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2010-05-25T18:20:00.024+08:00

Universal Studios Singapore(USS)

I figured out that the time was ripe for me to go Universal Studios Singapore. Every Singaporean needs to go there at least once to experience our very own world class attraction.

And so I went with Huixiang, jinjin and weibin. Initially it was really hard for us because not all the friends like wild rides and much more, the pricing of the entry tickets are not welcoming. We couldn't be going in a small group because it won't be fun but luckily everyone of us who went, made it possible.

We meet up really early in the morning, like 8:30am so that we won't be missing out a single bit of the play time. We had our heavy breakfast early so that we will not be having a full stomach by the time we had our first hardcore rides.

To our disappointment(when we reached the inside), we can see from far that the cyclone(BLUE) and human(RED) tracks has no rides on it. We bluff ourselves that maybe the rides will be up in a few hours time.

Major disappointment was that(upper). BUT the second disappointment is the weather. I think it was 40 degree celsius under the hot sun. But luckily it wasn't raining or else half of the attractions would be wasted.

Super Hot!

Sometimes I kind of pity the tourists from other countries that come to USS because that day was frightening hot. Almost every rides required queueing up and I can see their face changing from happy to bored. Not only that, they just keep wiping off their drizzling sweat.

Hollywood

We started off at the entrance, Hollywood. It's kind of similar to New york that I sometimes mistaken it with Hollywood. I like the setting because it looks like the 1960s classic streets taken out from the movies. Along these streets, it has characters like Frankenstein and Charlie Chaplin coming to life that are open for photo taking.

Something good about it is that you can pass your own camera to them and they will take really good photos for you, FOC. The queue are rather fast because they will take and go. However, these mascots or fake Frankenstein also need their lunch break, so they will stop the line and come back later.

Madagascar

We made a left turn from Hollywood to Madagascar. It's like walking to a brand new world, jungle-like. However, A Crate Adventure, which is their main attraction is under 'coming soon' which made this spot a boring one. The other one is for kids which is kind of like merry-go-round but with Madagascar's characters.

Nothing much here. We quickly moved on to next spot after seeing Shrek and pretty princess Fiona.

Far Far Away

We quickly rushed for photo taking and the line seemed longer than usual. I finally realised why. The people requested for single instead of group photos. We quickly pretend that we don't know each other so that we can have less prevailing photos.

In Far Far Away, we also went for the Shrek 4-D adventure which is a must try. Be warned that you need to listen to instruction that lasts longer than the real show itself. Recently, it is very popular to have long instructions before any 4D rides. The 4D ride in Sentosa also adapted this approach.

It shows shrek trying to save princess fiona yet again. (why is princess fiona so weak? always get caught) Everything is in 3D but the 4th D comes with moving seats and water sprinkled onto the face. Under the seat also has a string that sprang into action to make people think that there are tarantulas coming your way!

We also tried the Enchanted Airways by queueing 30 minutes while the real junior roller coaster ride is about 50 seconds.

The Lost World

Dino-soarin' is for kids but we try it nevertheless. You have to hold on to the white button in order for the dinosaur to fly up. If you let go, it goes down down down!

Canopy Flyer is the longest waiting time ride that we took. We need to wait 40 minutes and the ride is again 40 seconds? According to the girls, who sat facing the front, it was thrilling and exciting but for us, the boys, felt nothing at all. NOT EVEN WIND! So opt for the front seats if you can.

I later bought a Jurassic theme bag at the dino-store which I think is a very cool bag. I used the $5 retail voucher at here which means my entrance ticket is reduced by $5 as it is included at the $66 entrance ticket.

Ancient Egypt

My favourite spot. I always wanted to go Egypt on a tour if I had the chance but couldn't. Now I can at USS because it is greatly decorated with Egyptian stuff down to every single detail. I love the gigantic statues and the walls curved with drawings that are all so real.

Revenge of the Mummy: The best indoor roller coaster ride can be found here because it is fully air-conditioned. Before you take the ride, you need to travel along a maze that has many artifacts. We love this ride so much that we took it 3 times.

The ride is inside the pillars of anubis

Not only that, the shop also sells many gold like Egyptian stuff but at a costly price. We also took photo with the Egyptian guard.

Sci-Fi City

This place should be packed with the most people because the Battlestar Galactica Cyclone and human are located here. This is the real reason for any roller coaster fans out there to pay so much for the tickets but it's down for maintenance :( COME BACK FAST!

We also tried the tea cup spinning ride called 'Accelerator'. It looks really cool but it is no fun at all. It is very difficult to spin because the core is like stuck or something. Teacups should make us dizzy and able to let us spin until we die but we experience none of that.

New York

There's a really cool attraction by Steven Spielberg which makes you feel the fire burning, wind blowing and the sound effects of many things that you can only see in movies.

But there's even more things we can experience in USS, ships crashing into the building, kerosene leaking which leads to fire spreading on the surface of the water and boat falling from above splashing water at the front row audiences!

In New york, you can find many buildings and statues to take photos with.

Back at Hollywood again!

After that, we found ourselves at Hollywood again. We watched a rock and roll musical in Pantages Hollywood Theater which contained monsters coming to life. One of the monster even mimic the Wondergirls's 'Nobody' and the other sings 'The moon represents my heart' in mandarin which he himself is a Caucasian.

We also went to The brown Derby to play with hats. We simply took loads of photos with the hats but never buying them.

We dine at Mel's Drive-In with each set costing at about $9 which includes a huge burger, fries and drink. We used the last dining coupon of $10 which finally deducts $10 off the entrance ticket of $66.

Hence, if you asked me whether is it expensive to go USS? I would say it's actually $51

$66 - entry ticket price
($10) - dining coupon to be used at USS
($5) - retail coupon to be used at USS
$51 - actual price

At the end, we went to Vivo's starbucks to chill out. That's how we complete our fantastic 4 day!

P/S: The post is not written in order as to when we were at USS.

2010-05-23T19:31:00.010+08:00

Month of May

Month of May is a significant month for me because it will be my last month of freedom before I enter army. I told myself that I need to do all the things that I haven't done in the last month and hopefully I can fulfill my wishes. Lots of birthdays in this month as well!!

Happy birthday Yuenky!

Celebrated Yuenky's 21st birthday @ seaview resort. She invited the whole bunch of us and even gave us a room! Theme for her birthday party is blue but apparently not many people abide the rule!

Lester is all out to 'kope' the 'Happy birthday' sign behind for his very own 21st birthday chalet. We also played many games whereby the losers had to eat or drink the forfeits which is leftover cakes, popiah and chivas(whiskey).

I guess I will definitely miss the cheapo days whereby we exchange formulas of reducing cost and ways to earn money!

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A new hairstyle!

I also cut my hair and requested for a 'X' on the side. (This is directly the next day after yk's birthday celebration)

People tend to become desperate and ought for changes when they are entering army? I don't know if this is true but I figured out that this hairstyle is only suitable for this period, the 'post-army' period. It's like, you won't cut this during your student days and neither your working life.

If you don't like it, you can simply erase it by cutting the hair botak. To make it even crazier, I had the other side with two lines while protecting the rights of adidas by not copying it with three straps.

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Collection of diploma certificate

Meet up with Andy, Shao Cheng, Zakia, William and Youngly so that we can go back school to collect certificates. Some of us didn't attend the graduation ceremony and it surprised most of the people that it is one of the most honourable time of 3 years of polytechnic life and yet you can give it a miss.

I guess I didn't care because the thought of buying a harry potter robe for $25 just for 1 day makes me feel giddy.

Anyway, we collect on the later date and it seems much more faster than collecting it on stage(got stage fright). We went for Iron man 2 after that and despite it being the second time watching it for me, there was a part after the credits where it shows a hammer. According to William peterus, it was THOR! and it means 'To be continued...'

This also means that we will watch the iron man 3 together as this group, ok?

Momento

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Besties

In between, we had a few k box sessions, lan gaming, lunches, dinners, shopping for gifts and movies with the besties.

One of the most memorable moments was with my sis and Shawn at Jurong point. We had pizza hut and starbucks while taking turns to look after shawn. We also went for shopping and it's super shiok buying LOTS of things that you always want to get but never had a chance to.

Our favourite stuffed crust pizza after a day of shopping!

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Shi ying's 21st birthday party

Shiying invited us, the gang of secondary school mates and friends, to her birthday party and it was a time for gathering and catching up with friends. Had fun because the food was nice but the weather is extremely humid at night.

After the party, we went to west coast plaza for supper, billard and bowling. 7 of us need to squeeze in a 4 seater car and it was major discomfort!

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4 in 1 birthday celebration

Had a eventful birthday celebration for Jinjin, Shuxian, Ruifang and Shiying(didn't come!)

We had a super fun get-together at ibis hotel. We went for kbox and dinner at lau pat sat. Midnight went out to walk and chit chat. Then we sleep until morning.

Next day, me and my sis went to Sakura to have buffet. We kind of celebrated mother's day for our beloved grandma.

I love the month of may because it's full of events! There will be universal studios and meeting up with besties! Wow

2010-04-16T18:33:00.002+08:00

Happy 20th birthday to Teresa!

Her real birthday falls on 17 April but because she is always busy, she allocates Thursday(15 april) for us to celebrate her birthday.

As usual, meeting up with Teresa always resulted in me being late. Yuenky is like the medusa from clash of the titan when her head is being chopped off. She is very angry about the lateness and threatened us that she will (turn us into stone with a gaze) go home immediately without waiting for us to come.

We had tian tian huo guo on a rainy day but luckily for us, the rain stopped when we started eating.

I was so hungry because I skipped breakfast and lunch knowing that we will have steamboat for dinner. Both of the girls chose the Tom yum soup base without asking me and lester, who later came over and request for a change of soup to Chicken instead. His reason for the change is that it is not delicious enough which gave the staff a SHOCK!

Since I am not a fan of Tom yum and Tom yum goong the movie, I decided that eating beef strips is the next most worth food item of the lot. I happily barbeque the beef and splattered butter all over the table.

Yuenky was busy with her golden mushrooms and Teresa was ignoring her hotdog and soon became 'chao tah'. Lester came and I think he ate very little. He said he is the chef and he used the chopped up garlic to cook chicken on the pathetic BBQ space. He then displayed his skill by scoping the foam off the soup surface.

This was the present we got for Teresa

Last but not least, we went Haji lane to take pictures and got Teresa a small cake as well. Happy 20th birthday! Hope we will celebrate your 21st together as well!

P/s: Sherman went for karate chop and Marcus went to some IT company to work.

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Happy 21st birthday to Sherman!

Didn't have the chance to do this post earlier because of my work. Now that I finally have the time, I will do it altogether.

Cake from BangawanSolo

It seems like everyone is so busy with their own stuff but we still managed to get together to hold a celebration. Even if the person is not there, the money must be there to contribute to the present. *hint hint*

Present and Cake is a must!

I really like the mango cake which is coated with a thick layer of agar agar. But sadly, my agar dropped when I was talking to someone.

The present cost a bomb to us because I remembered during Sherman's birthday, we still haven't received our pay. It is one week before the end of month and wallets are rather dried up.

After eating cake, we rushed over to cineleisure to catch the movie, 'When in Rome'. A love + comedy which ends the day on a happy and relax mode.

Super love this picture but take note that it is Sherman's birthday and not Teresa's. Don't know why she stood in the middle. She wanna elbow Lester and scratch Sherman.

2010-03-22T23:54:00.002+08:00

Happy 21st birthday to Monkey!

21st birthday is really a changing point for everyone of us. At least most of my friends say so. It must be one of the most memorable celebration being held to inform the world that you are turning 21.

To be honest, organizing mk's birthday is a tedious one because of his army schedule. Apart from that, we are also going crazy as we are all busy with our own things and meeting up to discuss became a threat to this event.

Deep down I know I can't be an event planner because I sucked at doing that. Neither am I good at gathering people or multi-tasking.

So anyway, this is a photo taken right at the end of the celebration. Love it!

People missing: Jeanette, Huimin and Ruifang

Girls power seems to be lacking but nevertheless, their presents reached the birthday boy. Besides, I am sure Meng kha will like all the presents that he received.

So it goes like this...

We meet up at Westmall to watch "How to train your dragon" in 3D.

4/5 stars

It has quite a touching storyline for me personally. Everything becomes touching when you reached 21 years old.

After the movie, we went to Mk's (birthday boy) old working place to dine. The staff there still remember Mk and celebrating there is a good idea because he will feel like he has returned 'home'.

Another good thing about dining there is that we can secretly buy cake to celebrate with. Also would like to thank the waitress for the daring act of smearing cake onto mk's face while the birthday boy was making wish. I bet he didn't wish for anything because he was busy getting revenge!

Happy birthday Meng Kha! Hope you like our presents!

Some random facts:

Because Mk couldn't make it on Saturday, which we accidentally ordered some food catering. We have no choice but to meet up without the birthday boy and finish up the food.

Jeanette, Huimin and Ruifang did not purposely absent themselves. We all thought we were supposed to meet up on Saturday but due to some unforseen circumstances, we had to change to Sunday instead. By then, they couldn't get their leave, hence CMI.

2010-03-11T18:18:00.005+08:00

Nothing interesting happened recently.

-End of entry-

No lah, was just kidding. But seriously, ever since I started work last week, I felt that my life is all about going home, sleep and awaiting new day.

I am not complaining about it because I knew a bunch of colleagues that know how to help one another just like a family. It is different from those past jobs that I worked for in terms of backstabbing and no-chit-chatting-during-work.

Work aside, I still find time with my friends.

Tuesday, 9 Mar

Specially took off from work because I had been working the whole week and friends had been neglected. Not healthy. Also, Jh got a car and that means free rides to anywhere!

We played LAN and we kind of became fussy for what food to eat for dinner. We wanted something that we don't usually eat. People say that our minds think better when we are hungry and suddenly this great idea came out on the 32nd restaurants that we mentioned.

We went to Sunset way whereby they had BBQ, steamboat and Sashimi all in one! Yes, you heard that right!

Chicken and Seafood soup base

It's buffet, so take whatever you want.

Most important of all! Free flow Sashimi

Sorry for overdoing the .GIF that might causes lag but I am really excited!

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I also went to see FIR at Chua Chu Kang, Lot 1. This can be my first time shaking hands and getting autographs from well known celebrities. To be exact, they do not have any pimples at close range and they are super friendly!

Will upload some photos of them when I get it from my friend!

2010-02-26T10:59:00.003+08:00

My birthday cum resort world

Went to sentosa with cheapo lovelies. It's been long since we last meet up. I am glad they still remember my birthday and bothered to meet up and pass me present. The latter part is more important. Just joking!

Present is love

They bought me a gift + ang pow of $10 because they say they don't know how to split the $10 among themselves. Thanks for the gift from Teresa, Yuenky, Sherman, Lester and Marcus! (I must note it down so that I will need to return the favour to them)

Next in line will be Teresa's turn!

So anyway, we took skytrain and as usual, lots of gossip were being shared. It seems like we will never run out of topic and they will never be a dull moment during our cheapo meet up.

On the skytrain

While we were on the skytrain, we overlooked the resort world that is still currently in progress. The cheaply, chirpy us decided to go take a look ahead of others so as to not lose out.

The direction sign board is shaped like a flower and butterfly

I think only the casino get a head start on others as they are opened way earlier than the universal studios. Since we are on the topic of casino, I heard that any other people, except Singaporean, need not pay $100 before they enter. I don't think it's fair although it raises Singapore's economy. Think of the possibilities that might happened.

OMG! Universal studios

~~Coming soon~~ Opening soon

This is the best we can go, U-n-i-v-e-r-s...

The thing keep rotating and nobody can ever take the full Universal logo.

On the Skyride! Lester, Teresa and Yuenky!

I conclude that this is the best photo out of the lot because it takes into account what the target audience wants. The photo also achieve the right balance. It also captures everything within one shot.

Down with Luge! Me and Sherman!

We came down the skyride with luge and we do this for 2 times consecutively. 2 times cost $16 and 1 time cost $11. Of course we take the 2 times!

Coming down with Luge was super cheapo. They keep breaking so that they can make their luge experiences more worthwhile. I am sure the people on the skyride saw this and report it to STOMP!

Power combined

After the skyride and luge, we went to the beach to do jumpshots. The banana boat person was kind enough to help us take photos. Amazingly, it only take 2 shots. We thought it will be 100 shots because there will always be a balck sheep

PERFECT! if only without the belongings

Next, we moved on to the most anticipated activity. For a moment, I hope it was the flying fox but only Teresa was keen on it. Hence, according to majority, we went to 4D Magix instead to experience the 4D ride.

Extreme Log ride, $18 per pax

When we are purchasing the tickets from the ticket booth, the ticket seller easily guess that we are locals because of the traits we possessed. We were puzzled about whether to get the package or just a single ride. The ticket seller offered us to get the package deal because it's more worth it. In the end, we settled for single ride, despite his marketing skills, which is a blessing in disguise!

Preparing to start our 4D experience

Before that, we actually went through a video session telling us what are the do's and don'ts. The video lasts about 15 minutes and the real ride only lasts 5 minutes! Super disappointed...

However, after the ride itself, I laughed until my jaws become numb. I just keep laughing, don't know why.

Shall end the post abruptly with a photo with Me and Teresa. She told me to credit her for the photos that were taken throughout the day. If I don't do this, means I not automatic. LOL

@ Vivo rooftop

Hope that the cheapo spirit never dies!

2010-02-22T15:31:00.003+08:00

Happy birthday to me!

Had a surprise stayover at chalet (costa sands) with my secondary school peeps + besties + family members. I didn't know anything until my mum broke the news to me on the 19th Feb, on my birthday morning.

Mum: *out of nowhere*, how many days you all staying?
Me: ????
Mum: You don't know meh?
Me: Oh I know liao...

You see, I didn't purposely kill the surprise thingy that was being organized by the people but you will get suspicious when it's your birthday and such a sensitive question pops out from nowhere.

Clever me, I immediately figured out that it was a chalet or some sort of stayover thingy. When I continued to pursue my mum to tell me the details, she just say nothing. Later on, I was told to pack my bag as they knew I had already figured it out.

Actually I was more impressed with the way they organized it without me knowing it until my birthday. I could imagined the inbetweens where they called each other to confirm the booking of chalet and this usually takes 1 month advance.

And so, I followed them to buy things, transport BBQ stuff and fetching people to the chalet (all these are supposed to be surprise!)

Upon reaching there, we unload everything and proceed with the bbq stuff. Some of us are in charge of marinating the chicken wings while others are in charge of starting fire. Some of them just laze around but we do not allow lazy bums so they quickly help out in one way or another.

Fire started!

Good job to those who start the fire. How can black coal start fire just like that? Must be a tedious job!

Marinated with BBQ sauce by Jeanette and Me!

Hope no one got upset stomach after this because we, apparently did the marinating in the chalet's toilet basin. Never knew marinating can be such a tedious job considering the fact that there are instant marinated chicken wings out there in the market and why are we doing it the traditional way?

Anyway, alot of food was wasted because the ratio of 1 person is to eat about 8 chicken wings but the most eaten might be my sis with 3 chicken wings claiming champion. That relates a lot about the wastage.

Soon it was night time and jinjin don't allow me to enter the room. That got me suspicious as there are definitely something going on in the room. They are actually planning something very sinister to the birthday boy.

So this was what they planned (A good guide on how to sabotage a birthday boy)

Turn 21 rounds which represents 21 years old

After turning, you need to walk in a straight line between 2 cups or else there's a punishment involved. The 21 rounds must have been 25 rounds because they purposely miscount and such making me feel like being older and older. After that, I stood up being dizzy for like 20 seconds but it was walkable.

I knew I walked like as though there was a ruler on the ground and I didn't cross any lines but they just keep saying that I walk a bit crooked and they also said that I deserved the punishment.

So the punishment was...

Sour, Sweet, Bitter and Spicy. All in one

For Sour, they used squeezed lemon juice and marshmallows for sweet which I think they were really sweet to me. For bitter, it is none other than bitter gourd and spicy was wasabi. All in all, I almost puke because my esophagus rejects the taste!

After that, they asked me to stand in the middle and they started throwing me water bombs. I quickly grabbed a few and chase some of them to share the wetness. I remembered blasting jeanette at her back!

It was still not over. They pretended that everything is over but they asked me to take out candle from a slice of cake. The cake was obviously no candle and how am I supposed to get anything out from it?

Look at Jh's hand! All ready to push me down! Still say you never 'hai' me!

Without warning, Jeanette smashed the cake, that I am trying to look for the invisible candle from, into my face. They whole chain of chasing began and I started smearing bits from my own face and oiling people's faces.

In the end, Hx suffered injuries when I am chasing him and Jh, who never likes cheese, got smeared in the face and hair all over with cheese cake. He almost puke!

Thanks everyone for the awesome night! We even played blackjack and Jh got triple 7! Sleeping was a bit crampy because there were 10 of us staying over.

Next day...

Had late breakfast, went arcade to take neoprints and cycling/skating/falling.

Not very pro with skates but was bored with cycling

The rest go for cycling!

Time passes really fast and soon many of them need to go home. It was left with me, Ws and Hx having the whole room to relax! We reminded ourselves to wake up at 8am to book out early the next day. We had breakfast at whitesands and then MRT all the way home!

Overall, Thanks for the wonderful chalet stayover for my 21st birthday. I am sure the chalet costs a bomb for many of you. I certainly enjoyed myself for the chalet moments and it has been the best birthday ever!

P/S

People involved at chalet: Jinjin, Jeanette, Qiuyin, Shiying, Huimin, Ruifang, Both Sisters, Mum, Ah peng, Timothy, Huixiang, Jinhong, Mengkha, Minghai and myself.

Also thanks those who texts me happy birthday at handphone and in Facebook as well. No matter is it belated or too early birthday wishes, I still regard it as a sign of appreciation! Thanks!

2010-02-18T21:06:00.006+08:00

Post and Pre Chinese new year!

I just had an awesome Chinese New Year considering the fact that it has already been the fourth day of the CNY and the family and I are still in the festive mood. Partly because they are all on leave for a whole week and that means more time spent being together! The previous years, all of us usually go back into their work or studies right after CNY. Kind of like, spoiler of the year.

除夕(Chu Xi) - The day before Chinese new year

Went to my ah ma house (father side) to have dinner. The people are all scattered and they all came at different timing. I am not rather close to the people there but we only sees each other once every year, so no choice. However, I only saw my shu shu this year, which is also the one who scolded me last year. Out of all people, he just need to come at that timing.

初一(Chu Yi)

Dressed up in new clothes and I remembered waking up feeling especially happy. People call it the 'festive mood' but I don't know why but to feel that something good will happen on that day.

Went to my Popo(婆婆) house and this is a place that I must go every year during Chu Yi. Not because the ang pows given by the relatives are especially huge or neither it has very delicious food all decked out to welcome us. The reason is simple; We just want to get together.

Nothing beats being together and I love this feeling. I guess all the relatives feel the same just like me. If I can understand this simple logic, I don't think the adults cannot get it. I think we should treasure what we are experiencing now or else when the day comes where we lose the chance to experience 'it'.

So anyway, I gambled with the relatives and during night time we went to Uncle Ringo UK Funfair at Marina Bay with my Xiao yi and cousins.

Forget the name of it but Genting has it

This might be the same as the one in Genting but this is more exciting because it spins faster and they blast music into your ears making you dizzy and all!

Forget the name of it again but it is some sort like pirate ship but instead of 180 degrees, it turns 360 degrees!

This is super violent! One of the most dangerous ride that I play before. This thing only turn in circular motion and you imagine when it is at the top part when your whole body is facing the high grounds and the machine hang there for 5 seconds. Your body is not tightly fixed to the seats, instead you can move around when the machine hang there, giving you the 'dropping-off-your-seats' sensation.

Nobody dares to play Top gun because only a few people allowed. This makes people scared but actually it's alright.

Top gun - like playing swings.

After that went to Xing Wang to have late dinner and Kbox until 4am!

Thanks for the free ride home!

初二(Chu Er)

Feeling especially tired from last night which I slept only at 5am, I woke up at 9am to prepare myself for San Jiang Hui Guan. It is a place to eat and get ang pows which is a must go every year during Chu Er. I have been going there consecutively for 7 years?

After that went to Jh's place to play Texas hold'em poker. We played it according to Zygna style, Facebook. Lost $13 and I am blaming it for zodiac snake who happens to Fan Tai Sui this year! Super bad luck!

Went to Hx's place after some Lan gaming and tabao-ing Mac. Took a cab and it's almost midnight by then. Played Big 2, 'SiGi Puek' and blackjack. No lose no win.

初三 (Chu San)

Chu San onwards, just go shopping and stuff. Chu Liu is my birthday! Happy birthday to myself!

2010-02-11T09:41:00.002+08:00

Free-ed

Yesterday was the last test, Hospitality. My stomach growled like 7 times during the test and the people at the same table kept looking at me. The facilitator walking past me also looked at me. (Don't ask me how I know, I just know)

Anyway, that's not the point. I am literally/officially, in between of these two, graduated from Poly life! Just in the nick of time, before Chinese new year and Valentine. I am now lazing at home doing nothing but working on some miscellaneous stuff.

This year's Chinese new year and valentine will fall on the same day. For those who have your other half, it might be challenging to balance between family and relationship. When you choose your girlfriend/boyfriend, you might not be able to spend time with your family. Your parents will ask you to go home visiting and then your other half gets neglected. The best win-win situation is to bring your loved ones along and hopefully, it turns out well.

Lastly, (I hope it's not too late) Thank you to all my friends in the poly life. This marks the end of another beginning in my life. (sounds like suicidal letter)

I don't get the chance to say bye bye to each and everyone of you. But if you managed to read this, it means I am referring to you okay? Anyone, it doesn't matter.

I tried to recall back to my year one. Ian, Jiajun, Andrew, Ziqi, Zhi Han, Wei Zhong and Adillah. Those are the first few friends I had in RP and they are all some fun! Most of them are included in the paint story board which is also a reason why I started drawing comic strips. Thank you my friends for all the lunch gossips we had!

I can't believe I looked so pure in year 1!

Year 2 spells trouble for me as I knew a bunch of potential pon-teng-ers like Teresa, Sophia, Yuenky, Yuen feng, Jeff, Sherman, Lester, Marcus and KC. We just keep pon-teng like nobody's business and ignore the facilitator(table cloth) that treat us badly. Good ones like science and culture faci, we will pretend to listen and work hard. Missed the DotA days!!

We all looked so young in this photo!

Year 3 is "one for all, all for one" year! We stick together like glue. The glue include Andy, Shao cheng, Zakia and William. Although I knew them back in year 2, we continued to choose the same modules, hoping to get into the same class and some of us actually did it! We still go to lunch together.

We took this picture back in year 2 and we took another picture in year 3 with the same pose! (Don't have the picture now)

All in all, my poly days are memorable. I'm lovin it!

2010-02-05T15:24:00.007+08:00

CMPB!

Went to CMPB for checkup on Wednesday. This is my first body checkup in my entire life. Got PES A as a result but the most confirmed result have yet to be released. Must wait for the blood test and what's not to determine whether I got any diseases. Most certainly, I am PES A...

The reasons for this entry is to help people know how to go CMPB and giving tips and what to expect at CMPB so that you will not be so blur.

How to go CMPB

I figured out that this is the most frequently asked question when people are going to CMPB. I, myself did a google search the day before I went. Many people said that you just take MRT to Redhill station then take a cab and it will directly bring you to CMPB.

The first part was quite good considering that they actually locate the MRT station to alight. The second part was redundant because who don't know how to take cab? It's like saying, you have to open your mouth to eat something.

So MINDEF actually provides map and how to get there via MRT and Buses.

Click here to see Map

What to expect at CMPB?

Firstly, when you reached there, you are not allowed to bring camera phones or cameras. There will be a locker to place your valuables in when you 'check-in'. No need to bring health booklet although they asked you to do so. (unless you have something to show in it) You need to bring a print out declaration form with parent's signature or else you can go home and book another date to come again.

When you reached the registration counter, everything just reply that you are here for checkup and give your NRIC or EZlink card to get a form of the overall summary of the stations you need to go to.

Photo taking

This is the first station. You need to take off clothes and wear a 'fake' uniform and that's not all. The camera man (a weird guy with no nonsense talking) will spray a large amount of water on your hair to make you look really hideous for the photo. Your hair will be dripping water and you will look something like hitler's hairstyle.

With hair all wet and dripping with water, you proceed to next station.

Form filling

As the title suggests, you need to do administrative stuff here. You will need to give the declaration form that have got ~~forged~~ parent's signature. They will then give you a clip board and fill in a simple 2 page form about your hobbies and such. Wait for your name to be called.

Urine Test

From now onwards, it is about your whole body check up. Take a cup and a test strip that has multiple colours on it. Urine into the cup at the urinal and dip the strip into the cup. Many people hold the cup and urine right into their hand! Don't laugh. Just show the strip 4 metres away from the guy and you can dispose everything away.

Blood Test

Blood test is just beside urine test. Clench your fist and they will tie a strap at your arm very tightly. They will then wipe alcohol on the part above elbow and you will feel a strong ant's bite for 10 seconds? Try not to look at it and it will be done.

When I went home after the blood test, I kind of rub the area that is being injected because it feels like the inside has the bruise feeling. Now I know I should have left it alone to let it recover on it's own because I rubbed it so hard that the bruise became obvious from the outside and showing the blue-black. My friend who didn't rub it had no blue-black.

Hearing Test

Sit inside an enclosed room and listen to earpiece for the sound that is being played. Carefully listen to every sound and raise hand upon hearing any sound even the softest ones.

*Note: Must take this seriously because if you did not hear one of the soft sound, you will be considered to have hearing problems. You will need to come back another day to have advanced testing or some sort.

Eye Test

Eye test is pretty common. They will test you on whether you are colour blind and your eyesight. I couldn't see because I didn't wear spectacles. They immediately direct me somewhere else to check how bad is my eyesight. In the end, I heard that it is 175, 100 and I was relieved! Over the years, the degree didn't increase at all!

Body X-ray

Take off clothes, stand with the body touching the machine/device. The in-charge just have to make it sound professional by talking loudly into my ear. The room is already enclose and he just have to do that.

I have read legend about this X-ray guy. He stayed in the X-ray room for too long and he became mutated!

Teeth check

I think this is the station that is the fastest (actually there is one more that is fastest but that's in the later part)

Lie down and open your mouth. The dentist will say something like "R26 present, D24 not present and so on..." at a very fast speed. I wonder how the person that is taking note catch what is he saying. I think the D24 refers to the baby teeth and wisdom teeth.

Heartbeat Test?

I don't really know what this station tests but I guess is heartbeat because you need to take off clothes and they will put something that suck on your chest. They also clip something on your leg making me feel that electricity will run through it. But luckily, it doesn't feel anything except that the sucker thingy will leave multiple red patches on the chest.

Height, weight and blood pressure will be taken in this station as well. I kind of skip it and return to it afterwards. I don't know what's the reason of having a locker here. It might be linked to the next station.

Take off your pants

This is the station that most of the people are worried about. Legends mention that it is also called the "Cough test" whereby the doctor will ask you to turn to left and cough while holding on to your right testicle. If it moves, then you are healthy, vice versa.

Another famous legend also indicates that you need to wear presentable underwear and most preferably, boxers, because at this station, you will be waiting with that on only.

However, both of the legend didn't occur to me when I was doing the check-up. I just wait for my turn and enter a room. Take off pants and show the private part to the doctor. The doctor just sees it and that's all. Lastly, he will ask you if you have anything to declare and you are free to go.

The doctor ask me why my heart beats so fast when I was doing the heartbeat test. I replied that I thought there will be electricity running through my whole body and he just laughed. I didn't know my heart beats so fast until he mentioned it.

The end of body test.

IQ Test

This part is the most boring part. It takes the longest to finish and why didn't anyone tell me that the first few parts were just trials and not for real? I took it so seriously and then it dawned on me that it was just TRIALS!?!

People only realised it when they asked the person-in-charge that the questions seems to be repeated. And at the last part, I heard people saying that the test will be good if you want to be commandos and such.

The test basically tests the use of quadratic equation which I didn't revise on for years. It also have a section that test you on how the object will look like if it is turn this way or that way. Remembering numbers, patterns, words and many more.

After the test, you are free to go. They will give you a recruit booklet.

*Declaimer: Any parts might be different from yours depending on the time of your check-ups. This is just my true experience from going for a check-up in CMBP.

2010-01-27T21:02:00.004+08:00

No title for this entry as I've been sitting here the whole time thinking what title to use but nothing seems to fit in. I haven't been blogging for 1000 years already and I kind of feel sad by the fact that this month will contain the least entries.

I can only blame myself that FYP is the main problem at that time but now that FYP is over, I had games to cater to. I am missing, jotting the important details that happened in my life!

Talking about FYP, some photos to upload!

It have been fun working with this team, mainly consisting of andy, shao cheng and zakia. I can't help but say that I didn't do alot of things in this team. I mean, this project ended abruptly without me having the time to think about it. I am just basically trying to say that this semester passes by very fast! Not that I do not contribute much to the team!

I think I don't want to repeat about what happen during the real presentation day itself. Now that it is over and done with, I shall enjoy myself to the maximum.

FYP striked off from the checklist, I am now left with the final test that is going to happen in 2 weeks time. After that I will guaduate and enter army. Suddenly it reminds me of the conversation that I had this afternoon with Sc and W.

Both of them were lost as in they don't know where to go after their poly. (They are both non-SGs) They say that at least I've got 2 more years in NS and till then I can have 2 more years to decide where to go after that. Hmmm, that's the first time I heard people praising us entering NS for that reason.

Actually, I don't have any plans even after serving NS. I don't think I'll plan to continue further studying and this will only mean that working is the only option. But at this point, people always interupt me with options that I can sign on the army as it provides a good pay.

And then, I always hope to try out the navy path which is kind of different from most people who are always posted to army. Rumours say that Navy carries the highest risk out of the 3 and why am I the last one to know this? Why must rumours like this start to get to my ears when I say I want to try out the navy path?

2010-01-06T21:44:00.004+08:00

A New Tiger Year

It's 2010 now and I miss writing 2009. I haven't make my resolution for the new year but it's pretty simple. I just want a good health. No falling sick easily and no headaches!

31st December 2009

Spent the last day of the year with besties watching "The Treasure Hunter"

NOT NICE!!!

That's all. The movie have many parts but all the parts doesn't gel up well. I only like the part whereby the person eat the poisonous flower and become zombie-like. Jay Chou is like acting himself in this movie. This is the first time I finally sees Lin Chi Ling real self. Sorry, I always hear her name but never know what her face look like.

Anyway, the movie isn't nice but we managed to meet up at the last day of the year.

After the movie, we had Dai dee session at my house and I stayed up to 5am in the morning for the new year. I went to sleep and they only left around 7am.

1st Jan 2010

At late afternoon, we wanted to try out Da Chang Jin at Geylang. It's actually a BBQ + steamboat place that was advertised on TV. When we reached there, we were assigned a table that is too small for the family. By the way, we already made reservation before hand.

The waiter then ask us if we want to go to the back because there are more tables behind their eating place. When we reach there, it's actually an alley that is very narrow and full of tables and chairs with little walking space. As we walk down the lane, I saw 'coolies' eating violently. They looked at us and we looked at them.

My sis said she doesn't want to eat anymore because she have no appetite after seeing their way of eating. We then go to Bugis instead and we had Crystal Jade which is 100 times better than Da Chang Jin in terms of their environment.

Now that school start, I am busy like a bee but thinking that we are only left with 5 weeks, I begin to wonder if I will miss school later on in life.

2009-12-27T20:44:00.031+08:00

Christmas celebrations! (23rd, 24th & 25th Dec)

It started off with the cheapo gang on 23rd Dec. We had early Christmas presents exchange and a simple stay over at Sherman's house. The efficient planner, Teresa, (she claims herself) plan this using the Facebook's 'event' function. (cheapo way)

We met at Orchard and not surprisingly, Marcus is not with us on that day. He says he is not feeling well or something but anyway, Happy birthday.

We walk around and took MRT to sherman's house. Lester need to go somewhere and he will join us later. We play Big 2, spongebob squarepants monopoly, take pictures with these things on...

Bought at Watsons @ 3 for $5?

When Lester came, we start to exchange presents. Everyone is unaware of each others' presents. Basically, everyone is aiming for Yuenky's present because hers was the biggest of all! Of course we did it the fair way by drawing lots.

In the end, I got sherman's shades, which is something that Yuenky already knows and she's hopping that she won't get it.

Lester, the cheapest of all, got Yuenky's biggest present and it turned out to be Ikea's laptop table. We all think that this present is super good and Lester is spitting orgasmic spasm from his face!

After that, we went for Geylang supper and we saw many uncommon sights at the dark streets. The Ti-Ko ah peks are sitting at the coffee shop table while the 'girls' are busy touching up although they are already wearing thick masks.

We got back to sherman's house and I told myself that I had to sleep a few hours no matter what because I still have to meet my friends later on.

Around morning (24th Dec), my sis came to fetch me and Teresa. Luckily she came, if not we had to take the MRT train, looking super restless.

Went to fetch Timothy from school. He got lots of presents and christmas goodies. He even got a BIG bear from their very own present exchange! What a clever boy! Kids these days are luckier than us.

I think we throw away the bear because the hair keep dropping. Shh, don't tell Timothy. He'll forget.

At night time, we meet Tb, Hx, Mk and Ws at West coast plaza to have our christmas dinner. It is the most Ulu place in Singapore during festive seasons. If you are scare that there will be no place in restaurants during Christmas, think WC plaza. Oh no, I just revealed our secret place!

Unfortunately, we chose a restaurant called "Tian Wang" and their service and serving time is super duper bad and slow. Although they apologise, (it's too late to apologise) we still have to pay the bill right? Spoil our Christmas mood. To recall back, I think I eat mostly veges in the set meal.

Although the dinner was ruined, our exchange presents session was a success.

Tb got Mk's present

Hx got my Sis's present

Ws got my present! Look at him, so happy

Mk got Hx's present

I got Tb's present of a headset and my sis got a DVD called 'Pi Zhi ying Xiong' (Black & White) from Ws. This year it's kind of different because we 'know' who are buying our presents for. Last year, we just have to buy things that are suitable for anyone because anyone can get any present.

After that, they play cards until 2am and the next day (25th Dec), the same bunch of us meet Jin Jin, Wei bin and Rui fang at Boon lay MRT for Jurong Safra Kbox session.(Qiu Yin meet us after that) Super long never meet up with them but they still looked the same to me.

After Kbox, we kind of had nothing to do because some of us want movie while others want shopping or bowling. In the end, we settled for Marina square. When we reach there, we straight away eat at Xing Wang restaurant. Don't know why we are all so hungry.

waiting for food to be served

Love this photo!

Finally found someone that knows how to use a camera to take photos

After eating, we went shopping and play those UFO machine whereby they can catch toys from it. I spent $5 just to get a snoopy keychain only lor. Somemore is tyco one!

Went Esplanade rooftop to rest.

Played 'Murderer' and it's super fun. We cannot really see each others eyes because it's pretty dark. The lights are not helping us and we are sort of unsure whether we are dead or not. (Murderer winked at you means you dead)

Last photo until Christmas ends

Merry christmas everyone.

2009-12-19T12:32:00.006+08:00

Random entry

Life had been blissful for me recently. I'm currently enjoying my holidays by being lazy everyday. I do the things that most people do; eat, sleep, play and watch. This is the perfect lifestyle for me and I am glad to say it.

Wan Zai Hong Kong Cafe, IMM building level 3

This is one of the food that I am craving for. The taste of this Wanton Noodle had been spinning in my head ever since I've tried it. I know I don't like noodles but this is exceptional!

Wan Zai Hong Kong Cafe, IMM building level 3

This is their side dish and it is very crisy per se. It contain a regular size prawn in every Wanton and the prawn is super fresh.

How I know? I am allergic to prawn and whenever a prawn can make my allergy acts up, it is fresh! (You can even see one strand of prawn feeler in the picture!)

West coast plaza, forget the name of the place but it's some kind of cafe @ level 2

Honestly, not very nice. But it is very oily and that is what I like about it. Taste a bit like laksa instead of curry. Chicken is boiled until it is very soft.

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Watched Feng yun 2, Storm raiders with Sis and Hx.

It was a disappointment despite the fact that they keep counting down starting from 100 days ago. I thought it was a movie that can be the 'finale' type because it was due at December. I was anticipating this movie and the more anticipation, the more disappointment.

The disappointment comes from the part whereby the bad guy dies too easily. They say until like he is unbeatable but in the end died with decay from the feng's evilness.

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Cousin's big day (girl)

Yes, I am sitting at the front table. You can see from the picture above, no zoom, no movement. I just stood up and turn around to capture this picture. The food was nice, but the people at the table was not.

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Lastly, Christmas is approaching and I am almost done with the presents selection. I am so looking forward to it. Wonder what sort of presents will I get?

2009-12-07T12:19:00.008+08:00

New PSB

I drew a new PSB (Click here) and it was about a recent case when me and my sis want to buy chicken rice but later found out that it was closed for the day.

P/S: You can view PSB on the right side of the navigation.

We were actively discussing about what we are ordering and just a turn after the wall, the stall was closed for the day! Our reaction was like "?!!?".

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超級星光大道 Chao Ji Xing Guang Da Dao 6

Chao Ji Xing Guang Da Dao 第六季 began on 6 November 2009. Below is the embedded link for it if you are intersted.

However, I noticed something's changing. Unlike the past, the team leaders which is also Zhang yu, Xiao pang, Zuo An An and Kang Kang will sometimes pick songs for their team members to sing. They are also grouped into teams for easier observation and guidance.

When the team loses, the team leaders will be forced to eliminate those who didn't perform well for that episode, resulting in hidden 'weaklings' on the winning teams. Not that I am saying it's unfair but they can't hide forever. Besides, those that did well the previous week didn't seemed to be doing well consecutively for the subsequent week.

To be honest, no one really stands out at this moment because of their instabilities. However, there might be 1 team with the 3 guys (not Jonas brother!) who are constantly singing songs that combined their voices together in unison. Yes, they are good, but how far can they go with 3 persons while all the others are only 1 person? That wouldn't be fair. (whenever one of them sing the solo, I can also hear the instability in them)

I still think Xu jia ying of Xing Guang 3 is the most stable contestant of all. Forget about Xing Guang 1 & 2 because I never watched them. (I started with xing guang 3 and am glad for that)

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1 more week to 3 weeks holiday. Haven't plan what to do with it!

But currently, I have my new game (Petville) to keep me company.

2009-12-02T20:10:00.014+08:00

Sakae Buffet + Case 39 (1st December)

Teresa, Yuenky and I were late for the movie slot and we decided to fill our stomach first with Sakae tea time buffet. Little did we realised that we had only half an hour till last order and we had to order as much as we can because no orders are to be made after 5:30pm.

We are not called 'cheapo gang' for nothing. Above are the food we ordered and we couldn't finish it all. These isn't all until we realised we couldn't finish them and the plump waitress keep emphasizing that we shouldn't waste food.

See this? Teresa ordered 5 and it only came when we are all super full already. To be fair to Teresa, who couldn't finish them, Sakae must have planned such ways to make us full until siao!

The sashimi is not in the freshest state.

This looks the most appetizing. steamed egg Chiramushi.

We Teresa and Yuenky couldn't finish most of the food due to their greed and they cleverly think of a way to hide the leftover food. They used the plates to squash the rice and what not in between and the passerby all looked in awe.

I, hereby remind all buffet lover not to be so greedy and take so much food. Only take what you can finish. Besides, researchers came out with this astonishing report that eating too full will result in you dying faster.

With a full and bursting stomach, we watched 'Case 39' and it was nice.

This child looks so innocent but within her is a devil who feeds on the fear of others and she can manipulate her victim with a call of jibberish talking and they will oblign to her.

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Prawning session

Cheapo gang full team!

My biggest catch. One of the claw broke. I think it was because the prawn uses its claw to hold onto the soil, making it difficult for me to catch. Then, I pulled so hard that the claw snapped! HAHA!!!

see below... Orbi quack

I later joined my sis and caught 25 prawns.

BBQ prawns. Isn't it nice to eat what you caught?

2009-11-29T21:43:00.010+08:00

My Secondary Art

I always complain that if I were to take Art as one of my module during my O levels, I would have scored better. Not that I care now but as I was packing my room, I looked at my secondary school's Art work and was amazed by some of them no matter how many times I look at it.

My mid year exam pieces

The topic I chose was festive occasion. Pretty easy one. You can draw about any festive occasions like Christmas, Chinese new year etc. Of course, I drew about Chinese new year because I know this topic too well. (hint: red packets)

We need to do preparatory work before the real exam itself. If I remember correctly, we were given like 1 month time to research and do out the preparatory stuff.

I decided to approach it with the mind map style. You know lah, this being Art module, you need to draw everything even when it comes to mind map.

Then we have to go in depth into the description. Many people fail Art because they don't know what to draw and then they will say "Must draw what arh???". Once they don't even try, it is the same as don't even know what to draw!

^By the way, this is my favourite of the lot!

I love Art exam because you are allowed to do funny things in the preparatory work months ahead before you do your final piece on the actual day itself. Doing the preparatory work well is enough to get you at least a B grade. The problem with us at that age would be our laziness and passion.

Even though I spelt the 'traditional' wrongly, I can any-o-how add in the 'o' as and when I like it. Unlike Mathematics, less 1 '0' is a big difference.

My final piece! Not that great but still good enough for distinction!

I think if I can re-do it now, I will do a better job than this 100 times!

My End of year exam pieces

If I am not wrong, I chose the topic, 'My family and I'. Yes, I know it's pretty boring so you have to make it interesting enough to draw!

Obviously, this mind map is better than the mid year one. Of course there must be improvements lah!

Nonsensical contents but fabulous drawing! :) (You can see that the teacher is pretending to mark the piece with pencil ticks)

More nonsense! Waste my magic markers ink lor. should have used crayons instead.

draft.

final piece.

Forgot the marks but I know I also got an 'A'.

Ok, if I have the time, I will show my trophies for running because nobody believe me when I told them that I am good at running!

2009-11-24T21:46:00.009+08:00

Happy birthday to my mum! (23 Nov)

She likes purple, hence the title colour.

To celebrate my mum's birthday, we went to safra Kbox in the morning to have the K lunch hours. Unfortunately, Timothy went along and he created havoc in the singing room. His crying is louder than the singing. My sis, which is timothy's mum, suffered, and I remembered her singing one or two lines of the song, "Ji Shi Ben" by Kelly Chen.

My mum took a 1 week leave from work just so that she can rest and enjoy her birthday (actually she just want to clear the leave)

After singing, we went 'The icing room' at Jurong point to make cake! This is my second time going there and third time designing the cakes.

See background, 'The Icing Room'

'Katherine' is my mum's name and obviously the 'chio' woman is my mum with act chio ribbon on hair and heart shapes mouth.

Super nice right? I am so proud of my creation.

There's a kid beside me that is also making a cake for her parents. She kept asking me questions like 'who's the girl on the cake?', 'who is it for?', 'What are you drawing?'. Super noisy. Feel like swiping off her cake.

The simple birthday celebration ended at my house with singing of birthday song and cutting of cake. Still prefer the vanilla cake to chocolate cake.

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Anyway, Yk is taking forever to upload the pictures for the Bishan prawning.

So what I have here is the prawns that me, my sis and her husband caught.

Mysteriously, the prawns contained lots of eggs at the head region and most disgustingly, there's fats and they looked like brain juices!

Despite it being described as such, it still taste nice! Besides, the feeling of eating the prawns that you caught using your own hands make it all the more tastier!

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Lastly, L4D2 is uber pwnage. I love splitter so much!!!

Look at the two pig tails and the elongated neck. Not forgetting that the mouth tearing looks is from the movie, 'The mirror'. With a sexy beer belly, she spits a stream of poisonous liquid at the enemy while wearing her leopard print 'Ris-low-wannabe' bra. Her contrasting three quarter pants had blood stains and the pinky little shoes makes her irresistible. I am so in love with her!

2009-11-18T20:32:00.004+08:00

Haagen-Dazs @ Tampines Mall

Slurp, went to Haagen-Dazs after shopping for mum's present. That's like after 1 hour of shopping and our legs are tired. Seriously, I hate shopping especially when I am shopping for things that is not for myself. Nevertheless, Mummy! You are the best! (Don't dare to say it in her face!!!)

Their promotion item, $14.90.

Consists of Dark chocolate + orange, Chocolate chips and Passion fruit flavours.

Banana Boat

Consists of Strawberry cheesecake, Cookie and cream and Passion fruit + mango flavours.

I especially love the almond flakes! crunchy!

However, the banana become tasteless because of the sweet ice cream!

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Watched 2012 and it's super nice. Teared 3 times.

*During the movie

Whenever I tear (indian family saying goodbye to each other, looking at the devastated land on the airplane), I will just let it drop because I don't want my sis to notice that I cry. But since she started first to wipe off the tears using the tissue from the jumbo hotdog, I asked for one tissue too. There is nothing to be shy about having emotions.

Lastly, people are raving about the Doom's day in 2012 after watching this movie. After much thoughts, I think if it is going to come, then let it come with all might and kill us with one swipe.

2009-11-13T12:53:00.008+08:00

Man who ate his own mother

After reading the bloody title, don't you feel like reading on what is it all about?

Taken from: Myfoxillinois on Friday the 13th, 2009

A Russian man has been given a reduced sentence because the judge said "he needed to eat" after he killed and ate parts of his mother.

The Daily Mail reports that Sergey Gavrilov received a shorter jail sentence after confessing he was hungry and needed to eat his mom because he had spent all of his money on vodka and gambling. Russia's law usually assigns 15 years in jail for those who have committed crimes like Gavrilov's, but the convict will serve 14 years and three months.

The newspaper reports that Gavrilov killed his mother by hitting her head with a brick and strangling her after she refused to give him money to spend on alcohol. He put her body on the balcony at their home in southern Russia, and then went away for two days on a gambling and drinking binge.

He returned home hungry. With no food around, he started eating parts of his mother.

Police discovered the grisly scene when they were called to the home, suspecting he had stolen a cell phone.

If I am correct, Gav might be on drugs although he said that he had spent all his money on vodka and gambling. This might be the only reason why he would have the heart to kill his own mother.

I don't think the reason of refusing to give him money to spend and hence killing the mother is a good reason and much worst, returning home hungry with no food around and started eating parts of his mother?

WHAT IS THIS?!!?!

He even dared to say it like as if it is his mother's fault. Seriously, if the reason of "he needed to eat" is valid to reduce the sentence by 9 months, then everybody in Russia can go around the streets and start to steal food from the vendors and when they are caught, they just say, "I need to eat". With that reason, it is enough to be scot-free because the crime committed should be considered a minor one.

I had heard enough stories of parents killing/eating their own child or other's child but this is my first time hearing their own son killing the own mother. (he even get reduced sentence just by saying, "he needed to eat")

2009-11-04T22:07:00.003+08:00

Chao Ji Xing Guang Da Dao 5 finals

I know this is long overdue but just want to share it to those that haven't watch it.

It's really nice to see how the contestants grow over the period when they first started till now. Every contestants had a story to tell and I like Xu Yong Ling's true story the best. Towards the end, like part 14 and 15, there is a feeling of sadness but fear not! Chao Ji Xing Guang Da Dao 6 will return!

While you are at it, why not view the aftermath of the competition?

They actually invited the top 10 finalists and give them awards for the glory moments. This is also because on that big day itself, there's simply not enough time for the winners to say their winning speech.

I thought after finals will be the end but they actually did the follow-ups.

Watch this! (超級星光大道 2009-10-23 pt.1/11 中視40台慶唱旺閃亮歲月)

p/s: For part 2/11, 3/11, 4/11..., simply copy and paste the heading and change the figures to the respective parts at youtube)

And this too! (超級星光大道 2009-10-30 pt.1/10 唱旺星光總動員)

Credits to Sugoideas.com for the marvellous uploads!

Add this page to your Favorites so that you can return to watch the videos and remembering the links!

2009-10-31T23:04:00.014+08:00

Singapore Mcdonald Monopoly

Have you been to Mcdonald recently and ordered an extra value meal? If you did, they certainly give you some sticker thingy which is called 'Mcdonald Monopoly Singapore Game Piece'. No scratch and no fuss, you just peel them off to check if you are the lucky winner of top prize, $50,000!!!

Here's what I got...

Actually, if you can't get the top prize, there is always consolation prizes which is called 'instant win'. They come in all forms and mine was 'Starcruises 3rd & 4th PAX FREE'. My friend got a small fries free and he said he had gotten a Big Mac free before too!

For better prizes

Like the concept of Monopoly, you need to collect a whole stretch of same coloured lands in order to start building hotels. Likewise, Mcdonald monopoly will give you prizes if you managed to collect the completed game pieces.

However, if it is so easy then Mcdonald might go bankrupt. From some sources, I heard that the top prize ($50,000) has only got 1 game piece in the whole of Singapore? See the video below and you can see how crazy when they get the Sentosa Cove game piece (Rumored to be the legendary game piece!)

Some websites even went on to calculate the probabilities of actually winning the prizes which I thought was interesting enough to share!

Click here to see the probabilities

For all you know, I could be the lucky one to get the Sentosa cove game piece. I will be eating Mcdonald EVM + upsize (8 game pieces) once I got the chance!

2009-10-30T13:19:00.008+08:00

Monday, 26 Oct

Went to Chomp Chomp Food centre with the cheapo gang. Teresa recommended this place and everyone in the gang frantically googled it so that they will know what to order on that day itself. Talking about "kiasu-ism".

At first, I thought it was some kind of fast food restaurants like popeyes or Mcdonalds but it turned out to be a food centre (kopitiam, food court)

The red star is Chomp Chomp FC

The place is located at Serangoon Garden and we took a bus from Ang mo kio hub to go there. I think is 168 or something.

We ordered many things like orh lua, prawn noodle, popiah, mee goreng, chicken chunks, BBQ stingray and gigantic sugar cane drinks.

Red means 'Very nice'
Blue means 'Never try'
Green means 'Don't eat, not worth the money'

Actually, the gigantic sugar cane drinks is play cheat one. I can taste that they added a lot of water as it is diluted. But for such a huge cup going at $3 which two people can barely finish it and not forgetting that after all the oily food, we need a lot of water to flush down the 'sins'.

After that, went to Frolick to have ice creams. Chatted like 1 hour or so as it brings back all the nostalgic E35D days. We tried to set Monday as our meet-up day but I wonder how long this will go on. Let's not care about the future but preserve the present moment! Next stop: Vivo city roof-top!

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Thursday, 29 Oct

2 more days to Halloween. Like the past years, Halloween hasn't been an important day for me because I've never celebrated it. However, Me, Teresa and Choosie watched Halloween II at CWP after FYP.

Actually, if you ask me what is the movie about, I will say 'I don't know'. Besides performing a close up stitching on a terribly cut-up face, cutting at the throat with those 'si-sha-si-sha' noise (blood gushing out), using a giant axe and pushing it against someone's back, stomping on someone's face with heavy boots accompanied by skull smashing sound, repeatedly violent stabbing to make sure the victims is dead, nurse who is unaware that her nose is being cut in half, prostitute having her head banged against the mirror and passing out while Mr Halloween stop and look at the face to make sure he had done enough damage to the now distorted face, eating bloody dog's meat.

That, about sums it up. Mr Halloween just kill anyone in his path.

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MRT annoyance

I found out that I had this amazing power of making people sleep when they sat beside me on the MRT. Sometimes on my right, sometimes on my left. If I am really 'lucky', both left and right can sleep at the same time and wave their head onto me.

As much as I hated it, I loved seeing this happened on others. I will pretend to give the 'Aw... hate it when people do that' face but I secretly loves to see their reaction or action to the sleeping person. It will be bonus if the victim (the one being lean on) starts to move away or push back or even best, QUARREL! Haha!

2009-10-26T22:40:00.014+08:00

A malay wedding + East coast park escapee

I am so honoured to be invited by Zakia to her brother's wedding. This is my first time attending a malay wedding and it's really petrifying because you aren't sure about what to do there. Luckily, or I hope, I did nothing embarrassing on that day and was glad everything went well.

I also want to mention that Zakia played the role of a good host as she ran around the place to find her family members and introduce them to us one by one. If I were in her shoes, I don't think I will be able to do that!

Only pictures can explain what happened there and then.

First, we walked around the place and we find a place to settle down. Then we went to get our food. I love the rice most because it's not sticky and you can easily feel each grain of rice in the mouth. However, most of the food is spicy but that's the unique food choices in malay weddings, I guess.

Desserts of the day, with william being blocked by the vase of ferns.

And like chinese weddings, the guests do get gifts for attending the malay weddings.

The main characters of the day, Rahim and Rafidah

Signing the guest book. I hope they know I am drawing the bridegroom and the bride.

Looks extremely tasty and elegant

This cake is definitely nicer than the one I designed for my younger sis.

Didn't actually take a picture with the bride or bridegroom, but this picture serves as a memory that the whole lot of us attended a malay wedding ceremony.

And last but not least...

A shot taken without any means of preparation.

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ECP escapee

After that, went to meet up with the cheapo gang members. (Teresa and Sherman)

It's really weird because the cheapo gang members don't usually do exercise. They usually spend their time thinking of ways to get the best deals. However, today the sun rises from the west and sets in the east. Teresa learnt how to cycle and she's all out to show off her cycling skills.

One of those infamous emo shot. But I like it anyhow.

Drinking under the hot sun is Boomz while Sherman showed the Shingz face

This is totally FTL, Shingz plus ultra omgzi!

We cycled for 4 hours straight!

Dinner at Lagoon Food Centre. Waited for half an hour before we can get a table. The people there simply don't move away after they finished their food. They can chat in front of you even though they know we are dying to get their tables. Although these people did that to us, we are proud to say that we 'pass' the table to those that are waiting once we finished our food.

The Mee Goreng is super delicious and it comes with 4 huge prawns and gigantic sotongs! WOOT! Although the price is $6 for a small plate.

2009-10-20T19:07:00.005+08:00

Happy birthdays!!!

20th October is a special day for both Ah peng and my younger sis. They shared the same birthday and I only knew this last year since I was the one buying the cake. This time, each of them will have a cake for themselves and it's customized by ME! MUAHAHAHAHAH! No choice, I am the artist here. PSB style~

I started off with my younger sis's cake.

I drew a girl which represent my younger sis and trust me, it's not easy from the look of it. My hands keep shaking because I have to squeeze the cream out. My elder sis helped with the colouring of shirt and hair.

Finished! But it looks plain.

I wrote the word 'Hapi B'dae' using bubble font and regretted deeply. It didn't turned out nice but I saved it back by putting the starry things. If without the starry things, don't it looks weird?

My elder sis decorated the sides with starry things again. (comes very handy) You can see she pressed too hard into the cake.

And Ta Da!! The finished product that is colourful and fun looking!

Now it's Ah peng's cake...

Ah peng is my sis's husband and I cannot use back the same ideology in decorating my younger sis's cake for Ah peng. I need to think in his perspective and I came up with the idea of drawing his sideway view. Don't look exactly like him but he will get the idea that it's him on the cake!

My sis squeezed a generous amount of chocolate fudge for the hair part. She say that the 'hair part' will taste extremely tasty.

The green colour is supposed to be blue.

Finished product! I love the hair. How come my sis ask me to write '2010'? I thought this year is 2009?

This way of birthday celebration is unique and I will surely do it again! I did mine at Jurong point's, The icing room.

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Outing with cheapo gang (Teresa, Yuenky and Sherman) yesterday. It was enjoyable except that the movie 'Pandorum' turned out sucky. I don't know what it is doing the whole movie and it's very dark and unclear when the monsters start to chase the people. MESSY!

Had crystal jade at CWP. They wanted to have steamboat but I stopped them. They can't even finished ala carte!

Sesame oil chicken noodle. Hate the bones.

Teresa's choice. Whatever she order, the waitress say don't have. haha

Off-ed to farmville and cafe world...

2009-10-17T12:57:00.010+08:00

I want more holidays!

First thing first, How come Deepavali falls on Saturday and we don't get a holiday on the coming Monday? I don't understand at all. Isn't Deepavali a public holiday? I even heard that some children are having exams on Monday which means no rest for them! What about the people celebrating Diwali?

I don't think this is fair for the Indian communities or even those who are celebrating Deepavali. Chinese new year and Hari raya are always given 1 or 2 days holiday so that they can enjoy the festive occasion.

With that being said, I have been rather busy ever since school started. Facebook games had occupied most of my time and I can't explain what's making me so addicted. I used to think Facebook games are stupid because they revolved around clicking on grids and texts and how can it be fun?

One day when I was on the MRT, I accidentally eavesdropped a conversation made by two OL a.k.a Office ladies. They were talking about what they usually do in the office and comparing their workload. Out of nowhere, the conversation led to Facebook games and they began to share their favourite games.

You can see the contrast in their face, before and after. Before as in when they are talking about workload and after which is the Fb's games. They seemed like hardcore gamers!

And so, my favourite is Farmville.

I know this has been out a long time ago and the reason why I still play it is because it update frequently. For example, Halloween updates and many more.

The recent Cafe World is making commotion in the cyber world.

Same like Restaurant city, it incorporates Farmville's timing system into preparing food. If you are an avid player of Farmville like me, you will like Cafe World also. Much more, you can purposely plow your land and cook your food for the same phase of time so that you can harvest your crops or serve food conveniently.

So, what did I learned after playing these games?

I learned to manage my time well because crops and food will spoil. Ahhh, whatever.

I also want to recommend another game called 'naruto arena'. I used to play this game during my secondary school days and recently I started playing it again. All you need is luck and strategies to win the game and unlock new characters.

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I just installed mio yesterday and I am officially wireless. The mio Tv is nonsense because after playing with the remote control for minutes, the best thing about mio tv is the free football channels and 30 new movies per month. Besides, who still watch Tv these days?

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I think I am super grumpy today. I want to say that Chao Ji Xing Guang Da Dao 5 had finally came to an end. The finale was heart wrenching because everyone did their best. Can't wait till Chao Ji Xing Guang Da Dao 6!!!

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And lastly! (I promised to stop after this)

I went to Dean's cafe ('Zi Char' stall) which is located at Toh guan Rd near my house yesterday. Had to wait 1 hour plus before we finally had a taste of their 'Cai Po Hor Fun' (salted radish hor fun)

Picture from: hardwarezone

Quite nice and large serving @ $5 only.

I usually walked past Dean's cafe and they are usually empty but not until yesterday. Heard that they were on Channel 8 but was unsure about the name of the show. Tried their fried chicken as well but it's only so-so.

2009-10-06T20:51:00.061+08:00

Genting and Kuala Lumpur trip

I wasn't around in Singapore on 1st to 4th October because I went to Genting and KL with my beloved friends and Sis. It's kind of sad because right after I came back to Singapore, the next day is school reopening and I felt tired due to the unpacking of stuff.

Anyway, school's aside. The four of us (Jinhong, Shao Cheng, my sis and me) met at Lavender control station and walked to Golden mile Tower to take the 707 agency coach to Genting. The coach cost $46 per pax.

The coach ride feel horribly boring and it seems like the conversation is getting lesser and lesser every minute. We gossip, eat, chat, sleep, read magazine, listen to music, move from places to places and finally we reached our destination when the first thing we felt after we stepped on the ground at Genting highlands for the first time, was 'icy cold'. I think the temperature was around 15 degree Celsius at 3:30am.

However, being extremely 'kiasu' and vengeful about the hot weather in Singapore the past few days, I breathed in the icy cold air greedily and coughed out bits of snowflakes and the scene was magnificent. Everyone coming down from the coach applauded for my arrival at Genting Highlands... blah blah blah...

Anyway, we left our bags at the counter and did I mention that this is the trip whereby I brought the fewest things and smallest bag ever? I just say the things I never bring. I didn't bring towel, shampoo and body wash because all these can be stolen from the hotel. I only bring 2 sets of clothing and some miscellaneous items.

We split into two teams because me and shao cheng couldn't enter the casino. We roamed around the place like scavengers while trying to explore and take note of the things that we will be doing in the morning because there is nothing else to do except casino at about 4am. My sis and Jinhong went to the casino to 'try their luck'.

Me and Sc had Macdonald at dawn time and it is me who picked out that Genting's Macdonald is kind of different with Singapore's Macdonald.

This is the view that we can see from our hotel - First world hotel. Sc kept emphasizing that it is the best weather in Genting he had ever seen.

And so we checked in the hotel at about 9am. Before we enter the hotel room, we knock on the door twice and flush the toilet. Chinese believed that these are the first things you should do when you go into a hotel room. It is to 'inform' the spirits that we will be staying there for a night or so and that we are not trying to bother 'them'. It is just like going to people's house and you greet them on your first visit.

Our hotel is the World Cup room which is the biggest of the lot. I don't know why it is called World cup room. Perhaps this room is used to watch football world cup? It has 2 Queen size beds and it is especially comfy at night! It costs SGD 100 for 1 night.

We are above the clouds level.

10am, Me and Sc chiong-ed to the theme park while the rest sleep like pig. We bought the hand band for the whole day theme park which costs RM $51. We also played 'Superman' which requires additional RM $10.

We played almost all the games and rides in the theme park except one. We didn't play the one that goes up 20 levels and suddenly come down (ya, that one). Sc was afraid of heights and he heard horrible story about a girl who did not tie her hair and the hair got stuck when the machine went all the way down from the highest point. Because of the pressure and pull, the whole head was ripped off. Urgh~

Ok let's move on to food.

Didn't try this. So I am not sure whether it's nice or not. However, I heard Sc saying, "Too salty".

Duck meat noodle. Last time when I had this, they arranged the meat nicely in a staggered way. This time like anyhow throw in. However, the duck meat is loved.

Normal fried rice.

'Xiao Long Bao'. The skin is a bit thick but I like the juice that is flowing out from it. What's with the orange thingy?

NOT NICE, next

This tastes like yam and it creates many controversy. In the end, 2 like and 2 don't like.

Science lab?

With a heavy stomach, we went back to hotel and rest. I slept for 3 hours and this is like the best sleep ever. It felt so good after a rest and it is as though I am a battery being charged and ready for the next activity.

By then, it's already 7pm. Time for dinner at 'Hou Mei'. 'Hou Mei' actually means good taste in Cantonese and it really was!

Chicken noodles. Jh recommended this eatery to us saying that the noodle is delicious. My sis doubled up the opinion.

Asam Laksa. I like the soup. It tastes sour but not that spicy and the onions and ikan bilis combination is awesome! Not nice when it turns cold.

Curry chicken noodle. Sc likes it. Looks delicious and creamy!

Jumbo hotdog set. I finished everything!

I love the big serving concept in 'Hou Mei' as in when you order a plate of chicken rice, it will fill your stomach up without you adding rice. Everything comes with a big serving unlike some high class restaurants.

After that, we shopped around and went 'Believe it or not'. Don't get me wrong, 'Believe it or not' is the name of the place. I didn't mean to ask you to believe me that we shopped around. Anyway, it was filled with all sorts of weird things like the pregnant statues that will make you pregnant once you touch it.

Out of all the exhibits, I like the illusion stroll (below) best.

You will walk on this black-coloured bridge through a tunnel-like passage. The wall is covered with polka dot spotlights that moves in a circular manner thereby creating a sort of illusion experience that makes the exit looks unreachable. You feel dizzy and you will notice that you cannot walk straight and tend to fall sideways while holding on to the railings.

I like my eyes.

We spent like 1 hour plus in it and after that we split into 2 teams again as they went casino.

We went over to Genting World's arcade and we saw 4 teenagers forming a team to play the basketball machine and impressed the onlookers to crowd around them. Their strategy is to score as many points as possible by landing the balls into the ring with great speed and accuracy. Apparently, the 4 of them took turns so that they don't tire themselves and were sharpshooters. They had thousands of tickets coming out from the machine which they didn't bother to tidy up and it forms a mountain-like shape.

The day ended when we finally gathered in the hotel room at night and everyone was so tired. Some of them didn't bath and went to bath immediately. I, of course, bath before sleeping.

The next day

I forgot to mention that there was a kind teacher we met at Genting. He gave us 3 morning buffet tickets because he and his class will be going off. That means we don't have to spend extra money on breakfast! (Something happened here but it is very complicated to explain. Moreover, it was my fault, so heck it. :P)

After morning buffet, we went back to hotel to pack up. We will be going KL by cable car and bus which I felt was quite exciting. The last time I took cable car was don't know when and it only cost RM $5 now. It's better than getting down the highlands by bus which rock us to death!

This is like the best travelling tools. Fast and cheap!

Someone living there.

Sorry for the sleepy eyes, haven't wake up yet.

Within minutes, we reached somewhere in the middle of the highlands where they have a bus interchange. This is the most the cable car can go to. We took a 1 hour bus ride and we reached KL! so fast!

When we reached KL, we bought the 'return back to Singapore' bus tickets first. Along the way, different bus company's agents kept asking us to book their bus. It's very irritating especially we don't understand what they are saying and they keep blocking your way. The more the agent asks, the more we don't book from them.

After booking the bus, we went to find the hotel that we will be staying. The weather and environment is totally different from Genting. We stayed at Chinatown inn which is located near Chinatown and there were lots of stalls there selling fake LVs and fake polo tees. Haha.

When we drop all our bags and luggages in the hotel, we are off to Times square. The journey there was complicated and Sc keep bringing us to wrong places. However, we cannot blame him because he seldom go there.

We had durian puffs. The inside was good but not the skin.

The skin like wanton skin.

This ice cream is made using real fruits! First, you choose your desired fruits and they will put the fruits and ice cream into a machine to squash them. They even let you see how they do it. I feel so healthy because I am eating real fruity flavoured ice creams!

We got lost here and we keep asking for direction to go to Jogoya Japanese Restaurant. This must be the real reason why we are at KL in the first place. Sc's mind is all about this when we were planning for the trip.

I will never forget the price of each pax because it's one of the most significant numbers and most expensive meals we had in Malaysia. It costs RM $101 after all the charges which is equal to SGD $41.

But it's actually quite worth it considering the fact that all their food is fresh, environment is good and ice cream from Haagen Daz. One more thing, the staffs was polite.

It's so fresh that it almost moved a bit!

The 'kiaps' that we can use to kiap on the food we want.

Don't know which animal's egg.

My sis says that Sc keep putting lots of clams inside. SO FAT!

They actually have baby coconuts as drinks!

This is as good as it looks.

Dark chocolate, chocolate fondue and tiramisu cakes.

Haagen Daz ice cream.

Mango puddings. like close up eye yolk.

fake shark's fin. I think there's a few chunks of real ones but you need to look real close.

Baked rice of that sort

It is mooncake festival on that day! I had a mini one to celebrate and there's one minty chocolate mooncake that is so nice.

We went to the toilet at the 1st storey and it was very dark inside.

The toilet is no ordinary toilet because there is someone inside that will help you on the tap and give you a towel to wipe your hands. You can give a tip but we never give and instead we ask him to help us take a picture. LOL. By the way, you can only use the tap unless there is someone triggering the on switch which explains why that 'someone' is in the toilet. I asked my sis whether is it the same over there in the girls toilet and she replied yes.

We watched fireworks. (light effects).

We took a taxi back to our hotel at RM $15 from a kind uncle. There was a group of indian taxi drivers that wanted to charge us at RM $25 and when we ask them to go by meter, they bluff us that if we want to go by meter, we must go other place to take. AND we really went there but found out that the taxi stand was no longer present.

When we reached our hotel, we quickly went to bed because we have to wake up super early the next day to get the FREE petronas twin tower's ticket to get up the bridge.

THE LAST DAY

Had breakfast at Chinatown and the people there speak Cantonese! cool!

Saw a Japanese that go around eating and trying out food. He is alone and he looks very happy to be roaming around.

We took a taxi down to KLCC and the taxi went metered. We were super happy but he kind of pretend to go a long way so that he can earn more money. Taxi drivers are always so cunning.

When we got there, there's 1000000 people queueing for the tickets and even if we managed to get the tickets, it's already way past 2pm which is our check out time for the hotel. We went to the opposite observatory tower (look like Singapore changi airport tower) which is 3km away!

We walked the great wall of china and Sahara desert before we finally reached the tower. We thought the entrance fees was RM $2 but it turned out to be RM $38!! They said they had a package which include going up the tower, nature park, animal zoo and F1 thingy. $##%$#%#&*&@

At the top of the observatory tower...

At the F1 game...

Sc purposely drive slowly so that his game will last longer.

At the Animal Zoo...

I only want the parrot but the staff add in the chameleon too.

We say this monkey got Albino.

We wanted to try the pony/donkey/horse ride but it's only for 50kg and below. I told the uncle I am 50kg+ and he asked me to stand on the weighing machine....

59.5KG

He say cannot. I say, 'can lah, I eat buffet just now'. He laughed but still shakes his head.

No picture at the Nature park. We are too hungry to take pictures already. We took a taxi back to Chinatown because we don't want to get across the great wall of China and Sahara desert on the returning trip.

We had Wanton noodles and I love it very much. I think it is the next nicest food right after the Jogoya buffet.

After that, we checked out and board the bus back to Singapore. It's quite a good experience travelling with friends and Sis.

2009-09-26T00:05:00.005+08:00

Updates!

Lots of things happened in this short one week. Mostly good, except that holiday is fast depleting. Watched Gamer and Aliens in Attic like don't know when. The trip to Genting and KL had been confirmed. GPA results out and I am quite satisfied with myself. FYP02 team allocation also out and I am with Zakia, Shao cheng and Andy.

But the greatest good news is...

I shall keep my fingers crossed

We also went to Qian Hu's Fish spa thanks to Hx's complementary vouchers worth $10 per session! (30 mins)

FYI, Qian Hu Corporation is founded by Kenny Yap (picture below) and is a fish company that is based in Singapore, receiving many prestigious awards.

Kenny Yap, popularly known as "Kenny the Fish"

The Fish Spa has 3 categories ranging from small, medium and big fishes.

This is the small fishes and they rocks! They cleaned up my sole and toes in-between until it sparkles in the water and rainbows emerging.

If you think the above is peanut to you, wait till you see below.

Direct translation: 'Here, Bigger the fish, bigger the excitement!'

And when I say big, it's really big. The biggest one is like the size of one foot. Their mouth is like sucker that sucked on your dead skins. At some point in time, they felt like scrubs and when the whole school of fishes attack your foot, they scrub you clean!

Like this! When you dip your foot into it, they came rushing at it!

I simply kicked them off because I couldn't take it. They just keep nibbling and nibbling the feet like as if it's theirs. All of us were shouting and it's hard to not fidget a single bit.

And lastly,

Killed Peter with a rolled up newspaper.

2009-09-17T10:50:00.002+08:00

Buffet @ Kuishin-Bo

If you love Japanese food but thinks that the food served is always so little or not enough to fulfill your stomach, then you must definitely go to a Japanese Buffet restaurant. No point going for 'à la carte' and ended up with the same price as the Buffet deals.

And so, my sis recommended us to this Buffet eating place (Kuishin-Bo) located at Jurong point Basement 1, inside the shokutsu 10 streets filled with all sorts of Japanese restaurants like Ichiban Sushi, Kuriya Japanese Fresh Fish Market, Men-ichi, Yaki Yaki Bo and TORI-Q.

You can easily locate the eatery because of it's unique outer appearance. They placed a lot of round containers that is usually used for putting rice in them. On every round container, there is chinese word on them which I don't know how to read!?

As for the ambiance in it, I must say it's excellent. I even overheard a conversation of a group of people comparing Kuishin-Bo to Sakura and other eateries. The staffs is good at clearing plates and even the staff that helped us book the table. She is very courteous.

First thing,

I chiong-ed for the Sashimis and I can immediately tell the differences. I 'kiap-ed" the Sashimis with glee trying to look totally natural. Inside my heart, I felt like taking away the whole tray.

Notice the thickness of each slices. It is like mandarin orange, so fresh and succulent. Compare this to Sakura's Sashimis, clearly Kuishin-Bo WINS!

Different types of Tempura. Not very amazing in my opinion. A bit salty. Can make you feel very full in Buffets. If you really have to eat, try to take one of each because they are 'deep fried' (key word)

Recently I think I overcome my allergy to prawn. On this Buffet day, I eat a total of 15-20 prawns. Perhaps it is because the prawns winked at me and asked me to taste them which I bravely did. Although the first few prawns make my throat itchy but after that, it is okay already.

I was thinking, maybe if I don't eat the head part of the prawn, there will be less allergic because the head seems to be the most 'potent' part. After peeling the prawn's shell, I smelled my fingers and amazingly they didn't stinks!?

They also had chocolate fondue for us to 'play'. I remembered I pierced 2 banana slices and when I dipped into the fondue and it was left with 1 later. The person behind me seemed to notice it and I quickly run away.

Awhile later, I came back to the scene and examined the base of the fondue. I saw a lot of things in it like marshmallows, cherries and etc except they are all covered with chocolate. I heaved a sense of relief thinking that lots of other people make this mistake as well.

They also had hot plates, miso soup, congee, steamed food and even ice creams. I made a coke + vanilla ice cream and it was good! (although a lot of spills in the attempt)

To sum it up, it is currently the best Japanese Buffet I've eaten in terms of food varieties, ambiances and services. However, the price is a bit high. Dinner @ $35.90++ per person.

Every Wednesday was their ladies' night. They have other promotions as well. Lunch buffet is definitely more worth because it is only $20.90++ but food may vary.

2009-09-13T10:56:00.002+08:00

Holiday FTW

I am harvesting my carrots in Farmville while writing this entry. It makes me feel like I can multitask. Before that I was on the phone and while I was on the phone, I asked my mum some questions. I did all these together and I am impressed by the way I managed things. (Added: I Msn too)

Monday and Tuesday, 7 and 8 September.

Went over Tb's house to stay over. Not that I am kicked out of my own house. Just a short 'get-away' from my home. I repeat, I am not quarreling with my family members.

Had Macdonald for lunch and I am extremely excited about the Mega Mac and Mega McSpicy meals going at $6 per set! However, it's only available from 11pm to 4pm. Last order at 3:45pm. Don't know when this promotion ends.

You are not imagining that the Mega Mac looks ultra elongated. Too much sesame, I would say. I prefer Mega Mac to Mega McSpicy!

Wednesday, 09/09/09

Just another normal day although the date is all made up of '9'. Some even thought of the 9:09:09am thingy which I think is a bit 'over'? Why not buy something at $9.09 and call it a day?

Anyway, I was still drooling over the Mega Mac meal yesterday and decides to have it again. That will make it 2 Mega Mac meals for 2 consecutive days. Now, isn't it more significant than the 9:09:09am/pm thingy?

Watched G-force 3D* and it was so much better than 'Up'. Probably because I was given a better 3D specs which makes my whole 3D experience more exciting. Not forgetting that G-force actually has more action scenes in it!

One thing I don't like is the kid beside me. Like siao gina like that? He moves a lot and keep doing those sex position. And when I thought he's just joking around, he started giving pornography website address to his friends. His friends froze and it makes me wonder what is the kid's upbringing like? By the way, he might be 10 years old.

There is something bad about watching animated pixel movies in cinemas these days. It attract lots of kids and they are usually annoying. But you can't blame them because it's a kid's show and why are you there to reprimand them. For all you know, you might be bitten back viciously by a kid saying, 'Childish? don't watch lor'.

The other day, something of this sort happened to my sis. We were playing badminton and we saw 2 children keeping their badminton net so that they can join in to the other court to play 2 vs 2.

We asked them if we can borrow their net for awhile and you know what the kid reply? 'You no money to buy your own?'. My sis was shocked by the reply from that little imp. My sis said 'I got money to buy but I don't play badminton often'. The rude little dwarf said 'Next time don't borrow from me again' as if the net was worth million of dollars when he only learn until the 'hundredth, tenth and ones' place in Mathematics.

My sis rolled her eyes until the white part remains like how Storm did it in X-men.

My sis replied 'THERE WON'T BE NEXT TIME' and at that moment, a lightning struck and electrocuted that little gnome who has no manners. That should teach his a lesson!

Thursday and Friday, 10 and 11 September

Finished up with Ming Zhong Zhu Ding Wo Ai Ni. (Fated to love you)

It was good! I cried a total of 7 times. Go watch it and test whether you are that heartless to not drop a tear! If you watch all the episodes and you don't cry, come and scold me!

Saturday, 12 September

Went Queensway to do some miscellaneous stuff then head over to Clementi Stadium for Dota. They have ALOHA there which is a lan gaming place where we used to visit during our secondary school days. They moved to such a ulu place! Can't wait for them to close down because we can buy their gaming computers at $400!!! lol such cheaponess.

After that, went to IMM to have Fish and Co.

New York Fish 'n Chips (Fish and Chop, chicken chips? nostalgia)

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And finally about the Malacca trip. It is all a misunderstanding. We are going Kuala Lumpur and not Malacca LOL! I didn't know until Shao cheng told me yesterday. Anyway, we will be going Genting first and then to KL. I am so anticipating this trip! (don't suddenly change ar)

2009-09-06T23:48:00.002+08:00

East Coast Park

Weather hasn't been good recently. It's always raining when I am sleeping and I have to wake up in the middle of the night to close the window. And whenever I wake up, it's hard to get back to sleep. This annoys me the most when I am having a goooooood dream!

Because of the raining season, we almost cancel today's outing at ECP. We were afraid that it might rain while we are cycling. Luckily nothing of that sort happen although there is a soft drizzle in between. And because of the drizzle, cycling became very cooling.

We had this ECP outing because Mk will be enlisted in 1 week time. After him, I will be the only one left who has not entered army. 1 more week and his hair is GONE!

And I always imagine the cheapos gang outing @ ECP to be like the picture below...

But it never happen.

Washing feet. Never drink the sea water, it's too salty.

Anyway, we just went there for about 4 hours to do cycling. All our butts are so pain after cycling. Then they head over to my house for Dai dee session. My mum took over my sis after she left early for home.

Supper was leafy vegetables. Eating vegetables makes me feel healthier even though it is supper. *wink*

Some overdue photos.

Round moon taken on September 4. Was that mooncake festival? How come the moon so round?

Don't blame the child, blame YanYan.

Can't wait to cook this. Bought from Ikea.

2009-09-05T11:20:00.003+08:00

超級星光大道 Chao Ji Xing Guang Da Dao (End of PK rounds)

Just want to bring out 3 parts of the competition which I think is very fantastic. Firstly, Rose, Liu Ming Xiang

Start watching from 7:23

Her competitor is Wang Shun Da who scored 15 marks. I am starting to love Liu Ming Xiang more and more! At first, I feel that she is very proud and she loves to make those sexy voice which is kind of 'over'. However, I am getting used to it and she sort of know how to control the times she uses it.

Liu Ming Xiang sang 'Loving you' which requires the dolphin's ultrasound. She did a good job on that with 20 marks.

Next up, Sun Zhi You singing 'You're beautiful' by James Blunt

Start watching from 3:22

His voice is definitely able to sing this song. Although the judges said that his front parts is rather flat but I love it this way. In fact, I think he is trying to bring out the causal kind of feeling which is very soothing.

For one thing, he is very sad about Zhen Zhi Song getting eliminated and they are the best buddy who travelled on the train together and 'You're beautiful' this song, also depicts two people at the subway noticing each others presence through the crowds.

In the last part, it gets very emotional. I almost cried.

This might be the end of PK rounds but next week will be all the best of the best Pkers which include Cai Ai Jia, Anthony, Huang Zhi Yang, Olivia Ong and many more. The competition is left with 6 more people and they will be starting the points accumulation rounds.

Let me make a guess, position number 6 should be Yang Jun Wen. Cheers

2009-09-03T12:37:00.003+08:00

Jurong Safra Kbox

Went to the newly opened Jurong Safra Kbox with the usual singing khakis. Had always wanted to change places to sing rather than the old clementi kbox. This is a new experience for me as the Jurong Safra Kbox is so spacious and new! This might be the first time but definitely not my last time visiting it again.

I only know it is near Jurong point shopping centre, behind it or in front of it, I don't know.

Jurong Safra is rather 'ulu' because I've never seen the building before. Maybe that's because it is newly opened or maybe it is being blocked by the Jurong Point shopping centre. Luckily my sis drove me there or else I will have a hard time looking for the place.

We went for their K-lunch package which we think is the most worth it.

Monday and Tuesday (11-2pm): $8++
Wednesday and Thursday (11-2pm): $9++
Friday, Saturday and Sunday (11-2pm): $10++

When we entered the room that was allocated, there's vast difference to all the others kbox outlets I've visited before.

At least the sofa is not torn and the colour combination of orange and black give it a very chic look! Notice the small pink squarish thing at the corner? It's very convenient for us to adjust the mic's volumes and pitches. We had fun playing with it.

Another thing I like about Jurong Safra kbox is that they have crystal clear LCD tvs. This picture is not doing justice to the tv but thanks to it, I don't need to squint my eyes to see the words. (See sample below)

-Sample-

And finally the godly touch screen song picker machine! (anyhow named it)

I know the remote control is already a very good invention but this touch screen device is so fun. I can literally sit there the whole day pressing the thing. Usually my singing khakis will ask me to help them key in the songs that they want to sing using the remote control but I simply don't bother to. But with this touch screen device, I simply key in the songs for them and refused to budge!

Besides, if you are bored and is waiting for your turn to sing, you can play the games that can be found in it. I suggests they implement the photo hunt application since it is touch screen friendly. I might even skipped my turn to sing just to play the games.

Oh, one more thing! This device is so updated with songs that cannot be found in other kbox outlets. Imagine the frustration when you want to sing a particular song and they don't have that song on their lists. You feel like throwing the microphone onto the tv screen.

Food wise, not very impressive.

'The salad looks like grass and leaves picked up from the garden.' said my sis.
'The mango pudding can be found in the army's ration.' said Tb.
'So little, not full at all. Later go eat pizza hut.' said sis.
'I'll swap the salad sushi with your tuna sushi, wj.' said Tb.

Ws is enjoying his spaghetti which he ordered differently from us. From the way he eat, I think his tastes better.

Customer service is good. At least the staffs were observant enough to pick up small details like when you needed help in the microphone, they will come in to help without being told. That's mainly because they do routine checks by strolling in the corridors to make sure that help is delivered at the quickest time.

I guess the next time we will be visiting Jurong Safra kbox because it definitely works for me.

After singing, we went pizza hut as we are still hungry!

Soup of day. Tomato! urgh but it turns out yummy.

Being student, you need to maximise the privileges given to you. $5.90 for this and soup of the day plus free flow pepsi! (Spicy)

Non student. Curry blah blah blah baked rice.

Tomorrow is Friday and that means Chao Ji Xing Guang Da Dao is released. In the meantime, Texas Hold'em Poker and Farmville on Facebook plus Kang Xi Lai Le. Subsequent weeks, Taiwan drama marathon! (Ming Zhong Zhu Ding Wo Ai Ni & Bu Liang Xiao Hua)

2009-08-29T11:57:00.004+08:00

Looks is all it matters in 超級星光大道?

Firstly, I think Lin Yu Ze don't deserve to be out this round. There are other contestants that did badly in this round and managed to get away freely. I was predicting who will be eliminated this week and sure enough, Lin Yu Ze gets it. I know he met a strong contestant, Cai Ai Jia but he had already given all his best in this song so much so he broke his voice at 2:23.

After watching this episode, I kind of think looks and popularity is equally important in singing competition. When someone isn't handsome, pretty or unique, audiences cannot concentrate on the looks and hence neglect the singing part.

Forget about the X factor and listen to the way Cai Ai Jia sings a slow song compared to her past fast tempo songs. Start watching at 6:20 below

Although I really prefer her singing fast songs to slow songs, it is still a good one. Cai Ai Jia is also the one who beats Lin Yu Ze and causes him to be out of the competition. In total, Cai Ai Jia had managed to kick 2 contestants out which makes her a very young, worthy pk-er.

Before her was Huang Zhi Yang who lost to Rose, Liu Ming Xiang. I think Liu Ming Xiang really did a good job and Huang Zhi Yang did not do a bad job either. He was equally good just that they were mainly competing who hit the high notes perfectly. In this case, Rose got the upper hands in falsetto.

Next up, Olivia Ong getting 20 marks in her first attempt on 超級星光大道. She managed to pk off Li Jie Yu who did a considerably good job, 18 marks.

Start watching at 5:11

I cannot explain why I am attracted to Olivia's voice. She has that kind of lyrical rhythms. Just like the way she sang 'Ru Yan' from Little Nyonya, she is able to captivate the minds of one.

About last week, I said all the contestants like Cai Ai Jia and Wang Shun Da will be out of the competition is wrong information! hoho. This week was Huang Zhi Yang that will be leaving the stage but I guess it will be next week.

Lastly, something about Anthony. I think the judges is too over* especially the Xiao Ling. On top of the 5 marks she had given, she stood up to give another additional 10 marks (9:47) which I think is something not needed. In her later part when she is giving comments, she said that Xu Yong Ling is very hardworking and blah blah blah but she don't know how deep she contradicts herself.

Start watching from 1:00

Anthony's performance deserves 25 marks because at some point in time, he did make it very touching with his voice in the quietness. It's hard to do that especially the voice became crystal clear in an empty atmosphere. About the marks awarded, Tao Zi did remind the judges that if 5 marks is not enough to give, they can raise 1 hand which means 1 additional marks or stand up which means 10 marks. (which Xiao Ling crazily did)

It's just my 2 cents worth about 超級星光大道. You watch it based on your own accord.

2009-08-28T22:54:00.002+08:00

Secret

Have you ever keep a secret?

Yes I do. I'll be keeping this secret for 3 months from now and promise not to tell anyone unless the owner allow me to say it.

Anyway, we had bak chor mee at JP's fei zai eatery. I laughed hard at the signboard because it gives me the idea that the food is oily and only fat people eat it.

I ordered set B and it include 1 bowl of bak chor mee and hot coffee. My sis asked whether she can change the hot coffee to some cold drinks instead and the auntie say 'cannot'.

Imagine eating a bowl of ultra spicy bak chor mee and after you finished it, you are sourcing for a iced cold drink and you remembered that set B only comes with HOT coffee. The thought of it makes you feel like not adding chili to the bak chor mee. But then again, whats bak chor mee without chili? Put ketchup meh?

The 2 flies there were extremely slow in reaction. Usually when a fly sits on your hand and you move a bit, it will fly off immediately. But this eatery's flies is retarded. You swing your hand and the fly is still there, refusing to budge off.

All in all, the experience of the eatery in terms of service and cleanliness is beyond words.

As for the night, we had steamboat.

Here's Timothy with the very sad look. Don't be fooled by its appearance. He cried whenever you don't give him the soft drinks. But he is really poor thing. He is sick and he just vomited when I am typing this.

Me and Tb shared this soup! Super shiok because my mum, sis and Ah peng use another soup. We have the freedom to customize our own soup based on our favourites.

In this case, I spam luncheon meat, meatballs and hotdogs into the soup!

On the other side, I call it 'seafood' theme because it contains prawns and crabs. When I taste their soup, it is so salty I need to drink 10 cups of water to clear the saltiness.

Next Wednesday going kbox. I better go practice some new songs to sing! Enjoying holidays to the maximum!

2009-08-26T17:37:00.004+08:00

The Proposal

Just got home after watching the movie, 'The Proposal' at Vivo GV. Its really a nice movie that has both happy and sad scenes!

We actually wanted to watch it at Gold class but we give it a miss because its too expensive. Anyway, the movie, I would rate it 4/5 because there is a bit of nudity scene in between. Nah, I was joking.

I would rate it 4/5 because this comedy makes me laugh out loud with their conversation and action. Seldom do I see a girl propose to a guy just because both of them want to keep the job. Margaret (Sandra Bullock) will lose the job and go back to Canada because her working permit is expired. All these will be solved if only she is married or engaged with someone.

That unfortunate someone is none other than Andrew (Ryan Reynolds) who is the assistant of Margaret. In order to keep the job, he will need to pretend marriage with Margaret and the rest will be self watching.

The missing 1 mark goes to the ending which is quite sucky. It ended abruptly which is something that make us go 'Aw...........'. Otherwise, this movie is perfect.

I read from 8days magazine (free, because I browse them at popular!) that Sandra Bullock initially didn't want to act in this movie. Her reason was that she had acted in so many comedy and she just think that it is enough already. Now, thats something about her tough character which is quite similar to the bossy Margaret in the film.

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Well, might be going Malacca for a food trip with Shao cheng and Sis. Its not confirm yet but most probably at start of October which is nearing the end of my holiday. I am so looking forward to it since all we have to do is basically eat and just eat.

Hx also suggested going Taiwan in the December. That is so far in the future but its a good plan because I will have to work now. So anyone have jobs to introduce?

2009-08-22T20:11:00.008+08:00

Chao Ji Xing Guang Da Dao
超級星光大道 (21/08)

The long awaited 超級星光大道 Chao Ji Xing Guang Da Dao is finally out again. I know everyone is so disappointed about last week when they postponed it to this week instead. It just show how concern we are towards the Singaporean contestants! Less talk and more viewing.

First up, a new face from Singapore called 'Wang Shun Da' who shocked us with "Tuo Diao", 18 marks, draw with Liang Xiao Jun.

Watch starting from 2:46.

A very good performance since he had to dance and sing at the same time. I like his confidence and he used some tones in the song which makes it very different from the original singer, Alex.

Next up, Chen Di Ya, 18 marks. Lose to contestant Li Jie Yu (19 marks).

Watch starting from 2:41.

Personally, I think she did better than last week. If we must be picky, it will be about her singing style. She can't be using that kind of punker style to sing every song although it is her own uniqueness.

Unfortunately, I think everyone know that she is out and that makes her the first Singaporean to be out of the competition. However, she has done her part and she's no longer wearing the blue table cloth shirt. Instead, Xiao pang wore the home economics table cloth shirt!

Coming up next, Huang Zhi Yang wins with 17 marks. He beat Wang Xuan (15 marks) and caused her to be out of the competition. Had been waiting for this for the longest time.

Watch starting from 1:45.

I guess the reason why they showed Huang Zhi Yang's high pitch again in the beginning is because he is using the same high pitch in this song again. Not a very wise move I would say.

Although I must say Wang Xuan did her best in that song but in terms of singing, Zhi Yang sounds more refined. Wang Xuan is really lucky that she can go this far especially her real talent is in dancing.

Last but not the least, Cai Ai Jia scored full marks, 25 marks.

Watch starting from 0:57.

She knows what kind of tone is her trump cards and she plays it well. Her voice created the hierarchy that make the song feel complete. This 25 marks is worth it and none of the judges gave it to her because she's young or what.

The next part will show a very interesting pk round where 2 contestants scored 25 marks and got a spectacular draw match!

Not only that, at (0:44) you will see a fan that is especially angry with Cai Ai Jia for beating Yang Jun Wen.

At (0:52 and 0:54) respectively, Wang Xuan is showing the 'ORBI' face as she is really happy that someone joined her at the loser seats.

If you like what you see above, you should look at 1:29 in the below clip!

She screamed above all as if she is the one who won the competition?

Hence, this conclude the end of this week's Chao Ji Xing Guang Da Dao. Have to wait till next week for another exciting pk rounds. I heard that Olivia Ong will be joining the competition and that all the other contestants like Cai Ai Jia, Huang Zhi Yang and Wang Shun Da will be out :(

Guess we have to wait till next week to find out why they lose. Tata

2009-08-20T10:05:00.002+08:00

Up* in 3D

Watched 'Up' in 3D with Sis yesterday. This is my first time watching movie in 3D. The images literally popped out of the screen. We have to wear the 3D spectacles and after the movie, it causes giddiness. I immediately went home to sleep until 9pm without studying for UT!

Anyway, the movie gives me the urge to cry at the beginning of the story. However, just when I was about to tear, a funny scene interrupted and caused me to laugh out loud. Wait, I think I laugh because someone beside me laugh first.

The unknown person beside me kept laughing at parts where he is not supposed to laugh. I guess his age is about 25 and he came to the movie alone. After the movie, he left abruptly. Hmm, I wondered what's the feeling of watching movie alone.

Initially, we wanted to watch 'The Proposal' but its not out yet. I remembered seeing the release date, 19 Aug and it suddenly change to 20 Aug. Even if it is on 20 Aug, there should be sneak preview on 19 Aug. Luckily, 'Up' turned out to be good or else it will be a wasted trip.

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The hungry ghost festival had just begin yesterday, 19 Aug 11pm. Won't be going swimming anymore this month. Late night activities will be minimal. Lots of horror movies will be released this month which contradicts my previous point as the available slot for ghostly movies are usually at night.

Anyhow, our days have to go on despite the hungry ghost festival. 'They' have their holidays just like us. We just have to be cautious not to offend any. Will be having marketing UT later. Wish me luck!

2009-08-18T21:46:00.002+08:00

Last day :(

I cannot believe today is the last day of the semester if I were to exclude the tests. I feel that this semester is like flipping through a book whereby you don't remember its content well. You know the name of that classmate when you look at the face but you just discovered that you haven't even talk to them before. The sad thing is, today is already the last day of semester.

To think I am the only miserable one who didn't managed to be involved with the people in class, I was proved wrong. There are others like me who didn't take the initiative to talk to me! That makes them someone like me and therefore they joined in the miserable family. But then again, it is because they hated me.

Maybe this is the first time I ever had 4 different classes daily and its really hard to communicate as we seldom had the chance to talk to each other. One thing for sure, I know those that I managed to befriend with are those that will be friends in the mind. It will be there forever unless something happen to my mind.

Lastly, a big thank you to those that helped me through the difficult times and to enter the next semester with open arms. (This is indeed a 'fast' semester)

Long time since I last posted Timothy's photo. Anyway, he cut his hair when I dyed my hair weeks ago. He is still as cute as Timothy!

Went to watch 'G.I.Joe: The Rise of the Cobra', yesterday with Tb and Hx.

Finally found a movie poster that comprises of all the main characters in the story. I type "g.i.joe" in google image search and most of the images shows Duke (Channing Tatum) alone. I want the family photo, F-A-M-I-L-Y!

Did a mini research about G.I.Joe because apparently, everyone is saying that they miss the older versions of G.I.Joe when I've never heard of it! So the results turned out to be that G.I.Joe was there in the late 80s when I was born. But I think Street fighters or X-men was closer to my generation as a child.

My facilitator said that she want to watch G.I.Joe because he like the korean guy in the movie. I only remembered he died horribly by falling off a platform.

Overall, I like the movie because it wasn't boring. Will be watching 'The Proposal' tomorrow. I also need to study for my tests!

2009-08-17T23:01:00.003+08:00

David becky in mini dress?

I was on the MRT travelling to Bukit Batok when I came across this weird man wearing a grey mini dress, high heels and carrying a hand bag. His face is typical "uncle" kind but please don't scold me when I say he kind of looked a bit like david beckham.

He sits at a priority seat and that's why it draws a lot of attention to him. Although he is wearing a mini dress, he crossed his leg and revealed his most expensive pink high heels without pretending.

When it was nearing towards the station Bukit Batok, he stood up and cat walk to the map to double check if he alight at the right station. He did all of these with elegance and some on-lookers almost phew on the spot.

From the look of it, it looks perfectly normal from this view.

Things begin to change when he is out in the sun. He performed cat-walking and imagine that he is attending a function. Blur photo here because I am very near to him. I don't want him to notice me.

Something is not right in this photo. Because his dress is too short, it begins to show a bit of his bum. The passerby made an "OMG" expression at him as he adjusted himself in the public!

If you ask me which is the most difficult photo I've taken, it would be this. It requires precise timing at pressing the shutter and to avoid his suspicion while he is paying up at the value shop. Did you see what I see around the chest region?

2009-08-15T09:51:00.005+08:00

Update: Chao Ji Xing Guang Da Dao 超級星光大道 14 August will be postponed to next week instead. I know, everyone is waiting for this.

Where Got Ghost

This is yet another Jack Neo's creation. This time, he decides to venture into horror film yet introducing a jet of laughter into it. As the movie name suggests, it will make you laugh like crazy. However, this is not the case for me. The movie is kind of predictable and sometimes you just know what is happening next.

The unique thing about this movie is that it has a total of 3 stories in the movie. However, if you have seen "Ying Yang Lu", it is not unique at all. In fact, you will think they actually copied the idea. However, it makes my movie experience more worth it as it shows 3 short stories at the price of 1 movie ticket.

Something I feel recommendable is that it has a strong 'Singapore' feel in this movie. Despite it being a comedy and horror film, the movie was pieced up nicely and presented in a Singaporean way. One example is the second story whereby it happened in the jungle during the Army time. It talks about the life of Singaporeans during their army days and a ghost story which is quite familiar to the army people; but they twist it a bit.

Out of the 3 stories, I like the first one (Roadside Got Ghost) best. The idea is really good. Lottery is made up of combination from 0000 to 9999. There are 10000 group of numbers. Every Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday, there will be 23 groups of numbers that will become the winning numbers.

So what this genius swindler does is to call 10000 people and assigned them to a group of number. He will say that this is the God of wealth's lottery number to you and all you have to do is buy it. If you win, you must give back 20 percent commission as a donation for them to build a temple. Of course they made use of the yellow page phone book to make the 10000 random calls and addresses are provided once they know who are the ones who wins the given numbers.

However, this plan is not perfect. There will be people denying that they didn't win the prize money at all but I still think this plan is workable with some modification.

2009-08-11T17:09:00.003+08:00

I failed my 2.4km trial run

Demoralizing is the word to describe my feeling for today. I failed my 2.4km run which is something I do best during my secondary school days. I kind of know the reason behind the failure but at the same time, I don't understand why it will happen this way.

I am that sort of happy-go-lucky guy and will always go to a 2.4km run without training the few days before. But now I know my body mechanism well enough because I haven't been exercising ever since I entered polytechnic. This is the case of many people and once they tried to exert more force, they get hurt.

This is what that is happening to me right now. I am very tired and feeling nauseous. My leg is so er.... so djasdhshfudasf right now. Walking became a difficulty to me. It's like the legs has a leg of its own and refused to move in the way I wanted it to be. Zig-zaggish is the word.

I feel like sitting down forever because whenever I walk, I feel like it's pulling me. I don't dare to go to sleep because I know when I wake up, it will be super painful. My walking will become zombiefied.

Ok, to relieve stress, I am watching this extremely hilarious 1000 comments youtube video. To watch it or not is your choice. (I know I make you wanna watch it)

2009-08-10T20:38:00.003+08:00

Hangover

Watched the movie 'Hangover' with Tb, Ws, Hx, Sis and Ah peng. It was a comedy and I kind of laugh throughout the whole movie. I found the baby in the movie resembled Timothy a lot and I can't help but edit the movie poster!

Not very well done but at least it is better than using paint to edit it!

Anyway, the storyline is about this 4 guys going to Vegas to celebrate Doug's last Bachelor party. Doug will be marrying his fiance in 2 days and never did he expect a whole lot of trouble while they were in Vegas. All of them were drugged by one of the members and while they were unconscious, they did a lot of ridiculous things like marrying a stripper in the chapel, stealing a tiger from Mike Tyson, a dentist plucking out its own tooth and even winning US$80,000 in the casino!

Its really long since I last laugh out so loud in the theatre. Hmm, although watching movie on a public holiday is not advisable, this movie makes me forget my $10 is spent in this happy way.

On a sad note, I read the newspaper and was informed that 2 Republic polytechnic students was found dead on a railway near Upper Bukit Timah. Both of them died and they were both very young. I bet some of my friends must be the friend of theirs and its saddening to see your friends that is once by your side, leaving this world so suddenly.

Holiday will be coming in 2 weeks time. Haven't plan what I will be doing.

2009-08-09T12:21:00.003+08:00

Chao Ji Xing Guang Da Dao
超級星光大道

Today is National day and it is also Singapore's birthday. After watching "Chao Ji Xing Guang Da Dao 5" on youtube yesterday, I felt really heartwarming to see Singaporeans doing us proud by singing and pk-ing the contestants in that famous singing competition show.

Firstly, Cai Ai Jia, 22 marks. Successfully pk-ed contestant Hu Cai Shu. In fact, Hu Cai Shu was out of the competition because he scored the least marks out of all.

Watch starting from 3:15.

She really did a good job in terms of her maturity in voice and she is very stable when the song is a fast tempo one.

If you are lazy to wait till 3:15, watch the one below instead.

Secondly, Chen Di ya, 19 marks. Draw with the contestant.

Watch starting from 4:00.

She is given good comments by the judges but I think she haven't unleashed the best potential. However, I love the song she sang and she uses her own unique way to sing it. Good too!

Lastly, Huang Zhi Yang, 19 marks too. Draw with the contestant.

Watch starting from 7:29.

His front parts were normal but when it comes to the chorus part, he hit the high notes perfectly. This is something that is hard to do during competition especially this kind of grand competition. Must watch!

Next week, the 3 of them will be competing again. However, I heard that Chen Di ya will be out and there is another Singaporean that will be joining the competition. Continue to do Singapore proud. I am saying this from the bottom of my heart!

Happy birthday Singapore!

2009-08-07T19:11:00.007+08:00

What is Acne?

Acne is like pimples and they affect all teenagers, be it girl or boy. Acne can occur on the face, neck, chest, back and shoulders which look and feel extremely raw and painful. What is worst is that acne can become a scar if left untreated.

Look at this poor girl. The result of not having proper acne care. Don't laugh boys, acne can happen on boys too!

Hence, Mentholatum came out with this fabulous product called 'Acnes Medicated Creamy Wash' to solve all your acne problems.

Don't Touch
Do Acnes

After trying it out, I can feel the medicated effect doing its wonder to the acne-infected region. I felt so happy that I did something against it instead of letting it go unattended. If I can illustrate the acne's reaction to Acnes Medicated Creamy Wash, it would be like this...

I remembered my secondary school days when I was in Track & Field, I sweat a lot during training and noticed that lots of pores started growing on my forehead. My fringe was covering those pores and I felt really uncomfortable.

Unfortunately, I did not have proper acne care products because I simply don't care about it. Now that I know acne can become scar that will remain on the face forever if left unattended, I must prevent it from happening!

So how it helps?!

The Facts...

Anti-bacterial: Contains Isopropyl Methyphenol (o-Cymen-5-ol) which penetrates deep into pores to fight against bacteria and prevent pimples.

Soothings: Helps sooth redness and skin irritation caused by acne. Prevents aggravation of pimples.

Deep cleansing: Helps unclogs pores and reduce blemishes by deeply cleansing to remove dirt, oil, impurities and excess sebum.

Moisture retention: Contains Vitamin C with moisture retention benefits, leaving your skin soft and moisturized after wash.

Anti-oxidation: Contains Vitamin E, an effective anti-oxidant, to keep the elasticity of your skin.

With all the above solutions, it is possible to have acne-free skin.

2009-08-04T20:20:00.003+08:00

Cheapo!

After reading Andy's and Xiaxue's blog about the Watson membership card, I quickly rushed down to the nearest Watson store and immediately sign up for one. What surprised me is that we do not need to sign up literally but we just need to buy one card at $5 from the counter. How convenient!

With a $5, I can now enjoy a LIFETIME membership! Its such a long time since I last signed up a membership that can last me a lifetime. Thinking about it makes me smile secretly to myself in the toilet while combing my hair.

And, look carefully at the thick stacks of vounchers at the background of the picture above! There's 29 pieces of them which means 29 types of discounts at various items or sevices. However, to be honest, some of the vounchers are useless to me because they mainly consists of girl's stuff. So if anyone need to buy any beauty products, please take it from me and use my card to pay the bill so that I can earn points!

Cheapo gang and cheapos, don't miss out this chance to be the "early birds" and lifetime membership awaits you.

2009-08-02T19:44:00.003+08:00

Shattered hopes

St James Power station Flea market = failed!

I woke up extremely early on a Sunday morning only to be disappointed and tired by the whole flea market thingy. Tired, not because we sold a lot of things. Disappointed, not because we are lousy. Just that, my Sunday morning could be well spent on other area like sleeping and the $30 for each "stall" could be used for eating Sakura buffet.

I was so excited and enthusiastic the day before the flea market but the flea market co-ordinator or person-in-charge obviously didn't care about the feelings of those who are so anticipating this event. If you think a round table of diameter, 50cm can be called a stall, then jolly well refund the $30 and make sure this event don't repeat.

I understand the flea market is being held in a bar to give the customer a "curious" feeling. But the whole place is so dark and the stall vendors need to use their cellphone's light to shine on their products to bring greater clarity to an object. I think they obviously overlooked this problem or should I say, they don't even bother to, since they collected their money already.

Which brings me to my next point. By collecting the money first before opening the doors for vendors to go in was a clever move. If the vendors were to see their "stall", a diameter 50cm round table one, I think the vendors will go Vivo city to shop and don't bother to open their stall. That is the exact feeling that we got when we saw the "stall" that they call it a stall.

When we called the person in charge upon seeing the "stall", the reply was, "Ok we will come up to see". No one came and what's there to see? You mean you don't know your own stall?. When we called another guy to come up and see, the reply was, "Ok we will get back to you later." We never see him again. What is this? Replying for the sake of giving a reply?

As if this was not enough, the other stalls were those rectangular ones, 250cm by 70cm kind, at the side. Those that are in the center are the round table, 50cm diameter kind. WHAT IS THIS? All of us paid $30 and we get different things? At least give us 2 round tables. Totally unfair to the maximum.

I feel like we are paying for a space that is not very worth it. Not that $30 rent is a huge sum of money for a business, but at least do something like guiding us to the place allocated to us. We walked around the whole place while holding onto our stuffs, looking for the "stall" stupidly and had to push our way through the busy, narrow, vendor's crowd. Is this what we are in for?

If this is the way you do things, I hope that not all the flea market is like that. If I know it would be like that, I wouldn't waste my time and your time.

2009-08-01T21:26:00.034+08:00

Cooking Session

Today's cooking session is a huge success. Almost all the dishes prepared by us are extremely tasty and delicious. We did this after we came back from swimming and all of us was so tired. However, we still did a good job although my mum did the most of the cooking and cleaning.

We prepared 7 dishes of food and the first dish is called three coloured eggs. This dish is named this way because it contains three types of eggs.

Salted egg. I never thought salted egg looks like this in its purest form. I thought it should look like those boiled hard eggs but not liquid form.

Century egg. It has those snowflakes pattern that always interest me as to how it got there?

Next, you cut them up into small bits and anyhow throw them in a pot.

Beat 3 normal eggs into the pot and mix them up. Must add water so that the end product won't be so hard.

Steam it for 30 minutes and there you go! 3 coloured eggs! So easy

While you are waiting for the eggs to steam, you don't need to "gong-gong" wait there for 30 minutes. You can prepare the soup of the day. Also known as "Japalang soup" by my sis.

Boil the meat first as it requires some time.

Cut all these...

And throw it into the soup to boil.

Next, pour this.

and this. These are considered cheating ingredients. Unethical acts by my sis.

After that, boil it for as long as you can. You can boil it for 1000 years if you want. Japalang soup or Ajipalia soup, DONE!

Next is my turn. Pay close attention as this is the only dish by me. Miss it and you will regret. This recipe is the creation of the most creative person on Earth and was once cooked in the Han dynasty period!

First, defrost the salmon. Hit it against the wall or something.

Then, cut it into mouth size pieces for easy eating.

Stir fry it.

From this part onwards, my mum challenged me with her own recipe and so there will be 2 dishes about salmon. But mine was more sophisticated compared to her soya sauce and seaweed salmon.

Hers looked really nice, but mine, you really had to hand it to me. You won't be able to find it elsewhere.

THIS IS MY DIVINE CREATION!
I will call mine, the endless, sensational appetite. Sounds familiar right? I copied the name from the Bishi Bashi game. That is not important.

What is important is THIS! Narcissus brand, "Chao San Si".

WOw!?? I love this from young. Just stir fry it again and put it on the salmon earlier. This is the best dish in the world.

I have no mood to introduce other dishes because the best one had been introduced already. But never mind, I will still introduce chilli prawns.

Very easy. Take out all the head and tail of the prawns or if you are lazy like me, you can buy those instant one where it is already taken off. Or or, you have allergy to prawn like me, you can skip this dish.

Simply add chilli to the prawns and use the left over garlic and onion from last time to make it taste nicer.

Seaweed chicken. You should know how to cook this. Buy the instant one and cook it.

Bacon piece. You should also know how to cook this. Just fry it and purposely make them burnt a bit.

Unhealthy, but this is the way to cook it.

Last but not the least, vegetables. For me, I don't like to eat leafy vegetables and so cabbage is the perfect choice. After eating so many meat types of dishes, we need something healthy to balance it up.

Let's dig in!

2009-08-01T00:53:00.005+08:00

Foods

Sis came to fetch me after school and we went Ikea for their meatballs.

Yummy...

Meatballs pasta!

Fish and Chips @ $5.50 only

Jumbo fries and soft fish meat with unlimited mayonnaise.

Cheese cake. Very cheeseseseseseseees

Supper was Mee sua from IMM!

Tomorrow will be having a mini cooking session at home with Sis and mum. I will cook my favourite "Chao san shi" canned food with Salmon belly meat. Erm, wondered what it would taste like. (Never try this combination before!)

Sis will be tossing every thing that she considered nice into a soup. She play cheat by buying the soup base from Giant! If the soup turn out to be nice, it's not her credit. It's the pre-made soup base seasoning's credit!

Mum will be overall incharge for guiding us and eating the food. Ok, with all the roles and responsibilities sorted out, I can go ahead and enjoy tomorrow's cooking session!

Note: Morning will be swimming and afternoon cooking.

2009-07-30T21:02:00.002+08:00

St James Power Station Flea Market!!!

Where: It is just opposite Vivo city
When: Sunday, 2 August

Gonna be there for the Flea market as a seller, NOT buyer!

So if you are free, come down and support!

2009-07-29T21:51:00.005+08:00

FYP is finally over!!!
I can finally say goodbye to my FYP as I made the final presentation today. Although I did blanked out for 1 min during the presentation, I found my way back at the end and I think it was still quite okay. Our presentation ended in 45mins including Q&A and the accessor asked about 7-8 questions? We managed to answer them all and generally the response was good.

For now, the greatest obstacles is removed and whats now? The second wave of FYP started as soon as it ended. In fact, it started yesterday as my new members (Zakia, Shao cheng and Andy) made the selection online, together. We made sure that there is no PHP or any form of coding in tact.

I also made my module selection on Tuesday night and that will determined my next semester modules. To conclude, those were the important choices that I have made which will affect my next semester.

Of course there are other things like Nafa and CE points which I worry about but when one major task is cleared off, we need a celebration! The celebration is easy and that is to rest. Several ideas were generated like swimming, sleeping whole day, Habbo-ing, eating, watch youtube all day, go KL or Malacca with sis and Sc, catch a movie with besties, go watch firework with cheapo gang (To be confirmed) and many more.

Right after FYP today, we took shots to remember our glorious moments. We wore formal and I looked extremely weird in it. We even did a jump shot like we were mad or something.

TCH team

Huang and Tan

Choo and Huang

Stop pointing me middle finger!!

Anyway, nice working with the team despite several procrastination from Teresa and Choosie, we managed to pull through it. They secretly think they can get A grade for their FYP and boast about it all day long. Not for me though, I am extremely okay with a B :)

That's all for today. Tomorrow, school's giving out free fruits, so must chiong down to South agora for it or else others grab them alllllll. Cheapo gang, see you there!

2009-07-25T15:37:00.010+08:00

Swimming is fun, but tiring...

Just came home from swimming and I am now completely exhausted. Typing became a difficulty as I am so sleepy and full now. I had to wait for my hair to dry before I go to bed as I just had a bath. You know this is what happen when you come back from a swim. Let me do a quick summary as to what happen in this week.

Monday, 20 July

Didn't go school because two of my classmates didn't want to go to school. It's probably because we will be changing teams but I went along with the idea because I had never skipped Marketing before and this give me a chance to clear my "leave".

Tuesday, 21 July

Meet up with Shao cheng to go school together but when he arrived at the control station, I saw an aura that he is reluctant to go to school. I quickly proposed this idea that we skipped school for the day and do FYP somewhere together. He agreed to the idea as my prediction were correct.

We went to Jurong point's Starbucks and sat there with ice blended coffee from 12 to 6pm. I bet we made our money worthwhile because there's free wireless and electricity.

Wednesday, 22 July

Went to Jurong East library at 12pm to do FYP. Teresa and choosie only arrived at 2.30pm. Time seemed precious as the FYP submission is on Monday. Lots of things were still undone and we will be meeting our Advisor for the final advice tomorrow.

Luckily we managed to do a lot and the website was almost done. Report was halfway there but it's near to closure. Can't believe we stayed till 7.30pm but anyhow, we made it possible.

Thursday, 23 July

This is yet another busy day whereby lesson's reqirements were aplenty. Need to do printing and whats not. And again, the day went by because of my favourite team mates who was doing most of the things and helped me a lot. After lesson, we immediately rushed to UT.

When I thought the day could end with the UT but after UT was meeting with our advisor. We are so afraid that we will be the worst team but luckily our advisor didn't scold us. In fact, he made us feel that we had already passed the FYP and achieved an A grade.

We immediately went for a celebration at causeway point and shouted "YAY". We treated ourselves to Sakae and eat to our heart's content.

I ate 3 red plates because Teresa and choosie were afraid to eat raw food. (Most, if not all the red plates were raw!)

For this buffet, I mostly eat Sashimi.

Friday, 24 July

It was raining in the morning but when I left my house for school, the rain stopped. Lovely. Lesson on Friday was always stressful. The only motivation to get through the lesson is the Big sweets land machine in West mall.

After school, Sis came to fetch me and we played the sweets machine. Won a total of 4 jackpots and made the total count of the stamps to 22!

Ok, I shall stop here. My hair dry up already.

2009-07-20T22:29:00.008+08:00

Swensen 1 for 1 lunch set deal!

I always walk past Swensen many times feeling curious as to why so many people are queueing up at the entrance. Then I thought those people are queueing up because it is Friday after work and most people are giving themselves a treat for getting through the hectic week. Today, when I went there again in the Monday afternoon, still, there is alot of people queueing! (I ponteng today, opps)

Then I figured out why so many people are queueing for...

I must have been a frog in the well to be left out on this amazing promotion that happens in the weekday! I can any-o-how grab a best pal or anyone to enjoy this treat whereby we split the cost by 2 when the bill comes.

I of course went with my sis and she treated me! Here comes the kiasu part. Since it is 1 for 1 whereby they will charge you for the most expensive set and the second one comes free, I ordered Sirloin steak ($20+).

Very angry. I took a picture of my Sirloin steak but it was broken image and hence I need to use the web image which was pixelated and blurry.

The best is that my sis order something that is either same as mine or more expensive but she cannot eat beef due to some reasons and the other non-beefy food item doesn't cost much. So she settled for Crayfish pasta which was cheaper and considered the free set.

We also ordered Waffle dreams...

All I left is this photo.

Anyway, it is a good deal because for every set you order, you can find someone to share the ~~pain~~ cost with you. This will be the best period to order those $20+ food item which you think is too expensive for a lunch.

PS: Win a jackpot before going for Swensen (current stamps: 18)

2009-07-19T15:48:00.015+08:00

Thursday, 16 July

Watched Harry potter and the half blood prince with Tb, Sis and Sis's husband (Ah peng) I noticed I kept saying sis's husband which is rather weird!

I purposely chose this movie poster because I think this movie is about Dumbledore dying. Love scenes aplenty and not forgetting some crazy girl that loves to burn houses. The movie lasted about 2.5 hours but I think it is still worth watching because you need this part to watch the next part. No point watching it at some websites or dvd because the quality is saddening.

Before going for the movie, I really had to thank Zakia and Andy for guiding me in CS2. I just love it to the maximum! Now I love Thursday's lesson more!

16 july's catch.

1 jackpot only.

Friday, 17 July

The most anticipated Friday came but had to wake up at 6am in the morning for the Nafa program in school. Luckily I managed to get through it despite the reluctance. I felt a sense of relief. After school, sis came to fetch me and we played the "Big sweets land" machine. Won 3 jackpots and off we go.

Did you see the black mickey mouse coin purse at the right hand corner? 1 auntie is kind enough to give it to us after we complained that she caught all of it away!

Lots of goodies, I swear we are getting better and better at it.

Lollis, who wants? (not nice 1)

Saturday, 18 July

Went to Tampines one. It was our first visit there. It was super crowded around 7pm. All the aunties and uncles come out to window shop after their dinners but never buy things, block people etc. The most happiest thing was to eat at this Japanese restaurant because it was spacious the whole time.

This restaurant is unique in a way that they give you a card when you enter. You walk around the restaurant to pick your food. Once you decide on the food to eat, swipe your card and it will be credited. When you are about to leave, pay your bills at the counter with the card.

Cons:
-Lose the card and pay $100, considering the fact that the card is so tattered and torn.
-You don't know how much you eat and keep swiping at your own expenses.

This is the most worth food item to order in the restaurant if you are feeling hungry. $11.80 if I am not wrong. The omelette contains huge fillings of rice and the brown brown thing beside the omelette is actually beef minced meat. It also comes with 2 shrimp sticks and addition of $1 to get a soup of the day.

Grapefruit and orange cake. It gives a whole new taste bud by combining bitter and sweet sensation.

This precious little thing is $7.80 per slice. $75 for the whole cake. Addition of $1 for a cup of tea. (who cares about tea?)

Sides, $2.50 per sticks.

Unagi. really boneless.

Salmon. The concept of the last two dish is like Yong tau foo stall. They placed the raw meat in a laid-out fashion and you just have to pick it yourself. Of course choose the beautiful and big one lah. Don't choose those that lose a slice of salmon skin or those that get poke by the tongs badly one lah.

After the meal, we shop around and we were so tired by the whole travelling thing.

Tb, Hx and Ws came to my house for Dai dee session.

2009-07-12T16:44:00.010+08:00

A new found love in arcades

It had been many days since I last posted anything. The reason was because there were no Internet connection at all. I need to connect many times and after a few minutes, it gets disconnected again. I spent hours just trying to submit a RJ. Hate it. Nevertheless, some photos while I was M.I.A!

Mos burger with Sis at Tiong bahru plaza. Love the thick layered tomato!

Timothy and his girlfriend :)

The catch of Tuesday, 7 July.

Pour the sweets into an A4 paper box to show how much sweets there was!

We went to West mall almost everyday to play the "push-sweets-machine".

We can't wait for Friday to come because during Friday, there is a promotion of 1:1 offer! That means if you top up $50, you will get another $50 FREE!

It gets extremely crowded during Friday because that is when you will meet all the "push-sweets-machine" experts. They sit at the machine 24/7 swiping their credits non-stop just to win the jackpot!

For your information, we are now a proud gold card owner at Timezone. Gold cards are entitled one free game everyday if the card contain at least $20 in it. The criteria to change to gold card is to accumulate 100 points which means $100. The next one is platinum which requires 2000 points and you guess it right; $2000! The priviledge is that you are entitled 2 free games everyday. (More about the stamps later)

When Friday's lesson finally came to an end, I chiong out of the school to meet my sis! We had Mayim for Dinner. Something hard got into my teeth and it hurts badly.

After that, we played "Push-sweets-machine" and we got 1 jackpot! Steal their Lilo and stitch blanket and ran away! LOL

Here's timothy playing with the blanket while falling down multiple times.

Saturday, 11 July

Morning was K box session with Sis, Ws and Tb. Then afternoon, we all went seperate ways. Saw some mushrooms along the way!

Then we went to West mall again. We was so afraid that the staffs might remember us for stealing their lilo and stitch blanket but they didn't! We got a total of 8 JACKPOTS for that day!

Oh ya, about the stamps earlier. Each stamp is equal to 1 jackpot. For every jackpot, you can either choose to get a stamp or a gift like the Lilo and stitch blanket that we stolen (opps!) The accumulated stamps can be exchanged for bigger prizes like Iphones, Fans, Rice cooker, camera, Mini fridge, Asus Laptop, and many more, just to name a few. Each of this item requires a certain amount of stamps to be exchange and the more expensive ones require more stamps of course!

The catch of the 8 jackpots day!

The exclusive items + a few chocolates

Mickey mouse shape coin purse. The book on the top left hand corner is not inclusive!

So why are you waiting for? Join in the craze and get addicted to the "Push-sweets-machine"!

PS: So it's called Big sweet land machine.

2009-07-05T23:04:00.000+08:00

Thursday, 2nd July

Meet up with Shao Cheng at West Mall, 2:30pm. Was a bit late because I saw my dad at the bus stop and kind of missed a bus. Anyway, I was late but we met earlier because the Sakae buffet starts at 3pm. We also need to wait for my Sis because she is joining us but she only reached at about 3:15pm. So, we play photo hunt to kill some time.

Anyway, this is sort of a compromise treat because I am supposed to treat him to Sakura but I was confused at that time, maybe a bit tipsy due to alcohol (He spite my drink!), and I thought Sakura was Sakae. Most of the people know that Sakura is more expensive than Sakae and the always cautious me, made the biggest mistake about money issues! Argh.

Luckily we negotiate a bit and finally he agrees with the Sakae idea. Since both of us love sashimi so much, we decided to NOT eat anything before we go to the buffet. Now it begins...

Kudos to Shaocheng for the photos!

Love the tails; they look like 2 pair of legs

This was my Red plate choice - I love the cheesy sauce!

Siap siap taste

Get the ginger OFF.

Allergic to this, always makes my throat itchy.

Spicy.

Salmon avocado, weird combination. Also, this avocado taste like cucumber.

Sis's red dish. Purposely chose prawn because I am allergic to it...

Dry, awful and bony sums it up well.

Looks like snails, endless biting sensation.

Love the tofu and Unagi.

All of us ordered it out of convenience.

Dessert, brain freeze effect from the vanilla ice cream in it

Extra tail given, thx chef!

Don't you think it looks like turtle, head to head?

My love!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Drooling already

Shao cheng's red plate.

He finished all! Never ask whether we want or not.

PS: I am so tired after all the ctrl C and ctrl V of codes.
P also S: Not rather happy about the long waiting time of delivering the ordered food!

2009-07-04T08:33:00.003+08:00

Updated: Looks like HELP is not available... 4th day already

Blogger, let me upload!

I am very angry about Blogger the other day because it does not allow me to upload pictures nor photos. I was in a very good mood to deliver an entry of me, Shao cheng and my sis to Sakae when the Blogger upload image didn't work! Up till now, I still cannot upload any images, pictures or photos. (ALL the SAME!)

The entry should be written on Thursday, July 2nd but because I cannot upload any photos, I dropped the idea. I imagined it to be full of saliva-dripping photos where words are a little and up to our imagination.

For Friday, I went to West mall with Sis and played the "Push-sweets-machine". We spent $60 on it, winning 3 jackpots and now I have 189423499042 sweets at home.

Ah, what must I do in the meantime without pictures? I promised to spam the Blogger uploader once it is up again to take revenge. Then again, maybe it is not Blogger's fault. It might be my connection's fault. But hey! the problem happened at July 1st and today is July 4th. My connection can't be that jerky for 3 days, different timing altogether.

Guess what I can do at the moment is to procrastinate and wait till I can upload photos. I might be checking out on Blogger's help or forum to see if I am the only one.

2009-07-01T21:56:00.025+08:00

Updated: I just found out that I am not the only one who cannot upload a image to Blogger - July 2, 9pm

Start of a new month

Today is the start of July and so I am in the mood to draw a new PSB relating to H1N1. All of us are affected by this influenza in one way or another. You like it or not, its here to stay and we must stay strong in order to win this battle.

For this PSB, I got the idea from RP news regarding taxi drivers freaking out upon picking up RP students etc. Once they hear they are going to Republic Polytechnic, they were so scare because it is a H1N1 cluster.

Click here to see the simple comic strip.

Somehow, I feel that this will serve as a memory when I look at my own blog in the future. I can tell myself that there is this influenza that happened around this time and I brave through it.

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Should I do it or should I not?

I am now in a dilemma. It goes like this:

My aunt had just recently helped me convert my favourite photo of me and Timothy into a cross-stitch design.

I like it very much.

Here's the problem. I am tempted to do it but I know it will take me years to complete it. If time is not a factor, then priority will be my biggest challenge right now. Given that I do not have a lot of time as my greatest worry should be FYP, I shouldn't start it...

The push factor is that it is so nice and tempting to do. I know it will give me a sense of satisfaction if I am able to finish it. Also, Timothy looked like "Ren da hua" in this photo. (The latter is just a joke)

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Tomorrow will be going Sakae sushi with my eating buddy Shao Cheng. When it comes to food, he has all the appetite in the world.

2009-06-28T21:54:00.009+08:00

Saturday, 27 Jun

In lieu of BBQ at West coast park, we changed to Sakura at Science centre. The people that went include me, my 2 sisters, sis's husband, Timothy, my mum, aunt, cousin jiayi, Ws, Hx and Tb. The main reason is to celebrate Tb's birthday by gathering lots of people so that the whole event will not be too quiet. This is the first time I experienced eating buffet with so many people altogether.

Although BBQ might be more fun in terms of barbecuing your own food but eating buffet is definitely a much more comfortable thing.

You know the usuals? Always start the buffet with loads of sashimi because Sakura is the best buffet place that have unlimited flow of sashimi. Besides, its more worth it if you eat Sashimi in Sakura. Otherwise, you can go other buffet places because the stuff is usually the same anyway.

Another favourite! Grill salmon with Ahjipalia sauce. This time, each salmon pieces is thicker and juicer. I wonder why is that so? Maybe this is the period where the salmon-catching is at its optimum?

My sis secretly took a photo of us eating greedily and just nice my mum's hand blocked my whole face!

Subsequently, my mum's hand attempt to block me again but I managed to siam just in time!

What about Timothy? He's busy picking up different flavours of pudding to play with. At times, he stuff his "Doraemon's favourite food" into the cup.

This is doraemon favourite food

We then came up with this myth that whenever someone drinks from a cup that has the dough or pancakes smell, it means that, that cup is the one that is used by Timothy! How disturbing!

Anyway, by the time we are all very full that our stomach almost burst, we left the place ~~stealing~~ "Ta bao-ing" 7 puddings or so... They all came to my house and play Dai dee till 3am and then my sis drove them home.

2009-06-26T21:03:00.014+08:00

Tuesday, 23 Jun

For those that had watched Transformers must be awaiting for Transformers 2. So much so that it came out on Tuesday, all the die hard fans flocked to the cinemas in all parts of Singapore to watch the robot's movie.

For me, I didn't watch Transformer and hence I didn't know what to expect for this movie except that it is full of good reviews. However, the hardcore fans didn't mind the extra dollars for sneak previews when the actual released date is just the next day. Can't they wake for the next day for normal price?

Hmm, I wasn't the "fans" but because I didn't want to lose out to the others, I watched the sneak preview at West Mall which cost 8 dollar per ticket. I think the movie worth my 8 dollar because it is actually quite good. In fact, it is better than Terminator Salvation.

Read from some source that the beautiful Megan Fox in Transformers 2 is actually a man. My sis and I are looking out on whether she have an adam's apple throughout the movie and conclude that sometimes she have it and sometimes she don't have it! The idea is that maybe she use a hammer to crush it?

Wednesday, 24 Jun

Went to look at my sis's new flat and it is actually quite near to Jurong point. Then after that went to Pizza hut with Hx and sis.

This just give me the idea for tomorrow's bbq! *tink*

I just love stuff crust!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Can I just eat the stuff crust and don't eat the middle part?

After Pizza hut, we went to arcade and walk around. We saw this machine in X zone which is called "Push sweets machine". The name of this machine is by yours truly.

The objective of the game is to scope the sweets and pour it onto the staggering platform that keep moving. The idea is to allow the sweets to drop and HIT a checker that is located near the platform. Once the sweet hits the checker, a meter will spin and update red thing in the picture above. Once that red thing is full bar, you will win the grand prize.

AND WE DID WIN THE GRAND PRIZE!!!

Not going to tell how much we spent on the push sweets machine to get this prize but I can say that this prize that we won with our determination will be a gift to Tb aka Jinhong for his birthday present!

Happy birthday to JinHong in advanced! (30th June)

Thursday, 25 Jun

You know what?...

ITS ZAKIA BIRTHDAY!!!! (I am running out of colours to use but I insist of using red because that is her favourite colour! Go Arsenal)

So we didn't go to school as promised because it will be a day off the hectic schedule. Besides, who goes to school on birthday?

Anyway, I went to Kbox with Tb and Ws. Then after that was Bugis street. When all else fails, we arranged a Dai dee session at my house for a gambling show down!

2009-06-22T20:49:00.011+08:00

Dian Xiao Er

Yesterday, we were in for a treat. We went to Dian Xiao Er for a sumptuous meal. I thought my sis won the lottery or something and decides to treat us but no! She even lost $300+ in mahjong and I didn't know this before hand.

Cod fish w/ soy

Don't be fooled by its appearance. This cod fish fulfilled the idea of outer crispy, inner juicy. When I bite off the "biscuit-like" fried fish skin, a watery kind of juice flowed out and that is when I know it is not water but fish meat! Yes, its that soft!

I refused to give the one star because it is too little. I only eat 1 tiny piece out of the whole to give my comment. And whats with the huge garlic?

Ginseng Duck

One of the successive factor that made Dian Xiao Er proud, along with the other herbal ducks. I especially love the skin and the sauce.

I give 3 stars for this dish because I don't like duck's bone. The meat of the duck always stick to the bone tightly and makes eating difficult. They should removed the bones for easier eating especially those that like to dip the sauce with the meat.

Imagine picking up a very bony piece and you dip the sauce to go along with it. When you start to bite on the meat, all the sauce spurt out from the other end and there goes your delicious sauce! Wastage!

Shark's Fin Conpoy

Straight away 5 stars, no need to think so much. Even Timothy stops doing all his things and gives his attention to this marvellous pot. Accompanied with big sized crab meat, this dish is a must try.

P/s: Timothy did save me. (from previous entry)

Superior Abalone

I love the sauce. I simply put the whole abalone into my mouth and keep biting it for 5 minutes?

The reason for 4 stars is that they should cut it into smaller pieces. Luckily I have a big mouth that can contained the whole thing. As for broccoli, not good because it can be found in the next dish. They should be using another kind of vegetable like asparagus.

Broccoli + Scallop + Peas

I actually love this dish very much. As in all the things inside this dish is what I like. I think the chef is crafting this dish especially for me because he or she know my favourites. The peas is very crunchy and succulent! (Wow I managed to use this word "succulent". I've been waiting for this right moment!)

A bit "tasteless" and is considered common except for the scallop part.

P/s: Chef, please do accidentally add in more scallops. Don't follow the rules of 4 scallops, 4 pax. Its not nice counting in the kitchen, be generous!

Sea cucumber + Mushroom

Don't like sea cucumber but when I heard that it is good for body, I quickly dumped 3 into my mouth. Read from Wiki that it has healing effects using fatty acids to tissue repair.

Peas were found again. Repetitive. Also, my mum bit on one black pepper grain and it taste horrible. They should removed the black pepper seed or whatever. My sis's husband also commented that this dish is mainly black pepper taste, perhaps they should reduced in black pepper...

The desserts were bolied hashima with red dates and lotus seed.

Smell bitter and when you put it in your mouth, you must faster swallow it before the bitterness hit you. Not very nice in my opinion but then again, it has its nutrition value and I can't be bothered to google it because I want to sleep now!

Usually things that are bitter is good. I finished every single drop of it as it is very good lah.

2009-06-20T12:31:00.006+08:00

Timothy, save me!!

I am feeling worried and stress now but it seemed like there's no one there to be my listening ears. I am reluctant to say out my worries fearing that others will think that I am just asking for sympathy. The usual one person which I often approach is my sister but she seemed like having a bigger load than me, making my own problem compared to hers appear smaller.

Timothy is sleeping soundly right now. My greatest wish is to see him awake with a smile so sweet to melt my heart. Even if he didn't smile, his watery dew-like eyes will give me a sense of hope that everything is okay. There's nothing to worry about. Really.

Looking at this picture taken yesterday,

I recalled the scenario that happened at "Sheng Siong". Before that, we were at Ikea buying chairs, tibits and food. The tibits were mainly bought for Timothy and when we reached Sheng Siong, Timothy picked up a "YanYan" because he had eaten it before

He wanted to eat it but the item had not been purchased hence we cannot open it. But my sis and mum open it up for Timothy. I was shocked!

Ok, here's Timothy with the yanyan biscuit, holding it so elegantly like a straw. He merely ate a stick or two out of the whole. He licked the cream away refusing to bite the biscuit. Sometimes when I looked at him, all my worries are gone.

2009-06-17T18:40:00.014+08:00

A lot to say

Haven't been updating my blog for the longest time and this is because of the stupid connection that have been causing me lots of problem. Now, I am holding onto the wires while I type, hoping that the LAN wire will not give up on me. In these days, who still uses wired connection? ME!

Anyway, let me introduce something called "cross stitch" to you. Not Lilo and stitch but CROSS stitch! In laymen term, it means stitching using a needle in a cross way to form a picture. Say easier than done, it requires hard work and determination to complete even a 10*10 grid!

However, if you take some time and effort, it can really work magic. Imagine your loved ones receiving a cross-stitch picture of himself or herself done by you, that moment will be fantastic and indescribable! It means sincerity and honour because that will be the only piece in the world!

Now, after you read till here, why not make an extra effort to press the link below to see what cross stitch can do? If you are interested, you can even contact the owner to teach you a skill to impress your friend on their birthday. You can even cross stitch your idol onto your t-shirt!

http://www.thecross-stitchshop.blogspot.com/

Drag me to hell

During the holidays, went to watch Drag me to hell with Tb and Hx.

My sis didn't go because she was scare of this kind of movie genre. Boo to her. However, the movie turns out to be "scary movie" kind of humour whenever Mrs ganish banged her false teeth out of her mouth.

Her "refused-to-die" attitude gave me the idea that this movie should change its title to "One hell of a bugger". Despite stapling her face and kicking her with high heels, she can still carry a huge rock to break a car window. The only thing that puzzled me is how she got into a car?

However, I must say that some of the scenes scare me. The sound effect and volume gave me a jump whenever something pop out.

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Some time ago, when I was returning home on my sis's car, I witnessed a car crash. I didn't witnessed the whole process but the aftermath of the incident. I quickly took out my handphone to take pictures. We quickly buy 4D but didn't win :(

The front part shattered into pieces. Poor thing. Most probably the black coloured car is going to pay the white car's back boot repair fee and his own fronts.

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On Monday, left school halfway to watch movie at Vivo. Land of the lost

Called Hx along. Tb didn't go because he go back for reservist. I know it is very "sian" for him because that Monday was his start of holiday but I guess one week will be over soon! That Monday was also my first day of school and I immediately skipped it. Monday blues, blame who? (wow! rhyme)

Land of the lost is a funny show but has no story line at all. Things can happen anyhow they like it. Sitting beside us is a bunch of children and they keep laughing crazily. My sis threw a peanut sideway, hitting a kid that keep laughing "anyhowing-ly". That peanut stops his laughing and he ran to his mother, crying. GAGAGAAG!

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Sometimes when no one is around to look after Timothy and my sis had to drive from one place to another. This is how she do it...

Timothy is just so adorable when
HE IS ASLEEP!

Just like today, my aunt came over to my house and help look after Timothy because my sis and mum had to go to work while my sis's maid had just returned to her own country. It was a tiring day for my aunt and me because Timothy only want his mum. Bathing resulted in water all over us because he refused to bath. Sleeping was his only adorable side because he kept crying for his mum!

Another adorable moment is when he is sitting in the machine car of shopping center.

We were so careless that we forget to bring Timothy's shorts out! His bottom was pampers!

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Lastly, this coming Sunday(21st Jun) will be flea market at sunset way. I will be bringing some of my stuffs to sell there! So fun!

2009-06-13T09:46:00.002+08:00

Pizza and steamboat.

Yesterday went to Tb's house for Canadian pizza delivery! He had this survey job that required him to dine in Canadian pizza or have it delivered to his door step. Of course he chose the deliver to door step! After trying it, he just have to fill up the survey and that's all. Easy and Shiok!

As this was my virgin try at Canadian pizza, I wondered what will be nice. I took a look at the menu that Tb sent me through Msn, I straight away saw smoked salmon and kept telling myself that I must have this.

This is what Tb ordered: BBQ CHICKEN BONANZA

Ingredient: Tender Chicken Breast, Special BBQ Sauce, Onions, Capsicum, Fresh Tomatoes.

This is the Smoked salmon:

Smoked Salmon, Onions, Capsicum, Herbs and Black Olives

Note: I heard that Olives are expensive ingredient so no matter how tasteless it is, I must not waste a bit of it.

Nuggets and wedges.

In my opinion, I think Canadian pizza as compared to Pizza hut is a tad too healthy for a pizza. Both CP and PH are generous with the ingredients but Pizza hut's ingredients definitely taste tastier than Canadian Pizza.

Another thing to compare would be the selection of flavours. I like Canadian pizza in a way that they offers many different types of pizza like smoked salmon, atlantis and Singapura special. However, Pizza hut wins it back by having the stuff crust under it's sleeves.

Prices and offers wise, Canadian pizza is always 2 for the price 1 pizza while pizza hut is during promotion time. For example now, Pizza hut have this promotion at 2 pizza for $20. For your information, Canadian's regular pizza is priced at $21.90.

After that, my sis came to Tb's house. She drove us to fetch my mum and Timothy. Then me, Tb, sis and husband went for Steamboat at night.

The soup base was chicken and "pai gu" something. We didn't order any spicy base because sis's husband warned us that the spicy base soup is too spicy (China's Ma La style). My sis commented that the spicy soup has no spicy taste but your lips will be paralysed by it and your mouth will have no feeling. The next day will be a lost of voice.

Threw in all the ingredients and there's even flower crab. However, I didn't see any prawns. Water was free flow and it cost $15 per pax. No GST or whatsoever.

Wanted to watch movie afterwards but it was 10pm and we stinks from the steamboat.

2009-06-09T20:11:00.006+08:00

Listening to this.

This will be the CD that I will be paying attention to. Really love the tracks no. 2 (Yuan Wu Qu), 5 (Bai Qi) and 8 (Ming Zhi Gu Fan) of the album. Whenever the song is being played, I listened carefully to it's lyrics and it evokes a certain feeling that is comfortable. It's like all my worries are all gone.

Right now, typing this entry, I am listening to this CD. I love the attitude, singing style and composing talent that she presented in the CD. Usually it's really hard to convince me to buy a CD unless it is from Stefanie Sun. But this CD definitely give me the urge to buy it right away because I had been waiting for it!

The other day, Timothy was eating his Lollipop that he chosen from a store and I straight love his last finger while holding his lolli.

When it comes to eating, he has his way.

How is this finger possible?

Monday, 8 Jun

Went to Kbox with Ws, Tb and Sis. Had a marvellous singing session because there is new people which means new songs being sang! They all dished out their representative song that they were good at to impress each other. We all sang our hearts out and felt that today's session is definitely a worth one.

After that, went to Vivo city to catch a movie. Ws went home and Hx joined in. The movie that we watched is Terminator salvation.

I must say I never like Robots from Transformers but I surely love Terminator Salvation! Someone kept telling me Terminator Salvation isn't nice and thankfully I watched it nevertheless. Sometimes, I shouldn't listen to other people's reviews or else I will miss out a show that is good.

I guess everyone had their own opinion and that is not up to me to judge it. Just like you, reading my reviews and not being convinced by it! BOO!

2009-06-04T21:37:00.005+08:00

Monday, 1st Jun

Wow! I suffered from amnesia because I couldn't remember what I did on this day. This shouldn't be my usual self as I usually remember every single detail. However, I think it's not amnesia. It is short term memory because I suddenly remembered and I must faster type before I forget again.

Meet up with Youngly and William for morning zombies killing!(L4D) Promotion at city vibe LAN shop came to an end as the June holiday had just started! Boo!

However, the Long John Silver had this promotion that fits my little appetite for Monday blues morning. It is just 3 dollar and you get a sandwich plus fresh orange juice to go along.

Hx came around noon to join us in killing zombies. In the end, we completed "No mercy" advanced mode and we went on to play Dota while Youngly left us to woo a girl, according to his best friend, William.

After that, me and Hx went to Tb's house for further Dota session using his desktop and laptop. Dinner was Congee at Pioneer mall.

Tuesday, 2nd Jun

Went to Jurong East Library for FYP. Meet up with Choosie and Teresa. At last, Teresa was on time. This had never happen before! I was shocked until a drop of tear fell out from the corner of my eye.

Finding place in the library had never been easy before. However, we were lucky that day as we can find a lane that we can sit side by side each other. Electrical sockets were nearby and there were glass panels to lean on. The only bad things is that many people will walk past us and look down at us like beggars.

Wednesday, 3rd Jun

Sis came to fetch me around noon time. Then we went over to fetch Hx from his house. The place that we decide to go will be Vivo city because we will be catching a movie there.

Went to LJS for lunch after we had purchase the movie tickets. Went to this art shop located at Level 3 and was fascinated by these "iron-on prints". Each of us bought a few and decided to iron the images on our polo tees.

^Saw this weird looking fish.

^I love sea creatures! Especially starfish. I heard that if you cut away their hands which is equivalent to the 5 angles, they will each grow into a new starfish as it can manipulate it's cells very fast!

We are unsure about which movie to watch and so we all gave our opinions and comments on different movies and decided on...

Angels and Demons

The beginning part was boring because I do not understand what they were saying. The fun and interesting part came around when the first person died with soil in the mouth, thrown down from air, burn by fire and lastly, almost drown in water. It involves elements and that is something that interest me. Don't get me wrong, I am not interested by how they died :)

There is also one part about the explosion in the sky that gave me an impact. At first, the bomb exploded with a blast of fire and I say "Chey, like that only". After a few seconds, the fire blast became a gigantic burst of blue coloured nuclear energy and that shocked me because the effect was really great. I almost got blown away from my seat because it was so real!

After the movie, Sis drove us home and that ends the day.

Thursday, 4th Jun

Went back to school for FYP meeting with Teresa, Choosie and Advisor. Was intending to accompany Ws to buy some things but was being held up in school. Our advisor were not very pleased about our performance as it was too slow. He gave us a challenge and this only means work, work and more work during this holiday!

After that, went to clementi to meet up with Tb, Mk and Ws. Mk was busy teaching Tb how to cycle and at last, he finally learned it. Although still a bit unsure and shaky but at least he is able to cycle from the start to the end of the void deck.

2009-06-01T00:17:00.006+08:00

Saturday, 30 May

Went to work with Lilian auntie. It had been a long time since she introduced me some part time jobs. Anyway, the job that she introduced me is about taking temperature at the entrance of the seminar.

The seminar is held at HDB hub Toa payoh. Our job is to use the thermometer to measure the incoming peoples' temperature. The thermometer is those kind whereby you scan their forehead and it will give the results. Some aunties were even afraid about the hygiene level of this high tech device where no contact is even made?!

Well, to be honest, I am quite angry with a few arrogant aunties. They think they are high class people or very rich people and they try to past us without taking temperature. When you try to stop them, they stare at you and say "NO".

You think what? Come for seminar no need take temperature? Feel like hitting them with the high tech thermometer that I am holding to. Otherwise, it was fun and tiring event!

After that, went city vibe for Dota session!

Sunday, 31 May

Happy birthday Lester!

Look at the cake's writings. Lester for the lose!!!

We celebrated his birthday at Botanic garden! Not a very wise choice as it was a really hot day. We were all perspiring and Teresa is as late as "latest".

We went to secret recipe to buy the chocolate banana cake which is Lester's favourite, I think. All of us, cheapos, wanted to take as many pieces as possible but was too full to even finish one. "Those" that took the second piece couldn't finish it! Those people are Teresa, Lester and sherman. In the end, half of the cake were thrown away.

We took many photos and we walked a lot!

Lester & Me!

^Yuenky & Lester (Claimed to be "best" friend)

^Lester & Sherman

^Teresa & Lester

Although Marcus couldn't make it that day, we did not forget about him! We tagged him as this fluffy thingy in the facebook and I kept laughing non stop whenever I tagged him as random stuff.

Actually we kind of miss the presence of Marcus because whenever he is around, he will come up with ideas to torture Lester. He is also in charge of pinning lester down while the rest of us do our things like tickle, splash water, use knife poke etc.

After that, we parted ways and my sis came over to fetch me and Sherman. Then night time was dai dee session. Won $12.50 and it was a tiring day!

2009-05-28T22:21:00.006+08:00

Woohoo!

Not going school tomorrow and my 2 weeks holiday coming up! Glad that I went to school today no matter how reluctant I am. Thanks to Zakia, Shao Cheng, Andy, William, Teresa and Yuenky which made my sickness a bit better!

Let's side track a bit. I noticed that laughing is the best medicine. It cures all the illnesses and headaches. I secretly laughed to this picture...

For the two who know what I mean, you must be laughing now! I think it's like print screen and submiting it. "I didn't do it but I found this on grosskia.blogspot.com"

Had marketing UT after school and it was stressful. I managed to finish the test although there is a 2 marks question which I anyhow answered. I was relieved that I spent adequate time on the 8 and 10 marks questions.

After school went Causeway point, Dian Xiao Er for belated birthday celebration cum mini gathering with Yuenky. (offline queen)

Only me and Teresa can make it. All the other members of the cheapo gang, WHERE ARE YOU ALL?

Marmite Chicken: Nice but I don't like the bones... lazy

Ma-Po Tofu: not spicy

Ten Wonder Duck: Nice!

After that, chiong home to watch the Paris and Milan (Nu wang ben se). By the way, I had finally found the link to watch all the episodes @ www.singaporewave.com

Auntie Lucy ROCKS!

Last but not least, Sunday going botanic garden!

2009-05-27T13:14:00.003+08:00

The sick feeling!

I feel like slime now! My temperature inside my body is hot while my outer layer is cold. That's how a slime feels like. Or at least that is what I think slime should be like. Fear not, I don't have H1N1 influenza because I declare my temperature every school days~

My feeling now is horrible. I am like a rotten vegetable. I am madly drinking down glasses of plain water and the soft headache is tingling me at the right time whenever I smile or open my mouth. The head or brain area is hotter than the body and I am refused to eat panadols.

I feel that panadols should be the last resort and not be taken in as sweets. Oh! I forget to mention about my swallowing of saliva. It has a spiky and rough feeling whenever I swallow something.

I guess the main reason why I am suddenly feeling sick is because I consumed too much hot things. Like yesterday, we were doing FYP and I had the sudden urge to eat something. I dragged choosie along and I bought the "boost" chocolate. The chocolate had a thick caramel in every bite and I seldom eat those stuff.

In the same day, I drank hot milo and it's so thick that kind. Thick until you can feel the milo powder on the throat.

The other day I was telling someone about my special "feelings". I can sense when I am going sick. I know if I don't do something about it, I will fall sick the next day. That person, whom I cannot remember, told me that he or she has this feeling too. She can even "feel" weather. (Ma chiam weather forecast)

So today, I am officially sicked and had taken leave but bad things just don't stop here. I was using the toilet and when I came out from it, I slipped and fell on my buttock! Luckily my head didn't land on the steps. I should draw it out...

It was the most painful experience and I stayed in that position for 10 seconds? After 10 seconds, the pain from the buttock slowing travelled to the brain and I rolled on the floor and saw a dead cockroach right in my face (the latter was just kidding!)

I tried to let out some sound but no voice came out, mysteriously. The total thing take about 40 seconds before I can stand up again. I was lucky to say that my brain sent a message to my left hand's nerves and instructed it to move quickly before I fall and supported me. If the back of my head hit the steps, I should be blanked out like as if someone switched me off.

Tomorrow will be UT and Seoul garden after school for Yuenky's birthday. I can imagine myself not coming on Friday because of the heaty food on Thursday. Needless to say, Friday will be the last day of school before my 2 weeks holidays. If I am well, I will go school. If not, no point going school and stress myself out as it will be a stressful day on Friday anyway.

Oh ya! Yesterday went Teresa's house for mahjong session. Won $15 :)

2009-05-25T20:05:00.011+08:00

A happy day

Yesterday went to clementi kbox to celebrate my sis's birthday. The people that went were: Me, Mum, 2 Sis, sis's husband, Tb, Mk, Hx and Ws. Actually wanted to bring Timothy along but was afraid that he cannot tolerate the loud music.

So, we were late and Tb, Hx and Ws went to book the room first. I received the message from Tb that the room is "Room 1". I was thinking, "Wow, never been in room 1 before. Wonder how is it like?"

When we reached there, a waiter brought us in and we were shocked! The room is 2 and a half times bigger than the normal 4 pax room. There used to be a billard table in the middle of the room but somehow they removed it.

Anyway, we utilised every space of it. We walked around the room while we sing so that we can find the best position. Not forgeting that we went during the K lunch period which was $12 per pax! On top of that, we got a huge room that can fit 36 people or more! Such happiness!

So big right? can dance or do hip hop in the middle.

The cake is from secret recipe, filled with banana chunks inside.

After Kbox, all of them went to my house for dai dee session. Ws and Mk went off half way. We played dai dee until 7pm and we went IMM. Had pepper lunch for dinner.

Walked around IMM looking at watches because Tb wants to buy it. In the end, Sis's husband bought a Alba watch for Sis as birthday present.

After that, birthday girl drove each of us home. What a happy day!

In case you are missing Timothy,

Bye :)

2009-05-23T00:03:00.002+08:00

Hurrays!

Lots of good news! First thing first, Paint story board (PSB) has added a new story due to the demand of William Peterus. This episode talks about my school which implement a "reaching-school time system". For those who are careless, they will forget about the new timing system and went to school at the wrong time. William is one of them.

For more hilarious information, click HERE. Look out for the buttercup student that William annoyed and the armpit hair facilitator!

Yesterday played mahjong with my sis, Mk and Hx. Won $5 and that's because I forced Zakia and william to wish me luck.

This coming Sunday will be celebration for my Sis birthday. Her real birthday falls on the 25th May.

Subsequently,

Happy birthday Yuenky (22nd May)
Happy birthday Jinjin (23rd May)
Happy birthday Shiying (23rd May)
Happy birthday Sis (25th May)

I can practically change the happy birthday song to...

*Play happy birthday cassette*

Happy birthday to Yuenky,
Happy birthday to Jinjin,
Happy birthday to Shi ying-ing.
Happy birthday to SIS!

Not forgetting to mention that today is a miserable day. I had coffee in the morning, afternoon milo and these are my meals while I am in school. After school, I did FYP and only had dinner around 7pm.

When me and Teresa is going to Causeway point Banquet to have chicken rice, we saw that the whole banquet was empty. I was observant enough to tell that foods were left on the tables, untouched.

I kpo-ed abit and found out that the level 6 carpark caught on fire. Banquet, sakae and cathay on level 7 had to stop their business and people were evacuated. This explains the left untouched food on the tables when we, the first customers, entered Banquet after the evacuation.

Me and teresa thought about how wasteful it is to leave our food behind just because of evacuation. Imagine you just bought a $8 western food and people ask you to leave the place immediately. We said from our bottom of the hearts that even if there is an explosion behind our back, we will continue eating and even fumes and fire will not stop us from finishing the meal. That's the spirit of CHEAPO GANG! *shout*

Hmm, Sis's husband will be leaving for Paris tomorrow (Saturday). He will go for 1 week first and later 8 months. I think my Sis will be sad and missing him a lot.

Ok, got to go.

2009-05-18T20:40:00.002+08:00

Life is full of up and down.

Had the sudden urge of not attending school today but I managed to go through it like a book. Needless to say, it bores me to bed. One second I am smiling to my friend, the other second I am dozing off when the conversation came to an end. I kept yawning till my tears flowed out and my eyes all red.

When the lesson ended, Zakia came to my class and shocked me. She just walked in the class as if it's hers. To me, this is never possible unless I am with another person. Anyway, she gave me the feeling that I am alive again! Thanks, my friend!

After school went to watch "Uninvited" with Teresa and Choosie.

I don't quite get what the movie is talking about but I totally enjoyed the sitting down, eating sushi and sardine puffy feeling.

However, I know the movie is about this girl that has hallucination of her mother that wants to tell her something. But in actual fact, those hallucination are times when she killed her dearest mother, sister and stepmother.

Sometimes I think I have hallucination as well. I keep thinking that people out there are trying to harm me in certain way. I came up with list of reasons why they will harm me and the gains from it.

I also suspect that I have paranoia. Maybe I am having hallucination of having paranoia because just now a facilitor kept looking at me in the library. I was playing an online game and he is directly behind me. You see, at first I had a feeling that someone is looking at me and when I turn around, I saw him looking at me and my laptop. He quickly resumed his net surfing when I caught him.

Then later on I asked Choosie, who was sitting infront of me, to look at the facilitator whether he is still looking at me. I felt the presence of someone looking at me again. Choosie say "No leh, he looks like he is looking at you but he is actually looking downwards into his own laptop."

Pssst.. Hallucination, psst paranoia...

2009-05-16T13:25:00.002+08:00

Fake versus Original

Just a question, who will mind carrying fake wallets, accessories, clothes, pants and etc? Hmm... sorry to say but I really don't mind using fake brand watches and shoes as long as they look nice and they are like the authentic ones.

The reason behind the apology above is that I can already feel some people shouting words like "Eeee, so cheapo" or "Must support original!"

I mean, if you can buy something fake that is cheaper and has the same functionality as the original, then which will you choose? Most probably the answer will still be original but that's not the point.

I know brands play an important role in the buyers' power but if I can only afford something cheap and serves me well, then shouldn't I buy that? If my reason for buying something is because of the brand I support, then I can argue that I must buy the original instead.

Besides, what are pasar malam for? How come they can sell fake things so happily? I saw one auntie selling fake teletubbish shirt to the boy's mother. She say until like the shirt is godly and a must buy because of it's soft fabric. This is all nonsense but the mother still buy because the purpose of shirt is to wear. (Actually is because it is cheap, she can buy a lot of it. Children no need wear until so branded one lah.)

However, selling something fake also depends on the customers, whether they are willing to buy it. Customers are clever enough to differentiate whether that item is worth the money. If you sell me some fake junks, you think I will buy the fake and not the original instead?

Perhaps I might be stupid enough to believe for the first time, but don't expect a second occurrence from an "once-kena-cheated" customers because they will remember the lesson. So, a customer can really tell which is worth buy and which is not.

This afternoon, I was watching a channel 8 drama(repeat) and I especially hated this one scene that May Phua acted in. She is those kind of rich tai-tai that spends her husband's(Alan Wu) hard earn money. She was giving a ridiculous answer for buying an expensive handbag. Her answer was that she didn't want her husband to lose face in front of others by carrying a fake handbag (part one)

Part one still can accept but the part two was that they were planning a trip to Europe and the police in Europe will catch anyone that carries fake brand stuff and FINE THEM!

I immediately showed a disgusted look and have been taken aback by it. Then my mother add in chirpily "Got leh, got this country that fine people if they bring fake things into the country." I was in a lost of word state and my jaw dropped like the movie "Jaws".

In disbelief, I went to google and research about it. Although it shows a faint results of the above mentioned, but there is still some truth in it. When one or more people say so, then it should be real.

So anyway, different countries perceived the importance of original differently. It is really up to us to decide about it.

2009-05-14T19:24:00.004+08:00

Professionals

Sometimes I really hate "kiasu" aunties that snatch seats on the MRT. Whenever the middle platform train open the door at around 5 to 6pm, all the people rushed in and the passengers that is trying to exit, couldn't exit at all.

Some even "TSK" you for blocking them and obstructing them from getting a seat. There was even one time when I was trying to exit the door and there is this auntie that stepped on my foot. She "TSK-ed" me with a stupid face and I "OI" her back. She just ignored me and went ahead to snatch her seats. Very rude!

But today, I want to applaud an auntie which made me laugh just watching the way she "protected" herself against broken necks.

You see, broken necks are the guy above that always sleeps without having a control over their neck. They can sway from right to left and left to right without knowing that they are causing irritation to others beside them. They only wake up if they accidentally bang their heads on the window or their head touches the one beside them.

Now, I, of course, had similar experience as this auntie but the usual me will just avoid his head and kept a distance away from him. I was sitting opposite to this scene and was happily enjoying the show.

What made me burst out laughing is the way the auntie reacted. She cleverly knocked her shoulder against that guy and she quickly looked to her right, pretending that the MRT had jerked violently to cause the knock.

She did all these in a matter of seconds without thinking or whatsoever. A normal person might have a thought in their mind that if the guy came nearer once more, then I will take precaution against it. But this auntie is really amazing! She is like a professional that had this scenario a million times to react so quickly!

I really applaud her.

2009-05-12T21:01:00.003+08:00

Nuisance.

I was reading Wendy's blog and remembered a case similar to hers which I felt I must write it down. If I don't write it down, I cannot sleep in peace!

Listen up!

It was a sunny day. (pretend) I went to my grandma's house to study. It was very near to exam period and one of my friend lived very near to my grandma's house and I decided to meet him up and study together.

Since it was early, I decided to stay at my grandma's house until he reaches and then I go down and meet him. I thought I won't be staying long and I left my shoes outside the house. For your information, it was a puma limited edition army print shoes.

When my friend called me to inform me that he reached, I went to the door and get my shoes. To my horror, it was not there anymore! I left it there a few minutes ago.

I let my imagination run wild to come up with the most ridiculous ideas about how the shoes can go missing on it's own. Some ideas that got me hooked are that the shoes got blown away by mysterious winds or I didn't wear any shoes in the first place.

I begin to suspect that it must be the neighbours who had stolen it. On the right is Malay family and their children are very noisy. They keep shouting 24/7 and they always play at the corridors. They must have kick my shoes into their house and kept it away from me.

Can you imagine one day when you want to go out and you cannot find your shoes? Some more I had to borrow a pair of slippers and they are of flowery kind. The slippers are too small for my feet and the strap is like going to explode!

Amazingly, they kind of know I am not living there. Why do I say so? Because the next week when I go to my grandma's house again, I saw my puma limited edition army print shoes on the steps of stairs outside their house.

The shoes was placed nicely and there's a pair of socks in them which does not belong to me. I stared at it with anger and the shoes almost caught on fire. I stomped towards the shoes and grab it back while murmuring vulgarities all along.

I put the "taken-back" shoes outside my grandma's house and don't bother to close the door. I sat very near to the door and kept looking at it. After like half an hour, I heard the door of the Malay family opened. I adjusted myself quickly and sat up straight to have a better view of my shoes.

I heard a scream of "DSJFJDSfdfnkjeednaskd" in Malay. I cannot understand Malay but I figured it out anyway. He must be saying "where's MY shoes". Then I saw a teenager guy walked past the door while attempting to get the shoes back.

I STARED AT HIM WITH THE BIGGEST EYES until my eyes hurts. He must have been shocked as he is guilty and my eyes is that scary, he ran back to his house.

To this date, I am still wearing that shoes and it is a comfortable one. I cannot imagine myself losing that pair of limited edition shoes to someone like him.

Calling police is not going to solve this problem. You need to do it back to him like how he deserves it.

p/s: I can imagine Wendy throwing her neighbour's dustpan.

2009-05-08T21:24:00.002+08:00

Irritant

That day I was coming down from the stairs of the overhead bridge, an Indian man was in front of me walking at a very slow, relax way. He must have noticed me because he turned back and looked at me. After he seen me, he attempted to walk down the stairs at a faster speed.

I was thinking "Sure, this man must be in a rush to overtake me, afraid that I will be blocking his way instead." And so, this man is ahead of me by let's say 5 steps?

He then changed his speed back to the normal pace when he reaches the ground. My usual pace is faster than his by 2 times and within seconds, I tried to overtake him again.

To my horror, he looked at me like as if I was going to rob his money what. He walked even faster than before but it was of no difference. The pavement is narrow but he walked in the middle like as if anyone as thin as me can overtake him by the sides.

I was no longer tolerable of him and his "I-want-to-rob-your-money" face that I decided to overtake him by the sides. With a swift motion, his curly-wurly hair flew a bit, and I got past him and smile to myself. I DID IT!

I especially don't like this kind of people that keep blocking me. I remembered this one time when I was running the 2.4km test thingy. This guy keep running faster and faster whenever he see me overtaking him. When he is at a safe distance from me, HE WALK! (How dare him!)

Where got people adopt this kind of strategy one? He think I am a meter or something that gauge his stamina? Totally play cheat one lor. Make me lose my stamina by chasing after him!

Anyway, Mas selamat got caught! *open champagne*

It can finally bring a rest to all of us. Him, running loose in the wild is like an irritant to us! But we know that we cannot let our guards down. We should be vigilant at all times.

Take a break, take a toilet break!

2009-05-03T22:43:00.005+08:00

Today

My day ended with a 3 round mahjong game with family members like my mum, sis and her husband. I lost $14 and I know I am super suay the whole time. My mum was the one that won tonight and I calculated it to be about $40 although she refused to say.

Halfway through the game, we were extremely hungry and obviously no one wanted to go down and buy food. My mum didn't cook anything as she self declared off day. She said that it is still labour day. We ordered pizza hut delivery.

Morning time was playing Ether Saga Online the whole time. It is the game that I am into recently. Story line of the game is like journey to the west and it is developed by China I guess. It's kind of rare since good games are usually developed by Korean and Japanese.

In case you are interested in Ether Saga Online, you can join me by clicking HERE

Saturday, 2 May

Stayed home the entire day to slack. I was also frantically looking for my thermometer. I remembered I bought like dozens of them? but they were nowhere to be found.

The reason for finding thermometer is because every students need to bring it to school on Monday for temperature taking. The school will not be selling it and I foresee that lots of people will forget to bring thermometer. Looks like swine flu will be something to be reckon with.

UPDATED*

Ok, from now on, I will correct anyone who says swine flu and give them the proper term to use like; Influenza A comma H1N1 infection. whatever~

Friday, 1st May (Labour day)

Went City vibe with Tb, Mk, Hx and Ws. Played Left 4 dead and DotA then dinner and home. Was feeling very happy by the time I got home because it is only Friday. That means I have saturday and sunday when this particular friday felt like weekend for me.

Played with Timothy and as usual, he was very cheeky. He kept smiling at me for no reasons and this is the part I am afraid of.

He is afraid of this toy.

But it looked like him!

And I know why he is smiling at me.

This must be the reason!

2009-04-30T21:04:00.003+08:00

After the rain, it happens.

Hate going to school in the morning when it was raining heavily. I walked in the most careful manner to avoid having my own slippers splattering water onto the back of my legs. I also need to worry about slipping off because my slippers had little friction left.

I told myself, "just one day and tomorrow will be labour day." and continued walking through the heavy rainfalls with new-found determination. Not that I am bragging or what but I think labour day is created just for me and others who had worked hard!

The other day I was having lunch with Tb and he was feeling stressful about his school. I, of course had the "stress" level too but I think I am in a better position to lend a listening ear than to complain together.

I just hope that labour day will be a day for all the people in the world that worked extremely hard before and will take this day to play their hearts out or rest if they want to.

But, eve of labour day, which is today, is not a good reason for increment of movie tickets. Teresa, Yuenky, Sherman and me paid $10 for each person when we are buying movie tickets today. It was supposed to be $6 per pax as we went before 6pm.

We watched the movie "Horsemen" and that is not the main point.

The main point is, why are they increasing the price of a movie ticket on an eve of a public holiday? (Although they gave us popcorns and a drink to go along with. hehe) I just don't like the idea of giving us something that we didn't order in the first place and later increase the price without noticing us.

However, I secretly thinks that it is actually quite worth to pay $10 for a movie ticket and a small popcorn and drink!

2009-04-28T23:25:00.003+08:00

Stop bugging me.

Actions used on this buggy: smack, hit, whack, kill, miss, piak and tio or kena.

Another undeserving bug flew into my room and rested on my wall. When I was about to use the bathroom, I saw this bug beautifully positioned on the wall above my bag.

Like most of the time, I always commented it to my mum and she will patiently ask me to roll up a newspaper to kill it. I am kind of afraid to waste my "today" paper and only tear 1 piece to roll it up.

Unfortunately, the roll up paper didn't have enough strength to knock out the bug. Not because I use too little force but simply because the paper bend when it hit against the wall.

This resulted in me missing the target which is not my usual standards. (I usually 1 hit KO it) Nevermind, I quickly get my reinforcements by rolling the entire "today" newspaper to kill it. I meant business when I do it with the whole thing hor.

The bug cleverly flew to the ceilings and thought that I will be silly enough to wait for it to come down by itself. Or the bug think that I am not tall enough to reach the ceilings.

With a tremendous jump, (my neighbours below my unit can feel the impact!) I swiped it off the ceilings and caused the bug to fly in a berserk mode. Now this bug is getting my attention because it requires so much from me.

It anyhow-ed fly and landed on another piece of wall which is very near to the first time I've seen it. I put one hand on my waist and the other holding on to the roll up newspaper. (This suggests aiming time)

With great accuracy, I managed to hit its left leg which is what I wanted in the first place. I don't want to destroy it entirely because I am afraid that its blood will splatter everywhere. Secondly, I want to take pictures of how it died and so I aim for its left leg only to give it a "struggling" looks.

Overall, it was a success! Not to forget I threw it back to the tree outside my window as a warning message to the other bugs that kept invading my room.