KAE - TEE- VEE

I had to say sorry first to R and V for making them drown each other with their horrible voices from 7pm to 8pm in Lot 1 KBox room number 38 on 26th June 2007( cos the rest of us were late heh heh )

Picture time again!!!


I started singing Huang yi fei's "if i had a million bucks". Damn i really loved that song but i had difficulty keeping up with the hokkien translation of the chinese subtitles.


Dearie said its like a historic moment for her cos its our first time visiting a KTV together in 8 years plus of our r/s. Oppsie!


Parade Commander has a natural flare with his 'jaded and frustration'songs...


V couldnt sing as well as us and gave the camera a jealous snort *~Oink Oink


Thanks to R for all the pictures( you are now looking at R who is wearing pink)

When beatbox comes back from her VCT trip we shall all go shake the earth once more. Great Success~!

[S]hiok [T]errain with [O]n-the-ball [N]ever-say-die [G]ang

STONG is something i will truly rememeber....

For it is one trip that most of my fellow laojiao peeps went (since donkey years).

As i'm posting all these pictures, i couldnt help but feel that i'm gonna leave NTU ODAC in person. Enjoy the moments with me folks.....


Ex hall king and me. I wonder when we will be taking another picture outside a tent together again.


The stubborn lao jiao gang who refused to mingle with the rest of the participants


Professor Laogao showing his might in one of the caves


Lion guarding his lion den


At the start pt before negotiating stong terrain.


Laojiaos in cave, making a hell lot of noise. Really loud~!


Making our mark in the same cave.


Cant get enough of it.


This one's out of the cave.


KK, the goat and tiger chattering their teeth in the waters by the slide area.


Our visitor from outside NTU, tiger, guarding his den


Tiger displaying his 360 feat


ODAC pres with the well known odac post. Will he run for pres again...? HAHA~!


Cuddling each other by the edge of the waterfall. Cant forget those humongous red crickets darting around us with their creepy feelers!


The cow trying to flip our food, the way tiger does his 360 feat


The goat has to give face and try abit of the flipped food. Check out the morning dew all around me.


The laojiaos with Ms Puteri Kerbaya on the suspension bridge at the foot of the mountain


Ever seen SO MANY PPLE WASHING MESS TINS TOGETHER AT THE SAME TIME?

It certainly feels good having to control my own physical weakness and made my way up and down the mountain.

I thank Mother Nature for giving me a chance to climb mountains. I hope there are many more such trips with fantastic laojiaos to come!!!!!!

Monkey Tong's Nightmare

I intuitively thought of this title for my blog entry when i accompanied dearie into fortune centre on a saturday afternoon, along 四马路 guanyin temple for a vegeterian meal.

Featuring the best of the best vege meal in town ( quite expensive lah btw, a meal cost 4 bucks tmd)

This is one poster that shocked me when i entered the vege restaurant.

Looks normal rite? Look closer...

Western meal the vege style. Effort man.

There's even jap meal for it. My goodness


Serving an array of dishes


Dearie was still down with rashes , slight fever and a really blocked nose. How i wished i can use 铁杀掌 to force out all the viscousness from within her nostrils.

After having lots of fibre in our stomach, we made our way to NLB Bugis to catch a play Mabou's Mimes Dollhouse. Before admittance, i bumped into USHER ah bao, my dear fellow 'B' BC in 284. Its really amusing watching an uptight looking man doing ushering.

I kept looking at that boy before the show starts. I was trying very hard to irritate him with my glances and stares. If NTU ODAC ever imparted lifelong skills to me, one of them would be to irritate others ( * imitates hp vibrating in silent mode *)

I wasnt really prepared to pick up the figurative expressions used throughout the play. I tried to keep to my senses and make sure that my head wasnt dancing around. Oh well... this whole play made me felt that i should have paid more attention during my literature classes during secondary school.

For those who are keen to find out the play i experienced:
http://www.hotreview.org/articles/toyingwithibsen.htm

Stay tuned folks for next entry. Its a surprise party for our dear little friend from LATA gang.

Friday Admiralty Night Skate

Friday Admiralty Night Skate is something i've always looked forward to since the days i slip on my pair of slalom skates. Its this very intuitive avenue for me to run away from the day's nonsense as well as for me to focus on something i really love to do.

This week AND the previous wk has been an eventful one. Real eventful ( though i still have yet to clinch an interview. L.O.S.E.R) . Posted some pictures in place of wordy stuff. Bear with me if you cant get the chronological order of the events. I had too much pictures taken over many events for the past few days. Here we go:

1. I went for Stong Trip with some of my ODAC old bird friends. ODAC renewal session for me.


2. I went skating with my Lata group V, R, P, X and dearie.


All giving a go on cones


guess who's butt this belongs to.


Look at what happen to the parade commander after going for odac trips...


My pseudo girlfriends. My slaves mua ha ha ha~!

3. From today's Friday Night Skate, Terence taught me how to do a katzatchok( a particular cone trick move see http://universkate.free.fr/English/Slalom/tricks/kazatchok.mpg ) properly.

4. Collected my convo gown from Serangoon Broadway today as well. Got into a small conversation with this sweet gal who served me in the studio. Cheap thrill session.

5. And while i wasnt around, the lata gang went to drink WITHOUT ME! sigh....

See! The parade commander... did i remember him saying he WONT drink?




Aw...! Our parade commander is surrounded by MORE GALS!

6. The lata gang met up for OCEANS 13 in causeway point. Prior to that, they had a gruelling badminton session coached by our dear miss R. Gosh she really had me fooled when she said she wasnt good in badminton. Diaoz!
Here's one classic picture before we were admitted into the show:


7. I went for a night excursion on thursday with my skater boys and some gals to labrador park and had prata session at Eu Tong Sen. Drove a 10 foot lorry around. Felt good cos i was given the exposure to drive automobiles that my Class 3 license can permit.

Oh yesh, here's part 2 of Lata pictures:




One thing that didnt go well this week though, was that my dearie fell ill with nasty rashes and a slight fever. I pray that she gets well soon, well enough for me not to worry about her!

There are more pictures to come actually. From all over the shop. Guess its time for me to sort things out on my lappie and start backing up files before i start working. God Bless me.

Lata berembum pics( Part One )

I shall post some group photos here. I really had fun i must say.


This picture was taken during one of our little 4WD drive-in stopovers.


This picture was taken after our 4WD drive out from the campsite

Back to secondary school days

Hi everyone!

Though others are frantically looking for jobs ( i am too, but not that frantically ), i truly enjoyed my THURSDAY, spending time doing what i enjoyed. Here goes:

1. started washing stores from 1030am ( late for one hour) till 1230pm

2. got trashed by R and gang from badminton session from 1230-2pm

3. played 1hr of basketball( and ran one round in SRC with V...crazy)

4. had lunch with Parade commander( a.k.a the honey bear), the beat box, V and R in canteen A(nostalgic to the max!)

5. Drove all except beatbox to causeway pt to play arcade and shop shop walk walk

6. Caught ocean's 13 with all of them eventually in causeway point till 845pm

7. Had dinner at marsiling (makan malay seafood and prata)


All in all, i was glad to have those peeps' companionship today, as well as during our trek to Lata Berembum from Monday to Wed. Felt refreshed and recharged after feeling abit low sometime back.

With all these peeps around i am just looking forward to everyday! ( well..maybe until i got a job... heh heh.)

Effort is not enough!

Dear avid readers, came across this mail that my gf forwarded to me quite some time ago, and i've decided to share with you. Enjoy....

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Ever heard the story of the giant ship engine that failed? The ship's owners tried one expert after another, but none of them could figure but how to fix the engine.

Then they brought in an old man who had been fixing ships since he was a youngster. He carried a large bag of tools with him, and when he arrived, he immediately went to work. He inspected the engine very carefully, top to bottom.

Two of the ship's owners were there, watching this man, hoping he would know what to do. After looking things over, the old man reached into his bag and pulled out a small hammer. He gently tapped something.

Instantly, the engine lurched into life. He carefully put his hammer away. The engine was fixed! A week later, the owners received a bill from the old man for ten thousand dollars.

"What?!" the owners exclaimed. "He hardly did anything!"

So they wrote the old man a note saying, "Please send us an itemized bill."


The man sent a bill that read:

Tapping with a hammer ........................... $ 2.00
Knowing where to tap ............................ $ 9, 998.00

Effort is important, but knowing where to make an effort in your life makes all the difference.

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Tampines Safra Challenge

I'll let pictures do the talking. This is with reference to the GANG's batminton session last tuesday 5th June.

Sharing, helping and selflessness

Dearie was a sick gal for the past 3 days. I felt very sorry for her. Just wish for her to recover real soon. Get back your voice dear!

Tonight was a night well spent( yeah i skated again!); Some beginner slalomer came to the court, greeted by the sliding team boys and many others.

Unlike the thursday session, today was fruitful, because i somehow enlighten a young lad on the gracefulness of slalom skating. Certainly i'm looking forward for our next session together!

I supposed sharing and helping is something that will never cease to exist in my blood. I help as and when i can. There are times when people around you may doubt your over friendliness / enthusiasm as an ulterior motive.... Selflessness is an art i am still trying to achieve, and i hope i can be strong enough to pursue my ideal belief on selflessness, without pondering how other people think of me.

3rd Class warrior

To most, 3rd class is nonsense. I think in fact, 3rd class REALLY IS NONSENSE.

In my realm, 3rd class is all i could ask for.

Some couple of hours ago, i couldnt breath properly because i was afraid. Staring at the half loading results page felt like somewhat between helplessness and frustration. Failure was the goat's way of life, but certainly this time round he DID not want it to be part of his 2007 life....

Some fast facts abt the goat:

1. I did not get a single A for any of my core modules in my 4 years of Uni
2. Cs and sometimes Bs are a norm.
3. My FYP was a B+ ( but hey, i'm rejoicing upon this cos of my real awful encounter with LOUSY NG)
4. I only start my exams revision like a week before the first papers

To those reading this, if you still have a chance to make a difference, Do not adopt those habits of the goat.

I did not type this post to complain about my plight, because i am someone who believes that God is fair. What he took away from me, he gave it back in another form.

For me, that 'another form' was sweet happiness.

Thank you SCE gang, for making my 4 year mistake a less painful one. Thank you all for being there to answer my queries and woes whenever i couldnt handle it alone.

Thank you all for waking up very early just to get hot seats for many of us in LWN / ADM library

Thank you all for the entertaining lunch hours during mugging session, especially the animal gang during final sem!

Thank you all for helping me in my 208 assignment, without which i wont be able to type this thank you post

Thank you all. I will do good. Our memories will echo into eternity.

Banana Eating week

Yoz all!

I am quite glad to update this particular post, because its a BANANA EATING WEEK!

I munch on bananas to prevent my muscles from likelihood of cramps:

The previous sunday i overestimated myself on PAYA LEBAR AIRBASE run way challenge. Took my slightly rockered urban skates to clock a 30km distance. Mind you, the biggest wheel beneath my aluminium frame was like...erm.. 76mm? Thats killing yourself when you even want to think of keeping up with speed skaters whose wheels are like...erm... 110mm? haha!!!!

Monday i was starting to feel my body's wobbliness. But then it was yet another lonely evening. So i clipped my slalom skates( different from my urban skates ) and plod my way to the double court. Monday was a mistake lah basically. I could feel the lactic building up within my hamstrings and shin. I did not enjoy the session.

Tuesday was yet another full body trashing session. It started with a humbling 2 hr batminton session in Tampines Safra with my grad trip mates. We got so into the game that we extended one more hour in the sauna-like court. Drove to TM to eat and then share photos for the grad trip. That, was one of the best afternoons i ever had for the past few months. Laughed until almost fell off the bench in BK.....
After that session, i drove home, changed up and met Q for yet another round of trash-the-upper-body regime : bouldering. Its something i had neglected for almost a year. Sometimes, i wonder how long more i can do bouldering before i decide to sell of my equipment. Its definitely more taxing in strength compared to free style skating and you have to pay to use the indoor bouldering gym. For now i will make it a once-a-week activity and i hope when i work next time i can still fufil this little plan of mine.

Wednesday, my body complained, especially the tendons along my fingers, my forearms, my lats, my hamstrings, my quads, my shin, my neck! Somewhere residing beneath my right knee is this acute pain that comes and goes. It sort of freaked me out abit. I must have pushed myself too hard doing right legged cone tricks. Gosh!!!!

I drove the lazy one to ECP and met the rest of my grad trip mates for a humbling skating session. Was glad that most of the guys enjoyed the session. My pet and the tall one even had intention to get their personal skates once they worked! Feels damn good cos i managed to introduce the passion to my 4 year old study-khakis. This skating passion had another implication to me, that it will be a platform for us to meet up more regularly when we start to have our own lives in future. Happy!
Though i was complaining quite abit while driving the parade commander and the lazy one back, i fell into a slight trance under the effects of an evening drizzle, cruising with the after-office-hour-crowd. It somehow calmed my nerves even though the rear lights of the automobiles were stinging my eyes. I got home not long after, feeling bored, and slipped on my slalom skates. This slalom session was fruitful; i was able to free my mind off my loneliness. That, alone, was all i could ask.

So in total, i clocked a total of

Monday: 3 BANANAS
Tuesday: 2 BANANAS
Wednesday: 2 BANANAS
Thursday: 2BANANAS

Total : 9 ( That partly explains why i frequent the toilet for big business ha!)