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2012-02-09T15:37:00.001+11:00

Gosh, haven't posted anything like in a thousand years. Saw the blogging app for iPhone so I decided to try it out. It will be great if posting pictures and adding comments to them are easy.

That's me lazing beside the pool on a Sunday evening. Can't swim cos was still coughing very badly.

2010-12-26T06:30:00.002+11:00

Sometimes I wonder why it seems impossible for me to have a normal relationship.

Can someone enlighten me?

2010-11-24T04:11:00.003+11:00

Alas, I'm updating my blog again. Laziness has always been my weak point and this is proven repeatedly by the lack of activity over here. Just turned 25 last week, and thought maybe I should at least blog about the arrival of the much hated quarter century crisis.

Nothing spectacular on the day itself. Parents, Khloe, Jacob and Aunt Michelle surprised me with a small slice of cake during dinner on the 17th Nov. Though the cake was small, the thoughtfulness was huge. Was really happy. 18th Nov was just another normal day for me. Cough was still pretty darn bad then. Decided to stay home and recuperate. Uni friends were spontaneous and decided to meet for dinner to celebrate my bday. Thanks peeps! Will let pictures do the rest of the talking.

2010-08-23T00:53:00.002+10:00

Laziness to blog has once again caused this space to be neglected.

Looking back at the last post, I realise the process wasn't really relevant in my job anymore. I no longer need to go through that same cycle to pass the week. Right now, the tasks that I'm responsible for makes the week shorter than it seems. Everything seems to be passing by so quickly.

Weekdays pass by rather fast, with weekends passing even faster. Sometimes you really wished there was an extra weekend, but yea, dream on.

The flu bug has caught up with me, shall update this space soon.

2010-05-23T20:31:00.003+10:00

I've officially finish one month of work. Yes, one freaking month of official adulthood work. Well, it definitely feels like time just whizzed past you. Working really makes time pass at the speed of light. Described below is a brief snapshot of my weekly life.

The most sian day of the week is definitely Monday, thus the widely known Monday Blues. In fact, Sunday can be quite a sian day as well, especially when 6pm arrives. Anyway, I have my own way to help myself pass time while working. Monday is definitely the hardest to get by, and once you finish work on Monday, go out with friends for dinner or drinks to reward yourself. It's just nice for me since my mom works night shift on Mondays, and I will have to settle dinner outside. Tuesday is like a not here nor there day, definitely irritating as well. However, you can tell yourself that the next day would be the middle of the work week, which is a crucial checkpoint, so hang in there for Tuesday!

Wednesday, the most crucial work day of the week. Congrats to you and give yourself a pat on the back. I will naturally feel rejuvenated and motivated on Wednesdays, as I know half of the work week is gone and there is just 2 more days to the weekend. Go to the gym during Wednesdays, and buy some salad back to your desk for lunch. You will feel even more refreshed after the healthy workout and organic food in your stomach. My parents will be out for dinner with my grandma, thus it's usually a night out with friends, probably enjoying a nice movie after dinner too.

Thursday, the second last day of work for the week. Subconsciously you will not think about how boring work is and you just go about finishing your tasks for the day. Why? Cos the next day is freaking Friday haha! Usually I would head home for dinner and get a good rest, cos Friday nights usually require alot of energy HAHA.

TGIFF. Thank god it's freaking Friday. Somehow I will feel happy going to work on this 'sacred' day. You know the end is near, you are just hours away from the weekend that you so bloody deserve! The $3 bak chor mee during lunch taste better somehow, and you seem to be able to work faster and more efficient. Plans are usually made for Friday nights, as time is extremely precious and you would want to enjoy every single minute of it. It is a good night to have a fantastic dinner at a fabulous restaurant and chill out with friends in the city. Late night programs can include movies, mahjong or even clubbing (highly discouraged as it entails negative returns). I usually sleep extremely late during Fridays, say 4am or later.

Saturday, also known as the no alarm clock day. Pretty shiok as you can sleep as long as you want. However, after your biological clock is used to waking up at 7+am during the weekdays, chances of waking up late on Saturdays are quite rare, as I would find myself logging into msn at around 10am. Saturday afternoons are usually dedicated to tennis and swimming, and I certainly hope to slot in golf training if possible. Usually it's dinner out with friends and whatever plans that comes along with it.

Sunday arrives, and the sian-ness sets in. Usually I will stay home on Sundays, to rest and slack, catch up on some shows and nap a little. It's pretty much like admin time during army, as you just spend the day relaxing at home. Of course, head out if you have plans for Sunday and enjoy this last day of the week, but be mentally prepared for another tiring week ahead.

It's almost Monday now. FML.

2010-05-16T16:15:00.003+10:00

FMIS - Fcuk me it's Sunday. Means Monday blues is due to hit me in less than 24 hrs. Well it's ok, stay positive, 2 more weeks to pay day!

Yes. Come end of May will be the first time in my life I receive my first ever official pay check as a working adult. Remuneration's not a lot, but definitely more than the meager sum I received during my part time and internship days. Still, it is far far lesser than the amount that is needed to own a Lamborghini.

3 weeks of work has passed, and I'm beginning to get a hold of things at work. There are many more things yet to be learned and mastered, but I'm actually looking forward to learn them all and see how much can I absorb, something positive I thought. Hopefully this optimism will last, or pop up whenever it's needed.

2010-04-30T23:39:00.004+10:00

TGIF! Finally it's friday. =)

I finally started work at Morgan Stanley after a tedious 3 months of job hunting. The last time I worked was way back in Feb '09, while I was doing my internship with Deloitte. I'm so not used to waking up at 7+ in the morning and forcing myself to sleep early the night before. When I was a fresh graduate, I can't wait to start working. Now that I'm a full time working adult, I wished I was still having that freedom I used to have. Now, that freedom is forever gone, at least till the day I retire.

I enter the corporate world with much enthusiasm to be honest. I am grateful for the chance to work in a big company like Morgan Stanley as well. I wish I can excel at every task given to me, portraying professionalism and excellence. I do not wish for slip ups and failures. I wish I can climb up the corporate ladder at the fastest speed possible. Yet, I fear I might suffer a backlash or what some people term as burnout. I am already fighting the zzz monster during work, but I attribute that largely to my screwed up sleeping hours. I was angry at myself for almost dozing off while my colleague was giving me training. I thought to myself, "Hey don't you screw yourself by dozing off!"

First week of work was spent mainly focusing on on-the-job training. Time was spent familiarising myself with the IT programs, excel spreadsheets and work processes. I realised there was a huge bunch of things waiting for me to master, and the work load will no doubt grow gradually. Even the new hire e-learning programmes require quite a bit of time to finish, not to mention they include a 2 week deadline as well. Oh well, at least a busy schedule and work load will help time pass faster?

Picture of a random bird that flew into my house (and shitted comfortably all over), just like the one that flew into Black Lion Place residences in Sydney. Damn I miss that 2nd home of mine.

2010-04-18T20:39:00.002+10:00

My blog's really dying from lack of activity. I have so much time on hand, yet I am just too lazy to lay my fingers on the keyboard to update this space of mine. I spent most of my time catching up with friends, watching shows on my tv, playing mahjong and sleeping. This is the lifestyle many envied, especially students and working friends of mine.

This non-stressful and carefree lifestyle started aproximately 3 weeks ago when I got the phonecall from Morgan Stanley's human resource department offering me an analyst position in their finance department. I was ecstatic and felt thoroughly relieved as I had 2 job offers to choose from. One that is from arguably the best bank in the world, but only offering a 4 months contract, and the other one as mentioned above. In the end, I chose the permanent role mainly for the job security it brings about, and the better prospect of a middle office role compared to one of a back office.

With the signing of the contract on a Monday-Blueless Monday, the commencement of my much anticipated career was imminent. I was informed to report to work on the 26 of April. I was delighted and grateful for this opportunity, as I know my prayers and effort did not go unanswered. Throughout the 3 months ++ of job hunting, I had the support of my family and friends who gave me non-stop advice and encouragement. Gone were the days of daily job hunting, sending out countless emails only to be ignored, feeling lost without any direction and the ultimate fear of unemployment.

I have exactly one week more to the start of my job. I had initially planned for a short getaway before starting work but it had largely been unsuccessful due to the political situation paralysing bangkok and the unavailability of my friends. What should I do in this final week of freedom, before I step into the prison of work?

2010-03-27T00:22:00.003+11:00

Hi guys, just a quick update over here. As follows:

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Please do remember to vote for Rebecca for the Favourite Female Character for Star Awards 2010. To do so, please follow the following steps!

1) Click on this link --> http://starawards2010.mediacorptv.sg/favfemale.htm
2) Select on the show "The Will"
3) Select the character 黄盈 (林慧玲) Huang Ying (Rebecca Lim)
4) Key in the code, and click on vote! The website will prompt for your name & IC. Click submit, and viola!

Voting is ONCE per day, so do remember and try to vote everyday!

Weekly updates of the current leading Top 10 will be updated every Thursday.

The current Top 10 Female Characters are: (NOT according to votes, but according to name of character)

1 方宋乔(范文芳) Fang Songqiao (Fann Wong) 双子星 The Ultimatum
2 黄丽萍 (陈靓瑄) Huang Liping (Felicia Chin) 添丁发财 Baby Bonus
3 林佳乐(刘芷绚) Lin Jiale (Jesseca Liu) 未来不是梦 The Dream-catchers
4 林佳琪(瑞恩) Lin Jiaqi (Rui En) 未来不是梦 The Dream-catchers
5 孙敏(陈靓瑄) Sun Min (Felicia Chin) 双子星 The Ultimatum
6 陶海桐(陈靓瑄) Tao Haitong (Felicia Chin) 心花朵朵开II Love Blossoms II
7 吴晓莉 (郑荔分）Wu Xiaoli (Michelle Tay) 一切完美2 Perfect Cut 2
8 姚剑虹(欧萱) Yao Jianhong (Jeanette Aw) 当我们同在一起 Together
9 叶予晨(郑惠玉) Ye Yuchen (Zoe Tay) 双子星 The Ultimatum
10 张洛芸(瑞恩) Zhang Luoyun (Rui En) 书包太重 My School Daze

Even in the event that Rebecca doesn't win, YOUR votes will allow Mediacorp to gauge the number of supporters that Rebecca has, hopefully granting her more prominent shows in the coming year!

Thank you for joining the fanpage, and thank you for your efforts in voting!

Yours sincerely,
Shi En (:
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Would appreciate if you guys do help to vote as Rebecca is a really good and upcoming celebrity. Thanks a bunch people! =)

2010-02-02T23:50:00.002+11:00

Was pretty tired this morning as I only managed to catch 3+ hours of sleep the night before. I accompanied my parents to SGH in the morning for their medical appointment. They didn't ask me to go initially as they wanted me to have more sleep but I insisted. We headed to maxwell hawker centre to have breakfast after the appointment and bought the famous oneh-oneh which was really delicious I thought.

We headed back home after breakfast, waited for Dave and Amer to arrive before leaving for Changi Airport to catch a shuttle bus to the Singapore Airshow 2010. Mom managed to get free trade-day tickets and I must say I enjoyed myself at the exhibition. Afterall it's my first time to an airshow exhibition and everything was rather intriguing and enjoyable. Security was extremely tight as there were so many police and security around the venue. As it was trade days, there were many high ranking military people as well as business people. They must be thinking what am I doing there haha. The only downside was the crazy weather. Had to queue close to an hour under the scorching sun in order to get into both the F-16 and Apache. Gonna get sunburn for the third time in a week when my skin is already charcoal black and peeling like a snake shedding its skin. I think I must really avoid being under the sun for at least a week if not my skin will be completely destroyed.

We left the place at around 4+pm, and I managed to get a nap on the shuttle bus. I think I took 3 seconds to fall asleep despite the shaky bus haha. We had Yakun Coffee Toast before heading back home for a deserved break.

At night, Amer and I brought Hau out for dinner at the Astons in East Coast Road. It is a western restaurant which serve some pretty decent food, and it is not too expensive as well. We ordered almost the same dishes, prime ribeye steak, medium rare for both Hau and me while it's well done for Amer. I felt so full and fat after the dinner, what's new haha. Amer sent us home, and Hau met up with his fellow cousin who's also a doctor as well for drinks and supper at Changi Village. I think I'm gonna sleep early tonight. Gotta wake up early to send cousins to the airport.

Oh, I didn't receive any calls for interviews today. The drought continues...

2010-02-01T18:23:00.001+11:00

Another typical day at home. Woke up today and did the usual routine, surfed the 3 major job recruitment websites for Commerce:

1) www.efinancialcareers.com.sg
2) www.jobsdb.com.sg
3) www.jobscentral.com.sg

Today was a particularly morale killing day for me. I called RBC Dexia up and asked about the outcome of the interview and was told that they hired someone for the fund accountant position already. I failed to fulfil the promise I made to someone, to find a job by the end of January. Biyaneh...

I thought I performed alright during interviews, but apparently I'm wrong. If I were good during interviews, I wouldn't have let 3 different job opportunities slip by me - Credit Suisse, Standard Chartered and RBC Dexia. Back to ground zero again. There's no replies from the various companies that I've applied to for the past 2 weeks and recently there's not much job openings as well. The morale is really running low now. Quite a bad start to 2010 =(

Anyway, cousin Hau and Ling are coming back from Japan and I'm gonna pick them up from the airport at around 135am. Hope they enjoyed their trip to the fullest. Hopefully I can visit Japan soon. I really want to visit more countries and get exposed to different cultures. I want to try skiing too, haven't touch snow in my life before urgh.

2010-01-01T15:46:00.015+11:00

Year 2010: The start of a new decade and the start of working life...

Time really flies. I was just looking at my "2009 New year resolution" post that's dated almost a year ago. The countdown this year was a lot quieter, the marists did not gather at daniel's place, some couldn't make it thus it was decided that we hold the gathering on the coming Saturday instead. As the clock ticks towards 0000 hrs, I was in the company of my parents, as well as my girlfriend (over the phone). 2009 was quite a wonderful year I thought...

Family
2009 marks a year of great health for my family, and I certainly hope it stays the same. Parents' business is fine, though at a much smaller scale now, it also meant that my parents need not work as hard as before. Bro quit his job at JPMorgan and left for Sydney to fulfil his PR requirements, as well as to get international job experience. Many relatives from my dad's side voiced disapproval of my bro's decision, citing several reasons, most of which were rather ridiculous, such as "why are you leaving your parents behind", "you can't get a good job there" etc...I wish they could be less 'conventional' in their mindset. I applaud my bro for his courage to quit a stable job and venture overseas, this is a risk not many people would dare to take. Would you?
As a result of his departure to Sydney, my parents have been under immense pressure from the relatives (For eg. "you shouldn't allow your son to go overseas to work" kinda meaningless statements), but they never once stop supporting my bro. They respect and trust my bro's decision, kudos to them.

Relationship 2009 marks the 10th year of my bachelorhood, and also ended the 10 year curse as well. I've been blessed to meet a person like her. She has many good qualities that many girls now, sad to say, do not possess. I daresay, she definitely makes a good wife. It was really fate that I got to know her, as she was an exchange student and do not have any tutorials with me, just a single similar lecture. I really treasured the limited time we had in Sydney, as we grew as a couple, knew and understand each other more. I knew the path ahead would be shrouded in uncertainty and filled with obstacles. I never once gave up, and I will keep my faith and continue to put in my best for this relationship. Why? Cos I love her.

Friends
I've always mentioned this, I'm blessed to have many good friends around me. They are always there when you need them. I wonder what will happen to me if I do not have these wonderful friends.The marists have been awesome. We must have known each other for more than 10 years at least. Gatherings had always strengthened the bond between us. All the advices and concern from them really made me a stronger person. Thanks bros. Mark and Zhenhao had officially left the education route and joined the cruel workforce, with me following closely behind sadly. Most of the rest are on course to finish their studies by the mid of 2010. By 2011, everyone would be done with university, hopefully Grad Trip Japan would be a reality then. Really look forward to it.

Marcus and Terrence, my jc buddies, have been doing well in 2009 as well. Both are happily attached, and are also busy with their businesses. Haven't met up with Terrence ever since I'm back, I think he's too busy with work and uni. Have been meeting up alot with Marcus, who's always there to offer me advice on almost anything. Thanks buddy, and work hard together bros.Uni mates. Yusheng had finally graduated from uni. I must have been really lucky and blessed to have him as my room mate. He got a job soon after graduation, and I'm sure he will soar and excel in his career. Ivan is as usual, the smart fella that gives me peer pressure making sure I mug as hard as him, making sure we are sure in our career decisions and the path that we want to take in the near future. Kc's the playful fella that's always influencing me to play, which isn't really a bad thing as I clearly didn't have a fine balance between work and play in uni. Though we had many disagreements pertaining to living habits, he's still a great mate. Without them, and many other great uni friends, the 3 years of my uni life would be dull and monotonous.University
I highly suspect that my grades actually followed the stock market. In 2007 my grades were sky high, just like the mortgage market in the U.S. In 2008 it plummeted together with the sub-prime crisis and in 2009 it recovered alongside the improving global economy. 2009 also marks the end of uni life for me. It's ironic how I wanted uni life to end asap so I could start working and earn my first million, which clearly isn't what I feel like now. It sad knowing that I am not a student anymore. I wish I am one still, with studies as the only responsibility on hand. It's time to go out into the workforce and earn my first pot of gold, taking care of my parents as well as saving up for my future family and business.Holidays
Thanks to Yongrui aka Alex, I get to visit Europe again, this time with the company of Zhida as well. Europe is always fun, and this trip was far more relaxed and slow paced compared to the eurotrip we had in 2008. Places visited include London, Barcelona, Luxembourg, Lisbon and Porto. Mid sem break of sem 2 saw the black lions with the capella couple joining forces and visiting Gold Coast together. Needless to say, the holiday was fantastic. Finally got to visit Taiwan in December with my family and relatives. The 7 days tour was simply a blast, as I enjoyed almost every single minute of it. I have to go back there soon. 2009 also saw me visiting Perth not once but twice. I enjoyed, and most importantly treasured every single moment I had in Perth. I think I'm pretty familiar with Perth now haha, but I still look forward to going back. I hope I can go back soon asap.
Year 2010
Let's check if I met the resolutions I set for 2009.

1) Get my grades back on the Distinction track - Failed
2) Exercise to lose weight and keep fit - Incomplete, I did exercise and lost weight, but more could be done
3) Save more money/earn money - Failed
4) Visit more countries (Taiwan, Thailand, Bali, Japan???) Accomplished
5) Brush up on musical instruments - Accomplished
6) Get a girlfriend? (Considered a resolution? LOL) - Accomplished

Here are the resolutions for year 2010:
1) Work hard for my family and girlfriend
2) Brush up on golf
3) Save up money for future family and business
4) Visit more countries
5) Exercise to lose weight and keep fit

The resolutions above sure do look challenging. I shall not give up and I will persevere till the very end. Tough road ahead for career and relationship, but nothing comes easy, especially things that you treasure alot. You want a good career? You work hard and stay focused. You want a lasting relationship? You keep faith and stay determined. Aza aza fighting Damian, chin up and face 2010 with confidence.

2010, bring it on.

2009-12-17T04:14:00.003+11:00

Pardon me for the extreme lack of activity in this blog. Busy I was, with countless tasks and stuff. Much had occurred in the past few months. I wished this blog has an auto update feature whereby I just need to plug the USB to my brain.

Something I've learned:

"Love is like a double edged sword. It makes you happy and fortunate, but it can hurt you to the same extent as well." Come to think of it, almost anything can be a double edged sword. You have to learn how to cope with almost anything in life, love is no exception. I need to learn how to be more embracing, understanding and caring. Aza aza fighting!

I'm getting so lazy to blog nowadays. Just look at the number of entries in 2009. Pathetic. Hopefully I find the time and energy to start blogging again.

2009-09-15T23:07:00.004+10:00

Aloha! Been such a long time since I last blogged. I just kept delaying and delaying. Just couldn't find the spare time to really sit down and do a proper blog post. Reason why I'm doing it now is because the worse is over for this semester I guess. Yes! The applied corporate finance project, which happens to be an extremely tough one for my team, is finally over. It was almost 2 weeks of daily intensive meetings that stretches till the wee hours. Meal times were always delayed, there wasn't enough sleep and my mind seemed to be cracking under the immense pressure. After the presentation on Thursday morning, my team and I can't help but feel relieved.

Besides being busy with projects, job applications have been of top priority too. Applications to various banks commenced in early September, as I scrambled to juggle them together with my project right after the awesome mid sem trip to Gold Coast. With the project done and job applications coming to an end, it seems like a good time to relax a little and catch up with whatever work I've lost touch with, especially management.

Week 11 is almost here, and it's actually the last 3 weeks of my student life (assuming no more studies thereafter). Come to think of it, I've been studying for 15 years since Primary 1. Now, everything seems to be coming to an end. It's a little bit scary though. People like to complain about studying, and how mugging for exams suck. The truth is, working out there sucks even more. Having done numerous part-time jobs in the past, I know that working life is a chore. The only incentive is the salary that you draw from your job, perhaps satisfaction for those working in industries they are interested in. Being a student has so many advantages. I believe there's an exhaustive list, but the four listed below are the main ones I guess. Strike the whole list off when you start working HAHA!

Sleep all you want
Slack all you want
Play all you want
Long holidays

I've always wished to end student life and finish university in Sydney asap, but now, I wish I have another year to go. Ironic? Yes I think so.

2009-08-18T03:16:00.003+10:00

Been having lotsa fun during the first 3 weeks of school, didn't really realise that week 4 onwards till the mid semester break was packed with so much work, tests and projects. Busy busy busy. Hopefully I find time to enjoy my last semester here. Is this my last semester? Haha I'm not sure of that myself.

Will update with a proper post soon. :)

2009-07-29T15:40:00.009+10:00

4/7: Had golf practice again at NSRCC. My golf really sucked. I think I need like another 100 practice sessions at the driving range to play at the green. Had supper (yes supper again. singapore wad. haha) with Marcus and Xinyan at the famous mee sua at Kembangan. It's not too bad, but slightly overrated I guess.

5/7: Went to old turf city to look at 2nd hand cars. Yea look only la no money to buy :) Good cars can always wait lol, I will be patient. After that went to the sin seh to 'push' my toe. Freaking hurt like hell but worth it cos the toe's 90% recovered now.6/7: Uni mates came over to dad's stall to show support, and we ordered many other hawker fare from other stalls as well. Lunch's a feast, all hail hawker food! Went KC's house to chill and later to Sarah's place for some guitar hero action. Fun! It was raining like mad as we made a mad dash for Jamie's jag.7/7: Attended Xinyan's (thanks for the wonderful meal at Vivocity with your family!) convocation. I think she's offically the first friend of mine that I've attended a convocation. Even though most of the people there were strangers to me, but I can't help but feel happy for all the graduates. There just seemed to be a very positive and joyous atmosphere. Feeling down recently? Attend a friend's convocation and bring a smile to that face of yours. Rushed down to city hall to meet Yusheng and Ivan for tailor fitting, and had supper, yup supper again with Terrence at geylang. 永和豆浆and 牛肉河粉. Shiok to the max. Stomach stretched to the max too~8/7: Met up with the uni mates for supper at ponggol nasi lemak. Standard was a little below average that day, nonetheless still quite tasty haha. Felt extremely guilty after eating the $4+ plate of carbo junk. Proceeded to Ivan's crib to chill after that, I envy his big room!9/7: TPJC day. Met up with jc classmates Dennis, Joycelyn and Wenyang for dinner at Taka's Crystal Jade. My order sorta got mixed up and end up eating the sichuan soup lamian. Abit not that tasty haha not gonna touch that anytime soon. Great catching up with them, been a while since I saw them. A number of them are overseas at the moment, hopefully there will be a gathering at Jerome's place after I go back. Just like the good old days. I miss...

10/7: Marist day. Had dinner with Shiwei, Dave and Mark at Serangoon Gardens. Been going there quite a couple of times this holiday I wonder why. Initially decided on Sushi Tei but it was way too crowded, thus decided to head to Pow Sing restaurant. Freaking alot of dishes, and therefore was freaking full. I think I'm really testing my stomach's flexibility. Went to Frolicks and woah, the girls they employ really quite pretty leh. Tsk tsk tsk. (Gonna head back soon HAHA!) Had to wait for 5 minutes for the youghurt to harden or something (whatever it means) so we decided to head off, reluctantly for me haha! Had mahjong at Shiwei's house, and lost money as usual zzz. Still love mahjong anyway.

11/7: Attended Marcus' convocation at the same place, NUS Cultural Centre. Experienced the same happy feeling, further intensified this time round, really glad for this buddy of mine. I'm sure he will do well in his property business now. Heaps of people and the slight rain made it a little hard to take nice photos. Finally got the chance to meet Wenyang's girlfriend as well. Good to see that they are very blissful together haha. Marcus' family treated us to buffet dinner at Corpthorne Kings Hotel. I think it was a peranakan buffet, food's pretty delicious, quite a range of variety and most important the Kuehs are freaking freaking nice. I forgot when was the last time I've ate such delicious Nonya Kuehs already. Will definitely head back that for the same buffet! Saw fellow jc classmate Mingsiang graduating too. Congrats!Rushed to the Marist '01 reunion organised by Yongrui at Hotel Rendevous. It was another buffet spread but the food can't be compared to the one earlier on, and I'm pretty damn full at that time so didn't really eat much. Spent most of my time catching up with my long lost friends. We were mainly talking about the pranks and hilarious events that took place in secondary school. It was the definitely the most enjoyable period of my life so far. If only man can go back in time...Can only wish for such a reunion to be organised on a frequent basis haha. Yongrui I hope you read my blog LMAO!

Going for a jog now. Here's to a more healthy life!

2009-07-27T01:37:00.003+10:00

黄国俊- 算了

很難撫平, 很難清醒...
現實夢境, 全都是你...
不奢求你, 能動了情, 只願能守護著你.
不敢說, 我能給你什么, 因為在你身旁的不是我...
算了, 一切算了
不管捨不捨得, 都該停了...
既然明白他才是你唯一的愛...
也許真該說 Goodbye...
算了,一切算了, 故事裡的角色, 都已選擇.
你的等待, 他的關懷, 我的無奈
一切都值得
算了........

2009-07-14T05:43:00.008+10:00

28/6: Healthy day overall. Had golf in the afternoon with mom and relatives. Really glad that mom is picking up tennis as a hobby/sport. :) Her swing is pretty good too. Finally she is taking some time off to do something other than work. Looking forward to the day when all she does is golfing and high tea sessions. Had tennis with bro, his friend and our fellow neighbour Matthew at night. Having not touched the racquet for almost a year I think, easily made me the lousiest player on court. More practice is needed Federer!!! LOL~30/6: Went down to Silver Strip with Ivan and Lyn, and Lyn's professional advice proved to be really helpful, thanks! Had dinner with the marist lads at this bak kut teh stall near clarke quay mrt. The food is pretty decent but the price is unexpectedly high. Wouldn't pay so much for bak kut teh I guess. We had drinks and finger food over at Brewerkz @ clarke quay, and as usual, hanging out with the marist brothers was fun and enjoyable.1/7: Had lunch with Kc and our new house mate Kaimin at Tampines One's Kim Gary HK cafe. Food was below average though, a tad disppointing given its high reviews. Later on, I went down to Silver Strip tailor again with Ivan and Yu Sheng, and after much deliberation we finally decided on our cloth design and the cutting for the suit and pants. All identical to that of Ivan's! Haha. Went to Zouk later that night with Amer. Ivan and Yusheng called to inform that results for International Banking was out. Didn't want to check it lest it spoils the night. Failed the temperature check at Zouk but passed it after I went to take a cold drink and cool down after a long and hot walk. After getting our stamps we decided to chill at the maccas in Great World City before hitting Zouk again when it's crowded. There I lost to the temptation of checking the results, and luckily, ti gong was overlooking me as usual as I barely managed to secure a distinction average for the module. That certainly helped to set the mood for the night as liquor, sexy babes and loud music took me to Utopia.

2/7: Amer stayed over at my place, a norm if we club together. We had our virgin experience @ Fish n Co express in Downtown East. It's sorta the fast food version of Fish n Co. Burger's quite delicious, drinks can't be any different, but the fries suck big time. Evening time came and I made my way to Levina's house for poker and dinner. It was fun and laughter as we played and gobbled hungrily all the various hawker food. Note the hilarious picture of Ivan. As mischievious as a monkey 3/7: Helped out at the stall as mom and dad needs to attend to the catering order far out at Tuas. Turned out to be a rather busy matter as queues were forming (think they are curious as to what am I doing at the stall) and luckily I managed to do everything smoothly and calmly. Business has been rather slow recently. Maybe partly is attributed to the H1N1 scare that's every present now. At night was a ktv session with bro, Amer, Raine and Ivan over at Joms in Toa Payoh. It's pretty cheap at $10 for 3 hours with free frow of, I mean free flow of drinks. Pretty updated songs too. We proceeded to supper (I promise no supper in Sydney!) at the prata house along Thomson road. The prata bomb was disappointing, but the constant catwalk of really pretty girls made up for it!

More updates coming soon. In the midst of applying for internships and graduate training programs too. Going back to Sydney real soon. What a short holiday, arghz~

2009-07-08T23:03:00.006+10:00

Winter break so far in SG:

26/6: Had dinner with family at Long Beach, East Coast Park. Ordered the usual black pepper crabs, baby squids etc. Freaking delicious. The thought of it is making me hungry now haha! After dinner, went to NSRCC for golf with bro to practice our shots at the driving range. Haven't played any golf since early March and the consequences are severe...I feel as though I don't know how to hit the balls properly anymore haha. More practice needed!

27/6: Met up with some of the marists over at Shiwei's house. Played a little mahjong and as usual the company was great. It's always fun and laughter with them around. We headed to the Hk cafe at Kovan to have supper, or maybe dinner. The amount of food we ordered was crazy. Let the pictures do the talking.

To be continued...posting the pictures is a real hassle!

2009-07-08T22:43:00.002+10:00

YEP! I finally bought it. After more than 2 years since it's launch, I've decided it was time to purchase the ps3. Not an easy decision for me to purchase the ps3, given it's expensive price tag and my shallow pockets. On the third day after I'm back in sg, I headed down to Upper Serangoon Shopping Centre with Amer and bought the ps3 from Ah Lim, well known for his competitive prices for computer stuffs.

Tada! Victory pose. Till now, I haven't really utilise the ps3. But the plain look and admiration of it is enough to make me a happy man! :)

2009-06-29T02:52:00.005+10:00

Semester 1 2009 passed by in a flash, like literally. It was so freaking fast that we (yusheng and me) did not even do the usual count-down-to-singapore routine. Workload isn't exactly the heaviest this semester, in fact, it was pretty much less compared to the semester 2 2008 (the worst semester ever). It's gonna be a different semester 2 without Yusheng. Certainly not as fun without him around. His presence will certainly be missed without doubt.

Exams were pretty manageable this time. I had quite a lot of time on hand to study for the papers but complacency came and I happily accepted it. Hopefully the audit paper will turn out fine for everyone, as it's the paper that was most unexpectedly tough.

Post exams activities were fun as usual, although it was a little rushed and insufficient I thought. The highlights were ktv, transformers 2, thai food @ thai express, seafood @ fish market and shabu shabu. During the last day, we cleaned up the house till around 430am and bathed and napped till 530, afterwhich we proceeded to the airport to pick up yusheng's family. My flight was 1130am and I had like 1/2 hr of sleep, not including the lack of sleep over the exam period I was like a walking zombie in kingsford airport. Mom told me to wear a mask in the airport and aboard the plane at all times. I wanted to, but the people around me did not wear any at all. Alas I was too paiseh to wear one too. Was surprised and overjoyed when I realised the person sitting next to me was ex-footballer Abaas Saad. What a legend he was, and a pretty chatty and friendly guy too.

By the time I knew it, I am back in Singapore again, into the arms of my family and friends.

*Tried posting pictures twice, took extremely long to upload and POOF! The pictures disappear into Mars or something. Something is wrong with Blogger.

2009-06-12T13:31:00.006+10:00

F* pissed off. Cousin Amer's bicycle was stolen by some f* yesterday. Even when the bike is chained, they managed to saw it off or something. And you might think staying in a condo is safe cos of all the guard and security in place etc. Feel very bad and responsible for this case of theft. Amer's bike should be taken care of and kept safely in the first place, and this had to happen.

F* BULLSHIT I would say. This is not the first time things have gone missing at my estate. I lost bicycle seats before, my nike sneakers were stolen, so were my havianas flip flops. What the fuck are these security guards doing? We pay them to lift up the car barriers and to doze off and sleep during night shifts? Might as well put a scarecrow there?

Nvm about the previous items that I've lost, but this time round it's a freaking whole bike. The first thing I'm gonna do when I touch down in sg, go straight to the management and make sure they have a good explanation of how 'adequate' is the present security management, and which security company is being employed so I can bring the issue up to relevant authorities.

Not too sure if the bike has its own unique identity number, but this is the pic of the bike being stolen.I strongly believe in karma. This bunch of thieves, they are doomed. Good luck to them.
*Moderated expletives. Must learn to refrain from them.

2009-06-11T02:14:00.004+10:00

Just a quick update...

Just had the worst diarrhea in my life. Think I lao sai-ed around 10 times on the first day. Felt like hell really. Spent 2 days bedridden, there goes my revision time. Luckily towards the end of the second day I'm able to resume some normal daily activities. Suay to get diarrhea, lucky to recover within 2 days.

Been spending my time camping and revising for the final exams at home. It wasn't that productive afterall and I think the spaced-out timetable attributed to my lack of motivation and ever present complacent spirit. First paper's this coming Friday, and the last being on the 23rd of June. Will be flying back home on the 25th of June, will this be the last break of my university life?

Even though I won't be working during the short 3 week winter break, there's plenty of tasks waiting to be completed. Have to really sort out all these tasks and get them settled asap. I'm nearing my graduation date and it is definitely time to start planning what I really should do.

The next update should be after my LAST accounting paper in my university life. Woohoo. Good luck to everyone for their exams. :)

2009-05-31T02:19:00.002+10:00

Just added a new link to the section "Worth Visiting".

It's a link to a blogger called Peggy. Out of the countless number of blogs I've read, I thought hers was the most interesting, graphically rich (lotsa fotos) and most importantly, filled with plenty of sincerity, simply organic so to speak (Yu Sheng Et. al.). It's not like the kind of typical wannabe blogs that:

1) Post only glamour shots of themselves, some even resort to using photoshop. I got a shock when I saw Xuesha's real face in "S factor" for instance.

2) Showing off to the whole world what kind of lingerie they just purchased (I'm not complaining but normally you don't show off your undergarments to strangers do you?).

3) Elaborating with pictures the last fine dining meal they just enjoyed (Probably at the expense of some ah sia kia a.k.a. a person of prodigality)

4) Constant whining when partying is of utmost importance and worries seems to be the last item on their agendas.

There are of course other decent bloggers out there that do not fall under the above categories. I will add them in time to come, provided they pass my stringent criteria LOL. Ok just joking. I should be studying now, but I'm blogging instead. Obviously I can't concentrate on revisions for the final exam, and this has been the case for the past 3 days.

HELP! Hopefully the mugging spirit comes back to me soon.

2009-05-27T22:11:00.003+10:00

And I thought I will definitely be on the 25th morning flight home. Business society called me up last night regarding the industry peer mentoring program and an interview was scheduled for the following Tuesday.

Darn.

I know it's a good thing to be selected for an interview, but I was all set to fly home this winter (half expecting my application to be rejected). Reunion with family and friends, getting a new hair cut and dye at Supercuts, tailoring a business suit, getting the ps3 (and finally touching my LCD tv which was bought on my behalf by my bro and cousin Amer), paying my respects to my grandpa on 15th Jul etc etc etc... Now I'm thrown back into a state of dilemma.

Decision decision decision.

On a happy note, a close friend of mine just got attached recently. That brings the tally to 2 this year. First was Daniel, and now it's Yongrui. Way to go bros. When is my turn ar?????????????

2009-05-21T23:06:00.002+10:00

Finally, the dreaded projects are over. Spent lotsa effort and time on it, till the point that I'm quite behind schedule for the final's revisions. Hopefully can get a decent grade for both the projects!

Exam timetable is out too, and this time round I'm ending rather late. Urgh, gonna miss the Bangkok trip with mom and relatives. No cheap clothing, spicy tom yum and massages for me! Damn sad la. Anyone wants to go BKK in July? Haha. 台北 also can!! Anyway, this sem is the first sem that I do not have the strong urge to fly back. Keep wondering why is this so.

1) Last year of uni liao
2) Expensive air ticket
3) Used to sydney life (scary thought)

Anyway, it's 99.9% probability that I'm flying back. That 0.01% lies in the industry peer mentoring which is more than likely catered to aussie residents. Not too sure what my plans are. Definitely do not want to nua at home everyday. Anyone up for a short trip overseas let me know ya.

2009-05-09T19:22:00.006+10:00

Darn the dust that's accumulating in my blog is as thick as 3 inches.

Dr Dust Clearing Expense xxx
Cr Accumulated Dust xxx

Lame. Anyway, been busy the past few weeks preparing for mid-semester tests and the normal catching up on school work. Bro and addie came over for hols, stayed for slightly over a week and bunked at our place. I was happy that they came, as it's the first time I have family visiting me over in Sydney. Sadly I couldn't entertain and bring them around as much as I was in the midst of the mid-sem tests mentioned earlier on. I hope they enjoyed themselves, though I felt I could be a better host. Also, thanks to a special friend who helped me brainstorm where I could actually bring my bro and addie around, although they didn't really cover many places haha.

Thought I could relax and chill a little after the crazy tests, but here I am slogging and losing sleep over 2 projects that are gonna be due real soon. After this 2 projects, it will be gearing up for the upcoming finals and playing catch up on work. Where can I find time to play? It's always the case in every single uni semesters, where I tell myself I have to really find time to put work aside and enjoy uni life. As in REALLY enjoying uni life.

Exams are around a month away, which means I'm also around a month away from true home sweet home, but there's a catch. Buddy Ivan and I had decided to apply for a mentoring program where students will be placed under a mentor who is working in the accounting or finance industry. I would think it's sort of like a mini-internship, as one would learn the ropes from the mentor for around six weeks (during the winter break, June-July). It would be great if we get the heads up, but that would also mean that we won't get to go back Singapore.

Dilemma isn't it. One side of us wish we can get the opportunity, one side of us wants to go back home. Who likes staying way from family anyway. Let fate decide ba. :)

2009-03-30T13:44:00.009+11:00

Freaking irritated by the mosquitoes that buzz around your ear during the night. Since when did Sydney has so many mosquitoes to being with??? Anyway just posting some random pics...

On the coach to London Heathrow...end of the Europe trip. :(

My europe buddy Zhida...Scary tunnel in the cityA rare estate model of the Chrysler 300cBuddy Yusheng finally got his favourite Louis Vuitton Epi Leather Billfold walletYusheng and I attending a corporate networking session at Hilton Sydney.Patronised this new restaurant called Abang Sam, Kc's nasi gorengMy nasi lemak, the chicken was half raw btw.Luckily there was this wonderful Teh-Tarik. Soccer kakisGuess what is this???

Seems to be lacking the motivation to study lately. Concentration level is low and easily distracted. Work is piling up and the troublesome projects certainly didn't help at all. Urgh...Sometimes I really feel like I should just aim for a Pass grade, and totally enjoy my uni life...

2009-03-23T22:46:00.004+11:00

Alas, I'm back to blogging again. Neglected this blog of mine for pretty much the whole summer. Pretty busy back then so didn't really have the chance to blog properly. Now, although I have free time, but I'm freaking lazy to update the blog. Kinda lost the blogging feel again, maybe I will find it back soon.

Anyways I enjoyed Europe lots, especially with the company of 2 very good brothers Zhida and Weiray. All the photos have been uploaded onto facebook so I won't be uploading them in blogger. I think I'm really enjoy travelling alot, and I'm already thinking of a trip to Bangkok and Taipei this winter holidays. Hopefully the plan will go through.

We did our part in Earth Hour yesterday, and used candle lights for our dinner. Kudos to my housemates for their enthusiasm. Everyone of us can play his/her part in helping the world against climate change.

The photos are so dark simply because we switched off all of our lights haha!

2009-02-20T23:26:00.002+11:00

Apologies for the lack of updates. Ended internship only last weekend and the rest of my free time was spent catching up with friends, and also spending time with the awesome bunch of interns from Deloitte. I'm leaving for the airport soon, to Europe as Ray, Zhida and me will embark on a short euro trip.

Barcelona-Porto-Lisbon-Luxembourg-London will be the plan, and I will be back on the 5th of Mar. See ya folks real soon. :)

2009-02-04T02:07:00.002+11:00

Busy busy busy...work is crazy. Thus blog is so empty. Will try to update something during the weekends. V-day's coming. It will be a lonely year again! Sweetness! :)

2009-01-08T15:02:00.001+11:00

Saw an interesting post in a local forum recently. It was talking about how the emergence of franchise food courts in Singapore is harming the authenticity of Singapore food. In recent years, we have seen many food courts sprouting all around our tiny island. The usual culprits are Food Republic, Kopitiam and Kou Fu. With all due respect, there are still decent stalls in these various food courts.

So how can the authenticity be compromised? There are many factors that I have considered:

1) Hiring of inexperienced workers
2) Poor quality control of the food sold
3) Costing measures which lead to the purchase of lower grade ingredients
4) Lack of proper franchise monitoring system
5) Overheads that are often too costly for stall owners

All of the above 5 factors can directly, or indirectly affect the end product, which is the food being served to customers. How many times have you went to a food court, bought a plate of chicken rice at $3.50, and end up feeling that you have overpaid for something which you did not really enjoyed? I believe many will feel the same way, but they will still go to these places again, mainly due to the sake of convenience.

If you ask me where can we find authentic hawker food, I would say the old school hawker centres. There are a few hawker centres which I like to visit for their wide array of local delights, namely (not an exhuastive list):

1) Bedok interchange hawker centre
2) Bedok block 85 hawker centre
3) Marine terrance hawker centre
4) Clementi central hawker centre

So how do we prevent authentic hawker food from extinction? I guess we can only hope that the franchise food courts stop their expansion (mission impossible), or hope that the government do not think of plans to convert the land the hawker centres are on onto something useless.

Long live hawker food. :)

2009-01-02T01:31:00.003+11:00

2009 : A brand new year, perhaps a brand new start...
Here we are again, at the start of a brand new year. Count down at Daniel's was awesome. This yearly event was a blast, just like previous years. Simply enjoyed the food, friends and place. Can't help but feel a little weird, as we leave 2008 behind, and embark on a new year. Every year at this point of time, people usually tend to look back at the past year, and think of the stuff that had occurred, both good and bad. I'm no exception, just that I don't really pen them down in my blog every year. I thought 2008 was quite a busy, as well as an eventful year for me. So many things happened...

Family
In 2008, I experienced the loss of a close one, my maternal grandpa. My paternal grandpa passed away when I was rather young, so I didn't really have much recollections about his loss. Grandpa's death was so sudden. He was like his usual self when I visited him in SGH before I left for Europe. I was in Rome when my mom called to tell me that he was in critical condition. Rushed back I did, and accompanied him during his final days. If we chose to drop chemotherapy treatment for him, he could still be around, perhaps enjoying the great seaview from the Singapore Flyer. I miss you Grandpa. Everyone misses you.
I'm thankful that the rest of my family are in good health. Dad underwent a minor operation and it went smoothly. Business is definitely on a smaller scale now but my parents need not work as much as before. Expansion plans can wait, perhaps till I graduate from university.

Friends
Friends will always be there whenever you need them. I'm blessed with having many friends around me, the closer ones being the marists and my jc buddies. Having close friends is really important, as you can turn to them for help/advice/listening ear etc. They are often the ones that help to get you back on track with life (my family too of course).

The marists have been wonderful as usual. It is amazing just how all of us made effort to keep this so called 'fellowship' alive and strong. Meet ups and gatherings are a must whenever we are free. Suan-ing each other is a norm, but having a girlfriend is not. So far only Mark, Gilbert and Zhida are attached. Keep it going guys. 加油 to the rest too.
2008 was also a challenging year for 2 of my closer jc buddies Marcus and Terrence. Both had problems with relationship, but both learnt a great deal of out it. Through Marcus I knew 2 other great friends, Xinyan and Jerlyn. Plenty of complications happened later on which is too confusing and complicated for me to explain. One of them seems to be missing already.Uni friends like Ivan and Yu Sheng proved to be awesome mates in Sydney. All the help and encouragement with life and schoolwork from them made me a more positive person than before. As many of you would have known, semester 2 2008 was a killer semester for me, without them, I wouldn't have survived.
Relationship
2009 marks the 10th year of my bachelor status. When will this curse be broken? I have no idea. Haha. Haven't gone on a date since 25th Dec 2007. Sure does bode lonely days ahead for me! Certainly hope that it doesn't get time extension to 11 years. One sms from her and I can forget the cold treatment she can throw me randomly. Damn! "Time to let go and move on with life" - by one of my friend. How true! I really need to grow up and move on. Move it!
University
Well nothing nice can be said about university in 2008. My grades fell together with the stock markets. Semester 2 was a killer semester (yes I know I like to repeat myself), as I chose not to heed others' advice and go ahead with 4 core modules which happened to be a deadly combination. Extremely late nights and insomnia became a norm (which later led to me losing 5.6 kg and growing quite a few white hairs urgh). Luckily I passed all, but my WAM suffered as a result. No longer was it a distinction average anymore, but I'm not far from it, and I'm determined to get that D back next semester.

Holidays
2008 was the year that I first step foot in Europe. Thanks to Wei Ray aka Alex, the marists and I were able to visit plenty of countries. I wasn't able to cover as much as the rest, but I'm glad to have visited places like Dublin, Edinburgh, Monaco, Madrid, Barcelona and Rome. Every country was unique in its own. I definitely want to revisit all these places in the near future. Overseas with friends truly rocks. Can't wait for our grad trip to Japan, although it won't be anytime soon. Went Hong Kong for the 2nd time in November. Simply love that place. Amazing shopping and food just makes you go back for more. Good Diu ar!

Year 2009
So what new year resolutions do I have for myself?

1) Get my grades back on the Distinction track
2) Exercise to lose weight and keep fit
3) Save more money/earn money
4) Visit more countries (Taiwan, Thailand, Bali, Japan???)
5) Brush up on musical instruments
6) Get a girl friend? (Considered a resolution? LOL)

The above are not in any order though, just some very rough ideas of what's should be achieved in 2009. Of course, I want to spend more quality time with my family and close friends. More than often I get lazy and just forget about all the targets I've set for myself. I should visit this post as and when to remind myself that I should work hard and achieve my goals.

2009 here I come.

2008-12-18T23:52:00.003+11:00

Been neglecting my blog. Not much time for myself ever since I came back. Haven't met some of my old friends yet, so if you are reading this, sorry! :(

Cousin Hau and Nat came visiting and it was fun hanging out with them. Shortly after they left I started my internship at Deloitte Touche Tomatsu. First week was orientation/training week. It was alright given that we are able to leave on time at 530pm, even though we had to prepare for a presentation at the end of the week. This week marks the start of real audit at client's office. What can I say. You never know what time you are really gonna knock off when you are an auditor. Working hours for me is pretty long now, given that my internship is currently in the PEAK period. What to do, just trying to stay as positive as possible and learn from this internship. Client's office is pretty solid though. Keppel Energy situated at Keppel Bay Tower viewing Sentosa. At least the view brightens up your day.

Hopefully I will get used to waking up at 7 and returning home past 7 soon, and of cos blog more often.

P.S. (Using firefox now, can get my pics down for some reason)

2008-11-30T06:14:00.003+11:00

Time really flies. It's almost the end of November already. Sent Hau off at terminal 3 earlier on. Definitely had fun with him around. Hope to see him again in December, if not the same time next year again.

The date of the commencement of my internship is getting nearer and nearer. In fact it's about one week away. Shall make use of the whole of next week to meet up with as many friends as possible.

Hau's farewell dinner @ East Coast Park Waraku

2008-11-25T06:05:00.002+11:00

Ignore the stupid emo post. I have better things to do. :)

2008-11-23T05:04:00.002+11:00

Start of story:

Boy: Hey. Can't meet up tmr. Have to accompany aussie cousin.

Gal: Really?

Boy: Yup. Sorry you angry?

Gal: When you free?

Boy: Can't confirm.

Gal: Den it's alright. Let me know when you are free?

Boy: Yup.

30 minutes later...

Boy: Hey Hey I can make it tmr cos one of my cousin has plans for my aussie cousin.

Gal: I just told my mom I will stay home and help with chores.

Boy: Man..Argh...

Gal: Meet another time?

Boy: Alright...

End of story

Can't the gal in the story put aside the chores, and meet up with the boy that she has not met for 9 months? Fact is the boy has been trying hard to find free time amist his hectic schedule. He has exhausted all forms of avenue to try to take this friendship to a further level.

Fucking tired, he is.

2008-11-19T16:33:00.002+11:00

I'm officially 23. Damn it feels like another milestone to me. I can officially get into velvet as the age requirement is 23. I think being 23 is the max age one would need to get into any clubs in sg, but I rather I'm still 18. Bursting with energy and trying to club as many times as possible within a week without getting tired.

Birthday was just like a normal day to me. No extravagant party or whatsoever. Cousin Hau, Amer and I went down to sim lim square to meet cousin Joel for lunch. We walked around sls for a while before heading down to Suntec City. Didn't stay there long though, old people get tired easily haha. Had dinner with family at this zhi char place in Simei and then we proceeded to our movie at downtown east - 007 Quantum of Solace. I thought it was a pretty good show. Much more action compared to Casino Royale. Leading actress reminds me of Megan Fox haha!

That's about it for my 23rd. Maybe I will plan something special for my 24th if I graduate next year.

Thanks to those who offered birthday wishes to me, by msn, facebook, sms or phone calls. Really appreciated it. Also, special thanks to brother ivan for coming all the way to pasir ris to pass me my present from taiwan! Thank you all and I hope to meet up with all soon. :) :) :) :)

2008-11-18T04:02:00.003+11:00

I wish to dedicate my 23rd birthday to 黎礎寧. I believe most would have heard of what had happened to her. She was my favourite singer in 超级星光大道. I hope that she will find solace in her afterlife. Rest in peace, you will be remembered...

2008-11-08T01:17:00.002+11:00

Exams are over. This semester just passed by so quickly. It was tough, given the amount of workload I have to face. Can only hope for the best when the results are out.

Had plenty of fun after my papers. Those few days of relaxation totally rocks. Sushi Tei, fish market, KTV session, Star City and Ivan staying over at our place. Had so much fun that I actually wanted to spend a few more days in Sydney. Insane thought isn't it! LOL.

Photos are all uploaded onto facebook so just pop by there to take a look, I'm too lazy to post them in blogger haha.

2008-10-20T19:36:00.002+11:00

Exams is just a week away. It is by far the worse exam I'm gonna face, no doubt about that. 4 killer papers. 4 papers in 4 days - 2 Acct paper on Wed, 1 Fin on Thu and 1 Fin on Sat. I thought my exam timetable the previous semester - 4 papers each on a consecutive day, was the worse I could expect in my university life. How wrong was I to assume that!

Meanwhile, preparation has been rather slow, as I can't seem to absorb as much as I should. Time is running out and I have to really resign to the fate of getting mediocre results this semester. I doubt I can finish studying everything anyway. Hopefully I will pass everything, and push up the grades next year.

I have pictures to upload, but guess I shouldn't waste too much time doing that now. Will prolly post them up after my last paper on the 6th of Nov. Talking about pictures, I have yet to post my euro trip photos. Urgh...-_-

2008-10-13T00:12:00.013+11:00

A picture speaks a thousand words...

Beautiful stairs
3 levels high
Genius bar

Happy owner

Nice and classy packaging
IPHONE 3g!!! =)
Clockwise: iphone 3g, adapters and wires, cleaning cloth, manuals, casing and anti-glare film
Final product with casing and screen protector
No idea how to rotate pics in blogger
Tada! One item struck off from my wishlist!

Still learning how to use this wonderful device. Lots of room for creativity, especially the endless applications that can be installed into it. Finally I got myself a phone which can perform as an ipod as well, after pondering for years since sec sch days.

Earlier in the morning, went school to play soccer with the rest. It was a tired but fun work out. I think we played close to 2.5 hrs, and everyone was obviously shagged out. We had sushi tei for dinner, my favourite sushi restaurant. Thumbs up for the sydney branch, although the soft shell crab could have been much better.

Exams are just around the corner, its like so damn near. Again, my exam timetable is screwed up. I thought I had the worst timetable last semester, with 4 papers in 4 consecutive days. Now I have 4 papers in 4 days again, with 2 of them on the same day. WOW...I don't know how am I gonna survive this. Pray for me. I will finish everything on the 1st of Nov. Will be planning to go on a road trip, maybe to hunter valley, port stephens, blue mountains or some far away islands. Definitely looking forward to that, and also my return to home sweet home, which is on the 6th of Nov. Yusheng and I will be taking the 6+pm plane, and should arrive in sg at around 11+pm.

Cheers to returning home soon, and I hope exams gonna be a breeze. ;)

2008-10-03T23:42:00.004+10:00

Been a while since I last updated. Really couldn't find any extra time to allocate to blogging. So much work, so many tests and projects. All of them are driving me up the wall. 5 consecutive weeks of mid-semester tests ended last friday. I'm having my mid-sem break now, but it sure doesn't look like a break to me at all. Shall not go into the details of how boring my break is. Pure sadness...

Back to updating what's missing in this blog. Last friday was the last mid-sem paper before the break (I have another paper on week 11 if you are wondering). It was also my room mate, Yusheng's birthday. We had a surprise for him on the midnight of thurs.

On the actual bday, which was friday 26th, Yusheng treated us to Sushi Tei in town. Yes my favourite Sushi Tei. The menu is totally identical to the one in sg, and the prices are almost similar too. Finally there's chawanmushi, cha soba and chuka hotate etc etc etc to savour upon. Had a truly satisfying meal, it was a great start to the mid-semester break.

After dinner, housemates, Ivan and I decided to walk to Lindt cafe to chill and relax. The rest headed to Star City to huat first. The walk to Darling Harbour was much needed to help digest the sumptous meal still in our stomachs.

Even though I am pretty full, I still ordered a few macarons to share. Its simply too irresistable!

Saw the engineering friends at Lindt cafe too. Guess they were having their clique night out. We went to Star City shortly, and I thought it was gonna be my day as my winnings stretched to an amount in excess of $100. It soon become $0 before I even knew it. How depressing. Now the damned place owes me A$200+. Monte Carlo owes me 100 euros. Such gambling luck I have. Urgh! Plenty more photos to post, hopefully I have time.

Meanwhile, still trying to rush and finalise the stupid time consuming Management Accounting 2 project. Exam time-table gonna be out soon, and I hope it's a favourable one. Mid-sems results will be out soon too, and I pray that I can pass my finance. Those who are reading, please pray for me. Many thanks in advance. =)

2008-09-15T13:54:00.002+10:00

My guess was right. Wall street is screwed. Who's next after Lehman Brothers?

2008-09-12T17:34:00.004+10:00

Argh crap. Just had International Business Finance paper this morning. Went in feeling rather confident, came out feeling crap. Totally screwed up a major portion of the paper. DAMN IT. So much for studying hard and preparing myself for it. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Gonna take my mind off this unhappy experience, post some pictures and get on with life. We cooked porridge few days back. This time we added in Pi Dan (Century egg), and it tasted damn good. The pictures doesn't really justify the great taste though.

I think I never had that much Pi Dan at one go before, thus was feeling a little weird from the overdosage. Till now, no banks got back to me regarding my internship this year end. Think it's pretty gone case for me. With no banks to go for now, I turned to auditing firms. Out of the big four, only Ernst & Young bothered to reply to my internship enquiry. =/ Application process was a tedious process, which I only managed to settle in the past hour or so. I had to use my digital camera to take an i/c photo to paste on the application form. Lotsa cam whoring took place. I will just post one picture, in case you guys think I'm a cam whore. Haha!

2008-09-04T21:28:00.003+10:00

A temporary sigh of relief...

Today I breathe a sigh of relief...temporary one I guess. The worst feared mid semester test of all, "Corporate Financial Reporting", is finally over. Took the test this afternoon, and surprisingly the paper was fairly easy and straightforward, despite the class being allocated the toughest paper among 6. Never had I study something so intensively and yet not understand most of the essence. Most of my time this semester was spent on finding out why the hell this and that work out in this particular module, selfishly neglecting the other modules I have.

This week was definitely one of the hell week in this semester. Two project deadlines and the feared test. Finally it's over. Felt rather happy, but still, it isn't exactly time to rest as yet. Next week's International Business Finance mid sem, Management Accounting 2 the week after, followed by Portfolio Management with another project submission. Tough times ahead. When the going gets tough, the tough gets going. I can't wait for my mid semester break. I really need a break.

Cough is still bad. Don't know what's wrong with my lungs. Think I'm gonna go for an x-ray checkup soon to make sure everything's alright. 阿弥陀佛!

2008-09-02T01:49:00.000+10:00

2008-08-30T01:33:00.004+10:00

Nothing much to update about life in down under. Everyday it's school, home, tutorials, revision, meals and sleep. Monotonous yes. So far I've only been to town once and I guess the next visit will be during my mid semester break which is at the end of September. Why? Simply coz I have freaking exams every week all the way till the end of September. Not to mention plenty of project work to catch up on. Cheers to that.

I will try to post as often as I can la. Although I doubt I will have anything to update you guys about (unless you want to know what's going on in my revision). Here are some photos I took on the day I came back to syd.

Duty free shopping

Boarding area

I was sitting at the upper deck, with the business class right in front of us. As you can see, they have special coloured lights that change gradually over time when the plane is about to land. Its quite pretty and cool so I thought I should take a photo of it.

Inside a cab, on my way home.

Home not-so-sweet Home. =/

Preparing for school at 10am. -_-

2008-08-25T14:46:00.008+10:00

2nd August 2008

Met up with Daniel, Mark and Shiwei for a game of tennis over at seletar country club. Damn the sun was so hot that I felt so lethargic just after 45 minutes. We had good a exercise and there was a couple of great rallies too. After the session, we adjourned to the usual bistro restaurant to have our delicious food. A pity the camera's in sw's car. We ordered quite a bit of food. Each of us had a main, I think there was beef noodle soup, fried hor fun with beef, carrot cake and penang char kway teow. Besides the mains, we had our usual watermelon juice, fried chicken wings and soft shell crab with floss. Stomach felt like exploding after consuming such a great amount of good food. Damn I like coming to seletar cc.

Soon after, Daniel went home for his family gathering and we left for sw's house to bathe. Later, we picked Zhida up and went to Chomp Chomp @ Serangoon Gardens to tabao Alllllllllllll the local delights to bring to sentosa. We thought Alex should be craving for all the local delights. We bought alot, I mean alot of food. Imagine we spent $101 on hawker food. There were satays, satay bee hoon, char kway teow, stingray, rojak, sugarcane, chicken wings, or lua etc etc.

After dinner, we decided to play some poker. Afterall, all the marists are gamblers by nature. Hohoho! Daniel joined us later in the night after his family gathering. At the end of the day, I won about $30+, woooots. Not alot but still it's money haha.

More photos...

2008-08-18T18:14:00.004+10:00

Leaving Sg...

Just taking some time off my hectic uni work schedule to do a lil updating on my blog. Actually there's quite a bit of pictures and outings to post, but it's a little tedious to put everything up. I guess I will just post those events in a non-chronological order.

4th August 2008, the dreadful day has arrived, yet again. Delayed my flight from the 3rd to 4th, coz on Monday morning there was a praying session for ah gong. Morning went to the temple at around 0530 to prepare the stuffs for prayers, and the whole session lasted till about 0700. Went back home to catch up on my sleep, and in the afternoon went to clementi for lunch with dad, and got my text from the clementi bookstore as well. It was kinda last minute, so a couple of texts were out of stock. Tough luck...

Went to pick up mom from work (and Khloe too), back home to finish up on packing and we were off to terminal 3. Such a sickening feeling to be leaving again. Parents and Khloe couldn't stay long with me at the airport coz mom had night shift (very selfish colleagues who don't lend any helping hand), so they just accompanied me for a while before leaving. Bro and Ade came from work to accompany me for dinner though, and we had it at TCC. Food was pretty good, but my appetite was obviously not that good afterall. Soon it was time to say goodbye, and I actually forgot to wave goodbye while I was at the immigration checkpoint. LOL. Think I was quite stoned already...

2008-08-15T15:17:00.003+10:00

Supposed to be...

This blog is supposed to be updated frequently (think eurotrip and outings in sg), with stories and pictures depicting my life. However, lately, I'm just overwhelmed by the enormous amount of workload thrown straight at me from my lovely university. When I thought uni workload couldn't be more than the previous semesters, this semester just got worse. It's only week 3 now, and I cannot fathom how this is gonna last till week 12. I'm not going into the details of how stressful it is, as most of my friends would have known by now.

Now, there is a dilemma that I'm facing. To drop a module from my current four to three, and concentrate on the other 3. Or to simply try to attempt all 4 at one go. Both has its pros and cons of course.

Drop Module:
Pros are less workload, less stress, able to concentrate on just 3 modules and higher chance of scoring better grades.
Cons are I still have to take it next semester, making it a possibly stressful semester like the current one, I will also have 7 modules next year, so it's gonna be 4 in the first sem, and 3 in the second sem.

Holding on:
Pros are if I manage to pass all 4, I will have a relatively relax last year of uni come 2009, as mentioned earlier, I will only be left with 6 modules for the year of 2009.
Cons are workload as bad as now, may increase in the weeks to come, high chance of scoring mediocre results, worst scenario is failing any modules.

Date of decision has to be before the 31st of August. I will get back my money for a module if I choose to drop. 2 more weeks to decide......

Uni life is supposed to be fun and exciting. There is supposed to be a fair balance of work and play. Going overseas to study is supposed to be fun. It's supposed to be less stressful according to 'knowledgable singaporeans'. Everything in life seems "supposed to be", but in reality it seems not to be.

Looking forward to a better tomorrow.

2008-07-28T22:48:00.007+10:00

Blog's been neglected I noticed, decided that I should do a little updating at least. The euro kids are coming back on the 1st of Aug, home sweet home finally for them. A pity that I can't stay till the end, sad..

Pretty much played catching up with my friends during the past week or so. Lets start from last Monday. Had dinner with uni friends at far east chicken rice, and we headed to party world at Shaw Center for a ktv session. Damn Ivan's gf Lynn can sing really well. This couple is a erm...singing couple I guess. After ktv we went to newton circus to gorge ourselves for supper. Better to gorge now then regret not having enough before heading back to sydney.

Woke up quite early on Tuesday to accompany ms j and xy for their friends' convo at NTU. Although NTU is FREAKING far, but I don't mind coz they are my GOOD friends. MUAHAHAHA!! Anyway, it was NTU's business convo, so I saw quite a few pretty chicks. Not a wasted trip I guess lol. Afterwhich we headed to paragon's sushi tei (my favourite) and had a fulfilling lunch, when m joined us. Caught The Dark Knight at The Cathay at only 6 bucks, cheap cheap cheap. Terr joined after the movie for dinner at glasshouse's Fish n Co. Portion's smaller, doesn't really seem to justify the price tag, should be avoiding this place in the near future.

We were brainstorming where to go, and ended up in Sentosa's beach. It was fun hanging out there, the tranquility and all, only annoying stuff was my throbbing headache. Thanks for the panadols guys. :)
Wednesday, met up with m10mg for dinner at Hogs Breath cafe at Chjimes. It was a farewell dinner for weiqi who's leaving for korea to kamsahamida and salangheyo. The beef was really quite good at hogs, and definitely extremely filling. Caught dark knight, this time at the grand cinema of cathay. Freaking hilarious malay usher made an announcement prior to the show. "Sorry this show is delayed SIAL". True blue malay. The 'Sial" was slanged to the max. Perfect pronounciation. Why so serious? Haha...

Thursday, met up with jc mates for dinner at Marina Square's Imperial Treasure. Had their la mian and siew lung bao. Not bad la, quite filling. Fun to hang out with them, makes me relive the good old jc days, less the final results haha. After dinner we jalan-ed around, and went to cartel to have the half price cake for desserts muahahah!

Friday, met up with kenneth and sara at Lau Pa Sat for lunch. They were my army buddies back then. Time flies man. Great catching up with them, so much nonsense between us all. Too bad its a rather short lunch appointment, further dampened (literally) by the heavy rain. Went back to White Sands to get my eyes checked, ordered contacts and also made a new pair of specs (old one broke-_-). I decided to get a pair of odd shaped specs, the Rayban Wayfarer black frame. Quite sian of the traditional rectangular shaped specs so I thought I try something new lol.

Had to work on Saturday in the clinic, omg can't believe I'm working -_-'''. It was easy money coz uncle wasn't around and it was a locum doctor, so it was half the usual crowd. At night family went to ah ma's house for steamboat/bbq. Ah ma seems alright, but I'm quite sure deep down she's not. Ah gong's presence was deeply missed, and will always be.

Sunday was tennis with mark, bert and my bro. Rest of the m10mg couldn't make it. Can't recall when's the last time I played, and my hand and arm is still aching as of now. Freaking weak. It was a good workout though, getting all the evil sweat and fats out of the buldging body. Had dinner at the vegetarian zhi char at AMK (best vegetarian stall in sg) with Aunt Michelle, Khloe, Jacob and my parents. Damn nice la, the food there is the best!

Later into the night, m and terr came over to bunk and play wii. They seem fascinated by the wii LOL. We enjoyed playing la, and it was like 3+am before we decided to head to simpang for our supper. TO OUR HORROR IT WAS CLOSING IT WAS LIKE OMFG HOW CAN THEY CLOSE SO EARLY??????????????????????????

-_-''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' My craving for PRATA BOMB literally JIBABOOOOOOOOOOOM! No prata or pattaya for the night. Fucking sad. m suggested we head to geylang for some dim sum. It's the one facing a row of durian stalls, food is not that bad but it's freaking expensive. Hmm may not head there again I think. Played abit of ps2 and wii again before all slept at around 8am. Woke up at 1am and went to E-hub for lunch at Mr chicken rice. Afterwhich I tried setting up the ktv system but gave up due to the confusing wires and connections that were apparently missing. Another day for ktv then!

End of my long post. :)

2008-07-16T13:28:00.002+10:00

Grandpa passed away late last night. He died fighting the cancer. He was strong, and will be too in his afterlife.

I will miss you ah gong...I will take good care of mom and ah ma...I promise...Rest in peace...

2008-07-15T02:14:00.003+10:00

Back in sg on 13th morn. Much earlier than the original planned date of 1 aug. Grandpa's condition got quite serious. Was at Rome when mom called to inform me of the bad news. No choice but to rush home immediately from Rome. Had to catch a plane from Rome to London Stansted, then a coach to Heathrow. Luckily I was able to get the earliest flight on sat, if not I would have to camp at the airport for more than 24hrs...I must have spent at least 10 pounds on the internet terminals too.

Quite sian and disappointed that my 1 month holiday had to end like this. Really missed the group in europe. I guess they are enjoying dinner at Gordon Ramsey's now. =/ Man utd, london, ireland factory outlets spree, prague, copenhagen, stockholm, oslo, helsinki...gonna miss them all.........

More sad to see my grandpa in his current state. All the freaking tubes, medication, heavy breathing. He has such strong will power, but it's obvious that it is very very taxing and tough on him.

I pray for a miracle.

2008-06-29T03:56:00.002+10:00

1 week of sg is finally up. Time to leave for Europe. Wished I had more time in sg, to spend with friends and with family. Thanks to those who took time off to meet up with me, greatly appreciated! :)

Some asked if I met up with her. Nah...Too busy with her work. I'm not special enough to take up some of her free time. :) I figured its more worth spending the precious time with friends I know I can depend on.

To those friends that I couldn't meet up during this week, very very paiseh and I hope I could meet you guys asap.

Take care all. Will update as and when possible.

2008-06-25T03:40:00.006+10:00

One week stint in sg's coming to an end real soon. Time really flies. Bro treated family to Long Beach @ east coast on sunday night. The seafood there still rocks, never fail to satisfy me!

Roast chicken, baby squid and cereal prawns
Giant black pepper crab.....oooooooooooooishiiiiiiii dez!
Giant piece of meat.

There were a few other dishes as well, didn't took pictures coz I was too indulged in devouring them instead of shooting them lol.

Monday afternoon met up with bert and sw. Great to see the m10mg bros again. Definitely have to meet the rest soon too. We had lunch at Uncle Sam. The claypot rice there is really not bad. Side dishes were tasty as well. Ran quite a few errands after the lunch. Picked up london air ticket, sent jeans for alteration, bought camera pouch and screen protector for its lcd. Side note, is it me or is it normal for mrt to be packed even during afternoon timings like 2-4pm. I walked from shenton way to chinatown just to avoid the crazy mrt crowd but ended up melting under the sun.

Got this watch on board SQ on my way back to sg. Had this USD75 voucher from them due to the little malfunction of my lcd during my previous trip to syd. Saw this nice adidas originals watch from krisshop's catalogue and thought why not? It's nice and simple, most importantly it's free. =)

It's happy to be with your family again. You know they are always there for you. Dad used his petrol points to get me a small samsonite luggage for my europe trip, as well as some funds for my new shoe, mom subsidised a part of my air ticket coz my posb was depleted and bro got me a camera for my belated bday.

Visited grandpa today. He looked pale. Doc said it was stage 3 cancer. Have to undergo chemo if possible. Mom was very sad too. I can only pray for the best.

2008-06-23T03:55:00.003+10:00

Hokays I'm finally back in sg. Lotsa stuff to blog about, but was too busy with exam preparation. Lets start on 20th June.

Exams finally ended on the 20th of June, Friday 4pm. It was the law paper, which was the paper I'm least prepared for. I remember Yu Sheng and I were stressed to the point where our face turned green I think lol. Throughout the whole exam period I couldn't sleep well, sleep's always interrupted by the stupid alarm I have to set from preventing myself from sleeping too much. Couldn't msn, facebook etc etc. It felt really great when the invigilator said "pens down". I was like "FUCKING FINALLY"... The law paper wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. Only problem was the same as the rest of the papers - not enough time. Anyway, ys and I headed to paddys to get our macadamias and met kc there too. Had our dinner at the usual kickass chinese zi-char store and headed to woolies, after which we headed home as we are dead beat.

21st June -0230

I planned not to sleep as I was afraid of oversleeping and missing the cab I booked, but I dozed off on the bed at 0230 nonetheless, waking up at 0430 in a state of shock as the cab will be arriving at 5am.....and my luggage was half packed. Rushed like mad but the cab driver was kind enough to wait a while for me. Nice indo guy. I ended up in the airport at around 520 am and after checking in, realised I had like 2hrs+ to spare before the plane takes off at 8am. It's my first time taking a plane alone, and the experience was reallllllllllllly good. I just enjoyed it alot I don't know why. Maybe because it was the end of exams+going back home. Wandering around the airport alone, having breakfast at macs alone, viewing the planes taking off etc etc...

Me, 36H, aisle seat. 36J, maggie q look alike lady. HOHO! Through out the flight can't help but threw glances at her via her reflection on 36I's monitor screen. Lost count how many glances we threw at each other la. LOL damn interesting. Caught 3 movies on the flight, step up 2, 江山美人 and I am Legend. Food was kinda disappointing, both the breakfast and lunch was quite boring. Finally reached sg at around 2+ and voila! HOME SWEET HOME =))))))))))))))))))))))

Krispy Kreme =))) Waiting for luggage. T3 is wheely beautiful. heh

2008-05-23T23:24:00.003+10:00

FINALLY..... I've finished all my projects. It's all down to revising the shit-heaps of work that has accumulated over the past 3 months. In less than a month, I will be back in Singapore. Time flies man...

Recap abit on the past few weeks. Nothing fanciful happened. Weixiang came over to stay at our place for 2 weeks as he was having his term break. We caught Ironman at East Gardens during one of the weekday nights, quite a gd show, just that the cinema seat wasn't that comfy. We went to town on saturday for dim sum, and won some quick bucks at casino later on.

Other than these activities, I've been rather busy playing catching up on tutorials, as well as rushing assignments and projects. Just gonna post some pics taken earlier when we were out. Will try to update as much as time allows me.

2008-05-10T01:54:00.002+10:00

Something struck me when I was about to sleep last night. Suddenly, she just came into my mind. Whenever I see her online, a part of me wants to talk to her, but the other just kept fuming at how hot and cold she was towards me during the past few months. I'm concern about her. How is she coping at work? In school? Everyday life? Is she happy? Is she sad? Is she tired? etc etc...

On several occasions, I have told myself not to msg her anymore. Still, I would double click on her name, allowing the conversation box to pop out. I will then stone, eventually pressing the 'x' button...

It is so ambiguous between us right now. I thought I was sure of how she felt towards me when I was in sg for my summers. I was wrong then. Foolish? Maybe. As always? Yes, I think so. All the time and effort (I have never spent so much effort before in 22 yrs of my life) I spent during my holidays, suddenly seem like acts of foolishness to me right now. I just felt that she was taking me for granted, something which is very very hurtful. All the little promises she made to me, none of them came true. Maybe they are just misrepresentations. Maybe they are just trivial matters to her. To me, they are hope.

DUMB DUMB DAMIAN LIM. Isn't this what love is all about? L-O-V-E=H-U-R-T? (Am I right Ms J?) =/ Better get my ass back to work and push those damn marks up.

2008-05-05T20:04:00.003+10:00

Yea yea I know I haven't been posting. Really busy with school work. All the projects, assignments and tutorials are driving me nuts. Time certainly passed faster this semester, it's already week 8 now. Exams will be in one month's time. ARGH!~!~

Here are some of the pictures that I didn't get a chance to post up. There's quite abit which I will upload some other day. First up was Apple's birthday. She treated us all at this excellent Jap bbq restaurant. First time trying beef tongue (Third pic from the top). One word. 爽!

Next stop was Levina's birthday. Yep both of them have the same birthday, such coincidence. She held it at her place, and quite a number of people turned up too.

Last pic was the 'back to reality' picture. We were on our way home when we took it. Damn zzz. Reach home=Study... Argh I can't wait for my exams to be over, and be back in home sweet home again. Of course, I will be looking forward to my europe trip with the marist brothers.

2008-04-17T00:59:00.002+10:00

Week 5 of school is coming to an end soon. And in no time it will be May. This means I'm nearer to home sweet home, but assignments, tests and projects are starting to pile up already. I foresee a boring 2 months ahead. My blog will be less lively, updated less often I think, and definitely less pictures (unless you want pictures of me mugging).

Been extremely slack since day 1 of week 1. Have got to change my gear to 3 and rpm 3.5. I have to stop sleeping that much and watch less variety shows. All this can wait after the exams...

Yea right..

2008-04-12T19:02:00.002+10:00

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2008-04-12T00:39:00.002+10:00

Hello peeps. Nothing much to blog about recently, life's pretty mono and school's boring as usual. Had a finance quiz on tuesday and just did an online quantitative methods quiz. Another week of school down, many more to go. But at least it's nearing mid April, which means May will be arriving real soon, which in turn means departure for Sg will be nearer. Yea!

Oh by the way I have a friend (Rebecca Lim) who's acting in the drama "The Truth 谜图", in channel 8, every Monday to Friday 9pm. She's also starring in an english drama "en bloc", channel 5, every wednesday from 8pm. So please switch on your tvs and support her ok? Many thanks. =)

2008-04-06T19:53:00.007+10:00

Pictures galore! Was dreading saturday coz I had to go school for project meeting, and the project is one hell of a task coz it's uber confusing and seems almost impossible to complete. Anyway, friends called us out for dinner yesterday night and we gladly agreed! So sick of being coupped up at home, gotta go out and get a breather.

Waiting for the freaking bus to arrive (Aussie bus system sucks. SBS anytime although they suck too).Sunshine boyEmo boy
Vain boy

We had dinner at ichiban boshi. Not similar to the singapore one coz this shop serves mainly ramen, and it's very popular judging by the good reviews and long queues. The first time when we ate there was the day before we left sydney for sg. =( Hopefully that day arrives soon.

After dinner we walked to darling harbour (one of my favourite place) and had dessert at lindt cafe. Oooooo. Macarons and ice-creams=heaven!

Wide selection of fine macarons

Ice-cream to die for

Sundae

MY MACARONS!!!
Hot chocolate w milk
ys's ice-cream waffle
dessert party
satisfied customers

Soon, it was time to head home. Ys mentioned that he hated the idea of going home at that time, coz it only meant studying again. I agree with him. The dinner was really fun and relaxing, and allowed us to be away from the boring yet hectic school work we have. I wish I could dine out everyday like this, but I know it's not possible. After typing this post, I'll be back to tutorials. Fun!!!.....not....wake me up when june arrives =/

2008-04-04T21:06:00.003+11:00

hmmm been a while since I last posted. Was down with fever and severe sore throat, out of action for a few days at least. Thanks to housemates for being both concern and helpful! Helped alot in my speedy recovery.

Nothing special happened in the past week or so. Lectures and tutes as per normal. Had a presentation and inpromptu quiz and tada! Another week of school is over. This has to occur faster, so I can go back to home sweet home earlier.

Recently one friend of mine had trouble with her relationship. Something drastic happened yesterday but thankfully she's fine. I know you are reading this. Please take good care of yourself. You have many friends around you that care about you (m, xy, t and me). So cheer up, look forward to a better day and forget about the past. =) You can do it, and you know it! Take good care my friend...

2008-03-29T03:42:00.007+11:00

Hokays updates for thursday. We had lunch at Doncaster hotel. $10 for a steak/chicken with free flow salad bar. Not too bad a deal. After lunch ivan and jianlong came to our place for...revision! Yea we studied (yea i know sounds boring) and damn ivan's attitude towards studies is like out of the world. Someone who actually enjoys studying. I'm like studying, for the sake of getting a decent job. Studying never came across to me as something enjoyable.

Anyways, we went down to the park near our place for some frisbee action. It was fun, except for a fucking racist old man who tried to chase us away from the playground (obviously he failed terribly). Fucking old racist, get a life and go read some newspapers or something you ass. It was a simple dinner later on, but I felt a little sore in my throat. Feel like gonna pua4 beh3 soon. Another day of the break over, but one day closer to home too. =)

Yep gonna bbq that piece of meat all by yourself
Freaking heavy pair of tongs I tell you
Nice steak =p reminds me of ribeye, someone's favourite. =/
WooooooooOOOO

My knee hurt quite a bit after this acrobatic dive. I wonder what got into my mind to do this dangerous dive. -_- Oh yea now I'm feeling feverish and throat is more sore than ever. Head is quite heavy and I'm feeling damn nua.

P.S. Just saw xiaxue's post on langkawi. Damn...make me more gian then ever to go to a beach resort. So many places I want to go. Taipei will be top of the list, but doubt I have any chance to visit there in the near future. July's europe, end of year may be hongkong with family hopefully. Maybe can squeeze in another thailand trip or beach retreat with my friends. Keeping fingers crossed.

2008-03-27T06:35:00.003+11:00

Food pictures again. Had steamboat dinner on tuesday. Quite a simple one compared to the one on sunday. We had a movie screening too - The Condemned. Turned out to be quite a decent show. Stone cold was damn cool, nothing new about that though. Dinner with movie screening at black lion place is becoming a norm.

Wednesday. Intially planned to go fish market for lunch, but everyone woke up rather late so it's cancelled. Slacked at home again. Didn't do much work. Super-nua day. Kept taking short naps, msn, snacks, facebook... Totally no drive and motivation to study. Dinner was simple, but supper was not. LOL. We walked over to hungry jacks at 1+am only to find out that it's not 24hrs. DAMN IT. Ended up cooking pancakes+scrambled eggs w tomato+bacon+milk tea. How's that for supper? Muahahaha. Utterly sinful. Yes. We are crazy.

We ate this at 2+am in the morning. DOPE

2008-03-25T00:54:00.004+11:00

Saturday, 22nd Mar.

We did our grocery shopping today coz sunday's easter holiday and most shops will be closed. Went to geraldine's place to have chivas and red wine b4 leaving for the club. Crowd was not that bad, but music kinda suck tho. Thks to marcus for the shots, and zhong yuan for the heineken. Phuture is still the best imo. MISssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss!!

Sunday, 23 Mar.

Woke up rather late, 1+ I think. Was fun today coz we have invited friends over for bbq/steamboat dinner. Ivan and gang came over earlier for swim/sauna. Quite fun but tiring too coz we played frisbee in the pool.

There should be more pictures on the dinner but haven't receive any of them yet. Will post them up once I have them.

Monday, 24th.

Went ktv today at big echo. $14 for 4 hrs, rather decent price in sydney I guess. No pics for this coz kc forgot abt his cam. After singing we went for dinner at superbowl restaurant in chinatown. Good food but.......the freaking cashier was super rude when we wanted to have a receipt. He don't seem to really understand english though, raising his voice and showing that retard face of his. Damn...this guy's pitiful. Shouldn't let him spoil our day.

We headed down to darling harbour for ice cream at Lindt cafe. Niceeeeeeeeeeeeeee ice cream, the hot fudge was super sinful. I have sinned. Argh! Both spiritually and monetary. 3 days of fun. 欢乐的时光过的特别快，又是时候说拜拜。Nothing much to look forward to after this week's break, only back to sg, and to europe.

2008-03-22T05:59:00.001+11:00

Yea I know I keep posting dinner pictures, coz there's nothing much for me to snap anyway over here in down under. Yesterday was a holiday, but doesn't really make a difference to me coz I have no school on fridays. Coming week is our so called 'mid-session' break, when it's not even close to mid session at all. To be exact, we've only finished 2 weeks out of 12 weeks of school. -_-'''

Anyway, geraldine prepared a surprise bday for debbie. Can tell that she put in a lot of effort for it. It was fun and hilarious seeing debbie getting high and answering all sorts of weird questions. And her bday present was to fly to brisbane to meet her husband to be. How nice! Played some games, had some booze, fun night I would say.

I bet my friends in sg are mugging like mad for their exams. MUAHAHAHA. My turn will come soon. =/ Gd luck amigos.

2008-03-18T00:20:00.002+11:00

boooooooooreeeeeed....so unmotivated. so restless. soul-less. mid session break is next week, and damn why must it come so soon? it will be sch all the way from april to exams in june, total madness can??? gonna burn out and die man. crapzzzzzzzzzzzz.

so how have i been spending my time so far? just attending lectures and doing my tutes on time. other than that, its just stoning, lazing, slacking, sleeping. everyone is restless. going out seems to be a chore. rotting at home seems to be the preferred choice. we had 2 movie screenings so far. Kung fu dunk and Jumper. both are decent movies. gonna have more screenings i guess, thanks to kc's ps3. if only im studying in sg, will definitely get one.

dinner for tonight. sweet and sour chicken, black pepper chicken, corn soup and veg. nice. 1 day down. many more to go.

2008-03-14T02:31:00.003+11:00

It's finally thursday. lecs and tutes end on thurs for me. so it will always be a long weekend for me this sem. week 1 is over, 11 more weeks to go b4 the final exams. can time pass faster? i miss my family and friends. i miss singapore. wad am i doing in syd?

some random fotos i took from my room, as well as the dinner we cooked.

Black bean paste chicken, oyster sauced xiao bai cai and tofu
Fried omelette with onions, kangkong, bak kut teh (this was really good)
That's yusheng swimming, lol.
View that's keeping me alive and motivated

View when I'm lying on my bed

2008-03-11T02:09:00.006+11:00

First day of school. 2 hrs law lecture. Slept through most of it though. Stupid lecture hall was packed and hot and stuffy. Run quite a few errands today, didn't manage to meet up with hongxuan who came down from canberra. Felt abit paiseh.

Day 1 was hectic too. Flight was delayed and reached sydney 1 hr later than expected. Rushed to finance seminar at swissotel immediately after we dumped our stuff at home. Calvin took us out for dinner and it was unpacking all the way throughout the night.

Till now, it still feels like a dream. Being in sydney is like an illusion. I feel like I'm still in singapore, together with my family and friends. Damn this feeling sucks...totally...

T3 toilets are niiiiiceeeeeeeeee

On my way to seminar

Bbq is so common in sch. Not only now but thru out the whole sem.

P.S. Blogger is having probs with its photo uploading thingy. My fotos go missing or can't be uploaded. Irritating. zzz

2008-03-08T22:04:00.002+11:00

And so the most dreaded day has finally arrived. 5 more hours and I will be on the flight back to syd. 3 months+ of singapore stay is over, just like that. Time passes so fast isn't it? I hope it passes even faster when I'm in syd.

It was fun during this 3 months. Meeting old friends as well as making new ones. YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE loyal readers muaHAHAHAH! Sadly didn't manage to achieve the one thing that was top priority when I first came back sg. I know I gave it my best shot. Too bad nothing came out of it.

I will be back, by around 20+ june. Shortly after that in end june I will be leaving for the europe trip with m10mg till the end of july. Will try to update as much as I can over at down under. Do update me about happenings in sg too yea?

Take care all and cya guys real soon. Misses!!!

2008-03-06T15:58:00.003+11:00

Yup yups I know I haven't been blogging. Lazy me. Have been busy helping parents at the stall, besides that didn't really go out, except for clubbing during wed & fri nites, and like 1 or 2 dinners out with friends.

Yesterday night, somehow ended up in zouk again. Last min thingy I would say. Headed down with terr, and met up with helene and zara. While we were in members, saw wenqing (with blogger xiaxue.LOL), gillian and ava there too. At first I saw ava..then her, but I got a shock when I see her. I thought she's not coming tonight. She said she sent me a sms but I seriously didn't receive it. How come so many of her sms keeps getting stuck like midair? And she asked me if helene is the girl I like. What kind of stupid question is this? Wanted to have a decent chat, but seems to keep avoiding me. Force pulling her to me didn't work as well. Said I had a lot of drinks with my female friends. I thought I only had an ex ti with one of them.

Seriously...wtf...from the intial plan of going zouk with her, to this screwed up drama mama night. Hate it. FUCK

2008-02-26T02:11:00.000+11:00

Was extremely tired at work yesterday. The one week endurance test was officially declared over when I took a 2 hour power nap in the afternoon HAHA! Was talking to rebecca on msn when she mentioned that she was nua-ing the whole day at home too. Sometimes it’s good to know that you are not alone when it comes to nua-ing or slacking. LOL. You feel less guilty that is. Anyways, went to ps café at Dempsey to have dinner with bro and friends. Food was only slightly above average and it was quite expensive considering the portion size. Nevertheless the place has an excellent ambience, and definitely secluded from the buzzing city.

Headed for orchard’s coffee club, and left home when it’s around 11pm. Slept early at around 230am coz I don’t want to doze off anymore on the final day of my work. Hahaha! Less than 24 hrs to a work-free life. Cheers mates!

2008-02-25T04:36:00.002+11:00

23th Feb '08

Repeat of last saturday. Tennis at seletar country club after work, with rebecca and liying joining us this time round. The sun was reali scorching and I felt quite drained and lifeless after only playing for a while. Had drinks and snacks, then we went bowling. Quite fun coz it's been agees since I last bowled.

We had dinner at thomson plaza peach garden with sw's family. The food was very nice but I can tell rest didn't eat as much due to the snacks earlier on hahahah. Went sw house later for mahjong. Played one round, lost $4. Finished the 1st half of man u match, and zd sent me home. Thanks! Slept at 3+. SSDD. Same shit different day. Gonna wake up later for work again.

One word. Beat...

2008-02-25T04:04:00.003+11:00

22nd Feb '08

Last day of work!!!! NOTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT......-_-''' Was asked to come back on monday to help out, damn felt abit sian-ded but couldn't reject colleague's kind offer. Christina and pei chun treated me to Hans' (thanks alot!) during lunch.

Met up with kc, ys, ivan and darren for ktv at partyworld. Was fun but I was rather stoned coz of the lack of sleep throughout the week. I'm trying to see how long I can endure by just sleeping around 4 hours a day. QUITE A CHALLENGE I must say lol.

Anyway kenneth came to pick me up and we went zouk to meet his friends. Nothing spectacular happened, only this hilarious gal who puked and asked her friend if she really puked. lol.

Slept at 4+, and gonna wake up at 730 for work later. SHIOK!

2008-02-22T04:07:00.003+11:00

19th Feb ‘08

Half day at work today, went SGH to meet up with family, as both dad and bro have their medical appointment. Later on ade treated us to the dim sum buffet at yum cha Chinatown. Food there was not bad, just that some of the prc staff have real lousy attitude.

Went around to shop at Chinatown. Bro and ade bought this kite (no idea when and where are they gonna fly it), and mom tried this wishing basin thingy. Went to people’s audio to ask about digicams and eric recommended the casio exlim ex-s880. I still preferred the canon ixus 70 but according to him it’s not good at all. Argh dilemma… oh and I bought my Davidoff coolwater for only $21, from this shop which sells cheap daily necessities too. Didn’t have dinner, as the dim sum lasted all the way till I hit the sack. Full shit. Big belly. Fat. Feck!

2008-02-22T04:03:00.002+11:00

16th Feb ‘08

Argh so exhausted this few days. Had less than 10 hours of sleep for the past 2 days or so I believe. Sleeping at 4+ and waking up at 7 can be quite tedious. But its worth it, I spend more time doing something instead of sleeping haha! Went to work at the clinic this morning and I felt really enthusiastic about it. Working at NEA must have bored me to the max, and I can msn in the clinic muahahhahahhaha! I can also work alongside my mom too!

Every Saturday after work, mom and I will go to san yee’s place for lunch. This time we had sliced fish noodles. Met up with mark sw and dan at seletar country club for tennis. After which we slacked at the bistro area till 6pm, which had a great view of the golf course and reservoir. Just next to us, sat a table filled with ah peks, guessed their just finished their golf. Daniel was wondering if m10mg would be like that 40 yrs down the road. I certainly hope so.

Had dinner with xy, j and marc at bugis. Headed to robertson’s quay to chill before the match started. We had drinks and played bridge at tcc (j’s a noob btw lol). It’s a nice place to just sit back and relax. Surprisingly robertson’s quay isn’t too crowded compared to the likes of clarke and boat quay. It’s a great place to watch soccer too, less the retarded arsenal fan in front of us. That’s my sat. 4 more to syd. Sad! zzzz.....

2008-02-22T04:01:00.001+11:00

13th Feb ‘08

Work sucked so much recently. Not because I have loads of work to do, but the exact opposite. I have no work to do at all for some days, like today. Friends who knew my situation commented that isn’t it great to have no work at all, slack the day away and receive money. Yea no work is good in a way, but if I have no work, I have nothing to do at all. As in totally nothing at all and there is no internet for me to pass the time. So I have to open old excel files and pretend I’m working on them. I HATE IT!!! I was so frustrated that I asked to leave at 4pm. And TADA I’m home by 5pm.

Met up with marc, xy and j later in the night at wheelock starbucks. Had rochor bean curd after that, and left only after an uncle ‘chased’ us away coz we finished our food. Crappy service. Tomorrow’s vday, and it’s just gonna be another normal day for me. No plans planned. Why? I don’t know. I know I’m not going to work. Giving myself yet another day off. NEA can you just sack me?

2008-02-22T03:53:00.001+11:00

10th Feb ‘08

Woke up late as usual, and slacked at home throughout. Met up with Marcus and intended to watch epl at his house. Ended up meeting xy and j again, and we went liquid kitchen at bukit timah to catch man utd against man city. I believed man u produced the worst performance of the season so far. So damn wasteful…90 mins seems like eternity to us.

After the match, we went to macs at king albert park. Xy and j ordered 20 pcs of nuggets, and marcus ordered a nugget meal, so there was like 26 nuggets in total. I’m nowhere near hungry but they seem to have such a great appetite. We headed home after the supper, and I already have intention of skipping work on Monday.

KILLER NUGGETS... Won't touch them for quite some time i think?

2008-02-18T00:23:00.003+11:00

9th Feb ‘08

Seriously, I think I screwed up my body clock. When I woke up to the bright blue sky, I thought it must be damn late, like 1 or 2 pm. When I saw the time on my watch I got a shock, it was only 9am in the morning. So I slept like what, 2 hours only? WTF MAN! Freaky shit. I managed to fall asleep again at 11+, but the sleep was like another 2-3 hours only anyway.

Today’s visiting is at san gu’s place. Had lunch there and played mahjong too. Mahjong luck was exceptionally good today as I won around 10 bucks, playing 10, 20 cents only. There was a round whereby I man tai + zi mo ok! Muahahhahaha =x Had my dinner there too, and amer was kind to send me home after that.

The initial plans for tonight was ktv with marcus, terrence, xy and j. But somehow it was changed to prawn fishing somewhere in bishan. Muahahaha for 23 yrs of my life I haven’t tried prawning and it’s a little interesting actually, but it got a bit tiring in the end. We went hk café at east coast for supper, before we decided to call it a day.

2008-02-17T23:00:00.001+11:00

8th Feb ‘08

年初二！ Went to er be house in the afternoon. Played some mahjong, had dinner and chitchatted with the cousins. The usual stuff. Marcus suggested hanging out later in the night. Terrence was on for it and this time round he has a car at his disposal, courtesy of his sister-in-law. We decided to chill at clarke quay as 2 of marcus’ friends will be coming too.

Terrence came over to my house to bai nian and pick me up. Poor dude as he langa-ed the car’s bumper onto one of the pillars in the carpark. Met up with marcus and we grabbed a quick bite at macs before heading to the Clinic. Treated them to a round of mocktails and a cocktail for myself when marcus’ friends arrived. Finally saw xinyan, and also her friend jerlyn. Soon we found ourselves in MOS, drowned in the sea of r&b and alcohol.

Received a sms from her asking if any of the gals were interested in me. Seriously it’s like what the feck. Nvm about that, say will let me know when you’re done. No news at all after that. I’m used to it already. Numb. Like what I put in my msn nick weeks ago, numb. Next morning you said you fell asleep with the msg unsent. Is sending a simple sms that hard? Or is it that it didn’t really matter? I seriously think it’s the latter. This is not the first time already. Our sms conversations can just stop suddenly, with you disappearing, to where I don’t know.

Got a little high that night. I didn’t drink exactly a lot though. Guessed it must be embarrassing. Seldom get high coz usually I’m the one who’s sober coz I gotta drive. Jerlyn said I walked into a glass door but I seriously don’t remember. Anyway, we went for supper at spize at river valley. Crowded as usual, ordered my fav ice teh-o limau and gradually I can feel the alcohol effect wearing off. After that terrence sent me back home, and by the time I finished bathing it’s almost 6am. Mom stood at my door staring at me, apparently quite annoyed by one of my late nights again. What was worse is that I had alcohol right after my medication, which she strongly disapproves of. Sorry mom! All in all, it was a superb day. I hung out with 2 of my bros, and made 2 more new friends. 2 very nice friends. Without friends, I will not survive this fecked up world.

2008-02-17T22:55:00.002+11:00

7th Feb ‘08

年初一！ Wore my new polo ralph shirt, new black jeans and new loafers! No new underwear coz Robinsons only have like XXL or XL and L left. -_-‘’’ The norm for chu yi is to visit mom’s side ist den dad’s side. Firstly we went to grandma house to bai nian. It’s so much nearer for us now coz she stays at marine parade now instead of the old circuit road. Had the usual stuff, vegetarian bee hoon, fried mee etc. After that went to gu kong’s place, also at marine parade. And then to jiu jiu’s place at sengkang.

Next stop was my dad’s side at da be’s place, also at sengkang. Stayed there for a while only though, coz chu er and chu san it will still be visiting at dad’s side. Last stop was sentosa cove, haha the place looks so familiar coz of the retreat last weekend. Buffet was slightly different this year as food stalls were set up along the walkway just beside the sea. Quite cool I thought, and not to forget the abundance of ’97 red wine. Damn good…

Most of the Marists were there though, bert with miko, weiqi, zhenhao, shiwei, daniel, mark and liying. Finally got a chance to see alex’s girlfriend mandy haha~ Can sing quite well though. Rebecca was there too, and it was quite funny seeing how obvious it was as desmond tried really hard to get into her good books. The highlight of the night was the ktv again muahahahaha. Even my bro was sabo-ed into singing a song.

2nd highlight of the night was when the marist cousins less alex got uber drunk and wasted. Daniel collapsed to the floor out of a sudden and had to be carried by us to the room upstairs. He vomited and yes..shitted @$(&@()#!@!@)_ Zh mark and bert helped wash him while weiqi and I had to juggle the ktv maniac lay shiwei in the living room. Daniel was motionless but shiwei was like high on estacy or something, singing non stop like a world tour concert. I reckon he sang a good 2-3 hours of ktv? Lolz! So what’s the moral of the story? Don’t drink too much with alex, he’s too good a drinker.

A pity non of the marists brought a camera along to capture the fun moments. Luckily rebecca and alex’s sis took some photos of us haha. I have been thinking of getting a camera, cheap one of coz. Have narrowed down my choice to canon ixus 70 which cost around $395. I need a camera but I need an ipod too, so which one should I get? If I get 2 I will be so broke. Or should I not get anything and save the money? Damn it. Freaking dilemma. Anyway kind mark sent me back home again. And that was my nian chu yi. =/ So fast over le…

2008-02-17T22:52:00.001+11:00

6th Feb ‘08

Wore polo and jeans to work today. Great to know it’s only half day of work and indeed time passed extremely fast. Brought my tennis gear along coz was supposed to play tennis with Daniel and mark, but last min Daniel couldn’t make it due to some project. Stupid smu…Anway, I headed to pedro and got my beige loafers and went home after that.

Went to er be house for reunion dinner. Caught up with my cousins and relatives and there was quite a lot of food to eat. Didn’t eat much coz my jaw hurts and felt really sore, and my throat seemed to have grown thorns or something. What a bad time for this to occur. Gonna miss those cny goodies.

2008-02-17T22:50:00.002+11:00

5th Feb ‘08

Bored at work, what’s new. If only I have access to internet and msn, I guess I won’t be complaining so much. Had dinner appointment with donna and kc at raffles city. I arrived earlier and shopped around for my cny stuff. Saw this beige colour sleeveless vest at Marks and Spencer at only S$35. Soon I was signing on the receipt already lolz. It was a perfect fit and the price’s reasonable so I thought why not.

Had our dinner at this marche style jap restaurant at the basement. Food was decent but not fantastic I thought. Saw my secondary school friend bochang there, great to know that he’s doing well. Later we went pedro to check out the loafers and then to coffee bean at millennia walk to chill. Was quite tired so took a cab back. Looking forward to reunion dinner.

2008-02-17T22:45:00.000+11:00

3rd Feb ‘08

1+pm. This time even more people came to wake me up lol. We had laksa and some noodles (tabao-ed from Bosses) for breakfast. Later we played blackjack, texas hold’em and in between, which I seem to inherit alex’s curse…damn it. I was so stressed that I dealed myself a card from another deck -_-. Super duper cock up. Anyway it’s great fun though, losing abit of money doesn’t matter to me I thought. Soon, it was time to say goodbye to cove.

2008-02-17T20:27:00.004+11:00

2nd Feb '08(part 2)

Went back to cove and we did sauna and steam bath on the roof terrace. Really enjoying life at this point of time. I guess this had to be the best weekend ever since I’m back from Sydney. I began to wonder, how often can we have this kind of gathering? Anyway, we washed up and left the place for vivo at around 5+ to do some grocery shopping. Have been to vivo a few times but I still can’t get my bearings right. Met up with Gilbert, Miko, Dave, Edina and Zhida as Alex treated us all to dinner at Bosses. They serve some great food there, at a high price too. The dinner was pretty long as the dishes came out quite slowly, by the time we finish it’s 9+ already. Mom and Dad came to pick me up as they were here to deliver laksa for all of us. Gave them a tour of the cove house and haha I think they were quite amazed. Told them I will work hard for a big house and a good life though.

Mark, Liying and Weiqi arrived soon, and joined the rest in the karaoke session. Time flies when we are having fun. In a blink of an eye it was 4am already. The rest except dan alex sw mark and me turned in. We went to the Jacuzzi to chill and talk, with wine of coz haha. We chatted till about 6am when all decided it’s time to sleep. I only slept at 7 coz still have to wait for my hair to dry -_-. Didn’t really feel like sleeping though, I don’t want such a perfect day to end so quickly…

2008-02-17T19:47:00.003+11:00

2nd Feb '08 (Part 1)

Was still in my sleep when I heard Alex and Shiwei trying to prevent Daniel from leaving the house. Apparently Daniel had to go school for some stuff and the duo were against him doing so. They failed anyway and came to wake me up shortly after that. It was 11+ in the morning and damn it felt so good. Sleeping in a queen size bed, having the sea just in front of you when you wake up. That is life. It has been a very long time since I last felt so relaxed.

When we went down to the living room, we were quite surprised to see the place clean and tidy, only to know that Alex’s maids were here to clean up in the morning. It was then Alex’s mom showed us the karaoke system in the living room, which left Shiwei and I awestruck. It’s just like KBOX CAN YOU BELIEVE IT??? Ok I know some people may have it or may have known that it existed but to us, it was like WTF KBOX IN THE HOUSE??? And guess what? It costs only S$400 for the system. It contains tens of thousands of songs and you can upload more into the system itself. Shiwei and I already have thoughts of buying it, hopefully Alex ‘s family can help us buy!

Feeling a little hungry, we went to One Degree 15 in Sentosa Cove. According to Alex this is a private club, and he treated us to Dim Sum at Imperial Treasure. The place really has a class of its own. Just by looking at the cars in the car park, one would know that only the rich patronizes this place. I happened to see my favourite car, the Ferrari 599 GTB. Funny thing is that bert and dave said this place required a proper dress code. However earlier on Alex’s mom insisted that we can go in slippers and shorts. Trusting auntie’s words, we all went in shorts and slippers. Voila! Myth busted. Imperial treasure do not have any dress code lol! Piak Piak slippers rules. I had to give credit to the toilets in One Degree 15 as well, very nice toilets they have, certainly comparable to hotel standards.

Went back to cove and we tried out the karaoke system again. Damn it’s freaking addictive I must say. Daniel came back soon after and we decided to do a little swimming. The four of us took Daniel’s car and went to another house of Alex’s, located on Coral Island, which was his 21st birthday present btw. -_-. Quite expensive present I thought. I don’t even have any present from my parents for my 21st. =( The house doesn’t have any furniture in it yet, but we took a dip in the infiniti pool nonetheless. Although this house does not have a sea view, it has a berth for those who owns yachts, jet skis etc. My god….this is really a playground for the rich, the freaking rich I reckon. Felt a lil off when they asked again if she’s coming. Didn’t want to really think about that but I guess they were concerned. Sorry if I looked pissed or something.

Waking up

To brunch

Fav car

KTV menu

To swim

Coral island

Shiwei in a rather compromising position. MuahahHAHHA

2008-02-11T14:28:00.000+11:00

1st Feb ‘08

Finally it’s Friday again. Went to work with much enthusiasm, knowing that it’s the last working day of the week Time seem to pass fairly quickly today. Come 1730 hours it’s time to knock off, and I left for Orchard to shop for Helene’s present. Afterwhich, met up with Yusheng and we went to his house to pick up his car, heading to Helene’s place shortly after that. It was a nice house, not the typical type of landed property as it was built on a slope rather than on a level ground. There was plenty of food, and got the chance to catch up with Levina, Jonathan and Vanessa. Levina seemed to have slim down a lot, damn I need to do the same too! Kind Yusheng offered me a ride back before sending his gf back. Having a car is so convenient. =(

Was using msn when the marist cousins jio-ed me over to sentosa cove to join them. Was rather reluctant at first coz it was late and the only way there is by cab. But I thought I should treasure and use my time in Singapore to its fullest. Almost immediately I started packing my stuff to last me for the weekend, and took a cab down to sentosa cove which cost a hefty $30+…Daniel was damn kind to pay for my cab fee, thanks bro! Finally got to meet up again with Shiwei (who was out of sg for almost a month of holidays) and Alex (came back from Ireland for a week of holiday). Damn it just feels good seeing your closest clique of friends. A solid place like sentosa cove only made things better.

We played mahjong (facing the sea fyi lol), had red wine (damn bloody good red wine) and chit chatted away. We felt a little hungry later but couldn’t drive out to eat coz of the alcohol. So we decided to have cup noodles, with something extra. Ah Yat abalone. LOL. According to Alex, one can cost around 1200HKD, which is around S$240. It is not sold in Singapore, and had to be bought from HK through the Ah Yat restaurant I think. There were 8 abalones in one can, so each of us ate 2! Muahahaha. Chit-chatted till about 5+am when all decided to hit the sack. Each of us was given a room by Alex and I will let the pictures do the talking.

2008-02-05T01:49:00.000+11:00

30 Jan ‘08

Eat at home day.. finally. Haven’t eaten at home since last Wednesday. Guess I could use some rest given that I’m having like a maximum of 5 hours of sleep every night. Was lazing in front of the computer when I thought I should exercise, coz the rest of the week I doubt I will have time for it.

Decided to go for a swim, and swam for around 35 minutes. While swimming I realize one cant really feel the fatigue until you stop and start to breathe normally. Felt quite shagged after I stopped and took a rest. It’s nice swimming at night, love it totally. You have the whole pool to yourself, with no silly kids diving in from all corners of it. Went to try out the new steam bath and damn it felt like a big cooking pot trying to steam a live chicken. Do all steam baths feel that hot? I checked but it was only 46 degrees if I’m not wrong. But it was so hot that my skin turned red. There was this fellow who came in after me and was obviously stunned by the heat. After which I decided to use the Jacuzzi outside which was again too hot I felt. Zzz…Nevermind, had a great work out anyway. Time well spent!

2008-02-05T01:46:00.000+11:00

29 Jan ‘08

Dozing off seems to be part of my work now. I had almost nothing to do for the whole day, had to pretend that I’m doing work on excel -_-. Met up with uni friends after work (Yusheng, Kai Chung, Teddy, Ian, Novi, Lydia). Bah only Yusheng and Kai Chung were early, Ian was late coz of work so it’s understandable. The indos say they were following indo time -_- lol. Anway we went to NYDC for dinner and I realize their portion seemed to have decreased even though the price went the opposite way. Donna joined us for a while and she gave me my belated birthday gift. A white long sleeve shirt with plain designs from zara. Perfect fit, and it’s very nice I think. Thanks Donna!

Yusheng and friend went to join his friends for supper, and the rest of us decided to catch a movie at Lido. Novi left quite suddenly coz I think her dad called to check on her. Haha poor gal. We were pondering between the movie ‘The House’, which is a horror thai movie and ‘Rambo 4’. Due to Kc’s fear of horror shows (muahahahaahaaa), we decided to catch Rambo 4. It’s not that bad, but not that good either. Lotsa body-being-smashed-up scenes, quite mild if you compare it to hostel. Stallone should really take a break. Who knows he may come up with Rambo 5, or Rocky returns in 10 years time.

2008-02-05T01:41:00.001+11:00

28 Jan ‘08

Monday blues omg….so freaking bored at work that I fail to keep myself awake. I wonder if any colleagues see me dozing off. I’m quite sure a few of them saw. Anyway, met up with Marcus and Terrence for Kbox dinner buffet, from 6-10pm. The food wasn’t that bad, but it wasn’t that good either. But it’s $28, with 4 hours of singing so still not that bad la I thought. Everyone was singing their feelings out in one way or another I thought. The DTM brothers are all singles now. Quite a rare sight considering Marcus’ almost ‘always in a relationship’ status.

2008-02-05T01:40:00.000+11:00

27 Jan ‘08

Another stay home day for me. Slept and slacked pretty much the morning and afternoon away, come evening time had it was preparation for Khloe’s birthday party. It was held at the function room and one of the bbq pits. I was like BBQ I/C of the day, set up the fire and pretty much cooked everything with the help of my bro. That’s pretty much my weekend, even closer to Sydney now. Sighz…

2008-01-27T05:00:00.000+11:00

Woke up at like 1+pm today...ultimate shiokness. How I wish I can wake up this late every single day. Lazed around and later went to bedok interchange hawker centre to meet Marcus for lunch, and also to take my jeans that I left in his car. After that went Sheng Siong with Mom to buy stuff for tomorrow's bbq.

Today's dad birthday, so we went Sze Chuan court at Swissotel for dinner, together with Khloe's family.

Sleeping in the car, haha!
Peking duck, my favourite!
Khloe and family, can see his dad's hand tho --->
Dad, Khloe and mom
Bro and me, I look fat. -_-'''

Anyway it was a nice meal. Just a couple of dishes, I think around 5? And I felt quite full already.
Went home after dinner, and started watching the variety shows on my computer. Till about 5am, I decided it's about time to hit the sack. Good night all~ Good night to you.

2008-01-25T02:04:00.000+11:00

Just some random shots in my office. The 1st 2 shots are views from the pantry. I just have to look out of the window to you know...take a break from the life threatening Microsoft Excel. The next 2 pictures are my boring workdesk. Anyway today's Friday and my mood is like the best compared to other weekdays. I get to knock off at 530pm and I get to sleep till like the afternoon on Saturday. Cheers to Fridays!

Anyway, met up with Marcus and Terrence again. OMG it's like an exact repeat of last week. I reached Wisma at like 545pm? Haha...so I went looking for my CNY clothing. 1st stop Espirit Wisma and guess what, I saw the black jeans that I've been looking for. Went to try and tada perfect fit. It was $89.90 which I thought was quite alright for a pair of jeans. Took a picture of the jeans, not that it can be seen clearly from the picture itself though. Tried the black sleeveless vest, very nice but too bad theres no M-size left. The L-size I tried was too big and baggy. =(

Feeling a little 'cam-whore' during the last picture. I gotta do something to occupy myself while waiting for the bros to come. I think I don't look that fat in the last picture. But it's not the truth tho MUAHAHAHAHA! Ok I think I'm abit siao. -_-''' Was trying to recommend some clothes and jeans to Terrence and he goes like

Me: Eh you gotta change ur fashion style abit it's getting a lil 'not in'
Terr: No need la I feel comfortable in it wad
Me: But you must wear something nice to look good and attract gals wad
Terr: No need la I wear what I like and as long as I feel good can liao lor
Me: -_-..........

Not like I'm trying to force him to change his dress style, but I think there's a need for him to wear something nicer. It's true that you should wear something that's comfortable, but you need something nice too! Aiya this brother here...has to change quite a few stuff man. Marcus thinks likewise too. Sometimes he may say the wrong stuff without meaning it or be too loud, or vocal in his thoughts. And the way he eat, must really improve. Not easy to change him though, coz he's as stubborn as a scorpio LOL. Well we will try our best tho haha~

We went for movies at Marina Square, since I have 2 free tickets which I just can't seem to use for another person. Anyways...we caught The Mist, and I must say the show is really good. A 4/5 for it. Thrilling and engaging throughout the whole show, with a freaking twist that still appears in my mind every now and then. Highly recommended. That pretty sums up my friday. Pretty satisfactory though, other than not able to meet her again. I've even began to doubt, will I ever meet her again?

Shrugs

2008-01-24T23:40:00.000+11:00

Thurs...one more day to Friday which is another day to weekend.. Work is so freaking boring...Accrual, reversal, accrual, reversal, acc...........damn it just keeps going on and on. I'm doing the same shit everyday it's getting mental.

Met up with Marcus and Terrence after work. And they made me wait like 20 mins at the Newton Circus carpark. Zzzzzzz. Standing there like a stone praying it won't rain on me.

It's getting a little routine if you noticed. I met them last thurs and fri for dinner too haha. Anyway we kinda went to the different LV stores in town I think? Coz Marcus need to get a LV wallet for his gf. Damn this guy is willing to splurge. We went to the various outlets, DFS, Hilton and Taka and unfortunately the colour he wanted was sold out. I realise something, this is not even the shopping or sale season but LV is still packed with people. Freak, are these people rich or are they just buying LV stuff with 80% of their pay?

Eventually we had our dinner Sakae Sushi at Wheelock place. Not too bad la, although I would prefer Ichiban Boshi or Sushi Teh anytime. It's just that Sakae has 10% discount for DBS/POSB card holders. Been a week since I last hit the gym. Getting lazy already. Better start swimming soon too. Seriously need to lose weight..and fats...

2008-01-22T23:17:00.000+11:00

Nothing much fanciful today. Since 14th Jan I have been drafting these blog posts in my office. I have to do something else on the computer instead of excel whole day to prevent myself from dozing off. BUT there’s no internet connection, no games. NOTHING! I have access to Microsoft Office though. -_- So I decided to draft my posts, save them in my thumb drive and upload them when I get home.

2008-01-21T23:17:00.000+11:00

Weekends pass by so quickly. Before you know it, it’s Monday blues again. As if Monday wasn’t bad enough, there was a train disruption between Pasir Ris and Tanah Merah. So I had to take a SMRT bus to Tanah Merah to catch the train. I guess someone might have jumped onto the tracks again. It took the bus 1 hr to reach Tanah Merah. Why so? It is because the bus went to Tampines for some weird reason. Anyway this whole saga made me an hour late for work. Luckily no one asked me anything. Anyway back to about work, my current work really bores me to death. I have to use excel for the whole day, 5 days a week. There is no internet connection, which makes life even more miserable. I’m sure my efficiency will be improve tremendously when there’s internet available to keep my mind active.

Managed to clear up some stuff today, but still no decision. She wants a decision that comes from both of us. But both of us have different views. How? I don’t know.

2008-01-20T23:16:00.000+11:00

Same thing occurred again last night. Feeling rather tired and stone and I ended up sleeping more than half a day away.