Ajitsen Ramen???

Every friday morning would be tuition day for the aces. I also try to keep up to my slalom cone trick regime every friday 730pm at MSCP behind admiralty mrt station. This friday that just went past was a fruitful one; I've managed to grasp the concept of some real nasty jumping cone tricks. It left me walking home( i dont skate home with my cone trick skates) with a pair of really sore thighs, painful right ankle and an aching lats by saturday morning.

And yes, every saturday morning for the goat is dedicated to the tuition aces as well. I have a total of 5 children under me, 3 individual tuition sessions ( 2 hrs each) and a one group tuition session consisting of 2 children( 4 hrs each session). So by the time i reached 2pm every saturday noon, i have this deoxygenated sensation in me.

Unlike any saturday noon, i tried out ice skating with dearie. Its an activity i look very forward to, especially when i heard many fellow skaters mention that ice skating is "one notch" lower than inline skating. There's only one avenue for ice skating in Singapore by the way; its in Fuji Ice Palace, Jurong Entertainment centre(JEC).

On my way to JEC, there was a qualifying leg competition for some skating event. Naturally I was nailed on the spot for a while.




This is aggressive skating, the most hardcore form of skating. In my impression, its the cheering and yelling that keeps these skaters wanting to do more. The louder you clap and cheer the faster their adrenaline rush and the better they perform. Its a total different breed of skaters. This is many many notches higher than freestyle slalom skating.

Now back to ice skating....

In my own opinion, the differences between a pair of rented ice skate and inline skate lies in the stopping principle. There are sharp mini spikes on the tip of the frame of ice skates, and the frame is attached flimsily on the boot itself. This implies that if you were to execute a slide at high speed, the weight should never be put in front of the front tip of the frame. If not you will end up yelling for a crashmat in mid air. There is also a jutted tail on the other side of the frame. Not user friendly for me who's very used to short frames. My interpretation is, if you really have to do sliding you have to sit slighly on your hips and use your calves and ankles 100% to change the line of your sliding heel.

Probably these spikes and tails are used more for figure skating, to aid in the spinning and double/ triple axe turns.

On a rented pair of ice skates,you wont experience a 100% power transfer when you exert a push on your boot; the frame feels wobbly. Hence all the talk only on slides..heh.

I saw a couple of youngsters on ice hockey skates. ( the frame looks simply like a blade detached from a knife, with no spikes nor tails found on rented skates).They could execute perfect swift crossovers from point to point. Not only that, they could do those very-impressive-inline-skating-slides on ice easily.....

Having trained very hard the night before in MSCP, i did not want to explore the possibility of slides on my rented skates. Because of that, the ice skating session was a humbling one. BUT...BUT... at least i could still execute my hockey stop at cruising speed.

Some back ground knowledge on ice skating:

You see those skaters circled in red? They are moving hazards. They cannot skate well and they have to rely on the metal sledge structure to move from point to point. Best to stay far from them when you are at the rink.

Featuring goat on skates...

I just felt that i am missing one durian and a small prying knife.

The goat's counterpart.




After our stay at the ice rink ( left with more soreness on my shin, all thanks to the flimsy frame ). Dearie insisted our dinner to be at Ajitsen Ramen. We both headed down to IMM, the shutter bus style.

For all who's still patient enough to read up to this point:

Ajitsen Ramen offers 5 dollar annual membership. A very good deal because

1) 10% off on makan except promotional items
2) 15% off if you dine in on the month of your birtday
3) on 3rd week of every monday noon dine in you only need to pay 50%

Dear got the membership. Could see more future dinners in Ajitsen to come.

Curry pork ramen

Thank you darling for the wonderful noon at the rink! I promise to be your Ajitsen Ramen slave.

豆浆油条

Supposed to meet XH for breakfast cos she's gonna leave for her europe trip( 3 weeks my goodness ) with MT tonight 11plus pm. I wont be able to send her off and thus i felt the need to struggle out of my warm snug bed at 812am this morning.
This is what i had for my breakfast. It's really been awhile since i had those at the correct timing.

Youtiao, taken at 910am. Passed away in my stomach 912am. Buried with soya milk. R.I.P

And this is what she had, some vegetarian noodle in strong vinegar she loved.

Wierdo's breakfast

I sort of promise XH not to pose her pic. Oh well, i broke the promise. So XH if you are reading this, please come back safely from your trip to settle the scores with me okie?

I had to get up early for this XH breakfast meet; Sleep was good for me the previous night.

Thank you XH for the splendid sharing sessions about your shopping escapades. Show me your french manicure soon! And yes, if you ask me again, i dont think you have to go bond your hair, it looks good as it is, UNLESS you are keen to shoot in the RING 4. IN Just come back safe and let me criticise you more heh heh.

One good excursion in NTU

I was quite disgusted with this guy sitting opposite me.


First he was sneezing like mad, and slowly ..what lies between him and me... was....



Did you just see the pile in red? I swore it was full of his mucus... because each time he sneezed i could almost hear him wiping off the viscousness from his nose...YUCKS!

I hope whoever is reading this blog now, and happen to know this man, please get him to bring his little trash bin.... just don't spread the influenza killers around the adm library.

The business times stealer wasnt around when i came. I had to wait for my external reinforcements for lunch. Today my reinforcement decided that i was NOT to name even her initials because of the story that is to come....So right now as i'm writing, i've decided to call her Ms Reinforcement.

Ms reinforcement was nice to drive and pick the goat up for a hot meal in the new cant 3. After looming around the vicinity facing hall 16, she skilfully parked her car along the lane. Both of us conveniently went to the canteen and enjoyed like more than 45min of eat-cum-crap session.

Only minutes after we walked out of the canteen, towards the vehicle, both of us realised that we just had one of the most expensive NTU meal ever in our student life.


Now, since when did this post appear beside our vehicle?

Ms reinforcement's vehicle was clamped, courtesy of the campus security of NTU.

The cost to unclamp was to be 30bucks. As i stood brain frozen under the cool cloudy sky, reality still havent sink into my head, my reinforcement's mood went nasty. Frankly, it was like one of the few moments i ever saw her gonna burst and erupt.

And so i did the next natural thing, to read the contents pasted on the windscreen.

Ms reinforcement ordered me to contact the campus security. In that split second i was quite taken aback. Could sense something really cooking beneath her skull.... scary...
I felt obliged to put the conversation between me, mr campus security, and ms reinforcement, just to illustrate the steaming sensation coming from ms reinforcement

Goat : Erh hellow, this is campus security rite?

cs : yesh this is

Goat : I'm calling with regards to vehicle number XX 1XXXB, would like you to come over and unclamp the.....

Ms R {retorts}: Just ask them to come. We will pay them. Here.

Goat {trying hard to interpret and make sense}: ....erh ok, is it ok that you come here and we pay you the 30 bucks? Erm, since you all have to come over anyway rite?

cs: sorry sir, you have to come over and...

( At this point,Ms R already wanted to intercept; she seemingly knew what cs was gonna say, she went on and groan and moan until i couldnt really hear what cs was saying)

cs {continued}: ...payment by nets or cash card. We cannot accept cash.

Goat {rather speechless as Ms R stared at him awaiting for a solution} : ok oh well guess we have to come over....

What happened next was a spate of hurlings and abuses from Ms R, saying that these people are dumb, inflexible , cant make do with situations. It went on and on, from alongside NIE outskirts then towards the zebra crossing linking to canteen A. Then a few more series of curses at the campus security, then the lift at B4 beside the ceramics lab.

In all i wished both of us never had lunch in canteen 3 in the first place. Initially i suggested that place because i thought of the zhi char food there.

Ironically both me and Ms R only ate mixed veg rice. What a joke.... -_-"

Now, i stood in front of campus security in awe... I bet most of you reading this have no idea where it was. We both never knew, but we had the aid of the clamping white paper remember?
So we went in, in small beats of perspiration. Thank goodness, Ms R "desteamed" somehow after a small trek to where we were then.

But Ms R did not hold back on her emotions. She straight away confront the aunties and uncles don in uniform that we could have saved all the trouble walking and wait there INSTEAD OF HAVING TO WALK OVER. I folded my arms in silence watching the way Ms R talking out loud as she made payments. An amusing scene of a petite lady displaying her might in foreign ground. Power!!!!!!!!

After handing 15 bucks to Ms R, both of us were offered a ride on campus security's exclusive mitsubitshi lancer hatch back 1. 5L manual car back to where all shit started.

I was glad they made the offer, if not i swear Ms R would burn the whole campus security down. Thank God.

Along adm library. I could have been mugging in there much earlier if not for the surprise visit from campus security


Making a turn towards where it all happened....


And finally, the crime scene....




The driver uncle started telling us about their reluctance to clamp vehicles in the first place, and that clamping had to be done because some dean complained about abuse of parking space from students.

Here's how the driver uncle looked like.


I swear this was the closest i was to a campus security vehicle. Ever. In my whole 4 years in uni.

I had never been placed in the back seat of a police car, but somehow, in one way or another, i think i had that feeling when i was seated in the security vehicle.

And the unclamping process begins... Featuring unclamping auntie and her marvels!




Alas, the whole NTU excursion was over. Ms R by then was simply glad that this whole uncalled-for trip ended. Quickly, i hopped onto Ms R's vehicle. Saying my haste bye-byes to the uncle and auntie who went down to unclamp the wheel.

I peered through the rear mirror and saw unclamping auntie taking the clamping mechanism which she removed from the wheel earlier, moving towards this illegally parked dark blue lancer that escaped the first visit of campus security.

If you happen to be the driver of a dark blue lancer who found your wheel clamped around 325pm in front of hall 16, NTU on 24th April 2007, i just wanna say sorry for bringing the clamps onto you... Opps!

I went back to adm library, wanting badly to share my 1hr-plus misadventures.

Today was a surprise. I went there and saw the following



What had happened to the man?

On closer inspection :


HAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!

Dwellings before exams

Yo all!

Its been a very long time since i updated my blog. Alright, actually i dont intend to pen much over here. But hey, its my last semester in school, so i will share with you, keen readers of my blog.

As most of you would have noticed, this sem's mugging wasnt done in lwn. Its only for ghosts. I'm sure most of you had already seen this.

check this out if you had no absolute idea what i was saying
http://youtube.com/watch?v=9OWFI4_Q8Wk

Its too overwhelming. No point rushing to be squeezed.

The usual ritual for mugging was done in Adm(art design and media library).


You think you see what you just saw? Yes, this is the common object of worship among the animal muggers plus ex hall king.

Once in awhile, the business times stealer had to commit to his regime(check previous post to understand this statement)


As borat would say it... GrrrrreeeaAAAT SUCCESS!

At times when it rained, some of us had to sacrificed our pride and ask for umbrella from the librarian to get some food from canteen nearby. The following picture depicts a moody moo with a disguisted lion over the lunch they had to take in the cold rain


When modules were too hard to swallow, we had to vent our frustrations. The Chinese Kungfu way


This photo features our dear friend of the flying guillotine. Lets just call him the yvonne-lookalike-man




Need no introduction on this picture




Yours truly, the goat.

The goat had 2 papers on wed and thursday, and lost alot of grass grazing time on the plains. He missed his time with the milk maids and the farmers who so oftenly pampered him with love, care and affection. Lets just hope that the poultry gang will get to smell the freshness ,basking in warm happy sunlight soon.

The word of the animals

Thanks be to all.

Dearie's back!

I just wanna thank God for bringing my little one back safely. Amen.

4-3-2-1...run!

Under grizzly bear's command, the animals did a 4-3-2-1 run(400m, walk, 300m, walk again... yeah you get the idea of interval training )on a monday evening. As usual i would jog the school perimeter before heading to src. Aiming to burn the pear shape off my goat body.

"4-3-2-1" literally took our breath away. The accumulation of lactic acid within our limbs made us felt pretty alive after a day spent in air conditioning environment. Apart from grizzly bear, the rest of the animals had a REAL humble session. We ran slower and slower as we downscale the distance, each time cursing the runner in front to slow down and yelling our fatigue out at the same time. That's my definition of "HIGH!"

I pretty loved such sessions. Even the bear thought so too. Every one of us had our fair share of screaming and rantings on the track. I bet if you were a resident in hall 6 you would have thrown eggs at us.

Pain is good; pain is your friend( i quote demi moore from G.I. JANE)....

Just one day ago sy was nice enough to return my my hp. Left them on her pick up after supper. The only sad thing was, she forgot to bring the cones! ( there goes my only for m of enjoyment on sunday night). In all, i want to thank her for being a sweet girl in delivering my hp. Good job well done!

Dearie is coming back today. As i'm writing this post, i'm anticipating her call. So now its time for me to head to the bed.

Good night lion, ex-hall king, cow, grizzly bear, monkey and k.k. Thanks for seeing me through my boring day.

Love you all deep deep!

Feature of the day

Some shots from the adm library while mugging. I had nothing much to write about my own thoughts since i wasnt supposed to think about other things apart from my modules....

Featuring....Our in house model of the day!

First he conveniently removed a copy of business times from lwn.
Look at the thing circled in red


After feeling happy, he became light headed and went to sleep


When confronted with theft, he feign ignorance..sigh

Dear God....

Dear God, please make my friend Alex wake up so that i can continue to irritate him or piss him off.

I hope you can give ss the strength to tide over the crisis; see her thru this period of exams.

Thank you God, sorry i dont know how to pray.

Its really time to grow up

Ok.

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/514951/video/

I love this video.

You will realise its really time for me to grow up.

A physical run to Memory Lane

Believe it or not, i just travelled back time literally...

The goat, monkey and lion made a pact one day ago to run back to wing line(alpha and foxtrot)in SAFTI.

The only feeling i had in my mind when i jogged into PUB entrance(facing SCI building towards OCS) was the sensation of youth. On familiar ground, running seem like a child's feat. I couldnt really make out some training sheds but the unmistakable presence of the Link Bridge brought me back into orientation. There was a left turn after the bridge that brought us along medical centre, then alpha and foxtrot...

Somewhere within Hotel Wing there was a platoon of trainees executing an open order dressing routine. The only fact that hit my nerves as i ran was me and my age. Gosh, those are boys standing in front of their wing line!

We did the SEOC route(in ABSOLUTE CLEAN FATIGUE haha), this time in almost total darkness. The last thing i could see before darkness sets in was this "BEWARE OF SNAKES"sign. This part of the run was the closest i could get to my days back as trainee when soldiers had to do DAWN ATTACK in wee hours of the morning. As my pupils relaxed, i could make out the tracks that's so familiar to me in my mind now as i ran. I could picture my fellow wing mates running past me, along side me and behind me. They were all around, for me to pace in my mind.

Soon we hit the pavements along PIE,facing Hall 7's stretch. I swear i really felt like a 20 year old trainee. When the mind runs hard, the physical body simply turns into a state of muscle memory machine... the achings from the past day's training on the tracks aint feeling much anymore.

We found ourselves lost. 3 grown men. I supposed when one gets too caught up in thoughts, the mind automatically shuts the eyes off. In our case, the darkness didnt help. We trudged upwards, along this spiral concrete path. Literally beat around the bush and ended up facing the rear of the ceremonial hall.

We knew best not to cut the parade square.

As we edge the perimeters we had this unspoken feeling of awe. Gosh... really... time passes very fast. It was 5 years since i last threw my PIP CAP up, screaming my lungs out as my tears streamed through those sun burnt cheeks. I swear somewhere in my blood there was this soldier in me.

Without realising the fatigue in us, we were already running towards the link bridge where we started about 30 odd minutes ago. The path we took into OCS now became brighter. Probably that's the gift of the OCS power... the eyes of soldiers..to see what civilians couldnt see in darkness...

I hit my own head and brought myself back into reality. As my eyes strained from the familiar lights shining from SCI building, i had this one-to-one mapping from 20-yr-old-to-26-yr-old sensation.

OCS.I will go back there again. Soon.

The flying guillotine!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQmEXYCJtoA

Call me the flying guillotine next time folks!

photos since the semester started.

After strong protest from readers, i have decided to put pictures up for today's post.

Enjoy.


It all started with a panicky goat trying to figure out how to proceed with his fyp. That time in Early January he hasnt gotten anything concrete going. In a super desperate state...


Then towards the end of january, cow became 21! Finally as young as me!!!


One of my last slalom trainings( kicked some cones)before going for operation


This was how bad my ankle was before operation. The dotted lines marked the actual incision location.


And 10 days plus after operation,


i had an absolute NO-EXERCISE life. Well that's good cos i spent it doing FYP all the way. Let me present to you...Cell 1057!


This picture next is the SIGNATURE PICTURE of my last semester in NTU. If i could only post one picture for my last sem, it would be this!


Sometimes when life gets bored, the hall elements of SCE gang have dinner together. The picture below was taken before P left for his open waters diving. We prayed for his safety. Dont ask me why the picture is like that....


Sometime back, my dear climbing shifu K had an operation done on her throat! Poor thing... she was hospitalised with blood drip can inserted on the incision portion of her throat. All in all she had 2 operations. This one's taken after she had her 2nd ops. Look how happy she is.

I hope for her full recovery.

Well well, look at what my climbing partner qw has! Its his own car!!!! This one was taken right after we visited K in TTSH. Some rich boy qw is. haha.


I had no life during recess week. Worked through the week doing fyp and finalising results. Drank dunno how many cups of Chinese tea to last me through weeks without ailment.

After recess week, i embarked on a STUDY-WITH-THE-ANIMALS mission with the following animals.

Everything was a real breeze after my FYP. I suddenly see happiness everywhere i go. Coincidentally, the week when i handed in my report was my birthday week. Look at how sweet people can be.




Ah... everything has to end like this...haha!

My SCE gang friends stole some lime light....The flamboyant slippers were actually a gift from my odac friends. In all, everyone's been very nice to me!


Ex head prefect's lady friends(and of course himself) brought me to botak jones! They gave me a good treat for a post belated birthday celebration.


Dearie had to go away for her Japan Trip. This one's taken on a Good Friday morning.I miss her terribly...sobz.

I pray that she can watch after herself and enjoy her deserved trip....

C was baptised last saturday, but i couldnt make it cos i was really tired from not sleeping the day before(sent dearie off on friday morning then straightaway head for tuition). Here are some pictures of this pretty lady... Guys behold!


Sorry C for not going out with you. Promise i will bring you out the next time round. For a good meal or some shopping trip(i.e you buy things for me hehheh)

Currently, life's spent in adm library. Check out what makes adm stand out from lwn(a.k.a the ghost gates)

The exquisite interior.


Nice view outside

Ah...forgot to take the REALLY pretty ladies that hang around in the library. Apart from the far-from-foodsource location and no wireless coverage, this place is recommend for old bird seniors like me who want to try something for a change.