messages on it with two class photos from CPTC. Damn cool right

Muahaha Happy orange boy likes his kueh lapis =)

12th May: Our first night shift today! First we relieved the day shift. Then we took turns to go out into the field to check some stuff. Later our group spend the longest time in the control room (from 10pm to 2pm) just controlling the ramping (decreasing of temperature of the furnace and column) Later when it was another group' turn, we watched 'hutter'in the classroom projector from 2am to 4am. Shiok right. And before that we all ordered pizza. Haha! Then we had a short shut down of most of the utilites like cooling water etc. Then we all went back in to play daidee until about 6am. Then, Mr Han allowed all of us who wanted to, to climb the distillation column.

See the tall tower! Its about 38m tall (or 12 stories high) I climbed all the way up on a monkey ladder. So tiring but fun.

The scene beautiful right. So obviously I quickly vandalized my name onto available space at the top of the column. Haha! Cool!

14th May: Played pool with Kelvin and Gab at Parkway Centre and I winner! Muahaha! I realized tomorrow's concert will be the last with PeiYan and Nasir. PANIC! Nothing has been done for them *forgotten-ded! Chatted on MSN with James, Ching and Brandon to decide what to do for them. I recruited Wendy's help in photoshopping some pictures into nice backgrounds on which to paste the posters. So I slept at 3.30am and woke up at 5am to log on to my email and print the pictures.

15th May: Rushed out of the house cos the printing took so long. Nasir's pic was giving me trouble because he's wan used a lot of ink and the ink dried very slowly. In the end his pic was spoiled so I got Pa to print for me before he came to fetch me later. So went to CPTC for day shift. It was troubleshooting today. Damn fun! Mr Han or Albas would go into the field and meddle with some valves etc. Then the groups would have to go into the field to correctify the situation, with aid from another group in the control room. Like treasure hunt! The other groups could solve theirs, but my group couldn't. So sad. In the end Mr Han had to come out to help us. About 11am, we all had a break until 1am. So we watched Scary Movie and ordered lunch from outside (I didn't order cos didn't want to get fat and later can't fit into my formal pants) Later at 1pm my group went to control DCS and again we had some difficulty in correctifying the situation. Sigh. Then around 2pm I had to go. Pa called and said he was at a check point at Port Road. I rushed out (Albas gave me a bus ticket for free) and went to wait for the bus (I spent time chit-chat with the security guard on the way out too. Haha) I waited and waited until I realized that there was no bus service on weekends. *panic!!! How? Somemore Pa realized he was parked at the wrong place and was driving to Jurong Island Checkpoint at Pier Road now. So I stood near to the road hoping for some nice people to pick me up. *waves hand madly up and down. And so one did! Haha. This sheltered lorry carrying some Indian workers stopped and offered to drive me to the check point.

My new friends =)

I gladly climbed in. Even took a picture of them. Haha. So funny! So they dropped me off at the checkpoint and Pa drove over and picked me up and sent me to Victoria Concert Hall. Got there at 2.45pm.But the band was already playing Lupin the Third… I came in just in time to rehearse the encore piece. There we had lunch (didn’t eat much of the rice. Later cannot fit into formal pants) and changed into our uniforms (had difficulty breathing because of formal pants). I passed some coloured paper to James, Ching and Bradon to write a message for PeiYan and Nasir. I personally wrote the messages while hding in the toilet, downstairs at the cafe etc. But throughout the concert could not find time to paste them on to the background paper. Haha. Time for concert. Por por por *euphonium sounds. For those who dunno what's a euphonium:

Nah! Also known as baritone BC and reads in bass clef.

The concert was quite good =).

Euphonium Section took a really cool sectional pic.

SEE! So cool right! All pose so nicely. Lurve this pic
From Left: James, me, PeiYan, Nasir, ChingSi and Brandon

I look slim mah! Muahah! Illusion is everything!

The blazers all very heavy =(

Then only when we got back to Singapore Poly, Ching and me went to a corner and quickly pasted on the message on the background picture. Later down in the band room, Nasir gave everyone their respective posters he's been working on for the past 3 weeks. A giant foambacked poster, plus two smaller laminated ones, plus a nice recatgular CD of some of the posters he had designed so far. So... *finds it hard to continue* nice of him. Haha

My poster =) Very nice right? Jealous?

Other posters. U can see their names on the posters itself

And PeiYan gave us all NUTTZ chocolate.Very pretty. I thought they were just pretty coloured stones at first. I wanted to take pic of it but oops... I ate all liao. Haha.

Then we surprised them by giving them the messages. Haha. Hope they like it. Although it's a really rush job and damn ugly. Not even laminated. Haha! Nvm… Graduation BBQ they can expect something much better from us. Maybe.

16th May: Our last day of shift work. It was night shift today. So first we spent about 6 hours just monitoring the plant. We didn't even do soot blowing because the machine was spoilt. So we spent the rest of the night playing Captain’s Ball. Jieting and me (handicap -2) on the same team with Kenneth and JinYi against YongXuan, Akil, Ulrika and Samuel. Den we had pizza and chicken drumlets, a treat from our trainers (Mr Han, Albasri and Mr Tan I think)

So nice of them Haha.

Yx caught with chicken

Quite a boring night.The girls bored until play with each other's hair lor.

Jt so cute Haha

Me with Farhana and Akil

Then we played daidee in front of the control room. So expert. Haha. Albas was abit sad that he never win before.

Daidee - Big 2. a popular game to be played after exams and during shift work. Got a few ways to make it more exciting!

1) Knock Out - When u see people playing daidee, u must faster shout Loser OUT! Then take a chair and sit and wait for the game to end. Loser will take your seat. It depends how many people is waiting. More people want to play = more seats in a queue. so if u lose, u might have to wait 3 games before u can play again Muahaha

2) Forfeit with Pumping - this one my group never play. Basically every card left is two push ups. I think I do lose with 2 cards will die already *easily tired =(

Today: Had our CPTC exam today. It was VERY easy because of some... help from some... people. Haha! Yay yay! Ok I write quite a lot. Fingers blister-ded liao. Bye-ded

Sports

2005-05-03T00:32:00.000+08:00

Haha. I damn paiseh. Today i did something i never thought i would do. I played ... basketball. haha. hahahahahahah! *yah i give u all some time to laugh at me

Why suddenly want to play? Haha just felt like it, den Ching agreed to teach me (i am a total Basketball virgin) So he came around 9.30am... den called me. Woke me up from my beauty sleep only. haha! so i dragged myself out of bed (no need bath la. later sure sweat)

i couldn't find a paper bag big enough to hide my face (i going to play basketball leh. sure embarassment)

So went with Ching to look for a basketball court. My bro gave me instructions by vaguely waving his hand to the north-east (from my computer screen point of view)

We reached there and saw some little kids playing already. It was 9.30am lor. U'd think these kids would spend their time more wisely sleeping until after midday. so we had some throwing sessions (dunno what hand must put where). i, for the first time, managed to put the ball in. but i damn close to the hoop. haha. almost under it. Can score by putting the ball through the hoop from the underside not ar?

Anyway i bounce also lousy. catch also lousy. haha. with my powerful skills in mind, Ching suggested we play a match with the little kids (about upper primary, lower secondary level? But they very short) so the kids split like this. Team A - two kids
Team B - Ching, me, two kids

2 vs 4?

we lost 7-nil. haha. so fun!

I nowhere to hide my face. Somemore one of them praise me cos i first timer.

I loser leh. Must buy big paper bag la...

After that I went to ChuaChuKang with KH, YC and BR to go swimming. (Sorry la i one hour late) While walking to CCK swimming complex, we happily DIDN'T hear any screams, or water moving, or anybody around that look like they were going swimming. u know why? cos today is a MONDAY. And CCK swimming complex is closed EVERY MONDAY. %&$#*@&#!!!!! I no bus concession leh. boohoo

Decided to go Jurong East Swimming Complex instead. Was shocked to see a CROWD of people queueing to just go into the complex. Then cos so many people, we had to pay $2 adult fare to go in (usually can pay $1 child fare, cos nobody aaround to check. but today the management was out in full force) Really sian to play there. according to YC's metaphors, the lazy pool was like a clogged up artery. The wave pool was like a heart congested with fats. The slides had ppl queueing up for a 3 second gravity fall. It was drizzling abit. We left after 1.5 hours.

Lesson of the day: Dont go swimming on Public Holidays.

It's very funny to see ppl adjusting their shorts/swimsuit/bikinis whenever they think no one is looking.

The nearby coffeeshop sells excellent lala. (oyster? clam? shallot? dunno what it's callde in english. small gray-white colour wan.) Delicious gravy. Then went home. Haha. I sooooooo sporty.

Went to Chinatown last Sunday and bought 3 poseable ninja dolls for onli $10! Haha. Cheep cheep! When i have the time, can make a small story thingy. Haha. So bored...

Cool?

Joyrides

2005-05-01T01:20:00.000+08:00

Joyrides, where u just sit back and let the scenery fly past you, while u're happily chatting and playing and taking pics with your friends... are damn enjoyable.

We drove around Bedok, off to Changi Airport, drove to my house to pickup my digicam (i forgot to bring), then abit of Tampines and finally back to Kembangan for me. so fun! Haha!

PS. Happy Birthday to BaoRong (30th April) and Aziah (3rd May)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i wanna post up your pics but the pictures are being kidnapped by evil people with camera phones (i wanna be a evil person with a camera phone too...)

Gabriel not very sure where to go

Having fun in the backseat

FUN i say!

CPTC 2

2005-04-30T02:44:00.000+08:00

CPTC is sometimes fun, sometimes boring, sometimes bloody annoying. But am too tired now to write much so just enjoy this picture. Haha!

Group 5 (Class 21 people RULZ!!!)

CPTC

2005-04-23T01:07:00.000+08:00

After a very LONG and DULL and EXHAUSTING-DUE-TO-DULLNESS 5 days, the weekend is here. SO HAPPY! LALALA *picks a baby from a mother and kisses its cheeks for photographers to take pictures of.

Ok my CPTC (Chemical Process Training Centre) program has just started this week. BTW for everyone else, they have to complete their ITP, which is basically working. CPTC (for Chem Engineers only i think) is not WORK! It's training! So u can take it as an outdoor school module, complete with a prelim exam and final exam. Very sian. anyway, from Monday to Thursday, CPTC hours were from 9am to 5.30pm. Means have to reach Jurong East to catch the chartered bus to go Jurong Island at 7.45am. Means must leave house by 6.50am. Means must wake up at 6.20am. Oh woe is sleepless me.

Anyway CPTC is quite relaxing la, if abit dull. The first 4 days were spent in an auditorium, frantically copying notes, and taking sudden nap attacks in between. i think the lecturers also dont really mind. at any point of time about 1/4 of the room is asleep (Derek doesn't deny being involved in this)

Derek was writing notes about operating problems
Derek closes eyes for JUST A WHILE to relax
Derek falls asleep and Ghost Lupe scares his neopets

It doesn't help that the auditorium has such nice comfy chairs.

On the second day, we had safety training. One can basically... kick the bucket in any way one chooses in a plant. Crushed by machinery, explosions, loss of limbs, electrocution, toxic gases. Each with its own real life case study and maybe a gory image or two. How very pleasant.

After 4 agonising days, the training hours changes to 12noon to 8pm schedules. Mmm can sleep in abit more liaoz. Sweet... sweet... slumber. so from now one, i'll be having lectures for the first 4 hours and then on-site training after that. Onsite is so fun. We all had to wear these cool biker leather jackets, sunglasses and large Mexican sombrero hats before u can walk around the plant.

Kidding. Blue overalls, plactic goggles and white plastic safety helmets are the compulsory attire. We all look like Martians from far. Walking around the huge plant was interesting, if i could only figure out how they all work. Haha. I still got 3 more weeks.

If the wind is not blowing smelly chemical smells your way, the scent of the sea is soothing. and the area is kinda pretty at night, with all the night lights on. It's just 3 more weeks.

KwangHong's Birthday

2005-04-17T01:22:00.000+08:00

YAY!!!!!!!!!! the exams are over! and also it was KwangHong's birthday on Friday. yay! so YouChang and Chinsiang got him ... briefs. haha.

see the birthday's boy happy but shocked face

The Magically Briefs of Bigness!!!

Happy Onlookers

After that we went to Marche and walked around and around the restaurant with ours eyes big big, staring at the very expensive menu before settling for a $7.90 boneless chicken leg. Den at the service, a guy looked at Br's ordering card and gave him his mashed potato. Later, another guy serving looked at Br's order and gave him another bowl of mashed pototoes. Muahahaha. we chuan dau! (did i spell correctly?)

Den after that we went to watch Samara! i have to say this. I ABHOR horror ghost movies! zombies i can tahan. vampires i enjoy. Thriller ghost movies like The Sixth Sense i will actually quite like. But HORROR ghost movies! i cant even tahan Pontianak when i was much younger. Cos i quite very scared of ghosts la... haha. den sit 2 hours being scared very sian. have to control bladder very carefully. later the ghost jump out den whoosh! you there feel very warm.

*My favorite phrase from Samara: I'm NOT your f*cking mother!

haha this one no link. but when i was at my sec 3 camp, got one guy wear those Scream masks and suddenly popped his head into my tent right in front of me. I DAMN SCARED lor. i was like UUUNHH den i attacked his face with my claw attack. haha. no la i just grabbed his face den the mask came off. then the guy went Oi! Bleah!

anyway i very RARELY put pics of my poly friends on blog. WHY? because they are all celebrities! Why? See below!

See! All don't want to let paparazzi (like me) to take their pics

No pictures please! go away!

Bu yao pai! Bu yao PAI! i said go away!

stop taking my pictures! no comments! shoo!

ok la that's all. oh yah! Went to watch House of Fury with Jasmine, Gwen and Gabriel. Damn nice! Kong fu movie with a lot of humour. None of that computer generation moves like in Kong Fu Hustle. Den that Twins girl very cute (as what Gab keep telling us) She can act quite well. Better den in that second vampire thingy movie (which was crap) That Stephen Fung also cute (as what Jasmine keep telling us). And somemore he's the director. Can win that YonFan liao. i say the pig cute. Haha. I give it a 4.5/5 rating! No wait! i shall give it a 5/5 rating! this movie beats all the other crap chinese movies i've watched so far! i will never forget my horrible experience with Golden Chicken 2. Sometimes i lay awake at night and cry myself to sleep... thinking about that 2 hours of suffering.

*Fav Lines from House of Fury:
Ella: Are u bored?
Nicky: Yeah. Hurhurhur
Ella: Wanna French kiss?
Nicky: Yeah. Hurhurhur
Ella: Go close the door then
*Nicky closes the door and turns around
Ella: Time's up!

Honey. Does my butt look fat?

Please someone! Force me to go jogging!

Joween's Chalet

2005-04-11T03:23:00.000+08:00

First, about the exams. Derek has now adopted a ZEN outlook on it. The exams will not frustrate me. Self will remain calm and at peace with the world. Ohmmm... The exams are all in the mind. Exams doesn't exist. There is no exams.

Aiyah. I'll just settle for my usual screaming panic attack la.

OMG OMG die la die la how to pass this stupid module i am so not prepared die la i might as well go be a bonsai kitten.

Anyway Joween kindly invited us to her 19th birthday chalet on Saturday. Took a few pics there. Have a look :)

Group photo

u know what? the people with me today are all very good posers. it almost an art form for us. Years of practice and perserverence through lovegety has prepared us for any kind of situation thrown at us. Muahahaha. Whether it be lovegety, a HDB lift, the railings of a chalet or solo pictures.

And i ESPECIALLY like this picture of us laughing!

Yah i know my mouth very big. But the picture very natural leh. See the way pure innocent laughter light up Gab's face. See the way Jasmine holds herself to brace against the giggles. See the way Wendy's eye crinkle when she chortles. So au naturale

Haha. Ok that's about it. Back to panicking.

Bleah! Gab is really damn bloody chao ta. I wanna go tan too!

Exams Are Here Again.

2005-04-07T03:43:00.000+08:00

die la die la the exams are here and theres not enough time to study and i tried to do the fluid mech papers and i dunno how to do and die la no time to do bia and pi also and i hate maths although the lecturer is very nice but maths is a sucky subject and all mathematicians should just DIE and i am very tired but still have to study cos there really is no time and my new swatch is very nice and the stye is still in my eye and i now getting fat but i still hungry and i might as well just give up and become a garang guni man and work as that until im old while all my friends become rich or famous or both and they might get into scandals but they will still find time to come and point and laugh at me saying haha derek is just a lowly garang guni man while i am rich or famous or both and den poke me until i cry

Sarcasm

2005-04-04T04:20:00.000+08:00

Sarcasm. That's the name of the Swatch. Isn't it pretty?

Mk's Belated Birthday

2005-04-04T03:12:00.000+08:00

It's been quite a long time since the Big Group met up, so we went out to Orchard road for Mk's belated birthday treat. haha. after some people being an hour late, the walking down Orchard Road, into Borders, out of Borders, using the underpass to go opposite Borders, crossing the road to Borders again, we ended up at the Heeren.

After much deliberating, we went to Billy Bombers. My first time there! I'm a Billy Bombers virgin! it was so exciting. but the prices there... woo. scary. The ambience was good though. Typical American Dinner with their Rock & Roll songs and jukeboxed and napkin holders. Groovy.

anyway most of us ordered the set meal for $18.90. Haha. Let me give u a Derek's Food Review ratings.

we started with:

Granny Mae's Soup

It looks like corn soup. Smells like corn soup. tasted like corn soup. It probably is corn soup. I think Granny Mae played cheat and used campbell. Quite nice though. but the price is abit high for so little soup
Price: Normally $4 (a bit high for so little soup) but this came in a set meal $18.90
Rating: 3.5/5

Main Meals

MC Chicken

Grilled chicken with melted cheese and mushrooms on top. the chicken tastes very nice, the skin just salty and tangy enough. (if u like to eat chicken skin) The portion is quite big and the cheese and mushrooms go surprisingly well. For side orders, u can get the fries or potato salad. The fries are chunky and fun to chomp into, but the potato salad was very tough and frankly did not taste nice to me
Price: this was a set meal of $18.90 (quite worth your money)
Ratings: 4/5 (for chicken) 4/5 (for fries) 2/5 (potato salad)

Seafood Spaghetti

Spaghetti with seafood. half a small crayfish, prawns, sotong rings etc
I did not get a chance to taste it so no review yet. will get one if i can
Price:this was a set meal of $18.90 (quite worth your money)
Rating: Not Available

Fish and Chips

The portions were very very BIG. i saw it and my mouth went dry... cos my plate havent come. haha. anyway i tried a little bit, and it was ok. Did not really get a chance to get acquainted with it. but the little bite i had was a little dry and perhaps some salt.
Price: $18+
Rating: 3.5/5

Root Beer Float

The left over root beer is served to u in the bottle. cute.
Price: Comes with the set meal for $3 more
Rating: 4/5

Billy Bomber's Sundae (one scoop)

Ok this is nice. creamy vanilla with some crushed oreo on top. pleasant fo he tongue and eyes. however, i would prefer just abit more oreos haha
Price: this was a set meal of $18.90
Rating: 4/5

Altogether Mk spent about... hehehe.

The Birthday Girl is so happy?

anyway just some shots from Billy Bombers

Derrick and MeiKuan

Derrick and Jasmine

Me, Derrick and Gwen

JieHui, Derrick and ChiangHui

Isn't Mk the birthday girl? haha

After lunch we went walking around Orchard Road a while, stopping by Borders AGAIN (but i persuade wan la... haha) Jasmine spent nearly the whole time taking pics of herself down Orchard Road. my poor camera battery.

Mk and Gwen started it! First they stuck stickers onto my back. After quite some timewalking around, i found out! (fortunately i have an itchy back) Then they stuck it on Jasmine's back. She walked quite abit around the shopping mall and made two girls laugh before she also found out. then... through the rest of the walk we played stick-the-stickers-on-your-friends-back-without-them-knowing game. i know. very sad. haha.

We later took bus to Tampines to meet Gabriel, SiaHeng and Dennis.

On the bus.

Was watching Miss Singapore Universe 2005 on Tv media. My cousin was contestant No. 2: Jacqueline Ong. Unfortunately she didnt make the top 10. Besides her, i was really rooting for Rebecca, Ling Lee or Natasha Riard. But ... all 3 didnt win the crown. the winner went to a (dare i say it?) not as pretty girl. although she was smart la. but i think no hope for the Internation title liao. Ah... well too bad.

Went to ate KFC at Tampines

Gab looks... kinda cool. but he's not! muahaha

As usual, when army guys get together, all they talk about is army stuff. Leaving their girl friends and boy friends to sit and stare at wall. MEN!

Jh, Dennis, Mk and SH

I feel bloated and content. haha.

More Bird News!

2005-04-02T02:46:00.000+08:00

BaoRong, ChinSiang and KwangHong brought YouChang and I to see this pigeon nesting in a tree very near the computer lab building. Then dunno who told me it was robotic. Then I BELIEVE leh! Haha! Cos the bird was just sitting on the nest, den the eyes DOESN'T move even if u wave at it. But u can see it going up and down very slightly because of it's breathing and it occasionally blinked, but I thought it was just a really good robotic system. Haha. Den somemore I was impressed by how real the feathers look.

Later when we went back, I saw that the bird had faced the opposite direction. Den I thought that underneath the nest probably had some mechanism to turn the bird. Den suddenly I saw the head move and realised it was REAL! I scared. Haha. I almost take straw poke it lor. These types of things must poke wan.

Pigeons, and not Pidgeons, are correctly spelt without a 'd'

Gabriel's Head is Smaller!

2005-03-30T23:55:00.000+08:00

This is Gabriel Before

And this is Gabriel After

Muahahaha! faster spot the difference! His head has shrunk! oh what voodoo has happened!

Anyway last Saturday, Jasmine, Gab, Gwen and I joined juncen, sheezheng and friends to go Indoor Stadium for a CHC Easter celebration.

How come Derek will go such things?

Ans: I heard got free show. Muahaha

Anyway i witness my first Healing experience there... it's very... interesting. blind can hear, deaf can walk that kind of stuff. And no i didn't get the last sentense wrong.

After that i went for Yiting's chalet at Aloha and then Peiyan's and Yongsiang's chalet at Costa Sands

6 generations of Euphos

the current Eupho section

Oh yah i forgot. beware of what u might see. this ALWAYS happens when there is strawberry Pocky and a camera together.

Instant Posing! With strawberry Pocky in mouth! Sort of a reflex action.

Impressive.

Hornbill

2005-03-23T02:34:00.001+08:00

we were in SP and Dewei spotted a bird in a tree. kapoh me also looked and ooh! saw a long yellow beak! after that everyone saw it too. i forgot the name so i just happily pointed, saying 'BIRD! BIRD!'

it was a HORNBILL!

everyone got excited. i dunno why. like never go Jurong Bird Park before. aha. then with us being noisy and pointing and 'BIRD!'-ing, other people who walked past also looked over and got excited and pointed and 'BIRD!'-ed.

It's only human nature