大年初一

putting the traumatising incident behind, i changed into my new year clothes and went to 拜年 with my family.

first i went to my grandparents' house. have a yummy lunch and played alot with my little cute cousins.

at night we went to straits kitchen at grand hyatt hotel for dinner. its a family gathering for the relatives of my mum's side. the food was wonderful! they have food of the four different races in singapore! i had satay and mutton curry from the muslim section; scallops, chilli crab, chicken rice, buddha jump over the wall from the chinese section; masala prawns and tandori chicken from the indian section; finally a generous amount of nonya kueh and cakes from the dessert section. eat until my stomach want to burst already.

i collected a total of 400+ bucks for hongbao money. the hongbaos that my parents, grandparents and uncles/aunties gave me i still got take. only my older cousins who are already married gave me hongbaos, i will politely refuse, cos i am now working and earning my own money. but they still insist in giving me, cos they say in their eyes i am still their little cousin. haha... =p

the next few days will be packed! tomorrow going to darling's house. sat going to fengyi's house for tcc (tank commander course) gathering. and then after that going to watch movie with darling. sun going to baozhen's house for jc class gathering. =)

i love cny!

friendster message from the ark

this morning, on the 初一 of cny, something shocked me.

i received a friendster message from the ark. btw the ark is wooden boat.

the message is in accordance to my "xqrj 2008" blog post.

the message goes like this:

hi!

Thx for ur feedback!

Terribly sorry if you felt bored.

Since you agreed that the Emcees are no good, you should understand why we have to promote during our performance slot, cos the Emcees did not help us announce our info clearly to the audience.

Furthermore, didn't Music Forest did more promotion the whole nite? They had so many items.

The "wooden boat" have supported XQRJ since their 1st year. Hope you can respect our efforts in promoting XQRJ as well as for "wooden boat". We are helping each other.

Regards.

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well, of course i do respect their efforts in promoting xqrj. and i do realise the importance of this 唇亡齿寒 relationship between xqrj and wooden boat.

but this is just my my honest feedback as a member of the audience, and i appreciate it that wooden boat respect my feedback.

anyway different pple will have different points of view. there will be others who had enjoyed the performance.

now the most scary thing is that how they noe i am the owner of my blog. this is indeed quite traumatising.

shopping with darling!

went to far east plaza and heeren.

darling bought two tops and i bought a shirt! :)

we had dinner at this newly opened korean restaurant at far east. it is called su restaurant if i remembered correctly. the food is good! but we ordered too much already. its actually a set menu for 2 pax, but i think 4 pple go and eat is confirm sufficient. darling and i eat until stomach want to burst already, but still left lots of food! so wasteful!

the appetizer dishes

ginseng chicken soup

bbq-ed chicken and bbq-ed pork collar! the veggies are for us to wrap the bbq meat inside, then dip into the sauce, and put the whole thing into our mouth! taste damn shiok!

fabulous spread of food. and still got one more dish haven come yet, which is the stone grill rice!

after ages of eating and eating... until we cant eat anymore.

and that's the amount of food left over.

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finally tomorrow is cny eve! lessons will end at 1030! haha shiok.

i will be performing wushu tomorrow leh! in front of my kids and colleagues! so exciting. hopefully wun have any cock ups. :p

xqrj 2008

if i want to blog every single detail of the above mentioned event, i am sure it will take the whole night. anyway those who were there had witnessed it for themselves.

seeing my darling cry so badly really pains my heart.

but there are some particular things that i really wish to say.

1, do not use the same emcees for next year. they really ruin the whole show.

2, do not get the wooden boat pple to sing too many songs. one song is ok. more than that is really making majority of the audience sick and tired. and bored. bored of their singing. and bored of the publicity they keep making.

3, i think that some of the seniors are quite irritating. every single cock up that happened, they will mock and joke about it. if my wushu juniors make mistakes during performances or my takraw juniors producing unforced errors during ihg matches, i will be very disappointed and put on a very grim face.

anyway the whole event is over. there is no need to point accusations at anyone. i think the most important thing is to rectify the mistakes that had been made, and make sure that these mistakes wun happen again in future xqrj performances.

kudos to darling and her team of x10s who make this production come true. its really not easy to organise such a major production, with so much money, sweat, tears and blood being used.

darling, even if the whole world crashes on you, i will be the first person to protect you, and let the whole world crash on me first. dun be too sad ok? i will always be there for you, and love you all i can.

to darling and the x10 pple, do have a good rest.

reservation of tickets for psyche

Updated information:

Dates: 7th March & 8th March 2008 (Fri and Sat)

Time: 7th March - 8 pm
8th March - 3 pm & 8 pm (2 performances)

Venue: UCC Dance Studio, NUS

Genre: Contemporary dance

Free admission

You may reserve a pair of tickets by sending an email to getpsyche@gmail.com, stating your name, contact number and your choice of performance date.
Alternatively, you may reserve tickets via this webpage.

psyche, 灵与舞的对话

NUS Chinese Dance is having our annual ExxonMobil Campus Concert titled “Psyche, 灵与舞的对话”.

Lost. Stressed. Unloved. Delusions. Illusions. Am I who I am?

艺术VS生活，物质VS精神，自由VS束缚，是对立还是共存？外在的压力与内心的挣扎，社会与家庭的撞击在每个人的心里渐渐发酵。。。

Through contemporary Chinese dance movements, our dancers explore psychological issues, stresses of life and conflicts of the mind, body and soul that plague our everyday lives.

Dates: 7th March & 8th March 2008 (Fri and Sat)

Time: 8 pm (No intermission)

Venue: UCC Dance Studio, NUS

Genre: Contemporary dance

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(everything copy and paste from zhengjie's blog. haha...)

only the last sentence is original, from me myself.

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Hope NOT to see you there~

haha no lah just kidding. darling of course will come and support me. some of my colleagues and kids may be coming to watch too. :)

monday post

i am feeling sick again. sianz.

yesterday went to jb with my army friends. we had stonegrill for lunch, and a sumptous seafood feast for dinner. i finally got the chance to try the 醉虾!

(pics taken from jingwen's album)

at night when we were going back, the human jam at the jb customs was TERRIBLE. the queue to take the bus to singapore checkpoint was super long. when the bus came, everyone will swarm to the bus, shouting, pushing and swearing at one another. ugly singaporeans and ugly malaysians.

so we decided not to be so unglam. and we walked across the causeway to singapore checkpoint. yes W-A-L-K. my first time walking on the causeway in my whole life. still ok lah, not that siong, take us about fifteen minutes.

why no tagboard

some of my friends have came to tell me to put up a tagboard on my blog.

but i dun want to, due to unpleasant experiences.

this is taken from one of my students' blog. and i agree TOTALLY with her.

Blogging is about recording your deepest thoughts and writing your soul. It's contents are birthed from the inner core of your emotion.

But it's hard to be honest with your opinions and emotions in blogs, because you know, that your friends who are related to the matter will be reading it, and it might end up wrecking the friendship you've built.

Not to mention that there will be this group of beings who thinks that they are some smart alecks, thus tagging nonsensical remarks and comments. They all have a common trait -- they prefer to remain anonymous. For some particular reason, they like to annoy the shit out the blogger, leaving the blogger no choice but to either rebut back, or to refrain him/herself from posting about their personal life.

Then again, it doesn't matter how nice or rotten you are, you'd still be treated apathetically anyway. Life's like that, and it goes to show that karma is some messed up theory made up by someone who couldn't get any.

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her ang mor is really pretty powerful for a sec 4 student. i think she can be good frens with my little sis.

anyway hope she doesnt mind that i put up her blog post into mine.

dun think she will read my blog (and i hope she nv do), but i must really thank her for writing such a beautiful post that say out my own feelings.

cheers to her. :)

over the years...

i've grown, to be a part of you...

you care for me, and open the way

to a happy and beautiful life

you make me feel warm and safe

and give me hope for brighter days...

its the LITTLE THINGS, that we share

the (blah blah blah) that's in the air

the children's LAUGHTER everywhere

and all our favourite things...

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anyway this is not to commemorate national day.

is to compare and contrast.

i present to you...

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ME

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IN YEAR 2005.

darling's reply: you are so thin!!!!! v v v v thin!!!!!!!

hahahahahahahaa...

finally, ME in 2007.

very different, yes? =p

le grand chef

synopsis (taken from the official website):

Based on a very popular Manga series with the same title which began in 2002 (more than 500,000 copies sold), Le Grand Chef tells an action packed story of two young chefs competing in a cooking contest. The reward is a cooking knife with a very prestigious and significant history attached to it. Brimming with thrilling set pieces, broad humor, mouth-watering food and a skillful interweaving of heartfelt back stories, the delectable Le Grand Chef was screened to a standing ovation at the recent 2007 Pusan Film Festival.

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when i read on the papers about this movie, i am sure that i am going to watch it. i am a food lover, and i love watching any movies, documentaries or variety shows that showcases delicacies from all over the world.

speaking about korean food, last saturday i went to this korean restaurant at united square with my army friends. unfortunately i din bring my camera, so cant take any pics. the food there is good! i highly recommend the ginseng chicken soup, kimchi pancake and 石锅饭.

but there are some pple who may not like korean cuisine, especially kimchi. we also ate kimchi, and i had diarrhoea. i went to the toilet 4 times in a short span of 30 min. maybe my stomach is not used to the sour-ness and spicy-ness of that korean specialty.

couldnt find any pics of the yummy food from the movie's official website, so i will just show some random pics that i have. :)

anybody onz for korean food makan session? :)

random

havent been blogging for the past five days...

the reason being that my activities are packed everyday to the brim.

after school, i have to travel all the way down to nus for dance practises. chinese dance concert is on 7th and 8th march, and we really have not much time left.

we have different locations in nus for our dance practises. sometimes we will go to CFA (Centre For the Arts), UCC and KEVII.

everytime when i go to KE for the dance practises, i will always bump into hanwei. and he remarked that i am very free, always see me around in hall. haiz i really beg to differ. all these travelling to and fro is making me very tired, and i fell sick, having to take mc on wednesday. :(

the good things that make dance practises bearable are the pple in chinese dance. they are really a bunch of fun loving pple, and i enjoyed their company. seriously speaking i dun love to dance, but its the pple that make me wanna go back and dance. the other good thing is that i can see darling. spending every moment with her is very precious to me, knowing that i am busy with my work, and she is busy with her studies as well as her xqrj stuff.

i am in 3 dance items. 2 dance items are choreo-ed by xiaoyun. the other one is choreo-ed by fen. xiaoyun's dance items are very challenging, where not only we have to dance, we also have to act alot, so expressions and body language are very important. in one item, i will have to lift a girl, who is 1.70 metres tall! and i am just 1.74 only! stressed man...

fen's dance is of a more peaceful kind, and there is four different kinds of feelings in the dance, which is 喜怒哀乐. there are eight pple in this dance, four guys four gals. so each couple will take one feeling. me and my partner, who is the chio outdoor enthusiast, jingwen, are the 怒 component. so we have to be angry with each other throughout the dance. haha.

anyway the dance is inside ucc dance studio, so seating capacity is very little, maybe about 100. those who are interested in getting tickets, let me know. admission is FREE.

only you~~~~~

pls turn up your speakers' volume to the max to listen to this cute song playing in my blog.

only you~
can make this world seem right~

oh, only you~
can make the darkness bright

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attended my cousin's wedding dinner at sheraton tower's hotel.

i embarassed myself at the entrance, where i congratulated the wrong person. i thought he was the one getting married, but apparently is his elder brother. so sia sway.

halfway throughout the wedding dinner, something scary happened.

one old lady had a heart attack, and fainted on the ground.

a ambulance was sent down to the hotel, and when the medical staff arrived, they had to do emergency cpr on her.

after quite some time, she was then lifted on a stretcher and carried away from the restaurant. hope she will be all right.

i think its also quite traumatising for the wedding couple to witness such an incident.

nobody will want someone to faint during your wedding dinner.

new year 2008 party

the party was organised by fen, for nus chinese dance. a few dancers from TAT (theatre arts troupe) came too.

there was a theme for this gathering. and it was japanese.

fen was so 细心. he went to decorate his house as japanese as he could. he even decorate the satay sticks (for taking food purposes) with jap flags and paper cranes.

i was thinking wat should i wear to suit the theme.

and i decided to go there naked and say that i am a japanese porn star. haha of course not lah.

so if you are curious and wanna noe how i am dressed, pls scroll down:

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ta da! i damn steady rite!

for those who dunno, i am dressed as a ninja from the naruto anime series. haha.

pple who nv watch naruto may think that i am dressed as a 变态杀手. that's wat sophia thinks.

and sophia was dressed really nice! she is just like a japanese hip hop girl found on the streets of tokyo or ginza.

there were two prizes to be won. best dressed and most creative.

sophia won the best dressed, and i won the most creative. =p

so let me tell you where i bought my stuff.

forehead protector is from action city. oakleys shades from capitol optical. the mask for the mouth is from my army days. brown sweater is from this clothes outlet in japan, which i forgot the name already.

if any of you wanna dress up as naruto can borrow the entire set from me.

overall the party was super fun, with great company, great food, and nice japanese costumes. hope to attend more parties of this kind in future.

if got a theme for me to choose, i will choose superheroes. haha!

then i will pour kerosene all over my body, light my body on fire, and become human torch from fantastic 4.

bye 2007, hello 2008

first, let me wish everyone a happy 2008.

and i also like to thank those pple who sent me the new year sms-es.

countdown for me was done at mount faber. me and darling went to this restaurant called marina deck. the restaurant is in the shape of a ship. yes no joking.

at least it really is a ship from the picture in the newspaper advertisement. when i told darling about it, she gave me a very bimbotic ans, but the ans actually make sense.

"dear ah, i thought mount faber is a hill? if the restaurant is a ship, wat isit doing on top of a hill?"

if you still cannot understand, it literally means that how does the ship arrive at the hill top in the first place.

ok lah, show you all the pictures to let you all have a better idea.

we had ala carte steamboat buffet. eat until super full. the restaurant also serve ala carte seafood dishes. if you are going to the restaurant, do check out this interesting waitress called jenny. she is a trannie. but i nv took a pic with her.

initially we thought of taking cable car from harbour front to mount faber. but the cable car services had been terminated, thanks to this super rich bloke who is having a private party at this restaurant called jewel box, which is just beside the mount faber cable car terminal.

so bo bian we took taxi from harbour front. and it took us in a super short time to reach there! at night when we were walking down to the foot of mount faber, we realised its very near harbour front. walk down is still ok lah, but walking up is quite siong.

anyway, thanks to the rich bloke, we were able to see fireworks at mount faber. the fireworks were really so close to us! we thought of going to esplanade to catch the fireworks, but one waitress told us that actually can see fireworks at mount faber, and she even told us where's the best place to view them.

31st dec 2008 me and darling will like to go mount faber again. but we will jog there instead. anybody wanna join us?

amazing race asia season 2

i have been watching the above mentioned only very recently.

the first time i watched it was in @ease hotel in sabah. and i fell in love with the show.
this show gave me a more homely feeling, compared to the western version of amazing race. first, the host is allan wu, the singapore mediacorp actor. second, the contestants are asians, and the english that they spoke got the locality flavour. thirdly, the places that they went are singapore, japan, korea, and other countries in asia. i had been to some of these countries, so its quite exciting and interesting to see them compete in these places.

lastly, the added bonus.

this contestant from thailand, who is a famous celebrity. she is also a supermodel.

the most wonderful thing is that she put away her superstar status, become a normal girl, and put in her best in the competition. her pleasant personality, plus the determination and fighting spirit that she showed really amazes me.

i introduce to you, paula taylor.






there are also a few hot guys in the show. got this pair of gym buddies from singapore called adrian and collin, who always wear singlets throughout the competition to show off their muscles. another pair will be marc and rovilson, who are best buddies from phillipines.

but i will still watch paula taylor. haha.

magic~

since i was rotting at home today, i was able to watch some really cool magic tricks performed by this handsome guy called cyril takayama.

you will be amazed, trust me. :)

head magic, where he take off his head.




hamburger trick




glass magic




floating chopsticks




cake magic (got cute jap gals)