sunday post

first thing in the morning i went to vibez studio to have a wushu session with the pple from rhythm n moves. i can only say i had a hard time catching up. the young kids are really good and they put me to shame. :(


went to watch Fan Yang's Gadzillion Bubble Show with darling at de marquee downtown east.

his bubble tricks were really amazing! the audience were all wow-ed by the different patterns of bubbles, the size of the bubble, and the zillions of bubbles. it is a bubble day!


my panasonic digi cam cannot capture nice shots of the entire performance. so i shall take some photos from the web and share with everyone. these photos are taken at Fan Yang's show in New York. the things he did at new york is entirely the same as what he did in singapore. and i was there to watch all these! superb!

 

first time i see so many bubbles.


after the bubble show both of us were hungry, so i brought her to F.I.S.H at tampines 1! darling likes the food there! :)

hungry, anyone? :p


i was reading a magazine, and i came across an interview with peter schmeichel. 

he is a very funny person. check out his comments on facebook.

I think I have 72 people pretending to be me on facebook.

I absolutely hate Facebook.

I've been trying for years now to get them erased but they just ignore me.

I think it's a disgrace that people can go Facebook and pretend to be me. 

I'd like to put on record that I don't have any connection whatsoever with Facebook.

If Facebook would erase all profiles, I'd probably go on and have a fanpage.

But it is an absolute disgrace, because there are so many people pretending to be me. 

How would people know that it's really me?

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he must be really damn pissed. hahaha.

photoshoot at my workplace

i think i mentioned this before, but nvm i shall mention it again.


my workplace is celebrating her 25th year anniversary, and the theme is B2B. Be, to become who you want to be.


so i decided to take some publicity photos to raise awareness and make everyone excited because 25th anniversary is a big thing! is not my hod or my vp or batman arrow me one hor. i did this on my own initiative, told my vp about the idea and she gave me the go ahead. :)


i quickly gathered some of my students who i think have something special to showcase. i used my father's nikon dslr as the camera for the photoshoot, and i bought 2 big pieces of white cloth as the backdrop.


actually the photos din turn out quite well and i was a bit disappointed. so i was sourcing for photo editing software. i tried photoscape but is not to my liking. i wanted to download adobe photoshop but must pay money. so i became a bit pek chek so i googled for free photo editing software. to my surprise, picasa 3 is one of the software, and i have picasa 3! so i opened picasa 3 to try it out. goodness! the results were awesome!


so i am now going to show some of the photos, before and after. it is very obvious which one is the before, which one is the after. hahahaha. while looking at the photos, you can guess who my students want to be? :)

(this person specially went to rent a michael jackson costume just for the photoshoot. i am amazed. i din force him to hor. he really wanted to rent it.)

dinner at ZEN vegetarian japanese restaurant

had a meet up with a few of my sec sch classmates.


one of them is a vegetarian, so everytime when meet up with them, we always have to eat something vegetarian.


today we went to this vegetarian jap restaurant near iluma, and the name of this restaurant is ZEN.


the food is nice, but a bit too expensive. some of the food taste like the actual meat version! 太神奇了.

 

tomorrow and thursday i am on course at teachers' network, which is near orchard road. hope i wun fall alseep. good night readers!

human polluted IT fair

i went to IT fair with leow chee leong and mak hong sen.


trust me, you will nv want to go there, because the amount of people is horrendous. you will drown yourself among the hordes of IT-savvy consumers or non-IT-savvy consumers who just go to IT fair for the fun or the excitement of it.


anyway i bought a video cam. the canon legria HF R26.

i wanted the red one but both the red and black are already out of stock. so no choice i took the silver one.

isnt it a beauty? :)


and these are the free gifts i received:

a video cam bag (the black and red one), a video cam pouch (i think?), 16 gb memory card, spare battery, memory card reader and a 500 gb portable hard disc, and a tripod (which is not inside the picture).


on top of the video cam, i also bought a "weapon" for myself!

i immediately fell in love with it when i saw it. hahahahaha.


anyway, remember i had delicious mango prawn salad with darling some time ago? here's the salad:

today, darling actually made the salad! with some of her mum's help. haha.

looks very nice rite? well done darling! :)


how i wish i can teleport myself to woodlands and taste it.

sec one confidence camp

if you guys still din noe, i am involved in 2 camps for this week. monday to wednesday is sec 2 experiential camp at jalan bahtera. thursday to friday is sec 1 confidence camp in sch.


my cute students from my form class:

  

thursday night i slept in the staffroom. my hod bought prata for supper. and i printed out my class report slips and signed 41 times because got 41 students in my class. i pity batman because when it comes to mid year and final year exam he has to sign for all the students in sch.

my first time printing out the result slips ON MY OWN! i am proud~ hahahaha.

my sleeping mattress in the staffroom.

2nd and 3rd day @ jalan bahtera

the main program for the 2nd day of the camp was a land expedition. i had to walk around 7 km with a class, and throughout the 7 km there were 5 different checkpoints.

the most memorable checkpoint is i actually held a super duper big bullfrog! but i din kiss it lah. haha.

i can feel the frog's stomach moving out and in. hahahaha. and i thought the frog is super slimey to touch but it is actually quite rubbery.

so the purpose of this checkpoint is to let the students venture out of their comfort zone and erase their fear.

the kids seem to be enjoying themselves. hahaha.

another memorable thing about the camp is i went out to jurong point with 2 colleagues to buy biscuits for the kids, because they were hungry. we went out at 12 midnight! and then on our way to jurong point, we saw cars racing each other, with a hot lady wearing a mini skirt and taking off her underwear and using her underwear to flag off the race. ok i am kidding about the hot lady + underwear part, but i definitely saw the car racing part.

next time if you are at jalan bahtera camp, sungei gedong or ntu, and you need to buy groceries at the 11th hour, no problem! ntuc fairprice at jurong point is open 24 hours! but you must have a car.

for the last day of the camp, the most memorable is when we reach back sch, the whole pe dept went to F.I.S.H restaurant at tampines one for lunch, kindly sponsored by my hod. woo hoo.

the food there is awesome! if you order a main course, you can go to their salad bar and help yourself to the wide range of varieties of salad, and it is buffet style!

for the main course i ordered baked salmon. super delicious. what a wonderful meal to signify the end of the camp.

their cakes were also super delicious. we ordered the RASPBERRY ERUPTION (not erection) and the strawberry swirl.

i will love to bring darling to this restaurant to try the food. :)

1st day of camp @ jalan bahtera

basically first day nothing much.

reach the campsite at 11 am. dilly dally a bit and it is time for lunch.

it doesnt look appetising but to be honest it taste quite good. can you make a guess what is the yellow color thingy?

one of the high element obstacles at the campsite

the students went to do high element obstacles in the afternoon. and then at night is night walk. before the night walk the instructors did a very good job in preparing the worst case scenario for the kids. some of the kids were so scared that they cried, and they dun dare to go for the night walk, and they claimed they saw "something".

to be honest it is really a bit scary lah, especially if you walk alone or even in pairs. in groups of 3 to 6 will be the most ideal.

waiting for the night walk.

the teachers got a bit bored, so we took photos of our shadows.

ok that's it for day 1. i will blog about day 2 and 3 on friday, when i come back from sec 1 camp. yes this whole week i am down for camp. mon to wed is sec 2 camp. thur to fri is sec 1 camp.

so i missed 3 weeks of sch because of reservist. then i missed 1 week of sch because of camps. and then nx week is the march holidays. so effectively i missed 5 weeks of sch. wah i feel super lost and detached.

anyway the yellow color thingy is mango pudding. haha.

back from jalan bahtera camp!

hi readers! i am back!


more details about the camp will be blogged later.


i will show a few more photos from CARE IN CANS, taken using my school's dslr.

i dunno why i have such a stunned face. and the thing that i am holding in my hand is only a clipboard, not an ipad. 

off we go~

at a hdb block with my form class. we are supposed to mingle with the residents and grab a chance to talk to the minister.

they managed to speak to the minister! but my school's photographers din manage to take pictures of that. zzzzzz~


ok off for dance practise. bye!

ACSM course photo

try spotting me!

i feel so proud of myself for completing the course, and taking the photo with so many senior commanders of armour.

SWIFT AND DECISIVE! ARMOUR!

ONCE ARMOUR ALWAYS ARMOUR!!!

1200th post!

this calls for a double celebration.

firstly this is yytellmewhy's 1200th post.

and secondly i completed the ACSM course! wow! amazing!

three weeks have passed just like that.

i remember on the first day of the course, i was super low morale, thinking why must i be in camp on valentine's day, and whether can i survive throughout the course.

thankfully the first 2 weeks of the course is pretty resort style, the super siong part of the course is in the third week which we have outfield FTX (full troop exercise) from monday to wednesday. and thank god, i survived.

happy to make new friends in the armour family. happy to meet old friends too, who are still regulars in the armour formation.

yesterday after the graduation ceremony i rushed to ucc for dance practise. yes i am involved in the coming NUSCD performance again. it is on 9th april, at ucc theatre. and there are 2 shows on that day! wassup. i thought only one show.

and the dance itself is quite shag. zhou laoshi choreo-ed quite alot of his typical style movements, and some of these movements are fast and furious, because the music itself is also fast and furious. i was panting after each run and now my muscles are aching.

monday i am going to jalan bahtera campsite with the sec 2 students. 3 days 2 nights camp. and jalan bahtera is very near to sungei gedong. zzzzzzzzz~

back from 3D2N outfield!

hi everyone!!! i am back from the jungle and now in civilisation!


the past 3 days are really disgusting, but also memorable.


for the first day, i had an uncle toby muesli bar for lunch, and a packet of vitasoy for dinner.


for the second day, i had bulut hitam (the combat ration version) for breakfast, din have lunch, half a packet of chicken teriyaki pasta (also the combat ration version) for dinner, and a packet of jagabee potato fries for supper.


for the third day, i ate another uncle toby muesli bar for breakfast, and a packet of milo nuggets for lunch. the outfield exercise was cut at 3 pm and we returned back to camp. 


and my dinner was nissin cup noodle chilli crab flavour! shiok! supper was ngoh hiang with fried bee hoon! comfort food for the 3 days of torture. hahahaha.


anyway i heard from the course warrant that i am the best NSMEN in the course. hoho. its an honour and i am happy. 


now i am at darling's house. i miss darling very much. and i will dedicate this sentence to her:


永远爱你，是一行雨一停就会消失的彩虹。