dedicating this to ah sen hok fen

happy 29th birthday!!!

happy birthday to mum and sis

birthday lunch was at mariott hotel. cos my mum work there, and so she got staff discount if she go to the buffet restaurant on her birthday. the food was great! i having high cholesterol because i ate countless lobsters, crayfish, scallops, prawns, crabs and salmon. hahaha.


darling went back home together with me, and we tried our academic gowns!

haiz time flies. darling graduated from nus. i graduated from nie. and tomorrow is my first day of work. i am excited! cant wait to see my students, and also get to know my new form class better! :)

best goalkeeper

the singapore handball challenge cup 2010 has concluded. i am both happy and proud to announce that i am voted the best male goalkeeper in the tournament. :)

thanks to those who voted for me!

friday post

today went back to sch for staff meeting, and also took staff photos. i got a new laptop, really brand new, the casing of the laptop is shiny, even the plastic wrapping of the mouse haven remove yet. woo hoo!


some of my colleagues (including the chinese teachers from china) asked me how was shanghai, and i told them everything that i had experienced, and they all laughed, agreeing with me totally. one of them told me,"其实上海的文明人是不会去世博会的。他们根本不会想要去跟别人挤。"


ok let me continue blogging about my trip. so i am finished with shanghai. actually we also went to other places in shanghai lah, but there is nothing much to blog about. we went to this touristy shopping place, which has a famous xiao long bao restaurant, which the _______ is very very long (the word in the blank starts with the letter Q). we also went to another shopping district, which has a few buildings selling clothes at a very cheap price, but i din get anything from there, even fen the shopping king only got one tshirt. we also went to 新天地, which is a very popular night spot, with all the pubs and discos. jiepei treated us drinks at one of the pubs, and hw likes this particular manager who is quite pretty. hahahaha.


now let's go on to shenzhen. on the 15th we left our hotel at 0645 because our internal flight to shenzhen is at 0830. but once we reach there, we check in our luggage, went inside the departure transit area, reach our boarding gate, we were then told the flight is postponed to 1030 am. WASSUP!!! we could have slept more hours lor. sian one half. one more bad incident to remember. :(


ok i am going to introduce my hotel at shenzhen, which is called days hotel luohu. very convenient location because is walking distance to mrt, and also near shopping centres, spas and RED LIGHT DISTRICT. honestly we did go to the red light district for a walk, because in the first place we din noe that was the red light district. in fact the place is called 罗湖村. then hw says he want to go there walk walk so we ok lor we go walk together. then at the entrance one aunty came up to us and ask,"要不要叫小妹啊?"


siao liao lor confirm is red light district. true enough, as we walk, we saw many prostitutes sitting outside the "shops". and out of 20 prostitutes, only 1 is can make it, the rest is cannot make it. and then as we walk, the aunty keep following us. very very persistent, very very irritating.


sorry i got too carried away with the red light district. let's carry on with the hotel room. here's the room:

it looks quite big, cos is superior deluxe.


and here's the toilet:

how come there are 2 shower heads inside the cubicle?




scroll down for the ans:


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(honestly i hope my colleagues and my students wun come across my blog)




ok the last pic of all... our bathroom door is TRANSLUCENT!

GUESS WHO IS THE PERSON AND WHAT IS HE DOING! hahahaha~

to remind us why david beckham is so well-loved by man united

 

shanghai food

after much complaints about the world expo, let us take a break from these complaints by showing the nice food that we ate at shanghai.


dinner at a hk cafe after leaving the dreaded world expo. we were all tired, hungry and lethargic. we have orh chehs around our body, because the locals love to push pple away using their elbows. if you want to try that i can demo it to you. i thought sg was jia lat but shanghai is gam phua jia lat. in sg pple at most try to squeeze their way through into crowded trains. locals squeeze through with their elbows hitting left and right at any person who block their way. same case for travelling on escalators. BETTER CITY BETTER LIFE??!!


ok sorry i got carried away. let's continue with the food. anyway the hk cafe is the most atas hk cafe i have ever been to. here's the food that we ate:

deep fried cod fish filet

mayonise prawns


actually we got order other food such as tofu, porridge and vege, but din take pics.


the desserts:

forgot their names. hahahahaha.




next, dinner at this restaurant called 我家餐厅. very nice food with very strong flavours. strong flavours mean food that are meant to be salty are very salty, oily is really very oily.

我家沙拉

我家鸡翅

糖醋黄鱼

走油肉




brunch on our second last day at shanghai, in another hongkong cafe which is located near our hotel.

finally, our last night at shanghai, we wanted to end the night with a bang by having an awesome dinner. so we went to 上海老站. class restaurant, exquisite food, but horrendous service. :(

all right that's about it.


hope that these food make amends for the unpleasant experiences i had at shanghai.

taking a dig at the north korea soccer team

ang hw you must watch this. super funny. i laugh until my stomach got cramps.

tuesday post

yesterday i went to ITE College East for a handball match against Team Aaron. Team Aaron consists of alumni from kent ridge hall.

the score: Team Aaron 27 - BHCC 21


BHCC stands for Braddell Heights Community Centre. There is a girls' team and guys' team, and the guys' team consists of mainly KEVII players. let me introduce one of them. 


this is wuhong, the 拼命三郎 of the team. fly here and there, fall down here and there like no one's business.

nice lying pose. haha.


after graduating from nie, i thought i would have no chance to play handball. thank goodness i am still able to continue playing competitively for BHCC. hope that this team is able to soar to greater heights!


oh yah, i got a piece of good news to share with everyone!


remember that i went for a dance audition a few weeks ago at CCAB? i passed the audition and got selected to be one of the dancers for Teachers' Conference! in fact there are only 10 dancers being chosen, and out of the 10, 4 are guys. 


let me share the theme of the conference. nope its not BETTER CITY BETTER LIFE??!! also not BETTER TEACHERS BETTER STUDENTS??!! how can singapore educators be so shallow rite?


without further ado, here is the theme:


DEEPENING PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE: TEACHERS AS LEARNERS, TEACHERS AS LEADERS


very boomz, yes?

better city better life??!!

if singaporeans' favourite pastime is queuing, then the prcs' favourite pastime is queuing and SQUEEZING.

this was at the entrance to the expo. we reach there at 830 am and was shocked to see the huge amount of people. the expo is only open at 9 am.

and this is the squeezing part. these pple cant afford to give any breathing space for the person in front of them. somehow they have this mentality that the more they squeeze the pple in front, the queue will move faster. 


actually we went to the expo at the wrong time. because they have this 端午节 super long weekend holiday, from 12th june (sat) all the way until the day of 端午节 (16th june wed). we were in shanghai from 11th june to 15th june. so everywhere was packed with pple. expo packed with pple. 外滩 packed with pple. shopping centres packed with pple. restaurants packed with pple. every single tourist attraction packed with pple. it is like every prc from every part of china come to shanghai during this super long weeekend holiday. 


ok let's continue with the expo tour. 

the expo has water coolers every where for pple to fill their water bottles or drink water. but later on, i see pple washing their hands at the water cooler. and then hw said he wun be surprised when he see pple carry their babies to pee at the water cooler.


the most popular pavilion in this world expo is the saudi arabia pavilion. because they have too much black oil and thus too much money, they invest alot in their pavilion. heard that they got 3D movie screening inside the pavilion. so guess how many hours we need to queue to get inside the pavilion? scroll down for the ans:




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this only shows part of the queue

yup you got it! 9 freaking hours! totally absurd.


now let me introduce the pavilions.


first the countries from ASIA!!! 

even the singapore pavilion queue is so long! so we din bother to queue and go in, cos we heard that singapore pavilion nothing much to see.


next, the countries from EUROPE!!!

since every single pavilion has a long queue, we were totally turned off. nzj wanted to go for 3 days, but looking at the crowd and other unpleasant things, he decided not to. 1 day is enough for all of us.


so if you guys are wondering what are the pavilions we went into, we only went into two countries' pavilions. one country is laos, which we queued for about 30 minutes, and the pavilion really has nothing much to see.


the other pavilion is the switzerland pavilion. we queued for 3 hours!!! so while queuing we played charades and pple were looking at us and were also entertained by us. during the queuing there were some unpleasant incidents like pple fighting, pple squeezing with us left, right, centre. squeeze to the extent that nzj can feel a guy's penis poking his butt. some pple also tried to jump queue by climbing across the fence and they kenna whacked. got one auntie even more power, claimed that her child got lost and squeeze her way to the front to look for her child, and she found her child, and she is at the front of the queue! honestly we dunno whether the missing of her child is genuine or not. 

the freaking long queue at switzerland pavilion.

yes we are finally inside the switzerland pavilion! xiaoyun said that she want to place a singapore flag at the top of the pavilion because it was a great sense of achievement to go through the 3 hours of queuing ordeal.


while we are inside the pavilion, the queue outside is still freaking long:

some ride thingy inside the switzerland pavilion. honestly the switzerland pavilion does not have any amazing stuff. it only looks nice on the outside.


and we concluded the end of the world expo tour with a buggy ride, which cost us 10 yuan each.

yes, the theme for this world expo is BETTER CITY, BETTER LIFE.


but seeing the behavior of the locals, the theme may need some modification. honestly the 7 of us were quite disappointed with this world expo tour. it could have been better if there is one day per week which is allocated to foreigner tourists, but god knows whether it is possible for that to happen.


let's hope the better city better life??!! will really become BETTER CITY BETTER LIFE.

new harbour service apartment

yoz my dear readers! i am back in sg! din have a chance to blog while i was overseas because i was simply too tired. we will go out in the morning, spend one whole day outside, then come back at night. but the most important reason that prevented me from blogging is china banned blogger.com so i cant blog at all when i was in shanghai and shenzhen.


i will just do a very short post for today because now is already 2 am and i am quite tired. dunno whether should i stay up to watch brazil vs ivory coast.


on day 0, which is friday 11th june, hanwei and i took the SQ flight to shanghai. at the departure hall we were filling up the china 入境表格, and we saw this:

the chinese treat all foreigners as ALIENS. wassup. maybe they call themselves the PREDATORS, so once aliens arrived at their country, there will be free movie screening of ALIENS vs PREDATORS everyday. ok nvm not funny.




and now let me show you the expensive new harbour service apartment. our apartment has a kitchen, a very huge dining table, a living room which has a tv that broadcasts world cup, a master bedroom with one toilet, another bedroom which also has a tv that also broadcasts world cup, a single bedroom, and one more toilet.

we can get hot water and cold water from the dispenser! how convenient!

dining table is behind me

the huge living room

the master bedroom, occupied by me and hw. dun ask me wat is hw doing. haha.

bedroom with tv, occupied by fen and nzj. fen always watch his french channel on the tv to brush up his french because he has not spoken it for a very long time.


(no pic of single bedroom, which is occupied by michael. sorry!)

the toilets provide these. very class rite?


another good thing about the apartment is that there is a bbq stall nearby, which is opened until very late at night. the food is damn yummy! 

we had that for supper on day 1 and day 3. hahahaha~


and the food is very cheap! 3 scallops cost 10 yuan, which is around 2 sing dollars! the 4 sticks of mutton satay also cost 10 yuan!


ok stay tuned for the next post, which is on the world expo.


the theme for world expo is BETTER CITY, BETTER LIFE.


but to us, we felt that it should be BETTER CITY BETTER LIFE??!!


you will know why when you read the next post.