dun need title one

2009-05-21T16:37:00.009+08:00

Hello!

Like what jay says, we've resorted to tag-board communication and that is not good. haa..I'll start the ball rolling and post something. And someone carry on yea? Keep the blog alive so no more 'I heart HC' photo right at the top. haa..

Alrighty! I went Taiwan so shall post some peektures of my trip! And guess who I met at the airport? The dudes from fei lun hai. hahaaa.. complete with fireworks and all. my sister and I amused ourselves and a couple of other tourists taking photos with them.

And after checking into the hotel, we dropped by Shilin Night Market and grabbed our dinner. Food is in abundance there and so are people. Too crowded! And the clothes selling in Shilin are crazily expensive la! Who said shopping in Taiwan is good?? Most of the things I saw there were at least NT500 (S$25)! Only comfort was that food is cheap!

The 豪大大鸡排！And 臭豆腐！Tastes alot worse than it smells.. *shiver*

And the next day, we took a train to 花莲 to visit 太鲁阁国家公园. Absolutely stunning and awesome view! I think there's something about the stone lions. Everyone looked super happy touching the lions. haa..Can you guys spot the Red Indian?And Ben, minshu = 民宿. haa..it was a really really nice place. Get contacts from me or Alex if any of you wants to stay over at 花莲! Their breakfast was delicious thick french toast with fruits and sweet potato. And the owners were really sweet people. They even have a separate set of cutlery and table mats and food portion for little kids..
Oh, we dropped by 七星谭 too and I was disappointed. haa.. didnt expect it to be just a seaside. haa..but you get to take a ferry out into the sea and watch dolphins and whales. Next time!

Romantic dude or someone with nothing better to do? Fourth day we made a trip to 九份 and 金瓜石
Beautiful scenery and touched a huge kick-ass block of gold!
Rhino anyone?And we met this really charming guy who knows how to play any tune! Can't figure out how to invert the video though. haa..

Day 5, we headed to 故宫 and I am really sorry to say this, but Chinese people left a terrible impression on me. Maybe it's the excitement from seeing ancient relics, but let me out of the toilet cubicle first before squeezing in?
Next day, we went to 野柳 to see the works of nature in all shapes and sizes, including the famous queen head stone and Taiwanese pretty girls. They have nice complexion and are so fair that they are like wisps of air. haa..A 20,000 year-old fossil I think!
And we ended with a trip to 淡水 and Taipei 101 and a camp over at the airport. Almost froze to death.

One thing to note if you guys decide to go Taiwan, please try the milk tea plus pudding plus pearls plus chinchow. Awesomeness.

Cheers!

2008-09-07T00:14:00.005+08:00

woohoo~

I went back maf! didn't see any of you guys though..anyway..my friend told me of this website http://huaqiaozhongxue.com/, prob you guys heard of it already la.but, it's great! cos you can download our hc songs! haa.. yealar.. and the council printed 'I heart HC' tshirts and they reprinted our old pe shirts la!! but super inflation, from $6 to $10.haa..

I heart hc!

Cheers!

yay, gathering!

2008-07-20T00:10:00.004+08:00

hmm sorry for the late late upload! here's the fotos from our gathering!!

2008-05-24T23:29:00.004+08:00

hey!

shall let the pictures do the talking! =]

we are the earliest! and kristy is the only punctual person! haaa..

Then Mrs Goh came and Huizhen went to meet her at the lift.

the little kid playing happily by himself, waging on battles among the different versions of ultraman.

then the other kid comes along...ben sure did teach titus alot more ways to play with the ultraman and calamari rings..

the food came!yum~

and dilys came along...haa..i kept harassing her.haaa..

group photo...

thanks dilys for taking this one for us.

ben child-care services anyone?

more photos...

apparently,titus doesn't like taking photos..

ultraman?

thanku for those who came down, especially those who rushed down after their meetings and those who had to fly off to somewhere else after that. and thanku mrs goh for taking the trouble to travel down with two kids and a stroller to meet us for a meal! kudos to huizhen, dilys and ben for organising this gathering. And hope the next meet up isn't two years later! =]

cheers!
siying

p/s: rest of the photos are in my facebook or just follow this link!
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=27271&l=040f5&id=717352637

p/p/s: i am efficient.haaa..

73 class gathering! =)

2008-05-16T21:51:00.008+08:00

Heyz pplz!

Yeah it's finally friday.. can't be more thankful for this long wkend! yeah i finally found time to blog =)

MRS GOH IS BACK IN SPORE!! Yup for those of you who still dunno.. she's back after 1.5 yrs and will be staying till around the end of June. So, this is the best time to have a class gathering so that everyone would be able to meet up with her and of course with the rest of the class.. it has been quite some time since we all meet up =p

Details are confirmed:

Date: 24 May (sat)

Venue: Manhattan Fish Market at PS

Meeting details: 4pm at Dhoby Gauht control

I know most of you can only come after 6pm and 4pm is a little early for dinner (we can always have early lunch on that day), but Mrs Goh wishes for an early timing cos she is afraid her kids may get sleepy at night, so I suppose 4pm is the best compromise.

Mrs Goh is staying at Jurong now, so for convenience sake, maybe those who live in Jurong and who are driving on that day can volunteer to send her home so that she will not have to bring her kids back alone.

Yup details are finally finalized! Yeah see ya all on sat then. Enjoy your work or FYP, pplz. Take care! =)

Cheers,
Dilys

10 things about hwa chong

2008-05-09T12:50:00.002+08:00

1 more! it's called "10 things about hwa chong"..

mr pang is the bomb man! he appears in everything! haaha.. he must be the most well-loved teacher in hc now.. :)

but seriously, the choice of song is HIDEOUS... i've warned you! turn off your speakers if you can control your curiosity.. heh.. :P

Hwa Chong discipline system

2008-05-07T13:11:00.002+08:00

this is DAMN funnY! hahaha.. everyone must watch!! look at mr pang's smug... :P anw i recognise the guy in the vid.. he's our batch one.. think some of you guys might recognise him...

2008-05-04T20:47:00.006+08:00

ar..the blog has been reallyreally quiet during the exam period.haa..this is a really random post.i baked cake today and finally it looks kinda decent, semi like a cake la.haa..

yarlar, it looks sunken in the middle coz it is. haa..under estimated the power of baking powder so the cake mix erupted out during baking, had to scoop out into another bowl. haa..

it's a marble cake btw.haa..
yarlar, hope u guys are all coping well with exams and stuff.. when everyone's free, meet up soon ya? =]

cheers!

i'm feeling nostaligic!

2008-03-29T12:26:00.022+08:00

hello everybody! i was just looking through my pics, and i realised most of them involved 73! haha.. so i've decided to upload some which involved most of the class for your viewing pleasure :) i haf ALOT more! hahaha.. JC life was prob the most fun throughout my many years in school, and it's such a shame that all good things have to come to an end.. SO, we should all try to make it for class gatherings! hahaha.. our maf turn out has been reduced from many to little (look at the pics below, for maf '06 and maf '07).. so we should all meet up soon when we finish exams! :)

soiree '04

orientation '05

maf '06

maf '07

lj's 21st, '07

gathering '05

orientation '07

titus was still so young then! haha.. '04

homecoming '04

ge yao bi sai '03. rmb th's signature plastered-specs, and jh looks so skinny here!

the super sadistic game! '04

i think it's maf '04

taken in class '04

we're one FARM-ILY!

dilys's 21st, '07

gathering at xun's house '06

Big walk '04

No CROCS!!

2008-03-19T00:31:00.002+08:00

Guys check out the logo i created! haha.. Get it?

-= you don't love me anymore =-

2008-03-15T17:13:00.001+08:00

Wow...this is one cool song to sing to girls!

2008-01-27T14:22:00.001+08:00

Hey everyone!

Its being a long long time since I posted, but here I am! I'll probably be visiting Singapore this June holidays! Let's meet up.

Anyway, a piece of good news from me, I got admitted into the Ph.D program for Materials Science and Engineering at guess where...Stanford! Woohoo, I am gonna be a doctor too! Yeahhh.

-A very happy Han

Finally.. the moment has arrived..

2007-12-05T23:13:00.000+08:00

Hi all,

Announcing the organising committee for the 7th dec class gathering..

Jiaho - Boozeman + Games
Alex - Venue booker + money collector
LJ - Programme + informing all

As you have seen from the history of message exchanges, this proposed class gathering has been in the process of formulation way in advance (1 month at least), and with everyone's support, we have booked the hotel room, and gotten the stuff ready.. what is lacking now, of course, is your dearest participation!

The programme for the day is as follows:
1) Meet at Great World City at 3-3.15pm for a movie
-Ic: Alex
-Maybe Golden Compass, Heartbreak Kid, or last resort Enchanted, based on the times available
-When you reach, please contact Alex to meet up as he will be at the nearby hotel checking in for our cozy room.

2) Early Buffet Dinner at Marina Bay or somewhere else nearby at 6pm plus
- Ic: LJ
-If people are feeling the pinch because of the current inflation, maybe we should still try the Marina Buffet as i think the price is still $12 per person and we can eat all we want.
- However if inflation, tiredness or laziness is really affecting you, we can eat at the nearby hawker centres or market place.

3) Activities at night till about 11 plus
- IC: Eddie
- He'll be joining us after his wedding dinner and he'll bring the booze.

4) Sleepover in our cozy room
-IC: do we need an ic to watch over us sleepin?

a) Hence, in order to better facilitate the enjoyment that we will gain out of this, can everyone get back to me on the attendance for the the above 4 activities? ie: Whether you can come for the movie, the dinner, the night activities, and stayover night till saturday?

b) Also, please bring $30 bucks (its a very luxurious figure.. i don't think it will add up to that much) to pay Alex and Jh.

So.. looking forward to friday, see you all!

2007-12-05T20:06:00.000+08:00

Hey y'all...

The venue has been set for this Friday (7/12/07):

Copthorne King's Hotel

More details:
http://www.millenniumhotels.com.sg/copthornekingssingapore/index.html

SMUgger

2007-10-29T16:18:00.000+08:00

SMU is first in everything.. Including Mugging.

Here's a candid shot of a typical SMUgger at the juncton of stamford road and victoria street.

OMGWTF#@$%@#%

Bang! and Dodge City!

2007-10-16T18:54:00.000+08:00

hello everyone! ben and i just bought...........................

BANG! and the expansion pack DODGE CITY!!!!!!

hahaha... Dodge city has many new characters and special power cards!!!!! it's so EXCITING!! i wanna play!!!! so i suggest, we meet up this sat to play!!!! :):):) Saturday, 20th Aug, 8.30pm at holland v brecko, how bout that?? beers are 2 for $10! hahaha.. :P please come please come!! i realli wanna play! :) oh! and now 8 pple can play.. expansion pack has 1 more extra renegade!! hahaha... please get back to me k? and PASS THE WORD AROUND! spouses are welcome...

Ben's 21st

2007-10-08T02:58:00.000+08:00

Woooo... Ben's 21st at the Jurong Christian Church (his church basically... maybe some of you remember? 6-pec Messiah?)

Here are the random snapshots I took then, complete with witty captions. :)

Ah... nothing really inspiring from this pic. Say... cool sparklers? (And another V spotted.)

Defining 'grinning from ear-to-ear". And of course, defining "infectious smiles".

Who's needing couple pics?

The Thing? Bogeyman? Revenge of the Disgruntled White-Collar Monster? Try harder.

Said monster preparing to unleash a devastating attack. Notice how people are fleeing in terror.

Heh... well that's all for now. Got some other cooler pics not with me... really. So yeah...

UPLOAD!

That's all folks!

2007-09-27T23:43:00.000+08:00

~~Eddie’s~~ JIAHO'S birthday party!

ok, shall leave all the details and party description to someone else who's better at doing it so i'll just post the photos i took that night!

er..jiaho's birthday celebration? or is it benedict's? hm..

i guess ben really wants to celebrate his birthday together with jiaho. haa.. check out the gay photos when they're uploaded. haa..

huihong, always so cooperative. haa..

jaymie girl! u now have one more photo of u two together!

jiaho during his speech giving after his candleblowing and before his dip in pool.

i love ur dress! ok,i know it's random.

hm..huihong is more cooperative than u guys..

nice big round moon in the sky!

spot the honorary 73-er. (hint: he has white specs. and i meant it to be like the teen titans. honorary titans, yea..when there's trouble u know who to caaaaall...)

this is jiaho enjoying his dip in the pool.

he's out of the pool, but jiaho really loved the water. so ben n lj kinda helped him. haa..

ben's second helping, or is it the third? fourth? lost track.

the 73 guys. note the darlie smile from alex and ben's acting cute. haaa..

think there are some gay photos before this in someone else' camera.haa..

after much neglect from jiaho, he finally agreed to take a photo w us girls..but none of us wanted to stand close to him. haa.. tt's for saying we're old aunties!

okok..we moved closer.but this is eddie not jiaho in the photo.hm..where did jiaho go???

lj's artistic photography. haa..

i am as tall as liangjun! haaa..

ok, i know alot of photos w me inside..but it's my camera maaaah...

ok, im really tall.haa..

before and after forcing alex to smile for the photo.haa..

bangbang! it's really only the girls who are always camera ready.haaa..

cheers!

2007-09-23T04:07:00.000+08:00

I attempted to make the pic brighter...

Hm... less 'V's next time...
More MAF pics!!!

MAF '07

2007-09-20T23:31:00.000+08:00

as promised, MAF pictures! hahaha.. there are other ones in alex's and jiaho's phones.. *ahem ahem post them!* i'm lazy to write captions, coz i just post them on my blog.. so please read there.. :) you pple are still the bunch of pple whom i haf most fun with! haha.. how i wished more of us turned up.. :) hopefully the attendance at jiaho's party would be good! :) ok i'm going off to watch webcast.. see you guys on jh's bdae!! *bang bang!*

dilys's bdae!

2007-09-17T23:12:00.000+08:00

Dilys's 21st birthday! :)

the picture started from this....

to this!!!

and from this...

to this!!

we pple never change!!
or shud i say, the guys never change..

hahaha.. :) maf pictures up soon.. sry busy studying for test.. alex and jiaho can post their's first...

Baby Ally Whatever

2007-09-16T15:40:00.001+08:00

WHATEVER!!!

Impromptu

2007-09-01T16:32:00.000+08:00

Was looking through my phone pics and i thought this was a nice pic... should have uploaded it a long time ago :(

I think people look the best when they are just being themselves.

...and let us not forget.. friendships forever! (with a more than appropriate picture)

al

St JAmes night for nanyang business sch beauty pageant

2007-08-21T23:27:00.001+08:00

Hi all, Alex and I asked some of you all to come to the nanyang business school 2007 pageant at St James on Sat and you ppl didn't come! But let me lower my dignity and post some pictures of us for the benefit of you not happening ppl. (haha..) Here are some pictures of us there. Alex, Kah Hui-our-mutual-friend, and I.

Damn sad. we only have 20 plus pictures. Most of them like that. Damn damn goddamn sad. Nvm. SMU freshman bash at MOS on 30th Aug. Will DEFINITELY be better. quick book your tickets with me. ten bucks only. my 2 kakis above already got their tickets. at 8 bucks still because early booking.

I'm still damn sad :'(

My orientation camps

2007-08-21T22:45:00.000+08:00

Haha, i think everybody is busy with school work now that school has started, and we were also pretty caught up with orientation camps, thus the lack of posts. But actually i'm sure everybody has alot pictures, so maybe i can do something about nothing (in this blog).

I attended 4 orientation camps, but somehow i only have pictures from 3 of my camps. wonder where the last one is. Anyway, due to time constraints and to prevent me from getting shot (should there be any embarassing photos of my school mates), i'm only posting these few pictures. Hope they entertain. haha..

This was the pic from my accountancy camp. at the end of the orientation and in the multi purpose hall. very fulfilling. went to beach and played all kinds of games the previous day.

This was from my business camp. Lol. It was also damn fun. We went round the central business district in bright red t-shirts, running around from landmark to landmark in the amazing race thingy. embarassing, but entertaining for all who watch i guess.

This was from my freshman Teambuilding camp. we built a raft as one of the final exercises, but unfortunately the waves beat it up to almost pulp. damn chui.

yeah i guess that would be all the stuff i'll be showing. haha.. you can check the ppl out yourselves... see whether you know anyway of them lah. dun get the wrong ideas guys.. they're not for sale.

2007-06-29T12:56:00.000+08:00

hey!

i know i pangsehed u guys for the jurong east buffet a couple of times saying i dont want to eat buffet yet i went for a buffet myself as pointed out by liangjun, i must say free food tastes slightly better. haa.. we had a voucher for the m hotel 'the buffet' and it requires reservation a couple of days in advance so we failed to get a table for lunch a few times and finally! we got to eat at the highly recommended 'the buffet' yesterday! yay~

they have lots of interesting starters. u can make ur own caesar salad topped with roasted pine nuts and their chawsiew n shaorou are actually pretty yummy. haa.. sushi was alright only, coz it's not a japanese restuarant afterall mah..

mussels with the lemon butter garlic sauce like fish&co's and salmon with mustard sauce. their tempura is pretty good too! does anyone know how to fry crispy tempura? the last time i attempted, it was just fried prawns w batter. haa.. it didn't fluff up like a tempura lar!

roast beef with mustart sauce (again). seems like they like to add mustard into quite alot of food. haa.. and laksa laksa~

and the best way to end off a super heavy dinner is with super lot of desserts! haaa.. there were like 2 types of chocolate cakes, different types of mini french pastries, small shotglasses of lychee w aloe vera, mango pudding, banana crumble, ice cream, fruits. quite abit of variety lar. the banana crumble is nice..but....the vanilla sauce that we poured all over it tastes like the chinese almond (xing ren). waaaaaaaaaaaaah...i almost died when i took the plate back to the table. the smell was super overpowering and it covered up the taste of the bananas lar..which was a pity..next time, when u see sauces do just pour it at a corner of ur plate just in case it sucks. haa

actually, i dint eat alot, just alittle of everything but i was so supersupersuper full. urgh.. and the table next to us was a couple who started eating before us and left later than us. each of them had their own plates full of food while junming n i were sharing every plate of food we took. and the irritating thing abt that couple is that the girl is super skinny. argh!!!! how i wish i have an appetite to match my greed and can be skinny..hm..seems like too much to ask for.haa..
and after a heavy meal, wat can be better than taking a nap right outside the restuarant. haaa..

cheers!

Awakening

2007-06-25T21:57:00.000+08:00

Siem Reap: Home to the ancient Khmer Angkor temples; such remarkable structures that it has a place as one of the wonders of the world. It is a feat of ancient architecture that amazes till now. A pride of Asia culture, and a priceless artefact left in time.

To be standing in it is a feeling indescribable - you will have to be there yourself. 'Nuff said.

Angkor Wat - the more renowned temple of the Angkor temples.

Ta Prohm: another temple. Less majestic, but the alluring part is how the temple seemingly blended with the forest. Trivia: Tomb Raider was filmed here.

In case you were bored:

2007-06-22T10:35:00.000+08:00

Jellyhearts!

Since im having such a long holiday and im basically slacking my life away at the moment, i aim to bake as many things as i can!! but quite a few flopped for the first time lar. haa..

This is jellyhearts, of coz it doesnt look as pro as the one where i got the recipe from. i wonder how she managed to cut them out so nicely.

It is actually non-baked cheese together with a layer of jelly on top. Anyone of u know whether outside bakeries or cafes sell these jellyhearts? never seen them sold outside before..

After conquering the non-baked cheesecake (haa!), i decided to attempt the baked kind. ok, it looks really bad. haa.. when i popped it into the oven to bake and turned around to wash the dishes, it burnt. haa.. smoke was came out of the oven. haa.. so i scraped off the top layer and that's why it looks so funny lar. haa..BUT! it doesn't taste too bad! yay~ even my sister who doesn't really love cheesecake said it's nice. haaa.. ok lar, looks-wise like minus 100 points but i'll be trying it again and hopefully it'd turn out well! haa..

Anyway, i found blogs of singaporean stay-home moms who cook and bake really often. And mrs goh, they somehow remind me of u. haa.. This Happy Home Baking is a really interesting website. she bakes with and for her two boys so i feel that her kids must be having a fun-filled childhood.. haa.. i aim to learn to bake properly so can force my kids to eat wat i bake next time. muahahahaaa.. =]

Azure...

2007-06-17T00:35:00.000+08:00

Finally... got my com back into operation... lotsa of things to show u all, but a bit lost currently. Meanwhile, had went for 2 little trips... one to Siem Reap and one to Tioman.

Here's Tioman in short:

More pics next time... hope this inspires something :)

2007-06-11T01:41:00.000+08:00

hey!

i'm back to advertise somemore.haa..there are new additions to the propergender website! this time it's earrings so there wont be a problem with sizes and i'm the photographer again so do go take a look!

cheers!

Kelong Trip alternative offer

2007-06-07T09:28:00.000+08:00

Hi Guys,

there's another alternative to the Sunplanners one.

This is cheaper at about $135 per pax. 13th and 14th june is fine. If need to change date then note that weekends are hard. The advert can be found in You zhou kan. The stuff available are as follows...

"Hi bro there is no aircon in e rms only fans... during e 9 its quite windy..Snorkeling gears r provided..Whereas its advisable 2 brin yr own fishin gear.Fishing in e pool will be $40 per day n deepsea fishing wil be $80 for 3hrs...All taxes r included in e package...There r conoes , pool table, k-rm... If yr grp would like 2 buy wine or liquior pls buy at DFS in spore.. Beer over at e resort is cheap.. All yr meals r in.....
regards....Andysim"

So far we've got Jaymie, Siying, Sisi, Jiaho and Lj confirmed for the 13-14 June.
Alex can't make it and HH would prefer it to be after the 18th.

Lets make a decision soon yeah.

Kelong Trip Details

2007-06-05T18:16:00.000+08:00

Hi,

Thank you for your interest in our kelong.

We regret that we're left with fan rooms only for weekdays and the coming 2 weekends are fully booked until 23 June 2007.

The prices posted on our web is no longer valid as it was only valid for the year 2005. Will update the changes in our web page to reflect the change as soon as we can. Please find the 2007 New Price List as follow.

Our Kelong is located in a hideaway corner of Indonesia, Tanjong Pinang,which is about 2 Hours ferry ride away from Singapore and about an hour of land transfer.

There is a 800m bridge across the clear blue water that links the white shore to our Kelong. Our kelong has 4 boats that can ferry you across upon request at no cost.Our Kelong houses 18 fan and 10 air-con rooms, each with attached bath. At full capacity, it can have a minimum of 56 pax based on twin-sharing. Kettle boiled hot water for bath will be provided on request.

Nett Cost Per Pax Fan room or Air-Con room
Adult Child Adult child
2D1N S$170 S$110 S$175 S$115
3D2N S$235 S$155 S$240 S$160

Note: Infant and Children below 12 years old will pay the child fare.
Children 12 and above will pay adult fare.

The above cost includes:

1 or 2 night stay at Kelong
6 sumptuous meals per day
Free flow of coffee, tea and bottled drinking water
2 way ferry transfer
2 way land transfer

Excludes the following taxes:

Passenger Departure Tax S$5 per pax
Fuel Surcharge S$5 per pax
Tanjong Pinang Terminal Fee of S$5 per pax.

Free use of the facilities:

fishing bait provided for fishing (bring Your own fishing rods), sotong netting, body surfing, canoeing, bananaboat riding, island hopping, snorkeling (bring your own equipment),darts, children's indoor playground, billiards, mahjong game and karaoke.

However, Jet Ski is available at S$100 per hour.

Please see booking form below for your perusal.

Hear from you soon!

Regards
Jessie
9011 6184

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so...whaddaya think?

2007-06-03T00:34:00.000+08:00

heyhey~

i am here to advertise for my sister's small business venture with her friends. they bought clothes from overseas and are selling them off the internet. http://propergender.livejournal.com/

i've seen the stuff they bought back and they really are pretty nice stuff and i even have some of them lar. the t-shirts fits real good and really comfortable. ok lar, ive got limited vocab but the clothes are pretty in trend stuff i guess. and they are selling it cheap. cheapcheapcheap coz it's their first attempt so they want to set up a good rep, try it out first before they make future adjustments.

i posted one of the t-shirts they are selling lar. its cheap man, only 10 bucks. u can't find any nice decent t-shirts for 10 bucks nowadays. haa.. and say u guys like the photos! coz i took them! haaa..think i may have some photography skills afterall! haaa..

do go take a look and support my sister! no guys clothes for now but if response is good, they may bring in even more good and cheap stuff!

cheers!

Miss Universe 2007 Miss Japan Riyo Mori Swimsuit Round

2007-06-02T23:19:00.001+08:00

CAN'T stand it! Gotta flaunt my soon to be girlfriend.. She's 20 this year and she's called Riyo Mori, but I just call her Riyo, you know.. Look at her poise and style man.. omg

StarCraft2 Gameplay (High Quality) Full 21:13 version

2007-05-27T17:19:00.001+08:00

For those who have not seen this, Starcraft 2's coming!! After 10 long years! The sequel to the highly popular Starcraft. Check out the gameplay and graphics man! So excited.. haha..

2007-05-25T15:26:00.000+08:00

Interesting man.. My colleagues and I were all gathered around our office windows on the 16th floor of Standard Chartered Building in Raffles Place to witness.. this phenomenon we never expected in Singapore..

The Scrin (alien race) are coming!!

Time... 2.58pm, Friday 25th May 2007
Location... Beside Singapore Flyer
Event... Formation of Whirlwind

It was initially touching the sea surface and slowly it became shorter and shorter and finally dissipated.

NS Song

2007-05-24T20:03:00.001+08:00

ns is for everyone!

2007-05-16T23:09:00.000+08:00

the banner saying 'do not learn safety through accidents' seems like a direct stab at me, especially after i got into a car accident in the afternoon. before any of u start hyperventilating, i am fine. haa..if not i wont be blogging and the other party is fine too.cant say much of his car though.haa..

i was in the inner most lane for right turning, i saw the right-turn green arrow (i am pretty sure i did lar) and the cars in the lane to my left were turning too. so of coz i will turn along with them lar, but i was driving at a speed faster than them so i was ahead but i couldn't see any oncoming cars travelling in the straight road as i was blocked. then when i was turning a black mitsubishi suddenly appeared and we just banged into each other. the dude's car spun one round and stopped while mine was fine lar. my car bumper just shifted upwards (the coolant, engine and stuff were fine), while the dude's rear passenger door was smashed inwards. i got out of the car shaking like shit and noticed that the green arrow was flickering (so it was green arrow when i turned and the dude was trying to dash an amber.)

anyway,the point is that he claimed that it was green light to his favour and i was turning right without looking. and i naiively believed him and kept apologising. until an uncle who was driving behind me told me that it was green arrow and he was going to be my witness. so yar, apparently i was in the right of way, just that i was travelling too fast for an inner lane. so hopefully the workshop i went to is going to do a good third party claim for me. and i wont need to pay a single cent lar or so they say. hm..they are like dubiously nice. sent me to where i wanted to go after i went to their workshop also. weird..

but yarlar.. i just want to let u guys know,please be careful driving on the roads. even though u may follow the rules, there may be people who dont so be aware. and dont freak when u get into an accident. take note of the person's particulars and the area where it happened and lodge ur insurance claim. ok, no photos though. coz i was like on the verge of breaking down already. accusing the witness and the workshop guy to be in cahoots (so stupid, why will they be anyway). haa.. so yup, drive safely!!

*edit*

i went to the workshop and took photos of my car bumper.haa..here goes..

@harry's

2007-05-10T14:18:00.000+08:00

hello everybodY! ahah.. sorry for the delay.. here are the pics! ben(jamin) took alot of pictures, but some are blur coz of the microlens.. nonetheless i uploaded everything :) pick and choose your fav! haha.. the star of the night is SIYING! haha.. you haf the most no. of shots.. :) okays here we go!

kristy!

nice pic of alex :)

siying #1

grouchy kristy.. :P

jiaho rubbing his eyes.. :) but this pic is a little blur..

kristy again.. nice shot! :)

siying #2

the guys looking at sth.. haha.. but i forgot wat it was.. :P

siying #3.. it was a mirror image..

siying #4.. play jh's magic trick.. :P

group pic.. but sy's the clearest in this pic, so it shall be siying #5 :)

jiaho again.. :)

alex again.. :P

looking at jh's wrist.. his new magic trick.. haha.. i wonder how he does it.. :P

group pic! sorry it's so blur.. :)

i had a great time pple! we shud meet up more often and just chill and tok kok.. :P mahjong too! mahjong mahjong!!!! :) oh btw i'm not free these 2 weekends.. got diving crash course this week, going tioman to dive next week! oohhh so excited! hope there would be many nice pictures to post too! ciao pplez!

Kelong outing..

2007-05-09T21:29:00.000+08:00

Guys credit to Alex he's got the kelong thing going so how's this itinerary? for more info go to http://sunplanners.com/kelong.htm. Seems exciting yeah and budgets low.

Itinerary
Day 1	Singapore / Tanjung Pinang (L/D)
0830 HRS	Assemble at Tanah Merah Ferry Terminal (TMFT) for your departure ferry to Tanjung Pinang (1.5 hrs).
0900 HRS	Boarding Time - depart to Tanjung Pinang.
1100 HRS	Arrival Tanjung Pinang Ferry Terminal and transfer to Kelon (approx. 30 mins). Shopping can be arranged upon request.
1200 HRS	Seafood Lunch will be served
1330 HRS	After lunch, let the activities begin!! There is a variety of recreational activities waiting for you. You can visit remote islands, canoe, Jet Ski, ride banana boat or experience the unique feeling of swimming in the middle of the sea in our indoor swimming pool (safely enclosed with safety net). For guests who prefer a more relaxing pace, we provide other activities such as karaoke, billiards, darts, fishing and mahjong. There is also a children's corner for kids. All activities listed above are free (except Jet Ski). We're confident our guests will find staying in our resort extremely good value for money.
1800 HRS	Dinner will be served. (BBQ Supper can be arrange with minimum group size of 20paxs.)

Day 2	Tanjung Pinang / Singapore (B/L)
	On your last day of stay (depending on whether it is 2D/1N or 3D/2N), 2.20pm, (Indonesian time) as departure time. Again our chauffeured jeeps will be waiting to take you back to Tanjung Pinang Ferry Terminal. From there, a guide will direct you back to the ferry entrance and you would reach Singapore about 1.5 hours later. Home Sweet Home!!

Rates
Internet Booking Rate (Min. 4 persons per group/departure)
Duration	Adult (Fan Room)	Child (Fan Room) (12 years & below)	Adult (Air-con Room)	Child (Air-con Room) (12 years & below)
2 Day 1 Night	S$140	S$85	S$145	S$90
3 Day 2 Night	S$200	S$120	S$210	S$130
Infant below the age of 3 years old is $18.00 Exclude: S$5 per person for passenger departure fee. S$5 per person for Fuel Surcharge & TPI & TP Terminal Fee at S$5.50 per person

Terms and Conditions:

Rates and itinerary may change with or without prior notice.
Please make your booking 7 days prior departure.
Customer is requested to check directly with the country embassies concerned to ensure fully Entry Visa (s) Compliance.
All booking will only be confirmed when all details are received and full payment have been acknowledged and accepted.
All booking is strictly via internet booking and mode of payment is either made by cheque or thru bank transfer. (Except for group booking of more than 10 persons)
Strictly no refund for cancellations. Postponement of traveling dates will not be entertained.
Sun New Planners reserves the right to terminate any bookings and transactions.

Article and open letter to our government by an ex-journalist

2007-05-09T21:04:00.000+08:00

My colleague AJ let me see this email chain that a friend of his sent to him. It has been making its way around emails now, and some of the ppl that it got sent to are rather prominent ppl (or so i'm told). It's just an alternative opinion unlike Andrew Xie's criticism so government censors, please don't make our employers sack us for this! lol..

Subject: Fw: My open letter to Govt on the ministers' pay and other matters

by Toon-Joo Yeo, Peter

Attached is my personal piece on this controversy, and the way Singapore is going, that I believe won't get published in official media here in Singapore. As it has found its way to the www I thought you, too, might wish to read and circulate it, i.e. if you think it's worth passing on.

If my views offend you, please trash my article and accept my apologies for sending it to you. As a die-hard ex- journalist and loyal Singaporean I cannot restrain myself from expressing concern for our beautiful country, and pray we won't have to mourn its short-lived greatness, especially now that we are going the way of past civilizations whose last days were characterized by bacchanalian living and a worship of things of the flesh, e.g. a loosening of morality - gambling, sex, wine and song, and fast living, and corruption in its many forms.
Let us pray for wisdom for our leaders, and for good, wise, convicted leaders for our country.

Is this the start of

Singapore

's decline?

Article and open letter to our government by an ex-journalist

Yeo Toon Joo, Peter, 61
Ex-news editor Straits Times
Ex-assistant editor New Nation
Ex-secretary general Singapore National Union of Journalists
Ex-owner of a public relations company and broadcast PR firm
Hon. Fellow, Institute of Public Relations of Singapore

If the People's Action Party were to call a general election now,
chances are it would lose a good number of seats to the opposition,
that is, if you could find able candidates to join the opposition.

If certain changes do not take place in the ruling party's style of
government, in time to come the PAP could lose power. That would be a
shame, a tragedy for Singapore. But so strong has been the political
backlash, and so great the people's outrage, over the government's
widely unpopular decision and persistence to reward its cabinet
ministers such handsome pay increases.

Dissenting and disapproving views over the latest round of ministerial
pay hike have been eloquently articulated, often sneeringly so, but
confined mainly to mass emailing and internet postings. The latest
salary revision will by next year nearly double each minister's
current remuneration, and bring it on average to nearly three times
that of US President George Bush's, five times in the case of Prime
Minister Lee Hsien Loong's.

Minister mentor Lee Kuan Yew had introduced in 1994 his formula of
pegging ministerial salaries to 80 per cent of that of the top earners
in six professions and businesses in Singapore. It gives Singapore
the unique status of having the world's highest paid political
leaders. Their individual salaries surpass by far those of leaders of
the world's largest and most successful economies.

MM Lee's reasons were that unless he paid top dollar for the best
brains he would not be able to attract good and talented people to
serve as leaders of the country, retain their services, or keep them
above corruption.

Problem is: he had been, for a long time now, looking for leaders in
the wrong places, and following a policy that discourages emergence of
potential ones. Some who entered the political fray had come a
cropper. Not a few have served long terms of incarceration for their
political beliefs or activities, others have had to flee the country
to live (or die) in exile abroad.

Someone had not so many years back said that the best way to corrupt a
person is to feed him so well you enslave him (did MM Lee say that?).

Ironically then, in his effort to ensure that his leaders remain above
corruption, he might have bought their souls.

From the relatively brief and muted parliament debate over this
burning issue, there seems to be some cracks within the ruling party's
own ranks. However mildly aired, there is, for sure, disquiet and
differences of opinion among some PAP members of parliament. Still,
what man of sound mind in Singapore would argue against being given a
personal pay rise that first jacks up his annual salary to around $1
million and soon to nearly $2 million?

Feed them so well, they will never rebel.

I love my Singapore, and am thankful for the remarkable progress and
prosperity it has achieved through the efforts of a stable and good
government. I am immensely grateful, too, to the group of people who
gave their all for the country in the pre-independence 1950s and our
early days of nationhood.

I remain a loyal Singaporean who once had aspirations to serve our
country, and did it initially (1960s and early 1970s) as a newspaper
journalist, and through the Singapore National Union of Journalists
and the National Trades Union Congress, of which SNUJ was affiliate.

I will carry to my grave, with great personal satisfaction, the memory
of having been part of the team that pulled off the first successful
workers' strike against a penny-pinching, ill-managed, callous Straits
Times Group of Newspapers.

That industrial action, over the Christmas period of 1971, resulted in
a fairer deal for several thousands of its employees in Malaysia and
Singapore. It was a time of baptism under fire for my SNUJ colleagues
and me. Some of us could have lost our jobs with no prospect of
working for another English language newspaper in Singapore as there
was none other.

The late Mr C V Devan Nair, leader of the National Trades Union
Congress and later President of Singapore, was one of my role models
and idols then. He had encouraged me as a union leader by helping to
open up and broaden my mind.

In one of our several intimate conversations he challenged me to join
the PAP. Later, someone suggested I joined an opposition party. But
partisan politics was not my cup of tea, more so as I was mindful of
the dangerous waters I would be plunging into. I also had little
desire for such public prominence.

Also, and alas, any zeal for committing further to community or
national leadership was quickly doused by a series of factors: one was
my loss of faith in the Straits Times Group as an honest news
organization. Mr Lee Kuan Yew helped put paid to it by his public
parading and glorification of people who were steeped in scholarship,
and humiliation of those who were not.

MM Lee, in searching for a second and then third generation of
leaders, started looking for them first in academia (we know how it
failed) and then to those who were government scholars.

At the same time we saw the hasty and, perhaps, premature retirement
of our earlier PAP political leaders who had fire in their bellies but
no multiple mortar boards on their head.

The harsh treatment of those with dissenting views, and slapping down
of those brazen enough to join battle with the PAP and MM Lee at the
hustings, quickly scared off those who thought they had something to
offer to the country, but not necessarily as part of the PAP political
apparatus.

Those with divergent, though not necessarily subversive, views were
unmercifully smacked down. Others, seduced by the comforts and
affluence their talents and training earned them in a prospering
society (feed them so well they will never rebel), soon lost their
idealism and passion for political sacrifice. It made political
engagement not only a perilous pursuit but a wanton risk of losing all
they had amassed materially, plus their personal freedom.

A PAP apologist recently condemned me for criticizing the incredible
pay hikes for our cabinet leaders that has no precedent or matching
model anywhere in the world.

"You can only criticize, but what's your solution?"

I believe I have something by way of solution, or at least an
alternative view to what Mr Lee Kuan Yew insists is the only way to
attract and nurture the right political leaders:

* Look for our future leaders not just among our scholastically
successful Singaporeans; academic excellence does not equate with
effective leadership. This quality might even disqualify a person
from leadership.
* Look for people with a good and stout heart, undying love for
Singapore and his/her fellowmen, and a burning desire to serve even at
huge personal sacrifice – people with compassion, fire in their belly,
grit in their gut, and steel in their back.
* Look for those who possess and exhibit the many other qualities of
leadership. A yen for scholarship (at government's expense) alone is
a poor prerequisite of leadership. Encouraging scholarship of our
bright students through the lure of career and financial success could
produce either more scholarship bond breakers or those who will work
only for lucre (for those are the values you promote).
* If you encourage our government scholars to cherish high income, in
a society exhorted to worship financial success, you will have to pay
big bucks to get them to join your PAP ministerial ranks – definitely
not the people you need or want to lead our country and inspire our
countrymen.
* Rethink government policy, enunciated by MM Lee Kuan Yew, of
encouraging potential leaders to chart their paths through the Armed
Forces (with an SAF scholarship), then a stint in the civil service, a
short spell in the private sector, and then to the PAP cabinet. You
produce less open minded people who might possess a one-dimensional
perspective of the world, a common mind set. Such a policy deprives
you the services and creativity swimming so abundantly in the vast
reservoir of talents out there in the real world. The military
promotes obedience, viz. "Charge of the Light Brigade". You could end
up with people paid well enough and sufficiently smart either to not
charge with you – or charge blindly even when good sense tells them
they should not.
* By all means encourage elitism but do not ridicule those who have
interests and talents that are not skewed towards pursuit of a PhD. I
cite one example of how MM Lee a few elections ago disparagingly
compared the not as impressive academic achievements of our loyal
opposition member, Mr Chiam See Tong, to those of his bright young
submissive scholars.
* Do not intimidate or beat down all dissenters or those with
alternative views, but judge them on their integrity, and do not swamp
and swallow up those with potential for leadership into the PAP and
high ministerial salaries. You end up with many 'yes' men.
* Open up the minds of Singaporeans by not controlling so rigidly the
flow of information about their own country, whatever its flaws and
foibles.
* Put in place committed, honest, mature and trained journalists over
your mass media organizations, people with a feel for the ground and
popular feeling, people trained in journalism (not just in academia)
and bold enough to launch investigative journalistic enquiry that aid
thinking and intelligent decision making by Singapore's people. If
you find them do not stifle them. NOTE: such control of the press
deprives you of an essential source of accurate feedback, and
surrounds you with sycophantic counsel akin to that of the king with
no clothes. The current mass media situation has encouraged a
flourishing of emailing and postings on cyber space; they contain
useful information as well as misinformation and disinformation,
including ranting by irresponsible people.
* Let MM Lee's quest for self-renewal verily proceed. He should let
the people he personally chose or vetted, take over fully. Let them
err, let them rule (when is the appropriate time for this to happen?).
MM Lee did not have a mentor to minister to him and his colleagues
in the tumultuous days of pre- and early post-independence – and did
not flounder.

I am no political scientist, nor your scholastic type. But I have not
been disabled from seeing another view to tackling our problem: there
is no lack of leaders, only a lack of desire. Perhaps, there is a
hesitation prompted by what is called fear.

We, in our immensely successful Singapore, owe much to MM Lee and his
colleagues. There are many Singaporeans who want to cherish his legacy.

If the current controversy fuels more of the dangerous and divergent
views and anti-government sentiments (even hatred) that have surfaced
among our Singapore population, our remarkable success as a country
could prove ephemeral. Singapore, especially with the Government's
now liberal approach to matters of morality, could be another sad
story of the decline and fall of a fledgling civilization. If that
happens, we would, as the late Mr G G Thompson, director of the
Singapore Political Study Centre once said, cause merely a small yawn
in the world. We need not let that happen.

spidey-sense

2007-05-08T19:59:00.000+08:00

heheh another work frm http://ctrlaltdel-online.com . gogo spidey!

2007-05-06T12:01:00.000+08:00

after a gruelling month of examinations, the girls are finally freed from the clutches of evil and can meet up with the guys who kept asking them out during the exam period. tsk. ok lar, we pangseh jiaho for dinner first coz none of the guys were free..so it's nydc time for us! then harry's bar later at night.

Kristy dear braved a massive jam on the road and trudged her way to wheelock after training to meet us!tired ar..

we're always always sitting like this.jay n kristy then me n sisi.haa..

here's a nice photo of camera-shy sisi!good job jay!

sumptuous food at nydc~ thanku jay for the treat!

kristy takes good pictures.haa..

and later on, at holland v....liangjun was so lost lar..haa..think he got pissed trying to find his way there from the east.haa..but liangjun, all of us are westies now so u got to get used to it! haa..

check out alex's rings!u naruto fan.haaa..

complimentary peanuts that kristy doesn't like but still finished anyway.haa..

and the guys. benjamin was nice enough to drop by to join us too!

rest of the photos are with jay. yea, it was a fun night! probably try not to have late night gatherings lar..haa..kristy was a sleeping babe at the bar most of the time.haa..

Roadtrip discussion

2007-04-24T00:18:00.000+08:00

To all of the people who rejected us on saturday, here's a picture to make you feel extremely guilty.

LJ, Alex and I have been meeting up recently..guess theres a badminton bug going on so far! For i think..maybe 3 weeks we've been playing and swimming at Jurong West Sports Complex all the time, so do come join us if ur free! Poor LJ makes the long Journey to the West almost every saturday..and within the deceptively evil carpark lurks numerous wardens ready to jump when they realize the covered carpark tricked you into thinking that you've passed through a gantry..here's one poor sod who got slapped with a 30$ saman!

In return I suppose we had to justify the 30$ deficit to LJ's wallet, so we gathered our heads together in a bid to return the parking warden's favour. Note the suspicious pile of banana skins lying on the floor. I suppose we probably found it lying there right before we left. :)

Anyways, I'm just randomly blogging cause I can't sleep!! I've just left my Citibank job and my first day of slacking at home was horrigibly boring! Nobody to talk to..and I've lost all interest in my games! *scream* Someone date me out!!

Okay, back to business. Regarding the Roadtrip/s73 Outing 2007, us 3 have thrown out a few ideas, so we're open for discussion. Right now the idea is that we'll be renting a MPV/Sedan *Proton, so you don't needa worry* and heading out through the West Malaysian Expressway down to a unascertained destination as of yet. The idea would be for us to have a vacation a la Mr. Bean's Holiday, to have fun along the way and making pitstops down every place of interest and town to eat and shop before having a big finale at our destination, say like a barbecue or a day at the spa of a beach resort. You know, things you can easily do at this age but be laughed at if you try it when you're 30+ :P

There'll be details we need to smooth out, but as of now the drivers of the pack shall be LJ, Alew and me. Don't worry, we all have practical lessons on the road before, and have at least ferried people around safely, so you all need not worry! I'm thinking of Malacca as our final destination, but Alew thinks it'll be too short a journey for us to enjoy anything along the way..so we're still open for ideas! Itinery wise, we need a bit more expertise on what fun things along the way we can do, so everything is still sketchy at the moment. All we know is that it should be happening somewhere around mid May, over the weekend for at least 3-4 days..so do post your comments and we'll discuss more on this on our next swim. By the way, we intend to leave this trip budgety, so do expect night-driving and cheap lodging, but a whole load of fun! Let's make this trip happen..I think it'll be fun not because of where or what we're doing...but mainly because we're all gonna do it together as a class..

So what say you!?

EXAMS! STRESS! HELP!!!

2007-04-18T14:19:00.000+08:00

OMG! finally finished my first paper AERODYNAMICS 1.
had lagged alot since the beginning of the semester and is doing alot of catching up these 2 weeks. In fact, i had actually turned down many of LJ's invite to his house for MJ!! cant believe myself, but it's smth i hafta do unless i wanna DABAO (just to explain DABAO means takeaway in chi. n in ntu, to DABAO also means takeaway.. takeaway the module from this sem to next sem >> FAIL!) well, had been really stressed about my work and projects these days. had 3 left only 1 week from the exams. This semester is a killer. Oh well, at least i've cleared one (5more to go) so i tot i shld jus come relax a bit.

Heard tt we r planning a trip in june? i would really love to go. but for those who know my family, u'll probably know tt i'm still pretty "ignorant" & "too young" to travel alone.. or mayb due to "terrorist", "conflicts" or mayb weird plane crashes like those in LOST. im just still a kid in their eyes. but i'll try to convince them o cos. As for e destination, keep it to a low budget? i dun think i haf any savings. lol.

Anyway... i MISSED U GUYS! somehow time seems to past really fast in uni. ppl rushin here and there. prof rushin thru lectures, students rushin thru projects.. 2 years already and i'm still not used to it. N the ppl here, sometimes feel tt the ppl i meet now are not as true to u as before. u seem to know them.. but they act differently. dunno who are my frens. :(

i had tot o alot of things to say 30min ago. but it seems tt i took 25min jus to sign in and i forgot wat i wanted to say. ha. Y do i always take so long to sign in!?

so in general, just wanna say that i miss u guys. hope to meet up soon. hope exams end soon. oh, now that i rem.. after my exams i actually haf this EID thing >> Engineering Innovative Design? cant rem wat i means but effectively just means PROJECT. so.. life doesnt seem to easy even after the exams. SIGH! i feel so demoralised. Good luck for EXAMS girls! Guys, Good luck in Jioing girls! until exams end..

hong.

P.S: i took 30 min to read thru e past posts and i havent finished. well done peeps. ;p

Gathering of Heroes (who are extremely thirstly for sweet revenge)

2007-04-08T23:08:00.000+08:00

A night of many emotions... of fear, of joy, of revenge, of desire...
A night that seems the same, yet will be not...
A night that could change the lives of four...

NG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ungh. Need to put more than 10s next time.

Er-hem. Anyway...

A night of 4 masculine-deliciously-good-looking photo-whores flirt with luck and each other's mind.

A night filled with style, magic, plot twists, raunchy topics, gossip, alcohol, blatant cheating (and not), table-flipping, fistfights, kung-fu, bullet-time, and fast-paced action.

A night of, Mahjong.

al

Holiday woes..

2007-04-07T16:54:00.000+08:00

Alrighty now that QZ-the-god-of-argumentative-essays has made a stand and Mrs Goh has summed it all up so diplomatically, I suppose that we can come to a conclusion that:

(Main point) Looks are important, but it's not everything that a girl looks for in a guy, or vice versa.

(Example 1) Orchard Road
(Example 2) Bugis Junction
(Example 3) Sec sch, JC, Poly, Uni, Working place

For the format of the paragraph what else is there after example? can't seem to remember.. haha.. summarize the main point again?

Anyway gotta thank everybody for the posts man! been a very lively discussion and many classmates whom we thought had lost contact with the blog had been roped back in to contribute. Real glad from the responses of all! But there is room for more frequent posts from many more ppl so please spread the word to the rest that we have something going on here k!

Yeah, so moving on to a more tangible and pressing matter at hand is.. to plan for our holiday!

So the girls start their holidays in May? And TH too? What's everybodies budget? Personally I've got a little savings from not travelling much after NS so i don't mind going to far away lands like the Artic or Antartica, USA or europe (but preferably Eastern Europe. More exotic and cheaper i guess..) But of course, there are many places in the region that are beggin for a visit too. How long the duration do you all have in mind?

Some ideas for places far away..

1) USA to visit Tian Han? Mr Wang can play the guide! and we can play bridge again! haha.. Any recommendations on where to visit, TH? Saw on www.frommers.com, "Frommer's Top Travel Destinations for 2007"

Minneapolis, Minnesota

A Midwestern city already known for its gorgeous city layout and its fine arts community, Minneapolis is experiencing a cutting-edge design boom. The blockbuster new Guthrie Theater (now located in the Mill District along the Mississippi River) is a sight to behold -- a sleek, dark-blue steel building designed by the architect Jean Nouvel. The Walker Art Center has been expanded and also in the works is an addition to the Frank Gehry-designed Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota, which some say evokes his later, more famous Guggenheiim Bilbao. Though winters are harsh, Minneapolis is a fantastic place to be outside. Alongside the Mississippi is a series of lakes that wind through downtown, where you can bike, jog, or just hang out. The Guthrie's new location, with its spectacular views of St. Anthony Falls, is also bringing more traffic to this neighborhood, in addition to shops and restaurants.

This might be near your uni Th so what say you?

2) For those who like medieval culture..

Krakow, Poland

Amazingly, Krakow -- the capital until 1609 -- survived the destruction that befell the rest of the country during WWII and is now, with its amazing historic landmarks, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Among the things to see are the gargoyle-bedecked Sukiennice (Cloth Hall), a medieval covered market still bustling with tourists and street vendors; Wawel, the royal castle; and the 14th-century Gothic Kosciól Mariacki (St. Mary's Basilica), with its intricate spires. Wandering the cobblestone streets of the Old Town (Stare Miasto), aged landmarks coexist amid a modern shopping scene. The town may have a rich history, but it has its feet firmly in the modern world -- wireless internet access is everywhere, and festivals throughout the year (especially in summer months) showcase cutting-edge music and theater. Look for our first-edition Frommer's guide to Eastern Europe, which releases in March of 2007

3) We could also go to some other North or South American Country..

Panama

Panama has much of the same appeal as a destination like Costa Rica -- rainforests, volcanoes, and snorkeling. Panama City is the only metropolis that has a rainforest within the city limits, and on a clear day, hikers at the summit of Volcán Barú can often see both oceans at the same time. Isla Coiba, once home to a penal colony, is now part of a national park and UNESCO World Heritage Site that has the second-largest coral reef in the eastern Pacific. Here, you can see sharks, dolphins, turtles, whales and other big marine life. For a tropical beach experience, go to one (or several) of the 1,500 islands off the Pacific and Atlantic coasts. To get to Panama, you can fly directly from the U.S. on American Airlines, through Miami, and on Delta, through Atlanta. For more, see our first-edition Frommer's guide to Panama, releasing in Dec. 2006.

Though there'll be some planning needed to such an expedition.

Well, if I were to choose from some faraway region it would be Panama.. It sounds exotic enough.. As you might have realised by now, i base my judgement from Frommers. haha.. I know NUTS about travelling and I've never backpacked or even gone on a trip overseas without a tour agency taking care of everything! I'm a typical spoilt city dweller with no taste of adventure, but I hope to use this opportunity to set things right in my life and to experience some excitement. lol..

Well of course everybody please do some posting for ideas.. The above are strictly some sort of.. "fantasized" ideas by me, ones that are quite unlikely, but I've roughly given my take on it and if the response is good than, why not?

But the bottomline is, I'm fine for anything, and seriously won't mind going to Batam or Bintan or Sabah or HK or Vietnam or sth.Somewhere, anywhere, will do, just, somebody GET ME OUTTA HERE!!

LJ

Girls with more character

2007-04-07T00:18:00.000+08:00

Wow, so interesting. I like this discussion, this blog is so active. Must thank Siying! :-)

Good to see Dilys, Jiaho, Jaymie (right?) etc posting. Who is the prev one?

Very true Jaymie. Often, those girls who are not super beautiful know that, and they will, from young, try to build up their inner beauty. So very often these girls would be either very successful in their careers, studies, sports or whatever field. And they tend to have more qualities like compassion, kindness, diligence...

I know there are a lot of bimbo blonde jokes and I like to believe there are beautiful and smart girls too. I am just saying you are right, many girls who are super beautiful tend to be showered with attention since young and they may lack the opportunities to acquire qualities mentioned above. But not so pretty girls would have plenty of chances to do so.

So Jaymie and Siying are being true friends to you guys actually, by reminding you, when you are choosing a life partner, you really have to look beyond outer beauty. I guess you guys already know that for I have been informed by my close guy friends that chasing girls for fun before getting married involves only one criterion - must be hot. But when choosing life partner, then they have more to consider. Why else would a particular good friend of mine, who is good-looking himself, and had countless hot girlfriends in the past, remain unmarried, still looking for the right one?

Be careful about changing too many "hot" girlfriends too. The truly virtuous girls might also give you a pass, even though she may like you, because she may think you only like that type. You would really need a wife who is virtuous and smart you know, if you want to be successful. No need to remind, but here goes, "Behind every successful man, there is a woman." That woman cannot be someone who spends all her time in spas, or cannot be someone who can't hold her own while discussing your career options or handling finances etc. In fact, someone simpler will help you save a lot of money. Then you will live more comfortably too.

I also recall asking you all how many kids you want to have in future, suddenly struck me... haha, think it was during a CT session. Anyway for those guys who want kids, you have to choose someone who you think will make a good mother too.

Yup, so go ahead and gain life experiences now. When you are thinking of settling down, remember this discussion and what your true friends/ and tr have mentioned. And invite us to your weddings ya! :-)

2007-04-06T23:13:00.000+08:00

For some reason which I can't justify, I always thought that I'd begin leaving posts after I fly off in Sep. Probably it's for that stunning dramatic after-taste bolstered by the imagined geographical segregation :) (Yes I have had all that planned out) The fact is against popular belief, I do check back to the blog pretty frequently, albeit a furtive observer. However, Jiaho's last circumlocatory post left me with no choice but to break through that self-imposed barrier of reservation :P (sorry bro, I need a springboard to get me started... gotta sacrifice you)

It seems that the topic latched on pretty well to our primal instincts :) Everything contributed earlier made perfect sense, but the beauty of it all is that EVERYTHING makes sense, and there's still so much more to this meaty subject. It's more than an individual's principles, values or his/her biological components ticking against his/her will (Brain VS Pants). It's about the responsibility an individual holds to society at large, or in other words, the social contract that binds all of us as minute little gears, nuts and bolts in the massive machinery of a functioning society.

I am positive that all will agree with me when I say one's free to do whatever he/ she wishes to do as long as that action doesn't infringe on the right/s of other/s in this tight-knit society. I can choose to home in on looks, to pump weights, to intravenously plug myself to a protein shaker 24 hours a day, to subject every inch of observable skin patch to Botox as long as I'm doing it out of my own will and while at it, not harming any 3rd party in the process. Extending the logic, if one chooses to make choices based on perceivable appeal, that is his/ her freedom, the society can't do much about it as there is noone else he has to be accountable to other than himself. The situation only gets tricky if that choice involves the well-being of a 2nd human being.

Hereby referring specifically to Siying's initial post, it is ultimately an issue of whether this individual should be held accountable against a subsequent choice (ie. break up) made when it runs contrary to the first one (ie. initial proposal for courtship). To some level, I will agree that he/ she has to be responsible. But how exactly are compensations made when it involves emotions? If there is such a thing as a gauge to the amount of emotions that has to be paid back, then I would say by all means. However if there is such a thing, then love wouldn't be as electrifying wouldn't you agree? :)

Ultimately we have to admit that we're smack in the middle of the cliched 'grey area', the bottomline being you having to be accountable to your own decisions and choices made. If you take a closer look, this isn't a subject on external appeal VS internal appeal, bosom VS brain, reproductive need VS moral righteousness etc etc. Everyone and I mean EVERYONE has the liberty to procrastinate on that and come to his/her own conclusion on what he/ she deems as definitive in the selection of a soulmate. The question here is about whether a responsibility has to be borne in the event that someone gets hurt (and I hope you realise that even 'hurt' is immensely difficult to define much less to be measured against a benchmark of some sort). It would have been a yes if only you can come up with a way telling me how :)

Hope it provides some food for thought. And btw, it's my birthday today :D

2007-04-06T20:01:00.000+08:00

Haa..wow @ the enormous list of replies today! I suppose, like Dilys, I've been too lazy to get about writing and have been following the discussion instead. Perhaps I should add the third guy's opinion on the issue, but nonetheless due to how volatile this issue is, let me add my very own disclaimer: some things might appear slightly immoral/politically incorrect/ assholic, so hope i don't get bombed for this!

Back to the original issue..as per what siying said, some guys come along one day and say, "i'm breakin up with my gf cause she's not pretty enough" Practically we can see it on the superficial side, taking it literally as the girl being not attractive enough as deemed by the media trend. Take for example: the Dove commercial everytime you catch a movie, or the thought-provoking advertisement on the bus. There are several trends in this world that many people consider pretty, like the fact that the majority of the public feel that its a necessity for one to have 双眼皮, or suffer anorexically to attain a stick-thin figure for a woman to be truly called a beauty who launches a thousand ships.

It's not as simple as in the animal world; frogs and birds have simple phenotypes that just need to be gaudy to attract mates, but as humans, we have many intangible factors to consider when we search for a partner, not withstricted to the size of the bosom or the gluteus maximus.So I suppose my stick would be..not whether the girl's prettiness adheres to the societal precedence towards a certain trend, but about how the girl presents herself to each individual. Surely, it is a definite yes that good looks, no matter how grey that area can be defined, are the initiating factor that fires off the synapses of a man's brain. We naturally will be interested in females who appeal to our very own definition of lovely, no matter how skewed or warped it might be. Some of us look out for curvy figures, some for a well sculpted, symmetrical face, or some tend to sway towards ladies with gorgeous length legs. Some like the chilli-padiesque girl, while some hit on the elegant ladies with that poise. Some hit the jackpot by getting all of the above, but as what Dilys said, what matters more is the inner beauty. Sure, it sounds cliche and so very hypocritical of me as another hot-blooded bachelor to say so when in essence, the 4 of us left in singapore still gawk at pretty ladies down Orchard, or gush about how goddess-like Felicia Chin may be to each other.

Okay, back to the issue before I move off tangent. What siying commented about us as being humans, that not everything has to be dictated by primal instinct is pretty true especially when we are capable of higher levels of cognition..otherwise we would be apes who fall out of trees alot. Nonetheless allow me to speak a word of defence fo the general male population..that sometimes we, no matter how highly educated or well mannered, are ruled by a dominant part of the brain that lies down in the groin area. When you see men go gaga and act idiotic in the party of women, that's Mr. Pants taking over..and theres nothing Brain can do about it. Truly, it is primal/human instinct that such parts of the brain have higher priority in the pecking order of thought, but think of it another way; we don't "grab and shag" like animals do, thats the least Brain can do for us! Like many of my brethren would always say..hey we're only human..
K...my final parting shot before I leave for Mahjong at LJ's again! Sometimes us guys agree, and sometimes we don't on how pretty a good looks. One might think she's hot, one might think she's ugly. That's how the quirks of our mind functions: Each of us have our definition of beauty no matter how skewed it would be in the world of plastic surgery, mass media and computer airbrushwork. The initial attraction and urge to get the number of that lady sitting opposite you would almost 100%ly be attributed to how good she looks, regardless Plain Jane or not according to societal standards *hehe LJ..*, but later on, prettiness would then transform itself in the eyes of the beholder. This is a far and very skewed example, but when the aforementioned guy says his gf is not pretty enough, he is insinuating that she is not attractive enough to him. Sure, he can go at lengths to reason that she is inadequate in this department, or severely well endowed in other unwanted ones, but this could also mean that the girl just didn't let her inner beauty shine through to, crudely again, take him by the balls. Does this mean its the girl's fault? Neither would it be, for it takes 2 hands to clap.

So let me end my post without inflamatory material...everybody has their obvious and hidden strengths. Every girl is beautiful, one way or another, and in a biblical view that every woman is forged from the rib of a man, I'm pretty sure as heck that man is hunting for his missing rib *damnnit...where the ****'s that rib!!!!* It only takes a glance from a girl to set a guy's heart aflutter, but it would need more than that look to keep our hearts from hitting ground zero.

Yup's that's my skewed take on beauty. We should send this whole thread down to Dove, we might win something! *will make LJ take pictures of Mahjong this time..seeya all soon!*

2007-04-06T13:56:00.000+08:00

whoa! it's pretty cool having so many long essays suddenly on the blog regarding what i wrote. but i always end up seeing white and black lines after reading off the blog. er.. like some optical illusion thingy. font too small lar. bad for eyes. haaa..

anyway, about the biological thingy..i know it's something i can't deny. it's true we are animals and we do have animal instincts. but the key thing is..... aren't we humans too? aren't we supposedly on the top of the food chain and aren't we supposedly 'more superior' to other animals? we have a brain, we have ideas, we have a heart, we have emotions. so why are we still allowing ourselves to be led by the nose by the animal side of us. why cant we let the human, thinking, compassionate side of us take over instead? if we're dependent on our animal instincts, we probably should be bearing children like nobody's business (propagate genes), changing mates all the time to ensure better genes and fighting all out to be the alpha male or something like that. since we're not exactly doing what the animals in the animal kingdom are doing, it probably shows we are slightly different in that we have another side of us that can dominate our animal instincts.. so i think hor, not very fair to always blame it on the animal side of us lar.. haa.. like that then we're like cows and horses lor. haa.. probably its the conflict between these sides of us that pple are in dilemma of how important looks should be.

anyway, i'm just really glad to see responses from you guys that even though looks are important, what's inside is of much more importance to u guys. thankfully! it's like a ray of light in this harsh world. haa.. i guess we can't really blame society or blame anyone who sets the high standards, we can only blame ourselves if we succumb to it. it's true, love yourself, have a higher self esteem and life will be so much easier on you.

as quoted from a friend ' you are loved not because you deserve it/ earn it/ or should be loved. you are loved just because you are. just because'. i thought it was really heartwarming to know that there are people out there who will love you no matter what. and thank you my jiemeis coz i know i'll always be comfortable around you no matter how i look like. =] thank you mrs goh and dilys too! glad to have girls like u two around. haa.. and liangjun and alex, looks may be important, but be careful........it's not everything. haa.. and i think unless u're one damn good looking model like hunk, it's probably not wise to be so picky. haa.. not that u two arent good looking lar!! yarlar~

study time.................

2007-04-06T11:46:00.000+08:00

whoa! posts have been flying here and there, my hands are ITCHY and i've decided to write sth.. :P pardon me for my not-so-good english coz i dun need lots of vocab to write scientific reports.. haha.. and i'm mugging apoptosis and cell signalling now.. so all i noe now are the different abbrev. of the different components.. :)

well, the point bout guys who only fancy pretty girls with the perfect figure.. i totally agree with that.. look at the couples on the streets.. you might see pretty girls with not-so-good-looking guys, but very seldom do you see guys with not-so-good-looking girls.. i've come to terms with it.. coz i believe it's in their blood.. it's an innate thing, almost like an animal instinct..

for myself, i'm definitely not on the pretty girl list.. it makes me feel inferior sometimes too, looking at girls out there who have the perfect figure and looks.. but on the flip side of the coin, i guess it has made me less superficial too.. as much as i want pple to look at my personality and inner beauty, i do the same to others.. i dun usually judge pple by their looks, unless you haf a super kiam-pa face.. hahaa!! my point is, looks are definitely impt, but if we girls are not blessed with it, we should look at it from another point of view.. count our blessings that we were able to grow in other areas in terms of values and thinking (physically too if you go for plastic surgery la!:P) if you're pretty, just be mindful not to abuse it.. if you're not, just let your personality and character shine.. it's a journey of building up our self esteem, as i always tell siying.. :) i'm still learning how to comfortable in my own skin..

putting it crudely, if guys are looking for pretty girls to be their gfs, and if they eventually marry them, i think the guys would suffer! haha.. if a girl is so obssessed with her looks, wat makes you think she'll do the laundry and dishes coz they kill her nails!? are you gonna wait for her for an hr just so that she can make her make up perfect? once or twice maybe, but more than that? i guess guys haf different standards when they're looking for girlfriends and wives.. guys our age are prob still going for looks, coz they're not out for a stable relationship.. it's the "we're still young! can afford to play around for a few more years!" kind of mentality.. haha.. i'm not attacking you LJ! i noe your kuan4, and i'm willing to embrace it coz you're my friend.. :) i'm just making a general statement.. :)

ok.. i think my post is less cheem than the others.. :P but wat i wanna say is that girls who are not born with the looks, just learn how to be comfortable with yourself.. there are alot of guys out there who are superficial, but there are many who're not too.. :) i like wat mrs goh said, that as long as we look clean and pleasent, it's good enuff.. as much as we wanna look better, we shudn't be too obsessed with it.. to tell the truth, i still dunno how to put on make-up! haha.. everytime i need to do it, i'll beg my sis to help me.. :P to me, looks dun last, coz we'll eventually all grow old and haf saggy skin and wrinkles and grow fat and haf ugly hair and ugly skin and ugly everything... but if you're able to see yourself as beautiful, no matter how fugly you may morph into in future when you grow old, you'll still see yourself as beautifuL! well, that would definitely make me very happie in future when i sit on my rocking chair.. :)

ok i better go back to mugging.. oh btw, LJ! my senior's a MSU finalist you noe! contestant no. 6, tay yiming.. haha.. she's the hot girl in school with never ending legs.. and NO i'm not going to intro you to her coz she's taken! :) haha..

so come on girls! we shudn't let men make us feel inferior coz we're not pretty enuff, but we shud make them feel inferior coz they're so superficial! ahhaha.. :P

2007-04-06T11:37:00.000+08:00

Wow this is so amazing.. so many essays flying around in the class blog.. but I shall not attempt to write an essay lest I reveal too many flaws in my writing.. haha.. the class blog is getting so happening with alex’s mouth watering delicious pics n the beautiful sceneries and the interesting train of thoughts following siying’s question.. and glad to see Mrs goh’s frequent posting-at-the-expense-of-household chores.. haha.. have been reading the class blog every now n then but often, I juz feel too lazy to write..

Hmm.. guess that both inner and outer beauty are impt but when choosing a mate, guess the former should be the more prominent criteria? Cos after all, outer beauty is not everlasting, 10-30 yrs down the road, your partner may grow old and may not look as gd as be4 but it’s the inner beauty that will stay within him/her or maybe it should be that inner beauty within a person that make u choose him/her as your life-long mate in the very first place.. anyway to truly love a person includes loving his/her everything including his/her flaws =)

Ok that’s juz my 2-cents worth of thoughts..

It’s the time of the yr when exams are nearing again.. hate exams.. just had a pharmaco test which requires us (pharmacy n nursing students) to memorize many many many many drug names, and requiring us to attempt a total of 120 questions in 50 mins! Yes, pure intense memory work, so dumb.. ok shall stop my complains here.. bet kristy is gg thru worst stuff as compared to us.. haha.. but looking at the bright side of life as we r always told to do so, the 3 months holidays are nearing too! Yeah a 1 month SEP awaits me! Yeah can’t wait for the exams to be over though I am slacking away like it’s post-exams already! Haha..

Ok take care pplz! ^_^

dilys

Genes and looks

2007-04-06T04:40:00.000+08:00

haha, LJ, i liked your part on the biological aspect. i was contemplating putting in down yesterday in my post but thought you guys might switch off and think "there she goes again, want to remind us of the horrible A level Bio"... :-)

well glad you mentioned it. and i am certainly happy you retained your knowledge..
true, in the animal world, appearances (or the phenotype) would be a good indication of health and Vigour.

so a peacock with a grand tail would signify to the female, hey you see, i had enough resources left over and great fitness such that i can grow such a magnificent tail. and this means our sons will have great tails and we can carry on the family line indefinitely.

there are plenty other animal egs but they may bore you...

so for humans, where do the impt assets males consider come in? Warning: below contains explicit words. if you think you would like it, do not read further... if you read further, pls be reminded i am a Biology tr and take it in a bio way.

big bums/ hips. aka curves. they are considered sexy now, but used to be impt indicators of how well a woman can bear children. the wider the hips = bigger pelvic bones = easy to bear children (many many of them, and big ones too). of course now we have C-sect and so Mrs Mag Tan could give birth to Clarence who was 4.5kg big!! I have a small frame too, but my kids were small babies anyway. :-) Well, good thing Mr Goh didn't use this as his criterion when choosing a mate! :-)

big breasts. aka voluptuous like LJ said, or curvy tooo, as above. used to be impt indicator of the ability to nurse babies. the larger the breasts, the more milk... actually now, recent studies have proved that women with small breasts can equally breastfeed very well and can have very fat babies due to demand-supply. i.e. if baby feeds a lot, the body naturally produces more milk to supply the baby. so well, that's now. anyway in the long ago past it wasn't a sex object, and people generally felt if breasts are bigger then there'd be more milk. since bigger breasts means more fatty tissue and glands, more glands means can produce more milk. yup, that kind of logic.

then of course, after that, perhaps the facial features are next impt, and then quality of skin, that kind of things, which will indicate health and vigour. eyes are impt, because from the eyes a lot of diseases can be diagnosed. like jaundice. haha, poor example, but anyway if a person is sick, you really can tell from the eyes. they are yellow or bloodshot and well, just not sparkling. symmetry of the face too... shan't go into the lips discussion, some of you may find it disgusting.

anyway, ya, glad you brought it up LJ. although yesterday's post and today's have made me super behind time in my housework. haha

off to do laundry now.

A response, perhaps?

2007-04-06T00:08:00.000+08:00

wow, been checking in to the blog a few times these few days but only for short periods of time. and I was always stuck at Alex's delicious photos.. Sorry Mrs Goh and Tian Han if I sounded too offensive! Didn't mean to.. Just practicing my composition skills.. I'm kinda lousy at choosing words now.. haha..

Erm regarding Siying's post.. While Mrs Goh gave her trillion pounds worth, let me give my half-a-rupiah's worth to add to the tally of the guys' responses.. (pathetically 2 so far :( Nah just kidding, we're the only REAL guys here so its full attendance. :p )

Well I must say that, yes, we are hypocrites in the sense of what you (Siying) said, you know.. we always say looks don't matter but we obviously (no pun intended) favour the better looking ones.

I guess why we say looks don't matter and instead, inner beauty does, is that, we want to sound morally, politically, socially, ethically and whatever-ially correct. Truth be told, I for one, as you all know so well, am a hot blooded male, single and on the cusp of adult bachelorhood
(actually not really.. been a bachelor for quite a while now..but for the sake of keeping my vocab well oiled for uni use, I couldn't resist using the word cusp)
AND I am always on the prowl for pretty girls..
(again, pardon me for sounding offensive.. I could think of no better word..)
The fact is plain for all to see. Guys like me are always going after the bimbotic pageant girl for a quality that the plain Jane CANNOT choose to alter/is born with.. no matter how much smarter, kinder, or more good manners she has. This is seen as an uneven playing field to these ladies.. and for every Ms Universe out there, there are a thousand other plain Jane's around. Being truthful and directly forthright that, you know, i'm not going to go after you because someone's more pretty than you, is going to earn you the wrath of the thousand or more mentioned above.. and so, to sound compassionate and sensitive, we obviously condemn the outspoken, so-called "superficial" people, therefore APPEARING magnanimous and thus hypocritical.

I choose to explain why we favour better looking ones from a biological point of view. Humans, like animals (whether of male or female gender), tend to favour the opposite sex with a so-called, erm.. perceived, greater ability to reproduce. And it just so happens that, in my opinion, looking beautiful or handsome is associated with greater reproductive ability/ increased chances of offspring surviving/ increased chances of offspring finding potential mates so THEY themselves can have increased chances of reproducing, to carry on the species line. For males, a hunkier guy is seen to be able to provide security and protection to the weaker sex. (my male ego is at play.. no apologies for that though, women ARE the physically weaker sex.) For females, a voluptous woman is thought to be more suited to giving birth, as compared to, say, a skinny, bamboo thin girl, or obese, high blood pressure woman etc..Hence, simply put, humans prefer the better looking people for no particular reason except by the genes with which we are programmed with (or is it coded, or expressed, or phenoty-pefied with), and through my own research in the encyclopedia of my own brain, this is a natural phenomenon consistent throughout all living organisms.

As Mrs Goh says, "when we are more confident, have high self-esteem...happy, you naturally have a glow, and then your partner will think you are beautiful" and I definitely agree, fervently, that these are also important leading factors to have when choosing a potential mate. Again from a biological/natural viewpoint, I believe that a self-assured person is an attractive person who will inadvertently signal to a potential mate that, (to put it crudely) hey! mate with me and we can have many healthy children! In other words, the opposite sex will naturally go for the ones that they think can increase their chances of reproduction because this self-assuredness implies a stronger will to survive and hence reproduce.

TO CONCLUDE, looks play a very, very, VERY vital role in choosing partners BUT I feel that if one is not blessed with this quality, it is still not a cause for despair.. After all, there can only be one Ms Universe/Ms world, and the majority always wins.. Ok just kidding.. but you get my point..

LJ

Looks?

2007-04-05T14:45:00.000+08:00

Hey guys, no replies to siying's post? except for alex's tag?

well, siying, i am not a guy, but i've got some comments. although i am no wiser than you guys, i am older---hmm, let's see you guys are 03S73, i'm from 94S73, so I am 9 yrs older... ok. here's my 2 cents worth (from a little more experience in life)

my parents brought me up to regard looks as superficial too. so does my religion. both have always encouraged me to build on inner beauty only. aiyah once you see my childhood photos you'll see.. my mom dress me in tees and shorts mostly, no princess studio shots (like other girls)... cut hair also she cut for me until i went to NY still she cut...

as i grew up and went to school, i realised that reality is that people have a first impression of you and it sticks, and first impressions are based on looks. it can't be inner beauty because they haven't got the chance to know you better yet.

so in pri sch, i realised why the head prefect has to be the good looking one... hmm... because she is the most popular and the teachers love her angelic face and sweet smile?

then in Sec sch, popularity is mostly based on looks and popularity will get you certain things too. only thing it is not that bad in an all girls school, cos we don;t have to vie for the guys' attention. :-)

oh in JC and Uni, it was the same. look at the councillors, look at any positions in Excos of CCAs... who gets the most votes? must be good-looking, besides talents you know. who are the teachers' pet? not the nerd in class who can answer the teacher's every Q you know? it is the good looking one... Ok, must say, not all trs are like that (eg. me, haha) but some are.

Hey Jc and after was the worst, i realised at scholarship interviews or even Medicine interviews, this rule also applies! just a disclaimer, i did get a scholarship in JC and I didn't go for Medicine interviews, so it is not a personal experience, but rather looking at which of my classmates got in. some had better results than others but failed to enter, some didn't do so well but got in! i can only say it was the performance at the interview. it may be that good-lookers talk better because they are more confident. they know, "hey I look good..."... but it could be that because they look good the interviewers just naturallly have a better impression of them.

ok, then jobs... this is not a secret. you know how they call pple for interviews? check out the photos on the application forms, really. not just for the secretary jobs you know... everything.
when i was doing honours, cannot name names, but even this post grad who helped to interview potential masters students with the supervisor, they were all looking at the photos to decide which can get the place lor.

then even in schools, when there are so many teachers applying for a single post, i have personally encountered how they decide by looking at the photos, cos their qualifications were similar.

Promotions too.

then there are casual social situations. from my dad, i thought all good guys also look at inner beauty. that most guys are not shallow or superficial? oh man, when i had better or closer guy friends, esp at work (again cannot name names, haha), i realise hey, do guys all think like that? these people are people who I respect a lot in their work, they look so gentlemanly and they are just great people... but their basic instincts are all the same!!!! i cannot go into details but the talk that i get to hear when they are discussing girls together, i can only draw one conclusion. to men, looks are important. and siying, unfortunately it kind of includes certain parts of the body.
:-)

Well, up till here it sounds pretty sad for pple who don;t think they are good looking right? not to worry. i feel also that for everyone, what you were born with, you can enhance. so for everyone there is the maximum potential and we must make sure to achieve that.

for one, always looks pleasant and neat. so errm, i wouldn't say shaving armpits is superficial. i think it makes one look more pleasant and neat? :-) the same goes for plucking eyebrows, perhaps keeping a clean face, using nice smelling shampoo.... wearing clothes that hide your weaknesses and highlight your assets? having a suitable hairstyle? yup... we may not all have that much money to go for high end treatments, facials or plastic surgery but i think we can do the basic, and once we do that we feel better, when we are more confident, have high self-esteem, then we will do better in everything too... job, studies etc.

as for bf, or even gf and getting your lifelong partner, not to worry. when you've done the above, and are confident and happy, you naturally have a glow, and then your partner will think you are beautiful. by then, he or she will have known you much better and seen your inner beauty. there will definitely be things unique and special to you that others don't have, and that partner will realise that he can only find that in you. and thus, you can get married and be happy ever after. oh, he may glance at other pretty girls once in a while, especially when you get older. but just let him be (no need to get angry), he belongs to you and will never stray more than just that glance, as long as you maintain that inner beauty and those special things that belong to you, or the both of you only.

that's how i went through life, despite not being blessed with extreme beauty. haha. and i do consider myself as being very successful and happy you know. and i am very confident (to the point of being too hao lian, as my good friends will tell me). that's what matters. i am very happy and contented now.

hope it has been a little enlightening or maybe at least an uplifting post.

2007-04-02T21:42:00.000+08:00

Happened to come across a certain issue and even after 2 hours of discussion with my bf, i still can't shake it out of my head. So i thought probably mention it and see you guy's take on it..

Why are we placing so much emphasis on looks? Why being is slim and pretty or tall and hunky so sought after, while anything less than the perfect model look is deemed undesirable? Why are people constantly trying to change themselves by dieting or by plastic surgery? Are they mindless people trying to fit themselves into a certain small oppressing 'box' set by a certain few people in society? Or do you say they are determined and strong people trying to maximize their potential and improving themselves because they know they can be better?

When i hear things like guys dump their girlfriends, giving the reason that the girl is not hot enough, or there are hotter girls to shag. I must admit I jumped to preconceived notions and immediately condemned them as superficial bastards. I thought that by basing their choice on such a reason just makes them unforgivable and shallow. Super shallow bastards. I don't understand why is there even this idea that it should even matter that much. But, it's a dilemma. Society thinks good looks is great! Everyone is working hard to look better and we are superficial shits too, judging people by how they look. (For example, alot of people think I have a pissed off face when i don't smile so I'm a scary person. haaa..) But when there are people who make their choice based on looks, we condemn them. We say they are superficial. Aren't we just hypocrites who like to hide behind this angelic facade, cheating ourselves to think we are holy saints who don't think looks are important, while they are the ones who are honest. They think looks matter, they admit so and their behaviour reflects it.

A very interesting question posted by my bf is that 'why is breaking up coz she's not pretty enough not ok while breaking up coz she's not nice enough is acceptable?' Probably he's right in the sense that ultimately the reason doesn't matter. If you're unsatisfied with something and you're not happy with the person (for whatever reason) and you have the right to look for someone better who can fit your expectations. In the end, everyone is just looking for their perfect mate and happiness, so there's no need to judge them for the criterias they set.

Probably I'm so uptight over this is because I feel like why choose to break up with her over something she has no control over! It's seriously not her fault she's born with small eyes or small breasts or whatever thing that you guys think is too small lar. It's such a feeling of helplessness, like there's really no hope. There's nothing she can do to change to be better to keep the relationship. Then, the rebuttal comes: even though the person can't help about the way he/she looks, the partner should not be the one to bear the responsibilities. He shouldn't be tied down in any way just because it is something that cannot be changed. Sigh..I have nothing to argue for that. haa..

I guess saying the person is a bastard is probably really too harsh. But no matter what, I think it's a really silly thing to focus on. Looks matter, of coz they do. But I dont think I'll dump my bf just coz he loses his abs or something and hopefully I can say the same for him. haa.. Looks is just a fleeting 'good', it can't last forever. So why base your choice on such an uncertainty? What happens when it's gone? Is there anything else to fall back on? It's just so silly to focus on that and probably overlook all the other good things in a person.

I know it's really bad to be so judgmental and jump to conclusions so easily but it breeds insecurity to know that looks are so important. How can I allow myself to grow just a tiny inch of cellulite or grow a pimple or forget to shave my armpit hair (lol) or get fat after a pregnancy or grow old and wrinkly and still know that it doesn't matter? That the special someone will still love me for whatever form I morph into one day. It's just so sad.

Anyway, my conclusion is that everyone has different things they value more. And if someone wishes to make his decisions based on the outside looks, it's fine. So long as they are happy doing what they are doing. And.....they better bloodly hell make sure their next gf is prettier than the one they dumped. haa..

Taiwan II

2007-04-02T00:06:00.000+08:00

Constrained in time and bound by work (and well, er-hem, other commitments, as mentioned in below posts), I finally am able to procure and preserve a meagre fraction of a particular Sunday night to continue my recollections of a beautiful and gastronomical journey...

It has a been long wait, no more delays; I hereby proudly present to y'all, Taiwan: More than in Words, Part 2!

As left of from my previous post, it continues with me still in Hualian. Having spent the most of my first day at Taroke Gorge, the second day starts with a hearty breakfast and a little walk around my neighbourhood.

I must add that Hualian itself is not a very developed city; most of the youths or skilled labour goes to Taipei to work. What's left work in plantations of fruits or flowers; agriculture is the main livelihood here. The city centre is much smaller and sub-urban as compared to Taipei City. For future travellers going to Taiwan, my advice is to visit Hualian, but don't stay long.

Anyway, we got to know from the owner of the 民宿 that there is a famous historical site in our area we can get to by foot. With a hand-drawn map (courtesy of him), we set off.

Along the way we got to walk past many of these fields. Some are growing flowers, some even rice. As I look across the fields, I hear the chirping of birds and the whistling of grass... you can almost immerse yourself in the silence and serenity. the traffic here is light, pollution is absent; a welcoming breeze in the cool weather can be really refreshing.

The historical site is a Shinto temple left from the World War I era; the Japanese that moved here when Taiwan was annexed to Japan constructed this. It was preserved by the gov't later.

Later that day, we returned to Taipei. We visited another famous attraction: 中正纪念堂. It's devoted to the founder and first president of Taiwan, Chiang Kai Shek.

The place has 3 parts: 2 side halls, which are converted to a theatre and a concert hall.

The main hall, is the main exhibition area. You find Mr Chiang sitting stiffed and encrusted in bronze at the top.

1955 6-man Cadillac

Below is where you can find the exhibition area which introduces the life and history of CKS. He's a man that led a life of taste and luxury, but also earned the respect of the Taiwanese during his time.

It's interesting to note that after his exile from China, he seems to be leading a better life... he established several diplomatic relations, made several trips to many countries, and made quite a few allies.

At night, it was 淡水. It's beside the sea, with a lot of great food. They've got a bustling night market by the sea, and they are also famous for their 铁蛋, as well as this restaurant where supposedly Jay Chou is a regular. -_-'"

We took a ferry to 渔人码头, with this bridge (情人桥) where a scene of Meteor Garden was filmed. -_-'"

But anyway it's got a nice view of the sea and the night lights of Danshui. A place for couples. :)

The next day we made a trip down to Sun Yat Sen's Memorial Hall. Basically similiar to the CKS one. What's worth seeing is the things around it... there's a huge garden and a giant seated statue of Mr Sun.

I got to witness a change-of-guard parade. Impressive!

鼎泰峰 at Taipei. Cheaper and better. Must try. Writing this entry makes me hungry.

Taipei 101 from outside... and inside. Didn't go to the top due to psychological defiance of personal monetary output.

National Palace Museum. The exhibits are all the historical documents and artefacts taken from the Forbidden Palace as the KMT was making their escape to Taiwan. Smart bastards.

Very impressive things I saw... there was a ivory sculpture of a boat no bigger than 8cm across, complete with passengers in actions and expressions, and a book in the boat with text you can read with a magnifying glass. There was a lifelike jade sculpture of a cabbage with insects. I also saw a lot of ancient paintings and calligraphy, political documents, pottery, and metalworks going to as old as the Han dynasty.

七里香. It's good... know what it is?

Second round of 士林!!! Special mention of the 鸡排. It's HUGE.

A temple （龙山寺）I visited on the last day. It's got beautiful architecture... and it's known to be accurate in its divinations and responsive to prayers. It was a weekday and still very crowded. Says something?

It was packing up and some last minute shopping later... as the plane took off from the runway I felt a twinge of sadness. The trip has certainly left me some lasting impressions. If I had the chance to go to Taiwan again, i would say i will take it without hesitation; after all, there's still too much to explore and try in Taiwan. If you're looking for a place to go, with a decent budget, either with friends or family; Taiwan is worth a try.

2007-03-31T22:12:00.000+08:00

Late in the evening, 3 adventurers made their way across the island to the hallowed arena, struggling through the obstacles imposed upon them to arrive on time, ready for the ultimate showdown. Or at least, 2 of them did. One tried, really hard.

The 4 of us set down our stakes, flexed our fingers, patted each other on the shoulders, and got down to real serious business.

The affair lasted from 11 to 7, a long-fought battle against time, fatigue, and Benedict. We endured the his barrage of "diao2 zhng1" up to at least 5 consecutive times while maintaining a cool composure and a facade of serenity when he, irritatingly, can win just by 1 fan through one of the auspicious animals of the pack.

Nonetheless, it was pretty fun that night, it felt almost as if we were still mugging for exams and finding the next excuse to pull the wool over teachers' eyes on why tutorials were unfinished. I'm pretty sure theres a *dark* side of each of us that we can only unveil to the other 3 only during such sessions! I had fun letting my inner child run, figuratively, naked around the room while playing mahjong...and I hope I speak for the rest of the other 3 as well!

Nevertheless, we seek your forgiveness and extend our heartfelt apologies on the lack of photos for this monumental gathering, simply because we were too busy reducing our losses to Benedict, whom nonetheless won a grand total of 28$$ from the 3 of us, and due to the fact that we were all too lazy to stand up and take a picture. Nevertheless, allow me to paint a mental image of us giving Benedict a good whooping. Yes, that would summarize our night very succintly.

an update to a narrative

2007-03-29T19:35:00.000+08:00

Goodness..a few months I don't check back and I see posts and essays flying everywhere! Well, considering how hard lj's trying to illicit a post from me by truly complimenting me on my brilliant time at Shitibank, I suppose I would have to oblige with a tidbit of my very own life update.

First things first, a big hello to th and simultaneously, a even bigger *toot* to you for trying to impose a "HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA I got here first!" type of post on all of us true country-serving patriots. Yup, agree with LJ on that. The going was tough, the life was harsh, but hey, at least its something that shapes us and moulds all of us to be better..I hope, right lj? *wink* Maybe immediately utilizing the brain after A's to go on to uni would be strategically sound, but nonetheless I have had a memorable experience being immersed in situations I had never dreamt of being in. When I mention this, I do not mention situations starting with the letter "s", and ending with "hit".

Anyways, on to my current daily routine. I am STILL a corporate loanshark, albeit of a senior one since I've been slogging at the same post for 4 months. 2 of my permanent staffs just resigned so my boss signed me on for yet another month before I head off into the sunset/HongKong with my colleagues! So...there goes my dream of evolving to a lifeform of higher purpose as well as being able to earn a much more respectable keep.

Nonetheless, I've encountered a few really fantastic moments during my course of dunning *this means, to call people to ask for payment!*. Everyone knows my main objective here would be to demand payment from those nasty debtors who scream/cry/curse/swear into the phone in all different languages and dialects, and while trying to maintain a facade of "Customer Service", we try to be friendly and listen to their life stories, whether its their birthdays or they're in labour or whatsoever before popping the holy question: "When are you going to pay up?"

Anyways, time for my riposte to lj. Instead of being as lucky as lj, being blessed with such wonderful male colleagues to learn his skills of the trade from, I'm seemingly laden and stuck in a department full of ladies amidst the paperwork. They don't really seem to be as fun as lj's soccer-loving colleagues, and they always crack jokes about the better sex. Sigh, such is the lifestyle of being the only boy stuck in an office of pretty women! *Seriously, lj, I envy you.* My neighbour never fails to fish for compliments everyday, or goes to great lengths to illustrate how many suitors she has while simultaneously, and successfully camouflaging it as an attempt to teach me how to woo girls. With the imbalance of ying and yang in the workplace, compounded by the swearing and cussing by our sincere customers on the phone and as a temporary staff, a new portfolio to handle, I find it apt to describe my mental state as a ming vase in a rodeo of bulls.

So happens that I thought I would be leaving the company for good. I promptly called up these few "loyal" customers, people who refuse to liaise with any other officer but me simply because I've heard their life stories more than 4 times. I had to inform them other officers would follow up with their whining/delaying, when one of them actually asked me out for tea!! Another actually asked me for my email so we could "keep in contact as friends" after I left..while another managed to dig up where I'm going afterwards, whereby upon revealing that I'm only a temp staff, goes on about wanting to meet up and thank me in person!

Oh my goodness, these people really believe I was listening to them as a friend! I am utterly ashamed of my personal development into a lifeless, emotionless pen-pusher. Somebody, anybody, save me!!

over to you, alew.

About NS

2007-03-28T03:12:00.000+08:00

Hee, errm started off just a tag, but then realised it's far too long, then just post lah.

Congrats TH for being able to graduate in 1 yr and I am sure you are happy with all your enriching experiences.

But i have to say I agree that NS is an impt part of life (a guy's life) and it sure is memorable. It is also the sole thing that can bond Sporean guys together, regardless of their age and I admire that.

I go to a party with Mr Goh and I would have to try hard to strike up conversation with other strangers and try and get a good conversation going. Depending on their interests and mine, sometimes it is not so smooth. But oh, just watch the men.... They just need to group together, and once talk veers to NS and what they did or which section they are from ( I dunno the terms lah...).. but it's just amazing how they click.. and they can be young as 18, older like Mr Goh at 32, or even 60.

The other thing I realise that is good about that, is the extra knowledge gained about weapons and warfare. You know how little boys love that? Well my sons are super interested when they spot an aircraft in the air, be it a helicopter or airplane. Or lets say they are watching NDP or they saw a rifle on TV, they are soooo excited and have tons of Qs abt that. I am unable to answer anything. So enter Mr Goh, who will tell my son what kind of airplane that is, what rifle, and how it is used. And sometimes it happens to be something he had used himself during NS, so he can tell his story (his glorious moments of the past). Well, I have to say, I like witnessing those father-son bonding moments!

And oh ya, when he has to return for reservist, it is very sian for me, that's a minus... But then I have to understand he has a duty to the country and he actually enjoys meeting all his old friends again, and they usually have a blast of a time catching up.

I guess, the tax rebates he and I get (for being NSmen's wife) also compensate, plus the extra increment he gets when he started working, else I'd be having higher pay than him, haha.

Ok, thus ends my National Education post, haha.

Aiyah, it is to give hope and encouragement to all those doing NS now lah. Take heart!

Tianhan, I am going to Boston in June, prob late June, any chance to meet up? At New York? I prob don't have the time to drive to Michigan... too far north... :-)

How time flies

2007-03-27T18:45:00.000+08:00

TH you *toot*.. :p Haha.. My first instinct was to agree with you and start ranting about how far behind time we are but on second thoughts i'm not gonna give you the privilege of getting the last laugh.. haha.. There were a lot of enjoyable times in the army, life changing experiences (albeit a little overstated in our short lives so far) that we will never be able to go through later on in our lives. And for that I have to disagree with you. Yes, we are behind in terms of getting a headstart in our career, but looking back, I wouldn't regret going through the army again. (Well, if i were a clerk/storeman/driver, then that would be a different story altogether :p) For me, I would rather have 2-3 years less of the corporate world which will be rather insignificant in our long working "shelflife" as compared to a significant experience.

Well, but the fact remains that, haha.. we are dying in our current jobs and for that I would lament our lag behind you. I'm a data entry clerk, alex is an admin clerk and jh is a corporate loanshark (as of "typing" time). Congrats to him this coming friday 30th March when he is finally released from his agony, either plunging to further depths in another similar job or elevated to a higher lifeform doing something more productive.

Life is mundane and boring; our intellect is put to waste and our body is deteriorating from the lack of exercise, which at least we got from the army. But such is the reality of life, and partly because of this I do not feel that I have lost much if I were able to start working earlier. Of course after graduating many more opportunities and choices will be open to us, and I look forward to that day coming.

Haha.. Now it's my turn to laugh at ben, alex and jh. At least I get to fiddle with Bloomberg news and I've got fun colleagues (male, fyi..) to hang out with. We chat about soccer news and maybe sometimes crack jokes about the fairer sex. But such is the lifestyle of bachelor boys. Oh, the male colleagues that I was talking about, one is an Australia-educated Malaysian Indian at 36yrs (lets call him JD) with a Japanese girlfriend and the other is a cool Australia-educated Singaporean Malay (call him AJ) at 35. The other is my army friend that I brought in to work with me. (lets not care about him. He's insignificant in this story but in order to continue my narration his name is KH. lol..) I tell you JD and AJ are really cool man. Both are Tottenham Spurs supporters (fyi only. but they are cool NOT because of that. Who supports Tottenham?!)

Over a few drinks one friday night at 5.30pm at Harry's pub (yes, fortunately we were early enough to beat the ang moh's to a seat) at Clark Quay branch, KH and I chatted with JD. He used to work with Bloomberg as a reporter, getting financial news from all over the world but quit when he reached editor level and had no where else to go up the ladder. He worked in many Asian countries, including a stint in Japan where he met (I was going to use the word hooked, but.. haha..) his Jap gf. Now she's shuttling in and out of Singapore and Japan every month while awaiting her work permit. Poor him.. She's 32, working as an equities trader which she totally hates but has no choice but to stay employed for the work permit, just to be with him in SG, and the pressure's on him to get married for obvious reasons.. "Work's always the excuse not to get married" he laughs it off when I first asked him why he doesn't want to get married. "I don't smoke, gamble, take drugs or fool around, I only drink" he says and it is evident that this bachelor boy is living life as a single to its fullest.

AJ on the other hand is a suave joker. One of the few that I've met (or maybe the only one so far) that can really think on his toes. He is the ultimate professional in picking up girls. I always thought that I was good with girls (pls agree to boost my ego, girls!), but clearly, I pale in comparison to him, THE man. He can really melt the ice with female strangers at the click of his fingers not by his looks, but by the things he says. For example he met this stunning lady in red once and her hands were filled with files and the other a cup of coffee she just bought. Clearly she had trouble going out of the door of Spinelli's holding so many things, and who should come by but the meister AJ. The conversation goes sth like this:

AJ: Here, allow me (and he opens the door for her)

Lady in red (LIR) : Oh thank you.

If he were me, I would just open the door for her and say a meek welcome after she thanks me, and, normally, a conversation would end by this point after she leaves the door. but it just so happens that he was wearing a red tie, and since she was in a red dress and because of his quick thinking...

AJ: Well, red's the colour of the brave. (indicating to his tie, but obviously referring to her sexy outfit)

(And she gives him, THE look ie the are-you-trying-to-be-funny-but-obviously-flattered look)

AJ: haha.. no pun intended.. Well you certainly look like you need help with your coffee

LIR: haha, thanks but I can manage (as she struggles out of the door)

AJ: no, i meant that I could help you finish it if you want.

(and she turns and smiles)

Ok, I'm really not good with this narrative. I'm certainly not doing justice to him but all I can remember was that KH and I were laughing on hearing him narrate his story to us.

Well with colleagues like these, what more can I complain? That was why I sealed my fate for another 3 months by signing a contract with this company till end June..

Oh by the way, it certainly does help that I'm working the relatively short hours of 9am-5.30pm and i just asked for and got a pay increment.. ( :p to the guys!)

Till Friday night mahjong at my house guys..

Cheers!

LJ

Its been 2 years!

2007-03-27T11:52:00.000+08:00

Hey guys,

Wow, look at the date below the post. Time really flies and its already been 2 years + a few weeks since we collected our A level certs. 2 years, 10% of our life so far, haha, passed so quickly, made me think about stuff we always hear when we are young, about how time passes and waits for no one. Once time passes, its never coming back.

(time travel is impossible thanx to a quantum physics class i am taking now. omg, i so have to complain! i totally HATE physics, excuse me to all those of you who took physics but physics sucks big time and that's why I did not do physics in A levels, but I have to put up with all this stuff in Uni, freaking 3 physics class and all the quantum counter intuitive BS! argg ............................ -_-")

Anyways, yup, sadly, our childhood, our fun sec sch and jc days are way far behind us now, we can only relive it through memories and pictures and oh yes, entries from this blog. Haha. I am really glad we still bothered to keep this blog after 2 years. 2 years and all of you deserve a huge pat on the shoulder for the effort. Yeah, cheers. Hope this'll continue for a long long time. It will just be totally impressive if I visit this blog in 5 or 10 years and see the LONG LONG list of archives. Fantastico!

Okay, back to study, yes, the usual night b4 exam last minute hugging and kissing budda legs studying. Haha. Only thing that keeps me all pumped up is that I am gonna graduate in 1 year! woohoo, haha. Dick, lj, aliew you all can bite my dust..wahhahhhahhah!

Cheers,

Another China.

2007-03-22T21:40:00.000+08:00

BACK!!! From a well-deserved break.

After reading about so many escapades from so many of you all, I think it's about time I made some contributions... and gladly I'll, considering I haven't travelled for years... and to celebrate this newfound freedom. Lol.

And serving up the entrée: it's the teeny island hotly coveted by its gigantic neighbour, standing at the border of clashing ideologies.... Taiwan!

It's a 7-day trip, with my family, main destinations being Taipei and Hualian. My sis managed to get a 1 for 1 promotion on Jetstar so it was like S$260/pax (incld. all misc. charges)... shiok.

Touchdown! As I stepped out of the airport (ard 7pm, they have same GMT as us) I was momentarily stunned. It isn't as modern as it's famous in computer technology... roads are old, buildings look worn and traffic kind of chaotic. It was ard 13-15˚C, so was kinda chilly.

After settling down in our hotel, first destination: Shilin Night Market!!! Food. YaY.

士林夜市

甜不辣 and 蚝煎
I gathered some guts and tried their 臭豆腐... bleah.

Gettin ard is pretty convenient in Taipei... they've have a MRT system very similiar to ours, even uses EZ-Link cards. And it's fast, cheap and clean. People there are very 'auto'. They dun rush into trains, they give way on escalators, and they queue very obediently. Otherwise, there's the bus system, which is even cheaper (NT15 for intracity= 75cents), but less comfy...

Air in Taipei isn't too good; due to heavy traffic, pollution is bad, and vegetation along roads aren't common.

To look for fresher air, head upwards: Yangminshan National Park! It's a nature reserve of a cluster of a few mountains at the outskirts of Taipei. Cool chilly weather gives the air a slight fogginess, plus fresh air, great view and blossoming flowers...

Need to take 1 hour MRT ride then change bus tho... but it's worth it.

Public hotspring bath-houses, at one of the peaks (冷水坑）. Full of naked people (both genders. Separate ones, duh). I prefer to stay outside at the footbaths. Heh.

Blossoming flowers... dunno what they are... 梅花, 樱花 or 桃花?

A nature trail... and a school in the hills!

Random pics I took while walking along some of the paths.
One of the areas with a lot of plantations growing these flowers. Hai3 Yu4? Dunno what they're called in english.

The same night we made our way to Hualian 花莲 via train.3-hour ride. Very comfy... even more comfy than Jetstar... haha...

We stayed in a 民宿 instead of a hotel this time; besides being cheaper, it's also a very different experience. The family just stays one floor below... and breakfast home-cooked by the mum. She's a good cook　I must say. They've got a beautiful house, and 3 real cute kids... we talked to the dad and he brought his whole family here from Taipei. His dream is to settle down in Hualian, and run the 民宿 till the kids grow up. Wow.

Pics of the 民宿. No I am not acting cool. I just woke up. ：）

The next morning - Taroke Gorge. It's also a national park, and one of the main attractions in Hualian... another heaven on earth... and also an evidence that humans are insignificant to the beauty and power of nature.

The river is the one that runs through the gorge. Crystal clear! Sadly this season water levels are lower; in summer waterfalls are abundant, and sunlight fills the valleys.

The pic to the left is of a bridge improved on an ancient pathway used by the 原住民 to navigate through the mountains. There are some even more impressive ones, higher up but covered up by the fog, and pathways circling around mountain tops.

A bridge (慈母桥）with a story...

These are pics of a temple in the mountains...note the pagoda?

Me on top of the pagoda, with a pic of the temple.

That's it for now... more coming up, so please stay tuned to part two!

lj's 21st!

2007-03-12T23:41:00.000+08:00

hello everybody!!! i've unofficially became the official digicam-bring-er and the upload-pics-on-class-blog girl! ahhaa.. :P anw, here's an update for LJ'S 21ST!!! welcome to the club bro! :)

our first group pic tog..

tog with this little boy called nicholas.. he had such a good time playing with benedict! haha.. :P

siying and i trying to 自拍.. haha.. not too bad.. :P

siying on another attempt.. haha.. alex with his signature smirk.. heh..

we do wat we do best, of course... MAHJONG!!!!

lj pouring us realli good ice wine.. :)

a picture tog with the wine! many of you must be wondering where's benedict.. well, he was outside playing mahjong with lj's cousins.. ALL GIRLS! i dun need to explain further la har.. :P

another failed attempt to 自拍..

this is worse.. ben's cut out.. haha!

siying and her funny face! loL!

one last pic b4 we left.. :)

anw, just wanna say that meeting up with you guys just brings a sense of happiness to me.. haha.. maybe coz we shared many memories in hc.. those were the years that i enjoyed most, and i can't be more thankful that we still meet up.. :) well, the mahjong was therapeutic LA of course! hahaha... anw, siying and i were thinking of going somewhere this may-july.. alex suggested this place where it's just sun sand and water.. sounds good huh.. any takers!!??!

anw, HAPPIE BIRTHDAY LJ!!!! :)

2007-02-26T00:43:00.000+08:00

hey! share w u guys the trip i made to thailand during the cny vacation..and i must say it really was a pretty worthwhile trip. we went 3 places chiangmai, chiangrai and bangkok..

we took domestic flight to chiangmai from bangkok and even the thai domestic flight is better than the stupid tiger airways lar..at least there were peanuts n drinks n good looking steward to help open the peanuts packet for us. haaa..

at chiangmai and chiangrai, we went on a personal 4 person family tour and went to pretty special places..we had a traditional thai dinner, the kind that royal family used to hold for their guests and watched traditonal thai dances.

there were also kong ming dengs for u for only 100baht (less than S$4). at first when i saw a red flickering spot in the sky, i thought it was mars la! in the end super lot of red spots appeared in the sky. then i realised after the dinner that it were those laterns people were setting free outside. haa..

something else worth mentioning is the simon cabaret show we went to.if i dont tell u, u wont even doubt that they are genuine women lar! most of them are really really really really really (ok,i think u guys get my point) chio can!! so jealous. haa.. made me slightly motivated to take better care of myself coz they're guys yet they so desperately want to be woman and im born female yet so lazy to take care of my looks. haa..

its a cabaret, so its all songs and dances. this cleopatra is so hot lar.haa..she looks like li jing, the taiwan host..

she is so pretty! how can u ever imagine that her id card says she's a mr??

lots of elaborate costumes n stuff, pretty cool show actually..

we visited lots of royal projects that the thai royal family started for the hill tribes. the aim was to provide them a means to support their own family through working in the gardens and planting coffee, rather than having to resort to planting and selling opium.at doi angkhang. doi means mountain.

pink dahlia. at the gardens, they do research n constantly come up w new species of flowers, only to be planted in the gardens.

this the lady's slippers orchid. thailand also sells orchids like singapore!

we also went to a mynmmar thailand border which has turned into a tourist attraction. it's quite amazing how peaceful it was there. always thought it would be really tense at the border regions.. and we also managed to go to the golden triange, which used to be the area where opium was planted. of coz no more opium lar, but at that point, ure standing on thailand soil, infront of u is mynmmar and to ur right is laos. amazing..

and we visited an opium museum at the golden triangle and saw lots of weights that were used to weigh the opium. this lion one is so cute lar..haa..it probably weights like 20kg and that is alotalot of opium!

at chiangrai, we stayed a night at phu chaisai mountain resort & spa.it's a fantastic place with a great view and it really looks like that kinda mountain resort u always see on brochures in the airports.haa..it was nice to dine and walk among nature and wake up to the cool mountain air. and of coz the mosquitoes love u.haa..

view from the top.

walking down to our room. love the whole concept of the resort!

they even have an outdoor swimming pool! looks so nice right, but its overgrown w algae.haa..

and i so love their toilets! u walk into the toilet, u see the bathtub. to the left is a shower room, the right is the toilet bowl. and 2 sinks. hard to describe lar, but if im rich enough, ill make my own toilet that way. haa..

think the mountain resort is a great place for honeymooners. haa.. if u can manage to book one of its 50 expensive rooms and travel up the mountain to it lar..haa..

and bangkok was just a super crazy shopping wonderland. haa..please drop by the wholesale area to buy ur clothes, it is supersuper cheap. 2 days of psychotic shopping is enough btw, dont push the limit. haa..

i would love to post more photos but my sister n i took a total of 800plus photos plus videos in the 7 days we stayed in thailand. haa..luckily we had a 2gb memory card. haa..

shall end off this post with the beautiful sky..marvel at the beauty of mother nature and appreciate it.. =]

A Heart. Red and bloody..

2007-02-15T23:15:00.000+08:00

This is a (PG) picture of my friend's wound. He fell into the drain on the 11th of feb. Coincidentally, it looks like a heart as the days approached v-day. If you don't believe it's a cut, check this out..

The following pic was taken a few days later. Disturbing scenes presented. (m18) rating advised.

To: Couples and lovers and people who are in love

2007-02-15T22:32:00.000+08:00

A Belated Valentine's Day message: What is love?

Dr Iannis to Pelagia, his daughter.

"And another thing. Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the desire to mate every second of the day. It is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. It is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing every part of your body. No… don’t blush. I am telling you some truths. That is just being ‘in love’, which any fool can do. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossoms had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two. […] Doesn’t sound very exciting, does it? Trust me, it is."

- Louis de Bernières in Corelli’s Mandolin

May we keep in the back of our heads, these ideals, and aspire to attain them at some point of our lives.

LJ

2007-01-30T22:59:00.000+08:00

无神论 (英文版)

黄立行

I wanna believe in all the miracles too
I wanna believe in all the fairy tales with you
I want the happy ever after
Really, I do

But how can that be,
when I don't know if Heaven is true?
There is no eternity
For an atheist like me

When I die, is death the end? (runaway)
I'll never see your face again (again, again, again)
I want the happy ever after
I want it with you
But how can that be
when I don't know if Heaven is true?

There is no eternity
For an atheist like me
When I die, is death the end? (runaway)
I'll never see your face again (again, again, again)

And if you should go without me,
Just promise me
That you will always be happy

And when I die is death the end? (runaway)
I'll never see your face again (again, again, again)
And when I die is death the end? (runaway)
I'll never see your face again (again, again, again)

2007-01-25T10:30:00.000+08:00

Some pictures from me!

halloween, waoliao, the bald head patch din work very well, still can see hair one.
right one is at lake michigan, sort of chalet place. nice sceneries.

i got served pretty bad on my 21st bday. haha. i had 21 shots of either barcardi 151, martel, absolute and wadeva or from a bb gun at 3 meters. was drunk and had tons of blisters on my back. memorable though. haha.

skiing trip! fun but i hurt my knee, sigh, got twisted quite bad. still hurts!

2007-01-24T18:27:00.000+08:00

hello!
since jaymie girl has always been an enthu supporter of all our class gatherings, she deserves a post about her bday and the dinner we had together! and of coz to say how good the food at tao's is lar, which is made even better that i very blurly went home without realising i dint pay for it. haa.. i got treated and dint realise till i was home. haa.. thanku to kirk. haa..

anyway, its a surprise surprise dinner so while we were waiting for the bday girl to appear, we conspired with the pple singing that night to sing a bday song when she comes down the escalator. so mtv. haa.. but it kinda flopped lar coz just nice at that moment when jaymie came down the escalator, they sang a bday song...for another dude. haa.. so they had to re-sing the bday song after that. so many bdays that day..

while waiting...

anyway, the dinner there is good man.. thanks to the recommendations of kristy dear, we made good orders and it was a whopping 7-course meal lar! kudos to kristy, sisi and ziqian, i managed to distribute my meal all around. haa..

the yummy fruit salad...chunks of apple, mango and shredded crap stick meat on top..pumpkin soup! it even comes in a pumpkin bowl lar! too bad they took away the 'hat'.haa..grilled chicken..the ball of orange stuff at the corner is mashed sweet potato. special sia..people use potato they must do something different. haa..the best thing of the night.. creme brulee.. there's always space for desserts no matter how full u are.. it tastes like portuguese egg tart without the pastry. yum!

those photos i took are in my web album http://picasaweb.google.com/siyingoO and those by jaymie are in hers. go check them out! haa..

i so love the girls..-hug-

Yo

2007-01-24T15:45:00.000+08:00

Hey guys!

What's up, its been a really long time since I posted so I guess its finally time. How's life going for you guys? I am really happy you all are still meeting up and keeping in touch with each other. I really want to be there too, but, oh well, I will be there spiritually. Haha.

I guess you all checked out Mrs Goh's blog, haha. Well, I hope I might get an opportunity to drive down to Utah to visit her during one of the breaks, haha. Well, its pretty much like Utah here in Michigan. Snows all the time and it is freaking cold, damn, I hate it. A few days ago, it was so cold my car door got frozen so bad I could not open it, hahaha, I tried sticking my fingers in between the door in hope of melting some ice with body heat. In the end, I have to open my hatchback and climb in through the behind... And driving in snow is a killer, soo dangerous, argggg. This is the kind of things I have to put up with.

Quite a lot happened since the start of school and I hope I can post some pictures next time. I went to this really nice place beside lake michigan and had a lot fun during that road trip. Went skiing too, just 2 weeks ago! And as usual, me and my friends get crazy sometimes and party a little.(finally got to 21, so i can buy alcohol! haha) Got lot's of pictures actually, will post next time.

I also found a job as research assistant with the university, had to work 12 hours a week, but I get paid US$10 per hour. Haha, had to earn some cash for living. Well, school fees are on the rise and my allowance is still the same, so I am really really poor now, cooking everyday. Oh well, I learnt how to cook (i think i am pretty good cook now) and I learnt how to appreciate credit cards, oh man, so heng I can pay the bills at the end of the month when my paycheck comes.

Heh, 1 year and 3 months more to go for me. 1 year and 3 months closer to being independent. Learning how to be independent is really important, and its not THAT easy. Sigh, lot's of things to do, manage your bills, fill tax returns, pay rent, buy groceries, cook, clean the house, maintain the car, petrol bills and oh god, and school work and part-time work AND ambitions and dreams and friends and chilling and having fun. Lol, dosent really sound that fun. Haha, but, hey, I am enjoying every moment of it, this is life, with all the messy stuff that bothers you and irritates you and also with all the stuff you enjoy, good company, great fun, good food, good music, random talking cock and the best, good old slacking.

Damn, satisfying and fullfilling.

Oh, but so tiring too.......

Haha, its 3.05 am and I have 2 assignment due with lab reports and blah blah. Gotta get back to work guys. Haha, keep the posting up!

WoooHOOO!

As inspired~

2007-01-16T19:55:00.000+08:00

http://novelconcepts.co.uk/FlashElementTD/

LOL had fun jh, thx!

NEXT!
Have fun! :)

al

Check this out!

2007-01-14T00:25:00.000+08:00

http://www.dailyhaha.com/_flash/tower_defence_castle.htm

your lunch break will never be the same again..

orientation 07!

2007-01-13T02:00:00.000+08:00

hello everybodY! it's 2am now, and i'm blogging about our mini gathering at 07's orientation campfire today! haha.. efficient rite? heh.. the turn up was quite small, all the pple who pangseh in the end shud feel guilty! hahaha.. just kidding la.. the rain was realli a turnoff.. ok i shall let the pictures to the talking!

group picture with mrs goh..

at class bench.. :)

siying and i! there's nothing wrong with my camera, just that lj and jiaho's phototaking skills are BAD.. hahaha... :P

group picture at killiney's.. with alex this time.. :)

again!

a conspiracy in the making...

rare appearance from EUGENE!! you must come more often before you leave for imperial.. :)

last but not least, we haf alex to end off our wonderful outing! he's the most sporting guy when we take pictures! never fails to strike a pose! haha.. :P

that's all folks.. realli looking forward to our next outing... CNY back in hc k?! shud we go back in our school uniforms? :P

2007-01-09T23:12:00.000+08:00

japan~ walking in the ankle-deep snow..
The very beautiful mount fuji when the rain finally stopped and the sky cleared.

i've a web album of the photos i took in japan, take a look..japan is a pretty place.. http://picasaweb.google.com/siyingoO

cheers~

2007-01-03T23:20:00.000+08:00

Raving Rabbids (The Complete Collection)

What happens when you get totally lovable fugly rabbids :)

2006-12-14T17:38:00.000+08:00

hello! the class blog been pretty quiet recently..anyway, i went brewerkz yesterday with my uni friends and since i've no blog to write on and it's really a shame to not introduce brewerkz so here i am!

i'm sure some of u would have heard of brewerkz at clarke quay or even went there before. it's a really pretty nice place, nice decent american style food (huge portions. luckily there were guys to finish up the girls' food. haa..) and if u go on a weekday 12pm-3pm, it's happy hour!! its cheap beer at around $4-5 per pint/ mug. the prices of the beer jumps to like $6-9 per pint at other times. so of coz, please go during happy hour and try out the different kind of beer they have.. it's pretty interesting to find out that there are actually so many different types of beer and they all taste uniquely different. u can choose to sit inside or outside. Probably a better idea to sit in in the afternoons lar, warm! anyway, nice dim private seats and i heard that if u have enough people, u can even get a whole nice room to urself!

This is frutbrewz (i think it's the correct spelling). anyway, it has a tinge of berries to it, pretty uinque i must say. nice cups ey..

And this is what i got that day, golden ale. nice golden colour to it and it actually just tastes like a normal beer la. the nice kind. haa..one of my friends got something that had a super bitter, spicy after taste. but i think i was the only one who dint like it. haa..

and talking about the food... buffalo wings! it's a huge portion......although we ordered the large one, i certainly dint expect it to be more than like say 10 wings? it comes with nice cheese sauce that i dont think jiaho will like. haa..

and....when i was trying to balance the chicken bone on my fork and knife to dump it into the bowl we used to put the bones......i dropped it into my friend's drink.yes..looks damn gross actually.haaa..i fished the bone out so i wont embarrass myself when i had to ask the waitress to change the water for us.

this the bunch of alcoholics i hang out with in school.haa..

cheers~

p/s: i wont be around from 18th dec to 31st dec. i guess i cant join u guys for lunching or dinnering till next year..haa..

Gheys @ Orchard

2006-11-21T18:20:00.000+08:00

Never in my life, have I ever shared a fitting room with someone else.

Not in any circumstance, no matter the queue outside, no matter the rush to buy clothes.

Not until today.
.
.
.
.
With LJ.

OMGWTFBBQ!!! Why did I allow myself to be dragged in so that we can try out business clothes together?!?! Oh, the inhumane embarrassment when both of us stepped out of the single room, only to be glared mockingly at by countless aunties waiting outside.

Nooooooooo...all these wouldn't have happened if both of us didn't get jobs that require long sleeved attire everyday, if both of us didn't start work tomorrow/day after, or if one of you were here to stop us!

Dirty...i feel so very dirty..
*scrub scrub scrub*

2006-11-16T21:47:00.000+08:00

hey all!

ok,i dont know how to upload a video. jiaho, how? but here's the link: http://www.metacafe.com/watch/276030/giraffe_in_quicksand_robot_chicken
think liang jun will find it morbid too.haaa..enjoy~

5 more papers to go! woohoo~
cheers!

2006-11-15T10:06:00.000+08:00

Kiwi!

blog

2006-11-08T19:01:00.000+08:00

Hi all!

Was reading my cousin's blog where she mentioned, i quote, from her blog, "reputable international publications pick up on Singapore’s radical otherness in their half-admiring, half-mocking, fully comic-ironic tone. This one made me laugh out loud (raucously) with its slyly innocent insinuations, especially in the 12th paragraph. "

The link for this article's at "http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/11/05/news/city15.php"

yes, its hilarious!

My cousin's Liang Si from RGS, I think Jaymie and definitely Si Si knows her. She writes astonishingly well and its definitely very entertaining to read. So if you wanna de-stress, hee hee.. her blogs' at "http://grossomodo.wordpress.com/" (let me help her publicize her blog! haha..)

ok bye for now! gonna watch tv and SLACK! don't be jealous girls!

LJ

2006-11-08T08:08:00.000+08:00

hello!

super mega, big inertia to start studying so i'm whining on the class blog.haa..think uni is kinda screwed up, or at least only NTU is..exams start next week, but i still have quizzes this week and one lecturer is not done teaching his module. lousy school. lol..

i think i am eternally thankful for the hc bio department for drilling us and overloading us with bio information in jc. i'm actually studying two of my current modules with reference to our notes, and my friends borrowed them to photocopy also lar.haaa..and the maths and bio department for making us copy so many things during lectures. coz i can copy fast man..had a copying competition with my friends during lecture on mon and i won by a mega big time lag.lol.

anyway, lj and jh, why are u guys so eager to slog ur ass off immediately after ord? take a couple of months to enjoy urself while u can..u probably can't when uni starts for u. no more slacking around, watching anime and drama series, dotaing, suppering. haaa..

jiayou for exams!

cheers!

Part 1 of an ORD personnel

2006-11-07T16:55:00.000+08:00

Hi all,

Today's my Official Release Date and i'm at home blogging on a blog which is not my blog. Just wanna pop in to say hello to all and update you about myself and..

haha.. sounds like i'm in some overseas university where I won't be able to meet all of you guys till I come back 4 years later and the only means of mass communication would be through this dear old class blog, which sad to say is keeping its head above water, trying to stay alive till at least its 2nd year "birthday".

Phew. Pardon me for this post, if I appear to be somewhat emotionally hyper-charged, but I have to let go of my contradicting feelings of despair and excitement, on the brink of cataclysmic eruption if I hold on any longer without letting it spill out.

ok, I won't go on to explain in detail why there's excitement and despair occuring concurrently, as I'm sure my male comrades will understand, (at least about the excitement part, haha.. JH, I can imagine a big exclaimation from you which goes sth like this. "Despair on ORD day?! Something we've waited 2 years for?!?!? You siao ah!") and my female friends who are all so smart and intelligent (of course, they're all in uni and mugging their, er, hair out!) will comprehend.

For those lesser beings/those on a different level of existence (quote from QZ) who don't, it basically means that ..

bah.. i lost my train of thought.. tried to download pussycat dolls - don't cha.. went to emp3world.com and the first thing I saw was "Find a real SEX partner in Singapore NOW!".

kao.. it amuses me how blatant porn ads can be these days. but at least the site could work (not the porn link, but the music site!) and i managed to dl my song.

Anyway, I feel much better now.. chatting AT HOME with JH on MSN at 5.30pm ON MY ORD DAY is akin to taking 1 and 3/4 panadol pills. the other 1/4 for still being caged at home.

To provide some mental relief for our various girl friends in uni, a typical conversation between ORD personnel (of course, with the endorsement of both parties involved) is as follows. Only their MSN nicks have been used to protect the identities..

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to all doctors, disruptees and future enlistees..SAF awaits you. says:
yoyo!

Liang Jun says:
yoyo

to all doctors, disruptees and future enlistees..SAF awaits you. says:
hehe today ord?

Liang Jun says:
argh

Liang Jun says:
yeah

to all doctors, disruptees and future enlistees..SAF awaits you. says:
eh wanna go look for job?

Liang Jun says:
and i'm stuck at home

Liang Jun says:
lol!!

Liang Jun says:
how?

Liang Jun says:
classified ads?

to all doctors, disruptees and future enlistees..SAF awaits you. says:
go out to agency and sign up loh

Liang Jun says:
or jobstreet.com

to all doctors, disruptees and future enlistees..SAF awaits you. says:
jobstreet sux lah

Liang Jun says:
or jobdb.com

to all doctors, disruptees and future enlistees..SAF awaits you. says:
all is agency also

to all doctors, disruptees and future enlistees..SAF awaits you. says:
i write my resume until vomit blood, nothing to write man

to all doctors, disruptees and future enlistees..SAF awaits you. says:
tmr wanna go look for job?

to all doctors, disruptees and future enlistees..SAF awaits you. says:
we can go PS there got a lot of agencies i think, can sign up

Liang Jun says:
PS got ah?

to all doctors, disruptees and future enlistees..SAF awaits you. says:
ya

to all doctors, disruptees and future enlistees..SAF awaits you. says:
my fren say go there one shot got 33 agencies

Liang Jun says:
tmr, ok i guess

to all doctors, disruptees and future enlistees..SAF awaits you. says:
onz ah

Liang Jun says:
then is there any fee?

to all doctors, disruptees and future enlistees..SAF awaits you. says:
nope

to all doctors, disruptees and future enlistees..SAF awaits you. says:
but agency will take a cut of ur first month pay

Liang Jun says:
oh

Liang Jun says:
haha

Liang Jun says:
ok

to all doctors, disruptees and future enlistees..SAF awaits you. says:
onz ah

Liang Jun says:
yah

Liang Jun says:
me and you ah?

Liang Jun says:
dick?

to all doctors, disruptees and future enlistees..SAF awaits you. says:
yah..dick got his own job leh

Liang Jun says:
lol!

Liang Jun says:
Yah, then after that can play pool.. i'm into that now

Liang Jun says:
haha

Liang Jun says:
might buy a pool table

to all doctors, disruptees and future enlistees..SAF awaits you. says:
WAH

to all doctors, disruptees and future enlistees..SAF awaits you. says:
i just signed an insurance policy

Liang Jun says:
wah

to all doctors, disruptees and future enlistees..SAF awaits you. says:
so time to get my arse off and earn some cash

Liang Jun says:
from where?

Liang Jun says:
prudential?

to all doctors, disruptees and future enlistees..SAF awaits you. says:
ya

to all doctors, disruptees and future enlistees..SAF awaits you. says:
i gave my insurance friend dick's number, MWAHAHA

Liang Jun says:
WAHAHAHA!!

Liang Jun says:
they can sell to each other..

Liang Jun says:
LOL!

to all doctors, disruptees and future enlistees..SAF awaits you. says:
after all dick did ask me to intro more pplt o him

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Ok, hope that provided some oxygen to the brain.

Well, I'm outta brain juice stimulant.

So will go job hunting with JH tmr..

STAY TUNED to "Part 2 of an ORD personnel", which will hopefully be POSTED BY JH tmr after our job hunting (hint hint..)

till then, take care of your grey matter, and keep in shape babes!

LJ

Just a old movie..

2006-10-28T13:29:00.000+08:00

Was clearing out the old comm yesterday when I found this gem hidden amongst the junk. Can't say I'm proud of the flash I made, but I guess I'm proud that we've done this before..

Yay, I can post now!

2006-10-27T23:49:00.000+08:00

Hi everyone!
So happy... first to read your blog and then to post.
I will post some photos when I return to school on Monday cos my photos are all in the school's laptop (and it is Sat now).

Reading the blog (not all of it, just some excerpts) brings back many happy memories indeed! Although I didn't spend all the 2 years with you (had some maternity leave and then pregnancy leave thrown in!), I think you're the closest class to me.

All in all, I have been teaching in hc 5 years and my first CT was 01S7C which I took only halfway (for less than one year) because their previous CT was a mother tongue teacher or something and couldn't write testimonials. The next CT was you guys and then I went another full cycle of JC 1-JC2 and for the 05 batch, I have no CT, so yup!! that's why... And of course you guys went through so much with me, both your milestones and my own milestones. You saw through both of my kids' pregnancies! :-)

Things are very different in school now, a lot has changed, both students, teachers, physical school environment and so on. I think you'd have noticed during MAF? or maybe it was too short a time then or too dark, haha.

Even for myself, the way I teach and the way I interact with students has changed too, with every batch! I will be sad to leave end of this year for sure... though long time ago when my hubby first announced his intention to pursue further studies in the USA, I was secretly happy to stop working and follow him. haha, but now I am feeling the reluctance, the nostalgia, the sadness of leaving.

Not that I don't look forward to the new experience! I will be glad to have a change, to have more time for my kids etc... Although I will be super busy with housework and 24/7 care of my kids, but I am sure I will be happy to explore the mountains, the national parks there... the wildlife/ flora/ fauna would be different from here and I will soak up everything new there. There are no beaches though, Salt Lake city is in Utah (northwest or somewhat central USA) where it is mountainous only. So I will miss the sea! And cheap seafood!

Aiyah better not launch into everything I will miss. Cos the next in line will be food and aiyoh, there will be so much I will dearly miss!

ok, will post some photos of my family and some recent photos of teachers in hc soon...

see ya
mrs goh

2006-10-21T08:52:00.000+08:00

hello!

firstly, thank you for all who turned up for the prata supper last night! not bad lar, considering 9 people turned up in almost the middle of the night just to eat prata and grow a good, round tummy. haa.. as usual, our class people are never on time! tsk.. haa.. next time must say an earlier timing so everyone will appear at the correct time. and kudos to jiaho for getting qingzhao out! haa.. jiaho is really proud of his determination and persuation skills. haa..

i must say i never saw the roti prata house so packed with customers before. we had to pounce onto a table right after its previous occupants just stood up la! pulling chairs and tables from elsewhere. haa.. and the waiters were never so busy before. we had to write our own orders (sorry lj for ordering ur coffee chino hot instead of iced!) and we had to wait for everything -- wait to order, wait for our orders, chiew's mutton murtabak took aaaaaaaaaages lar! (but she n robin polished it off real fast. haa..) probably they had to slaughter a goat behind to get the mutton. hm.. and jaymie was looking at every plate of mee goreng they served out, waiting for hers to come around. haa.. and i must say it tastes good! we also had to wait for the bill to come. somehow they just charge u with a jumble of numbers added together, i never figured out what costs what and if we were ever cheated. haa.. thanks to benedict and his accounting talent, he sorted out how much each of us were supposed to pay. but till now, i still dont know why u gave me back change. haa..

hopefully u guys liked the food there and benjamin was right, just eat and never look at how they cook their food. u won't really feel like eating anymore when u see the amount of oil they cook their prata in and the red plastic bags they take ingredients out of. haa.. and jiaho, since ure already out for supper just forget about the oil and fats ure consuming. haa.. and ure not fat lar!

the supper ended with lj, benedict, benjamin and jaymie going off to jaymie's place to watch dvds i think. i was super inclined to just sit in lj's car and nua for the whole night instead. haa.. it is super cool lar! lj, its no wonder ur parents are not willing to let u drive out the car alone lar! benedict sure had a fun time shifting his seat down all the way, leaving me no space at the back seat and wearing lj dad's sunglasses and posing for the camera (jaymie will update u guys on the photos!) he even walked me out in the dark with them on. how to see????

thank u guys for coming out and next time, the gathering will be organised at an earlier time so more people will turn up. till next time!

cheers!

2006-10-19T20:41:00.000+08:00

hello people!

the prata supper is officially at 10.30pm tomorrow (20/10/06, Friday) at the Roti Prata House at 246M Upper Thomson Road. It is 24 hours so we can stay there for as long as we want, so long as we dont get chased away by the people there lar.haa..

i found two websites with maps to the place, i can't view the map from this link but maybe u guys can give it a try:
http://www.can.com.sg/neocan/en/mapfinder/postal.step2.html?showmap=yes&postcode=570370

and here's another link i found, with recommendations of wat to eat there, so u guys may want to check them out before heading over tomorrow. and i've uploaded the accompanying map below.
http://www.singaporefood.com.sg/rotiprata/

ok, for drivers u can check out this website http://www.streetdirectory.com/routing/index.php?pid2=1&aid2=101933
and type in ur starting address to get the directions there. the only way i know of how to get there is from my place lar, passing through SLE, exiting at exit 5 Upper Thomson there. I'm pretty sure u can go by PIE too, exiting at Lornie Road then all the way up to Upper Thomson. You'll see the Thomson Road Post Office, then can turn in from there and find place to park. Since it's terrace estates there, free parking lar. be careful of where u park, don't park opposite continuous white line blah blah.

By bus hor, I only know 855, either take from Yishun Interchange down to Upper Thomson. You'll have to pass by Khatib, Pierce Secondary School, Thomson Plaza (on the opposite side of the road) then alight at the stop after Thomson Plaza. or from the busstop along Adam Road and Lornie Road at Bukit Timah area, passing by McRitchie Reservoir, up to Upper Thomson Road. I think u'll pass by Thomson CC, alight the stop after that and cross over. Other buses available there are 132, 162, 163, 165, 166, 167, 410, 855, 980. yep, not sure where the buses come from or go to lar..

ok! this is the best directions i can give coz i am really really bad with my directions. haa..ok! hope to see you guys there! 1030pm k? give me a call if u guys lost ur way or something ya? and if alot of u want hor, i can meet u guys at like 10pm yio chu kang mrt station then we go down together ya? if u want the lift hor, sms me and let me know. yea!

sp far, confirmed people are me, liangjun, jaymie and bf, jiaho, benedict, chiewyi, beelian. ey, constance not so sure and a couple of others who havent told me whether they are or not lar..ey,i think this should be the list of pple appearing. come people come, the more the merrier!

so exciting! first time i'm organising a gathering! and thanks to liangjun for helping me out. haa..

cheers to a fine, round tummy!

1st time here!!!

2006-10-13T22:53:00.000+08:00

HALLO HALLO EVERYBODY!!!!

surprised to see me post?? haha..i'm oso very very surprised by my actions. if i'm not wrong, i suppose this would be my very FIRST post on our class blog ever since it started.. haha.. seems quite late eh.. but all along, quite lazy juz to go visit the blog.. even WTH was scolding me the other time on msn cuz i was soooooooo "dead" on our class blog. *dun kill me for that plsssss :)*

hey!! who posted the videos on the blog?? why nvr ask my permission before posting the one where i'm sucking on the crab?!?!! that's very rude man!! no manners!!!!!! wah, portray me like some "hungry ghost"!! i'm gonna sue u for copyright, whoever u r... haha..

it's 6 days after MAF now.. cool!! during JC, nvr could understand why MAF was such a significant event in the Hwa Chong calendar. dunno why the seniors keep coming back n taking up so much space at the CT bench.. haha.. but really great to see all of you back again!! *hmm..come to think of it, only 8 of you*

haiz...but 1 thing i dun like when i went back to my alma mater. that is.......i feel soooooooo OLD!! see all the small little teenagers running about... worse was when we started dancing mass dance. normally during jc, can dance thru the nite...but now, dance a little while, i'm so dead beat!! like wad u see in the photos lah...*me sitting on the class bench after dancing* haha.. but nvm, i still love to dance the mass dance!! even though, i keep dancing the female part. hey!! it's not that i've got a problem wif my sexuality ok!! juz that there r sooooooo few guys. only me, ow, alice n lj. dunno where the rest gone to.. haha.. hey guys, must come out for next gathering hor!! if not, always the same few ppl..

din see mrs anna goh or mdm chen *guai lan* at MAF.. mrs goh said her children not feeling well i think.. mdm chen told me the next day her baby kicking her in the tummy that's why left eary.. seems like the baby dun like the 150psi haze too!! :)

oh yah!! some of u may have known, i'm currently doing my own business wif Amway. the things that we sell range from beauty products (Artistry), to food supplements (Nutrilite), to household cleaners, to personal care products (eg. Satinique) and even for ur mums, cookware!! all of them are really really very good n u can find more information abt wad we have on the web at www.amway2u.com or any search engines.

Best thing is that there is a Satisfaction Guarantee for all our products. so if u dun like the smell, the taste, the effects, or the design of the bottle, etc..., u can always return for FULL REFUND!! good eh?? so if u or ur family need anything to bathe yourselves with, anything to treat certain health problems or basically ANYTHING u need, gimme a call ok?? dun worry abt the prices...cuz they're soooooo value-for-$$$ n definitely much much more affordable than NTUC or anywhere else. better still is, u can be assured the best service from ur old fren! *that's if u guys ever considered me a fren lah* haha..

ok lah, enough of advertisement for myself. haha.. seems like clearing leave is such a wonderful experience! so free everyday at home... envy me anot? but can't really guarantee when my next posting on the blog will be. haha..

hope to see more of u n not juz the same OLD faces the next time round!!

bye bye!!

2006-10-11T17:23:00.000+08:00

the roti prata house along upper thomson road sells the best crispy prata! think of biting into a whole mouthful of crispy prata dipped in their thick curry, doesn't that just make you want to just start your diet on another day instead? they have lots of different flavours -- cheese, mushroom cheese, tissue, murtabak, blahblah..and they sell wicked curry chicken and other curry meaty stuff.

it's pretty accessible lar, can take a bus from yishun 855 down all the way along upper thomson, and i think they are other buses to that area too (167, 165, 163). one from hougang and bukit merah there if i'm not wrong. they're pretty near acutally.. drivers can just cruise down SLE and exit at upper thomson exit and make your way there too. lots of parking space there coz its terrace houses area, but please be careful to park opposite dashed white lines, not solid ones! i dio a $70 fine from that lar! and no second chance given even if you write in to the traffic police and plead for leniency using a first-time driver as an excuse. doesn't work. haa..

yup.. prata, anyone?

2006-10-10T19:28:00.000+08:00

The following has been made by a severely bored pre-ORD personnel.

2006-10-09T23:21:00.000+08:00

Okies my turn to post fotos! Sorry for being so slow haha.. Finally finished my CAs today! =)

Stupid ben disturbing us.. haha..

All the st nicks girls from our class went for MAF!

n the guys..

Huihong n meiting! :)

chewy! =)

maf pictures!!

2006-10-08T13:49:00.000+08:00

finally!!!! finally i finised uploading all the pictures!!! it took me 2 hrs.. hahaa.. :p but i'm sure it's worth the time and effort.. :) anw, jh already gave us a good breakdown of wat happened during maf, so i'll just fill you guys in with pictures! warning.. there are ALOT of pictures! :)

our first group picture.. without ben.. he went to drink water.. haha.. alex giving us his signature cool-smirk.. :P

2nd group picture, when ben came back.. haha.. the smeeeelllllyyyy guys wanted to slot themselves amongst the girls... :P and alex decided to smile.. he looks better when he smiles rite?!

by this time, lj has decided to take charge over my digicam and started snapping away.. haha.. he took many random shots (of unknown girls too, which i haf deleted of course.. :P) this is jh and i.. check out his skin tone.. heehee..

alex and chewy.. alex warming up to the camera.. :P

ben.. looking wasted here.. he must be too tired from doing mass dance (with the other guys) :P

lj and jh... errr.. trying to act cool?! :P

hh.. as cute as ever!

hh and lj.. aiyoh i never knew hh's tongue is so long! loL!

the girls! before siying arrived.. :)

lj and his section mate.. dunno wat his name is, but he's from hc too.. :)

us acting stoopid at the bench.. err.. not exactly our bench la.. the bench beside ours.. not 68's.. some S3 class rite? dunno la! haha.. anw, ya the class bench was too crowded, so we invaded other pple's territory.. lj's photography skills are quite bad lehhh... :)

much better! with ben acting cute.. :P

when siying arrived! haha.. it was realli dark and lj snapped a shot of her.. my cam's flash is so blinding siying had to siam.. :P

at KAP! haha.. our first attempt with the timer shot.. let's see.. err.. jiaho got cut out..

2nd attempt.. now lj got cut out..

3rd attempt! and the funniest of them all.. haha.. look at lj! he has a straw stuck up his nose! :P

4th attempt, this time alex got cut out..

5th attempt! finally a perfect shot! we had so much fun taking.. look at the brilliant smiles on our faces.. haha.. but it was really funny.. :P

after much persuation, the guys agreed to act cute with 1,2,3,4! (i.e. lj-1, alex-2, jh-3, ben-4) :P

still acting cute with 1,2,3,4, but in the oppsite direction this time round. :)

girls with 5,6,7,8.. (i.e. hh-5, chewy-6, me-7, sying-8) posing was effortless for us.. ahha.. we girls are just good at it.. :P

lj suggested we act cool and dao.. obviously i win la! hahaha.. :P 2nd is chewy, 3rd is sying and 4th is hh.. haha.. hh still looks cute despite trying to look dao.. :P

erps.. some gay action coming up btn ben and jh... :P

and now it's jh and alex.. i can't decide if jh's enjoying himself.. haha.. :P

and last but not least, we haf ALEX to close our photo-whoring session! hahaa..

i haven't had so much fun in a LONG LONG LONG LONG time!!! haha.. i guess we haven't changed much.. ben's still ben.. when we sat down at KAP, he said "oh i got coupons!" and he took out his macs discount coupons.. haha!! many would probably agree with me that it's harder and harder to find friends in uni.. so PPLE! we must meet up more la! keep the class blog alive, that's the least we can do.. :) i had a great time pplE! hope you all did too.. :) (depite the stoopid 150PSI haze)

ok.. now i hope i can successfully upload this entry.. if not i'll crY!!!

oh btw, i've uploaded the pictures to yousendit and emailed to you guys.. it'll expire in 7 days, so please go download before that.. alternatively, you can download the pics one by one from this entry.. :) cheers!

MAF AAR BMM

2006-10-08T09:40:00.000+08:00

Phew..MAF's over. Now its back to mugging for the girls, and job-hunting for us! Anyways although attendance was dismal *maximum i could count at a time was 8!*, this year's MAF really didn't seem so bad!

Okay okay. Chronologically going, "we" met up earlier at 1730hrs for pool before going on to dinner. "We" as in LJ, Alex, and me, with Chewy and Dick joining us for dinner. With half the class attendance in tow, we packed off into Chewy's little orange Picanto and rode over to HC, only to realize our favourite field beside the amphitheatre *you know, the one beside EP3 Block/the one leading to Chinese High?* has been transformed into a uber-cool block of..i don't know. Apparently we forgot to check it out before we evacuated the premises.

Upon reaching school we realized that there weren't much people after all..the first sight of the area below auditorium showed a scene full of councillors, and of nobody else. Proceeded over to our classbench to find the 04 and 05 and 06 juniors all lounging around with Huihong slumped in one corner in total boredom *check out the golden hair!*, but we were just too old and none of them juniors could recognize us. /cry /slitwrist.

Well..later on the biggest part of the event we were hunting the school for Mrs. Goh n' Mdm Chen..but we couldn't manage to find both of them. Bleah. Met up with random friends, guys asked about which camp, when ORD, girls asked about studies, quizzes and tests. The aimless roaming ended when the song session started and everyone started belting out the songs in baritone.*shiver* Dick's bag of goods just got kicked upside down everytime there was a crazyjumpingsong by Constance! *meheheh good one ;)*

After 1,2, maybe even 3 years of inactivity from the mass-dance event, we decided to give it a go this year, often ending up like penguins with 2 left feet in a sea of other similar penguins. Compounded by the horrible haze after we burnt the lightup thingy and loads of happyfireworksticks, it became quite a sweaty affair >.< As usual, with the overload of guys v girls, Dick and me ended up dancing as girls with the girls *don't ask.* I knew all 4 of us guys should have taken some positive action that night rather than just BMM..

Nonetheless after dance session we met up with Jay and Siying, who drove her car over too *dudes, we gotta get our cars!*. Split up into 2 groups and zhao over to KAP to avoid the haze. LJ did a marvellous job of chasing a lone KAP mugger away from a 6-men seat, combining sheer grit, determination and vocabularial flair to culminate in obtaining the seat for the 8 of us. After grabbing our ice-creams and such, we pretty much took tons of pictures of various poses *some of which were forced upon the unsuspecting male population*, and chatted all the way till 1am, then we split up and headed home.*Thanks for the ride back chewy!*

Hehe, didn't have so much fun for so long already..and now that MAF's gone, there's nothing to look forward to! *maybe ORD..?* Guess we just gotta wait for the pix to be uploaded and observe the varying states of photowhorism exhibited by us during the stupor.

MAF AAR BMM, over and out.

MAF.

2006-09-20T21:20:00.000+08:00

Now guys, we have seriously gotta start planning early in prep for MAF. This once in a year thingy is not only good for maintaining ties and establishing connections, it also serves as a pickup point for hot chicks (ie girls in their uni. matriculation year.. Don't you find that the girls get prettier after graduating from HC?? Maybe its all makeup and all, but i seriously doubt that i will mind that..) Now, to ace that chick at the far end of the, say, left wing of the block, we gotta bring binoculars to spy on her, flowers and chocolates to give her...

ok, guys, lets stop fantasizing. JIAHO! snap out of it!

to make things work, we have to make things happen. everyone of us has to do our part. Just like tackling the pretty girl at the opposite end of the building, we have to have a game plan for us to go out as a class beforehand.

Some considerations..

Firstly, Chewy, can we confirm that its on the 7th October Sat? It would probably start at 6.30pm, with the performances and all that. Meaning if we were to have dinner, we would have to meet at about 5.30pm? I do hope we can go out beforehand, but for those who are not able to, preferably we have it somewhere near to accomodate latecomers.

Secondly, if we go out beforehand, where should we go? Movie, pool, board games, singing, cycling, canoeing, beach volleyball, swimming, sunbathing (oops, not so few clothes on, yeah?) hmm..

that Said.. can we have some recommendations for the activity of the day?

For those who share the idea of going out before MAF, pls block off that day on your personal calenders (ie, shove your bf's and gf's aside..)

Do keep in mind that, even if the response is poor, as a last resort, we can always come down to my house for a hearty round of mahjong and korean serials (I just finished Fullhouse. nice!!) in the afternoon.

Cheers, to our friendship, gay-ship, and childishness..

... and to all who haven't passed their driving test. hey hey.. ;p

Making up one-half of the gay bloggers of this class blog,
Liang Jun, signing off..

Yeah! Me too!!

2006-09-19T16:20:00.000+08:00

"..go downstairs watch video"

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YEAH. to think i very nearly flunked straight away at the circuit...screwed my vert+ parallel parking n' slope! Meheheh...ok who wants to borrow a chauffeur for MAF?

on second thoughts..who's going in the first place!?

Driving TEST

2006-09-13T19:18:00.000+08:00

I PASSED!! Yey!!
I PASSED!! Yey!!
I PASSED!! Yey!!
I PASSED!! Yey!!
I PASSED!! Yey!!
I PASSED!! Yey!!
I PASSED!! Yey!!
I PASSED!! Yey!!
I PASSED!! Yey!!
I PASSED!! Yey!!
I PASSED!! Yey!!
I PASSED!! Yey!!
I PASSED!! Yey!!
I PASSED!! Yey!!

Haha.. this must be pissing of those who haven't, but..

I PASSED!! Yey!!
I PASSED!! Yey!! _ _
I PASSED!! Yey!! = = = =
I PASSED!! Yey!!
I PASSED!! Yey!! -_ = _-
I PASSED!! Yey!! -_ _-
I PASSED!! Yey!! - - - - --
I PASSED!! Yey!!
I PASSED!! Yey!!

Haha.. got 14 points.. not very good though, but...

haha.. ok, i'll stop that :D

Anyway, I think my instructor was very good to me. After I screwed up my circuit (I got 4 points each for not checking blind spot during 3 point directional change and vertical parking),
we went out to the route. Coincidentally, I was chosen for the same route I failed during my first attempt (route 5). So i was gleefully thinking, I won't mess up the same route the 2nd time round.. or else Jaymie and all those reading this blog would laugh at me when I post my failures here thereafter..

So as i was saying, after screwing up my circuit, I went on to the route. Surprisingly, he only let me drive to the main road, did 1 U-turn, and then we headed straight back to home base!

I was like, wth, that was only a quarter of the total distance of route 5. Certainly if I were to complete the whole route, I would have had a teeney, weeny, itsy, bitsy chance of failing.. (haha.. my ego's getting the better of me.. :) )

So, I passed! Yey!!
I PASSED!! Yey!!
I PASSED!! Yey!!
I PASSED!! Yey!!

Today, I dropped my brother off at school, then I drove to camp. It was, i must admit, quite scary driving at high speeds on the expressways.. haha..

and.. I got my first honking from a fellow driver on the expressway.. lol.. He was on the lane to my right, and I naturally was on his left. haha. So I tried to cut into his lane as I wanted to go faster. I overtook him from his left, and cut into his lane. lol.. quite scary.. (I shouldn't be so boastful of this, should I?? well for entertainment purposes, I guess I have no choice.. haha..)

So there. A lesson for those who haven't PASSED (yey!! :p) and for new drivers.

NEVER SWITCH TO A LANE ON THE RIGHT BY OVERTAKING THEM FROM BEHIND AND CUTTING INTO THEIR LANE.

Consequences can be fatal, and worse still... You could be horned at.

LJ

2006-09-01T23:49:00.000+08:00

hellohello!

mrs anna goh is leaving hc in december i think, not too sure about it. yar and she left her email address: tjmummy@gmail.com and her msn tjmummy@hotmail.com. add her and email her!
ar..i really miss jc life when school work was so much more managable.haa..

cheers!

2006-08-14T16:23:00.000+08:00

hello hellllooooooo!

have not checked in in a while so it was really nice catching updates from the blog. okay must confess that i was around during the class outing but in the horrid throes of interning at Harry Elias so i gave it a miss in favour of going home to sleep. yar pig i know.

anyhow, i'm typing this from the raffles city shopping mall in shanghai where my office is, so love and hello from shanghai :) have been here for a week on an internship with capitaland and there are another 3 weeks to go before i head home and then back to school. being in hwa chong is rearing it's benefits now when i was forced to communicate with the chinese high boys more in chinese, cos now this mgs girl is putting her language skill (or lack thereof) into overdrive.

coming to shanghai was a huuuuuuuuge culture shock for me. the heat is discomforting at the height of summer, the food is cheap but very oily, and the chinese here a generally a brusque bunch until you get to know them and they let you in on their inner circle. it's amazing how we could have been one people yet china is still an alternate culture for me.

WORST OF ALL. the authorities are cracking down on the piracy trade here so it's much harder to get dvds! *pullhairbangtable*

i heard maf this year is going to be held in october because of the double 7th month this year. damn. i was looking forward to making it to maf in september before i go back to school.

SwEat..

2006-07-27T21:10:00.000+08:00

Wah lau, since nobody wants to post, let me put a pic of her first.. lol.. anybody wants more PM me. i've got more. yeah baby..

ok, i'm getting a bit sick seriously.. infatuated.. argh.. what to do, in NS so no life.. anybody got some recommendation for relaxation?

anyway, i'm conducting an out camp run again on the 4th of august friday in the early morning at East Coast Park. bah.. remember the last one i was supposed to conduct at pasir ris park? it was cancelled 2 days before the proposed date. haha.. sian. so now i gotta do this and start from scratch with the procedures all over again.

well, i just went down to East coast today with my friend. We rented a tandem bike (is it called a tandem bike? the couple, 2 seater one). Yes yes, it was freakin' gay. imagine 2 guys 'riding' on a bike. wow. didn't help that i was in a skimpy PT attire and he, well.. in army uniform.

spell kinky.

K-I-N-K-Y

yeah..

So we rode around the place for 2 hours. from carpark F2 to B1, then back again to F2, 6km each to and fro. then from f2 to f3 and back to f2, 2km each. then back to the bicycle rental shop. another 2km. so total 18km +. lol, are we good or what.

it was, memorable, just the 2 of us.. adrenaline pumping, perspiration glistening under the evening sun.. school girls staring.. pretty babes bladin'.. oh well..

Don't get me wrong. We were hot and sticky.. oops, i mean, you get the picture.

yeah, back to the topic. So next friday i'm conducting in the morning. whos' free in the afternoon? haha.. lets go 'dry swimming' in my mahjong room. Real swimming also can, in a public swimming pool anybody (friends of the girls?) haven't swam for a long time. haha..

maybe Dick can swim with me. There'll be enough water to mask the sweat and heat that we will be.. erm.. effervescing?

Get ready your trunks dick, you hunky waterpolo-er..

Lj.