monday post

the 3 items that i will be dancing at mauritius are:

1) winter solstice 冬天来了

but this time my partner is not chio outdoor enthusiast. my new partner is zengyan, who is just as flexible as chio outdoor enthusiast, can do all those crazy leg work, kick here kick there like no one's business.

2) 我的家园

the immortalised dance steps. i danced this item 2 years ago at dance reflections 07, danced it again for buddha tooth temple for a vesak day event, and finally during dance reflections 08 concert. i thought DR08 will be my last time dancing this item, but who noes i am dancing it yet again. and some of the dancers performed this item 16 times when they were in korea. so everytime when we are practising this item, and it comes to the 大四排, everyone will just dance and laugh loudly at the same time. i think only the nuscd dancers can understand our feelings. hahahahaha.

3) 极

this item was choreo-ed by zhou laoshi, and is choreo-ed based on the essence of taichi. so because of my wushu background, fen and nzj strongly recommends me to do this item. but to learn this new item in less than one week is definitely stressing me out!!! *pulling my hair*

all rite i am going to sleep now. feeling a bit drowsy because i had taken the flu medicine given to me by darling. hope that i can recover fully tmr.

sunday post

due to the last min approval of the mauritius trip, everything suddenly becomes so rush and so packed.

i have dance practises yesterday, today, tuesday and thursday. saturday we are flying off! btw i am dancing in 3 items. 2 items i danced before already, so its still ok. but i am learning one new item, and i only got less than one week to learn finish that item, so its pretty stressful. :(

in addition, i also have practises for the sept performance on wed and friday. so besides monday, i will be dancing everyday for the whole of next week!

ok, wish me luck, hope i will survive for the next two weeks. although now i am having sore throat and flu. :(

for darling

going to mauritius!

this is a bit random and unexpected, but i am going to mauritius to perform! will be going from 5th sept to 12th sept!

actually i sent in my leave application on 30th july to the institute. but one week later the institute told me that my leave was not approved. so i sian ji bua already, and decided not to do anything abt it. and then another week later, fen ask me whether can appeal. so i appealed on 20th august. and i waited waited until yesterday, still got no news, so i thought my appeal has failed.

AND THEN!!! this afternoon at around two pm when i was taking my nap the institute called me saying my appeal has been approved. but only institute approve, still have to wait for the ministry to approve. i already quite sian ji bua, cos if institute take 7 days to approve, if the ministry also take 7 days to approve, then its already a bit too late. so i told the lady from the institute that i decided not to go, then the lady scolded me that she did so much shit for me and yet i still give up at this point of time, and tell me to call another lady from the ministry to rush the final approval.

so i called the lady from the ministry and told her my concerns. she is super nice and she asked me lots of questions so that she can get more details. she even asked xue hong to call her. and so, at 4 pm, she called me, and told me that my application has been APPROVED!!! wow i cant believe it man.

birthdays!

i happen to know 3 pple who share the same birthday on 27th august.

one of them is yiehui, whom i first get to noe her in nus wushu, and later on she played a part in pulling me into kevii, and the rest is history. my life has changed alot ever since i went into kevii. at kevii i learnt how to play takraw, play handball, started dancing, befriended a bunch of awesome pple, coming across bloody bastards and bitches which make me realise that the world must always strike a balance because its impossible to have only good pple to exist in this world, and most importantly, i met darling. :) anyway yiehui is now a doctor, so next time if i wanna chao geng i can go get MC from her. hahahahaha.

the second one is james, my pe classmate. he is many years older than most of us, because this is his mid-career switch. very very nice chap, always giving me advice on relationship and marriage matters.

so today we celebrated his birthday at the swimming pool.

and then he perform a diving stunt with jack, which i use my camera to take high-burst shots, another cool function which i just discovered!!! wah hahahaha.

the third person is none other than my dear father. without him, i wun be here at all. although he is the 沉默寡言 type, and seldom speaks to me, but from his actions i can tell that he loves me alot. *tears welling up in my eyes now*

so i decided to bring him to eat jap food, cos i noe he like to eat jap food, and he loved watching the japan food documentaries on channelnews asia. therefore i chose the most authentic jap restaurant that serves ala carte buffet, and that restaurant is none other than kuishinbo!!!

i must say the food is really awesome. if you have a chance to eat there, you must definitely go and whack the crab legs! they are so huge, so long, so fresh, and so sweet!!!

and they have all kinds of jap food. so you will definitely be spoilt for choice. they even have teppanyaki, and i think is the second most popular food after the crab legs. the chef at the teppanyaki station have numerous plates of orders and he bbq the meat non-stop, dun even get the chance to rest. feel so ke lian for him.

once in a while you can hear a very loud ringing of the bell. THIS SIGNALS THAT GOT SOME SPECIAL FOOD IS BEING SERVED. then you can see a wave of kiasu singaporeans rushing to the source of the bell to queue up to take the special food. the special food is prepared in limited quantities, so only the first 20 to 30 pple in the queue can get.

i was very lucky because our table was very near to the bell, so i am the 3rd person in the queue!!! hahahaha. at first i thought they will serve lobsters or scallops, but to my disappointment, it is...

but still ok lah. the prawns are big and juicy, and the cheese with codfish roe on top of the prawns taste damn heavenly!!!

they also have a wide range of desserts. got doriyaki (the one doraemon likes to eat), mochi, fruit tarts, cakes, and even got chocolate fondue!

price per pax is 35.90++ on mondays to thursdays. the whole bill cost me 207.50, so its about 42 dollars per pax. and my younger sis volunteered to contribute 100 bucks. hoho.

more pics of my lovely family:

everyone is good looking, yes?

cut the cake when we reached home. my little sis bought a tiramisu cake from bakerzin. the cake tastes wonderful! the whole cake just melt in your mouth which will make you get addicted very easily and you will keep eating and eating.

my younger sis bought a levi's belt and polo tee for my father, while i bought a set of new balance sports apparel, cos i got 40 percent discount at new balance outlets. hahahahaha.

the wonders of my panasonic digi cam

i just discovered a special function of my camera. the camera can make us look more slim, or more FAT.

so let me give an example.

normal darling:

slimmer darling:

"fatter" darling:

(women dun mind being called slim. but they will mind being called fat, or worse still FATTER. hence the inverted commas)

and here's a slimmer me:

a fatter me:

(i dun mind being called fat, or even fatter. hahahahaha)

anyway these pics are taken at Ministry of Food at suntec city. the jap desserts that they have are damn good.

you must try the macha ice cream with fried sweet potato and yam. the sweet potato and yam are fried to a perfect crisp. then you eat one small piece of the hanzhi/yam, together with the macha ice cream and red bean, OMG, is super heavenly. you will noe it once u try it.

dance practise

pro photographer came down to take pictures of our practise. and he just uploaded them on facebook. i must say he is very very fast.

(laoshi checking out the girls' costume)


(my leg nv kick high enough haha)

(i think this pic is quite funny. from shortest to tallest)

(the finale pose! try spotting me!)

finally choreography has finished. we have two more sessions before the first preview, which is next saturday! quite stressful, because got not much time left. and i must say that this dance is at least 5 times more shag than DR07.

now is already 110 am! going to sleep. tomorrow is my last day of tuition. hahahahaha. yes lah!

volleyball

this evening my pe classmate (who also happens to be one of my taiwan travel buddies) KC jio-ed me to hougang sports hall to watch a volleyball tournament, because his fiancee happens to be playing, and there are alot of very strong teams with strong players.

so i agreed, thinking that i can see female volleyball players with big boobs, long legs, chio faces, wearing their tights and figure-hugging jerseys. and i must clarify that i am definitely not looking at KC's fiancee.

but anyway, i did see the long legs, and a few chio faces, but no big boobs. i also saw females who can jump as high as their male counterparts, spike the ball as hard as their male counterparts, which make me feel damn traumatised at how powerful these female players are. oh i also caught a glimpse of the women national team players, and i must say the player wearing jersey no. 4 is quite attractive.

so its quite an eye-opener. it made me realise sg is full of hidden sports talents, but at the same time although we have so many sports talents, we will nv be able to compete with the athletes from land of contaminated milk or land of hollywood.

and i think its hard for pro volleyball players to have big boobs, because it will restrict their movement or jumping abilty. and its the same thing for gymnasts and ballet dancers.

only models and celebrities can have big boobs. and they need the big boobs to be more famous. so let me show you one model that have the biggest boobs in the world. if you noe someone else who has bigger boobs, do let me noe.

and this is a 欠扁问答题.

which animal has the biggest boobs??!!

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Z Bra !!!

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lastly, i will like to share a blog with everyone, which is damn hilarious:

http://taxidiary.blogspot.com/

happy reading!!! (or happy viewing the pics on top)

army half marathon 2009

woke up at 340 am. ate banana nut crunch with milk for my breakfast. went to toilet to shit, get changed and quickly went downstairs to wait for my friend to come and pick me up.

started to run at 530 am. the pace was good. me and my friend ran at 6 minutes per km. but at 7 plus km, which was at east coast park, i lost him because he went to shit. and so i was on my own throughout the rest of the race. :(

at 18 km my legs start to gave away. had severe cramps at my thighs. and after that at my calves. cant even run. i dun even dare to stop to stretch. so i just walk the remaining 3 km, and finished the whole 21 km in 2 hours 12 minutes 20 seconds. my legs were cramping so bad that at the last 20 metres i wanna make a dash to the finishing line to mark a grand finale but the moment i open up my legs i feel a sharp pain and have to walk again. haiz so 遗憾. i am going to run again next year!!! and i am going to train hard so that i wun have cramps for the last 3 km!

the morale-boosting performances throughout the run was not bad! got pple dress up as transformers which i think is quite comical. some runners even stop running to take pictures with them. AND THERE IS A SMALL GROUP OF CHIO SEXY BELLY DANCERS. they are at the 19 km mark. i was already having cramps, so this give me sufficient reason to walk slowly and watch their performance. hahahahaha.

and at the 20 km mark, one uncle jog past me and encourage me to persevere on and even ask me to follow him and finish the run with him. i was so touched and asked him to go ahead cos i seriously cant run anymore.

collected my finisher's medal and went to the big grass area to look for leow chee leong and my pe classmates. but the first person i saw was MAJ Joshua. so we catch up a bit and shortly later mr leow found me. and its a good thing that he found me, cos he can be my cameraman!!! hahahaha. this kind of occasion of course must take picture.

we walked to bugis to have a celebration meal. as it was still quite early, most of the restaurants were still not open. dun feel like eating mac or bk or kfc breakfast. so we went to swenson for pancakes. yes i noe not much difference. haha. except the price is a bit more expensive.

lastly, let me present to you again, my number tag and finisher medal for AHM 2009:

the importance of first aid

this morning i went to east coast park with two of my pe friends to help out in a competitive run organised by the ministry. my role was as a time-keeper. speaking of which, i will be running 21 km tomorrow morning. although i am in the men's open competitive category, but i am definitely not running competitively. i just hope to complete the run in less than 2 hours 10 minutes. the last time i ran 21 km was in 2003, which was 6 years ago! wow.

anyway, once we finished our duties in helping out, we went to eat breakfast at the bedok interchange hawker centre. we started talking cock, and dunno how we reached the topic of outdoor camps.

one of the pe friends is already a teacher, let us call him CH, and he is two years my senior. so he was sharing with us his experience. he and his batch of pe classmates went to mount ophir for their camp. on the last day of the camp, a big tree got rooted from the ground as a result of the strong wind, and fell on one of the tents, crushing one of the trainee's head, and he died.

during that time, CH's tent was actually pitched straight in front of that tree. the tree fell diagonally and landed on the victim's tent. inside the tent, there were 3 trainees, and the victim happened to be sleeping in the middle, and the tree fell directly on him, so the other two trainees escaped unscathed.

at that time, the weather was very bad. it was 4 plus am. raining heavily. strong winds howling. immediately everyone got up and they removed the tree trunk away. CH happened to be a saf medic, and there were two more trainees in his group were also medics. so they quickly applied CPR on the victim.

the victim still remained unconscious. they decided to evacuate him to the foot of the mountain. but the thing is there was no proper medical evacuation route. there was no heli evacuation. there was no stretcher. therefore CH and the rest of the trainees have to build a makeshift stretcher, and all of them take turns to stretcher him down the mountain. the victim's weight was 90 kg. on the way down the mountain, they keep applying CPR on the victim. 4 hours later, they finally reached the foot of the mountain. and the victim was dead.

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after that incident, there were no more overseas camps for the future pe trainees.

so the purpose of writing the above incident is to let everyone know the importance of first aid. the first few minutes in a life-threatening situation are vital. how you respond to the emergency is extremely important in helping the victim to recover and in preventing permanent disability. i attended a first aid course in march, but i am guilty enough to admit that i forgot 50 percent of what i had learnt.

upon hearing CH's story, i feel ashamed. i am in deep admiration of his readiness and situation awareness in applying CPR to the victim when the tragedy occurred. but let's say if i am with a class of students, and something tragedic happens (touch wood), will i be able to react accordingly and applied whatever i learnt to save a person's life?

therefore i am now reading my first aid handbook that was given to me during the first aid course. i need to brush up my knowledge on first aid. who knows next time when something happened, and i am the only certified first aider around, and it is up to me to save a person's life.

so right now, i am going to share with everyone on what is CPR.

CPR stands for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation.

Cardio refers to he heart and pumonary refers to the lungs.

CPR is the process of circulating oxygenated blood to the brain, heart and other vital organs of a person who is unable to perform this for himself. Without this oxygenated blood a person will die.

CPR involves blowing air into a person's lungs by mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to get oxygen to the brain, and pushing on their chest to pump their heart to maintain circulation.

You can only perform CPR on someone who has had a cardiac arrest.

A person who has had a cardiac arrest will be:
- Unconscious and showing no signs of life
- Not breathing


WHAT TO DO DURING CPR:

1. Check for Dangers
- Find out if scene is safe
- What happened?
- How many casualties?
- Anyone who can help
- Identify yourself as a first aider, "I am a first aider, I am here to help".

2. Check responsiveness.
- Tap his shoulder. "HELLO! HELLO! Are you OK?"
- If no response, give a trapezius squeeze
- Still no response, shout to someone, "YOU! Call 995 and get back to me!"

3. Check airway
- Check neck for injury
- If no neck injury, do a head tilt chin lift
- Check mouth for obstrution

4. Assess breathing by putting your ear above his nose/mouth region
- If no breathing, give 2 blows, each blow lasting one second

5. Check for pulse. If no pulse, start CPR
- locate ribs cage with index and middle finger
- run the two fingers until the tip of sternum
- place the heel of the other hand next to the index finger
- interlock your hands
- compress 30 compressions, follwed by 2 blows
(count: 1&2&3&4&5&1&2&3&4&10&1&2&3&4&15 ... all the way
until 1&2&3&4&30!)
- repeat for 5 cycles

6. Check pulse. If pulse present, check for breathing. If pulse not present, perform CPR again.

7. Assess breathing. If no breathing, perform RESCUE BREATHING.
- Blow; count 2 a-thousand, 3 a-thousand, 4 a-thousand, 5 a-thousand; Blow
(do this for 12 times)

8. Check pulse. If pulse present, check breathing.

9. Check breathing, if breathing present, conduct a rapid body survey.

10. Conduct rapid body survey.

11. If no visible injury, place victim into recovery position.

12. Monitor vital signs.

13. Reassure victims at all times.

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These are the conditions in which a first aider may stop CPR:

- victim regains pulse and breathing
- you are replaced by another trained rescuer or paramedic
- a physician tells you to stop
- you are too exhausted to continue
- the scene becomes unsafe for you to continue

gi joe!

went to vivo to watch gi joe with darling.

very nice action packed movie, with super cool characters, and my favourite character has to be snake eyes! the way he use his samurai sword to kill pple is simply so 帅!

(gi joe cooperate with transformers?! wow that is so damn cool!!!)

here's a biography of snake eyes taken from the IGN Entertainment website:

Bad guys wear black, according to the old saying, but GI Joe has it the other way around. Snake Eyes, the black-clad ninja commando of the GI Joe team, is (usually) on the side of truth, justice, and the American way, while his nemesis Storm Shadow (the one in white) works for Cobra.

Underneath the black costume and eyeless visor, he’s actually an American, a veteran of the Vietnam war. He and the man who would later become Storm Shadow served in the same elite reconnaissance unit, and later traveled together to Japan, where they were inducted into the Arashikage ninja clan.

There, they grew apart – while Snake Eyes resisted the temptation to become a hardened killer, Storm Shadow honed his assassination skills in every way possible. He eventually betrayed the group’s leaders, abandoning the Arashikage to sell his skills to the rising Cobra terrorist army. In the wake of his betrayal, Snake Eyes returned to America and lived in seclusion for several years (with no company except for his faithful wolf Timber) until General Hawk, an old comrade from his days in Vietnam, tracked him down to recruit him into GI Joe.

He’s adept with any number of weapons or none at all, having been trained in many unarmed fighting systems. Typically he favors a long Japanese sword, or compact, concealable machine pistols. While he doesn’t suffer from any physical speech impediment, he is almost completely mute by choice, and never reveals his face if he can help it.

In the 2009 GI Joe movie, Snake Eyes is played by Ray Park, who dons a faceless black costume very similar to earlier incarnations of the character. As before, he’s a former member of the Arashikage ninja group, and he shares a past with Cobra operative Storm Shadow.

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here's something random.

mr foo shin, you have your own football club!

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wassup man. hahahahaha.

i have a mask!

today i went to darling's house, and she help me put on a facial mask. haha.

darling said i look like a thief who is going to rob a jewellery shop. but i think i just rob a mama shop will do.

after removing the mask, my face feels so refreshed, and so smooth. very shiok! so for guys, do put on your facial mask now!

best national geographic pictures

my hall friend colin sent me an email with the best national geographic pictures. these pictures are really amazing! so i shall share some of them with you all.

very nice, yes?