'Rawr' I Am!

Has been somewhat missing-in-action from the social world for the past 3 weeks, updating my status through Twitter (for those who noticed). Just too bad that Facebook has yet to support Singapore carrier for its SMS function. If not, it will be hot man. Only got to use the internet computer once there.

Somewhat managed to survive Thailand, under such a crazy hot weather. We covered like more than 70km within three days of navigation exercise, doing all the things that we are not supposed to do like grabbing a drink from shops, walking on the roads. Hahaha.. Interesting hide-and-seek action then.

Anyway, I still couldn't believed that I had hyperventilated twice in Thailand. The first one was pretty scary being the first time for me, together with carpopedal spasm (hands and feet). Was evacuated straight to the medical centre, and with the condition I was in even the medics confessed that it was quite a frightening sight with me falling unconscious. The second time was much stable, but that was the one which cut short my showdown outfield exercise from 8 days to just 4 days. Luckily, I am still able to pass-out as sergeant given that I had already been assessed. Was suggested by the doctor there to get a blood test back in Singapore to check the blood count, since the causes of my hyperventilation might just be due to low blood count. Hmm.. So don't want to down PES and end up taking over Yau as CQ. Hahaha.. Let's just pray for the best outcome for my posting yeaa.. Preferably BMT! :)

Home's still the same. Everyone's outside working over the weekends and late nights. How I wish things were back the old days... Well, there's actually a difference. My brother crashed the now-defunct Nissan March last week, and the van that I often drive is now being used by my parent's company. So yeaa.. One new car has arrived while I was in Thailand - a red Peugeot 207, and another arriving next week - Nissan Latio Sport. Hopefully, I will get a chance to drive them soon..

Posted by Ruben at 12:32 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

I suppose it's time for me to break the silence in my blog.. It's been like four months plus since I last posted during my BMT days. Well.. For those who didn't knew, I was actually posted to SISPEC and had to endure through the tough training in BSLC Charlie. Things kinda changed in the company after I was posted to the same company for ASLC. Things are now much more relax, but everything just seems sooo sloppy lately. Not sure whether it's a good thing or what. In few days time, I'll be heading over to Thailand for 3 weeks of pure hell. I'm not sure if I can even handle the heat out there, since I had history of heat exhaustion back in BMT days. *keeps finger crossed* Hmm.. The only thing I'm looking forward during the trip would be the SIA flight there and the last three days of R&R - absolutely no clue what it stands for.. Relax, rest, recreation? So yes, if you need anything from there, just let me know and I'll do my best to bring the whole load of imitation goods over. Hahaa..

Had just been warned by my granny not to wear red, blue or yellow clothings for fear of clashes with the protests on-going in Thailand at the moment. How I wish I can comment further on the Thai politics, but just no mood for it now. Or should I say plain lazy. Hahaa..

Oh yes, I've been offered 'Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering' for both NUS and NTU! Thought chances would be harder, since I had rejected both when they offered me 'Chemistry' last year. Managed to enter NUS only after an interview, but still kinda prefer NTU's specializations offered. Hmm.. Anyway, I'm still not sure if I should go forth with it though. Four years of plain mental torture in local university - really don't want to see myself in the strings of death lately in the newspaper. Hahaa.. If I were to go overseas, it will be just two years with direct honours for just plain 'Chemical Engineering'. I mean look at it this way - by the time I'm out of national service, I'll be like 22 and will only finish studying by the age of 26 if local. Whereas for overseas, I will be 24 or so when I'm out working. But the idea of overseas studying kinda turn me off, since I'll have to start from ground zero all over again. Looking at University of New South Wales and University of Queensland at the moment. To me, I feel that a certificate is just a stepping stone for one to enter into a prospective job, which the experience counts more than anything else. And of course, the certificate must not be those mediocre ones la. Haha.. Oh well.. I guess I'll just take one step at a time, and accept a local university place first before making the next move. Think Ruben, think.

Posted by Ruben at 12:40 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

Wooohooo! Private rank, oh yes. Hahaa.. Nothing much to hooray about actually. 5 more days till I enter the whole shit cycle all over again, that's life in NS sadly. And guess what, just the day after my POP I actually kena conjunctivitis (bacteria eye infection), which was pretty bad. Couldn't open my bloodshot eyes with hand-assistance to remove the dried yellow discharge that stick my eyes together. Surprisingly, I recovered in 3-4 days - though my plans were already messed up and block leave wasted. I somehow spread it to my older brother and my grandfather, just when I was about to recover fully lar. Totally strange..

So yes, I burnt my block leave spending time to recover. I can't possibly step out of the house with both eyes swollen yeaa.. Blah. I'm soo gonna watch tons of movie during this 12-days - caught both Bolt and Twilight on a midnight movie marathon already. Twilight movie rocks man! Some people say it ain't really good, which I have no clue why. Perhaps they read the book itself and had a higher expectation of it bah. I soooo like baseball scene with the Cullens during the thunderstorm, using the thunder as a cover for their super-loud whacks. Stephenie Meyer - the next big time after J.K. Rowling! She might just be the one who kickstart my book reading habit. Haha. Anyway, she released this partial draft of her "Midnight Sun" book that is from Edward's point-of-view (POV) for Twilight book on her website - not that she want to actually, since someone close to her leaked it out. So now, she's putting this particular book on hold till everyone forgets about it or so she says. Lol. Anyhooo.. do check out the Twilight movie as well as the movie soundtracks like Muse's "Supermassive Black Hole" and Mutemath's "Spotlight (Twilight Mix)"..

Shit! Kena summon at Shaun's house, effectively bringing up my mahjong loss to all time high.. Bloody hell..

Posted by Ruben at 12:53 AM | Permalink

Woohoo... I didn't post any thing on this blog throughout my BMT sia. Tomorrow will be my last day in Tekong, before I have my long block leave till 21st December. Will be having the stupid 24km route march, after which we'll be having our pass-out parade. I just pray that the speech given by the MP will be short, if not my legs will die sia. Simply can't wait for the holidays! Gonna kick-start my Xmas festive mood by doing some shopping down the lovely-decorated Orchard Road. *hohoho* Peace out!

Posted by Ruben at 2:55 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

Hoho. I've broken my record in number of non-blogging days. Too damn bored with the whole blogosphere thing. In just a couple of days, I'll be shipped off to the Tekong island and get started with the forced labour. Hahaa. It's no big deal actually - to me, it's more like paid gym. So I guess I'm quite looking forward in getting this over and done with. There's really nothing much to worry about I feel. I think I'm more worried about my further studies than the national service. I mean how bad can it get to go overseas alone and start everything from scratch - including making friends etc. Sheeze. And I have to settle the accommodation, books, food etc. Blah blah blah. Back to the NS, bought quite a number of essential things at the army market already like black tape, zip-lock bags and snake powder (for powder bath). I'm thinking of bringing Listerine in too, which I feel is totally effective. Haha.. My black specs is also ready, but freakin' hell bought mine at 100+. Blah. Stay tuned to the Twitter updates to hear how I am doing in NS this coming Tuesday! The Chronicles of Platodino. Lol.

And damn, I totally suck in mahjong lor. There's like totally no luck with me when it comes to gambling stuff. Another reason why I hate luck-related games (ie gambling). Big winner of the day was Shaun, who probably had some birthday luck with him. Played a total of two full rounds with Shaun, Soo Chin and Yuan Long yesterday, and I was already bored with it half-way through. Maybe too much losing bah. Hahaa..

Oh yes, just a two weeks ago, I bought myself the Creative Zen X-Fi 8GB at the Comex convention! Hooray... It's the one without the wireless LAN function - don't really see the point of having a instant messaging service on a mp3 player, whose main function should be listen music and watch video. It's a good player alright and encountered no problems with it. I'm loving it alright! Haha.. Oh yes, for those Apple fans out there, new iPods has just been released at a better price point for iPod Touch especially as compared to the older generation one. Check it out at their Apple site if you want to know more yeaa.. Creative's really got to buck it up and pump up their marketing strategy, and forget about using celebrities like Paris Hilton for marketing. Hahaa.. That's all folks!

Posted by Ruben at 2:56 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

Somehow this 1997 film "Gattaca" has caught my heart - not that lovey dovey way. But I just 'felt' it - perhaps it was the soundtrack by Michael Nyman "The Other Side". Listening to the soundtrack really make me reminisce those old Barker band days again, playing my beloved Euphonium with all the breath and energy I had. I guess I sold my soul to the music.

Back to the movie, it's all about a society in the "not-too-distant" future that persue for only the best candidates to work - and what I mean by this is the birth of genetically-modified babies and how the natural babies get discriminated in the future of having myopia etc. Starring Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman and Jude Law, the movie talks about how "a genetically inferior man assumes the identity of a superior one in order to pursue his lifelong dream of space travel". Well.. It's no ordinary job application to the space travel of course, since they wouldn't want to invest so many training and risk the mission - as such, urine, blood and others like hair, dead skin cells were used to retreive their DNA to determine if they are truly in a sense "perfect" for the mission - coined as "Valid" and "In-Valid" for the inferior.

Anyway, it's quite an inspiring movie in such a way that it really moves you - you must totally feel the music to understand it, especially the part when the grown-up brothers started swimming out to the sea. It was basically a challenge between the two to swim as far out into the sea and see who chickens out first. When the time had passed and day they met one another once again, they went out on another challenge (it's more than this, but I'm trying my best not to spoil too much) and this is where I totally liked the following conversation on how Vincent was able to swim so much better and further than his superior brother Anton and how he managed to deceived everyone his identity in the space agency:

Anton: "Vincent! How are you doing this, Vincent? How have you done any of this? We have to go back!"

Vincent: "It's too late for that, we're closer to the other side."

Anton: "What other side? Do you want to drown us both‽"

Vincent: "You want to know how I did it? This is how I did it, Anton. I never saved anything for the swim back."

Watch it and you'll get what I meant. Sadly, this film was totally overshadowed by Titanic during the awards though nominated, and didn't grossed much due to its poor marketing strategy that portrayed it like a Star Trek movie. Geeze. Thankfully, that had changed with the release of the DVD versions making the cover looks more appropriate to the true Gattaca theme. There's a whole lot of meaning behind the movie, but I'm just a crappy movie reviewer. Hahaha.. This is surely one of those sci-fi movies worth buying and keeping - I wonder if they still have the soundtrack and the DVD on sale..

Edited - 17 August: I added a synopsis from some other website in the read more, and check out the following quote too.

"My father was right. It didn't matter how much I lied on my resume. My real resume was in my cells. Why should anybody invest all that money to train me when there were a thousand other applicants with a far cleaner profile? Of course, it's illegal to discriminate, 'genoism' it's called. But no one takes the law seriously. If you refuse to disclose, they can always take a sample from a door handle or a handshake, even the saliva on your application form. If in doubt, a legal drug test can just as easily become an illegal peek at your future in the company." - Vincent Freeman (Ethan Hawke), Gattaca, 1997

Too damn fascinated what the future holds for us.. Just look at the beauty of that space shuttle lifting off. How great would it be to be able to look down onto glowing Earth in the complete darkness. Well.. It's a career indeed impossible to have alright - just like the in-valids in Gattaca? Haha.

Continue reading "Gattaca." »

Posted by Ruben at 11:14 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

I seriously can't remember birthdays, and somehow I actually managed to forgot about our National Day. Hm.. Is it because schooling is so over for me already? Or maybe it was because of our current materialistic environment now? I mean the only signs of National Day nowadays would be those decorations put up by CCs and others. Singaporeans themselves seldom even hang up one outside their flats. I can bet that most Singaporeans don't even have a National Flag at home. Mine was misplaced and gone don't know where le.

I mean the Government should really do something about National Pride. Is it really all about the fireworks during National Day? Or about the achievements of Singapore till date? Singapore has prospered indeed and become one of the most developed country in South-East Asian, but the society now are becoming more money-driven and materialistic. Without money, I doubt most especially the younger generation (damn this term makes me feel old) can do what they like. Singapore has indeed become a potential magnet for foreigners to come and get rich - not that it's not good, but the all-rounded welfare of Singaporeans is top priority I feel which they should do more about instead.

During the National Day speech by PM Lee, he himself also mentioned about the online citizens and about responsibilties with it. Hmm.. Singapore can be racial-tolerant, but can Singapore be political-tolerant? What I mean by this would be closely related to how generalisation works. People sees on Chee making a nuisance of himself, and some simply assumed that all oppositions are out to cause disruptions in the nation when what they want to do is actually to bring about a good intention change. But given our political climate, WP's the only one that seem credible at the moment and struggling to get a hold in the Parliament while constantly getting critizised by PAP. One thing for sure is that 2/5 Singaporeans (as voted in the elections) is that people wants an opposition voice in the parliament, but this is surely not well represented a look at the amount of opposition MPs.

Well well... 'Nuff said about politics. Now, I'm more engrossed in the Russian-Georgia conflict. The Russians are actually in a war with Georgia at the moment for those who don't know. It's quite a big thing since it's been long since the Russians were at war. And it has some complications for oil pipeline for people living in the West (Russia supplies them gas and oil - lol), and test how the US and NATO reacts to this situation. Can you imagine if US had to send in troops to support his ally who had one of the greatest amount of troops pledged in Iraq? This would effectively mean a combat between US and Russia. Not quite possible, given that Russia has a leverage in the Iran Nuclear issue - but there's still that possibilities yeaa.. But I think nobody is coming to Georgia's aid seriously since they simply can't afford to.

"If Georgia falls, this will also mean the fall of the West in the entire former Soviet Union."

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Edited - 12th August 2008:

Russian President has halted attacks on Georgia. Let's see how the formal ceasefire is going to come about, while actions like reconnaissance continues and any new Georgian attacks will be "liquidated". Anyway, the previous invasion by Russia I think was in Afghanistan during the 90s, so it's quite interesting to see how this conflict will impact the relations between Russia and the West in this 21st century. Will the West continue to alienate Russia? Surely with this, there's going to be a start with armed build-up for nations around Russia, especially those tiny nations which gained independence from USSR like Georgia. Cold war two is heading soon? Perhaps that's the reason why NATO wasn't demolished when the cold war was over. Will Russia be finally be seen as a great power after being ignored for ages since the USSR collaspe? So many questions, only time will tell.

Meantime, check out the following photos taken from New York Times:

I really liked Clarke Quay for its atmosphere where people simply chill and relax. But it's also a place commonly flooded with tourist and PRs who simply can afford to do so. Just on National Day recently, me and my siblings brought my grandfather there to check out how much things has changed - the progress of Singapore. Well not the river, cos the stagnant water totally stinks. He mentioned alot of things that has changed like how last time he had driven a car over the "now human only" bridge that connects the both sides. One thing he was surprised though was by the amount of Westerners everywhere. Had a wonderful time out that day bringing him around Clarke Quay. Oh yes, I absolutely love the Japanese-style pasta at Central beside the TCC. Their pizza is biscuit-type de, but quite pricey given the choice of Eel. Should try the other flavours bah for that.

NS's coming soon! In almost a month time, in fact. Need to go make my darn black specs soon. And make whatever neccessary purchases. And of course, run more often. Now, I have this inconsistent alternate day routing of bike-run or swimming. Will have to work on my sleeping hours as well, cos it's really tiring me out after my half-day work. Yup, I work till 2pm daily instead liao. Anyway, if you noticed, I added this Twitter Update thing whereby you can keep track of what I do (provided that I update it, of course lar). Can totally put it into good use during NS. Lol. Simply SMS to the contact number, and it will update your status. Lol. Go google "Twitter" to find out more. ;)

*yawn*

Posted by Ruben at 10:57 PM | Permalink

Hmm.. I noticed that I'm becoming more involved in Singapore affairs, as I grow older. Perhpas you might just find myself in the Parliament in the future. Hahaa.. Anyway, I can't belive an international news channel - Al Jazeera English - actually highlighted the issue of poverty here in Singapore with regards to the soaring prices of food (see it here). This is the sister channel of 'Al Jazeera' which broadcasted Osama's video after the 9/11 incident, and even videos of beheading of Western hostages in Iraq. *gurps* Well. Looks like the PAP Government needs to do alot more in closing up the rich-and-poor gap, provided that they are even trying.. There's a whole of debate going on right now whether there should be a Jurong by-election, just see the Straits Times today one.

I was checking out ACS Echo online version today when they sent an ACS OBA email to my inbox. Psst.. OBA stands for Old Boy's Association... And guess what I found.. The OBA actually invited an opposition party leader Chiam See Tong as guest of Honour for the Founder's Day Dinner (see here)!

I mean I'm so used to seeing all the PAP Ministers coming over you know like Dr. Tony Tan etc - all the old ACS boys. So it's a rare sight indeed - apparently Chiam suffered stroke 2 weeks ago before attending this and even those meet-people session. Power to the man.

Now, everything has changed. The principal of Barker now is in-charge of International (Jarkata), vice leh is now principal for Junior. Discipline Master became Principal for Primary. Aiyar. alot of changes lar. 99% of the staff I know no longer works there sadly. Haiz. I hope I'll have the time to attend the opening of Time Capsule in 2010 - we actually placed out things in the Time Capsule when the Barker campus became ready in 2005. There's also another special capsule to be kept for 50 years at the famous clock tower! Damn. That day is soo going to come soon. Well.. 2 years of NS and that's it.

Oh yes, I just realised that my parents actually bought a land and build a bungalow in Brisbane for investment last time in 1999 with the intention of letting us use it one day if we planning to go study in Aussie. But because of the asian financial crisis then, they had to let go of it losing quite a bit to secure the company then. My younger brother might be joining me in Aussie 1 year later to study as well, so it wouldn't really be that boring and we'll most likely be sharing an apartment together or what then. Sounds good eh? But I now abit 'scared' in what sense that I had to be alone to go there and make new friends from sketch. And that sucks - hopefully I can drag my mum over for a week or something to settle the admin stuff etc first. I mean no friends to accompany along stinks lar. If you guys know of anyone going to UQ or UNSW (maybe this one) for study in 2010-2011, do let me know yeaa... Deeply appreciated.

And Singfest sold out for Sunday! Sian. Didn't went for it in the end. No more bloody Levis promotion - boohoo. And no company to go with for that day 2. Brother will only go if promo, but checked out Vivo outlet they say sold out le. Sian. All the good bands at one go. I guess I'll save up the money to buy a good mp3 player instead. Perhaps the new Zen X-Fi? Or should I wait until Comex convention coming next month? Gah. Wait and wait. Aiyar, time to sleep now. Peace out!

Posted by Ruben at 7:40 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

Damn. I've got to admit that The Dark Knight is one of the best comic films ever this year. Everyone should go watch it at least once, I must insist. With the late Heath Leager acting as the Joker in the movie, he really did his thing and portrayed the right character for that maniac. There's quite a number of interesting parts that is totally unexpected, as well as the surface of Two Face. Alright, that's all I've got to say about the movie - not a good movie critic I guess. Lol. As for Hellboy II: The Golden Army leh, it's not so focused on the main character this time round and more on the team. With a new "gas" inspector joining in, this film features more 'human' factors like BGR problems etc. Liked it, but not as much as the Batman movie. Sorry, I prefer Joker as the villian who simply wants to make things messy and nothing more, as compared to ninja-trained creature that wants to take over the world.

I can't believe I'm actually watching a movie every weekend this time, and do the booking for most of the movies. I guess it's just a small price to pay for watching it early with good seats. But I just hate myself when I start calculating on how much I spent on them. *stabs myself*

So damn tired today since I only got to Sengkang at like 7am. Don't supposed I could tahan the stomach growling while I sleep "early", so took a detour to the Mac being like the first customer in the morning for a good breakfast before sleeping at 8am. Lol. What to do.. Me and Ryan actually stayed up for the first train in the morning, after the Batman movie ended at 3am+. We were like thinking that it will open at 5am, when in actual fact it opened at 6am. Zzz. Should have took the cab with others. Lol. A "sleep" to pay for saving money on cab fees. Rofl.

Want to talk more about the Timbre thing with Shaun and guys, but heck I'm just too exhausted today to continue le. Will TRY to post some photos that I've took on my crappy handphone. Still looking for my ideal portable media player, with all the NS factors coming in. Gah. And yup, the company has been ISO-certified. Oleh! Just have to settle some NCR forms, and I'm sorta done. From this week onwards, it's part-time for me while I relax and hopefully exercise before the Doomsday arrive. Hahaha... Just had this weather nowadays, ever looking so gloomy and cloudy. Argh.

Posted by Ruben at 10:52 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

Warning: If you ain't into local issues like I do, don't bother reading this whiny thread especially when you don't read the Straits Times or any form of newspaper.

Good things about Singapore talk next time.. So what makes Singapore stink? Well... There's so many reasons to it. To begin with, it starts every four year with the so-called fair election where it's almost impossible for any existing opposition party. With so many electoral divisions, it leads to many walkovers meaning uncontested victories. In the end, the majority party (you know who) will form the new government given the amount of support they had received. Blah blah.

And within the 5 years, Singaporeans will have to make do with whatever government policies being implemented after having debated in the Parliament, which I feel it's more like a Q&A clarification session. I guess we just swallow what comes in - the GST increase, the ERP increase, the ministerial salary hike. There's absolutely no way we can do anything about it, other than whining about it online before it slowly dies out. Haha.. The good and bad things about the ban on protest. With the inflation having its effect on its people, Singaporeans are seriously feeling the widening impact of the rich and poor. What's more these government policies are causing the inflation to implode further.

Damn did I realise that owning a car is that expensive, especially for those who drive and work in the CBD area. For every half an hour, average charge is $2.50 lar. Good for those with season parkings, but for those without, I'll be damned - one full working day = $40 of parking fees. Hahaa. Singapore's current option for solving the traffic congestion now is build new expressways like KPE etc and THEN add all the gantries over there to ensure that the traffic flows smoothly. Haha. There's going to be 16 gantries added to KPE, and did you know each of those cost LTA $1.5million (as mentioned in today's Straits Times)? So that means the Government spent $90 million solely on those money-sucking machines wor. I thought the KPE was meant to divert the traffic congestion in ECP and TPE for those people who use them as through-routes. But in the end leh, created a shortcut that will be charged. I wonder if people will go to the free one or the paid one. If it's the former, then congestion will remain and poof comes another ERP in one of those expressways. Haha.. And the cycle continues with ERP money being collected for LTA to use on road works and etc like buying gantry gates!

Well.. At least they finally showed that they wanted people to make the switch to public transport after so many years of ERP operation with the cash rebate scheme. Previously, car owners could only scrap the car and get credits to buy another car. Lol. Anyhoo, all new ERP gantries will start from $2 (no longer $1) and will increase $1 each time (no more 50 cents) when 85 percentile of the road users are not within the threshold of 45kmh (used to be 50%). And did I mention that they extended the hours too till 8pm? I guess those people who used to wait till 7pm over then drive home will have to bring newspaper or PSP to play until that time before heading home. Haha. Public transport is so damn unconvenient during the peak hours, having to squeeze here and there. For me last time, I had actually missed four fully-packed bus 27 before catching one by having to walk to the bus stop ahead. =.=" Back to the main topic, soon it will only be the rich to owe a vehicle while the poor will have to take public transport. Maybe one day we'll just get to see more fancy cars on the road wor. Haha. And with the zero downpayment and 10-years car loans being available freely, I seriously wonder why the car population is so huge in Singapore. If they actually do something about this few points, I tell you those sukar-sukar buy car for fun one will also think twice before doing so. Actually, the government is quite smart in a way without crippling the car market - entice you to buy car -> self-realisation you can't afford it -> scrap/sell car -> use public transport. Hahaha.. Anyway, I thought the COE in the first place was to control the car population, so I guess that ain't really effective eh? So why not just scrap it lar, no point also. Just make ERP damn expensive lor. Hahhaa.. It's effective in dealing both I believe given the fuel price hike as well.

And quite true about certain comments in forums that there's no need for non-peak hour charges when there isn't any cars in the first place. Geeze. Initially, it was to control the traffic congestion entering the city area, and slowly even those cars leaving the city to go home have to pay. Haha. Increase GST so much liao, then realise there's so much GST surplus somehow. Then still want to look for options to take more. Have any one wondered how deep is Singapore's piggie bank? Hahaha.. I really can't imagine. And I totally wonder if they had ever used them to help alleviate the situation of Singaporeans. I guess Singapore's just another business to some, with the CEO salaries and stuff. Apparently, monetary factor is the more important for our government officials than the passion to serve and contribute to the nation. I don't get why Malaysian ministers can cut their allowance for the nation and have their fuel subsidy removed (we don't have any in first place), while our ministers cannot *boohoo* - I guess we cannot be too dependent on the government arh? Lol. If not, we'll take things for granted and become complacent, and perhaps cause another Mas Selemat escape (I think he might just have taken SIA out of Singapore lor - haha!)...

Well well. Read enough of my gibberish? Just treat it as a cow moo-ing around again lar. I just hope the payout before the next election betta be good or more GST payouts. Lol.

Posted by Ruben at 11:26 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

It's been a long time since I last blogged once again. Really can't be bothered to blabber nowadays about what I do and stuff. I mean it's like I've been doing the same old things everyday - you knoww.. during the weekdays doing all the documentation work, preparing for the big day next Monday. Other than that, I'll be the driver for my mum driving almost everyday back and forth between workplace and home, and sometimes to site workplace for meetings - be it the company van or the Nissan March, the (relatively old) car which has no "backside" or keys. So yeaa.. I've been driving both manual and auto quite frequently, meaning no losing of any skills wor - kinda. Power anot? *cough cough* The van manual one still have some rough time occasionally though, and that means stalling especially when I kachiong that time. Hahaha..

I think these few months II've spent quite on movies liao - there's just too many blockbusters out there trying to bust our wallets lar! But no way shall I turn to the online 'freebie' like the Prince Tudou has been doing. Hahaha... Miss then miss lor - like the Kungfu Panda sadly. Let me try and recall as much movie that I've paid to watch so far this mid-year - Wanted, Hancock, Don't Mess With Zohan, The Incredible Hulk, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. And there's two more fantastic movies that I must watch (anyone care to join?) - Hellboy II: The Golden Army, The Dark Knight, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. After all these shows, there will be a dry period for movies until Harry Potter and Ice Age III: Dawn of Dinosaurs comes in - all the kiddy but must-watch shows. Hahaa.. Sadly, I'll be only out on the weekends by then. *boohoo*

Okay lar - need to get back to work. Hahhaa.. Slacked for a moment. :P

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I have rejected both 'Chemistry' offers from NUS and NTU. I'm seriously considering heading to Australia for my undergraduate degree in 'Chemical Engineering', even if my appeal gets through for this two unis. This is because given my grade, I can get a full exemption of 2 years into their direct honours course. This will effectively means that I only need t study 2 years more till I can get my professional degree. If I were to mug in Singapore, I will have to spend another 4 years on studies with 2 years already spent on national service. And by the time I start working, I will be like 27 years old! Having a headstart on the corporate ladder is always a good thing, gaining more working experience as well as seniority (as compared to newcomers). And don't forget that my salary will be climbing as well. I guess this is the main reason for my choice for overseas studies. Simply too much time has been spent on studying. Somemore earning money at the age of 27 years old is considered fairly late already. If you intend to start a family or whatsoever, you need to have the money in your bank already! It's never a nice thing to rely someone else for your family expenses. Hmm.. How the hell I divert the topic to family planning. Haha.. Back to the topic, there's also a high demand for Chemical Engineers there in Down Under. Let's say I'm looking at either 'University of Queensland' or 'University of New South Wales' at the moment.. Well.. I still have 1 years or so to decide on this. Hmmmm..

Oh yes, I've gotten my photocard driving license finally! Have been driving only back-and-forth from office to home only, since my dad ain't really comfortable with me driving elsewhere as yet (zzz!). To think about it, the 2-months of drive-learning didn't quite pay out since I don't get to drive solo yet. What to do sia.. I wonder when that day will come with my enlistment date creeping closer day by day. Sian.

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Dear Sir ,

Thank you for your email.

You are tentatively scheduled for enlistement in September 08. Upon confirmation by the Enlistment Officer, we would send you the Enlistment letter 2 months prior to your intake.

We hope we have been of service to you.

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We look forward to serving you better.

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UPDATE: Hooray! Emailing does help indeed...

Good morning Mr TOH RUBEN.

Your enlistment date is on 16-Sep-2008. Your reporting unit is TRAINING LIST BASIC MILITARY TRAINING CENTRE SCHOOL 2.

Why can't they just confirm the date sia. Tentatively - what a word. Anyway, I really envy those people in Japan. They like have all the funky nice phones, while we here in Singapore are so dated. Seriously, just do a dig at Sony Japan's website and you'll get to see them already. I realised that Bluetooth ain't really popular for their phones. What's more.. instead of SMSing around with their friends, they do email messaging! Each of their phone numbers will have an unique email ID to email around lor. It's like they totally won us over with their sleek phones. They use it to surf the internet and watch TV etc. I guess iPhone ain't really unique over there. Hahaa.. Check out the tv phone - SO906i with Bravia technology!

And it's older version - SO905i!

And these are just two phones from Sony/DoCoMo. Now, I finally know why Zai Wei's Motorola phone never see before in the international market. I'm hunting for a nice cool exotic phone whose functionality will not be compromised. This is because if you were to buy these phones, you have to unlock it using Hypersim cards or whatever. And that causes it not able to use 3G and stuff. Gah. Don't want to remain in the 2G realm with a funky phone. Hmm.. Any recommendations out there people?

Singapore Arts Festival - Water Fools

Singapore Arts Festival has just kicked off, along with Great Singapore Sale! Weee.. Took the opportunity to check out the Water Fool festival with my friends, since I kinda missed it on the day before - only saw the ending fireworks. Hahaa.. It's quite nice actually.. Too bad we didn't get the best standing place or a good camera to snap them all. The performance was at the Boat Quay river, where people perform on water as if they were on the road. You can see 'taxi' rolling about here and there, with lamp posts being erected along the river. Cool eh? Just check out the pictures below my friend Ian took.. Ended the night at the TCC Gallery in that area. Even though I was having a running nose that day, I still had a great time with you peeps! :) Sorry for the mess I had. Managed to use up the whole 2 packs of tissue I brought, along with some rolls of toilet paper I kapoked from TCC and Ian's tissue. LOL! Damn shiong I know..

TP Graduation Day

Sorry for the late posting. Didn't collect much photos yet. If you have any, please send them to me hor! It's rather sad that I actually forgot to bring a camera for graduation day. Haiz. Was too damn sleepy that day. I see my photos - all the shots also like sian sian one. I remember before approaching the ceremony guy, Mr Lim was like saying smile leh. Hahhaaa.. What to do. Blah. Here's some that I've gotten so far:

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No enlistment date still. Gah. Sad to say that I'm officially the loner in the class (ex-) that has yet to receive his enlistment status. Boohoo - I know. I have been abandoned by MINDEF! Hahahaaa.. Hope this doesn't gets back to me in the camp. Lol. Just emailed them earlier on to remind them that I exist.. Haha.. I guess there was something wrong with their notification system and somehow left me out bah. Should be entering in September I hope. A rough date would be good for me to know when it's time to start exercising. Kinda pulled off the whole exercising plan I had initially. Hahaa.. Never liked the idea of swimming at night before dinner! Hungry leh. Must start running liao, once that deadly letter comes.

University. That's one thing that has been bugging me recently. With the joint acceptance date of 2nd June coming soon, I'm rather confused in which university to accept. Have been offered NUS's "Science (Chemistry and Applied Chemistry)" and NTU's "Chemistry and Biological Chemistry". Both don't seem enticing to me, since I was looking forward to Chemical Engineering instead. Somemore it's considered a general degree, rather than a specialised one by one lecturer. So the situation I'm in now is.. I have two offered courses that I have not much interest in, and have to make a decision between the two. Always had a better impression of NTU than NUS actually, probably because of the number of visits I had to NTU bah during the Synergy business competition. NUS's campus is just too complex for me! Or should I say messy. Haha. Somemore NTU offers direct honours, as compared to NUS in which only the top few % can get into. Also hor.. There is several articles on the net about how NUS lecturers are so snobbish towards poly students, even at their open house. Hmm.. Elitist attitude. *looks at the whole government structure* HEADACHE arh!

I'm actually somewhat considering heading to Aussie for studies. Mum has given me the green light to do so. Somemore for a "Chemical Engineering" degree there only takes 2 years to complete, from what I heard from Grace Soh who's heading next year. Perhaps it's also easier to earn a scholarship there? *crossfingers* That would kinda decrease the 20k per year school fees, which is quite alright compared to other countries like US and UK. Will have to check out the IDP office soon.. Gave their recent event a missed, cos no one was interested in joining me. Gah. But before all these, I really hope my upcoming appeal will get through for NUS or NTU! Local university's the way to go, for it is cheap and subsided by the goverment - we don't pay taxes for nothing hor. Hahha.. Writing an appeal always turns me off somehow - bleh! Need to get it done real soon.. 50 words for NTU nia. =.="

Oh yes. My house is going to be undergoing a heavy works, diy-ed by my father once again. Hahaa.. He intends to add additional floor space on the high ceiling of the living room soon. Cover about half of the top space bah. If fully enclosed, sunlight will be drastically be reduced in the living room I feel. Hope that goes well, and I'll get a brand new bigger room - no more sharing! But it's also a short-lived hooray, considering that I'm gonna head to the camp soon. Anyhoo.. I guess I can consider it an early good 21-yo gift bah, so I shall not expect much from them either. And somemore as mentioned, I'll be in camp. Bleh.

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Woohooo! I've passed my driving test, and I'm now waiting for my photocard driving license to arrive soon. But a stupid payment issue thanks to the auntie there kinda dampened my mood then, especially after 1.5hours of queuing. Zzz. TP should seriously do something about their branch at SSDC - during lunch break when there's suppose to be the most no. of ppl only one freakin' counter opened. Zzz.. Had to go back to SSDC to make my payment again, after the auntie realised that my payment didn't get through. Zzz..

14 points alright, but proud to say that my circuit only got a deduction of 2 points. Haha.. Was overexcited when coming back from road since I knew I have passed already and as a result, I was 'complacent' (a very famous word after Mas Selamat escape) and didn't do my engine brake quite properly on my bends - didn't release the clutch enough for engine break after changing down. A total of 8 points all came from my braking. Hahaha.. Ouch I know. Oh yar, tester didn't test my emergency break (which I was most fearful of actually), even though it was clear of traffic enough to do so. Haha.. Also, there was any traffic for lane changing at my time slot too, since it was at 10.15am (which was considered the best). Certainly worth the additional wait of 3 weeks for this test date. Haha.. Lucky me alright. Was the 2nd to return from the time slot wor. Hehe. Night chillouts and midnight supper here I come!

Genting! Just been here last year I think. Was there for a 3 days 2 nights stay. Mainly it was a trip for my dad and grandma to gamble their way to fortunes. *cough cough* I can say my granny's good cos she knows when to stop, as a result she won like 2K i think. My dad on the other hand gave his wallet to Mr. Jackpot. Hahhaa.. Really don't get what's so shiok about casino. Too bad I cannot enter, since I was still a year short of the legal age for casino entry.

Continue reading "Genting - City of Entertainment" »

Posted by Ruben at 11:51 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Damn. I'm seriously bothered by the fact that my enlistment date is nowhere to be found. Why the hell am I born in Dragon year man. Zzz... I have heard the news that the July intake has long been full and most likely to be in the October slots. So did my own research and found the following most probable BMT enlistment dates on the MINDEF website. For those who still didn't know that they can check their enlistment date online, click here to do so (refer to my awesome guide here). Haha...

As you can see there's not much dates left for the many of us out here. So I guess they will most likely be adding more enlistment dates ba. Hate the feeling of being left out to wander about. Haha.. And I have to agree with that someone that those who have yet to be enlisted are fairly more intelligent. Rofl! Leaving the best few for last - white horse! *tsk tsk* Just kidding about the intelligence thing, no offence to anyone out there feeling dumb yeaa.. *opps again!* Ahahaa.. Damn. I'm such a bs. Lol.

A busy week it has been. I've been trying to get ready the ISO documentation as soon as possible for the upcoming meeting with the consultant, but other work seem to be piling up somehow. On top of that, I'm having a half-day thing this week so that I can go for my driving practical lessons in the morning. I can say that I'm quite excited (or should I say anxious) about the test day simply by thinking of it. Hope that wouldn't make me do some stupid mistake here and there. One more day of practise tomorrow and it's showtime on Friday. *crossfingers* Although my practice sessions had been good so far, I guess I better not get my hopes too high on passing - will just concentrate on my driving that day and doing my best at it.

The few dumb mistakes that I've still been doing would be not checking the blindspots when entering the deceleration lane or the side road, despite doing so for all the actual turns. Keep forgetting that it was considered "changing lane". If you ask me to change lane, I would do my thing of course but this one somehow doesn't seep in my brain well. For the what-I-consider-a-real lane changing, there's a tendency for me to rush even though there's no car - need to take it slow man. That's all my common road mistakes. Circuit wise, the only thing I'm fearful of is the damn emergency break since I've done it a couple of tries only. I scared I lag in reaction lar or slam the brake too softly. Haha...Other than this, everything is rather fine.

Oh yar.. I finally realised that importance of horning today. Lol. At the junction, a stupid driver on the opposite side of road turned right when vehicles are approaching it lar. Haha.. Did my safety precaution slow down to let it pass etc, which is good. But didn't realise that not horning at the car means not aware of the danger posed by it. Hahaa.. And that would be like 10 demerit points. We were taught what the horn does, but never actually use it in any practical sessions before since there weren't any dangers at all. Even if there is, the instructor will usually be the one doing the horning since they got a 'private' horn. Tell 'bout it. Hahhahaa...

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Working so far is quite alright with not much stress as yet. This could have been due to the quiet construction market lately, which is certainly agreed by people in this industry along with the suppliers. Talking about suppliers, it was the first time I had a free bombastic lunch with the Kyoto suppliers at Jumbo Seafood. Damn. Such a heavy lunch since a long time, somemore got lobster wor! Apparently, this supplier has been doing business with my parents for over 10 years, but my mum actually didn't got the chance to talk to the guy in person although she was quite familiar with him over the phone all these years. Hahaa.. Sounds pretty much like my online friends too. Hmm.. Always say want to have lunch or dinner and stuff, but in the end don't have anything. Lol. Perhaps due to the fact that I'm such a shy boy.. *ahem*

Anyhoooo.. Went to Sentosa Cover earlier today with my dad to check out the installation works at one of the bungalow there. Can't believe they actually use such a large AHU system (common abbreviation for air handling unit)! I mean it's like most households would use those small split unit air-conditioners, but hell theirs are those big big ones normally used for hotels etc. And it occupies like the size of my living room lor. I guess that's the difference between the uber-rich and the normal folks here. I can say that I've seen more ang-mohs than I normally do in Orchard visiting/living that area lar. Damn. I seriously wonder how the Americans earn their dollars so much. Imagine each plot fetching a few million dollars. *diaoz*

But with the current Singapore's weather, it's like a freakin' Sahara desert living there. Even the wind that's blowing to the houses there are hot! And if you're observant enough, you can see that each and every single bungalows are no way identical, being uniquely designed ones. Heard from my that cousin of mine I mentioned about before that her husband has bought two apartments here. Filthy rich, but what's the point when you don't even know the basic respect.. Hmm.. Not gonna say more on this. Dirty little secret. Anyway, me and my mum agreed that both of us showroom lovers must check out the bungalow we're doing before handing it over to the owner. Lol. Just imagine that it belongs to us for a moment before going back to the reality of slogging hard to make dreams come true. Here are some of the photos I took!

And damn! Everyone around me have already received their enlistment letter, except for me. Oh great. What is exactly going on? Fat. Slim. Fit. G6PDs. Police. All of these groups get liao. Please don't tell me I end up doing administrative stuff for NS - it will be totally boring lor. Just simply waiting for time to pass each day, wasting every single minute of my life. Zzz.. Could it be that "Abnormal" word I see on my ECG (which I'm not sure what's it about)? But I get Pes "B" L1 leh. Unless I'm super heng and tio the white horse one! ROFL. Wait long long. Zzz.. Just hope it doesn't get postponed to next year or whatnots. If really kena clerk, may consider getting part-time degree.. ORD with degree! Hahaa.. Oh yes, good luck for me on 15th May yeaa! Gonna take my *vrooom* *vrooom* test. Wooohooo! If there's any higher beings up there, PLEASE let me pass this try! *crossfingers*

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My wallet just bled 75 bucks on a freakin' night! But it's kinda worth it with all the fun and joy we had. More beer drinking sessions yeaa! Damn stupid of me to actually arrive early for a group of people who are usually late (this includes me too - lol). In the end, I think I waited for nearly 45minutes for each Kings and Princes to arrive *yawn* while drinking my "Dulce De Leche Frappuccino" (a new drink - pleasantly nice!) at Starbucks - also kinda explains why my money flew away that quickly that day. Really enjoyed myself with the small little games we played. Totally prefer the environment outside compared to inside for sure at Chijmes. And I can say that Shahrez was pretty high that fateful night eh? Haha.. Blah blah blahh..

EDIT: Opps! Forgot to publish this out. Lol.

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Blogging is such a tedious and mentally exhausting task, which I cannot really afford to do so lately. Busy busy busy. The real work has begun recently, with me actually getting to sit in for a meeting between the consultants and clients. Other than that, just simple asking for quotations here and there for tenders. Just earlier today, I went to check out the project site at West Coast CC for some measurements and oversee the delivery of the scissor lift. And I'm still not yet started with the ISO certification thing, since the grant has yet to be approved. Can't wait to learn what's it all about with the consultant. Did a laboratory version liao, and now this time will be the environment or something de. Hahhaa... So damn tiring, having not enough time to do what I want to do everyday like watching my favourite cable channels and simply lying on the bed chilling out to my music. Argh! Lifestyle of a bum has gone missing. I've been trying to sleep before 12am lately, so as to get myself at least 7hours worth of beauty sleep. So shagged man. Sometimes even have to rush to catch bus to go to driving centre, if I happen to drag longer at the office after 2.30pm. 3 more lessons and I'll complete my damn course! Woooot. Gonna try refreshing here and there for an early test date le while hoping my enlistment date to be somewhere in late July. Looking forward for the weekends to come once again! Who's steady for drinks? :D

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Facebook is sooo over for me - no longer interested in their fluff pets and racing games. The only thing that I quite like about facebook is their photo albums that allow you to tag your friends into it. And oh great, I've just realised that I am being itemised and sold for $1412 in the latest transaction. Geeze. What's up with this man! Totally hate that sort of feeling of being an object with your friends. Hmm...

Talking about money, I seriously don't think I'm rich lar. I'm just a money-come-money-goes fellow from a middle-income family. That's why I hate it whenever friends ask me where do I live, which I'll always end up replying something like near Rivervale Mall or St. Anne's Church. Then they start saying those bloody block numbers which I have no idea of, although I have been living here for almost 9 years I think. It's the longest stay in my life I would say. Baaack to the topic, if whenever I reply say I live in a terrace, they will always reply back "wah.. rich kid sia" those sort of crap. Diaoz. Perhaps I have to think from perspective bah.. To some, I'm rich. But to me, I'm seriously not one since I've seen wayyy richer friends.. They live in bungalows, with their own private swimming pools and have swanky cars. Those are rich you know. But I believe that they will even be irritated after a while if you constantly using the term 'rich'. Hmm...

Yes, money is hard to come but you have to enjoy what you have earned. That's why I don't mind giving a treat or spending a little bit more to simply enjoy it with my friends. You have to got enjoy life man. But it's understandable that some have to support their family etc, but others are simply too uptight when it comes to money. I guess I'm single that's why I have this attitude bah, and have to go out to the working environment and strive on my own yet. In any case, I do know the importance of a saving accounts but will only contribute much to it when I start working bah. No matter what happens to your salary, you must always put some money there first before spending your remaining. This account will help you with the sudden surge of money needed like to cover your medical bills etc. When you're older, you can even start to consider having a retirement account, in which you put a fix amount of money and don't touch it at all time. Last but not last, one should seriously have the investment 'account', which would be your properties, stocks etc. And these are for long-term investments alright, and not for those who simply want to 'play' with the market - be careful that you might end up burning your fingers like my uncle did which he blew over 100k I think. Hahaha.. Abit over the top for this blog post, and I have no idea how I end up talking about money management. Wahah.. Three key words from this lesson - Savings, Retirement, Investment.

Nice simple dinner at Victory (or was it Zam Zam?) with the class. It's always a good thing that I have got the opportunity to meet up with them finally after the last day of paper. Haha.. Always didn't had the time to join pool with them - thanks to my driving. Hahaha.. Let's think about what to do the next time. I'm actually thinking of hitting the East Coast Park! Any takers? After that, we head to MOSD joined by Alex's friends whom some went to Taiwan as well. We were way faster than the others who took the car down to Clarke Quay from Bugis lar. Hhhahaa.. This seriously showed its pros and cons of driving in town and the effectiveness of bus. Rofl. Carpark space has always been a problem for many drivers. Free entry it was, but the drinks cost some money alright. Sorry for anyone who didn't want to spend money there initially. Gah! And I guess Shaun spent the most money there having to buy a pair of jeans to enter the club. Hahhaaa.. Sad to say that all left pretty early before the 12 o'clock striked.. Was kinda concerned about their last train actually, having to ask them every now and then. But in the end, they took cab home I think. Another money blower. Gah. But the deejay sucked to the core that night. I think I have way better songs than him seriously lor. Damn. I soo wanna learn to use that DJ mixer. Hahaha.. Supper at T3 followed, then home sweet home. Had only 3 hours of sleep before heading to Malaysia to do the "Qing Ming Jie" thing for my recent passed-away grandfather. Scorchy day it was. Luckily, my work at mum's office is only starting tomorrow - 1st of April. Gonna do some ISO certifiication filing thing for her. Just do what I'm told to do by the consultant hired. Gonna knock off this week early everyday at 2.30pm and rush my way to driving centre. The days of Serangoon Garden beginsss... *yawn*

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Today's my first practical lesson in school, and I had to bug Xuefang about it yesterday like what to do, where to go and stuff. Thanks for tolerating such a newbie, and all the best for your upcoming practical test! The lesson was quite fun actually from the several stalling in beginning to the smooth drive around the circuit compound. Too bad I couldn't finish the subject 4 in time.. Gah! I really need to chiong man - the remaining weekdays of March will all be spent on driving all day long. I'm not sure if I can tahan a consecutive driving lessons totally up to 4 hours a day sia, with only 15min break in between the two. Shitz. Should have booked the one with 30min break. AHH... So now I'm on waiting list for those slots now - better hope I'm lucky enough! *crossfingers* Have to chiong until subject 20 so that I can do my booking for practical test, which seems to be fading further and further away. Zzz.. Soo totally hope that the NS enlistment date will be somewher in late July or something without clashing with my yet-to-be-booked practical test date. Argh. By the end of this month, I would have completed a total of 11 sessions! YAY. I wonder which subject I would be at by then.. *scratches head*

Sometimes I truly wonder if it's a blessing in disguise for being utterly forgetful. I just simply forget about the things here and there - the good and the bad. Like for instance during my Taiwan trip, I kept raising false alarm of losing my damn camera at least twice lar. I know I should be whalloped for making everyone panic here and there. LOL! Somehow I never check my damn jacket then. Kekeke.. Also, I even forgot that I had this boo-hoo incident with Kaijie last time lar, until Yuanlong reminded me (he reminded me alot of things wor). LOL! And paiseh to say that I forgot what's it all about again.. Zzz.. Can only remember calling KJ childish for sending me a message when he's sitting on the other table at Mensa. Rofl! Paiseh for revealing this.. Wahahhaa... You are indeed childish! (and so do I.) Oh yes... I even forget why I was so upset in the first place! Damn. It must be a blessing in disguise bah - to forget those unhappy incidents and do things like I have always been doing (kinda). I guess that's why I'm not really upset about this either for being such a short-lived memory kind of person, though sometimes I try really hard to recollect what happen in my primary and secondary school days which I didn't really took much photos. This pretty much explains why I took over 3+GB of photos in the trip bah. Hahhahaa...

With regards to the hoo-haa issue lately, all I can say is that time will change a person's character with the ups and downs of life. On the topic of friends, I personally feel that there isn't really a clear definition to it. Read the following excerpt I found, which is totally the same about how I feel too:

If I recall correctly, as a kid your definition of a friend is very black and white: Someone you play with.

And as a teenager it gets a bit more complex - A soul you can trust. A heart that accepts you. A person you care for. A fist that will fight for you. Two feet that will stand beside you when things get hairy.

But as an adult we muddy our definition of the word friend. It becomes elastic to include acquaintances. People who we simply share interests but may not care for in the least.

Maybe this is a good thing. We grow tolerant. Our hearts less exclusive. Maybe its the acknowledgment that life is a whole lot easier if we lay down our walls and be cool with one another.

Maybe its an acknowledgment that we had it right when we were children - simply now a friend is someone you share a drink with and maybe a joke.

I'd like to believe that, but...

A part of me holds that teenager's definition a little too dear - for example, it pisses me off how some throw around the word friend and then walk away the first time someone needs help.

That same part wants to revolt at how we market our 1,251 friends on My Space or look at our link ranks on Technorati... speaking of which... if you link to me.. are you my friend? If you don't... what does that say?

Well, then again, sometimes a link is just a link. A comment is just a comment. And it's expressions of reaching out that counts. One way, or another.

Go ponder over it for a few minutes. Hmmm.. it's time for me to do so too.. :)

Posted by Ruben at 11:47 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

If you would like to check the status of your NS enlistment, click here. You will know when is your enlistment date and which reporting unit to report to. For mine, it's still yet to be finalised. Zzz.. Anyway, you should see at least one of the following examples:

Good afternoon Mr (NAME).

You have not been scheduled for enlistment. For further enquiries, please call our Call Center at 1800-3676767 or email to us at contact@ns.sg.

Remarks: You die liaoo.. Can wait long long till your NS arrive man. Hahahaa.. Go get a permanent job or something bah

Good morning Mr (NAME).

Your enlistment date is not finalised yet. An enlistment notice will be sent to you two months before your enlistment date. For further enquiries, please call our Call Center at 1800-3676767 or email to us at contact@ns.sg.

Remarks: This is the stupid period lor. Don't know if should sign that 6 months contract or to go to driving school etc. Hahaha.. I know. This is where you can't make any decisions that are longer than 2 months. Tmd!

Good evening Mr (NAME).

Your enlistment is between June 2007 till November 2007. An enlistment notice will be sent to you two months before your enlistment date. For further enquiries, please call our Call Center at 1800-3676767 or email to us at contact@ns.sg.

Remarks: Same as the above bah. Lol. But this one is better since it has a range of date? lol.

Good afternoon Mr (NAME).

Your enlistment date is on 26-Oct-2007. Your reporting unit is TRAINING LIST BASIC MILITARY TRAINING CENTRE SCHOOL 2.

Remarks: Hoseh liao lar! This is when you can start planning when to stop job and start partying! Woooot. And wait for the death to come.. LOL!

Hope this guide helps you guys in planning for your part-time job or whatever! :)

Posted by Ruben at 12:40 AM | Permalink | Comments (5)

After so many days of not-enough-sleep, I can finally have a good comfy sleep on my bed. Everything just happened too fast for me I guess. Just the day before was the killer exam that I left 35marks blank (talking about it makes my heart aches), the next was off I am in Taiwan. I wouldn't say I have enjoyed 100% of the trip, because most of the time I was a half-dead mummy walking around but it's sure fun doing the free-and-easy! Hahaha.. Will post on this soon with tons of photos!

EDIT: The photos have been uploaded onto facebook! So check it out from there...

Had a good Fish & Co. dinner with the class on the very last day at the Glasshouse branch, together with a quick session of boardgaming at Mind's Cafe in that area. Good hugs (and kisses) around here and there eh! I guess this would be the very last outing that we'll have whereby everyone attended, now that each and everyone else got to do their own thing for their future be it work or study. Three years past so damn fast alright. I still remember the stupid days when I tried to organise outings after another trying to put the different groups of people together.. Hahaa.. Pretty much resigned to fate after that. So now time will test who are simply the classmates or true friends... But those memories (good or bad) will for sure be kept in that puny brain of mine. Just hope I don't STM again and need someone else like Yuan Long to remind me of what exactly happened. Hahhaa..

So what did I do right after the Taiwan trip? Chill lar. Hahahhaa.. Watched "Step Up 2: The Streets" and "10,000BC" liao, which both movies premiere this week. If the plot-type of person, go and watch "10,000BC" since the whole movie started off with a story-telling and stuff although there's something fishy with geography and tribes. Lol. As for the "Step Up 2: The Streets", most people catch it is for their cool dance choreography that I would say is darn good. But I just dislike how they simply 'link' the previous Step Up by having the main lead actor in the first few minutes of the movie and call this a sequel to it. Diao.

And the IT show this year is uber pack I would say. So damn many people larrr.. Couldn't tahan after a while wor. It's all the same old thing, except for the new MacBook Air that would take your breath away (saw this in Taiwan liao). Other than that, there's really nothing new other than the usual offers and discounts when you really need something, which I don't! Argh. So sad that I didn't had the time to go to the Mosaic Music Festival... T.T I want to listen to all the funky bands.... Gah!

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Thanks guys for all the messages and greetings (and thoughts)! Truly appreciated it alot. And special thanks Gowri for that surprise gift from you... And yes, it has been three years. Two more weeks till everything ends, and another chapter of life begins. Friendship does not come by easily, and I really hope that you all appreciate one another for being there throughout these years. 20 years old now I am, and I actually received messages from friends who thought I was still 18. Time flies even before you know it. Few more years down the road, and I really wonder what has been installed for us. And that's part of life - the mystery that beholds it.

Anyone who hits 20 is a nobody. Neither a teenager or an adult.

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Wooohoo! It's Chinese New Year, and no way I'm going to touch my books on day 1. Just won a couple of bucks from this interesting dice game from Thailand bought by my uncle. It's purely based on luck, and a little of wise choice. Will definitely show you guys if you all intending to hop over to my house for a visit. Hahaha.. Anyway, I got to go back with my gambling! May you all peeps get lots of ang baos and win big big on your mahjong and whatever games... Enjoy your holidays - peace out!

Update 9th Feb, 2am:
My uncle is a damn godly banker lar for blackjack.. Zzz.. Keep getting 21 somehow de. What the hell lor! Made my piggy bank grew smaller by 25%. Blah! Anyway, when I went over to my grandpa's sister's house today, stupid damn Roger the golden retriever bite me lar! All I did was ask it to sit when he was making lots of noises cos some fellows left. Now, my stupid 'ring' finger is swollen blue-black lor with a severe cut. Took my plaster off and realised that the entire thing was blood red. Sian. What a day. Oh yar.. Ah Meng the superstar in the zoo died earlier today. What a way to start the new year.. Gah.

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First one down... Yuan Long.. Next.. Wei Ming! Who's next man? Hahhaha.. It's kinda weird that they kena this chicken pox first when "The Others" (Yay! LOST is back for a 4th season!) of the class is in closer contact with Salman - the source! I know I know.. He shouldn't have come back so early when he is supposed to be in the incubation period of at least 2 weeks. But I guess he's just too eager to learn? Ahahhaa.. But wha if it is Sars virus? Hmm.. Anyway, it will be such a complete difference if it was Jeremy who kena it first. I bet he's more than willing to stay at home for 3 weeks straight! Hor Part-timer? Ahhahaa..

Too bad Yuan Long no longer have the immunity against chicken pox, even though he tio once before already.. Don't play play with him lor. He's the fastest typist in class with 90 words per minute as a record leh! Something which Jeremy will take ages to train on, just like his maple character. Hahha.. Anyway, we were joking around earlier today to Soo Chin that.. now that the fastest typist no longer in the group to discuss about the MT project after school.. their group's typing speed has been reduced to a horrendously slow pace! Ahahhaa.. Soo Chin can only type at an average speed of 30 words per minute.. Come on! Someone's mother can type even faster at the speed of 42 words per minute lar! AHahhaha.. As for me, I'm like second most godly in the class with a record of 83 words per minute - not too far from Yuan Long wor..

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Heck man! No way, I'm more childish than Kaijie after what he did at he toilet lor (refer to his childish blog).. And FYI, the first one was stunned leh! Not really scared. It's the second one which is like totally what the hell lor. Hahahaha.. That one was like totally shocked. Never hear before the chinese phrase "人吓人,吓死人" before meh? Zzzz.. Imagine if I got weak heart and tio heart attack lar. Machiam you will regret doing that your entire life le. Hahahaha.. Today damn suay I tell you.. Somehow a something (bird shit I think) managed to flew right beside my thigh while walking back to school from KFC. Zzzz..

Heng today managed to finish up the MT laboratory report just in time for submission at 5pm. Hahaha.. If not, all the other group members will come bash me up like what happen yesterday for those who know about that thing. My stupid Grey's Anatomy Season 3 and 4 download is damn slow lar. Their estimated time of completion is like 279 days or something, since the stupid download speed never exceeds more than 5kb/s for more than 5 seconds de. Kao. But 36% completion for Episode 1 liao.. Wooot. Can't wait! I only like quality videos lar.. Get the tudou link from Yuan Long but never use in the end. Ahahhaa.. Now, need to handle the two darn projects and an upcoming MT quiz on Monday. Sian. MT and PMT like haven't really started, other than basic research. Shitzo. Tomorrow afternoon got meeting. Better get prepared then. Night!

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I'm soo into indie music lately, tuning into bands like "Death Cab for Cutie" and "Secondhand Serenade". Will post one or two of them up for you guys to hear over the upcoming week. And for those gundos who don't know what's Indie music is all about... It is just refering to music that are independent of major labels/mainstream stuff... Somewhat like an alternative. Basically, it's just more cooler than emo. Lol. Go check out Topshop and you'll hear them playing some fine examples of Indie music if I'm not wrong. You can also watch the "Reverb" show on MTV to discover new alternative/indie rock music...

And congratulations Ruben! You have gotten a bronze award surprisely! Hahahaa... Was expecting a fail or something. And I can finally jump - woooohooo! In secondary school, my standing broad is always around 180 de, which totally sucks. And now, I can actually jump 220! Absolutely incredible for me, though not for most of the other people. Tall people does not equate to jumping far! And I'm a living proof for it. Hahaha.. As for my 2.4km, it was kind of a shock that I can actually pass it since I've never been to gym for almost 2 weeks+ liao and I could hardly make the 2.4km mark for 15mins on the gym treadmill.. (Psst.. Shaun this week onwards the usual liao arh.) And surprise suprise, I've gotten 12.21mins! Good enough for me. Hahaha.. Oh yes, and I just realised that the criteria for the age of 20 (since I'm turning 20 real soon!) is much lower for all the stations, except for the 2.4km. Sooo alI I had to do is to train for my 2.4km and my pull-up station, and it will be all steady liao for a silver. Gold leh? Impossible. Hahahaha.. But I don't mind entering for an extra 2 months, cos it's like a paid gym session for me though it will most probably be one of the most shitty part of my life. Hahahaa..

It's totally funny to see how Jeremy desperate grasping attention from everyone who went to the napfa session... Just too fake lar with the I-can't-do-this-anymore attitude. Hahaha.. And it's a complete waste of time for the 2.4km lor.. Hahahaha.. And since he got the very last tag, he's the first person to know how many people participated in the 2.4km wor! Rofl. Imagine when he is going to go for the retest, I bet the trainers might just ban him from napfa, which would be the first time in Singapore history! Nice one with the 1 sit-up by the way.. Ahahhaa..

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It's 2-0-0-8! Another brand new beginning awaits all of us. It's time to let go of all the nasty past, keep the lovely memories and let's make this an enjoyable journey before another phase of our life starts. Having welcomed the new year with a buntch of people whom I ain't really familiar, this year seems to be entering a rather unfamiliar chapter of my life. Poly to end, NS to start. Blah! And the darn NAPFA test is next week. Hohoho.. Who's joining me to flunk it? Hahahaha... Need to get my ass up from my chair and start exercising daily.

AHHHH.. I'm kinda clueless on how I should go about memorising the PMT for a quiz tomorrow. This sucks (all over again)! Oh yes, I kinda find my results okay given that I studied so damn last minute. But still, it's no excuse for me in doing so again no that it's the final term. 2007 last-minute Ruben is gone! I hope.. *crossfingers*

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Can't believe that the holidays are coming to an end soon.. On top of that, I've still got a couple of work to settle... I even went back yesterday to 'impart' my lab skills for the sugar analysis I did in the major project to Khadijah.. But it kinda still only 25% complete. Sheeze. Have to go back something during the school period. Also, need to attend a briefing on Wednesday to help out with the project show in AS4. Blah! Need to get my ass started on the PT project report and CSAS interview questions asap man. But simpy lack the motivation to do so sia.. Hate myself this year for that, as well as being such a last minute person. It's just getting worst. ARGH.

Hmmm.. But still it's a good Christmas I guess.. Watched "I Am Legend" and "National Treasure 2" with my friends and family... Somehow December is always like a month of movie mania... "I Am Legend" wasn't as good bombastic as I thought it would be, but it's good lar. Hahahaa.. Imagine the loneliness and stuff.. Blah blah blahh... As for "National Treasure 2" leh, all I can say is that the first one is better but it's still interesting to see how they match the different historic things together to make it as if they are real like that.

Finished my medical check-up liao, but have to wait for a month to wait for results to see my blood count nonsense. They took an extra syringe of blood because of a certain condition both my sister and mum has. Some low blood pressure thing. Hopefully I don't have any lar. So yeaa.. in meantime, I'm in PES D. Hmmm.. Most likely kena PES B or something, cos of my G6PD although all the test went relatively well I guess. Oh yar, for the suction thing, I saw the word "abnormal" with short interval of don't know what sia. But was still given PES A somehow for it. Strange.

Wooohoo... Love the night with the old band mates.. Went to attend ACS band concert at Esplanade. Didn't realise it was a combine band thing from ACS (J), ACS (BR), ACJC, ACS(I) and ACS Wind Orchestra. Not only that, the concert was conducted by five different conductors, including Dr Lee Tian Tee of course lar. Hahaha.. The initial part of the concert wasn't too good, but man.. I like the Pirates of Carribean: At World's End theme song.. Highlight of the concert is actually the Christmas songs etc, where they tried to get the audience to sing along and stuff. As usual, Dr Lee did his thing and got the audience going with the band dancing while playing. Hahhaah.. No encore though, because the last segment were the Christmas carols. So yeaaa.. Encore what in the first place man. LOL! And yeaa.. they got five students from each school to host the event. And man.. Whenever the little kid from ACS(J) goes up on stage to say his thing, everyone will say "awwww..". Wahahahha.. And yar, they had to rely heavily on plycards of course. Hahahaha.. Kidos what. Pea brain. xD After the thing, we went for the "makan sutra" and a small beer session. Hahahhaa... Irvin got totally pawned by the suaning from Justin. Rofl.

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Have yourself a merry litle Christmas...

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What happens when you combine rapper Bow Wow and R&B singer Omarion? You get a hot-selling decent collaborative album! The album is actually titled "Face Off', similar to a popular movie featuring both John Travolta and Nicholas Cage. So far the two works from these fellows I have heard - "Lights, Camera, Action" and "Girlfriend" are quite likeable and potential hit songs in the billboard I believe. Will definitely be looking forward to hearing more from the buddies.

Britney Spears! A rather screwed up person in life who kinda created a storm when she chose to marry a penniles backstage dancer Federline. Btw, this fellow is a real lousy wannabe rapper or so I read in the magazines. And she actually had two children with him lar, but now in the stage of divorce. =.=" She pose nude. She went bald. She went to the rehab. She went to the court. Hahahaha.. And who highlighted all these problems to her? The paparazzis of course! So in retaliation, she made this song "Piece of Me" to kinda blame it on them and stuff. Go check out the lyrics! But man... I think she really did it with a comeback, although I still hate her Blackout album art. LOL! Looks like some funny clown to me. Great songs from a fairly screwed up person indeed. We definitely have no idea what's on her mind next... Hmmm...

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Edit - 10pm, 15/12: She just released her world video premiere for "Piece of Me". Check it out here. At least she looked better now in this video as compared to the "Gimme More" one. Another newsflash for this girl is that she actually stole a lighter from a petrol kiosk, but luckily the owner didn't press charges against her though she still needs to pay that 1+ dollar worth thing. Rofl.

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Enough of music talk! Went to watch "The Warlords" with a few of my classmates at GV Tampines. I know lar the place quite sian.. But you know if you want to have it in Orchard, not many will come along liaoo.. Zzzz.. Homely folks, so what to do. Hahahh.. Good movie. And well deserve it's 4.5 stars rating in the magazines. There's not too much gore like other war films, probably because this movie features both a new-age and ancient warfare. One side uses arrows. The other uses guns. It's shocking to see how they can actually win the battle lor. There's a part where this fellow chiong to save his general by lifting up the cannon aime at him. So in the end, BOOM! there he goes.. Hahahha.. Bravo to that person! But where can you find such person in the modern days, other than Al Qaeda. xD Oh yar.. there's also this scene where two young soldier boys raped two damn chio looking girls, but they were unfortunately caught red-handed and was beheaded. Yikes! And come on lar Zaiwei, I seriously didn't see any nipple showing in tht scene lor. I bet you were hallucinating about it that's why. Hahahaha.. NC16 at the most is show butt nia. LOL! Blah bah blahhh..

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Damn I love it when the fridge's full of drinksss, and I'm refering to healthy drinks. Not those nonsensical gassy drinks that will land you with cancer in your later stage of life - hear this Jeremy. Hahaha.. May I kindly present you my drink section of the fridge! There's carrot juice, apple aloe vera juice, low-fat milk, chocolate milk, mixed fruit yogurt drinks, Ribena and even mini-bottles of Yakults. I'm like having cups and cups of these each day, and I bet they will run out before weekends as usual. Stock replenishes each Sunday! Hahahhaa.. Blah. What a random post! Lol.

I can't believe I wasted another day watching the cable tv again, like what I did during the weekends instead of mugging for my damn term tests. Argh. Had it bad for my csas paper, cos I simply took my own sweet time to do my stupid "close passage" questions. Only had 20 minutes to rush through section B and some questions in other sections. Argh. No time to actually look through my answers. This sucks! Anyhoo back to the television, I find that I've got always something to watch nowadays on cabletv and sometimes even watching those repeat movies I've seen already on HBO or Star Movies. Goooosh. What a waste of time lar. I bloody hell deserve a kick in the ass to wake up. Also, I realised that hearing a music title on the radio or watching a music video on MTV/Channel [V] is rather different compared to hearing it on my computer somehow. Sometimes I just happen to miss out all the big hits songs that I have on my computer for ages lar (yes, I update myself with music daily to get my music fix)... So weird man. And I'm beginning to love the History Channel, which I find quite fascinating and interesting. It's all about the World War, ancient myths and many others. It's on channel 08 for your information. Do check it out if you have time.

And I've been labelled a "chinese music idiot" officially by my sister. LOL! What the heck. I doubt she can find much ACSian guys that is knowledgeable about chinese stuff as well. I find my english communication skills shitty nowadays somehow, as compared to the days in secondary school. Talking to my old classmates seem to have a barrier now. To think about it, I used to find cheena songs absolutely unacceptable! Strange eh. Hmmm... Now I think I've crossed over.... Lalalala... Enough of bullshit for the day,

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Too many deaths this year. Just too much, especially with the latest tragedy in Singapore about the 5 dragonboat rowers. It's just not right and heartwretching to know that parents have to send off their beloved sons into elsewhere. Just earlier on my grandfather was telling how upset he was to attend his sister's daughter's funeral. Yes, another case of cancer that have taken her life away. He just couldn't understand why so many doctors in the world couldn't invent a cure for this sort of things, despite attempting to convince him about how difficult it easier for him to say than done. Before this year, I have never truly felt what it was like to lose a family member, a friend, or even a stranger. And now, I do. My heart cries whenever I think of the past.. Still can't believe the fact that cancer alone took away three of them.. Well.. Life still has to go on..

*sudden switch in tone*

Enchanted, A cartoon-to-reality fairytale story which my father was conned by my mother to go and watch with the family. Hahahhaa.. I feel kinda paiseh when leaving the theatres sia, seeing how many kids were leaving the theatre. But it was good movie I guess, if you still have a kid in you somewhere. Hahaha..

Another movie that I just watched yesterday at Vivocity was "Reprise", one of the featured award-winning movie in the Norwegian film festival. I simply love the humour the director has input in this movie. There was a part whereby Erik's mum found a porno pop-up on her PC and asked him how would he feel if that was her. It was like ewww lar! Hhahahaha.. And I love the Norwegian rock song they played during the movie - "Fingerpult av Gerhardsen" by Kommune. The title actually means "Fingerfucked by the Prime Minister"... Hahahaa.... Too bad I don't seem to find a link to download from anywhere.

Gah! And yes, it's a M18 show with sexual scene.. So don't get caught by your parents if you are intending to download it to watch. You always go for the other option and catch the last movie on Monday, 9.30pm at Vivocity. Although I myself never liked the idea of watching movie with subtitles, it's still a damn good movie to catch you know. 5 upon 5 stars for this moviee.. Since I didn't quite review or give a summary to this movie, here's a review by some fellow in the "world wide web"... Hahhahahaa....

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Best friends since childhood Erik (Espen Klouman Hoiner from "Just Bea") and Phillip (Anders Danielsen Lie) have been bursting with literary ambition ever since they discovered a shared passion as teens for the reclusive novelist Sten Egil Dahl (Sigmund Saeverud). Both send off novels in the opening sequence, and a voiceover describes fates that might have happened to them if both their books had been successes. But, only Phillip's book is accepted for publication and becomes a critical hit. However, excessive media attention and a near psychotic obsession he develops over his g.f. Kari (wide-eyed beauty Viktoria Winge) send him round the bend and into a mental hospital.

Once he's released, Phillip struggles to readjust to everyday living, and tries to take up again with a wary Kari. Sequence covering the couple's bittersweet vacation in Paris reps one of pic's most emotionally rich passages. Meanwhile, the less interesting Erik doggedly struggles to produce a publishable novel, fails to break up with his neglected g.f. Lillian (Silje Hagen), and hangs out with his and Phillip's circle of urbanista friends.

Final result, with its peculiar happy ending that may or may not be a further fantasy, may leave some auds feeling more drained than satisfied. It's a bit like spending 105 minutes with a litter of frisky, mischievous puppies.

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Hohoho... Christmas is soo damn crashing in! This would be the Christmas before the guy's head get shaved. Hahahaha.. There's like not much Christmas movies this year sadly,so what's happened to the holiday spirit man! I sooo need to start setting up the ever-growing Christmas tree of mine. Not growing bigger, but raher smaller. Hahhaa.. It's weird you know.. It's just a pretty dang small tree, since it has been with u since I was in primary school yeaaa.. And it still managed to survive till today - wooot! How I wish I live in Canada right now, enjoying the Christmas month... I really liked the way they do their christmas lighting decorations in their homes, and on top of that.. There's snow too! Sheeze. This is one thing I really want to see, as in snowing and stuff. Not just snow on the floor like the other time I went to Japan and Korea. =.="

Talking about this, it's been ages since I last went to town area lar.. Haven't been going out that much lately with work piling up every now and then. I really miss the chillout times we have last time - heading to town, watch movie, eat dinner, drink our way through the night. Argh! But everyone's real busy with their own stuff nowadays. Boohoo. For every Christmas season, I've always liken listening to jazzy Christmas songs like the one playing now.. It's like a perfect fit man! Imagine yourself at some sort of lounge taking a sip of your cocktail, enjoying the ambience being played in the area while having a nice small chat with your friends... Wooosh. This is what I enjoying life and appreciating what's around. Three years it has been since the seconday days. And now, I'll soon be graduating from polytechnic. It's been a real long tiring years.... And I'm glad I've made some good friends here.. Cheers!

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Argh. There's soo little time for me to blog nowadays.. Totally stinks man. There's like a term test coming up this week - yes, thanks to block teaching. Hell with that system! Luckily, it's not for all of the subjects. If not, everyone will sure write a petition letter liaoo.. Hahahaha.. Not really happy to know that it is our last semester already. It will be the end of pure fun and the start of 2 years long of boredom in camp. I really need to buck up with my work and stop doing last minute work like what I have always been doing... I just have to maintain my gpa above 3.5! Argh. Hopefully, my mp wouldn't make it drop that much.. I'm supposed to be like doing my research on the Fischer-Tropsch process now, but it's like bleh! My mum has given me the go-ahead with the backpacking plan to Hongkong/Taiwan with Alex and his friends.. Yay! But I just realised that my parents are heading to Hokkaido during that period too.. Omg! I would trade this for that lar.. =X Hahahhaha... But will be toooo much of a lightbulb to do so. Keke.. They really need some time together alone after sooo long... xD Recap of what I did these few days..

Went for family photoshoot near Boat Quay area - It's good to see my grandparents finally holding hands together for a couple shots after sooo many years! Cute I would say.. Ahahhaa.. Don't see the point of those costumes session, but heck just do it for the sake of doing it. Fun fun...

Cheesecakeee cafe - I should really go there more often. Good atmosphere, excellent cheesecakes. But kinda got sick with the rum one after having too much of it. Didn't know Siglap got so many interesting things lar. East is sooo not my dipan. Good recommendation I would say trixie. Hahahaa...

Celebrate Deepavali with Gowri and a few others at her house - I am kind of getting sick of the joke between me and her liaoo.. You guys really got nothing to do sia. =.=" Enough is enough. But man it was fun.. Never had so many Deepavali snacks before in my life. Actually, this is the first! Hahaha... There's like alot of "first' somehow this year like these visits.

Birthday party at NewYorkNewYork - Happy Birthday Seow Ye! Had a good time that day with you and all the others that day.. Man it was fun to see how Lester and Royston attempt to slam that cake into your face.. Ahahaha.. And yes, the staff like kind of scary sia.. Suddenly, popped beside me and started honking their things saying happy birthday to him. Shocky. And there was even a pool showdown between Lester and Gen worr... Hahahaa..

Went to Bugis street with Shaun after our project discussion to kinda start off my bag hunting. But sooo not really in the shopping mood then, because of what I am wearing and carrying! Arghh.. I only do bag hunting when I'm not carrying a bag! Hahhaa.. But man did he opened my eyes on the type of shops there got to offer. I'm sooo unfashionable. Lol. Can't help it, but I'm a good kid what. And I actually bought a black cardigan there, which I doubt I will wear it to school lar. Weekends probably, but school? No way shaun! Hahaha...

Brother's nightout at AMK.. Hahah.. Caught the movie "The Game Plan".. I guess it's a really nice movie for those childish people... The first person I can think of is Kaijie. LOL! But nehh.. there's always a kid in one. "Learn it. Live it. Enjoy it." - what a good motivation quotation. Hahhaha.. Really liked the house that the main characted acted by Dwayne Johnson aka "The Rock" lived in, although it's a kinda tooo self-obsessed. Hahhahhaa.

Back to Fischer-ing and Tropsch-ing... Thanks for your invention hur hur! ARGH.

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Once and for all, this stupid project is gone for good. No more late nights just chiong finish something anymore. Presentation turned out better than I thought it would, especially for Mr. Chan's evaluation. I thought he would have asked tons of questions or even non-related bo liao questions like "What software did you used to make this diagram?" which is precisely what he asked Eleena. Hahaha.. He actually went for his lunch and lecture lor, and delayed my meeting with him from 1.30pm to all the way till 4pm+. Kao. Don't know if it's a good thing or what. Then, he spent like almost 20mins or so with Nicholas's poster... Zzzz... The surprise was actually that he only asked me two-three questions nia. And at the end of it, he even say good job wor. Goodie! But the most stupid thing is that my poster was to be taken away because it has been "selected" even before Mr. Chan has finished grading my poster! Wtf lar. Isn't Mr. Chan part of the evaluators also? =.=" Like what Mark Tan said, it's really unfair lor.. Don't know what to say.. Zzzz...

I would really want to thank Mr. Ignatius Tan here who have provided a great deal of help to me throughout this period, despite having to put up with the nonsense I made - like not doing what is told, not producing the goods he want to see etc. Argh! If I am able to turn back time, I'll make sure I did those man.. He's such a good fellow in school. Well.. He gave me his personal email, and I'll make sure I'll keep contact with him for he is my saviour of my project! You rock all the way man! Take care and good luck with your future endeavours. Really hope we'll get to see you around in Singapore sometime again... :)

Oh yes, thanks Shahrez for the wonderful lunch at your house earlier today. You are really blissed to have such a lovely mum who's real caring. Thanks for the ultra-effective lozengers. It kinda made me 'high' a moment there I guess. Hahhaha... Had a great time there with you guys talking crap. Hahha..

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Hahaha.. Since I don't have much time to spare for outside fun, let's do it inside! Check this out.. The Fray performing THEIR version of "Hips Don't Lie"! Hahahaha.. It's sooo funny to see how this band simply having fun with the audience. Would sooo definitely go to their concert if they were to come to Singapore man. It's just plain fun!

Now, let's talk about work. Yup, I finally gotten the balls to meet with Mr. Tan for some project consultation with him. Somehowwww I felt so pai-seh to even want to talk to him lar.. Most probably because I wasn't doing the things he told me to do, and wasn't able to show any product him I guess. Gah. Yes, I should be. Hahaha.. But it's not soo bad after all lar, except when he say "Now, then you look for me" just one week before the deadline. Man! Hahahha... I don't know how on earth he does it, but he seriously have a very clear mind in doing things lar. I think he knows my project better than I do after the discussion. Sheeze! Really got to hand it to him for this... At least now I too have a better picture of what I should produce for my report. But I still do have a lot of stuff missing inside it... I would say I'm only 45% complete. Blahh! Luckily, I got all my music to accompany me through it, which most strangely have demoralising song titles like "End of the World", "Empty", "Don't Make Me Wait" etc.. I'm really starting to enjoy listening to indie bands.. They simply ROCK!

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I really really really miss fun. I wanna just chillout somewhere anywhere! Everyday just doing MP logbook and the stupid MP report. I know.. I slacked too much, considering how much data I'm missing in my MP report. I'm sooo screwed. I'm just hoping that I get B, which is rather hard from my perspective. Hate myself for not taking this seriously. Gah. Somemore I got questions that I want to ask my MP supervisor, but I simply found myself couldn't. Because I wasn't able to produce the things he wanted for me. I'm just too embarassed of myself to actually seek help from him. Haiz. I really don't know. But I know I have to be thick-skin and look for him. If not, I'm sure a gonna. Gah. While everyone's out there enjoying now, I'm stuck at home. ARGH! So fucking hate myself for getting myself into this senario. Sorry Gen! Couldn't be there for your last birthday parteh in Singapore before you leave for Aussie. Bleh. Hope you'll have a sweet and exciting day then yeaaa..

Ruben, you can do it!

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Yes, it's time for Ruben and his mushy mushy stuffs again.. Hahha.. No lar.. Was watching the heartwarming President's Star Charity performance the other night, which suddenly prompted me to ask my mother a random question - if she was worried last time that her child might kena this or that disease or whatever. And that was when I cried, after hearing my mum say that she broke down the moment the doctor told her that I was diagnosed with G6PD deficiency. (Yes, nobody's perfect in this world..) Immediately, I somehow found myself within the arms of the one whom I was inside for nine months. My heart murmured those difficult "I love you" words to her, and I know she felt it too. I guess this bonding is what you call the love between mother and her child.

For the NS medical checkup, I have booked my appointment on 26th December 2007, 10am. As far as I know, Shahrez, Fadzly, Salim, Shaun, Jeremy and Zaiwei (?) have booked their slots on this day as well. Perhaps we can go have some pool game after that? Hahahhaa... Anyway, I had to declare my above condition to the doctor, so I wonder if it will actually affect where I will eventually assigned to after my BMT. This is because there are certain items, of which I cannot consume Fava beans or even come in contact with items like mothballs or pesticides (since they contain naphthalene, which may trigger G6PD deficiency symptoms). This is also the case for certain antimalarial drugs, antibiotics, painkillers and etc. However, from my personal experience, I don't think I have displayed any symptoms to G6PD deficiency before. Maybe I do experience things like paleness, rapid heartbeat and even shortness of breath during energy-demanding activities. But I suppose this is what other healthy people do too right? I have always been written as "Fit for PE" in my school health booklet, after I declared it to the personel in-charge myself.. Hmmm... In any case, I seriously don't want to enter the administrative department or even the police lar.. I need really some military discipline in my life! Crazy I must be, my young padawan.

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Photo-spamming time! Pictures speak louder than words... We were celebrating my grandfather's 80th birthday last Saturday.... Old skool style parteh - Dinner with Karaoke!

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Went to Sembawang music store outlet at Century this Friday.. And in less than 5 minutes, I'm right outside with my very first local music cd purchase! As with the other cd prices, Max Shanti's "From Earth to Heaven" album cost at the usual price of $18.90. Swift purchase it was, but I have been thinking about it for quite some time whether to buy the hard-copy cd or purchase the digital music songs via SessionSound.com. Anyway, I've managed to rip it via Windows Media and gonna be placing the "When I Get There" song up for you all to hear.. :) It was on the 987fm some time ago.. I'm Lovin' It! And yeaaa.. I've got to admit that I don't really have a particular music genre that I really liked.. from a little bit of Trance to Folk Rock.. to Indie Pop.. to Jazzy style.. to Hip-Hop/R&B.... and many others.. Hahaha.. Anyway, here's a couple of songs that recently caught my ears.. Go check them out if you have time.. It's sure damn good! Would try to upload them for you peeps to hear them, provided that no more other groovy songs keep crashing into the list. Hahaa..

- Will.I.Am's "Heartbreaker"
- Timbaland Ft. One Republic "Apologize"
- Nathan Hartono's "Life Is God"
- Kanye West's "Stronger"
- Paula DeAnda's Easy"
- Max Shanti's "When I Get There"
- Hellogoodbye's "Oh, It Is Love"
- Duran Duran Ft. Justin Timberlake's "Falling Down"
- Funeral For A Friend's "Walk Away"

Hmmm... And now, I'm on a wallet hunting.. My current one is kinda worn down already I feel... After checking out a couple of stores at Parkway Parade, I still couldn't find anything that's nice or what. Any good place for recommendation to get interesting and yet mature-looking wallets? Hahhaha.. Sooo many things that I want to buy sia.. I wanna get new clothings.. new pants.. new bag.. Argh! But I doubt my parents will give me so much cash to do so... They already say I'm kinda spoil brat liaoo.. Zzz... How I wish I'm getting paid to work in AS4 lar.. Then can use the money to do whatever I want to. Talking about this, any slackish jobs with good pay to intro? Best still.. those work from home can liaoo.. Hahahaa.. Me and my wishful thinkings.. Gah.

And I'm good to announce that I've updated the Movable Type system that I'm using to blog, which has kinda resolved the comments problem that was plaguing the website.. With the new version update, it really sets me thinking if I should introduce a number of features into the site... Hmmmm...

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Oh yes, I can't believe this.. but I've got to admit that my pool is getting better liaoo finally... Hahaha.. Didn't know that using my quick instinct really helps lar.. The more I think about the shot, the more kabra it will be somehow.. Funny eh?

Friday, 14th September:
The good signs started showing when I went out with the AS4 peeps to selegie play pool, which was located in the arcade. I've got to admit that this pool place is better than the other one I went with the class the other time, which was just plain sad. Gen's pool pose look damn intimitating larr... like some professional pool player sia.. Hahaha.. And yup, she's good along with Royston. I totally had no luck for the 9-ball game lar.. Zzz.. I lost terribly I tell you.. Gah!

Followed that was a quick chill-out at tcc's branch in Douby Exchange. Wanted to eat Ben & Jerry initially, but change of plans last minute because of no comfy seats available and the horrendously out-of-tune singers performing for their free flow of ice cream. What can I say.. Anyway, I myself had the yummy-licious but ineffective-in-keeping-me-awake Nutella Expresso! So damn yummy.. Now, I've got the craving for more Nutella liaoo.. Ahahaha.. The others ate their Tiramisu which was of fairly big portion to me I feel. Hahahaa.. If I'm not wrong, one or two of my friends actually got "choked" by the cocoa powder sprinkled on the top of the tiramisu accidentally.. Hahahaha.... Fun fun..

Saturday, 15th September:
Go crazy with Shaun they all once again for pool buffet, after my dinner at East Coast Park at the crappy Hong Kong cafe that was introduced on the TV. Waited one hour or so to get the bloody seats, while the food alone took another one plus to arrive. What the fuck lar! Somemore my lobster noodle arrived that time wasn't hot lor.. It was freakin' cold like a popsicle lar.. Okay, maybe that was a little bit overexaggerating, but still... The food just plain bad lar. Beef kuay teow only have like 3 beef piece inside nia. Ahahha.. Complained to the manager in charge, and they had it replaced. Sheeze. That's the reason why I don't trust televised recommendations especially.. We should have just went for the Kenny Rogers, but my mum just keep saying want to try something new.. In the end, the bill turns up to be quite hefty and rather unjustified for given its food quality and waitng time. The only things you should ever order there are the okay-okay drinks nia, because the others simply take too long to arrive and isn't appetizing at all. Would rather go to the Xin Wang HK cafe, which is far more better I believe..

Also, we spotted Sharon Au there lar.. Looks like she has returned from her overseas study in Japan. She look sooo damn thin, as compared to her being on-screen. And short too I guess, considering the height of her heel she was wearing then... Lalala...

Highlight of the day... The first 3 times consecutive pool winner - Ruben! Wooooot... First time in my life man! Hahaha.. Amazing improvement I would say... Well done, Ruben! *pats myself on the back* Can't believe I won Jeremy, Shaun and Soo Chin lar... Hahaha... But after the clock passed 3am, my body shut down and eventually screwing up the following games.. Bleh. Hahaha.. Soon after I drank coffee I bought from MacDonald's downstairs with Shaun, I was re-energised lar... Hahhaa... And ended the day with me winning the games once again... Hoooray! Hahahaha.. A remarkable feat by Ruben finally trashing the pros... Lol.

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Quite recently, I found myself somehow being rather dao whenever I see someone whom I ain't really familiar with, even though I know the name or see frequently. I don't even attempt to say "hi" lar. Super ass eh? Most probably because of the fear of being ignored back bah. Hahaa.. Don't know what's up with me on this. Could be the fact that I don't really like to initiate any conversation with a stranger that much bah. It's like the admin office lady who I see everyday in her office when I was clocking in. There's always this subconscious part of me that keeps urging me to say something nice like good morning and stuff. However, that never took place because of the the asshole dao by in me took over me as always.

But hey, if I really open my mouth and say hello to you, you better reply back or you are soooo fucking condemned by me! This is especially so to those whom I know one. Of which, I think there's one or two already in my list. So don't blame me if I'm bitching about you behind your back, because you deserved it from me dammit! I really hate those so-called "friends" who don't give a damn to your existence on earth, although you gave that person a simple greeting. What a fucker.

Money - the root of all evil. And it is also something that can be used to see one's character. I always don't really mind lending some bucks to my friends in need.. This is unless it involves quite a sum of money which who wouldn't be reluctant in doing so! Haha...

But the rule of my game in life is that whenever you borrow money, you must return it on your initiative and not like after thousands of prompting. That's like unwilling to even return the money lar, so what's the point? That's why I sometimes give up prompting so much and simply treat it as a lesson to learn from this person. I mean right.. for me, I would rather have a friend who tells me straight in the face that he don't want to pay back than a friend who makes me wait for the freakin' sky to drop.. Like for instance, someone says he wants to chip-in into the birthday present, but instead just keep saying that he has no money to pay for it. That's like retarded lar. If you don't have money, don't say yes. Otherwise, you'll just make other people judge you on this.

Hahaaha... Looks like I bitched real lot today. It feels simply so damn good to have it out of my chest! Wooot... Rock on dude!

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Before the real stress starts seeping into my life in the upcoming few weeks, it's always real good to have some fun beforehand you know. And that's kinda what I did during the weekends bah. Did you kno

Pool day again it was on Friday with the usual gang. It was sort of like a pre-celebration of Shaun's birthday (that is today), since he'll be going to some sort of JJ event at St James. I just don't see how people are going to groove with chinese music! Ahahha.. Did exactly the same thing previously whereby we went to Pasta Mania to munch on for dinner, followed by pool at the Parkway thingy. Can't believe Shaun was sooo not on form in his first round lar, but he slowly picked it back up during that game with him. Was soooo trashing him, before I kenna killed. Hahahaa.. Jeremy's good when he didn't use his gloves siaa! *stunned* Lol. And steady lar.. We'll go drinking next week.. How about this coming Friday? Hmmm...

Mind cafe again at Boat Quay for me with another group of friends, and it wasn't my suggestion! *points at Eileen* Well.. I'm still not really sick of it... Instead, it's rather fun actually being with different friends around. Played numerous games that I really enjoyed the other time. I kinda liked the "For Sale" intellectual game.. Basically, each players were given a fixed amount of money at the beginning of the game, of which will be use to place bids on a variety of home properties from a slumpy cardboard home to a spaceship one. This in turn are then used to obtain check cards. As such, the player with the most amount of cash wins. Interesting eh? Must play in order to know exactly what's it about. Because we kinda overshot our dinner time, we weren't able to catch the 8.40pm movie slot for Ratatouille at Cathay. So I had to use the Starhub service to find out if there's any good slots at Suntec Eng Wah. And yes there was.. 9pm! But fucking hell when we reached there that time, there wasn't even any 9pm slots lar... Kena scammed by the unreliable Starhub service. Sian. Utterly disappointed at that time, especially when we travelled from Boat Quay to Suntec leh.. Bleh! Couldn't watch the later timings, since we wanna take the last train back home. So in the end lehh.. we moved our asses all the way to Marina Square cos Ian wanted to buy a laptop bag then.. However, quite a number of shops was already closed by the time we arrived there. Expected lar. So just camp inside the MacDonalds bullshitting here and there.. Hahaha.. It's good to know that Ryan's laming skills ain't gone. Lol. In any ways, although Starhub was such a dampener for the night, the day ended off quite sweetly I feel. See you in five months Cornie and Ian! Will miss the two of you in the upcoming months.. *waves*

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Sheeze. I really can't take care of things well... I just realised there were several obvious scratches on my new Fossil watch bought by my brother from taiwan already.. Same for my laptop eh? Drop it like twice and have to get it repaired. Look at my shoes! They were just bought this year and they look so damn shagged liaoo.. I just can't take care of things man. No wonder my mother never favoured buying branded stuffs for me, because they all will look old and crappy again after some time. Goosh! Ruben, you sucks.

Some people might think I'm crazy or something, but I'm actually looking forward to NS lor.. I need some fucking discipline and motivation to do things, and perhaps accomplish my damn goals in life. Oh yes, the weirdiest question I ever thought of was popped by my younger brother few days ago.. he asked me when the hell do I wish to get married. I'm like wtf! Ahahaha.. That question didn't even came across my mind before lar.. Perhaps I'm really used to having a singlehood life having plain fun here and there with my friends.. I'm sort of like the guy who doesn't really likes to get tied down with commitments one.. That's why you can see the crappy quality work I'm producing with my major project now. Zzzz.. This stinks.

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I've offically gotten the local music scene bug! Last time, I used to hate local music to the core somehow. I'll be sooo turned off especially when 987fm's Home session starts playing on air. Ahaha.. Things are different now I guess. Local singers are getting better at what they do. Go check out Max Shanti's "When I Get There" and Shirlyn Tan's "Newfound Jealousy". There's also a nice remade lovey dovey songs by Olivia Ong. And the song that's currently playing is by Astroninjas, which is actually a band made up from different group members like Electrico etc. Whew! Good to say that all these "Made in Singapore" bands are getting better. Oh yes, I forgot to mention that the live performance in Harry's bar at Clarke Quay is good lar the other time when I walked past the area on Saturday night. Great performance by this fellow doing the John Mayer's "Your Body Is A Wonderland".

AHHhhh.. Should I get Shirlyn Tan's or Max Shanti's album? Argh. Or both? Hmmm.. Support local music man! Well.. I'll see how my wallet goes.. Both are great singers worthy of my money...

Saturday, 25th August 2007

Every year, my family will attend the "7th month" dinner, whereby people bid for items at ridiculous price while having their dinner there. Whatever profits gained from the auction then goes to the charity, temple and old folk's homes etc. Aiyar.. Need to give a brief explanation of how this thing actually works.. Ahaha... Okay, firstly my parents get invited for this only last year. So it's only a 2-seats dinner thing. But if your purchase from this auction exceeds a certain required amount, you'll be invited again for either a 2-seater or an entire table one. So our case, my parents would usually bid until like 1k+ for one table next year. This is actually like on behalf of the company one, since the table is registered under my parent's company name, similarly for the other people's. There's quite a number of such events around Singapore actually.. The previous one I went last year was gone already, so they ended off with some Getai fiesta. Ahahhaa!!

Back to this one at Chinatown inside a shopping centre (it was the first for my family members - most of them were held in empty fields). My father placed bids for 2 red packets consisting of 4D/Big Sweep/TOTO, each at 680bucks. Insane you might say, but it's quite the standard price at which all the sales goes. Anyway, buying those red packets entitles us to enter this exclusive lucky draw that could win us $500 for first prize, $300 for second or $200 for third. In total, there was 30 red packets being auctioned off. Amazingly, we actually did won the first prize! Check this out - this is how 5 $100 bills looks like.. Hahaha.. So that covered like half the bidding price already.. Lucky us.

To keep the people from leaving the auction-cum-dinner affair, they actually have another lucky draw at the end of everything. The first three prizes were the Sony Ericsson's M600i phone, while the remaining five were microwaves I think. So each person who attend the thingy has a luck coupon with unique serial no. But after the dessert was served, quite a no. of people left throwing away their coupons. But some left them on the table, which lured the security guard to take them.. Quite smart wor.. Hahaha..! There's this auntie who had this whole table of coupons lar.. Wth. But anyhoo, we actually won the 2nd prize, which was the only white version of M600i. Sweet. How lucky were we that night.. Hahah.. Unfortunately, it was my dad who took the phone. BOOHOO! It's a cameraless phone, but it looks pretty by itself liao.. Somemore it's touchscreen. Useful for army wor, since they only allow no-camera phones if I'm not wrong.

Just before the ending of the auction, the auctioneer began to hasten its item auctions because everyone was leaving lar. Hahhaa.. So it's like "Okay, $100 for that lady.. Callings 1, 2, 3." in chinese.. Hahahh.. There's this suay women who wanted to call for bid twice but missed all of them since they have been closed. So damn funny to see the auctioneer do it lor.. My dad even joined in the fun and bid $100 for 10 big sweep tickets. Alright.. You can say alot of items went off at $100 at the last moment. There's some pretty nice items there actually, which could have gained more profit if they had been featured first. But what the heck. They got no brains.. Hahhaa.. Late night you might say.. Everything ended like about 12.30pm.. Lalalaa.. That's all my bullshit. Hate explanations.

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Time waits no man. Time heals everything. Time to stand up. Time to grow up. Time to let go. Time.

Running out of time. I have tons of things to finish up and I'm nowhere near the finishing line. My main HPLC experiment has yet to chunk out conclusive results for me to identify the darn ice-cream peaks on the chromatogram. Bleh. Don't wanna talk about my MP further on - already spent more than half a day on it liao. I'll do a real quick flashback of what I did for the past weeks.

Friday, 17th August
Went to Marina Square's "garden terrace" (you know the area with a whole flight of steps?) to catch fireworks with Pei Shan and Su Hua. It was such a great view to watch the fireworks given its distance from the floating platform. Photos might be coming up later.. Anyway, I spotted a nice place to watch the fireworks liao.. the outside seats for the MS kopitiam - an unblock sight for the fireworks similar to those hotel rooms one I believe, but only cost you a cup of kopi wor! Ahahha..

Caught up with Wei Ming and his (& SH's) two other gal-friends. And yes, the girl who's attached is chio, but too bad she's kinda short still. As for the other one, not my taste lar. Ahahha.. Anyhoo, we then pretty much just laid around talking nonsense at that area while munching on the Azabu Sabo ice-cream we bought. Not bad I would say, but would prefer to seat inside and enjoy their unique desserts instead. This is the one that I always wanted to try out lar - but no chance. Ahahaha... The day just ended to catch the last few trains lor.

Saturday, 18th August & Sunday, 19th August
Campus discussion! Ahahaaha.. There was initially a class plan to wreck some havoc at the MS first lar. But somehow it broke apart with each and everyone went for their own thing. So in the end, I had to call it off lor. Sorry Kaijie for making you wait for us. Truly sorry man. In the end, I went with Gowri and Fazlinah along with her classmates to TM to makan at the foodcourt. Rather interesting how I get along pretty well with them as well. In the end, Gowri, Leo and I went to catch Rush Hour 3 movie after it showed for 10-15mins already at Century. Quite funny lar, but it took us quite some time inside before we understood what the heck was it all about and who are the characters. Bleh! McFlurry fiesta later on at TM and had a good time chatting here and there about our course people - gossips basically. AHhaha...

After which, my parents fetched me from there and we went to Raffles Place to wait for our darling sister who was joining in the stupid Straits Times event. ZZzz.. They actually asked people to boogie on the stage, after showing some lame moves. Then, this PCK-wannabe dude came on and started doing his thing. Eww lar! They even hired this local magician to perform some sort of stunt whereby he will teleport from one of the building's top floor to the bottom box or something like that. Buay tahan until I rushed my family to go dinner at the foodcourt liao. If not, may miss the fireworks lor. This time we were watching at the area near the Merlion, but because the area we were standing were quite low-lying it wasn't that good as compared to the day before. But overall, it's sitll good lar. Ahhaha..

Before I knew, I was lying on my bed and realised that I still have a pool mania with Shuan, Jeremy and Soochin at Parkway Parade. Was so damn shagged lar. Then, chio my way to take the last bus 27 to Changi Airport, before taking a taxi from there to PP. I assumed that it's cheaper to cab my way from there lor - but in the end, I still end up paying 16 bucks. OUCH! Should have just slept at home, but I kept failing to fuilfill my promises to them lar.. Bleh. Painful lesson! Ahahaha.. Anyway, the pool buffet from 12am to 6am cost us 25bucks for one pool table, which could be used to accomodate a total of 5 people. What's more it comes with a free drink per head! That makes up only one buck per hour and a free drink lor. Good offer man, although it's like at witching hours.

Tuesday, 21st August
Met up with my old friend Ryan for some catch-up before he leaves for San Frans on Thurs. Splurged quite a sum this day too.. We went to Jack's Place and I ordered the "Steak and Chicken" combo along with mango juice. Sniffy alright I think. Talked about how fuck-up our life is now and our future nonsense etc. Ahaha.. And how the rich fellows in our class is surviving now lor. Ahaha.. And we realised a pattern somehow - rich kids have no idea what their parent's business is all about! We were saying that it could be some mafia-linked business for all we know. HAhahaha.. After that, we go watch the "Bourne Ultimanum" movie at CS again. Darn good lar the movie, although I didnt watch the 2nd sequel. Anyway, he did a stupid thing, which is to watch this movie again lor. Ahahah.. Thanks man. Lol. Would have missed such a fantastic movie this year, if not for your reco. Hahaha..

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Things ain't looking good for me lately, ever since the gates of Hell opened up on Monday. Argh. I actually dropped the damn laptop AGAIN lar.. But this time from a bigger height! Now, the whole monitor can't be switched on with all my MP logbook entries inside! Yes, it's stupid of me to not back it up with my thumbdrive or anything. Now, all I can do is pray that the hard drive ain't corrupted or what. Tried connecting it to a desktop monitor as well, but to no avail.. Was so damn frustrated about it that day. It was probably one of the days in my life where I used the most number of the word 'fuck' too. Hahahaha.. Tell me how suay can I be. Things were looking pretty good with the initial arrival of new column. But since then, everything just went wrong! Argh.

Update: Hoooray! My hard drive survived the fatal drop... The problem lies with the motherboard, so they gonna replace it when their stock arrives.. yes.. no stock. =.=" Anyway, heading to Toshiba data centre tomorrow to retrieve the data from my hard drive. Tomorrow will be siong man. Will have to rush my 2-page progress report fast! Diaoz. In mean time, I'm using my sister's new tablet laptop! Really like the handwriting recognition feature it has. Quite initutive wor... And fun too! - can draw piggies and others on MSN nicely...

Thursday, 9th August 2007

National Day! Went out with Eileen and Ian to catch up with each other, although the others couldn't quite make it. But still.. It's the first meeting after Donald has passed away weeks ago.. Anyhoo, we went to Central at Clarke Quay and makan at the Manhattan Fish Market, which is famous for their platter set at their Plaza Singapura branch. Forgot what fishy stuff I ate, but we didn't ordered the platter. :'( Ian wanted to order a platter on top of our individual dishes lar - which is simply too enormous for anyone to handle. Ahahhaa.. Even the waiter got shocked lor. In the end, we just ordered an addition dish - some flaming prawns with butter I think. Taste damn freakin' good! Gooosh. I miss their food there.. *drools* Somemore it's much easier to eat those prawns than I thought it would be, with the thingies shelled. Hahaha.. The remainings head on the plate looked quite like cockroaches. Lol. Will remember to put up a photo here for you to judge! Ahahah.. Headed to Boat Quay in attempt to look for a perfect view to checkout the fireworks, but in the end we managed to catch the "tail" of the fireworks only.. Sian! Don't worry.. Can try again this weekend! After that, we went to Pan Pacific Hotel for Ian's introduction of Tiramisu (see image!). That poor Ian drank a bottle of Pierre's water at 7 bucks lar - *ouch!*, while Eileen drank FOC water! Ahahaha.. As for me, I tried their Shark Attack cocktail which was rather strong and sort of sweet too! Ahaha.. What I dislike about the drink is actually the blue stains it caused on my tounge! Gah. My entire face was flushing red lar after trying to chiong finish the drink. Zzz.. The Shark Attack has both dark and light rum, mango juice, blue curacao, vodka (if I'm not wrong) and others.. Forgot liao lar. But what attacted me was the mango juice actually. Lol. Love the atmosphere at the atrium with live performance by this Filipino (i think). I bet she was paid damn well lor.. Somemore after each of her break, she gets to grab whatever drinks she wanna from the bar. Powerr.. Ahahha.. Good day!

11th &12th August 2007
Head back to Johore to settle some Buddist ritual thing for my grandfather, since it has been 100 days after his death. And finally, my niece Hannah aka "Ah Lun" and her baby Ruike finally came to attend this thing, as she missed the other time when my grandfather passed away - she went to states instead to accompany that CEO of YCH (a logistics service provider) hur hur... What upset our family and relatives was that she didn't actually give any "bai jin" even though she couldn't make it on that funeral. What's more. She's freakin' rich now hur hur.. These sort of simple traditional thing I bet her hubby sure know de. Anyhoo, her husband even bought two apartments at the Sentosa Coves, in which the property prices have boomed so much that she claimed that someone made an offer that could earn her hubby instantly 2 million! But didn't accept the offer in the end, because they wanted to move in to there instead. So yes, that's how rich she is now. With this said, I find my cousins now rather arrogant in a way that they can simply afford anything lor. I bet their clothings etc from top to bottom are bought using his money. So this is what women can do - by all means, find marry a rich guy and get taken care of (don't wish to talk about this here - don't wanna lawsuits!). So that's how I spent my weekends lor. Go pray pray then that's it. *yawn* No time for me to actually touch on any work then. Sian.

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Motivation is something I always lacked of in my life. Now look what you have done Ruben.. There's 2-months worth of MP logbook entries and another 8 SIP reflections to fill in! AHhh.. And there's a campus discussion next week! Gooosh. I'm sooo goner now. Luckily, there's finally a twist of fate where the light at the end of the tunnel is starting to become visible - with the arrival of my new carbohydrate column! Rock on babeh... No more crappy baseline. No more unknown peaks. The only problem now is how to get the results as soon as possible for campus discussion. So many things so little time. Come on Ruben! Chat less during working hours.. Ahahhaa.

Have been hanging out with the girls in AS4 recently more than my usual clique somehow.. It's been ages since I last played pool lor.. Anyhoo.. was at the Mind cafe in Boat Quy with Khad, Gen and Xue Fang last Saturday, after a BK dinner at Central. It's quite dumb that Central don't really have any Halal food lar, and not even their kopitiam has any Indian or Malay food! Sheeze. As a result, our options were narrowed down to BK or LJS only.. Gah! SOooo many nice Japanese restuarants.. There's even a Manhattan Fish Market branch there! I miss their platter man.. Heading back there later in the night to celebrate National Day with my friends.. Hahaha..

PS: Do you even feel that it's like N'Day already? Look at the HDB flats! Very few people are actually putting up the national flags lar.. Thoes that were up are all put up by the town council one. Maybe that's how Singaporeans does a silent protest against the Government's policy like the increase of GST. LOL! Not much decorations this year I would say. If not, it could be just the fact that we are plain busy to observe the surrounding slowly anymore. Gah! Work sucks.

It would have been a better experience with Mind Cafe during the weekdays, considering that it's less crowded and their service to us would have been much better. The staffs there are relatively busy during the entire night larr.. So it may appeared as if they don't really have the time in instructing us on how to play some of the new games etc. And I'll start mentioning about the female staff there who was damn bombastically helpful during my previous experience. *looks at the girls* Ahahaha.. Wanted to find that "Sitting Ducks" game lor, but couldn't seem to find it even after I went downstairs to find it twice! Booohooo..

The following Monday we went to Cineleisure after work to catch the movie "Disturia", which I would say I was abit reluctant to go initially. Hahaha.. Well.. The movie's not bad lar.. Good acting there by the transformer dude. And the chick in the movie is hot lar. Hahahaha.. I would be using the binoculars too, if I were him. Kekeke.. But certainly wouldn't be like him being too much of a stalker. Lol. The suspense of the movie is quite good I think, especially the part whereby he break into the serial killer's house to find his kidnapped mum. Anyhoo, just realised from Yuan Long that the movie was out in the states few months ago lar! Went to do my own digging and found that the DVD for the movie is coming out already in states. So diaoz lor. But it's rather smart for the film company to like show transformers first to expose the audience to the somewhat new actor before launching this particular movie, thus raking in more gross income. After the movie, we went on to makan ice-cream crepe at the basement there. The ice-cream taste good alright, but somehow I'm craving for the one in Marche instead.. *drools*

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Think again. It's so damn rude to be doing so, especially when there's a not-so-close female staff around. What the hell lar.. For almost the entire night, this person is constantly attempting to say some dirty shit stuff which really irritates me. I bet the girl was feeling uber uncomfortable with the pervert lar, which makes me wonder what exactly does he do when he reaches states in his upcoming trip (not that I care). Which comes into my mind the word "gentlemen", which he is certainly not one. I don't know why lar.. but the girls at the AS4 somehow got the "feel" that I'm not from neighbourhood school.. Most probably some of the things that I do that made them felt this way somewhat - things that what a gentlemen should do. And do you know that my secondary school call students by gentlemen too? Aaha.. unless the students are superbly noisy or what, then the DM will say things like "If you carry on behaving like kids, I'll call you all children from now onwards". Interesting eh. Ahaha..

Baacckkk to the main topic I was refering to, that particular person actually thinks I'm super pure or what when obviously no one is I feel. Don't even feel like mentioning some of the crap stuff he talked about here. It's perfectly fine and normal for us guys to talk about these within our own group and stuff, but not to someone who ain't close to what. And hey, it's so WEIRD and gross to be talking about those stuffs with these group of people I feel. "Learn from XYZ?" as this person said. No thanks.. I just like the way I am. And guess what.. I just found out that XYZ have no idea what fuck-up dirty jokes he is talking most of the time. And hey, I'm no pushy around either. So to this person.. please stop thinking that I get bullied or what nonsense you have in your mind. I do what is necessary depending on the importance of that particular stuff. Really can't stand that fellow at times.. No wonder he's still single. Poor girl.. She should have just went along with the other groups.. Had no comments on those sort of things throughout the night, especially with the girls around. You get my point hur hur...

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Shocked to hear a CHINESE song on Ruben's blog? Ahaha.. Well.. This is actually my second time doing so.. Caught this song few weeks ago in the car on the way back home from dinner. Quite emo-ish you can say, but it's nice larr.. Too bad my chinese simply too crappish to even sing the song.. Aaha.. So that's what the han yu ping ying is for.. Keke.. But song still too complicated for me, since there's this rapping part. Gah! Regret not learning my chinese well, but that's the environment you get in ACS lar.. What to do... almost 75% of my class then took Chinese Language 'B'!!

Went to Party World in town to sing some karaoke songs, which of course I didn't touch on any! Especially when there's 2 crazy malay fellows doing their spankings, shoutings (i repeat SHOUTing, not singing) and stuff... *piang* Reluctant to go these sort of place one, but I guess I shouldn't be such a spoiler lar.. *watches $$$ fly away* And I thought I could make it to the airport to send my sister off as she's going to Europe travelling across 3 different countries - backpacking! IF only I could take a 10-days off and join her.. Anyhoo, in the end, I realised that her flight takes off at 11pm and not check in at 11pm. Gah! Soo I missed it hur hur..

SOOooo gonna get my parents to bring me out of Singapore for a short trip after the sip ends.. most probably Bintan bah.. Would certainly like to check out their clear-blue beaches while relaxing in their resorts.. *imagines myself there now* - how sweet! Now, both my siblings are MIA from the family... Gah! But both gonna come back this early August - a reunion worth celebrating! Heard my friends say "The Simpsons" is a must-watch and is actually better than Harry Potty. Hehe.. Shoud be watching it this Wednesday bahh.. And guess what! I had my first solo jogging trip earlier on! Short 30mins but a good rewardings experience I would say, especially with my newly replaced earpiece for my walkman phone.. 58 bucks lar! *ouch for my mum* Keke.. That's all for the day.. Later tonight gonna have this farewell dinner for Sam, with D'Ong covering half the expenses.. Wonder where we'll be heading.. Hmm.. Must go rip his wallet off!

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I dropped my freakin' laptop onto the floor! Was on a hurry to get out of the bus seat, after realising that I was already at my destination stop... Zzzz.. Dozed off on the bus as usual. Luckily, everything is working perfectly alright till I notice earlier on that my laptop is slightly bent! It's not supposed to be shaky and stuff on a flat table one.. Ahahaa.. So in the end, I just bent the thingy back lor.. Ahaha.. Now, the laptop is stable once again. Keke.. My first time to actually drop a laptop siaa.. Zzzz... Well.. There's always the first time hur hur..

Talking about first time.. Today I overtimed for my major project after soooo many slacking days, unlike Pei Shan and Shahrez whereby these sort of stay back thing is sooo common to them. Ahahha.. Was frustrated that I don't even get any results for my titrations larr.. So when I switched over to another sample preparation, everything worked perfectly like a charm! Oleyyy.. That's why I did an hour or so of overtime to check if I really found the secret to Charlie's Chocolate Factory... Weee... Oh wait. It ain't candies that I'm testing on.. Should be Swensen's Ice Cream or whatsoever hur hur.. Okay. I'm lame. Wateva.

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Goosh. I'm sooo completely dead for my MP. I have been slacking quite alot lately, chatting on msn etc. Doing only a bit of my stuff on MP. Blah! My Lane-Eynon titration is sooo complicated and rather ma-fun, since I have to like boil and titrate at the same time within 3 mins? Zzzz.. You can call this a sub-project of mine, of which will be used to validate my results for the HPLC system. But I can't really start on my HPLC yet, since my new carbohydrate column has yet to arrive.. In which in the meantime, I'm supposed to use the old and can't-make-it already column, that has to be used the reverse way. Although there's quite a lot of spike sand stuff, at least there's some visible peaks for them. But the hard part for my project is actually the sample preparation, in which I have to find a good method to deproteinise the ice-cream sample so that it can be used effectively for titrating and analysing with HPLC. And guess what? My titration is screwed up today! Weee.. Hahaha..

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Yesterday's pool match was fun! Hahaha.. I made 4 mistakes in total that actually led to Jeremy winning the darn game! Argh. Somemore I let him get the solid, which has a better positioning to play with. Ahahah.. But sheeze.. Luck is really on his side that day.. He won 6 games in total.. against me, Shaun and Soo Chin.. Hahahah..

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Went out with my 3-months JC friends and went to Mind Cafe at Boat Quay.. Quite alright the atmosphere.. Quite alot of games - similar to the Settler's cafe at Holland Village one. I really like the shoot the duck game.. Ahahah.. The monkey one was quite interesting too.. The one who killed the least amount of monkeys wins! Ahahaha.. There's those sticks that prevents the monkey from dropping.. So if you throw the dice and tio red, you'll have to take the red stick out and pray!! Ahahaha.. No brainer game. That's what they call it. But to me, it still requires to be some smarty pants leh since you can actually transfer the monkeys from your stick to the other sticks. LOL! Smart way to playy.. Hehe.. Had a wild time catching up with my friends then.. Too bad there wasn't any activities after the games.. Some of them heading to NUS liaoo, while others are in NS. Ahaha.. As for me, I'm still in poly - dying. Quite idiotic that my friend is a foreign student studying here.. so he don't have to serve NS or what not. Kao.

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In memories of...

My dear friend Donald (whom I met last year in the global citizenship program) has just passed away this early morning due to a brain tumour. It is waayy too sudden for most of us who heard the news.. It's only Monday when I realised that he was suffering from brain tumour and have been hospitalised for 3 weeks already. Being unaware of how severe that condition was, we were planning to visit him in the weekend - but only to receive the news that he had passed away this very morning. I really feel remorse for not even fulfill the simplest thing of giving him at least one hospital visit to lighten up his day when my dear friend is suffering. Within less than a month, the brain tumour took his spirit away leaving only his shell behind. Gone with the wind that is. But to a better place I believe.

My deepest condolences goes out to his family and friends for losing such a good soul. A friend whom would bring laughters to everyone. A friend who always happy-go-lucky even though he get suaned alot. A friend who is ever-ready to join us in our madness activities. I'll always miss the days we spent together in Shanghai and those little moments we spent together chilling out and just having plain fun.

I really treasure the awesome friendships that I have made during the Shanghai trip, and what's saddening to know is that one of them appeared in the ST obituaries this Saturday. Even though I may look pretty alright at the funeral wake, deep down inside my heart I was shedding tears for I have lost a friend... Strong front that is.. which was what Donald's father appeared to be, especially when his wife is quite "broken down".. His brother was the one who talked to us about how chirpy he was when he was alive and stuff. They even showed us some of his old photos when he was young, which I really see no change in Donald's appearance.. Fun loving he was, and he'll be remembered that way forever deep within our hearts. And yes, we did take a look at his body in the casket.. The scar left from the operations he had to endure is still rather visible. From what I have heard, he had to undergo 3 operations in total because of the brain tumour. He wasn't able to see when some of his friends visited him, because of it pressing onto his optical nerve.. In the end, he passed away because of a heart failure, a complication arised from the brain tumour. Haiz.. Life is really unfair. Why does a promising young bowler had to suffer so much pain before he passed away? He has yet to found his true love. He has yet to find his dream job. He has yet to...

I really do miss the days we suan him for taking so long to compile the Shanghai photos... What will remind me of him would be his lame captions that came along with the photos he compiled... the word "donald duck" which was inevitably his nickname among his own friends as well.. Life is completely unpredictable.. I miss the day when you brought along that very gay pink umbrella of yours at the steamboat fiesta. I miss the time when you crashed your bike onto this chinamen's bike and even had to pay him.. I miss the time when you were so scared to shower alone at shanghai that you asked me to simply wait for you to finish doing so in the hotel room, which I left after a while to tell the others about it... Fun times they were, sad that they are gone. Sorry that I didn't send you off, but I know I will breakdown for sure... I just couldn't believe that you're gone for good.

I really miss your company my dear friend.. I'm crying now..

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Oh yes. I'm soo lovin' the movie, although not really that much as compared with the previous movies. But still.. it's HARRY POTTER. Ahahah.. Only till yesterday did I realise that the Order of the Pheonix is actually an exclusive club to those "反清复明" people who wants to be ready to fight the dark lord.. Ahaha.. this movie is quite dark lar.. as compared to the others whereby it's still quite kiddish. Most probably because of the fact that all of the actors/actresses have grown up bah. hahaha.. you guys will see lots more of the you-know-who in this movie, with him attempting to kill Dumbledore! :o And you'll get quite irritated by how the Ministry tries to be ignorant of the fact that HE's back... what lacks in this movie could probably be the involvement of the Hogwarts teacher starred in the other movies... not really much there.. everything is much more on Harry, Harry and Harry. bleh. bloody rich dude. oh yar! Dumbledore will make a darn stylish escape from the Ministry after being accused of setting up an army.. hahhaa.. you should really capture that moment!

Anyway, there was still plenty of seats when I booked the tickets on Monday.. Just nice to coincide with Eileen's birthday celebration (Happy Birthday, Eileen!!) on Wednesday, which was the day of the sneek preview. And I always thought that booking fees apply to each and every ticket, only to realise that the one bucks is just for the entire purchase. So it's quite cheap actually leh? 50 cents is for Cathay one which I prefered more, but too bad there isn't any more seats.. :(

Anyhooo.. I was 30mins+ early for the meetup lar! For the first time in my life that is.. Ahaha.. *still in the state of astonishment* Went about in Raffles Place to window shop here and there.. River Island had quite a couple of nice clothings there, as well as Espirit. Sheeze. My heart is sooo itching to get something new to wear lar. Hmm.. But I sooo don't wanna get lectured by my mum again man for being too spendthrift lately with the movies and stuff. Zzzz..

The food at the Ninja Ramen or something like that in the City Link Mall is quite alright bahh.. Besides serving Jap food, they also serve Chinese and Western cuisine.. But it's like quite dumb lar.. Go a Jap-named restuarant to eat western food.. *looks at Ryan* Before the food arrived, I actually have to make my solo way to the west lar. Had to go collect the tickets in the box office at Marina Square. Kao. You know how siong it can be to rush from one end of it to the other mah? Hahhaa.. I even tripped on the darn escalator for goodness sake! I looked like a damn fool then. Luckily, I was quick enough to retract my fingers instantly after hitting the metal thingy. If not, my fingers would have been clipped by the escalator liao and have to hit the red button and call the others to collect the tickets instead. Wahaha.. Heng heng when I went back to the rest., my food just arrive nia.. So it's still quite warm hur hur..

By the time the movie ended, it was already 11.30pm.. GoosH! I actually forgot to take into consideration of the uber-long GV advertisement larr.. Hahaa.. then Eileen don't have a direct train back to her house.. Opps! My bad.. >.< Neither did I actually.. Had to go to Tampines and take the bus 27, which usually operates till even 1.30am.. :D Well.. It's a bus heading back-and-forth airport.. So I guess their buses "operating hours" are abit longer? hhahaa..

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Because of what I have done, my mum and sister squabbled wrecking the whole atmosphere around the house. It wasn't on intentional. I said sorry (and I'm sitll am), but what clearly needs to change is my attitude towards my family. I get annoyed so damn easily at home so much so that I would use a pissed-off tone in return, even though the other party is just showing their concern for me. I'm sorry that I'm this, but I really do wish that I can change all of this. I should be glad that I'm given a roof over my head by parents, and not demand this and that. I'm actually one of the lucky lot of Singaporeans who get to stay in a terrace, so I should simply be content with it. I'm a jerk. I complain this and that, without appreciating the efforts and thoughts that the person had gone through. When I'm visibly frustrated, I show my family attitude and who do they in turn vent their frustrations to? I should never have compared myself with the others, because I'm me and they're them - that alone makes a whole lot of difference. I really didn't meant this rift between one another to happen. From now onwards, I'll try to work towards my goals within my own limits and try not be a whiny asshole in the house. With this said, my mum gave the decree that everyone in the house is to commit one hour at least every Sunday to do housework. All thanks to me.. Better not ask for any extra allowance during this period, till everything has cooled down. Damn Ruben, you're still an as. Zzzz..

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Wooot! I've finally started doing my MP officially, beginning with my darn proposal that I came up with within 2-3 days. Really damn shagged now I tell you now that I only slept for 4.5hrs today in an attempt to finsh up my darn proposal. Well.. I didn't quite finish it since the introduction for the MP proposal isn't quite paraphrased. And the references was came up with in the last moments of the deadline. Luckily, Khadijah was there to assist me and help me print out sections of my reports. Thanks a million.. :D Woosh.. Now, I'm much clearer of my objective of my MP and will officially being the hardcore work this coming Monday. I'm just afraid that they don't have the sugar standards that I would need in my MP.. *crossfingers* And man do me and Pei Shan has the same taste since we actually bought the same type of computer just that we have different specs. Just so you know.. I'm actually writing this entry in The Cathay while waiting for the long-awaited Transformers movie at 1.45am, which I'm watching with Jeremy and SC! Ahahha.. This place got free wireless access surfing here, so laptop usage is darn song. 54kps leh. Not that bad wor. Hahaha..

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"Dear Mr. Ten:01, how the hell did you managed to be the first person to got through the Elective Selection so fast? That's just plain kiasuism!"

Wednesday, 27th June

I have absolutely no clue why on earth design school requires people to carry a basket of quirky items to use for photoshooting. Here's an example with our poster star - Amelia, using some sort of round plate thingy!

Anyway, went to watch "Fantastic Four 2: Rise of The Silver Surfer" on Wed.. Quite nice lehh, although it isn't quite the same portrayed in the comics version I heard. But to me a non-comic fan, it's quite good in terms of graphics and stuff. Ahahaha.. Watching movie in town is so darn good, since the entire theatre is like basically yours lor. Was at Lido for this movie... Shiok I tell you! Now, I'm sooo waiting for time to watch "Transformers"! Everyone around is like saying it's good whatever lor.. Kao.

Saturday, 30th June

Accompanied Gowri to burn some time before me and I go separate ways.. Saw this damn cute looking lego toys. Look at their fingers! Oh yes.. After that, I go Sim Lim with intention to buy only a thumbdrive, but instead I got myself a laptop (to replace my old bulky one for MP usage)! Couldn't resist the temptation larr.. My sister brought one too as well to beat the 2% GST increase.. Kekeke.. I LOVE YOU, MUM! This uber cool-looking & sleeky white laptop Toshiba Portege M500 at a hefty tag of $2599 has the following specs:
- Intel Core2 Duo Processor T7200 (2.00GHz)
- Windows Vista Home Premium
- Hard Disk Space: 120GB
- 1024MB DDR2 SDRAM
- 12.1" Clear SuperView TFT (if see too long, your eyes sure mati!)
- Battery Life: Up to 4.5-5.0 hours
- Weight: 1.86kg (thought it was 1.7kg, but it's still light!)
- Fingerprint Security

It comes with a free 120GB portable hard drive thanks to the GSS sale. Didn't took any photos personally, but managed to find a couple of images on the net to show you roughly how it looks like...

Sunday, 1st July

Went to Malaysia to visit my relatives (father's side) there.. A long journey there larr.. Slept throughout the journey. After eating several durians, we went the coast near-by that around to eat cockles and drink tea at one of the kampong stalls. My uncle used to own one of these, but apparently it got washed off when the sea level retreated inwards. So now you can only see some of the sticks popping out from the middle of nowhere in the sea.. Ahahha.. Walked this cool little planks larr.. Only one side got the hand rail.. Fall down sure mati one. Hahaha.. Cos the water level isn't really that high, just until knee cap level actually. But the thing is sure shaky - and scary with all the creeking sounds! Kampong life is soooo relaxing...

Poor little monkey got chained by the owner to eat cockles. O.O! It grabbed my legs larr.. Ahahha.. Cute! But poor thing.

Oh yes, my uncle also own this durian plantation given by his father or something like that. So we get free durians home! And man.. is there alot of flies there larrr.. Have to keep waving your magical hands to get rid of those nasty buggers. Luckily, there's this sticky fly trap thingy that worked fairly well - see what I have reap just by placing it at the rubbish bin!

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Busy busy busy.. So not enough time for myself that I don't even have time to write my own logbook or reflection. Gah! Been going out lately as well... Caught up with quite a number of old band mates at the Glutton's Bay (aka Makan Sutra at Esplanade), after the concert. Hell fun seeing how each of us suan different people in our schools.. Hahahha.. Unforgettable. Didn't saw them for like almost 3 years after I left barker band. Bleh! And I got myself an expensive fucked-up haircute at Kimage. Now I really regret going there liaoo.. Should have just gone to QB or whatsoever. Look like a dimwitt now. Well.. Guess have to make do with it till my hair grows longer again. And I think I'm finally getting a hang of pool after Friday's game with Shaun they all... The pool I played before that was with Reuben and Trixie, which I completely sucked. 4 hours of sleep daily can really kill people lar. Now, I'm really stressed up with my MP-SIP... Reflection haven't write finish.. MP Proposal Draft yet to be started... SIP logbook is still quite clean... All these needs to be done today! GRRRrrr.. I can't breathe dammit! No more OTs for Ruben I must say, if not I'll sure never get things now. And it's time for me to sacrifice some social time for all these crap.. Hope it pays off the end..

Punggol Marina... Cycle to this place with my brother to check it out.. There's wakeboarding schools there... Hmm...

Badminton game after the first week of attachment. Fun fun.. Great time to catch up with each other..

Ate at this famous 24-hour roti prata for dinner with my family at (Upper?) Thomson Road. Quite good wor.. Good place to chill out as well, since it's open for 24-hour one.

Went to this Bottleneck Tree Park.. The scenary quite new worr.. Those trees were imported from overseas costing several thousands each. There's only 2 places in Singapore that has this sort of trees.. If you read the newspaper, you'll know about this.

At the park. There's this restuarant there too, whereby you can host some events at that thingy that I took.

So many people giving it a try at the Prawn Fishing thingy.. There's also another small pond whereby children can catch their longkang fishes.. Hahaha.. Pay don't know how much and you'll get a tank, fish food and net to catch.. Hahhaha.. Cute!

AC Alumi band performing on stage at Victoria Concert Hall.. It's been ages since I last went for a band concert after I left ACS(BR). I suppose it's the best performance that night, even though it's a ACJC band concert! Haha..

Guest star Eunice Olsen! Rock on girl.. One of my favourite celebrities around.. Ahahaha.. She's not only an NMP, but also in a local band lar! Powerrr.. She was playing "Rhapsody in Blue" with the untuned (bleh!) piano, but she sure did it damn good!

ACJC performing their heavy pieces that nearly made everyone fell asleep.. Hmm.. This concert is somewhat different from their old concerts, in which they played all the dang hard pieces. Now I guess they are trying hard to portray themselves as a jazzy band with those interesting snippets. Hahhaha.. Liked the on-song performance by the brass section especially.

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First week of attachment and I'm already feeling the heat of MP stress. Have yet to obtained my darn MP logbook yet, so it's darn spanking new even though it's been 3 days already. Hmm.. To think about it, I don't suppose I'll be clocking out anytime soon. Gah! Man.. Tuesday was the most siong and fun one. I stayed in school for SIP until 9pm lar! Ahahhaa.. Even my SIP supervisor (psst.. she's just only 2 years senior.) also went haywire at that point of time - Accidentally washed the pH probe with DI water into our sample beaker. Ahaha.. But what I hate the most about my SIP is the Edric's share of tasks - determination of TS, TDS, TSS in wastewater. Somemore this is a daily routine on different samples each day lar.. Samples came from our "clients", which is in fact just our other TP schools...After a short chat with Mr Tan, I'm now much clearer about my objective of my MP on sugar analysis. And he came up with such a nice MP title for me lar... XD Anyway, I have been doing Total Dietary Fibre and Fat tests lately... And goosh... I've got a feeling that we're sooo gonna redo the fat tests, considering how much it was screwed up thanks to my first try with the new extraction method. Kekeke.. Broke a darn stopper lar.. Was so diaoz then. Imagine having to wake up everyday 6.30am and sleeping only at 1am? Ahahaha.. Sure, damn shagged one. But it's been an excellent experience so far, considering that I have been lately quite abit on the different techniques and equipments.. Got free rides to my bus 27 bus-stop from Khadijah on the way home for the late nights - saving me 15-20mins! Hehehe.. Oh yes, don't be surprised if you can't get me through phone at times, since the ICL lab has this some sort of phone jamming device... When am I going to finally clock out my attendence before 6pm...

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Hollykabolly! The local film "Men In White" sucks to the core.. May I present an award to that particular movie - The Worst Movie of The Year Award. Congratulations! Couldn't believe wasted the money on that sort of movie, which ask lame questions about the ghost like do they fall in love and those nonsense crap. There's also 3 music videos in the movie that has a mix of cantonese and english rapping. It's lame. It's dumb. It's the WORST. Ahahha.. No other movies to watch, since I'm saving "Ocean's 13" with my friends.. Kao. My brother and I was like *piang* larr, while my sis and mum watched Pirates 3.. Therefore, I should set this straight now... Unless you like no-brainer skits, never ever EVER watch "Men In White".

43% of my household (aka 3 out of 7 people living in the house.. LOL!) has caught the bacterial pink eye (conjunctivitis) that is contagious.. It started out with my brother, whom don't know caught from where de.. Then, now spread to my mother and father.. Kao. Then, now they go out must where those dark-coloured specs.. Hahaha.. If not, they will look like those vampires with bloodshot eyes. From what the doctor said, the bacteria will be able to survive on surfaces for 24hours but not in the air (weird huh?). So when the infected person rubs his eyes with his hands and go around touching the doorknobs, happy-go-lucky Ruben go touch the doorknob then rubs his eyes and wham! that's how it got passed on. But heng heng me didn't get it for now... Gonna do lots of disinfection process around the house! My dim sum breakfast was ruined thanks to this larr when my parents found out that they also tio this. Zzzz.. Now must wash hands frequently!

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It's such a tedious process to blog when you have absolutely no mood in doing so. And so, that's the reason for not blogging anything for the past few days bah. Somehow for the past few days I have been playing pool, but I don't really see myself doing any good games or even an alright ones - that is until the later part of today! And I think I finally find the problem with my shootings and stuff - my firing arm isn't close to the body. Thanks Shaun for pointing that out man! *kudos* Wooolala... And that's after playing around 5 hours of pool games! Shahrez is real damn pro larr.. Then two days ago, that Kaijie was super heng to like win lots of games - well.. the guys ain't on form yet! Keke..

This is a month of movies! Watched Shrek 3 with my classmates, even though I didn't quite watched Shrek 2 yet. But it was rather easy to move on with the plot, as long as you accept the fact that the king is the frog and the puss-in-the-boots is part of shrek's clique. Ahahhaa.. It's really stylo how the girls attempt to save shrek from the gallows, after breaking out from their cells with the queen's steely head. Snow white did her singing with the birds and the animals in the forest, which then suddenly became like those rock and roll style that is actually telling them to attack the guards or something like that. Sleeping beauty just fall asleep suddenly, making those guards trip lar! Ahahaha... Better say no more - just watch it! It's nice larr.. Too bad my movie date for Ocean's 13 was cancelled - boohoo! Most probably gonna watch next week instead bah. Fantastic 4's coming out too! Can't wait to get on the silver surfer's board and ride it in the movie... Not to mention, Hairy Potty, Transformers (robots in disguise), and my favourite - Simpsons (bart has naked scenes - wtf!).

Click on image for trailer & teasers!

Ohh yes, I sort of started out with my MP already - just did some brief research with my borrowed library books, but I abit clueless where should I start from given the total freedom. Blah! Somemore I was just notified earlier today that I'm going to switch my SIP from Phoebe to Eldric/Sajuaya(?)'s one.. Gah. No longer with the threesomes. Keke.. It's more related to my MP on carbohydrates bah. Had an exhausting day with those peeps playing table tennis and ping pong. And yes, I'm getting a hang of those two games liao! Came back home with tired legs.. Special thanks to Pei Shan for making me look like a circus monkey! Wahahhaa.. Hit from one end to the other.. Power girl... Don't play play wor! Even though I lost the match, at least I win Shahrez's score by 1! Lol. Nothing to be proud of I know, considering that Peishan scored 15. Kekeke... xD Gonna do this again next coming Saturday also I think.. Hmm.. Rematch Peishan! :D

PS: I really like the interlude "I Think She Knows" part for this song that I've just added on to my blog. Damn funky lar!

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I really can't stand the fact that women and even some guys can actually like try this shirt and that shirt in order to find the perfect set. I guess that's what made me different bah. I'm really quite like the type that just simply grab-and-go sort of person bah. Hate the slow choosing and trying here and there. Somemore my hair like so damn frizzy, then have to like comb my hair everytime after changing. Gah! That simply sucks lar. Meet up with Trixie the fashionista to give me a make-over in Vivocity! LOL! No larr.. In the end, just bought 3 T-shirts nia.. Really had bad fashion sense what. So need some advice. Blah. Tried this and that.. Geeze. So damn mafun! Oh yea.. We also met Wee Ling there as well with her boyfriend at the FOX shop there.. Couldn't believe that she don't know what to shop for, even though there's something that she liked for several weeks liao.. Hahaha.. If it's something you really like, just buy it unless there's a reason for you not to. Ate beef tenderloin wrapped with bacon at Marche for dinner.. I think I got eat this before, but sort of forgot how small it actually was.. Zzzz.. Ordered mashed potatos to go along with it, due to its pathetic size for my empty stomach. Ahahha.. I guess it was fun that day, in which beats better than staying at home to stone. Can't wait to wear my new T-shirts to "work".. Kekeke..

PS: Trixie you can really go and try becoming a fashion advisor or what and earn 100 bucks per hour lar. Ahahaha..

Anyone care for a crepe with ice-cream!? Weee.. It doesn't fit with this orangy ice-cream which I forgot liao. Dangit! It's too sweetish and sourish...

A shirt that I didn't buy... Fit better with darker colours because of my fair skin tone colour (psst.. needs some tan?), as the advisor said. Ahahaha..

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Fun and games are calling your name, and you can't answer fast enough. But slow down before you get out and play. First, make sure you take care of a few necessary tasks. That way you can party with a clear conscience.

Friday Night Fever!
Okie dokie. I need more training for my bowling! Shouldn't have used the heavy green 11 ball in the first place... Scored better with the lucky purple 10 ball. So from now onwards, I'm going to use the perfect 10 ball! Remember this you dumb dumb Ruben... Got ponned by the bowling system you can say.. The girls somehow always manage to get like 3 tries for each turn of theirs! Really making worth of their money lar. But their free extra try always tend to be wasted.. Keke.. But it's good lar.. You see Eileen get Strikes and Spares thanks to it. Blah! There must be some uncle hiding in one corner pushing the "Extra Try" button behind the scenes.. Had Irish Lamb Stew as my dinner at Secret Recipes in Marina Square that day... Took us to decide what to makan lar! ZZzzz... Doing the usual, we went to the Esplanade and talk the nonsense we can while enjoying the scenery. Singapore's absolutely stunning and beautiful, if you look at it carefully.

BBQ Saturday!
Woke up damn late like around 2pm, so I couldn't really meet up with the CPTC group at 3pm to prepare all the stuff. >.< So in the end, I reached there at roughly 5.30pm? They said that I missed out the drink-mixing, which is good actually! Don't want to run to the toilet every now and there too much... Throughout the night, I think Jin Hui and Clarence went to the most lor! Ahaha.. Pee Boys. Okay, maybe that includes me. But at least, I'm not that wuss to go to the toilet alone.. Me no need company one but it doesn't me I loner okay! Hahaha.. Reminds me of Shaun that Clarence.. Wahhaha.. Setting up the charcoal is such a tedious task.. They (me not included ahaha.) took like probably one hour to set it up lar! Ahahah.. But it was good to go bah. Blamed the cock brand firestarter. Blamed the charcoals. Blamed the wind. What else we didn't blame? Wahahha.. There was plenty of drinks I remember... 10 bottles lar! Nutcase.. On top of that, Hong Wee still brought in more unknowingly... And did I mention Calsberg and Tiger Beer were there too? Weeee.... We played another version of "五十十五" that I didn't play before, which involves eliminating yourself one if tio your number. Quite fun bah. Then Hong Wee started going crazy about the PK stuff.. Ahahaha.. So not pro in that. And I have no sense of coordination dammit! He taught us several sort of games then, which was extremely fun when played in groups.. More experience, more games in mind what. Ahahha.. That's pretty much how the beer and drinks were being emptied quickly.. Keke.. Chung Hung is just plain drunk lar. Wahaha.. Bridge was abit clueless for me. There's this bidding thing that is involved in the game, which I just say "skip" since I really don't know what's that for. But after that initial stage, I can play liao.. Then, see who's my partner and stuff. Interesting! Even though only a small group remained behind to ton, it is damn fun lar! Talked about ghost, horoscopes, stars, feng shui and many others, while Xiaoping remained in the background scene talking to her darling for damn long.. Ahahha.. We actually managed to ton till morning 6am or so, before we took the morning bus home.. Pei Shan is uber shagged lar from her appearance. We should have gone for breakfast! *tsk tsk* Looking forward for the next outing, if any! Hahaha..

Now, it's time for my SIP session. Shit. And it's 3am already. Tmd!

Update! - 10.45am: Freakin' hell missed 6 buses of bus 27 in a row today. Guiness World Record for my entire life! =.=" Suckzor. Only managed to caught the 7th bus, ONLY after I walked over to the bus stop before the one I was at originally. Zzz.. Wanted to do that since the 3rd miss, but somehow there's this heart inside telling me just be patient dammit. Moral of the story: Your gut feeling can never be trusted. So never trust Ruben. LOL! Sian now.. Mr. Tan had to stand in a lecture, so in the end postponed to 11am. My legs still ache for your info btw. Stood for like almost 3 hours straight. Diaoz. Better run now.. Toodles!

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I should be like "Yes, I've gotten the Director's List!", but I didn't quite feel the euphoria or any other shit then when my name was announced. Somemore that Zac Siew said I'm from class AD23 instead. Wth. When on earth did I changed my class man. Wasn't in the right state of mind when I received the award. Was wondering why on earth that Lim didn't want to pass me the thing, when I realised that all he wanted was a handshake. Hahaha.. Joker. Must have look like a dumb ass then. After that, I just went back and sort of stone bah. Anyway, don't be too shock if Ruben has fallen from the stars. Oh wait. How did I even get there in the first place.. Projects I keep asking questions from here and there. All the subjects that were taught has been chunk into my brain's rubbish bin already. Ask me something, and I'll give you the "what?" look. Maybe it's really all the last-minute mugging and ton night bah. One cert happy liao, since MP is so damn unpredictable. And what's more I doing it solo liao, and back to my original DRP topic on antibiotics. At least, it ain't on honey no more. What a relief to hear that I can choose the type of herbs that I would like to work on instead. But what I most upset about is the Laison Officer lar.. Mr. Chan! *speechless* Man is he going to be strict and not very helpful in his explanation.. Gonna ask him to clarify till I understand anything man, even at the expense of my time!

Went out with Shaun they all to play soccer supposedly, but didn't had the mood. In the end, just drink my bubble tea and watch them play. It's really good to see how our class can be quite bonded with just a game of soccer. Rock on guys. Now, who's not in the picture? Su Hua's gang which has apparently fused with Yang Ping's group they all.. That's probably the reason I don't really talked much to they all anymore.. Sad to say. Out of that clique. Anyway when the game ended, the police came lar! Apparently some auntie made a police report about some soccer nuisance in the HDB void deck. This special thanks goes out to Wei Liang - he whammed a ball near an auntie earlier on & didn't really hear him apologising or what (not saying that he didn't - just that I didn't hear). Should be that auntie bah. Bloody hell our NIRC tio jotted down by the police larr.. Bystander also kena written down. That Kai Jie and Wei Liang went home already by then. Wth! Culprit on the loose! LOL! But the police damn friendly friendly de.. Ahahaha.. Caught "Pirates of the Carribean: At World's End" later on. The stupidest part I guess was when that Jack Sparrow was still in the 'Davy Jones' Locker' or something like that.. He somehow hallucinated with many facets of him.. And that part itself took quite alot of time.. But other that time.. It was perfectly alright from Singapore where Sao Feng's (aka Chow Yun-Fat) di pan was to the climatic battle in the storm. Disappointed that the East-India Company ship lost just because that captain became retard and didn't give the word "Fire". Zzzz.. Would have been better if there's more action then! Blah. And sia lar.. I just realised that after the credits itself, there is also a small clip like last time whereby they showed Will and Elizabeth with a child William Turner, but being able to see him only every 10 years. Kao. Wasted, but no time lar.. Had to rush for last bus - hope every did! Me and Jeremy managed to.. Wahahah..

So what happened to me for the past few days? Chill out with my friends, old-time buddy and brother. Play pool. Watch "Next" (PS: Do not watch this never-ending show. The twist to the story is uber dumb, so much so that you can puke blood). Pool and more pool. But I still suck though, cos I don't aim. I just wack the ball. Hahaha.. Worst game ever was on Wednesday night... Became the stunner of the clique then. You'll be amazed for sure by the shots I did. Power man! Wahahha.. Strange that I didn't played that badly or ever earlier that day. Hmmm.. Well... I really can't be bothered anyway. Ahaha..

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You guys must really try this money saving method of mine, adapted from my younger brother. Because my wallet doesn't have any coin pouch, all my coins goes to my front jeans pocket. So at the end of the day, I would throw all of them into this huge kitty mug,, Yar I know.. That damn mug looks gay - my auntie bought for me during one of the xmas... Don't have any proper coin bank larr like my father who has this big barrel filled with coins... So just earlier on, I started counting my coins so that I can exchange for proper notes with my mum tomorrow - she needs them to pay salaries etc i think. And guess what? I have a total of 120 bucks! It's amazing lar. Everyday unknowingly throw a tiny weeny sum of coins inside.. Then grow until so huge. But to think about it, it took me 3months to fill to its brim. Quite alot still.. Now, I'm thinking what I can splurge this money on.. Hmmm...

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I'm really lack of sleep nowadays with an average of almost 5 hours only? Sad I would say.. No wonder I was knocked-out by a small rest nia during the shut-down routine works.. It was raining lar.. So everyone went inside the workshop area to take cover while the trainers did the shutting down. Ahahha.. This was when I sneaked my way inside the workshop classroom for a short nap. All of the sudden, I just woke up and realised it was already 7.15am larr! Everyone was dressed up and ready for debrief already - Heng sia.. If not, I might have already been abandoned in CPTC and no one would notice it lor.. Ahahha.. What a close shave.. *phew* Even though I was dead sick with fever and flu, I had a pretty great time chatting nonsense with Group 6. Ahahaha.. Thanks Teresa for the cold-relief panadols! Should have taken it alot earlier... And thanks to Liang and Alex and others for their concern. Flu sucks big time. Now, I'm having nose block. Wtf.

And I must mention this - our group took only ONE try to successfully switch the diesel fuel to fuel gas, and back! Powerr.. But guess why? Alex took almost an hour to turn the steam gas valve to 5 bar. Everyone in the DCS was like kaobei-ing lar.. In the end, we named it "Alex's Valve" at the DCS side.. LOL! You can agar know how much to turn one mahh.. Cos they got say before it will take like probably 15-20min to increase the steam pressure to 5 bar. So you do a division of 5 bar by 20min, and you'll roughly know the rate to increase at based on the pressure gauge. When the condensate enters the furnace, naturally got sparks de mah. And the flame inside is like damn big lar.. How can die-out so fast de.. Lol. That's the main reason why I came back to the DCS during their valve-turning. Hehe. So yup, Henry was supposedly treating the group Mac if they did it one successful try, but in the end he only foke out 50 bucks.. So yar lor.. Nobody wanted Mac somehow liao.. Lol. Must think for him also lar, if treat whole class a meal each, that would probably cost him $150! Crazy. That's why didn't order anything then as well. That stupid NYP girl kept on saying nasty things about us in the DCS, so much that the Boon Heng was so hyped up lar.. Lol. What "TP are slackers and evil"... Nonsense. We're doing it slow because of the carrot that is tied to the end of the race mah. And please, they themselves didn't gave us the opportunity to start-up the furnace. And till today, I have no clue of how to start up a bloody furnace. Chicken macdonalds...

The only day I had the shift training with Group 7 - which consists primarily of my TD04 classmates. This was the day which I learnt the most lar. The other two days with them was damn slackish. LOL! Anyway, Hong Wee is quite fun one lar.. Although he's strict at times, he really knows when to have fun and when to work. Here are some photos that we took at the end of the day. That Jeremy so anti-social sia.. Go hide in toilet when we were taking informal photos. People had to go drag him out in order to get him to take one photo. =.="

My Celebrity Look-Alikes!

Saw this feature on my friend's blog and wanted to try it too. I also tried one photo that says I look somewhat like Ashton Kutcher as well! Wahaha.. Perhaps when I am old that time, I will become one of the lao ah bei.. Kekeke.. If you wanna try it also, check this website! It's fun alrightt...

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Here we are at the zoo AGAIN... What an idea... *looks at one of the peeps* Last year just went lar.. Gah. But it beats going to the ice-skating arena in JURONG east... Plus it was quite fun bah other than the thing I had. The food there freakin' expensive lar.. Sure earn money one sia if open a darn snack store there. Throw all the animal photos in the extended entry... Oh yes, Happy Birthday TingTing! Sorry for not being able to make it for your chalet... Really too damn tired then. One more night till all the 12-horror ends! Oleh, oleh oleh...

Continue reading "Welcome to the Zoo!" »

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Received an sms from my mum when I was in the zoo with my friends today 4pm that my grandfather in Johor has just died. Both my parents have left Singapore and wouldn't be coming back tonight. My family and relatives were prepared for it... But we never knew that this would end so quickly. We have been notified by the doctors that he has only several months to live, but this was waayyy shorter than it should have been. Even though I don't really know my grandfather that well, I somewhat felt some part of me is lost. I feel ashamed of how the way I treat life. When I am not satisfied with something, I'll just start whining and whining about it but just don't take any actions about it. I'm ashamed that I don't know my grandfather well. I just feel the sadness. I cried. And so did my grandfather (mother's side) when he know about it. All I know is that without you, I wouldn't be here. Lost but not forgotten...

Death is a part of life. Treasure what we have and start accepting the reality that we are not what we dreamt we are daily.... Pursue your dream, but don't live in it.

Update:
I wouldn't be joining the class this Wednesday for the shift training, because I had to attend my grandfather's funeral. Had shifted that start-up training to Friday instead with the NYP students.. I really wonder how I am gonna survive that day man. Don't even know anyone there (okay maybe just one).. Gah. Will be attending my shift training as per normal for this Thursday night.. Could be late though. This sucks. T.T

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Woosh. I really hate the feelings of my feet inside a freakin' wet shoes and damp socks. Tried using tissue paper to absorb as much water as I could with the limited time then. Was squeezing the socks in the classroom secretly larr... Eeeeww... Stinky hands. Ahahaha.. Luckily, we were doing the E-111 heat exchanger.. Then, can like sit there and settle the pipe connection for nitrogen.. So I took the opportunity to "sun" my shoes and socks. The feeling's damn good alright after that. I would say it's 90% dried then. Okay okay.. Enough of this smelly talk of mine..

Caught a late night movie Spider-Man 3 at Century Square with my classmates... (Let's name all of them! Me, Zai Wei, Shaun, Shahrez, Wei Lian, Soo Chin, Yuan Long, Salim, Suhardi... Ahaha.. All famous liao.) Sitting in the third row for Century isn't that bad actually, since it's a small movie theatre and so you don't really have to strain your neck that much. This 10.40pm must buy on the spot one sia.. The shaw person said cannot do booking for this time slot then have to like go there and buy quickly.. Zzz... Only to realise that 8 rows from the back is actually the same as the 3rd row. Ahahaha..

Anyhoo, the movie's good alright and it's filled with lots of action-packed scenes I guess.. Spidey's in his cool few thousand K black suit worr... Very stylish indeed. And the change in attitude in spidey boy is like sooo funny larr... And he could like make the ladies attract to him more easily larrr.. o.O How I wish there's such a suit in real life.. Ahahah.. There's 3 baddies now.. And they sort of like collaborate with each other to fight against spidey boy. Sad to see that the new goblin James was killed off in this sequel... in a good way that is... Hahaha.. I expect more vengence from him! But in the end, just knock on the head and become the goodie for middle part of the movie. Zzzz... The quite stupid part is the ending of Sandman who just float away larr.. What the hell. "You've been forgiven". And he goes fading along with the wind. What the? And that Venom lasted quite long in the comics larr.. But in the end leh.. mati just by sonic waves and a poo bomb. Kao. About the little romance going on.. I got nothing much to say about it lar. It's soooo.. like that lor. Kate dumped Spidey. Spidey pissed Kate with another divalicious girl. Spidey realise wrong. Spidey apologise to Kate. Kate and Spidey back to the cottage house and live happily ever after. Gah! So like standard. Ha. But still.. The movie's quite good if you come in terms with the movie plot.. Ahahha.. It really deserves the 4 stars rated in 8 Days I guess... Go watch it if you can! And sorry for the excessive spoilers.. Sort of like blurp out everything liao.. Ahahah.. Hope I didn't really SPOIL your movie.. :D

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Today was dead fun I tell you.. Initially, none of us liked the idea of getting wet so most of us chosen to be the kinkers who simply just stand behind the nozzle team and support the weight of the hose. LOL! But at the end of the day when each and everyone of us are completely soaked, everyone chionging to be part of the nozzle team wor! Ahahaha.. At the start of the day, almost everyone of us were being called up by Hong Wee to be the team leader to shout the commands out to coordinate the team's movement when handling the hose. Although I've got to admit I shout the loudest for Group 2 *ahem*, I really have no clue what to do lar. Had to get cues from Hazel and Karin they all.. LOL! Sibei paiseh sia... Wahahah..

And yes, this gundo forgot to bring spare underwear... (so that was what Hong Wee meant by "spare clothes.. Zzz..) So had to squeeze them dry before I make my journey back home. Don't like the idea of sitting down with wet underwear! Tried that before last time on a cab (sorry uncle!) after my friends and I throwed each other into the condominium pool during the post-secondary party...

Hmmm.. I see a potential firemen here! Wahahaha... NO WAY!

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What does a man without faith retreat to when he realised that he have sinned? Somehow the first thing I remembered in the morning when I woke up was that I recalled how I made fun of a ill person unknowningly. Umbrella was the nickname we gave to this particular person, which was used between me and Alex. But because of me being an ass in nature, I kept informing Alex about that person being there with the nickname. After only knowing yesterday that the person became like that because of an illness, I felt somewhat uncomfortable and guilty even though that person didn't knew about the nickname thingy. Who can I turn to in times like this given that I am a free-thinker? What I can only do is to blog it out and learn from my own lessons before hurting anyone else. I'm truly sorry to that particular person (although he/she don't know about it), and I assure you that all my nonsense have been stopped. As such, thou should never judge a book by its cover; and nicknames does hurts when the person knows about it and you have no idea idea of what's going on in the first place. But I'm perfectly alright if you call me Ruby, Rubin, Rubbish Bin, Ribbon, Rubs or any other nicknames you can think of.. I will still response to it! In fact, it cheers me up when you call me that since they're pretty funny. :D

Being a person caught in between two faiths, I have chosen to be a free-thinker ever since I graduated from secondary school. Because the upper chain of my family were buddist, I was a buddist from young. I have been doing things that my parents asked me to do that I have no idea of. When I see their so-so-many gods, I am always so puzzled and just pray from A-Z for my family the list that I have always done, which is health, financial and studies. But till I entered ACS a christian school, I slowly began to have mix feelings about religions. Every week from primary one to secondary four, I had to attend a fixed chapel sessions in our schedule. I learnt more about the importance of each every other character traits from their Bible. At times, I even go along with the prayers and do my own prayers at night when I'm facing my own set of problems. But soon, I asked myself one day if I could believe in both two faiths. But I decided to give them up after asking myself a set of questions after another, especially given the concept of evolution and other scientific evidences. Yes, indeed faith is something you can turn to in times when you are scared, when you are clueless of what you are doing, when you are looking for a sign and many others.. For my grandfather, he simply believed that a faith is something that will protect you. That's why when my uncle's side converted, he was perfectly fine with it. But I believe that I will find what is my very own faith in the upcoming years *tsk NS?*...

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It's a prison life here in CPTC! Everyday do the same routine - attend boring lectures; lunch; practical; home. For every lunch (aka "Dinner" as written in the schedule), our "awesome" group only has 30mins to eat and get changed. Blah! What to do.. It's the "Respect" fellow who is taking charge of us. The deal was that we get released earlier so that we can shower first, but I don't see ourselves finishing first leh. Maybe he talk too much ba.. I really feel sad for the next batch of the students who will have him as the coordinator. Their paper will sure gonna be damn hard. My wallet has been getting lighter too.. Splurging my money on additional food to make my breakfast better! And their one-stall canteen food is like so-so lor. Can get bored one de lor, considering that we are going to eat it for 6 weeks straight! Hate the fact that we couldn't leave the CPTC compound to go to the JTC building's Oasis canteen to eat.. Was nearly headgunned by that RESPECT today, because he saw me drinking the mac delivery's coke... Apparently, it wasn't allowed in their regulations.. But heng heng when he ask that Kian Soon that time, his reply was "okay". Rock on man!

Practicals quite interesting for some like climbing the distillation column! It's a very good experience lor.. I doubt I'll do that again after this entire course.. Can't really see myself working in this industry leh. >.< I think the best part of the day would be the going home journey.. Can get to enjoy nice movies like Saw or the Jackie Chan's Baby movieh on the very cool uncle's bus (the other malay bus uncle very jealous sia that time, because most of the students would rather wait for this bus then go straight onto his one)... But I would prefer a good sleep on their new bus that is used to cater for tourists one, which we get to sit when we're lucky. Super stylo lor.. Hahhahaa.. Enough of my crappy life. Hope to see the 6 weeks zoom pass soon!

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Apparently, some noobs don't know how to surf the internet using their explorers yet. As such, they in turn blame my website for not having the CPTC schedule they wanted. LOL! Fucking hell tio flamed on the bus for no apparent reasons. Luckily, they didn't knew who actually owns the site, since they went to www.platodino.com instead. Ha. In the end, they just get the bullshit about "My Blog, My World. So Shoo." LOL!

As what I have written on the paper, it's http://www.platodino.com/CPTC Schedule.pdf! And yes, there's a space in between the CPTC and Schedule. It will automatically converted to "%20" on the address bar, after entering it... Also to note is that the address bar is CaSe sEnSiTiVe! So if you don't know how to use the internet, beat it and go get a book for dummies before flaming other people. Dim-wits. Hahahaha..

Copy & Paste:
http://www.platodino.com/CPTC Schedule.pdf

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Whoosh. I'm labelled as rubbish bin (aka RuBin) now somehow thanks to my foolishness few days ago. Well.. This was what happened... I wanted to throw this litter of mine into this rubbish bin INSIDE the cafeteria. It sounds perfectly alright hor? But the funny thing is that there's actually a window glass around the cafeteria, since it's air-conditioned. So yeaa.. that means I reached out my hands towards a glass, rather than the bin lor. And sort of wacked the wall abit. Zzzz...

On a serious note, I thought the issues between the small bear and white bear has already been resolved the other day. And was actually looking forward to yesterday, since all matters have been resolved alright. But well well.. small bear started all the problem once again by looking for that hunter. In the end, it resulted in a standoff between the black bear and the hunter, and also the white bear. Luckily, the white bear side with the hunter was resolved after knowing what exactly went wrong with my help (sort of). Today leh.. I wanted to do the same for the black bear and hunter.. Because I thought the black bear didn't get the whole picture yet, I decided to ask him to chat about it online (since I thought he would still be angry then) after telling him bits and pieces of the entire misunderstanding. However, I get a fucking reply in the hunter's side asking me to cover my head in bag when we are meeting to settle the issue instead. What the fuck is with this attitude, when I don't see a need to be so agitated about? And yet he claimed that this is just a trival matter replies after replies. Fuck him. With special thanks to that small bear, this whole comotion has caught the entire attention of the community in which some began digging about it. No one knewed about the black bear and small bear before this explosion, with some even thought that the white bear and small bear is going to live happily ever after. Now, I wonder who's fault is it exactly to let everyone know about this issues... Just a few words of advice... It's best that those innocent deers and rabbits better not get involved and stop digging, if not someone is going to get hurt or even killed in this forest community. This ranger is going to keep shut for the time being and treat those 2 bears like invisible wallpaper till it's resolved. So don't even bother try asking me.

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CPTC sucks big time, especially for the first few days since the shift schedule has yet to begin. Have to wake up like 6am or so to catch bus 27.. If wake up a little late, I may end up waiting for empty buses... Last time have to missed like 4 buses in a row lor. Kao. Hate the morning rush.. *yawn*

The fire warden Kaijie have passed me the duty of making the CPTC schedule into an e-document. Wahhhh!!! Click here to download (7.28MB). This file also includes an updated list of groups and the housekeeping places for different groups (but who actually cares about this. Ha.)...

Dammit. It's near 3am already and everyone's offline.. Blah! Night...

Posted by Ruben at 2:40 AM | Permalink | Comments (3)

Goosh! All my blog posts are delayed one.. I'm going to heck about the chalet post and go straight into the clubbing and serangoon garden thingy. This week is so happening for me lor.. My night-life suddenly become quite buzzed up... Usually is I spend my time at the computer chatting with friends till damn late.. Hmm... This is nice.. How I wish this could be an every week thing, but it will burst my wallet lar... In just one week, I burst quite a sum of money drinking eating having fun.. Wouldn't be heading for Australia no more, since my mum said that it wouldn't be nice to like be away from the country when my grandfather have only like 5 months to live because of lung cancer if I'm not wrong.. =/ Anyway, I don't really know my father's side very well since I only visit him once or twice a year with him being in Johor.. Blah! Let's not talk about thisss...

Btw, the movie "Freedom Writers" rocks! It's so touching lar.. Was about to tear in the theatre lor.. It showed how one teacher can actually made a difference to a class that is torn apart because of racial problems. She even had two jobs to support her teaching career, so as to bring her students out for educational lessons about the Holocaust. By giving them a journal to take down whatever they want, she understood what's going on in their lifes and how the different views came about and all the "protecting your own kind" of shit. I give this movie 4.5/5 stars! Good movie I would say.. *thumbs up*

Ministry of Sound...
Late. No sense of time. That's all I can say for the first impression I left on Stacia I think. Wah lao. I thought all of them would be late as well, so my time management allowed me to be like 5 minutes.. Ahahha.. But in the end, all of them arrived liao.. Last time I arrive punctual and they were 15mins++ late. Zzzz.. And I thought there were a group of girls tagging along... In the end, it was just Stacia... =.=" When Shahrez said he wasn't coming I was like diaoz already lor.. However, the moment Alex send in a message about a surprise I knew Shahrez was just playing a belated April Fool's Day prank or what. Ahahha.. So it was no biggie (aka no big deal for those nubs out there) when I actually saw them.

At the MOS, it was just so "like that lor" sort of feeling initially after exploring all the different rooms that they have... We started off with the Smoove room that plays R&B one lar.. It took a while for me to adjust to the music genre, since I don't really hear R&B constantly one. You must feel the music following through you first in order to start grooving. So me and Shahrez was quite stiff as what Alex said. Also, the drink ain't really powerful as what Alex claimed. Hahaha.. The Tequila Shot was like so-so nia for me somehow. Don't really the hotness lar.. Lotsa touchy going on there when we were moving into the caged area.. There's this big ang moh kept shoving Diana, so we got Shahrez to swopped places and pushed him back. LOL! Funny lar to see that dude's expression then.. Moving further in, there was this group of hot chicks dancing around behind us. Had a very good touchy moments with a girl there, checking each other out.. purposedly bumping into each other's shoulder when dancing quite sensually.. Hahaha.. Not sexually like what Alex did though! Go brush this flabby girl's breast up and down till she feel damn uncomfortable and got pulled away by her friends. Wahahaha.. Too bad the girl and her gang went off after a while. During the "Smack That" song, Shahrez was apparently smacked on his butts constantly by one of the girls. Should have gave her a return ass-smacking trip larr... What irritates me most during that period was this fat white shirt girl who was bumping me lar.. She was actually behind Shahrez de lor.. Then, Shahrez had no choice but to give way to her and let her bump into me... Zzzz.. Chicken. Alex wanted some of the songs played then sent to him, but I really forgot what songs were being played sia.. But I do know that I have some of them before! Not sure if it's before or after my reformat though..

The dancing really got me only when we headed for the main room, which was playing this "80s to Present Day" hit songs... We were actually chilling out at the seats on the 2nd floor, with EVERYONE drinking Cranberry Vodka. Yup, that includes Shahrez. Wahahaha... That Alex got him that drink twice already and he didn't knew that it was even vodka even though he did mentioned it tasted weird. He drank so quickly lar. Kao. Ahahaha.. Suppose to enjoy the drink one lor..

Just some photos that I took when we were up there. We were like singing loudly along the song lor.. The songs played were just too nice lar. Screamed until we gonna have no voice lar. And that Diana really "shi sheng" lar the following day.. (to Alex. :O!) Shahrez was doing his air-guitar which was damn weird and funny lar.. Ahahha.. Me and Diana was like looking at him with the "ermm.. okay" look. xD OH YES, there were lots of transexual lar there.. Alex wanted to jump on one of them.. Wahhaha.. It was sickening to see them lor... Spoil my day. Ha. And there was this quirky uncle dancing in front of us alone. Sad sia. Ahaha.. I wanted to ask him to just sit down by the bar.. LOL!

We smooth-ved on to Pure room that was playing some soulful weirdish sort of music. What I liked about this room is the funky bed-like sofas.. HOT! Spent quite some time to cool down first before continuing our madness...

This is the reception, where we were waiting for the girls to collect their bags since Stacia was planning to leave because her feet hurts? And can see that she quite bored too. LOL! Thanks for the touring anyhoo! After sending her off to a taxi, we went to McDonald's and realised that no one actually took the change for the drink that were paid for with my 50 bucks!! I was like gave up the hope of seeing the change back already when Alex told me that no one take lar.. Didn't asked for the change, since I thought I would have to pay the entrance fee and stuff later on. So didn't wanted to prompt it then. Back to the story, luckily that Alex decided that we should take a look and check if they still have the change. I really thought that the people would just put them into their pockets le. Hahahah.. They actually stapled the cash onto the receipt (it's against the law to do so!) when they spotted that we didn't took the change... Phew.. Heng all of it is all over. Really had a good service experience there, given that we only came back looking for the change after 4 hours i think. Ahahaha..

Came to this "54" room to relax for a while before we leave after getting back out money change of $40... Somehow there was so many ang mohs in this room.. Didn't know they are so stucked in the 70s one. Ahahha.. Nice eggy chairs.. And coach to rest.

We went to somewhat Diana's house to sleep, before starting our day once again. Didn't went home that day.. Hahaha.. Went straight to DRP then.. And I had to spread the freakin' toilet perfume all over me to keep that smoky smell away from me. Otherwise, meet the unexpected one and you get all the nonsense coming out from him again. Zzzz... Shagged I tell you it was..

Serangoon Garden Chillout!
Shikes. That Ting actually took up my idea of heading there for lunch. I only knew the way there from my house, which is bus 136. Met the others at SK interchange first, before this tour guide brings them to the famous chomp chomp food arena. Ordered over $60 of food here and there to mix mix and eat. What I liked most would be the satay? Ahahaha.. The others.. hokkien mee.. fried oyster.. carrot cake.. etc.. are quite alright. The sugarcane drink is like huge! The aunty had to use her breast to support the 3 big jugs lor. WAhahhaa.. Prata was next, since they ain't really filling at all somehow. Was absolutely cranky at that point because I heard something wrong and said something wrong.. Zzz..

Ian - "There's no prata in this kopitiam"

Me - "Then, why are they going in there? Can't you read it says T-O-I-L-E-T?"

I really don't make sense, do I? I thought I heard him said "toilet" rather than "prata".. And this went on for about 3 times I think. LOL! Still hallucinating that he was still refering to the toilet. Kao! I'm such an baboon. I really became the joke of the town lor.. I actually took 2 tablespoons of SUGAR for my single prata. *piang* Didn't know quite sure why I took so many sugar larr... I just took it twice! Blahhh...

Somehow that Eileen was doing a presentation to us then.. I think she's kukoo as well after watching that Cinderella show on tv. Ha. It's a really good place to sit down and watch the stars.. But too bad it was too cloudy then. xD

Liquid Kitchen.. Where your food comes in liquid forms!! Kidding. Ha. After hesitating where to relax, we chose this place as to the usual Coffee Bean...

I really like the fluffy menu! Can use it as a pillow to sleep lor.. The other unforgettable menu design is the Settler's Cafe one, which was designed to look like a monopoly gameboard.

He tried to be Statue of Liberty.. But I really don't think he fits to be one! Where's the crown?!?

Everyone going crazy with their handphones... Blasting and trying to create remixes I think. LOL!

Nice view of Serangoon Garden, although this ain't really high. This Liquid Kitchen occupies two stories of a shop house. Love the mood... I wanna sit inside.. T.T

Drank Black Russian, which was just so-so. Ryan drank orange juice I think.. Eileen drank that super sweet Ribena thingy.. She didn't even managed to drink it all up lor. Hahaha...

A shot of two crazy AH BENG-wannabes. Waahhahaha... Really can't make it lor... xD Had a great day chatting with you guys.. We should have stayed a little bit longer, but I no more liu then.. Ahaha.. >.< Let's try their Escargot next time ba.. :) Peace out!

Posted by Ruben at 10:31 PM | Permalink | Comments (5)

Chalet was good. The three days flew across quickly like they never before in our previous chalets. Most probably because this time we headed out to Sentosa and travelled a little bit more.. And the amount of time being wasted on the bus dozing off. Ha.

Day 1 was relatively simple.
I was supposed to meet Pei Shan earlier so that we could buy the drinks and so on... But was tied up with my slow and last-minute packing.. So yar lor.. In the end, only met up with Pei Shan, Wei Lian and Soo Chin as originally scheduled. That Kaijie once again try to attract attention from everyone so he turned up late and had to make the Aloha charter bus uncle to wait for him to alight from the MRT train.. Zzz.. We should have just left him there and get him waiting for 1 hour for the other bus slot. LOL!

While we were waiting for the arrival of Mark Tan.. that Mr. Teong called up and asked if I could arrange a bicycle outing in the upcoming Saturday... But it would be simply too shagged lar.. Somemore we intended to go for clubbing that night, which got postponed to this coming Wednesday.. What spooked me off was when Teong said "Enjoy your activities".. Is he trying to hint that he knows about our chalet? Hmmm.. Anyway, it has been confirmed by my grandmother that he knows about it given his reply of "Yar... I know", after she said that I went out for chalet.. Now, we all can confirm that any information that goes through Ign. Tan will be sent to Teong and eventually D'Ong as well...

Without any lunch taken that day, I soon couldn't resist the temptation of dialing up to McDonalds and ended up ordering a Fillet-O-Fish meal, while Soo Chin and Kaijie ordered Double Chessburger! Well.. It took long enough for Mark to send the food dudes Shahrez and Alex over from Shah's house.. He was treating us dinner that day, with his mother's fantastic cooking! Initially, I thought his mum will actually turn up on the spot to cook for us (like what D'Ong did for us the other time..- =S!!!)

Rather than the previous pool-side terrace we slept in the other time, we booked the bungalow one instead which is quite alright despite the distance to the pool.. First thing the guys did was mopping up the floor. I had to cover the kitchen and the dining area.. To be frank, this is the very first time I find that mopping is such a tedious household chore. Shouldn't have let Alex give the go-ahead to throw the buckets of water in the kitchen! It was just too hard to dry lor.. So I had to use the freakin' mop as a sponge to soak up the water and dump it into the pail. Zzzz.. But it was no longer oily lar. Sort of..

We began dinner without the malays first, since they wasn't able to make it till later late at night. As what the others have said, it was the family-feel dinner. Hahahah.. Oh yes, we also watched the pirated dvd "Wild Hogs" that Alex bought.. But it got hanged half-way all of the sudden, so just left it where it is since the technical PS2 specialist SC is having his goody old sleep. The show was funny lar.. Hahahaha.. Oh yes, did I mention that me & Wei Ming brought the people who are rotting in the chalet to to the pool? For a moment, I went bonkas lar. Get that KJ's handphone and throw myself into the pool.. LOL! Scared the hell out of him I bet.. xD Even that PS soaked in the water with us lar... I wonder who made her wet one.. *scratches head* LOL!

Once Suhardi and Fadzly arrived from their work, we had a small little group chat before we set off on our overnight-rented bikes to Changi Village. I was desperately trying to make some noise with the biking trip lar.. It's like everyone doing paddling.. So quiet.. so boring.. Kept disturbing the girls especially lor I think? Ahahaha.. So many ups and downs for the journey sia.. And my stupid bike's paddles are like uber low to the ground, which I have complained since riding it.. But the other remaining bikes are no better. Got into an accident with my toes lar! Part of skin got pulled apart, causing the toe to bleed. It was painful initially, and I wasn't able to "communicate" with my damn big toe. Hahahha.. Now, the inner part of the toenail is blue-blacked, and a dried scar across my toe.. No more pain!

Blah blah blah. Blah blah blah. Blah blah blah.

Day 2 is all about getting "drunk" and buried alive.

Sentosa...... Blah blah blah. Blah blah blah. Blah blah blah. Blah blah blah.

Day 3 with Mr. Ya Kun.

Nothing much really happened on this day ba. Just brush up and pack all the things to get ready to book out the chalet. Went to Ya Kun at White Sands for breakfast, eating their famous kaya bread thingy and drink the half-boiled eggs. Somehow the girls preferred using spoons to eat that lar! That's not the style man. And it's definitely not the way to enjoy that sort of delicacy! Okay, it's not really a delicacy... Whatever. Too bad that Alex too shagged to join us and had to return home for a knock-out sleep. Not for me though... Went straight home and started chiong-ing to complete the darn bogus Litez website for the April Fool's Day prank.... Slept only at 2am nia lor. After which, it was a good 12 hours of sleep! :D

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Aiya.. Now just throw all the photos at you guys.. Will talk more about this next time, when I'm more free.. :D Was busy doing all the April Fool website pranks, ever since I got back home from chalet.. Zzzz..

Shahrez cycling so slowly and steady like nobody's business.. Hooray! It's when we realised that Suhardi and Fadzly went MIA.. Ahahhaa..

Pei Shan stunned upon seeing this hidden spycam... LOL! While that Su Hua is busy messaging the you-know-who-but-I-don't-know-who...

On our way to Pasir Ris Interchange MRT for breakfast...

And it was MacDonald's again for me! Delicious yummy Sausage McMuffin
with Egg.. Kaijie and his weird combinations that can make people puke on the site.. Coffee with McFlurry.. What's next? Coke with chilli sauce? Ahahaha..

Travelling from Vivocity to Sentosa on their new Sentosa Express thingy... Fast and smooth! But it was a freaking rainy day.. Zzz...

Two golden piggies sleeping on the bus! So cuteeee... *squeezes their cheeks* LOL!

Sentosa once again. But this time with Shahrez, Alex and his girlfriend Diana... This was an accident lor.. Ahaha.. We had the intentions to head to Café del Mar, but didn't want to go there somehow... But found out that there was no more U-turn out.. LOL! So there we are...

Merlion! How come got red light coming out from its mouth de? This merlion is so devilish and cool! Hahaha...

Two blur dudes heading to the beach station on the express thingy, chewing out bubble gums. That Alex really don't know how to take picture sia.. Took at least 5 shots and all of them are blur de! LOL! Bad photographer.. xD

Café del Mar! The place where the FHM girls went to for an event there (hear from 987fm lar).. Should have taken the picture of the icy cold inner design of this pub. Instead of having all sofas, there's even beds for you to flirt with the girls! LOL! But no hanky panky please.. Singapore ain't that open yet! But I don't mind seeing.. :D

Alex don't know drink what.. Something to do with Mango de.. Took damn long to order lar! Zzzz.. I think Alex's trying to message me to hmmm... Ordered "Melon Breeze" for me, which was quite alright ba.. Face red as usual. Ha. Somehow Diana managed to pose for this photo. Dammit. LOL!

Shahrez is drinking alcoholic drinks! He sure gonna get wacked by *ah-hem* liao.. LOL!

Groupie photo! One can see photo of us, the other a clearer view of the background. Should have taken images of the girls swimming in the pool.. Great concept!

I should really open my eyes bigger. Don't I look as if I got some sort of skin problems in this picture.. Ahaha.. But nope, it's just that I'm toxicated, NOT drunk.

Aiyar.. I know.. Photo should have been taken before we ate up almost everything. Went to Geylang to see melons.. But first stop was tou hua, soyabean, and you tiao! Superbly nice.. However, my mum said that it ain't really awesome.. that's why never bring me there before.. Blah.

This hotel is recommended for Alex and Alistair, or even a threesome with Shahrez. There's this dude sleeping on the couch lor. I wonder if people who checked in are gays.. LOL! OR maybe the owner's surname is Gay. OR he wanna call it "Kuai Le Shi Jie" hotel... But translate wrong one. Ahahha.. What a good find indeed in Geylang!

Durians for our last move... Freakin' hell that owner act blur gave us 2, when we said we wanted only 1 instead. No wonder no people come visit this store lar. Somemore give us this watery watery one.. *pukes* But durian long time no eat le. I saw newspaper they gonna sell this no-smell durian liao.. Bet there wouldn't be any asians replacing it with the original ones... Got sick because of this combination with alcohol and soyabean lor. Kao!!!!

Posted by Ruben at 11:43 PM | Permalink | Comments (4)

Was supposed to have the lim-kopi session on Wednesday, but ho ho ho... I was soooooo last minute informed by Ting Ting that we are going to have a meetup in Marina Square.. Had to rush all the way from TP to Bugis, after my DRP lor.. In the end, I forgot I left my earpiece in my lab coat and had to run back from the bus stop to the AS4 again sia.. I can't do without music lar.. What to do.. Hahaha.. Was having a good time chatting with Mr. Dr. Wong for half the journey while I'm on the bus 23.. He really wanted to do his research on Molecular Biology in our applied science school one lor, but the freakin' school didn't allowed him to pursue it.. Thanks to D'Ong I guess.. Ass. Pity to see such a good teacher leaving our school... ONE more year and I'll say good bye to the devils behind TP..

Back to the story... I luckily didn't get lost on my way there with the little information I get from Cornie, since I have walked the area before once... Was so pai-seh to let them wait for me lar, especially Cornie since she has been complaining all the while that she's hungry.. Hahaha.. Dinner was quite good.. I ate the don't-know-what-name restuarant's new signature dish, which combines both my favourite meat chicken and cheese one.. Superbly yummy.. Chit chat a bit.. Btw, the girls around the restuarant are pretty hot too.

Wanted to watch a movie, but none of them interest us or have been watched by either one of us. So we strolled our way to this kopi-tiam across the street and do our crap talk again, before heading to Marina Square for the Xin Wang Hong Kong Cafe to ton the rest of the night.. I have never tried before mixing coffee and tea together lar.. They called it "Ying Yong" there.. Took some time to get used to the taste, since it's like nowhere here or there sort of taste.. LOL! Most probably I drink too much of coffee and tea in the morning SEPERATELY.. What I liked about this restuarant is most probably cos it opens until 4am on weekdays and 24/7 on the weekends. Smart business strategy!

The fancy looking menu with lots of food ranging from Tim Sum to those main course dishes.. Love their drinks section too! They even sell Mango Ice-Cream Ice Kachang or something like that...

TingTing busy looking at the menu, while Cornie and Ryan played with their phones trying to to send each other the photos we took.. Cornie's bluetooth kukoo one. And that Ryan go copy me, go buy same phone! Shikes. I have such a common phone...

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French toast anyone? Never see this before.. Reminds me of TouFu.. Nope, not the stinky ones I've seen in Shanghai.. LOL!

As said earlier, the lim-kopi session was pushed to today.... And sms-ed around to gather their replies in the late noon... At least this time quite a number of people replied.. Even Shaun too sia! Hahah.. He still busy doing his Dinner-and-Dance thing for the TPSU club.. LOL! Don't think there'll be alot of people going there on the day itself, with such a high-class theme... Was thinking whether to cancel or just go ahead with today's meet-up lor.. Heng heng.. I didn't cancel sia.. Had a great time today having supper. Okay, my supper is just honey sea coconut and I'm starving as I'm writting this post.. Should have eaten something more heavy.. We talked about chalet, boxes (as in the undergarment), Shahrez's experience to the doctor who's going to snip off his lalallala, and Alex's unskillful target training..... Ahahaha... Don't read too much into these.. I'm just exaggerating some parts.. Opps if I say anything wrong! Talk and talk until it's time for us to catch the last bus home.. Well.. I agree with Pei Shan that we should have these more often in the near future... Just a simply chat and drink outing... Thanks for coming out guys! Some words for you all....

- Su Hua: Hm.. I still owe you a cup of teh-ping as prize for conquering the mountain FIRST... *winks*
- Pei Shan: You get nothing! Muahhaha.. No agreement was made with ya.. Somehow your walking to kopitiam very slow leh! LOL!
- Wei Ming: Thanks dude for making this session a bit more lively! And man.. Such a long hair you have.
- Shahrez: Count yourself lucky for coming here.. Ahahaha.. If not, muahahaha... And you should really ask your parents why they did it.. Really curious, besides the "clean" reason... And about the girls one too! :D
- Alex: Hell didn't know you are such an emotional person sia.. Can actually cry wor upon receiving your long awaited phone call from your MIA girlfriend.. If you go NS outfield, how sia? xD
- Soo Chin: Sheeze.. You never fail to turn up, do you? Hahaha.. That's the spirit.. Rock on man!

Posted by Ruben at 12:14 AM | Permalink | Comments (5)

Drag and drag.. and drag.. Ahahaa.. That's what I did for the poster project, which Mr Siew wanna submit for competition.. *tsk tsk* He only submits his own ideas... =.=" And now, he's asking everyone to make 3D effect for their posters... For me, the poster suppose to have the broken heart popped out in between the boy and girl, with the unsafe conditions the "arrow" that smashed the heart.. Ahahaha..

Anyhoo, I have sent the following cool reply to him after finalising all the poster edits that I have made...

Thanks for helping me to get the things finalised and printed! You're the man... :)

- Ruben.

Lucky for Zai Wei now that he basically didn't have to do anything for the printing part le.. Shikes. Why did I even agreed on forming into a group of 4, when I'm doing most of the image editing stuff... Zzzz... Somemore PSLP only B+ nia! What the hell.. Ahaha.. I know.. It's all my main paper's fault primarily.. xD

Have been DRP-ing lately.. Most of the time I was doing nothing... Zzz.. That Xin Wei likes to do one-man show, so I believe he sure tio this MP de.. Waiting for HPLC to process the solutions can be a torture. You just sit there and stone, if there's nothing to gossip about *looks at Shahrez*...

On Sunday, I was supposed to go Johor one but on the day itself before we left the house... we checked the passport and realised that my freakin' passport expired! Last year when I renewed before I left Shanghai for GC trip, they only gave me one year.. And now, the rules have changed to 10 years le.. Sian.. Need to get it renewed asap. My grandfather in Johor is real sick now.. He was feeling better when my family visited him that day... But just received a call that his condition become worse earlier on, and my parents have rushed over to check him out.. Hope it's alright man.. Even though I don't really know him much. He's suspected of either tumour or cancer I think.. He had an accident on his bicycle.. He's 82 years old i think.. And he smokes everyday.. Zzzz.. The doctor also say can't help le.. Cannot suddenly quit smoking for his case liao.. =/

Today hor.. That Salman invited the D'Ong over for dinner at KFC, and ps us sia after finishing his meal.. Zzz.. Ahahaha.. So in the end, only me Shah and Lester with D'Ong talking... Very awkard at first lar.. LOL! He keep on saying that "I'm too nice".. Zzz.. Am I very nice? Ha. Doubt so. For one moment, he mentioned about the teacher convicted of the molestation of students.. Which I wanted to say was actually my form teacher in Secondary 4... I really don't think so he will do it lor.. As such, I'm going to assist him by writing testimonials for his appeal.. He's like damn freakin' strict lar.. No wonder so many people don't like him and possibly accuse him of such stuffs.. Not common this case, principal also tio before.. But later found that student was lying.. =.=" Mr. Ding even bought us 100 dollars over worth of Gelera ice cream for our party in a condominium in the town area, although he wasn't able to make it in person.. This is what I call good! Haiz.. Sadly, these sort of things happen unexpectedly.. Really hope that he'll be acquitted of all the charges eventually...

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After the entire exhausting (and boring) first week of DRP sessions, we finally ended off with a free dinner at this Nina (?) Thai Restuarant in Far East Plaza. Opps for pang seh Alex! It's all so last minute thing that cropped up. Anyhoo, the free meal is proudly brought to you by Shahrez, Pei Shan, Samatha, Salman, D'Ong and Ign. Tan (I believe). Who told them to promise the D'Ong that they will pay him $5 for every distinction they obtained.. LOL! Shahrez's wallet seemed to be lighter after this dinner for sure. Hahahaha.. The food there was quite alright ba, which they ordered this 8-meal set for the 9 people that includes fish, prawns, toufu, xiao bai cai, chicken dumpling thingy, and a thai dessert. Not sure how much does it cost, but I sure know that's free for me! Phew. :D

Soon after the dinner, we roamed around Orchard Road like a pack of wolves looking for a place to chillout and eat ice-cream, but not knowing where to head to. Zzzz.. Somemore they throwed me the responsibility of finding that particular place since I've come to Orchard area more often than they do. Who wouldn't be stressed out man, if you were my situation! I know there was this open-till-late Swensens (24hrs actually) somewhere in the Orchard, but just couldn't figure it out then since the map of Orchard had somewhat been swiped clean from my brain. In the end, I made them walk one round to the Takashimaya basement to "look" at the Gelera for don't what reason. >.< We stoned there for a couple of minutes before continuing our journey to the cold west.

Swensen's full! Get the hell out of here... So the manager told us to wait outside at the road-side bench, since it's pretty difficult to get a table for 9 seaters inside the Swensen's. So after approx. 10mins... we were led into arena for some ice-cream food fight fiesta. Didn't know what to order so I believed Shah's recommendation of the Frosted Chocolate Malt that was just too chocolatey for my taste! I really hate that feeling of a sore throat heading my way lor.. Yucks! Shah keep bragging about how crunchy the BALLS are etc, while that Salman opted for the sticky ones. Wahhaha.. Don't think sick arh.. It's just chocolate BALLS. Ordered some shit mushroom too to top-up our not-so-full stomach. I meant shitake golden fried mushrooms. ;) What's more surprising is that we were told to pay only two dollars for the entire thing, since D'Ong is paying the bill first! He hates red $10 notes you see.. Must be something to do with his fengshui thing, assuming that red colour stuffs will clash with him? Dammit. Should have ordered more food if we knew that was the case. Wahahha..

Felt kinda sad for Lim A.L. who have been suaned and talked about behind his back by D'Ong from the time we met him till after the Swensen's. Blah. That's really mean lor.. Zzz.. Shah even dialled up his phone no. to ask him where is he now with special idea by you-know-who. Talking about how he has hanky panky-ing at the moment or something like that. Movie was next, in which Samatha did express a little bit of interest in, when she asked what movie we are intend to watch a moment ago. However, that chance of joining the hippy group was burst when D'Ong asked her to go home instead... *popped!* Felt that she had been puppet-ted by him then, since she said that she's a nocturnal animal herself so she couldn't have gone home and do nothing then since she is most likely gonna sleep at 3am (as she said?)... What a pity.

Instead of checking out the movie time slots at Plaza Singapura that we originally planned, we went to The Cathay and caught the movie "Blood and Chocolate", which was like so unknown and unheard of. A quick check showed that this movie was already released in the States since January.. Zzz.. It's true that the sceneries are almost in the movie with most of the sets took placed in Rome if not all... The movie portrayed the werewolves beautifully just like every other human being, and not a human-eating maniac. The "heritage" behind the werewolves were quite fascinating to me I guess.. They are taught to fear humans, able to transform into any form at anytime similar to a shape shifter, a rule that they must hunt in packs, and so forth... Blah blah blah.. But it's not really those sort of movie that you would say "EXCELLENT!" after you left the theatre. So I would say this movie get an average-average score ba... Maybe that's the reason why you didn't see any advertisements about this movie in the TVs and magazines.. Hahaha..

Once again, time for me to knock off. Night..

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Going back to school was tough. Ever since I have graduated from ACS(BR), I have always wanted to visit my teachers and help out with my band juniors there. But somehow there was just no opportunity for me to do so with all that plenty of reasons aka excuses (like first year when I meet up with friends near school but never go visit, because my stupid school ended late and all the teachers left). So it's just all talk, not actions lar. Finally, I managed to persuade myself to just do it and go back with my brother for band and visiting as well. It's a do or die thing considering that the only people I know now are the sec 4 students there, since they were my junior then when I was the quatermaster and webmaster of my school band website (it's gone for good after I left - they made it into a blog instead. =.=").

Simply by looking at the school's organisation chart outside the general office block, I was disappointed that I really came too late. 80% of the teachers that I know of are gone for good.. Those who remained don't even really teach me one or those that I am fond of. Within this short period of 2.5 years, quite a few female teacher (including the chio-est one - kao!!) got hitched and one even got pregnant! Met Jane Choe who said I'm more confident of myself than before le etc.. What to do.. Have to be adaptable what to polytechnic life what. Hahaha.. Had the longest talk with her, as compared to the other busy teachers. Then, I also saw Timonthy Wong who just said that he prefered my old look than the current, and just fled after that. Weird as usual. And thanks for the feedback. HONK! Mr. Donkey. Hahaha.. Had many brief chats with the teachers around here and there.. What's more surprising was to actually see Lucas working there as relief teacher! And yup, he's as dao as ever. >.>

As you all know, my form teacher Mr. Ding was accused of molestation in school, which I truly believe that he's innocent.. His verdict was supposed to be today, but the court had to readjourned it to next Friday for don't know what reason. How cruel is the system to him, having to make him tahan another week of torture waiting for the verdict. Now, just wait for that Mrs. Wee to give me updated information lor, and pray that he'll be alright man.

For lunch, we wanted to eat at the canteen but it was just too flooded with little kidos from ACS(P)! So we thought.. how about the Cafe Daily Bread near the pool? Shouldn't be crowded hur? But it was freakin' crowded sia even from the moment we step into the pool block.. But at least the serving there is better in quantity as to the canteen's one which seemed to have shrunk over the years. Cos of the crowd, I ordered a takeaway for my chicken cutlet ($4), which they packed it inside a plastic container for the meat and a paper bag for the fries. I was stunned sia. LOL! People put western food in food containers, and they used the plastic container used for noodles instead. Kao. Then in the end leh, we still ate at the cafe itself when we spotted a make-shift table there.. Hahaha.. I torn up the paper bag and used it as a plate for my meat which I placed it there so that it is easier to cut rather than in the container. From the looks of it, it does resembles as if we are eating the food directly from the table... if you get what I mean.. Hahaha.. Confusing I know. Not too sure how to describe it. Heck.

Band. It was a crappy performance for me, due to the fact that I didn't touch my euphonium or whoever's one for like almost 2.5 years as I said! It was strange. I thought I could easily pick up my skills, but found that I really have to go back to the basics. I was finding it hard to concentrate on the conductor. I was struggling with the high notes. I was not able to sustain a note for too long. This sucks. I was even worse than the new euphonium recruit at the beginning! But it got better near the end, when I sort of get a hand of it. Anyway, the euphonium I borrowed was cranky in the first place, because the 2nd valve can get jammed up at times causing me to play a wrong note. Toot.

Under the new batonship of the new conductor Tee Heong (I think that's how you spell his name), I find the band wasn't really as bombastic as before when Lee taught us. I really feel sad on the behalf of the band that Lee left the band when I heard the news.. He's just a good friend, teacher and conductor! I would definitely preferred him way over the TH dude with his asshole attitude. He even called one of the band members "bastard", which I find pretty unacceptable for his position to do so! Scold can scold, but you must know the meaning of the word you said which means you are scolding the person's mother as well! Stupid ass. In terms of discipline, our band dropped from C5 to all the way F9! When the conductor is talking, the students talk. And when the conductor told them to shut up, they scolded him back. LOL! Every small small thing also make comment. Dotz. When they are ordered to assemble before they go home, all they did was to form a simple matrix of "3 by (*)" and that was it. The line wasn't even straight. The boys were talking and shaking about. And the trainee student I/Cs don't even care. Blah! Must really complain to the drum major and band major! Apparently this 2 went to Jakarta (i think!) for some sort of music training. O.O!

This is the Band of Anglo-Chinese School (Barker Road) alright. *faints*

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Joy To The World! The holidays has come...

After suffering another major blow from the last paper (couldn't finish), a group of us went to Muthu's Curry at Suntec for some hot sensation there.. The classy Indian restuarant is so damn well-decorated I must say... They even have waiters that uses pda to take down your orders and stuffs. Always wanted to check out this high-class store whenever I passed-by it, but it's ever-so crowded during the weekends. And finally.. I did! Sadly, the girls didn't joined us too for this food fiesta somehow, whilst considering ah lian as a boy... Anyway, their signature Fish Head Curry was shared among the 5 of us, excluding shaun who only "drinked" the curry since he got a strange phobia of fish bones (o.o!). I couldn't really judge for the curry itself, since I myself don't really even like the idea of eating curry. Sooo ya lor.. I ate the fish mainly, which tasted quite good I must say.. I also ordered this finger-licking good fried chicken side-dish called "Chicken 65"... But the thing that I don't get it was that there's a mention of what "yoghurt" in the description, and I don't seem to taste anything like that in it! I could have seen the wrong column ba. *cockeye-d again* =.="

Hopping from Suntec to Marina Square was tedious and very lazy for people who slept only 1.5hours... After wasting quite a while of time deciding if we should go a movie, we took a bowl instead which Shahrez was simply the pro-est! He managed to get like 3 or 4 strikes in a row sia, even though he claimed that he's new to bowling.. "Yea right!" Ahahaha.. Me and Shaun was simply tagging at the back throughout the game.. LOL! Sad right? Could be signs of fatigue.. But nevertheless, we even went to play lan at Simei without alex and lian that is. Hahaha.. Was damn pro for a period of time in the last match thanks to my super luck... But that luck eventually faded away... Aww.. I would daresay that the undeniable truth is Jeremy is waayyy better than Shahrez in Counter-Strike.... for now...

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Music really does flows in my blood.. It keeps me alive! And that's the reason why I have been downloading quite a number of songs lately from the Internet... So if I ever get caught by the police or what not, I can just use this reason hur hur... Sheeze. I should start really adhere to the "Say No to Piracy" campaign soon.. Hahaha.. I will be adding the following new songs that I've just added into my music collection, into my music player here over the days:

To Apple: Can you Steve Jobs or whoever is in-charge please quickly release iPod 6G soon? Make sure you guys include a radio in too for such long wait... This is really making fairly impatient already! Should I just wait or should I look at alternative brands.. Hmm..

Today's paper was horrendous. I actually managed to catapult at least 25 marks into the thin air due to careless mistakes and whatnot. What I couldn't tahan is the damn humidity question, in which I couldn't even draw the operating line causing me to lose a further 4 marks for the linked questions. Kao. Have been bugging me the entire day after the paper lor. Arghh... Actually, This paper quite easy one, if you have studied that is. Section B is tricky but you're clear you'll get the marks for free. It always comes down to the theory part, that determines if you get a distinction or A etc. Now, I'm just hoping I can sustain a B for this Unit Operations 2.. *crossfingers*

Wish me all the best for PSLP paper on Wednesday, that will pretty much overload everyone's memory space. Okay then, now I just wish later in the day that I have gotten enough self-discipline to read through every topics after this lesson learnt... If not, just sleep for 1.5 hours again. LOL!

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恭喜发财!

May this year of the pig be filled with goodness of health, prosperity and luck...

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Special thanks to all those who spent their time celebrating with me during these few days! Rock on guys...

Wednesday, 14th February (Valentine's Day!)

"Surprise!" Really caught off guarded by Su Hua, Pei Shan, Wei Lian, Wei Ming and the others who were part of the "mischieve" making. Ahaha.. Thanks a million... Really appreciate what you guys have done for me to make-up for the bad birthday day I had. Anyhoo, I knew there was going to be some sort of thing going to happen on that day during the break or so I thought, but I never knew it was during the CSAS class itself.*muacks* *muacks* *muacks* Lol. Whoever thought of buying a mango cake really has a good taste man! Super delicious and yummy! And sorry about what happened to the japanese steam cheese cake you guys gave me.. I sort of put it inside my bag and got squaashed up like a flat roti prata, but I still finish it up though - taste good as new!

This was the first time I actually took a neoprint with my friends.. The other 'first' time no really counted since it was taken with a camera in the neoprint machine. LOL! Got chased out by the shop keepers in the end.. XD 10 bucks for such a sweet memories quite worth it wor. It's also not really surprising that it was my first/second neoprint time, since I came from a boy school de. Please don't expect us to take neoprints man - that would have just looked wrong. Wahaha..

Look at the photo above! Don't you just think that Wang Liang is a potential actor? Man you should really try going for an audition to work in the Mediacorp studios.. Lunch at Pizza Hut, and a free game play of Metal Slug at the arcade. Ahahaha.. Was sharp enough to notice that the Metal Slug machine was unoccupied and has 2 person credits in it, even though I was dead tired then.. Played it with Wei Liang, but got trashed terribly because the controllers are abit sot sot making me unable to jump in game well. Lucky us?

After school, an entire group of us - bachelors (except for Alex and Wei Lian - this one is bachelorette, not boy xD) - got nothing better to do. So we gathered our manpower, and head down to the brothel cinema and watched a raunchy action movie "Ghostrider"... This movie has good animated effects, although the details of the skull could have been better (but I guess the makers want it to be a PG film).. But as for the plot, let's say that there were many questions being asked after the movie itself that left us wondering about this and that.. There could just be another sequel to this movie hur hur... What a good Valentine's Day it was spending the day with your friends... =)

Thursday, 15th February

It's been ages since I last went for cycling-cum-jogging.. My legs and part of the abdominal area was aching the entire day when I go out for Round 2 of fun... A never-before-happened thing happened that day. I was actually on the dot, meaning punctual for an outing! Wow.. I've always expected myself to be late for anything and everything, but I wasn't. Lol. Woot.. Woot... However, that Donald duckie was late for a whole 30 minutes for goodness sake! *sheeze* After which, we met up with the living corpse called Ian found in Marina Bay, who hasn't been sleeping for the past 24hours. As expected, there was a retarded (as in slow) response from Ian.. LOL! Went to one of the steam boat chains that lined the street, and started gorging food into our tummies... Didn't like cooking food initially, since I prefer food to be laid in front of me rather than cooking it yourself and wait. Ahahaha.. After a while, the real conversation gets heat up and yeaaa.. the day just turned out alright. Ting Ting really know how to eat prawns.. Take until so many.. LOL! And that duckie as usual likes to play with his food, just like Gillian last time? :P *acts innocent* And no, I did not put the soup into that empty drink can and try to fool Ting Ting... LOL!

China boy Ryan bought me a funky fish keychain as my birthday gift while the two "姐妹" bought us $20 worth vouchers that can be used to buy items from the affiliated sports shops. Thanks guys! And that Ian gave me and Ryan (he also soon-to-be birthday boy lar) this cool little red poach that contains 4 pineapple (i think.. it tasted quite like it!) raspberry tarts (thanks for the correction iano), which he was selling in the TP restuarant earlier in the day as his project.. It's the thoughts that count.. ;)

Steam boat liao.. We "走走" to Marina Square's McDonald and talk till we can take the last mrt train home. Heng heng Mac didn't really close its shutters on 10.30am.. Hahaha.. Helped them reduce any Milo wastage by buying the last few cups.. xD Everyone was quite stony then.. Staring into the blank space, which seemed pretty interesting to do then... Hahaha.. See you guys soon!

Friday, 16th February

Was supposed to meet my secondary school buddies Ryan (not the yesterday one) and Kai Jun.. But that Kai last minute had to run errands with his "ah bu", and go do CNY shopping. Zzz.. So in the end, it was just me and Ryan for the movie and pool. "The Last King of Scotland" was a fairly good show since it's inspired from true story one. The primary story goes around the buddy relationship between this scottish doctor and African coup president... And how this scottish doctor betrayed the president's trust, by fucking his second wife. LOL! This show is M18 for a reason.. Ahahah.. And I sure do look like 18 yr-old since they didn't checked my IC! Heh. Amazingly, Kai Jie (not this Kai - LOL!) "bumped" into me at Plaza Singapura.. Hahhaa.. Surprise surprise.. What was he doing there... Next move was to hunt down a location to play pool from Meridien to Cineleisure and finally settled down on the not-so-crowded Lucky Plaza. I trashed myself in the first 2 rounds by hitting the black ball into the holes even before the game started warming up. tmd. So it was 2-0 already! Luckily, I managed to turn it into a draw by the end of our games. 3-3! Ryan you really got to buck up your skills, if you want to beat your mother in pool. Your accuracy stinks man! Or should I say that my luck is simply too "wang wang".. Wahhaha.. If not for the 2 lucky rounds, I would have won! Hehe. Good day, good games...

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To most of us, this CNY is pretty dreadful since it coincides with our study week. None of us really looked forward to it.. But yea.. the festive season is in no matter what. Bought a new pair of shoes, 2 shirts and 1 pant so far, of which are clothings that I don't normally buy in terms of style. Ahh.. What the heck. Queensway was soooo crowded during the last weekend that really turned me off to do any CNY shopping. So it's literally a grab-(pay-)and-go thing for me that day.

Wooooo.. I'm turning 19th this coming Monday! However, it really sucked alot because I will be my birthday hours coped up at home mugging the ass off for the term test the next day. *diaoz* Wanted to hang out with my friends on Wednesday initially, but on the second thought that it was Valentine's Day it got called off. It's just weird to hangout on the day where couples roam the entire street! Soo.. I sort of pushed it off to Friday instead. Hahaha.. And man, did that serious china boy ryan actually bought a birthday gift for me. LOL! Couldn't believe it myself... xD A china gift woah! Looking forward to meeting him and the other peeps this coming Thursday... My life's weird. It usually tend to get a little bit busier during near the exam periods.

Sheeze...

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No more projects! All of my projects have finally been cleared, which has really dissipated all our energy for the past few weeks. Just hope tomorrow's CSAS consultation will give us the green light to submit our project. As for the poster, I have sent it to that char siew bao already via email. If I were to hand it to him in person, he would confirm ask us to edit this and that de. So damn mafun. Luckily, there's only PIA (and CSAS3?) for term tests. After which, it's Chinese New Year!

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Woohoo..Yeehoo! I've finally finished the PIA project.. What a subject name. This project seriously requires lots of time to pia for deadline. I couldn't believe that I didn't even got the time to blog anytime ever since school started.. Poor time management I guess. Once I on the television, I'll be sitting there till 12pm or so. Channel 5 got lots of interesting drama series lately like Cold Case, which is about those very old old criminal cases and how they managed to solve them. I miss Grey's Anatomy, and.. Prison Break, and.. LOST, and.. Simpsons.. I'm such a drama freak.

School will be over in no time.. Just need to tahan 4 more weeks! Anyway, this CNY angbao "earnings" wouldn't be much liao, since my parents and 2 siblings of mine are leaving for a trip to China... Don't know go what er-mei shan place.. Sheeze! I so wanna join them too.. But stupid TP make exams three days after the CNY holidays! GRR...

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It's not too late to say "Happy New Year" now, since we're in 2007! It took me a complete 2 weeks to actually get this post up. I was waiting for Ian to send over all the photos we took on the NY's eve, before I make my first post. And so I did. A new year, a whole new challenge awaits. I'm so tight up with my projects currently that I don't really have the time to go out to relax. Stuck at home, facing the computer 24/7. This is so becoming major part of my life that I don't really wish to continue.

Over the past two weeks, I haven't been doing any tutorial since everyday got something important to do. One was the cutenews system in Litez. The others were the projects. I'm currently trying to finish the "Boy-Girl" poster... Chocolate one's done I would say. Not so perfect, but can qualify for a above good grade ba. This particular project has really grilled my photoshop skills, from the cartoony pixel dude to those real-life photo editor.

Oh yes, thanks Mr. Lim for picking up my walkman phone earpiece! Without it, I don't think I'll survive the long bus trip everyday to school. Phew... I thought I lost it for good, and had to find a replacement or what, which will cost me some $$$. Luckily, that day was a lucky day for me.

Results are back too! Scored not too badly for my UO2, which honestly speaking I feared the most due to the fact that my last question and the theory part were completely f-up. Surprise surprise. Lots of awards to give, as Yuan said... From the newcomer (ie Alex for UO2) to the top 5 failures... Hahaha.. He's such a good old straightforward jerk. xD

Back to the past... (31/12/06)

Ate this salmon crepe at Raffles Place basement. Taste so damn saltish when I ate it initially. Didn't realised that I was to add the apple thing on the side to it, till I almost finish eating it.

Shared two different types of waffles with my friends... Don't they look delicious?! Good photograph boy.

Drank tea and ate the cake above at the V Tea room in Esplanade while waiting for the countdown. Chit chat. Sing song. Talk crap. Hahahaa...Esplanade is SO crowded.

Floating ball in the Marina Bay, with wishes on them I think. So many of them.... We found our way on top of the bridge, which was really squeezy and stuffy. Luckily, we got a good view from there. Took lots of videos of the fireworks than photos, since it's much more easier to capture the moment. Happy 2007!

Waiting for time to past, since there was alot of people trying to rush their way home to get on the last bus. So we took this photograph at the Fullerton hotel. Poor hotel management.. Now, they've got to replaced all the plants that were being trampered upon. After the commotion has been reduced, we flew our way to Pasir Ris for supper! Whoot.. Had a good time there eating and drinking the alcohol bought in 7/11. Forgot what was it, but it was recommended by that Donald. Not bad. The 7/11 uncle let us bought it even though it was passed their 3am limit. Ahaha..

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Yes! My parents are off to Thailand for 4 days with their workers for a company holiday trip! This means there's no control over me within this period. I can come home whatever time I like, without having to report to them! Hehe. This is so like Prison Break, which I have been watching for the past few days.. For the last few episodes of Season 1, I chiong-ed all the way till 5am in the morning before I slept. It's just too exciting to stop in the middle of nowhere man! So many characters died in the show.. Boohooo.. I got a feeling that they ain't getting their 5 million from D.B. Cooper in Otah...I shall watch it in the new year 2007!

Regards to school work, I think I'm going to be a dead shit when the school reopens this Wednesday. Although Ming and Zai got come over to my house to take photos, that's just the starting point. I have to add the "fire" to it, which I was thinking of making my own digitally (not like what Tom Hanks did in Castaway!). And that's only one of the two posters our group have to do. Argh. Never like the idea of welcoming friends over my house before, since it's not really the idea design I have in mind. Hahaha.. Well.. I'll try to get my parents to work on it, starting with the sofas this coming new year. Then, the stupid "cough syrup" project is hanging in the mid-air, all thanks to Suhardi who still haven't sent in his research! I'm so f**king hell going to scold the shit out of him, if I were to see him in school. And the APEL reflection that I did only the first question.. Deadlines are going to kill me once again.

New year resolutions? None for now.

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Anyone care for a drink at the Alley Bar? Hahaha.. That's what me and some of my secondary classmates (Wai Leong, Kai Jun, Ryan and Alex) did.. Too bad Johnson didn't joined us there.. Freakin' hell left during the pool game, which he didn't touched at all. What to do.. This dude is a national swimmer, and have to win medals for the country de (which he did alot)... Anyway, I met up with these group of peeps, after like 2 years which is pretty sad. Class not bonded then what to do.

I was late as usualy for about 30 minutes? Hahaha.. That's me alright. Was feeling pretty awkard when we were at the Carls Jr. at Plaza Singapura eating... They were talking about Air France videos, politics and different holiday vacations, which seemed foreign to me now. I used to hang around them pretty well, before we each left on our own paths. They either went ACS (International) or ACJC, unlike me. And yup, they are far richer than me alright. That's one thing for sure.. From how frequent they actually travel.. Alex travels to Canada to ski.. Ryan as a getaway every sem break... Wai Leong.. a trip to dubai on birthday.. johnson.. canada to ski.. Argh! So damn good. That's probably one of the influences why I wanna get the hell of Singapore whenever I can.. But it really got better when we were at Le Meridien shopping centre playing pool.. Things starts to get cosy up a little bit, as in like less weird. Hahaha.. After that, we fled to the Alley Bar and drank some beer. I also ordered "Singapore Sling", which tasted real good! Don't really have the strong alcoholic taste to it, but you can visibly see my face turned red. LOL! The atmosphere there was good.. Too bad we can't take the seats inside, where there's this huge red sofa.. So damn comfy lor. Realised that Kai Jun and Alex picked up the bad habit of smoking liao.. Zzz.. Say what "smoke the good quality stuff, you get the good quality stuff" theory, but the stuff in nature are still bad what. Diaoz. Overall, the outing was good and sort of fun. And hm... Alex actually have a girlfriend! Jesus Christ.. How can that devil have a girlfriend man.. LOL! We sort of chat a bit of school stuff, and about that Ding aka boy accused molestor.. =/ Good day.. good day indeed...

Just an image of the Singapore Sling. Didn't took any photos for it..

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And my relatives are coming down later today, since we're celebrating it a day earlier as usual... Come to think of it, it's pretty weird how this festive mood seeped into our lives in the past till this very day. If I'm not wrong, it all started when I noticed that during the primary school year-end holidays, there's always a period where all the shops put up all their fancy decorations here and there. Soon, one day I asked my mum what's all these is all about, and she sort of answered "Hey, why not we'll find out what is it like to celebrate Christmas?" even though my family and relatives at that time were all Buddist. But now, it's different - it's more of a mix of Christians, Buddists and free-thinkers. Hahaha.. Interesting eh? So that's my story of how my family bumped into Christmas - the spirit of giving and receiving...

Damn. Still haven't got my mum any present yet! First thing tomorrow morning, me and my brother are going to head out for the nearest shopping mall and grab something! Simply have no time to do for the past few days...

6 Days... to Christmas
Went out to rock-climbing with my brothers as planned in the afternoon, although it was raining cats and dogs... Singapore recorded the highest rainfall on this very day wor! So yeaa... we went home drenched, and I fell sick somehow. In the end, I realised it was just super irritating and at times painful indigestion. Most likely due to the harness I wore that was just too tight ba. It was only 5 dollars for the rock-climbing stuff after 6pm, inclusive of the equipments w/o time limit! But that offer is only for certain days, if I'm not wrong. It's at the Tanjor Pajang, where I have gotten my newbie rock-climbing license from. Hahahaha... Fun fun.

5 Days...
Went to watch "Night at the Museum" movie at Vivocity during the so-called "class outing" with only my click (Jeremy, Shaun and Soo Chin) around.. =.=" Had a great time chatting, when we're at the "White... something something" restuarant... However, my choice of food there is the worst although it's the most expensive among theirs - "Crispy Duck Confit" in red wine sauce. There wasn't much meat inside the dish - more of skin and fats! Blah. Wasted my money... No wonder people says that expensive might not equal to quality. Argh. The movie was sort of lame, but it was really funny (it's Ben Stiller hor.. don't play play with this joker)! Hahaha.. What a good way to spiced up the Christmas mood!

4 Days...
There was also the PIA project to work on together with Suhardi and Wei Liang. Really find no nuts just on the literature research of the cough syrup. What a headache. Not sure what state my team will become after surviving this storm, but I'm sure we will! *strive for the best!*

2 Days... (which is today yesterday lor!)
All the photos shown above are all taken at the Singapore Garden City exhibition at Suntec... Forced myself to join my mum and sis and look at those gardens and stuff, since I'll be the only one at home if I ain't going out. It's holiday season anyway! There was some interesting gardens, which you should take a look for yourself there... The concept are refreshing and nice, unlike those typical ones while some gardens are used to portray certain things like "Life after WWII". My brother wanted to place a pitcher plant at home to trap flies, so we managed to found one small one for him. Quite lame, and don't think it'll be effective. Just use those "slappers" lar! Hahhaha... But he really got no skill using them.. Heh. After the exhibition, it was Christmas dinner shopping time! Bought tons and tons of food to prepare for the big feast later today! No turkey though, only got his cousin chicken. Hahahha.. We are even going to make sushi tomorrow, since my auntie requested for it! It's sure going to be like a food galore.. *chew chew*

I wonder what am I getting from my relatives this year... Hmmm...

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Christmas is coming real soon. And no rain or thunderstorm is going to stop it from everyone falling into its festive charm. Not even Grinch with his lousy attempts! Well.. he could have done the rain-seeding technology, so that he can dampen everyone's christmas spirit. Blah. What am I thinking..

Exams are finally over, and I don't wish to talk about my exam performance here. It's Holidays man! Anyway, it took me 3 days to squeeze some "stress-relieve" time out for me to make this blog post. Orchard Road was good with all the lightings and christmas decorations. It would have been better if there wasn't any rain at all! Imagine having to walk half-way down the beautiful street, only to know that it started pouring buckets of water on you suddenly. Admire it while you can man, since it's limited time only (thanks to rain). Hahaha..

Present hunting is always a headache. With thoughts like "Is this cool enough for him?" or "Does this present look childish?" constantly flooding into your brain, every moment your eyes set upon the potential gifts. My cousins have grown up alright. And I still couldn't believe that my sister bought a cartoon pencilbox from china, which she intend to give my cousin. *piang* Thought that count? Bleh. I don't think this society is being true to their feelings when they say that. The new generation of youth are getting so materialistic, and that would include myself of course. But to me, it's more of the quality that I'm concerned. So long as the quality is good, I don't mind giving it as a christmas present or what not.

So last Sunday, my family went down to Takashimaya and spent several hours just on choosing two presents we had in mind for my two cousin. The other cousin wasn't coming this Christmas, since his family is going to Japan then. It will still be fun without him I guess, since I find him too hyper! And techy? Hahaha.. He even persuaded his dad to buy him a laptop that has fingerprint-reading capabilities! And guess what? He's only 11-years-old. They really have spoilt him man. As for my present, I still haven't started shopping for it yet. I was thinking of shoes again this Christmas, but neh. Last Christmas was that Timberland shoes that I wore everyday liao. Perhaps something simple.. like a punky cap? Ahahaha.. Something different from what I like to wear everytime ba. Hmm..

And yep, my Christmas tree is up... And it's a huge makeover this time. Our theme this year - blue and white! All the decorations are up, except for the lights. We bought about 100 dollars worth of decors alone. Didn't knew that those would actually cost that much, since it was like several years ago since we bought our first xmas tree. "Imported from Finland" they say, but I got a gut feeling that some might have been imported from the Chinese elves due to economic benefits.. Hahaha.. I'll try to take a photo of it soon, and post it up here when I've got the time. Tomorrow, it's bouldering time! So toodles..

6 days to Christmas! Hohohoho...

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This is the crappiest Star Awards I have ever watch to date. Why? Let's make this short, since I don't really have time to nag about it (got to study lar)..

Irritating time dude
This baboon (not refering to the other baboon Shahrez.. Hahaha..) kept on cutting people their speech, with special help from Guo Liang. =.= They wouldn't even let the All-Time Favourite Award winner Chen Liping finish her last sentence.. TOOT sia. And yep, she deserves to win that award alright.. Her "Aiyoyo" character is the only childhood show that I could remember.. Absolutely love it then!

Lousy microphones
There was apparently some mike interference when that Qi Yiwu was saying his speech... We could even hear the female intruder talk clearly on TV lor.. Imagine being there to hear this joker saying her stuff.

Sympathy votes for Wei Lian?
Seriously, he acted only in one show so far.. And he has already the Best Newcomer and Top 10 Male Artiste award! And I doubt his acting was that good... Voters next time please keep singing and acting apart. They are two different things.. And don't lead him into thinking that he is a good actor for goodness sake... I am pretty sure that there's a newcomer who ought to receive that "Best Newcomer Award"..

Reused jokes
Mediacorp got the duo finalist from the joker competition to do some sort of skit in it, which I don't really think is funny at all. Did you even hear the crowd laughed? Not at all. And they got the "changing clothes" thing going again in this award. Can't they think up of something new? Or even a simple change of song... Couldn't really stand this part of the show somehow.. And it was extremely draggy! Lame.

Award presenters
Nothing really against this. Just that Mediacorp just likes to reuse things yar. So much so that they want to revive the "nan zhu jiao" joke thing. Sheeze. Note for Mediacorp.. Please use the jokes once only. It's not really funny, if you try to do it the second time again. Maybe I'm not such a humorous person eh...

Movie advertisement
So what if they got this Hong Kong dude here to present the awards.. I think he's here primarily on the basis that the awards allow some air time for him to promote his latest movie. Lame. Next time you'll see another guy promoting SK-II there too hur.

Nevertheless, the show went on pretty good when the 5566 dudes came up to present the awards, which I believe was pretty well done. This is unlike the "nan zhu jiao" dude, which went terribly wrong. Hahaha.. The best part was when he said that Christopher Lee must have done something good unknowingly, when Chris was talking about how people support through his troubled times with the "things he had done" (which was the "hit-and-run" incident). *cough cough* The first time top 10 male winner Elvin was pretty funny, since he didn't really know how to express himself on stage. Haha.. He just want to keep thanking whoever is on his mind man.. Anyway, he's dubbed as the one who will take over the reign of being the Queen from Zoe in 8Days magazine. LOL!

Actually, I got lots more to say about the winners, but heck.. I need to carry on with my revision for today... Have been watching TV shows after another for almost the entire day. =/ So dead. Wouldn't be blogging anytime soon I hope. :) See you on Friday! Ciaos..

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Let me wish the following a Happy Birthday!

Hope all your dreams and wishes come true! Maybe Santa might pop in something extra special for your Xmas presents.. Hehe..

Hmm.. I didn't realised that my dad's birthday same as Xiaoping's one wor.. Too bad I didn't saved one of Soo Chin's hits single "Happy Birthday"... Hahaha.. If not, I go run it in the background.. LOL!

So what happened today? I'll just sort of let the photos speak for themselves.

UO2 presentation, which I didn't quite prepared for. Just print out research notes that run through it before the actual thing. Although I fumble quite a bit, I was trying to cut down on my content and hasten my pace. Blah. Alex talked too much & slow lar - though he did help us gain points on the "target audience" thing..

Bloody Zac waiting to eat the cake already, even before the cake was taken out of the darn box... *diaoz*

The birthday kidos! WOOooo... Wei Ming attempting to give Pei Shan his present... She looks scared.. Hahahaha.. And argh! No one asked me to go along and choose the cake hur hur... I can sense something is going on.

Didn't feel like studying. So I decided to do a quite attempt in fusing Zai Wei into a "construction site" photo I found on google for PSLP poster... Haven't been using Photoshop to edit photos for ages.. This is bad.

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iPod died on me again.
Spent almost the entire day trying to find a solution on the internet, but sadly to no avail. All thanks to the corrupted Electrico songs that I placed in the ipod... It caused minor song skips initially, before it eventually go bonkers and start to skip all the songs. So I did the standard 5 R's recommended solution by Apple. In the end, all the songs in them disappeared into thin air. Even after I tried to restore the ipod, it kept on giving me the corrupted folder icon. Tried to use the "superfix", which is to format the ipod with windows format thing. No use too. Looks like I'll have to make another trip down to the service centre sometime after my exams. Can't wait to replace this old junk, when Apple releases their touchscreen 6G "true video" ipod next year or so the rumours says. *cross fingers* In the mean time, I'll have to make do with my handphone or the xxx brand mp3 player I got. Blah.

Officially a Nightowl.
Help! I can't change my body clock anymore... I have tried turning to bed early (as in 1 am only), but I would end up rolling back and forth instead. Zzz. So that's it I guess. HOOT! HOOT!

Blogspot down...
No blog reading for today. Ha. Blogspot owners better hope that their server didn't crash and lost every single details they have... Hehe.

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No time to blog. But here's a nice picture in an email Ryan had forwarded me... In just one day, he sent me 18 forwarded emails. Power. That's what I can spamming. lol.

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Chronic cough. All day and night I have been coughing, which simply sucks. Can hardly get a good sleep without coughing and drinking lots of water. Bah! What a rare opportunity... We actually spent almost 4 hours seeing the joker Zack for school. He took over Ms Sim's UO2 lab sessin, and I can say his "teachings" are damn powderful. We don't even know what to do for the last question of the pract quiz. Diaoz. Screwed up the tutorial quiz... Don't even know what was going on.. Luckily, that Kaijie roughly taught me how the equations worked during the tutorial...

*cough cough*

That Jeremy quite 'on' sia lately. Usually, when we catch a movie, it's just the usual group. Now, he actually asking around everyone to go. Woah. But too bad today's scheduled midnight movie was cancelled (kind of expecting this would happen somehow), since Ming and Liang got injured from the BB tourny. If not, we would have one hell of the time wandering around Orchard Road. I like doing that somehow.. Lol. Tell that Jeremy to go during the weekends le, but he wanna go train his stupid maple $600 character. Siao gena...

*cough cough*

So damn shagged due to the lack of sleep. Intended to sleep when I got home straight away from school.. However, instead.. I go punggol cycle for almost an hour. Somehow feel that it's such a loss to waste this good weather... Heard that it was a tough match during the BB tourny, with star players etc. Dangit. MIssed such a good show... Good job anyway. At least it's better than the soccer team? =X (Psst.. 3 goals in total lor..) Better luck next time... and of course, with more trainings.. Heh.

*cough cough*

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Projects are taking my sleep away lately. For the past two days, I have been sleeping at 4am, while having to drag myself up from my bed at 7am just for school.. This means that I have effectively slept only 3 hours a day (excluding the afternoon naps that I take occasionally.. lol.)! Well.. At least 2 projects are over now... CSAS and UO2.. All I have to deal with now is PSLP & PIA project and 2 lab reports (upcoming PCI + PIA)... Argh! What a festive season this is.. Talking about this.. I think I never go to town for like at least a month already. I'm sure that all the decorations are all up and ready for Xmas shoppers to grab-and-go their items. Hehe.. My parents asked me what I want for Christmas.. Hmm... But I myself don't even know what! Yikes. So unprepared for this Xmas...

Well done Alex for the UO2 project.. You really put in alot of effort, even though you really got my nerve at the printing shop for being so fussy like a women (that "aunty" also say so lor). LOL! Really like the final product that we had produced... Kudos! 6 bucks for a mini-booklet quite alright.. Didn't know it was so tedious to actually make a booklet like that.. Have to undergo 30 minutes of trial-and-error to get our final product. Hahaha.. Good job team! Looking forward to the upcoming presentation....

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Villian 1 attempts to chop off Bond's balls, before villian 2 appears and killed him. In the end, villian 2 sets free Bond from the horrendous ordeal of getting whipped down there by villian 1. So why did villian 2 do so?

*BOOM!* Suddenly, the screening ceased. What the hell is going on man! After a short while, one GV staff came in and said that they will continue the show in 10-20 minutes time. So yea.. We (Jeremy, Shaun, Soo Chin, Zai Wei & I) thought it's okay, since we can have our so-called toilet break. But before we left our seats, another dude came in and said that they are experiencing some sort of power shortage or what shit and that we would have to go to the damn counter to collect our "complimentary tickets" as our refund. Zzzz...

That's the story for today. So if you were to ask me "Did I watched Casino Royale?", I can only reply that "I watched Casino Royale half-way". Don't know to say if this is a good thing or not, since we can use the complimentary tickets for any movies at any theatres. Let's use it to watch another movie next time ba guys. No more movie subsidies from me man! Heh. I guess I'll just have to download the movie, and watch the 15 minutes ending. Hahaha.. By the way, I went to snip my hair today for a "clean cut" look. >.< Heart pain sia when I saw the hairdresser cut the amount of hair... LOL! Was intending to go for straight perm or some sort, but decided to go for a cheap and faster way instead.. Well well..

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Got my brother to forward me this cool chain letter which can predict one's character quite well I feel although not all exactly true. Anyhoo, I'm a Cedar Tree from this chart!

Cedar Tree (Confidence) -- of rare strength, knows how to adapt, likes unexpected presents, of good health, not in the least shy, tends to look down on others, self-confident, a great speaker, determined, often impatient, likes to impress others, has many talents, industrious, healthy optimism, waits for the one true love, able to make quick decisions.

Self-confident and good speaker? Depends on situations ba. I surely know how to adapt well, which is so true (i think?)! But it is more of 'willing' to adapt to things ba... When I made my decision to go poly, instead of the conventional ACSian choice of going to JCs (Opps to the school's statistics!). It's so unlike what that Ong had said about me boohoo-ing to my mummy if I were to go for OSIP.. Zzz.. Not in the least shy.. Sort of. Tends to look down on others... Trying to change that now.. And who doesn't like to impress others? Hmmm.. Wait for the one true love? Maybe that's the reason why I'm not really into any relationships hur hur... Do I make quick decisions? Nah. Tend to hestitate alot, especially when it's about food. Haha.

Now, it's your turn. =)

Find your birthday and then find your tree. This is really cool and somewhat accurate. Then send it to your friends, including the one that sent it to you, so they can find out what tree they fell from.
 
Jan 01 to Jan 11         -       Fir Tree
Jan 12 to Jan 24         -       Elm Tree
Jan 25 to Feb 03        -       Cypress Tree
Feb 04 to Feb 08        -       Poplar Tree
Feb 09 to Feb 18        -       Cedar Tree
Feb 19 to Feb 28        -       Pine Tree
Mar 01 to Mar 10        -       Weeping Willow Tree
Mar 11 to Mar 20        -       Lime Tree
Mar 21 (only)              -       Oak Tree
Mar 22 to Mar 31        -       Hazelnut Tree 
Apr 01 to Apr 10         -       Rowan Tree 
Apr 11 to Apr 20         -       Maple Tree
Apr 21 to Apr 30         -       Walnut Tree 
May 01 to May 14       -       Poplar Tree
May 15 to May 24       -       Chestnut Tree
May 25 to Jun 03        -       Ash Tree
Jun 04 to Jun 13         -       Hornbeam Tree
Jun 14 to Jun 23         -       Fig Tree
Jun 24 (only)              -       Birch Tree
Jun 25 to Jul 04          -       Apple Tree
Jul 05 to Jul 14           -       Fir Tree
Jul 15 to Jul 25           -       Elm Tree
Jul 26 to Aug 04         -       Cypress Tree
Aug 05 to Aug 13       -       Poplar Tree
Aug 14 to Aug 23       -       Cedar Tree
Aug 24 to Sep 02       -       Pine Tree
Sep 03 to Sep 12       -       Weeping Willow Tree
Sep 13 to Sep 22       -       Lime Tree
Sep 23 (only)             -       Olive Tree
Sep 24 to Oct 03        -       Hazelnut Tree 
Oct 04 to Oct 13        -       Rowan Tree
Oct 14 to Oct 23        -       Maple Tree
Oct 24 to Nov 11        -      Walnut Tree
Nov 12 to Nov 21        -     Chestnut Tree
Nov 22 to Dec 01        -      Ash Tree
Dec 02 to Dec 11        -       Hornbeam Tree
Dec 12 to Dec 21        -       Fig Tree  
Dec 22 (only)              -        Beech Tree
Dec 23 to Jan 01         -        Apple Tree

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Just helping my friend Geraldine to advertise her online shop "Isabelleconti", which was just set up recently.. She sells her self-designed tees and also other imported goods from Taiwan/Korea. Check out her website here.

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Sexy cars, beautiful models. This perfect couple makes it all right for Motor Show 2006. However, some major car makers are missing from this show such as Mercedes-Benz, Mitsubishi, and Volkswagen, which is quite a disappointment to all the visitors I guess... We got to take a peek into the future, and managed to steal a look (keke.. more than one) at the million-dollar babies - Lamborghini and Ferrari.

So are you ready for Motor Show 2006?

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I certainly feel things have already changed. I find myself trying to pretend that everything was perfectly fine, and nothing has ever happened. But things are different now alright. I feel pretty awkard at times when we were having dinner at the Sakae Sushi to sort-of celebrate Su Hua's birthday. By the way... Happy Birthday, Su Hua!

Look at the twin sisters! Pei Shan's sister was there, after being conned by her. Mastermind: Us. Heh.

Haiz.. When the class was discussing with the UO2 groupings, I was standing behind the class with Wei Liang and the rest, trying to play no part in this affair. In the end, somehow Yuan Long himself got caught himself in it also. He's already pretty moody somehow that day. I found myself pulled in, when I wanted to clarify somethings with her about Shahrez, because he himself feels pretty frustrated to whether to create a group for the Malays for sympathy sake, or to follow his heart and join our group. But instead, she claimed that I think she was poaching Shahrez over to her group (which I seriously don't care - it was Alex's idea to get him over anyhoo). What's saddening was to hear Wei Lian telling me not to make her cry, after I had done so to Pei Shan and Su Hua. Speechless I was, while I tried not to tear then. "Where I go wrong?" I told myself... All I can recall the day before was that I was just furious about the "Rejected" protest, which eventually spark of a chain of arguement about the groupings and its relevance. Apparently, this silly issue have hurt many hearts and caused lots of discontent within the class. I'm sorry to those whom I have hurt by my words. I'm sorry for overblowing the issue. I'm sorry...

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Last Sunday was the worst nightmare I ever had for an outing. Bad luck fell upon the group of us who went to East Coast to celebrate Gillian's birthday. First was that Donald crashed into a bloody Chinese foreign worker, and literally bent the wheel of that dude's bike. He was learning how to ride a bike you see.. And had to chiong, so that he wouldn't topple down. Still can't believe that he doesn't know how to ride a damn bike, when he's like rather active in sports one. Diaoz. In the end, we wasted our bike rental to spend time argueing with that idiot and Donald compensated him 19 bucks for the filmsy wheel of his (+ pedal, which came off and shoved back in). Next was that we were waiting for the last bus at bus stop (to go home), outside the east coast food court or watever you call that place. After waiting for several minutes, the last bus came and sped off in front of us. Stupid lor! It was the only bus that was servicing that bus stop, and it actually didn't bother to stop or what. But yeaa.. i can still say the day sort of alright ba.. We should do that chilli game sometime soon.. :D

Had a quarrel with a group of my classmates earlier today.. I just feel that they should have voiced their opinions earlier about the grouping for UO2 on the day itself we decided, rather than wait till the next day to settle it. If you are unhappy with the groupings, voice it out. Don't make swop changes to the so-called groupings, and make us assume that you have agreed with it. It's really over the board to write the word "Rejected" all over the paper itself instead of signing their signatures, which pisses me personally. I don't think it's funny. I bet that Alistair himself was feeling that too, when I spoke to him about it at first. Now, he have to get another freakin' piece of paper or erase all those stuffs. What sort of respect do you have for him as the new class monitor? It's totally unacceptable that to give the reason that we had agreed to draw lots on Friday, and not yesterday so it was invalid.. Then, why didn't you all say so earlier? To tell the truth, I have persuaded Alistair repeatedly to do it as soon as possible, since the UO2 project was given out so that we can get our hands onto the project soon. 3 weeks for the project isn't alot of time. Not only that, it's really a huge trouble for Alistair to write a customise message to each group about the grouping and the problems, and send it to everyone else, when the effort comes to naught. Also, the balloting was absolutely fair. What's more the top players of the 'game' is evenly spreaded I would say.

[Retracted a statement here, so as not to offend anyone while at the same time it is rather contrary to the main point I am trying to say which is to speak up...]

I guess we'll be having another balloting tomorrow, which I hope this matter will close by itself somehow. I certainly don't mind redrawing those things again. So in conclusion, if you guys ever want a re-ballot next time, say so on the spot and don't wait for everything to happen le then ask for changes.

Going back to my tutorials...

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Dance like no one's watching.

Sing like no one's listening.

Work like you don't need the money.

Love like you've never been hurt before.

Live like there's no tomorrow

How I wish I can do exactly what is mentioned in this poem from the "My Name is Kim Sam-Soon" korean drama series... I'm sure everyone would like to be the main character in a fairy tale story, but it's really sort of a fat hope thing. There will always be stress around. There will always be boredom around. There will always be worries around. I need changes in my life to make it more exciting and more life, but it has been like this forever somehow - always going with the flow. Bleh. You get my point.

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With the timetable at full swing now, I can hardly find time to blog lately. But it isn't as bad as compared to some of my classmates who are having CDS... 2 hours break just for a 15 minutes lesson! *sniggers* I really do hate the Monday and Tuesdays - going for lectures that can bore you to death or even learning nothing (alright, I'm too dumb to understand it).

I watched two movies over the the past few days - The Guardian & The Prestige. I'm sure we will be looking forward for more movies that start with "The" this and that... I like the meaning behind "The Guardian", which shows us the side of the coast guards - Bravery, team spirit and dedication. Don't think there's any other movie that portrayed them so well. I can't help, but to say that Punk'd fellow Ashton Kutcher did a very convincing performance for his share of role, as a newbie rising to be one of the best rescue swimmer in the records. "So Others May Live". This movie gets 4.5/5 stars!

With the free Gold Class tickets to GV Vivocity (thanks Alex!), I was given the golden opportunity to experience the Gold Class cinema for my very first time... Managed to drag along Eileen to join me with the movie "The Prestige". Who doesn't want a free trip to Gold Class cinema? But apparently, lots of people were busy on that day.. And it's so last minute ba. The Gold Class have a private lounge for you to chill before and after the movie, which is good for entertaining purposes. The seats were excellent, which allows you to recline to a comfortable position to view the show. They even provided blanket for you to use in the theatre! There's also a usher button for you to push, in case you need to order any food in their menu (quite expensive lor, but I don't know if they are worth the money or not - too bad never try. haha). $25 for just one ticket in there.. Don't think I would ever do that if I'm going to pay it myself, since it is equivalent to 2.5 movies! Hahaha.. Good experience I must say.

About the movie, it concerns two buddies who turned into rivalry after one gundo killed his wife indirectly. Then, each of them tries to outdo each other, by copying their magic stunts and sabotaging etc. The main part of the movie is about the "Teleporter Man".. Like one guy enter a door here, then pops up at the door on the other far end somehow. People uses twins or look-alikes for these. Hugh Jackman then go invest gazillions dollar into this science project, which can duplicate things. So in the end, he duplicated himself to fascinate the audience by appearing few couple of yards away from the stage itself during the teleporter show. How? Once he steps into the science machine, he duplicates himself and his duplicate will appear somewhere in the audience. Then, the real person on stage will then slipped down into this trapped door below and murder himself by drowning. Creepy eh! Aiya... Don't really know how to explain it, unless you watch it yourself. Read this blog no good - tells you the movie plot de. LOL! This movie gets 4 stars, since it's confusing the beginning for me at first!

It's project time for PSLP.. Have to create a safety poster, as well as do the usual PBL statements. Wang Liang sure do have lots of ideas from his mahjong, 4D to soccer bets... Aiya, too bad all those popped up after we have suggested our ideas to the teacher. In the end, we are doing the chio bu scam idea and the melting chocolate one. Not sure how are we going to execute it, but yeaa.. it's a long time to submission date. So can slack for now. PBL a bit of headache. This is the first time I feel that our group ain't really prepared for it yet. Okay, may be it's just me who's not prepared... Blah!

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Haze? Nah. It's just the usual cold Genting mist. Moving' up from the Awana hotel to the Genting Highlands, where dice rolls and jackpot sounds.

In the following post, I'm only going to talk about the images I have and maybe some other interesting things unrelated in them.

Updated with more photos.

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I have managed to transferred my files & domain over to my new host Oryon Networks Singapore. If you ever want to apply for that host, do put me as the referrer under the email "platodino@gmail.com". This is because they have this referrer program, which will allow me to earn a one-time referrer fee of up to S$40. Ahahaha.. Although this plan may be much more expensive than my previous host (which is pretty fucked up, especially since I don't even know who is exactly hosting my website.), it offers quite a good service level agreement like a guarantee 1-hour technical support response (if not, a 5% refund can be requested!). What a deal I have gotten... For S$5 a month, I get extra 100MB and 99.9% uptime!

As for the Genting post, I think I'll do it during the weekend. Meanwhile, it's time for me to get back to my copying work that I have missed out on Monday. =.="

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I'm finally back in Singapore! I shall fill you guys in with pictures tomorrow... As for now, I think I will just snuggle myself into my crib (really need this after the rough car trip!). Toodles!

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After several days of unhealthy haze, it finally rained today! I guess it will clear out the haze for the time being. Indonesia really has no sense of responsibility. To think that one crazy VIP visitor (for the GlobalTronics) actually said that Singaporeans are not flexible; and that if they were to come to his company to look for job, he'll say no; but if an Indonesian comes, he'll say "very good!". What a full of shit. No wonder their country is pretty much corrupted. If you throw some money to the police there, I bet you can even ask them to clear the road for you to drive pass. Don't they know how much damage can a haze cause to the nation, and affect its economy? Really have no brains. And yet the palm oil companies carry on using the slash-and-burn... Hope justice will be served in no time..

Yesterday, we finally returned the blazer to the admin counter! Instead of receiving a scolding or some sort from the aunty for delaying for several weeks, she even congratulated us! Hehe... I tried to learn skating as well from my brother, whom was practising for the skating stunt competition. Really can't make it. Fell quite a number of times.. My knee cap is so darn stiff. LOL! Had a bad fall, which sort of injured my spine. But it's alright after awhile. Hahaha.. I sucks, and I know that...

Tomorrow, I will be leaving Singapore at 4.30 am for Awana Genting till Monday/Tuesday. Besides golfing, we are definitely heading up to the main Genting complex for theme park rides, casino, dinner etc. Talking about casino, I hope that I am old enough to enter it already. Should be able ba.

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Sunday was a family day out at the Singapore Expo for the Infocomm exhibition, which was my older brother (Freddy)'s idea. And so, he helped the entire family to pre-register online for 11am slot. Coincidentally, it was the time whereby the class wanted to meet up in Bukit Batok MRT station, so that they could go to Mr. Teong's mother's funeral. And yes, this was recommended by Dr. Ong. Don't really see anything wrong with this... I hereby extend my condolences to Mr. Teong's family.. Every beginning has an end. Well.. All I can say is that she's on the better side now, without having to suffer anymore...

Back to my story... The infocomm exhibition is about the past, present and future of Singapore's infocomm... Talking about how handphones, pagers, computer come about. What really interested me was all the futuristic stuffs like the cool fuel cell phone (which is suppose to last for months without charging it and have transparent circuit board!). There's also a product there whereby you can use your hand as the mouse to scroll the... let's say.. the map, just like what was shown in the movie "The Island". There's also exhibitors from companies there to showcase their product... One of which, gave me the opportunity to try Windows Vista on their mega huge screen, and it was fantastic! Simply loved it, when I came into contact with it... Even their games have changed its style! Hahaha...

At the Infocomm exhibition

If I'm not wrong, those are Sony speakers with long durable wires attached from the ceiling to create that sort of new look. Freakin' hell got wacked by it, when my brother threw it.. Lol.

This part of the exhibition talked about mainly computer-related stuff.. It prompted me to remember about the Y2K bug, that only affected a few minor companies.. It was sort of a year of uncertainty, whereby they scare that the computers/systems might crash or what. There's also the bulky colourful iMacs, which was pretty cool to have in my primary school at that time.

This is some sort of virtual game, where you must use your hands to push the virtual ball to the designated area. Some sort of family group game.. Couldn't really make it through the third stage. LOL! Sad..

Useless structure. Just peep your eyes into one of the holes, or use your ears to listen to the stuff.

You can watch a video clip here, which will require you to pull 6 rings first in order to start the show. I guess they are trying to make it into an interactive stuff.. Really like the design of this place though..

The uncle who guided us throughout the entire journey was good.. He certainly didn't have to do that, which the other guides didn't. Good service uncle! Oh yar.. And his pay is 8 bucks per hour leh. So good... Dammit. And from the looks of it, it's a darn easy job. After this entire exhibition, my mother suddenly said she wanna go see the Anlene one at Hall 5. *diaoz* It's bloody hell for women and ah-peks one lor. So my brothers and I went to City Harvest there and chill out. They sort of rented the entire hall of Max Pavillion on Sundays. I really can't believe they could actually sustain the cost of renting one that big.. Especially the electric bill for the air-con! Anyhoo, it's been a long time since I went to a chapel service, which was usually held on Wednesday in secondary school. Okie.. We were sitting outside the actual hall, which was for latecomers. LOL! But there's still air-con and seats ma. I'm a free-thinker btw. My younger brother (Siang Hui) attends this church every Sunday.

Later that night, we went to catch a movie at Tampines Mall. Since I already watched "Rob-B-Hood", I managed to drag Freddy along to watch "World Trade Centre" with me while the others caught that movie. It's a really touching movie WTC.. How the two trapped guys under the rubbles tried to keep each other awake (since if you fall asleep, you might not know whether you will wake up again aka dead.)... If I were one of them, I would have just died in there.. I kinda have claustrophobia, which is the fear of enclosed space. This show is about the human spirit that stood up in the days of darkness - Heroism. How ordinary people are willing to put their lives in risk to save the others. The main focus of the movie isn't about terrorism, but heroism. When you suddenly feel that you might lose someone, you may find yourself going through things that he/she have touched but you have never touched before.. to recall how beautiful things were in the past. 2996 people fell into victims in this horrendous attack... Can you actually imagine the losses? I got to admit that I teared (not cry ar!) during the movie itself.. In conclusion, I give this movie 4/5 stars! A really good tribute to those victims...

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No more work for me! This is what freedom smells like... No more punishments for my feet, which have been aching for days. But the journey I experienced just within this 4 days was unforgettable, especially the fun group of people I have worked with. I suppose I drank the most number of Starbucks and Häagen-Dazs in just one week. Oh yes, I even saw an old friend of mine - Barry Toa. Still can remember his full name after so long.. Hahaha.. This is because his register number is always in front of mine in my primary school days. Back to the story... On the last day, we wanted to celebrate at Pizza Hut, but there wasn't any vegetarian pasta anymore le. Thanks to veggie Si Ying, we left the restaurant after sitting in there for quite some time without ordering anything. Haha.. Actually, it's an excuse for us to run off since we couldn't really decide on what to eat there.. This was my very first experience to actually walk off just like that! Really didn't know where to hide my face then.. Looking forward for the next event with you guys...

Today, I went down to Clark Quay with my mum and sister to have a look at the "Go Fly Kite" store at the Riverside Point. They sell those remote-controlled kites with no strings attached to them. I thought it would have simply cost 100 bucks or so for it. But noooo.. it cost $600 in total just for one set! That's like nuts... Who on earth in the right mind will buy some thing that looks so filmsy at that price. When you are forking out your money, you always see if it looks "worth it" or not. But this one surely fails on that category. This company really needs to reform its marketing strategy... Nevertheless, I spotted something cool today. It's a beer-making restuarant called "Brewerkz". They actually have this built-in plant inside to provide them with unlimited flow of fresh beer! Would really like to try it there someday, even though I don't really drink... *looks at you* Their food looks quite fine to me alright..

Vivocity is such a mess on the weekends. At the moment I step into HarbourFront MRT station from the train, my mum and I wanted to turned back already. There was just a sea of people everywhere! I even had to queue for a long while just to tap my ez-link card.. In the end, we just took a quick walk around the Vivocity and somehow found ourselves at HarbourFront Centre. All the restuarants were totally packed with people, so we settled ourselves at the foodcourt.. Anyhoo, I thought that Vivocity will 'kill' HarbourFront Centre but stealing its customers. However, from the looks of this, both are surely doing well.. I bet Suntec is going to be much quieter nowadays, when the Vivocity officially opens this December.

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It's a video of "Jump" by Madonna. Free-runners are so damn cool. Jump from buildings to buildings, doing all the stunts....

I have been too busy lately with my work at Suntec for the "Globaltronics" event. It was a good time with the people there at the job.. But I had to stand and walk from 10am to 6pm. This means a total of 8 hours? Yea. That sucks. Don't really have time to sit down, except during breaks and the counter registration stuffs. Dammit. Why am I a usher... I type fast alright. My black shoes have broken down again for the past few days. Every night come back home have to glue them together. It's time to get a new pair! I shall go back to my sleep now. If not, tomorrow I'll be sure dead.

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My house is so quiet. I can only hear the water noises coming from the pond outside the house... Although it's mooncake festival today, there wasn't any party this year. *haiz* Parents went out for business dinner.. Siblings hang out with their own friends.. Only my grandparents were at home with me. What did we do? We literally lightened up mooncake spirit by putting up a few laterns in the garden... Normally each year we would invite our relatives over to our house, and chat like there's no tomorrow while we enjoy the mooncakes and tea. After that, either they will play mahjong or go to the park with the kids. But the problem is.. everyone have grown. No more kiddish stuffs le. I hate growing up at times. Responsiblity comes in, and other shit stuffs. Zzz.. I guess this year we didn't celebrate the festival is because of the exams my cousins are going to take.. PSLE and "O" Level. Hopefully, that tradition cycle will carry on the next year..

Yesterday, I did something I don't usually do. I actually went to meet up with my online friends - RongFang and TS! The probability of me doing that last time was almost 0%. Somehow I felt that I really do have to cherish friendships that I have all around me... So *BAM* I went out with them to collect the Starlight Cinema tickets at Tanjong Pagar, then went to Maxwell to eat some stuffs. Dreamer was there too, since he is like our tour guide. He's "地盘" you can say. Talk suan talk suan, until it was time for me to go back home for a HabboX meeting. During the meeting, I recalled that I have gotten this email about my upcoming job this coming week.. Blah. Then have to make certain changes to my interview slots etc, which was pretty pai-seh. =.=" About the job.. I'll be either the registration crew or the helpers for the organiser of GlobalTronics event next week. Monday got briefing for it at Suntec - Bleh!

Anyhoo, my parents sort of have a last minute arrangement to go Genting Highlands on the 21st Oct. This means I wouldn't be going for school on the first day.. Woohooo! Gonna live in Awana hotel, the place where you can golf your way to the skys. Heh. Not sure if my dad is planning to golf there or what though... See how...

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My Korean fever has been subdued, and so did my fever and flu. And I feels damn freakin' good! Just that I'm suffering from what I call "buttache" now... You should know why.. Hahaha.. I'm so fanatic over "Grey's Anatomy" lately! It's not just about opening someone's chest etc. In each episode, there's a different meaning to them, for instance, crossing the line. I'm currently on the 4th episode of Season 1. SOoooo gonna finish this and season 2 by the end of the holidays! Hopefully, season 3 too (but need to download this)!

Anyhoo, my favourite drama series is back - LOST! U.S. is now airing the season 3 premiere - A Tale of Two Cities. I'm just anxiously waiting for the torrent file to be released, so that I can crack more mysteries about the Island. Too bad abc doesn't allow people outside the U.S. to stream its online episodes... I really see no reason why they can't just allow.. Argh!

Now, I'm simply troubled as to whether I should dry-clean my blazer or not. My other team members has yet to do so... Hur hur.. Keep bothering the others about it. Blah! I guess I'll do it tomorrow morning when I'm heading out to meet up with Rong Fang and TS. Meeting up with them so that we can collect the pair of Starlight Cinema tickets I won from Habbo together. Not too sure of the location of that place as well. There's apparently no bus that goes to that place directly. Have to walk quite a distance from Tanjong Pagar to there. Now, I have left two choices of movies for the tickets - "The Fast And The Furious: Tokyo Drift " or "X2: X-Men United & X-Men: The Last Stand". Both watch le. So how? HMmmmm..

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Why bad? Because I'm sick right now. Nothing to do with the actual badminton outing... Flu + Slight Fever = *yucks* Must be the darn weather. So freakin' hazy. Dammit Sumatra! I was cycling with my older brother who was on skates to Punggol Park yesterday midnight. Had a pretty good time doing it at night, though some people might say it's creepy.. One weirdo was like playing basketball at a bridge then! I wonder if he's even a human. Hahha.. Who would play basketball at that time one? Somemore at a bridge. What if it drops down into the stinky 'river', then how? No brains one. Back to main point, it turned out that yesterday's PSI was the peak! Zzz.. Some crappy pollutants must be inside me, doing some nonsense. Anyhoo, my throat was like feeling salty for the past few days.. I swear I didn't touch any salty food. Hate those!

Badminton was all the way from 2pm to 5pm. Cornie is so demanding! Hahaha.. "Can aim higher anot?" etc. Maybe two AS students play badminton is like that one... Wasn't actually in the state of mind for badminton game from the start. My brain was like dead - Couldn't receive any messages from all my five senses! Ryan pro liao lor. All-rounder. Hahaha.. Trash us from bowling to badminton to pool.. Proficiency in left and right hands to play wor.. LOL! Amelia came all the way down from Orchard to here and watch us play badminton.. o.o Okay lar, she got touch the racket for a couple of minutes. Hahhaa.. Was surprised when she said that she didn't know where's the library! Oh my goosh... How many months have you studied in TP may I ask you.. Heh. =X

Dinner was at Tampines Mall foodcourt. Argh! Should have gone further to eat dinner.. Sick of tampines.. Once school open liao, confirm get to see it le. Followed next was a movie at Century Mall - "Rob-B-Hood". As expected, the show is full of actions and funny scenes. Just didn't quite like the prolonged 'sad' part. The show could have wrapped up better at the end, since some parts are quite ridiculous. I shall give this movie 3 stars! Not bad liao wor.. Hahaha..

Time to shower... Eeeekk!

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How did my weekend went? Well... On Saturday, a group of the Shanghai Knights (Ryan, Ting Ting, Eileen, Cornie) and I went to Marina Square to eat/talk/bowl/pool/eat (in sequence!). And man was my bowling sucksss.. Keep throwing the balls to the right somehow in the beginning. Only got the hang of it till the end, with a strike and spares. Ryan is so damn pro. No wonder he dare to challenge his teachers before... Hahaha.. But heard that they still tio trash. LOL! Eileen is such a hacker. The system kept gaving her three turns each time! If not, she wouldn't have beaten me. I think the cheat code name for bowling is "EEL". Ahahaha.. Really enjoyed my time talking to them on that day, although it's a pretty small group. Small group means no one will be left out of the conversation!

After our dinner, we went to the rooftop of esplanade and talk and talk and talk.. till our bums gets freakin' pain. Kinda went to "sleep mode" by then somehow.. Too tired ba. But when it comes to taking photos, I'm the best choice you can make! *cough cough* Hahahaha.. Still waiting for Cornie to send over the award-winning photographs by me.. Heh. We also walked all the way to the Merlion there, so that Cornie can take picture of her drinking the water splew out of the Merlion. Was telling Ryan that she might as well go to the male toilet. LOL! Such a meanie.. *slaps myself* Maybe too high ba.... ... ...

Today leh.. I finally updated my bankbook to see if the money have been cashed in. Thanks Trixie! And my grandma took so little photos from her 10-day trip sia.. Wasted! She only took pictures that have her friends and her in it. No sceneries one.. Zzzz.. Was surprised by how my grandpa said that it was his 80th birthday today this morning. It was so sudden. It's like "Oh yar, today's my birthday". Then, everyone had to rush and buy the ingredients for dinner etc. And call up all my relatives... Happy 80th Birthday Grandpa! I love you sooo much.. If not because of you who brought me up, I wouldn't be who I am today. Hope you finally win the top prize for your crazy-buying of 4Ds and Totos... So yea.. My relatives invaded my house and had a pretty good time together. I still can't believe how my auntie pamper his child sia. Buy him the latest handphone and even a laptop that has the biometric function de... And guess what? He's only in primary 5! Argh. But cannot really blame them fully for spoiling him.. He's their only child.. Their first child died sometime after giving birth due to complications.. Didn't really know that till my mum told me a couple of years back. Poor Tianqi still have to mug even when she's here to relax. It's her PSLE this year.. All the best! I'm sure you can do it.. Time really flies to see how much they and myself have grown over the years every gathering. Really hop time will pause for one moment to let me catch a breath. I don't wish to waste any time I have that I could be used on my family, friends and relatives... That's life. Don't regret it only after you lose the moments with your loved ones...

I have caught the Korean fever! Thanks to "My Lovely Samsoon"...

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Quite a good week to really begin off my holidays after the days of that competition. Became a computer technician for a day (Wednesday) to help my mum "clean" all the computers, and update all their softwares. Had to remove all installation of the Norton Antivirus, and replace them with this Panda Software. From the looks of the interface, I must say I am pretty impressed by this antivirus program. It also offers free software updates to their current clients, meaning from Panda Software 2006 to 2007 for no extra fees! This is unlike the more reputable Norton Antivirus, which everything must pay. Anyhoo, it took me the day to do all the stuffs. One of the computers was such a headache, thanks to the crapped-up Internet Explorer. Tried uninstalling and reinstalling the IE, but to no avail. So what I did was simply to an alternative internet explorer "Firefox". Too bad I can't block the content using that to prevent the staffs from surfing those *ah-hem* websites.

Yesterday, I went to the airport two times! =.=" We thought we were supposed to fetch my grandma (who went on a 10 days trip at the Silk Road) at 8pm or so, from the teletext. But in the end, we couldn't see her anyway at Belt 22 in Terminal 1. So we refered to this stupid arrival monitor, and thought it was 9.30pm. My mum could only recalled that the plane number starts with "C", and don't know where it is even coming from! Diaoz. With one hour to burn, we went to Swensens for dinner first where we seemed to be the only dudes having dinner at that time. Really like how they managed to turn Terminal 2 into such a grand hall with the touch of "wood" pillars, as compared to the Thailand's new Suvarnabhumi airport that opened yesterday. I find that their airport is too steely from the photos. Maybe they are trying to portray their airport as one of the most futuristic one ba. Back to my story, we went back to that stupid belt at 9.30pm and still couldn't find her! Looking at that darn board again, apparently there's another flight from Guangzhou at 11.40pm. In the end, we just went home first lor. If not, stay there don't know do what. Also, we had to buy my grandpa's dinner, who would be starving by the the time we actually brought grandma home. Ahahaa... When I reached the airport again this time with my dad, another "C" flight popped up but luckily at around the same time. Hence, we spilt up and try to see who gets the grandma (sounds like a game hur)! Dad won and that quickly ends the chapter for that day. Hahahha.. My eyes were literally closed, while talking to my grandma on the car.. END!

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Our presentation faired pretty good today, as compared to all the other rehearsals we did. After weeks of drillings, the competition is finally over. The secret to our success of the presentation is the "prototype" we did below. LOL! We have gotten this idea from Mr. Helbert Toh (same surname!), whereby he suggested we use something (shampoo bottle) to portray how small our product is. Since our primary market customer is the SAF, we decided to bring along the army pants and stuffed our product into the pocket. Just like what Steve Jobs when he revealed the iPod Nano from his pants.

But nehh.. Don't think this is the main reason we have won. I just loved that idea. Anyway, we should have gotten the business school lecturers earlier to assist us. Anyhoo, we did it. At the end of our presentation, there was 2 industry players who asked for our powerpoint slides! One of which is from ST Kinetics. Imagine the post-competition royalties we would get if they actually commercialise our business plan... Thinking waayyyy too much ba. Satisfied with what we are awarded. =)

Movie was a good way to relax ourselves after all the hard work has paid off. "John Tucker Must Die" is a pretty good laugh-able movie I guess, though the ending is kinda not really that nice. But that's my own opinion alrighty. The birthday party in the show is like so damn cool. But it's sort of weird that all the attention is on you. I guess that's the main purpose ba. For popular kidos. And yes, tongs can give u extra support for your ballz to do excellent basketball shots. Whahaha.. Quite gross when they show all the fat people wearing them while picking up something that has dropped on the floor. Oh yar, before the movie, we saw Abigail doing his her dance moves on some sort of event. It was retarded. Who would in the right mind dance like a bafoon! Zzz...

Had dinner with my parents and sister at Japanese restuarant "Kuriya" at Raffles City. This is no usual restuarant. It was classy, unlike the usual Jap ones - Sakae Sushi, Genki Sushi, Sushi Tei, Yaki Yuki etc. Of course, the bill comes back a bit steep too.

Drank their famous recommended Soba Tea, which none of us really appreciated it. LOL! It really does taste like the sesame seeds. 1 pot of this can serve 2 persons. Should have just bought the normal green tea. Blah.

And this is what I ate. Soba set or some sort. Forgot the name. Quite filling, with quite a number of small dishes. It comes with Coffee/Tea and Dessert as well. The dessert was ice-cream and 2 balls of watermelon (Ahahaa...).

The food there is okay lar. If want to save money, can just go those normal restuarants. This place is suitable for special occasions only ba. Perfect place to bring a date to. Trust me on this. Peace out!

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Had to wake up like 7am just for the dang Synergy meeting. In the end, I just kinda sat there doing nothing much till lunch time. Quite dumb that I come so early for this rehearsal. Somemore I was wearing the formal clothings from top to bottom, because I was simply too lazy to carry all those stuffs. In the end, the teachers didn't really cared much about it. Zzz.. Thanks to the pair of black low socks, now I got blisters behind my feet. The back of the shoes kept on rubbing my skin when I was coming to school. Luckily, Trixie got some plasters for me to use. If not, I will be putting tissue paper there liao. LOL! Anyway, this is the first time I tio this. Usually I see women do that one. Can't believe it's now me who needs plaster for this. Blah. Stayed in school from 9am to 5pm. By the time I got home, I became a living dead, yearning for a cozy air-conditioned bedroom. Whew. And I really like the word "irri-TAY-ting". Next time if go primary school teach, can make use of Mr. Tay as an example to express the full understanding of that word.

Did a quick animation for the stupid prototype diagram to show water coming in and out. Nice anot ar? Don't steal the image ar! If not, I chop you into million pieces. It's our idea. Heh. Maybe can really make money out of this. LOL!

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Don't feel like blogging somehow today, so I'll try to summarise what happened on Tuesday. The class outing was alright I guess even though it's a very very small group - Su Hua, Wei Ming, Shahrez, Soo Chin, Pei Shan and I. A couple of people backed out the last minute.. Oh well.. But it was still a fun day! Actually, a small group is better than a big group hanging out I think. Anyway, don't think I would be organising any big class outing liao. Once bitten, twice shy. Although this quote don't really make sense with this now, but what the heck! Small groups still okay I guess, if you want me to organise. Don't like the feeling of receiving SMS-es saying they are not free and their excuses etc. The two photos below tells it all. Pai-seh! My hand was shaking when I took all the photos. LOL!

Checked out the movie schedule first at Shaw House, and bought the "Littleman" tickets. Weekday watch very cheap as to weekend - $7. Anyhoo, we went to Takashimaya for dinner at Breeks/Dingo. 2 scoops of mashed potato that comes along with my set was so damn filling. I think that's what made me full, rather than the melted patty itself. Ahaha.. Had a great dinner then, which made me felt that we are bonded in a way. Chat here and there. Blahh blahh blahh. Oh yes, Shahrez caught his eyes on this waitress (forcefully by us) sia. So we gave him the golden opportunity to talk to her when ordering the food. LOL!

After this, we went to look for Wang Liang who was still working then. Thought he was one of those promoters. In the end, he was the counter dude. Sheeze, I thought we could have taken some mooncakes home that day. Ahahahaha... After this, it was simply the movie and that was it. Wang Liang called us during the movie itself, so yea.. he went home lor. Blah! Too bad the others didn't want a late late night movie, since some will be busy the next morning. Next time I guess. And I still want to watch "The Devil Wears Prada"! Sheeze. Who wanna join me? Hahaha..

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Not again - there goes another weekend. It's another family day as usual for Saturday. Spent half the day with my dad and brother practising golf at Orchid Country Club till it rained. Oh yes, we were sort of lucky to find a card that values 240 golf balls. So yea.. We used them all up. In total, we fired like 550 balls into the damn field. Dead tired you can say after that. Practise makes perfect alright. And I'm sure doing better with my shots, when using iron. Need to try doing those range shots. Later in the day, we went to Harbourfront with the rest of the family for dinner, and shopping at the "Big" megastore, that apparently has lots of discount - but none for monitors (zzz). But who cares? I myself don't really like the idea to purchase a monitor from there in the first place. Prefers Sim Lim Square. Rock on!

As for earlier today, my mum and I went to the Sim Lim area to grab-and-go the Samsung monitor I wanted. However, we took a turn to the Fu Lu Shou complex first instead to shop for some Feng Shui crystal items my mum wanted to place in her office. To my surprise, we spent a couple of hours in a particular shop - this sales auntie really good at selling the product I tell you. In the end, my mum bought 3 crystal thingies while my uncle (who happen to pop-by) bought 2 other items. Total bill: $500 plus. Shocking eh? I was like whinning all the way at her, when started saying yes to those stupid items. Then, the auntie said it was paying small sum for a bigger payout or something like that. Later at night, my dad ringed my mum when we were on the way back home that he had won the third place for 4D lottery - $2.5K. I was like surprised! So damn true. Fengshui can really turn things around. Now, I'm officially a Fengshui Master after hearing all those junkies about wealth position of the house etc. Ahahah..

I finally gotten my new 19" monitor - Samsung SyncMaster 931BF! WOOT! So slim.. so clear.. so fast... so nice.. Response time is 2ms leh! Don't play play with this. Now, my Pooh Bear is sitting on top of my "kaboomed" CRT monitor. Need to find a way to get rid of it now. Can't simply throw it into the normal waste bin, since it contains toxic substances inside. I must see if the Garanguni man will take this junkie anot. Also, my monitor comes with a free Altec Lansing speaker, which can finally replace my unknown brand speaker. All I wish now is to try to persuade my mum to upgrade the computer next year when Windows Vista is out. Woooosh...

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I back from my class chalet! Wouldn't be able to post any pictures for now though, since my stupid desktop monitor has kaboomed. Next time ba. Kinda disappointed that Jeremy and Shaun didn't went for the chalet thing. Why so anti-social sia.. If you say our class not bonded enough for chalet, you didn't even gave it a chance to foster our friendship lor. Good to know that Zai Wei went for it after all. As for Shaun, he got the S2006.. Fine.. But you can still hop over at one night ma, just like Wei Lian like that. As for Gowri, I got no comments. Hahaha.. It's our class don't like her.. =/ On another issue, I really feel sad for Fadzly sia. Someone stolen some stuffs that worth over thousands plus or something like that from his workplace. Then tio police report. Then the stupid police keep saying things to him like "You steal one right?". What the hell lor. But I guess that's how the police pressurise people into telling the truth. But he was telling the truth ma. Just few words for you.. Don't be afraid, and just tell what exactly happen. And nothing will happen to you le. Cos they don't have any crap evidence that you "steal" or what. And of course, our class know you are innocent. All the best Fadzly!

And my results are out! Although I kinda studied last minute, I got piang lor till my sleep got disrupted.. And yep, I got a Z for my maths. Kinda *expected* cos I was kinda confident of my paper when the thing ended. As for UO1, the stupid unit conversion and incomplete question made me gotten a B+. But can lar. Was hoping for that already.. Luckily never get lower than that. The rest I have gotten A. So my gpa hop to 3.62. Really regret my last sem results for slacking wayyyy too much (thanks to long's maple), but oh well.. It's over.

Day 1:
Saw Pei Shan's cute pictures when she's young! Chubby chubby Pei Shan.. Took a picture of it, but the stupid glass reflection made it impossible to capture a good photo of it. Zzzz.. Next time go her house and cope that image of her. Ahahaha.. The BBQ night was kinda screwed up in the beginning. It started off with bad charcoal/firestarter. Took Alex quite a while to set it ablaze. Aahhaa.. Somemore we keep coping other ppl's fire and lighter. LOL! After that, the rain started pouring... Zzzz.. Then, we all no choice but to camp in the room first and see how. Luckily, the rain ended before Mr. Tang came over. We started bbqing and stuffs. So many stingray sia... lol. And there were a couple of cats around the place as well. Kinda contradict what the sign says no pets. After all the BBQ thang, this was when I started learning to play Mahjong from the pros.. Ahaha.. Yuan Long, Wang Liang, Su Hua and other peeps.. The rest leh play PS2. And Sharez was "mega-flaming" at night when people were trying to sleep. Luckily, his voice kinda went off after quite some time...

Day 2:
Breakfast at Mac, then a group of us went to steam bath, suana, "swimming" and jacuzzi. Then this cycle repeats again. lol. Steam bath can't see no nuts. For suana, crazy Alex started pouring water onto the stones thingy and made the entire thing too hot to tahan. Then jacuzzi, alex strikes again by peeing into the pool of water. =.="

Lunch at Food Court. Then, I kinda made my way to bed. LOL! The rest played soccer while I was asleep. Can't play that anyway, cos of my in-growth toenail. Heard from Su Hua that she last time went for the laser thingy to cut off half of the nail sia. *ouch* Better hope this toe gets recovers by the end of holiday. If not, I go cut liao. Zzz.. Dinner at Pizza Hut, and that was it I guess. We wanted to go Fishermen Village initially, but some peeps came back late. Then, abit too late to go there liao. Mahjong all the way after that again. Bleh.

Day 3:
Wake up. Pack up. Go home. Was sick when I came back home. Freakin' running nose.. And abit of feverish. Zzzz.. But it's all gone alright now.

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My life is pretty much okay right now. Haven't really got time to blog lately somehow. And yes, there was this scary experience I had near Orchard when my sister was driving last Saturday. =.=" She just got her driving license you see.. My sister saw this carpark then make a sudden turn to it, without checking the incoming traffic. So there was this car heading towards us at a damn high speed was making a sudden brake. I was pretty freaked out when I saw the car right in front of me. Shutted my ass to the other side of the car lor. That was just how scary it was. Damn crazy lor! We could have met an accident, and I may be gone by then. Choi choi!

Had a freakin' bad day with her then. I was going to town to meet up with her and my grandma. But she just couldn't give proper directions where is parked her car sia. Tell her "is it here?". She just say "near there". It's like can't she just point out a prominant landmark! Had a quarrel with her on the car after that. Then, she used an excuse that driving is damn scary and that she had been told to drive off by Lee Hsein Long's bodyguard just before that, cos she parked near his residence. o.O Abit far-fetched eh.. Lame. Make me and my brother run her and there just to look for her. Anyway, it is after all these the freaky 'accident' happen.

Earlier today, I kinda went to Sim Lim and hunt for a new iPod cable (apparently it's this that have make my computer unable to detect my newly-repaired iPod), as well as a new monitor. Yes, my old CRT monitor has just exploded. Maybe not that exaggerated. But yea.. there's this weird smell tat comes out from it, with the screen blinking continuously. Zzzz.. But my parents is overseas right now lor. Then, my brother who have mum's supplementary credit card kinda hesitated here and there to use it. He keep saying we should go home and see which one is better. But they are all the same ma! So I managed to convince him to go buy after our dinner. But by then, most the stupid shops were closed. Irritating! Anyway, I am intending to buy 19" LCD monitor from Samsung ba. No difference anyway, Response time 5ms. But I don't really give a damn, cos my human reaction time ain't gonna detect the difference anyway between a 2 and 8ms. Ahaha.. So that's what I'll do this coming weekend!

Oh yes, I'll be going for a chalet today till wednesday. So yea, if you want to contact me about anything important, just send me a sms ba.

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I really can't stand the teachers at times. Tell us meet them in school at 9.30am, and in the end they are not even free to like say abit of shit or tell us what to do. In the end, I kinda just sit there doing nothing whilst listening to my music.

What's worse is that Mr. Lim suggested that we make a freakin' model as our prototype using cardboard! I was like completely turned-off. Who on earth will present a stupid kindergarten artpiece to the "potential investors" in NTU and expect them to visualise from it... =.=" And it's so gonna be one of those things that will be scrapped off eventually when they see the workpiece. I can imagine a filmsy, crappy and stupish-looking object being laughed at already. Hell NO with this idea.. If want, I would rather spend the time making an actual prototype. Zzz..

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Can't feel a thing for both my legs... Keke.. Abit exaggerated. Me and my bro bike our way from Sengkang to Yio Chu Kang, where the apple authorised centre was. My stupid 3G iPod don't seem to be detected on any computer somehow - this means no update for my songs! Bleh.. Tried all the means to revive it through the useless apple online support, but to no avail. But it still does function normally as in listen to the music etc. This bug has plagued me since before the exams. Now that I got time to send it to repair.. so why not? =) Should be able to get back my iPod by the end of this week, just in time for my upcoming class chalet..

Thanks to my brother we took a pretty long way there, which is kind of irritating. SO many newbies learning how to drive lor! When I was on the road, I really scared that one of them might anyhow accelerate and crash me to death. LOL! Especially the car that was like jerking when it was turning right. =.=" Then we parked our bicylcles at the wrong place lar! There's those lots especially for the bicycles, and we simply parked ours on the motobikes area.. LOL! Didn't realised that till we came back. No wonder the security guard was like staring at us when we were parking it.

Due to presence of a smart ruben, we headed back home through a much shorter route although got the up-and-down hill, which is pretty irritating. On our way back, we took a u-turn to Jalan Kayu for some fantastic meal worth every penny I spent on it. 1 Roti-john, 1 cheese prata, 1 egg prata, 2 teh-cino, 1 mutton curry for just $12.90! So damn full lar.. The mutton curry is kinda expensive though, 4 bucks for it. Zzzz.. Should have just make do with their plain chicken curry.. Just when we are about to leave the shop, the rain poured.. Zzzz... Then no choice but to camp inside the shop lor, with our bicycles in there too. But this stupid muthu come say they don't allow bicycles to be parked inside.. As if they are blocking like that lor! Kaobei... So we just took off and camp on the other shops instead till the rain was much "smaller". Then after that took a route under the LRT line for shelter all the way back home. Another fun and perfect day!

On another issue, one of our favourite icon "Crocrodile Hunter" has died due to a stingray killing. Penetrate through his heart I think.. Yooouch.. He should really rethink all of his risky moves he have all his life in heaven man. How can he just leave his wife and child like that... Haiz. Life's precious indeed...

Forward the following to everyone on your MSN (if you're are bored especially)!

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The last 2 episodes of "Life As We Know It" (unaired in US) has finally been shown on Star World. It's really a pity to see how the season actually ended, without an actualy finish due to the last few scripts not being made into production. Debra goes away with her new-found dad, while the guys sold their freakin' car to pay up to all the damages and stuffs. Lesson to learn: Don't be too eager in buying a thing. Always think ahead. Owning a car is such a huge responsibilty. You have to take into consideration the weekly fuel bills, the maintenance cost, insurance, any accident costs etc. Blah. Sucks eh? Anyway, my brother was like asking me to join him and take the theory test for driving. But I was like thinking, "That means I have to do the practical within 2 years frame!" However, I simply don't have the time for such practical lessons. Oh well.. I think I'll do my thing after I come out from the army. It's also abit what to get my parents to pay for my driving license..

Anyway! Earlier today, I went out with my mum and brother for a golf-ranging trip at Marina Bay Golf Course. You know the newly built thingy near Marina Bay.. Anyway, the driving range is kinda crappy. So damn concrete lar. Then the seats are shared by 2 thingies. Zzz.. What's more the blazing heat from the sun shines directly at the seats. "Hot seats" eh. Started off pretty sucky as usual. But yea, I get pretty good after getting a hang of it. From there, I can see 9-hole golf course (supposedly 18 hole, but not yet finished) which is kinda barren without any trees in sight. I was like "No freakin' shelter? Diaoz..". Hahaha.. Would rather go Malaysia and play golf or somewhere else. Hahaha.. Not so great after all.

Dinner was at Siglap Road, eating the TV-recommended claypot rice thingy. Like the seaweed toufu, but not really the prawn with wasbi-mayo ($18 bucks lor for 6 pieces! siao sia...) and the chicken. Their claypot is so-so lar. That's all I can say. It was just on-the-dot for my tummy tank. Ahaha.. That's what happen for today.. Cheeze out!

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Not really a good paper yesterday. Couldn't even managed to complete the darn stupid paper. I think I simply spent too much time double-checking my values, especially for the Ne,mf. =.=" Oh well.. It's over, and there's no point thinking over it. Need to make up all the sleep loss that I have suffered for the past few days. For the last paper, I kinda slept at 5am, and woke up at 7am. That's what you call chiong. Ahaha.. That's the result of "领时抱佛脚".

After the last crapped-up paper, I went out with the buggers above to you-know.. destress. Ahahaha.. A bit pai-seh to make them wait for me after so long.. Special thanks to the stupid synergy meeting. Anyway, we had our lunch at Cafe Cartel in TM (again?). Didn't want to go for Pasta Mania, which I'm getting sick of already. Ate this Grilled Chicken that comes with a freakin' salty pasta. *puke* Sooooo not going to eat that anymore. Here are some pictures we took before some of us left.

1. Zai Wei shy sia
2. The perfect couple - Wei Ming & Pei Shan
3. Ahhh.. Chooo!
4. Another shy one. Goooosh..
5. Ming tries to smouch Zai
6. Not prepared..
7. Too fast for me. Had to run you know.
8. Yes, I know.. I made the stupid chair fall. =.=" Luckily, never 四脚朝天... Ahahah..

After this, only me, Su Hua and Wei Liang went to catch a movie. The rest all got other plans sia.. Zzz... Watched "Lovewrecked", whose plot can be pretty much predicted... But still, it's a nice movie to catch I guess.. If you like these sort of lovey dovey shows, then yea.. this is for you. How great it would be for us to have a holiday job at a resort, just like the show... Blehhh...

Peace out!

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Yep, we'll into the finals for the Synergy competition... Seriously find Shaun overselling too much just like what the judge had commented. Ahahaha.. Don't really see the need to hoo-ha about it. One thing is for sure that 100 bucks has just entered each of our wallets.. XD Most likely wouldn't be able to make it to any of the top 3 positions, considering that we're up against NTU and NUS teams. Well.. Need to brush up on our Q&A skills...

For my dinner yesterday, I took a bite at my Alice Springs Chicken at the Outback Steakhouse in Millenia Walk. Cheesy with grilled chicken breast and bacon.. Nice sia.. The appetizer Bushman Shroom is rather good too. Didn't quite like the idea of eating mushrooms at first. Bad experience the other time. But this one just taste good. 25 of those things cost us $13.90.. Don't know whether to say it's cheap or not. Oh yes, did you know that one worm in your meal = a bombastic dessert. LOL! That's what happen for my sister's brocolli. Her 8-characters really clash with Suntec's FengShui man. The other time there was a metal in her soup at the Soup restuarant in Suntec, and gotten a discount for the meal. Now, this gotten us a superb dessert. Aahah.. Not bad to bring her along eh.. My family was laughing all the way when we saw this worm. XD What a strange reaction for us.. Other people will pissed off when they complain sia. We were pretty much surprised when they gave us that dessert. Didn't really complain about it. Only say "Hey, look there's a worm" when they cleared the thing. Lol. Good service..

On the way back, we noticed that Fountain of Wealth (stupid name) got this music show, whereby you can send your dedication and they will laser out your dedication onto the water. Cool lor. The music played are groovy too. But their censorship of the song sucks. LOL! There's the word "fuck" in the James Blunt's "You're Beautiful" song, so it's like they simply lower volume and back up. Ahaha.. Funny sia.

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Just did some blog surfing around the links I have.. Anyway, I find it quite creepy that my friend's design school director has been actually checking out her blog. No sense of privacy at all. Also, I'm like talking a couple of stuffs behind about that Ong also lor. Ahaha.. Later see the entries, and buay song with me le. Hopefully, that bugger wouldn't link to link and then startle onto my blog & tell Ong. If really like that, then Happy Hour liao lor. Ahaha.. You see... Linking of blogs have its bad advantages.. Link to Jeremy's one.. And can say goodye to him tomorrow le. XD

Now, I need to headache about the Synergy competition that is pretty much pain in the ass. Kinda bo liao ma.. All the projects ended le, then now got this. =.=" Heng, I don't have to present le. That Shaun and Xiaoping will be bringing the house down during the actual presentation man! *yawn*

2 down, 3 more to go. What a heavy subject OSH can be, even though it's a bit of common sense thing. Zzz..

Note: No need for approval of comments anymore le. Find it rather troublesome...

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Still pretty shocked that Wei Ming actually asked if we were like to watch movie... Same thing for the chalet. Aahhaha.. Never knew he would say these sort of things... Last time ask him go, he'll just say no straight away. LOL!

This is the vomit-looking dessert, before the movie.. LOL! Don't know what Su Hua did to the thing.. Ahahahhaha... Anyway, I watched "My Super Ex-Girlfriend" with Su Hua, Pei Shan, Wei Ming & Wei Lian at Tampines Mall.. Once in a blur moon thing lor.. Haha.. Yes, this is my third movie in a week. Ouch for my wallet sia. Anyway, you can say this movie is as funny as "The Click" I think. The starting part of the movie is kinda weird, which pretty makes you feel lame at first, seeing how G Girl saves the day and stuff. But after that, you'll get hold of it. The unforgettable part is actually when Matt is having sex with his super girlfriend.. The bed broke when with Jenny lor! Here's some funny quotes then:

Jenny: [after breaking the bed while having sex] I'm sorry. I'll get you a new one.
Matt: A new bed or penis?
Jenny: Both.

What a joke sia! Especially the part you see him walking the next day. Ahahahah.. Another time with Hannah, where they crashed the bed into the neighbour's house. You must really wonder how on earth he did it. LOL!

Bleh. Now, need to headache for term tests, projects and quizzes... Sucks big time.

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What a fun-filled day it was, even though the school ended pretty late for me today....Zoomed my way from school to Orchard MRT station and meet up with my friends to chill. Our initial plan was to simply like find a place to eat dinner, then go to a place and chill. In the end, we left off to Esplanade to watch the fireworks after our dinner at Wisma. Ahahaha.. But before we could even reach Esplanade there, the fireworks started.. So here are some pictures I took with my phone! Gonna get all the photos Ian took.. When he was snapping away all the photos, he simply looked like a camera stand then.. LOL!

Beautiful ain't it? This fireworks are from Singapore team.. Didn't know there's actually different countries doing the fireworks festival till yesterday. After the entire fireworks show ended, we tried to move our way to Esplanade with the flow of crowd the other way. Thanks to Ian, who wanted to go to the V Tea Room.. And yea.. there was a HEAVY human traffic jam just outside the Esplanade. People from all directions are like pushing here and there. A very very touchy situation... Tio stuck there for a while, before we started moving again. Was sweating like nuts then. Luckily, I'm rather tall; if not, I'll like die immediately because of the squeezing and stuffs. Gahh.. To get ourselves away from the darn freakin' crowd, we went to the Via Mar and stone there for quite sometime before we actually bought a drink.. Funny sia.. Haha..

After Eileen left, we go and Watched the movie "The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift" at The Cathay. Wee.. One of my favourite movie theatres! You can say that I would love to learn how to drift, right after the show. So darn cool. Funky cars. That's what makes movie amazing! Got the Asian touch to this movie, as to the first movie. By the time the movie ended, it was already like 1.30am or so? Instead of heading home, we went to Coffee Club and chilled till 3am+. WOOoo.. So nuts. XD The trip back home cost me 20 bucks. Stupid hike for cabs! ARGH! Look lar... Vote for PAP, now bus fare increase, ERP increase, taxi increase. Zzzz...

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Earlier today, I went out with Jeremy, Shaun, Zai Wei and Soo Chin to Marina Square right after school to makan and watch movie. Went to Yuki Yaki place to fry our own things, quite similar to Seoul Garden one... I really hate these sort of things.. Rather mafun I guess. Must cook and wait.. Sometimes, don't know if cook anot. Then bite, in the end still raw inside. Zzz.. I would prefer those food that serve right in front of me right away. Never tried their fried ice-cream though.. Heard from Teresa that it's quite good.. Look at the Jeremy's creation for his beloved XYZ... Hahaha.. Playboy bunny squid...

You should really see how Soo Chin play the video arcade game sia. So damn pro! He play until the top rank of the thingy. Hahaha.. Still don't get how the turnings and stuffs makes you do those power shots. LOL! Jeremy was like kinda noobie at the beginning, and pretty tyco you can say. His character died, and so it auto-switched to Venom, which left like a small puny hp bar, and yet somehow managed to kill his opponent.. =.="

What have we learn from the movie "Click"? Ehh.. When having sex, each and every procedures to making your partner feel pleasurable is very important. If not, you'll miss the entire process of it. LOL! Just kidding.. Me not as horny as that Alex, who thinks about that 24/7. The moral of the story is actually to treasure who's around you and what you have. And yes, family is the first priority on top of work at all times. Don't neglect anyone.. I feel that this movie should receive 3.5/5 stars. How great would it be if I can control time... Can stop time, and punch the person you find irritating... Really pity the guy who got kicked in his balls several times. Ouuch man..

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FINALLY... I have gotten over with 2 projects and 2 ET lab reports... It's just me and the stupid ICP project le. Hate it. But what to do... Haiz.

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It's almost 5 years till the 5th anniversary of the 9/11 incident. I can still remember the time I was watching the news together with my siblings, when the incident actually happened. It's kinda of saddening that such things happens in life so unpredictably.

Was watching a documentary on the flight control thingy on the day itself then. It showed how chaotic the situation was, having to ground all airplanes in the United States. Due to the huge communication line constantly being jammed, there was an incident whereby 2 airplanes nearly collided into each other due to slow communcation. Luckily, the plane managed to fly down lower just in time. The U.S. even wanted to shoot down the Korean airlines, when it received a message that they were being hijacked. In the end, it turns out to be that the broken English spoken by the captain was actually an acknowledge that it has received the news.

We know that 2 planes crashed into the WTC. We know that 1 plane crashed into the Pentagon. But did you know that the last hijacked plane crashed into a field? I really want to give them the respect of this group of people on the planes, whom actually knocked down the cockpit and fought against the hijackers, having to know of the WTC incident. In the end, the plane crashed with no survivors. I don't think I have that sort of will, having to do something for the nation as my last thing. I will like breakdown instantly.

As for those who were trapped inside the building, they had to choose having to jump to their deaths or get burned by the intense flame. And I can't believe that the OSH teacher actually made fun of this thing. =.=" Oh well.. People like my brother and him just couldn't take such issues seriously enough. A scar have been made to everyone, who have actually the incident happen with their own eyes. Bleh! Night..

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Not much shops have opened since I last been there. It's still the old Cathay that's has lost its charm, being so empty and cold. But hell yea, do I like the movie theatre hall 1 "Grand Cathay"... Didn't know that hall 1 refers to the Grand Cathay at first... =.=" There's even valets outside the hall, who will direct you to your seats! It's so darn bloody huge.. So I guess they scared people don't know where their seats, and get lost in this maze.. Weird that they don't really have the speakers on the back of the theatre. So it's not really that surround sound.. Bleh. There's even an announcement that says welcome and shit stuffs, before it opens up the red curtains. There's even some sort of flashy lights from the top and shines on the curtain and walls and stuff. Don't really know how to describe it.. Hahaha.. That's what I call a classy movie theatre.