Chronicles of Y-cube...

Generation gap

2010-11-21T12:42:00.002+08:00

i'm typing this using my $0 nokia e51 at a Mc outlet opp delfi. While i'm having brunch, i saw a family sitting beside me and i overheard a bit of their conversation. There seems to be something missing among the family, a common language. The children are speaking English. The grandparents are speaking hokkien. And the parents are speaking Chinese, and also the above 2 languages. Wouldn't it be nice if the grandparents can communicate with their grandchildren using a common language?

I don't know if anyone have the same thinking. I have a vision. To teach Chinese and English to elderly, voluntarily. I also hope that I can educate children and adults the value of Chinese.

perfectionist

2010-11-21T04:05:00.002+08:00

i know being a perfectionist can be quite irritating to somebody out there. I like to post things that i think doesn't looks right on fb instantly, and i like to correct people's wrong usage of grammar, be it English, Chinese or Japanese. This is one thing that i simply cant tolerate. typo on a mainstream media -> http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/1094586/1/.html

Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows

2010-11-18T16:15:00.001+08:00

I watched HP7 part 1 yesterday! Although I already knew the story, but I'm quite amazed by how they put it into a movie. There's a "HOT" kissing scene that gets me wondering why it is rated PG. How are parents going to guide children to watch?

It was also the first time I watch movie with a female friend alone. We had a good chat and breakfast before the movie started at 12noon. Don't think too much ok? We are just friends.

Recommended movies of the week!

2009-11-20T16:17:00.004+08:00

Gokusen The Movie

GOKUSEN is a popular manga series that started running from 2000 to 2007. In 2002, it was adapted into a TV series with great success and a 2nd season followed in 2005. In 2008, the series returned for its 3rd and final season and was the best-rated TV series for the year. This film will conclude the popular series.

Kumiko Yamaguchi, aka Yankumi, oversees the new students of Class 3D of Akado High School. Her class is full of delinquents, but she tries her hardest to teach them not just about academics (her subject is Mathematics), but about lessons of life. However, shes also the granddaughter of a Yakuza boss, Kuroda of the Kuroda Ikka, and is seen as the next in line to head the family business.

Her true passion lies in teaching however, and she's forced to lead a double life and keep her family a secret from the public. However, her Yakuza upbringing also happens to give her the strength and the experience to reach out to her students, and at the same time provides many moments of comedic relief.

Cast: Yukie Nakama, Kazuya Kamenashi, Katsuhisa Namase
Director: Toya Sato
Genre: Comedy
Language: Japanese
Release Date: 19 November 2009
Running Time: 121 minutes

Raging Phoenix

Deu (JeeJa Yanin), a girl with equally high degree of recklessness and beauty has never experienced 'true love'. Her life changes completely when some gangsters try to kidnap her and she narrowly escapes with the help of Sanim, a sad looking stranger with a painful past. Waking up in an abandoned factory, she joins his friends who practice a form of drunken Thai break-dancing martial arts that they dub Meyraiyuth. Sanim and his friends, having had loved ones abducted, join forces to get back at the kidnappers.

Cast: Jija Yanin, Kazu Patrick Tang, Nui Saendaeng
Director: Rashane Limtrakul
Genre: Action
Language: Thai
Release Date: 19 November 2009
Running Time: 114 minutes

Fantastic Mr. Fox

Based on the beloved story by Roald Dahl, the film tells the story of the noble, charming and fantastic Mr. Fox who uses his wits and cunning to outfox three dimwitted farmers who tire of sharing their chickens with the crafty creature.

Cast: George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman
Director: Wes Anderson
Genre: Animation
Language: English
Release Date: 19 November 2009
Running Time: 87 minutes

Other recommended movies includes 2012, Amelia, Astro Boy, My Girlfriend is an Agent, My Sister's Keeper

Disclaimer: I do not own the above pictures and descriptions

Playing with Canon SX110 IS

2009-04-08T14:23:00.001+08:00

Just bought a Canon SX110 IS recently and playing with the functions, the 10X optical zoom is excellent!

Announcing the New Website

2007-03-07T00:52:00.000+08:00

This blog is moved to http://www.ymeagain.com with effect from 6th March 2007

Sage: Firefox Add-On to read feeds...

2007-02-06T17:23:00.000+08:00

Recently I installed a firefox add-on known as sage. It enables you to read feeds faster by straight away choosing the post or news you want to see. It's extremely useful for people like me who frequently visit blogs, podcasts and news feeds. You can download the add-on at https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/77/ . Enjoy!

Recently...

2007-01-25T00:57:00.000+08:00

Recently, I'm feeling quite down... that's explain why I seldom blog and seldom talk to others recently... it's being decided that I can't go for attachment because I got academic warning. what can I do? I have calculated that I need to get average B+ this semester to get out of the status. The only thing I can do is to work really hard. I tried my best to attend every lecture (to date I only missed 3), and do every tutorial beforehand. It's tiring but it's necessary. I know that I can do better if I work hard. I'm glad that I have a new mentor who is encouraging, and I have classmates and friends (although not many knows my situation) who are concern about me. Thanks to you all.

You might find that there are lesser gatherings organised by me in the coming 3 months, because I need to dedicate more time to studies. But I really hope that somebody will take the initiative to organise, I will be the most willing person to go for gatherings... OK, Time to go back to do my tutorials...

Status: Likely Eligible and allocated

2007-01-04T20:59:00.000+08:00

It's 4th Jan 2007, 2059Hrs,

my status for IA is still "Likely Eligible and allocated". I still have not got reply about my review on results. The OAS people says they don't know the status. What the hell. If the reply does not comes tomorrow, I really don't know I should go ahead and report for work on Monday(8th Jan), or go for lessons? Can anyone answer my question? Should I inform the IA company about my situation?

Quake, Internet Disrupt, Result, SBC 80's Drama

2006-12-29T00:21:00.000+08:00

For those who STILL don't know about the quake in taiwan, I think you are super lag in news. On 26th Dec, a quake happened in taiwan, it was known to have the largest impact in 100 years. Due to the earthquake, 7 sub-marine cables that links Singapore to US, Taiwan, Hong Kong etc are broken. As such, if you are in Singapore, you are experiencing very slow internet connections to websites in these areas. MSN services are also not accessible by us. Stock markets and IDD International calls are also experiencing problems.

Read more about the quake and internet disrupt at these sites:
1.Channel News Asia Report
2.Bloomberg Report 1
3.Bloomberg Report 2

Second Agenda.
Please stop asking about my results and whether I am going to attachment next semester. I had requested for review of results and now waiting for reply. Please please stop asking.

Third Agenda.
Just visited Irwin's blog, and saw a couple of classic SBC Drama Opening Themes. It really brings back many memories. 早安老师 and 迷离夜 are my favourites. Anyone find the Fang Lao Shi drama please tell me. Thanks. Enjoy the videos below.

Text link here

S.H.E 怎么办 MV

2006-11-23T04:48:00.000+08:00

S.H.E new song : 怎么办 ...
This song is the 主题曲 for <<花样少年少女>>, a drama series by 吴尊 and Ella
They are so cute in this MV... And I like the tune of this song, it's so sweet, smoothing and also very catchy, at least it's better than 觸電 ... If you know who is the composer and lyricist, please tell me...

Text link here

Lyrics:

为什么你为什么老是把空气全都吸光了
害得我你害得我在你面前呼吸急促需要叫救护车
别看我先别看我我的脸红就快要爆料了
没什么哪有什么我是绝对不会承认我喜欢你了

怎么办感觉甜又酸
偷偷爱你快乐又孤单
怎么办爱却不能讲
你真讨厌不来帮我的忙

你怎么可以这样笑容打败太阳
甚至比我还要更好看
我虽然无力抵抗但是日子还长
总有一天换你为我疯狂

为什么你为什么这样不讲理的就出现了
害得我你害得我连仅有的一点矜持优雅全都毁了
靠近我别靠近我到底离你多近比较好呢
完蛋了我完蛋了我整个人眼看就快要不是我的了

怎么办感觉甜又酸
偷偷爱你快乐又孤单
怎么办爱却不能讲
你真讨厌不来帮我的忙

你怎么可以这样笑容打败太阳
甚至比我还要更好看
我虽然无力抵抗但是日子还长
总有一天换你为我疯狂为我疯狂

怎么办感觉甜又酸
偷偷爱你快乐又孤单
怎么办爱却不能讲
你真讨厌不来帮我的忙

你怎么可以这样笑容打败太阳
甚至比我还要更好看
我虽然无力抵抗但是日子还长
总有一天换你为我疯狂

4 versions of the TORTOISE & HARE story

2006-11-15T02:49:00.000+08:00

Recently, I received this story from a forwarded email from my friend, I guess it is worth reading...

TORTOISE & HARE - WHO WON THE RACE?

Once upon a time a tortoise and a hare had an argument about who was faster. They decided to settle the argument with a race. They agreed on a route and started off the race.

The hare shot ahead and ran briskly for some time. Then seeing that he was far ahead of the tortoise, he thought he'd sit under a tree for some time and relax before continuing the race. He sat under the tree and soon fell asleep. The tortoise, plodding on, overtook him and soon finished the race, emerging as the undisputed champ. The hare woke up and realized that he'd lost the race.

The moral of the story is that slow and steady wins the race. This is the version of the story that we've all grown up with.

But recently, someone told me a more interesting version of this story. It continues:

The hare was disappointed at losing the race and he did some soul-searching. He realized that he'd lost the race only because he had been overconfident, careless and lax. If he had not taken things for granted, there's no way the tortoise could have beaten him. So he challenged the tortoise to another race. The tortoise agreed.

This time, the hare went all out and ran without stopping from start to finish. He won by several miles.

The moral of the story? Fast and consistent will always beat the slow and steady.

But the story doesn't end here.

The tortoise did some thinking this time and realized that there's no way he can beat the hare in a race the way it was currently formatted. He thought for a while and then challenged the hare to another race, but on a slightly different route. The hare agreed. They started off. In keeping with his self-made commitment to be consistently fast, the hare took off and ran at top speed until he came to a broad river. The finishing line was a couple of kilometers on the other side of the river. The hare sat there wondering what to do. In the meantime the tortoise trundled along, got into the river, swam to the opposite bank, continued walking and finished the race.

The moral of the story? First identify your core competency and then change the playing field to suit your core competency.

The story still hasn't ended.

The hare and the tortoise, by this time, had become pretty good friends and they did some thinking together. Both realized that the last race could have been run much better. So they decided to do the last race again, but to run as a team this time.

They started off and this time, the hare carried the tortoise to the riverbank. There, the tortoise took over and swam across with the hare on his back. On the opposite bank, the hare again carried the tortoise and they reached the finishing line together. They both felt a greater sense of satisfaction than they'd felt earlier.

The moral of the story? It's good to be individually brilliant and to have strong core competencies but unless you're able to work in a team and harness each other's core competencies, you'll always perform below par because there will always be situations at which you'll do poorly and someone else does well.

Teamwork is mainly about situational leadership, letting the person with the relevant core competency for a situation take leadership.

There are more lessons to be learned from this story. Note that neither the hare nor the tortoise gave up after failures. The hare decided to work harder and put in more effort after his failure. The tortoise changed his strategy because he was already working as hard as he could.

In life, when faced with failure, sometimes it is appropriate to work harder and put in more effort. Sometimes it is appropriate to change strategy and try something different. And sometimes it is appropriate to do both.

The hare and the tortoise also learned another vital lesson. When we stop competing against a rival and instead start competing against the situation, we perform far better.

Filed in: story

I am choosen by DSTA for attachment!!!

2006-10-24T18:16:00.000+08:00

I received this email on 16/10/2006 (last monday).... damm happy man, I finally got a chance to work in a big company, a dream that I have for years... BUT, in order to go for attachment next sem, I need to tackle a big problem, that is to pass all the modules this sem... exams coming soon but I still got projects on hand... haiz...

Dear Yeo Ying Yong,

We are pleased to inform you that you have been selected by Defence Science & Technology Agency (Interviewing) after the interview.

Programme Allocated: To explore novel approaches to 2D-3D visualization for Constructive Wargaming [Programme Code : 1379]

Programme Scope: To look at suitable cost-effective and/or open-source libraries products, eg. WorldWind (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_World_Wind), ESRI ArcGlobe, to facilitate geospatial-temporal data representaion.
A messaging layer (eg. using Java Messaging Service and HTTP protocol)shall be incorporated to facilitate interactions between applications. Design considerations shall include robustness eg. automate recovery upon abrupt/internittent disconnection from HTTP/JMS server.
To look into suitable data representation and interchange format. Open standards such as Goodle Earth Keyhole Markup Language (KML) and ESRI shapefiles shall be considered. Suitable semantic data models eg. use of CityGML for urban buildings, maybe explored.
Performance (eg. efficient loading mechanisms for large datasets) adn usability (includes human computer interface (HCI)aspects)factors shall also be looked into.

Optional/advanced areas:
a. Techniques for Automated Data Extraction which will cove
r some of these areas:
- Automated Feature Extraction: Delineation, Attribution.
- Automated Target Recognition: Detection, Categorisation, Identification.
- Change Detection: Feature-level, Broad-Area.
- Spatio-Temporal Anaylsis and Topological Reasoning.
b. Human-Computer Interface. Advanced Interaction and Display Modalities and Multi-dimensioanl Visualization.

Pre-requisites: - Java (Swing)
- Familiarity with Eclipse development environment (http://www.eclipse.org/)is preferred.

Attachment Location: 71 Science Park Drive #02-05 Singapore (118253)

BY OFFICE OF PROFESSIONAL ATTACHMENTS

Filed in: updates

boring weekend (30/09/2006 to 01/10/2006)

2006-10-15T03:10:00.000+08:00

last last weekend is a boring weekend...

on saturday(30/09/2006), I "book out" of hall after fighting DDP in my so-called "recess week" (while everyone is having holidays, I am doing project!)... my "book out" timing is in the late afternoon... no life right? on the way home, I visited cd-rama at JP and bought myself yanzi's latest compilation album, "My Story, Your Song 经典全记录" (I bought the 2CD version, only to discover there is a 4 CDs version the next day, damm you warner music)... It includes 2 new songs, 雨天 and 梦想天空, and 34 old songs, of which I like 雨天 a lot... I will write a review on the album when I got more time...

In the night, I went out for supper with mother and brother at the nearby Mcdonald's (at Ridout Tea Garden) till about 3am...

more photos at here

after supper, we took some pictures at the far east flora (behind Mc), where I used to work part-time with (from Dec 2001 to Feb 2002)... I still remember, I only receive $5/hour and have to do all sorts of heavy duty work...

on sunday(01/10/2006), I went out alone to orchard to walk walk... I bought some movie vcds from HMV and a taiwanese magazine from Kinokuniya...

happy times pass by very fast, on the same night, I have to "book in" at hall again and face the reality of projects, projects and more projects...

Filed in: updates, family, sunyanzi

New Look New Changes!

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

As you can see (unless your eye got problem), I had changed my entire blog layout!!! yeah! No more boring background... the main reason is that there are too much unnecessary things in my previous design, so I decided to change it completely...

2nd thing that I had added are tags... (nono.. not tag board)... tags are the links that you see at the bottom of each of my new posts, and also at the side bar (under del.icio.us tags)... when you click on the tags, it will bring you to a page, which you can find more related posts or even links to other websites... Cool right? I will be temporarily using these tags to categorize my posts until the new Blooger Beta (developed by Google) is stable to use...

I think my new blog still needs some tuning, it still feels strange... SO if you got any suggestions in improving the layout or tags or anything else on this blog, please please tell me by adding a comment or leaving a message on the shoutbox... thanks a lot! I really really needs advice, because I am not a good designer...

Filed in: updates

speak good singlish lesson 1

2006-10-02T21:45:00.000+08:00

Haha... just heard another funny podcast from www.mrbrownshow.com ... this time is a singlish lesson taught to foreign talents... I feel that our language is so efficient... we reduce the length of a phrase by 50%! Typical phrases are like "So how?" and "You win already lor"... download the podcast and have a good laugh!

Filed in: mrbrownshow, mrbrown, miyagi

CAC Investiture 2006 (13/09/2006)

2006-09-30T15:44:00.000+08:00

Just like what Irwin says in his blog, A Picture Paints A Thousand Words...
Investiture on 13th September 2006 officially marks the end of my office term as CAC Orientation Director. We are so happy yet sad that our term has ended. After the investiture, everyone started to grab each other to take photos. I think it will be awhile till the next time we will meet each other.

The past year had been very exciting and challenging. Juggling CAC and Studies had never been easy. I found myself constantly trying to meet deadlines, but all this is defintely worth it...
15th Exco, especially lawrence and hoi ning, thanks so much for the experience you had gave me... I will never forget you all...

See more photos here

Filed in: CAC, Investiture, Exco

S.H.E MVs

2006-09-30T02:25:00.000+08:00

Just uploaded some videos to my youtube account… Plug in your earphones to listen more carefully at their background vocals also! if you want the videos, send me a message on msn, I will be glad to share...
and ya… I now trying the option of posting a blog through email, so I no need to go through the blogger website, cool right?

觸電 MV by S.H.E... the story is a continuation from the 戀人未滿 MV... that's why they even find the same male actor in the 戀人未滿 MV to act in this MV

Ring Ring Ring MV... the story is about when girls give a guy their phone number, this song describes fellings of the girl waiting for the guy to call her...

我們怎麼了MV - OMG! Hebe plays the piano so beutifully in this MV... you don't think she is acting hor... she really knows how to play the piano! I saw her playing in a variety show before... ok, the song is about a couple breakup, and they are trying to find the reason why they will breakup, they are trying to understand 我們怎麼了

if you unable to see the video or it's too lagging, click the text link here

Filed in: S.H.E, MV, Forever

An article by Hebe

2006-09-30T01:46:00.000+08:00

A post written by Hebe on their blog . Oh my god, her 文筆 is so good. Look at her careful usage of words, it's both clever and funny. Wait, you still don't know what she talking about? she is describing Ella and Selina la... At this standard, me (and many of her fans) really thinks she should start to write a novel or such... confirm plus chop will be the bestseller...

前幾天我遇到了一些事

前幾天我在機場遇到天使
雖然從小就從故事書電視電影裡知道世界上有天使但前幾天還真是頭一遭看到他呢
他沒有一對翅膀沒有飄在空中跟想像的不一樣
她身著直條紋襯衫留鬍子嘴唇乾裂
她有一股味道頭臭味油油的味道
但又有一股味道傳來蓋過他的頭油臭味
那就是善良的味道陣陣撲鼻好好聞喔
就算他頭上既沒光環又有臭味
就算他手腳嘴唇皆乾裂
就算他鬍子不刮虎牙噴出來我都會愛他

後來我走呀走走呀走覺得舌頭不舒服口好乾
一直想找水喝真不知道為何彷彿吃到辣椒一般
原來是我碰到了一位辣妹很有氣質的麻辣
前所未有的美
我心跳加速小鹿亂撞迅速拿了相機補捉了他的倩影
她那件令萬物遐想的連身短裙
她那雙細常筆直膿纖合度的美腿
她那布滿量片的髮箍充滿鑽石的大耳環都無法搶過他發自體內迷人的萬丈光芒
誰不愛他

See the accompanying photos here本篇文章引用自此

Filed in: S.H.E, blog, Hebe

I HATE reports!!!

2006-09-15T07:18:00.000+08:00

This is what appears on MSN nick now... I really truly hate reports... don't be mistaken... I hate reports and but I like to do projects... In fact, projects force myself to learn more things, and gives me a sense of achievement... Ok, back to why I hate reports... On wednesday night, I didn't sleep at all because of a stupid report that needs to draw more than 20 graphs for which mostly are very similar... it's not hard to do, but it's very tedious... and what I gain from the report? I don't think I learn a lot from preparing a report...

Ok, let's now consolidate what other projects I had in hand now...
Operating Systems - One Lab Report every 2 weeks....
Microcontroller Systems Design - Mini Project on Music Recorder
Software Engineering - Public Bus Simulation System
Instrumentation & Data Acquisition Systems - Mini Project base on Lab 3
Design & Development Project - Maze Exploration and Line-Tracking Robot

btw, when I say miniproject... It's actually not mini... it's damm tough to do it.... ya, I haven't mentioned I still got a quiz next week... And I figuring when I got time to study for it? okie... fine... I think I have to find some way struggle through these projects some how...

Okie, I just had Investiture 2 days ago on wednesday, now only got one photo taken by Shandy's phone... I will post some more photos once I got them... until then, stay tuned...

so many deadlines...

2006-09-11T05:42:00.000+08:00

the time now is 5.42am... U want to know why I wake up so early? NO! in fact I have not sleep yet... urgh... I just finished reading some documents on my upcoming Design & Development Project (and at the same time watching 東方茱麗葉 Epidsode 9.. haha)... bo bian... I got a project meeting today after school so I need to read ahead of others! Why? because I again stupidly volunteered to be group leader... but looking on the bright side of life, being a group leader, I got better control of what I like to achieve in the project...

On this same week, I also need to finish 2 reports (due on tues and thurs) and work on Software Engineering and Microcontroller Systems Design project.... Urgh! ok... I think I can manage...

I had lots of fun last weekend and also helped my mother to tidy up the living room (will continue next weekend)... update? yes, I will definitely upload some pics and details of what I done last weekend... wait till I finish one of my reports tonight ok?

oh ya... tonight got the sub com recruitment drive for the CAC committees... I am going to run for sub com for all projects... I am nuts right? ok that's all for now... I need to go sleep liao... later need to wake up at 8am.. I must force myself to go for morning lessons!!!

A post after 4 months of disappearing from the blogosphere

2006-09-03T18:41:00.000+08:00

I think I had not been keeping my promises lately... I promised that this website will have a new look in Aug... BUT now is Sep and it's still the same... haiz..

I had been really busy for the pass 3 months...

1stly... Me is busy for the whole holiday in preparing the FOC

2ndly... My grandmother passed away 3 days after the FOC

3rdly, there are at least 3 CAC events per week since school re-opens...

The Good news is that I finally have more time to do my own stuff after I step down (Which is after AGM on wed)... The Bad news is I got lesser chances of meeting up with my beloved CAC friends... (os: I will miss U All!)

So do check back again for more frequent updates of my life... And remember to post some comments or tag at the shoutout box on the right.

Maths II Gone Case...

2006-04-20T17:23:00.000+08:00

Raining again! Yesterday's Maths II paper is really gone case... I think most prob will "da-bao" that module... but who knows? miracle might happen just like my Electronics and Maths I modules last sem...

Any way... i got a very serious headache since last night... haven't recover even though I ate panadol and slept for 12 hours... So now I don't know should I go and rest or go study... urgh...

Yesterday after the paper, Wilson, Desmond, Wei Yang and me went to JP (Jurong Point) for dinner... i ordered a bowl of curry mutton... Wow! that was the best Curry Mutton I ever had! the curry is fanstatic, except that it's really spicy, but it's damm shiok... and the mutton is super thick! not like other stalls that give you bones...

afterwhich, we went arcade (XZone, I think)... desmond and Wilson played their usual game, dream catcher! you remember the game where you have to catch your favourite softtoy? that's it... I already gave up on the game many years ago... firstly, I don't have the skills to catch it, secondly, I really don't feel the game is fun (unless you caught something), and thirdly, it's addictive and cost you a lot of $$$. While they are playing, of course I went to play my favourite parapara and shooting games etc...

Ok, I think that's all for now, my headache is killing me, just want to share with you all 1 joke and 1 story as follows, you can also check it out at http://ymeagain-collection.blogspot.com

Joke
A store that sells husbands has just opened in New York City, where a Woman may go to choose a husband.

Among the instructions at the entrance is a description of how the store operates. You may visit the store ONLY ONCE!

There are six floors and the attributes of the men increase as the shopper ascends the flights. There is, however, a catch, you may choose any man from a particular floor, or you may choose to go up a floor, but you cannot go back down except to exit the building!

So, a woman goes to the Husband Store to find a husband . .

On the first floor the sign on the door reads:

Floor 1 - These men have jobs and love the Lord.

The second floor sign reads:

Floor 2 - These men have jobs, love the Lord, and love kids.

The third floor sign reads:

Floor 3 - These men have jobs, love the Lord, love kids, and are extremely good looking. "Wow," she thinks, but feels compelled to keep going.

She goes to the fourth floor and sign reads:

Floor 4 - These men have jobs, love the Lord, love kids, are drop-dead good looking and help with the housework. "Oh, mercy me!"she exclaims, "I can hardly stand it!"

Still, she goes to the fifth floor and sign reads:

Floor 5 - These men have jobs, love the Lord, love kids, are drop- dead gorgeous, help with the housework, and have a strong romantic streak.

She is so tempted to stay, but she goes to the sixth floor and the sign reads:

Floor 6 - You are visitor 4,363,012 to this floor. There are no men on this floor. This floor exists solely as proof that women are impossible to please. Thank you for shopping at the Husband Store. Watch your step as you exit the building, and have a nice day!

Please send this to all men for a good laugh and to all the women who can handle the truth!

Meaningful Story

One day, when I was a freshman in high school, I saw a kid from my class was walking home from school. His name was Kyle. It looked like he was carrying all of his
books. I thought to myself, "Why would anyone bring home all his books on a Friday? He must really be a nerd."

I had quite a weekend planned (parties and a football
game with my friends tomorrow afternoon), so I shrugged my shoulders and went on.

As I was walking, I saw a bunch of kids running toward
him. They ran at him, knocking all his books out of his arms and tripping him so he landed in the dirt. His glasses went flying, and I saw them land in the grass about ten feet from him. He looked up and I saw this terrible sadness in his eyes.

My heart went out to him. So, I jogged over to him and
as he crawled around looking for his glasses, and I saw a tear in his eye. As I handed him his glasses, I said, "Those guys are jerks. They really should get lives." He looked at me and said, "Hey thanks!" There was a big smile on his face. It was one of those smiles that showed real gratitude.

I helped him pick up his books, and asked him where
he lived. As it turned out, he lived near me, so I asked him why I had never seen him before. He said he had gone to private school before now.

I would have never hung out with a private school kid
before. We talked all the way home, and I carried some of his books. He turned out to be a pretty cool kid. I asked him if he wanted to play a little football with my
friends. He said yes. We hung out all weekend and the more I got to know Kyle, the more I liked him, and my friends thought the same of him.

Monday morning came, and there was Kyle with the
huge stack of books again. I stopped him and said, "Boy, you are gonna really build some serious muscles with this pile of books everyday!" He just laughed and
handed me half the books.

Over the next four years, Kyle and I became best
friends. When we were seniors, we began to think about college. Kyle decided on Georgetown, and I was going to Duke. I knew that we would always be
friends, that the miles would never be a problem. He was going to be a doctor, and I was going for business on a football scholarship.

Kyle was valedictorian of our class. I teased him all the time about being a nerd. He had to prepare a speech for graduation.

I was so glad it wasn't me having to get up there and
speak. Graduation day, I saw Kyle. He looked great. He was one of those guys that really found himself during high school. He filled out and actually looked good in glasses. He had more dates than I had and all the girls loved him. Boy, sometimes I was jealous.

Today was one of those days. I could see that he was
nervous about his speech. So, I smacked him on the back and said, "Hey, big guy, you'll be great!" He looked at me with one of those looks (the really grateful one) and smiled. "Thanks," he said.

As he started his speech, he cleared his throat, and
began. "Graduation is a time to thank those who helped you make it through those tough years. Your parents, your teachers, your siblings, maybe a coach...but mostly your friends. I am here to tell all of you that being a friend to someone is the best gift you can give them. I am going to tell you a story."

I just looked at my friend with disbelief as he told the story of the first day we met. He had planned to kill himself over the weekend. He talked of how he had cleaned out his locker so his Mom wouldn't have to do it later and was carrying his stuff home.

He looked hard at me and gave me a little smile.

"Thankfully, I was saved. My friend saved me from doing the unspeakable."

I heard the gasp go through the crowd as this handsome, popular
boy told us all about his weakest moment.

I saw his Mom and dad looking at me and smiling that same grateful smile. Not until that moment did I realize it's depth.

Never underestimate the power of your actions. With one small gesture you can change a person's life. For
better or for worse.

2006-04-18T15:58:00.000+08:00

I found out a very strange thing... People don't tell people when they moved their blog or when their blog is dead... (this is not against anyone in particular)... See the number of deadlinks I had on the side... Anyway, it's a small matter, I shouldn't be angry about it... I had been too picky I think... btw, if you wish to have a link to your blog or you have moved my blog, please tell me... simply because I loved to read blogs... my MSN nick is now changed to "ymeagain@MA2 ~~ Blog Addresses Collection! Tell me if you have a blog or you had moved your blog... ~~ 不管是落叶不管是阴天天灰永远会变晴天" MA2 is the self-created abbreviation for Mathematics II and the chinese words is just to motivate myself to study hard for exams (it was extracted from the story of 天灰 MV as follows)...

天灰了
重病缠身的女孩对著键盘打下:
请问宋哲纬?

他是我高中的同学
他叫宋哲纬很会画图
我休学之后就没见过他了
我很想再见到他

时间拉回高中时期当时已经被病缠身的她藉由日记写下自己的心情

2002.11.22
下午开始热了起来
大家都去上体育课了
只剩下我一个人
心情有点灰.....

男生依旧在画著女孩望着女孩的背影
女孩你有感受到吗?? 用相机写日记的你
在她的青春里最常见的搭配只能是口罩
遮住了她的笑脸躺在病床上
只会使她伤心流泪

2002.12.3
365个吃药打针的日子
什么时候会停止

男孩还想要给女孩牛奶补充营养希望她能康复
女孩拿到了他的关心也看到了他的画可是

2002.12.3
终于
无法再上课了.....

女孩休学了习惯用影像纪录生活的她
男孩则继续他的学生生活

看着一篇篇的回覆知道男孩近况的她眼框湿了
是想念还是欣慰抑或是不舍哭了

女孩消失了被上天带回家了吧
偌大房间只有透过相框想念她

男孩的画依旧在那人不在了

不管是落叶不管是阴天
天灰永远会变晴天
你在找我吗?

天灰了灯也熄?

sad story right? if you want the MV, can nudge me on MSN...

It had been raining heavily everyday... so I cant even dry my clothes... moreover, my neighbour used up all the hanging lines! Talking about my neighbour, he's really a bastard and an idiot... firstly, he hang the clothes by just throwing the clothes on the lines, and leave it there for weeks! I mean, how you expect it to dry when you don't spread out the clothings and you leave it there whether it's rain or shine... Secondly, he drink until drunk every few days, and I once saw his vomit in the toilet basin (it's a common toilet)... please la, please vomit into the toilet bowl... I wonder how he get into a University when he don't even have general knowledge of hanging clothes... Even my roommate (a Sinagporean Indian) cannot tolerate my neighbour (India Indian)...

The other day, I was downloading videos from http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vwd/learning/default.aspx , to refresh my skills on .NET programming... I should be experimenting using .NET to develop my personal website... The plan is to have a website that explains ME and also serve a platform to share photos, videos, music etc on a database... and hopefully have a forum, so one group of friends can get to know another group of friends... who knows? it might develop into a larger network of friends... I can also assign username to friends that I think deserve it, so they can access exclusive files such as contact lists and birthday lists... you will never get to forget each other's birthday, because I can also implement birthday reminders... of course, this needs a lot of work...
I think I will start working on this after exams... (although I still need to cope with FOC and Special Term) ... Hopefully, I will get something running in August... Meanwhile, do tell me if you have any ideas...

Yesterday was really a nightmare, I had been studying whole day and whole night, I didn't sleep until 8.30am in the morning... And when I look at some lecture notes, I don't even have impressions of what it's talking about... what's worse? I was alone in the room, and had not talk to anyone (even on MSN) for the whole day... Hopefully, things can turn up better today...

Well, I can't blame anyone but myself... I had been skipping almost half of the lectures I think... I really need to put my mood back to studying... Studying in a University really isn't easy... especially in my Computer Engineering course (people says that it got the highest dropout and "dabao" rate in the whole Singapore)... I once heard a professor says that it's accredited by IEEE as a degree of Masters standard (see here), that explains why it's so tough...

"The Computer Engineering course is accredited by the Institution of Electrical Engineers, United Kingdom, at M.Eng. level. The course is also accredited by the Professional Engineers Board, Singapore." (see here)

This assures me that I had not choosen the wrong course... A lot of my friends wonder why I choose Computer Engineering (as compared to Computer Science or NUS Computing, which I was offered also, and is nearer in nature to my diploma)... I think I should explain once and for all...

Firstly, Computer Engineering is not equal to Computing, Computer Engineering is a combination of engineering and computer science. My area of interest is embedded systems and wireless technologies, the only way to truly learn these is through an Engineering course, not a Computing course.

Secondly, there are IT experts everywhere, any foreign average IT professional (or maybe a teenage programmer) can be much better in skills than the best Singaporean IT Expert. Moreover, these experts (especially from India) are willing to have a lower salary, and works harder than an average Singaporean. Foreign talents will definitely be a rational choice for employers. Well, unless, you have competitive advantage. That is, an engineer can design and build a computer, I don't think a pogrammer can do it. Who knows? I might design a microprocessor better than Intel! (haha, impossible hor?) Besides, an Engineer defintely have a more professional status than a Programmer in society, agreed?

Thirdly, if I want to choose a degree, why choose one that is similar to my diploma? I come here to learn new things. My objectives in studying is never about getting the certificate (although having a certificate is really a bonus). To those who study for a cert: "please la... study for yourself, for achievements, for your family! Be realistic, having a cert doesn't guarantees a job. Compare to, there are a lot of successful people who never got a degree! (look at Bill Gates..)"...

Ok, enough of typing... back to studies... Maths 2 Exam tomorrow! I think I offended a lot of people while writing this, this is written in a general point of view, not against anyone in particular. And of course, you are free to disagree with me and give me comments.

meanwhile, visit the following sites
Local brand - a T-shirt brand developed by true Singaporeans, endorsed by Xiaxue, click on the shirt films (especially 100% Hero), it's damm funny.
不想長大的 S.H.E - A blog written by S.H.E themselves, a lot of interesting life photos there... Hebe really has a good sense of writing...
TANK的音樂日誌 - A blog written by Tank himself, his songs are really good, can be compared to David Tao and Lee Hom...
MV Links - A series of lonks to many MVs
Videos on S.H.E
一眼万年MV - A nicely taken MV of their new song
S.H.E~搞笑全記錄 - S.H.E only depends on looks? no, they are more than that. You will laugh until stomachache after you see this video
S.H.E. saying jokes
S.H.E第15屆金曲獎girl power - An excellent performance by them, not singing their own songs, but singing other people's songs
S.H.E @ 娛樂百分百 (2004-11-17) (Part 1 of 4) - Ella emotionally breakdown and hit herself with the mic in this show, got 4 parts...
S.H.E @ 娛樂百分百 (2004-11-17) (Part 2 of 4)
S.H.E @ 娛樂百分百 (2004-11-17) (Part 3 of 4)
S.H.E @ 娛樂百分百 (2004-11-17) (Part 4 of 4)

2006-04-15T23:05:00.000+08:00

I got one good news and one bad news, which one you want to hear first???

Normally people will say bad nes 1st... alright, bad news then...
Bad News: I haven't started studying Maths 2!
Oh shit, I basically had been wasting time these 2 days on watching movies (Cinderella Man, Ice Age 2 etc.), dramas (爱杀17 and 爱情魔发师) and surfing net...

Good News: I finally finish my laundry! and also I added some photos, music and videos to my "long-time-no-touch" multiply site... Do drop by http://ymeagain.multiply.com if you have the time... (or when you feel boring)... yah... I also manage to clear most of my yahoo mails (which I only check in a few months), send future mails to yingyong@singnet.com.sg ok?

Alright, cut the crap... you can add me in multiply to gain full access to my multply site... I will be sharing my photos, music and videos there for the time being... (ymeagain ask ying yong: why you must repeat yourself huh?)

At the same time, I had been searching for a good web host to do my future web development... When I say web development, I'm saying I need support for a database (preferbly MS SQL) and technology like ASP.NET ... frankly speaking, I don't paying... If you have any recommendations, please tell me (p.s. lg, thanks for the help)... My ambition is to develop a platform to share my stuff with friends, then from there develop further... who knows? maybe I can develop that into a business... btw, please help to click on the google advertisements by the right side (don't the the top one)... it's actually put by myself and I can earn a few cents if somebody click it... well, I'm not forcing you la... click when u like lor... if you are interested, you can visit https://www.google.com/adsense/

Another thing that might interest web developers, Microsoft is offering free download of Visual Studio 2005 until Nov 2006! check it out at http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/default.aspx

if you notice, my blog also had a new name: "The Chronicles of Y-cube..." ... Nice right??? I also added another blog called "Y-cube's Collections" , this is the place where I share some interesting pictures and comics I received through mails... it's a pity if I don't share... and btw, I stopped forwarding this kind of mails a few years ago... (i used to do it but people complain that I flooding their mails).. do drop by at http://ymeagain-collection.blogspot.com/ ... the photos are uploaded by a friendly and free software called Hello Bloggerbot developed by Google (Blogger is under Google anyway)... But the bad thing is you need to upload a pic one at a time and also only 1 picture can appear in one post... nevertheless, it's good for those who want to "hassle-freely" post pictures... and I think I can cutomize it with some html editing (which I don't have time to do now... Maths exams coming in 3 days! OMG!)

Another thing, regarding my birthday wish list on my msn nick, you can ignore it la... I just put it for fun... although I really want the following items la...
1. a new pair of Bermudas (my current bermudas got a hole liao...)
2. Tank's Album
3. Digital Camera (5 megapix) (essential item to make a good blog)
4. Creative Zen Micro 5GB (or higher) (or equivalent MP3 players like iRiver H10)
5. PVR (to watch TV on computer)
I really don't need any present la... (sure or not?) ... I found that once people reach over 21 years old, birthday really doesn't matter to the birthday boy(or girl)... But birthday is a good opportunity for friends to have a gathering and give friends a treat... (i want to la.. but I am very poor recently)
Anyway, I can buy the above things using my PROGRESS dividends! Haha.. coming on 1st May... Wait a minute, I need to pay back my mother, pay my overdue bills etc... that means left with... Hahaha... I think I better save up if I got any $$$ left...

Ok, I think I should end by showing a pictures when my whole family went to KTV on 1st April (to celebrate my father's birthday)

Aren't my parents cute?

2006-04-11T21:02:00.000+08:00

Ok, I am stubborn.

Everytime I want to study, I want to read through every piece of lecture notes and make a notes on cue cards. Results: I can't finish studying in time -> just flunk my quiz on monday (discrete maths notation, haha!). I think I need to come out with another more efficient way to study. I told myself that I definitely must score better than last semester. (if you don't know yet, I had my worst results in my life last sem)... Ok, let's not bored everyone... change topic...

recently, I had read quite a few blogs that are really interesting...

Xiaxue aka Wendy http://xiaxue.blogspot.com
She has been my favourite blogger so far. She's a celebrity blogger... nono... she's not a celebrity who blogs. She's someone who got famous by blogging. The interesting thing about her is that she talks everything under the sun in the most frank way (sometimes vulgarities)... And her blog is so famous that companies give her free products and invite her to events, just to make her blog about it. Somethings I like about her is that her posts are always full of photos and meaningful words, and always backing up what she says with evidence. Besides her main blog, she also a "Hate Xiaxue" blog, a "Media Centre" blog, "Geek" blog and a "Superstar" Blog... Interesting right? check out her blog!
btw, she's also a for magazines such as Maxim and SNAG.

Talk Rock http://rockson.blogspot.com/
He (I think he's a guy) uses the most Ah Beng language to talk about sensitive issues (especially political) that nobody dares to talk about. I think the government will vomit blood when they sees his blog. Quite interesting points of view from him, but you need a certain knowledge og Hokkien to understand him.

Sarong Party Girl
http://sarongpartygirl.blogspot.com/ and http://www.missizzy.org/
Hasn't really read her blog, but she's quite a good writer also, but the language she use is too formal. I heard that she became famous after she post a nude picture of herself on her blog.

Ok, next... want to introduce you all to a few sites that I find interesting

SparkyBlue http://www.sparkyblue.com
Yesterday, Eric send me this link http://www.sparkyblue.com/misc/italian_english/index.htm
it's on a Italian speaking Engish joke... Quite funny, but I heard it 3 times already! Then I went to explore the whole website... And found some flash animations that interest me at http://flash.sparkyblue.com/main.htm ... some recommendations are Happy Tree Friends (A very sadist and hilarious cartoon), Star 摘星 (A professionally-made Taiwanese romantic comic series by Kokoro) and 小小作品 - Xiao Xiao (well-done and realistic Kungfu comic done using stick men)

Miniclip http://www.miniclip.com/
Yesterday, Xiang introduce me to this website full of games... Hasn't got the time to try all the games, but do try the Top Ten Games listed near the top left hand corner. I tried the Club Pengiun game, its like a Virtual Neighbourhood, and you go around buildings and rooms to play mini games, interesting thing is that you can even buy clothings and even buy your own skin colour! (serously, I don't see penguins changing colours by buying)

One last thing, I planning to revamp my blog and personal website (I done it halfway last time but my comp crash) after the exams. I would like to have some comments... leave our comments by clicking the "0 comments" link just right after this post. Don't leave it in the ShoutBox (it's kind of giving me errors)... well, of course, I welcome comments on the way I write my blogs also... haha...

Ok, I think I need to go back to study Software Systems And Models (some people call it Java, I don't understand, because it's actually not much about Java)... Exams on this Thursday!!! OMG! I better go back to studies... LOL! See ya!

2005-10-29T02:25:00.000+08:00

wow... juz went supper with my exco pple... a relief from the exam stress.. talked a lot crap... haiz... haven't got much progress today.. well... here are some new songs that i strongly recommend... and some links you might be interested...

Interesting songs
孫燕姿-完美的一天Album -> 眼淚成詩, 隱形人, 第一天, Honey Honey
Sweety-17歲不溫柔Album: -> 彩虹眼淚, 愛的號碼牌, 光翼, 17歲女生的溫柔
5566-好久不见Album -> Crying In The Rain, 白色花漾, 世界最美的风景
【真命天女】电视原声带 -> 星光(S.H.E), 再一次拥有(龚诗嘉), 我比想像中爱你(J.S.), 我给你幸福(动力火车), 只是当时(Ella), 摩天轮(Hebe), 管不着(Selina)
笵瑋琪-一比一Album -> 如果的事, 一比一, 沒那麽愛他
梁静茹-丝路Album -> 丝路, 瘦瘦的, 路
杨丞琳-暧昧Album -> 暧昧, 单眼皮
Hokkien Kwa - Ji Pa Ban (Hokkien Song - 1 million)
梁静茹 - 丝路 MV

Interesting flash
An interesting taipei flash
A funny jay chou mario flash

Music related websites
Boxup (I usually check this website for lyrics)
Be An Idol - A website where normal people post the songs they compose or sings
Baidu - A quite famous download site
ting163 - A China downloads website
tt7t - Another China downloads website

Websites of my interests
资料：连续剧《真命天女》故事大纲
《真命天女》Official Website
Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire
Another Harry Potter website
華研国际音乐 Official Website

2005-10-28T22:30:00.000+08:00

Busy Busy Busy...

really busy nowadays, just finished all the labs and reports, and now have to start studying for exams... argh... who invented exams? but before i buried myself in the books... juz wanted to update the blog (which i had neglected for months...)... nowadays busy studying computer engineering at NTU, and also busy with my cca at CAC... yup... and of course i not forgetting to organize outings now and then... yup, also juz finished watching 真命天女连续剧. so shiok! yup, b4 i end, juz want to share about some groups of new friends i make in NTU... see below...

2005-10-28T17:46:00.000+08:00

Forte! My OG

As I had mentioned in previous blogs. I joined Cultural Activities Club (CAC) Freshmen Orientation Camp (FOC) in July. My orientation group is Forte! Ever since after the camp, we have numerous outings. Going for dinner, movie, KTV, celebrating birthdays, Ball (aka dinner and dance), Flag Day, watching fireworks on National Day and recently we went to Sentosa, where I got thrown into water. LOL! (p.s. nudge me for the videos). Besides al these, in school, we also meet for lunch, dinner etc... every now and then. They are really a bunch of fun-loving friends. Some even become my committee members... We become close friends within a short period of time and some even become couples. also founded someone I liked...

FEPB1! My class

Who says there's no such thing as CLASS in uni? I had a tutorial group of abut 40 people taking 4 same core modules as me. Why so big? I also don't know why. (p.s. normal class is only about 20) Well, maybe because my whole class are polytechnics! There are only 3 classes with poly grads in my course of study. That's why, I can click with them pretty well... But up to now, I only know about 10... There are Alvis, Wilson, Rachel, good in studies. Wei Yang living same block as me, very zai in programming. (his room-mate, De Hao is same course as us). Joycelyn, Desmond, who sings very well. And Jerome, the guy full of jokes. And not forgetting my classmates in poly, Poa Send and Yen Ping, who conincidently become my classmates again... And of course, my camp mate cum room mate cum classmate, Mohan.

15th CAC Executive Committee!!!

After a series of interview, nomination and rally, I finally got elected to be Orientation Director (OD) of CAC. Thanks to all who had voted me. As OD, I chair the organizing commitee of the next Freshmen Orientation Camp (FOC), and also a member of the Executive Committee.

At first, I thought that the Ex-Co (Executive Committee) people are all very serious people, especially when the first time we see each other is for Annual General Meeting. But actually they are a bunch of crazy people (even crazier than my OG!), who are very zai (aka capable) in managing people and events. In only 2 months time, we experience many unforgettable serious times and fun times together. Meetings until late night and having fun at Mid-Autumn Festival, just to name a few....

2006 FOC Main Committee!!!

Yup, this is the committee I chair. Our job is to organize the next FOC. I have 20 Main Com members (some of them from my OG!), who in turn are in charge of the sub committees, Group Leaders, Programmers, Logistics, Welfare, Publications and Publicity, and Business Managers. Total strength of 73 people... They are a bunch of fun-loving and really committed people. I'm glad that I didn't choose wrongly. We has a few dinners together before meetings, and of course birthday celebrations. We come different courses, and some even more senior than me, but we bonded quite well together. Think I haven't got to know them well enough, as rh says, we need more bonding... bonding... bonding... And bet I will be very busy raising funds in the holidays. So tell me earlier if got plans for holiday hor! haha...

2005-08-09T21:40:00.000+08:00

Week 2 at NTU had been more tiring, but very fruitful... Main reson is that I finally got "catch some balls" of the things I'm learning... thanks to the tutorials and my friendly classmates... but my laptop still not here... so a lot of computing stuff cant be done... and also, Went to quite a couple of welcome teas, met friends for meals, bought second-hand textbooks etc...

Important Announcement:
I running for NTU Cultural Activities Club as Orientation Director
NTU Students only, Please make yourself free
on 19th Aug 2005, Friday, 1230H to 1530H
Lessons will be Cancelled at that time.
I need your votes to get the position, thanks a lot...
Venue not confirm yet. Details will be updated soon.

here are the details of my week, lectures are excluded because they are always the same!

Monday, 01/08/2005
1230, Met xiang for lunch at Cafe by the Quad at School of Biological Science, the food there quite ex, and not nice at all, however, it will make a good studying place...
1530, lessons ended... finally met my classmates for the 1st time at the 1st turorial, we talked for about 1 hour... they are quite friendly, most probably because all from poly, they even thought of having study groups to do tutorial together! and also got class mates live in same block as me!
1630, met wen cai to collect a 2nd-hand book, went back hall, setup printer, then realise got no papers and no black ink so went out to buy...
took the shuttle bus, towards popular, but end up at hall 2, so went to Nanyang Supermarket, to buy some tidbits and stationary
then went Popular, oh! I hate the stairs and hills! Luckily, I met cristal there, so cut the queue! felt Really guilty for that...
1900, went back to my hall canteen, Canteen 14 to have dinner with Camp mates for the 1st time since I entered NTU...

Tuesday, 02/08/2005
1230, met Forte for lunch at Cant B, collected $$$ for next week CAC Ball and discussed about our plans after the ball... then went to Cant A to buy the Ball tickets
1530, second break for the day, went library and computer to look for available comps... but as usual, all occupied, sad... when will my laptop come!!! Met Lirong at LWN Library to collect $$$, and talked for some time... Information Exchange, as usual... then went to computer shop, and finally found the "ancient" ink catridge for my printer...
1730, Elective lectures from until 1930, tired!!!

Wednesday, 03/08/2005
0930, 1 hour break, met my sis at the computer shop to sign computer loan
1230, lessons ended and then went over to LT19A for Meet Mentor Session, I'm lucky to have Dr. Yow to be my mentor, he is so friendly, helpful and also very "zai" in his expertise...
1630, I think, Met GQ and ask him help me buy Ball tickets, then went over to Nanyang Supermarket to look look see see...
1715, Went back to North spine, and accompany xiang to go for NTU Ryder's Club Welcome Tea, and also got a free Dinner!
1900, rush over to MLT for Investment Interactive Welcome Tea
2045, rush again to meet liang for movie, Stealth at West Mall...
Reached hall around midnight, yawn!!!

Thursday, 04/08/2005
1130, went to school for tutorial, but heard from others that tutorials for this module only start next week... damm lecturer, didn't inform us...
1700, went over to SRC (Sports and Recreation Centre) for Archery 1-day Beginners course
1830, rush over to CAC Welcome Tea, signed up for Orientation, Impresario and PR as Main Comm, also running for Exco posts...
After the welcome tea, went supper with forte for Dinner cum supper at JP...
Reached hall then K.O. liao...

Friday, 05/08/2005
whole morning stayed at hall, coz afternoon then got lessons...
1230, met xiang for lunch at Canteen 14
1800, wen to SAC for CAC EXCO Interviews, luckily the interviewers didn't give me difficult questions...
2100, went to the Night Supper event, organised by my Hall JCRC (Junior Common Room Committee), we went Adam Road, Marina square and then Geylang... frankly speaking, I didn't enjoy much, not that I not friendly enough, it's that others (esp seniors)didn't even approach me!
0330, reached hall, and slept at 0400

Saturday, 06/08/2005
Shit, I overslept...
0830, met xiang for breakfast and went over to SRC for Archery IVP selection
the whole thing last until 1530, quite boring actually, but learn quite a number of techniques that I have not learn in my lessons at Bintan...
1700, reached home and helped my mother with some recording stuff, then used computer burn discs, print notes and etc... slept at 0500

Sunday, 07/08/2005
0930, 2nd day of Archery selection, waited for very long for the selection... finally it ended at 1530...
rushed to Orchard to meet James at around 1630, to pass him CDs...
went to PS to cut hair
reach home about 1900 and "kunz" until midnight...
wake up at midnight to use computer... slept at 0400...

2005-07-31T03:02:00.000+08:00

NTU, stands for the Nanyang Technological University... for those who still still still don't know.... I had just fulfilled one of my biggest dream, being an undergraduate at NTU, a computer engineering student...

this week have been packed with studies and activities.... running here and there for lectures, to buy books, to collect lab manuals and lecture notes, to print notes, and meet people for meals... BUT university is not all about studying... I always ensure my life are full of other activities... see below:

Monday, 25/07/2005

1st day of school, no lessons... but I'm super busy...
9am, early in the morning, went to the Freshmen Welcome Day talk... and also meet some of my camp mates and sergeants... (frankly speaking I don't want to associate with them much, because of bad memories at camp)... i didn't expect it to be so formal... have to wear a gown, listen to a few speeches, pledge to the University Code of Honour, watched a few performances...
10.30am, talk ended... and signed up for the flag day on wed... suppose to meet wencai for lunch at 11.30, but wait until 12.30pm still haven come...
12.30pm, met xiang, sebes and boon and went to the CCA recruitment fair... signed up for Archery Club, Emcee Club and Cultural Activities Club...
1.30pm, brought boon and sebes for lunch at canteen A then went to visit my hostel room...
3.30pm, went back auditorium to find xiang...
around 4pm, went to labs to collect lab manuals, ordered lecture notes...
near to 5pm, met yixi to see laptops at the computer shop...
5.30pm, went to jurong point to buy CD...
6.30pm, met Forte (orientation group) to watch Jiang Mei Qi & Fan Wei Qi Campus Concert... the 1st campus concert I watched! queue for a very long time... but it's worth it... the concert was great and fan fan is super friendly...
8.30pm, we decided to go for "supper" at the nearby coffee shop... but due to some "communication breakdown" we went to dfferent places.... but eventually we had manage to find the right place...
10pm plus... back to my hall... damm tired...

Tuesday, 26/07/2005

morning, lectures and lectures...
afternoon, met xiang for lunch, then a lecture
then went to popular book shop with mohan to buy books.. the shop i damm crowded and the queue is damm long... what's worse? my books are damm heavy and expensive... spent $144 on 4 books...
then went to computer terminal room to use computer, because my laptop is not here yet! waited for almost to print only a few pages.. because there are people who print hundreds of pages at 1 time!!!
after some studying, went to bed early at 9pm plus, but kenna wake up by a call from xiang saying wan to visit my room! that was 10pm plus... In the end, only fall asleep at 11pm plus...

Wednesday, 27/07/2005

This day is NTU Students' Fund Flag Day! it's been ages since the last flag day I participate... I think that was in secondary 2...
met Anthony, Nick and Andrea on bus 199 and then lirong at boon lay mrt.. we headed to Tanjong Pagar.. on the way, we (especially lirong) took a lot of photos using Nick's phone! LOL! upon reaching there, we had lunch at the nearby hawker centre and then me and yixi began our "begging" nearby... it wasn't surprising that quite a number ask me the money go to where (after the NKF incident)... my answer was NTU student fund, endownment fund and community chest... and purposely avoid saying the fourth charity: NKF Children's Medical Fund... hehe...

at the end of 2.5 hours (2.30pm), yixi got more than 3/4 can, but I only got more than 1/4 can... guess I'm really not good in this business... then we took a break at International Plaza Burger King... after the break, we travelled to City Hall mrt (the wrong collection point), then to Raffles Place (the correct place)... Anthony, Andrea and me contiued to "beg for more", the rest went to "relax 1 corner"... this place wasn't as easy as tanjong pagar, especially when this is not the peak hours... so after some time, we also went to Clark Quay Mcdonald's to rest...

5.30pm, finally we can return the cans at the UOB plaza collection point... after that went to marina square Han's to have dinner... It's really difficult to consolidate order of 10+ people... headache! It 8pm plus when we finished dinner... at 1st want to watch movie, then decided to play pool, and end up playing arcade... as usual, i played Para Para! hehe...

reached back hostel near to 11pm... a really long day... damm tired... but slept at 1am...

Thursday, 28/07/2005

afternoon then got lectures because no lab lessons on 1st week... but got up early to use computer at Lee Wee Nam library... because I need to Self-learn 4 lectures!!! luckily the flash animation is well-prepared and understandable, also with a bit help from what I learn in poly...

12.30pm, met wencai for lunch at Canteen B...
1.30pm, went back library to use computer...
2.30pm to 4.30pm, lectures...
4.30pm, went loittering around and to the book shop again... bought some stationary and a book... saw Xiuwen and Xiang Xin there...
then went to computer shop, then dinner alone at canteen B
after which, went back book shop to buy calculator...
went back hall, study a bit, took a bath...
8.30pm, watched Project Superstar at the TV lounge... it was generally a better show than the guys...
9.30pm to 11.30pm, went to the Hall computer room to "try" to use the computer there, but after discovering that it's running a at 733Mghz... i gave up and went back to room to file up my notes...
11.30pm, the superstar results are out... I expected jason and silver to be out... but strangely, they managed to get in...
damm tired... slept after that...

Friday, 29/07/2005

finally I can wake up later in the morning... but also not very late la... I woke up naturally at 9am... done some washing of clothes in the morning... it was around 12 when I finish... took a bath, and met xiang 1330 at canteen B for lunch... anthony, xiang xin and corina was also there... 1430 started my 4 hours marathon of lectures (inclusive of 2 hours make-up lecture)... went to the wrong LT again... blur sotong... lectures ended at 1630, had dinner and went back hall... done some packing, and went home... home sweet home at last... slept at 1am...

Saturday, 30/07/2005

woke up 10am plus... had brunch and started using computer until now... you cant a person who hasn't really been touching computer to use for such long hours... :D sorry, I cant live without computers, or should I say I cant stand the days not chatting with my friends...

***Disclaimer: Sorry if this long blog bored you... :)

2005-07-01T15:06:00.000+08:00

paiseh to anyone reading my blog out there... been quite tiring these days that i dun have the mood to write blogs! most impt of all, my comp breakdown again last sat (25/06/2005)... very very sad... i will definitely update when my comp is up again...

well, let's say about my life recently... for most of the people clearing leave, they are very free... but for my case, i am damm busy!
last week,
wed: mahjong with camp mates and ktv with my family,
thurs: job interview and buying my friend's bdae present,
fri: brought my mother to national skin centre,
sat: meet up with my FYP mates,
sun: went to a orientation welcome tea and then friend's granfather funeral then watch Initial D with xiang

as for this week, i had been working part-time as a surveyor counting vehicles most of the time...
mon: counting vehicles at CTE (near amk ave 1)
tues: counting vehicles at the same place
wed: went back to camp to sign clearances in morning, kenna scolded by Miss Ellen Ang, coz OC din approve my leave! night time meet up with Dy (my best buddy in club), i treat him to watch batman begins, he treat me dinner at nydc...
thurs: counting vehicles from 5pm to 10pm at CTE (near bukit timah road)
today: count vehicles at BKE (near woodlands)

hopefully next week my comp can be back in action (so i can try out the S.H.E mp3 player i just collected and start blogging again), and have to make some time out to tidy up my old things and start revising!

2005-05-31T01:42:00.000+08:00

Selamat Datang Bintan!
23/05/2005, Monday to 25/05/2005, Wednesday

yawn! wake up early in the morning 5am after only 1 hour plus of sleep... that's because of late night supper with my long time no see OG pals and also last minute luggage packing... today marks the 1st day of bintan trip with my family... it had been donkey years since i went overseas last time... as u know, it's hard to get overseas leave as a NSF...

although i wake up at 5am, but due to last minute preparation and my mother's slowness, we only left home around 7.30am and reached Tanah Merah Ferry Terminal around 8am... well, the ferry trip is actually only 40 minutes, but it cost a whoppping $45! (to and fro of course) with that money i think can fly to thailand liao lor... btw, except for my parents and siblings, my brother also brought 6 of his friends... we had our packet breakfast on the ferry, because we really didn't had time b4 that... reached Bintan around 10am (9am Indonesia Time), the ferry terminal immediately a feeling that i'm in malaysia... well, besides the furtest place i had been is Batam... after which we took a "bouncy" 20mins shuttle bus to the resort we are staying... check in time was 3pm, so we put our luggage there 1st... then it begin to rain... oh shit, that means cannot go beach liao... so we decided to take a S$3 bus ride to the nearby "Pasar Oleh Oleh Shopping Village"... (Note: It's Sing dollars, not rupiah, surprisingly most things are paid by Sing dollars)...

Pasar Oleh Oleh Shopping Village... I thought it's a shopping centre at 1st, but I was totally wrong... It's a place of a few modified wooden houses that becomes shops, resturants and minimart... quite boring actually... after some walking in the rain and in the minimart (which sells very expensive things)... we had our lunch at a simple sort-of restaurant... the fish porridge is damm big and nice, and only cost 3 bucks... after which, we went back to the resort, but still cannot check in... while waiting, we choose a cake to celebrate my mother's very belated birthday... the villa (standalone 2 storey chalet-type house) we staying is actually quite near the main lobby... eqipped with 4 bedrooms, a full kitchen and 3 toilets... the best part i like is we are given a buggy (golf car) for our own use! after some tidy up, we celebrated my mother's birthday in the late afternoon, then 4 of my brother's friends went back to sg... i also got to drive the buggy without license! (according to resort rules, only people with driving license are allowed to drive the buggy)... this had been my 1st realistic driving experience... after watching some TV, that marks the end of the day...

on tuesday, after having breakfast, we went to the beach, no mood to go down to the sea, so the rest went into the sea, while sat down to write my blog... after some time, we went back to the villa and had instant noodles for lunch, because the food at the resort is really too expensive... after which, we went to some greenary to take photos and i got a few chance to drive the buggy... then we ended up at the leisure centre... we played ping pong (only 3 ping pong tables), arcade games (limited out-dated games) and pool (only ONE pool table)... i think even the NTUC Downtown East has a leisure centre better than this lor... well, after that, we went over to the main lobby, where we started to search for a affordable dinner... i saw a can drink selling at S$3! a set meal costing S$60! OMG, everything there needs a lot of $$$... luckily, we found a meal at $17++ at an Italian Restaurant... although, it's a simple restaurant, but the service was excellence... my order is a hawailian pizza, when we all thought that it's a personal size pizza, but it's turns out to be equivilant to a medium size Pizza Hut pizza... thus, we had a fulfilling dinner... in the night, we played some board games like jenga... then that's end of the day...

wednesday, wake up, had breakfast, then went over to leisure centre... where my brother's friends tried on the traditional Indonesia costumes and took photos... then we went over to the archery to shoot arrows... finally, i fulfilled my wish on trying on archery... there, we shoot about 30 plus arrows each, mostly on the ground... hehe... but it was really quite an experience... we went back to villa after that, done some pack up and went to the main lobby, getting ready to departure... at 1pm (indonesia time), we are already on the shuttle bus to the jetty... it was a 2.30pm ferry... don't know why, i really tired and dozed off... it was 5pm (Singapore time) when we reached sg again... then we headed back home in a cab... when reached home, I done my usual stuff like surfing net and writing blogs and slept around 3am...

2005-05-26T02:38:00.000+08:00

Summary of blogs updated on 26th May 2005:

22/05/2005, Sunday --- A Fruitful OG Gathering!
21/05/2005, Saturday --- Star Wars! Join the Dark Side!
19/05/2005, Thursday --- A terrible mount...
to 20/05/2005, Friday

2005-05-26T02:29:00.000+08:00

A Fruitful OG Gathering!
22/05/2005, Sunday

Today I had a hugely successful gathering with my 3 months JJC OG (Orientation Group) after months of trying... The attendance had been the best since I enlist, total of 7 participants:

1. Ngiap Hui aka Huige (our OG Leader, now waiting to enter NIE),
2. Josiah (开心果 of the group, now lost weight and going 2nd year Accountancy at NTU),
3. Ronnie (NSF Clerk, tuition teacher, getting married at the end of the year),
4. Minli ("mother" of our group, 3rd year Psychology undergrad at NUS, tuition teacher),
5. Joanna (a always cheerful girl, 3rd year SP Media Communication student)
6. Li Li (the ever "speechless" girl, 3rd year Arts and Social Science undergrad at NUS),
7. and of course Me (the organizer)

12noon, the proposed time to meet at Heeren Shops for lunch. But, (as expected), everyone message me that they will be late. Don't misunderstand, it's perfectly ok with me, because I am always late also... the best part I like about my OG friends is that they are so accomodating and 客气, unlike my other groups of friends. We can be known as misters and misses "anything". And also we enjoy each other's company a lot... Around 12.30pm, Josiah, Ronnie, Minli and me reached and went up to Billy Bombers 1st. Huige and Joanna came shortly. The food was quite cheap and nice and served in large quantities. I paid only $18.90++ for a set lunch. But the service is damm bad, I waited 40 mins for my main course I think. Nevertheless, we had a great conversation and laughter there. Update each other about our life recently and also joke about the reation we got when we heard that Ronnie is getting married.

By the time we finish lunch (actually left a lot), it's already 10 mins to 2pm. Then we rush down to Partyworld Orchard for KTV. Everyone there is well-versed in 1 kind of songs, Huige in Chinese songs, Ronnie in Cantonese Songs, Josiah in English Songs and Minli in high pitch songs. Joanna left us at 3pm plus and Li Li came at 4pm sharp, too bad they didn't meet each other... the KTV session ended at 6pm...

we then went over to TCC cafe at cineleisure for coffee and more talking... there are endless topic we can talk about... we talked until 7.30pm where li li and minli left us and the rest of us head down to Safra Mount Faber... Guess what we do...

we played mahjong!!! it's been months since my last mahjong session, my hands are getting itchy... the charges for the room is $5.25 per hour, we played 4 hours from 8pm to 12mn... it's a room with 3 mahjong tables, fully air-conditoned of course, mahjong set provided. it's my 1st time there, also the 1st time i played 两毛, 四毛... I was reluctant at 1st, but i gave in... surprisingly, i didn't lose much... after which, we went to the nearby pasar to have supper... we had some "Men's Talk" there, about BGR etc. Josiah began to ask this question, "Why our bond is still there after 5 years?", i agree with josiah a lot, it's because we are very accomodating towards each other and all of us cherish friendships a lot... me and huige left there at 1am plus in a cab... tomolo have to wake up early to go bintan... yawn...

Partyworld Orchard, (from left): Li Li, Minli, Ronnie, Josiah, Me

TCC Cafe at Cineleisure, (from left): Huige, Josiah, Li Li, Minli, Me, Ronnie

TCC Cafe at Cineleisure, (from left): Huige, Josiah, Li Li, Minli, Me, Ronnie

2005-05-26T01:02:00.000+08:00

Star Wars! Join the Dark Side!
21/05/2005, Saturday

Book out late around 11am, because shift 3 had a quarrel with their PC (Platoon Commander). After which, went for a quick lunch at Tampines Bus Interchange food court. Then to Tampines Mall Sistic counter to help my brother buy tickets. Reached home around 2pm...

In the afternoon, met KT, YK and his brother and 1 of his friends to watch "Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith" at PS. This show makes me finally understand the story of Star Wars, I think I am a Star Wars fan now... The fact that I am watching with my camp mates (who I see everyday) is that those people who initially promised to watch together now say don't want to watch, and also YK's friends are being recalled but the tickets are already booked. Helping friend and also get to see the movie, why not? Back to the movie, the movie is full of exciting fighting scences and fantastic special effects...

After the show, we went to BK for dinner where I got 2 Star Wars Tumbler (cup), ideal for my future hostel life at NTU. We had a good conversation at BK on the movie and also relate it to the situation at our camp. Our squadron is just like the Empire, lesser and lesser do the right things, thus more strange things happen and the "dark force" is overtaking the place. I really hope it will back to what it used to be after I leave this place in July and the newbies come. After which, we walked over to Sunshine Plaza (opp. Parklane) to look out for birthday present for our friend. Sunshine Plaza is an office building with a few shops selling huge collections of models and comics. (p.s. the fried wan ton mee there is delicious!) After a short walk, we went separate ways, I went to Bugis Junction. Had a walk at my usual hangout places, CD shops and Books Kinokuniya.

Reached home around 11pm, and finally finish watching <<蔷薇之恋>>, glad that it's a happy ending. Slept at 3am...

2005-05-26T00:33:00.000+08:00

A terrible mount...
19/05/2005, Thursday to 20/05/2005, Friday

It has been a terrible mount... for the 1st 24 hours, I didn't even get 5 hours of sleep in TOTAL. Which means this 5 hours of sleep is not continuous. Most of us at base are "granted" 4 duties (the norm is 3 duties of 3 hours each) because of only 1 (aka satu or ONE) sick personnel. For the 2nd day, duties are relief because some on off had been recalled back. But on the 2nd day, a big investigation on the missing NVG (Night Vision Goggles) was conducted by the BIG shots (i.e. CO, OC, S3 and RSM). I was being called for questioning also. All our cupboards were also being searched and personnels on dismount (off) are also being recalled back. We were also being told that if the NVG is not found, we all have to stay in (i.e. confine)... the only good thing that happen this mount is that i got some signatures on my clearance form... Luckily, CO has more 人性 to let us book out on saturday morning...

2005-05-18T18:27:00.000+08:00

spent a fruitful saturday last week... morning go bank with my mother and brother, afternoon went for a very motivating business seminar at SP and then went to KTV with my primary school friends until 11pm plus... (ps. KBox is really ex!) really tired that say...

sunday, 15/05/2005 to monday 16/05/2005... went back camp for duties at merah... luckily nothing cock up... so duties quite slack... slept a lot... and watched a few epidsopes of <<神雕侠侣>>... revised a bit of maths... booked out on tuesday morning...

tuesday, 17/05/2005... met up with KT, YK and gilbert (camp mates) in evening... went bugis to look for KT's pouch... played a game of Para Para at BJ...

went to sunshine plaza (opp. parklane) where we saw a lot of fantastic and nice comic models such as Gundam and Doreamon (my favourite charater!), but bought nothing... then had dinner at a Wan Ton Mee shop there... delicious leh! after which went parklane for a while, looked at some guitars...

yesterday night watched drama series <<蔷薇之恋>> for the whole night until 3am... today continued to "chiong"... still left with 2 discs... sad... later in the night have to book in to standby...

2005-05-18T17:53:00.000+08:00

New link added:

my friend, Liang Guo's blog...
http://voyage.twozero.net/

2005-05-10T11:13:00.000+08:00

I know I haven't been updating my blog for a very very very very very very long time. I'm sorry, ok? Had been quite busy recently, and the real reson is I am TOO LAZY! i always give myself excuses, must change, must change... Ok, some update about me...

After the S.H.E concert, everyone say I am obssessed by by them, I know, ok? I am deeply impress by their performance. Pretty, good vocals, great 默契, 搞笑, adorable, unique characters, 不做作, they are all in one. from that time, i begin to back track to collect their past old CD albums (original, of course) and merchandises such as pictorial books (写真集) and books on their stories (文字书) and alarm clock... the sad thing is I cant find their old original MV DVDs, so I only bought the china versions (水货)... this search lasted for a few months, from searching island-wide CD shops to begging people to sell me their albums... recently, I am watching their drama <<蔷薇之恋>> (The Rose) on VCDs...

few days ago, my handphone service was disrupted, due to overdue bills, so cannot call out, but can receive calls and sms... sorry if I haven't been calling you... I still remember the last time my service is disrupted is in my poly days... but, no need to worry about me, the most i borrow $$$ from my mother again lor... so little money, yet so many things to pay for... wat to do? this is the reality of life... below is my wish list...

1. SONY NUDE EX Earphones ($80.90)
2. 512Mb MMC (Multi Media card) (around $88)
3. 梁静茹爱的大游行 Concert DVD ($27.90)
4. Digital Camera of > 3 megapixels and > 3X optical zoom
5. IRiver H10 MP3 Player (around $400)

I think it will be christmas when I fulfill my wish list, coz my financial problem is really BIG... btw, my disruption from NS was approved few weeks ago, so I will be studying computer engineering in NTU in July! yeah! Getting a degree has always been my goal... I cant wait to end my NS life, but that equals to no more income... so have to rely on my family again... BUT, according to my expenditure records, the pocket money I getting wont be enough, so I MUST find a part time job... preferably only on weekends, pay around $200 a month, but I don't want a waiter job... any Lobang, please contact me at 98799053 or yingyong@singnet.com.sg , I'm serious about this...

Nowadays, I am going on with the motion of doing duties, mounting and dismounting, and waiting for my miserably in NS to end... I will be clearing leave end of June... 1 last thing, Don't forget to ask me out! I really want to do some catching up with old friends...

2005-01-22T22:24:00.000+08:00

S.H.E Appreciation Autograph Session!

09/01/2005, Sunday

woke up early in the morning and went to S.H.E autograph session at IMM. Reach there at 11am, luckily they haven't give out the queue numbers, because the autograph is only limited to 1000 persons. Saw a few poly friends and my 2 cousins queuing up also. I go there alone, so I have to ask the ever-adorable Zhao Chen to help me buy lunch.

At around 12.15pm, they gave the queue numbers, i got 0618! so happy! tot that i will not get it at 1st, now my effort is not wasted!

After getting the queue number, we can walk around, this is a much better system then HMV autograph sessions, where u need to queue until the artist come, and don't even can can see the performance. I walked around to find the best spot to take photos. I finally settled down at a place and stood motionlessly there for hours.

S.H.E came around 3.05pm (which is only 5 minutes late) and the crowd start to be chaos, and I have to change spots to take photos. After a short performance of 痛快 , the autograpgh session started. They only sign their Encore DVD or VCD, so I have to used up my money again to the DVD. After which, went to the back of the queue (only those with queue number) to wait for my turn to go on stage to get the autograph. They look so pretty even in close distance. I even got the chance to shake their hands! so happy! after that, I didn't stay for very long, then went home...

After dinner, I on my computer to watch the S.H.E DVD I just bought while waiting for their performance on Ren Ci Charity Show. The <<金钟罩铁布衫>> MTV is hiliarous. Talk about the Ren Ci show, it's really touching that everyone helped to do push ups at the end of the show. But 林明伦 and 陈之财 is too arrogant to say that they can do 2000 push ups themselves. After some surfing, went to sleep...

2005-01-22T20:30:00.000+08:00

S.H.E 奇幻樂園演唱會 (Fantasy Land Tour Concert)!!!

08/01/2005, Saturday

The day I had been waiting for months, really look forward to the concert...

6am, back to flight after a duty. Wah lau! got 1/2 day off still need to do 2 duties, 6 hours straight from 9am to 3pm! that means can only sleep 3 hours... haiz...

during duty at echo 7, luckily we are given a break to go lunch, or else i will be bored to death... 2pm, mobilisation activated, those not in camp has to report back base in 2 hours. 3pm, duty ended, back to flight. but they say have to wait for the mobilisation to finish. Aiyo, still have to collect digi cam from my brother at City Hall, where got time? 4.30pm, turnout activated and we kanna knock it down. Because they ask for volunteers and nobody turn up, 4get it, dun wish to elaborate. Everything ended around 4.45pm and I finally book out...

Luckily, i bought civilian clothes, so intended to go there directly, but have to go City Hall 1st to collect digi cam. Reached City Hall around 6.15pm, changed clothes, met my brother at the Arts House (he's having a play there), then, took a bus to near National Statium... LG and HQ still haven come, so I intended to have dinner at Leisure Park Shopping Centre, but was shocked that there is empty!!! Food, food, I need FOOD! damm hungry and tired at that point of time, but still have to walk long distance to Indoor Stadium. Reached there around 7.15pm. Finally found some food by the river side. The bee hoon is ka na sai (but still have to eat), but drumstick taste good. But LG and HQ still haven come. It's about 7.45pm that they come...

the concert started at 8.30pm. My 1st concert! the atmosphere is great! The starting was great! The concert consists of an amazing 30 songs. It's really impressive that they can see 4 to 5 songs non-stop at 1 time, and yet quality don't drop. Some more they sang some with dance moves! They changed a few costumes during the concert, I like the European dress the best. In the middle of the concert, they showed video clips of their memorable moments, which really shows how much they have changed... But Ella is still ever so jovial. Hebe is ever so adorable and talkative. And Selina is ever so sweet... And they can even gossip among themselves, which i think no artist will do that, but that is their true self I think. And it's also very sweet of them to sing birthday song to a crew member. And their voice is so powerful that I can even hear them sing LIVE during the 4-times malfunction of sound system, they even repeated a song because of that! And although they sometimes will forget lyrics, but they insisted on singing LIVE, unlike the lips-synching 5566. But a great disadvantage is that the stage is 4-sided, which means sometimes we only see their back or side. Overall, the concert was great with their perfect 默契 (which show their friendship) and they interact with us a lot to bring a fun night to us. But Indoor Statium really have to retify the sound system, because I heard Jolin's concert also like that... The concert around 11.10pm after 2 encore songs. We caught the last train and went home...

p.s. really look forward to their next LIVE performance... and realise I got addicted to them!

2005-01-22T11:44:00.000+08:00

Hebe!!! more photos on Autograph session at http://ymeagain.multiply.com/photos/album/5

2005-01-21T15:27:00.000+08:00

Part 2 Photos!!! S.H.E on dolphins, note Hebe is the lowest because she scare of height! more at http://ymeagain.multiply.com/photos/album/4

2005-01-19T01:00:00.000+08:00

S.H.E in action!!! more photos at http://ymeagain.multiply.com/photos/album/3

2005-01-19T00:57:00.000+08:00

Liang's operation...

05/01/2005, Wednesday

Have to wake up early for another duty 6am to 9am. During this period, CAF (Chief of Air Force) came to take a flight to don't-know-where. Luckily he didn't bypass us.

Then. in the middle of duty, being called back to service my rifle. The armourer says my charging handle got problem, but it looks OK to me leh! After which, book out around 10am. Called liang about his operation, he said he's ok and discharging soon but he sounded weak.. maybe i should go visit him these few days...

After sleeping a while at home, paying bills and donation to tsuami victims using internet banking, I went to HMV again because I just got my ERS! hehe... After considering, I got myself a Sun Yan Zi 2004 Concert DVD and a S.H.E 2004 Concert DVD (to get a preview on what I will se this saturday), both at unbelievable price of $10.95. There's also a CLEAROUT sale there, VCDs selling from $4.95 and CDs from $0.95! But most of them not really worth buying...

went home around 9pm. watch TV, surf net, and watched S.H.E DVD. Very exciting performance. But the sound recording not so good. Slept at 2am...

Visiting Liang...

06/01/2005, Thursday

8am, back to base for standby. Done an Echo 2 duty from 12noon to 3pm (1st time doing this duty as this emplacement is usually closed). After duty, done some area cleaning and book out at 4pm plus...

Then, went liang's house with Noel. Liang was having a quite high fever, over 38 degree celsius. But his father is ther to take care of him... so we spent out time there until 8pm. Went to Holland V to buy some food. And then went home. On the computer, surf some net, and downloaded Lee Hom's newest album <<心中的日月>>. Intended to do some blogging, but fell asleep in the end...

Strange Duty...

07/01/2005, Friday

8am, back to base again. Supposingly going outpost, but being planned to stay in base because I'm taking 1/2 day off tomolo for S.H.E Concert! But heard that tomolo got mobilisation, hope it wont affect my concert...

1st duty of the day, Echo 6 from 9am to noon. Then, woke up at 4.45pm by a strange announcement, "5-9 duty personnels please draw items!". What the heck! have to takeover 1 hour earlier because the people doing duty is dismounting at 5pm. But seargeant let us be takeover at 8.30pm, so everyone only do half hour extra. Morning still got duty from 3am to 6am...

2005-01-18T13:32:00.000+08:00

A New Beginning...

01/01/2005, Saturday, New Year's Day

Today is a new year, a new beginning. But come to think of it, it's just another day, 1 day nearer to ORD. However, I am glad that I am given this day to live on, while my uncle can't even...

The takeover came late at 11am plus because ICT Driver 出 stunt again (i.e. Missing in Action). After send arms etc. we book out near to noon.

Reach home around 2pm. Slept for a while. Then went out in the evening. Went to Orcahrd to photostat my acceptance letter (to NTU), then to HMV to checkout new CDs. Had dinner at KFC, and went home. Done some blogging until 2am and slept...

Boring day...

02/01/2005, Sunday

Basically spent the whole day at the computer. And watch a TV show, 卫斯里之蓝血人. And slept at 2am plus...

Crazy guy at 欢乐颠峰...

03/01/2005, Monday

Back to base after 2 days of zhou boing... Today doing duty at base, duties kept changing and changing because tomolo's VVIP's Flight. And finally hand in my application for disruption from NS (in order to go NTU earlier). Also saw a crazy guy performing on 欢乐颠峰...

PM's Flight...

04/01/2005, Tuesday

Early in morning have to wake up at 4.45am. Because Prime Minister is coming to take a flight, and all the defence minister and chiefs are coming. So our 100% check hours are extended from 0530 to 0815. The Defence MInister is escorted by a car of police officers while the Prime Minister have 4 cars and a traffic police with him! Before the flight, there is even EOD (Explosive Ordances Department) personnels to check the planes for bombs. Then, in the afternoon, do 3pm to 7pm Golf duty.

Duty change again, we have to do 9pm to midnight emplacement duty. During this time, we saw the PM coming back from Indonesia (Tsunami Area). The flight reached around 11.15pm, but they talked until midnight when the PM left...

2005-01-18T12:57:00.000+08:00

Fish & Co.!!! my favourite restaurant...

29/12/2004, Wednesday

back to base for standby after a long break (or should i say 5 tiring days). At times, I will still recall night when my uncle passed away, i will be a bit depress. My mother rule for me. That is I'm not allowed to watch movie during "三七" (21 days after he passed away). It's a custom she sayby right we can't even have any form of entertainment. But i bet no other relatives comply with this...

Base duties are as per normal. Done 1 duty and book out at 5pm. then went Fish & Co. with my camp mates... People present are KT, LG, ZW, YK and me... I had an Fish & Chips as I am running out of cash. (Where's my ERS???). Reach home quite late that night, about 8pm, I think... Catch up with some blogging and slept...

Why I do extra duty again?

30/12/2004, Thursday

Today is my uncle's "头七", but I try not to think about it... Dispute come again when comes to who go Merah. Someone actually change duties behind someone's back. And it's own shift people! This place (FDS) had been filled with selfishness and hypocrites I think (I'm not saying I'm not 1 of them, but at least do things in a sensible way mah...). Nevermind, drop the topic, hope i can leave this shit place soon...

Anyway, I went Merah for duty again. Only 5 people, so someone have to do extra duty again, that's me... Basically do duty from 10am to 6pm. Then have to get up next morning for duty...

Last day of the year, ending of misery???

31/12/2004, Friday, New Year's Eve

What a day, this is my 1st time staying in camp on New Year's Eve. Done duty from 7am to 6pm. But waiting for my order from Changi V(Village) to come. I ordered 鸡扒面 (Cutlet Noodle) with extra 炸云吞 (Fried Wan Ton), but it turn out to be 鸡扒面 plus 云吞面 due to some cock up in the order. Nobody wanted the 云吞面, so I had both the 鸡扒面 and 云吞面. My buddy got the same thing... After which, waited for the countdown. During this time, we had a good talk with the driver there. He's a guy who just married at the age of 22, and he's filty rich, but not arrogant about it...

The clock strike 12 midnight. It's a New Year! We pressed the turnout bell to celebrate (only today we are allow to press for fun). Then, waited for my second order of ice kacang to come. Slept at 2am.

2005-01-14T01:32:00.000+08:00

S.H.E Concert!!!

2005-01-13T23:24:00.000+08:00

26/12/2004, Sunday, Boxing Day, 3rd day of Funeral

Got an off today, no need book in... Reached Punggol around 3pm, continued to fold incense per. It's like never ending... 6pm, we had some dinner there together (cook at the funeral by some caterers), the dishes are good... we left in my father's friend pick up at around 10pm plus...

27/12/2004, Monday, 4th day of Funeral

reach punggol around 11am. today, there will be 2 ceremony (打斋) at 4pm and 7pm. After lunch (frfied kway teow). we started to fold some towels, it's good that there isn't much... the towels are gifts to the friends and relatives tomolo (it's part of the custom), A ceremony started around 4pm, but that only involve my uncle's children and daughter-in-law... Then around 5pm , the paper-made 3-storey bungalow, car, mini-hifi, TV and karaoke set came. And my father they all started to jot down the 4D numbers. The ceremony ended around 6pm. Then, we had dinner there (cooked by the caterers also), and waited for another ceremony to start. While waiting, 2 of my cousins and me went to refill the kerosene lamp at the main road. I almost forgot how to operate the lamp!

After much waiting, the ceremony started around 8pm. The whole family (except 3 members) are in white T-shirts, with head dress and belts in 4 different colours, matt, black, cream and blue. Matt dress are for immediate family members (i.e. his children and daughter-in-law). Black colour are for siblings and siblings' spouse (i.e. my father, mother, uncles and aunties). cream colour are for nephews and nieces on the on the father side, blue are for the mother side. I wear the cream colur.

The ceremony involve a lot of chanting, walking around a lot of times, and crossing a metal bridge. It ended past 11am, with a 15 minutes break in the middle. And there's even police who came to give us warning. After the ceremony, we brought all the "house", "car", "hi-fi", "chest", bags of incense paper to the carpark to burn (wonder if police will summon us or not?) Then we form a circle and kneel down and start hitting the ground with bamboo sticks until the whole burning finish. It's very late when everything ended, so most of us stay over that night...

The Crementation

28/12/2004, Tuesday, 5th day of Funeral

woke up around 8am. Had some breakfast. Then put on the same costume as yesterday. 11am, a band arrived with lots of gongs (20 over) and drums. They started to play for some time, then the relatives and friends pay respect, and loaded the coffin to the car. We started to walk the "last journey" with him. The route is from the funeral venue to the main road, about 150 metres (we walk with socks on only). After which, we boarded a bus to send us to the crementorium.

We reach the Mandai Crementorium and Columborium in no time. It's a new crementation facility, everything is new. He's crementated at 12.45pm, everyone cried. After which, we wear back our shoes and board the bus and head towards another columborium at sengkang where his ashes will be placed. After paying respect, the funeral organiser helped us remove the 孝

After that, we change back to our original clothes and boarded the bus back to the funeral. We had our lunch there and left around 3pm...

2005-01-10T10:24:00.000+08:00

a different Christmas...

25/12/2004, Saturday, Christmas' Day, 2nd day of Funeral

Today is christmas' day but nobody is in mood to celebrate. (but actually I don't celebrate because I'm not a christian). This is the 2nd day of funeral (yesterday is considered 1 day), according to customs, funerals are held for 5 days, which is until tuesday.

woke up early at 5am plus, we have to reach by 8am plus. When we reach there, the body is still not inside the coffin and the whole place is not completely set up... my mother told me that I have take leave for monday and tuesday. Since it's this case, I might as well tale leave for sunday and monday as tuesday is my dismount day. so I applied off from PC for the next 2 days.

At around 10am, the funeral organizers came to setup the place and held the ceremony to place the body in the coffin. We are not allowed to see the ceremony as the funeral organizer says, only his children and daughter-in-law are involved. Then we put on the "孝" (the piece of cloth on the left arm to indicate a relative's death). As the "inside" or father-side nephew, I got the cream colour. My father, mother, uncles and aunties got black colour, my other side cousins(grandmother's daughter's children) got blue colour. And obviously his sons, daughters and daughter-in-law wears matt cloth. I can't remember the last time I wear this because the last time is when my "Ah Gong" (grandfather) died 20 years ago, when i am 1 year and 1 months old. Me and my brother went home around noon since there is nothing much to do...

Afternoon, reach home around 2pm. Surf a little, sms christmas wishes and watch <<白變金鋼>> on TV. Don't even have time to sleep, 5.30pm have to go back to the funeral.

6pm, reach Clementi with my brother to fetch his girlfriend. Then 3 of us headed back to the funeral at Punggol. On the way, my brother lend me a business book to read, named "The 45 Second Presentation That Will Change Your Life", quite interesting book...

Reached the funeral around 8pm. saw a lot of visitors. It's then i realise funeral is actually as easy as it seems, there's a lot of things to be done. set up tables, serve visitors, emoty rubbish and the main thing is there's mountains of incense paper to fold. We left around 11pm in my father's friend van...

2005-01-10T08:41:00.000+08:00

a very sad day for the family...

24/12/2004, Friday, Christmas' Eve

today had been a very sad day for my family, please read to the end of the blog...

today is our standby day, we suppose to book out at 5pm, but base comd (commander) gave half day off, so we book out at noon...

back at home in the afternoon, intending to watch "Kungfu Hustle" with my poly pals in the evening. My mother had been telling me to visit my uncle in hospital, but being rebeliious (and some-sort unfillial) son, I decided to leave it to tomolo morning. spent the whole after watching Yanzi's DVD and surfing when we receive a call that my uncle has changed to another bed (that means condition worsened)... it's 4pm at that time... my father rush to hospital immediately. thinking that it's not so serious, my mother took her own sweet time to prepare to go out. Then, we leave home about 6pm and reached NUH with my brother at 6.15pm...

the condition is not as good as we expected, my uncle (father's elder brother) was breathing vigously with lots of equipment beside him. The doctor says his whole artery is blocked and it's beyond cure. We could only wait for "his time to come". Almost my whole family come to visit him including my grandmother. We can only watch and hope that his condition will be better and he will wake up... I have to cancel my appointment with my poly friends... from time to time, my cousins (my uncle's children), his wife and my grandmother (and my brother) will say "Wake up, wake up!" in teochew...

at 8pm plus, he breath more smoothly, and we started going down for dinner in batches. We were eating half-way when I received a call from my father saying that my uncle stopped breathing! We immediately rushed back to the ward. The doctor is still not there. Everyone start crying and shouting, even myself. The inprofessional doctor only came half hour later... He was declared dead in front of me... Tears started to fall. My cousin nearly fainted. I will never forget this scence. It's so shocking that a person talking actively just 2 weeks ago, was now lying dead in front me... But there are things still need to be done. Documents to file, washing up and dressing up him, and arrangements for the funeral. We left around 10pm...

my uncle was a very active person. Travels a lot and gets involved in union's activities. And also very positive thinking. Also sings karaoke frequently. Nobody expected he to pass away so early and so sudden. The good thing is he didn't leave much regrets, all his children are degree holders and her eldest daughter even hold a Master, he just granted his wish of going back to Teochew (China) and his son just got married. What more can a man wish for?

p.s. thanks A LOT to all who have to send in the condolences and concern. Really thanks a lot...

2005-01-03T01:48:00.000+08:00

boring duties...

22/12/2004, Wednesday to

23/12/2004, Thursday

Duties 2 days at Merah, kanna "eaten" again. I said to myself, "Forget it lah..." tomolo is christmas eve...

2005-01-03T00:43:00.000+08:00

shopping with my mother...

21/12/2004, Tuesday, "Dong Zhi"

back in at 8am. Today have to standby, which means come back 8 to 5 only. The initial plan (planned by S3) is to have trianing on standby days... but how to have training when there's a serious manpower shortage? so in the end, we have to help the mounting shift do 1 duty, mine is from 12noon to 3pm...

Let me share with you a very special and meaningful article I saw in Digital Life (The Straits Times). There's a woman named Grace Chow who had a brain tumour and kept a blog in the last 11 days of her life (http://www.dyingis.blogspot.com). it's so amazing that a person who don't have energy on half of her body has to the ability to type a blog, even when she's dying. It's so admirable and inspiring that she look at life in a positive way even when she's dying...

"The enthusiam to believe that I will get better is based on the reluctance to think about the concept of death.

You do not comfort me with your assurance that I won't die, because escaping death is not what I'm longing for. What I'm longing for is for you to understand what death is. Look it in the eye and see it for what it is. And then you'll see that undestanding death is the only one and true liberation." - Grace Chow

After the duties, we did area cleaning. And then PC Ho announce the new system that we have to report to 1 sergeant for anything, and go by the chain of command, something like the infantry style. And he also say that shift 4 will be permanent (I'm originally from shift 2), which I don't want it to happen. I had enough of shift 4, there's people hating each other, eating (push responsibility) each other, and there's zero co-operation and teamwork. A bit sad upon hearing this news, but have to accept the fact...

Later in the evening, met up with my mother at 8pm at Bukit Merah Central. She want me to bring her to see doctor for her "rotten" leg (some skin problem). The clinic is quite ulu ulu, and we are their today's 1st customer! But nevermind, it's free anyway, because it's part of my father's company medical welfare. After which, accompany my mother to shop around that area. Anyway, hasn't been to there for over 1 year! There's a special stage set-up for senior citizens to sing KTV, quite interesting... And got a sale of 2nd hand books outside NTUC Fairprice. And by the way, today is "Dong Zhi" (translation: end of winter), the festival to eat rice ball (Tan Yuan). So my mother bought some Tan Yuan "for the Gods". went home around 10pm, when my mother finally stopped shopping (because the shops are closed)... Pray to "Da Bo Gong", wat GuessX3, done some blogging and then slept at 3am... yawn...

2005-01-02T18:42:00.000+08:00

out of tune KTV...

20/12/2004, Monday

10am, book out... but tomolo have to come back to standby, that's the sian part... went tampines for breakfast at Mcdonald's with shift mates... this time I got wat I ordered!!! Hotcakes with sausage, my favourite breakfast. Yah, also finally signed up for Mcdonald's Rewards member. Got 500 points for that(500 points = $5.00 value). That's stored in your ez-link card. This membership is ideal for a person who eats Mcdonald's frequently, like me... Seems like the Ez-link card industry is hot and expanding recently. An industry worth exploring, maybe I should start a business in that!

Afternoon, reached home, waiting for Noel's call to confirm wat time meeting later... but he only confirmed when I called him again... Anyway, I don't have much things to do (except sleeping, I haven't been sleeping since 3am!). Haven't been to Great World City, so alighted at the wrong bus stop, and walked for about 20 minutes to there... Finally, met Noel and liang at around 4pm (half hour after our meeting time). this is the time we go out together. Liang is noel's secondary school class mate, and also my poly class mate. and noel is my camp mate... So it's like a triangular (3rd party) relationship... They are intending to buy christmas gifts for their friends. so we loitter around aimlessly. then had some food at Yoshinoya (I've been cheated money for a small bowl of Ki-age Don). And finally decided to buy some Perlin's Silver jewellery for them, just nice that there's a outlet there... so they bought 3 necklaces... then, accompany them to a cafe nearby where 1 of their friends work, quite nice-looking girl... 8) ... program for the night, KTV...

Great World City is really not so accessible (that's why i seldoms come here), so we took a cab to Clementi. it's when we reach there, that we know the pricing had changed, mondays are no longer member's nite. Now the pricing is $14 plus per person! (Partyworld is still better). But we went in in the end, because of unexplanable reasons. We dedicate songs in turns, so it's fair to everyone. We sang the usual popular songs by Jay Chou, Wang Lee Hom, Andy Lau and Beyond. but almost every song i sang is out of tune or pitch, i wasn't "on form"... also got a chance to sing PART of the songs, "In The End" (by Linkin Park) and "Where is the Love" (by Black Eyed Peas). we left around 11.30pm. They went to have supper, but i choosed to go home... I'm just too tired, and don't want to waste money on cab fees again (some more after midnight), any way tomolo still have to book in...

2005-01-02T17:20:00.000+08:00

back to base???

19/12/2004, Sunday

9.30am, woke up... thought that we will stay at Merah at first... but dun noe why tell us to go back base for duties... suck thumbs, have to go back... Duties kept changing and changing back at base, initially got 2.5 duties, then 3.5 duties. luckily some kind soul (yan kit), help me to do 0.5 duty, so got 3 in the end... but duties are after 9pm. that means i can rest now to 9pm, but after 9pm no time to rest liao... should i blame it on lack of manpower, or blame on others who took lots of leave and time-offs... sometimes, i think, ultimately, it's our own pple that bring us to this hetic duties... or is it I think too much??? Heaven Knows!!!

2005-01-02T13:34:00.000+08:00

change in monthly schedule again...

18/12/2004, Saturday

8am, back at camp, monthly duty schedule is finally finalised (for the time being lah...). For this mount, we will have dismount followed by standby (8 to 5). Then, next mount will standby followed by dismount. This will happen for alterante mounts. Don't understand? never mind lah... to sum it up, this schedule leads to increase in transportation fees, wastage of bookout time and more duties per person... haiz... who tell us to fail the security audit?

9.30am, reach merah for duties. weekends no so much visitors and contractors, so quite relax... sitting in the control room, trying hard to fight the Zzzzz monster (trying sleep lah...) during duty that's because i only slept 2 hours plus yesterday. duty finishes at 6pm. after watching some VCDs i had seen countless times (steph chow movies, bo bian, sergeant had been watching whole day, i cant even watch my own VCDs!!!). went straight to bed after that...

2005-01-02T02:13:00.000+08:00

yanzi in person!!! (Stefanie Autograpgh Session at HMV Heeren on 17th Dec 2004 5pm)

2004-12-30T00:11:00.000+08:00

Yanzi!!! (Autograph session at HMV Heeren Shops)

17/12/2004, Friday

7am

woken up by Mohan to send arms

8am

Book out! (after 3 days mount)

9am

At Tampines, having Mcdonalds' with my "gay" friend, LG. Discovered that I only left $5.46 in my bank account after drawing out $20. All thanks to "you-know-who" who owes my money...

9am plus

Reached home. Took a nap...

12noon

Woke up, getting ready to go out...

1pm plus

Headed to HMV Heeren for Sun Yan Zi's Autograph Session!!!

2pm

reached HMV, enquiry about whether i can get the qutograph without the "HMV coupon", the answer is "NO!". Spent 1 whole hour wandering in the shop, considering to buy the SAME album or not... (so to get the coupon)

2.50pm

finally decided to buy another edition of the same album, "Stefanie" (this version with a bonus DVD). used up $26 for the album, only left $1 plus for bus, pathetic?

3pm

2 hours before the autograph session, the queue is already until the back of the building. Imagine what time they started queueing! They must have started yesterday... crazy fans (i'm also 1 of them lah :P), but i will also do so if I got the time. LOL!

3.10pm

the queue started standing and moving (I don't know for what-the-heck reason!)

4pm

the queue became a mess. All cramped together. I'm stuck to a position at the side of the stage. There's no way to see the stage, because there's a curtain. Maybe that's the disadvantage of queueing up for autograpgh, i say to myself...

5pm

the crowd become more cramped as we anticipate the arrival of Yanzi... everyone

5.20pm

Yanzi arrived. I have to raise my digital cam high to capture her (i'm too short lah!)... sad, mis-shot in the end...

5.30pm

the performance started. i'm still stuck at the side of the stage! :( grumble.... can't even see her (because of the curtains).... "Qi Shi Wo Le"!!! bo pian, have to listen to her behind curtains...

5.35pm

the security finally allowed us to go to the front of the stage. this is the 1st time i see her in person!!! so excited! she sang her 2nd song, "我的爱". And I got a few pictures of her (but not well-taken) despite being blocked by countless umbrellas in front of me. It's drizzling... after the song and some interview, the autograpgh sesssion started (HMV autograph session are always so short). There's some posters to be givewn away to fans who can sing her songs. Too bad the posters ran out before i got onto stage...

6.20pm

Finally, got her autograph after waiting for 2 hours and standing in rain for 1 hour plus. so HAPPY!!! but, i can only get autograph on 1 album because I only got 1 coupon, sad... got 1 free pokka aloe vera drink off stage as a reward... hehe...

7pm

reached home, mother told me to accompany her to go buy DVD recorder NOW! spend the rest of the night shopping at Carrefour and Best Denki at Plaza Singapura until 11pm plus!!! (carrefour got midnight sales, u see...)

2004-12-22T02:29:00.000+08:00

Failure = more shit...

14/12/2004, Tuesday

8am, back at camp for duty... all the camp mate sa i'm crazy that I bought S.H.E Concert tickets. Well, wat can i say?

1 of my camp mates also propose that we go Merah (1 of our outpost) in rotation... i agreed immediately. Any way, does going Merah really matters so much that have to make it so serious? I'm ok with anything... Just hope that I can end NS earlier... 7 months to go... (hopefully)

later, in the afternoon, the security audit intrusion finally came to Changi West(I am at Merah at that time). The sad news is we failed the audit... who tell them to put the slackest people on duty? I don't wish to mention the details... Basically, it's a test conducted by outside agencies (HQ FDS) to test the security level of our camp by bringing in a fake bomb... after the incident, everyone is being reprimand (or scolded)... from CO down to OC, PC and RPs (us)... it's a sad day for all of us. S3 blamed the failure to fatigue (tiredness) and suggest to have more training. which means the duty schedule has to be changed (again?)... Instead of mounting 2 days, , standby 1 day, dismount 1 day. He wants mounting 2 days, dismount 1 day, standby 1 day... which means an increase in ttransportation fees and time... sad news... but it's yet to be confirmed...

duties all day...

15/12/2004, Wednesday

Normal Boring duties, have to do extra duty again due to manpower shortage... watched a few VCDs, "Band of Brothers" and "King of Gamblers 2 in Shang Hai" (something like that lah...)

new bunk!

16/12/2004, Thursday

back to base for duty... got 2.5 duties, not so xiong... There's another room opened up for us to sleep in, which is the former PC office... (PC office shifted to OC office, u see). The aircon there is just nice, very nice to sleep in... hope this kind of amenities qill be available to us in the future...

2004-12-22T01:08:00.000+08:00

A Wedding Dinner...

12/12/2004, Sunday

book out in the morning around 10.30am... 2 days off! Hurray! went to Mc alone to have hotcakes for "lunch"... I happily ordered a "Hotcakes with SAUSAGE Meal" (note the words "with sausage"), then the cashier told me to wait for the hotcakes and cofee... waited 15mins!!! Shouldn't fast food be fast? that's not the worst, the worst is when he gave me "Hotcakes WITHOUT sausage Meal"! it's too late when i realise the mistake... sian 0.5... this is not my day... after that, went to Music Junction to buy some accessories, and Popular to collect my catalouge and shop around...

it's 1pm plus when i reach home... slept for some time and surfed net until it's time to go for a relative's wedding dinner... we reached the venue arounf 8pm, we were late, thanks to my mother... It's my father's cousin's son's wedding... actually felt quite reluctant yo go, rather stay home to do my own stuff... But have to give my parents "face"... The dinner start around 9pm. As uusual you never fill your stomach in this kind of dinner (especially when the people on the same table are eating experts...) However, the shark fin's soup is nice... Also drank a cup of red wine and a cup of beer with my cousin... A bit high after the red wine, wonder how much is the alcohol content... let's talk about the couple, the groom (my relative's son) is a 27-years-old guy who look 10 years younger, and the bride is a jovial and neighbourhood-girl look person... went home around 10pm plus...

Another hole in my wallet...

13/12/2004, Monday

woke up around 10am, feel so great that I no need to book in today... went online, intending to book the <<S.H.E 奇幻乐园演唱会>> tickets... so happy that the $148 tickets are still available... the end, LG bought the tickets for the 3 of us... i've finally accomplish something i had planned for months... but the $$$ i paid felt like a wound in my chest... I never expect i will spend so much on such luxury... But it's worth it, hope the concert will be an exciting 1...

After that, went downstairs to buy lunch and some groceries... Then, after hearing from calvin that the Sun Yan Zi Autograph session (this friday) needs a HMV coupon, I FLEE to HMV Herren to check out the details... sadly, the staff there told me that I had to buy the SAME album to get THE COUPON (so i can get the autograph)... SADX3... After much consideration, I decided not to buy, but instead, I bought 2 VCDs, "Briget Jones' Diary" and "Looney Tunes: Back in Action"... me also dun noe why i buy them... waste money again... (RECOMMENDATION: HMV is a good place to shop for English Movie VCDs, they sell at less than $10)... and ya, also got a chance to liften to Angela Zhang Shao Han's new album, "Aurora"... a bit tempted to buy, but drop the idea in the end...

After shopping at HMV, went to KFC for dinner... Then, walk around Best Denki, POpular and finally bought some bread and dinner home... reached home around 9pm, just in time to watch "野蛮亲家"... went to sleep after watching S.H.E on "Shi Zhi Lu Kou" and done some blogging... zzz...

2004-12-14T02:06:00.000+08:00

"Para Para Paradise 2nd Mix", my favourite arcade game...

2004-12-14T02:01:00.000+08:00

my desktop now...

2004-12-13T23:24:00.000+08:00

relax...

08/12/2004, Wednesday

book out around 4.30pm... got pple jio me to cheong at zouk, but none seems to be interested, so cancelled in the end... it's end of the month by the way, nobody had enough cash for that... spend the whole night relaxing at home... watching TV, surfing net, reading blogs, checking mails, planning my next year schedule, and typing my own blogs... slept at 5am...

National Treasure, it's not the treasure that matters...

09/12/2004, Thursday

went out at 11.20am, got a haircut appointment at 12noon... reached Kimage Hairdressing School (salon) right on time... don't misunderstand, salon doesn't necessarily charge u high fees... i only paid $5.25 to serve as a "guinea pig" for trainees... got a hair wash, then started cutting... that cockster trainee left a protruding part on my hair... luckily, there's always a teacher come to rescue my hair at the end of the session... in the end, got a quite decent haircut... shop around a bookshop named "Stationary Superstore" at there (Funan IT Mall)... it's a shop with a lot of varieties of stationary, and some quite cheap...

after that, met up with my camp mates at 2pm to watch the movie, "National Treasure"... bought the 4.10pm tickets... spent 2 hours loittering around, played para para at arcade (teenage girls eyeing on the machine i playing), look look at best denki (looking for a suitable dvd recorder for my mother), look look at toys shops (saw a cute-cute glow-in-the-dark wrist rest), and shop around carrefour... then the show started... the show is about how a legandary treasure revolving around American History, is being dicovered by Nicolas Cage (and others) after solving lots of clues... my review: great show! good plot, great actions, clever clues... however, i only understand 10% of the american history mentioned in the movie, forgive my ignorance... definitely a show worth to watch... after the show, nobody accompany me for dinner again... so we went separate ways... after watching yan kit and mohan played AVP (alien vs predator) for 1 hour, i gave up... then, bought dinner for myself and my mother, and went home...

reached home around 9pm, watched TV, wrote blogs, surfed net, played games and downloaded lots of stuff from "The Incredibles" website (http://www.theincredibles.com) (got addicted to it after the movie...).... it's 3am when i slept...

2004-12-13T23:21:00.000+08:00

went to NUH...

05/12/2004, Sunday

book out in the morning about 8am plus, after 3 days of boring duties... got a call from my mother, saying my "ah pei" (Eldest Uncle, also my father's brother) is being hospitalise... I had to accompany her to visit him in the afternoon... seems like i can't keep the day to myself again...

Reached NUH by taxi at 1.30pm... and coincidently saw my "ah ma" (grandmother) and "da gu" (Eldest auntie) at the foodcourt... my mother wanted to wait for my another auntie (my uncle's wife) to come and visit my uncle together... why? i also dun noe, din bother to ask anyway... so we waited, waited and waited... ate kaya toast, 2 half-boiled eggs, listening to the don't-know-what-they-say conversation (because mostly in Teochew) among my da gu, ah ma and mother, and also my grandmother's ever-repeating stories... it's 3.30pm when my mother finally gave up waiting... so my mother, brother and me went up to ward 64 at level 6... discovered that all the wards in NUH at actually in the same building... saw my uncle in a 8-bed ward... he looks quite ok... he still waitng for a thorough x-ray tomolo on his stomach, so still dun noe what's wrong with him... hope he's alright... my mother kept talking and talking non-stop for hours... what can i say? i have to wait for her... luckily, being a RP, i'm trained in standing for hours... it's 6pm when we left...

2004-12-10T02:09:00.000+08:00

Dai Di Time!

30/11/2004, Tuesday

Book out at 5pm, headed home... Intended to go to my buddy (Kok Tim) house to camp overnight (just to play dai di(Big2))... Actually, a bit sleepy, a bit dun wan to go... But everyone seems so excited abt it, and a promise is a promise. So I met them at 8.45pm, I'm 45 minutes late (pai seh...)... played with KT's dog for some time, watched 9pm drama and surf net (while others played PS2)... it's past midnight when we actually started the Big2 game (and half of the tidbits are already gone)... played all the way until 4am plus (at the same time watched Guess3 and listened to MP3s)... there's only 1 winner (the host) and 3 losers (including me)... i lost $12.20... not my day... 4am plus, the rest went to sleep, while i'm still playing a computer mahjong game (Ming Xing San Que Yi 2002)... i only slept around 6am... yawn...zzzzzz...

The Singapore IDOL - Taufik Batisah

01/12/2004, Wednesday

never had enough sleep, so stayed home for the whole day... anyway, I wanted to watch the Singapore Idol Finals... (Actually, I only started watching when there's the Final 4)... The show is awesome! all the singings and atmposhere... the part i like most is when the 11 finalists were on stage together to sing a series of songs... this proves that each finalist have their area of expertise... And the song I like best is the new song, "I Dream" (singing by Sly is better)... I was shock when Taufik wins the competition! Actually I expect Sly to win simply because he's the more popular 1... (frankly speaking, i like sly better) Nevertheless, I think Taufik deserved to be the 1st Singapore Idol, he's the 1 with the more versatile vocal... and actually, Sly seems like have a bad throat that day... congrats to both of them and welcome to the complicated (and ugly) world of entertainment industry... really hope their 1st album will come out soon...

2004-12-09T04:50:00.000+08:00

(left to right) Me, Wen Cai and Wei Sheng singing at Sunlight KTV

2004-12-09T02:00:00.000+08:00

Warcraft!!!

26/11/2004, Friday

Book out at 4.30pm, went to have dinner at Tampines ALONE again... while having dinner, received a call from liang... He asked me out with my poly friends... seems like have to waste money again... but nvm, it's worth it...

the meeting is set at 7pm... liang told me to reach around 7.30pm, coz others will be late... but despite reaching only at 7.30pm, i am the earliest to reach, what the heck! waited aimlessly until they reach abt 8pm plus... the original is to watch movie, but they say cannot get good seats now liao... wat lame excuse... Guess they don't really want to watch movie, so went to play LAN game (Warcraft III) in the end... which is not really my interest, but i played along... it's 3am in the middle of the night when they FINALLY decided to go... spent over $10 on LAN game, and $3 on night rider, for something u not interested in, wat to do? all for friends...

The Incredibles!!!

27/11/2004, Saturday

slept at 4am, but woke up at 11am... yawn! going out again, an outing we had planned months ago with wei sheng and wen cai (primary school friends)... suppose to meet them at 1pm, but i'm late... after lunch, I rush to Sunlight KTV (cuppage plaza) to secure the KTV room while wei sheng and wen cai (WW) bought the 7.30pm movie tickets... WW came after a while. We sang all the way from 2pm to 6pm (luckily i got a voucher, each only paid $12) Surprisingly, got the song 搁浅 by 周杰伦 (Jay Chou). And also got the chance to sing 明明很爱你 by 黄品冠 and 梁静茹 (too bad i sang alone). but I wasn't on form, my troat is a bit "rough".

After KTV, we went back to cineleisure for the movie... Had dinner at Burger King (using discount coupons, hehe :D). seems like Burger King is the most popular fast food there, we have to wait for some time to get a seat...

The show, "The Incredibles" started at 7.30pm... finally, i got the chance to watch this 4-star rating show... my other friends rather download the movie, they say it's waste of money to watch in threatres... The story is good, The animations is fantastic, and the jokes are great!!! However, Sherk 2 is funnier. This is a MUST-SEE show (i'm refering to incredibles, of course)... (although it's an animation, it got 4-star ratings from local newspapers)... my favourite character is "Violet", wat's yours? after the show, we went straight home (we live near each other)... reached home around 10pm plus...

2004-12-02T02:41:00.000+08:00

You Tiao, Soya Bean Curd, Guo Tie, Xiao Long Bao and Carrot Cake from Geylang!!!

2004-12-02T02:16:00.000+08:00

Turnout! (again?)

22/11/2004, Monday

10am plus, just came from 2 days duty from merah. somebody contracted chicken pox (lucky guy, got 2 weeks att c). so we are forced to do a thorough area cleaning by PC samuel (again?). we did area cleaning from noon to 3pm, but PC samuel is still not satisfied. What the heck! he wants us to carry on until he's satisfied! he thinks we got a lot of time to rest ah? 3pm, half of us have to go for duty, i'm 1 of the few lucky (or unlucky) guys who didn't have duty now... Mohan told us that PC wants us to fall in, but nobody responded, some say don't know about it, some (including me) simply heck care. so after some time, as expected, he turnout us again... He made us do 40 push-ups and ran 2 rounds around the hangar. He said he dislike people disobeying him, he din even realise the problem lies in himself! he said he want another stand-by-area in 15 minutes, if still not clean, he will turnout us every night! sadist rite?

later in evening, somebody complained to OC about this. And asked me to talk to OC also, because i'm 1 of the few who kena PC's punishment. I said the truth and what i felt abt this... I felt (at least myself) had done the best in the area cleaning, but PC samuel still likes to pick on little things... sometimes i wonder is that he don't like us, pr is it he loved his job too much. yet, he say we don't know how to think. wat I think is "If you want someone to respect you, don't do it the hard way, but punish when things get out of control." He can't make friends in the society if he carry on like this...

Geylang, Geylang!

23/11/2004, Tuesday

book out in the morning, only 1 pathetic day off... at first, wanted to stayed at home to save some money, but my camp mates jio me out again... they say wan to go geylang to have some food... met them at 5pm at aljunied mrt... it was having quite a downpour... so we have to share umbrellas and overcome numerous "lorongs" to reach our final destination, You Tiao Da Wang (King of You Tiao)... it's at near lorong 9 and 11... being the only who had come here b4, i introduced some food to them, the you tiao, soya bean curd and "guo tie" (something like dumplings)... it's not as fresh and delicious as i ate last time, maybe because they cooked beforehand and left aside for too long... and yah, have to thank LG for treating us... we left there ard 6pm plus... and on our way to take a bus, we saw PC Leo! he's a quite garang PC who had ORD some time ago... seems like he adopt an "ah-beng" look nowadays... went to play pool after that at Grand Link shopping centre near paya lebar mrt... and played para para also... another disciple came under my "School of Para Para", LG Tan... went home about 9pm...

2004-12-02T01:34:00.000+08:00

The Long-waited Gathering

18/11/2004, Thursday

book out at 4.30pm. Had an appointment with my FYP mates and supervisor at 7pm, so have to rush home... luckily, i'm released earlieror else i have to take a cab, that will cost a lot... I was a bit late when i reach suntec but i'm not the latest, that's a relief... ch is already there... yan came shortly, followed by our lecturer(also FYP supervisor), Mr. Ronnie Peh. it's been over a year since we last met, the last time is few days b4 my enlistment... that's because he went London to purse his masters in bio-informatics (something like that lah). He still in his usual self. A vegetarian and healthy-looking guy who loves sports. always care for others and selflessly share all his knowledge... shuang took time to join us for dinner, despite her work at Motorshow.

we went Cafe Cartel for dinner, i'm worried if there's vegetarian food for our beloved lecturer... as usual, he insisted of treating us, which makes us all so "pai seh"... we chatted non-stop for hours there about everything, our life during this year, army stuff, the girls' jobs, and the incident in SP... cong came ard 8pm plus... we stayed ther until 10pm, to wait for shuang to knock off from work... then we decided to go some where else for a drink... the problem is decided where to go when we are in the car!!! LOL! we went to boat quay in the end. and i told them i got drunk few days ago here... they are not really into drinking, some have to wake up early tomolo. so we settled down at Coffee Bean in the end... ch, cong and me treated the girls and our lecturer the drinks, had my favourite ice-blended mocha myself... it was 11pm plus when we headed home. (our lecturer sent us home)... haven recover from the torturement samuel yesterday... damm tired

Creativex Festival

19/11/2004, Friday

meeting my camp mates as usual,going to the Creativex Festival (warehouse sales) at it's HQ at Jurong East, International Business Park. we suppose to meet at 1pm. but except for zw, all are at least 1 hour late... so went to Popular Bookshop to shop for a suitable CD holder to hold my original CDs and lyrics... Mohan and Yan Kit came after that... the shuttle bus is crowded with money-minded singaporeans.. so we took cab to there, anyway it's only $3 (shared among 4 person)... 1st thing i see there is people carrying "big bag, small bag"... Also is my 1st time witness people camp overnight to queue up for tomolo's star buy... seen a lot of products selling at unbelievable price. What really attracts me is the N200 and Zen Micro mp3 players... so tempted, but no money to buy... sad... only Mohan bought a V200 in the end, saying he supports FDS (there's a armoured vehicle named V200 in our camp).

Mohan left us after that to test out his new toy... 3 of us decided to watch "The Forgotten". it's not as good as i think, it's a science fiction thrillerwith a rather strange ending. an average show, not worth $8.50. but the movie shows that mother's love to children is unbreakable. went home around 9pm. tomolo have to book in again for 3 days duty, boring...

2004-12-01T19:20:00.000+08:00

Turnout! Turnout!

17/11/2004, Wednesday

back to base for duty. routine work. boring life. turnout at 1am plus... not enough sleep again... PC say Golf (gate duty) personnels open the gates late by 2 minutes and use handphone duty on duty, so he want to see if we will disappoint him also... what a lame reason... for starters, he told us to run 2 rounds around the hangar with rifle over head (in SBO, of course)... he say that's the punishment for reacting "slow" to turnout... then 40 push ups, for another lame reason (which i 4got)... the main course of the day, we had fire drill, followed by intruder drill. Intruder drill is like playing real-life CS, we have to nail the intruder (PC himself) down... everything ended around 2am plus... sad, later still have to wake up for flag raising and duty at 5am plus...

2LT Samuel See Kok Chow, he's quite sadist and over garang... likes to book in in the middle of the night, and make life difficult for others.. thinks he got a lot of authority... they give him nick names like PC'C' and san mao, i juz call him samuel, nobody likes him, even the sergeants. What i think is, "Rank is what you wear, respect is what you earn.", he apparently don't believe in this... some of us think his actions is because MAYBE he's being abused during his childhood... who knows??? luckily i heard he's going to ORD soon, let's hope for the best...

2004-12-01T19:00:00.000+08:00

Home Alone

15/11/2004, Monday

woke up at 10.30am... strange, I usually don't wake up so early after drinking... some more I wake up by myself! after washing up, I remembered have to help my mother record a TV show. so I started recording and then lied motionless on the sofa... trying to recover from my headache.. it's 2, 3pm when i fully recover. suppose to start studying for tomolo's Basic Theory Test (BTT), but too lazy to do so, anyway I cant study in this state... "What can I do now?", I ask myself. yah, i can watch the VCDs I bought yesterday.. it's so great to be home alone... firstly, watched the bonus VCD that comes with S.H.E "Encore安可" album... the VCD includes the 候鸟 MV and the shooting progress of the MVs and album photographs... S.H.E is so pretty, cute and funny!!! but what really makes is because they have their own character, always show their true self, and dare to voice out... well, of course, they also have great voices (that's y it's worth it to buy the CD)... the next VCD i watched is the movie "Pay Check". it's a good science-fiction thriller, with a great script... and then spent the rest of the day slacking around... it's midnight when i finally started studying for BTT.. slept at 2am.. zzzzzzzzzz...

Class 3 Basic Theory Test

16/11/2004, Tuesday

wake up in the morning... got basic theory test (for class 3, of course) in the afternoon. (took a leave for this, that's y no need to book in) reached BBDC (Bukit Batok Driving Centre) at around 1pm... conincidently met Kai Xun, Qing Shun and Kelvin Tan (camp mates) there, they are enrolling for class 3... LG came after some time, he's taking the test with me... done some last-minute studying in the canteenas we are about to go to the test venue, we saw a notice "please bring a blue pen for the test"!!! as we are told that the test will be a computerised 1, we are not sure the notice is true or not... after enquiry, they say the test is hand-written (coz the system is not up yet)!!! damm BBDC, din inform us beforehand... luckily the canteen sells blue pens... the test started around 2.15pm... it's suppose to last 1 hour, but some how the invigilator's watch got problem, he gave less than 1 hr! I still have 15 questions left when he say 15 minutes left! luckily i can finish in time, or i will hate the invigilator! looking back, besides a few tricky questions, i'm quite confident i got the other questions right... so think i can pass (hopefully)...

after the test, went to loitter around at west mall, because meeting jun xie at 7.45pm... loittering aimlessly for more than 3 hours is really a tough job... then finally met jun xie 7.45pm at Raffles Place MRT... he say want to introduce me a business... it's quite a new company with good potential, but I still need to consider because i'm facing serious financial problems... reach home near to midnight, damm tired...

2004-11-28T03:13:00.000+08:00

to all viewers of this blog:

sorry for the great delay in updating the blogs... mainly because of my packed schedule and laziness... i've already wrote some blogs on paper, but yet have time to type here.... i will try to make it up to date by next dismount... pai seh :P

:o 生命给了什么我就享受什么每颗人间烟火全都不要错过 ;)

ying yong...

2004-11-28T03:07:00.000+08:00

14/11/2004, Sunday, Hari Raya Puasa

book out in the morning, no need to go back camp in 3 days!!! hahaha!!! today, my mother, brother and sister are going malaysia while my father is still in China... that means i'm home alone!!! Yeah!!! LOL! i can do wateva thing i wan!

In the afternoon, met boon kiat (poly friend) for lunch at Taka to pass him a windows xp cd... we talked quite a while over lunch, he told me he's passing out as a sergeant next week!!! congrats to him, while i'm stuck as a corporal (but not treated as 1!!!)

after lunch, we went walk walk at HMV, while i collect my pre-ordered S.H.E "Encore安可" CD... the main hits are 候鸟 and 痛快... but what i think all the songs are nice, and makes me listen to it again and again... and yah, i saw a VCD i wanted to buy long long ago, selling at less than $10, Pay Check by Ben Affleck. bk left after that, i still have to wait for my camp mates to meet at 5.30pm... so i carry on loittering at orchard... went to cineleisure sembawang music centre to look for some great deals and saw some cds selling at $9.90! (old ones of course) After much choosing, I bought Sun Yan Zi's 1st album titled "Yan Zi"... went to lucky plaza after that, for a haircut at QB house... then went orchard MRT Popular bookshop to shop for a organizer... bought a B8 size 1 at $8.90, quite cheap...

finally met my camp mates at 5.30pm, surprisingly all are punctual, except for "senior" CPL Tan LG... too bad my buddy cant come... we went to lido to buy tickets for the show "Taxi".. while waiting for the show to start, we went for dinner and look around... I bought dinner for Subway for dinner, got a feeling that i'm being cheated... it's so ex, yet the quantity is so little... especially the chips (it's a small packet of chips)... then we went Isetan and saw quite a number of good deals on sports apparels.

The show started at 7.30pm... it's on how a lousy cop and a taxi driver (with excellent driving skills) nail down a bunch of sexy robbers. The driving scences are exciting and the conversations are damm funny... Great show! I give it 5 stars for entertainment value...

after which we decided to go drinking (alcohol, of course) at Boat Quay... the strange thing is nobody knows how to get there... so we blindly took MRT to clarke quay. then walk around in all directions to look for boat quay... luckily, we found it...

we walk up and down the shophouses of pubs and finally settle down at "Stella Artois" (Noel's recommendation). The ambience is not bad... beautiful scenary and music not bad... however, i prefer zouk, where i can dance... i prefer dancing than drinking.. we share a bottle of Absolute Vodka (with coke and sprite) at first... i drank 3 cups of mixed vodka, i already felt quite high... maybe because i mixed too little... then we went inside the pub (we initially are sitting outsideand i don't know who the hell ordered a bottle of Jim Beam... after a few cups, i feel so high that my head is 1 ton heavier... Then i started to everywhere, in the toilet, on the table, and in the cups... and so is everyone (even the most zai drinker)... it's 1am plus everyone "buay ta han" liao and left the pub... surprisingly, I stil can guide the taxi driver to my home.. it's 2am when i reach home... luckily, my mother's not around, or i will be dead meat... it's after everthing that i discover we each spent $65 on the drinks... it's the most expensive price i paid on alcohol... but that's quite a fun nite...

2004-11-19T23:42:00.000+08:00

11/11/2004, Thursday

book out in the morning after 3 days of duties and only got 1 pathetic off day... ji hao (my final year project mate) invited me over for a birthday buffet at his house... sort-of rush to his house and I was late again... luckily i'm not the latest... well, frankly speaking it's quite boring... played dai di (Big2) there while waiting for some of the guests to come... sick of winning all the time (hehe... kidding...)... but overall the food was great and i get to catch up with some of his friends which i know (i.e. Acquitances)... when all guests came, the cake-cutting ceremony begins and we sang the song of course... then it rained heavily again, and we cannot leave... after the rain, we went for dinner at the nearby bukit timah food centre, but chong hwee went home 1st... then found out that quite a few of them are going to the S.H.E and Jay's concert... should i go??? where can i get the money? that's a "chim" question...

headed to orchard after that... sad, the QB house is closed at 7pm on public holidays... guess i have to cut my hair next dismount... nvm, went to HMV to pre-order S.H.E new album titled "Encore", which will be release tomolo, paid $22.90 for it... but i have to go back camp tomolo... bo bian, can only collect on 14th...

2004-11-19T23:03:00.000+08:00

06/11/2004, Saturday and

07/11/2004, Sunday

yeah!!! dismount 2 days!! but actually i kinda forgot wat i had done these 2 days... think i stayed home and rot... coz not much $$$ left in bank... cant even buy the new S.H.E cd... sad case... but still got the new album of Sun Yan Zi titled "Stefanie" accompanying me... great music...

2004-11-19T22:10:00.000+08:00

03/11/2004, Wednesday

Early Morning

Have to wake up early in the morning at 7am... yawnz... Need to bring my uncle Tan Tock Seng Hospital for blood test. Took cab from home to Jalan Besar, then from there to TTSH. Then discover it's the wrong place when we ask the staff there... damm irresponsible driver... so took a cab again to right place, Communicable Disease Centre (ya, it's the place where they house SARS patients... )... reached there at around 9.40am, he took the test, and we have to wait 2 hours for the results... meanwhile, we went to Pek Kio (Cambridge Road) for some food... the chicken rice there quite cheap ($2) and good (nice and in large quantity)...

The results came out at around 11.40am... the doctor asked him to go for chest xray... so, have to wait again... meanwhile, my mother and I went to see the social worker (bo bian, she insisted)... she want to apply for some financial assistance... so she told the social worker her ENTIRE life story (like what I had heard from her everyday)... and as usual she always repeats her sentences... i'm already used to it, but i think the social worker "bua ta han" liao... but she must act like listening...

Afternoon

After meeting the social worker, I left 1st and headed to NTU b4 it's too late... going there to request a letter for my disruption... it's a long way to there, took MRT from newton to boon lay, then bus to NTU... reached there around 3pm, but took more than 1 hour (I think) to find the Office of Admission... NTU is really too big... moreover, it's raining cats and dogs... nvm, i get to know more abt the place now... but Sadly, when i FINALLY reach there, they tell me I have to write in to request for early admission... sad and sianz 1/2...

Evening

Afterwhich, supposingly meeting zhi wei and yan kit (camp mates) for a movie... but only yan kit turned out... feel so bad to let him travel all the way from punggol to jurong point... he thought of going home liao but i persuaded him to Shark Tale with me... got a feeling that I a bit took him for granted, guilty :P any way, it's a good movie (or should i say animation)... the actions and talking are all very funny... haven been laughing much recently...

2004-11-19T10:13:00.000+08:00

Evening, 02/11/2004, Tuesday

Book out at 5pm. Have to go Jalan Besar (near lavender). my mother told me my uncle is sick and "force" me to go... of course, i cant disobey "Her Highness"'s instructions... This uncle of mine is my mother's younger brother. He lives at the void decks below HDB flats... and he sells 2nd hand goods (at the flea market nearby) as a living... he's the type of guy who don't like to work and like freedom... my primary role there is to help him translate some letters from cpf and hospital... and the rest of night i have to patiently wait for my mother to finish scolding my uncle... which attracts a lot of attention from the residents... damm tired after those turnouts in the day, left there arounf 10pm and headed home for rest...

2004-11-08T02:07:00.000+08:00

29/10/2004, Friday

today is the 3rd day of mount (duty)... my body is getting tired but i'm looking forward to my precious dismount day... tomorrow is mohan's birthday, we celebrated today... according our tradition, birthday boy is often being stripped naked... i was part of the team... LOL!! luckily my birthday has already passed...

30/10/2004, Saturday

intending to meet my poly friends at 2pm to celebrate zr's birthday, but as usual, everyone is late... waited for 2 hours plus before everyone had reached... as usual loiter round for some time before deciding what to do... and finally decided to play LAN... but luck is not our side... not enough computers in the LAN shop... after some time, finally settled down and played warcraft III... we played until 11pm plus... had some food at long john silver and then headed home...

2004-11-08T01:20:00.000+08:00

26/10/2004, Tuesday

woke up early in the morning to confirm got go out or not... nobody seems to be intrested in ice skating... so the outing is again called off... never mind, can save money also... on my computer, check emails, read blogs and check out some banking info... then decided to go Clementi, intending open an OCBC account to keep my savings... but kanna rejected because the min. initial deposit for a passbook account is $500!!! where can i find the money??? however i could open another type of account, but need to show proof that i have less than $2000 monthly income... so didn't open account in the end... went to nearby KFC to have lunch, and realised it had moved to the NTUC building... think it's been awhile since i last went Clementi...

thinking of where to go next while having lunch... maybe watch movie??? there's a lot of movies i want to watch, but nobody accompany me... guess my friends don't like to spend this kind of money since priacy is getting more popular in recent years... really don't wish to watch alone so tried my luck and called yan kit... surprisingly, he agreed... so i went to PS (plaza singapura) to meet him... we played in the arcade (played parapara as usual), then brought tickets and went to have some taiwanese "shi lin" fried chicken cutlet... the movie started at 6 plus, titled "The Manchurian Candidate"... quite a good show... a show about a group of soldiers being brainwash to believe someone is a national hero... quite worth it... maybe u should give it try...

25/10/2004, Monday

Woke up at 6am plus, got a duty at 7am... it's drizzling, then became heavy rain... so takeover is late again... takeover came around 9.30am, i almost going to KO... went back to flight hangar (=company line and bunk)... went to bed again and waiting to book out at 5pm...

soon being waken up to clear breakfast and had lunch... went back to sleep again but again disrupted by the announcement "Standby for Broadcast, Priority 1" Shit! turnout again... (priority 1 is a drill that's activated when there's aircraft diversion or bomb trap)... it's a drill that happens frequently due to incapability of the pilots (I think)... everything ended around 4pm... still have to wait for the obese guys to come back before we can go off at 5pm sharp...

book out at 5pm and headed to toa payoh ALONE (again?) to take my spectacles... things are really not going my way recently... reached the spectacles shop and received my specs... it's a frameless black pepsi brand specs... quite nice, too bad the lens is a bit thick... the boss claims that's it's already a high index lens, what can i say? bought dinner for my mother, and reached home around 8pm... damm tired, but MUST "Ren Wo Au You" (The Champion) before going to bed... still don't know tommorrow going out or not...zzzzzzzz...

2004-10-26T11:49:00.000+08:00

a scribble of my name... try it at
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2004-10-23T02:31:00.000+08:00

Now...

updating my blog and downloading some songs... these are my recommendations:

孙燕姿 - 我的爱

Toro/颜行书 - 对手

Toro/颜行书 - Ren Wo Au You

F.I.R. - 我要飞

5566 - C'est Si Bon

5566/K One/R&B/太极/王心凌/Toro/颜行书 - 因为爱

JS - 杀破狼

JS - 遇见未来

JS - 苏菲亚的愿望

listen and give ur comments!!

booking in later again...:|

Yesterday, 22/10/2004, Friday

woke up at 10am plus... normal day again... on my computer and checked my mails... and had lunch at 1pm plus... continued to use computer... read some of my friend's blogs and added some links on my blog... 4pm plus, go downstairs to help my mother buy some groceries and dinner?? yes, dinner... coz she say later nobody buying... i went to the fried kway teow stall i haven't gone for a long time... i used to buy lunch from him during secondary school days and sometimes during poly days... surprisingly, he stills remember my special order... fried kway teow without "dou ya", oyster and chilli... times really flies and i have to admit i have aged... had "dinner" and went to have a nap again... FDS changed my biological clock, u see...

woke up at 8pm plus... realise my friend called me just now to ask me out... i say no lah... i don't like to go out last minute... watched tv show half way, and my BMT buddy called me... we talked for quite long and he trying to sell me his California Gym Membership at $1000 for 2 years.. u say worth it or not??? i most probably cant accept it i told him, i cant afford this luxury at the moment, but i will help ask around...

2004-10-23T01:39:00.000+08:00

2 days ago, 21/10/2004, Thursday

8am plus, woke up to cover duties for someone... coz i of us got fever last night and now att c (MC)... takeover came late again at 10.30am... load up rover and headed back to base... luckily i am not allocated duties on this standby day, or else i "chui" (collapse)... really tired... not enough sleep... went to sleep without having lunch... kanna woke up again at 1pm plus to listen to OC talk, turned out to be a prize giving ceremony for outstanding serviceman... wonder will i get it 1 day, hehe... then someone says we can book out at 3pm, hurray!! so we begin ration clearing and area cleaning at the fastest speed ever... (this is the time when we are most united..) it's 2.30pm by the time we finish, but PC says have to wait until 3pm... sianz 1/2...

book out at 3pm... and headed to toa payoh with 2 of my camp mates... for wat?? to make spectacles, coz my friend know the boss of a spectacles shop... hehe.. got discount... my buddy changed his lens at $55... for me, i choosed a new frameless specs and paid $170 for it... not bad... after that, we went to the nearby coffee shop to have dinner... my buddy call the coffeeshop "Re Yue Sheng Jiao" (Sun Moon Sect), coz there's a big crescent moon and star on the sign... he introduced me the laksa, but i din eat... coz i never liked spicy food... i had wan ton noodle, goreng pisang and a "sesame ball with peanuts", then shared a rojak with them... really full after that... after which, they went home and i went to buy kfc for my mother... then went Watson to shop a while... went home after that, it's already 8pm plus... really tired, so went to sleep after watching "Ren Wo Au You"...

3 days ago, 20/10/2004, Wednesday

2am, wake up for duty... really difficult to keep myself awake for 8 hours until 10am... this is known as the graveyard time slot... when people easily fall asleep...

10am... really tired... took a shower and went to sleep...

in FDS, a duty cycle starts 9am everyday and ends 9am the next day... so at 6pm, i have wake up again for 8 hours duty... really tired of this boring life... luckily i brought some books to read... 1 of them is "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" by Robert Kiyosaki... a book that i had read for more than a year LOL!!! haha... too lazy to read sometimes and the author's writng skills is quite boring... however, the contents is great...

4 days ago, 19/10/2004, Tuesday

yawn... as usual, wake up at 5.30am on a mounting day... took a shower but still sleepy... took mrt and bus and reach base just in time... today, the schedule is going to change again... now we will be having 2-1-1, 2-1-1, 3-1 schedule... which means we have to do a 3 day duty every 3rd mount... sianz... wat to do?? this change is because of increased duties at runway 3 (1 of our outposts, we have 3 outposts)... but i think that change doesn't help much... don't know wat our OC is thinking... i rather go back to the 2-1 schedule... at least i can go back to my original shift... don't understand?? nvm lah... i'm just complaining about nothing... no need care about me...

checked up my detailing (duties for the day) and found that i'm going merah (another outpost)... hehe... many people is envy of me, every mount can go merah... y? because i'm merah IC mah... i need to be there... although merah duties is quite slack but the duties last for 8 hours... and because i am IC, a lot of responsibilties is pushed by my mates to me when sergeant is not around... really don't understand y they want to do so... today my duty starts at 2am, so i can rest 1st, but will get waken every now and then to open gates (1 of the duties), and have to do a 1-hour prowl at 6pm...

2004-10-19T01:57:00.000+08:00

haiz... later have to book in again in the morning... juz pop by to share with you 2 songs i am learning to sing recently... both sang by 周杰伦... maybe u should try to learn and challenge me next time!

搁浅

曲：周杰伦 | 词：宋健彰 | 编：钟兴民

久未放晴的天空依旧留着你的笑容

哭过却无法掩埋歉疚风筝在阴天搁浅

想念还在等待救援我拉着线复习你给的温柔

暴晒在一旁的寂寞笑我给不起承诺

怎么会怎么会你竟原谅了我我只能永远读着对白

读着我给你的伤害我原谅不了我

就请你当作我已不在我睁开双眼看着空白

忘记你对我的期待读完了依赖我很快就离开

藉口

曲：周杰伦 | 词：周杰伦 | 编：周杰伦

翻着我们的照片想念若隐若现

去年的冬天我们笑得很甜

看着你哭泣的脸对着我说再见

来不及听见你已走得很远

也许你已经放弃我也许已经很难回头

我知道自己错过请再给我一个理由

说你不爱我就算是我不懂能不能原谅我

请不要把分手当作你的请求

我知道坚持要走是你受伤的藉口

请你回头我会陪你一直走到最后

就算没有结果我也能够随

我知道你的痛是我给的承诺

你说给过我纵容沉默是因为包容

如果要走请你记得我

如果难过请你忘了我

remember to set ur encoding to Unicode

2004-10-18T16:21:00.000+08:00

finally sit down and started to write my 1st blog after a year plus (14 months to be precise...) of stopping it... well... as some of u all have know... i had been serving NS for 14 months liao... and now suffering in changi air base as an RP (regimental policeman)... life gets boring-er and boring-er everyday and duties increases every month but the manpower remains the same... haiz... each day (24 hours) i will get 9 to 12 hours of duty... although it's not physically xiong, but i will be getting crazy 1 day if this continues... but at least there's more dismounts (offs) nowadays... it's like 2 1/2 days mount* (duties), and 1 1/2 days dismount*(off) (we call this 2-1-1 schedule)... to RPs, everday is the same, we also have to do duties on public holidays and weekends... wat to do?? life still carries on...

"Slack rite?" is wat most people say to me about my vocation... but who will understand our misery?? only RPs will..... well... enough of complains... let's talk about wat i done these 2 days...

Yesterday, 171004-->

book out around 11am, finally got 2 days off... because sunday no need to standby (stay from 8am to 5pm)... went home, have lunch, took a shower and went out to meet my camp mates for KTV session... we went Sunlight KTV at cuppage plaza, sang from 2pm to 6pm... quite enjoyable, but it will be better if there's girls :D LOL! there's 4 of us there, 1 of them must head home for dinner, so in the end we "go our separate ways"... there's not even 1 person want to accompany me for dinner... haiz... so i have to do wat i always do: go walk walk, see see ALONE on Orchard Road... strange rite?

so after saying good-byes, i headed for dinner at Cineleisure KFC... a new meal is on promotion, Tom Yam Chicken Meal... it's like putting tom yam seasoning on normal KFC crispy chicken, but at least not as bad as i thought lah... then i went to HMV in search of new albums and news on the album I have been waiting for 1 year: Sun Yan Zi's new album launching on 29th this month!! stayed at HMV until 1930hrs and left there empty-handed... went takashimaya after that to look out for promotions on spectacles (there's a lot of scratches on my specs. u see..)... but found nothing interesting...

so i went on my next objective: finding a good organizer... i went to books kinokuniya and then to Borders... cant find anything that suits my taste and budget, so ended up reading a book at Borders... The book is "Who Moved My Cheese?" by Dr. Spencer Johnson... i read the book halfway months ago, so i make it a point to finish the book before leaving... the book is about 2 mice and 2 littlepeople looking for cheese in a maze... morale of the story is to overcome your own fears and adapt to changes before it's too late... and stop blaming others for the change!! read more about it at Official Who Moved My Cheese? Website ... finished the book at 2245HRS, and headed home... watched the japanese drama "Shu4 Mu1 2 Ke4" on channel 8 and had a good laugh! then continued some variety shows on video tapes until 3am... yawn.. really tired...zzz...

Today, 181004-->

stayed home whole day... woke up at 10am to use computer... wanting to find out more about disruption from NS, but found nothing useful... btw, i got a place in Computer Engineering at NTU and decided to start the course earlier (i.e. next year) before i lost interest in studying... planning to help my mother clean up the living room in the afternoon but my mother says she wants to sleep, so didn't do it in the end... then watched the S.H.E "Together" VCD i've bought yesterday at $9.90... i asking myself, "why i wasting money again?"... but bo bian, i like S.H.E too much liao... especially Hebe!! then now i am here writing this blog.... hehe... hope u enjoy reading...

*Mount means staying in camp for 24 hours and doing 9 to 12 hours (normally) of duties a day and have to standby for any operations and react to it any time of the day

*Dismount means booking out for 24 hours (sometimes even lesser)

*Standby means staying in camp from 8am to 5pm, doing some duties and sometimes have physical training

2003-08-14T16:53:00.000+08:00

07/08/2003, Thursday

went for a talk recommend by my brother at tanjong pagar, keppel towers... actually it's a free preview o f a program known as "Patterns of Excellence", which gives you a NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) certification.... don't misunderstand, this is not computer programming, this is an inspiring about programming your brain to lead you to the success of ANYTHING! too good to be true right? the talk was given by Adam Khoo and Stuart Tan of the company, Adam Khoo Learning Technologies Group (http://www.akltg.com.sg)... ok, now i share with you some things I heard from him (he talked about a lot of things, i am only able to reproduce a little)

1. first step in suceeding is to have Correct BELIEFS, you MUST believe you CAN succeed

2. which leads you identify your Correct GOALS, and you MUST COMMIT to achieve these goals

3. then come out with Correct STRATEGIES, you can learn from successful people

4. then leads to taking Correct ACTIONS, but you have to control STATE (or emotions) first, and also controlling the factors that contribute to state

a lot of testimonials had shown that this works, so I could guarantee this is not a prank... they holding these kind of talks occasionally, visit their website for updates...

08/08/2003, Friday

went to borders tp continue reading "Rich Dad, Poor Dad", it's simply a book that got me addicted (you might i'm weird and crazy right?)... head for home after dinner when my friend jio me out for a midnight show... the show was "Homerun", a great local show by Jack Neo, as usual putting political issues betweent the lines of moving stories with some humour... we went for supper at Newton Food Centre after that... and as usual go home (at 4am) when we found there's no place to go

09/08/2003, Saturday, National Day

today is National day, but I prefer to stay at home rather than going out, where it's crowded everywhere...

10/08/2003, Sunday

planned to go cycling... but got heachache today, most probably because yesterday slept too much...

2003-08-14T16:06:00.000+08:00

04/08/2003, Monday

met 1 of my good friend, Da Wei, for lunch at wisma... had a good chat and he go off for work... i went to borders alone, to enrich myself with some books... spent a few hours reading "Rich Dad, Poor Dad", by Robert Kiyosaki... a very interesting book on financial knowledge, which is just a right book that answer my question i ask my years ago, "Why study so hard when little of these skills apply to the really world?"... I strongly recommend you to read this book if you want to gain financial freedom... anyway, no harm reading right? this is the official website of the book, http://www.richdad.com

05/08/2003, Tuesday

went jihao's house for mahjong in the late afternoon to about 9pm... quite tiring...

06/08/2003, Wenesday

planned to go for a jog today, but didn't go... haha.. too reluctant to leave my bed... haha... think i really need someone to motivate or accompany me in sports... anyway, also too late to exercise liao.... for the rest of the day, basically stayed at home...

2003-08-05T12:51:00.000+08:00

28/07/2003, Monday

receive a leaflet yesterday, saying "Great Shoes Sale at Tion Bahru Plaza"... so I went to tiong bahru plaza to have a look, to look for sandals and slippers (for NS)... but cannot find any I like, too bad lor... but at least i got a copy of a dictionary from Popular, quite expensive ($24), but it comes with a CD-ROM that will definitely help me in pronuciation of english words... great! well.. and of course, i go there alone (again?) since my friends are either not interested or not free...

29/07/2003, Tuesday

wake up early in the morning (7.30am is considered very early for a slacker), went to Lakeside for my 2nd bicycle lesson, finally I cold make at least 2 revolutions on the pedal, but that's not good enough, I must at least cycle a distance (my target).... but i had yet to achieve, maybe because of my balancing problem... well, the weather is not very good (raining heavily), so we stopped the lesson and went for lunch....

30/07/2003, Wednesday

went for a jog in the morning... cant run much also... spend rest of my day at home...

31/07/2003, Thursday

stayed at home whole morning and afternoon, went for a business talk introduced by my brother, quite a fruitful evening...

01/08/2003, Friday

accompany my mama to Carrefour (at Suntec) in the evening, or should i say night (because we only reach there at 7.45pm, due the dragyness of my mama)... it's so unbelievable that we could shop until they close shop, when we buy only some groceries and a standing fan... and luckily my brother got a car to transport all these things... or we will be taking MRT and it's a toture to me to carry so many canned food and a standing fan and walk a long distance...

after reaching and unloading the stuff, my whole family embark on a journey to a mignight supper at Cheese Prata Shop behind NUS... prata not bad, but the curry not so good... it's so amazing that i still got energy to watch VCDs until 5am...

02/08/2003, Saturday

went to meet my gang in the late afternoon at suntec... walking around, sitting down to talk and then xiang drove us to beach road military market (Golden Mile Food Centre)... we all bought some stuff and had dinner there...

03/08/2003, Sunday

slacking whole day at home.. nothing much...

2003-07-28T00:31:00.000+08:00

21/07/2003, Monday

went to Bugis OG to buy a bag, deuter bag, 20 litres, original price $69, now selling at $30 only, 4 colour comination... quite a good design... but i don't know now still got this offer or not...

22/07/2003, Tuesday

met chong hwee for some programming problems and had talk together...

23/07/2003, Wednesday

met my friend, shi cong, to learn to ride bicycle from him in the morning... funny right? live until so old liao.. still don't know how to ride bicycle.. but most important is the heart to learn, it doesn't matter in when you learn... met my friend to pass him thing at 6pm at orchard, then meet boon kiat for dinner at 6.30pm at bugis... then brought him to hear the talk chong hwee introduced... very tiring day....

24/07/2003, Thursday to 25/07/2003, Friday

basically resting at home... nothing much...

26/07/2003, Saturday

went to bugis to play a board game, known as "Cashflow 101", created by the author of "Rich Dad, Poor Dad", Robert T. Kiyosaki... it's a game that teach you how to get out of the "Rat Race" and let Money work for you instead of you working for money... Interesting? a complicated but fun game... especially the counting money part... LOL!...

after that, went to meet my primary school friends for movie and dinner.. took some Neo prints (very expensive leh...) and had a chat on army life and kopi at hawker centre near my home... until past midnight... *yawn*

27/07/2003, Sunday

basically resting at home... watch TV... HK drama final epidsode on channel 8.. very exciting!

2003-07-27T22:46:00.000+08:00

14/07/2003, Monday

met my friends for some Q&A session on the business i talk about previously... we actually talked until after midnight! have to take a cab again.. sad.. broke again... and also have to settle my dinner at 7-eleven... pathetic right?

15/07/2003, Tuesday

I also forgot what I had done also... think i was staying at home on this day...

16/07/2003, Wednesday

accompany my friends to hear again about the business thing... then went ji hao's house for mahjong... lost again... sad... is it because of luck or skill? i don't know... maybe because my opponents are stronger than me...

17/07/2003, Thursday

no appointments, stayed at home...

18/07/2003, Friday

went for a talk given by my friend's mentor in the business... quite a grand ambience with most of the audience are working adults... impressive talk, friendly people...

19/07/2003, Saturday

met 2 of my primary school friends for movie at west mall... look look see see amd had dinner...

20/07/2003, Sunday

went for a product carnival by my brother's company.. had a facial wash there... quite refreshing... then being forced to go shopping with my mama... tired sia...

2003-07-27T21:43:00.000+08:00

10/07/2003, Thursday

met my usual gang, ying liang, boon boon and boon kiat for movie, had some chat, glad to see everyone fine since we last met about 3 weeks ago...

11/07/2003, Friday

met a successful person in the evening, introduced by a good firend, chong hwee, to talk about some business opportunity... nonono... it's not another prank or lousy business proposal.. i strongly believe that this business works and will lead to passive income (of 5 digits) every month in the future... (this is how I feel after some thinking, not because of the speaker's excellent talking skills) however, no business will be success without some hardwork lah... including this... (do you want a life time of financial freedom after a few years of hardwork?)... and i also believe that the product they have wil have a huge demand in the future... so what's the business plan and product? sorry, i promise my friend to don't tell anyone... let me know personally if you want to know more...

12/07/2003, Saturday

finally met my NS friends today after a month of their army life... we talked, er... actually is hearing them complaining about army life lah... they always like to complain... (those pessimistic kind of complaining)... why don't look on the bright side of life? well... what can i do but to listen to them? we went to watch terminator 3 after that... erm... typical plot.. bad guy try to kill good guy but good guy survive in the end... only thing good i think is the camera shoots and visual effects lah... better to watch at home then go cinema...

13/07/2003, Sunday

met my 3 months JJC (jurong junior college) OG (orientation group) friends to have lunch at Fish & Co. restaurant at douby ghaut.. jialat.. going to be broke again... but never mind lah... once in awhile... the fod there best man! fresh and tasty.... and not very ex.. but the service "a bit" (i mean very) slow lor.... after that, went to one of our friend's house (at Jurong West, Parc Oasis) to visit him, because he injuried his back in army... looks like quite serious... he got MC for a month... but he like not feeling leh.. stll can eat tidbits an watch TV happily... still can joke... maybe it's because of his optimistic character... he's one of the most optimistic friend I have...

after that, went back to orchard to meet a friend, to accompany him to buy some formal wear for his attachment work starting tomorrow... look like i meeting a lot of guys recently right? don't worry, I am not a gay... walk here walk there whole day... damm tired... then tomorrow still got appointment... alamak...

2003-07-15T23:18:00.000+08:00

this week had been very eventful and enrichful and also tired...

07/07/2003, Monday

zhou bo day, boring day, resting day...

08/07/2003, Tuesday

went out in the evening to meet friends to look for present for 1 of my good friend's birthday... bought a G-shock that cost only $68 (it's value is over $100 at major shops)! you know where we got this lobang? we got it from the Bencoolen building at bugis, near OG building... there are quite afew shops... although there's not a lot of variety, but their price are much cheaper than outside... after buying, we went for some window shopping and coffee, had a good chat together...

09/07/2003, Wednesday

finally got all of my FYP group friends to come out, to celebrate my good friend, Chong Hwee's birthday... but we went for a talk first at bugis on some business opportunity recommend by the birthday boy... the talk is quite inspirating, which makes me quite interested... message or email me if u are curious.... the talk lasted quite long. from 7+pm to around 9.30pm...

after which we went for dinner at Ajisen Japanese Restaurant (Bugis Junction), good food, good price, good service... a nice place to eat in... it's 10+pm when we finish dinner.. and you think we going home right? nonono... the night is still young! we went for a drink (i mean drinking alcoholic drinks lah..) by the SIngapore River at the Esplanade.. we chatted for quite a long time... from 11pm to 2am.... from the business CH recommends to our plans for the futture to our childhood times and family... some head for home, and the rest including me went to ji hao's home for mahjong... we played until 5am in the morning and ji hao drove me home..

2003-07-15T21:39:00.000+08:00

03/07/2003, Thursday

met a friend, boon kiat for a movie at bugis, Shaw Towers (a place where cinemas are big but with little audience... we watched "Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle", a very extravagating show, more like a comedy than a action film to me...

04/07/2003, Friday

went to ji hao's house for a mahjong session.. si bei suay... had not won a single round from all the rounds of East, South, West, North... we head for Victoria Concert Hall after that for the Music Delights concert by SP Concert Band, where my firend, Yanxi plays the clarinet... it was the first time I went for a proper band concert, the music was great, but the concert hall is not in good maintenance, I'm not saying the building, I mean the chairs, carpet and doors, completely don't suit the grandness of the concert hall... after which, we head for dinner and then home...

05/07/2003, Saturday

went for a club event early in the morning at Sentosa, which lasted until 11pm.... super tired (but quite happy) and got sun burn also.... but it seems like nobody knows that... i wonder why.. cause I am usually quite white....

06/07/2003, Sunday

a zhou bo day again.... finally got some time to watch some TV shows...

2003-07-11T14:33:00.000+08:00

28/06/2003, Saturday

went for a club event for the whole day at SP campus... wah.. super tired...

29/06/2003, Sunday

actually i forgot what i had done... think i stayed at home for whole day...

30/06/2003, Monday

basically zhou bo for whole day.. then went back to SP for some club matters in the evening....

01/07/2003, Tuesday

time really flies... now is already july... and I had been zhou bo-ing for almost 2 months... recalling for the past.. I should be preparing for school reopen this time in the past 13 years (1990 - 2002)!!! school times are really the most worry-less time of everypne's life, and also the happiest... (you will know why if you had experienced full-time working life) I'm glad that I had cherish and not wasted it... because I had learned a lot and make lots of good friends (and also learned who are bad friends)... did you?

graduation means you are jobless, start planning for your future if you have not done so... and I mean really planning... don't make your whole life miserable by choosing a boring job that you have no interest and job satisfaction... go further your studies if you think you should gain more knowledge or you want to work in a field not related to your course of study... check this out http://www.jobstreet.com.my/career/jobs123/graduate9.htm

02/07/2003, Wednesday

went to world book fair at suntec to look for great bargains of books... alone again.. cause nobody seems to be interested... the book fair was a great disappointment... chinese books more than english books and most of these chinese books are from china... and the english books are most about boring topics... got interesting topics, but the books are so expensive...

2003-07-03T01:46:00.000+08:00

27/06/2003, Friday

cant stay at home for long... bored to death liao... went to take the whole NEL route to punggol then back to alight at sengkang to have a look at compass point... bought a book from popular bookshop, named "Longman Dictionary of Grammar and Usage", actually not a dictionary lah.. it's something like a guide (or textbook) on grammar usage, which is usually my weak point in composition writing... found it to be quite useful and detailed... some more it's handy and cheap (only $10 leh!)... also went high and low to search for the cap I want.. still can't find...

so I head for suntec to continue searching... search here and there.. still cannot find.. haiz... never mind... hungry liao.. alamak! cannot find place to eat... everywhere is so crowded... do you know there's a 2nd food court in suntec, located opposite eng wah cinemas, on the 3rd floor... do you know they sell good food, moreover, it's not crowded... good place to eat... only disadvantage is that it's a bit ulu...

2003-07-01T22:43:00.000+08:00

21/06/2003, Saturday

wake up early in the morning about 6am to go to club event (it's a Freshmen Orientation event held along orchard road), *yawn*... I go there as the first-aider.. walk for the whole day from cuppage to forum.. wah.. legs very tired.. the event end around 8pm..

rushed home to get changed and bath, then go to dbl O ( a disco/pub at Robertson Quay) for my good friend's birthday celebration... he is treating all the drinks, so I only spent $20 on the entrance fee (quite ex for me actually)... well, you may think that I like to "chiong" lah.. but actually I only go "chiong" if got friends jio me... why? because I not so rich and not very enthu about this kind of activity lor...

22/06/2003, Sunday

stayed at home... why? no money to spend mah...

23/06/2003, Monday

today is my grandfather's death anniversary, went to ah ma's house to pray pray and have lunch in the morning... then went to visit my uncle who had an operation at Mount Eliazabeth Hospital... hm.. he became a lot thinner and cannot use month to eat or talk (only can drink milk drink through opening in his throat)... and also cannot walk well... why become like that? this is the result of working long hours for 29 years... well.. I only could say healthiness don't come easy... I think I had to start exercising also...

after which, me and mother took to the new NEL (North East Line) to Chinatown... we planned to make my spectacles there... but also kenna indirectly forced to accompany my mother to shop... we went to Pearl's Optical Centre (at People's Pearl Centre, Zhen Zhu Da Sha) to make my spectacles... surprisingly my eyesight become better.. from left 275, right 300 to left 275, right 275 (in degrees of course).. I bought a pair of specs with High Index, UV Protection and Mult-coated lens for only $90! quite worth it...

24/06/2003, Tuesday to 26/06/2003, Thursday

well, no money, no go out, stayed at home, downloaded some movies, mtvs and songs... specially recommend you Lin Jun Jie's songs... check it out....

2003-06-24T18:16:00.000+08:00

15/06/2003, Sunday

basically slept whole day because of yesterday's (or should I say this morning) late night activities... nothing much...

16/06/2003, Monday

went to met boon kiat for lunch at IMM, had a good chat on other people's NS life.. then talk about nuclear weapons in other countries (strange right?), then went a round to look look see see and bought nother chinese movie vcd.. quite enjoy this kind of activities, simple life and some more no need to spend so much money...

17/06/2003, Tuesday

went to jihao's house again for a mahjong session in the afternoon with jihao, shicong and yanxi (lee shaung came in middle of the game), this time we got bet money, thought that I will win the first place, but wnd up I lose the most.. it's really fate that I cannopt win if money is involved.. don't know why... everything like that...

then went for KTV at Kbox at Lot 1 (Choa Chu Kang), there's a promotion on tuesday, that is Gent's Night... however it's really much more with than expected when the bill comes.. next time I won't be going.. well... quite enjoyable, I got to sing a lot (but without the mic 0_0 , but never mind..) , we sang until about 1 am, and not forgeting to break the mic before leaving 0_0 (no lah... accidentedly broke it, don't know they will ask us to pay or not :P)

2003-06-19T17:43:00.000+08:00

13/06/2003, Friday

a good friend of mine, wei xiang, went to NS today.. sad..

met my FYP group friends (or should i say half of my ex FYP group..) , we met west mall to have dinner at 8pm.. then went for a drink at happy cup... had a good chat on what we doing now.. and our future plans.. quite happy to see everyone fine.. except that everyone is complaining that they have no money.. :D , cause everyone cannot find a job... as for me, I don't intend to find one... what for work now when you can work for the rest of your life? moreover, I got things need to learn and do before going NS..

after the drink, we went jihao's house for a mahjong session.. we played from 11+pm to around 3.30am.. actually, this is the first time I play mahjong until so "Early" .. I was the big winner, won about $3+ (but too bad, we didn't bet real money).. jihao drove us home after that... reach home around 4am, then slept around 5am..

14/06/2003, Saturday

basically slept the whole day.. except wake up for lunch.. it was 7pm when I actually wake up... my family suggested to go pasir panjang food centre, to have dinner, to celebrate father's day.. we had some seafood, rojak, chicken wings etc. for dinner.. the seafood there is quite good (The price also quite ex lor...), but still cannot fight with those of Newton food centre... after that, we went home, then my sister sugested to go for midnight show... alamak... so we went for movie at PS, we watched "the In-Laws", quite a funny romance comedy, worth to watch..

2003-06-16T01:59:00.000+08:00

08/06/2003, Sunday & 09/06/2003, Monday

stayed at home.. watch TV, eat, sleep, surf... nothing special...

10/06/2003, Tuesday

1 friend (zhenrong) gone to NS today... how I hope I could be enlisted early like them, then I don't need to worry so much... (mostly about money).. haiz... what to do? life have to go on... 1 gone, 2 more to go in this week... think I will stay at home often in the weeks to come.. met the rest of my usual gang for a movie, Confidence, a NC-16 show, a very vulgar show about a plot to cheat money from someone... bo bian, no show to see liao...

11/06/2003, Wednesday

stayed at home.. watch TV, eat, sleep, surf... nothing special...

12/06/2003, Thursday

another friend, sebas, went to NS today..

went out with boon kiat (BK) alone.. because the rest don't wish to come out.. we had lunch, then went for a movie at cineleisure, it's Phone Booth, a lot of people says it's not a good movie, but still give it a try... actually it's not bad lah... the plot is quite unique, a man trapped in a phone booth, because he is threatened by a sniper on the phone, the motive is to let him tell the truth to his wife... personally, I think the sniper is really eat ful liao, nothing to do... a very busybody, got so much time to threaten and kill people... although his intention is quite good lah... to let people tell the truth...

after movie, he went to look for his friend, then we went for dinner at wheellock place burger king... had a good chat, and a quite meaningful 1, we talk about how's our life recently, about views on friends, BGR and what type of girls we like...