intense emotions

judging from the pics below, i think i can be nominated for best actor in golden horse awards or the oscars. haha.

check out this group picture! got see anything in common? ok they were all doing my signature chinese dance cum wushu pose, in different variations. dunno who suggested it and everyone started to do it. haha damn funny.

i really love to perform on stage, where i can forget all my worries, and just 尽情的表演, and savour the applause from the audience after a wonder performance.

anyway i had completed my last ever assignment for this semester! so this semester is officially concluded!!! yay!!!

saturday post

dear all, let me present to you my birthday gift that is given by darling:

its the blue color surf berms, not the bright yellow color nike top.

and i also like to present to you the striking pink color cap that darling bought for herself:

if you want to ask me whether is there any link between the blue color surf berms or striking pink color cap, i am sad to tell you that there is NO LINK. hahahaha.

anyway this morning i was at the marina bay floating platform to collect my race pack for stand chart marathon. and i will remain with the decision to run 21 km, instead of the 42 km.

at night i went to my cousin's wedding. my cousin is the bride. and guess who is the bridegroom?! he happened to be my ex colleague at my contract sch. wassup! can the world be so small a not. haha. but he was only in the sch for 3 months and he quit to join the banking sector, if i am not wrong. when i spoke to him, he need quite some time to remember who am i but in the end he still remembered.

oh yah let me tell you about the turkey briefing that i went with my parents on friday. out of so many stuff that the person briefed, the most important and also the most traumatising to me is...... THE TOILET. most of the toilets in turkey have to pay money. and they charge one turkey lira per entry into the toilet. one turkey lira is approximately S$1.07!!! wah biang i die liao lah. i think most of the money that i spend is not on food, but is on going to the toilet. -.-'''

and then there is an optional tour, which is flying to the sky on hot air balloon!!! but it is very ex, which cost US220 per pax. but i very gian to try, and my mum also quite gian, so my father say might as well everyone go and try. woo hoo. and i volunteered to pay for half the total cost of the hot air balloon tour, thanks to the 1.25 bonus.

so i was bored and decided to google for pictures of turkey, so let me share just ONE pic will do:

this is Pamukkale, also known as cotton castle. anyway the white stuff that look like cotton wool is actually calcium carbonate deposits, and the water is actually thermal pools, which you can swim inside, like hot springs! i think this will be an amazing place! :)

xin wang taiwan cafe

watching the pics of the taiwan trip posted by hz makes me super gian to eat taiwan food. so today darling had her last paper! and because of the craving for taiwan food, we finally went to the xin wang taiwan cafe at city hall, which i have always wanted to go ever since its opening.

so we ordered the following:

grilled slice sausage with garlic.

cost 4.80, totally overpriced. sausage only 一条 cut into small pieces, and between each piece giap one small slice of garlic. and the sausage doesnt taste grilled at all. the sausage meat is dry. in taiwan the sausage is hot, yummy, and got the sausage juice oozing out from the sausage the moment u bite it. and cost only 2 sing for one box of many slices of sausage. this grilled sausage in xin wang is a FAILURE. dun order it.

fried-fish paste 天妇罗

cost 5.80, also a bit overpriced, but the taste is really good.

salted pork patty hamburger

cost 3.80, its one of the recommended dishes in the menu, but i think its so-so.

sesame oil chicken mee sua 麻油鸡面线

6.80, the soup is very nice, but the filling is quite small for the price. and the mee sua is a bit too rough. darling prefers the ah zong mian xian type, those sticky stickly gluey type.

ice pearl milk tea 珍珠奶茶

2.80, ok this price is more acceptable, cos the tea is very rich, and the pearls got the 台湾珍珠的味道.

so the verdict is....

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*dong cheng dong cheng dong cheng*

not very satisfying. overall grade is B-. boo.

but i do like the ambience of the restaurant, and the menu.

(darling said she look like she nv wear any clothes. hahahahaa. potential model for FHM!)

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after the dinner we went to marina square to watch astroboy! its a very nice movie! but its a bit short, only 1 hr 35 min. will be better if the duration of the movie is longer.

and we went to esplanade to 感染艺术的气氛. went to the rooftop terrace and to my astonishment, there is already a restaurant! wah this means that i really very very long nv go to the rooftop terrace. haha.

ok i haven start on my final chemistry assignment. tomorrow i promise i will start!!! :p

tuesday post

ok the semester has officially ended. i dun need to go to sch anymore until 11 jan 2010!!!

but i still got one more assignment to submit, but the deadline is on 4th dec. haha.

anyway i was bored yesterday, so i did this:



pple said that i am 自恋, but well, it serves as a memory keepsake that i played handball before and nx time i can show my children or grandchildren!

anyway, previously i mentioned that i am going to eastern europe and dubai, but sadly the stupid travel agency played us out cos there were some cock ups between the travel agency and the airline, so we got no more air tickets on that day. however the travel agency offered us air tickets to fly two days later, but we must extend our original itinery from 11 days to 13 days, the 2 nights free hotel stay at dubai is cancelled, and each person must pay an additional 400 dollars.

how can rite? of course my parents dun buy this shit, and my father called the agency and screwed the poor employee big time. i feel sad for the employee cos he so sway sway have to pick up the call, and he was not the employee who served us on the day when we went to buy the package. but anyway yah when my father is angry, you definitely wun want to mess with him. and because our trip to eastern europe plus dubai is gone, during that few days there is a period of GLOOM in my house and i seriously dread that feeling.

but thank goodness 雨过天晴 already! we just bought a package tour to turkey! 2.4K per pax! going for 10 days, all meals catered for, and flying by SQ. leaving on the 6th dec at 2335, coming back on the 15th.

i signed up for the 42km marathon, which is also on the 6th, but because i nv train at all, and if i run the full marathon, my legs will be damn sore, and if i go sit a long distance flight with my sore legs, i think i will die. so i have decided to run 21 km instead of the full marathon.

nvm, i shall try running the marathon nx year. maybe the adidas sundown marathon.

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! :)