my life

refresh

2009-09-30T01:08:00.002+08:00

Watched a total of 6 movies within 3 weeks. Record breaking. lol. Might even increase to 9 if I'm gonna watch 3 more movies this week.

Went timbre last friday. Could hear the sounds of f1 cars during their practice session.
Opened chivas bottle, when there's only 2 of us, and the waiter gave a shocked face. O.O
Didn't really drink much of the 4 mixers given, but we still didn't manage to finish the bottle.
Half a bottle left and we couldn't drink anymore. D's drunk, and I had puked 3 times. Yet, I'm not drunk at all, just with a terrible headache.
Sent D home and then cabbed home after that. Slept from 4+ till 1pm the next day.

So fast, september has come to an end and october's arriving !

Going on to a fresh start.

shocking

2009-09-25T00:41:00.002+08:00

Damn shocked by what Anna just told me, but am glad that she's happy.
Hope it goes on well ! (:

Looking forward to your return. :D

seiransai, astons, pool

2009-09-20T23:50:00.004+08:00

Went for Seiransai 2009 at Waseda Shibuya Senior High School. It wasn't as fun as the japanese primary school one. But still, it's enjoyable.
Supposed to meet weijie, zs and sy at 10am. In the end, only met weijie cos the other 2 overslept. Then jiayi and nellie last minute decided to come too.

Went to try on their uniform. Size M was all reserved already, so I had no choice but to try on the L size. It's so baggy, as you can see from the photo. But still, it's nice and comfortable to wear, especially the blazer.

There's this pokemon games room. Everywhere was pasted with pikachu for advertisement. One student who was the mascot for this room even wore a full pikachu suit. lol.

Everything ended at 4.30pm. And we went to the curry house to eat. Curry rice and spicy kimchi pork rice.

Desserts: Almond tofu, peach custard

Last shot at the curry house before we left for suntec to meet zs and fred.

Finally, the clique had its gathering, just that junyi's not around since he went holidaying. =/ So hard to plan one, with the guys in tekong/ns, girls in uni.
Talked and talked and talked.

After dinner at astons, played pool at concorde hotel before going home, because some of them had other activities.

Taken in the concorde hotel lift

movies week

2009-09-17T23:46:00.000+08:00

Went comex on sunday, and got my m1 unlimited mobile broadband service! Now I can go online anywhere, anytime, as long as my phone battery doesn't go flat. Also bought an Asus EeePC netbook. Can bring out for leisure surfing since it's such a small laptop.

I just realised that I watched 4 movies within 2 weeks. Amazing record.

Last monday: GI Joe
Last friday: The Proposal
2 days ago: Blood Ties
Yesterday: G-Force

Yes it may seem crazy, but I think it's fine for me. Because I managed to meet up with friends whom I have not met up with for a long period of time! :)

Blood Ties is a local production movie. It's not bad. I had thought it's a horror movie, but it turned out to be a thriller. Rather bloody, which is why its rating is M18 for violence.
Went timbre @ arts house after the movie. Finally got a chance to go there and try their famous roast duck pizza which many people recommended. And of course, to drink. Ordered scotch and mango mojito. Wanted to open bottle, but it's too expensive.
Food + alcohol + acoustic singing = shiok. Very soothing and relaxed atmosphere. :D If only there wasn't work the next day. I'd love to stay on there, drinking to my heart's content, along the Singapore River..

Initial plan of watching Time Traveller's Wife at westmall was changed to G-Force 3D at lot 1 because the cinema at westmall suddenly stated on their website that the 9.20pm movie timeslot was not available anymore. It was still available when I checked at 7pm. Even the other movies after 9pm were all not available. Weird.
The movie reminded me of transformers, because of a particular scene which involved electrical appliances. -.-" Comical at some parts, and the guinea pigs don't seem that cute after some time. lol.

The scenery taken from marina barrage's bridge. You can clearly see how serious the haze is. And it's getting worse as days go by. ):

ipod 1st gen

2009-09-17T00:05:00.003+08:00

Been out almost everyday for the past few days.
Though it may be tiring, I prefer it this way. At least I do have activities to look forward to after work.

Shall elaborate more in my next post.

Meanwhile, check out this website.
International: More Thing
Local: SG store
I happened to see its advertisement on some website. The accessories are so damn nice, but sadly, I own a 1st generation ipod touch and they got nothing for it. ~~Great.~~

b&j chunkfest

2009-09-12T23:06:00.000+08:00

Watched The Proposal with hj and mj on friday. Nice movie.
Mj drove his family's manual car out. Driving it seemed so easy to him. But I think I'll have difficulties driving manual car again, after not touching manual car for more than one year.

Went to b&j chunkfest today at marina barrage.
It's a damn hot day, at 32 degrees celsius. omg. So hot that even those icecream kept in freezers could melt.
Most of the flavours are chocolate with peanut butter. So only tried one chocolate with peanut butter, one caramel, one orange with vanilla.
Explored marina barrage after that, since we didn't explore it that other time which I went with tessa, aaron and choonyen. Realised there's a gallery area at the 2nd floor.

Took photos of the flyer and the 3 IR towers scenery too. Shall upload next time, because blogger is screwed up again.

Timbre is coming~ :D

thoughts

2009-09-11T01:45:00.004+08:00

Sometimes I feel like saying everything out, but at the same time, I don't want to bother people with all my troubles or stuffs.

Because I don't want to be a nuisance to them.
Maybe I'm already a nuisance to them, just that they won't tell me.

090909

2009-09-09T23:37:00.003+08:00

A nice date today, so decided to post an entry on this date.

Can't wait for the weekend to arrive. Haven't been enjoying my weekends these past few weeks, that's why upcoming activities this weekend really excites me! :D
Then there's also timbre to look forward to next week!

I suddenly feel that I do have a life now.
And I'm feeling happier too. (:

Life's a climb. When you're at your lowest point, pull yourself together and start climbing back up again.

wagyu steak for dinner (:

2009-09-08T23:52:00.000+08:00

It was a great night out after work. :)

Met daphne at clarke quay the Central for dinner at Sun with Moon japanese restaurant. It's been getting several good reviews for their food recently, so decided to go have a try. Indeed, their wagyu steak is damn nice!
Fyi: wagyu beef is of higher quality as compared to the usual beef meat. Though expensive, it's definitely worth spending that amount of money for the wagyu beef.

My wagyu steak set

Her wagyu beef slices don set

Didn't bring digital camera along, therefore could only make do with her pathetic hp camera. The photos seem to be taken in monochrome effect. -.-"

Had haato ice cream, lemongrass flavour after dinner at liang court. I haven't been to liang court ever since I was in lower primary or kindergarten. Only remember my family used to go there for Daimaru. lol.

Slowly walked to city hall mrt station. On the way, went past timbre @ arts house. There's live band performing, a female singer singing "nobody nobody but you". Not bad!
There's seats available, but it's late. So we headed home instead.
Planning to go there next week. I can finally get to try their roast duck pizza!

Bumped into shuzhen on the north-south train at jurong east station. Haven't seen each other ever since I left ijc after 1st 3 months. oh gosh. She became so ang moh now. Was trying my best not to use any singlish(lah, leh, lor, meh). lol.
Chatted quite a lot, since we both stay in bukit panjang. Got to know more about how our other orientation group people are doing now. Christina, raine, daryl, vimala, yolanda, youying, and also our orientation group leader audrey. :O Should have a gathering soon I hope.

GI Joe

2009-09-07T23:45:00.001+08:00

Finally managed to catch the last 9.20pm timeslot for GI Joe movie, at lot 1. The other timing is 5pm, which I can't catch. Checked the papers and only shaw cinemas are still screening this movie.

Lucky to be able to find someone who hasn't watched yet, and is free to watch at that timeslot, and that's Nazilah. Haven't seen her since graduating from SP. But this meetup was a rushed one, couldn't catch up much. Gonna meet up again some time soon, together with hid! (:

The movie's damn action-packed. VERY NICE. :D
The armorsuit which they wore for high running speeds made them look very funny, especially in the way they ran. lol.

The past weekend, Michelle needed help finding mobile phones for her bf's 21st birthday present.
In the midst of finding, Blackberry caught my attention. Blackberry looks cool! And there's non-camera Blackberry models as well, which best suits me now. If I just add those data plans to my current plan, I can then use Blackberry at ease anywhere, even at work, and can surf the net for as much as I want.
Seeing sy trying his best to use up his 10GB of data usage per month as if it's unlimited, I felt like getting it too. He hasn't even used up 1GB up till now. LOL. oh gosh.
I'm M1 user, and M1's data plans are cheaper than singtel's! :) so tempting...

wake me up when september ends

2009-09-04T01:50:00.003+08:00

The month of September has arrived. The year of 2009 seems to pass by very quickly. I can still remember what's going on several months ago, in the beginning of the year. =/

Sorry for the lack of updates. Life is a bore this past week, as usual. sighs.

Requested to drive my father's car to town last saturday. It's been 4 months since I last drove. Rather not used to being on the roads. And I mounted a kerb for my first time throughout my driving experience, while turning into a public carpark. The lane to enter or exit that carpark is so narrow that the car definitely goes into the opposite direction lane, which explains why I mounted the kerb. I turned the car in too early. -.-
Bought royce chocolates at ion. Every purchase of $20 entitles you to a chance in their lucky draw to win a trip to hokkaido. :)

Lunched at jack's place on sunday. Totally love the steaks at jack's place. Not too expensive too. Ribeye steak, damn nice. =D

Met up with nalan and calista for dinner on wednesday. Updates, talks, catchups. Nice to have such meetups once in a while. Especially for me, since it's the few activities I can have after work.

Read some of old friends' blogs, and chanced upon this quote:

As our social circle expands, we kind of drift further apart too.

True indeed.

The word "friend" isn't as simple as it seems to be..

Japanese School Summer Fest 2009

2009-08-23T03:04:00.004+08:00

Wow wow wow.
Summer Fest at the Japanese School is such an eye-opener for me!
Went there on saturday, 22nd august.

So many stalls selling japanese products. Food, drinks, clothes, bags, etc. They even rent out their yutakas(japanese summer costumes) for visitors to wear when they're within the school!

Their culture and stuffs are really interesting! Everything seems so nice and beautiful.
The young kids are so cute, especially in their little costumes. And the girls look so pretty! oh gosh.

The girl in the middle with the hat, totally caught my attention at the entrance of the school. Bumped into her several times inside the school, so decided to take a photo together.
Her eyes are extremely beautiful!! So sad that it's not that clear in the photo.

Group photo inside the school.

Dinner/Supper at chicken rice shop at selegie road, then had tau huey after that. Last picture before all of us cabbed home.

Saw quite a few familiar faces at the jap school. First saw yiming(ex-fyp mate). Then it's really unlucky of me to see this army partner of mine even on a weekend. After that, saw leeyen, dressed in the japanese costume. Exchanged a few words and then parted. She's a volunteer for the event, even when it's the exams period at SP. Next, saw my sec 1 and 2 classmate, donald with his gf. I was in a queue, so couldn't call out to him.
Didn't expect to see so many familiar faces at an event that wasn't even publicized in the newspaper or media. In fact, it's even more amazing that so many people knew about it.

Can't wait for the Japanese senior high school's carnival in september! :D

UP, and beyond

2009-08-22T01:47:00.002+08:00

Managed to catch one of the three movies I wanted to watch on thursday. The movie UP.
Really thank siting for taking time out to watch it with me, especially when she already ended school at 2.30pm and spent the next few hours wandering around while waiting for me to knock off. I really do appreciate it. :D

The movie has a nice storyline, and it's funny at some parts. The scenes of the couple spending their lives together are really sweet! (:
The message left by the wife is so touching: "Thank you for the adventure, it's time to look for yours!"

Met up with the four people gang just now. The 4 of us haven't met up ever since I enlisted! So decided to meet up.
Tessa's been so busy with her hall activities and stuff, so the other 3 of us had dinner together. Everyone loves touching my extremely short hair now, including choonyen. Comment on my hair: "So cute." lol.
Lucky that aaron drove, so we went to find tessa at her hostel. Really short visit. =/ And even saw aaron's gf, for the first time.

Choonyen's driving test on 27th august! Hopefully she'll pass, and we'll go celebrating! whee. How sad that I got night duty on friday.
Used to think that since I've always been having no activities after work, no harm taking friday for night duties. In addition, can get home early the next day. But now I'm regretting. Fridays are so precious actually. bahs.
Maybe I should try swopping the night duty for that night. =x

Enjoyed 2 consecutive nights. Hope tonight will be another enjoyable night at the japanese funfair!

sha aka akidah

2009-08-17T23:46:00.000+08:00

Met up with shahidatul akidah, sha for short, today right after work! Last time we met each other was a coincidental one at clementi, some day during my poly days last year. Finally, we're able to meet to catch up on each other over a meal. :D
And I managed to get a ride on her car! She's really lucky that her parents are willing to get a car for her, to drive to work during the past year, and then now to school. ): I can say that her driving skills are very good now, especially when she has gotten her licence for less than a year. If only I can show this to my father, about how driving more can help to gain experience on the road. No point waiting till 21 years old for the car insurance thing, when I don't have much experience driving on the roads! I would have to claim more insurance this way instead. -.-

It's really heartwarming to be able to meet her again. We talked, laughed and teased at everything. I totally enjoyed her company tonight. Felt so comfortable being myself. It's just like how we used to be during the 1st 3 months jc. The closeness we have, hasn't seem to fade at all.

Started reminiscing about how the 1st 3 months jc at ijc had been. The class, 0612F. The class was so united, one big clique. Was rather sad that most of us didn't stay on at ijc.

Can still remember they last minute had a birthday celebration for me at causeway point's mac. Then I got a free mcflurry from mac. lol. My 17th birthday, in 2006.

The usual clique, yutang missing.

Had a bbq gathering once, and that's the last gathering we ever had. =/

Most significant memory was the one which we (me, sha, daryl, yanting) were late for school on purpose, on the last day of school. Supposed to report to school at 7.30, we met at 8am for breakfast, then took our time to go to school. Took the feeder bus one round before we alighted. Entered the school at 10.40am. lol. So fun! (:

a lil update

2009-08-17T00:43:00.002+08:00

Life's getting more and more dull each day. So dull that I can even get so enthusiastic about collecting the handphone screen wipers from long john silvers.
You get one if you upsized your drink, and there's 6 different designs to collect. There's also a chance to win a lenovo S10 netbook, if you're lucky enough to get that slip of paper which says you won, on the condition that you've collected the 6 different designs of the handphone screen wiper.
So, it just so happened that my younger sister managed to get that netbook winning slip of paper, which explains the enthusiasm in the collection.

I'm back to playing cabalsea, the game I quitted in may 2008. It somehow managed to occupy my free time, so that I won't be thinking about certain matters. bahs.

The past weekend was yet another free weekend, with no activities at all. Because university has started, while the poly people are having their study break.
Didn't go zouk for the nus pageant. Couldn't find anyone to go with. Didn't want to trouble tessa to keep me company when she has her friends too.

Went ion for the 2nd time on saturday, because uniqlo wasn't opened yet during the first time I went. In the end, I didn't buy anything from uniqlo. But bought a tee from another newly opened shop, bershka.
Spent around 6 hours at ion. Amazed that I'm able to know my way around the mall this time. Seemed as if I became my mother's and younger sister's tour guide. lol.
Ate at the official burger king outlet. It's rather small, and there's no need to top up money to change fries to onion rings! Or maybe I haven't been to burger king for so long that I didn't know it's been like this.
Very coincidental and shocking to bump into siting at ion, though we knew both of us were at ion at that time! Given that the mall is so huge, and the big crowd, it's really hard to actually bump into someone you know.

Bumped into a primary school friend, Huiyi on the way home too! Haven't seen her ever since primary school, though we weren't exactly close friends, just classmates. But it's really nice to see a primary school friend after so many years. To be exact, 8 years! wow. Many things can change or happen during these 8 years. One thing for sure: She has grown prettier. haha.

stayover

2009-08-12T01:06:00.004+08:00

Had a small 4kers gathering at vanessa's house on national day. It became a stayover in the end. Mahjong in the afternoon, ndp and singapore idol at night, poker and drinking till the next morning.
Mostly didn't drink much, while I so wanna drink.. In the end I drank the most, and turned rather lobster red. Plus the fact that I turn red so easily. =/
Felt rather light-headed at around 6am. Laid on the sofa and the next time I woke up, it's already 9+ in the morning. All bedroom doors were closed, and the whole house was silent. Decided to go back to sleep and woke up at 12pm.
Left for home, bathed and went out to meet tessa.

Finally met up with her after 3 weeks of not seeing her. Busy with her orientation camps and hall activities.
Went shopping for her laptop case along orchard and bugis. In the end, didn't manage to find any. She bought a pair of shoes from orchard central instead.
Got rather tired after bugis, so decided to head home. Popped by baleno to see yf before going home. She's such a slacker, only reporting to work 4 or 5 hours later than the supposed time.

Can't believe how some people can totally say things that they didn't see at all. Fact twisting. -.-
Merely coincidentally seeing your friend on the streets with another guy, can become "I saw her holding hands with another guy".
wow. What a fact twister that person is. I applaud you for having such a wonderful imagination, when there's not even a tinge of intimacy.

guess

2009-08-09T03:45:00.000+08:00

It didn't come as a shocking news to me, since I already kind of felt that it's that way.
Just a matter of confirmation if possible.

So.. My guess has been correct.

Am glad that I do have such a good friend...
But on the other hand, the lost feeling...

change

2009-08-04T01:00:00.003+08:00

Finally blogger's back to normal again. Been waiting for the problems to be resolved since saturday. Couldn't upload images that night. Then page for writing new post got worse: the toolbar for text editing went missing too. -.-" Anyway....

Went orchard ion on saturday with daphne, because she had wanted to get this longchamp tote bag which only had discount when paid with a citibank card. In the end, the discount's only available for the large size, so didn't buy.
Explored orchard ion. I felt kinda lost inside. lol. It seems much more complicated than vivo city. I was able to know my way around vivo when I first went. But I totally had no idea where I was walking in orchard ion.
Afterall, it's a saturday, a weekend. The mall was so crowded that I lost interest in queuing for the Dunkin' Donuts, and didn't even want to enter the Burger King. But the Burger King looks a little more high class as compared to those franchised ones in Singapore. :o

Headed to wheelock place after exploring ion. Went Star Three Sixty to buy the Asics Onitsuka Tiger shoes I saw the last time which didn't have my size at the paragon outlet.

VERY NICE :D :D

Changed the original white laces with the grey converse laces as the white laces makes the shoes even more plain since it's already white based.

Went for juliza's belated birthday party after that. Rather sad that most 4kers couldn't make it. Only aaron, desmond, jackson, calista, yanrong, weiquan, shatricia went. Saw many other old schoolmates at the party.
Made a new friend, liu pu. lol. And then talked to tan hui after so many years. Both of us still have no idea how the two of us actually got to know each other. She's from girl guides, but we didn't work together since we were from different committees even though it's the combined scouts and guides campfire. o.o
It's rather amusing to recall how you got to know this person when he/she was not even your classmate or cca friend before. And weird when none of us can recall. lol.

Drank a few shots of vodka, and some choya at the party. Been drinking at least once per month this year so far, guess I'm getting used to drinking already. Especially almost all the gatherings I had been to, seemed to have drinking sessions.
And I think the alcohol somehow got me to be deep in thoughts that night after reaching home. Don't be mistaken, I didn't get drunk.
Somehow, I just thought about the life I've been living now. I felt that it wasn't happening enough, in addition with the current army life. =/ I've been living in a very safe and secure environment all this while.
I suddenly feel like being different from the current eT, doing stuffs that you won't believe that I'm eT. I want to leave this comfort zone, and explore the more happening world outside. I somehow feel like going clubbing, socialising at the clubs. These new friends will definitely be different from those I have so far. It'll be nice to be in such different environment, gaining more exposure and new experiences. Will never know what I might find or learn.
AGREE?

siting's 21st !

2009-07-30T00:36:00.002+08:00

Siting held an early 21st birthday party on monday, 27th july. Had thought I would have to miss it because of h1n1. Luckily I managed to recover by that day, then decided to head down to the party. Became a surprise to her since I had initially said I couldn't go. :D
First time at the chevrons chalet. It seems not bad actually. Better than downtown east chalets in fact.

We're the only SPTC people. lol.

The extremely sweet cake

The present which she herself bought and wrapped it herself. LOL. We only sponsored her the money because we didn't know what to get for her.

Last photo before we left.

Been through 3 friends' 21st birthdays so far. Janice's, rafael's, and siting's. Counting fel's 21st birthday though it's merely sending of a surprise birthday present package over to australia, that makes it 4 friends already!
In less than 6 months' time, it's gonna be my turn! I should start planning for it soon I guess, if I do want to have a big party at some chalet or something. Many different groups of people to invite. Pri sch, sec sch, 1st months jc, poly, sptc! 5 big groups. wow.

h1n1

2009-07-25T23:55:00.001+08:00

Finally blogger is back to normal. Had not been able to blog because the New Post page was screwed up, thus not able to type any new entries.

bahs. Out of nowhere, I got h1n1.
Totally have no idea how I caught the virus.
Friday's late night harry potter movie at iluma? Saturday at sentosa?
Can't possibly be monday at orchard since I started having fever on tuesday. Symptoms can't develop that fast uh. =/

Went to polyclinic to see doctor on wednesday. They took some samples from my throat for testing, and I'm informed on thursday that I'm h1n1 positive.
Recovering now, left with sore throat. :D
Reporting back to work only on tuesday if everything's fine.

Because of this, had to miss the 4kers gathering today. But heard that it got cancelled in the end because many people can't make it as well. -.-" They themselves said going, then last minute can't? =/
Also couldn't meet up with eunice and melissa to go to the scholarship exhibition at suntec tomorrow. sighs. Been trying to find a date to meet up, and when finally decided, this had to happen. :(
Monday's siting's birthday party. Had agreed to go, but now I can't. Leaving only sy and junyi to go. zzz.
Weekend plans, all gone just like that. bahs.

meetup with anna on 130709 !

2009-07-25T23:50:00.002+08:00

1 future ntu student, 1 future uni of queensland student, 1 current uni of melbourne studentOrchard ION

onitsuka tiger

2009-07-20T23:21:00.000+08:00

Took duty off today and went shopping with tessa. The last time we're meeting before she goes for 2 weeks hiatus at nus hostel orientation.

Started off from orchard. Far east plaza, wisma, taka, paragon, centrepoint, orchard central, bugis street, iluma, bugis junction.
I was only looking out for caps and shoes for this shopping trip, since I've got enough tshirts. Buttoned shirts, if happened to see anything nice, then I'll get it.

A pair of asics onitsuka tiger shoes caught my eye. But so sad that the shop doesn't have my size. Gotta go down to the marina square branch to check if they have. Next, a cap at slurplife shop in bugis junction looks nice. But it costs $36. =/ Gotta slowly consider.
In the end, I didn't manage to buy anything at all. While tessa bought a bag and a dress and cardigan. haha.

Orchard central doesn't have anything to shop yet. -.- And it seems complicated and messy inside. Gave up exploring when we didn't see any shops on the 2nd level. All I saw were chairs everywhere for people to rest.
Ion's opening tomorrow. I guess it's gonna be somehow like orchard central. Still quite empty.

Anna finally uploaded the photos taken last monday! Shall post a few up here in the next post. It's back to work tomorrow.

Sore throat go away!

sentosa

2009-07-20T10:09:00.003+08:00

Haven't been to sentosa for more than a year. Last time I went was that picnic with the poly clique people and nellie I think. :O

SPTC outing to sentosa on saturday.
Attendance was bad. 8 people. So sad that yf can't go due to her bad cough. :( 2 weeks already yet she still doesn't want to see a doctor. zzz. -.-

Meeting time was 11am. I thought I was the latest to reach since I only left house at 1030. In the end, jy was still at home at 11 plus. I was already reaching harbourfront when he just left house. Next person to wait for was jos. By the time we left for sentosa, it's already around 2pm.

Played volleyball and frisbee at the beach. Intended to suntan, but the sun was shy that day, kept hiding behind the clouds. So I didn't really get tanned. =/
Teenage magazine held some event there, and I happened to see my pri sch friend Diana being a contestant, and also to promote healthy living. o.o lol.
Went to play the Luge. It used to cost $8 last time, but now it's $11. Skyride up the hill, and then took the Luge down. The ride's too short.

Headed back to vivo for dinner. Ate at Shin Kushiya. Charcoal grilled food and others. Damn nice! (:

tennis with fel !

2009-07-18T04:35:00.004+08:00

Finally managed to meet up with felicia for tennis! Yy was supposed to come too, but she's busy. =/
Really appreciate that she actually came all the way to the west side to play tennis, when she stays at the east side. (: Thanks!

First time we played tennis together. Rather amusing and fun experience. haha. For someone who hasn't played for a year, I think she's alright. Her serves are accurate, unlike mine. =x

No digital camera, had to make do with hp camera for now.

Hopefully there'll be more photos taken next time! :D

Felt kinda sad that I've got no activity on a friday night. Then suddenly, Harry Potter movie with yf, sy and jy. woot. Late night show at iluma.
First time watching at Filmgarde cinema. But I still prefer cathay, for their comfy seats. haha.
Had wanted to finish reading the book before watching the movie because I had forgotten the story from the last time I read it, but didn't manage to. But just went ahead to watch the movie instead.

The movie was not too bad I guess, though the front was focused more on the relationships stuffs. =/
Emma Watson is just, simply, GORGEOUS please. O-M-G.
Oh, and ginny's freckles disappeared suddenly. o.o lol.

I seriously need how-to-smile lessons. lol.

Chilled out at mac for a while before heading home. Other photos taken had jy's sian diao look. -.- Photo spoiler.
Couldn't find any nightrider at bugis to go home, so took cab instead. Surprised to have police spotcheck near my house. o.o

Lastly, I applied for off on monday. Long weekend for me! (: And finally meeting tessa, after don't know how many days/weeks of her MIA-ing.

it's been a year !

2009-07-15T23:51:00.000+08:00

Finally no more postponements in meeting anna. Managed to meet up with her on monday, together with yvonne. And she's now on the plane back to melbourne already. ):

Though it was a short meetup session of around 2+ hours, I feel it's good enough. Glad to see that she's doing well and enjoying herself so far. :D She's the closest female friend whom I'm totally comfortable with. heh.
Still waiting for photos taken that night to be uploaded in fb.

Today's 15th july!
Exactly one year ago on this date, I passed my driving test. So there's no need for me to stick the P-plate label on the car I drive from now on. :D:D

It's been a rather boring week so far. Nothing to look forward to after work everyday. =/
Lucky there's tennis session tmr with fel and yy. But no activities on friday.
Going sentosa on saturday. But with yf becoming so sick, she may not be able to recover by then. Without you around, the sentosa outing won't be that fun.. ):
zzz. Stubborn girl. -.-

shopped

2009-07-12T23:59:00.000+08:00

Friday was such a tiring day. But there's nothing much to blog about. =/

Outings always get cancelled last minute, which calls for last minute planning again with other groups of people.

Met josephine on saturday for laksa lunch. Had been saying to go eat one day since few months ago, but haven't had the chance to until now. As expected, jy definitely wanna join in. -.- He sounded so frantic to know about the plan for saturday on friday night. =/ bahs.
And finally watched transformers 2 after it opened 3 weeks ago. So many people already watched it. Had wanted to watch at night with yf, zs and jos. But zs can't. So in the end, only watched with jos. The movie is rather draggy in the middle. But the fighting scenes are nice!
Then met jy, hj and yf for dinner at iluma. Damn tired by then. Didn't get enough sleep the previous night.

Went vivocity with my sister for shopping today. Been wanting to get the shirt from river island since months ago. And finally, I got it ! Lucky for the 10% discount for students at river island, I saved $8.90 on that shirt. lol.
There are discounts in every shop! omg. Especially for those citibank cardholders. So glad that I have one, even more discounts! If you need any further discounts, come find me and I'll be more than willing to help you save the extra money. =)
Spent a total of $116 today. 2 tops, 1 shirt. Photos below!

Tee from FOX.
$29 usual price. Shop's 30% off, and then plus Citibank additional 20%. It only costs $16 in the end. O.O

Tee from Pull And Bear. First tee I bought from this shop. They having crazy sales now. Almost all tshirts are $19.90.

River Island shirt ! =)
Yes it may be expensive, but I just feel that their quality is worth the price, unlike some other shops.

irritated

2009-07-09T23:46:00.002+08:00

"might go et's house there play tennis and maybe gym?
lol.
everytime like that plan okay alr ar,
confirm something crop up -.-
zzz.
so i dun so happy yet.
later thinkthink wah so fun,
in the end go home will super du lan."

So something did crop up. yf, you can be fortune teller le.

Had planned to go gym at my condo together with yf after work today. But because of jy having no dinner plans, he asked dinner how and wanna come my condo too, but not to gym. How can I do with him while the other 2 of us go gym? -.-
My condo's gym is only for resident's use, but just one outsider doesn't matter since it's not that obvious. Bringing 2 in will be more obvious.
So, changed plan to meet for dinner, since jy asked. Still got mj and hj to join us for dinner somemore. Later on, both of them changed their mind. And jy claimed he's still feeling full from the late lunch. zzz. Asked dinner how and yet not intending to eat.
In the end, no meetup, and went home. What a day. -.-

Most plans have been postponed/cancelled these days.
Meetup tmr with nellie, jiayi, zs, fred, sy, jy had to be postponed, since fred book out only on saturday.
Meetup on saturday with the gems project group postponed too. Rau was supposed to have off day, yet it seems she got another part time job or sth.
Feeling rather sian of all these.. sighs.

Entire weekend is so free. How rare.

Random: 6 more days to 1 year of having my driving licence, which means no need for P plate label anymore! And I have not driven for 2+ months. How sad.

meetups

2009-07-08T23:42:00.000+08:00

What a coincidence that the guy who was posted to the same unit as me stays just one block away from me. Never in my life have I seen him in the condo before, until now. lol. The others in the office even thought we're brothers -.-"

Met up with nalan and aaron for dinner just now. Ate at xin wang cafe at yew tee point. Never been there before ever since it was built. Nothing much to explore also I think.
Met at 6, and we stayed at the cafe to talk all the way till nearly 10pm. The cafe was almost closing. =/

Meetups with anna and fel who came back from australia have been postponed again and again. Can see that their schedules are really packed to the max, since their stay in singapore is damn short. It's difficult to meet every single friend during this short stay. I understand that.
Anna's been here since 23rd june, yet I haven't got the chance to meet her yet, and she's leaving on 15th july!
Same goes for fel, 4th july reached singapore, going back on 20th! ):

Daily knock off time caused problems with tennis session with fel. sighs. Why are there only 24 hours a day?!
Meeting fel on tues, either tennis or movie.
Meeting anna for dinner on monday.
Seriously hope nothing else crops up last minute. please please please!

iphone 3G S

2009-07-08T02:16:00.002+08:00

The past 2 days have been slack. But I'm still lacking of sleep lately. Feeling sleepy everywhere I go. Wanted to take a nap on monday evening, but watched tv till 9pm. Then it's too late for a nap. -.-
Finally took a nap yesterday. 3 hours. Due to this nap, I'm still awake at this hour. lol.

Was discussing about the iphone 3G S with sy just now. He's considering to get the cheapest iFlex lite plan from singtel, $39 per month.
Checked out the price of the different data plans available on the website. I think it's not worth the money to pay additional $14 for the 500MB bundled data, which is the only difference between the iOne plus plan and iFlex lite data plan. It may be convenient to have the bundled data, in case there's no wireless to connect up to if there's an urgent need to check mails or something. But that seldom happens, since WiFi is widely available now.
$14 x 24 = $336. The amount spent on unused data over the 2 years contract. :O If like that, I rather get iOne plus, though the price of iphone 3G S with this plan will a little higher compared to with the iFlex data plan.

Sighs. I so want to get an iphone 3G S! But what to do with my current itouch? ): Plus the fact that I can't use it on weekdays because it's a camera phone. =/ Maybe I'll wait for the next generation of iphone next year. LOL :D

the past weekend

2009-07-06T01:30:00.002+08:00

Saturday
Met tessa for breakfast at cafe cartel. Listened to her stories, and I really hope she learnt her lesson from what happened. But that's how she is anyway, it'll be hard to change the way she is now. =/ She really spoke till tears were about to flow out, and yet she said I'm smiling when I'm not! -.-"

Lunched at heerens shokudo with the clique of girls whom each of us knew one of them from year 1 tennis orientation. But only 6 of us could make it, 3 guys 3 girls. Sy not free, the other girl was sick. Just nice too. It's rather weird in the beginning since it's the first clique outing for all of us. The guy and girl cliques. But we managed to talk much more after some time. Hopefully the next meetup would be 4 guys 4 girls.

Bought a cologne and deodorant set from calvin klein in OG for rafael's 21st birthday present. Went to his birthday party at his house in the evening. Rather sad that so few of us from uwr turned up at the party. Finally managed to see sy, ever since graduation in may I think. Photos are in fb. The first set of photos of me in botak. lol.

Sunday
Slacked the whole day. Felt like going shopping, so initially wanted to meet up with fel, but time seems rather tight for her. Around 2 hours to meet before she goes off to meet another friend. As a result, decided not to meet her, and didn't feel like shopping anymore suddenly. But will be meeting her on one of the weeknights soon! Movie and shopping! :D

In the end, accompanied zs to shop a bit before meeting the rest for dinner. He wants to buy shirts. This guy finally grew up and realises that shirts are nice. lol.
I went to try the shirt in River Island again, this time, S size. But I can't decide which size to get. Can't compare either because that branch doesn't have XS size. -.-" So I'll have to make my way down to vivo one day. Hopefully they have both S and XS sizes for me to compare.
Felt that I should buy at least one item today. So went on to springfield, esprit, topman, levi's. Saw a nice shirt in Levi's. It can be worn as an outerwear with a tshirt inside, or just as a shirt itself. It looks cool and nice, so I bought it. =)

Alright, time to sleep. First day of reporting at 8am. Hope everything goes well!

harry potter

2009-07-03T23:48:00.000+08:00

lol. You would never imagine what I did today.

I got so bored at home that I decided to have a Harry Potter movie marathon at home. My father had bought the entire HP1 to HP5 movie series in Blu-ray HD quality last time, when he bought a blu-ray disc player. Now, there's the ps3 to play blu-ray discs as well.

Watched HP4, and finally saw the actor who acted as Edward in Twilight. He acted as the Cedric Diggory. lol. He looks so much different in HP and Twilight. o.o Then there's the Yule ball which Hermione was so pretty in her dress!

After watching HP4, I went on to HP5. Halfway through the movie, yf and jy came to my house to kill time. They ordered mcdelivery for their dinner, while I ate my homecooked dinner. lol.

Went out with family for "supper" at the nearby coffee shop. Elder sister's birthday coming, but my weekends are packed with activities already. So left with no choice but celebrate it with this "supper", which is some sort of a 2nd dinner serving. Ordered few dishes, including stingray and crab! Just a simple meal together.

Finally, quarantine's over. And Singapore's already switching to mitigation instead of containing the virus. Hopefully h1n1 pandemic will be over soon.

Read in the newspapers that Singapore earned another 2 gold medals yesterday, from bowling girls double, and swimming. =D Hoping for more to come.

Got my new spectacles today. Looks good on me. :D

Saw fel's fb status this afternoon that she's coming home tomorrow! Can't wait man. There's so many stuffs we've gotta do before she flies back to Aus. First thing: tennis! haha.

one more day

2009-07-02T22:49:00.002+08:00

The day seem to pass by much faster nowadays. Maybe it's due to me waking up late. Starting to have the habit of waking up at 7 plus in the morning, and then falling back to sleep till 11 plus.

Been eating a lot lately. Appetite increased after coming back from tekong I guess. lol. But so far, I only gained 1kg. -.-
Ordered mcdelivery with my younger sister today. Triple chances of winning the weekly $10000 giveaway when ordered online compared to one chance if ordered through phone. lol. Let's see how lucky we are.

Didn't manage to get my new spectacles today, cos my father wasn't free to collect it from the optician. =/ Gotta wait another day.

Wanna watch Monsters Vs Aliens movie. But all that's left now is one morning timeslot at plaza sing daily, which means I can only watch it this weekend. I guess the movie won't be showing anymore after next wednesday. Sighs. Can't seem to find anyone to watch with. Bahs.

Singapore won its first gold medal at the AYG bowling category! YAY.
How I wish I could be involved in the AYG, being a volunteer or something. =/

Finally it's friday tomorrow! Last day of being quarantined. Saturday's coming~ :D

paris & milan

2009-07-01T23:31:00.000+08:00

Being the heavy sleeper me, it's surprising that I managed to wake up at 8am to give the morning call, when I only slept at 3.30am yesterday night. The sky was dark and raining, so went back to sleep after several sms-es.

Spent the day watching Paris & Milan, 女王本色. Only managed to catch one episode on television ever since it started showing till now. Didn't know there's so many episodes already. The content is really funny, especially all the different roles which the artistes dress up as. The Auntie Lucy acted by ChongQing, with "her" neck swinging movement that always caused the neck to be sprained. And that CC Yeo acted by Ben, "qi daoooo". Can't stop laughing in every episode. LOL.

As everyone gets busy with their stuffs, it becomes harder to meet up.
School. Work. Army. Church. And many others.
Sighs. So saddening. =/

Because of army, all gatherings or outings or meetups can only be during the weekends. So now the weekends seemed even shorter and busier. Many clashes of activities expected, and gotta make a decision on which to go to.
I think I'm lucky enough that I can meet some of you people on weeknights. :D

Was looking forward to saturday's activities. But due to zs booking out only on saturday night instead of friday night, the lunch meetup with the clique of girls is just gonna be 6 of us, 4 of them and me and junyi. And the late night plan to catch transformers 2 was cancelled too. Partly also due to rafael's 21st birthday party in the evening. Can't possibly leave the party early for the movie, before the cake is even cut yet.

Getting my new spectacles tomorrow, time to change out of current three-year-old spectacles!

3 more tamiflu pills to go, 2 more days of being cooped up at home!

what's up with these people.

2009-06-30T20:58:00.003+08:00

Never expected that they even target people in display pictures. And he actually asked me the same question twice. -.- Despo? =/
guy: "who's that girl ah?"
me: "why?"
guy: "asking lor, if friend, then i shhh liao."
me: "if not friend, then what?"
guy: "gf lor"
me: " -.-" what difference does that matter to you? o.o"
guy: "nth"
As if clarifying the status would make any difference to them. I mean, who would actually ask such silly questions? Given their characters, the status isn't what they really wanna know.

Another day spent doing the same things as yesterday. lol.
Oh, but I finally managed to finish reading New Moon book! :D

Gonna read harry potter book 6 again before the movie comes out on 16th july. Watched the trailer but I can't remember much of the storyline. Except for the love potions, and the half blood prince book. But I didn't see any book in the trailer. o.o

Just saw on channel u's 都是大发现4 show that there's a new SAFRA in jurong. It has so many facilities! It even has a 3 storey indoor playground, kbox, kpool, water playground, swimming pool, gym, etc ! Went to find its location on streetdirectory.com and realised it's so near jurong point. I must apply for my SAFRA card soon. :D
At the same time, went to see where exactly joo koon mrt station is. Just following the mrt track from boon lay to joo koon is already a very long distance! Oh gosh. I so hope my father's gonna get me a car soon!

specs

2009-06-29T22:39:00.000+08:00

I kept complaining about the black framed spectacles which I got for army was too big for me and made me look more nerdy. Moreover, with the extremely short hair I've got, it even made the spectacles look even bigger compared to my head.
And throughout the week at that isolated island, my father thought I was moody over the specs from my tone across the phone, which I apparently wasn't. lol.

So once I got back, he went to take 8 pairs of different spectacles frames back from the optician for me to choose, since I'm not supposed to leave the house till 4th july. o.O
Collecting the new one this thursday. Looking forward to wearing it! :D

Fell asleep last night when I merely wanted to lie down on the bed to rest for a while. Slept through the night with my com still on and itunes still playing, from 2am till 7am. oops.
Spent the day doing the usual stuff: fb, msn, sms, nap. =/

Maybe I'll start watching tv dramas tomorrow. My sister's crazy over Boys Over Flowers. Carrying her laptop everywhere she goes, just to watch the drama. o.o

5 more pills to go!

bore, bored, boring.

2009-06-29T01:09:00.004+08:00

It's just the 2nd day of being stuck at home due to the quarantine, and I'm already feeling very, extremely bored.
Kept feeling sleepy throughout the day, even though I've already had enough sleep. Any more sleeping would just make me feel even more sleepy for the rest of the day.

Tried on the cap at home, to see if my botak head won't be that obvious. But it turns out to be the opposite. So I suppose I'll just go out without wearing a cap instead. lol.

Having such short hair is good in certain ways:
1. Bathing time shortened
2. Much cooler, especially in this extremely hot weather.
3. Dries almost instantly after bathing.
4. No need for styling of hair
5. No need to visit hair salons that often
But it also made my head look even smaller now! ): sighs. Grow hair grow!

Can't wait for next weekend to arrive. It's almost fully packed with activities.
Read the newspapers on friday and saw that there's 10% storewide for students all year round at River Island! I still haven't bought that shirt that I wanted that time. Now's the good time to buy it. (:

Come to think of it, this blog's been around for 1 year plus already. How time flies. =/

back !

2009-06-27T02:57:00.000+08:00

HELLO PEOPLE.

I'M BACK FROM THE ISLAND !

:D

nothing else but fun

2009-06-22T02:44:00.003+08:00

This weekend was a packed one, though there were a few cancellations.

Met up on saturday with the usual 3 people, tessa, choonyen and aaron. Last meetup before I go botak. lol.
Played squash. It's definitely easier than tennis! And if you're stressed or feeling down, squash is a good sport for you to vent out your frustrations and stuff. Hit the ball as hard as you like, and hear that loud impact sound when it hits the wall. That kind of feeling is just total shiokness. Trust me! :D
Had delifrance for lunch, at some absurd hour, nearly 4pm. haha. Then we parted after that.
Enjoyed the company even though it seemed rather short.

Supposed to meet nalan for dinner, but I confirmed with her too late, so she already got plans, to meet with vanessa sim, who just got back from australia.
Thus, a night to rest at home after hanging out everyday for the past few days.

Sunday was supposed to meet the gems project group people for lunch. But yiling got things on. So the lunch meetup was cancelled.
Instead, yf and junyi came over to my house in the morning. Met for breakfast at kfc before coming my house. Played LBP with junyi while yf plays her piano.
Played with Apple's PhotoBooth after lunch. Camwhored up to 80+ photos. lol. madness, but funnnn!
More of such sessions soon after yf's exams, and me booking out on weekends. yay.

Heading off to tekong in few hours' time. 5.5 days hurry fly past. There are already activities to look forward to!
Photos taken from the past few days are in fb. Shall upload some here after I'm out of tekong, and maybe with photos of me botak by then too!

Take care!

sidenote.
Such childish people shouldn't even be in poly. What's wrong with these people? -.-" Had to even get someone else who's on a neutral stand to pass the message.

tutor

2009-06-19T23:19:00.001+08:00

Had lunch with my father and younger sister at ntu's food court. The prices are so cheap ! omg. Can't wait to enter ntu already. -.-

Went to sp after that to help tutor hj. Can only teach her the communications stuffs, the only things I learned before. Realised I had forgotten some of the engineering stuff. oh gosh. How am I going to remember all these stuff when I enter uni after 2 years of NS, with direct entry to 2nd year somemore?

Emo songs sound so nice to me yet again.

Tank - 会长大的幸福

在夜市里逛地摊送你一副耳环
你很喜欢一整晚笑声不断
陪你看电影哭完心里想爱好难
你很感慨现实会害人离散

你说浪漫和贫富无关
是心让爱灿烂
在捷运车站不在乎围观
感动亲吻起来

要你拥有会长大的幸福
一天比一天像公主
梦都被满足
为你种下会长大的幸福
让今天担心你的朋友
明天笑闹着嫉妒

要你有幸福一天一天比一天像公主
梦都被满足
为你种下幸福
今天担心你的那些好朋友
笑闹着嫉妒

为你生日的夜晚
亲手料理晚餐
你真可爱很捧场吃两碗饭
你电话有点摔坏
一直想帮你换
努力加班你心疼的泪打颤

你说浪漫和贫富无关
是心让爱灿烂
在捷运车站不在乎围观
感动亲吻起来

要你拥有会长大的幸福
一天比一天像公主
梦都被满足
为你种下会长大的幸福
让今天担心你的朋友
明天笑闹着嫉妒
爱是送你会长大的幸福
用生命为你变魔术
永远被保护
牵手围住会长大的幸福
任它开花结果变大树
我们唱着歌欢呼
爱是聪明的幸福
每天每一天每天为你变魔术
永远被保护

hannah montana !

2009-06-18T23:49:00.000+08:00

HANNAH MONTANA.
The first thought that comes to your mind is, that singer show on Disney channel, loved by all kids.
I used to think why hannah montana has blond hair, while miley has brown hair, when both are the same actress. Only understood why that is so after watching the movie trailer. haha.

Got interested to watch Hannah Montana The Movie, after watching its movie trailer.
Was clearing my table few days ago and found this GV movie voucher expiring in June 2009, so decided to use it asap.

Watched the movie with yf today. Rather pathetic that there's only one movie timeslot available at j8.
Didn't regret watching it. The movie is nice. The songs are nice. The storyline is nice!
Would recommend you to go watch it if you haven't!

So many more movies to catch, but seems rather hard to find people to watch with.
Monsters vs Aliens. Drag me to hell. Ghosts of girlfriends past.
Upcoming movies to catch: Transformers 2. Ice age 3. Harry potter 6.

4 more days.

scholarship

2009-06-17T22:38:00.000+08:00

Spent the entire day on tuesday writing the essay for the IDA scholarship. Only managed to finish the first draft at 5am, wednesday morning. =/ Slept for 4 hours and started editing, till it's almost time to go for the interview!
In the end, I think I kinda screwed up my interview. Group presentation, my part was kind of covered over by the person before me, leaving me with nothing much to elaborate on. Then I couldn't think of answers for the questions the interviewers asked, regarding what the 8 of us had presented just now.
Notification of 2nd round of interview will either be next week, or 2 weeks later. By then, I'm already in the army. Or maybe I won't even get into the 2nd round? Hopefully my essay content helped to pull my marks up.
Anyway, it's over! Good experience gained though. I must be more outspoken and more prepared next time. More sleep too (maybe I couldn't think due to lack of sleep).

genting !

2009-06-16T02:12:00.004+08:00

Genting trip, 11th June to 13th June.

The journey to genting took around 6 hours! Watched 2 movies on the bus along the way, Catwoman and 再说一次我爱你. Went on to read New Moon after that, cos haven't reached genting.

3D2N with the family seemed very short.

1st day
Did practically nothing much. Checked in at 3pm, and slept the whole afternoon away. Had dinner then explored the hotel shops and it's sleep time. -.-

2nd day
Original plan was to go outdoor theme park in the morning, then cable car in the afternoon. But played arcade the whole morning because my younger sister never been to arcade before.
Had lunch, then went to take cable car down the hill. The hill is really very steep! On the way back up, the weather became so hazy that we can't even see the cable car in front or behind us! So, only took the monorail which goes around both the indoor and outdoor theme park. So managed to take photos of the rides available in the theme parks.
Also went to try Sky Venture, it's a simulation as if you went skydiving. Shall try to upload the video of my "skydiving".
Went bowling after that because again, my younger sister never bowled before. lol.
Dinner at kenny rogers. The price is cheaper than Singapore, but the food isn't as nice as Singapore's.
Supper at starbucks. So rare that my mother tagged along with us. And ever since this supper session, she joined us twice for supper after coming back from genting! LOL.

3rd day
Bought some stuff back for people, then checked out of hotel. Left genting at 1.30pm. Only reached Singapore at 8pm. Slept and read New Moon on the journey back.

The rest of the photos are on facebook!

gems project group meetup

2009-06-11T00:26:00.008+08:00

Monday was 2nd time going to settlers cafe with GEMS project group to play board games.
And this time, all 6 of us turned up. There's always one or two missing from the previous outings.

Went to the one in SMU. They have this extended hours promotion for student package, 6pm to 10pm. And they themselves don't know about it. We had to show them the promotion stated on the website, before we manage to get it.

Group photo !

Seize the bone game

Snorta game. Had to call out animal sounds.

Jenga!

Fallen Jenga

Balancing game

The 2 DMC girls

The 4 DECC people

The NS enlistees

GEMS. Can you see the letters?

Heart shapes, for zs who's enlisting on thursday 11th june !

Time passed very quickly when you're having fun. Sighs.
So soon, zs is enlisting already. And I'm enlisting in 11 more days! Even though my BMT will only take 1 week, it's still enlistment. Everything seems so 舍不得 to me, especially those selected few friends...
Suddenly, I realised there's still a number of friends whom I haven't met up with.

Going genting for 3 days 2 nights, return on saturday. But the thought of me running out of time before enlisting, made me regret a little about this genting trip.

Emo-ness comes again during the late hours in the night.. damn.

packed weekend

2009-06-09T02:50:00.004+08:00

Let's start from last friday.

Made black plastic frame specs for army.
Test drove Hyundai Avante. Wanted to go test drive Honda Jazz too, but my father just felt that the Avante is already very cheap. So no chance to test drive other cars ! Saw the Hyundai i30cw, but it really look like a family car, and it's expensive. The basic Hyundai i30 seems not bad, but it's slightly more expensive than Avante. If I'm given a choice, I would want to drive Hyundai i30. It looks so nice (and yet I was complaining how ugly it was when this car first got launched).

After testdriving, met yf and her 2 classmates and junyi at sp before heading down to bugis. Coincidentally, I happened to meet alyssa at dover. Been seeing her every time I went back to sp. lol.
Supposed to go pubbing, but shopped instead. Zs joined us for pubbing session at holland v Wala Wala. Being the driver, he can't drink too much. =/

Group photo, so sad that claire left earlier.

Natasha, new friend made that day !
Her head seem like a ghost in the photo. lol.

Last group photo before leaving.

Nice company to be with at the pub. Hopefully there's more of such sessions in future. And, I still wanna go Timbre someday!

Saturday
Saturday was the busiest day. Went to so many places within a day. Went down to cine to buy movie tickets for Dance Subaru movie, 9.15pm timeslot. Couldn't book online because UOB's $8 per ticket promotion is only available for tickets bought at ticket office. =/

Done with tickets, rushed home for mini sports day with tessa, aaron, choonyen! The 4 of us has made it a point to meet up once per month. Played table tennis, tennis, wii and ps3 throughout the whole afternoon. First time friends came to my house to play wii/ps3 ! Seems like they enjoyed (: Looking forward to more of such sessions. LittleBigPlanet is really funnn.

Rushed down to hougang after the gaming session for fyp gathering dinner. So sad that not everyone turned up. =/ Catch-up session. Most of us are going into ntu after army.

Left the gathering early to watch movie at cineleisure. The movie is rather nice. The dance moves are really nice! So rare that I'm actually appreciating arts. lol. Go watch it! It's only screened in cathay cinemas though.
Stayed back after the movie for supper at cine's KFC. Then took nightrider home.

Sunday
Entire sunday spent slacking at home, after staying out till so late after midnight for the previous 2 nights.
Gotta recharge for gems project group outing to the settlers cafe to play games on monday, the last meetup before zs enlists. Photos shall be up in the next blog post. :D

shopping. car. mahjong !

2009-06-03T01:50:00.004+08:00

Went shopping with vanessa and calista at vivo on monday!
Zara, Fox, Pull and Bear, River Island, Topman.
No discounts at Zara and Pull and Bear. In the end, I'm only interested in that $89 shirt from River Island. But there's no discount for it. -.-" Their so called sale items are so limited. =/ Gonna wait for them to have more discounts before buying that shirt, though I guess there won't be any even by the time I enlist. Saw another shirt at Topman, but comparing this with the River Island one, the latter is much nicer. (:

Got my extra ps3 silver colour controller that day too. Stocks for it finally arrived. At the same time, bought another game which was out of stock. So up till now, I've got a total of 4 ps3 games to play. Trying to play as much as I can before enlistment.

Reached home and my father told me about this car Hyundai i30cw. It was advertised in the newspaper over the weekend. He said it looks not bad, so asked me to go check it up. But couldn't find any price for it online. So gonna head down to the showroom to take a close look and find out more.
He said most probably go see today, depending on his schedule. =x And hopefully he's happy with the car and the price, then I'll finally get a car. Been waiting for so long...

Had mahjong session with 4kers yesterday. First time I gambled in mahjong. Always never knew how to count the winnings. So depended on nalan and vanessa for counting. lol. Won $2.30 from first round, yet lost $3.80 in the second round. So total, I only lost $1.50. Not bad I guess. (:
Rushed to finish up the second round because it was already 11.30pm when we just reached 北风. lol. The day went by so quickly today. =/

19 more days..

Graduation + SPTC =)

2009-05-31T23:54:00.003+08:00

SPTC Freshmen Orientation Camp

Only went to help out from the 1st night onwards, all the way till break camp the next day. Sole purpose of going back to the camp is to pour the water at the freshmen, the sptc tradition. :D Been waiting for this moment ever since I joined the committee. hahaha.
Haven't seen the tennis committee people ever since my final exams ended. The camp was also a good chance to see the familiar faces again. (:
This time, I didn't know any of the freshmen, since I'm just a helper, not a group leader. Though I had wished to be a group leader.. =/ bahs.

Overall, the camp was enjoyable, just that the nightwalk was a failure. The route's too long, and preparations for it took too long. Because of this, many left the next morning, but I guess the real active campers are those who stayed throughout the entire camp. Hopefully next year's camp can still be an overnight camp, with lessons learnt from this year's.

Camp ended, without even a committee photo taken. How sad. And everyone were too tired to go out for dinner together.
Can still remember 2 years ago, most of the committee went for dinner at fish&co glasshouse, then some even went on for kbox till the next day.

Everyone has changed so much..

While last year was at clementi and holland village.
This year, only left with me, hj, mj, junyi and john. Dinner at sushi tei.

scallops

unagi + vegetables

spicy "steamboat"

some fish sushi and crabmeat+corn sushi

GRADUATION 2009

Amazing that polytechnics has graduation robes, just that there's no graduation caps.

Family !

yf !

alyssa !
so glad that she agreed to take photo.

matthew !

hj !

josephine !

classmates

Receiving cert on stage.
with certs and diploma holders

poly clique people, missing fred and derek

SPTC !
rather amazing to see so many sptc people staying back and take photos with the 4 of us seniors.

Singapore Flyer with SPTC

Last day for student promotion price of Singapore flyer tickets at $10 was supposedly 29th May. But the promotion just got extended till 26th june.
So sad that sy couldn't make it in time to take the ride with us. =/

SPTC main comm !

yf !
a creepy photo, but it's just the mist formed on the glass.

she's been sleeping very little, yet i have larger eyebags than her. -.-

lol. that "holy light" between hj and yf.

3 more weeks to NS enlistment. =/

memories

2009-05-19T23:55:00.000+08:00

Those moments we used to have in the past, be it happy or sad. Those long walks we had. Those times which we never ran out of stuff to chat about. And also those times which we share our woes and problems with each other.

All these have become memories now.
Don't seem that there may be more of such moments anymore.
What a pity. How depressing.

How I wished all these can be back to how they used to be.
If only time could be turned back...

fragile

2009-05-14T01:51:00.001+08:00

friendships are fragile.
treasure them.

Perfect Match

2009-05-06T00:36:00.002+08:00

Eugene completed the quiz "Who is your "perfect match"?" with the result: Enthusiastic & Outgoing.

Your perfect match is someone who is witty, outgoing and enjoys life. This person is the life of the party, has a great sense of humor and lights up the room with their smile. They communicate well and have a great connection with friends, family and their co-workers. Everyone is drawn to them and there is that special shine that you see in their eyes that tells you that they don't take one minute of life for granted. This person will sweep you off your feet, tell you exactly how they feel and are not shy to hug or kiss you in public. The top traits they are looking for in a mate is someone who is open to new ideas, is eager to live life to the fullest, will openly adore them and is confident.They love adventure, the outdoors and animals and if they discover you are interested in something, they will love that too! They are keen to get to know you and will quickly fall madly in love you for your personality, your smile and even just the sound of your voice.

Facebook's been flooded with tons of quizzes nowadays, with everyone doing all the different kinds of quizzes.
I'm just one of those who did the quizzes. And this quiz is really true for me!

Been busy these days, shall blog and post pictures up soon.

happy 19th tessa + marina barrage :D

2009-04-27T23:50:00.001+08:00

HAPPY 19TH, TESSA !

Rented car on the the 24th april, 3 days before her actual birthday. Drove to east coast park after work for dinner. Dinner's at Red House, a seafood restaurant. Famous for it's chilli crab. Unlucky me to dirty my newly bought shirt with all the crab stuff. -.-
Used $2 worth of parking coupons at east coast park. We only went back to the car around 15 minutes after the parking coupons expire. Saw a car parked behind my car with a parking summon. Lucky the auntie haven't reached my car to check on my parking coupons. So we quickly drove off.
Took this random picture by the seaside after dinner. Don't know what's the significance of the towers. There's no sign saying what it is, except that it's set up by the national parks board. =/

Didn't know where to go after dinner. Saw Marina Barrage along the expressway back home, so decided to go there. It's such a beautiful place! We've decided to have a picnic in the day there someday. =) Hopefully before I enlist!

Mirror in the lift, with shaky hands.

Attempted to take photo with the Singapore Flyer as the background. But it's typical for the camera flash to focus light on the subjects(us) and other areas in the background are not in focus. Thus the camera can't capture the lights from the Singapore Flyer itself. ):

Come to think of it, it's rather weird that 4 of us are hanging out together. Especially when I seldom talk to choonyen last time in secondary school. Couldn't tell any of such stuff from the group photos we took. We just seem like good old friends. lol.
But it's good to have another sec sch clique to hang out with, though it's 2 seniors + 2 juniors clique. haha. =D

The night scenery of Singapore from Marina Barrage is very nice. Just so sad that the camera isn't able to capture it. I suppose the scenery in the day from Marina Barrage is equally nice as well !

The next remaining 3 days of car rental was spent going around the whole Singapore. Went harbourfront to pick calista, then headed to yishun to pick nalan and watched Fast and Furious at GV Yishun. The movie's damn nice, really.
Drove calista to pasir ris, then went airport for Popeye's dinner. Chilled out at One Fullerton till around 2am before sending everyone home.
One good thing about having a car: no worries about missing the last bus or last train. :D

Became an errand runner on sunday by helping nalan to bring her stuff from ntu hall back to her house. Met yufang at night to buy sy's present. Didn't want to join in the celebration because I was with nalan and ty for dinner. But still joined in since yf's going home after that. It's along the way to send her home anyway.
Fetched the rest home after that too, including cheryl, a sec 2 classmate whom I haven't contacted with ever since we went different classes from sec 3 onwards.

Went tampines1 with vanessa on monday. Then returned the car after that.

2nd time renting a car. It just feels so much enjoyable and less stressful driving a rented car, compared to driving my aunt's car. There's no one sitting beside me keeping watch on my driving. :D :D
Glad that I've gained more experience on driving again, and getting to know more roads in Singapore. Been travelling on SLE and CTE expressways a lot this time. (:

series of good happenings in a day

2009-04-22T23:32:00.001+08:00

Checked SAS for any awards or prizes I received for graduation after midnight.
Got Diploma With Merit (DWM), and a Singapore Telecommunications Cash Prize.
No idea what and how the cash prize came about. But it's a good reward anyway!

Was fully occupied with work the entire day. More photos came in for cropping, and there's new data to be keyed in. Couldn't complete all today, so it continues tomorrow!

On top of the heavy workload at work, I've also got other stuffs to settle.
Went singpost to deliver a package. And I spent 3/4 of my lunchtime at the singpost. -.- what good service.
Next, I'm so glad to have settled the car rental over coming weekend, and the reservation for friday's dinner (though it's not settled by me) today. Felt so much more relieved after that.
Just rather sad that honda jazz is not available. It's a damn hot favourite car model I guess. =/ Shall make do with toyota vios. Can't wait for friday to come!

Then in the afternoon, zs said he received NTU's letter, for the course Information Engineering & Media(IEM).
And I received it too! IEM is my first choice in fact! So happy to be accepted into that course which is so hard to get into. The intake is only 60 students per year. Lucky me! :D

It's really rare to have so many good things coming your way within the same day! =)

happy 21st fel + shopping! :D

2009-04-19T23:39:00.000+08:00

Weekends are becoming very precious days to me, since that's the only time which I can rest and enjoy the day away from work.

Yesterday went to gym with tianyong. Decided to focus on building up my upper body, since I won't have the chance to do so in the army due to my 5.5 days of BMT in tekong. I think it was a good start. Hopefully I'll stick to my plan of heading to the gym every weekend. lol.

Skyped with felicia at night, 10pm. It's 12am in brisbane for her!
HAPPY 21ST BIRTHDAY, FEL.
:D :D
We finally skyped after one month of talking about it. haha. Chatted for 1 hour plus, I think that's considered not bad, for the first time. Looking forward to the next skype session. =D
Skype is really coolllll. And I like the emoticons in skype as compared to msn's.

Went shopping with tessa today! What an enjoyable, and tiring day. Started off at parkway parade, because Cotton On is having sales now. But the store is rather small, and doesn't have many guys clothings. ): So didn't buy anything.
Bought 2 bermudas from Giordano instead. There's this white berms which caught my eye. Haven't seen it at other branches. So bought it together with another striped berms which I've wanted to buy. Minimum 2 pieces to get 30% off.

Took shuttle service from parkway parade to bedok mrt, to take train to tampines to go explore the new mall, Tampines1. Both of us got so interested in the shuttle bus' manual gear. It's different from the manual car's gear. lol.

Tampines1 was a stampede. There's not even reception for handphone in the building. There's simply so many people within that area that the network can't support that large number of people. But it has many good shops, all in one building. Just a matter of whether you're able to find anything that you're interested to buy.
Went to queue up for Uniqlo. Didn't buy anything from there in the end. Didn't really find their designs really appealing to me. And it's rather expensive, even though there's the opening promotions. In addition, the fitting room queues are so long, which I think I would just give up queuing even if I did find any clothes that I wanna try. Like tessa said, with so many people buying from the store, the clothes aren't unique anymore. Since the clothes are going to be so common due to so many people buying the same ones.
Then bought a short sleeved shirt at a shop called Messy. Been trying to find more shirts, both short and long sleeved ones. :D

Giordano berms.

Shirt.

So in total, I spent 93 bucks just like that. Omg. I haven't got my first paycheck and I've spent so much within a day. =/

Went to tampines mall for more shopping, and tessa finally bought a pair of shorts! tsk. If not, I'm the only one who really shopped during the shopping trip today! Bumped into a primary school friend there too. What a coincidence.
By the time we're done with shopping, it's around 8pm already. Time flies man. =/

Another week of working starts again tomorrow.....

oh my gosh

2009-04-15T23:40:00.000+08:00

Back at blogging after few days of inactive blogging.

Had an early birthday celebration for yiling's 20th on sunday. Supposed to be a surprise celebration by me, zs and junyi popping by while she and rau were having lunch together. But the surprise plan failed because they were walking towards cine when junyi and I were walking from cine to heerens to buy a cake. There's no cake shop at cine! =/
Watched the horror movie, The Unborn. It's not very scary actually, or maybe I'm starting to get used to watching horror movies. =) Anyway, the storyline revolves around twins. Not sure if what was said in the movie about twins is true in reality. There's this thing about the eyes changing colour, and twins are the doorway between the 2 worlds, human world and netherworld. But if all those are true, I think that's the negative points of having a twin! I always thought that twins are damn cool in fact.

Then it's back to work at chinatown on monday. And it goes on as usual for tuesday and today.
Was 15 minutes late for work today, because there was an accident on the BKE expressway. 3 SMRT buses collided, causing jam for 10-15 minutes. One of the buses involved in the accident was 190, the bus I take to work everyday. Don't know what time the accident happened, but it's lucky that I wasn't on that bus 190. If not, I wonder how late I will be for work instead.

Last minute had a meeting with the supervisor near to knocking off time, 6pm. Because he's on MC for the next 2 days, so he have to brief us on what to do for the next 2 days. Then had to settle certain issues in our work, so gotta call up the client to settle too. Then there's also some truncations of the filenames in the system which caused the pictures not to load. So, got the boss to modify the system codings and it's solved. After everything is settled, it's past 7pm! wow. OT again. lol. $_$

The system was created using SQL, which I think it's a damn powerful programming software. Shall see if I've got any chance to learn it in university or something. With SQL knowledge, you'll have quite a bright future, especially in the IT industry, because many companies are hiring staffs who have SQL knowledge.

Then the supervisor said this project we're working on is due on 19th june! That's 3 days before my NS enlistment! OMG. And I don't really intend to work all the way till that date. I do want to enjoy myself before I enlist. I really wanna go overseas! At least leave singapore for few days! ):

Tomorrow's another day of work. It's gonna be a long day, with lots of stuff to do.

relaxing

2009-04-11T03:34:00.002+08:00

Yesterday was a day which I don't have to wake up early in the morning at 6.50am for work. Had a rather nice sleep. :) But it also means I'm one day short of working, which means one day less of salary. lol.

Anyway, went blog-hopping on thursday night, after not doing so for the entire week. Read some entries which made me go wth. Said one thing, yet did the opposite instead. oh well. damn.

Just got back from the airport. Drove my 2nd aunt there because she's going on a tour to china with my 3rd aunt and family. But she made sure that my father's going too, so that can make sure nothing happens to her car when I'm driving. -.-
Tried to persuade both my aunt and father to let me drive out because they say it's dangerous for me to drive alone at night and when it's raining. So I said, you all always don't let me drive, how else can I gain the experience in driving during different situations? Yes, I'm still a provisional driver till july, but without driving much, I still won't be experienced by the time I'm able to drive without displaying the triangular plate anymore. So whose fault is that? Theirs! :p

My hp hasn't rung for the entire day, except for a wrong number phone call. And it's still one more day before Tessa gets back from japan. =/

I wanna watch Fast and Furious 4, and Confessions of a Shopaholic! Anyone interested? Please leave a tag or contact me straight. Thanks!

work work work

2009-04-10T02:12:00.003+08:00

Haven't blogged for a week, ever since I started work last thursday, 2nd April.
Seems like I've been so busy this past week! A good thing because I'm no longer slacking around facing the computer screen facebooking all the time and I'm earning money now. Bad thing is, I've got less time to go out nowadays, and my activities every day got restricted to the same few things.

Anyway, I got the job through SP jobscentral portal. The company was just intending to recruit 2 web entry assistants to help them with the data entry for some website over 2 weeks. Just nice, I was with tianyong on the way to NTU that day when the company called me to ask me report to work the next day. So I just asked if it's possible to recruit him as well. Since friends will work better and faster compared to 2 strangers, they recruited both of us.
And, the pay's good ! Can't wait for my first pay to come. Oh, and the supposed 2 weeks have been extended to a month instead. Because there's other stuffs to do other than the data entry. yay.

Last saturday went to jackson's new house. LANDED PROPERTY. omg. Damn big can. I had always wished to live in such houses, because I find my house rather squeezy. =/ Played a bit of mahjong; whoever gave the winning tile to the winner twice will have to drink. I got once, then went to use the computer instead. lol. Tianyong got really drunk, and I had to send him all the way to his doorstep. -.-"
This is the first time I've seen someone I know getting so drunk and high. And drunk people really do say lots of rubbish.

Cut my hair at bugis chapter2 salon after work on tuesday. Now my hair is so short and ugly, especially my fringe. The hairstylist just asked if I wanna cut my fringe, I said yes, then SNAP, and it's this short already. omg. If only the hairstylist I always go to for the past 1 year plus at jantzen didn't quit her job. ):

Explored a bit of the new shopping mall at bugis, Illuma. Almost couldn't find the toilet. It's so well hidden. -.- And there's the damn long escalator that takes you all the way from 1st floor straight up to the 4th floor. Imagine how long that is! omg. Then just nice, david archuleta was there for his autograph session. The crowd's really mad. So many secondary sch girls, mostly from girls school, each holding DSLR cameras instead of digital cameras, snapping photos of the singer. Yet no one could hear him sing because of all the continuous screamings.

Went kbox-ing with van, aaron, ty, calista and jackson after that. It's my first time going to kbox! And it's aaron's first time too. haha. Didn't really dare to sing at first, because I feel I'm tone-deaf, can't hear how I'm singing. But after a while, I just sang along, just without the mic. haha. It's fun, and we sang so many of the old songs. Songs that were popular during our secondary school days, and those very old classic songs. How reminiscing. :(

Have been exploring chinatown area these days since my workplace is in that area. Realised that there's many good food in chinatown! Cheap and nice. My father every night comes to ask me what food I ate for lunch in that area, then he recommends me even more stalls. omg. lol. And I'm almost drinking sugar cane juice during every lunch. I'm so healthy!
I think I will be able to bring you all around chinatown to recommend all the good food in future. lol.

Can't wait for the next few weeks to be over. All the uni girls are having their exams soon, so there's no one to go out with after work except calista and tianyong. But calista's working as well! So sad. Everyday's routine will be going for work and going home.

Tessa has gone to japan for her holidays on wednesday, a reward for scoring such good results for her A's.
It's only the 3rd day today but I already started missing you this bff since the day you went overeas! ):! All the sms and phone chats. ): Hurry come back!

Been sending emails to fel too. First time doing this kind of thing. I think it's a good way to keep in touch, since she's in australia. Always look forward to receiving her email reply at night when I got home from work. Then by the time I finished my reply, it's already 2+am and it's time to sleep already. Time flies so damn fast, seriously.

Received my enlistment letter today. It's gonna be 5.5 days spent at tekong for BMT, because of my PES status. Enlistment date is 22nd June! That's 73 more days from today! I've got so few days left to enjoy myself ! OMG :(

photos !!

2009-04-02T00:39:00.004+08:00

4K gathering 28th March 2009 Photos

10 of us in total turned up !

In the Pump Room pub. lol. Tianyong's head totally covered nalan's head.

Candid photo taken by vanessa after guitar-hero-ing at calista's house ! It seemed as if the high buildings in the background were real.

Azabu Sabo ice cream after dinner at Waraku. (Bukit panjang gang)

Class 2H gang

Compare me in the photo above with the photo below. OMG. My blood circulation system is just too good. 2 glasses of alcohol turned me that red. -.-"

Vanessa and I just realised recently that we haven't had any photos taken together before, from secondary 3 up till now. omg. That's just too unbelievable. So we made sure we camwhored this time. hahaha. And we did ! =D I hope there's more to come !

The week so far has been rather interesting. I actually went to the 3 different local universities on each day.

I went to SMU on monday, after eating dinner with vanessa and tianyong. Walked almost the entire underground passageway in SMU. lol.

Then, I went to NUS on tuesday, to accompany tessa submit her scholarship application. Went town for shopping after that! Haven't shopped for a long time, and I bought a t-shirt from FOX. It's rather hard to find a shopping companion, but it's comfortable going shopping with tessa. =D

Wednesday, I went to NTU, together with vanessa and tianyong to find nalan to help her update her itouch so that she can use the App Store.
It's April Fool's day. Had wanted to trick tianyong and nalan that I and van got together. But the two of us just don't know how to act, so we asked nalan for help in the end, to trick tianyong. But we still failed, because tianyong didn't even bother ! zzz. Wanted to trick anna too, because she's been hoping me and van get together. But we just got home too late to have a chat with her. ):
What an April Fool's failure.

Anyway, bought myself a new belt today at jurong point! The shop is forever having sales. Usual price was $25, and there's 40% discount. So it's only $15 in the end. TOUGH brand, which I doubt it's the authentic product because the price is just too cheap. But who cares, it's nice anyway. =D

2 packed days !

2009-03-29T16:30:00.003+08:00

Friday, 27th March.

Scholarship interview in the morning. My father fetched me there, together with my elder sister.

Gave the supporting documents to the person-incharge, then went into the interview room.
2 females, 1 male sat across the table. I only know one of them is from HR department. lol.
Asked about what I know about the company, how I can contribute, my job aspirations, whether I would take up an managerial position. Lucky that I was browsing through the company website the night before to know more about the company. Then asked about cca in poly, projects in poly.

Some questions that I think I didn't give good answers to:
Qns: Ever considered going overseas universities?
Ans: Haven't really considered, because I do not have the money for overseas studies.

Qns: Of all the scholarships you applied for, which is the first choice you want?
Ans: IDA. (I should have said their company, but, I'm being honest ! )

Qns: If you're offered OCT(to be an officer) course in army, would you take it?
Ans: I'm not sure if I can take it because I'm currently pes E.

I like this question the most. A rather weird question to be asked too. =x
Qns: I realised your gpa of 3.9 is very high, is there any reason for it?
Ans: Because I scored 21 for my L1R5 in O levels, so it was a setback for me. That's why I studied very hard in poly.
=D

Done with the interview, and went for lunch with my father and sister at a japanese food court at paradiz centre. Got home and then went to school to play tennis. Only started at around 4.45pm, and left at 5.15pm to have dinner with tessa. Half an hour of tennis only. wow. After dinner, tennis again at home with aaron and kaixuan.

Bathed, and went out for supper with my father and younger sister. Wanted to eat at Al-Azhar prata shop, but it's too packed. So went to Al-Ameen prata shop instead. Saw the actor 翁清海 there. Ate murtabak, and prata. The food isn't as nice as the Al-Azhar one. ):

Saturday, 28th March

Went westmall's M1 shop to change my current line's plan to student plan. Current plan that I'm using only has 500 sms, but free weekend calls up to $15. But since I've been exceeding the free 500 sms and using the free weekend calls, I might as well change to student plan with 1000 sms, and free outgoing calls to 3 M1 friends.

Rushed down to calista's house after that to play guitar hero. We were supposedly playing at 2pm, but ended up playing only at 3pm because tianyong slept till 1.30pm. =/Still, I had a fun time playing guitar hero ! My first time playing, and the songs are nice ! But I've gotta practise more on my guitar, because there's 5 keys to press, and my baby finger too weak to press the 4th and 5th keys. ): Drummer is fun, singing was omg. lol.
I WANT TO PLAY MORE GUITAR HERO !

4K gathering at clarke quay. Meeting time was set at 5pm, but as usual, 4K people are always late. So we only met up at 6pm. LOL. How pro of us.
Ate at waraku for dinner, then drank at the pump room. Chatted a lot, heard lots of updates, reminiscing the old sec 3 and 4 days! Fond memories. Time went by so quickly and we had to leave the pump room at 10pm because the age limits there after 10 are 24 years old for guys, 21 years old for girls. -.-"

Sat by the river at the bridge and continued chatting. Soon, it's 11 plus ! omg. Some of us left, some stayed on. Chatted more, then near to 1am, 4 of us: aaron, me, tianyong, nalan took nightrider to bukit panjang plaza's mac to continue chilling out, and chatting. All the way till nalan boarded her first bus home. lol.

Vanessa's supposed to be around for the late night chat after the long chat at the river bridge too. BUT there's some COMPLICATIONS, which I'll blog about in the next entry, together with the photos!

scholarship interview !

2009-03-27T01:10:00.003+08:00

Went to town with my elder sister on tuesday. She's got her scoliosis physiotherapy session at the Orchard Clinic in the afternoon. So we went heeren's Shokudo Streets of Japan for lunch before that. Was expecting it to have different varieties of food as compared to the main one at raffles city, but it's actually the same. -.-
Spent the 45 minutes of her session reading the 8-Days magazine in the clinic, published a month ago, with jennifer aniston on the cover page. Read halfway and fell asleep. Woke up 15 minutes later and continued reading. I still can't believe she's 40 years old this year already. She still looks younger than her age ! And pretty too !

Went to the cathay after that because my sister haven't been there before ever since it opened. Ate a main course at Aston's Specialties, because I've never eaten there before. I think the food is not bad, with that kind of price. It's considered cheap already I guess. =)

Met tessa for dinner at westmall, because she's having her first driving lesson that night ! haha. Under the same driving instructor as me. His fees increased from the last time I learnt from him! omg.
Registration fee increased to $50 when it was $30 for me. Lesson fees increased to $26 per hour instead of $24 for me. And there's only 1 hour lessons now, compared to the 1 and a half hour lessons I had last time.
Tessa said her other friend's instructors didn't charge registration fee. hrms. I guessed I got scammed !? And I caused zs to get scammed too ? And now, tessa too ?! oops. So sorry.
But since registration fee is paid, just carry on. Plus, she's so excited over driving now. LOL. How ironic, when she's so scared of driving just before the lesson.

Most scholarship applications closed last friday, meaning that these scholarship providers should be shortlisting applicants for interviews for the next few weeks or months.

Received a call at 6+ in the evening during dinner. I'm shortlisted for the first round of interview for scholarship! (:

Rather scared right now, because the interview is in 9 hours' time! Never had any interviews before. This is my first time! It's just like going for a job interview I guess, because there's bond to be served after university studies. So, it's like, I have to promote myself to them so that they are convinced that they sponsored the right person through university studies so that I can contribute to the company when I work for them after graduation.

GOOD LUCK eT ! =D

the past week

2009-03-22T02:46:00.008+08:00

Set a record for not blogging for an entire week ! wow. Be prepared for a very LONG post ! Or you can choose not to read and just view the pictures, especially the rainbow picture.

Let's start from last sunday.
Went IT show for the second time with my father and my sister. She needed to get a mouse, while I gotta help tessa buy an external hard disk.
On the way to suntec, I found it weird that many people are walking on land instead of the underground CityLink. Only read on the newspaper the next day that that's because CityLink got so jammed that it had to be turned into a one-way underground pass to CityHall mrt station. First sign of a stampede on the last day of IT show.
We reached suntec, the ground floor was packed with people, with only very small gaps between groups of people. And the escalators are filled with people. There wasn't any gaps on the escalators, and you even have to queue a long way just to get onto the escalator ! omg.
Spent about 2 hours in total walking the entire level 6 hall. Bought our stuffs and left for dinner.

250GB Toshiba external hard disk. $83.
Cheapest and nicest, out of all the external hard disks.

Last minute planned wii session at vanessa's house at night. Rushed out of my house at 12am, drove shaowen's car to pick tianyong and then off we go to van's house for wii ! Shaowen's driving is damn scary; yes it's fast, but DANGEROUS. So if you say my driving is too slow, I dare you to experience his driving. hehe.
Finished wii-ing at 2.30am, and the 3 of us went for late night supper: roti prata, while van went to sleep since she got school at 12pm the next day. Only got home at 3.30am. Enjoyable night ! :D

Monday.
Received a call from SP scholarship officer in the morning, asking me to apply for DSTA scholarship because of my good poly results. DSTA requested for students from SP, and my course is one of the courses that they requested from. So she's sending DSTA the list of top 5% students from the courses they requested for. Yet, these students still have to apply for the scholarship through the scholarships website, BrightSparks.
At the same time, had to send her the poly transcripts and o levels cert, and a testimonial from poly. Getting the testimonial is so troublesome, as mr peh said have to go through this secretary in school of EEE. Informed the scholarship officer about it and up till now, I don't know if the testimonial is settled.

Played rappelz for the rest of the day. Didn't really know how to answer the DSTA questions for scholarship application.

Tuesday.
Continued with rappelz. Then submitted DSTA scholarship application after spending the entire afternoon trying to answer the questions.

Stayed up at night to wait for release of results in school webmail. Luckily I didn't get B+ for the digicom module which I barely passed my lab test 2.

Final semester results
Digicom module - A
Network protocols module - A
FYP - A
Mobile communications module - Distinction
Technopreneurship - B+
Semester GPA: 3.96

Summary of my whole poly results:
Overall GPA: 3.931.
13 Distinctions. 13 As. 6 Bs. 1 C.
I'm satisfied with my results ! =D
If I'm not wrong, I should be getting Certificate of Merit(COM), with my diploma, according to the requirements for COM.

Wednesday.
Tried to chiong through my other scholarship applications. There's the IDA, ST Engineering, LTA and SIA Engineering scholarships to apply.
Spent the most time on the answers for IDA's questions because that's the one I wanted the most. Even asked people for feedback. And it was nice of fel to offer to help me correct my english. Thanks! =D
In the end, submitted IDA, ST Engineering and LTA applications, and left SIA one for the next day.

Thursday.
Went for napfa in the morning, hoping to get a silver this time. But my 2.4km timing got worse! 12.47mins. zzz. So I still got a bronze in the end. Rather sad, because I did well for my other 5 napfa items !

Sit-ups: 43 [A, 5 points]
Shuttle run: 10.1 seconds [A, 5 points]
Sit & Reach: 44cm [B, 4 points]
Pull-up: 5 [D, 2 points]
Standing broad jump: 218cm [D, 2 points]
2.4km: 12.47mins [E, 1 point]
Total points: 19 points. BRONZE. ):

Early birthday celebration for rau, whose birthday is actually on friday 20th March! The 2nd gems group outing we had within a month ! wow. This time, there's yiling, rau, junyi, zs and me, so only jiayi wasn't present. As expected, I knew she won't even reply to the messages sent by yiling. That's just so her style, not getting along well with any other girls except those 3 secondary school girlfriends of hers. -.-" ok, maybe she's tired from her tw trip as well. But, it's polite to at least give a reply ?

Caught a horror movie, My Bloody Valentine 3D at the cathay. It's so bloody at the start of the movie already. But the 3D effects are good. And I wonder how many mannequins were used for the entire movie, since there's so many killings. omg. And they even had to custom make some of the mannequins to have the same face as the main actors/actresses. lol.
The 3 of us bought cake from Secret Recipe and surprised rau with the cake while yiling was pretending to be chatting with her at starbucks.
Seeing that they got free cups of ice water from starbucks, zs and I wanted too! So I went to the counter and asked "Can I have 2 cups of ice water?". The cashier girl staff gave me a glare before she went to get the drinks ! wth. What's worse was, she left the 2 cups at the inside of the counter, instead of putting it nearer to us! Then, yiling and rau's cups were the regular plastic cups they use for their drinks. Mine was the small PAPER cup, used for hot drinks. What kind of service is this ?! I should have caught a glance at the girl's nametag for her name.
Yea, it's not right to ask for free ice water, but rau and yiling got them free too ! And they got it without such attitude, because it was the manager who served them at the counter. How unfair.

It was an enjoyable night, because this was my first outdoor activity with friends in this week !

Rushed home as I had arranged to skype with fel at night. But I only managed to reach home at 11+pm, which is already 1+am at brisbane for her. She was already offline when I got online. So, missed another chance to skype with her. ): Don't know when will be the next time.

Submitted SIA scholarship application at night. I was interested in SIA too because I think it's cool to be working there!
Wrote this paragraph in part of the "Personal Statement" section, which is to write about myself:
"I have always loved watching the aeroplanes at airports taking off and landing. I sometimes wish that I could be able to contribute to the process of building up an aeroplane successfully. There will be a sense of satisfaction after seeing the end product flying off in the sky, serving hundreds of passengers who are travelling around the world. Besides that, I am proud that Singapore's own airline, SIA, is a world-class airline."

Friday.
Played tennis in the afternoon. Couldn't play well because I couldn't run too fast. My right knee that area ached again after the napfa test the day before. zzz. I still don't know whether it's the muscle tear or bone crack, or just overstraining of muscle! Placed my finger at that aching part and tried folding and straightening my right leg. I could feel there's some "sounds" during that pulling of muscle when you fold and straighten. I don't really know how to explain, but the "sound" cant be heard one, it can only be felt. lol.

Another early birthday celebration, this time for aaron. Had dinner at Five Star Chicken Rice restaurant, and then went to play pool. Haven't played for a long time, but I still managed to play quite well, though unluckily lost one game because I shot in the 8-ball when I was merely dispersing the cluster of balls.

The cute birthday cake that Choonyen bought from bengawan solo.

The 4 of us, with the birthday card.

Me playing pool !

Had lots of fun and enjoyed at this celebration too! =D

Stayed out till quite late and thus had to forgo the heart-to-heart talk session at the playground. ):

Received letter from CMPB regarding my PES status in army. I'm PES E1, L9.
Explanation of the PES E:
Fit for administrative duties only. Further subdivided into: PES E1 – Able to participate in simple observance parades and LIFE activities. PES E9 – Unfit for any forms of physical activities. PES E grading will be followed by L-Code (Land Deployability Code) as follows: L3 – Able to bear firearms and protect themselves, others and property. They can be deployed in Main Support Area or service support formations / units. L9 - Fit for sedentary duties at the Bases in Main Support Area (e.g. Ops room, technical or clerical duties).

And there's only 5.5 days of BMT for me. Everyone said PES E = definitely clerk work in the army already. Clerk work is just like normal full time jobs, 8-5pm type. So I'll be able to go home every night.
Kinda sad because that means I don't have the chance to bulk up on my body! ): Only way now will be going to the gym.

Saturday.
Drove the new mazda 6 car to jurong point, as it's been my 2nd aunt and my grand ma's weekly saturday routine: to buy groceries at the 24 hours fairprice Xtra.

Played squash with tessa in the late afternoon. Haven't played squash since many years ago. Lucky that I was still able to play ! Had fun playing too ! :D wheee. More sports sessions in future please ! =)

RAINBOW !!

It was raining when we went to play squash. And when we left, the rain became a drizzle, and we happened to see the rainbow in the beautiful sky ! SO NICE ! Haven't seen a rainbow for a very very long time !

IT show

2009-03-14T20:41:00.003+08:00

Went to the IT show on thursday with tianyong. I always thought he grew damn tall after leaving rv, like almost one head taller than me. Then I realised I've always been wrong. He's only about half a head taller than me. lol. But still, we were around the same height in rv and I still wonder why he still managed to grow taller! =/

Visited calista who's working at dell at the suntec e-life. What a slack job. Can facebook and msn while working, as long as you do your job when there's customers coming in to view the laptops and computers. 11am to 9pm job. Considering to get this job with tianyong. But with the unknown enlistment date, it's rather hard to get a job! =/

Anyway, the IT show was a stampede. I didn't expect such a crowd on a weekday, a thursday in fact. It's like a typical weekend crowd! Can't imagine how many more people will there be on the last day of IT show, where all the last minute sales and bargains take place. Didn't really have anything to buy, so merely took laptop brochures, and external hard disk brochures. And visited hid at the NEC redemption booth.
Gonna go again with my father tomorrow, to see if there's anything he wanna buy.

Played tennis on friday evening. 2 and half hours of tennis. Was rather off form. And I gotta change my grip again. It's worn out, and caused blisters on my fingers. bahhs.

Results coming out on 18th march! Other polys have already released their final semester results, SP is so slow! With the final semester results, it's gonna be easier for me to apply for scholarships. And yet, the deadline for scholarship applications end on the 20th march. How great! -.-"

I'm really damn sian nowadays. Even going malaysia seems very exciting and interesting to me. Was wall-chatting with daphne in facebook this morning. She's not working but enjoying her holidays. How about going malaysia on the 17th march? lol. One day before the release of results! :D

Bought a top while shopping at westmall. The STAGE brand, the brand which is by luo zhi xiang. I don't know if it's authentic, but seems so. $28 only. The owner should have either bought it from taiwan and brought back here to sell, or she bought from sprees online. If bought from the STAGE shop which Li Teng opened in far east plaza, I think it's not that cheap.
Well, the design is nice, so I don't bother if it's really the original STAGE brand. If it is, lucky me. lol.

STAGE tag

Front

Back

Close-up of the front design

chit chat.

2009-03-11T02:59:00.005+08:00

Another day of waking up at 11am and facebooking whole day long.
Same routine everyday.
1. Wake up.
2. Eat breakfast.
3. Read newspaper.
By the time I finished reading newspaper, its 12pm already. Just like that, half of the day has passed! omg. What a waste of my day. ):

Was wall-chatting with felicia in facebook. lol. Gonna skype with her some day soon! Though I think it's gonna be quite awkward. I wonder what we can actually chat about. But nvm, skype is fun and cool!

Met tessa for dinner, finally a dinner which we don't have to rush through because of some plans right after dinner. Had dinner at some weird indian restaurant, then realised that's the restaurant which my sister always buy curry fish head from, because it's nice. o.o
Sat at starbucks to chat for one hour plus, before going home. Feels really nice to just sit down and chat about anything under the sun. How relaxed. (: It really feels great. Too bad that time's always running short.
Then we saw lee lee mui, the most feared physics teacher in rv, walking into bukit panjang plaza. lol.

Went to airport just now at midnight to fetch my sister who came back from taiwan holiday. In the end, I didn't manage to drive the car again ! Because my father didn't ask my aunt for her permission to drive her car out. And he don't trust me to drive his car! zzz. How unfair..

to yiling: hahaha. she can be really random sometimes. lol. and yea, she's really pretty. =D

skyping with anna is just so fun !

2009-03-09T23:51:00.003+08:00

Rained whole day since I woke up at 11am. What a spoilsport the weather is.

Got really bored in the afternoon, refreshing the facebook homepage every 5 minutes or so, and yet, no new friends updates. =/ So I went superpoking felicia instead. haha.

Anna's online, so decided to webcam using skype, since we both are just randomly commenting in facebook. Haven't seen her for half a month. Really missed her. So glad there's the webcam and video call invention through the internet ! =D =D

Just chatting with anna makes my day happier ! (: Thanks a lot. Looking forward to more skyping days !

Skyped again at night with my elder sister who's in taiwan. She's coming back tomorrow and was confirming with my father if he's fetching her back from the airport.

Anyway, forgot to mention about this belt which caught my eye at jurong point yesterday, at a shop called "Elephant @ basement". If I didn't remember it wrongly. The belt is of the brand TOUGH, but I don't think it's the original TOUGH product, because it's merely 25 bucks. But it looks nice enough. Finally found a belt that looks nice. But it seems so long that I think it can go round my waist twice! -.-"

Hard disk's fine now, but my USB hub is spoilt. -.-" How great.

bakerzin

2009-03-08T23:38:00.000+08:00

Stayed up till damn late last night to play final fantasy 12. Finally, I completed the game ! =D The ending is nice.
So far, only managed to complete ff8, 9, 10 part 2. Didn't manage to complete ff10 part 1. Looking forward to the release of ff13 on ps3 !

Went for my godsister's son's one month birthday celebration today. Her parents helped to take care of my elder sister when she was still young. So they're considered our godparents and god-siblings. Over the past 3 years, we've been visiting them because she gave birth to 2 kids, and my godbrother also had 2 kids.
Suddenly, I feel that I'm really growing old. Their children are considered the next generation already. omg.

Headed for jurong point after that, because my younger sister had never been there ever since the extension of JP2 opened few months ago. Ate at bakerzin. Been wanting to try their food there, but haven't got the chance to. It's quite expensive, but I think their set meal is worth the price.

MANGO mousse cake.

Summer peach flavoured gourmet tea. Was shocked when they served this. But it smells and tastes nice !

That long thing is pushed downwards so that the filter pushes the tea leaves to the bottom, allowing me to pour out the tea without any tea leaves. COOL!

My mother ordered this, cookies & cream cheesecake, because it's 50% off, bakerzin's march promotion.

My younger sister ordered this, raspberry scuffles.

My external hard disk's been giving me problems. My computer can't detect the hard disk, saying USB device is not recognised. Tried restarting both the computer and the hard disk, and plugging the hard disk in and out of the computer, but still can't detect. =/
Was so afraid that it crashed. If it did, all my photos, songs, files, everything will be gone! Luckily, it's the stupid outer casing of the hard disk causing the problem. The internal connections caused the problem. So everything's transferred to another hard disk, just in case. phew. Can't imagine losing all the stuff in the hard disk, especially photos!
I should do a backup someday.

IT show's coming ! Been going to all the IT shows, PC shows, Comex, and Sitex every year since I entered poly year 1. haha. Though I don't really have much to buy. Just to check out any new products and the price drop for thumbdrives. The thumbdrives always increase in memory storage but decrease in the price at every electronic fair. This time, I'm gonna look out for any ps3 promotions! I guess ps3's the reward for me for my good results in poly so far. =)

My elder sister went to taiwan yesterday, till tuesday. A last minute eagerness to visit shilin. -.-"
How I wish I could go overseas too. It's common to have an overseas trip after graduation ! But these people.. zzz. I don't know what to say la.

Secondary school friends are still better I guess. But really sad for me, since there's only tianyong who's in poly. The rest are already in the army, and the girls are in uni. Think I'm only looking forward to going malaysia for now. Planning to go melbourne with tianyong in may to find anna! =D
Hopefully, these 2 plans will work out..

i feel happy for you

2009-03-06T23:59:00.005+08:00

No activities today, cooped myself at home whole day. Played final fantasy 12 again the entire afternoon.

It's the A levels results release day today. Asked a few of them about their A levels results.
Was rather shocking that choonyen didnt score very well. I thought she always managed her studies well. Feel sad for her..
As for anna, she doesn't even have to worry about what she got, since she's already in university of melbourne. -.- lucky for her, her straight As prelims results helped her get into uni. If not, I guess her A levels results may not really get her into that uni I guess.
As for tessa, she really very pessimistic. So depressed over the past days because the release date is arriving. In the end, scored so well for A levels. -.-" I feel so happy for her!

Went out for supper together to celebrate her good results. Insisted on driving my aunt's car out for supper. Had to convince both my father and my aunt to let me drive at night. They always don't trust my driving, and they've never seen me drive at night before. But I actually drove before, without their knowledge. hehe.
So, managed to drive the car out for supper with tessa in the end! (: Asked choonyen to join us, but she's busy. Ate at bukit timah food centre. Then went McDonald's drive-thru. Then headed home. Short celebration, but it's fun enough I guess. haha.

Our empty plates. We forgot to take photos of the food before we ate.

It's really rare to hear someone saying heartfelt stuffs to you. =D

I really don't wish to lose this close friend of mine! It's nice to know that there will always be someone I can rely or fall back on whenever you need one. And one who stays in the same neighbourhood as me, so it's convenient for us to meet up !
Thanks a lot! =) I'll dedicate an entry to you soon. haha!

marley & me

2009-03-05T23:46:00.001+08:00

Went polyclinic in the morning again, to go for xray of my knee. But the doctor says it's useless to get an xray, since there's no crack in the bone. Then I realised that's true, since xray can only see your bones, and not your muscles ! If that's the case, how do you know if your muscle/ligament is torn?
The doctor said maybe because I haven't been running for a long time. Then recently started running. So the muscle got strained due to the lack of exercise. =/
So, I wasted another trip down to polyclinic. And I got another medicine. I don't know what it does. But I guess it's better than the painkillers. This doctor says the painkillers won't help.

Played final fantasy 12 for the entire afternoon. Then went to watch the movie Marley & Me. At first I thought it was quite boring at the start of the movie, but it turned out to be touching.
Tears welled up in my eyes at the moment the dog was showing symptoms that it's gonna die. Even the kids were so attached to the dog..
I find that jennifer aniston has aged. She looked prettier in her younger days, like in the Friends tv series. But she's still attractive, and her acting is good. (:

Ate subway cookie using the coupon, and then had satay at the youth park kopitiam before heading home.

We finally managed to watch our first movie together, and also took our first photo together today ! After 5+ years of friendship since sec sch days. omg. That sounds so pathetic. But, it's better than not having any ! =D

Every cookie monster's dream come true. lol.

My self photo-taking is improving ! hahahahas.

Finally photos of us!
5+ years of friendship and counting ! =D

tired, busy.

2009-03-05T00:02:00.003+08:00

Tired + busy for the past few days.

Monday 2nd march.
Woke up damn early at 5.45am to go changi airport to send hj and mj off to tianjin for their overseas industrial attachment. Lucky that my father was able to fetch me. Was able to fetch yf along the way too, but she's just too tired to wake up. So, there's only me and junyi sending them off.

Tried taking bus home from the airport. Junyi was with me all the way till lunch. The whole journey took 1 hour 30 minutes ! omg. 1 hour for the bus to travel from airport to woodlands interchange, even though most of the journey was spent on the expressway. =/ And I realised that there's policemen boarding the bus to check for any suspicious items or person before the bus is able to enter the airport terminal bus stop. It's the same for all 3 terminals. Cool. lol.

Rushed to school to submit scholarship appraisal form to mr peh. Then met jos and freddy to have lunch at clementi's new building's mos burger. Then I left to go choa chu kang polyclinic to check on my knee problem. Reached at 3pm, waited till 4.40pm to see the doctor. Wanted to have an xray, but xray closed at 4.30pm. -.- So all I got was just painkillers and some cream to apply.

Tuesday 3rd march.
Maths test in the morning. So difficult that I just did the questions that I could do, and left. The room was so cold due to the rainy weather. Freezing cold.

Lunched in school then rushed down to clarke quay to meet the gems project group to play at settler's cafe! Zs fell ill, then jiayi didn't go, so there's only the 4 of us left. Thought it would be quite boring, but it turned out to be good! Had a fun time playing the games. (:

Penguins from a particular game. Used as counters. I chose green colour!

Each of our penguins had their own islands to themselves. lol.

Wednesday 4th march.
A last minute planned tennis session with jiajun and junyi. Played from 11am till around 1pm. We expected the weather to be rainy, but it turned out to be damn scorching hot. Got sunburnt in the end. -.-" And it became less hot when we decided to stop playing and go for lunch. zzz.

Ate at holland v's swensens. Then I finally tried the FROLICK yogurt ice cream! Told myself that I'm gonna try it the next time I go holland v. I never really like yogurt, but this doesn't taste like yogurt! It's nice in fact, but rather expensive I think.

Finally back to playing my final fantasy 12 game on the playstation2, after 1 semester of not touching it. Almost forgot the gameplay and how to play.

My uncle got 2 tickets to Jason Mraz concert tomorrow at Singapore Indoor Stadium. And my mum thought he's giving away. So she asked if I want. I said, okay, I want. Then she called him to say I want, then he said he want to sell the tickets instead of giving for free. 2 tickets for $150. =/ sian. Thought I would be able to go for my first ever concert in Singapore! ):

tennis one day camp

2009-03-02T02:31:00.004+08:00

Tennis one day camp in school on saturday. Was damn tired because only managed to sleep 2 hours the night before. =/
Not really in the enthu mood during the first activity, frisbee. Plus, most of my group members are people that I'm not close to. Only hj and yf. Played tennis after that, and that's when everyone became very enthu. haha. Was totally off form.
Lunch came, then yf, hj, junyi and john went to jp to customize 2 cakes for jos and mj. They took 4 hours to come back with the cakes! During that 4 hours, mj was like rather sian diao. o.o
After lunch was captain's ball, and then tennis again. I was on form this time ! But it started raining after a while. Played a bit in the rain before running for shelter. Damn shiok.

Went to find mr peh to ask for appraisal letter to apply for ntu's nanyang scholarship. Only to realise that the applicants are actually not supposed to know the contents of the appraisal letter by the appraiser. Gotta print the form and pass to him, then he send it to ntu by 6th march.

Left the camp early because meeting my mum and my aunt's(mum's sister) family for dinner at newton food centre. They flew back from hong kong. They took taxi there and left one plastic bag in the taxi. Luckily, the taxi driver was very nice and he actually drove back to newton food centre to find them to pass the bag to them ! woahhh. Imagine him searching through the entire newton food centre for my aunt. He's a Citycab taxi driver btw. haha.

Nearly forgot to apply for the scholarship when I got home. Only remembered at 11.30pm, and the deadline was that night at 11.59pm. And I had to rush out a 250-300 word essay ! Anyhow crapped through and submitted.
This is what I wrote, for the topic: A life changing event.

In secondary school, I had been weak in my combined humanities, social studies with history. I was not able to grasp the format of answering the source based questions and the structured essay questions. During my secondary 3 and 4 years, I kept on trying to score better during every tests and examinations. My teacher gave me remedial lessons in order to understand how to go about answering the questions, and he kept pushing me on. As for other subjects, I was just coping fine.
Soon, it was the O levels in secondary 4. I admit that I did not study as hard for O levels, as compared to the prelim examinations. In the end, I managed to pass my social studies with history subject. Even though it was a C6 grade, I was glad that I passed that subject.

However, I was very disappointed with my overall O levels results. I had scored an L1R5 of 21. I had always wanted to go on to junior college for my pre-university education. Just 1 point above the cutoff point costed me an admission into junior college. As I was in Innova Junior College for first three months, I tried to ask the teachers there for help to appeal, but to no avail.

Once bitten, twice shy. After this setback, I realised my mistake in secondary 4 and did not want to commit the same mistake again. I was determined to study even harder. I entered Singapore Polytechnic, taking up Electronics, Computer and Communications Engineering course, a course which I was interested in. Every test and examinations, I made sure that I finished every past year paper that was available for us to practise. Now, I am satisfied with my current GPA grade.

lol. Hopefully that's enough to help me get the scholarship ! (:

Ran quite a lot during camp. Which caused my knee to start hurting again, like how it did after my 2.4km run for napfa that time. And it's a bit swollen like that time too. But it's more painful this time. Can't even sleep sideways, can only sleep lying on my back. Don't know if I should go polyclinic and get a referral letter to hospital for further checkup anot. General practitioners at the clinics shouldn't know anything for such stuffs I guess; at most they only give medicine to reduce the swelling, or painkillers. =/

Video from the nokia 5800 launch.
All-American Rejects - Gives You Hell. =D

nokia 5800 Earn Your Stripes party @ zouk

2009-02-28T02:34:00.003+08:00

Went for nokia 5800 official phone launch at the Earn Your Stripes party at zouk carpark.
Suddenly, more and more people telling me they going this afternoon. -.-" All so last minute la.

Really coincidental to meet sharry at great world city. She could still recognise me, after 2 or 3 years of not meeting. wow. Chatted quite a bit, and she remembers aaron too. Didn't expect her, a girl, to be interested in taking NUS electrical engineering ! omg. Just nice, aaron's taking that too, after he ORD. And if she really chose that, they are going to be university classmates, 2010 batch! That's so cool la. Sighs. I don't have the chance to be same batch as them, or the other secondary school juniors who are 2 years younger than me because I went the poly route. Now I can only be university classmates with people who are 2 years younger than me and go the poly route.

Arranged to meet at great world city at 7.30pm, after dinner. Junyi was still eating when I reached at 7.45pm. Waited for zs to come, which was already 8+, then junyi wanna buy drinks. So we all waited outside cold storage for him. Plus, my mood was totally spoilt by then, because of... -.-
Anyway, by the time we reached there, 8.45pm liao, and the party starts at 9pm!

Took the wrist tag, with a serial number for the lucky draw later on. With the wrist tag, priority entry into zouk. =)
Waited for All-American Rejects to perform at 10pm. Their performance only lasted 20 minutes. So short !

They were changing guitars throughout the whole performance, after every song, they change. o.0
Gonna post a video of their performance in my next post.

Went into zouk to explore since never been inside before, while waiting for the lucky draw at 10.58pm. Lucky we had priority entry. I see the Citibank cardholders priority queue, it's like, the normal clubbers queue. You won't even think that there's so many people with Citibank credit cards. It's like, not really priority entry anymore, since almost every clubber has one. -.-"
Walked one round inside, then sat down to rest a while. It's quite big I think. But I doubt I will want to go zouk again, after seeing that long queue for priority entry. It's madness.
Saw a few familiar faces there. Saw one girl mediacorp artiste. And also christelle, but I didn't call out to her. Think she don't recognise me. haha.

Lucky draw at 10.58pm. Their system biased one. It's not really random picking, because they start from serial number 000, then pick some within 000 to 500+ only. Thought the 2nd batch of 58 winners will continue from where they stopped from the 1st lucky draw. In the end, it start from the beginning numbers again !
If only we were not THAT LATE to reach there to get our wrist tags, we would have gotten the 500+ serial number! And there's 7 of us, chances that 1 out of 7 of us getting picked in the lucky draw is high! ARGH. whose fault! -.-

Left the place after the lucky draw results. Then saw this lamborghini at the hotel car porch. Car plate one digit only ! SJP somemore. woahh.

It's late. There's tennis one day camp tomorrow. Damn tired now. Time to go to sleep!

credit limit reached.

2009-02-27T01:18:00.003+08:00

Oh yes. Forgot to blog about this.

Had breakfast with my father on tuesday, 24th feb.
KFC breakfast. The $3 one. It's not bad.

Then we went popular, I finally found genie zhuo wen xuan's album ! The limited edition one. With DVD of her music videos and behind the scenes in korea.
$18.95.
I went to the cashier, and used my Citibank card. The cashier tried few times, then told me, "Er, your card can't be processed."
I was shocked. Then I paid in cash instead.

Got back home, and I quickly checked my card balance. omg.

I haven't paid my bill of $294.08 for the previous month, because my parents keep telling me to pay just on the due date itself. -.- Then I continued using the card till the total credit used is $462.59. Leaving me with just $13.41 to spend, no wonder I couldn't buy the album with my card. =/
lol. First time I actually reached my credit limit of $500. I never thought I would ever reach that amount. =o
Surprising !

wth is wrong with them?

2009-02-26T23:05:00.000+08:00

Couldn't think of stuff to blog about the past few days.
Because there's practically nothing for me to blog about. I've been cooping myself up at home, without any activities. Only thing was bringing my grandma to the polyclinic for her usual checkup.

Went out to meet yufang during her break today. Haven't seen her for some time..
Ate mr bean, then went nokia shop see phone. Thought there's demo set of the nokia 5800 touchscreen phone, but there's none. =/ Then see vcds, then she went back to work, and I went home.

I'm so sick of being the organiser to plan outings and stuff.
Everyone just say want to go. Yet no one's taking the initiative to plan it. I can't be bothered already, when there's no response or "not confirmed" response. If not, they say ok, going, but last minute, just the day before say not going. wth.
whatever.

Was looking forward to going to zouk tomorrrow, since it's considered my first activity of the week. Then now Person A dont want to go.
Next, Person B say 6pm meet for dinner very early. Okay, I changed the plan. Meet at 7.45pm, settle dinner ourselves. He say, still very early, cos tennis people meeting at 5pm, where got so fast end. So obvious you aren't even interested to come zouk, then what for say you're going? You just want to have dinner with them, just say so. -.-"

This thing is dued so long ago, from yufang's blog. I'm nice by not tagging anyone to do. (:

1. What have you been doing recently ?
slacking at home.
finding temporary full time jobs, to no avail.

2. Do you ever turn your cell phone off ?
nope.

3. What happened at 10am today ?
sleeping.

4. When did you last cry ?
last year.

5. Believe in fate/destiny ?
sorta.

6. What do you want in your life now ?
earn money.

7. Do you carry an umbrella when it rains or just put up your hood?
only bring umbrella if it's raining when i'm leaving my house.

8. What's your favourite thing to do on the bed ?
listen to music and sleep.

9. What bottoms are you wearing now ?
berms.

10. What's the nicest things in your inbox ?
encouraging msgs.

11. Do you tend to make your relationship complicated ?
no. simplicity is the best.

12. Are you wearing anything borrowed from anyone ?
no.

13. What was the last movie you caught ?
nick and norah's infinite playlist.
zzz. I still haven't watched a single movie this year.

14. What are you proud of ?
Having few close friends staying within my neighbourhood. can ask them out anytime.

15. What does the oldest text msg in your inbox say ?
"Did you notice that your phone got heavier with this msg? cos it contains loads of love, hugs, affection & prayers to keep you happy, safe & always smiling ! =D"

16.What was the last song you sang out loud ?
dont know.

17. Do you have any nicknames?
eT ! =D

18. What does the newest text say ?
"Ok"

19. What time did you go to bed last night ?
2.30am.

20. Are you currently happy ?
no.

21. Who gives you the best advise?
tessa.

22. Do you eat whipped cream straight from the can ?
no. I hate whipped cream

23. Who did you talk on the phone last night ?
no one.

24. Is something bugging you now?
YES. people can be so indecisive and cancel on you so damn last minute.

25. Who was the last person to make you laugh?
sister.

3 consecutive nights out !

2009-02-23T16:50:00.010+08:00

20th february.
The last day of exams, last day of poly life ! And it's kevin's birthday too. Just nice, celebration after our exams ! Went to home club at clarke quay to chill out. Drank martell and vodka, and then just 4 of us went exploring clarke quay, all the way to fullerton before going back. While the rest continued clubbing. They were already drunk when we got back. =/

Just outside Home Club.

Fullerton lift

Supper at some coffee shop at upper circular road.

21st february.

FM S.H.E AUTOGRAPH SESSION

Rushed all the way from west side of Singapore to the East side, East Point Mall, at SIMEI for their autograph session. It's really crazy ! This is the first time I've seen so many people at SHE's autograph session, compared to the previous two times which I went. bahs. I have no idea why the autograph session this time is held at east point mall. It's so SMALL. Why can't they just hold it at IMM like what they did for the previous 2 times?

Chit-chat session with the DJs

Singing of songs, after 1 hour of chatting from 2pm.

They were enjoying themselves while singing. Seemed like it's so easy for them to sing !

Started queuing for their autograph after they finished singing. This place is near the entrance of the mall's car park, which is at the back of the mall. And the autographing location is at the front of the mall, the atrium. Imagine how long the queue is ! This is where I am after 40 minutes of queuing. It's just a turn at one corner of the mall. The queue continued on till the front, the long john silver's there.

I'm right in front of the long john silver's in this photo. The queue here starts to go in the zig-zag way, instead of the normal straight queuing at the back. It's been one hour plus of queuing when I reached here. The autograph stage is just inside this mall !
The closest photo I managed to take of hebe. ): how sad. Now I find that my digital camera is very lousy. The photos taken are so dark !

Taken with my hp camera instead. This is so much brighter compared to the one above !

End of autograph session.

They're really nice. The session starts at 2pm, they really reach at 2pm. They don't make their fans wait, like how other singers do. (:
They managed to finish signing everyone's albums! And they actually had to rush down to causeway point for another event at 7pm. And it's already 6.30pm when they left east point mall.
Shook their hands while they sign on the lyrics book. Ella's handshake was very firm and Hebe's was very heartwarming, while selina's one was like, touch and go.
HEBE is just SO PRETTY! Her SMILE is so MESMORISING too ! =D =D

In total, I queued for 2 and a half hours from 3.30pm till 6pm to get their autographs! I think this should be the last time I'll be going for the autograph session. The next time they're here, I will be in the army already. But I hope I'm able to go for their next concert in Singapore! Missed the one last year due to poly exams. ):
They've been in this industry for 8 years already, including this year. It's not easy to still have so many fans supporting them after so many years ! =)

Catch-up Session with Felicia and YY

Met up with Felicia and YiYun at night at Cafe Iguana at Riverside Point. Felicia's back in singapore since november and I haven't met her until this time. And she just flew back to brisbane, australia last night.
By the way, the 1/2 chicken dish at Cafe Iguana is simply damn delicious. It's definitely worth the $23.99 price !

1st photo of us taken at cafe iguana

Taken at the Singapore River, with Fullerton hotel behind us.

Attempted jump shots, but we failed. All our timings were off. This is the best jump shot we had. =/

Self-taken photos at the bridge outside Fullerton hotel

Nice lights decoration on the bridge railings

Fullerton lift.

The fullerton hotel rooms: Nice.

Sofa area. The cushions are comfortable to hug !

Merlion at OneFullerton

One taken with flash, one taken without flash. I personally find the one without flash is nicer. Don't know why. It gives some kind of nice effect actually.

Sometimes, things look nicer without flash.

Felicia's attempt at acting emo, by standing at the tree. But it seemed more like she's praying to the tree. lol.

Night scenery at Marina area.

Singapore flyer.
Wanted to play limbo-rock with the barrier. Then a voice came: "Please move away from the barrier". So we left. =/
Began our walk towards Marina Barrage.

Lavender station's bus stop

Gave up on our walk to Marina Barrage because we had to make such a big round before reaching there. Took the last photo and we parted. The 2 girls cabbed home, while we took NightRider home.

It was nice meeting up with the 2 seniors after so long. Somehow, I felt as if felicia's my elder sister. =/

22nd february.
Finally cut my hair. Couldn't stand my long and thick hair. Can't even style it properly. Now, my previous hairstyle's back. So glad. =)

Sent felicia off at terminal 3 last night. And then I took 2 hours to get home from the airport. Had intended to take direct bus home from eunos, but the train took so long to leave the airport station. Then I missed the 11.40pm last bus at eunos. So I had to continue taking the train all the way to jurong east and then switch to the red line to choa chu kang and then switch to LRT to get home. Lucky there's the 9pm show in my itouch to keep me occupied throughout the journey home. (:

In just 1 week, I've taken the NightRider 3 times to get home. lol. That totals up to $10.50 of transport fare. wow.

Finally, I've got time to relax now. 2 days of no activities. Stay at home to rest, after 4 consecutive nights of sleeping at 5am (thurs night till last night).
Looking forward to the next activity: GEMS group outing, our 1st ever outing! =D

poly life over !

2009-02-20T15:52:00.002+08:00

In just 4 more hours, I'm done with poly exams, and graduating from poly !

It's gonna be a long break before NS comes. Gotta enjoy everyday to the max !
Gatherings, outings, hangouts, etc !

Can't wait !
=D

good old friends are the best.

2009-02-19T15:26:00.004+08:00

Photos post !

Taken on the last night, 17th february, before Anna flies off to australia for her further studies at university of melbourne. Reached her house at 11pm to pass her the mac office 2008 software for her macbook.

Spent the night at changi airport terminal 3. Was supposed to study for my fri's exam, but time passed by so quickly that night.
Made this farewell gift on my own at the airport. Looked rather simple but vanessa said it was not bad, considering it's from a guy. haha. Thanks yiling for your many many ideas earlier in the afternoon before my exam ! (:

Borrowed fred's car at 5 plus in the morning to fetch vanessa, josephine and roujun to the airport to send anna off. Only managed to reach airport at 8am due to traffic jams on the expressway.

2nd time sending a friend off for overseas studies. The feeling is just, not very nice.
Sad that anna's leaving for further studies. She's just like a real sister to me. Shall look forward to june for her return. =D Meanwhile, it'll just be msn/skype/facebook.

Choonyen's early birthday celebration

Went to sleep once I got home from the airport and then had to rush out for choonyen's birthday celebration.

The food we ordered at Mayim's chinese cuisine restaurant.

This cute little girl sitting behind our table kept turning back to smile at us. lol.

Birthday girl with the birthday cake

Handmade birthday card, which looks like a graduation certificate.

Random shot, while waiting for tessa to finish her btt.

Taken just in time with the train approaching.

The four of us.

It's fun to meet up with good old friends. And you start to miss the secondary school days. Those days were so much more carefree and relaxed as compared to now.
Prefer to hang out with old friends nowadays. Plus, I've been bumping into primary school and secondary school friends too.
For example, josephine. Haven't talked to her since we changed class in sec 3. Can still remember we were always at loggerheads with each other in sec 1 and 2. lol. And I didn't know she can really talk a lot a lot, until today. haha. We were trying to recall who's in our sec 2 class, which wasnt united at all. Can still remember there was this big quarrel between the guys and girls at the end of sec 1. Maybe 2H people should go out someday.

Time for catching up sessions ! Since I'm graduating in like, 1 day's time. =D

valentine

2009-02-15T06:49:00.003+08:00

Haven't blogged for the past few days... I shall start from thursday.

Thursday.
Went back to sch to reformat laptop. Saw jerryca on my to school. We stay in the same condo, but seldom see each other. Time really flies, last time we really talked was in pri 6, before we graduate from pri sch. Now, she's already in uni.
Studied while reformatting. Then there's this couple behind making so much noise just because of a handphone game. zzz. The whole room's noise only came from them. -.-
Met tessa for dinner at this kaari(curry) restaurant at lot 1. Everything's really spicy, especially the minestrone soup. And the ice lemon tea had a very weird taste.

Friday.
Woke up only at 12pm because studied till 5am in the morning. Studied again till 4+ and cabbed down to RV to find choonyen.
Was supposed to be a surprise visit but failed because she intended to leave at 4, so had to tell her my plan. Sorry to make you stay back in sch and wait so long. Rather weird that we met up to talk. Both of us were not even close during the RV days. Thought we won't have much topics to talk, but it turned out fine in the end. hahaha.
And we're meeting again on the 18th, together with aaron and tessa. =D

After that, met yvonne and went to harbourfront centre to buy pizza and go find anna. Yvonne's supposed to be the only one going, and I'm the surprise, together with her ac friends. lol.
Had even thought it would be rather awkward, when two groups of people who don't know one another are there, with anna as the communicator between us. But we managed to break the ice and interact in the end. (: New friends found. haha.
Then suddenly, she got into university of melbourne, and leaving on the 18th feb ! So damn fast la. Quite a solemn night, talking about past memories. So many years went by already.
And those fun times and jokes. Her ac friends are a funny lot of people. Never fails to make me laugh that night. 11.30pm came so soon, that we had to rush out for last bus.
And at such hour, the 'friday the 13th' worked its powers. Yvonne managed to catch her last bus; I missed it. Wang guan took bus in the opposite direction, while june and I went to take train. It was the last train. We missed the west-bound train at outram park, just when we were on the escalator to the platform. So we took the east-bound LAST train to city hall, and took NR5 from there. We waited for like 25 minutes for that bus. Finally got home at 2am.
So, friday the 13th is really unlucky. And if you didn't know, there's another friday the 13th in march. lol.

Saturday.
Valentine's day. Nothing much happened. Supposed to go out for dinner, but cancelled in the end. =/
My mum's suddenly interested in my love life. Every time I went out, she'll ask if it's a guy or a girl. If it's a girl, she'll think something's going on. -.-" I guess it's because of my age that she became like that. Plus, she never heard of me having a gf before, while my sister was once caught in a relationship in secondary sch, the teachers informed my parents. hahaha.

Intended to take a nap till 1 or 2am, but I fell asleep again after the wake up calls from yf. It's already 6.15am when I woke up again. And she's still online. o.o Chatting till now, 8 plus in the morning le, I guess I no need to sleep anymore.

How ironic life can be.

slack

2009-02-10T23:26:00.000+08:00

Had lunch at west coast food market, opposite west coast plaza, with junyi, jos and freddy.
Then went school to submit network protocol PBIL assignment. Finally, that lecturer is free to meet us and test each of us with 2 theory questions. -.-

Got back my laptop from shumei, after lending it to her from the start of this semester. Brought it to the notebook service centre to reformat, but it's already 4pm. They close at 5pm, and the reformatting process takes about 2 hours. So I have no choice but to go back there again another day. Most probably tomorrow. =/

Shumei suggested her clique and my clique go out together after our exams. It's gonna be the first ever outing we had, ever since we knew each other in year 1, through tennis. lol. Really coincidental that each of us happens to be in the same group as one of them. So each of us got to know just one of them from that clique. Just like that, we know one another.

Now all that's left is, final exams.
Still don't have the mood to study yet. Hopefully tomorrow the mood comes in.

It's really lonely when you have no one to talk to, especially when you thought you have many friends..

worst day of poly

2009-02-09T23:47:00.000+08:00

Time passed by very quickly on sunday.
Had lunch at lot 1, then saw a shirt I like at cotton on, but it's rather expensive. 35 bucks. I shall wait for discount next time.
Reunion dinner again at night because cny is ending. Ate yusheng again.

Today.
Supposed to wake up at 8. My younger sister woke me up at 8, I fell back to sleep. My elder sister woke me up at 8.30, I fell back to sleep. Then I finally woke up at 9.30am. Only left house at 10.20 to go school.
It's a monday. The only day of the week which I am able to see that NUS girl at np bus stop. Thought I wont be able to see her this time because I'm so late, but I managed to be on the same bus as her to np bus stop to change bus ! How lucky. (: This is the only good thing that happened today.

Digicom lab test. The first lab test in my 3 years of poly that I feel that I'm gonna fail it. I don't know why, but my mind's a total blank. Hopefully I can get a 50. Because of this, I'm so worried I will get a B for this module. Did quite badly for my MST last term. Now I've gotta chiong for my final exam ! ):
Next, technopreneurship test. This just shows that I'm not cut out for business. lol. I study so much, yet I still got stuck at the test. Thought for so long but no answer come out. 25 marks. Don't know if I can pass. zzz. This module 2 credit units only, but still contribute a little to my GPA.
Something's for sure, my GPA for this semester is definitely gonna drop. -.-

I've finished reading House of Night series book 1, Marked. And I just saw popular starting to sell this book now. I can predict it's gonna be a bestseller soon. And there's a movie on this too. Just like twilight. Speaking of which, I haven't read New Moon.

I've been talking rubbish and cracking not funny jokes now, so unlike me!
I can't find the old eT back.
~~"et phone home" please.~~

goals not achieved

2009-02-07T23:40:00.006+08:00

Friday 6th feb.
Drove car to school.
Network protocol PBIL presentation postponed to monday because of that slacker lecturer again !
Drove car home and rushed down to orchard.
Missed 7.05pm timing for the Wedding Game movie.
Gave Ashton's restaurant at The Cathay a miss because there was a damn long queue.
Billy Bombers was too expensive, and Manhattan Fish Market restaurant also had a long queue.
Settled for dinner at 8pm at Fish&Co. @ the glasshouse instead. No queue and there's seats immediately, surprisingly !

In the end, our supposed plan of watching the movie and dinner at Ashton's wasn't achieved. -.- And I realised I haven't ate at the 3 restaurants mentioned above before, while tessa had eaten at all 3 restaurants before ! omg. =/

Saturday, today.
Became a chauffeur again. Drove 2nd aunt, 3rd aunt and grandma to jurong point for their usual weekly FairPrice Xtra shopping.
Spent 4 hours at jurong point before going home.
Watched the new 9pm channel 8 show, The Dream-Catchers episodes 1 and 3, which I had missed when I got home.
Time passed by really fast today.
I've gotta start studying tomorrow for monday's technopreneurship written test ! bahhs.

soon

2009-02-05T04:35:00.003+08:00

Been rushing out projects these few days. Really not enough sleep. Yesterday napped from 6.30pm till 10pm. Then woke up to eat dinner, and continue on network protocol assignment.

Supposed to submit network protocol PBIL assignment today. But the lecturer went out of class for damn long, around 45 minutes. In the end, my group didn't have the time to show our connections and programming to him. -.- He said he's free after 2pm to continue assessing the remaining 2 groups. Then there was a class occupying the lab till 3.40pm! In the end, he had already left school when we called him at 4pm. zzz.

Had terrible headache today after lunch, for no reason. And it lasted throughout the whole day. Then quickly napped after dinner, from 7.30pm till 12am. Finally the headache's gone.
Started doing technopreneurship report from 1am till now. Which is why I'm blogging at such ridiculous hour of the day. I started doing it from scratch, and now it seems almost complete. Just some adding and editing of information to be done. So proud that I actually did so much, and somemore, from no report to a long report of 11 pages! o.o

Checked my napfa results on tuesday. I had thought I missed grade D, max 12.20 minutes, for my 2.4km run by 4 to 5 seconds. In the end, I clocked 12.21 minutes! That 1 second costed me a SILVER. And everyone kept saying SP will be lenient. -.- So, my napfa is a bronze. At least napfa bronze will be reflected on my transcript instead of participated now. I'm happy enough. (:
Shall just continue training to get silver for NS IPPT in few months' time.

Lucky there's no school tomorrow, can wake up late. If not, I wonder how I'm gonna survive when I'm sleeping at this hour.

Decided to set studying as my top priority now, since it's final exams. Everything else, I shall leave it till after 20th feb..
sighhs. I think I restrained myself very well up till now. I don't want to become a bother. There's so many things I want to say, yet I don't know how to express all out.
I thought we were back to normal that time, but I don't know what happened again after that. It's just so saddening that things between us has become so stranger-like all over again. -.-

sleep deprived

2009-02-03T04:48:00.003+08:00

Stayed up all the way on sunday night till 6am on monday morning to discuss about technopreneurship module's marketing project. Slept for 2 hours and have to wake up to go for lessons liao. Damn tired la.
Chiong network protocol PBIL assignment from 3 till 5.30pm. It just doesn't want to work the way we wanted. In the end, realised we did something really dumb. -.- Gonna correct it tomorrow, at 8am ! zzz. Look at the time of this post. Not enough sleep again..

Went jurong point for dinner, since tessa gotta get some stuff from there. Then we went home.

Supposed to prepare my speech for tomorrow, or rather, today's marketing presentation. But I was really so tired that I slept for 3 hours instead of just a short nap. Considered lucky that I actually managed to wake up at 3am, instead of the next morning. lol.

Busy week, the 2nd LAST week of school.
Tues: Marketing presentation
Wed: Network protocol PBIL assignment presentation and submission
Thurs: Market project report submission

This week hurry be over ! Friday come quick please !

napfa

2009-01-30T23:58:00.000+08:00

Woke up at 8, sent an sms, and I fell back to sleep. Woke up again at 9, sent an sms, and I fell back to sleep again. Finally at 10, I woke up and realised it's damn late, so I climbed out of bed. lol.

Went school for tennis sp open shift duty. Kinda sian, because there's only one match. There's not even a need to carry the table down because the fixtures and the papers are with bertrand.
Played a bit of tennis with jos and john after her match. Take it as warm up for my napfa later on.

Decided to retake napfa because, this period of napfa, the results will be shown on my graduation transcript. The march period of napfa, the results wont be shown on the transcript.

There's so many people this time, because it's the last day. Ivan was already there at 5pm, and he's number 19. I reach at 5.30pm, I'm already the 134th person. -.- Plus, it rained. Then 2.4km run was delayed a bit. Only left the stadium at 7.30pm.
Anyway, I finally PASSED my napfa. :D though it's just a bronze. But bronze is better than having 'participated' on my transcript. Only missed my silver by just 4 seconds. FOUR SECONDS.
Shall aim for silver in march's napfa.

Went holland v for katong laksa. Suddenly have cravings for laksa. Very long never eat le.
Then used the 1-for-1 swensens ice cream voucher because it expires tomorrow.

Gotta sleep. Tomorrow's a long day.. Morning till night.

very bad

2009-01-29T23:44:00.000+08:00

3rd day of cny yesterday.
A damn sucky day. =/
Rushed to school, to tap attendance for 8am's lecture. I was in time to tap, but I didn't bring my admin card. -.- Did the stuff alone during the practical lesson, until zs came 1 hour later. Maths lesson was really pathetic. If not for our group of people, I think there's only 2 or 3 people attending it. Pity the lecturer..
Had planned to watch the Wedding Game movie after school. But change of plans, then I went home instead. Felt rather weird that I'm actually home so early. Not used to it I guess.

Slacked at home today. Very tired. Rather dumb to wake up so early just for that 8am lecture and then end of school. -.- Then it's also pointless to go school just for napfa. So I didn't go to school at all. So, wanted to watch movie in the evening, but couldn't again ! =/
Spent the entire day finding psp games, because my hard disk crashed. Haven't really restore my psp games collection since then. Suddenly I feel like playing psp again !

Napfa tmr ! I must get a silver !

finally...

2009-01-27T23:45:00.000+08:00

Supposed to be visiting 2 houses today, but changed to just 1 instead. Because we don't know if they are at home, and usually they'll call to say they're at home and we can go visit them. They didn't call, so we didn't go.

Sent my sister to her bf's house and ate lunch at the coffee shop near his house. Me and my younger sister ordered wanton mee, which costs $2.80 according to the signboard. I gave the guy $10, he gave me $6 change. lol. That's just.. $2 per plate of wanton mee ! woot. o.o

Came home, and had to change toilet lightbulb. Drove car to bukit panjang plaza's NTUC to buy the lightbulb. FINALLY. I drove my 2nd aunt's car, without her around ! She was having headache, so I managed to convince her to let me drive on my own. So I went with my mum. =D =D shiok shiok..

I'm very healthy. My blood circulation is very good, because my face gets red very easily after drinking. Went drinking at night after dinner.. Suddenly just felt like drinking.. sighs. Thanks for the company ! (:

Tomorrow's 3rd day of cny. Both parents not working, yet me and my younger sister got to go school. zzz. Damn sian. But no choice, because of the practical assignment that is gonna be due next week. =/

Never mind, I'm looking forward to tomorrow actually. Gonna watch WEDDING GAME movie ! =D It shall be a nice day after school tomorrow.

cny day 1

2009-01-26T23:53:00.000+08:00

Every year's chinese new year is the same. Visit one house in the morning, then lunch at my mother's mum's place and back home.
This year isn't supposed to be this way, because of what happened just before new year. Not supposed to celebrate but my mum just wanted a get-together lunch. Because of this, my father wasn't really pleased, same goes for my sister. But if all of us didn't show up, it will make things awkward for my mum. So I managed to convince them to go for the lunch! Ate and then left le.

Napped in the afternoon till 5.30pm. Ran 2.4km after that, to check my timing again. Clocked 12 mins. This time, I didn't suffer any stitch, because I didn't drink any water. Hopefully thursday will be the same. Then I'll be able to get my silver !

Realised I'm really old now. I actually sat down in the living room with everyone and talk. In the past, I usually just went off to play com or sth. And I just found out that my cousins from my father's side of the family, all are already above 20 years old. =/
Now, not just my uncle(mother's brother) asks me during every cny if I got gf. This year, my 3rd aunt(father's sister) asked me the same question ! omg. I can expect more of this in the next few years. -.-

I wanna watch the Wedding Game movie.

cny

2009-01-26T02:23:00.003+08:00

Managed to borrow book 1 of the house of night series, Marked. Tried finding twilight book series but all on loan.. =/
Used my library card which was made many years ago at the borrowing machine and it rejected my card. Used my IC and got rejected too. Only knew that the library database still store my old home address when I went to the customer service counter. That address don't match with the address I have on my IC, that's why got rejected. -.-" But I was only 2 years old when I moved to my current home, don't know why the library database has my old address.

Did some last minute shopping at BHG with my mum. Bought a short sleeved shirt and pants. 20 years old le, gotta change a bit of my dressing I guess. Saw jiajun and rafael wear something like this before, rather nice actually. lol..

Got home and napped till dinner time. I ate till damn full, even up till now. Then it's tv time. Kung Fu Mahjong 3, nice.
Because of this, I was afk from my com, and msn. ~~How great.~~ -.- I got nothing more to say man.

My hp is really going crazy.. Unlocking and locking keypad by itself once in a while. Screen blinks or goes blank for a second before appearing again. Battery goes low batt just after a call. =/
Hp has become a necessity now. Without it, you will be uncontactable.. sighhs. Hard to contact or even talk.. zzz.

Happy chinese new year to all ! Hope you all get many ang baos !

以前你很快乐什么都告诉我
你后来为什么要自己一个默默痛着

things i wanna do

2009-01-24T23:40:00.001+08:00

I became a chauffeur for my 2nd aunt and 3rd aunt today, driving my 2nd aunt's car out.

Both of them wanted to go jurong point's 24 hours FairPrice Xtra early in the morning at 8 plus. Then we had breakfast at ToastBox. It isn't very nice, YaKun and Wang Cafe are nicer.
They went for their shopping, while I went Harris bookstore. I thought Harris was linked with Popular, but I was wrong. Since I've already entered, I browsed through the books. Then I had a sudden urge to start reading many many books. Quite a number of books seemed interesting to me. Then I left the shop for Popular, empty-handed.
Main purpose of going to Popular was to find genie zhuo wen xuan's gai ban album, which is already released in taiwan. But up till now, I still can't find it anywhere in singapore.

Drove to IMM after that. Chinese new year clothes shopping on my own there, but didn't find anything that caught my eye. =/
Went Popular again to find the album, still don't have. Went over to the books section and found another vampire book series, called House of Night series. 4 books of the series are already out, with the next book coming out in march. Decided to start on this series, gonna go library borrow the first book.

Went in comics connection after that, and I suddenly felt like playing many games. lol. Weird me. Suddenly wanna do this do that. -.-"
Browsed through keychains rack because I felt like changing my keychain. Then seeing all those anime characters made me feel like drawing. Can still remember many years ago, I drew pokemon's Ash and pikachu. And many people said I drew well. But now I have no idea where that drawing disappeared to. =/

Slacked the rest of my day at home in front of the computer, on bed, and television.
Tomorrow's chinese new year eve already.. Gonna see everyone wearing red wherever you go.

My 2nd aunt seemed to be quite convinced that I can drive, after today. She was making sure that I know how to switch on and off the aircon, if not, it's gonna waste her car battery. -.-"
So hopefully, I'll be able to drive her car out on my own someday ! (:

飞轮海's latest album is not bad. This is the FIRST time I feel they're not bad. Their singing finally improved. And their songs are rather emo.. Maybe listening to them won't sound emo, but reading the lyrics itself is emo.. zzz. Shall post a few for the next few entries..

I've gotta start training my 2.4km soon. Aiming to retake on 29th jan, thursday. Gotta control myself on the cny goodies!

tennis

2009-01-23T23:53:00.000+08:00

The first friday which I really call it a rest day, after so many weeks of fyp on fridays. :)

Planned to go running in the morning at 9am, but I slept till 9.30am, and didn't have the motivation to run in the end. Slacked till lunch then went school for tennis.

Tennis session was not bad. Our rallies lasted quite long. Guess both of us are rather on form today. =D
But I don't know how to teach tennis, so I couldn't really help her much except being the playing partner to hit the balls over to practise her strokes..
It's a damn hot afternoon, hopefully I got tanned more, and not sunburnt.

My aunt came home early today. Then the thought of driving her car to school came to my mind. In the end, I couldn't, cos she's bringing my grandma out to buy cny stuff. So I had to take bus.. =/

Had wanted to go collect my passport today, but the collection appointment timeslots for today are all fully booked. Then, wanted to go tomorrow, it's all fully booked again ! zzz.

Chinese new year's coming. I wanna see the firecrackers live in action.. !

ns medical checkup

2009-01-22T11:46:00.001+08:00

Went for NS medical checkup today. Supposedly booked 11am timeslot, but we reached there at around 10am. Lucky we went early, if not, I think we'll have to go back again tomorrow to complete everything. There's already so many people early in the morning ! =/ And we're only done at 4pm. omg.
I caused a long queue at the Ear/Nose/Throat(ENT) station, because of my right ear. Others went into the room to test their ears, and finished within 1 minute. As for me, it took around 5 minutes. lol. They had to make sure my right ear really has difficulty hearing, then then 2nd round of testing, they played noise to my left ear, and asked me to focus on my right ear to listen for the sounds.
Dental station was damn fast. Because I put on braces before. =/
In short, I'm PES D, pending status for 3 months. They gotta request for the medical report from SGH for my right ear hearing impairment.

After medical checkup, there's this computer test that took almost 2 hours to complete. Did till I so wanted to fall asleep right in front of the computer. -.-"
Photo taking was pathetic. The guy sprayed so much water onto my hair and combed it until it looks just like how my hairstyle was like in kindergarten or lower primary school days ! omg. I have to carry this photo around on my ezlink card next time I enter army. ):

Went vivo to eat before going back school to accompany yf till her keyboard lesson starts. Napped for a while just now, yet I'm still feeling so tired/sleepy now..

Just thought about this particular matter earlier on. But I don't really know how to express this in words yet.. Well next time.. !

20th birthday

2009-01-21T20:27:00.000+08:00

18th jan.
Had breakfast at market with mum on sunday before intending to go back school to train for SRG competition. In the end, I only managed to leave the market at 10.45am, and we're supposed to meet in school at 10am. lol.
Not many people reached in the morning, so met tessa for lunch at sunset way before going school. Because she had no one to eat lunch with, before going out with her friends.
Practised playing with the robot in the afternoon, and then left for early birthday dinner with my family.

19TH JAN !
Received a few advance birthday wishes before midnight. Then midnight came, MSN became lively.

Thanks for all the birthday wishes [in order of time. lol] :
yufang
zongsheng
shengye
josephine
frederick
stella
tessa
huijun
hid
anna
zhikang
chengearn
kevin
weijie
uwr ppl
pearleen
jiayun
melanie
jocelyn
aaron
tianyong
nellie
sijie
michelle
vanessa yip

Didnt expect so many people in fact. I thought there would only be a few. This year's birthday is actually so much better as compared to last year's.
Cut cake in school with the uwr people, huijun, mingjun and john. Then rushed down to meet tessa for dinner at pizza hut.

It was already 8.40pm when we entered pizza hut.
There's completely no one at all in the restaurant. And she said "See I so nice, booked the entire restaurant to celebrate your birthday" lol..
We only managed to eat half of the pizza, and asked for takeaway for the remaining half. -.-"

That night, the whole sky was filled with A LOT of stars. That area we were at isn't very bright, that's why the stars are very visible there. Really glad to have seen such a star-filled sky on my birthday.
Headed down to amk, and then back home. By the time I reached home, it's past my birthday, 12.30am.

20th jan.
SRG competition at science centre.
Nothing more to say, just that RP won all top 3 prizes. Their 3 robots managed to pick up the max, 32 nuts within the 4 minute attempt. =/ Their robots are really damn fast, but we have no idea why and how ! zzz.
Took napfa in the evening. Kept thinking I'm gonna fail my standing broad jump because I've been jumping below 200cm in sec 4. In the end, 2.4km run was the item which caused me to fail.

Pull-ups: 5 (grade D, 2 points)
Sit&Reach: 40cm (grade C, 3 points)
Sit-ups: 54 (grade A, 5 points)
Standing broad jump: 227cm (grade C, 3 points)
Shuttle run: 10.1 secs (grade A, 5 points)
2.4km run: 13:20 mins (FAIL)

Damn shit. I failed napfa bronze by 20 seconds. I failed napfa silver by 1 minute! wth. I'm gonna train within this one week and go retake again next thursday !

21st jan.
Nothing much today. Slacked through the day. Had intended to go for maths lesson from 1pm to 3pm. In the end, I slept from 12.30pm in my lab till 2.30pm. Shiok. Sy said they tried waking me up but failed, so fred went to sleep too. So, 3 of us ponned maths. LOL.

Went to see yf's mixed doubles match. Bertrand said we seem to put pressure on them by standing on the road watching them play. So I went to sit at the stairs to moberly instead.
Even though you lost the match, I think you really enjoyed yourself during that period. Could see you smiling most of the time. I think you played well, at least most of your shots were in court. Just that some of the balls were rather unpredictable and you missed them, cant blame. Well, experience is more important than winning ! (:

Was looking at the adidas Sundown marathon 2009. It's on 30th may 2009. The finisher tshirt is nice ! Considering whether to join the marathon anot. 42.195km distance. Anyone interested?
$60 per person if register by 31st jan. After 31st jan, it will be $70 per person !

Finally, fyp's over, SRG's over. End of projects. Just left with fyp interview, some small tests, presentation and the final exams! Now it seems as if we've already graduated. lol..
Speaking of which, I can't really bear to leave now.. Out of my 3 years in sp, I think year 3's the year which I made the most friends. Memorable year.. Sometimes I wished I wasn't in 3rd year yet.. =/
Don't be sad k. I said I'll come back to find you after I've graduated. Trust me. (:

terrible week

2009-01-18T02:29:00.005+08:00

Was just listening through my own playlist in the windows media player. Then I finally understood what this song was trying to say. Been trying to understand the song lyrics, but to no avail until now..

S.H.E - 沿海公路的出口

用一根火柴烧一场蜃楼
借这场大雨让自己逃走
慌茫公路无人的漂泊
寂寞海啸把我卷走

用一段感情换一个朋友
每一句再见割一道伤口
躲在万劫不复的街头
微笑参透覆水难收

倘若说放一次手就像咳一个嗽
我又何苦在乎得不到的温柔

我坐在公路的出口
等待天黑以后无边的寂寞
连想你都是种残酷切磋
我目送沿海的日落
紧抱一个醉生梦死的枕头
游不住回忆却学不会放手怎么走

倘若说放一次手就像咳一个嗽
我又何苦在乎得不到的温柔

我坐在公路的出口
等待天黑以后无边的寂寞
连想你都是种残酷切磋
我目送沿海的日落
紧抱一个醉生梦死的枕头
游不住回忆却学不会放手怎么走

我坐在公路的出口
等待天黑以后无边的寂寞
连想你都是种残酷切磋
我目送沿海的日落
紧抱一个醉生梦死的枕头
游不住回忆却学不会放手怎么走

Still been feeling rather terrible. Let's just say this week is damn terrible. zzz.

It was nice meeting up with tessa and aaron on friday. Managed to have a break from all the unhappy stuff when I was with them, especially at arcade..

In just 2 days, I've been to jurong point 3 times. 1st time on friday with tessa and aaron, 2nd and 3rd time today.
Explored jurong point extension. There's nothing much actually. Mostly ladies wear. -.-
2nd time at jp was to find zhengjie at harvey norman because derek wanted to buy computer monitor display.
3rd time at jp was dinner with uwr people. Drove jj's car to jp at 9pm from sch, without p-plate. oops. Reached at 9.30pm and we managed to chiong for their last order, luckily.

Went ntu "openhouse" today. Considered a closed-door openhouse, because they only invited selected students, from both jc and poly. Rather boring. Buffet was not bad. And they finally printed new brochures for their courses.
Hearing the students talk about the vibrant campus life, especially those who stay in hostels, I so feel like staying there too. Sounds so fun. =/ But there's still 2 more years before I'm even gonna enter uni.
Uni application starts from 1st to 28th feb for poly students. I really hope I manage to get into the IEM course, which only has one or two classes, which means there's only a total of 30 or 60 students. -.-

Went IMM to see genie zhuo wen xuan. Her makeup this time is so thick, compared to the previous time which I went at bugis. She still has the babyfats, but I think she slimmed down. Didnt get her autograph this time, because not really worth to buy her album I guess.

Lots of updates already. Time to sleep.

爱我还是爱你, 你选择了自己

long story

2009-01-15T01:02:00.003+08:00

It's merely 2 days, and so many things happened..
I don't even know where to start talking about it.

If not for what actually happened, it's perfectly fine with me.
I'm fine with how we used to be. I never thought about anything further.

But it just happened on monday, and I just can't take it anymore.
If I don't let it all out, there's gonna be more of such incidents happening.

Had never expected such a thing to happen.
Was in a dilemma between saying it all out, or remaining as close friends. I chose the latter, of course, and didnt want to say it out.
But after monday, I think I've lost a close friend.
It's gonna be hard for us to be back to how we used to be. But I hope it's still possible..
I'm feeling so terrible now. zzz.

我搞不懂，我们到底怎么了...

last day of spinnovex

2009-01-11T21:09:00.006+08:00

Was out for the entire day yesterday.

Supposedly playing tennis at 8am, but only woke up at 7am. So both of us were late in the end. lol. Played till 11am and took bus to orchard. Yf went to meet her classmates at wisma, while I did a bit of shopping alone.

Wanted to go topman, but there's no topman at wisma anymore. -.- The unit became some nike store. And I was wearing a fake nike tee bought from market into the nike store. =/ Went esprit too, but nothing nice. Bought a tee from cotton on, 10 bucks only. Then went back school le.

Alyssa came to view my project today. Was surprised when she called me to ask where's my project booth. Haven't seen her for months already. Turns out that she's been so busy with partying, work, etc. -.- Talked for a while before she left the booth.

No shift at the booth today, but I still changed into formal wear. After I changed, it's time to pack up the booth. -.-" Got news that we got gold in spinnovex. Great news. But in the end, it's just "outstanding display gold award". Most probably it's just based on the booth decoration and stuff. =/

Took pictures after eating buffet dinner. It seemed as if we've already graduated. lol. Most of the photos were taken using the roboband people's camera. All I have is just one photo, taken in the lab before going for closing ceremony.
Not everyone is in the photo. How sad.

Went amk to find yf at work. Realised I haven't been there for a very long time..
Saw the new stocks at baleno, chinese new year clothes, and lots of striped tops. No more nearby baleno shops in bukit panjang for me to buy clothes from. I guess I can only do so at amk's baleno in future liao.
Ate the snow ice dessert in amk hub. Mango ice with mango fruit is damn nice. The ice is very special, and it doesn't melt that quickly like normal shaved ice. (: You should try one day!

Walked yf home after work. Don't know why, but it seemed a lot faster this time, compared to the previous time we walked. The feeling was just, nice. Taking the bus home is too fast, there's not much time to actually talk much.
I guess when you're feeling terrible or feeling down, taking a stroll with someone to talk to is the best. =D

Fell asleep on the bus home. Missed the bus stop I'm supposed to alight to change bus. Dropped my phone on the floor, which woke me up and I quickly alighted. Luckily, the next bus stop still has the bus for me to get home.
Bathed, then lied on bed to rest. In the end, I fell asleep till this morning ! omg. Too tired.

Went for my haircut today. Attempted new hairstyle. Now my hair is very flat. You won't see any spiky hairstyle from me anymore. haha.
Bought adidas running shoes and a tennis adidas tee, because royal sporting house is having 10% discount for regular priced items. The discount came just at the right time. (:
Finally, I have shoes to prepare for napfa on 20th jan now.

An overdued photo of the 21 years old message for janice at her birthday party that night.

Tomorrow's monday already. So fast. These 2 days of saturday and sunday don't seem like weekends to me at all. =/

spinnovex day 2

2009-01-10T01:56:00.002+08:00

Spinnovex booth shift work at 2pm today. So I can wake up late.

Can't believe that I actually managed to wake up at 7am to give morning call, and then go back to sleep after that. I'm so proud of myself. LOL.
Had intended to go running after giving morning call, but I was just too lazy to crawl out of bed. So decided to sleep more. And only woke up at 9.30 by the wake up call. But continued lying in bed till 10am. haha.

There's supposedly a vip coming to view the project at 1pm. In the end, it's changed to 2pm. So went for lunch and then went back to the project booth. As usual, continued playing the small robot in the tank just like yesterday. Got rather bored after a while. lol.
Finally shift work ended at 4pm, then took 74 with yf back home and then back to sp. Attracted so many stares from people throughout the whole journey, all because I'm in formal wear, and with a SP tie. -.-" Somehow, I just felt I hadn't been there for some time, and I miss going there...

Went with zs, junyi and john to janice's 21st birthday party after school. Rather pathetic that we only reached the place, aloha changi yacht club bungalow A, at 9.50pm. And then, we left an hour later. Within that one hour, we merely took photos with janice, experimented with chivas/vodka/whiskey, ate chocolate fondue. There's marshmallows, strawberries and bananas to eat with the chocolate fondue. It's NICEEEEE~
Missed the last train at tampines, 11.25pm. Then took taxi with zs to woodlands to catch the train from there. Luckily there's still train available there.

Alright, time to turn in. Long day tomorrow !

msn

2009-01-09T02:26:00.003+08:00

I don't like MSN, as well as SMS.
Some things are just better to be said in person.

-.-
zzz.

industry panel judging

2009-01-07T23:57:00.001+08:00

Today's considered the closed-door day of spinnovex, just before we exhibit projects to the public. Really tensed up, seeing so many people wearing the same attire as you, going through the same thing.
Traffic jam was seriously bad today, lucky that my father drove me to school.

Final trial run and rehearsed presentation before the industry panel people came to view our robots. Then it's showtime!
So glad that everything worked out fine. The robot with gps is working fine in the swimming pool, being able to be controlled by gps coordinates or remote control. Then the successful sending of gps coordinates to the laptop. Then the water pump robot, and the autonomous robot which was included in our presentation at the last minute.
They seemed rather impressed I guess. :)

Fiona xie and Soo from FM987 is coming down to SP tomorrow at 2pm ! Just nice, my shift work at the project booth ends at 2pm. (:

Yf and hj won the women doubles match against jos and nissi. Not bad, but it ended rather quickly. There wasn't many exchanges of balls between the 2 teams.
How suay of me that my shoes got spoilt halfway through the game. Lucky I left a pair of shoes in school yesterday. =/

Went to meet my mum and sister at lot 1 after that. My sister had to buy formal office wear for a conference next week, while I had to get new shoes for the next 3 days of spinnovex and another white shirt.

Didn't hear siting call out to me at lot 1. But my sister did. Looked around for a familiar face but I couldn't find any. So my sister thought she heard the person say "you drink" instead of my name. LOL. "You drink" and Eugene, sounds similar uh.
Only knew it's siting who called my name after I got home. -.-"

Today's my chinese birthday ! 21 years old in the chinese calendar year. =D

Gonna be a long day tomorrow, meeting at 8am, and there's 2 interviews. One in the morning, another in the afternoon. Wonder who's the interviewer. Hope everything goes well too tomorrow !

it still feels weird.

SPINNOVEX

2009-01-07T01:29:00.002+08:00

Lessons cancelled for EEE sch year 3 students this entire week, to prepare for spinnovex. It seemed as if the holidays were back again, then we keep forgetting the others were still having lessons. haha.
Set up our booth in the big tent, with a LCD TV to display our project video and a fish tank for people to play with our small robots to pick up nuts in the water.
Never seen a tv that actually has touch screen, until today. Damn cool la. I guess the next generation of technology will be mostly touchscreen.
Don't know whether to feel anxious or stressed over this spinnovex. =/ But seems like we're still rather relaxed about it.

Gonna present to the industry panel tomorrow, a so called closed door spinnovex. lol. Hopefully everything goes well !
Formal wear, with SP tie, for the first time. And there will be a second time: graduation ceremony.

Rather coincidental to bump into a few poly friends these 2 days, those whom I seldom see in the campus. Yesterday, saw nazilah, fq, and leeyen. Today, saw camelia, and alyssa! I wonder who else I'll bump into tomorrow..

I learnt that it takes about 10-15 minutes to walk from one end of SP to the other end of SP yesterday. haha. Only learnt about this after being in SP for almost 3 years.

Played tennis today, to help yf and hj train for their upcoming women doubles match tomorrow. They should be able to win !
Jiayou, good luck ! =D

My form today was considered not bad. Maybe because I wasn't using my own racket. My racket has turned into a stranger. I really don't know how to play with it now, with the new strings. =/
Joint at my left knee suddenly started to hurt today, for unknown reason. Thought there was some bruise there, but there isn't. zzz. A sign of me getting old! ):

Emo-ness seems to be in trend now again. What's wrong with everyone? -.-

Scared myself just now, when I saw the page for posting new blog entry being empty, when I clearly remembered I wrote a few paragraphs. Checked drafts and it only showed an empty draft. Luckily, I right clicked and pressed undo. Everything came back. =/

twilight

2009-01-04T23:37:00.000+08:00

Nothing much happened during the past 2 days. Just that it was rather emotional on saturday, the day it's sent for cremation. Seeing the thing slowly moving in the incinerator... sighhs.
But it's all over.

Met van to get my wii controllers back and went for dinner.
Chatted quite a lot, which made me compare between my sec sch clique and poly clique. What a big difference. I understand now why sec sch friends are still your best friends in life after all. Plus, my poly clique seems to be breaking up. I even think I'm closer to my other poly friends than those in my clique.

Damn tired last night and slept early. 9 hours of sleep.

Decided to finish reading Twilight by today, and I did! The book's just too nice to read. Can't wait to read New Moon, but I won't have the time to read for this week. Went to movie6.net to take a peek of a few scenes of the lousy quality Twilight movie. Felt that it didn't really show how it was actually written in the book, the feeling's just not right. lol.

Was so engrossed in reading that I forgot we were supposed to go pay respect to my grandfather (father's father), because his death anniversary is just 5 days later.
Then it reminded me that my chinese birthday is coming too, because it's just 2 days before my grandfather's death anniversary. That's 3 more days, 7th jan! Can still remember both my chinese and english birthday fell on the same day last year. But, no one celebrates chinese birthday actually. -.-"

Spinnovex week starts this week. Hope everything goes well. Especially on wednesday, 7th jan: the industry people will be here to view our project. Jiayou eT! =D

extracted from Twilight:
"I was surprised by the flare of resentment, almost fury, that I felt - I didn't recognise what it was at first." ... "I knew I had no right to care either way. I tried not to care."
Just felt that was rather well written. lol.

happy new year

2009-01-01T14:31:00.008+08:00

Half school day yesterday, but it's like a no lessons day. Lecture was boring, and the lab practical was cancelled due to 7 out of 22 students attending. lol.

Tried to chiong through fyp report after lunching with the tennis people. In the end, report due by 7th jan instead le. -.-

Went to play tennis after that. First time trying out the new strings. All said my racket was okay to play with, but I myself don't know how to play with it. Not used to it, couldn't control where I'm hitting the ball. =/

Received christmas present from yf. Didn't expect her to actually remember that I once said I wanted the baleno polo tee. Even I myself had forgotten about it. lol.. thanks thanks =D
The card was rather heartwarming.
12 days of christmas, today's the 8th day liao.

Countdown-ed to new year on some 25 storey hdb block, looking at fireworks at the marina area. Damn nice la, though its rather far away. Walked to 24-hour mac for supper, then junyi left.

Can you see the letter 'y', but there's no ' f ' lol.Played sparklers outside mac and at some ulu playground where the lampposts were not switched on. There's the swing to play too, haven't played for a long time. It feels just so nice on the swing. Attempted writing our names with the sparklers and then use camera set with slow shutter speed to capture our names. But we failed terribly. lol.

Walked to yio chu kang station and then back to amk. Slacked at mac, while waiting for first bus timing. Sent yf to her friend's house to sleep, then me and cliff went finding the tallest hdb block in the area so that we can get a better view of the fireworks next time.

Last year's new year day, I took the first train home from raffles city. This year's new year day, I took the first bus home from amk. lol. wow. What an achievement! -.-"

It's gonna be a long day and night tomorrow and saturday.. sighhs.

HAPPY NEW YEAR !

gone..

2008-12-30T23:59:00.002+08:00

It was just yesterday that my grandmother, my mum's mother, suddenly came down with high fever. Only got to know about it when I reached home. And my mum stayed at NUH throughout the whole night.
Doctors said she's in critical condition, and may have to be prepared for the worst. Despite all these, still had to wait for a bed in the hospital because they're full. -.-
My mum only got home at 8am this morning to get some sleep, while I went school. Then suddenly received news that my grandmother passed away at noon. Shocked.... Just over a night, she left us. zzz. My mum still sounded calm when I called her to ask about what happened.
I could still remember how she reacted when her father(my grandfather) passed away 12 years ago. She was crying so badly right in front of me.. Just that I was just too young back then, 7 years old. sighhs.
What to do. This is life. =/

Anyway, decided to buy havaianas after months of wearing that pathetic grey flip flops of mine. It's so thin, and slippery during rainy days. Almost slipped and fell several times already.
Sadly, the dark green colour that I used to have and I still want now, is out of stock in the whole singapore for my size! ): So I had no choice but to choose between red and grey in the end, as that's what left of my size. Chose red because I find the grey rather dull.. Even the newurbanmale staff prefers red. (:
Bought for my younger sister bright green havaianas brasil too. Since there's 20% off discount for purchase of 2 products, even though SP students already enjoy 20% off too.

I don't understand why some people actually are like that. Because of work schedules, then unable to fork out time for projects, then you're outcasted. wth. Friends uh? -.- Aren't friends supposed to be accommodating to each other? They should try to understand. =/ Imagine how that person will feel la.
Feel so sad for you.. sighhs.

New year countdown. I don't know whether or not I should even be celebrating, with such stuff going on right now. sighhs.

not in the back-to-school mood

2008-12-29T23:33:00.000+08:00

29th december. Tell this date to any student and they will tell you it's the school holidays.
But it's not for me. It's actually the first day of TERM 4. So unfair! NP only starts school next week can. -.-" No wonder the bus I took to school isn't packed at all.

Totally not in the mood to be back in school for lessons. Just feel like sleeping everywhere I go. So tired.. Still in the holidays mood; everything's free and easy. Do whatever you like. =/
School started, which means cant stay out too late anymore.. sighhs. Why can't the holidays be longer!? ):

Got back all 3 mst results today. Kinda expected Digital Communication module's result will be that low. While Mobile Communications module's result was quite shocking..
Digital Communications: 78
Network Protocols: 88
Mobile Communications: 92

2009 is just 3 days away, but I'm not into the new year countdown mood yet. Somehow, I don't wish 2008 to end just like that, even though it's been a rather eventful and happy year. lol. Weird me.

i want my havaianas

2008-12-28T23:40:00.002+08:00

Overdued christmas pictures. Couldn't upload them that time.

My christmas presents

Mostly clothes. -.-

Last minute headed to town because I wanted to get my havaianas, with the $5 off coupon. Ate at Tang Dian Wang restaurant at suntec before going newurbanmale.

Deep fried crab meat ball

The pot of soup, with the contents scooped out on the plate.

Crab meat fried rice

Congee, it isn't very nice. Quite tasteless.

Chicken. Nice!

Assorted mushroom wrapped with cabbage

Giant meat ball, their specialty. Very nice!

Prawn rolls, with mango sauce. NICE !

Was really surprised when I saw the subtotal for the meal. $100 exactly, what a nice total sum. Just that due to service charge and GST, the number isn't that nice anymore. haha.

Went newurbanmale at citylink. That store doesn't have my size for the havaianas that I want! zzz. Couldn't decide whether I want the blue, grey or dark green colour of havaianas brasil. My havaianas which got stolen was dark green, so not sure whether to get back the same colour anot. sighhs.
Then there's this promotion of 20% off for purchase of 2 products. 31st dec is the last day of the promotion as well. So my younger sister also want to get one havaianas. =/ Have to find the size and colour that I want asap already..

3 weeks of holidays passed. School starts tomorrow. zzz. I totally don't have the mood to go school for lessons. This 3 weeks of holidays are seriously the most packed holidays I've ever had, and I enjoyed it very much. haha. (: If only the holidays were longer.
Gonna get back MST results tomorrow too. Not looking forward to receiving them. Seriously, I know I did badly this time..