少年四大名捕

i am hooked on this hk drama.

it is now showing on scv channel 55, but i am too impatient to wait for each day to watch just one hour of the drama, so i chose to watch on tudou and yesterday i finally watched finish the last episode at 4 am!!! this is crazy as i have a soccer game today at 830 am. hahaha.

introducing the 4 main characters of the show:

林峰 as 无情

马国明 as 铁手

陈键锋 as 追命

吴卓羲 as 冷血

i really love their costumes!

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this afternoon i went to bed_k s_ _th sec sch for the boys and girls final of the inaugural handball inter-sch competition. (the founder of sg) jc won the champion for both the boys and girls final.

at the end of the competition was the prize-giving ceremony for the schools, and also the prize-giving ceremony for sg handball league, and i received the participation plaque on behalf of NTU.

anyway i want to show this clip! there was a game during the half-time of the boys final, and you must stand from the penalty line and shoot at the sepak takraw ball. you have two tries, and if u hit it once, you get a tshirt, hit it twice you win a handball! so my nie handball friends kok kwang and shin went to have a go. haha.

btw i have volunteered to help out in the yog handball. we have different roles and we can choose them. so my first choice is boarding and lodging manager. i will be staying together with all the overseas athletes at the hotel and take care of their daily needs, or should i say, i am their BABYSITTER.

so in the middle of the night if they are hungry, i must find supper for them. room service is expensive, so i will call macdonald. if they got no money to pay, then i will give them cup noodles. and i was warned that some of the athletes will take this chance to run away from the hotel and explore sg because to them this is a PATHWAY TO FREEDOM, where they finally escape from the evil clutches of their parents and can do watever they want. so i must watch out for these pple and look after their safety. hahahahaha this is so fun.

and my second choice is the liaison officer. liaison officer is attached to an overseas team and attend to the team's needs, be it admin or welfare or any miscellanous stuff. and i specified that i only want to be the taiwan girls' team liaison officer. HOHO.

thursday post

we had a very interesting chemistry lesson, whereby our prof showed us liquid nitrogen! btw the temperature for liquid nitrogen is -196 degree celsius. if you put in ur finger for more than 10 s and take it out, the finger will drop off. woo hoo.

and then we had some hands on.

this is known as polygel, which can be found in diapers. when you add water the polygel will absorb the moisture from the water and solidfy. so after this experiment my hands still a bit itchy so i added copper (II) sulphate to have this very nice color. haha.

and this effect is called chemiluminence! it is formed by adding two organic solvents. the two organic solvents are dilute hydrogen peroxide in phthalic ester solvent, and phenyl oxalate ester in 1,2-diphenyl anthracene.

after lessons i went to meet leow chee leong and mak hong sen. they are giving me a belated birthday dinner treat. we ate at rama thai seafood restaurant. THE SHARK FIN ROCKS BIG TIME. no need to put vinegar and pepper but still taste very very nice.

and the whole meal is very ex. 60 bucks per pax. haha. cos the whole set meal is for 4 pple, and they dun have set meal for 3, so we bo bian have to order that. wah biang eat until damn full. i cant finish the fried rice and the dessert.

thank you mr leow and mr mak for the treat! and also the calvin klein perfume! :)

i am a translator

previously i helped my pe lecturer translate her powerpoint slides to chinese, because she is going to Tianjin (which is in China) to give a guest lecture.

the moment i received her english slides and glanced through them, i was like: OMG! WASSUP!

cos there were 45 slides to be translated. ok lah minus away the references is 43 slides.

and i have to translate these very technical terms and teaching pedagogies like:

Games Concept Approach
Invasion Games
Net Barrier Games
Striking Fielding Games
Teaching Games for Understanding
Thinking Schools Learning Nation
Tactical Awareness

and blah blah blah... the list goes on and on. so its really not an easy job, but i am glad i still completed it over the weekend and sent it back to her before she went for her trip.

anyway i was not the first person to volunteer for this job when she asked the class for help. KC was the one who volunteered due to some special reasons which i am lazy to mention here cos it is a very very long story. but then KC also have a very important test coming up which will determine his future teaching career so he really has to study hard for it. so being his taiwan buddy, i volunteered to do the translation for him. haha.

so this afternoon, i received an email from my lecturer:

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Dear YY and KC,

Your work was a hit! The students and staff at Tianjin were very responsive to our work. One professor said that he felt very emotional when he saw that the slides were mainly in Chinese.

Thank you again for your thoroughness. You two contributed greatly to the success of my presentation.

I’ll contact you when Melvin is able to get the books in.

Best wishes,
My Lecturer (to conceal her identity so she wun find my blog hoho)

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there was really a great sense of satisfaction upon knowing that my translated slides were well-received in Tianjin.

and i will like to thank some pple who helped me in the translation:

1) darling, who has done translation before, and told me that translation is a very satisfying job, and gave me lots of encouragement, so i listened to her and tried my best, and indeed it is very satisfying.

2) huifen, for helping me to ask her china team-mate on the translation of some technical terms.

3) my fav xinyi, for helping me to find the official chinese translation for thinking schools learning nation.

4) my colleague at my ex-workplace, who is the HOD of mother tongue. i confirmed with her the official chinese translation for thinking schools learning nation.

ok so that's about it. translation do once in a while still ok. but do everyday i will definitely die. hahaha.

btw, for those who are interested to noe, the official chinese translation for "Thinking Schools, Learning Nation" is:

重思想的学校，好学习的国民

sunday post

i am having a paper on tuesday, and this paper is my one and only paper for this semester. and most likely this paper will be my final examination in my whole life. unless i got the money and the time to do masters.

and from nx year june onwards, it will be my turn to set tests and exams to terrorise my students!!! hohohoho. but actually set tests and exams is a super siong job, so i am not looking forward to it at all.

seriously speaking i am not even half prepared for the coming paper. anyway, when was i ever prepared for any exams. haha.

anyway, a few days ago, me and my classmates were discussing whether to make a class graduation video, then dunno who suggested x-men vs street fighter, and we were all super excited, and started to think which person in the class suit the role of the x-men or street fighter.

so that explains why i have those corny pictures uploaded on facebook. pls pardon my childishness, but i think doing this sort of stuff is quite fun, and help me de-stress from studying.

all rite i shall end this boring post, and wish everyone who are taking exams the best of luck and score with flying colors!!!

nyonya dinner at guan hoe soon restaurant

today was birthday celebration part 3, where darling went online to search for nice nyonya restaurants, and she found a quite famous and popular one called guan hoe soon, which is located at 38 joo chiat PLACE. remember it is joo chiat PLACE. not joo chiat ROAD.

my first time eating nyonya food was at malacca, where dashimon brought us to this nyonya restaurant. so having eaten that, i had quite high expectations of nyonya food. thank goodness the nyonya food at guan hoe soon din disappoint and its really not bad! i will definitely recommend this place to everyone!

because there was only two of us, so we ordered only 3 dishes and one soup:

nyonya chap chye - the dish made famous by mediacorp drama 小娘惹

ayam buah keluak - also another dish made famous by 小娘惹

ikan sambal belachan - this one is really the clear winner, in terms of taste and PRICE

fish maw soup. taste very very nice. can fight with the fish maw soup that i had at malacca.

our dessert - chendol. VERY VERY SWEET. i have a very high threshold for sweetness. so if i say that it is very very sweet, IT IS REALLY REALLY REALLY VERY SWEET to the majority of the pple.

i really dun mind going there again to try the rest of the dishes! i give the restaurant a rating of 9 put of 10!

the four 1s

the joyous day of the year is here again. 1111 is really a good number. i think in the year 2011 i am going to organise a big birthday bash, and there must be a theme for it. a very boomz theme, held at a very boomz place, with very boomz guests. ok lah i say only, in future will it ever materialise i also wun noe.

btw here is a list of friends that were born on the same number-ed day of the month, for example myself.

1st jan - benjamin fong yiyu. knew him in nie, when he played for the ntu handball team. he is a damn zai basketball player, with great athletism, and picks up handball very fast.

3rd march - kok kwang. also knew him in nie, also in the ntu handball team. very li hai handball player, and he first started playing handball during his nus days, when he stayed in kent ridge hall.

4th april - darling and grace tiang. no need to mention about darling which i think she is being mentioned too much already. and no further introduction needed for grace tiang, who is my dance friend in nus chinese dance.

5th may - kuang jingkai, the pro photographer for nus chinese dance.

7th july - lim leong kun, my sec sch classmate.

9th september - xiaoyun, again my dance friend in nus chinese dance! i danced in two of her items for psyche 2008.

11th november - myself, chia shihao and goh peikai. knew chia shihao during my instructor days in sch of armour. very pleasant chap and has a really glib tongue. as for peikai he was my sec sch mate, but get to noe him a bit better in tjc.

12th december - clarissa eng, also my dance friend in nus chinese dance! haha.

waiting for the feb, june, aug and october baies to come! then i shall gather everyone and we will take photos and make a calendar!!! hahahaha. ok i a bit siao already. :p

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so for this special day, the first place that i went to is................ THE DENTIST.

btw i am going to do braces. so my pe classmate huifen introduced me to this guy called wei cheng, who is a year 4 dentistry student. wei cheng will do the first evaluation for me, then after that he will refer me to the post-grad students, ie the actual dentists, and they will do the braces for me, under the supervision of their professors. and i will get a very good rate of $2200 to do the braces.

actually i din want to do braces, but i have to say that i cant stand my mum's constant irritating nagging, which is the main reason why i went to do braces. but ultimately, i think it will be good because when i go shoot wedding photos i will look more photogenic. hahahaha.

but still, seeing the dentist on my birthday is kinda sadded, as i hate going to the dentist, because my teeth has always been in a very bad condition, so whenever i go to the dentist sure will kenna something very pain or very jia lat. so it is not a surprise that wei cheng said that my teeth is in a SERIOUSLY BAD condition, but he said that the post-grads will like it as serious as possible because to them it is a challenge, and they love challenges.

my birthday dinner was at this italian restaurant. the food is very very ex, and not say super fantastic. and we had a hard time looking for the restaurant because it is in some alley at tanjong pagar. so the final verdict is: THIS RESTAURANT IS NOT WORTH GOING.

we ordered an appetizer of PARMA HAM. cost $18.80. nv take pic of the parma ham because the moment the plate reaches the table, my younger sis grab her fork and took one piece of the ham. hahahaha.

and then each of us ordered a main course. my dad ordered roast lamb chop. my mum ordered lasagna pasta. i ordered pan fried cod filet. younger sis ordered duck meat with asparagus. and little sis ordered LOBSTER PASTA.

duck meat with asparagus - $32.80

pan fried cod filet - $32.80

lobster pasta - $38.80

altogether the bill was a whooping 193 bucks. woo hoo. seriously i think it is not worth the money. unless you really like fine dining concept, cos the dining ambience was really good, with very polite waiters. food come in small portions, so you wun eat until very full. i had to go to the coffee shop and da bao prawn fritters as supper. hoho.

and here is my cake! or should i say cakes:

thank you little sis for buying them! they look beautiful! and taste delicious too! and thank you to my two sisters for the braun wallet. look very atas. hahaha. my parents gave me an angbao, which i shall not disclose the amount.

tomorrow going for celebration part 2! with darling! :)

audience is unpredictable

when i was in hall, and was going through the chinese drama rehearsals as the male lead of a drama production, the hall's grand senior mr yam tsun chze (hope i nv spell his name wrongly) told me this, 观众是无情的，是变态的.

at first i dun really get wat he meant. but during the performance, i understood wat he meant. lines that are not supposed to be funny, the audience laughed. lines that are supposed to be funny, the audience din laugh. when the mood is supposed to be serious, the audience also will laugh. but i guess that most of the audience are friends of the cast on stage, so when they see their friends having to act serious on stage, they will laugh.

this is also wat happened during my group's gym sequence! when it is supposed to be the funeral segment, where we are mourning for the loss of the rainforest because of deforestation, my classmates laughed. hahahaha.

and thanks to them, yixin also um chio, while i was still emo-ing because i was too engrossed, but i was still alert to wat is going on. so when i bent down and lifted her, i whispered to her not to laugh, and she stopped um chio-ing. i think it was really quite classic at that time. hahahahaha.

but actually, i must say that this gymnastics module is very fun, because i get to choreo my own individual sequence and choreo most of the group sequence. saying that i choreo most of the group sequence also a bit 说不过去, because the idea is totally copied from WO/OD, where mike is the brainchild, not me. and for the individual sequence, i also used quite a few of nzj's trademark moves, laoshi's dr09 choreography, and some other moves here and there. i think i am like hatake kakashi with the sharingan. HAHA.

thanks to darling and my dance friends for praising my creativity. i really really 受之有愧. but the positive comments mean alot to me. thank you very much. *bows deeply in appreciation*

and this is my favourite pic of the group sequence.



looks familiar? hahahaha.

i noe we dun look as good as nzj and clare, but taking into account that yixin got no dance background, and my dance background is not as lao jiao as nzj, can already le lah!!! 随便 lah 随便 lah 随便 lah~

last match of SHL2009

our last match was against team torpedos, made up of temasek and kent ridge alumni. well we lost 37-16, and yes i conceded 37 goals, but to me the scoreline doesnt mean anything, since i am used to conceding so much goals. hoho. but i still can give myself a pat on the back that i made quite a number of good saves! waiting for kok kwang to send me the video clip of the match!

and finally, got one decent pic taken of me saving a shot! many thanks to yuliang's gf! :)

the team photo! (must take with my groin guard. hahahahaha.)

conclusion of gymnastics module

the individual sequence was on wednesday, and i felt that i din do really well, and i was quite sad about it. so i din want to upload it on facebook because it is not good enough to be shown to everyone. but i uploaded it on youtube, so view the video below if you are interested. haha. and look out for some familiar choreography!

the group sequence was on the next day. so my group had one last practise in the morning. after practising for a while, we start to play around with the equipment and apparatus. hahahaha. very very fun. :)

the trademark "天" pose.

wah they also can do ah!!!

now you noe why. hahahahaha.

btw let me introduce my group members:

the one below me is kok soon. oldest among us. very typical hokkien peng. he is a sprinter, and although he is in his mid thirties, he still can run nine min plus for 2.4 km. or isit eight min plus? haha.

the humpty dumpty is king. he is the most well-rounded sportsman i have ever seen. very proficient in many sports, for example soccer, basketball, volleyball and tennnis! can also run very fast, eight min plus for 2.4 km. can do gymnastics very well too, for example the front flips and back flips. he is really one crazy guy.

the female is yixin. a very very zai handball player. plays handball so well and shoots the ball so hard that can match any of the above average male players. has a very ruthless face whenever she plays handball and make her opponents wet their lingerie.

i think our group sequence was not too bad! our theme is deforestation! some of the choreography for this sequence was taken from one of my previous performances, which is WO/OD, and michael is the choreographer. haha. but of course majority of the sequence is done in gymnastics, and all of us contributed a fair share of ideas.

because the group sequence was not too bad, so i dare to put it on facebook. the response has been quite positive so far. :)

a group pic after performing the sequence! :)

dreaded ippt

here comes the dreaded ippt again. the dreaded event that happens on a yearly basis.

and here are the dreaded results:

sit-up: 41

standing broad jump: 234

chin up: 8

shuttle run: 9.6 s

2.4 km run: 10 min 44 s

AWARD: SILVER

200 bucks in my pocket! hoho.

monday post

70+ comments in the street challenge album that i uploaded on facebook. this shows how strong our team dynamics are.

i remembered the last time having that many comments in a photo album was the post-DR08 days. no thanks to hw and grace tiang contributing majority of the comments, although i must admit their bickering was quite entertaining. haha.

anyway just to inform everyone, liangbin is choreo-ing a taiji modern dance for emcc, which will be held in march. he invited me, hw and laval to dance in that item, and so far until now, hw and i have agreed!

tomorrow taking ippt in the evening! stressed... :(

ntu street challenge (handball)

i think in this semester my life is pretty much revolved around handball. it first started with the sunig handball tournament, and then the sg handball league, and now the ntu street challenge!

ntu street challenge is a whole day event organised by the ntu sports club. there are different sports being played, consisting of frisbee, street soccer, basketball, netball, floorball and handball.

so how did i ever get involved in this street challenge? it all started when two 20-year-old girls, anna and yilun, who happened to be in the ntu girls handball team, jio-ed my pe classmate huifen to form a team. the three of them knew each other because they are in the ntu netball ivp team.

and then huifen is tasked to jio the guys, so she came to jio me first in order to secure a goalkeeper for the team, and then i went on to jio kc, zhenhong and chong ghee.

presenting to you, the team photo (with the WAGs):

(my G is not around because she has to go attend a birthday party. haha.)

i must say that our team has very very strong dynamics. all of us clicked very well together. of course 5 of us are pe classmates. and the two 20-year-old girls had no problems communicating with us because they were very chatty in the first place and kept entertaining us with their comments. btw there is a ten year age difference between them and our oldest member of the team, who is none other than chong ghee. hahahahahaha.

and i must really thank kc, zhenhong and chong ghee who agreed to play. they really dislike handball due to the physical and agressive nature of the game, but they still played just for my sake and for brotherhood. i am very very touched.

in short, i really really LOVE my team!!!

anyway we won the champion. most of the teams dunno how to play handball, and they were playing more of the captain's ball or netball style. so for a handball player like me, i feel very kek sim when i am seeing all these. i think the referees were even more kek sim and they have to keep blowing the whistle for simple fouls despite telling the teams the rules and regulations before the competition.

seriously i hope that handball will become a more established sport in ntu, just like how popular it is in nus, but i think its kinda hard. the only reason why there are pple playing actual handball in ntu is because there are handball players who graduated from nus, and came into nie as teachers.

our prize is a new urban male bag worth $159! not the whole team got one bag! everyone got a bag each! wow ntu sports club really quite 破费. i shall give the bag to darling. hahaha.

and i really feel quite sorry for the ultimate frisbee champions, because their prize is just a tall hamper with all the tidbits, no abalone, bird's nest or shark fin. hoho.

THE VICTORS! chong ghee not inside this photo because he has to rush off for a family dinner.

the day was concluded by going to jurong point for celebration dinner at dian xiao er! and kc fetched me home after that! thank u so much kc! taiwan buddies rock. hahahaha.