My new blackie gadget

I hasn’t been going to the IT show for quite some time. It just happened that I might have something on like for example : mock exams or that I can’t fork out the time to go coz I already have plans with friends.

I always wanted to buy a external hard disk as I find that my computer hard disk storage space was not enough. Too many videos, movies, photos! N I need a backup too, just in case if my computer went cranky, my data are not affected as it already been safely backup beforehand. Has also been hearing that it is going at a cheap rate as compared to before. Hahaa.. Actually all gadgets prices plunged quite fast after some times in the market. It just a matter of whether is the price within your budget and afford it. As usual, priorities differ from individual.

Anyway, thanks to Cindy and Bs, they offered to help me look out and went through all the trouble of queuing up and comparing the different hard disk brands and prices( I have a budget to keep to). Really appreciate their help as I know the crowds can be quite overwhelming over at the IT fair during weekends. Hehee.

Great! Just got my hard disk from them. Now I can start storing all my precious data one by one then. Did I mention that I like my hard disk size? It’s really very small and handy!

CNY gathering 2008

The plan of having steamboat at Nelly’s place was unsuccessful because her hubby was on duty today, thus she’s unable to prepare the ingredients as she got to take care of Yan yan. Therefore, we decided to meet up for lunch at Sembanwang Sakae Sushi today.

::Chio Mother and Daughter ::

After that, we "ta bao" yusheng to her place! Our first and my first"lo he" of the year sia! I thought it will be my one and only one during CNY 2008. But only then i realise that I'm having the 2nd "lo he" session at home too when my mum called me to go home earlier to "lo he" with them.

::The gals preparing to pour the ingredients::

:: Looks Yummy::

Huat ah!! May all of us strike 4D,toto, big sweep! May those who are married and getting married have kids soon and for the rest of us who are still single, find our Mr right soon! Hope I can pass my 2nd year modules and have flying colors! May all of us have good health and also have a good career path from now onwards! Last but not least, may good luck follow us in whatever we do!

Alin

失戀無罪 sang by 梁文音 during 超級星光大道 PK competition season 1, caught my attention when I first heard it. Her vocals were damn powerful and good. Even the judges were impressed by it and commented that she’s a natural n could reaches the high pitch easily unlike other people who need to practices level by level according to the professional training. And I think she's one of the contestant in 超級星光大道 season 2 too.

Sang by 梁文音


The original singer of this song was Alin, 黄丽玲(quite a common Chinese name) and she has an amazing voice like ah mei. Maybe because she’s a原住民歌手too, that’s why she has such a natural powerful vocal.. But the funny part is for such a good vocal singer, I never heard her song often in 93.3 as she wasn’t quite popular. If I didn’t heard this song during competition, I wouldn’t have know her existence.

Here's the song 失戀無罪.



Here's another of one of her nice song. 四季

P.s : pls click on 失戀無罪 to view the music video of Alin in ASOS instead. The user didn't include any video embeded code in youtube.

鼠年大年初一

Not much of 新年气氛 this year sia. Maybe I’m getting older le and there isn’t anything much to anticipate during the house visiting excepts the ang baos. I remember when I was young, I would be playing toys with my cousins at one corner while our parents play mj or blackjack. But as we grew up, we seem to be stranger as we only met once a year, thus gradually there was nothing much to talk with them. I expect it will be another boring CNY day 1 again. But I was wrong. Haa…

My cousins and I decided to play MJ as they also just learn how to play it recently. As we are all beginners, I dun feel much stress playing with them as MJ can be quite mind taxing when playing with 高手. This becomes our ice-breaking game as we make causal small talks during the game. We didn’t manage to finish the game as one of them has to go off with his parents for another house visiting. Oh well, I think for the coming years, MJ can be included to play to kill time during our CNY gathering at granny’s house le.

I also went to watch Kungfu Dunk alone (My first attempt) at AMK hub. Jay chou acted very mischievous and 耍宝in some scenes but I feel that zeng zhi wei is the most funniest character in the show. He’s a natural comedian! Watch this show if you are interested in basketball and Jay chou then.

祝大家鼠年快乐! 事事顺利! May lady luck smile on us more!

Movie price increase

From 31^st Jan onwards, I heard from the radio this morning that there will be a price increase for Cathay cinema shows. Gosh.. the movies tickets are getting more and more costly. Watching a general movie during weekend is going to be $10! Pengz…got to be selective to watch movies from now onwards.

Well, the general ticket prices are upped by 50 cents (a 6% increase) while a new Blockbuster tier has been introduced where tickets to selected movie titles will be increased by an additional 50 cents. Can refer to this link for more updates

: http://www.cathay.com.sg/news/news_jan30_2008.html.

Why is the prices increasing everywhere? Even the food that I’m having during my lunch break has increased price recently too… Why aren’t our pay increment increasing tremendously? Sianz…

Although I’m not a big fan of watching movies but it’s one of the few entertainment activities that sometimes we can go for during gatherings. Maybe hanging out in café and gossiping with friends is more cost-saving than going for movies in the future. Lol

But meanwhile, even before this price hikes news, I’m already thinking to watch either Stephen Chow(长江七号) or Kungfu Dunk acted by Jay chou. See how first... if I can find kaki to go along, I might watch it.. haha

2008 brides

These last 2 days had been busy accompanying Cindy & Shufen to choose their wedding photos and wedding gowns respectively. I love giving my opinion on these kind of stuffs. Guess it's my interest to 研究.

Looking at Cindy’s wide range of photos selection, we knew it will be a challenge to choose the 65 photos out of 200+ photos. Ahhh, dolling up like a princess and having a chance to be treated like a celebrity, is really seems so fun. Esp when the photos turned out great, can see the happiness on their faces. According to them, the whole thing lasted from morning till night fall. But it was definitely worth it even though they were tired and Cindy fall sick after that too. If one day when my turns comes and if got chance, it would be cool to have the photoshoots oversea. But I heard it's rather ex la. Just hoping again...

As for Shufen, it was a pity that I forgot to charge my camera and my Hp that day, otherwise I would have took some photos of shufen in her gowns. Hahaa…It’s quite rare to see her in girly attire as she has a rather weird fashion sense and she seldom puts on makeup. Hmm, I would say she’s more of a sporty kind of gal, who is rather different from the rest of us in the gang. Thus, we are rather glad to accompany her along to choose her gown. Anyway, I left for class in the midst of choosing and met them again after my class ends. Turned out that she only managed to choose 2 sets and had to go back again. Blame it on their few selections. Well, it’s better to choose the nicest gowns if there is chance since already pay for so much.

Both of them asked me to be their sisters and tt will be going to be my 5th & 6th time le. OMG! So many times liao. Pengz. Sigh… actually I do mind being sisters so many times. But for my two good friends, I agreed.

Hahaa. Oh well, my last time will be reserved for Sihan as we both have discussed it before. Lol.. Shall look forwards to the sisters meeting to sambo their hubbies then. Hiak Hiak….

Hopes for 2008

A new year. A new beginning. Times flies fast when people are getting older. That’s how I feel. During school times, the June & Dec school holiday always seem to take very long to arrive. But now, one year passes very fast after another. And my age is going to change from 2X to 3X soon. I don’t wannnntttt!!!! Can time stop?!?! Hahaa..

Anyway I’m going to set some resolutions for this year so that when I looked back my life, at least I accomplished some of my goals in life.

a) Lose 5kgs by exercising. Swimming is probably the best form of exercise for me. I can’t jog as I pant very easily.

b) Pass my second year modules and get some of my desired gradings.

c) Visit Sihan in UK with Bee & Meizhi this year. Hope that this trip will not be delay anymore.

d) Try to read widely as many as possible to improve my English and knowledge.

That’s all I can think of now.

For 2008, I also look forward to attend my 3 close’s friend’s weddings. Friends are important to me. I don’t need many of them. Just a few close friends will do and I really cherish them. Only close friends will share the happiest and sad moments in your life.

I do feel the gap widening when some of my close gal friends got married or even have kids of their own. Although we are not close as compared as before, hope that at least we can try to catch up during gatherings at times.

But seem like during gatherings, the topics brought up were very different too, somehow feel very distant and strange to me. Because nowadays it’s about renovation, buying furniture/flats and discussing about their kids talk. The topic might be common to discuss for those couples who are getting married or already married. At times, I do feel alienated. It’s not a very nice feeling to be sitting there listening to their talks when you do not know what to contribute.

When I try talking about my own stuff, seem like it was gone unheard. Esp when most of them are in pairs n I’m the only single. Oh well, guess that can’t be helped. Just don't ignore my presence.

Anyway hopefully, I will be able to fulfill my resolutions this year. Achieving it will give me a sense of achievement and makes my life happier. Cheers!

Dinner gathering

Yesterday buffet dinner at dawn's house was really delicious! No kidding! Every dishes were so yummy. Next time can just order from this cater(neo garden) for future house gathering.. Haha..




Oh ya.. Sihan is back in sg for a short vacation too! Just in time to join in the annual xmas gift exchange. She even bought us mini cute "cake" lipgloss. So sweet! Mine is the cream tart.

This year, I gotten a green sling bag from Bee. Something different from my bags collection.

Xmas mood

Yeah~ My xmas shopping is almost done! Looking forward to this sat & next weekend xmas gathering with friends. Most exciting part is the yummy food that we will be having and of coz the gift exchange session which is a must every year! Oh well, so much for dieting. That one really got to wait till this lovely season is over first.

Anyway for this year, the budget has been set to S$20 for every present which is easier to get rather than having a headache to think what to get for a S$15 present. For cel’s house gathering, I still haven’t thought of what to get yet coz it need to be a unisex item. Duhz. One week left for me to get. How how? *Panic*

I haven’t seen little Ziv ever since his baby shower in August. Looking at the recent photos of him in cel’s blog, he turned to be so chubby le! So different! Really feel like pinching his fat fat cheeks( Haha.. typical auntie behavior! Opps). Meanwhile, I can’t tell who he resembles now. Perhaps wait till he’s 1 year old, it will be easier to tell. Babies grow up real fast with good nutrients! :P

要快乐得活着才是对的

所谓「己所不欲，勿施于人」，就是用自己的心推及别人；自己希望怎样生活，就想到别人也会希望怎样生活；自己不愿意别人怎样对待自己，就不要那样对待别人.

换句话说就是:自己不喜欢的就不要勉强别人.

Some people are just like that! They themselves do it without noticing that they are causing hurt to others. And if someone else does the same back to them, they will flare up. There is such a person in my company. No one can tell her what to do and there’s no room for discussion. Oh well, there will always be give and take situation. We are just giving her face by giving way to her. If she is happy, we will have a better life. The others like to please her by giving her gifts during her birthday but not me. I don’t do that as I don’t see the need.

Everyday, I look at her. She’s always in a grumpy face and complaining that she’s being ill-treated by our bosses when she got the upper hand controlling the flow in the company. A person who always like to compare and never-satisfied with her own life. Everyone has problem of their own. It’s how you deal with it. Hmm, although that’s a common problem in all of us- always comparing with others, I think if staying positive and trying to be self-contented with it, life wouldn’t be so bad. In fact, she’s living in a landed property and holding a high post with 2 clever kids, yet still wants to complain more and make people’s life miserable when she’s unhappy. Anyway money is never enough. Even if she strike lottery and have a few millions on hand, I guess she still never be satisfied. I conclude that it’s the character problem as she 看不得别人好过她. So Petty, selfish and unreasonable!

说者无意, 听者有意 also apply to her too. She get mad up at that person when she misinterpret the conversation. Thus talking to her is quite difficult as she gets the wrong idea at times. Sigh. Only she is right. All of us are wrong. No one can out-talk her. Winner loh.

Life is short. Seeing her like this, she seems to be living everyday in frustration and in pretence. 何苦呢? I definitely wouldn’t want to be like her at all. I just want myself and my friends to be happy living on and show care and concern for others.

Dreamy state

I hate Monday! First day of the week for work. Sometimes I tends to have Monday blue n today is one of the days that I’m feeling really lousy. Although I slept all the way from 11.30pm to 6.30am this morning, I still feel really exhausted. Why? Because I’m dreaming the whole freaking night! Well, I still remember some bits & pieces of my dreams last night. That’s not a good sign. It means I haven’t been sleeping well as the mind is working actively.

Sigh.. I think there’s something terribly wrong in my body. I always feel tired no matter how long I slept. During the day, I can only stay awake for a short period of time and sometimes after some hours later, you will realize that I will become very quiet and don’t talk much. It’s because my mind is “shut down” and don’t wish to comment much. But my ears are still opens la. Sometimes during gathering, I went home early as I don’t have the mood to hang around as I’m so tired. No point damping other’s people’s mood, looking at my "sian" face. Of course, it depends on the crowds I’m hanging out with as well. For example, for my poly gang, I’m closer to Ade and Jess. So if they are not around, I wouldn’t want to hang out with the other guys.

Anyway, I thought of taking Chinese herbs or medicine to strengthen my body. It’s not good to feel tired all the time. That’s not the way it’s supposed to be. I’m supposed to be actively interacting with people and be chirpy! N not like someone who looks tired with panda eyes (I think it will be there for my whole life). Hmm, I do know that Chinese medicine have to take for a long period of time like 1 or 2 years, depending on the body condition. So it’s better to consult a doctor who’s good and if you happened to know of any good doctors around, do let me know then

Battles between the sexes

Met up with fen-mei for gym work-out at california yesterday. Such a long time since I've been jogging. But mi start at a low speed and managed to jog for around 20 mins. And now my tights is aching... Hahaa.. Guess I need more time to get used by jogging more frequently.

After supper at coffee-club, we came across this special event "MediaCorp Radio Subaru Impreza Challenge 2007 " held outside NAC. I remembered reading the newspaper that the final winner will get to win the car if he/she was to endure placing his hand on the car till the very last min. But of coz it wasn't so easy. It was a test of tolerance and patience.

My first time viewing the actual battlefield for this compeition. There were also supporters of the participants over there. The first rows was meant for male contestants and the 2nd rows for the female contestant. All total, there was around 10 cars. We noticed that some of the hand prints are already empty. Oh well, it was not easy placing your hand at a pt for hours and 9 hrs had already passed.

That guy's thights was already numbed for standing so long .


Imagine there is only a break of 5 mins to eat and go to the loo for 4 time intervals within a day. It's 1am, 7am, 1pm and 7pm! Duhz... Lack of rest, water, sleep and bath is really torturing, esp for gals. So, determination and preservance is really important. Let's hope there will not be rainy days for them durin this tough period. Otherwise it will add on to their misery.

3 angmoh assholes!

I'm so pissed off after watching this video that Han send me!!! 3 big sized ang mos trying to bully and mock an old man in his 70s!! I hope they get the retribution when they get old themselves!!!! Firstly they mock at the speed he's riding - at 2 miles per hour! Well, it's not one person on one trishaw! It's 3 of them on it loh and they dare to say that.. Assholes!

Poor old man did not know what they are laughing and laugh along with them, thinking that they has enjoyed taking the ride.

The most infuriating part is they still got the cheeks to reduce the ride payment from $10 to $5 in the end! They should have just give the poor old man more than that! The way he try to pedal the whole journey is really heart-wrecking! How can they treat him like this? Arghhh... Bastards!! Shame on them! Think we singaporeans are easy to bully! Don't let us see you guys in singapore again! I'm sure a lot of other people will be furious when they see this videos as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB_GoQ-h9Zg

93.3 金曲奖

This year 93.3 金曲奖 was really draggy and it went on for 4 hours! So many awards to give out to those artistes (I think, there was only around 15 of them) who attend this ceremony. As usual, the no. of awards given out was commented like “分猪肉”. And it’s true loh! For example, 最佳新人奖 – there are 4 of them who got it! Pengz.

1) 迷路兵

2) 石欣卉

3) 蔡旻佑

4) 飞轮海

What’s the point of having 4 people/ group having the same award?!?!

Labeled as 新人 and being as新人is only once in the celebrity’s journey. If unable to win it, it means there is no such chance as they are not considered as新人 anymore. So whoever is the lucky winner is an indication to others that his/her effort is being recognized and will be groomed as the next 天后天 王. It’s a motivation to them as well. Now there is so many people wining it at the same time, it did seem like “分猪肉” in my opinion.

Anyway apart of the crap part, I really enjoyed the live singing of Angela, Fang Da Tong, Sun yan zi and迷路兵!

However, the star of the night was飞轮海. Their fans immediately rush to the fence surrounding the stage once it’s their turn to perform. At that moment, I’m really glad that I’m seated in the VVIP area as it’s such a pleasure that my view will not be blocked by any crazy fans who will be screaming at the top of their voice. And the best part is that I can even view Wu Zhun within 1km away from where I’m seated.

Just a pity that I don’t have the chance to shake hand or take picture with him even though we are so nearby.

So many security guards and reporters around them so better don’t take the chance. I don’t wish to appear in the newspaper header and labeled as one of the crazy fans! Haha…

I only want to catch a glimpse of him. That’s all.

吴尊! 你本人真的好帅!

Sinful habits

Gosh! I’m so addicted to Ben and Jerry’s ice-cream these few weeks.

There have been attractive promotion on it at the supermarket and 7-11.

As a result, I feel so bloated and fat from trying out the different flavours!

Sian… the dream of my ideal weight is becoming so far from now.

Got to start some exercise activity to shed off the excess fats!

减肥开始!

Yippee

I have been so damn nervous ever since on Monday when I heard that the result will be released anytime. My school mates and I were all discussing and fearing for the worst if we didn’t do well for our paper. My worst fear was that I am prepared to fail at least 2 subjects. Anything more than that means I’m not suitable to carry on le. Of course I was hoping to pass everything if possible too. The more I think, the more scared I am. The most sucky thing is that why SIM students can managed to view their result online using their student portal on Tuesday but not my school! Lousy loh.. they should spend money to design an online system sia. … What to do? So the only choice is to wait, wait N wait “ patiently”.

I was half happy and relieved when I heard that my school finally got the result on hand yesterday, so being a “kiasu” me, I took ½ day leave to go down to the school. Haha.. I don’t care as I didn’t have much work on hand too. I just want to know how I fare! Face the truth and get it done over with asap!

Luckily all the fears were unwanted! Yeah! I passed all my 1st year modules and now officially is a 2nd yr student le. Woo Hoo~ I can’t believe my ears when my lecturer praised me that I passed, even the econ and stats that I’m so worried about. Yeah~ Now I have a rough idea of knowing where my standards lie. I know I will have to put in more effort if I want to get the grade that I hope to get. As over the past 2 months, not knowing how the 1st year modules result will turn out to be, I didn’t have the mood and so slack in my 2nd year studies. Lazy bum hor~ now is time to start on my engine and be a nerdy student again. Hahaa...

20th August

Happy birthday to me! Happy birthday to me! Happy birthday happy birthday! Happy birthday to me!

Wahaha.. another year older le N I don’t feel like I’m 26 at all! Ha. Went for lunch gathering with sjcians yesterday at suntec sizzler and we ate our buffet lunch from 1pm to 4pm! Really damn full! But it was really worthy to eat at sizzler as there’s a salad bar full of different variety of soups, veggies and spaghetti! Was already half full eating that before our main dishes were served.Yummy~

This time gathering was a bit different as shufen brought desmond along and bee brought Jiehao. Hehee… I think it’s a good idea to bring them more often so that all of us wont be so much of a stranger during future gathering when they got married in the end.

Today I was having lunch with jesslyn when I heard a good news! Baby Reyes came into this world a day earlier and it was actually planned tomorrow! Hahaa… born on the same say as me. What a pleasant surprise! Always been guessing whether will it be so coincidence that baby reyes will be born on my birthday as there were so many days in august. Welcome to this world! Ade’s little prince~

One time is enough

There are moments that your friends or relatives or even colleagues will ask you the same questions again n AGAIN. It can be really “FAN” to answer esp when you yourself are worried about the matter. Recently, the question of “How are your result?” was keep asking by my surrounding friends for months. Pls give me a break bah! I haven’t got it yet and I’m worried over the result too.

I’m a person that if I feel like saying something out. I would say it. If not, no matter how much you want to know, I wouldn’t say it out too. Sometimes when I got irritated, I would even go the opposite way of what people tell mi what to do. So if I got it, I will reveal the results myself. If not, pls do not keep asking me about it because it also means I’m not ready to reveal it yet. I’m not sure and confident to say how I would fare for the overall result. Its very mind- taxing as it makes me feel that everyone is watching how I perform. I’m sure some of you got secrets of your own and also do not like others probing your private life as well right? When it’s time to tell, I would say.

Therefore, I really do not want others to keep asking, thus I have began to start passing the message around in MSN – DO not ASK about it le!

Give me some breathing space and privacy!

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Amazing

I heard his name over 93.3 this morning while i was on my way to work today. And i'm curious to find out more about him. Paul Pots from britan took part in a singing competition and it changed his life.

I'm never a fan of opera but his voice blew my mind away! He truly has an amazing voice which even Simon, one of the judges, did not expect it too. Looks are really deciving. I guess no one at the audition room would ever thought that this common-looking guy would have such a great talent. He looks just like any ordinary people on the street. His dreams of becoming a singer is finally coming true as he emerged as the final winner of BGT(Britan Great Talent)! Wooo... and he even gets the chance to perform for the queen to enjoy his singing!