passing traveller

day 5: back to basics - the authentic HK lifestyle

2011-06-27T12:49:00.003+08:00

late start to day 5 (heh, just the way we liked) meeting Tina and Steven for breakfast at a cha chan teng near the hostel. surprisingly learned that their high school was located in the area, hence the restaurant was practically like their canteen. awesomely authentic.

much more relaxed itinerary for the day as we've already covered most of the sights: ngong ping buddha, tai-o fishing village, 大排档 & 糖水!

living it up in hk, part one - taking the tram, aka ding ding, to Central. cheap cheap, only HK$2.30, approx S$0.40?

bright and colourful ding dings..

I can never get used to riding this things. WAAAYY TOO SLOWWWW. e.g. one MTR station, 2 minutes apart = 10 minutes by tram. omggg.

heys, I think I can fit into the fast paced HK life pretty well :)

cable car was down (not my bad luck I swear, it was down for maintenance since May), so we had to take a 30+ min ride up to Ngong Ping village.

mum would be proud of me, I visited the Big Buddha!

the strange thing about climbing is that you're feeling so warm/tired from all those steps, yet the air is so cool up there, yet the sun's beating strongly down your back???

must still give it my famous thumbs up pose. hahaha

moving on to Tai-O village, the Venice of HK! uh, I suppose it's cos the houses are all built on stilts. very kampong feel not expected of HK.

loved munching on the cuttlefish though..

with our lovely hk pals, Steven Tina and Andy

also took a ferry out to spot dolphins.

and failed lah. nothing but still waters.

two bus rides and a train (火车) ride later, we arrived at Shatin 泰源大排档 for dinner.

three hungry girls innocently waiting for our food

WARNING: SEVERE FOOD SPAM COMING UP!!!

i have no idea how these...

evolved to these...

and finally became a full fledged 14 course meal for 8 of us. that's like more than 1.5 dishes per pax.

OHMYGOD REPEAT OF TIM HO WAN over-order disaster!! but still cheapcheap! 14 dishes for about S$15 each. and how many tourists will get to experience this??

there was roast pigeon, clams, chicken bone (?? super weird dish. it's like just eating flour. with bones), goose intestines??, gu lu yok, claypot veggies, broccoli, oyster omelette, some beef thing, some squid thing, some peeing prawn thing, chicken congee, normal chicken, and tofu. gosh, what a mouthful. in the end we ended up playing scissors paper stone to finish up the remaining dishes. talk about having similar cultures yeah.

as if the 14 course dinner wasn't gracious enough of them as hosts, they took us for 糖水!!

五代同糖, another chain of 糖水铺 in hk..

the fantastic egg pudding (taste reminds me a lot of the cream in tampopo's cream puffs), so many people were ordering this to takeaway. highly recommended!

will also recommend their 心太软, aka molten lava choc cake. the hot choc just oozes out!!

concluded the day with a 小巴 ride. if I disliked taking the tram cos of its speed, I ABSOLUTELY LOVE the 小巴 because it was SO FAST. it even comes with a speed reader thingy at the top left corner of the bus. (only 80-90km/hr for ours). but so speedy, and it bypasses all the stops where no one gets off, I LIKE.

only stressful part was shouting to the driver to drop us off, lucky for our hk pals. XX有落!!

I love 小巴!

day 4: 50 first dates

2011-06-25T12:06:00.011+08:00

revitalized after a day of good food and sufficient sleep, we embarked on day 4 of activities!

voted for wet weather plan as it was still drizzling when we woke up. off to Central in search for my custard bun. ended up at 莲香楼 which reportedly has good dim sum, but NO CUSTARD BUN!!

no other pics as the food was disappointing :( but to it's credit, HK friends said we didn't try their specialities.

then proceeded to the Peak Tram station to get our tickets to the Peak and MADAM TUSSAUDS - highlight of my hk trip!

but as fate would have it, my cursed HK luck had me (ONLY ME) sitting on the wrong side of the tram, completely no sights on the way up. and it started to drizzle again.

took plenty of pics at the Peak but deleted all but two back in SG. hahaha simply too many shots of the same thing.

back to mdm tussauds!!~~

aww 好sweet喔!

not a wax statue, but my johnny, why you so hot?

气质女明星

okay, for the first time, i'm going to 公开 photos of 老公s and me!!

first up, 古惑仔古天乐!!

teehee.

next, we also have Brad and 城城郭富城!

sadly no tony leung. guess I'll have to make do with 德华.

now THIS guy, he has GOT to be my favourite among them all. BECKS!!

*swoon~~ this made my entire HK trip worthwhile.

also took a walk around the politicians exhibit:

and paid Obama a visit

poor Kuan Yew was looking lonely so I showed him some love.

then I also said hello to my 哥儿们 -

Einstein, 小龙, Jet and 姚明

and finally rocked it out with the musicians.

departed from tussauds a very contented xm :)

did a little sightseeing along antiques street (Hollywood road) and we left for star ferry to catch the Guinness record holding Symphony of Lights!

thank goodness the skies cleared up for the day.

arrival at the Avenue of Stars. and look, I found 偶像 tony's star!

nice scenery by day, even better by night.

SYMPHONY OF LIGHTS!! mehhh.

all I have to say is this: errr. thanks for the 10 minutes of music!

hk first timers can probably give this place a miss. maybe only worth visiting for phototaking..

on to Australian Dairy Company at Jordan for a late dinner. warning: it is really a very stressful experience. not a place to visit for slow eaters.

case in point: we were shown to a table for 4, where 2 of the seats were still occupied by a couple having their after-meal tea/coffee. I noticed that one of the cups was still about three-quarters full. Then the staff just said ok la, byebye la to the couple and started clearing their cups away. HAHAHA. no choice but to leave! epic experience.

have to admit, their toast and eggs were really good. macaroni a bit salty (again), maybe HK ppl just prefer a saltier diet?

set off for 女人街 where the items were mostly repetitive - card games, iPhone covers, shoes & bags in similar designs. thankfully I survived w/o any verbal abuse from the stallholders (then again, maybe cos I didn't get anything..)

HK continues to surprise me! Longchamp plastic bags for wet umbrellas!

day 3: for the love of food

2011-06-25T10:18:00.017+08:00

woke up to very bad weather, and it was nothing like macau's 5 minute rain miracles.

still, nothing was going to stop us from heading to the Michelin 1 star dim sum restaurant, TIM HO WAN!

arrived at 940 (opens at 10) but CHECK OUT THE QUEUE IN FRONT OF US... (this was after we obtained our queue numbers and having admitted 20+ pax)

what we ordered for 4 pax. pretty affordable, about S$15 each for the entire meal. (but - see below)

THEN THE FOOD WAS SERVED!

ma la cake, veggie dumplings, har gau

problem was.. the food came.. and came... AND CAME. forcing dim sum down your throat is no joke.

MORE FOOD!! (16 dishes on the table already)

HIGHLIGHT DISH - MUST TRY, even if you've just downed 5 longs of food

FRIED CHA SHAO BAO!!

the exterior reminds me of polo bun or roti boy, fried to a golden crisp.

then when you open up the inside, the piping hot char siew gravy OOZES out.. char siew itself tastes fab too.

simply the best I've tried.

quick shoutout to our adorable couple in the making..

it was still raining elephants and donkeys when we left the place so that was a fantastic excuse to go shopping! Langham Place (single storey H&M), Mongkok New Town Mall + Argyle Centre (bugis village style). got ps-ed by royston to squat outside some random stall in MKNTM.

loots for the day: two tops. hahaha. yeah I'm not an avid shopper really.

damn tired from all that walking, so we headed into a nearby 许留山 (a chain of 糖水 stores in HK, no SG equivalent I can think of) for dessert.

mango mixed platter, mango with black glutinous rice (tang yuan??), mango sago

more shopping (Queen's Road Central H&M) before we all decided our wallets were bleeding too much.

time for dinner - TWO michelin star restaurants in a day? who would have thought?

Yung Kee restaurant at 32-40 Wellington Street

restaurant exterior and award winning roast goose

their famous roast goose (a tad too salty after having too much) and honey glazed char siew..

total bill came up to about S$25 per pax for these, a tofu + veggie. kinda pricy but I think it was a memorable gastronomical experience.

to be honest, the visits to the two michelin star restaurants didn't exactly gel with my mental image of a michelin star restaurant. somehow I had expected them to v proudly display the award (yeah, I was thinking there'd be a real star logo somewhere) but there was none to be seen. almost didn't feel like I was really in an award winning restaurant. nevertheless, the food they served was truly quite good. will definitely be returning (at least for dim sum) next time I'm in HK.

somehow didn't have any memories between Yung Kee and being back in hostel (save for forcing royston to get off at Causeway Bay to visit his Burberry Black).. and HTHT at night. ample rest. I like!!

new discovery of the day: everything in HK is tiny, even their stamps!!

day 2: of egg tarts and shuffling around

2011-06-24T22:42:00.041+08:00

day 1 ended with the three of us squeezing on one queen-sized bed, trying to force royston to take the other bed to maximise his $$ spent on venetian. but he was so bloody stubborn.

anyways I ended up sleeping in the middle (safe ground - or so I thought) but hell was I wrong. NEVER THOUGHT THAT I WILL STILL GET KICKED - ON BOTH SIDES - even when I was practically sleeping in a straight line, legs crossed together to allow both sides more space.

think something like:

worst part was waking up and realizing you're the only one awake at 5am. scrambled over to the empty bed. ahh. sweet liberation.

day 2 morning, we set off for phototaking in the famous Venetian shoppes river and gondola.

and not forgetting some fake/sensual touristy shots

but the highlight of the morning probably had to be the FOOD.

Lord Stow's Bakery portugese egg tarts - I LOVE!!!

and others..

Tai Lei Loi Kei pork chop buns we missed out earlier (imo, soso~)

金马轮 polo buns and pork chop buns. very authentic cha chan teng feel, complete with the cramped seats.

concluded that I'm not a fan of pork chop buns.

some games at the casino and several shuttle bus rides later, finally we were headed for HK!

(no photos, busy trying to catch more sleep)

dinner at 美心 maxims! kind of like our crystal jade, with western/chinese/bakery stores, but more affordable?

chef's recommendation - 蜜汁叉烧炒蛋

i generally like fried eggs so this was an okay~ meal.

next, exploring causeway bay (and getting tricked to walk to CK and Burberry Black!)

also spotted a life-sized (?), 3D promo campaign for HP7 part 2.

how cool is that?

other weird sightings: huge meiji meltykiss (approx 30x30cm), and a fujifilm BEAUTY shop (??)

called it a night after returning to hostel!

speaking of which, we were practically living the romance of 道明寺 and 杉菜: THE SIZE OF THE HOSTEL ROOM WAS EVEN SMALLER THAN THE TOILET IN VENETIAN!!

quick comparison:

also, wifi reception was v poor so more often than not we found ourselves squatting in the hostel walkway tapping on wifi :(

and the phone that "couldnt" work.. turns out that we (vivien) was trying to dial our OWN room extension.

bimbo moment.

k la, at least it was cheap, rather clean, and in a pretty good location. no other complaints!

day 1: almost paradise~~

2011-06-22T23:58:00.021+08:00

photos from the fabulous 7 day trip to macau+hk!

firstly, to introduce my travel buddies -

clockwise from left:

meisi, subject of most of our stirshit sessions, queen of 自拍

royston (aka royston burberry klein kin hao/everydayi'mshuffling), the one who does all the planning and map reading

vivien, who is damn good at researching all the must-try food places in hk/macau.

okay, first day upon arrival at HKIA we proceeded to macau via TurboJet ferry. checked in at the Venetian, film site of Boys Over Flowers. (I feel a real need to blast out the ALMOST PARADISE~~ song now.)

huge venetian room meant for two people. viv and i think it can fit 8 comfortably.

chiong off before 3pm to find the tai lei famous pork chop buns only to find that it was closed - AND THAT THERE WAS A BRANCH RIGHT IN VENETIAN ITSELF.

so we settled for the next best alternative(s).

bird nest tart/pork chop bun/sawdust pudding

anyhows, randomly chanced upon what i thought was 'the Venetian' but later turned out to be it's sister hotel, the Galaxy.

surprisingly good photo taken by the security guard there. nice angle!

then proceeded to ruins of st paul's, one of the few touristy sites in macau. it's erm. very 2D.

what else? being very singaporean, we started doing jump shots and made attempts at sensual shots

simply love this photo - very 巴厘岛的日子feel! hahaha

night scene from the ruins.

time for dinner! ate at this place supposedly good for it's noodles. mamatei la..

next up.. VIVA LA MACAU!! huat ah!

but alas, no mood for gambling tonight, hence more phototaking:

yet even more sensual shots and profile pic shooting process -

okayyy. maybe not.

one last shot for the night! venetian is so pretty really.

2010-03-14T02:40:00.006+08:00

I'm glad I went for e乐大赏 concert. But I'm very, very disturbed that some korean group that I only heard of the second time today (shinee) was getting more applause and attention than 金曲歌王 EASON CHAN and imo potential 金曲歌王 YOGA! Can't believe people were leaving during their performances!

Is there some generation gap, or are people just losing their ability to appreciate good music?

(On hindsight, I forgive them. Was once mad about 5566 too. HAHA)

2010-02-13T12:05:00.000+08:00

Thought I should start the new year with an auspicious blog entry.

Happy Chinese New Year!

2010-01-30T01:45:00.002+08:00

Turning 22, and feeling like it.

In the past, I might have just blurted things out without much consideration. Now, I've learnt to keep my mouth shut.

退一步海阔天空呀..

2010-01-30T01:27:00.008+08:00

This song makes me stop and listen. Peaceful, tranquil, reminds me of Haiti somehow.

Her new album is overly tribal though.

On another note, my SE earphones are spoiled. One more reason to get a new phone!

2010-01-15T01:48:00.002+08:00

Sorry if I'm offending any Lady Gaga fans, but..

I think lyrics like "RARH RARH" and "GARH, GARH, OOLALA" sound damn retarded.

2009-12-29T20:49:00.001+08:00

The Last Supper

Went on food trail with friend today, and duh ate tons of food. The last supper before exam results?

2009-12-24T15:06:00.000+08:00

Another song I'm hooked to:

Out to collect beancurd tarts now!

2009-12-21T12:59:00.004+08:00

Chanced upon this song on radio today:

(but he looks kind of.. dirty in the video?)

2009-12-12T11:50:00.002+08:00

This came by in the mail on Thurs:

And it contained this!

Check out the last line!!!

2009-12-10T06:38:00.000+08:00

Two most exciting moments in NTU -

1. Waiting for the results page to load after entering your matric number and password; and
2. Hitting the "Add courses to STARS" button during course registration.

What experience will it be this semester?

2009-12-09T02:06:00.007+08:00

Update on my birthday goals:

~~1. come back from exchange in one piece~~
didn't get to go in the end~

~~3. secure a good job with good prospects~~
I GOT AN OFFER FROM PWC!!

4. spend less save more!!!
so not getting there..

7. licence (entertaining that thought..)
may be going to register this hols

8. live a healthier lifestyle (less macs more exercise)
nope, failing at this too

10. be late less often!!
ditto above

11. try not to pangseh people (make a serious effort)
tried, but nowadays the trend is reversed, people pangseh me instead

12. read more books and of more genres (finish up my unread books first)
working on it this dec

2009-10-30T00:58:00.003+08:00

macD is really smart.

they added mega mac and mega spicy to the permanent menu
but
as i recall when they first introduced mcspicy
it was "mcspicy double"
i.e. the original already had two patties
i.e. they secretly took out one patty, and raised the price!

damn sneaky!!

and their new marketing gimmick is damn addictive still! shucks
人是犯贱的

2009-08-12T11:53:00.014+08:00

Birthday Post
304 photos, 4 days, 3 "surprised" videos, 2 karaoke sessions, 1 sick person

There is no harsher reminder of an aging body than to fall sick on the very day of your 21st birthday. But thanks to my great foresight, most of the birthday celebrations were over by then so here's a short photo recap.

28th July: Kbox with TIP gang

the cheap $10 promotion at kbox safra

high on padthai from "thai express"

laughing at the "mum mum mum mah" lyrics of pokerface

the surprise which actually worked, but I made them reenact the whole thing for the surprise to be caught on video
funny how we realised there may be smoke detectors only after blowing out the candles and were waving frantically to clear the air

30th July: Crystal Jade steamboat buffet + free flow xlb with 2/4
much anticipated buffet (extra emphasis on the free flow xlb!)
initial plan was to kill off 5 longs but according to sk I only managed 3 (I think it's less though)
and wl had h1n1?!!!

celebrating 9 years of friendship

XIAO LONG BAO!! I swear this photo has the power to make someone crave xlb.

my much practiced "surprised" look.

well, as they say, the size of the plate is proportional to the size of the head. HAHAHA

I love humiliating my friends on my blog

ditto above

the official photographer of the day with her splitting fringe!

I think no one can carry off the stoic expression better than wy. (part of wu lian pai series)

"on the same page you will spend the least time and the most time reading the messages"
- pristine

I am still very much in love with the RAWKZZZ expression

2nd August: Lunch with NJ classmates, which evolved into a mahjong session
"theme" (no one really followed): back to NJ

grey, red and nj pe tee
(xueli damn onz bring backpack somemore)

NJ TIE!!

damn luguangzhong style

insist on doing RAWKZZ at every outing HAHA

okay out for lessons now!

2009-06-13T22:18:00.004+08:00

21 goals for my 21st birthday
to be fulfilled in the next year

1. come back from exchange in one piece
2. graduate first class
3. secure a good job with good prospects
4. spend less save more!!!
5. have enough money to go on grad trip (hopefully)
6. start paying off my study loan when i start work
7. licence (entertaining that thought..)
8. live a healthier lifestyle (less macs more exercise)
9. grow more hair somehow?
10. be late less often!!
11. try not to pangseh people (make a serious effort)
12. read more books and of more genres (finish up my unread books first)

more when i think of it
(p.s.: this is my 100th post!!! came a long way... )

2009-05-06T00:25:00.005+08:00

currently watching this:

Great show! A cop series, very little romance element involved, so I think even guys will like it. Very action packed, I've yet to come across this genre of drama from Taiwan before. Love the funny side of zaizai, and most of the acting is great too. Like this:

yeah, it's 王传一, getting hooked on drugs. Never thought he could look so hideous. Think he probably referred to Batman's The Joker for his character, totally looks like a madman.

Here's the sneak preview (a very very movie like trailer!) PROBABLY CONTAINS SPOILERS..

Go watch it if you have time! I'm hooked.

2009-04-01T10:35:00.004+08:00

Happy April Fool's!
this post will disappear tomorrow. haha

Here's my likely blog schedule for the next quarter: (to preempt your tags)

School: Exam's coming in TWO WEEKS, so probably going to disappear for another 1 mth. Just pray my tagboard doesn't disappear by then. (pls keep tagging.) Thankfully most of my youtube shows have ended. Left with the Rainie show now, which I admit is quite lousy. Can't stand the long periods of silence and background music.

Internship: at Toyota, no details yet, but starting on 11th May. Hope I am kept busy enough, I hate feeling sleepy at work! SY! Hope you get in too.

Next sem of school: HK HK here I come! BUY, eat and STAR SPOTTING (lin feng!) muhahaha. Oh, let me know if you're coming HK in Dec. Need people to spread my luggage load around lol. Dear readers, you can start preparing shopping lists! I will do my best to buy. (at most, mail back lo. you can pay.)

Craving for that cup of java chip from Starbucks ever since I bought a book by Starbucks CEO. And I haven't even started reading. Somehow the idea that I should read the book at Starbucks is very appealing. Anyone interested?

2009-02-25T00:16:00.002+08:00

Caught The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Felt that the movie was a little too long. Perhaps the middle parts could be more concise, since the bulk of the story lies in the last hour. Was looking forward to how Brad Pitt can look younger than he really is, and well! He looks like Zac Efron when he's 20+? Totally wrinkle-free..

Found the movie inspiring in some ways. Two particular scenes stuck. (spoiler alert!!)

1. Things can turn out very differently in a matter of seconds..

A woman in Paris was on her way to go shopping, but she had forgotten her coat - went back to get it. When she had gotten her coat, the phone had rung, so she'd stopped to answer it; talked for a couple of minutes. While the woman was on the phone, Daisy was rehearsing for a performance at the Paris Opera House. And while she was rehearsing, the woman, off the phone now, had gone outside to get a taxi. Now a taxi driver had dropped off a fare earlier and had stopped to get a cup of coffee. And all the while, Daisy was rehearsing. And this cab driver, who dropped off the earlier fare; who'd stopped to get the cup of coffee, had picked up the lady who was going to shopping, and had missed getting an earlier cab. The taxi had to stop for a man crossing the street, who had left for work five minutes later than he normally did, because he forgot to set off his alarm. While that man, late for work, was crossing the street, Daisy had finished rehearsing, and was taking a shower. And while Daisy was showering, the taxi was waiting outside a boutique for the woman to pick up a package, which hadn't been wrapped yet, because the girl who was supposed to wrap it had broken up with her boyfriend the night before, and forgot. When the package was wrapped, the woman, who was back in the cab, was blocked by a delivery truck, all the while Daisy was getting dressed. The delivery truck pulled away and the taxi was able to move, while Daisy, the last to be dressed, waited for one of her friends, who had broken a shoelace. While the taxi was stopped, waiting for a traffic light, Daisy and her friend came out the back of the theater.

And if only one thing had happened differently: if that shoelace hadn't broken; or that delivery truck had moved moments earlier; or that package had been wrapped and ready, because the girl hadn't broken up with her boyfriend; or that man had set his alarm and got up five minutes earlier; or that taxi driver hadn't stopped for a cup of coffee; or that woman had remembered her coat, and got into an earlier cab, Daisy and her friend would've crossed the street, and the taxi would've driven by. But life being what it is - a series of intersecting lives and incidents, out of anyone's control - that taxi did not go by, and that driver was momentarily distracted, and that taxi hit Daisy, and her leg was crushed.

2. The ending! My takeaway was that the world has plans and places for everyone.

Some people are born to sit by a river, some get struck by lightning, some have an ear for music, some are artists, some swim, some know buttons, some know Shakespeare, some are mothers and some people dance.

Toyota interview tomorrow. Wish me luck!

2009-02-21T14:07:00.018+08:00

MY TAGBOARD'S BACK!

Went 林宥嘉‘s concert yesterday. Thank goodness he didn't 脸臭臭!!! It's been long since I really liked an artist, because most out there are either looks-only (farenheit), or those who can sing have too much attitude (joanna?), or are otherwise dishonest (cough** yangzongwei!!). But for this guy, it's totally just RESPECT. I could really feel his humble attitude towards being able to perform with the help of all the teachers. He thanked them within the first 3 songs of the whole concert. And I mean really like facing them and deep-bowing. Not just saysay only and backfacing them. It's not something I see a lot after going for so many concerts the past year. Was also quite touched by the jian chi in his music. And I liked that the focus of the concert wasn't on performing his own songs. He didn't even sing 伯乐 which is like his zhu da song?

I did feel that the flow of music could be better because the changes in songs were a bit too drastic. (or maybe it's supposed to be like that, given that the theme of the show is 迷宫?) Like after a series of slow songs, he suddenly sings a fast-tempo one, then the next song is slow song again. And his song choice was really old!! e.g: 对你爱不完，青苹果乐园，不是每段恋曲都有美好回忆，失恋阵线联盟，blue suede shoes, AND GET THIS.. HE SANG 叉烧包!!!

广东包呀上海包呀广东包呀上海包

too much chilli crab and chicken rice..

damn 陶醉..

attempting to dance

the little nonya singer.. YES she did sing little nonya
(my friend commented that she probably doesn't know what she's singing, since her chinese has erm plenty of room for improvement..)

for wy's welfare

more welfare..

ella: which one of us would you see as most your-type?

WY: WHY NOT ME?
XM: WHY NOT ME?????

I like this photo. makes him look very jap-ish! actually, don't even look like him. HAHA.

BANZAI! (sk will know what I mean)

???

check out the hair!

I particularly liked this song that he sang (cover of eason's 月黑风高）. Wanted to cry when I saw the lyrics! About this taxi driver who was working hard to ensure his son gets a better life. (The video's not mine, although I did take videos of other songs)

Overall, a very good concert,with two (planned?) encores. Certainly comparable with Amei's. I don't think anyone will doubt his 实力 after watching this.

2008-12-19T23:39:00.006+08:00

call me a suaku..

saw this recently:

wah the lights are like how cool can!
and I love the "door opens on this side/other side" thingy.
always can't differentiate which door opens at raffles place/city hall.
but apparently these have been around for some time already!!!

sephora opened in ngee ann city today!

went down with sk, who claims she looks like edna (and emphasises that edna is NOT mrs incredibles..)

frankly, there was so much buzz about it's official opening that I expected it to be damn cool (and most of all BIG). but quite sad, even the watsons downstairs has a larger beauty section than this can. and things there are GROSSLY overpriced. expecting to see lots of sprees for this soon.

just look at the number of lip sticks/glosses on sale!

FINALLY caught cape no. 7 after many recommendations. but then again, this failed to meet my VERY VERY high expectations/anticipation. very flat movie, not much climax I think. still, the jap guy can really sing!! love his zhuan yin, even though the first time I heard the song I wanted to whack him cos it's so.. like going to zaoxia but never. how the heck does he make himself sound like a chinese flute?!

someone buy me enrique iglesias's greatest hits album! BAILAMOS & Be With You makes me high. not to mention that EURO 2008 song (Can You Hear Me) which I totally didn't catch on tv.

2008-09-23T10:35:00.012+08:00

a trip to the toy museum

outside

cute robots

star wars poster. the guy in the centre is actually harrison ford leh! super shocked

posing with harrison ford!

japanese batman

reminds me of a savings bank I used to have

Mickey was almost named Mortimer! thank god Walt Disney's wife stopped him

mickey chamber pot

the old mickeys are kind of ... hideous?

tintin

darkie toothpaste! (if I'm not wrong, darlie first started out as darkie. not racist here.)

beatles' combs! (read the words. it says: for big heads. COUGH)

2D driver in some antique race car

this toy damn cute, the pingpong ball will move back and forth when wound up, but never hits the players bats..

my catch of the day!

spotted this at the raffles city adidas shop.

on close inspection, this is freaky.

breadtalk makes the cutest breads ever! ferraberri

Then walked to Singapore Flyer to try Popeyes. Been meaning to try it since WL was gushing over it at airport last Dec. Caution: Don't buy the chicken strips! It conjures up a picture of Long John's chicken, BUT super super small. totally not worth the price. and the biscuit is weird.. personally, it reminds me of ji dan gao but fried on the outside. Will much rather buy 2 piece chicken. The place totally smells like KFC...

breathtaking!

2008-09-20T14:07:00.009+08:00

Mamma Mia! recess week...

it's recess week. still busy as crap. 1 paper, 2 projects, 3 tests to study for. the prospect of dropping econs and going on exchange is seriously tempting.

caught Mamma Mia! it's sort of freaky to see old women (late 50s) singing and dancing and having fun. even weirder to see PIERCE BROSNAN sing and dance!! (although his first appearance in the movie did remind me of the visa advert) in other words, the movie's only so-so, but thumbs up for the song dancing queen! my fav part of the movie.

despite being down with flu, I went ahead and bought tons of reese's peanut butter chocolates (3 packets of m&ms sized ones and the packet of 3 peanut butter cups) salty and sweet combination is damn nice I tell you, MUST TRY. can be found at candy empire, although they are super marked-up. my friend went US recently and said the packet of three cups only cost her US$1 which is almost SG$1.45? candy empire sells it at $3.50. HMM. anyone who knows anyone coming back from US let me know ok.

going toy museum tomorrow! :D

2008-08-31T00:33:00.001+08:00

OHMYGODLA...

2008-08-24T00:49:00.005+08:00

Not quite the social butterfly...

Starting to feel like a NTU-reject! First was the volunteer for open house thing, and now WSC. How many more times do I need to convince myself that it's a blessing in disguise, given the heavy workload now? Hmm, maybe I'm not that suited to having a life in uni after all.

it's one thing to be left out in school, and another to be left out by friends...

2008-08-22T23:43:00.008+08:00

I am old...

I am old enough to remember when Plaza Sing was old and unhip.

I am old enough to remember when Far East Plaza had Metro and Mcdonald's.

I am old enough to remember Yaohan at Marina Square and Sogo at Raffles City. (and come to think of it, Metro at Marina Square as well!)

I am old enough to remember that Marina Square had a fountain, and a huge arcade above the foodcourt which had famous chicken rice, and the foodcourt was on the first floor near KFC.

I am old enough to remember when IMM had IMM MegaMart (with white plastic bags and blue words) instead of Giant.

I am old enough to remember when 187 was under SBS and not SMRT.

I am old enough to remember the appearance of the first double-decker bus. (Bus 7, in case you're wondering)

I am old enough to remember a time without LRT and NEL.

I am old enough to remember when Singapore movies meant Army Daze and not Jack Neo or Royston Tan.

I am old enough to remember when Mediacorp was not called Mediacorp but SBC and TCS.

I am old enough to remember where Haw Par Villa was still open and I was playing the log (flume) ride thingy.

I am old enough to remember asking Dad to buy Polly Pocket (tiny plastic dolls) for me.

I am old enough to remember when Neopets was as popular as Facebook is today.

I am old enough to remember when Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, N'Sync and A1 just started out, and Backstreet Boys and Westlife were popular.

I am old enough to remember the ORIGINAL Power Rangers which was called Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Red Ranger was called Jason and Pink Ranger was called Kimberly - based on memory!!)

I am old enough to remember the red-bricked National Library.

I am old enough to remember when both Macau and Hong Kong weren't part of China.

I am old enough to remember the 3 1/2 inch floppy disk (A: drive!) being used to transfer data.

I am old enough to remember using LDs (laser disc?) to watch movies like The Land Before Time 1-4. (which is damn nice by the way)

I am old enough to remember using a typewriter in my house.

I am old enough to remember when Gao Xiao Xing Dong, Liang Si Mei and Liang Popo were damn popular.

I am old enough to remember a show called Cheng Ren Za Zhi (City Beat) and was hosted by Huang Sufang, Bryan Wong, Kym Ng (Ms Tan) and Sharon Au (Ah Hao).

I am old enough to remember a time without Kbox, Sweetalk and BreadTalk.

I am old enough to remember IRC and ICQ.

I am old enough to remember when Kinokuniya first opened in Ngee Ann City.

I am old enough to remember that WALKMAN actually meant a portable casette player with/without FM radio.

I am old enough to remember a time where handphones didn't exist!

Hmm. These days, the only constant thing is change.
(ps: if you remember stuff I don't, please tag!)

2008-05-16T22:12:00.002+08:00

my new obsession: scratch cards! (from singapore pools)

2008-05-14T15:48:00.003+08:00

God I love surprises and surprising people. So here I am finally updating my blog. 2 months have passed! That's as long as like, repeating half of Da Chang Jin on TV. (which I've just finished watching again.. like for the nth time)

I think leos have a scary competitive streak in them. I'm currently wishing that I had bothered to sign up for exchange programmes this hols because SO MANY FRIENDS ARE GOING OVERSEAS TO EXCITING PLACES AND FOR LONG PERIODS (and relatively cheap too).. damn. like there's a friend in USA now who's going to be there for 3 months, another friend going to MEXICO for summer studies (envious about the idea of going overseas, but NOT the place itself), and someone's going Korea on exchange as well. EVEN MY MOTHER is going overseas to avoid the heat. and poor me (literally and figuratively) is staying on this sunny island! hooray.

Friends in/going to uni, please treasure the opportunities to go on exchanges! I can only travel like AFTER I GRADUATE, no thanks to the internship next year! so much for a short, 3year degree. sigh

envious post. blah.

someone find me an accting related job!

2008-03-14T23:26:00.002+08:00

I came across this while trying to help my friend learn proper typing..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_quick_brown_fox_jumps_over_the_lazy_dog

Some extremely weird stuff!

- Sample font displays in other languages

Spanish (translated): The quick Hindu bat was happily eating thistle and kiwi. The stork played the sax behind the straw palisade.

seems like the Spaniards are racist too. HAHA

2008-02-29T00:27:00.002+08:00

Feb 29th is a day for blogging! After all, if you miss blogging today, you'll have to wait another 4 years!

Interesting fact #1: Most of us think that every year that is divisible by 4 is a leap year right (2008, 2004, 2000, etc)? And since 2000 was a leap year, 1900, 1800 and 1700 were leap years also.. right?

WRONG!

Years divisible by 100 are NOT leap years UNLESS they are also divisible by 400.. i.e. 1600 and 2000 are leap years, but 1700, 1800 and 1900 are not leap years!!

Interesting fact #2: It is widely believed that Julius Caesar and Augustus (from which July and August are named after) both took a day from February to make their months longer, which is why February only has 28 days instead of 30. HMM

AH-HAH... useful stuff learnt from my elective.. lol

2008-02-15T00:20:00.014+08:00

How I spent vday in 2007:

*note the top left picture lol

How I spent vday this year (drumroll pls):

1. gave the bf a RED (LIMITED EDITION!!) PSP

2. went to school for elective (super drama lecture.. out of 100 ppl only 40 turned up, and the lecturer actually MONITORED us signing attendance to make sure we didn't sign for more than one person)

3. received nice BIG roses.. DAMN BIG OK!!:

DON'T BE JEALOUS all you single ppl out there! muhaha

It's so big I decided to take a photo with another object, just to show its majestic size:

yep, that's my ordinary sharp end comb that can be found for like 60cents at all shops selling hair pins/combs/accessories. the roses DAMN BIG CAN!

but he was emo-ing about the small flowers that he bought, so I'll forgive him. haha

4. I had a wonderful sumptious meal at a very lovin' place! McDonalds!

5. Went Cathay for Ben&Jerry's

6. Sat outside Cathay to play Bomberman.

In summary, here's two things I learned about myself today:
1. Size doesn't matter, really!
2. I suck at Bomberman... took me a ride from Boon Lay to Outram to win ONE game! and that's with the computer players in "easy" mode, AND severely handicapped! (like slow + cannot put bombs, etc). but by the end of the day, I was improving okay!

Anyway, I gave him an F grade for such a great day, so there'll be a make-up session tomorrow. HAHA

happy vday all.

2008-02-06T22:39:00.000+08:00

must blog before cny!

HAPPY CNY~ may everyone huat in the year of the rat

2008-01-19T23:59:00.000+08:00

picture describing some tiring way of doing pushups..

drawn via MSN! damn cute! hahahaha. courtesy of the bf.

-edit-

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"picture describing some tiring way of doing pushups.. drawn via MSN! damn cute! hahahaha. courtesy of the bf."

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i box u

HAHA

2008-01-04T23:47:00.000+08:00

I have a damn funny (but evil) brother! Excerpt of our MSN conversation:

____________________________________________________

TWL --- TAIPEI: after exams you tell them "really meh ? it was quite easy mah"
TWL --- TAIPEI: cannot win also must have psychological warfare
TWL --- TAIPEI: actually
TWL --- TAIPEI: regarding psychological warfare
TWL --- TAIPEI: SHOULD CARRY OUT BEFORE EXAMS !
TWL --- TAIPEI: eg, "Huh ? I spent 100 hrs studying everything ? You mean you havent finished studying ??? Anyway that chapter you never study coming out you know ?" etc
me: haha later they panic den study super hard
TWL --- TAIPEI: stupid
TWL --- TAIPEI: should b4 exam (as in OUTSIDE EXAM HALL) then psycho war
me: hahaha
me: good idea
TWL --- TAIPEI: hahaa master evil skills
me: no wonder twl so good
TWL --- TAIPEI: where got good
TWL --- TAIPEI: only that i have lousy friends
TWL --- TAIPEI: then i everytime bet with the slightly lousier friend
TWL --- TAIPEI : use psychological warfare to defeat him !
me: is it! haha
TWL --- TAIPEI: before exam ask him cock qns that very few ppl know the answer to
TWL --- TAIPEI: then i say "this qn is quite common in past yr"
TWL --- TAIPEI: anyway the friend lose a few bets already
TWL --- TAIPEI: 1st time was 1 pack of tissue paper
TWL --- TAIPEI: most recent is 1 pair of eyes !
me: but if he knows leh
me: then will be morale booster!
TWL --- TAIPEI: won't
TWL --- TAIPEI: if he know then i am lousy
TWL --- TAIPEI: or i say "Yah that is right"
TWL --- TAIPEI: usually i will say "I test your knowledge!"
TWL --- TAIPEI: hahaha i go sch is to distract ppl one

LOL

2007-12-27T23:07:00.000+08:00

Results have never been disappointing (except for that time i got O for F Math).

Let's hope it's good news tomorrow. (omgg. I just realised I can't spell tomorrow without doubting myself. =/)

-edit-

Thanks.

2007-12-26T11:18:00.000+08:00

I must have been a really bad person this year, because my year-end is getting worse and worse.

Spent Christmas moping around the house. Not exactly in a good mood nowadays, it's more like a neutral/timeflies/ohmy2008'scoming/school'sstarting mood, leaning more towards sad actually. I think I just realised why.. no presents at all this year! sigh. If not for the card from Candy, this Christmas has been totally non-significant. Sad isn't it, I'm whining about not getting presents on my blog! But on the flipside, it's not like I gave out any presents either, so HAHA, I deserve it. =/

Been feeling rather empty lately, as though everything's out of perspective and there's no focus at all. Existence without purpose is like living in an empty shell isn't it. hmm. I see friends doing things they enjoy doing, taking tiny steps to achieve their big aim, and then I reflect and realise how bland my own life is. Perhaps, in 2008, what I really need is to find something I really enjoy doing, and to focus on doing that well.

Slightly more positive stuff! Here are my belated Christmas/New Year wishes for friends! (in no preferential order)

1. For Sin Kuan, may your business prosper and you find time/motivation to paint your shoes. Be rid of carrot legs and big head~ May you get to own an orange ezlink card!

2. For Sin Yee, to be able to know what you want to do in the future, and to embark on a route that gets you there. To earn such that you'll be able to spend comfortably.

3. For Wei Yuan, for a chance to go overseas to Taiwan and meet Hebe/Cyndi, or Japan to meet Sharon, or Korea to meet Youxi, all-expenses paid. To have a clearer picture about the future.

4. For Kok Mun, safety in Taiwan. Meet pretty girls and to build a lasting circle of friends to find solace in. May people not forget you while you're in Taiwan! haha

5. For Chee Wee, to have a meaningful, safe and pleasant time as an SAF officer. May you get promoted soon! For good relationships with family and friends.

6. For Wei Liang, may you mature in thought and be have enough finances to support you and your gf. Lasting relations.

7. For Candy, may you find your modules easy and obtain great results. To have more time for meetups with the rest of us. To score more goals.

8. For Wen Yun, to win more money (at no cost to me, haha). For your leg to recover soon and recover well.

9. For Xueli, to do well in studies and have a fun life in hostel. To finally be able to grow long hair!

10. For Hong Ming, to decide on what you want to study in the future, and may you have the financial support to get there.

11. For Vivien, to be able to have time for more frequent gatherings. more fun with DVD. May you drive more often!

12. For Wei Loong, to have more successful outings. To find the dream bag/shoe you've been looking for all this while. Easier time with your injuries.

13. For Hao Wen, to spend the last 3 months in OCS safely and to be successfully commissioned. To find a girl to bring to balls and dinners and parades.

14. For Jaya, to excel in law school. To chill and enjoy life more often.

15. For Sherinah, may you find great schoolmates whom you can hang out with. To be happier. May family/friends problems be solved.

16. For NTU classmates, to be able to have more successful gatherings, for responsibility in actions. to zhi jun, may you be able to learn some form of musical instrument. to huifen, more vibrant school life. to qianwen, to be more decisive and informed. to patrick, to grow younger each year. for ziling to have more money to spend. for wanqi to pass your driving test.

17. For someone, financial freedom. To have more awareness of others, and an easier time at school. For your sister to be able to think on her own. Family to be more understanding.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, y'all.

2007-12-17T14:49:00.000+08:00

Addicted to christmas carols recently! Why are they nice even if they're slow songs e.g. silent night? Can't imagine CNY songs like gong xi fa cai being a slow song. no mood already la!

Anyway, in this lousy week, I -

Met up with Vivien and Wei Loong on Monday. Viv is damn resourceful, always manages to find some ulu restaurant to eat at. I am too lazy to upload photos from my phone, will probably get it done tonight after kbox (if we go!).
Went Sentosa (and consequently, shopping at Vivo!) on Tues. Sentosa is starting to look like Orrrrrchard Road, with the amount of construction work going on. The monorail is cool though, albeit a little slow. Unglam photos up once I get them.
Watched Alvin and the Chipmunks on Wed. It was okay la, not really much of a storyline, but watch if you like their songs! (I have the soundtrack if anyone's interested.)

We also celebrated Wei Yuan's birthday! I TRIED NOT TO BE LATE. (5 minutes, not bad already!) Finally we get to take our sweet revenge on him regarding his first love Sharon. (Okay, he doesn't really suan me, but I'm speaking for others.) Anyway I found my first love! CHOCOLATE INDULGENCE from Secret Recipe! Super shiok.

Sunday was a day of shocking wins! Star Awards and Asian Idol respectively.

1. Star Awards - definitely dark horses for best female/male lead actress! How can someone win best lead actress if she's not even the lead in the show. come on la rui en totally rocks. and since when did the (IMO, lousy) show my father, my daughter manage to get more viewers than PUO JIAN ER CHU... the show is damn good can! and taypinghui managed to win the best theme song prize for the song in that army show. (I don't know why I always associate that song with yang pei an's Wo Xiang Xin.) I still remember the time I was on 179 to school and TVMobile was showing the start of the army show and the song was stuck in my head the whole day! worthy winner haha

Joanne Peh didn't get top 10! too bad MUHAHA. I think she was a little complacent. Learn from Felicia Chin and be more friendly la. I thought Dawn Yeoh looked really nice though!

2. Asian Idol HADY MIRZA... I was listening to 100.3 that day, the DJs were saying that Hady must be damn embarrassed when the results were announced since everyone was better than him yet he won. Several theories possible here -

Since everyone had to vote for 2 countries, they'll obviously vote their own and a weaker opponent that won't threaten their country, right? Apparently everyone ended up voting for this 'weaker opponent' and he won. HAHA.
Singapore is richer than the other countries participating in Asian Idol, therefore more $ to spend on voting. (singapore malays are richer)
He has the whole package (really??)

I think I have suddenly developed some crazy bulleting addiction.

I have an urge to buy Christmas cards!

Taxi fares are damn expensive!

2007-12-13T09:04:00.000+08:00

I am feeling extremely grumpy today!

Reasons:
1. Prolonged period of insufficient sleep.

which leads to...

2. Bad cold this morning. If rudolph gets tired I can probably replace him.

3. Kiasu-ism in Singapore is getting intolerable. I go to the bus stop each morning to see a whole crowd of people standing at the front (it's not that the bus stop is even crowded), BUT the buses that are coming are not even the services that they are waiting for! so terrible! will take a pic and upload one day. and when the bus is here, it's a mad rush to get up the bus. ditto with train services.

4. The stupid elective registration. Interesting electives that clash with my timetable + boring electives that don't + super long waitlist for the interesting ones that DO fit (160o++ with at least 2 more days of registration to go for a course with 649 vacancies, 300 for a course with FIFTEEN VACANCIES damn) = ULTIMATE ANNOYANCE.

And to top it off,

5. Sharon Au is coming back to host star awards. Great news for weiyuan.

6. I just got smacked in the mouth by a binder clip. The stack I was trying to clip was too thick and the clip tang back to my face. :S

7. The weather sucks. Too much rain or too much sun. Singaporeans like to complain (myself included). Rain, complain. Sun, also complain! School, complain. Holiday also complain! And without realising it, I'm complaining about how we like to complain! Irony.

Today when I was crossing the road, I saw a grown-up man hiding in the shadow of a dustbin in order to get some shade. Pathetic sight!!

A question from my econs textbook:
Why do keypad buttons on drive-up ATM machines have Braille dots?
go ponder!

-EDIT-

If I had a list of worst weeks of my life, THIS WEEK WOULD PROBABLY BE AT THE TOP OF THAT LIST.

In this week, I have...

1. Stood on my way to work for the entire week (as of today).

2. Fell on my ass - It was raining and I was in a hurry to get to Bugis Junction and ONLY TWO STEPS AWAY from the traffic light.

3. Almost fainted on the bus on Sunday, thanks to this woman who smells of flowers and her long irritating hair brushing my hand every 2 seconds, stomachache and possibly no breakfast.

4. Almost fell out with a friend.

5. Gone to Sentosa to enjoy the lovely rain.

6. Stood outside the office door for 25 min after lunch because no one was at their desk (some were in pantry) and they used fingerprint technology.

7. Been accused of something I didn't do. (non-work related)

What else? If I don't get the module I want, it could probably round up the list! I need to go pray at the temple soon. SIGH

2007-12-03T08:48:00.000+08:00

it's nice and refreshing to walk along a sidewalk with strong cool wind blowing...

EXCEPT WHEN IT'S 8.30 IN THE MORNING.. zz

2007-12-02T21:48:00.000+08:00

OMGGG I so want to complain about how good the transport system is in Singapore. it is IMPOSSIBLE to get home by bus if you're in town at around 10pm (from wisma onwards). If the bus doesn't come, then that's fine, but it totally sucks when the bus comes around and doesn't even open the door! (not once, not even twice! like 3-4 times, and more than one bus service too)

I got so fed up I had to resort to underhanded means to get home.. such as calling friends with driving licenses to drive me home muhahaha (wenyun), but obviously I failed because who'd be so nice?

In the end, I took 171. It's a choice I would never have made unless I'm really desperate.. let me show you why:

This shows the route 700A takes to go back to Bukit Panjang Interchange..

This is the 171 route:

I'm not done. There's still part 2

Obviously, I was out of my mind. but at least I managed to get a seat! to think sinkuan was already out of the shower when I just alighted. crap. makes me want to drive/own a car.

anyway, happy birthday to sk! a little late (actually I wanted to message you at 11+pm on the day itself, but when I realised it was already 1st dec 12.14am.. haha woops) lend me your mei rong da wang book after you're done okay.

3 day week next sem! muhaha. and I'm addicted to F.I.R's yue ya wan and san ge xin yuan.

2007-11-24T21:42:00.000+08:00

sem 1's over! :D
open book exams are cool. no need for memorizing stuffs anymore.
18 AUs down! i'm probably gonna take a black and white photography elective next sem. improve my photo-taking skills (can take more fake artistic photos next time. hor SK?)
6 week break, should make good use of it to do useful things.. HMM. baking class?
need to be more active in losing weight too LOL

OCS peeps commissioning soon! and km's already in taiwan for one month. so many people passing their driving tests!!
time flies~

my dad's cute. i told him my student obtained 226 for PSLE.
him: 226 not bad already what.. my student got 206!
me: YAH, but you're a SWIMMING TEACHER. i'm a tuition teacher!
rahhh

randomness. but I hate it when people whisper to others in front of me. insecure/over suspicious?

2007-11-10T22:58:00.000+08:00

UPDATE!

you probably know it's time to update your blog when :

1. you repeatedly receive warning messages about how your tagboard is going to expire. REPEATEDLY. LIKE 3-4 TIMES.

2. people can recite the contents and DATE of your last post.

3. you can't think of anything else to do (??? okay i added this in 'cos 3's a nicer number than 2. hahaha)

now let's see how long people take to realise I'm blogging again.

on a side note, I feel like such a techno dino with all the friendster/facebook hype going on now

2007-07-14T12:50:00.000+08:00

2007-06-26T13:38:00.000+08:00

here to blog because it's kind of sickening to keep seeing my own picture when the page loads.

i officially declare that i'm getting SICK OF MAHJONG after 4 consecutive days of the game. thursday played at edison's house. first time i see someone never win a single game for one entire feng! and everyone else won la obviously. BUT edison keeps reminding me that i'm the only one who took zg's money so i'm still feeling a bit paiseh about it. oh well. after that we went K till 1+. damn funny to sing with old guys 'cos their songs are so last generation! got hokkien songs and canton songs and like grasshopper's ai bu pa (which edison proudly claims he still remembers the moves to LOL) and china doll's dan yan pi nu sheng, etc. oh and it's super convenient to go out with people with cars. no need to worry about how to get home and we get to go eat prata for supper as well. rocks la

friday had TUITION. my god kids nowadays seriously suck. p2 only and got attitude problems. he actually locked himself in the room and refused to come out until his mum threatened to cane him. then he came out crying. and he dare to tell me "YOU CHOOSE YOURSELF LAH" wahlao too bad i'm not his mum if not he sure get slapped (violent tendencies lol) but seriously what's their problem. you don't like to be tutored but i don't like to give tuition also what! RAHHH annoying kids.

then went chalet WOOHOOO
and as usual we mj tv ps2 sleep eat

i think you have to be HIGH to win at mj. seriously! i was like not really winning much then started getting HIGH and singing songs and as usual WOOHOO-ing hahaha and EH i kept winning can! so anyway that was day 2 of mj. o and the highlight of day 2 was probably going to geylang for dimsum and tau huay? we played again on sat so that was day 3. speaking of which the eventual strength (staying over on 2nd night) was like 4 people. so one per bed la lucky them lol.

sunday went home to play mj with hj wy and my mum. apparently not bathing for close to 24 hours (EW) helps with luck too cos they got trashed! LOL first time i managed to win money from wy. but oh well mahjong's like 75% about luck so i guess he's just down on luck that day la.

met up with vivien and weiloong for lunch at ms yesterday. like vivien says, meeting up with friends over lunch is really so much more worth it. $8 bucks for starters main course and desserts, plus free flow drinks. quite ok. and we walked around ms looking at mp3s (wl) and good deals (viv and i). speaking of which she actually spent like $140 at ONE store alone. my god.

weiloong being himself made us walk to raffles city to look at the queue for donuts. apparently he has the idea that the queue on weekdays will be damn short and fast, i.e. half hour. SO WRONG. but in all randomness he still wanted to eat donuts so we went tanjong pagar and ate CHEWY JUNIOR which was essentially chewy filled donuts la. it's at tanjong pagar plaza's first floor for those interested.

i am a lousy cameraman! i took a shot of viv and weiloong and apparently the first thing they thought of was WHERE ARE WE? anyway i deleted the evidence haha

the top left one is the choc-oreo thingy, i was holding a half-eaten original, and the bottom row's coffee muesli, a half-eaten cheese and an uneaten original and a strawberry one under it due to the lousy way i carried the box. lol

personally i only found the original one nice. the choc-oreo thingy was a bit too sweet. but overall chewy donuts are not my thing i guess. have to go try missy donuts at bpp. maybe this week.

and weiloong being random again said he wanted to drink bubble tea. but CBD area where got bubble tea? so we went all the way to far east to get bubble tea. don't buy blue coral milk tea. it tastes like medicine. sweetalk has nice pearls though, quite chewy. but can't compare with taiwan's duh.

having food cravings. i want to eat

!!!

shall update on my food trail with yingying someday

2007-06-04T22:05:00.000+08:00

yes i went taiwan AGAIN this time with yeewen sinkuan and sinyee. all girls = shopping nonstop! i kinda prefer this trip, except for the fact that i actually had to carry my own luggage around, instead of like yeah having guys to help. lol. next time should go with metro guys who can shop and help with luggage :D

a picture paints a thousand words so here goes:

day 1: reached taoyuan international airport at around 5.30? WE SAW ANDY LAU hahaha (i actually thought he was some caucasian 'cos he was so fair!)

our first picture taken in taiwan!

didn't have anywhere to stay for the first night so we just took the coach and got down at taipei che zhan. decided to stay at cosmos hotel but WHAT THE SHIT there was no way to get across the street except for an OVERHEAD BRIDGE like 100m away! CRAP. talk about exercise!!

settled into room 1121 and then went taipei main station's underground mall for a very expensive (and bad!) western dinner. oh well. at least the waffles were nice! shopped around for cheap shoes and books before heading back.

day 2: cam-whored (sk and i), watched some murder mystery on tv (sk yw sy) and checked out! proceeded to ximending to check into our 2nd hotel. speaking of murder mysteries, it's damn freaky when you travel with 3 girls who get so hooked on such shows that they exclaimed at the same time that the true murderer is the mother of some guy who died.

we also did some xi-nu-ai-le pose which i thought was too ugly to be posted up HAHA

took neoprints and then shopped at ximending after that, before heading to taipei 101.

let me advertise my fav actor first! DAMN BIG POSTER WOOHOO JOHNNY DEPP!!

stupid lamp post in the way

behold. the world's tallest building (for now). taipei 101.

in the queue for the lift going up to 89th floor

view of taipei city

then sk and i discovered that we could buy postcards and send back to ourselves, and we spent like tons of time (1.5 hours?) writing and stamping

the box which we dropped our postcards into

when we were finally done, we went up up up to the 91st storey, the OUTDOOR observatory

2 storeys make all the difference in size of cars/buildings

sk trying to get a jump shot. this was probably the 15th attempt

then we decided to get SUPPER at ximending. donuts + corn + hotdog + some jap food thingy

donuts from mr donut. famous but only a few flavours are worth trying.

had some supper party thingy before going to sleep.

day 3: headed to leofoo village in the morning. waited damn long for the bus there

bus tickets

the most exciting ride there, since the roller coaster was down for maintenance =/

beer version of the turning teacup thingy

suggestive pose HAHA sorry edison

MY FAVOURITE RIDE

view of part of the theme park, taken from some lame ali baba ride

taken when we were leaving the place

reached taipei at 7+, close to 8? then left for wu fen pu + rao he night market. SHOPPING WOOO

some sign outside the night market

back at the hotel with our prized possessions.

2007-05-30T17:56:00.000+08:00

updating in reverse order cos blogger somehow always puts the last uploaded picture on top.

day 4:
went wufenpu in the afternoon, returned to hotel and then we went SHIHLIN! basically the highlight of the trip.

my HAO DA DA JI PAI! (must say with accent)
shihlin ZONG3 DIAN4 okay (and it's like just a stall with a super long queue)

we also ate ah zong mian xian which was a good team building experience! you have to try it yourself. it's quite hard to finish the noodles alone. lol. then we split up to shop! sk and i managed to find this dart throwing game. good for relieving stress. so we met up again at the train station where this pic was taken:

YUP I WAS TRYING TO KISS DEAR JOHNNY. at the mrt station! tons of ppl around!

back to taipei main station to change trains

we decided we were all too high to just go back to sleep. so we went k at partyworld at around 12.35. partyworld's like an entire building (overstaffed though). very different experience! $17+ to sing for 4 hours, plus meals (rice + kangkong + spare ribs). THE MEAL WAS REALLY GOOD.

of course we'd cam whore first

THE ROOM HAS ITS OWN TOILET. like damn cool can! singapore should have also!

sy yw and sk decided to stand on the chair to sing some high song while i was away in the toilet.
then the guy who delivered the food entered AND THEY SAT DOWN IMMEDIATELY.
HAHA

swinging their hands along to jay's ting mama de hua. note sk's expressions.

before we went to k we all thought OH NO WE MAY GET ROBBED, STALKED, etc when we go back to hotel at 4+. but it was already bright, like the sky you'll see at 7am.

(it was actually much brighter but i took this pic with flash on)

we were like CHEH what the hell it's probably more dangerous to go out at 12+ than go back at 4+ la.

me, still being high, decided to sing CONG TAIPEI DAO BEIJING while taking off my jacket (intended to throw it on the ground), in the middle of ximending.

BUT while sk was filming the video and after i took off my jacket, A POLICE CAR APPEARED!

LOL

went back hotel, slept immediately. didn't even remember sk coming out from the shower.

day 5:

slept till 10 (earliest as usual), showered, woke sk & yw up, went organic shop, ate macs for lunch, then went carrefour to buy cup noodles (yw), cream puffs (sk), lays (me) and gums/sweets (sy). decided to check-in the food since it obviously won't fit our luggage!

one for each of us

then yw and sy went shihlin, sk and i walked around ximen. took neoprints, and duh, more shopping. i somehow managed to get high and kept WOOHOO-ing, all the way back to hotel.

drunk on yakult

I WAS SO SAD AFTER THAT! cos when we compared the amount of stuff we each bought, i realised i bought quite little things! decided to forfeit my long-awaited hot spring visit to do more shopping.

day 6:

woke yw and sy up to go hot springs. sk and myself went organic shop (again) and ximen and organic shop (AGAIN AGAIN)

ate some lover's shaved ice thingy. perfect in that weather.

sk scribbled on the walls. you can vaguely make out the "cong taipei dao beijing" which i asked her to add in LOL

splurging on high class cake and tea in a high class cafe.

trying to be artistic.

artistic attempt #1

artistic attempt #2

(not bad, someone actually thought it was some wine bar when i set it as my DP)

then it was back to hotel to wait for the coach to airport. sk and i were complaining of not having cam-whored enough, so we did the 1-10 thingy.

never incur a woman's wrath. JUST LOOK AT SK'S FACE!

(somehow it reminds me of johnny depp. HAHA)

reached airport, checked in our almost overweight baggage, went for dinner at bk where most of us spent all our money, and then we were on our way back to sg!

the pineapple tarts darn cute will blow up in the airplane! air pressure

my stuff! tons of lays and cream puff biscuits and other food

one pack of lays EXPLODED cos of the air pressure! damn.

yw's load of maggie mee (she insisted on buying more at the airport!)

sk's haul of organic stuff, books, shoes, clothes and food

sy's cream puffs and lays in box; all other bought stuff in the glam lancome bag

so that was taiwan 2007. REWARDING EXPERIENCE. more updates next time.

2007-05-20T02:06:00.000+08:00

quick update!

flying to taiwan in less than 12 hours time! woohoo. gonna shop and cam whore like mad. and eat! shiok la

aristal on 26 may and my LONG AWAITED PIRATES on 27th! JOHNNY DEPP

2 chalets coming up in the june holidays! looking forward to overnight mahjong

I NEED A JOB. xueli says go work in kbox. sounds fun but pay sure v low. hard to find one that matches deloitte's. but still need to find cos my bank account has dwindled to that before i started work. hahaha AND I REALLY DON'T KNOW WHERE MY TUITION PAY'S GOING?

can anyone solve this maths question and explain it clearly to me? it's a sec 1 math problem. i can't seem to visualise! will be eternally grateful.
there are 3 sec 1 classes in ABC school. all classes have the same number of pupils. the fraction of girls in 1A is equal to the fraction of boys in 1C. 1/5 of the total number of sec 1 boys are in 1B. what fraction of the total number of pupils are girls? the answer's 7/12.

ya i can totally imagine ppl saying "nj de jiu shi nj de".
whatever lah!

2007-04-22T23:40:00.000+08:00

it's been a whole two days since friday, and my muscles are screaming after that 1 hour plus of badminton. talk about lack of exercise! but anyway i am tired of wasting earth's resources by staying home. anyone wanna try kayaking at chinese garden sometime this week??? determined to get rid of my byebye fats. haha

been keeping my days busy. going bowling tomorrow and breakfast with ry on tues. i'll be the first friend to see him without hair! how appealing and exciting! i'll post pictures up. HAHA

random thought. during tuition on sat, i realised how sheltered i've been in my school days. as in, be it in saps, css or njc, i was usually surrounded by people of similar standards. never knew that there would be people struggling with topics like squares and cubes and roots, or multiplication and division, or people who have trouble finding LCM and HCF. i never knew people who had trouble recalling the formula for solving quadratic equations, people who can take 20 minutes to find the LCM of 12, 18, and 30, people who need 5 minutes to think (and fail to remember) how to spell P-O-P-U-L-A-R, people who could spell occasion as O-K-T-I-O-N (which is really quite interesting and funny, if you didn't happen to be his tutor), people who could leave entire cloze passages blank.

and it was then that i guiltily acknowledged that, after 18 years and counting, my view of the world was so one-sided and so shallow. i mean, of course i didn't expect everyone to be of the same standards la, but not to be different to this extent! i think i shall keep reminding myself that this is all part of view-expansion and life experience; hopefully i'll become a better person after tutoring all these kids.

another random memory. i once raised the objection "studying and getting good grades is not everything", but the moment i said that i knew i was being really contradictory and ironic, because it had been everything i was working for for the past 18 years. anyway, i was shot down with his reply "but it is in singapore".

lastly. i do not need constant reminders that i was from nj. it's extremely annoying. yes it's true and i'm not ashamed to admit it. but coming from where i did does not mean that we're smarter or better. it does not guarantee good results, nor does it grant us instant success. it does not mean that we didn't have to work hard to achieve the standards that the college set for us. so stop thinking that the 2 years there was like a bed of roses, because being around the elite does not mean that you are one.

it's not until today that i realised how different we really are. goodbye.

2007-04-18T00:44:00.000+08:00

I AM JOBLESS.

apparently the company didnt need my presence any longer, after the contract ended. oh well. they'll suffer without me around lor! no one to do those meaningless (brainless) tasks of photocopying annoying awps and like hunting for missing files and trying to put those thick files into compactus that squeezeuntilcannotsqueeze

despite all the crap they give me, i miss work. i think it's the friends thing that really made work so enjoyable.

i miss entering the office at 8.45-8.50, walking past waiyip's desk to see how many more files they've placed there, then walking past edison's desk to see that he's late for work (again) and then finally reaching my seat. miss taking my laptop from doreen's desk. miss walking over to bailu's desk while waiting for the laptop to stop lagging. miss michelle's visits to my table (our joke that she's actually a partner with the firm and therefore can go about checking on people). miss looking forward to lunching with them, deciding where to eat only when we've gotten out of the building. miss opening ms outlook to find new emails (mostly about lunch and being bored and gossiping) and the occasional death threat. miss making fun of each other and gossiping during lunch. miss returning to office (not very guiltily) at 1.30. miss sending more emails out about being hungry again, and more gossip. miss doing OT together, eating dinner together, leaving the office together. our after work activities (movies, shopping, dinners beyond office area). i really don't know for how much longer this clique is going to last, the 5 of us, but i hope it continues even after we've moved on in different directions. such friendships are hard to come by i guess.

but you gain some, you lose some. it's true isn't it. yes, i feel damn bored at home with all that free time but i feel rested. like. recharged and ready to take on the world again. (okay not quite but still.) more time to squeeze more tuition lessons in so the $$ can come in more quickly. (speaking of which my students keep oweing me money leh what the hell i got the "its okay to not pay me" look on my face is it!) more time to catch up with friends. more time to complete the things i've left untouched since work started. more time to do random things like wondering what the names of the 7 dwarfs are (i BET you can't name all either!), suddenly wanting to watch snow white and the 7 dwarfs 'cos i recall they have nice music, suddenly wanting to watch the land before time I, II and III 'cos i remember the shows were nice.

MORE TIME TO ATTEMPT TO LOSE WEIGHT HAHAHA
eh i'm trying lor. wanted to play badminton BUT things always end up in the NATO state. and the lazy person i call brother won't even bother to move his ass out of bed, let alone out of the house. he keeps watching this korean drama thing together with my mother la. reminds me of last year when i was watching da chang jin just before my CTs (which i screwded up eventually). well it's not like i didn't warn him!

wahlao i wanna complain! aviva REJECTED candy and me. idiot. we got experience lor. they rather go train those freshies. FINE. see how they screw up. rahhh. NO MORE BIG SHOTS TO SEE. no chinese man and indian man. so damn sad la. and since like march i have been setting aside my first week of may, thinking that i'll be volunteering at this event BUT BUT BUT now it's GONE and i'll have nothing to do for the whole week and i'm suddenly left with FIVE MORE WEEKS TILL I GO TAIWAN which is such a bloody long time to rot at home. plus i feel like a loser, telling everyone that i'm only taking a short break of two weeks w/o work since i have an event in the first week of may ONLY NOW IT'S GONE COS I WAS REJECTED. my god! the horror of it all. how mean.

whiny post. still suffering from post-work depression. sigh.

i wonder if we're looking at the same sky?

2007-03-25T09:54:00.000+08:00

did you know that if you went to www.blogger.com and searched for "xiu ming", this blog will turn up? i swear nothing around in this world gets any privacy anymore. (ya i know i put all my details on the blog anyway)

work's been great. now that i've actually made friends in the office, i really look forward to lunchtimes and after work hours. to be honest, when i'm home after work, i start to will time to go faster so i can go back to work again. but it seriously sucks that just when work starts to get fun, the fun's gonna disappear again cos we're all leaving soon. and i don't see a point in like asking for contact details because i can't imagine us contacting each other ever again. so yeah i guess i'm really dreading the day when all this ends. (this coming friday and then two weeks after)

we watched pathfinder together two days back, me bailu waiyip edison and michelle. it's a forgettable movie. just tons of killing going on. bailu was totally freaked out (like sinyee when she watches horror movies. just start screaming and grabbing ppl's arm.) but anyway, LEWIS, IT'S YOUR KIND OF GORE. i think you'll like the show. speaking of which, i've got to introduce you to waiyip. he's like practically your twin in terms of mannerism and like, speech. "wahlao, you don't have to go one big round just to praise yourself can" and the "WHAT." sounds just like you lews. haha.

i applied for ntu accountancy after much deliberation. it just seems more practical to me. bread over interest, plus if i were to do business the risk of not getting the course that i'm interested in is too high. and anyway according to 23/3/07's ST front page report, top accountants in the private sector earn an average of 3.72M a year. (if you want to see it's my current DP) eh come on. if i ever earned 3.2M a year, i'll quit after working for 3 years la. hahaha. enjoy early retirement already. YES. i aim to retire by 45 la. and laugh at edison who's probably still slogging hard to become a principal. hahaha. if you're still contactable that is. (not like you'll ever see this anyway)

heading over to taiwan (yes, again) in end may with sy sk and yw (who i practically begged to come as to balance the bimbos haha). hope it'll end up as a really good shopping trip instead of like .. other stuff that i can totally imagine happening. mm.

happy birthday Man! may your birthday wish of getting your hair back come true. (highly unlikely.) maybe you want to try some fertiliser. haha

2007-03-16T22:32:00.000+08:00

How to tell if you've been doing office work for too long:

1. you walk into the filing place and can go straight to where the files are, even if they are in unusual places (not in alphabetical order).

2. you turn on your laptop at home and immediately click "my computer" to access the G drive (like in the office; to retrieve office documents).

3. you see the name "doreen" appear on msn and immediately think of your colleague.

4. you don't feel paiseh to argue with your manager about how the alignment in the letter should be.

4. you take as long as the perm staff do to eat lunch (i.e. always come back at 1.30 no matter what time you leave the office), and don't feel bad about it.

5. you don't bother to go to work early anymore. (and try to leave early hahaha)

2007-02-25T00:55:00.000+08:00

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR~~

new year leh, cannot think evil thoughts or say evil things. must think and sound auspicious.

i started my admin job at deloitte a few weeks ago. kind of boring since there's not much to do (since the company blocks websites like THIS and msn and youtube) but i guess the pay is okay lah. and i get to learn stuff about accounting. it's just that it's really really hard to fight the Z monster! meanwhile, sherinah and i have discovered my lifesaver - gmail chat. too bad not many people have gmail accounts. =/ people with gmail accounts please add me and come online more often! tayxiuming@gmail.com okay!

and then there's this tuition job at woodlands. the pay's still OKAY. but wah sometimes i think it's really a HUAT waste of my time. like, there's tuition 2 times a week, 3 hours each time, for 3 siblings. okay then will start with the youngest and 2nd youngest who are still quite alright. then their HUAT sister will always come to me and say "i HUAT already. got a lot of hw never do." and she always makes me stay until she completes her work! like what the HUAT. so i always end up overstaying. no OT pay too! and the worse thing is that she sleeps before her lesson starts! like, surely you can do a lot more things with that time. ARGHH HUATTTTTT.

okay i shall stop HUAT-ING.

CNY, CNY. this year's CNY feels very ermm. un-CNY-ish. like, quieter. but this year got extra angpaos and extra big angpao. so that's not such a bad thing after all. first day was at grandma's place. MY COUSIN'S GIRLFRIEND CAME TOO LEH LIKE WHAT THE HUAT. how come she don't need to spend CNY with her family one? kind of weird huh. and then the three elites (my male cousin, his gf, and my female cousin) asked me if i wanted to play bridge. like, how can i reject them! they got no one else to play with already what. it's so stressful to play with them. like i'll feel really stupid and gao bu qing chu zhuang kuang for most of the time. well at least something good came out from it. learnt german bridge which i bet most people never even heard of. hahaha

chu er was spent in sk's house and mine. next year must rotate hosts already OKAY. big angpaos for you all. but probably the funniest thing was how someone's zip got spoilt. HAHAHA. and we were in the lift and i was beside him and i said "shucks i v awkward." and that person said "YOU AWKWARD THEN I WHAT!" LOL.

chu san went viv's place to celebrate her bday cum cny. HAPPY BIRTHDAY VIV. hope you like the kitty head. when steph's bday comes we must give her kitty clothes so she can wear next year.

just came back from lewis's place. mahjong again. i realised i cannot stand people who play v slowly. especially if they are before you. wah super pek cek. but at least managed to get some profits from those guys who were trying to trash me. woops sorry you all failed. HAHA.

okay i don't want to type already. to you who's still reading this. congrats for making it to the end of this post. considering that i'm just randomly rambling about my everyday life.

2007-01-22T15:32:00.000+08:00

okay i'm updating by popular demand! (like, 2 ppl.) HAHA.

went for the fish&co house outing that day (okay quite long ago). the sms that was sent around said aqua TRADITIONAL fish&co outing and i'm like wondering okay since when has it been a tradition but ANYWAY

had a lot of fun laughing at edwin and his lame jokes! and suaning suihang about school and homework and all that.
but then of course people (was it shawn? i forgot.) started asking what job you're doing right now, blah blah.

I TELL YOU. the conversation was something like this.

shawn: so xiu ming, are you working right now?

me (quite loudly) : uhh..........yeah. i'm a housewife!

everyone else: HAHAHAHAHAHA

eh what! very funny meh! i think i can be a damn good housewife okay!

i also think that mediacorp should hire me to go on some cooking show! then i can get to say "if xiuming can cook so can you!" which is probably more true than YAN cos everyone knows i can't even cook instant noodles.

hmm. the highlight of the day was probably chriselle going up to the band thing at the glasshouse and singing. everyone upstairs was like WHOA. her voice so low pitched.
then, edwin being edwin, stretched himself out on the sofa upstairs and peered down to look. AND there were girls standing right beside him. so it was something like. his eye level was somewhere near yeahyouknowwhere.

HAHAHAHA

then we made him do something (i forgot what 'cos it was too long ago) that required him to face the girls. LOL. how AWKWARD.

oh and of course the part where suihang tries to get home. and laughing at our "clan leader". (not sam okay.) edwin laughed so-damn-loudly and he did some action. hahahaha inside joke.

went out with viv and steph last sat. shopping in bugis street where we discovered a big treasure hahaha and then on to mad jacks (we saw miss masnidah how weird) to pass steph her belated birthday card which i'm secretly happy to see.

don't you think it looks so cheery!

happy belated birthday steph! next time we go bugis and drink coffee together. lol.

eh people with jobs, please ask me out! then you can do charity by paying for my meals. lol.

okay last thought!
you are only as strong as your weakest link.
i think this makes a lot of sense.

2007-01-03T00:33:00.000+08:00

i know most people probably won't care about what i have to say regarding the trip to taiwan but what the heck! i'm going to write about it anyway. sorry that most names of places are in hanyu pinyin instead of english.

also included notes in case anyone wants to plan a trip to taiwan and needs references. everything's just my POV though.

DAY 1: Singapore-Taipei + Shihlin Night Market

at changi airport. EXCITED!
from left:
top row- wenyun rongyao weijian chunhong haojun
bottom row- candy me xueli

WELCOME TO TAIWAN
the girl very cute hor!!

on the mrt to shihlin!

note: shihlin night market is not at shihlin station. in fact it's at jian4 tan2 which is the stop before that.

candy and i outside jian4 tan2 station.

random poses while waiting for the guys WHO WERE LATE!

on our way back to hotel.

DAY 2: Songshan High School (surprise visit!) + NJ TIP reunion at t.g.i. fridays

songshan reunited!
top row: jimmy buddy and me
bottom row: steph huyongting daxiong

group photo #1 inside t.g.i. fridays restaurant
WE SAW KANGKANG INSIDE.

from left:
top row- daxiong henry christine lisa barbie
bottom row- ziyun yingying steph me

jimmy and zhaoyu acting SCANDALOUS.

taiwanese.

steph jimmy yingying. random poses.

group photo #2 outside ximen station

DAY 3: Taipei-Chiayi + Chiayi-Alishan (omg 3 hour bus ride up the mountain)

this is kind of random but it's a LILY.
tribute to my chem teacher hahaha.

uhm. reflection. kinda artistic i think. LOL

sunset at alishan.
REALLY PRETTY.

group photo!

DAY 4A: Alishan Sunrise + Alishan-Chiayi (omg 3 hour bus ride down the mountain)

note: chiayi and kaoshiung have super polluted air. you'd think that your eyesight is blurry or there's fog or something but no, it's really the hazy air.

train to the place which is supposed to be best for viewing sunrise!

yu4 shan1 (jade mountain)
the sun's supposed to come out from behind it but it was too cloudy so we missed the sunrise.

DAY 4B: Chiayi-Kaoshiung + Qi2 Jin1 + Ai4 He2 (Love River) + Liu4 He2 Night Market

ferry to qi2 jin1. very cheap. 50 cents sing ONLY.

view from the ferry.

note: qi2 jin1 is this offshore island (i think so) near kaoshiung and is famous for seafood, can go try. also worth trying the shui2 guo3 bing1. 1 "small" bowl is enough to feed 8 ppl. fruits used are seasonal though.

me eating some shell thing after losing at finger guessing games!

rainbow coloured tops. red orange yellow green purple.
we really didn't agree on this!!
anyway. sunset at the qi2 jin1 beach.

candy and i teaching the guys how to take romantic pictures.
HAHA

there's this chinese saying: ZHU1 PENG2 GOU2 YOU3
i can see where that came from.

ai4 he2 (love river) night scene

note: kaoshiung buses are damn cheap! standard fare, 60 cents sing only.

DAY 5: random shopping malls + Xin1 Jue2 Jiang1 shopping district

macs breakfast!

note: they have NAI3 CHA2 (milk tea) as drink! SO NICE LA. and like ham+egg burger and bagel on their breakfast menu! can try!

SHOPPING MAKES US HAPPY. :))

me carrying my stuff and switching rooms 'cos our bathroom was leaking!
UNGLAM.

this hairdryer always had a burning smell coming from it, so when candy and i were watching tv and i suddenly turned and saw this, i thought she had burnt her towel! HAHA
but the thing was originally black la!
laughed like MAD.

i didn't forget about the guys who went taidong and left us behind!

DAY 6: Kaoshiung-Hualien + Nan2 Bin1 Night Market

the 3 girls trying to be goofy while we're alone at the hotel.
shit. damn unglam.

everything on the table besides the blue bag on the left is MINE. LOL

we bought fireworks! the big one here is $4 sing. small ones (quite a lot in a pack. i think at least 20) go for $2 sing.

at the beach near nan2 bin1 night market.
attempted to set off the smaller fireworks in bunches but that kind of failed so we ended up setting them off one by one. (look like joss stick hor)

note: i think if you go to taiwan or any country that doesn't ban fireworks, you should really try them! it's nice (though a little scary)

DAY 7: Qi1 Xing1 Tan2 + Taroko National Park + Zi4 Qiang2 Night Market

at qi1 xing1 tan2. the waves are HUGE! you can actually see a hole through the centre!!

accidental poser shot

at taroko national park.

note: taroko national park's basically a really huge (marble) gorge formed by river erosion. this place has like lots of caves and marble to look at. rivers. mountains, etc. i wouldn't recommend going unless you're the scenery type of person. you probably have to book a taxi in advance though. or sign up for their tour coach.

do you see an indiana person's head!
FREAKY!
this was made from natural erosion of marble!

the group at ci2 mu3 qiao2
i am a CI2 MU3 okayy. :))

zi4 qiang2 night market
candy and i eating SMELLY TOFU

note: actually it really tastes ok despite the smell. just dip more sauce.

S.H.E (short horny elephant)
they are very proud of themselves. HAHA.
if you're interested in a video of them singing, please ask me for it.

DAY 8: Hualien Ocean Park aka Farglory Ocean Park + Hualien-Taipei

(only haojun and i went ocean park)

can you believe they have their own CABLE CAR system!

at the pirate ship.
it's the first time i took pirate ship with only 2 people on it.
uhm interesting experience la. haha

sealion performance. uhm. volleyball i think.

note: the shows at the ocean park are very worth watching. entertaining!

sealion. IT KISSED ME. hahaha. poor thing!

mascots.
the sealion mascot v cute! it saw the picture that we took with the sealions
then it was like pointing at itself in the picture!

dolphin.

i like this picture.
i think it makes me look, uhm, VERY MOTHERLY. HAHA.

note: it's $15 sing dollars to feed both sealions and dolphins as well as take pictures with them. kind of ex but it's once in a lifetime so yeah you try it!

omg my face v big! haha.
going into the flume ride thingey. which we took 3 times to get perfect pictures. (see below)

note: the flume ride here is super cool. it has 3 "slopes" and one of them lets you move down BACKWARDS!!

coming down!

we even knew when to pose! haha

DAY 9: Beitou Hot Spring + Danshui (fisherman's wharf + old street) + Wu3 Fen1 Pu3 + Ximending

note: wu3 fen1 pu3 is like this wholesale area where most shops get their stocks from. quite good for shopping if you don't go in winter!

fisherman's wharf at danshui. A LOT OF PPL LEI.

note: it's very windy there. and there's a branch of shihlin's famous XXL chicken.

random restaurant in ximending.
E trying to suck his stomach in
S trying to stop him by not letting him breathe.
HAHA

DAY 10: Taipei-Singapore

final picture at changi airport.
home sweet home!

i just spent 2 hours typing this entry. no wonder i've been putting it off.

2006-12-20T17:30:00.000+08:00

a new blogskin!

haha it's about time i got rid of the old and depressing one.
in time for xmas and the new year too!

shall blog about taiwan trip next time. :)

/edit

i'm suddenly reminded about ms champagne and gp lessons and the "hallmark effect"

if you end messages with smileys or say really cliched things like "have a nice day" when you don't mean it,
you've been hallmarked! :)

2006-11-30T21:51:00.000+08:00

i think it's damn weird that people tag asking you to blog and stuff
and when you finally blog, they stop leaving messages!
rawwwr.

2006-11-28T11:04:00.000+08:00

somehow i feel obliged to apologise for not updating as often as i should.

well anyway, much has happened since the last post and the dreaded thing is finally over.
but i guess when you anticipate something so much, when it really happens it's just like "ok lor. over already.", and that's kind of disappointing. nevertheless it's really truly the past tense and that's all that matters isn't it.

ok so here's what happened so far in chronological order..

there was graduation day!

the girls with the scholars. hahaha ok i hoped to absorb some mugging aura from them.

taiwan ppl

part of the class

with our favourite chem teacher! (it's true cos she's our only chem teacher)

NICE HOR I EDITED THIS MYSELF HOHOHO

yeah and then there was like seemingly never-ending exams. it sucks when people around you have like 1 more paper left and you have 4. and try doing 15 hours of math, 9 of which are sort of consecutively. (fri mon tues)

celebrated the end with janice, walking around town for like 4 or 5 hours. i broke a record! spent only ten bucks in the 4 or 5 hours. and it was all on food.

wed i think i stayed home, but i cant really remember.

thurs and fri had 2/4 chalet and i didn't sleep again! i think all the chalets i've been to this year has provided me with the strength to stay awake the whole night. mahjong and bridge helps a lot though. i declare them my favourite games. but i never quite have the luck to win a mahjong game. OH and quite a few people picked up bridge and mahjong that night. it was like agambling den of sorts. luckily there were exactly 8 people. adam kwa came and did some fortune telling and some story telling. sinkuan and i were in our own world however. talking about random things.

oh the highlight of the chalet HAS to be going to changi airport and back in about 18 minutes. we were supposed to send my mum off BUT the kiasu her had to go in early (or smth) so we couldn't find her at the boarding gate. and before that when we were coming out of the mrt station at changi i asked the control station guy what time the last train was leaving and he said 11.18!!! it was like 11 at that time please!
WAH MAD RUSH LAH. so we took skytrain to T1 and went about looking for mum. failed so we quickly ran back to take the skytrain and when the skytrain finally reached T2 we RAN ALL THE WAY to the mrt and rushed into the mrt. thank god for the person in front of us who was also running if not it'd have been so embarrassing. but that was more exercise than i have done in a long long loooong time so it's not that bad after all.

went facial on friday afternoon. slept like a log. paiseh to sk. haha

watched wei xiao pasta on youtube. it's quite good. but i think wang zi bian qing wa is better. BUT THEY TOOK WZBQW OFF. damn

fast forward to monday.
went bugis with jaya and sherin. bought a pair of earrings which i'm confused about which way to wear cos if i wear it one way (like it should be, i guess) it's damn heavy. if the other way it's weird, as in i never see people wear that way before.

went town to meet zhiru and haowen (who was very late!!) to get a super belated present for HSH. met xiaoting and went for jts together

the jts was sweet! i think they really spent a lot of time planning for everything, from the blindfolding part to the video to the presents and everything. NOREEN YOU KEEP MAKING ME HIT THE STEPS THANKS HUH. but anyway it was the best (the only) jts i've been to and i guess i'm just really thankful for having such great juniors. i can really feel that you guys are a united bunch and yeahh i have faith that the NE cup is going to stay with us. there's still like half of your council term to go though so try to make the best of the remaining time and good luck to everyone.
i still don't understand why there's a need to keep the location secretive. hmm.

THIS BASKET STEP ON MY TOES WHEN I WAS ON THE BUS HOME. MY TOENAIL BROKE INTO HALF LEH. needless to say the top half DROPPED OFF. i'm reminded of the horrors of the SAJC haunted house. basket. and he didnt even know. was like nonchalently walking towards the exit doors until i gave this SUPER ANNOYED CUM PAINED expression. then he look down and was like. oh. sorry. basket.

got a happy surprise from the government when i was home!! hahaha THANK YOU!!!

on hindsight i guess the past two years have been a troubling time for me and yeah most people that i know. the need to cope with schoolwork, ccas, friendships and stuff. and it's really sad that there is no way to balance all these things perfectly. as in some aspects will inevitably get forgotten or neglected. some of course can be made up for but then again there are some areas in which the damage is irreversible. again i'm really thankful for having this bunch of friends who stood by me in the worst times (i presume you know who you are even though some of us are not as close) and to those whom i've tried but failed to depend on, i can only imagine the rest of the years ahead. in fact i'm so disappointed with YOU. the way you've forsaken me for the sake of your new friends or your committments. when i needed help so badly in school you just weren't there. you left me alone to fend for myself. there was this particular incident which i'm sure you've forgotten but to me it meant so much. is that what we're made of? i expected much more you know. and really i feel like blasting off at you but i'm just trying damn hard to bite it down.

ok this is turning into a long sad post. time to stop. need to meet the taiwan people! :))

2006-09-29T18:50:00.000+08:00

remember the last time i talked about trends and such? (scroll down below..)

well well! my predictions for all subjects are SPOT ON. hahaha

almost 3 months ago i said this about math:
"of course, if indeed my results follow this trend, then i'd get a 66 for prelims and peak at the right time- the a levels!"
ok so i didnt get 66. but i did improve A LOT. feels good to get A la!
lol. wanted to say "feels good to get A again" but i realised, don't even have first time, where got "again"

and remember my physics was so incredibly lousy?
how i got lower and lower for physics MCQ?
hahaha i FINALLY started passing my physics MCQ again
and i said this:
"the good news is, there is no grade worse than F9. so unless i happen to get lower marks with the same F9 grade the next time round, it can only mean one thing:I AM GOING TO IMPROVE. HAHAHA."

and improve i did! 54.4! *beams*
but on a side note i think i'm possibly the most-sway person on earth. i always get stuck with bad approximations.
like the other time, i got 34.4 and it was rounded DOWN to 34 and i got F9?
i think my mark will be rounded down too! and i'll be stuck with a damn not-worth-it D. yucks

about FM and chem:
"fm, by the way, has been a B-A-O-D. which is essentially some positive cubic curve. which also means i'm going to keep improving!
chem, on the other hand, is a negative cubic curve, which can only bring bad news. NEGATIVE. the word says it all."

TING TING TING. correct!
fm- up to a B. managed to scrape a 60 despite a very lousy mechanics section. haha
chem-down to E la. if you think about the amount of studying i did for chem vs the rest of the subjects, IT'S NOT WORTH IT. totally!
ARGHHH dontyouhatefoodchemdontyouhatefoodchemdontyouhatefoodchem
lol and i got single digit for org chem in paper 3. hmm

ok so results aside, school's been a DEAR.
come on! there are more rest days than go-to-school days!
hahaha i like this timetable. too bad there's just 6 more days of school. :(

double physics and chem on monday! BLEAHHH.

2006-09-23T01:04:00.000+08:00

aiish. sorry for the lag!!

anyway, prelims are over and done with, thank GOD.
time to take a break. even if it's a short-lived one.

some photos from .. DAMN LONG AGO.

NE trophy!!
proud to be aqua ogls and 38+39th aqua councillors!

HATs (sam is so pretty! haha)

a looonng time ago (the monday after my birthday), some of us went geylang in search of exciting food. photos!

at some dim sum shop

xiu ming eating siew mai!

some random dou jiang you tiao place

the normal vs the sensual.

preparing to jump

at some point in time we couldn't agree on where to go.
and since it was to be an exciting day, we decided to just take any bus and alight at the 8th stop. talk about being random. lol

pretending to be the poster

notice the similarity? hahaha

i dared candy to hold those things until the end of the ride
hahaha

what a coincidence.
i was saying that i wanted to go bugis to buy earrings.
hahaha and guess where the 8th stop was!
right behind the national library
LOL was i lucky or what?!

jumping across the library
damn diu lian! ughhh.
we were so afraid ppl would call sp or smth.

SUPERMANNNN.

we took the lift up to the highest floor without noticing that it was the OFFICE.
damnnn people walked in when the lift stopped! hahaha
and they were like,
"why do schoolchildren like to take this lift so much? so many of them"
lol we told them "ohh we press wrongly"
damn malu.

don't try that. ever.

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

haha
i think it's damn ironic
do you see it too?

2006-08-10T23:37:00.000+08:00

i dont think there's anything more that the aqua hat '05 could have asked for. :))

2006-08-07T23:17:00.000+08:00

NEWSFLASHH!!

i am oldER.

SIGHHH

technically speaking though, i'm still a TEEN ok.
eighTEEN
hahaha

anyway many many many(X 24594030 times) thanks to those who celebrated the great occasion with me!

to sk who was the first to wish me though you're EARLY! (i dont think the 2nd part of ur msg will happen soon haha)
to sy who sang such a COUGH nice song (btw, i laughed. haha)
to lewis who tagged
to sherin who got it on the dot (super long message!)
to cw who came close!! (yah fine sorry i remembered ur birthday a few days late la)
to yeewen who remembered!! (yes lets go eat someday)
to rongyao my fellow lao ren gang member! (but you're still older ok hahaha. wiser, maybe only)
to janice whose birthday is coming!!
to 98315670 (ok i know you're kenneth but WHICH!?)
to steph (who seems so forgetful): YOU REMEMBERED! haha
to xinwei HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU TOO :))
to haowen you bloody shit stop ponning gp hahaha
to xiaoting hello we're getting OLDER and OLDER
to yuliang ehh dont anyhow scandal haha
to weiyuan (i shall continue with you later)
to zhanwen your turn will come next year
to hsiaowei your birthday coming also!
to siying lets go watch m18 movies together! hahaha (but damn violent)
to yingying haha what you mean by "enjoy stuff that 18 year olds can do" hahaha
to weiliang weren't you at JP with some girls. my mum saw. LOL
to hizam chickenman! happy birthday to you too!

to s03
THANK YOU for getting the cake(S) and the pinky stuff! haha i WILL use them! someday!
thanks to the 23 others who turned up to celebrate! as in really really thanks for bothering

to the girls + 169 er ren zu
thanks for the hair thing!! i am using it and i think it's damn useful! if any of you need i can loan you! :))

to sherin and jaya
thanks for the treat at island creamery
sherin hope you like your earrings and jaya hope you like your pencil haha

to 2/4 '02
thanks for coming down to celebrate yah
WEIYUAN! thanks for coming all the way to BP to READ NEWSPAPER.
and sk! even though you're late for like 30 MIN (ARGHH) thanks for the nice present (which u made in what, 2 hour plus hahaha)
pristine kokmun cheewee sinyee!! thanks for the food! sorry i seemed so seh-diao by the sight of food that day (cos i really ate a lot before that) but I WILL EAT THEM no matter how fat i get! haha

to TIP '05
sorry i was so late!! hope you guys didn't starve or something
enjoyed the roti prata and wanton mee! thanks viv!
yeah and walking around esplanade and to raffles place mrt was, uhm, interesting. haha
and as usual, great fun teasing huimin and COUGH zi hao!! LOL
to weiloong and steph, for trying to make it up to me! haha

to my DEAR AQUA HAT 05!
thanks for the treat at nydc and the ADIDAS bag! arghh i can't believe i couldn't tell whether it was long or wide hahaha
great fun bitching about cough cough you know la haha
and OH YAH
the spoilt birthday cake surprise!!
next time we shouldn't go coffee bean or swensens!
they have INTERESTING waitressess

photos!

arghh with the PANDAN cake (swiss roll) they tried to trick me with

the REAL cake! (pls ignore the bloody FAT i mean MUSCULAR thighs! haha)

omg i counted 24 ppl! like wow (even like my best friends are there haha)
argh the YOUNG ppl are like all in the first row
all the lao ren gang behind! lol

look what the OLD and SHORT uncle (aka mavengmov) did to me!
rahhh

i think they should just scrap the words on the right away
and replace it with my name. lol

at raffles place mrt! (that's MONOPOLY behind us!)

yummy birthday uhh. 'cake'?
a bit tiring to eat though, cos my dad put this in the FRIDGE!
LOL

sunflower (amazingly it's still alive) sy gave
hahaha I LIGHT UP YOUR LIFEEE (ERHHM)

no doubt it was a quieter birthday than before (hahaha how can it possibly be louder than last year's? ARGHH) but nevertheless, just as (if not more) fun. thank you EVERYONE for making it possible!! love ya all!! :))

btw. got this off some blog

1. Men are like ........ Laxatives ...... They irritate the shit out of you.
2. Men are like ........ Bananas ...... The older they get, the less firm they are.
3. Men are like ........ Weather ..... Nothing can be done to change them..
4. Men are like ........ Blenders ..... You need One, but you're not quite sure why.
5. Men are like ....... Chocolate Bars ... Sweet, smooth, & they usually head right for your hips.
6. Men are like ....... Commercials ...... You can't believe a word they say.
7. Men are like ........ Department Stores ...... Their clothes are always 1/2 off.
8. Men are like ........ Government Bonds ..... They take soooooooo long to mature.
9. Men are like ....... Mascara ..... They usually run at the first sign of emotion.
10. Men are like ....... Popcorn . ... They satisfy you, but only for a little while.
11. Men are like Snowstorms ............ You never know when they're coming, how many inches you'll get or how long it will last.
12. Men are like ........ Lava Lamps .... Fun to look at, but not very bright.
13. Men are like ........ Parking Spots . All the good ones are taken, the rest are handicapped.

for reading pleasure only. not my pov ok!

it's amazing how birthdays can make you feel like cinderalla.
everything's gone at the strike of twelve.
hmm.

2006-08-07T22:44:00.000+08:00

being the nice person i am, i've decided to give u a SPECIAL SNEAK PREVIEW of NDP 2006!! hahaha. 5 dollars please. or u can vote me for like uhh the service with honour award. lol

isn't this pretty??
i was following this professional photographer, stopping whenever he did.
and look what i got! haha

air force!
*did you know that jessie's dad flew the singapore flag for the past 2 years!?

speaker of parliament (in between the heads of those two ppl)
thanks to SK's great photography skills

sk and i. thanks for the tix!

march past

check out the CAP!! haha it has FLASHING LIGHTS on the singapore flag!!
*the circuit was attached using MASKING TAPE though. haha how unglam.

fireworks! not bad la my reaction time improved haha

uhh to be honest i wasnt really looking at the show
was preparing myself for the fireworks. didnt wanna be caught offguard again
hahaha

(ps. i did catch the fireworks. 2 min+ video BUT this comp does not have quicktime NOR photoshop so i cant get the photos. next time perhaps.)

police force doing their usual thing

their GUNS can bloody SHOOT fireworks out of them!
hahaha SO AMAZINGG

loyal ah peh waving the singapore flag damn enthusiastically

the BIG screens that stick together and separate so fast no one really notices them.
(there are actually 6 smaller screens)

balloons!

the end!

2006-07-13T23:30:00.000+08:00

caught pirate of the caribbean 2's sneaks yesterday

IT'S HILARIOUS, though a tad tragic at some parts. (like the father-son relationship)

pity the ending.
i guess the guys over at hollywood just wanted to get people hyped up about pirates 3.
i.e. more money!!
grr.

I LOVE JOHNNY DEPP!
his acting is damn convincing. (and he's hot! haha)
and i love his look in the show!! super cool.
new idol! :))

i don't understand how some people can survive 2 years in school and not feel anything for it. criticising the school and stuff. not bothering about school events like sports day and house sessions, etc. some don't even turn up. school life is not just about yourself. i guess it's sort of a give-and-take thing; only when you give will you be able to truly experience a fulfilling jc life.
yes, you guys might have your reasons but i dunno, it just seems wrong somehow...

if my circumstances were different, would i be doing the same thing?

2006-07-08T17:12:00.000+08:00

following the use of my graphing cal to plot my dear physics results, i have something to announce:

MY GRAPHING CAL IS DEAD!

it has been mercilessly dropped on the floor while i was doing some damn tutorial.
IT DIED SO TRAGICALLY!!!

now i need a new one!
ROARRR.

/EDIT

MY GRAPHING CAL IS POSSESSED!!

it really seemed dead just this afternoon
but when i came home and gave it a FRIENDLY pat on the back
it's back alive!

a-duishh.

2006-07-06T19:51:00.000+08:00

now, in case you're not informed, "mathematics" is a new topic in the GP paper set by those britons over in cambridge. in fact, if you refer to paper 1 of the gp paper in 2005, you'd see something like "the study of mathematics is of little practical use"!

ah HA!

being a double maths student in nj, i felt that there is a need to defend my cause.
you see, maths is definitely of SOME practical use, as demonstrated below in the analysis of trends in my exam results.

MATH C
this is assumed by many to be a given A. but NO! i had to be so special and be stuck in a vicious cycle of 65s, 66s, and 67s.

this is my year one CT marks.

promos

year 2 CT1

AHA! do you see a pattern forming? it goes 65-66-67. now lets assume the cycle repeats. and the next result would be a 65.

WHICH IS TRUE!!

of course, if indeed my results follow this trend, then i'd get a 66 for prelims and peak at the right time- the a levels!

isn't this amazing?

i'd show you what's TRULY amazing!

this is my physics year 1 CT MCQ marks.

this is my year 2 CT1 marks!

isn't the mark, coincidentally, the same (24)?
notice how the denominator changes!
isn't it truly AMAZING how i can be so lousy?

now i shall show you what's incredible!

my year 2 CT2 physics MCQ marks!

it is indeed incredible!
i have gotten EVEN LOUSIER!

and my physics grades follow a pattern too!

using my trusty graphing cal and plotting a graph of y= -x, we get:

starting with D in CT1, E in promos, O7/O8 (after/before moderation) for year 2 CT1, F9 (34.3! talk about errors in rounding off!) for year 2 CT2!

UNBELIEVABLE i tell you!
(p.s: i have run out of synonyms.)

the good news is, there is no grade worse than F9. so unless i happen to get lower marks with the same F9 grade the next time round, it can only mean one thing:

I AM GOING TO IMPROVE. HAHAHA.

let me show you another interesting thing:

my FM grade. (doesnt it look like 52 not equals to 1, which is like, duh?)

but that's not the point.
my point is the comment. hahaha

oh man. but i don't want to talk to him!
we all know it takes 2 hands to clap, 2 people to converse and 1 person to scold/nag/carry out what-are-you-doing-why-so-lousy talks. or console you.
it probably means the first 3.
(haha no offense to mr neo!! sorry if you ever see this.)

fm, by the way, has been a B-A-O-D. which is essentially some positive cubic curve.
which also means i'm going to keep improving!

chem, on the other hand, is a negative cubic curve, which can only bring bad news.
NEGATIVE. the word says it all.

naturally, maths is not all about variables.
there are constants too.

thankfully, GP has been rather constant.
i hope i don't jinx my latest gp marks by saying this!!

so you see. maths IS of practical use!
i'd have aced that essay!

2006-06-29T21:03:00.000+08:00

FREEDOM :))
common tests are over and done with and all j2s are left with the last stretch to go. this CT feels better than the previous one (at least for MC and like.. fm 'cos i failed it the other time round) but i guess it's still some time before we'll know. it's the first time i've ever managed to complete an mc paper. hahaha and chem.. i wished i'd skipped the calculation questions in front. spent so much time studying food chem and it's damn stupid to not have enough time to even attempt it. fm was ok (I CAN DO COMPLEX! haha. ok one question at least) but i think i've a serious problem with time management. couldn't complete this paper too. and physics is bullshit, as usual. hahaha my mcq's gonna like get lowest in class AGAIN. don't understand why they have to make the mcq two marks each. it's like making us bleed over the same thing twice. hey i'm trying to practice some gp here. MCS- i've never been traumatised this much by an exam before. didn't even do enough marks to pass the damn paper. oh mann. it's like the first time i feel so lost doing a math paper. lol. i'm shocked, but at least it's over. and now i'm able to enjoy a looooong break. YAY i love post exam activities!

was unable to blog about aqua outing cos i was busy mugging. it was.. good. at least for the chalet part. HEYYY I MANAGED TO SET UP (ok. almost) A FIRE!! haha. OVERNIGHT MAHJONG (again!) is one of the best ways to find out how people behave when they get tired! hahaha most of us sing stupid stuff and talk senseless things. lol. ok or is it just me? hahaha. and funny things happened too like pig heart attack (guess who's idea..) and like zhiru's SHOCKING NEWS.

so anyway!

photos from lewis' birthday at cafe cartel

check out the TUMOUR he's eating!

Lewis with his pink bday card from gilbert

playing with his very own prize picking machine

you look SO happy lews! hurhurhur

with his prize

kenneth the superstar! lol

"want my signature?" --> quoted from him!!

dessert i ordered - some brownie thing

lewis' order - mudpie

in case you think this is nice, look what happened in the end:

doesn't that thing near the top of the plate look familiar?
like, i duno, something that can be found in the toilet? lol

KN's pained expression of eating too many desserts

u-zap should consider making sinyee the spokesperson!!

i-gallop too!! hahaha (ps: don't kill me! lol)

don't they look like drug peddlers? haha

happy birthday lews!!

I HAVE A HAIR LOSS PROBLEMMM!! any recommendations?? besides beijing 101 cos it seems its like for OLD people!!

2006-06-17T23:50:00.000+08:00

note to self: it's time to let go.

2006-06-13T00:18:00.000+08:00

so i spent one week doing cip at aviva open 2006. (haha for the clueless people out there, it's a badminton event) hmm. it was a good experience!! saw quite a number of players (HOT! lol), met a few interesting people here and there.

there was the cute indian man who came all the way from india (duh! haha) to watch the tournament. he's been here for three years already but isn't coming back next year (so he says.) i think this year's organisation pissed him off quite a bit la. but hope he still comes! 'cos we (candy and I) didn't have the chance to take photo with him!! yucks la he's here everyday except the last day when i brought camera to take photo with all the interesting people. arggghh
yah there was another guy from china (not sure if he's working here or came here specially). he's damn funny la!! everyday we'll print the match schedules out and people will take. so on this particular day there were a lot of matches being played and the schedules thingy was 3 pages long. so obviously to save paper we printed on both sides. then he only saw the 1st and 3rd page and was asking us "what happens from XXXX to XXXX (time)" (in chinese of course) hahaha i was like uhh.. zai zhe li, pointing to the 2nd page. and i laughed LOL. aiyah he so cute he laughed at himself too and was like trying to explain that in his company they only print on one side.
the funniest thing was the next day he came back (the schedule was only one page), candy and I recognised him la and were like smiling at him because of what happened the day before. then he realised we were laughing at him and he said in a joking tone "xiao she me!?" HAHA. so cute! totally cheered up my whole day.

i wanted to take photo with him too!! saw him on sat when i brought my camera but i was talking to this survey-person. and i thought "never mind, there's still one more day, can take tomorrow what!" but ARGHHH he didn't come back!! so in the end i was in quite a bad mood on sunday. no indian man no chinese man. to think we were joking about giving posters to both of them (cos of the excellent entertainment they provide) and making them take photo together. sighh

and of course with this job comes an ALL ACCESS backstage pass that allows us to take a sneak peak of the indoor stadium. even the room we had to report to was classy. "support artiste room". sounds so nice la. lol. i didn't know they had so many AUTOGRAPHED posters hanging along the backstage corridors.

random thought: i want to work in sistic next time!! then can see all those big stars. and i really want to steal the posters..hahaha

and then there's the chance to meet ALL THOSE HOT GUYS and girls

candy and I were desperately finding excuses (things to photocopy) to pop by the tournament secretriat room by the longest way we can think of to meet all the people doing warm-ups and cool-downs and stuff. saw people like PETER GADE (3 times!! hahaha ok so what if i intentionally went down at times i know he'll being doing warm-ups? lol. he looks damn young for his age) - he's the champion of the tournament btw, BAO CHUNLAI (this chinese player, he's supposed to be good, PLUS PLUS PLUS. he's YOUNG.. only 23!! haha. quite shuai but super fair. shall elaborate more on him when i post photos), RONALD SUSILO and his super cool coach who drives a motorbike home lol (erm my only comment is that he's not very tall but he seems like a nice guy), then there were the few people that i don't know the names of.

oh i saw donna kellogg too (doesnt it remind you of the brand of cereal?) she's quite pretty!

i guess non-badminton fans (like myself actually, haha) must be bored by now.
photos!

the info booth. (see those papers under the blue bar? most of it is homework. LOL there was a lot of spare time la!)

ok i know this is damn small but on the left it's bao chunlai and on the right it's peter gade.
haha i was supporting bao chunlai 'cos he's ASIAN and LEFT HANDED!! (ok lah he's cuter AND younger) but he lost anyways.

you see the man beside the pillar (and dustbin) wearing the china windbreaker
that's BAO CHUNLAI!! lol! and he's JUST OPPOSITE the info booth la.
probably the most exciting thing that happened on sunday
but too bad for the bunch of annoying people who kept asking to take photos with him
he left!

gade after his win. couldn't get close shots where i was. =/

but here's a closeup! not at singapore open though. this was thomas cup

guess his age!! tag okk. he's still quite hot for a relatively old man. lol.
HE'S MY NEW IDOL!! HAHA

(at this point in time i know xueli's going "i took photo with him!!". arghh yes i know)

oh yah! there's the cool worker guy candy likes haha but didnt manage to take photo of him too.
HE SMOKES >.<

well there's always next year to take more photos! =/

2006-06-05T00:59:00.000+08:00

photos! as promised.

beauties! LOL ehh what don't laugh.

ermm.. haojun wanted us to pretend to scream?

wenyun getting caught in the girls' room!

photo whore. haha you can really tell how enthusiastic he is

wenyun claiming ownership of the beds.

wenyun giving haojun weird looks! on the bed!

mahjong kakis

erm. pointing at cars?

haojun's idea again..lol.. taking photo in the middle of the road in the middle of the night

before

after

rongyao and wenyun.. ai mei guan xi

chem s- haojun and rongyao. ai mei guan xi again!

haojun

wenyun's sensual shot

my sensual shot!! lol

introducing... rongyao 66!! water boy!! haha

the people crazy enough to still be awake.. haha

s03

rainbow!! on the ground lehhh.

eating..

still eating...

the big drumstick looking prawn!!

haojun being a photo whore again

the chicken man who closes his shop at 10pm to watch lost. lol

2006-06-03T00:03:00.000+08:00

had the luxury of being a tai-tai during the class chalet.
mahjong at night, mahjong at day, mahjong when busy, mahjong when free.
even had an almost personal water boy to help me get water and make instant noodles!!
hahaha
at least i won some money lol

anyway!! chalet in general was, well, eventful. so many things happened on both nights la

first night:
1. lizard appearing behind me while i was playing my nth game of mahjong. lol. i ran out of the room. david and guys tried to catch the disgusting thing by using the broom to sweep it off the ceiling. it ran out of the mahjong room via the kitchen steps. some other things happened (i didn't see this cos i was so scared i ran to the living room to escape! haha) and david caught it in a plastic bag. then he tied a knot and started throwing the bag around!! ARGHHH talk about gross. hahaha he tried to aim that at hongming and me (can u believe hongming is scared of lizards too?! lol!!) but both of us ran far away before he could reach us. YUCKSSS
haha in the end they let it out at the front garden. then hongming and i never walked that path again. hahaha

2. BLACKOUT AT 11.50PM.
scared the hell out of me la!! like it's so close to midnight. and the chalet's at CHANGI. oh mann. and it was so sudden. happened like maybe 20 minutes after the lizard incident. POOF. pitch dark. haha i was even scared to go into our room to get my phone to use as light. thank god for the guys that were there. i'm suddenly so thankful i'm in a class with 20 guys. hahaha.
yeah so wenyun and alex (i think) went to check the fuse box outside. BRAVE!! and hongming called the technician guy. then the freakiest thing happened!!
THE PHONE RANG.
hahaha brave(?) xueli picked it up. and rongyao said something damn stupid, i forgot. hahaha anyway it scared her and she screamed (sort of). LOL.
well anyway turns out that something was wrong with the fridge and then we had to transfer everything into the freezer. grrr. lousy.

3. LIZARDS, LIZARDS, AND MORE LIZARDS
ok so after that some of us decided to go to changi village to view the famous transvestites. wow they are SO prettyyyyy can fight with me lor hahahaha. we bought milk and ice at 7-11 and cheers. yupp then some of them went fishing and only hongming, jiaming, weijian and i were left in the chalet. (excluding xueli who was the only one ASLEEP hahaha)
SO WE PLAYED MAHJONG LA..
then someone opened the mahjong room door and we discovered that there were at least 3 more lizards outside!!! AHHHHHH
one was in the dustbin in the toilet! talk about yucks!! haha weijian still dare to use the toilet to pee. omggg i will never go to a chalet with so many lizards EVER AGAIN.

second night:
well basically it was the bbq. haha there was too much food and too few people left to eat it! thanks to all those who bangseh us and went home early. grr.
and all the guys had to go back to school for the PSC psychometric test the next day. they had to wake up at like 6 la! and we stayed up till like 1am to finish bbqing. i feel guilty!!
was being a tai-tai again at the start of the bbq. i don't know how to start fire what! haha then after the fire was up, cooking the satay was up to chunhong and chicken wings were up to hizam (aka chicken man/fisherman/bbq man) and wenyun (aka sportsman/local chicken). it was hilarious listening to wenyun and hizam teasing each other. haha and how hizam was so concerned about how his chicken wings turned out (it concerned his reputation, LOL) and he said he'll close shop at 10pm cos he wanted to watch LOST. hahahaha.
"like that lose to local chicken already la!" hahaha
and the BIG GIGANTIC DRUMSTICK-LOOKALIKE PRAWN. UMM. delicious.

ok it was hell cleaning up after the bbq. xueli and i were frantically cleaning and washing plates, bowls, cups, pitchers, etc. basically all the stuff in the kitchen. MADNESS. and it was sheer willpower to stay awake i tell you. after like 2 hours of sleep the day before. haha. well at least we had nice food earlier on. and i AM good at cleaning up what. (thanks to training back in CSS during home econs, haha) yeah and we finally went to sleep around 1am.

woken up by my hp alarm at 6 the next morning but went back to sleep. woken up again by the noise the guys made with all the utensils. drank orange punch, got xueli to wake up, helped the guys move the beds back, packed up, brought some snacks home, said bye to the boys who managed to get taxis back to school (i hope the test went ok..) and took the long bus ride back to tampines mrt (half an hour!! SLEPT LA) followed by mrt to bugis to take 960 (SLEPT EVEN MORE)
reached home
bathed
SLEEP SLEEP SLEEP
skipped the HAT treat voluntarily!!

so now i'm energised and blogging about the chalet. yupp.

i think the chalet made me know a lot of people better.
like how haojun is actually a photo whore at heart.
like how chunhong can set up fires so well and COOK TOO.
like how wenyun can be so .. like, selfless. pushing himself to bbq even though he had leg injuries and so on and was so tired.
like how the rest of the guys (hongming, chunhong, david) are so selfless as to stay up to bbq even though they had such an important test the next day...
like how hongming likes mahjong and is so scared of lizards too!!
like how david is so gross (i mean in a good way) and can punch lizards using the back of his hand!! hahaha
like how rongyao makes such a good water boy. :))
like how xueli needs sleep badly!! lol
like how well candy can marinate stuff and erm attempt to cook. (funny how hongming can tell which food was made by candy and which were made by chunhong..lol)
and some stuffs that shouldn't be said here. well if you ask i'll tell you. haha

yupp the chalet was definitely better than expected. thanks everyone for organising it and making it such a good experience!! :))

on hindsight, the class chalet made me discover that there are some really disgusting and selfish people in the class. rather, a person. who didn't bother to help at all. and slept the EARLIEST. without cleaning up. i think that person went to sleep at like 11. THANKS A LOT. but i do hope you know you'll never EVER get a scholarship with that kind of attitude. we'll see about that.

photos up next time!

2006-05-16T22:23:00.000+08:00

we need to learn to accept failure before we can move on.

2006-05-12T00:00:00.000+08:00

i seriously dislike the amount of hypocrisy going on in school now.
BADDD MOOD!

2006-05-04T21:23:00.000+08:00

wow ok i'm blogging like twice a month lol.

ermm the most dreaded events this month (napfa and elects' camp) have passed. i survived! haha but yucks must redo napfa. what the shit? i dont mind getting a bronze, really!

elects' camp was fun but tiring!
time well spent in the CR shooting advertisements. "council rocks! YEAH YEAH"
and wanting to make "zap zap thighs, zap zap thighs" and "xiu zhen, ni ye lai qi ma? ... qi ma shi hen hao de yun dong ... ... i gallop!" commercials

time spent sleeping while juniors were attending talks

bonding games!

station games!

HIKE! --> more seniors than juniors! omg we had enough people to form a normal group lol
bushy orions!

overall i found the camp more helpful for the seniors than the juniors. though it was rather satisfying to see the 39th shape up. well done 38th!

suddenly it's like everyone's enthusiastic about council all over again.

erm on a side note, CTs are over. i got BOOB. B for chem!! i'm touched! haha but my fm went from A to O la. never mind!! next term i will make my name appear in the top 20++ list again! YES
i guess study group's really quite motivating. worked so hard for chem to get out of study group. but now i'm in it again for physics (DUH) AND fm. sigh I MUST GET OUT. lol

random thought #1: haven't taken neoprints in the longest time! and i wanna kbox also!!!!

random thought #2: i'm supposed to be doing my essay for GP clinic. i think i wont hand in, haha.

random thought #3: the movie, daisy, was good. interesting twist; i didnt think she'd die. love the song too! wanna watch "you are my sunshine"! some movie about AIDS haha should be quite nice leh? X MEN COMING OUT!! (zhiru did i hear u scream hugh jackman? haha)

running out of significant things to blog about.
__________________i dont wanna bore everyone with the everyday details of my life.

TAG replies!
chengluan, daniel, yuehhsin, sarah: HIIII thanks for tagging!!
lewis, sy: must come for funtasia2 (nj funfair) ok!! BUY TICKETS LOL
huili: TIP ROCKS LAAA. next time see me on bus must SAY HI EARLIER!!
yeewen: AHHH!! ZAP ZAP hahaha we must make the advertisement before our term ends!!!

i like doing things i'm passionate about
physics isnt one of them

2006-04-01T16:46:00.000+08:00

haha it's been a long long time since i've blogged.
and an even longer time since i've typed in complete sentences!
lol. i should really stop being so lazy.

ok ehm. the much dreaded common tests are over
and the much looked-forward-to enrichment week is almost over too!
damn.

CTs
uh. my guess is that my chem will finally improve (it'd better, after that one whole week spent study chem ONLY) and that my FM marks will drop drastically. oops. all becaues of da chang jin la! i kept watching it during common test week itself. slept at 1am before the physics paper and again, before the FM paper.

it's a sign i tell you, to take Fhysics and Fmaths consecutively. haha

well enrichment week was quite, uhh. enriching
monday had sneaker painting workshop! it was probably the most happening thing this week and the one thing i really wanted to sign up for. xueli and i went bpp before the thing started to get a pair of sneakers to paint. haha it was damn fun la! the painting itself i meant. i think steph's super talented to be able to come up with two such wonderful pairs of sneakers. she deserved to win that converse thing! anyway back to the painting. i had to PAINT the black paint on the shoe itself because some person before me used up all the black spray paint. and look how her shoe turned out *smirks* hahaha

as if mine's that good. i quote xueli: look like some kind of xie2 mo2 wai1 dao4 shoe. loosely translated: look like some kind of shoe that evil sects will use. hahaha erm oops? anyway i took so bloody long on one shoe that i only had time to paint the base of the other shoe! and incomplete too. have to go down to art friend to get acrylics sometime soon.

in the meantime, anyone interested to take a risk and let me paint their sneakers? FOC! but bring your own shoes. hahaha ok i really don't think anyone's so dumb to let me try anyway. i'm an FM student! there must be a reason why i don't take Art. =P

ponned SP's talk on tuesday to sleep at home! hurhur. woke up at like, 1230. lol.
bad choice!! had to go for the elegant universe on wednesday to make up for the hours. hahaha the show seemed SO boring to me that i slept for 2 out of the 3 hours. university talk was fine, the guy from psychology was funny. and they got someone from sociology too! now everyone wants to go there. i'm still trying to decide. hmm.

went for food trail on thursday. i think i have a seriously big appetite. well we had to go around like 6 places to eat yong tau foo and nasi lemak. i think my group was quite good already, at least we tried both the dishes at like 3 places. weijian's group didn't even bother to try, right from the start! lol. ok la they ate chicken rice like ONCE. hahaha. anyway we kept on eating then sleeping, eating then sleeping. especially me! LOL i think i ate the most. ok not i think. everyone thought. grrrr.

oh nj soccer lost on thursday. sigh.

watched ru guo ai on friday! i was quite excited at first since the guy in it is the same guy as DA CHANG JIN lehh. and he sang in chinese! omg. so cute la. haha but i think he look so much better in da chang jin. lol. A for effort for singing in chinese though. overall, the show wasn't as interesting as i thought it'd be. lucky for the da chang jin guy if not i'd be sleeping already. haha.
ohohoh and i smuggled chips in! hahaha so diu lian trying to chew when everyone around is so silent! lol. and the teacher had some weird discussion about the ending and got people to talk about whether they'd forgive the girl if she were their girlfriends. i don't know. if i were the guy i don't think i would have forgiven her. it's like, she's so .. despicable to use her looks and body to get to where she wants.

oh yes i almost forgot. some people vandalised the school crest on thursday night (probably). was told that they added like sunglasses to the lion and there were some words hvk or something like that, i didn't actually see it. i can't think of a single reason why any njcian would do that. in fact i can't imagine anyone from nj doing that! come on la, it's supposed to be a so-called "good" school? hmm. damn weird la!

yeah so that was the end of enrichment week and school's starting again in two days. i'm really hoping there's no 2.4 or something to welcome us back on the first day. haha. i could do with some help regaining my stamina! (like start eating less? lol.) feeling quite reluctant to get started on tutorials. maybe tomorrow...

2006-03-16T01:09:00.000+08:00

Here are the results of your Numerology Reading

Your Date of Birth:August 4, 1988

As one of the three master numbers, Life Path 11 is associated with great spiritual energy. Highly intuitive and idealistic, you are a visionary. A deep thinker, you are no doubt interested in unfolding many of life's mysteries. Your innovative mind and open-minded views are the ingredients that will provide you with many successes in life. Many Life Path 11 energies serve society, utilizing their skills by providing counseling and insight to those in need. People-oriented, you are a humanitarian always helping others, expecting 150% from yourself and of those closest to you.

HMM.
a possible sign of what to take in uni next time!! =)

Try it!!

2006-03-06T19:51:00.000+08:00

experience of a lifetime

oh mann i think i just did the most disgusting thing in my life

rummaging through black garbage bags to collect can tabs
hahahaha

damn diu lian!! shucks
i don't dare to eat there anymore!!!

tiring weekend
crappy week ahead. sighh

2006-02-25T00:25:00.000+08:00

today (friday, 24th feb) was a good day!

AQUA won the total defence day thingy. 122 points! (or something like that)
woohoo! one step closer to the NE trophy.
hope our efforts pay off :)
we won the inter-house soccer tournament too.
oh man!! we rock la.
i see hope.

civics was spent watching movie.
My Boyfriend is Type B
quite funny, but I don't really get the big reaction of njcians
it's not that hiliarious anyway.
school's fun!
movie everyday. civics watching this, chinese watching Hero.
I like the use of colours in the latter. very interesting to think about what each colour represent, and how it is related to that particular scene.

went home immediately after school.
it's damn shiok to reach home at like 1.50!!
like primary school like that.
muhahaha.
finished watching Initial D (EDISON CHEN!!)
lunched
slept
bathed
and was only 4.45!!

it's great to reach home early.
shall try to do that more often.

went out again to catch final destination 3
IT'S A SICK SHOW
it is incredibly disgusting, the way people die.
quite an interesting show.
SY, GO WATCH!! hurhurhurrr

shall watch brotherhood tmr. (my first time renting M18 movie!! I am FINALLY old enough. yay.)
then support NJ WD at marina square.
come back and mug organic chem! I WILL MASTER IT

I just remembered
there was signing up for enrichment week programmes on wednesday
it was so shitty
epitome of kiasuism. sighh
got so sick of it that I really couldn't be bothered after signing up for sneaker painting.
walked damn slowly to food trail queue - and cut it.
muhahaha.
mandarin movie appreciation!! ru guo ai.
should be quite nice la.
then accompanied people to get their hours filled up.
I quite pity those who queued so much but failed to get anything. =/
woo! I'm looking forward to enrichment week.
sneaker painting, food trail, talk by SP, and get to watch ru guo ai! haha
and so relaxed. I can probably rent some videos to watch at home.
and sleep really really long hours.
YESSS. haha

random thought:
i hope you're happy leading your life.

backache

2006-02-18T22:37:00.000+08:00

why is it so difficult?
______________

vday in nj, was, as usual, vday-ish. haha
damn got mood la! pardon my bad english
received quite a number of gifts and stuff
i'm sorry i could only come up with a few pathetic cards
but i'll make it up, i promise. haha

road run on friday
haha i slacked off
aqua was 3rd for house challenge cup.
hmm

kbox for 5+ hours! the longest in history. haha
wenhao say i sing not bad!!
wahhahahah
he's too nice to say the truth lar lol!
not my top form lehh!! =P (thanks to cheering in the morning + flu)
eeyerh my jia ying still sucks. haha

common tests coming.

________________

i like talking to you even though we don't have much to say.
you're a great friend la

2006-02-07T22:04:00.000+08:00

hiatus.

2006-01-28T23:38:00.000+08:00

chinese new year!!

i can't say i'm that excited, having to visit relatives and all. =/
but ok.. got ang pao! haha
plus we get a 5 day break from school.

much needed, i should say.

friday was spent fruitlessly
except for the dinner and mahjong session at night
i never played so much mahjong in my life la!
3 rounds of 4 (but i think we played more than that)

today
woke up at 12+
tv until 3++
got scolded by the person with AP
continued watching after bathing
used the com for a long while
then left for granny's house

they kept asking about the person with AP
why never come etc
hmm
why are we announcing our family problems.
=/
stoned a lot
played a little
i got a bad partner for bridge
went home

it's been a long, bad and unhappy week
i hope it gets better in the new year.

thought of the day:
no matter how high you fly,
or how many people you know,
you can still get lonely.

2006-01-17T22:45:00.000+08:00

i shouldn't be blogging now.
stupid physics quiz.
heck la.

orientation1 2006 -stalia estrellas- was a BLAST!

photos!! =)

mass dance ~ upside down and CARWASH!

juniors! wenhao and hari. og7 rocks la. =)

veron! my "twin" haha where got look like?!

og7! ermm. plus a few extras. hahaha

mavengmov! happy birthday lehh.
oh man i wonder who smashed the cake onto your face.. hohoho.. =P

females of 06s03. so many of them lar!

guys

loser lau and his loser RV uniform. SHORTS! lol

antaios '06! fish n co

06s03 + ogls

MY BELOVED ANTAIOS OGLS!!
YOU GUYS ROCK MANN. LOVE YA ALL! =)

say SEVEN!!

"I AM ANGRYYY!!"
haha. loser lau being.. well, loser-ish. lol!

06s03 before dance party
(pls note what mov is doing! hahaha. GLUTTON)

varun!! the monkey/gorilla gang.. lol

og8 de. haha no lar from my junior class!!!

yuanjie! from og7. haha CHINESE DANCE LEHHH

huilin and i! oops no la. xinwei!
they look damn alike HMM

reflections time at oasis

before dragon boating on saturday!
our dry state.
forgot to take an "after" photo =(

neoprints! taken on wenhao's birthday. (17/1)

still got still got!! hahaha damn FUNNN

ok more photos coming up next time.
happy birthday wenhao aka half girl!
hope you had A LOT A LOT of fun ok!! =)

hmm back to mugging for the damn quiz.
...

2006-01-06T23:02:00.000+08:00

THANKS AR SY! THANKSSS!! -.-

5 weird/random facts about me:

1) I get really affected by the moods of ppl around me. like if they are tired/sleepy/bored/high, i'll get tired/sleepy/bored/high too.
2) I am sitting on a water cushion as i am typing this cos my butt will ache if otherwise. LOL
3) my hair is falling out faster than i'd like it to. =(
4) I have a super bad memory. like i'll ask about something, forget the person's answer, and ask the person like another 3-4 times later. hahaha
5) I LIKE TO READ IN THE TOILET. this is also the reason why i take so long to shit. sometimes. HAHAHA

ok that was completely random and reputation-damaging. ARGHHH

orientation is ok, getting better now I guess.
hmm. I am at least 10 chapters behind in schoolwork. UGHHHH

but for now, all I need is
SLEEP.

2005-12-31T14:10:00.001+08:00

2005.
a year of memories.

started at njc.
meeting people at the side gate bus stop to enter school together.
looking at ppl on the bus wearing the nj uniform, hoping i'll be doing that next year.
orientation 2005 - la famiglia - the family
first day in school - hannah the ogl (from de stefano) - 4/1 people generally stuck together -
subject combi talks
choosing subject combi - took double double, just like my brother -

2nd day
classes out
05s03 - antonio! - limziheng!! hahaha long lost pri sch friend yay
ogls - chok, henry, anup, xue li
sitting outside the bookshop
getting orientation packages
learning how to put on the collar badge
sat beside rongyao who was beside jiaxing. can't remember who's on my left.
played this name game thing - mov left deepest impression cos his memory was so good.

mass dance everyday for 3 days - can't dance for nuts, haha
antonio - kick your butt cheer
station games! swoosh was damn nice. my favourite!
class dinner at KAP - flooded with new njcians
house outing to Fish & Co - the glass house -
walking to fort canning hill as suggested by wenyun (got a lot of couples there, haha how you know!!)
tell ghost stories - janice damn scared-
walked to clarke quay and sat down - played the stupid mosquito fly from here to there to there game -
went home with chok, tried to take taxi (he was rushing back) but failed, took train
NJ DANCE PARTY! - ok i didnt dance. so what? haha - had fun eating
back to lessons - mrs soh!! omg she damn boring i keep sleeping during fm lect hahaha -

council pubstunts - interest-
picking up council form
going for interviews
ogl selection
preparation for O2 - ogl camp - OG comm!!
first 3 months last few days - photo frenzy -
http://www.zorpia.com/cgi/album.cgi?147890
release of results
njc!! =)

coming to school at 6.30-6.45 for a week
og19 - pinglong yongkia yinghui chengliang siying hweemeng shufen sheryl wenling cherie qinglun calvin naraen winston (sorry i only consider these ppl as REAL og19 peeps)
ogls - natalie chitra and me
subject combi selection - still double double -
no one in og19 chose same combi as me =(
scandaling yinghui + hweemeng, making them do mass dance together hahaha
supposed to anyhow grab people and make them join your og on the 2nd day
but og19 stuck to us - touched -
thanks for not ponning
station games! tchs guys were damn enthu, i'm glad you all had fun =)
og dinner on 2nd day!! so united hahaha
og outing on saturday at yinghui's house - took taxi there but ended up in a CEMETARY! scared the heck out of me, realised i overshot haha -
his house damn cool & big - kept losing at mahjong and cards but the guys were nice about it =)
dinner at coro, stupid pong's joke about "EHH what a coincidence! i'm having dinner, what you all doing here?" haha
og dinners every friday
i'm so proud of how united we were
stopped when people got too busy =(
best time of my life
http://www.zorpia.com/cgi/album.cgi?album_id=182802&username=xiuming&start=all

council candidates namelist out
tay xiu ming - number 86
busy period
making poster till 3, 4 am in the morning
2.4 run the next day, screwed up but nevertheless got gold for napfa hahahaa
campaigining - SAAXY - shawn alfred avalene xiuming yeewen
"the girl with the X-factor" haha crap la
stickers, posters all over school
speech day - damn screwed up -
council elections
results
njc 38th student council.

elects' camp
!kung bushmen
leexinyi, vivien, khairi, chooisum, jocelyn, simon, weihao, me (i'm sorry if i forgot your name i have super bad memory)
24km hike
night activity - super meaningful. thanks to the senior who guided me back on the right track, whoever you are. haha -
exco elections
shawn as pres, huilin as vp, blah blah
suihang as capt
house VC elections
zhiru as vice capt
comm allocations - let me get it, pls pls pls. -
yay - aqua welfare head -
38th student council investiture
mosaic - pieces of me, pieces of you... together we form a complete picture -
AQUA HAT: suihang zhiru haowen me
AQUA councillors: rudy azhar me shawn dency xiaoting haowen zhiru charmaine wenhao michael suihang
http://www.zorpia.com/cgi/album.cgi?182813

june
started catching up with all the ex-cssians
lewis' bday!! - surprise at sentosa - seoul garden
http://www.zorpia.com/cgi/album.cgi?197429
aqua JTS - fish & co suntec - oh yah had OG outing before that, faked i was lost to delay time
come on la, me lost? quite impossible. hahaha ANYWAY
gave them frying pans
zhiru!! happy birthday =)
had fun with whipped cream

common tests
SHITTY results - damn sad about my MC why so lan? -
preparation for TIP
busy with council work and house activities
breakdown

birthday celebrations on 4/8. - thanks veron for planning everything love ya lots really -
thanks everyone for bothering to remember it and thanks for the presents
happy bday to you too naraen

taiwan immersion programme (SG) - liyunshan daxiong huyongting jimmy christine xiaoye peter henry zhaoyu barbie lisa ziyun zirong yuanting boann -
welcome speech by my buddy haha
in national day celebrations (NDC) organising comm - log comm with kelvin -
must reach school by 5.30 on 8/8
stayover at steph's house with the TIP ppl. didnt sleep the whole night. spent awake with daxiong.
walked to school by 530 the next morning. damn scary, damn tired. started talking rubbish about hair in some place. hahahaha (HAOWEN i hope your're reading this!!!)
quite succesful event
after school went to watch charlie and choc factory with tippers - spent sleeping -
shopped (ok they shopped i waited) at far east with buddy and huyongting
blah blah can't remember
farewell speech by my buddy - ok la i cried! so loser -
farewell dinner - ok fine i cried again can hahaa -
airport - didnt shed a tear - see you all in december
http://www.zorpia.com/cgi/album.cgi?227206

had damn hard time trying to catch up with all the schoolwork
my life's worst results: 2.5/22 for chem test
but what the heck my chem sucks la - never pass chem test before hahaha -
teachers' day celeberations - council skit -
mass dance after tdc, fun. i miss orientation times

promos - seriously hoping to get promoted with 4 subs
ABEE
haha my chem sucks. physics too.
MC 'S'.
i'm sorry i made you guys disappointed. =/

open day 2005 - different faces, different places, NJ AMAZES.
oh yeah. RED HAIR, super busy the whole day.
it rocked la. i still remember that comment
"demolished the image of NJ as a mugger school"
or something like that. hahaha YAY
ogl interview - haha it feels good to make people nervous and like, ask them questions -
i'm so sadistic. lol.
ogl selection
i'm sorry. i tried. really.
chinese AO levels... i duno what to say. hope for the best la. =)
grad night @ swissotel the stamford
not much to say (and quite lazy too after typing so much)

orientation preparations start. STALIA ESTRELLAS
asclepius!
had first ogl meeting within aqua
thought of cheers
CHANGED NAME. grrr
antaios!
left for taiwan before anything was settled.
sorry ogls. must make you all do my work. =/

7th dec
taiwan immersion programme (TW)
reached chiang kai-shek airport around 4.45
damn cold!! haha
the bus stopped at songshan for us to deposit luggages.
went hai ba wang for dinner
understood the feeling of being famous when the taiwanese were screaming for us
hahaha AHHH liyunshan!!
crazy phototaking sessions. official photographer for weiloong. hahaha lots of fun
got their uniform.
went songshan the next day. (BY TAXI! hahaha)
met the rest and ate at school. - left for paintball game -
oh no last time together before a long loooong time. sighs
went gongguan, shilin, ximending, wufenpu, 101, warner, xinguangsanyue, and a lot a lot of places.
joined 215 for lessons. chinese, history, bio, chem, physics, music, nursing, art, geog. - bored -
ironically, the day i had most fun with songshan wasnt spent in songshan.
we went jiufen on a tour bus. see mountain and seas la. shopped at this street with a lot of singaporeans inside. guess there's a tour there or something.
NJ SHOT!! wang zi!! help us take. hahahahaha - damn mean. whatever man! -
went liu fu cun (some amusement park) on sat!
had fun. haha cos it was with njcians.
went her taoyuan house. her mother brought us to tomato farm. hahaha had fun plucking tomatoes out. =)
went back to school on monday. last day of school.
took photos with the class only on that day
deposit luggage at jiao shi hui guan
went partyworld - their version of kbox - to find the others.
quite irritating some people keep hogging mike and it's not like they sing very nice... hmm.

joined the whole group again for guided tours to hualian and taidong
stayed at 5 star hotel! probably the best part of the huadong trip. haha
boring boring! keep seeing mountains seas temples stairs bridges
but funny. nj people (more like table 1 people) keep taking sensual photos.
and the few of us formed this group and started to take MVs in the cave we were visiting. lol.
walk walk walk POSE. walk walk walk POSE.
then fuwei chingwei and jason formed another grp. copycat! roarrr.
thanks huimin for taking photos and MVs. hahaha
karaoke on bus. damn sad got mike hoggers. sigh
bought more food! lol
went back taipei! -it's great to see lights and cars and people -
lousy jiao shi hui guan
slept with yingying and steph
ok la quite big room - at least the toilet's big hahaha -
sneaked out to shilin w/o telling mr gwee
he thought we were "around the area" - actually i think he knows but just act blur let us have fun -
went gugong the next day. musuem. how interesting can it get. haha steph yingying and i got "lost" halfway.
released for lunch
went ximending!
in love with the puma bag
borrowed money from vj guys
changed money at some hotel there - exchange rate only 1 to 18, but nvm i want the bag! -
what the heck, same as weiloong one. hahaha. he damn sad
bought candy with my new changed money - i think still not enough to go around, sigh -
went back. returned the vj guy money.
rehearsals at the hotel. screwed up a little haha forgot steps already la.
actual performance. quite ok - thanks yanyan for screaming my name. lol -
dinner
more performances
songshan's performance was ok. gao ruo ting's brother damn cute. "kan dao nei ku le!" lol
stole food at other ppl's tables. hahaha

stayed at weiloong's room for the night. talk + wtached tv until 4++ am
i fell asleep while liang jing ru was singing "ke xi bu shi ni" i think.
woke up at 6.15 feeling freezing cold. weiloong was using the thick blanket while i was stuck with the small (pathetic) TEDDY BEAR BLANKET. grrr.
forgot my shoes were in their room
walked back barefoot. - stupid me -
started writing letters for people
too lazy to write for everyone so did it selectively.
7am. alarm. yingying turned it off and went back to sleep.
steph's alarm. ring snooze ring snooze ring snooze. reset
9am. wake up lar.
sent opp with steph to get breakfast.
yingying went out with chengyuan ppl. - go cut hair -
sent steph off. i'm her only loyal friend i tell you. hahaha
stayed in my room - i'm so angry with myself. why didnt i go out. i still have money!!! sigh -
so frustrated when people didnt come back by the original time.
damn pissed. anyhow pack
you all very irresponsible you know. -.-
left for airport at last
glam weiloong and me. hhaha. ate starbucks cake with the remaining coins.
why nj always first to do everything. check in and whatever. sigh
31.6kg!! haha ha
took photos
rush rush rush
went in
rush rush rush
board plane
changed seats - ended up beside this hc girl called yiyun she's quite nice =)
watched qian bei bu zui. very nice movie!
landing damn LOUSY. but everyone cheer cos we were happy. haha
unpack
TONS OF FOOD
- just found out some spoil already! omgggg so SAD! i havent even open lehhh

photos! http://spaces.msn.com/members/zedorzee/

xmas.
exchanged gifts with lewis and sinyee.
hope you guys like whatever i bought.
hope the voodoos work for both of you. =)

more preparations for orientation
walk in + skit rehearsals
OGL CAMP - grp 9 - NAI NAI.
who who who who who who who who who
whose your father whose your mother
we're your nai nai's BANG
yeh yeh

lol
songshan outing with like 7 people. hahaha
late for about 25 min. oops.
waited for ppl
went cine to eat BK - bought beef burger w/o knowing it. beef is not nice ok! stop killling cows. =(
bought steph's present.
waited for karen
took neoprints. the guys DESTROYED IT! grrr.
went steph's house - sorry huimin! make you wait so long.. paisehh -
SURPRISE!
lalala
mr chia also came!
suaning session. lol. oops i think her mother thinks i'm very rude.

full dress rehearsal 1
SCREWED UP BIG TIME SIGH
never mind still got 1 week
i saw zhang laoshi!! talked to her for some time
laoshi i miss you leh
but next year still must go chinese class! whyyy =(
KAP with ogls. haha had fun questioning kenneth and suaning haowen - 99 hearts lalala -

31st DEC.
council meeting
went well
everyone quite high
changed teachers! HAT is under mr sito. he seems nice.
haha mr teo remembers my face! he was like ehh you are a councillor ah?
yeah =)

i still cannot believe it's the last day of 2005.
feels like orientation's still damn far away.
hahaha

ok congrats to whoever is reading this for making it to the last few lines.
i hope you didnt skip anything. =)

HAPPY NEW YEAR people.

2005-12-30T23:42:00.000+08:00

taiwan was fun.
lazy to blog.
go see photos yourself: http://spaces.msn.com/members/zedorzee/

orientation preparations keep me busy and damn tired
but somehow i manage to find the energy to stay awake till 2.30++ to CHAT
and still wake up at 6++ to go school. hahaha i am great.
crazy.

STALIA ESTRELLAS!! 3 days. damn fast!!!
lets hope everything works out.
antaios rocks. =)
nj rocks. =)

i feel like a sidekick.
and i really don't like it when we walk in together
and they go "hi" to you only even though i'm there too
i don't like things this way. =/

2005-12-05T21:30:00.000+08:00

last blog entry before i fly! hahaha

lalala actually i have nothing much to blog about la

went out with lews and sy on sat, caught chicken little!
damn funny hahaha
nice shows going on both in front of me and beside me
LOL

*grabs mike and sings*
"so tell me what you want, what you really really want"
LOL
seriously worth watching. it's super funny.
very cute characters also. FISH! and something-ky. the alien. haha

then went into a frenzy taking neoprints! hahaha someone kept stepping on the "take photo" button accidentally!! flash flash flash.. lol
sy kept sweating while decorating neoprints and cutting them. haha *cough*oser. ok i shall be nice. hmm

i am so broke. sigh.
don'twannagoschoolyouhurryupreplymela!!

2005-11-26T00:38:00.000+08:00

i tend to feel antisocial for a few days a month.

hahaha. some people call it pms.

when it happens, i just want to be left alone.
i.e., no outings. no meetings. no practices.
i wish some people would just let. me. be.
UGHHH.

and sometimes i help do things because people seem to be in a bad mood
but that's it.
don't start pushing stuff to me
and asking me stuff that are out of my control, stuff that i wouldn't know
i'm not telepathic! and it's not my fault people aren't coming.
...
and it's not your fault either. fine.

...
i shall stop here
before i start scolding the whole world.

2005-11-25T15:59:00.000+08:00

this christmas..

i wish..

for a little more love

and attention

to go around the world... =)

2005-11-20T16:54:00.000+08:00

christmas is coming! yays
haha people, pls start thinking about what you want
i'll try.
haha

time to think about what i want too. hmm.
ipod nano!! wait for me ok. someday. haha

hmm going taiwan soon. 2 week 3 days more
anything you guys want me to buy?
taggg!

2005-11-15T14:34:00.000+08:00

hahaha my entries depressing meh.
(ok la quite)
i shall blog about positive things!

recommended a job to sy yesterday
as *****rina (supposed to be a secret lol)
hahaha hope she gets it!!
den i can see her when i leave (and come back to) singapore!
the job suits her to a T la. really. lol

oh i've started playing neopets AGAIN!
shows how bored i can get
ehh WHAT. i can earn like 20000 np a day man.
that comes from playing games alone (!!)
lol

hmm ogl list out
ogl briefing this thurs
don't feel like going leh
been zi bi-ing a lot recently
so unlike me! haha

fri got briefing at RJ
7pm
will miss my wangzibianqingwa leh!! sighhh
last 4 episodes le so exciting haha

more exciting stuff!!
HAOWEN GOT A BLOG la!
lol lol lol
like at last
he must be bored too
---> ehh we go take part in the racial harmony amazing race thing lehhh.
fun leh
and i love racial harmony lor. hohoho

i want to shop
and buy lots and lots of things
haha. retail therapy does wonders.
but no money la
at the rate i'm going, i'm gonna go bankrupt soon.
so must zi bi for awhile.
---> i miss shopping with lews and sy during christmas. sunglasses. haha.
we should do it again! maybe when i'm back.

lews! better buy xiaolongbao back for me ok
and buy tons of nice stuff
or else
YOU WANNA DIE? HURHURR.
*gives menacing look*
ok la. enjoy your holiday there.
take more pictures. i wanna see!
"ye shanghai, ye shanghai, ni shi yi ge wu ye cheng"
hahaha shit i'm mad
i also want to go!! =D

i should get started on homework.
i said on sunday: "i'm gonna do maths TMR!"
and i said it again yesterday
and chances are i'm gonna say it again today. hahaha
arghhh
i don't have a lot of tmr's left before taiwan comes
time to wake up!!!

maybe tmr. haha

ps: super boring entry la. reflects my current life. haha

2005-11-09T22:55:00.000+08:00

so you think you're so great huh?

whatever, man.

2005-11-06T23:40:00.000+08:00

do you feel that something's changed?
hmm.
no longer the same.
conversations are dying.
hmm.
where has the fun gone?

haha.
guess you'll never found out
i'm talking about you.
or rather, us.
hmm.

2005-11-03T23:03:00.000+08:00

piang
my blog is positively lan diao-ing. haha

chinese exam on monday. dont wanna talk about it la sigh.
hope for a2 perhaps?
had kbox after that with the css ppl: sy sk wl km cw

they were like over 1 hour plus late. -.- besides sy la
hahaha ok not the point.

ok admit i was feeling bored
but watching km cw wl sk fight over peanuts was funny
hahaha. esp KM! he pay 15 bucks to eat peanut and be technician can!
lol
then had dinner + gossip. very fun la.
i miss css ppl.

tues
ARGH suan le. rot. haha

wed
council meeting + 3rd dry run (teacher was late for like 1 hour)
haha dry run until 1.30
lunch with my fav ppl! zr sh + basil
met council ppl at curry wok
bitch again. hahaha

town with lor, tran and veron
weird combi!
(oh shucks just remember must scan the polaroid so3 girls took. so random. ok.)
took neoprints
scream like MAD hahahaha stupid screen tried to kill lor and me
damn funny when we editing scream and scream.
ok la quite fun haha

thurs
rot again
must do i&r and op slides ARGHHH
OH YAH OH YAH STEPH ROCKS
she is damn good.
her shoe won champion!
so proud of you
to think it's the same girl who pretends to be superman in glass lifts. hahahaha
oops sorry steph

fri (tmr)
4th dry run
hope everything goes well la!
kbox! again! hahaha shld be fun
unless others turn up
yucks. lalala
candy lee! ur best friend lor! better don't go man!
hahaha. shit i damn bad

ok I don't talk cok le.
shall go prepare for my DRY RUN
i will be the BEST SPEAKER can!
yay pw ROCKS. " "
and it's gonna be over. hahaha. =)

2005-10-29T18:21:00.000+08:00

had quite a bad scare yesterday.

huilin stuck her foot into a needle!

ohmygoshh and i was like right there to witness everything la. shucckksss it was SCARY can!

she was talking to celeste in the SL and i just chupped in
and she stood up
then sat down again, seemingly in pain.

there was something in her left foot.
she took off her socks
ohmygossshhhh

there was white thread sticking out of her big toe
the needle went in
brave huilin tried pulling it out; it got too painful; there were tears in her eyes

people started coming in
tran,shuying,kelvin
celeste was frantic; who should she call
hahaha i immediately thought of siyuan (first aider) lol

grace,ben,lee xinyi, veron,michelle,chooi sum
huilin called her dad
"papa, i stepped on a needle and it went into my toe
there is thread sticking out.
blah blah
ok dad, i'll inform mum now"

shuying said to bring her to GO and that she had already informed mr. menon
tran: call a taxi
huilin said bring her to SGHl; her dad was there
she tried to stand up
crazy
ben carried her
strong leh
crazy huilin still laughing, saying "noooo. i'm very heavy"
hahahha

most people followed them out
chunlong brought a chair out from the CR
good effort, we appreciate it really
but they were gone

hahaha crazy.
me michelle chooisum
shaken
started looking for needles on the SL floor
vacuum carpet.
useless

some impt person came
scold scold scold
oops will i get sued for talking about ppl

"why was the needle there?"
"who was injured"
"it's huilin AGAIN"
"isn't HALO sometime, a week, ago?"

blame blame blame

too late.

hmm

more impt ppl
removed all carpets from SL

case closed
why exciting things keep happening to her
hahaha

2005-10-26T21:19:00.000+08:00

oh no this is sad.

after doing the survey thingy today

i realised something.

i think i'm quite picky with people i work with...
and i don't really like my class.

and..

i've got no best friends in this school. not really.

sigh.

oh shut up xm.

2005-10-24T00:37:00.000+08:00

oh i do wish i could kill you.

sigh.

stop holding me back. you're wasting my time.

i hate this.

2005-10-19T01:16:00.000+08:00

hey ya guys and gals!!

NJC's having a year end celebration, [Horror.After.Lights.Out.], to mark the end of the school year!! The event will be held on this coming Friday, 21st October 2005, from 17 30 till 21 30 in the National Junior College compounds!! There will be a night trail, a freaky haunted house, a mini food carnival, a ghost story telling session, and to round things up, a funky dance party, complete with a DJ!!!

Best of all, everyone's welcome!!The admission ticket for the event is $3, which entitles you for free admission to the Ghost Story Telling Session and Dance Party, as well as a $1 off to the night trail ,and a $2 off to the haunted house!!

So what are you waiting for? Contact me to buy the tickets [limited amount of tickets!!!], and join us for the celebration! See you then!!!

(btw. $3 is only for admission. you still have to pay $2 for haunted house and $1 for nightwalk on the day itself. so sorry about it. i just found out too =/)