spain won!

yes! as i had hoped previously, spain is crowned champion of euro 2008!

commentator on tv: "oh gosh put him down! he's already 69!"

haha damn funny.

casillas lifting the trophy as captain of the spanish soccer national team. i think he is a very good goalkeeper, although he is not as tall as buffon or cech, but his agility more than made up for his disadvantage in height.

now euro 2008 is finally over, let's wait for all the transfer news.

will ronaldo leave man u and go to real madrid?

will adebayor leave arsenal and go to ac milan or barca?

will man u buy new players like david silva and rafael van der vart?

hoho... this is so interesting.

on a side note, the indon delegates are arriving tomorrow afternoon! will be going to harbour front to welcome them.

看表演

晚上去看我学校的铜乐队表演。

表演还不错，学生们在台上的活力令人感动。

铜乐队的负责老师也带来一小段的击鼓表演。振奋人心。全场欢呼。

我是在昨天才买票的。没有后悔这个最后一分钟的决定。

学生们的打扮真的很时髦。跟他们平时穿校服的样子有很大的分别。男孩子成熟稳重。女孩子高贵大方。

演出过后，和一些同事去爱琴海民歌餐厅。那里的歌手唱歌很好听！跟 “绝对超级星” 的参赛者有的比!

十一点十五分，餐厅打烊了。我们就回家了。

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i think right now my chinese sux big time. haha.

to think that during my sec sch days, i take higher chinese, and my higher chinese is always one of the best in the whole class.

right now i cant even write a decent 短篇文章. haiz.

friday post

first of all, today is my mum's and younger sister's birthday! yup they were born on the same day, 27 june! happy birthday to the both of them!

we went to this kopitiam near bedok interchange for zhi char, which was highly recommended by my younger sister. the food is all right, but not that impressive. i do love the asparagus with scallops. the scallops are damn fresh and got the very shiok 嚼劲 when you chew on them. the 咸蛋螃蟹 is another nice dish too.

after the dinner we went to ntuc for some grocery shopping, then headed back home to cut cake.

i have to endure darling's absence for one week, because she just flew off to thailand this morning for some pharmarcy overseas program. she will only be back next saturday. haiz i am missing her already.

but it may be a good thing that she is away, because nx week i have to host the indonesian pple, so its highly unlikely for me to spend time with darling, if she is in singapore.

the itinery is already out, and we will be going to typical places like night safari, vivocity, sentosa, esplanade, little india and singapore river. my VP also arranged for visits to tampines jc and nus. after going to nus, we will be going kent ridge park. hoho.

tomorrow night will be going to watch the sch's band concert. seriously speaking i got no interest for music, but just go there and show support.

good luck to all the kids in band, and put up a good perf for everyone!

and the final for euro 2008 is on monday morning! germany vs spain!

its going to be a great match! i hope spain will win. haha.

euro fever

for those who still dunno, one of soccer's greatest events, euro 2008, is on right now.

if you dunno, is either u dun have a bf/close friends/family members who watch soccer, or you stay on top of mount b-r-o-m-o, and 与世隔绝.

anyway, now is the semi finals. germany vs turkey, and russia vs spain. turkey and russia are the surprise packages.

turkey have the pure grit and determination in going forward to get a goal even in the dying seconds, and they really scored a goal in the last few seconds of the second half of extra time when playing against croatia.

russia is a team which have damn fit players. my colleagues who watched the match between holland vs russia, told me that at extra time, the holland players are already tired and walking, while the russian players are still running like mad. =p

as for germany and spain, they have always been soccer powernations.

some of the countries' jerseys are very nice, and after browsing through the soccernet online store, i very tempted to buy them!

Germany

Holland

Italy

Portugal

Spain

心痒痒，心痒痒~

weekend post

since the holidays are coming to an end, i have been going out quite alot for the weekend.

sat went to watch you dun mess with the zohan with darling. at first darling din want to watch, because she heard from her frens that it is a sexual humour movie. my darling is forever so pure and innocent. =p

but after some persuasion from me, we still went to watch. haha. got some scenes really quite gross, and darling told me she was covering her eyes and din want to watch. haha~

after that went to nus for dance practise. the practise starts at 730, but i reach at 840... was feeling damn guilty, and even more guilty when chio outdoor enthusiast boombasted me. that's why i din talk much during the whole practise, and just concentrate on doing all the lifts properly, because chio outdoor enthusiast is going to holland next week, and will be coming back six weeks later.

went to blk eighty-five again for supper with chio outdoor enthusiast and grace, and i had my usual dosage of bbq stingray and bbq chicken wings! yummy! and also very sinful!

today went to central mall to meet up with my army frens. we discussed about our year end trip, and finally decided to go hongkong & macau. i will also be going to taiwan with darling too! and my colleague is jioing me to go phillipines. haha. which means there will be lots of planning to be done, cos all these trips will be free and easy. i am now super looking forward to my year end holidays. and this also mean that there will be a big hole waiting to be burnt in my pocket.

tomorrow sch start le! having mixed feelings. haiz.

spain vs italy later! who do you think will win? i will pick spain, to win 2-1!

let's see whether my prediction is correct. =p

blue lobster

at first, my colleague deyang wanted to go to rochester park for dinner. rochester park has restaurants famous for their fine dining concept, which means food is damn expensive.

kk (another colleague of mine) thinks that it is too far, and he suggest going to frankel avenue (quite near kembangan) to eat goose liver! since all 3 of us nv eat goose liver before, so we agreed to go there.

the restaurant is really near to our workplace. it is just five min drive away. it is actually quite secluded, compared to happening areas like siglap and katong.

we love the ambience of the restaurant.

they have private dining rooms

open concept kitchen

and this is where we were seated

we ordered the goose liver. it is actually called FOIE GRAS. in french. haha. one plate cost 19 bucks for just one small piece.

it is damn nice! it taste very 肥, a bit similar to the 肥肉 of the kong bah, but this kind of 肥 is so much nicer, and the moment you place the foie gras inside your mouth, it melts. damn shiok.

3 of us only ordered one plate and share. when we turned our heads to the table beside us, there were 3 customers, and they ordered one plate of foie gras each. -_-'''

we also ordered a seafood platter and a live lobster spaghetti to share.

they got alot of other nice food too. let me show you the pics:

char grilled hokubee grain-fed beef sirloin

pan fried black cod with saffron sauce

seared sea scallops with prawns

peach gratin with mascarpone sabayon & lime surbet

dessert platter

the bill cost us 160 bucks, for the 3 dishes that we ordered.

a bit expensive, but i think for the wonderful ambience, and the great quality of the food, its worth it.

cannot everytime go, but its ok to go once in a while to 宠宠自己.

more pics from su-ra-ba-ya

these pics are from my VP's camera.

his camera also quite power.


in front of a mosque on the first day



on the way up to mount b-r-o-m-o



mount b-r-o-m-o resort. its damn cold at night!



on top of b-r-o-m-o



in front of some historical monument



at one of the shopping malls that we went to



at the stadium. we were there to watch some opening ceremony.



the entrance of the safari. try spotting me!



the lobby of the hotel



computer lab



staffroom



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they are coming to sg on 1st july. and my VP said i will be attached to them throughout their stay in sg. so i will become a babysitter/tour guide/liaison officer. haha.

back from camp

yoz everyone i am back!

i was telling everyone that i dread going for the camp, but the moment i step into the sch, i totally lost that dreaded feeling. its been about 3 weeks since i last went to sch, and i do feel a sense of belonging... i also dunno how to explain, but it is just purely happiness in my heart that i am back.

and then when i see my kids, and their sian faces, a great sense of responsibility came into me, telling me that i as a teacher, its my duty to make this camp fun for them and to make them feel more at home, so they wun feel that sian.

actually this camp is for the obese kids in my sch. throughout this 3 days 2 nights camp, we plan a strict exercise regime for them, together with a well-planned diet, hoping that they will shed a few kilos. at the end of the camp, if they are at their ideal weight, we will happily kick them out of the obese club, and they are definitely more happy than us to be kicked out.

during the first day of the camp, i was out for the whole afternoon, because i went to n_i_e for registration. saw quite alot of familiar faces. i saw pple from my chem major batch, i saw a few of my jc friends, and i even saw someone from reservist.

i also get to see my future course mates. alot of them look really sporty, and fit. and the way they talk, they walk, or the way they carry themselves, got an air of aura. they give pple the impression that they are very zai, or they are outstanding sports players, or some of them may even be from the national team. well, i shall see for myself wat kind of true calibre they have. you can play sports very well, doesnt mean you can teach well. even if you can teach well, you must control the class well. imagine at the start of the pe lesson, half of the class nv bring pe attire, and come out with silly excuses, wat will you do? imagine when you are leading the class for warm up, then suddenly, the group of boys behind start playing with one another, and then start fighting, wat will you do?

thanks to my one year of experience doing contract teaching, i had seen alot of worst-case scenarios, and i thankfully had survived through most of them.

when i went back to sch, its already dinner time. and there were a few casualty rates already. one of them was sick, and has to go home. another one got rashes all over his arms and legs. the last one, is a bit hard to handle. he is scared of staying overnight because he saw a ghost previously, which was in january. and he was crying like mad when he was describing to me wat happened and wat he saw. i myself had heard ghost stories about the sch. if you ask me whether do i believe in ghosts, my ans will be 宁可信其有，不可信其无. even after so much pacifying, he still refused to stay overnight, so bo bian lor, he will go back home to sleep. haiz.

seeing his behaviour also make me a bit scared of staying overnight. haha. but i still stayed anyway. me and another two colleagues went for supper at blk 85. its been dunno how many months since i went there to eat. we ordered chicken wings, carrot cake and bbq stingray. damn shiok. it was already one am when we finished our supper, and we slept at the office. nothing extraordinary happened. =p

ok lah, nothing much for me to talk about the camp. just that i think the kids are damn shag, because they have nv worked out so much in one whole day. but i think they enjoyed themselves. especially for the Amazing Race which is held at east coast park on the second day of the camp. i cycled alot and nearly got leg cramps. =p

btw east coast park got a damn nice place called bougainvilla park! its like a flower garden, with flowers of different nice colours! i will bring darling there one day!

food court musical

watch this! damn cool!



(thanks to ex-主席 for recommending this video)

imagine if we have one of these in one of our local food courts.

the title can become "can i have a tissue paper (or toilet paper) pls?"

haha.

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i am off to a camp for the next 3 days. damn sian.

feel even more sian when the holidays are going to end soon.

but looking at the bright side, i just need to endure one more month, before i go to heaven. well that's wat my colleagues say. staying here is hell. going there is heaven. =p

and i am happy to announce that i am sick no more! yesterday's dance practise and today's soccer session cured me!

random

time flies so fast... now is already the 3rd week of holidays. my june holidays have been burnt to the max.

first week is the su-ra-ba-ya trip. that i dun mind, cos i enjoyed myself.

then second week is reservist. that one is damn sian and damn low morale. some more i din get extra 200 bucks, cos my team short of 3 shots to get marksman.

this week still ok, can finally relax at home. but the most sian thing is i 偏偏 fall sick. funny rite, go su-ra-ba-ya and go reservist nv fall sick, slack at home can fall sick. this is so unfair.

and then next week, which is the last week of holidays, i have to go back to sch already. first 3 days i am involved in camp. thursday got staff meeting. friday dunno got any other extra things a not. haiz.

I DUN WANT MY HOLIDAYS TO END SO FAST!!! :(

next few months will be quite busy for me. my lessons at nie will start on 28 july. the week before that will be orientation. i thought that one can siam, but the letter says it is compulsory. hope that the orientation wun make us do stupid stuff like going around to cheer and play some dunno wat games. i think i am too old for all these already.

my chi dance performance is coming up also. its on 13th september. got two shows, one in the afternoon and one at night. must come support ok? i am in five items, if i remembered correctly. think this time will be more siong and tiring than the performance in march, cos i got more items, and i also got more challenging lifts. need alot of coordination and 默契 with my partners.

this means i will be rushing between ntu and nus already. crazy lifestyle. lessons in the day, practises at night. this is totally mad. haha. btw i have also applied to stay in hall in ntu.

i will miss my kids alot when i leave. i think they will miss me alot too. haha a bit bhb i noe. my wushu kids are going to throw a farewell party for me. so sweet of them. and i will miss my colleagues too.

ok that's all. very random and boring post. =p

animals from the safari

did you notice the animals have some sadness in their eyes?

although i enjoyed myself alot at the safari, but looking at these pictures, i really feel sorry for these animals. haiz.

its so ironic. animals make the safari nice, which make us pple enjoy the safari. but animals are not happy at all. send them back to their homeland? close down the safari? =(

breath-taking pics of mount b-r-o-m-o

one of my kids brought a damn power-pack camera for the trip, and the pics that she took are very nice! so when i praised her that her camera is very good, she told me is not the camera, is the skills of the photographer. -_-'''

do have a good look at the pics below. got very nice pics of the sunrise. :)

(the jeeps that took us to the top of the mountain from our hotel)

(the hotel that we stayed at. look more like a resort actually. the big guy in the middle is our VP)



(my kid claimed that the horse look sad. STOP ANIMAL ABUSE!)

the next photo post will be on the safari!