Initial Drifter

A year of new beginnings

2007-01-07T23:40:00.000+08:00

School starts tommorow. Exams, in about a month.

Tried uploading pictures for the previous post just now, but having problems. Tag board is down too. Will fix it one day. But it's too late now...

Visited Kizzy my sis dog, at a house of my mum's student in the evening. She's been living there for the past 5 months now. To my delight she still remembers me, and jumped into my lap, the moment i sat down. She hasn't grown much, she's still bout the same size, but her fur's getting lighter now. Took her for a short walk.

Officially handed over the dog to that family now. yup.

Have a great year ahead!

The 12 days of Christmas (before n after)

2007-01-02T00:38:00.000+08:00

Mon 18th

CYA duty

Tue 19th

CYA duty again, this time replacing someone else. Tuesday's CYAs are mostly gals, the more quiet type, so never really go n talk to them. oh and 1 guy. he's a real handful. v. sneaky.

Wed 20th

woke up at about 1. supposed to meet some of my class guys at 3, but realised they had called me a few times to let me know that it was changed to 2. flew down to suntec city to catch De JaVu. normally dun like most time travel shows, bcaus i find plots in the gap which i feel spoils the show a lot.

This one wasn't too bad. a time travel, thriller sorta show. not many plot holes too. =)

after that went to Marina Bay for a steam boat. we walked pretty far in, and i didn't have breakfast or lunch, so i ate quite a lot. usually, i'm the one who never finishes my food, so everyone were quite surprised.

the steamboat turned out to be more of a bbq, with the amount of meat we were consuming, carbon flakes and all. i tried to cook some seafood, but then had second thoughts when i chewed on sand a few times.

went over to a arcade next door. played initial D and nearly beat a difficult AI, until the machine crashed. tried again when the game restarted, but by then lost my rhythm n crashed out. =(

Thursday 21st

study alone at tampines library. much as i love learning about engines, the textbooks can really put people to sleep. now i value practical learning much more than before.

Friday 22nd

CYA committee meeting. Lunch with them at Fish n Co. boon lay. after that accompanied my friend into a Lingerie store as he thought of presents for a gift exchange the next monday. i imagined the sensation it would cause when he gave the lingerie voucher to the gal on monday. left dissapointed, he backed out.

met zx at 3 o clock in school, 2 hours after our scheduled meeting time. he wasn't v. pissed thankfully. that is until i remembered i didn't bring my swimming trunks. then he was pissed.

paid for his bubble tea as compensation.

Saturday 23rd

soccer with scott at pasir ris park. muddy field. stayed home the rest of day.

Sunday 24th

church service in the morn at stadium.

christmas party at uncles house in the evening. got a joystick, a pair of ex green earphones(dont think i'll wear). nice. watched Superman Returns. which was quite ok.

borrowed uncles PS2 back. tried whole night, but it didn't work.

Monday 25th (Christmas Day)

Merry Christmas! went City Harvest Church play in the morning. very nice play. love their plays. should all go next year. cool candle lightning thingy at the end too.

Met with the monday guys at airport for dinner. guest Bernice, an old CYA mate. happy duty as always. met with 3 unexpected people at the airport.

No.1 Sarah Chan. Boy was i surprised when i saw her in the red n white christmas costume. very very surprised. considering she's the 5th hai sian i met working in the airport, i shouldn't, but it really caught me off guard.

talked to her a bit about her job n all. think i've never spoken so much to her before. n it was less than 5 mins.

No.2 juz when i was recovering from suprise no.1, ran into 2 TP CYA's who were on duty. suprise suprise, bcaus they actually had no duty today, but came by accident... haha. glad they join us though.

No.3, while in T2 i heard that Joyce, the Korean CSO (also my japanese teacher), was looking for me. surprise caus i thought she finished her contract.

took some photos after the duty, decorations n all.

Tue 26th (Boxing day)

went to Chinese Gardens on an early n wet morning. was to meet my teacher n group to discuss our Final Year Project. it's about Aluminium corrosion in aerospace application, in case ur interested. haha. sounds "fun" right. hopefully will get me good grades though.

got bullied into watching Night at the Museum at PS by the guys. rush for duty.

Boxing day n i'm on duty again! err, tue duty not v. eventful. small birthday celebration after duty. had to contribute to the cake money.

weird thing was the b'day gal was helping a passenger for 40mins after duty. which is quite rare to get.

Wed

nth. stone at home.

Thurs 21st

went for 1st Japanese lesson at my teacher's house which a few stone throws away (maybe 2 or 3 for an olympic hurler). 5 of us. made of CYAs n exCYA's.

my classmates seem so knowledgable about Japanese already. i v. blur. gotta buck up.

met with elton at TM, to watch death note 2. i've watched like 5-6 movies this holiday, n this is by far the best. great ending. the only movie i really wanted to watch this holiday anyway.

Fri, Sat, Sun

Slack. at home. including new year's eve. except church on sunday of course. other than that. playing Gran Turismo on PS2 which is finally working. it's the super realistic car simulator. (super realistc= super tough) finally getting the hang of it.

Today(New Year's day)

Happy New Year! actually, for me just another day i guess.

woke at 2 as usual. went Changi Village for brunchner (thats breakfast-lunch-dinner) then went TM shopping for a while.

hope to be able to post pics next time. when i'm free. anyways. happy holidays!

Jingle the Bells of Freedom

2006-12-20T01:19:00.000+08:00

Finally, the start of the hols. yeah! pretty relaxed hols for once... 3 weeks of rest, no projects or other random rubbish to clog up the holidays, much...

Really glad the A level over, caus even though dun get to see everyone all the time, but ppl generally got more time to go out n stuff...

For eg.

Sat evening, went to watch a rather boring (but at least they won) 3-0 victory by Liverpool with Mariliene n Qing Long... Woke up super late like 2.30 tt day so not v. tired. walked back from tampines home.

Sunday
met xuan yong for lunch after his tuition nearby. went for church service, which ended super early. christmas shopping at suntec, marina and millinea walk. wat i bought? weights. hmm. start of the non stop rain. late night dota with whole bunch of ppl. fun.

Monday
rain continues. slept v. late, woke up v. late. laze around when supposed to go library to study. rain makes ppl v. lazy.... Woke up late from nap, slightly late for CYA duty. Nvm, duty is great as always.

Tuesday
rain dosen't seem to stop. v. v. lazy. headache from anyhow lifting weights. study a bit at home caus too rainy to go out. went to do replacement CYA duty. quite fun also. going out with classmates tommorow.

Seasons Greetings

2006-12-03T22:15:00.001+08:00

The A levels are over. I'm quite glad. haha. Now those studying in JC will have more time to go out yeah! But i bet they're 1000X glader than me. Thats great. Everyone's happy.

Went out on a so-called 4E2 gathering at Orchard yest. I wasn't too sure what to expect, and i didn't have time to ask either. Was busy the whole week.

In the end it was Spencer, Wan Fung, Audrey n me that went to have lunch at a restaurant like place below Heeren.

It was my first time there, but that place is quite cool. Food stalls selling all sorta foods, decorated like those in a doll house? Hard to explain. Gotta see it yourself.

Went to play a bit of pool at orchard cineleisure while waiting for xuan yong. Jie Ying n Sing Ying came a while, but i didn't talk much to them. A bit weird but if I saw them on the street i'd comfirm say hi or talk to them a bit, but like whenever with other people, i just feel uncomfortable. weird huh.

As K box next door was having a promotion, we decided to go over, and sang and played around till like 7 plus. Some of them picked those real oldies songs, or those kinda weird songs like One Night in Beijing and Tuo Diao, that kind, which was a real laugh.

Went home after having dinner.

Even though relatively few people actually went for this gathering, because of many cancellations. Actually feel that less people actually better. For example if the whole class went, simple stuff like deciding where to go and what to do would seem like the hardest desicion in the world.

Also if example more people went, then i probably wouldn't be talking with spencer etc. which kinda defeats the purpose of the gathering right. Whats the point if ya juz gonna talk to those who you always talk to anyway?

anyway had a good time. Christmas and holidays coming soon!!!

Black Hole

2006-11-27T12:44:00.000+08:00

They say in a black hole, time slows down until it stops. Dunno anyth about that but i know that school has been sucking a lot of my time.

Just finished 2 weeks of test recently. Also my grandfather died recently, had to attend to the funeral activities while studying for tests. v. tough. my dad also flew home to attend the funeral but he's flying off soon.

Actually got a few posts i was working on, but no time to complete them... Got maybe 4 or 5 drafts sitting, waiting to be completed. No time or energy to complete them.

Actually really feel like having a break now after the rather stressed 2 weeks of tests, but SP schedule dictates that holidays start only on the 17 dec. At least we get a 3 week break then.

Now i know, when they say poly life is slack. They mean every poly but SP. haha. maybe everyone thinks like that.

Hair v. long now, cause no time to cut? Guess thats an excuse. Will probably go cut tomorrow. But not too short, quite like it this way.

Oh btw, the reason i got time to post is cause i didn't realise school that one of the morning classes for today was cancelled. So I've got 4 hours to kill. Smart huh?

Transition

2006-11-18T17:28:00.000+08:00

it's been a pretty rough week for me. usually a week juz flashes by for me but this week was extra long.

It was mid semester tests this week after last week's e-learning, which luckily was pretty easy for once. even e-learning week was busy, with CYA duties with the first batch, going out with ql n practicing for a skit to be performed at the airport. and of course, studying for the tests this week.

right after the skit performance on monday, i got a call from my mum that my grandfather, the one which i had brought to New Zealand, had a stroke n was in critical condition in Changi Hospital.
i had planned on going home to study for my test, but instead i rushed over to see him.

Arriving in hospital, i was faced with a scene of my grandfather lying unconscious on the hospital bed, with tubes sticking out all over him. gathered around were my immediate family members, some holding his hand, others in huddled in groups praying for him.

not long after, a pastor from my church came over to pray for him. We prayed over him for about 15 mins. I didn't really know how i felt that time, now still don't really not what to feel. Sad of course. Not really frightened.

soon after two nurses came in and pulled the shutters over the bed. They were going to suck the phlegm out of his throat since he couldn't get rid of it himself. The sounds of slurping and sucking were sickening.

Even though he couldn't speak or move at all, we knew he was partially conscious at least as he could still cry when we speak to him. Can tell by the sound, he was really suffering.

Despite all this, i had to go back to study for the test and so i did. That night, i prayed for him before i slept, and this comfort that Jesus would take care of him, gave me peace to sleep soundly. The next morning, my mum called to say that my grandad had died peacefully in his sleep at 5am that morning.

My first close relative to pass away.

I was a bit shocked, yet somehow a bit not suprised. i'll explain later.

Over the next few days it was pretty busy, with the funeral preperations and all. I wasnt there for 2 days, studying for tests. I heard that some of my relatives were not happy about it, but i dunno. the moment i was free i would go help out too. it's not like i was having it easy, being alone at home, eating noodles everyday, making my own breakfast while trying not to be late for school.

i think it's better than sitting around talking to people who's names i can't even remember all day while eating peanuts? repeating a whole semester just to do that? no thank you. once again, it has nothing to do with me not being filial to my grandad.

the day before the burial we the grandkids all drew smth for him. I drew a pic of me n him in NZ, caus tt's wat i rmbr best.

For us the feeling of him leaving is like sad caus we will miss him, but we know can get to see him again in heaven so not too sad. temporal. =)

yay i finished.

I was a bit shocked but a bit not suprised.

Ignite

2006-11-03T22:13:00.000+08:00

hi. i know i havent been updating for a while. can't really claim to be busy. more like playing dota.

CYA Camp

Last Fri to Sat had a CYA camp for the new 6th batch CYA's after school. The seniors spent about 2 days going back like 9pm to help plan n be briefed about the event, not to mention the planning committee which probably spent weeks planning this. rmbr the NPCC sec 1 orientation camp? we also spent a lot of time doing it up, but it was fun right? even though tiring...

i think the camp was a pretty big success, caus it was fun, everyone was involved and we got to meet the new batch as well as work closer among ourselves. so that the gap between the 2 senior batches will minimise. most camps i wanna leave as quickly as possible, but this one didn't.

my new duty day Monday got a lot of ppl from hai sing. besides me n dennis, there's 1 gal from hai sing prefects which i recognise as well as 1 ji siao guy raphael who according to him, drives batt hong crazy. 4 out of 11 is a lot u think? many stay east side too.

other characters are franko from MJ and jerelyn frm 4E6.

the camp had the usual mix of ice-breaking games, amazing race, role play, skit presentation etc.... but all at a slack n comfortable pace. the particularly fun ones were double Wacko, where all the hai sing ones somehow gang up to aim me, n i had to depend on my parnter to save me... luckily he's good at names, if it's me alone, i'll probably be the one doing the wacking all the time...

another one was amazing race, which the seniors set up in the middle of the night, from 12-6... as the stations were place all over the school, as u can guess it was pretty exciting. especially at the school of business where i went to help out. after setting up the station, i asked the other seniors that i wanted to walk the legendary red bridge of SP... if not like will regret it for the rest of my life...

somehow i managed to convince them to accompany me to walk across the bridge... seriously, it is a very dark bridge even though it's open air... but with 7 ppl crossign with torches, somehow not that scary le... but still fun though. =)

during the Treasure Hunt, my station was the one involving the inevitable waterbombs. but since we r such a nice n gentle club, we dun throw waterbombs at the juniors. instead the game involves tossing waterbombs around using towels and trying to collect a certain amount. in this way, whether they get wet or not depends on their own teamwork. fair right?

Thursday

thursday as i believe was the start of the A levels. the night before i sent a msg to those ex haisians in JC. one reply came back from kevin aka chee kong, saying something like "Tanx... and see you soon..."

i think he also didn't expect how soon it would be. at about 5 on thursday, juz as my train reached pasir ris, he was standing outside the door. haha. b careful wat u sms.

next week is e-learning week for me, so i'll b able to go out if anyone is tired of studying.

Revolution

2006-10-22T23:35:00.000+08:00

sorry for the slow updates. bet most of ya r busy studying anyways... anyway, been a pretty busy week starting with last sunday. this might take a while. bear with me.

Sunday

Went to airport to help train the new 6th batch of CYA's. Funny thing is i can rmbr almost everything that happened during th 5th batch training. starting to feel old liao. like those old ppl whose friend all died, then gotta go their funeral one after another. most of my batch left liao.

anyway training them was quite fun. the group i led was quite quiet. dunno y. Dennis was in my group btw. during lunch met kwee han who was at T1 BK to study with soon kee.

went to church after that.

Monday

Went for actual CYA duty today. since new batch not ready yet, it's only the seniors doing duty. All 3 of us guys. so took the time to get to know each other. Monday should b fun i think next time? bring on the gals. oh n the Temasek Poly CYA's got lotsa cb sia.

Tuesday

went to the appreciation dinner for the IMF volunteers at vivocity. 2nd time i was there. Vivocity pretty cool. like a marina square, but with much bigger walking space. the shops there r similary cool. but it's already getting crowded.

was damn hazy up there. they invited jamie yeo n sum other nut to host the show. Dennis wanted to take with her, so i went with him. but actually i dun really like her.

the prime minister came up n gav a speech. the Ngee Ann poly cheerleaders came out to strut their stuff....

oo btw there was no mention of mee siam mai ham. anyway since when mee siam got ham one?

Wednesday

after finishing school at 12, went to study with wq, merc n jas at Tamp KFC. got back only to realise everyone was out, and i didn't bring my keys out. damn frustrating. stuck outside for 2 hours.

Thursday

nothing

Friday

met with wq, soon kee, kwee han, elton n john to watch Death Note. played dota at simei before the show. got 2nd top kills. kwee han v. strong.

sorry. i no mood to post now.... listening to mrbrown show.

Life on the Silkroad

2006-10-08T22:34:00.000+08:00

Random update

Been playing a lot of computer games lately since upgraded my com. Silkroad online is a MMORPG set in a mythical Chinese dynasty, but u can travel to India and the Middle East as well. Life starts out as most RPG games, whacking monsters to earn gold and items which can be bought and sold and traded with other players.

Along the way quests will be given to you by the NPC characters u meet along the way, and the 99% involve whacking monsters which is very tedious, and not really my fav kinda game. Upon reaching a certain level, players can start choosing to act as Traders, Hunters or Thieves. Traders load up goods from one city and travel a long distance to another city, to sell them for gold. Theives as u can probably guess, rob the traders while a hunters duty is to protect the traders. This system forms the core of gameplay in SRO (Silkroad Online).

It's not really my fav kinda game as i mentioned, but it's good caus my frens play it, n it's not that addictive so i can stop at anytime. Players in SRO are truly international coming from continents such as South america, australia, middle east , germany and other ulu ulu countries. which is a good and bad thing.

apart from SRO, i've been playing DotA daily, though not as hardcore as i was before. Think the skills of the 2nd generation dota players in my class have reached the same level as the 1st generation players le. i think games like DotA have the potential to become full cyber sports in future with teams and leagues.

Today (Sunday)

after church service at Suntec, had lunch with my mum at secret recipe, a little cafe downstairs.

mum brought me to Plaza Singapura, where she brought me a suprise v. belated birthday present, a pendent from SK jewellery. actually i dun mind getting late presents, so if ur still wondering if it's too late to giv me, buy me smth n relieve your burden.

Nah. i'm juz kiddin. i nev take my own b'day v. seriously.

she also wanted to get a pair of rings for her n my dad, but we couldn't figure out how big his figure was, so guess hav to go back.

finally bought a Jay Chou album that i've been looking for for bout 2 years le, 8th dimension. his 3rd album. finally my collection is complete.

right. back to school tml. mayb gonna start training for NAPFA liao.

The Mercedes Benz of Mp3 players

2006-10-01T23:58:00.000+08:00

S'poreans have an obsession with brands. One brand in particular for mp3 players is the apple iPod.

There is an old joke about how Sporean's buy cars for the shell instead of the performance. For example, they would rather buy a big Merc with a small engine, rather than a more powerful Japanese car for a similar price and spec's. Brand conscious you see.

Similarly for the iPod, a good looking classy expensive mp3 player, the definitive mp3 player to be precise, but not exactly value for money. For one thing, compared to other brands, the iPod is pretty expensive for the amount of storage space it provides.

Secondly, it's programme iTunes, isn't exactly the most user friendly operating system it claims to be. Music isn't easily transferable from one music player to another.

Thirdly, it doesn't cut it in terms of functions either. Voice recorders, direct charging and radio playback must be bought in seperate modules, while other music players provide them in-built. Music formats fall far short of it's rival digital music players.

In a short four words "Not Value for Money". Still though, despite it's hefty price tag and relative lack of functions, the iPod still commands a massive following. The reason? branding. everyone wants it cause it's considered the hottest, most in, most classy. a.k.a for show. These people suffer from the iPod complex.

don't get me wrong. nothing wrong with getting an iPod. in fact, i wanted to get one myself. just that some people get it just for the brand. the iPod brand is big enough to get people to buy a Shuffle over something cheaper and with better specs. in that aspect, you gotta take ur hat off to Apple.

damn, i shoulda been an econs student.

Disclaimer: The following article was just an idea i thought about while i was sitting in the mrt. An similarities with real life mp3 players are purely coincidental. Oh, and i hope i didn't offend anyone. and don't sue me apple.

There and back again

2006-10-01T23:23:00.000+08:00

Saturday

Sent my dad to the airport again. This time he headed to Dubai for 2 weeks before flying off to neighbouring Kuwait. umm, what to say. My mum was a bit sad after that for a while, as she always does... I guess for us, we quite used to it liao, will miss him of course, but we know will see him in a few months.

The strange thing is, whenever he comes back, it's him who brings us around Spore to eat and shop and all that. During normal everyday life, don't really find the effort to go places like Katong, Toa Payoh, East Coast etc... think i got mention this before.

anyway, when got home watched Korean drama till about 2.30pm. so dun hav to think bout him leaving. yeah.

Wife

2006-09-28T20:42:00.000+08:00

yay! got the 512 RAM from my fren today and installed it myself. Very satisfying to start up my computer and see the words 768MB of RAM on it. Test drove it on DotA with great results!

My this current com, Blazingsun, was bought at end of sec3 that time, after begging my mum for months that it was a worthy investment. And it still is. It's my first com that has served me for more than a year. my previous com's all nev lasted more than 6 months.

i was so happy when i got it, that i mentioned to chee kong as my "wife". it had a few graphics card and virus probs over the years, nothing fatal, but each time i'd get so depressed when it had problems. but i learned it's quite dumb to hinge ur happiness on ur computer. nowadays i more worried about losing schoolwork and photos than games...

Explosive

2006-09-27T19:34:00.000+08:00

Tuesday

Missed the first class of the day caus i didn't know about a changed timetable. Arrived at the aero lab for the first experiment of the semester.

The aim of the experiment was to determine the amount of energy released by burning a gram of petrol. It involved exploding the fuel together with oxygen in a chamber and measuring the temperature rise in the water around it. Pretty cool i think.

During 2 hour lunch break, played soccer with my class as a street soccer court in school. Quite fun even though i sweat on my new shirt. played a middle winger role, that dun hav to defend much. in my best chance at scoring throughout the game, the ball bouncing in front of me and an open goal, i totally missed the ball. v. paisheh.

was 10 mins late for class, but the whole class managed to dupe our lecturer into believing that our timetable states that class starts at 2.10. lol.

class early so ended up at bedok library while waiting for Elektra. At bout 6, met her at bedok mrt to pass her some of her old CYA stuff, and chatted a bit about life in SP and SIA Engineering respectively.

Then headed to orchard Lido theatre to meet my dad to watch the Jackie Chan movie, Rob-b-hood. Actually got this tickets free from my uncle who works for Pioneer. The movie was pretty exciting and funny at times. Not bad. Better than the Banquet at least.

Wednesday

school finished at 10 today. Super early. went with my frends to Sim Lim square to look for RAM to upgrade my com. not too sure what kinda RAM my com supports so in the end didn't buy. after that they went to watch Miami Vice which i watched le, while i went to my uncles house to try fix the com my family gave them.

No such luck. the old P3 coms always had some v. buggy problem about them. glad this com hasn't given me much trouble, even though now a bit old le. but still love ya. Muacks!

Oo, i was looking at an initial D model car my uncle had on his shelf, when he offered it to me. "No more space in my cabinet liao, you can have it", he said. I take it as a blessing, caus just on sunday, i saw a shop which sold the same car, and was prepared to get it for christmas. now can get it free. so good. yay.

went dentist to tighten braces. now aching like mad. will be eating porridge the next few days liao.

I apologise for the point form style of writing. Know it's not v. nice to read, but i juz had to write out of habit. by the time reach 2nd term won't have time le. haha.

Feeling my age

2006-09-26T00:54:00.000+08:00

usually you only say such a phrase when you're old... but i suddenly feeling quite old liao... suddenly occured to me, that i'm 18... hmm... i always thought when ur 18 years old, sppsed to be more mature...

new semester, new modules, new teachers.... wished the hols were a bit longer, but dun feel the dread of going to school like pri or sec school... going school is quite ok.... new modules this sem, powerplants and aircraft electronic systems. like quite fun. especially powerplants.

CYA resume normal service today. actually, CYA more fun than IMF duty la. 2 more duties and the 5th batch offically finish liao. super fast. yet another batch leaving. thats what makes me feel old. wonder what those old guys like mr. lky feel when their ex-colleagues and frends all start to die... muz b similar.

at the same time, new batch coming in. hope to be closer to this new batch, caus i wasn't so close with this present batch. mayb nev put in enuff effort. uhh well, it's late. school tml. nites!

The power of 5

2006-09-23T17:39:00.000+08:00

The reason i am sitting here, typing, while my family is at City Harvest Church, is bcaus we have 5 people in our family. FIVE is not a good number when u wanna take a taxi, and we haven't had a car since my dad started working overseas again.

oh well. it's ok. there's always tommorow.

played soccer with the guys today. it's been a while since the last game. turnout was quite a decent number, though not (as scott claimed) 19 or 20. or even close to that number. guest appearence by pradeep.

THURSDAY

unknown to me, this would be my last IMF duty (i thought it was second last). For a last duty though it was pretty slack. All we had to do was to report to our desks (we didn't have that before), plop our butts down onto the seat, and use the computer for just about whatever we liked. oh, and get paid for it too. not bad eh?

i mentioned before that there was nothing much to do during our IMF duties at the airport. therefore, they decided at the end of my shift, that this would be the final duty. well, it's been fun.

met the guys at kembangan for dota, but ended up waiting more than an hour for our seats. we even had time for prata. in the end we only played one game, but it was pretty fun. the lack of match fitness showed though, when i got pawned like 5 or 6 times in the early game. mid and late game were ok though, as i got a few sprees, and we finally pushed down the opposing team.

the movies were not such a great success as our victory against the scourge. yes, i said movies. with an S. there wasn't meant to be an S. but alas, things never really go according to plan.

we arrived at tampines too late for our intended movie, and we couldn't decide on a suitable movie for everyone, so in the end we split into 2 groups watching 2 movies. The Banquet and Miami Vice. honestlu speaking, Miami Vice was much better. I ended up watching the banquet, and i'm not sure how to say it nicely but it sucked.

i can't point out any particular point, but it was soooo boring. i've decided i hate this whole new modern arty, wu xia typey genre. u know, the House of Flying Daggers, Hero kinda show.

FRIDAY

a reception was held by the Airport Workgroup, who were coordinating the airport activities during the IMF. arrived a bit too early, and ended up talking with a general and other organizers while waiting for the others.

after the customary speech and food, it was a mini photo taking marathon for the best part of an hour. oh, if ur wondering y there no photos, tt's caus i didnt bring my cam, and havent' got the pics from other ppl yet.

thus, another batch of CYA's finished their duty. Most of they guys from my batch will b stopping too after this. now just a handful of us left.

At night, went with my dad n mum to take a look at a house in tampines. it is located opposite century square that side, where i think i noe a few ppl also live close by.

From the moment i stepped in, could smell and feel something was wrong about the house. The agent warned us that it would be messy, but no one expected this. Piles of books and paper stacked all over the house, on the sides of the floors, tables, chairs.... grafitti on the walls, an unused oven sitting on the dining table.

A peek into a jc gal's room stunned me. A mattress on the floor, with the bedsheets strewn all over. A folding table in the middle but not a chair or cupboard in sight. Hate grafitti scrawled in black on the walls. A gals room leh. More messy than any guys room i've ever seen.

In the kitchen, a light was hanging from the ceiling with all it's wires exposed and dirty pots and pans dumped in the basin.

As i sneaked a peek into the master bedroom, i saw the gal studying. She looked pretty normal and all. But it won't take a genius to tell ya that this family has serious issues and it isn't that their poor.

Instead of a house viewing, this was more like an educational tour. Really eye opening.

Swift

2006-09-20T17:57:00.000+08:00

i dun really have anyth much to do now, so i think i'll introduce some cars to ya. Not juz any cars, but affordable, sporty cars which still can b driven for daily use. You never know, ur first car could be one of these.

Specifications
Engine Type	:	DOHC 16 Valve VVT
Engine Capacity / Compression Ratio	:	1586cc / 11.1
Max. Horse Power	:	92KW (125ps) @ 6800 rpm
Max. Torque	:	148Nm (15.1kgm) @ 4800 rpm
Transmission	:	5 Speed Manual
Exterior Dimension (LxWxH)	:	3765mm x 1690mm x 1510mm
Brake F/R	:	Ventilated Disc / Disc
Wheelbase / Ground Clearance	:	2390mm / 140mm
Suspension System	:	Coil Spring / Torsion Beam
Minimum Turning Radius	:	5.2m
Tyre Size	:	195/50R16 (Alloy)
Fuel Capacity	:	43 Litres
Fuel Consumption	:	14.6km / litre
Weight	:	1060kg

This is the New Suzuki Swift Sport.It comes with a 123bhp 1.6-litre engine that sees it from 0-100km/h in 8.9 seconds and on to 124mph.

Stiffened suspension and a chassis that benefits from Suzuki's experience in the Junior World Rally Championship should keep the keen driver entertained, while electronic stability control is standard as a safeguard.

Author's notes: Ok, the Suzuki Swift is one of the rare small cars i really think looks sporty and cute at the same time. With a DOHC engine, and all the gear ratio's and suspension n stuff from Suzuki's WRC experience, should make it a really fun drive. Plus, it comes with ABS (anti lock brakes), Halogen headlights and fog lamps, Air conditioning, body kit and sports rims, mp3 player and sports rims?and disc brakes? and did i mention Airbags? for $54,588 or $600 a month?

hmm... writing car reviews is difficult... think i'll try again next time. anyway. for fun.

Lucky

2006-09-20T17:23:00.000+08:00

I was woken up by my dad this morn, to help him bid for some phone on e-bay. We never tried buying stuff online before, so i juz anyhow whack, then went back to sleep. Had a weird dream, about how i had to go back to Pasir Ris Primary school after getting O level results, and waiting for poly to start. Weirdddd shitt....

Went with my parents to tampines to visit my grandparents and for lunch, their dog Lucky nowadays v. cute. Met him when he was a kid like a year ago. Nowadays, hair long and curly. His body grow longer, but his legs like never grow. So looks kinda stumpy. Best part is he dosen't bark, and is fun but not hyper. I hear he races with my grandfather in the mornings for the use of the toilet.

After lunch. My mum went tuition n my dad wanted to go People's park or smth. I feeling quite sleepy, so i opted to go library instead. Library didn't have the book i'm looking for so went White Sands library. By then feeling very lonely n very sian, for no particular reason. Same kind of feeling when studying for exams. Mood swing. no bleeding though.

Along the MRT walkway shops, met an old classmate. Now thinking back, i was very cold during the convs. Nvm, i'll make it up next time.

Shopping Paradise

2006-09-19T00:07:00.000+08:00

i forgot to mention yest, my dad landed from sydney yest, he'll b staying about a week or so, then flying to kuwait... cool huh, or shld i say hot? anyw, kuwait is right beside iraq, so may b bit dangerous... but trust God to protect him.

was watching zhao an ni hao this morn (note: not smth i usually do), and they were interviewing 2 CYA's about their IMF duties! hmm... not bad, not bad... increase our publicity...

My dad wanted to take a look at wat was going on around suntec, and also the papers reccommended going there as well, caus of the relatively low no. of shoppers, so i tagged along...anyway i'm off.

even though I've been to suntec countless time's liao, caus my church holding service there n all... today was different, as there were less shoppers and more time and space to go into each shop for a look see... there were lots of discounts and the staff were super friendly, caus of their IMF training n all...

somehow was the high-end brands like Raoul, n Mont Blanc that attracted me.... but they're way way, way way out of my budget. still though it goes to show, at least there r stuff i'd like to buy from them, budget aside. In NZ, even if i had all the money in the world, i couldn't think of anything i'd like to buy there, besides the cars.

while having lunch at the foodcourt, met one of my CYA frenz working there and saw one of the super rare DARE course gals having lunch by herself. i should mention that DARE course gals r an endangered species, and it's a pity Steve Irwin didn't get a chance to catch and examine one. =)

later went Wisma Atria n Takashimaya for a look see... didn't buy anything, but still not really waste time as at least if i'm looking for anyth next time at least noe where to find... met to ex-NPCC gals vivi and one more N class look like hui ping gal seperately... sorry i sux at names.

when my dad comes back to Spore, it isn't us who takes him on a tour, it's him who brings us out... caus normally we dun do that... weird huh?

Of NS men, Chio bu's, delegates and CSO's

2006-09-17T23:42:00.000+08:00

tml is my day off (yeah!), so got time to do a bit of update. the last 2 days at the airport have been slightly more busy the previously, in that i mean no. of delegates arriving. sadly though, it's been announced that as there will be less people arriving over the next few days, the no. of staff needed at the airprt will be reduced.

let's take a look back at the people working at the airport during the IMF.

NS guys

there are lots of Mindef guys working at the airport, some as baggage handlers, some as VIP escorts etc. can always find them watching Cartoon Network at the rest areas, slacking or flirting with any gals nearby.

met 2 regulars today, one's a captain from NJC (he told me last time cut off only 9 points!) and one from another JC... can see from they're face they JC guys... from all the story's i heard so far, NS actually not so bad, and can b even quite fun. tt's a relief.

Pretty's

i dunno whether issit caus i nev saw a single cb for 2 weeks in NZ, but suddenly find Spore like got a lot... they come from basically everywhere, the tourism board, chartec, NUS and of course within SP itself...

between serving delegates, walking around aimlessly and going for coffee breaks, i found time to speak with a few and found out that, suprise suprise! they're people too!

Delegates

nev got to speak with many of them, but majority of those i've seen are caucasian or from africa or pacific island's etc... who know's how many hundereds have slipped by without declaring themselves?

Civil Society Organisations (protesters)

my encounters with CSO's so far have not been very pleasent... apparently, quite a few have been unhappy with the goverments desicion to restrict their activities, and as such, don't like ppl working in the airport v. much...

i greeted one such CSO "Hi, Sir welcome to Spore", his sarcastic reply was smth like "Yeah, i'm sure you welcome us." before marching angrily away.

Singaporeans and Cabin Crew

Singaporean's passing by and seeing us, always seem to have something to say to one another... snatches of words like "16000" or "IMF" are quite common...

the flight stewards of SIA usually have smth positive to say like "gd job" and stuff like tt...

stewardesses reactions are much more unpredictable. they range from anything like a smile, to the "you wanna fight?" look. which i totally dun understand why.

hmm.

Banking on it

2006-09-14T21:48:00.000+08:00

It's day 4 of IMF/World Bank duty already, and so far of the supposed 24000 delegates coming down to S'pore, i've only seen less than 50. I'm wondering where the other 23 950 are?

Over the past 4 days, i've been deployed at various locations in the airport serving as Customer Service Executive (CSE's). Quite a cool name right? but the duty we do is even simpler than CYA, and just involves directing passengers through the shortest route out of the airport. Then again, with so few passenger's even this, we don't get to do very often.

Yesterday i was posted to the immigration area, but most of the day was spent talking to the Immigration Officers there. They actually quite funny de, then ask me a lot of questions about my duty, and schl and stuff. Think Spore immigration officers are friendlier than those in other countries, and also not as picky. When i was in NZ airport, the officer there didn't even let me help my grandfather explain some stuff, cause my grandfather a bit blur and summore dun speak good english.

Everyday we work in 5 hour shifts, mine is 7am-12pm and they pay us $35 which i think is pretty good. They also provide uniforms, though the one they gave me is uber big. Think my dad could wear it. So no choice have to send for alterations.

Today we were visted by the CEO of Singapore Tourism Board and a few other big bosses in the IMF. Also met some TP CYA's who were doing CYA again as they're industrial attachment. i think should be quite sian for them caus after like 2 years of CYA duty, then another 5 months of daily CYA, don't think they learn many new things...

got my results yesterday, and they were pretty ok, an improvment over last sem, but no distinctions which i hoped for. zzz. Differential Equations was also a suprise, D+! i was totally expecting to fail this subject caus the paper was super tough.

Don't Dream It's Over

2006-09-06T21:04:00.000+08:00

remember the NZ advertistment on tv, the one with the song, "There is freedom, within, there is freedom without, try to catch a deluge in a paper cup?"

The South island of New Zealand is really a raw untamed beauty... the last 4-5 days have been spent on the road, travelling South. about 2400km of driving in total. From Christchurch to Spore is about 8100km, so you can imagine it's a pretty long drive.

Drove south to Wellington, took a ferry to picton town. And over a couple of days drove through Christchurch to Wellington. At night slept in motels and mountain lodges which are actually a lot bigger and more comfortable than hotels. Did lots of sightseeing, phototaking, even did some skiing. This evening, took a plane back from Christchurch back to Auckland.

Here in NZ they took Stever Irwins death pretty hard. I guess everywhere else too. The same day Agassi retired from tennis. Remember Princess Diana's death when i was on holiday in Thailand too.

Eh scott, dun cry k?

Flying back to Spore tml evening. See if i can post more pics when get back. Souvenirs r limited. Pls place ur bookings early! Nite.

Backtrack ( Auckland, Day 6)

2006-08-31T17:58:00.000+08:00

Day6, picked my mum and 2 sis at Auckland airport in the morn. Brought them to the top of Mount Eden, same as me on day 1. Funny to see them react to the cold air. Now pro liao. Can walk around with only my Le Coq jacket.

Their arrival brought some freshness to the group. Also, caus my grandad getting old, bit senile, sometimes just keep on muttering and complaining about the place, can get a big Fan... now at least my mum will talk to him, and more eyes to watch out for him.

Went to the Ministry of Transports Museum (MOTAT). It showcased mostly historical vehicles etc etc. like old fire-engines, police cars trains. etc. More interesting was MOTAT 2, which was in an airline hangar. MOTAT 2 was more on aviation history which appealed more to me. The coolest was the Huge Lancaster Bomber from WWII which filled a third of the hangar. The whole place was crammed full of old planes and memorabilia from NZ Airlines and WWII vetrans.

In the evening went back to Botany town, the shopping area. Bought a shirt n a polo tee. Wanted to buy more, but spent bout 100+ le. The mens clothes in this area particularly cool.

Besides clothes, nothing much to shop for except some souvenirs. Was in one souvenir shop went read a bookmark with the name "Audrey" meaning noble avenger. haha. suits her personality very well.

Set off for the south tml. Cool. Wonder if got internet on the way. For now though. See ya.

Zzzzzz (Day 5, Auckland)

2006-08-30T15:21:00.000+08:00

Look at its ass carefully

Previa

Had a bit more time to sleep this morn while my dad n grandad went to collect a new rental car for the arrival of my mum n sis tomorrow... It's a 2005 Toyota Previa. Much cuter than the first rental car right? I used to walk past the old car, cause its so plain, i totally forget that i'm supposed to take it.

Drove to Murawari beach today, on the west coast. It's a long drive there, but we passed by fields of sheep and cows along the way. At one particular field, we stopped to get a closer look and some pictures of the cows. Cows lying and standing around, mouths chomping around like chewing chewing gum..... Suddenly something exploded from the asses of two of the cows.... a steady thick green liquid... a passing gust gave us a closer sniff of the aroma...... omg.... i quickly discarded the egg McMuffin in my hand....

The beach which overlooked the Tasman sea, was very windy and by extension, very cold. From there you can see the cliffs which form the western edge of NZ. A very raw place. It's time like this that makes admire the strength and resilence of Hair Wax.

On some of the adjacent cliffs are colonies of seagulls. As i was reading a sign telling me how the birds migrated, a shower of white rain splattered onto my jacket. Bird poo. Think it was the bird's first time being scolded inHokkien. KNN. It seemed to understand as it screamed back at me "aaawwww! awww!".

After lunch, we went over to a small town called........ i forgot. Anyway, it was a place with more ex. houses and had a pretty good shopping area. Better than anything in town in fact. Shopping areas in these small towns involve a single storey shopping complex with a large carpark in front. If you've been to Australia you'll know what i mean.

Inside one of the stores, the store keeper spoke to me, ask me how's ur day etc etc... I told her i'm from S'pore. Then she said like "your English is pretty good'. haha. how do you reply that. "I told her i speak English all the time". she said " Still your english is pretty good."

maybe she dun understand what i mean by ALLL THE TIME. maybe she think i juz learn in school or wat. Mr Brown show had one podcast called "Native English speaker", where they went to UK to look for foreign English speaker.

They interviewed one S'porean who was there, and when asked whether he spoke english, he replied. "I COME OUT OF MY MOTHER C** B** ALSO CRY ENGLISH ONE". wonder what she'll say to that. ^_^

Blackout (Day 4, Auckland)

2006-08-29T16:08:00.000+08:00

view from apartment window

Porsche's are very common in Auckland.. Cool right?

The Art Gallery...(No photos allowed! sir)

View from Devenport

Street of devenport

Pretty port?

Sorta City Hall interchange... called Britomark

City Skyline

Told ya graffiti's bad... wonder how they did those on the top right? they're pretty high.

Ya see that? tt's heeren! nah... but look so few ppl

snap! post card perfect!

It's about 6 in the evening now, and i'm sitting in total darkness. The reason? The landlords say they havent recieved the rent, while dad payed the rent a week ago. Apparently someone screwed up at the bank, and the payment never made it through. Thats NZ banking for you. Think it's safer to keep your money at home than in a NZ bank.

My grandad says there was once he was living in Australia, the bank told him he had $20000 balance in the bank 3 days later, they sent a letter saying they had made a mistake and sent an apology.Lol. Never thought banks can make this kinda mistake.

This morning took a bus ferry to nearby island of Devon Port. There are two hills there with a great view of Auckland area. There used to be big guns overlooking the sea. Sorta like Fort Siloso in Sentosa. Juz without the swimmers and swimsuits... it'd be suicide to swim in this weather...

Had lunch at a Chinese restraunt. Singapore noodles. The weird thing is, i never ate any noodles like this in S'pore before. wonder if it's the same thing when we eat Korean or Japanese food in S'pore. Speaking of Koreans, there r chao ji super super super a lot of koreans and koreans stalls here. But none of the CB's u see on tv though... tt's sad...

seen the uniforms here too... also CMI... skirts are weirdly long due to the winter weather, the guys wear short, thats right SHORTS!!! with high socks...... wad a waste... all those visitng Japanese students...

Back on the mainland we took a bus and explored the area we covered by car a few days back. Ok la, NZ's not that bad... but seriously the shopping here CMI... If u wanna go shopping, KL, HK, Seoul or Tokyo better...... mostly local brands here, very limited high end ones...

In the evening, went over to Civic centre, sorta the Cathay Cineleisure Orchard. Inside pretty cool, same kinda neon lights etc... spotted an arcade and went to try my hands on English version of Initial D. I've never seen such a clean steering wheel in Spore la. All been used until broken. Anyway, but the time i beat the com, got a small crowd gathered behind me. But had to go liao movie starts.

Watched Miami Vice, the one featuring Colin Farrel as an undercover cop and Gong Li as a crime boss. Based on a tv series in the 70's of the same name. Pretty cool move. Havent watched this type in movies for a while le. Lots of shower seens. Be warned.

oo wait... power's back... guess what BBC's showing... Singapore! food looks yummy...

Well think i saw most of Auckland liao... it's a pretty big place, but not very exciting or competitive...

Lost in Translation (Departure+Day1, Singapore- Auckland)

2006-08-27T18:39:00.000+08:00

Ignore my face... it's windy n freaking cold ya noe..

Sky Tower

Streets of Auckland

Over New Zealand

I'm sitting in my dad's apartment now in Auckland NZ, it's 11pm, which means bout 7pm in Spore. Right then, to how we get here.

Checked in with my Grandad at 5 at Changi Airport T2, took off at 6 for a one hour flight to KL. The plan was to transfer to a NZ airlines flight from KL direct to Australia. Unfortunately, one hour later, we were told by the pilot that as the haze of KL was too thick, we had to divert to JB airport.

song bo, on my first flight by myself summore... we hung around JB airport for half an hour before reboarding the plane. By then there had been some showers n the haze had cleared enough somewhat for the plane to land. Still, it was thick enough that i could actually see a wall of dust infront of the plane, illuminated by the plane's floodlights.

By the time we arrived at KLIA, it was too late, a Malaysian airline rep. told us we had missed the flight and that we had to be transferred to a flight to Sydney, before proceeding on another flight to Auckland. Barely had time to take in the sights of KLIA, all i can say is that its quite new, but very empty. it looks something like Spore expo, so not very pretty. But their skytrain is cool, passing by next to planes on the way to the underground tunnel.

For the Sydney flight, we took a Boeing 747 which was great after the crammed jet we took to KL. The onboard entertainment system was simply fantastic. I brought along an Mp3 n a laptop, but after seeing the entertainment system, didn't want to play them anymore. It had everything from movies and music, tv, radio, flight information and even a travel guide and info on any city u wanted to find and maps of the city even.

Didn't sleep much that flight, as i watched Austin Powers 3, which was pretty disappointing, and a soppy korean movie, bout an ugly guy who hides from his chio blind gf after she regains her sight.

Arriving at Sydney airport, had to search for a transfer desk and tell them bout our flight transfer and all that and arrange our next flight. Sydney airport though famous, is pretty crappy compared to Changi, not much shopping, n security's real strict too.

On the final Air NZ flight to Auckland, slept most of the way, didn't realise that we landed till i felt the bump of the airplane landing. By then it was 2 o clock local time, which makes it 16 hours flight time. Enough to travel to london. Haha.

After waiting for like 15mins at the baggage carousel, realised my bag wasn't coming out, so had to report it to the baggage lost n found.They said they would call when they found my bag. The experience of airport duty really helped me a lot, caus otherwise i'd be pretty freaked out.

Met my dad just outside the arrival doors, and just as i stepped outside the airport doors, was greeted by a blast of super cold air outside. Just a taste of things to come.

First place my dad brought me was the top a 600 year old volcano which had a great view of Auckland. The winds were plus it having just rained left me shivering real bad. No suprise since the temp was close to 10 deg plus.

Auckland, and in fact the whole New Zealand is built around old volcanoes around the place. The earliest people to reach were polynesians then the europeans around the 1800's+. It's bout the size of Japan but the populations only like 4 million!!! Aucklands the largest city with 1/3 the total pooulation and already i find it v. quiet on the streets. wonder what the farming south isle will be like?

After taking a short tour around town and dinner in a Chinese area, ( Auckland is full of mainland chinese, Koreans and Japanese, like 1/3 of the people here) it was bout 8 plus. Even though it was raining and freezing outside, we went back to my dads apartment.

K my dads apt is not wat u'd call big. it's essentially a one room apt in the middle of the heart of the city. it is well furnished and clean though. it's bout the size of half a classroom with a small but v clean wash room, a sofa, small kitchen, Pretty big tv, and small bedroom at the back with a balcony. All Ikea kinda furniture so pretty cool. except my dad's pretty messy.

we decided to take a walk around the sorta Orchard Road area, close to where my dad lived.

Looks really cool at night, with the neonlights reflecting off the wet road. but not much shopping to speak off. no malls, not many high rise buildings, only a handful, shopping limited to local clothing, vcd shops, lots of car sales, car parts... tt's pretty much it. Only seen 1 Adidas word in the WHOLE CITY, which is quite zzzzz...... no banks, no watches, no electronics, no handphones, that kinda shows NZ as pretty back dated in terms of technology...

overall my first impressions of Auckland is like a slightly backward, less pretty, colder, quieter version of Australia. hope it will get improve as we move toward the countryside. The people like dun come out much, don't see many schools, though many foreign students, basically nothing much to do. People here like drink at bars, do graffiti and pretty slack.

see if can post some pics. the internet here real slow. and keeps on disconnecting too. missing out on soccer news as NZ only play rugby caus of their famous "All Blacks".

Touch Down

2006-08-24T22:52:00.000+08:00

before u touch anything, touch down refers to my exams, so u can take your hands off now...

right then, EXAMS ARE OVER!!! OVER!!!

sorry bout that... i only get to celebrate the end of an exam once every 6 months... allow me to indulge a little...

the exams were on the whole pretty good considering that it was all last minute study... especially maths. it was today's paper, and only had 22hours to study, which is like only mayb 4-5 hours to flip the book for the first time and read the words. ever.

spent most of the weeks leading up to the exams mugging with jas n wq in tampines library... noticed that the people who go lib to study is almost the same lot... know them so well by now, i would say hi, if not for the "silence in the library" sign hanging overhead...

happily, think can get A anyway, tt's all thanks to A-maths in sec school, and the higher maths i'm taking.... hahaha... ask dennis if u wanna compare JC n poly engg maths...

the mood was right for a grand celebration, and so we went to Pardiz centre at Dhoby Gauht for my first taste of DotA action in probably a month!

My redebut was a success, even though i was lacking match-fitness (almost forgot lots of dota terms), still managed to have several kills without dying too much... and so were the 2nd and the 3rd games... shiok... spent 8 bucks in 5 hours, but worth it.......

after that went to suntec to get some scarfs n gloves for the trip to New Zealand tml... oh i did mention right? i'll b there from 25 aug to 8th sep... visiting my dad over there...

tell ya wat, if i get internet access, i'll try to post some pics. right.

NOEL, Welcome to the hell.

2006-08-16T21:08:00.000+08:00

Got a msg from audrey last night asking me "where did you find your jobs last year one?".

that night i had a nightmare, a real heart stopper... it was about a company i worked in early last year...

1 year ago...

januaray plus...

i hadn't been working since the call centre job with ql n cyy in dec, my dad was v. unhappy with me staying at home, and asked me to get a job. desperate for any job, i heard tt one of my old classmates jeanie had found a job at this chinese new yr hamper wrapping company called NOEL.

decided to check it out with john. should have sensed something was wrong the moment i stepped in. it was a warehouse in eunos. if you've been in a warehouse before you'll know what i mean. the dusty smell. dusty feel. bare concrete. industrial fans.

the work condition was unbelievable. terrible. 12 hours a day climbing up and down carrying stuff around, hounded by a bitch supervisor the size of a hippo. she looked like one of my distant aunties. i havent spoken to that aunty since.

the boss, a cheeko pek balding old man, who bitches at the supervisor who bitches at us. sweating all the time, internal politics like you wouldn't believe........... talk also kenna scold. sit down for 2 sec also kenna scold. drink water too much, well i no need say right...
feeling is like one of the worsts camps u ever went, but 3 times worse. internal politics so rife, you thought you were in in a Taiwanese parliment.

didn't really like my colleagues, but we were very united in hate of the bosses. planned a mass resignation.

ppl joining and leaving every other day. one of my colleagues left a couple of days after i did. guess how. he got so pissed with the boss, he slammed his hand on the table and shouted back at the boss. then he left. cool.

tt's y the motto for new ppl joining the company was Noel, welcome to the hell. chinese new year has never been the same.

feel like running home every lunch break. dun giv pay also nvm. tt's how terrible. after changed to ql F & N job, still pretty tough, but compared to NOEL? heaven. sweet.

last night dreamt that somehow i was forced to work with NOEL again, bcaus it was doing smth for aeroplanes so had to intern for them. did i say dream? i meant nightmare. Noel a real nightmare job. no pun intended.

Happy National Day

2006-08-09T12:04:00.000+08:00

lecturers are more or less over, classes are over, time to prove if you've got wat it takes to be the ultimate mugger!!!

nearly completed my report on the SQ006 crash. doing the presentations n powerpoints in poly over the past 1.5 years has taught me a lot compared to what i learnt in sec school. research has to be done thoroughly and the presentation has to be super professional. we even have to dress formally for our presentation, and that means black pants, long sleeved shirt and tie.

for our reports, we have to have proper heading, sub heading, sub sub- heading and so on... even the pictures and pages must be properly labelled and spaced. doing the conclusion, makes me realise what all that training in for humanities exam were for... to give you the skills to write proper reports it seems.

you can't cheat either by cutting n pasting... the school has a hudrend thousand dollar program to check the percentage of copying from your frends or the net.

no going back to hai sing this year for national day celebrations. due to timing n all that.

there's always next year. Happy Nat Day

Mug

2006-08-04T20:01:00.000+08:00

been going to the library recently over the last week or so to study... haven't progressed too much... but met quite a few ppl who i haven't seen in a long time...

studying time is a lonely time... feels like 'every man for himself' kind of time... everything just revolves around cramming as much info from your books into your head. v sian. but tt's life i guess.

sometimes, feel it's quite pointless, like ur not studying to know more things and understand, but for the sake of exam only, and tt's wat i hate.

once read a newspaper article that single sex school's students are able to concentrate n study better... i guess tt's quite true to a certain extent, i mean not spending unnecessary brain power worrying bout other stuff. but the downside is, ur class talks bout games all day, and are so ji siao, the teacher can't teach anything.....

Under my skin

2006-07-26T23:35:00.001+08:00

i've got an itch on my body and it won't go away....... no its not a lyrics of a song or anyth but a real itch...

think i got it when i ate a jellyfish sushi at airport last night..... haiz, wat with the jelly fish being raw and all that. but so far it's never happened before.... mayb they didn't wash it properly or smth....

inside com thje one i using now is very very lagggy..... dunno wats up with it... even as im typing now the words are coming out like so slowly.... wonder if it's got a virus too...

been watching naruto lately on youtube. think its a much better anime than the other one i was watching which is bleach... the characters more belivable and likable than that of bleach, which is like concentrated on fighting only...

rally cant type any more with this lag... unbelievable.

Men arer from mars and Women r from venus

2006-07-23T21:25:00.000+08:00

watched pirates with jas n dennis at TM yest... pretty good, but quite confusing i should say... after that had dinner at CS food court...

actually the movie planned with someone a week back le.... but, after some complicated stuff at last min she say cannot make it... was sort of expecting it le....

studied with jas aft the movie till library closed at 9... great, study outside is better, especially with proper tables n chairs... should study out more mayb... oh when we were at the library we saw dennis twin bro derrick sitting at the other table...

now i think of it derrick look a bit like daryl....

Full Circle

2006-07-18T00:20:00.000+08:00

SP at night

WCG DotA at SP

made a desicion to delete dota on sunday, till after exam... hope this will give me more time to study n stuff, as havent been doing too well all sem...

that didnt stop us from playing today though with 1 extra class cancelled... nice to play without lag finally...

highlight of today though was CYA interview.... dennis told me he wanted to join for a while le, so asked him to go for the briefing at the huge SP convention centre.... saw a ex hai sing prefect in the crowd too...

most interesting was seeing a certain J.F... last time during sec 4 days i had to skip recess to do guard duty at some staircases at school... n chief in checking i was on duty was none other than u noe who... haha, so if get to interview her would b seriously fun.... but too bad she got interviewed by someome else...

still though, it does prove tt stuff u dream up can come true..lalala... chao tired... by the time finish it was bout 9pm...

Pirates of Time

2006-07-15T22:42:00.000+08:00

zzzzzzzzzz.........zzzzzzzzzzz.............

got a suprise on fri night..... spoke to jas online, he said wq, ql n him going to watch pirates at night.... honestly tio stun.... but nvm... can't go anyway... haha... sian, now i muz go n search for ppl to watch with me...

today had to go for the S2006 IMF training, at SP... i think our IMF thing is pretty cool. cooler than norm CYA duty even... they got give suits, and pay us $35 for 5 hours of duty a day... get to meet those delegates..... cool sia... good pay, time to do other stuff after work too...

the IMF training conducted by singapore tourism board, the duties are similar to our regular CYA duty..... so when they brief us bout the airport facilities n stuff, quite weird...haha. even though couldn't go for the HSC open house today, juz take today training as outing lor... haha... dun take it as pirates stealing time....

oh, fri night our team finally managed to beat eug aka G.o.P on dota... i think merc, ql n jas noe... he v. qiang... v. v. qiang...

GG

Bonjour...Monsieur Zidane

2006-07-12T20:56:00.000+08:00

reflecting on the world cup finals tt i watched, to see Zidane head butting the italian defender is pretty shocking, and pretty sad too to see him get sent off on his last match... he was my favourite player in France 98 pc game, my first soccer game.

the way he walked away after headbutting the guy, made it look like he just stabbed him or smth... his whole expression, like he really wanna kill the guy.

anyway, on to happier things, the maths test i was studying for got full marks! finally, after doing none to well for my other tests, i finally got one tt was good... haiz... i think time for me to wake up le... too much dota, n gd results have made me complacent i think...

i decided to go easy on dota till the holidays........ a bit sian of it already, but i noe u can't juz quit dota....

next, i was having a bit of a problem, as im going to NZ after my hols to visit my dad, till 7 of september... however, there is the final breifing for the IMF world bank summit thingy i'm taking part of as part of CYA... it was 1 whole day, n not sure wat the head of CYA would say if i said i can't go.... at first, she a bit grumpy bout it, but luckily she say she excuse me from it... HURRAH! enjoy my hols freely, Thank u Lord...

lastly is the WCG dota competition is being held in my school again, just the prelim rounds only, but they show the matches live, and got 2 commentators of dota which had appeared in the Straits Times... even if i slowing down on dota, nice to learn how other ppl play.... woohoo...

The Curtain Calls

2006-07-10T00:05:00.000+08:00

was invited by xuan yong to go for a cosplay event this morning, quite a suprise caus it was pretty sudden. it was raining n drizzling all morning, but no matter.

the event was held at the D' Marquee at downtown east, all being ex-Haisians, i'm sure i dun need to explain where that is. so we entered the D'marquee to be greeted by the "biggest" cosplay event in Spore each year... to say the truth it wasn't v. big... ok only... as u expect, cosplayers everywhere, from most of the popular anime n manga now. the emcee's car, was a white FC3S, from Initial D, was at the entrance.

bleach was the most popular anime for the cosplay, with one team having over 30 in a team... but i think the highlight of our show, was the Yurichi characters clothes, which was backless, v. hot. ask wq, he was there.

the gundam seed cosplayers were v. dissapointing, their skits being totally uninteillgable...

after the event left for church, saw sarah chan at the mrt... same old sarah, looks the same in and out of uniform...

was tapped by marilene after church, while going down the escalator too... she asked if i watched the germany portugal match... i was like... WTH! they play already ah?

for the record, i support germany n i don't noe the final score of that match, and i'm watching in on tv now... 2-0 their leading... guess who's in the crowd, a major champion himself, 8 times Formula 1 champion, Michael Shumacer...

for tonights match, the final, FRANCE VS ITALY, for me is pretty unexpected. my earlier posts put france as going home early, and italy unkown... while i guessed holland, brazil and germany for the final....

most of the people i 've met, support italy tonight, but for me, i'll b supporting france to win... thats caus my first soccer game was France 98, which i played during sec1, and england n france were my fav teams... dun really like italy, their colours or their players...

One step higher

2006-07-08T21:44:00.000+08:00

for the past week been having lots of practices for the CYA graduation night on fri.... every other day will go airport practice the skit for bout 4-5 hours, pretty fun, but saps a lot of time from studying and projects too...

the skit is about a bad CYA turned good, which was pretty interesting and fun to watch as the plot evolved and the characters changed... also a dance item thingy and a few songs at the end...

although we practiced a lot, up to the last day, was still a bit unsure of the dance steps n my lines n stuff, but at the last min, everyone was encouraging each other and i think we did a good job... even better, the audience thought it was great, so guess the practice was well worth it...

also while working with everyone, got to spend more time with the others... on that day also got to see many of the old Fri CYAs who had finished their contracts in jan... now reflect back, tt's a pretty long time le...

Blind Justice

2006-07-05T21:44:00.000+08:00

this afternoon, i was called upon to do a most unpleasant task, a task which taught me a lot, but which i refuse to ever do again. the task of refreeing.

my class was playing another class in soccer. i was there with some of my friends to support my class. somehow, the organizer convinced me to be the match refree for the game, and it's a desicion i really regret.

Refreeing is tough, especially when it's your class tt's playing... when desicions go right, the players feel it's expected. when there's some confusion, they say the refree is not doing a good job. players from both sides call out fouls every other second.

if you give your team a free kick, the other class thinks your biased. when you give the other team a free kick, your class thinks ur betraying them... whats more the soccer pitch had no proper outlines, only marked by one miserable football.

i was even "fortunate" enough to have to make a desicion about a ball which had fallen in front of my class goal post. not fun, trust me.

they want you near the ball, to see whats happening, but when they get the ball n start dribbling, they say you are in their way.

final score, my class won 4-3, one from a free kick i awarded. lucky for me. if not i dun need go schl tml le...

really gotta admire the guts of those world cup refree... really takes guts to potentially piss off millions of ppl.

next time if ur out of job, work mac donalds. dun consider refreeing.

just my pride

2006-06-28T01:38:00.000+08:00

back to school...the 2 main tests of the school restart term are over le... maths today, with great "assistance" from teacher n frens during the test... only maths tests are like tt...haha... exam can't help each other though...

my holidays, what did i do? come to think of it... nth much, but its ok... dun really mind going back to school... spent holidays doing... e learning, world cup, going out with dad, CYA stuff mainly...

netherlands and australia, the 2 teams i was supporting are out... now guess its, germany and spain for me... juz watched brazil thrash ghana.... ronaldo's first goal was v. nice... seems like they're picking up form...

after tests, released earlier, 4 o clock in fact... 1 hour too early to go for CYA... so instead went back white sands caus i wanted to buy a few chinese CD's... when i got there, WS was swarming with meridiens... got to tok with ali n daryl for a while... saw chee kong too... then slack at library for bout 15mins... reading some frank lampard book..

juz as i was leaving for CYA duty, wq sms bout how he saw some "v. chio" CYA gals on the mrt...
haha. chio. lol. they were in terminal 1 today, same as me. another 2 CSO's call me small boy... zz...

Brutally Honest

2006-06-16T18:57:00.000+08:00

wah, this blog quite dead i realised... haha partly my fault.... nev ask ppl come... then again tt's caus it's already caus prob before... if ya dun mind... ask more ppl come here... ty

oh ya, the new poll, pls vote...

hmm...schools starting next week... lots of work n tests, havent started studying yet... haiz...

dad going to NZ tml.. will see him off during CYA duty in the evening....

went for training for the International Monetary Fund 2006 thingy this year... will play an ambassadorial role at airport, pretty much same as normal CYA duty... get to meet lot of VIPs too, n a job during the hols so shld b pretty cool...

all CYA's had to go, n i realised i knew almost all of them, by face of course... not too good with names... think its caus i've done almost every day in CYA before, while last term i only did friday...

today my sis b'dae also... she wanted to go clarke quay. i didn't mind caus havent been there in a long time anyway... found it's really changed... at night with the lights n all can b really cool...the neon lights the touting, at times it actually feels like i was visitng another country...

also passed by hooters bar, ya noe the restraunt with gals in short pants? sux though i think... but got lots of guys in there... watching soccer... haha

ate dinner in a chinese restraunt called forbidden city... it was a theme restraunt... v cool... v. ex also...

caught the brazil australia game last night... hoped for a draw caus these 2 teams r the ones i hoping will go through to the knock out round...

By the light of the silvery moon

2006-06-15T23:15:00.000+08:00

by the light, of the silvery moon...eh, rmbr this song jas? np camp song... haha, one of the things i quite enjoyed at the camps were camp songs... the nice ones la, of course...

anyway, there was the 2e1 (or 1e1 whichever way u wanna look at it) bbq yesterday... hmm, to be honest, i had serious doubts bout whether this bbq was serious not,

reason 1 being marcus organised, i dunno wheter he could get everybody n everything needed... nonetheless, i think it went through pretty smoothly, and kudos to him... i wouldn't hav the patience to organise a bbq....

reason 2; my opinion is tt e1 never was a very united class, unlike arch-rivals another class... haha... mayb they were arch-rivals in my mind only...

anyway, seeing as e2 which i tot was more united, turned out to b a slight dissapointment, i tot this one would b worse, guys not withstanding... in both classes, always all the guys are there, even though we're the minority...

haha 4-5 years later, some things haven't changed... sure all gone to our jc's n poly's, but when get back together, this exact same group, everyone juz go back n talk to who we usually talk to...
actually i wouldn't hav mind talking to some of the others, but can't really think of anyth interesting to say anyway... guess mayb everyone has the same prob...

actually wanted to ask sarah how come she always always always wears the same pair of pants... i mean everytime... since sec 4... but mayb a bit embarrasing for her also, so didnt want to... ya scott, dun go around saying ok...

actually angeline, sarah, siew peng..... got go out with them quite a bit last time, caus they r with audrey... n siew peng n angeline got tok to them online sometimes too... but whenever see them outside, like nth much to say... or everyone is busy... funny huh...

oh yeah... i spoke to ying hui on tue caus after CYA... then she did mention to others also we same cca... unimaginable in sec schl... npcc n dance... huh... weird shit...

anyway, arina, or alrina as she's now called... quite shock i in SP... zzzz...

i rmbr tt time going to schl at a bus stop near pasir ris crest... saw her n waved... but she like nev see me, then continue making her hair... i dun really care anyway, but thinking wth, really dao lor...

anyway, she said she tot she saw me but not sure bcaus nev was there before.... but ya, old stuff...

oh mr adam aezril was there also... came for 5 mins then walked off.. not surprised... nev bring gf to show off mah.... zzzz...

kk england match starting liao... n keep this confidential... ty.

Deutschland, where legends are born

2006-06-08T20:18:00.000+08:00

it begins tml... the worlds biggest and most important soccer event... so what do we know about

the host country, Germany?

Allianz Arena in Munich

Germany, engineering haven, home to biggest luxury automobile brands in the World. Mercedes Benz, BMW, Volkswagen and Audi. They had the panzer tank, V2 rocket and the first jet fighter in WWII... Germany has produced many great scientists and mathematicians too, Einstein who was a German Jew is probably to most famous among them. Not forgetting musicians like Mozart...much more they have provided the world with, it takes a bit of looking to find it though, as the germans are

Germany the land where highways have no speed limits and the world famous street race track Nurunburg Circuit, has claimed numerous lives throughout the world.

smth i love about the WRC is how approchable and down to earth the rally drivers are... even they got into the spirit of the world cup, and the drivers from various world cup countries held a mini table-soccer tournament... the winner was spain, won by Junior world rally champ Carlos Sainz...

so heres who i think will do well in the world cup:

reach the finals: germany, brazil, netherlands

semi finals: england, argentina

quaterfinals: spain, france, australia, czech

going home early: japan

no idea: italy, portugal

think germany could win the cup, given they are playing on home ground... but mayb they not as gd as teams of previous generations... brazil, always favs, but diff to win twice, and pressure is on them... netherlands, most likely i think to win... tt's just a guess of course...

did ya noe, the only german player in starting XI not playing in germany is jens lehman from arsenal... no wonder not so much support... hu watches the bundesliga anyway...

now watching the opening match... got quite a few goals le, 2-1... but the atmosphere is like... zzzz....... ok u scored a goal... the crowd dosent cheer much... nth... not like a normal champions league match or even a premiereship match, where can see and hear the fans cheering, and can feel a bit of the atmosphere, makes watching the match much more exciting...

hope it'll b better in england matches...

Finally, got some time to do a post... just finished a biaing week of e-learning... cheated the last bit for maths... even cheating is hard work ya noe...

lots of dota this week as well, juz 1v1 zhao xi, both of us used razor, he killed me 7-1... actually playing 1v1 i realised his skill at dota is only slightly above mine... but tt slight diff makes a big diff in results, first blood could mean an extra exp and extra gold and time to knock down the first tower resulting in better items...

the diff is that he is slightly clearer on when to attack and when he will win 1v1... mayb will pick tt up with time...

dad came home from dubai today... come back for bout 2 weeks... his been gone since jan, which upon looking back, is pretty long, considering all the stuff i've done since he's been gone... dota at home, the dog, more little stuff...

gd day... n gd world cup to ya'll...

A rush of blood to the head

2006-06-07T13:43:00.000+08:00

SAT

1st time soccer in a long long while... enjoyed it, having soccer shoes does make a big diff, even though my is street soccer only...

SUN

aft church played initial D while waiting for the guys, also 1st in a long while, beat 1 AI character... not bad...

afterward met scott, ql, jas, wq at marina square for some lunch at yoshinoya... went back to PC SHOW caus jas wanted to buy an mp3 player... actually i wanted to see sum stuff and ask some qn, but so crowded, didnt get the chance...i'm sure go lots of cool deals tt day...

took a long walk to penisula plaza tt day, with zx to play dota.....

later when got back to pasir ris, played street soccer with ql n wq a while...

MON

stayed home most of the day to do elearning... tt's in theory la, but actually didn't do much at all...

TUE

went to the dentist early in the morn to get the braces fixed n started up... wasnt' painful compared to the tooth extraction tt day..but the time frame, 15 months! sia la... v. diff to eat caus the braces constantly irritating you, wats more with the braces pushing ur teeth, they feel sore and can't put much weight on them...

braces actually a v. crude way of fixing teeth... but effective i guess... in future, ppl will look back on past medicine and laugh at how crude this method is... oh well... guess i'll b eating mashed potatos for a while...

The Dentist

2006-06-01T21:59:00.000+08:00

noe it's been ages since i last updated... been a pretty busy test week so far... this term tests are tougher than last years... hav to bia quite hard le...

anyway, our slacker teachers release us early at 1100 today, so our whole class went dhoby gaut for dota... 4 teams, of about 3-4, in a league style match...

me, somebody(daniel) n dickson VS darebm, tri and Juz... pretty sure jas noe's most of them le...right jas?haha

rouge knight, sniper n vengeful spirit VS the v. strong (lich), crystal maiden, and lina inverse...
early game tio pon like hell... 3 intell heroes leh, with super storng ulti... later, we worked out a super gd combi...

vengeful spirit would swap postions with lich, me with godstrength will whack him, dealing huge damage... i , vengeful spirit, and sniper take turns to bash... killing him freely, n tanking their ulti...

3 of us beat bm in a fair fight... haha tt's a pretty good accomplishment...

tt's the only game we won.... in the end 3 of the 4 teams each won once... only super pro eug team won all 3 matches..

went home v. tired slept for 2 hours till 7 o'clock... the time i'd been dreading... time to remove the teeth... actually went to dentist yest also... they said had to remove 3baby teeth i had which were preventing my adult teeth from growing... haha... actually got 1 more, but tt one dun hav adult teeth below...

juz let ya noe, my nick in my class is small boy...lol...

anyway the dentist is next to kembangan mrt... it's run by a malay family, and the inside is quite pretty, juz like lot of malay houses... not like those cold, white yellow clinics... feel more relaxed there... the doctor tok to ya n explain wat he's doing....

still, plucking out ur teeth is nev fun... esp not when ur doing 3 at a go... i had to have numbing stuff wiped through my mouth before the injection to numb my mouth even more... only then was the mega scary looking metal plier thingy brought out...

feeling tt thing clamp your teeth and jerked out is ball-shrinkingly scary...studying in DARE course i hav seen lot of metal twisting, crunching and ripping machines, but the tiny tooth plier is the scariest of all to me...

haha, sorry for my non-standard english, but, lazy to think at this time... juz glad to get a post up... cheers!

Untitled

2006-05-24T00:25:00.000+08:00

it's late... n im v tired so do an impromptu post...

CYA duty today, v. tired, came straight after test.... maths tt is... qn 5 didn''t noe how to do, even though i did the tutorials le... sian...

after duty, i totally forgot my shoe bag n left it at the bus stop... only realised it when i was about to alight, like 20 mins later... luckily, i called one of my CYAmates n asked for their help... thank God it was still there... 3rd time i forgot smth after duty le.... i think caus its so tiring, but no excuses...

the new Sony i finallly got after waiting so long is finally here... works beautifully, but there is a prob with the uploading song programme... v. difficult to use...

juz finished a 1v1 game with dick... i beat his new tried naga siren with my long nev used rogue knight... but i tihnk caus my char is slightly stronger than his...

nite...

Money dosent fall from the sky, you have to farm it

2006-05-18T18:47:00.000+08:00

for some reason, DotA has come from the point where i'm the only one who wants to play, to the point where they hav played so much i'm the one asking for a slow down...

2.5 hour break today, went to ginza n play... me n dickson vs daniel n flameass first round...

i started off with razor n dick bone fletcher... daniel n flameass , antimage n crystal maiden respectively... early to mid game, crystal maiden was dominating with her powerful slowing spells n such...

turning point came when, with both tower down, i had to make a stand as a tower... by that point, i had farmed to the point where i had to act as a tower, farming like every single creep

ring of basilus-500
sange and yasha-5100
crystalys-2850
powerthreads-1560
ring of regen- 375

by end game, i was v. happy... super attack speed, super damage... n with bkb immune to crystal maidens spell... a fren who was observing, said i used money to win... bribe the creep n throw money at the enemy...

ring of basilus-500
sange and yasha-5100
bkb-3800
buriza-6200
(my first ever)butterfly-5950
powerthreads-1560
spare cash-2000+

total gold about-25110 tt is real fun...

2nd round was death match, me n daniel, sniper n veno... totally own the game... i admit it was quite cheating caus, we use our familiar char while the other team used new char... smth like tt match where jas own us with sk n never die once... we killed roshan too...

War of the Wheel-mouse

2006-05-17T21:10:00.000+08:00

Last night, a epic 2 hour battle raged on the screens of 9 individuals... these heroes engaged in a titanic battle to determine, the ultimate victor.... the battle is called War of the Ancients...

zzzz.... somewhere somehow somewhen, after a 3-4 week break since schl started, DotA is once again on the screens of my class... lancraft though... all dun wanna spend any more money le... haha...

last night was one of the biggest battles yet... 9 ppl... which is almost the max capactiy of 10 ppl...

early on me , jas , zhao xi, n 2 more guys were badly pushed n punished by the other teams Lich... i made lot of stupid mistake, including, running straight into enemies, rushing when my mana not regen yet, attacking from the front, buying wrong items and worst of all, chatting in the "all" section...

yet despite this, we managed to stall their attack, and slowly bit by bit pushed them back to the middle, where we hit them all out in a last gasp attack... haha, a bit exaggerated, but its about 90% true...

shld go down as one of the greatest matches i ever played...

today first time finish early 10pm to 12pm...

installed world cup 06 recently... the interface v. nice, a bit confusing at first, but can get used to it... the graphics, not say v. fantastic in my opinion.... bout the same as the one we played on x- box tt day... but the gameplay n the way the players kick n handle the ball their own individual way, is really outstanding...

u can really feel some players, esp the star ones, have each their own special extra skill, like viera gd at holding ball n tackle, gerrad can smack in balls frm outside the box etc... great game...

Never Wither, Never Walk Alone

2006-05-16T00:03:00.000+08:00

back frm my short hol to Malaysia over the long weekend... took tons of pics, will try to do an update on tt when got time...

watched the liverpool match in a posh little bar in M'sia... v. nice match, not quite as cool as the Istanbul match comeback, but a really cool comeback nontheless... when liv was 2-2 with west ham, i promised myself to get a liv jersey if Liv won... haha, will hav to keep my word... a real classic match...

Liv didn't really play better than West Ham, i think West Ham put up a great performance as well, deserve a replay... but it was really Gerrad n Reina who saved the day...

i think for the first time since i started poly, i was 2nd person in my class to reach school today... only me n my "evil twin" there....

did replacement CYA today, 2nd time doing monday... monday ppl quite nice...

when i got to mrt at changi, saw a sec schl couple in a corner frolicking around.... really v. grose... i think they like juz bout to make out...brrrr.....

dosen't exactly take a rocket scinetist to know that no corner in airport is safe to make out... almost every corner covered by a CCTV camera...not exactly in the 7 habits of highly effective ppl either...

speaking of CCTV cams, got a really funny podcast from mrbrown.com... about the James Gomez affair, smth all gd news-paper reading GP students shld know about... right?

nice photos... post next time...nitez...

The Good Ol Days

2006-05-10T20:24:00.000+08:00

Now watching the Roy Keane testimonial match of Man U vs Celtic, so will post in green today...

Man U in red n black, look the part of a much sharper, younger, modern team, while Celtic in Green n White horizontal stripes, give me a feeling of a team from footballing history, like those black n white photos you see of old teams?

The match quite relaxed.... guess this is wat is meant by a friendly, caus like Celtic muz hav no grudges with United right? some other "friendlies" more like grudge match...

after CYA meeting today, played a bit more soccer, with my class... well not exactly soccer, more like monkey, caus the basketball court filled with volleyball cca... wat i find funny is tt we always play in the court under a sign which says "strictly no soccer in the basketball courts"...

mayb can use this chance to improve my ball control...

oh i eat back my words bout SP gals, there r quite a lot i think, but dunno where they hide most of the time... mayb they only come out when got cca?

The Beautiful Game

2006-05-10T01:43:00.000+08:00

pheewww... long day today... cause of CYA and have to submit a report on SQ006 tml... quite happy with it, even though it's last minute...

Today is first time i play street soccer with my class, it was pretty good fun. Some of my classmates really v. pro with the ball. Alan was so gd at intercepting crosses, it lead to one of my other classmates commenting :"His chest got a magnet", referring to how he chested down almost every ball that came in his path. Defending against him, i muz say, his feet are really fast.

Street Soccer Likes
-Simple, even noobs can join in
-Can pull of(or at least watch ppl) fancy tricks and fakes
-my shoes (after wearing a few times, really comfortable)
-can excercise

Street Soccer Dislikes
-rough ground, hard on shoes and on ur skin
-hot(haha, but so is field soccer)
-class is so addicted, we were late for maths by 1/2 an hour

after soccer went to maths, really felt awake and not sleepy like i usually do during maths. mayb exercise really does help u study better...

started my first tue CYA duty today... even though i'm the only one in CYA in my class, it's still quite famous...

today was doing arrival duty again, a man approached the counter, he said he parked his car in the carpark to pick up his colleague and now can't find it. he was with his son and the colleague. i spent over 2 hours helping him look for it, but can't find... in the end went to the police for help. he was pretty desperate.

pretty gay also frm the way he talks, he said to someone on the phone, "it's ok, all the nice policemen are going to help me find my car now"... *snorts* (like who are you sia), could see the police cocking their eyebrows...

finally after almost 3 hours, police found the car on the first floor... silly guy.... zzz...

it's late, night...

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DeJavu

2006-05-03T00:11:00.000+08:00

SAT

went all the way to clementi on a sat morn! Y would any sane person do such a thing? for NYAA tt's wat... they needed 2 ppl to volunteer for this like Student Centre in clementi, partly set up by SP.

basically what we did there is sort of like what those lan shop owners do, collect IC, note down the timing, assign coms, tt sorta thing... although the coms werent PCs, but rather iMacs! quite cool huh... actually Macs are really quite different to use then PCs, in tt they only have 1 mouse button, which is i found quite distressful...

also learned that Quicktime, Mozilla, iTunes, and several other programmes we use on our PCs are actually Macintosh programmes...

Went back for dinner as my uncle n grandparents were there for dinner, caught a bit of I NOT STUPID 2, which they were playing on DVD... before heading down to tampines to meet wq, ql n pei yi to watch Chelsea blow away Man U to take the Premiereship title...

as i reached home about 12 plus, i looked up n noticed a lot of stars in the sky... haven't looked at stars for a long time..... i rmbr back before even pri schl, when i visited my grandparents at Elias at night, my dad would point out to me the constellations.....

looking up at the stars reminds u of juz how small u really are in the universe....

Mon

DotA with wq, elton, john n merlin... played 3 games, 2 against outsiders in which we owned them... 1 game me n elton, lich n phantom ass vs spider, razor n antimage... was quite suprised to win caus, razor farms better, spider can hide in web, n antimage = antilich...

while doing replacement CYA at arrivals, saw shuting, valencia n di ya eating at the polar cafe...

Tue

while nearing pasir ris mrt i suddenly thought of one of my ex CYA seniors Nigel, n thought i would meet him... down the stairs, he was at the MRT booth... not so suprised... 2nd time le, first time is audrey...

Playing the truant

2006-04-27T21:28:00.000+08:00

WED

Had a 1 hour lesson today... 1 hour, 1hour!!! WHAT A WASTE OF TIME... to illustrate, it takes me 1hr 15mins to get to school from home, and the same time to get back. So you can probably guess what i did right? yes, skip lessons!

But not for the reason you are thinking... actually going would be a waste of time, but i hate skipping lessons even more. Anyway i skipped lessons caus i had to go to Changi Cargo Complex to sign the 5 year bond to SIA Engg. They only operate on weekdays 9-5, so sooner or later i would have to skip some classes to sign the bond, and wed was the best time.

Can imagine what soccer stars feel like when they about to sign contracts, had my manager with me(my mum), and they had their HR asst manager. My mum much better a finding out stuff then me, caus of her thicker skin. Found out that only 7 out of 50+ ppl who applied got it. For this i hav to giv God all the glory, caus the interview was super tough n depending on myself would only hav ended in failure.

after signing, we went to tampines to do some banking stuff. Created some bank account and can get a Sony Mp3!, cool eh... to b honest i only moderately interested in the banking side... those bankers get really nice office, v. comfy, n the customer service is great!

Finally persuaded my mum to get the sports channel, n the world cup channel...

Thurs
saw jeannie with her bf today... she didn't come for the gathering tt day...

Lost Identity

2006-04-23T22:52:00.000+08:00

Question: Why do people go for soccer shoes that 90% of the time isn't even going to be used for soccer?

Ans: The same reason ppl buy near rally-spec performance cars like the Imprezza WRX STi and Lancer Evolution... To get that bit closer to the action... juz some food for thought as i put on shoes preparing to go out today... plus, it's cool right?

WRC -spec Imprezza
The family car with a big punch

got to church today, happy in the knowledge that Liv had beaten Chelsea last night and on the way to winning the FA cup...sure it may not be as big as the Champions League, but it's better than the carling cup right? it was so big, even one of the pastors mentioned it, and he's a Man U fan...

The plan is simple, Chelsea takes the premiereship, Liverpool the FA cup, Man U already has the Carling Cup, and mayb Arsenal will win the Champs League...

Went Marina after church again for lunch... think the new marina really much better than the old one...

anyway on to Lost Identity...

This is it... as you can see, everyone looks a bit confused and not really all together there...it's been bout 1.5 years since the last time we met officially, and things haven't changed v. much...
i'm glad to say all the guys made it for the gathering, including Aaron who is studying in states...

The other well, haha, i dunno what happened... most ppl went though, n kudos to Hilda for putting in the massive effort to make it happen...

dun really noe wat else to say...haha...

FUNdamentals of flight

2006-04-21T16:15:00.000+08:00

so... school's finally reopened... new faces, new subjects, same old story...

well not quite.... for one, the new modules are almost exclusively aero modules (which= the fun stuff)... also most of the lecturers we get this semester all seem pretty good at teaching.... of course, we still get those wonky ones, but even then, tt dosen't mean they teach badly...

younger lecturers are a fresh change... i was pretty suprised when i first saw my "fundamentals of flight" lecturer, he had black hair on his head! he's around 30 give or take, n reminds me of a Cadet Inspector or Officer, the way he carries himself or teaches us, always refering to us as "gentlemen"... haha, he prob dosen't noe us very well to call us that....

yest(Thursday) was the first day doing replacement for CYA... up till now had only done friday.... this was much to the amusement of some of the other thursday seniors... a senior hu nev done replacement...

anyway thursday CYAs pretty cool.... got quite a gd no. of pretty gals...also found out of the days seniors is same batch as me from Pasir Ris Pri... recognised one of the juniors from somewhere in the distant past... rmbred her name, but can't rmbr where she frm... she said she also find me familiar... hmm... one of them was even changing in the room, while i was already in it... haha, rmbr hui ping?

when i was on my way back to the office to sign off, guess who i saw... a certain ms ong aka "g-string"... at first i tot i was seeing things caus all i could see was back view, but the black skirt, peachy coloured vertical striped blouse is totally unmistakable..... she was walking with some guy, looks like those cheat money salesman, n he was wearing a bluetooth earpiece...

he basically grabbed her by the hand n dragged her across the entire arrivals.... haha.... v. funny to watch... nev liked ppl who wear bluetooth all day... makes me think they like to act busy or impt or smth...

my new GEMS module is Astronomy n Calendars... took it caus got some interest n can score A quite easily... found out the lecturer for the module not so well informed.... kept on saying malay-calender instead of Islamic calender.... and pronounced Christ as "Chris".... zzzzz.... tt class really sleepy... luckily happend tt one of my CYA junior(but actually same yr as me), also took this GEM so got some company....

All Stars

2006-04-16T21:40:00.000+08:00

Friday, friday.... forgot tt it was a public holiday, only rmbr tt got CYA tt day. went out with wq, jas, n ql to marina square. The plan was to play DotA n buy shoes, but ended up we only have time to play dota. Even then, it was a big rush. Halfway through the game, my senior Elektra called me, asking me whether i could meet her at the airport earlier to pass me her old course notes. So rushed through the game, in order to meet her.

Even then i knew couldn't make it on time, in fact, got there half n hour late. Feel v. bad, hate to make ppl wait long... specially when she came all the way with those heavy notes... when finally got there, another big delay... skytrain was stuck! first time in the whole univerese i ever heard tt smth in the airport is not functioning... so sway...

anyway finally met elek 1 hour after i arrived at the airport together with some others... didn't have long to stay n chat though, caus suddenly got a call from the walkie, from one of the CSO's saying that they needed help with crowd control cause of the fallout from the Skytrain thingy...

zzz... guess it not my day.... but duty calls. anyway this was the moment i'd been waiting for, smth exciting at the airport... like looking for lost kids, or finding a lost passenger or smth... spent the next hour or so running up n down the airport...

gd news is though, i got the SIA engineering bursary/scholarship thingy... think she got a job there too...

even made frenz with one of the skytrain guides, a guy named kil... happens to b his from NP 2nd year, haha, so chances are i could have sold him a laptop last year.... friendly guy, working there part time...

then later went to do arrival counters where it was really busy with all sorts of passenger problems i never faced before... foreign workers with passports expiring the next day and missed flight because of the skytrain, african football players whose agents didn't meet them, n they got no money, n more n more complicated stuff.... haven't learnt so much since.... i started CYA i think... quite refreshing....

SAT

more dota, enuff even to satisfy me... 4 matches, 2 random, 2 standard.... played pretty well, no lag, good fun, even when we lost 1st match... got to use all the new char's like veno, lich, omni.... but 4 hours enuff.. hope start schl no reunion dota... haha...

later sppsed to go city harvest play for Good Friday, but it was fully packed by the time i reached, which was on time... ended up going to eastpoint for Sakesushi instead.

SUN
went church with mum. good message. spent lot of time shopping. bought my shoes le.

My Sassy Girl

2006-04-12T18:45:00.000+08:00

Last week of Hols, finally truly free, so got time to do 1 for fun post..

Jeon Ji Hyun

Now this is Jeon Ji Hyun, the sassy gal, from the korean movie My Sassy Girl.... she came into Spore last night bout 7+, she's here to promote her new movie, Daisy, which i never heard of... yet... no matter...

Question: how come pretty korean actresses dun come to Spore when i'm doing duty at the airport? i dunno... the only thing i noe is, she's cute... specially in that olympus camera ad....

Old Acquaitences

2006-04-10T16:07:00.000+08:00

over the past week met 3 ex-hai sians... one's tt i know quite well tt is...

first up there's khim hwee, aka wee-wee, kiwi etc etc...met him caus last thurs after work, everyone hungry, so went tampines S11 to eat, then dennis called khim hwee along... good news is his hair is more under control now....haha...ok dun make fun of hime le...

anyway dennis said khim hwee is dota pro... not juz pro, damn pro.... 30 kills with 0 deaths? tt would put him over spence in the match which he used the Stealth Assasin...

anyway while we were ordering food, met brad n his gf.... his gf, quite pretty, then summore like planes n swords n stuff, so i reckon quite a gd catch.... oh, n he was in his boxers, again...

after we had finished eating, then were like waiting n wondering where to go next... i quite tired then wanna go back, but brad n gf were still like eating n talking n stuff, so i asked dennis they all wat to do....

daniel, who was sitting next to brad's gf, said:"stare la"... umm, this kinda remark, usually i find quite funny, but then, when brad n gf started staring at him, then like.... not so funny anymore...
luckily i told brad we gtg le, then all of us took off...

comments like this... always ticks off lecturers n staff.... i wonder in sec schl, wat would happen to him...haha...

on sun met brad again, this time after church.... once again with his darling...

that evening, bout 9+ went tamp mac to watch the liverpool match with ql n wq... but when i got there, they were at S11 le, caus they tot mac not showing....

so watched the whole first half by myself, got a good seat n was drinking my milo... at half time, caus v. urgent so went to the toilet, but left my half-full milo at the table as i didn't have anything else to like mark my place.... coming back from the toilet like a minute later, there was a guy sitting at my table, n my milo was gone! really so sway, wat i imagine really come true...

quite irritated, then went around looking for another table, then some botak guy call me, "TIMO!"... i turned around, actually this botak guy was wan fung, he shaved himself bald, again... zzz...

later i went to talk to the person who was cleaning up, n got myself another full cup of milo, which was nice of them.... wanted to write the GEMS card thingy for them, but was busy toking to wf....

after a bit then ql n wq reached mac... later mariliene also... the liverpool match was quite boring... was more entertaining bluffing her bout soccer stuff....

Chilling Out

2006-04-01T22:49:00.000+08:00

Tuesday, was a v. busy day for us at acer... specially asked my boss, whether can leave at 6... because i was meeting jas, wq, n marilene for Ice Age 2(<--hence the title). actually ql n marilene, invited me for movie on fri, but can't make it, so invited them back, but only mar can make it, so therefore the weird combi... the rest of the story i'm sure u all noe liao so i will not repeat.... juz think that, it's pretty cool to go to a movie premiere, n the new Cathay looks spiffy, bit mix of old style architechture n modern...
Friday

this friday is the last day of some of those friday CYA's from my batch(4th batch)... my senior asked me to organise a gathering after duty, so i did a simple one, sending out a single sms to a few ppl...

CYA in my time consisted of about 8-9 ppl max, today though a total of 19 ppl arrived for the gathering, including the 5th batch... success! at organising even with v. little effort put in...

the VP was on my day again.... u noe, the one who likes to pick on wat i do in the airport... he came over to my counter today, n did the audit for the juniors n me...

the worse bit was, he made me ask the questions n correct them, making life v. difficult for them... wat's more, i had to stand through all 3... v. stressful, when they can't answer, when he ask diff question, n put them in awkward positions, i'm caught in the middle....

the way i see it, CYA duty ppl shld stick together n help each other out, n not make life diff for each other... after all, wat can we gain from it? nth... to prove my point, when i walked to T1 today, the 5th batch ppl juz walked past me as i was doing roving.... i dunno them, they dunno me...

this wouldn't hav happened back in the gd old days, when we had 45 min breaks, n everyone met up together... it was going a bit overboard i admit, but it was a hell lot of fun...

after their audit, i juz took a walk along the finger pier of the F gates alone... walking alone, gave me time to reflect on CYA n my future in it... starting to feel like my fav senior who left, Elek, who loves duty n juz watching the planes n passengers, not thinking of rules n sucking up n stuff like tt...

one day i'll write a book about the history of CYA... it'll go down in history books, like the communist revolution or smth... there's lots i can't say....

btw i went for the interview for offical CYA Senior Rover promotion today... mixed emotions going there, shld i care whether i got promoted? or even if i drop out of CYA? am i prepared? then i juz gave up n realised not to trust my own thinking...

i got into the interview seat pretty calmly, n though some of the questions were pretty tough, n i was a bit shaky at times, i had a good feel when i came out of the room...

Lionel, another of my fav seniors, told me bout my new position of quatermaster.... thinking over from him who will b stepping down frm committee...

later the VP wanted to treat us for pizza, but i left for kembangan n Dota.... when got there, they were playing a match against another team... the match was v. exciting, but we lost in the end... actually felt bit frustrated at our team losing n sum ppl not playing properly, budden i realise, it's juz a game, n i guess i take it too seriously......

haha, another reason for my title is a new char i've been training, after watching the match this afternoon, thinking of learning a new team-supporter character, Omniknight, which is a great assest in team battles...

V for Vendetta, W for W-W-W-WICKED SICK

2006-03-26T23:50:00.000+08:00

better post, b4 get lazy again...

SAT

great fun day... arranged with jas the night before whether wanted DotA on sat, but we weren't too sure whether got ppl coming not...

actually on sat morn itself then we started calling, but got great response! finally got to play the match i missed that thursday...

played 2 rounds before soccer... 1st round me kev n jas... pretty gd team i think... jas sandking, v. strong, got beyond godlike streak..... me meanwhile, played as a peter crouch role, stunning n setting up kills, but cannot finish myself... : ( oh well, impt is team wins!

2nd game, wasn't finished, i got Lion a intel hero i nev used before... gd character, managed to get all the kills n a killing spree before everyone quit...

lunched with jas at white sands....

soccer played 2 halves.... the weather was cloudy n windy.... juz the way i like it... 1st half played v.v. poorly... 2nd half better a little... it's the position i think... can't play as last man..

hav to play a ji siao role..haha, my class would b proud... think i play best with chee kong behind me, so not so worried if make a mistake....

love to play with the guys.... not like elsewhere, dun hav to worry bout ego's n politics.... juz open honest fun...

went home to bathe a bit, then met chee kong, ql, wq n pei yi at tamp mac for the liverpool match... didn't noe they showed matches there, but it was really cool... big LCD or Plasma tv... nice atmosphere..... n the match was pretty exciting too...

aft the match, we played one more round of DotA, this time me n ql vs ck n wq.... played a gd game, with ql owning the late game...took a late bus back... nice to walk by urself at night...

The quiet street while waiting for the bus to tamp...
xpect to see a panda coloured Toyota Trueno to drift across the corner...

SUN

saw mariliene while at church.. not so unexpected.... seldom suprised to meet ppl outside anymore... xcept one time jas at the bus interchange...

aft that me n jeremy, (the indonesian boy pri3, who staying with us), went arcade.... i payed 3 bucks, but enjoyed 5 rounds, caus i challenged a guy n won twice, once in the dry n once in the wet... lucky he was a normal guy, not some punk, or a small kid with lots of money... shook hands, gd clean match...

did i mention winning feels pretty gd...

went grandma's house, met my aunt who is also my boss at acer.... and... she's gonna kill me if i go work for late tml! its 1 am, so night!

-Taken at airport
-It's not juz any 4WD, it's a quattro!
-Audi Quattro revolusionised rallying in the 1980's by introducing 4wd and turbo chargers into cars
-It won the first championship the year it was introduced

-original 1988 audi quattro
-as the german designer said himself, "at that time, i give a shit for the car's looks"
-tt explains the looks
-then again, looks dun win rallies

God save the queen

2006-03-25T00:31:00.000+08:00

actually this queen thing is pretty long ago... last week actually... i'm a backdated-bloggger...lazy... juz too lazy...last friday to b exact...

basically what we did whole day is, dress up, shirt tie n black pants... then we came to schl n each of us were put in charge of another schl, mostly sec schl's , ITE n the other Poly's...

the other poly's were dressed v. informally, t-shirt n jeans, n like were v. siao in front of the camera's...

on the other hand, my group got the ITE students.... at first we tot they were some JC caus of their blazer n all...suprisingly they were pretty quiet bunch... i overheard one of them saying that the ITE purposely chose those quiet students to go....haha...

reaching the new national library, we stood by the side of the entrance for a couple of hours, a real waste of time... in my head i was thinkin, like " who does she think she is, the queen???".. yes she is my boy...

there was this v. chio s'pore sportswoman, her face looked v. familiar, dressed in heels n the red team s'pore jacket... but quite dao... also, i heard frm my fren that the only reason tt she is here, is caus she not gd enuff to qualify for the Commonwealth games...zz... next time if got her name i'll post it here..

what we were therefore is basically 1 thing... to add a crowd for the cameras... u see the flags ppl wave on tv whenever there is a major foreign guest? the flags are given out by the organisers... so, juz bout everything u see on the "news" is staged publicity...

no wonder mum always said :"dun blive everything u see on the tv"...

after the visit, had lunch and went to Esplanade for a committee meeting for CYA... the details r quite hush hush, but there was a voting system, n somehow i got voted joint head of PR... huh... imagine tt...

then it was off to airport yet again for CYA duty proper... hmm... 1st day for the 5th batch... they weren't the only one stressed up... i was too... i got the sorta taste of like unexpected parenthood thrust onto you...

Wednesday Night Fever

2006-03-18T13:30:00.000+08:00

never really did watch tt show... saturday night fever... all i rmbr of it is a skinny John Travolta in a black leather jacket, shaking his bum to "Staying Alive" song by the Bee Gees... yikes...

nope, wednesday night fever is a lot worse than listening to the Bee-Gees, (although both will give u a thumping headache)...

wednesday morn...went to the Acer HQ in jurong together with my classmate daniel n dennis hoe, to recieve briefing for our job... dennis was half an hour late, and his phone was dead.....

bla bla bla..... training over, the 3 of us with a new NP guy went to boon lay for lunch... y would we go so far, u might ask? well for east siders, there's only one reason to go there... ARCADE... yep, after so much dota the last few weeks or months, me n daniel were really missing the arcade...

with only $3... i played 6 games, broke 2 lap times and beat 2 opponents.... woot... in great form.... i guess for initial D, u shldn't try too hard, or study the course too much, unlike DotA... juz go with ur instincts i guess...

at home, i tried to prepare for the dota match the next day by practicing a bit, but dunno y kept feeling so sleepy n dizzy....

sleepy n dizzy yes, but i couldn't get any gd sleep that night... kept on tossing around, caus i felt v. warm n my throat was dry.......

it was a WEDNESDAY NIGHT FEVER...

next morning my alarm rang to go for the match at kembangan, but all i could feel was that i was super giddy..... the sensation is like... everything around you is moving at hyper speed... very scary, but not the first time i got this sensation..... actually i more scared is fever high until got permanent brain damage...

High Flyer

2006-03-14T22:03:00.000+08:00

Inuyasha frm comics connection

Kizzy, our crazy dog( yup, makes me look sane)

Mon

juz when i finally tot i had a 1 day break, i'm being called up to be an audience for the press conference of NYAA photo competition... well smth like tt...

it was at the top floor of the new National Library, n the view frm there is way cool... a near 360 degree view of the town area, including suntec, esplanade, and juz about everybody's houses...

even the toilets got this great open air view... great, i learnt wat living the good life means...

it means u can piss, 100+ metres in the air, and still feel secure in the fact tt Newpaper will not take pictures of u... (read: newpaper recently took pics of a flasher in hdb room)

after hanging around a bit, some minister ( forgot his name, so nooob) and the British High Commissioner came in to give out the prizes... the winner of the competition were 1 guy n 1 gal, both from... u-guessed-it SP (i'm wondering are we the only one's who took part?)

supposed to be some 3500 ppl submitted photos and like a 1/4 million ppl went online to vote...
hmm... both the guy n the gal, looked like well, model students... looks qutie ok. feels- well im not gay, or pervert... they looked like those giordano models ya noe? or campus superstar kinda ppl..

they provided food there, but the food was... well... v. iffy.... the only thing i knew how to consume was the orange juice... i tried this cup of yellow, orange, green thingy, some kinda vegetable, n nearly threw up over the expensive carpet.... tasted horrible, ginger with tomato or smth... i think, too much money does things to ur head...

after that me n one guy went back to pasir ris, eat at Magic Wok, n slack a bit at library...haven't done tt for long time... slacking i mean... heh, first week of hols more like hell week.....

Tue

spoke with Christina, Sarah's sis, think ya'll noe her better than me... she said she saw me taking 358 back frm white sands yest...

haven't spoken to her since.... the good old gunbound days... bout 3 year back le.... now tt's long...

once again back to Bugis in late afternoon... this time for check up with SIA engg...

Raffles Hospital... free check up... cool... sporean's love anyth that has the name raffles on it...

easiest bit was the colour blindness test... during height n weight, was expecting the nurse to tell me to eat more, but nth...

during ex-ray, the rather young radiologsit told me to "take of ur shirt", again expecting tt phrase, but nth...

conclusion? crystal was here before me... (<-- hope u get it) no offense hor... hearing test was the toughest... they put u in this tiny but thick walled cubicle, stick on monster earphones, lock u in, then..... nothing... all quiet... slowly but surely, u can hear tiny squeaking noises, n ur supposed to click this controller when u hear a sound... the sounds r... soft to say the least, but being bred on a diet of jay chou songs n frequent conversations with my rather soft-spoken hamster, it wasn't too tough... juz click click click whenever u hear anyth... hey, i even got a souvenir when i got back, i got to keep my X-ray! cool... i've got it over my Shaman King posters at home now... haha, tml no rest... once again, go JURONG for briefing on acer... ZZzz... nights!

Busy Busy Little Bee

2006-03-13T01:11:00.000+08:00

this hols so far hav been... busy like s*** to say the least.... funearls, (still dunno how to spell), CYA training, SIA engg interview, work, bla bla.... in 9 days so far only got 1 day off with nth to do....

killer routine for a slacker like me... i'm not like my sis, who is probably gonna b the shaun of her class or smth... everyday got smth or other, then always nev study....

talking bout the SIA interview... it went off pretty badly... arrived early at the Cargo Complex area, had to change passes n stuff... then had to b escorted through this huge labryinth like building.... the size of like.. umm... can't think of anything this size...

the length we walked is like double from one end of suntec to the other, stacked 10 stories high at least.... saw a few plane hangars n stuff, but overall the place got a very warehousey, industrial feel... definetly not my 1st choice of work place.... hate warehouses...

came to this small white office area, named the human resource room... ppl there look v. sian and all... can't imagine working there in future... tt's y i say working sux...

afterh hour plus wait, invited into a small room, to b interview by a pregnant woman n an older man, hu is v. like a lecturer.... they start off by asking me to introduce myself n stuf.... then ask me damn a lot of v. diff questions....

eg. "since u say u like planes so much and noe so much" tell me how a plane flies..... i like wtf... i nev say i noe so much, only that i like, anyway, how plane flies is wat ppl spend years studying in university...

more qn like : where do you think SIA engineering is headed in the future? (if i m a fortune teller, i woulda gotten myself a winning ticket le... this kinda qn, u ask ur boss la...)

the woman especially, was a real bitch...n i dun say tt lightly, throughout the interview, she gav the damn sian look to me, whenever she was looking at me at all... also she always ask qn, then giv a scornful look when i ans, like i'm an idiot or wat..... eff off la...

they guy was better, but his still keep trying like a bit to discourage me..... saying ur too young to decide... this is the real thing bla bla bal....

at the end they gav this killer IQ test, smth like wei qiangs petal in a rose qn, but 25 of them in 30 mins...

i knew i did quite badly, but dun really care le... even if i got the scholarship, not sure if i wanna b bonded to such ppl for 5 years...

finish my job, but tml gotta go for CYA stuff, smth to do with the queen, n tue SIA health checkup....

Alone in a crowd

2006-03-13T00:18:00.000+08:00

anyone here rmbr Titanic? the scene where Rose wanna commit suicide, caus she say smth about how she feel so alone even though she's rich n got a lot of ppl around her?

no? nev mind... parents probably didn't bring ya caus they didn't want u to watch ppl making out in a vintage car on board a sinking ship...

anyway, working in the IT SHOW for the last 3 days, n seeing so many ppl giv me that experiecne, except the suicide part... jumping off the top floor of the convention centre n lending on the X box 360 booth wouldn't b a healthy sight for the kids playing there...

the best way to drive a person crazy or juz stone him out, is to make him giv out flyers... for 9 hours... wonder if they do that in Abu Gharib? giving out flyers is bad bad bad, psychologically n mentally...

ppl dun treat u as a person, n u dun treat them as ppl... v. hard to xplain...
everyone looks alike after a while, chio, ugly, fat , thin, dun make a difference to u... juz wanna get home...unless u've done it before...time crawls to a standstill, stretching to eternity...

giving out flyers aint such a simple affair as sticking ur hand out either... i sppsd to control the rate of giving out, to make sure they last through the entire IT SHOW... wats more, got different catalogue, supposed to giv to diff ppl... like Plasma TV's dun giv to small kids n such... easy to say, but wat do ya do when a kid's got both paws on the paper n won't let go?

conditions pretty bad too... piles of cardboard boxes, n piles of torn paper lining the sides of the halls... ppl shouting n grabbign stuff... more like a seen frm hurricane katrina or slums in sum african country then s'proe you'd think...

on the bright side though i learnt tt... liverpool fans r much more then any other clubs.... sure u see 1 or 2 man u or ac milan fans once a while... but liverpool fans r like whoa! super a lot.... all sorts of jersey's tt u nev even dreamed of... green and white? candy instead of carlsberg? which alternate dimension did these liverpools come frm?

5th Squad

2006-03-08T19:50:00.000+08:00

actually the title shld b called 5th Batch, after the batch we're training at the airport, but, i tot 5th squad sounded cooler...so there...

Monday

Met up with the rest of the seniors frm 4th batch, n we spent the day with the CSO's, following the 5th batch as they went about their training.... later took them around for a short trip around terminal 1...

On the way back, boarded teh same bus as one of the trainer CSO's, Ana Maria, she bit intimidating but no choice, got to gather my courage n tok to her.... tok bit bout Mp3 players n stuff... quite relieved when she dropped at the edge of pasir ris there...

met jas at white sands for lunch, he showed me his notebook thingy for the first time, quite cool, looks v. much like a lap top.... later he came over to see the dog, then went to the gym with him...

stamina really sux... ran pretty slow, yet barely managed to complete 1 km.... besides tt though, realised going gym pretty fun... no one was there, so no one else looking, n the room quite small too...

TUE

no CYA today, juz slack at home..... Dennis called, said he wanted to pick up some notes.... he came with his rather big fren jonathan who also going SP... both of them happen to know my claassmate Shum Wai... spore's pretty small...

recieved the e-mail frm SIA engineering, have a interview on thursday...

Wed

wanted to stay at home today as well, but the guys needed some help so went for training too...

more fun today i think, whole day was basically juz pure mentoring, which means no lectures frm the CSO's or anything, juz going in our groups n familiarising ourselves... also, went out in small groups today, me n mindzi, with 4 juniors with us... much prefer small groups, easier to talk to ppl i feel...

tt Marcus was in my grp... actually he not so bad... pretty pro, caus he worked at SATS before as well...

highlight of the day was lunch... we had it at the Fish & Co in the airport... actually was a bit reluctant, caus v. ex, but since everyone wanted to go, so i tagged along....

there we were served by several interesting staff.... one guy was the manager i think, he made those alcoholic cocktails or wateva, tossing the colouful bottles around.... pretty neat to watch...he asked us what we did in the airport.... always hav trouble answering tt one...

everyone besides me ordered fish n chips, but most ordered New York fish n chips.... i joked tt New York fish n chips had a flag or smth stuck in them, n when the dishes arrived, true enough, tt's wat it was...

best part was, our water was refilled by this super-super-cute waitress, got a cute dog at home, but she's much cuter... she looked smth like ms seah, but much nicer n funnier... when it came time to pay the bills, our reciept didn't match wat we thought was the price of the food... so we counted a lot of times...

she joked "one of you're muz stay back n help the cook wash dishes liao... our cook will be glad to have you...". damn... i shld hav volunteered, then can stay there longer...

after we left the restraunt, me n my fren suddenly tok bout the waitress at the same time... we decided to ask another guy to get the no. for us.... later found out, she didn't want to giv to him... she wanted us to go ourselves...

tot bout it of the rest of the day, but decided to come back sum other time.... juz hope she still there...

Delayed Reaction

2006-03-07T16:27:00.000+08:00

Friday's last paper was thermofluids, the only paper i can say was relatively easy..... either this term's exams is harder than last terms or i've slacked in standard... met crystal in the morn when we alighted at dover...

after the paper, went with my class to Dhoby Gauht for DotA.... played 3 matches in total.... my team got owned all 3 times... sian... haha...

met wq at 6 at raffles city, n we walked to suntec to see the World Cup there... along the way saw lot of TP n IJ ppl, including Jieying n Daphne...

the world cup thing was.... allright, but not terribly interesting to me... juz saw some Xbox n displays n took a pic with the cup.... i think going to see a world cup match would b much more exciting to me then, juz standing next to it...

oh then i saw lorraine at the city link on the way back to city hall mrt...

then he went home as i went to an Grand-Aunty's funeral at Bedok....zzz been going to a lot of these recently...found out also tt my hamster, the blonde one, died after living with us for like 3-4 years..... super long life.... think most of u who have been 2 my house noe it...

it's the one who daryl claimed, ate his Amaths book n chinese sou che...mayb someone shld inform him...

SAT

soccer at pasir ris for me aft a long while.... pretty gd fun i think.... nev been exercising...jas scored a lot alot tt day n was the usual ppl to turn up...

after got home n had a shower, realised no one else at home, n hav no food, so met ql n went to S11 for dinner....

when i finished eating bout 10+, but both of us itching for DotA so went ahead to raiders with wq n played 2 games....

by tt time was bout 1145 liaoz... me n ql rushed to the interchange b4 all the buses left... luckily still got bus 3..... reached back bout 1245...

was greeted by a small little dog with a tiny tongue n pretty cute face when i entered the door...... my sis had finally bought the dog, frm her fren after discussing for a long time...

The Magic of Gathering

2006-02-27T22:38:00.000+08:00

as, can see, i can't really rmbr wat happen last 2 weeks or so...basically staying at home n not really studying v. much... exams this semester significantlly tougher than last semseter.....

in the last 2 weeks, realised tt there hav been quite a couple of gatherings being organised....

first one, the weirdest. a pri schl gathering for all those who grad in 2000 sent by frendster, planning to meet on a sunday evening. i think it was yesterday i think, i wonder who actually turned up? or maybe it was some kinda prank or smth...

those ppl frm our batch(hai sing) frm pasir ris primary quite a lot i think mayb close to 20? includes ql, don, yi cheng, shaun, benjamin, deborah, sing ying, xing ling, audrey, bla bla bla...

secondly, 4e2 gathering which hilda juz sent e-mail for, rmbr someone saying we were sppsd to have one during december, but nev materialised.

thirdly, the 2e1 gathering, frm which we all from... n marcus is organising... another pretty weird one... haha, quite stunned.....

besides going for bbq's, which i'm in a bit of doubt whether will actually happen,

this bit of plan for my hols

1) work, work, work, may be selling laptops for acer again... this time at my schl...

2) CYA will b havin some training n stuff which i'll hav to attend...

3) Mayb fly over to visit my dad there...

4)Still thinking about it...

last paper on fri, got 3 days to study...ok tt's it.

Walking on cakes

2006-02-23T14:03:00.000+08:00

sorry haven't post for quite a while, xam week now u see.... busy studying... well actually not.... slack 70% study 30% max...

LAST sat n sunday

planned to study at home, but had to go for some NYAA event on sat for CYA..... went to orchard to giv out some flyers for a while..... whole day bombarded by ppl asking me to go for so many diff things until i v. confused on wat to go.... cellgroup meeting, wq's acjc open house, can't rmbr the rest...

sunday visited the funrael(<-- forgot how to spell) after church, saw the body of Uncle Ling in the coffin... he looked, v. worse off then when the last time i visited... he muz hav suffered a lot toward the end.... gd thing now in a better place... cleared 2 papers so far, electronics n Calculus.... both of which are killers to me.... though my fren felt it was a piece of cake.... oh well... wat's over is over... buck up on the other 2...

basically whole week have been stuck at home, sort of studying, actually more like, wasting time... books are open on the table but, usually end up lying on the bed instead.... stay awake until 3+,4+... studying a bit, watching soccer match a bit... staying awake so much has given me a monster ulcer... bit smaller than those old 1 cent coins.... tried everything to cure them, xcept for sleeping.... creams, salt, chinese powder, sugar cane juice, honey water, u name it.... really hurt like hell the entire week, anything i put in my mouth juz burns... so much so, i only brushed one side of my mouth for the whole week.... yucks...

p.s(this post done bit by bit for a week, so confused i'll stop now)

Treading on thin ice

2006-02-17T16:14:00.000+08:00

got a day off to study on thursday, spent most of the day studying, watching tv, n a game of dota... feels gd to have 1 day off in the mid of the week...

regretted not filing my GEMS photos properly as i spent 4-5 hours, compiling the photos into 21 pages and giving them descripitons and stuff... wanted to study a bit for autoCAD test next day, but by then it's 2am liao....

Fri
This morn, my mum's fren husband died of colon cancer he had for a while le, Uncle Ling, their family really very nice, always willing to help ppl and give encouragement... even when they hav trouble themselves they will still try to help others. when i heard that so early in the morn, i was quite stunned, then like sudd bit sad feeling.... for him, he's gone to be with Jesus...

last time smth like this happened is when sing ying's mother died in sec 2 i rmbr... like quite sad for her also... still rmbr tay ling ling still ask everyone why they so stone : "You all look like somebody juz died". i think i'll always rmbr those words... what well chosen words...

Left home earlier then usual, so for the first time in 6 months, i was early for class on fri... it's final test so dun wanna b late la... after a bit of horsing around the test started.... had a bit of trouble with my pc, had to restart once, but after that, ran smoothly.... turns out this test is easier than the previous one....

"cakewalk" my fren says....one more subject cleared... next hurdle is exams next week...

after class, everyone so happy that, of course, play DotA.... my whole class everyone growing stronger until now our skills all about even, except for some...

finished the game at 1, juz nice to go back schl n giv my portfolio printout to teacher, but not enough, to reach the airport at 1.25pm and meet my dad's fren coming back from DOHA, who had something my dad wanted to pass to us...
in the end my mum went instead of me..

later, i met up with her like 1 hour after the plane landed, and she was still waiting for the guy, turns out, that stupid guy left when he couldn't see anyone, even though my mum was early.... no choice, ate lunch at airport....

WINTER OLYMPICS

winter olympics has been on for a while now.. not really interested in those weird weird sports,
until i saw ice hockey on ch5... ice hockey is cool, figuratively n literally......

actually caus of ice hockey is y i like floorball in the 1st place, caus fb is derived from ice hockey, they got similarities like the boards n the keeper n stuff.... juz tt, skating around is like much more graceful then juz running.... but then of course, ice hockey is super rough as well as a downside....

Of Two Minds

2006-02-14T23:53:00.000+08:00

TUE
For the last 6 months, my group has been working on the IDEAS module to come up which a product to market and sell, which for our group is a wireless bluetooth headset...

all tt work put into a final presenation which was to be submitted today.... xcept tt after our 2 tests, on our way back, we realised it was gone..... die, tt's 30% of our marks... my fren went back for like an hour++ but still cannot find....

this morning though, he came to schl with the xact same product, 6 months of work, chionged into a few hours, done at home summore! tt's called skill...

anyway on to the topic...

got a call frm dennis last night, he asked me "ur in aeronautical course in SP right?"...i tot, yeah, y?

found out, he thinking bout leaving MJ n go poly, so spent the next half an hour or so on the phone, telling him bout schl n schl life n stuff... gotta feeling he really gonna make the change...

he said (somebody in my old class) also considering.... so after i fin with dennis i called this person...

we talked even longer then with dennis..........talked bout his results n the schl schedule n stuff like tt... then i came to the realisation that beneath the exterior stuff, like clothes and the subjects learned, rules, and all that, there is a fundamental difference in learning style between the two...

tried to use all the skill i picked up while selling notebooks as NP to convince him to cross over... at first i tot he might also move over,as sounded interested enuff....

then later at night, when got time to cool of n think bout it again, my gut feel is tt he wouldn't move when it came right down to it..... he would still stay...

if anyone would move, dennis was the higher chance...

quite true enuff, msged the other person today, n he said dennis n parents were toking to the teachers liao.... then he still considering....

on that note, i would like to post a reminder, all the above is juz for ur info, pls do not ask around schl saying i said this or i said that...thank you

Jet powered time

2006-02-11T22:35:00.000+08:00

time really flies, esp in aero course... nearing the end of the semester... many classes either last class or some already completed lectures...

had a presenation on tue... bia-ed until midnight to complete... but when time came to present, the words came out stuck together... sianz... also read almost totally from the script, over shot the time limit by a lot too... the only gd thing is tt it is the last lesson, n won't hav to see frenchy stupid face again...

wed played dota again, after class this time, won twice, got trashed once...

thurs, got a call from slightly unexpected person... mingsui, one of the gals i worked with while selling laptops at NP last year... haven't spoken since, may last year or smth... funny thing is, i thought i saw her in the train juz tt morn...

she needed help with her com or smth... thought it a bit weird, y suddenly call me? can't really hear wat she saying, so juz pass the phone to my fren who's gd at com... juz told him "cute gal from NP needs help", then he took my phone and ran off...

he was gone 4 quite a while, we joked that mayb he was on his way to NP liao, since it's actually quite close to SP... eventually he came back, with my phone... spoke to her a bit...

ms:"where r u now?"

me:"schl"

ms:"NP ah?"

me:"no.."

ms:"u not studying, poly meh?"

me:"got... SP"

mayb she thought i was studying one of the IT courses in NP...

lesson to b learned: If ur cute gal from Np, the despo guys in aero in SP will surely help u...
lesson no.2: having a cute, chipmunk kinda voice helps as well..

Fri
last CYA before exams, had a pretty gd time, like old times, tok cock, make fun of passengers etc...

half the guys won't b staying on till for next 6 months... frm my day left 1 gal staying only, rare for CYA...

better prepare for exams liao...

You can't have your cake and eat it

2006-02-05T18:38:00.000+08:00

CYA 5th batch day camp

sat morn... barely reached schl on time... got lotsa ppl already crowding round the place...

today was the day camp for the 5th batch of CYA's (ours being the 4th batch). was put in charge of a group and had to lead them through the usual games, Good Morning n bla bla...

among the familiar faces was 2 haisians, ying hui n marcus(the sec5 from npcc)... rmbr marcus as my NCO during NPCC days... now bcome i'm the senior... haha... role reversal... he was like quite a big face during the camp... act monkey and all...

today also got to meet the other seniors... sum met before, some not... most r nice...

one interesting guy, the camp emcee(think superhost)... v. v. high during the camp... rmbr got one point near the end of the camp, the person in charge was giving a speech about responsibility and stuff... then i said under my breath, "dun do things like playing Xbox during ur break time"...

he caught on what i said, n we tok abit about it, ask like what happened n stuff, but dunno it was me... he asked if all of them were "kicked out"... i said yeah... then i asked"Do you think they desereve it?", his reply was an enthusiastic, "OF COURSE THEY DESERVE IT!"...

haha... mayb he didn't get why i smiled so widely when he said that...

there was also this interview for all the seniors for the Commitee posts...

got home tired, but still hav to chiong project...

SUN

went back to my own church for first time in a long while... v. refreshing, left service feeling pretty good... also updated my initial D card... visited the sword shop Caeser's, seeing what new sword they sell... wanted to ask if they got Sange and Yasha, but i think they only got sell broadsword... haha... so lame...

wondering if shld claim the lightsaber my mum promised during sec4 if i can get below 12 points... during then it seemed an impossiblity, even worse when i got my prelim results... now, mayb shld get, if got the money...

Sange and Yasha

2006-02-04T01:07:00.001+08:00

try to sum up the week as best as possible... basically hav been dotaing alot, during class time and at home, with jas n my classmates.... improved quite a bit, though still v. noob....

met xy again yest...thought i had to pass up GEMS photos today, so chionged to the beach on bicycle to take some photos... when got home, realised it's submit next week.... hmm...

on the way, stopped at downtown east to buy cd-r... n play intial D... when challenged this guy to a game, realised my ini D card is full le, n need to buy new one... v. sian, but still challenged him with the stock (non-modified) version of my car the FC3S, n still managed to beat him quite easily... quite shiok beating someone with stock car...

2nd round, he quite pissed le, then challenge me again, but this time wasn't so lucky... he picked a longer course where his improved car could shine over the longer distance... still, was right on his tail to the end...

Fri
since it's late n can't rmbr much of last few days, will elaborate on today...

today, late for schl again... train seems much slower during the 7-8 period...

no gems today so skipped lunch to go ginza play dota with my class.... played 2 v. long games, ended up 35 mins late for our practical... still, quite worth it, caus we won 2nd round, n both rounds i played quite well...

had a short CYA meeting after lesson, then all of us chionged to airport but still was 1/2 hour late... most of the gals didn't come today... but to make up for it, almost all the guys did, n it was pretty fun, like old times...

there was even a crowd of jap schl gals which caused a big disturbance in the airport, to passengers and CYA's alike... not all r chio, in fact many quite ugly, but the clothing... the uniform... spot on...

have to go as leader for the next batch CYA training tml... hav floorball also, but will hav to skip that... anyway, even if i hav no CYA, still need to chiong 2 presentations to b presented on mon.... well nite then...

Reunion

2006-01-29T16:01:00.000+08:00

SAT
despite sleeping late again, had to get up for floorball... slept most of the way to school... before boarding, saw this guy with a stick at the platform, not sure if from my schl so juz walk away...

many more ppl came for fb today... including the coach Bo... didn't play so well today, quite lousy actually....left early, went back with the guy i saw at the platform today...

juz as i was reaching home, i got a call from my senior lionel, informing me the VP had decided to allow me to promote to Senior Rover... and juz when i was considering calling the VP too! what a miracle

got back to a empty home, ravenous but nth to eat... so bathed n changed n got back out to TM for some last minute shopping... while waiting for my sis to finish her shopping, hung around outside, n met pradeep. we chatted for a while before going off...

eventually n incredibly, they finished their shopping... our reunion dinner this year was with my mum's side, and we headed towards China Square by bus... by then it was evening n the streets were really really quiet... nice to take photos...

after a fine dinner and big packets... we went for a walk down chinatown... the streets were super full of ppl, esp lot of ang moh's who seem fascinated by the whole thing, and looking ready to be cheated by the stall owners... for me, i juz v. sian wanna get back soon and play DOTA...

Rest of CNY

first day visited both grandparents house and juz stayed there, not visiting anyone else... juz wait there for ang pows to come... surprisingly, got quite a lot of money too... rmbr in the 4e2 days, when i got the least among my class... now in my class, i get about the most money!

spent most of the day camped in uncle's room playing HALO 2 with my sis, and getting giddy after that... some of those distant cousins i see each year, really really getting more chio... too bad i dun tok to them... all from elite schools... only my sis can join in...

Brothers in DOTA, Brother in School

2006-01-29T15:03:00.000+08:00

got through yet another test on friday... autocad again... it's chinese new year's eve eve, n my class is wondering whether to skip the rest of the day...

the mood is clearly set when Autocad Aunty releases us half an hour early, when she usually releases us half an hour late... anyway my other classes today r quite meaningless, n been invited to go back so, wat the heck... it's my 1st time skipping class the semester anyway...

back at hai sing, only wq n 4e3 where there talking to mr njoo... as no one else there, could only stand by and watch as he put down other schools, especially the poly's.....

after bout half the 4e2 guys n scott they all finally came... wat really surprised me was tt those who came back were mainly the 4e3 guys n the 4e2 guys.... where were the others? esp the gals, who love to hold bbq n giv cards n presents to teachers? it's only bout 15 mins max from mj to hsc...

went around looking for the few teachers we knew tt were left... mr gng, mr yap, zhang lao shi, mr das..sum of the english teachers... tt was bout it... missed out on mdm lydia though, for like almost 2 years liao... she's still teaching, but she left early...spent quite a while there...

then it was off to pavilion for dota... after much delay from a raiders crowded with underage children and some problems with jas's com, the game was off....... we only played one long match, but it was pretty fun...

first timer, xy played way better than me, with the Skeleton King... spence really fitted his nick 'godlike" by killing 23+ ppl and dying only once... his character invisible to the minimap and hard to see, was complimented by blink ability and killer attacks...

most guys had smth to do so we left bout 5+, me had CYA, chee kong was going to malaysia, xy had to go by 5 i think?, wq had to go chinatown and so on and so on... but at least everyone made the effort to come?so it was gd fun

me n jas worked the same lane many times, but whenever spence appeared we sure die... while he killed one of us, the other would try to escape, but with the blink ability, he usually caught up with and killed the other person as well... haha..

after tt one game, had to rush off to CYA le... seems like things haven't been going my way for CYA these days... today, grace, wan ping, jit and even nigel didn't come... even though lionel came, he couldn't get into transit as he forgot to birng his IC and he lived at boon lay...

Hell have no fury like ...u-noe-the rest...

2006-01-25T19:27:00.000+08:00

got an sms frm angeline this aft... a v. unhappy angeline...

not too sure wat had happened, but this is the impression i get... someone had been teasing her or smth bout the whole thingy, until she got like v. sick of it.... mayb she thinks i've been spreading it or smth, which is not really true... after all, i'm just an outsider to meridian affairs right?what would i get frm bad-mouthing my fren...

anyway, i tot that xy was really saying the truth... i had a nagging doubt bout it, when he said it, so before i got down from the bus i asked, "u sure not?"...his reply was "bluff u for what?"...

feel v. bad... hope tt whoever was involved will apologise then, put this behind...

meanwhile, installing DOTA on my com! yeah... got test tml too... for my OC speech, my teacher gave me 50/100... the lowest in class! wah, feel v. sian... those who cut n paste from net get, 70+, but never mind, try harder...

Sunday morning rain is falling

2006-01-23T23:19:00.000+08:00

SUN
visited scott's church, was quite fun, not a lot of ppl there, but they r friendly... lot of ex-4e1 hai sing there too... had early dinner with them, then went bugis with family for bit of shopping...

in the end only bought black pants and a belt for school presentations and CYA... still wanna buy more stuff, wallet, bag... but still can't find nything i really like...

in the end took a taxi home... one of the taxi's head light was blown... apparently juz had small accident... during the 20+ min ride back, his crystal wind chime thingy, was tinkling non-stop... damn irritating, wanted to juz grab it and yank it off, but controlled myself...

MON
schl finished early, the fat malaysian lecturer's didnt come... whole class cheer like hell...
then went clementi play CS and Initial D...

met XY on bus 3 again... tt's every monday le...

hair too long... got it cut...$10, feel cheated, should hav tell her sec 4...

pretty tree, juz outside my block

Sticks n balls

2006-01-21T19:33:00.000+08:00

While getting on the train to school for floorball, saw chee kong going for soccer n shouted to him... he juz said like "hey", then continue walking down... maybe early in the morn he blur blur, then nev pause to think y i'm at the mrt station...

training today was great... not too many ppl 8-9... had training n games... they played me as attack n mid, which i enjoy more than defence(in he case of floorball)... scored once and had several assists...

ppl passing by will often stop n watch us play for a while... not surprising as fb's a great game to watch... especially when we had space to move around, not too many ppl in the court so its not cramped....

after the training had lunch with them, then followed them around as the went to see the SP INNOVEX... nev tot they r actually quite serious, taking time to listen to almost every booth and asking serious question, unlike to ji siao mats... come to think of it, my class is actually way more ji siao then them...

during the break, they keep asking me bout where i train n stuff, the common qn "do u still go MJ?", "nope", my direct answer... still i wonder how they found out bout it... nev really mentioned to anyone...

when i got home, realised tt no one was home n i didn't hav keys... luckily i called ql, hu was at merlin's house, so i found my way there, n played his PS2 for a while...

oh my sis informed me tt central is showing the anime samurai 7 on central wed-fri, 11pm... think it's the first worth watching anime from central in a while... i watched it before on animax, n so far it's the best i've seen from tt channel... watch out for the opening song too...

Battle of the balls

2006-01-21T00:34:00.000+08:00

it's the weekends...again...

SP has been having it's SPINNOVEX open-house since thurs when carrie chong n daniel ong came down to host the thing... gd thing it's them n not sum idiot like jamie yeo or the fat-traitor justin ang...

i rmbr going there last yr... met with audrey n some ppl to visit the open hse, but in the end only i decided on SP... quite a lot of schools n lot of ppl came, n the whole atmosphere was v. carnival like...

juz a few days back, we were learning photoshop in class, n the teacher used carrie's pic as a example... wat we ended up was some pretty freaky results...

on wed, wanted to go for floorball training, even brought my stick, which my "twin" enjoyed fooling around with, but in the end, ended up playing dota with my class, until it started raining, so tt idea was scrapped...

last nite,talked late into the night with some of my 4e2 classmates msn while trying to study for my autoCAD...

quite sure of taking up the SIA schlrship thingy le... will need 2 referaals though... thinking of asking mr gng..

TODAY
so the test was qutie dumb, actually nth much to study for... came in late, but nev mind... at least it's over...

the rest of the day quite slack... xcept during thermofluids lab.... the lab tech there so bloddy slack, he nev xplain anyth properly, then when we ask him, he get irritated.. then our teacher also another ji siao kia, like us, so cannot always depend on him... shld nev hav a mat slacker as a lab tech...

after class, got a call from brad... apparently he was there for the SPINNOVEX open house thingy too... he said his gf wanted to join my course AERO... hmm, his gf ok la... not so bad...
wanna b a pilot or smth... i warned brad tt aero got v. few gals n the guys v. despo...

this week CYA things were back to normal, with almost everyone doing duty... but now like more strict, i think i was the most hardworking today then in the past 2 months... during break only went 15 mins... now tt VP got nth to shoot at me le...

while waiting for the bus to take me home, i saw a whole lot of MJ ppl, in seperate groups, walking arond the airport, some in uniform some not...i spotted ee kee in some strange shirt... now, i wasn't the only who thought it strange, even my senior found it unusual... have they got nth better to do?

all week long had been xpecting to go soccer on sat, but on the way to CYA, got a message from a senior, first time in months, out of the blue, inviting me to play on sat, caus they noe i dun go on sundays...

really can't miss this chance to go... it's a rare opportunity, b4 they deem me as hopless n forget bout me...

RS(part2)

2006-01-16T21:02:00.000+08:00

on wed, attended 2 talks by NTU and SIA engineering respectively... The NTU one was really crap, regretted going... only thing tt made up for tt was the free food... meanwhile, considering the SIA engineering scholarship seriously, though there is a bond...

thurs, was with my frenz on the platform of dover station, on the way home, when spotted a certain rather small person wait for the train nearby...it was jerelyn, suprised to see her by herself, n not with her arms wrapped around some poor fella...she looked v. sad... muz hav been rejected or smth...

lalala...continued about my own business till, most of my frenz got off... n the crowd pushed me toward the centre of the carraige... at tt point, like quite rude not too say hi, so i did... anyway, we used to tok during eng classes last time...

we tok bout hai sing n sp n stuff... appraently, she hadn't even gone back once since leaving... so much for tt... remembered in sec 3 where i was posted to a staircase near library for duty during, recess time... damn hate tt duty, think the council post me there caus they noe i hate them... n it was her, tt always came to check if i was there....

reminds me of the vice-head of CYA now who always spies on wat we do during duty... got caught for playing X-box during duty... had to explain it to the teacher in-charge, but luckily got off with a slight warning only...

when i got off at pasir ris, i saw jack frm e4, who we had been juz mentioning...

fri... knew i was gonna be late for the "auntie's" class again, saw xuan yong again... both of us were late, but also both quite tired in morn, so nev tok cock, but rather normal stuff for once...

today the aunty was really so pissed by our class tt i swore she was either ready to die, or kill someone...

Sat went to downtown with wq, ql n merlin... sure i've found a way to b faster on akagi mount le... nearly perfected it... oh n there was an article on initial D arcade stage on newspaper too...

Sun, didn't sleep too well the night before, as knew ny dad would b leaving for Doha (a state next to Dubai) to b working for the next couple of months... quite used to it liao caus he's worked at australia n india during sec school days before...

my whole family wrote a little book with pics n stuff for him... i couldn't think of wat to write till the last few mins... we went to church in the morn, then as evening approached, we went to Terminal 2 to hav dinner...

had Sake sushi... dun think i've eaten there before... the food was gd, but couldn't really concentrate on it...

before he entered the transit lounge, we hugged n sayed our good bye's... after being in the airport for so long, i've partially forgotten the mixed feelings of xcitement n bit of sadness that it evokes in the passengers...

woke up pretty fine this morning though... the IBM com that we got when we signed up a new broadband line had arrived... not so thrilled caus it's bout same stats as my present com, but still, quite fun...

on the way back home, boarded bus 3, it was xuan yong again! if u think tt was qiao, when i sat down, he told the malay aunty in front of us, "there, he's the one"... apparently, he had juz been talking to the aunty bout me... he juz met her too... how did they pick up the topic, beats me totally...

the 3 of us carried on a topic bout our schools n such, till i reached my stop...

finally... finished... so time consuming to post...

Random Shit (part 1)

2006-01-14T00:30:00.000+08:00

random shit... coined this phrase when i was talking cock during class, n my fren responded with a "huh, wat u talking"... random shit, yeah...

the entire week it's been raining not only cats and dogs, but i zebra's n donkey's n other animals too... it juz dosen't seem to stop...

mon... had to present a project on the F-22 fighter, stayed up till 3am on sunday night juz to complete it... next morning, got up late for school... when i stepped into the class room, everyone was already there! wats worse, everyone was in formal attire with long pants, shirt, and shoes, while i was only wearing semi-formal... but i heck care le... juz went ahead n did wat i could..

things got into a real problem when my thumbdrive couldn't open a file... gd thing my fren had a draft copy, so juz made use of tt... sian... think this one didn't do too gd...

electronics test, wasn't as hard as i tot it was.... should do ok... went home n watched Chronicles of Narnia... it's like a v. watered down version of lord of the rings, more suited to young kids...

Tues... the plan that day initially was to go with my family to Tang's to get some clothes for CNY...
somehow, we ended up at a TM chinese restraunt with my dad's fren n family... sitting across from our table was adeline tay's cousins(aka my ex-neighbours)...

quickly finished my food n asked to b excused, caus was meeting the guys for DOTA at raiders...
among my class, raiders cybercafe is rated smth like 0...beyond hope...

on the way up the escalator, saw kevin n teng kuang up the escalator... kevin was waving at me and pointing downward... " your neighbour" he mouthed...

my neighbour? tio stun, but anyway juz turn n waved at whoever he was toking bout...a rather stunned adeline was also waving back... quite weird caus, last few times i saw her, then juz don't care...

raider's was so crowded tt we decided to meet up at kembangan instead.....shoulda guessed it earlier, but it was packed to the max too... when we eventually got a place hour + later, i had to leave after like 10 or 20 mins, when my parents called... i paid $1.80 for tt!, really wasted...

at Tangs, browsed through lot of clothes, but all is very ex... even though got $100 voucher, like quite heart-pain to spend...shopped around orchard, but in the end didn't buy anyth...

had dinner at grand mother's house., watched hot chick....ok to watch, but not particularly funny...

back home, watched yet another movie, The Myth... actually to my suprise it was a pretty good show... i've been getting quite sick of the recent spate of so-called chinese "arty" films, like House of Flying Daggers,The Touch, The Promise n stuff, but this show quite touching...music is pretty good too...

most important thing is that the girl, korean actress Kim Hee-Seon is pretty, which is important when she's the focus of the story... the main problem with the show though... is Jackie Chan himself... he's not very convincing as the chinese general... Too short, too old he looks quite confused in the show...

back to school

2006-01-07T21:29:00.000+08:00

so, it's back to school... the new year dosen't really mean that much change for me caus it was only a 2 week break from school, timetable's still the same and all...

cleared 2 tests this week so far... more next week...

CYA

arrived early after my thermofluids test, going back to T1 after 2-3 months at T2... feels a bit strange... need to feel my way around again...

quite a no. of ppl were replaced for duty today so get to meet some other's... duty now more relaxed in terms of where we choose to serve passengers, can move around, but more strict in terms of what we do during breaks and stuff...

while talking with the guys, our conversation somehow turned towards TKGS, one of my frenz frm there, and the lesbian activity... quite an eye opener, the kind of stuff they do in there...i

first time had sake sushi for break, usually either mac or bk... not v. expensive i realised, cheaper than mac, but not as filling though...

juz read henry's staying at arsenal... quite surprised, caus i tot he would leave, considering the way arsenal has been doing... think they're much better off with him around...

on the bus back, this tall gal boarded behind me... tot she looked familiar, but v. tired, didn't think much bout it... only later when she sat next to me, i saw the ribbon on her bag, "HSC 4E1 2005"... tok to her a bit... rmbr her now, she was one of the chairman of the classes tt i was in charge off during prefect duty in hai sing...

found it unusual tt someone frm 4E1 was working instead of going 1st 3 months, but kept tt to myself..

A v. sporty BMW M3, next to 2 traffic police... hmm...

A shilouette of the Control Tower

My 2005

2006-01-03T19:27:00.000+08:00

As xuang yong puts it, All the best for 2006

this is it, 2006... 2005 has come n gone, but somehow, my 2005 seems a little incomplete... mayb it's in part due to the weird school schedule, so i've been studying like less than a year...

Hao's Northern Lights my free fantasy football team is 3rd in the pack, the highest ranking yet!not a bad start for 2006...

2005 a year of change...

my 2005 started with me slacking around at home for a bit... ql n me signed up to go MI, but it was so freaking far, i changed my mind... i rmbr, the MI teacher calling up my home after i didn't go for 3 days, n i had to ask my dad to explain to the guy....

then it was off looking for a job, caus my dad didn't want me wasting away at home...

found a job at with john at NOEL doing hampers for chinese new year... the motto given to the new guys working there was this "NOEL, welcome to the hell'... and hell it truly was... working and sweating 12 hours a day, a hellishly strict supervisor, 2 weeks was all i could take...

by sort of coincidence, met dennis hoe's twin brother, derrick, and made frenz with him...

slack a bit after being kicked out, and went round visiting poly... then got a call from jung chao n ql, asking me to replace him in the job of promoting F & N drinks, outside supermarkets for the CNY season...

tt started another 2 weeks of going around various supermarkets in spore...

after that a rest again, crash mj a couple of days, collect O level results stuff like tt...

after collecting results, the next few days were spent pondering and praying, deciding between JC n Poly... anytime in sec 4 if ya asked me where i wanna go it would b pretty simple for me, ans, jc of course...

but, missing out the 1st 3 months made me think a bit bout other possibilities...in the end i went with the one i like the best, Aeronautical Engg SP...

while waiting for school to start, worked 3 more jobs, n 2 of these were the best... first is selling laptops at republic poly n ngee ann poly... esp ngee ann poly, made frenz with the np ppl also selling there, v. slack, also finally met xue wei there after leaving prps for 4 yrs... most of all the fat paycheck i got from my aunt, who was the boss there!

other was teaching at the Simei RC, v. satisfying.... at that time also, ql got the idea to make a team jersey for our soccer team, bringing a much more serious tone to our weekend games...

my 1st contact with SP ppl was unfortunately at the SP students union (SPSU) camp... it really sucked, went there juz to get pure torture, unlike NPCC which u learn stuff, ur there juz for the organisers entertaintment.... now i noe, SPSU stands for, STUPID PEOPLE STAND UNITED...

the poly concept was pretty new to me when i juz got started, guess it's same for everyone, but in the end, u get comfortable with it, n it's pretty fun, learning new subjects every new term, self learning and all...

had 2 cca's at first, floorball which i reallly like, but unfortunately can't continue liao caus it's training is on sundays...

the other cca CYA, was v. doubtful at first, but now i'm glad i've joined it...ppl there r really fun n nice...hope to stay for 3 yrs...

tt's mostly it for 2005, what will 2006 bring? only God knows and time will tell...

tt's it Happy 2006! time to study now...cheers^ ^

fri-sun

2006-01-02T14:34:00.000+08:00

by fri, was ok enough to go for CYA duty...was the real-final day for Elektra...

wq n the guys went to play DOTA again...

i printed and laminated a pic for the guys to sign, we also bought her some cards and chocolates...
during my break, went to the i-connect to play dead or alive2 on the xbox there... got trashed by the young caucasian boy in like 6 games or smth, until damn sian... ask my senior to take over...

if u wanna play the free x-box, v. simple, juz stand behind the console with the game u wanna play, and stare at the passenger playing it, until he gets uncomfortable and walks away....haha, next time go airport try it, but rmbr i didn't teach u one...

gathered at popeye's restraunt terminal one to giv our gifts n take a few shots b4 saying our sianoras....

SAT

went to city harvest church service at expo... dun really like city harvest... their ushers will tell u"can u please walk faster"... no problem, sure walk faster.... the problem is when every single usher along 150+ metre walk to enter the hall,says the exact same thing, it gets v. annoying... i feel like stuffing their ties into their mouth or smth...

the message for the end of the year was bout forgiving ppl, so i forgave the ushers of course... i juz hope they dun try it again next year...lol

then it was off to aunt's house for dinner... at bout 10+ went to city hall to meet the guys who were going to esplanade to see the fireworks...

it was dark,crowded, smoky and sticky at the esplanade, not juz bcaus of the mats who crowded the place...

all that ceased to b important for a while, when, without so much as a "Happy New Year" the
fireworks starteda 9-minute spectacle...

then it was back to being kiasu s'poreans again...racing to get to the mrt... by the time i reached back pasir ris, there was no bus left in operation, so i walked all the way home instead...

last wed-thurs

2006-01-02T13:55:00.000+08:00

been an activity filled week, juz tt many times too tired to update, anyway...

wed
Ganesh invited me out to Dhoby Gauht to play pool, been a while since i last played, so juz went for it. sppsed to b the CYA guys going out again, but in the end only me, him n Lionel went... had lunch at Plaza S'pura while oogling at the SAJC gals there... well, mayb not oggling...juz looking...but can't deny it's the best looking uniform around...

after that went pool a while, played quite ok considering i've not played in like 3-4 months... won the first game, nearly won the 2nd and won the 3rd... then played fifa 06 a zone X a while... sucked at it, was beaten by my fren for almost every round, xcept the last round when i used barcelona and scored twice...

took the NEast line to hougang and took 89 back, caus there was some accident at the EW line that day...

Thursday
the day of the match against scott's class... met the hai sing side of the team+ql at kembanagan mrt at 10, nope not to train, but to play DOTA... only played once before, during the exam period last semester with my class...

noticed in dota, the team with the individual strongest player will win, so i won once, when i played on teng kuang's side...good fun...

we had some pretty crappy japanese food at the CC, while we watched the rain outside drowning our pitch...

THE MATCH
the truth is we never really stood a chance of winning... they had some pretty good school players on their side, but our downfall was when a few of our midfield failed to turn up at the last minute, thus creating little chance to attack and you can't win if u dun attack...

we somehow held up against a barrage of attacks for 42 mins, in the v. muddy field... i rmbr getting whacked in the face by a corner kick, and standing v. much stunned on the pitch, even though the ball was right in front of me...

also rmbr a two-legged tackle on one of the players, didn't really think bout it, juz did it... actually quite fun, and anyway the ground already so slippery...

if not ding neng, think would hav let in lot more balls... kevin n the other guys too....

the 2nd half we played a 2-6-2 formation... pretty crazy, but not much to lose... also got this malay guy to join us... he scored 1 goal later on.....

2nd half, let in couple more goals... but attacked a bit more too, n scored 1 goal, which was small consolation... wasn't even our own player who scored...

got home, v.dirty, but my mum was v. nice bout it, and helped me clean the shoes n stuff without saying much...

couldn't sleep that night caus my neck hurt like hell from "kissing" scott's soccer ball... n my thigh, from being rammed by one of the mj ppl...

A Salute

2005-12-23T23:04:00.000+08:00

felt quite a lot better today, partly caus i finally finished my e-learning stuff... there was a deadline by fri, n so many ppl were using it until it was like damn slow... did till 2.35, can see the whole msn almost all frm SP...

was almost late for CYA again, though i live the closest... haha, ironic thing is when i go airport from SP im usually one of the earliest...

this is like the 2nd last week of duty for Elektra, our(friday) most senior rover... one of my fav seniors too caus, i guess she's quite cool but nice at the same time... used to be a bit like zhou botong, caus quite hard to find her sumtimes...

anyway, we held like a mini party for her for an hour plus.... actually broke all the rules of not exceeding breaks and not going for breaks together, but juz for today, who cares? while eating whatever food we managed to get along the way, we listened to some of her most interesting experiences in 3 yrs there...

luckily when we got back, non of the CSO's asked us where we went or anyth... even got some compliments from them about doing our job well!

met this australian guy, he asked me for the nearest toilet... he had this weird way of talking, v. vulgar, but supposed to b a compliment... he asked me what i was studying n stuff, i told him aeronautical engg, his reply was "fuck-u?"... imagine saying "fuck-u?" in a "oh really?" tone of voice... tt's wat it sounded like...haiz... australians...

afterwards took a train back home for the 1st time, juz 2 accompany them.... got reward with big waves afterwards....i think most of them r staying on... tt's good.

oh, i juz spoke to soon kee, n realised he was working at T1 yest night... didn't see him... wasted...

The seniors(Elektra and Lionel)

The best is not good enough

2005-12-22T10:46:00.000+08:00

anyone have any idea where yuhua CC is? nope? neither did i... i spent 45 mins walking around from jurong east station to chinese gardens looking for it... all caus i volunteered to help some Wishing Tree Project....

anyway eventually found it... it was at the jurong east swimming complex.... smth like wild wild wet, but cheaper...

was actually assigned to ushering, but it was so boring caus everyone knew where to go, so looked for smth more useful to do...

this wishing tree project, some performances... there was sheikh haikel<--how u spell it?, some MP's, 97.2 dj's n stuff like tt... so dark, n the air con so nice, i nearly fell asleep...

afterward on the train back, got to talk a bit with some of my CYA fri frenz... some r not continuing on after the 6 months..... quite sadded caus, being with fri ppl reminds me of my old class 4e2...

had thought tt mayb everyone on friday would stay on... wishful thinking mayb...

btw, i added a new mtv, all the way at the bottom, it's mai ya tang by jay chou... pretty funny, should cheer things up a bit...

King Kong the guai lan monster...

2005-12-21T12:01:00.000+08:00

watched King Kong with my fri CYA frenz at Cathay Orchard yest... n my thought's after the show, is tt King Kong is pretty guai lan...watch the show n you'll noe what i mean...he's not the only guai lan character in the show though... worse is the director, aka Jack Black...

it's a v. good movie, well worth watching, though you'll have to wait at least an hour before actually seeing Kong himself... the island on which he lives, aka Skull Island makes Jurassic Park look like a play ground in comparison... it's 3 hours, so well worth your money, but not so gd for your bladder, so rmbr to take a pee b4 watching...

after the movie, went to Taka to meet Bernice who didn't join us for the movie... ate at yoshinoya... then went upstairs to take some photos... there was some christmas decorations and stuff and loads of ppl, more like a sunday night than a weekday...
Lamborghini Gallardo

wan ping, grace, ganesh n me

can i upsize?

Faster than last year...

2005-12-17T23:05:00.000+08:00

been like almost a yr since started playing initial D... sumtimes i feel i've improved a lot, sumtimes feel like i the 1st time i played...

aniwae... hols r here!! finally... test went off quite well... got some when schl starts so still have to buck up a bit...

cya... for once pretty normal... did ok for audit too... long lost senior came back...

went out with wq n ql ... looking for a fila warehouse... inside pretty crap...

then went east point to eat... play arcade a bit... n see the cute dogs n cute gals at pet safari...played at tampines a bit then go back....actually more than that... but, mayb wq blog got put, so go there n see?

they showing lord of the rings: fellowship of the rings now... think it's my favourite of the 3... v. plain n straightforward... sumtimes u dun really rmbr how much u like ur fav movies until u watch it again...

ql n wq... winning n winning on VS4...

SP from one of my classrooms...

cuutte kitty...

Q:Where hav all the ppl gone? A:Malaysia

2005-12-11T22:56:00.000+08:00

seems like lot of ppl going to or went malaysia recently, wq, jas , angeline++....if got go rmbr to buy games.... in spore damn ex n damn rare le...

sat went watch liverpool at S11 again...morientes score twice...

they showed castaway on sat... this ball's name is wilson...

Top Class-Bottom Conduct

2005-12-10T00:30:00.001+08:00

yeah! next week is last week of school! 2 more practical tests n 1 more theory test this sem... finished my maths test on thursday... quite easy, shld get full... only more scared of the higher maths, CEM...

now star world showing Aliens 2... tt day showing Terminator 2... haha, all old shows... but as my fren put it, this were shows we were born n bred on...classics...

anyway, recently posted on the MM school notice board is this...

it's an honour roll list, top 5% from the DARE course... and guess what, 7 out of the 10 names are from our class! haha, we own them... quite ironic, caus of my class reputation 4 being v. rowdy... but i guess tt givs us more character?

and the 2 ppl from hai sing, are both in the list!tt's jack queck if u wanna noe... from e4...do hai sing proud...

err... what else... this is a link to a site for my digital photography class, some of the pics they take is really v. good... PHOTOS

didn't see any hsc ppl today at airport, but saw hui yi at Tanah Merah station, so qiao... also met daryl's cousin, (the quite fat one), while in transit.... think she finish O level this yr ah...

got a good feedback form from a passenger today... quite rare to get... caus she couldn't find her husband n i helped out a bit... they offered me a tip, but not allowed, anyway i dun think i would take it even if allowed...

juz earlier before going in, we were saying how rare it is to get in...

now counter's hav 2 CYA's each... better for us i think, so won't so sian... time passes faster also...
bought this total 90 football from the nike store in transit... the ppl in the store were v. nice... actually no 10% off, but they sort of bought on my behalf using their pass, so there was discount... thank you! they even offered to pump it up for me...

most interesting part of this friday's CYA was the last part, when we were heading back to the lost and found counter... my classmates always ask me if i see japanese schoolgirls during my duty...

so far nothing, but today, there was a whole field of blue uniforms sitting on the ground, taking pictures etc... wow, when i told the other guys, they rushed out to take a look...too bad, couldn't get pics...

The Day Peter Scored

2005-12-04T21:04:00.000+08:00

arranged with wq n ql to meet at tampines S11 to catch the liverpool vs wigan match at 8...

got there early n played a few rounds of initial D... challenged 2 of the guys there... quite chiina, but also quite friendly, shook hands with them at end of match... both times played the long n v. twisty Shommaru Pass...my favourite...

lost both... was right on their tails for both matches, but never really had many chances for overtaking...

wait for wq to play finish VS4 then went to S11... by then quite hungry le...

bought our stuff n sat for the match...around us the tables were mostly guys...

never watch match with other ppl b4... most of the time watching live matches means waking up at unearthly hours, by myself, trying not to b too noisy else, i'll wake my dad n get an earful...

ql was saying smth like how crouch would finally score tonite... n he was right! in the 19 min crouch shot a typically awkward crouch shot, n for the first time, the ball went in!!! there was instant applause from the crowd all round...

we were joking whether crouch would take off his shirt in celebration... eww... imagine that...

many funny stuff that night, jokes bout the ref being biased against Chimbonda, Cisse's black face at not starting the match, wondering y Hyppia was still smiling while he was being booked n other stuff...

tt was fun...

Jingle bells...JohnKim bells...jingle allllll the way....

2005-12-02T23:52:00.000+08:00

week 5 comes and goes...flashes so fast... next week test liao... super fast...

CYA today, eventful as normal....haha, contradictory statement...

on the way to the pass office, spotted John Kim n a gal... called out to him 2 or 3 times, but he's too engrossed liao... actually got the gals'(pretty pretty) attention before getting his...

he was doing event manager for the airport christmas thingy... 4 gals under his charge....song bo... gd pay summore, but working 17 hours a day for 5 days liao...

got replacement CYA today also, amanda... quite chio also...

while walking into transit with my duty partner, spotted a not v. tall, not v. convincing Santa (John) with an "elf" helper... he look damn funny... hat, beard, bulging stomach...my partner couldn't help but laugh...wanted to take a pic of him...

super busy first hour half, then went to meet my dad for my break, since not supposed to meet the other's liao to play safe... juz nice John came from behind... so ended up going for break with my dad n John... lol, weird combi...

then, back to business...

met a japanese filmmaker n escorted him round terminal one... wanted to ask what kind of show he make? my class has this open joke bout our thermofluids lecturer being a "Blue" film maker...
something tt he himself helped to encourage...

also saw these 2 japanese or korean ppl... one guy one gal... both dressed until v. punky.... looks like they could b from a band or smth... reminds me of "Do As Infinity".....
lot of projects too next week.... but for tml... juz relax... wonder what to do?

Caught! On camera

2005-11-30T13:47:00.000+08:00

spoke to my CYA fren today... rember the long break i took last fri? yeah we all got caught on airport camera... now the VP of CYA going to send n e-mail to everyone as a warning or smth... wah sian... i tot we sit at the back have no-one lor... hope this dosen;t affect my chance of promoting to senior... juz trust God...
Xuan Yong, as promised... e8 to a1 leh.. shen...lol
the basketball court at elias park..pasir ris park.

Soccer

2005-11-27T22:42:00.000+08:00

was late for soccer yest... really exhausted frm duty the nite b4...

only scott, teng kuang, derrick, wei qiang, stewart, shaun n yu long were there....was quite surprised... i thought there would surely be many more ppl, since it is holidays anyway...if hols not free then when free?

practiced corner n stuff... played a mini-match juz for fun 4vs4... played mid, first in long time... quite fun..

took some shots, actually meant for my GEMS, but juz upload... since i noe bit bout taking shots, n wq noe bit bout photoshop, we shld team up?

Shaun can fly?

Derrick taking a corner

stewart volley

haiz... got summore pics one, but the upload too slow liao...

went Magic Wok lunch with the guys...then arcade as usual as we waited for ql... i think VS4 was busy, caus first time wei qiang watched me play ini D... tried different technique this time, getting the tip from sum guy telling his fren last week, "gan gan sha", meaning daringly turn the steering wheel... this together with a downshifting helped me get much better control n beat a computer opponent i couldn't beat before...

also finished tuning my FC3S...

SUNDAY

went, cycling with jas again... at one of the basketball courts, saw a family playing... jas wanted to play so i joined in... most were v. friendly... invited us to play, n asked where we were frm...

didn't play much in the game, knew we would win from the start...the crowd of aunties n girls were v. appreciative or jas's game...

Look who's working

2005-11-27T22:16:00.000+08:00

watching wu jian dao now, so will make this quick...

as i got out frm the airport MRT, i saw 4 gals together going down the mrt... one was wearing the mj unidad-de-smth shirt... i think it was lorainne... wanted to say hi, but she was toking to them, then i was a bit lazy too...

when i was xchanging my pass at the police post, i heard someone beside me say "eh?".. i turned to see choon fu also xchanging pass...

"now u holiday right?"

"yeah"

"what u working as?"

"putting up decorations"

"oh"

then,"see you"...

later, when i was walking around in transit, i spotted yet another ex-haisian... hui yi... now her hair v. short... still rmbr in sec1, her hair damn long, n damn broken... v. ueeghhh... only wq like...haha, jkjk...

tok to her abit... she was helping some "elves" around the christmas exhibition area...

dinner tt night was gd... met up with the guys at terminal one Mac... even though we over shot the time limit by alot, (45 mins), still enjoyed the meal, as it was one of the few chances recently we got to eat together n chat...

last few weeks under heavy observation, never met up in more than one's or two's...

was very busy outside that night... met n escorted several passengers... one guy was going back to liverpool... i was curious, n asked if he watched soccer... turns out, he goes to every liverpool, home game... wow...

we toked bout liv a bit, bout crouch n champions league n stuff...

it's meeting interesting ppl n stuff that makes CYA fun...

Every Friday=Eventful Day

2005-11-26T00:49:00.000+08:00

West Coast Park

Poly Marina

Chill@SP -crap la

no friday is a boring day 4 me... always rush rush... smth going on..

after usual hectic autocad lesson... rushed to meet my CYA fren Ganesh to collect the camp t-shirt's tt r way overdue... not too bad, black colour... better than our 4e2 class tee... sorry to say tt...

rushed lunch then went to meet my GEMS partner Alan... to say the truth Alan is a really nice guy... v. friendly... SP had this chill@SP or smth like tt... sorta like an open house, for those O level finishers hu got nth better to do... there was a bazzar of sorts n all kinda activities... it was in newspaper...

we were supposed to shoot LIFE IS GREAT as a theme, so we decided to go west coast park which is nearer than east coast... we hitched onto a bus tt was going to the Poly Marina...

somehow ended up with sum guys who were interested in Nautical Course in Maritime Academy... so no choice, act like a O level'er n take follow them around... got to cruise around Tanjong Pagar harbour on a speed boat, which was pretty fast, n exciting... too bad i was more worried bout the wind drying my lenses...

got to shore n began the long trek toward West Coast Park...was wearing two layers caus it was v. cold in the morning... now was suffering due to the heat... the playground in west coast is actually pretty interesting... think Elias park, but with more modern equipment... plus the best part was tt there were so many children there, so made it easy to take shots...

had to go right in front of them to take sum shots... the children nev really siam or wad la... budden, one of them mentioned in chinese... "eh, ta zhai pai wo me lei.." actually i v pai sheh one, but no choice, if i wanna pass this module, muz at least try...

finally, we had enuff of taking pics, so we took a long walk back to the interchange, stopping at 7-eleven to have a drink...

reached back campus, but had to rush off again to airport for CYA...

met sum familiar hsc ppl during CYA, but it's too late... i'll post again tml...

O ya i forgot...(cont'd frm below)

2005-11-24T20:20:00.000+08:00

was playing fifa then i rembember what i wanted to type...

was at the bus 3 bus stop outside my house this morn, it is opposite my pri schl... when i boarded the bus, i glanced at my old schl n there on a tuition poster outside, i saw this "fat", act cute face, which was damn familiar...

it took me a second to realise... omg that is xuan yong!!! haha, was so surprising... i rmbr someone mention it, but it forgot all about it liao... wahaha... his face is really smth to wake you up in the morning...will try to take pics tml morn...

plus, he takes bus 3 to schl in mornings also, so sumtimes i will see him...

my sis got her PSLE results today... 255... 4th in schl i think? ya v. pro... seems like all our cousins n younger siblings all better than us...eg. jas sis, n daryl cousin?

Poor Peter

2005-11-24T19:34:00.000+08:00

didn't manage to finish my hw last night... not for lack of trying though...but really so much... i dun think anyone fully finished all...

still, couldn't miss the qualifying match for liverpool... woke up for the 2nd half...
goaless draw as u noe... i learnt from match how really damn sway peter crouch is... i mean, he had quite a few tries at goal, but all either, saved or off-target... according to soccernet, he's smth like 21 hours without a goal? as a striker? and can see it's not bcaus he never shoots... i think mathmatically the odds for scoring should b with him by now, instead of against...

getting used to it liao though...

got our only class photo today... but it's not of us... i think we really building a reputation liaoz... one lecturer said... I've never seen such a class in 8 years at SP...

this is the photo of the A380 that i thought never got taken... really v. black right?

Head like a ton of bricks

2005-11-22T21:25:00.000+08:00

wah... schl schedule really putting the strain on me... finish at 5 nearly everydae...... which idiot say poly is slack? liar...

haha... today went business block for lunch, even though raining... tt's caus other foodcourt all full liao, but business block always got space... i suspect caus there got a lot of gals who r dieting... haha... tt's to our benefit...

my fren hu is rugby player n has broken like 3 bones liao, cannot take the rainy weather... rheumetism mayb? wonder wad yi cheng thinks...

the strange IDEAS lecturer didn't turn up at the workshop today after we waited a while... once every few seconds, someone would shout, Linda come already... but it was always a trick... so after a while, we left...

while we were walking again, someone shouted again... linda come already... in front of us, was an old lecturer walked past...

we tot nothing of it, n the pon-stars planned wat to do with our new break... it was decided that we would go clementi to play lan... juz as we were at the bus stop though, i found a missed call on my phone...

shld i call back? i debated... in the end i did so, n realised class was still on... haiz... we stepped into class n realised the old lecturer we passed was our relief teacher!!

as one of us would say... Wat the HIAO!!

spent the whole lesson playing around with clay... haiz... imagine one of the pri schl visitors pass by n think, come poly play with play dough? laughing stock sia...

developed a splitting headache during the last lesson... slept most of the trip home...

at the last stop, pasir ris, stumbled eyes-half-closed toward the escalator... something tapped me on the shoulder...

oh, it was audrey... actually wasn't so surprised to see, her... somehow, sensed i would meet someone today...she said she was coming back frm ogl camp or smth... head hurt too much to tok much... anyway, the walk to the bus stop wasn't far... still, it was nice to meet someone...

Poor Keano

2005-11-20T23:27:00.000+08:00

Roy Keane's been kicked out... sure ya noe bout it liao... poor him...

can guess what he's like... reminds me of my dad... can tell he's v. loyal n dedicated to his club... xcept that he is v. straight talking n no-nonsense, which makes a good cap depending on the club...

hope he does well...