Dinner!

Dinner at clementi....a nice little jap restaurant tuck away underneath an old derelict cinema... food serving is generous and price is preety reasonable. Of coz, I didn't went there alone. Only someone like Jianhui will order Agedashi Tofu cos he claims it's what guys eat best... that bugger...

If alcoholic drinks were made in Heaven.....

If alwroholic dreankks were.... *hic*... maaade in Heaven, theen they must hava taaastee *hic* liike tiss ~














Yeapz! This...*hic* .... is delicouswry wonderfulll... *hic*

A Library Trip

Ok, went to Bukit Merah library today to borrow 2 books. The first book I borrowed was "The Little Prince" by Antonie de Saint-Exupery. No, I do not know what it is about yet and i have no idea why I wanted to read this book. I just wanted to, I guess. Naturally, there is a deeper reason to it but I'm too lazy to analyze why this is so... so there.

The second book I borrowed was "Journey of the Wind" by Tomihiro Hoshino. Essentially, the author suffered a terrible accident and the flowers you see in the book are drawn by the author's mouth. And with each page of the book, there lies a different set of paintings, each embedded with the author's own thoughts and reflections about his life... think it will be an interesting read too.

Forget about the last book. it's my textbook for my CS4252 module. I merely used it as a backing :p , and it's definately not an interesting read.
















Weihao's birthday is next week and his friends celebrated his birthday for him in his lab. And lucky me, in the adjacent lab, had a share of the cake too :)

okay, it's a delicious fat-laden coffee cream cake.... time to hit the tracks with my running shoes.

memories II

Yes dude, indeed. How could I ever forget those days? Those WERE the days isn't it? Ah~ what memories! what memories! I can still hear the whirl of the kitchen fan, the "ting" of the toaster at 2am in the morning and the songs that spew out of your laptop..."I know, I know i've let you down...I've been a fool to myself...." Gosh, it still rings in my head now.

Still remember the pineapple tarts? The lousy oven bakes unevenly causing some of the tarts to be under cooked? Or your uncanny ability to "oops" and pour the entire bottle of seasoning into the food and somehow, we still managed to be able to salvage it? And yep, the baked rice. It was as if we stumbled upon a secret receipe and baked our first ever delicious baked rice. It was also our last cos we can't seem to replicate the taste ever since. hahaha....

Of coz, there was the issue of bobby, the pesky little cockroach who eventually turned out to be prince charming...and yes...the security uncle, who seems highly annoyed that us, NUS students, seem not to be able to read English, especially the "No Eating in Room" sign... piangz...he was a classic. I still remembered he pointed to the sign and asked me to read it while I was desperately trying to eat my fries as I didn't had dinner that day.

Over to you dude...

Nights out!

Had my very first outing with my NOC collegues at No.5 bar( between emeralds and centerpoint). Had quite alot of finger food though I guess we were all hungry hence we didn't really take the pics of the crispy chicken wings, soft and moist onion rings and crispy pizzas that seemed to come from Italy... *drool*

However, i hope i redeemed myself by taking a pic of the boring beer bottles and peanut shells which we always throw at Jianhui at the slightest excuse we can conjure up.

*Emptiness*















Emptiness. An entire stretch of void which previously had rows and rows of cars. All gone. It's empty now. Just left me. But at least I found a new friend. His name is loneliness.

My first invite in years...

Got this cute little wedding invitation card. Why cute? notice the cartoonish figure of the bride and bridegroom? it's quite novel to me, considering this is the first invitation i saw with cartoon figures. When my turn comes hor (a big IF), I also want cartoons printed too....

can I have squirt?















In other unrelated news, Linus the NUS lion decided that the new OSIM igallop(tm) massage chair is too expensive an investment so he decided to ask his friend tiggi the tiger to help him out. Viola~ presenting i-can-gallop-too tiggi the massage chair :)

well, with his savings from not buying the chair, he can now get a hair cut on his mane to make it look more like a mane, rather than a mop.

Beginning of an end....

Subject: RE: Final Draft From: xxxl@comp.nus.edu.sg Date: Mon, April 3, 2006 10:09 am To: xxx@comp.nus.edu.sg Priority: Normal

Hi Jarvis,

Thanks for your kind words. I, too, enjoyed working with
you guys. You have been a good sport and worked very hard.
I am very pleased with your work.

Again, good luck with your project.

SL

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I was moved by this email my prof. send me.... I guess it's because this email made me realized that this marks the beginning of the ending of the project, and I'm going to miss all my rantz about my prof... it's quite sad, really.... others may feel happy at this point that the project is finally over...but on the contrary, i feel a numb kind of ache, perhaps a reaction to the fact that all these experiences will not come again. It is a feeling of lost.

But I guess this is just another phase in life, the closing of a chapter and the beginning of another. And during these transitions, i guess part of you will want to stay behind, a lingering wisp of soul,trapped in the past, reminding you of the times that will never be again;
while the rest of you move forward into a new phase of life, manifesting new and wonderful memories as we go along in our journey of life.

And so the cycle repeats.

A walk among the dead ::

Morning foggies from the burning of paper...

we were commenting on why some of the tombstones appear newer besides rows of others that appears to have been neglected for ages....

my 2nd uncle: "some of the tombstones are quite nice, got new cement base hor...."
me: "aiyah....they all got HDB upgrades ma... those that did not have upgrades must be from potong pasir...."
















My 3rd uncle's car and mine's in front of his. Have always wondered the toyota's 1.5l vvt-i engine always outrun my 1.6l no-technology engine despite having a larger displacement.... sigh

Venting my frustrations

In all my blogging days, I have never ever blogged anything of a serious nature. Most of the entries I had were light hearted, occassionally lame and grammatically messed-up. But nothing serious, dark nor gloomy.

I will change all that today by writing out some of my inner-most thoughts (memory purge) which I have kept to myself since yester-years. Best of all, it might not make sense to most of you. Save two.

It is useless fighting the inevitable. There is not any way I could escape from the situation I am in. In short, I am like a fly trapped in a spider's web. A web of emotions. I have always known that emotions are like ice cream toppings. They make eating the ice-cream a delightful experience. Similarly, emotions allows you to experience a plethodra of happiness, sadness and everything in between. All thrown into the delicious ice-cream we call life. And I had just eaten a sour prune in this ice-cream. I guess that is what makes life balanced. Too much sweet toppings and you will be diabetic in no time. Too much salty or sour toppings makes you prone to kidney failure. But boy, do I hate this sour prune.

I have always thought of myself as a deep ponderer (think stoning) and if I could analyse this sour prune from a cold and logical perspective, I would have known that there can only be one ending. And dealt with it swiftly and decisively at that point in time. Yet I had hesitated. I am not a cold, lifeless machine. I am human afterall. I waited. And waited. And waited. The sour prune was closer. Closer. And now I am eating it. Yummy.

The line must be drawn here. No more emotional weakness. I will remove this sour prune from my mouth as cleanly as a surgeon amputates a limb from a body. I had already done what I needed to do. Now I will go and be at peace with myself.

Aut viam inveniam aut faciam.

P.S: Seriously, i'm not dangling any one's appetite (think chinese?). But seriously, stop guessing. Take it as an interesting read and think nothing of it(I hope I don't sound snobbish, I wrote it because I want to let it out, not irritate anyone). But to the two of you who knows, the only link had been severed. I'll be (try) at peace now.

Big Ships!

These pics were taken outside my mum's office... heh... the boats are at least 3 stories high ....not something you will see often =) these were build by the company my mum's working in...i'll like to have one too...considering it's quite cheap... how cheap? try a BMW 3 series.... the catch? you only get the hull... but with the amount of change left over, i've sure it will get you a decent engine





























Okay, this is not a ship but so happened to be a pic of my car taken at cy's place... too bad the background is not the wide open sea or something.... sigh....

Damn confusing LEH!!!!

Excerpt from CNA:

January retail sales rise 4.8% year-on-year on subdued car purchases

SINGAPORE : Retail sales in Singapore rose 4.8 percent in January compared with the same period a year ago.

This is according to latest data from the Department of Statistics.

The number was largely in line with expectations.

The muted rise in retail sales was largely because Singaporeans did not rush out to buy big ticket items such as cars.

Minus the car sales figures, retail sales rose 9.7 percent on year in January.

The boost came from higher sales of food and beverages over the Chinese New Year period which fell in that month.

According to the data, supermarkets and department stores reported a roaring trade.

Food and beverage sales rose 34 percent on year in January while department store sales increased nearly 12 percent.

On a seasonally-adjusted basis, retail sales fell 3.9% in January compared with December last year.
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I do not know about you guys but this article is really confusing me. Just look at the sentences in bold and you will know what i mean. If we have a drop in retail sales from last december, just say so, dun have to say we are better than last year january or that retails sales is good without car purchases...I mean, after all, we want to know the bottom line, but I think all we are getting is a confusing line.

Zhnnnng my moo-moo : Stage 1

ok. hand itchy. changed my car interior speedometer lights to blue Leds.

I hate this Laptop ( Just dun ask what brand it is)

A brand new laptop which I had my hands on. Clean and fresh off the box. Was going to do a routine installation of the necessary softwares which our department uses, but it was definately not a routine installation.

Firstly, it was plain sailing, managed to join the NUS domain, logged in with my account and prepare to install acrobat prof. from the web shopping, then suddenly, this BOD came up right at the start of the installation. Shit.

Nvm. reboot. BOD. SHiT. reboot. Safe mode. BOD.SHIT SHIT SHIT. reboot. windows recovery.BOD.SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT. Format laptop. reinstalled EVERYTHING. log on with nusnet a/c. Compulsary Trend Micro AV installation. clicked install.

BOD.

!@#$%^&*(&^. STUFF LAPPY BACK INTO BOX.

Interesting read

Nine ways of marrying the wrong person
By Rabbi Dov Heller, M.A.

1. You pick the wrong person because you expect him/her to change after you're married. The classic mistake: Never marry potential. The golden rule is, if you can't be happy with the person the way he or she is now, don't get married. As a colleague of mine so wisely put it, "You actually can expect people to change after they're married... for the worst!" So when it comes to the other person's spirituality, character, personal hygiene, communication skills, and personal habits, make sure you can live with these as they are now.

2. You pick the wrong person because you focus more on chemistry than on character. Chemistry ignites the fire, but good character keeps it burning. Beware of the "I! 'm in love" syndrome. "I'm in love" often means, "I'm in lust." Attraction is there, but have you carefully checked out this person's character? Here are four character traits to definitely check for:
Humility: Does this person believe that "doing the right thing" is more important than personal comfort? Do I want to be more like this person? Would I like my child to turn out like him or her?
Kindness: Does this person enjoy giving pleasure to other people? How does s/he treat people s/he doesn't have to be nice to? Does s/he do volunteer work? Give charity?
Responsibility: Can I depend on this person to do what s/he says s/he's going to do?
Happiness: Does this person like himself? Does s/he enjoy life? Is s/he emotionally stable? Ask yourself: Do I want to be more like this person? Do I want to have a child with this person? Would I like my child to turn out like him or her?

3. You pick the wrong person because the man doesn't understand what a woman needs most. Men and women have unique emotional needs, and more often than not, it is the man who just doesn't "get it." Jewish tradition places the onus on the man to understand the emotional needs of a woman and to satisfy them. The unique need of a woman is to be loved -- to feel that she is the most important person in her husband's life. The husband needs to give her consistent, quality attention. This is most apparent in Judaism's approach to sexual intimacy. The Torah obligates the husband to meet the sexual needs of his wife. Sexual intimacy is always on the woman's terms. Men are goal-oriented, especially when it comes to this area. As a wise woman once pointed out, "Men have two speeds: on and off." Women are experience-oriented. When a man is able to switch gears and become more experience-oriented, he will discover what makes his wife very happy. When the man forgets about his own needs and focuses on giving his wife pleasure, amazing things happen.

4. You choose the wrong person because you do not share a common life goals and priorities. There are three basic ways we connect with another person:
-chemistry and compatibility
-share common interests
-share common life goal
Make sure you share the deeper level of connection that sharing life goals provide. After marriage, the two of you will either grow together or grow apart. To avoid growing apart, you must figure out what you're "living for," while you're single -- and then find someone who has come to the same conclusion as you. This is the true definition of a "soul mate." A soul mate is a goal mate -- two people who ultimately share the same understanding of life's purpose and therefore share the same priorities, values and goals.

5. You pick the wrong person because you do not have a deeper emotional connection with this person. To evaluate whether you have a deeper emotional connection or not, ask: "Do I respect and admire this person?" This does not mean, "Am I impressed by this person?" We are impressed by a Mercedes. We do not respect someone because they own a Mercedes. You should be impressed by qualities of creativity, loyalty, determination, etc.
Also ask:
"Do I trust this person?" This also means, "Is he/she emotionally stable? Do I feel I can rely on him/her?

6. You pick the wrong person because you choose someone with whom you don't feel emotionally safe. Ask yourself the following questions: Do I feel calm, peaceful and relaxed with this person? Can I fully express myself with this person? Does this person make me feel good about myself? Do you have a really close friend who does make you feel this way? Make sure the person you marry makes you feel the same way! Are you afraid of this person in any way? You should not feel you need to monitor what you say because you are afraid of how the other person will view it. If you're afraid to express your feelings and opinions openly, there's a problem with the relationship.
Be on the look out for someone who is always trying to change you. Another aspect of feeling safe is that you don't feel the other person is trying to control you. Controlling behaviors are a sign of an abusive person. Be on the look out for someone who is always trying to change you. There's a big difference between "controlling" and "making suggestions." A suggestion is made for your benefit; a control statement is made for their benefit.

7. You pick the wrong person because you don't put everything on the table. Anything that bothers you about the relationship must be brought up for discussion. Bringing up the uncomfortable stuff is the only way. To evaluate how well the two of you communicate, negotiate, and work together. Over the course of a lifetime, difficulties will inevitably arise. You need to know now, before making a commitment: Can you resolve your differences and find compromises that work for both of you? Never be afraid to let the person know what bothers you. This is also a way for you to test how vulnerable you can be with this person. If you can't be vulnerable, then you can't be intimate. The two go hand in hand.

8. You pick the wrong person because you use the relationship to escape from personal problems and unhappiness. If you are unhappy and single, you'll probably be unhappy and married, too. Marriage does not fix personal, psychological and emotional problems. If anything, marriage will exacerbate them. If you are not happy with yourself and your life, take responsibility to fix it now while you are single. You'll feel better, and your future spouse will thank you.

9. You pick the wrong person because he/she is involved in a triangle. To be "triangulated" means a person is emotionally dependent on someone
or something else while trying to develop another relationship. A person who hasn't separated from his or her parents is the classic example of triangulation. People can also be triangulated with things as well, such as work, drugs, Internet, hobbies, sports or money. Be careful that you and your partner are free of triangles. The person caught in the triangle cannot be fully emotionally available to you. You will not be their number one priority. And that's no basis for a marriage.

- Now, why isn't such good stuff available everywhere? It will save some heartache.

Breakfast at Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel

Woke up damn frigging early on Friday as OAR had a CASE event held at the hotel. Reached the place at 7.30am (never ever wake up so damn early since BMT days). Had buffet breakfast (a pity, i was too sleepy to really enjoyed the breakfast)















Well, as you can see, i didn't take much(not that it was nice anyway). Lamb sauage, pork sauage, hash brown, fried salmon with sea salt(no idea what the hell that is. all salt is from the sea.. no?) and a pastry that is quite sweet and refreshing. However, the pineapple juice was a tad too sour(well at least that woke me up... heheh)














The event posters. They had many of such posters there. Too many to count. Actually, I don't think anyone will be so bo-liao as to count them.















The room where i was posted to man the stupid "cybercafe" and where all the participants mingle. Well, at least I got to chat with some of the participants, especially the exotic looking woman from dunno where at the right side of the photo (She is in the middle of 2 women, with one wearing a red blanket :P). Didn't managed to find out where she is from as I was yanked to help in some other stuff !@#$%^&* Ah well, at least we had a nice chat by the window facing the river.

Dinner at West Coast

My friend was returning to Australia so we had a farewell dinner at west coast last Thursday. The only reason why we were there was because of the prawn paste chicken ($8 for 8 pieces). This is probably the beste prawn paste chicken we have ever tasted. We also ordered a veggie (nothing fancy) and a hot-plate chilli squid... yummy!

Very relevent song

A very relevant song. Enjoy. Just like summer breeze.

"White Flag" - By Dido

I know you think that I shouldn't still love you,
Or tell you that.But if I didn't say it,
well I'd still have felt it where's the sense in that?
I promise I'm not trying to make your life harder
Or return to where we were

I will go down with this ship
And I won't put my hands up and surrender
There will be no white flag above my door
I'm in love and always will be

I know I left too much mess and destruction to come back again
And I caused nothing but trouble
I understand if you can't talk to me again
And if you live by the rules of "it's over"
then I'm sure that that makes sense

I will go down with this ship
And I won't put my hands up and surrender
There will be no white flag above my door
I'm in love and always will be

And when we meet
Which I'm sure we will
All that was there
Will be there still
I'll let it pass
And hold my tongue
And you will think
That I've moved on....

I will go down with this ship
And I won't put my hands up and surrender
There will be no white flag above my door
I'm in love and always will be (x3)

Dinner at Ritz Carlton

Had Seafood Buffet Dinner at one of the restaurants in Ritz Carlton. First time going to Ritz Carlton and I've to admit that the car park charges is cheap (@ $2 per entry) and the parking lots spacious (Very). The seafood spread is very solid. Just take a look at the type of fresh seafood they offered.

From left: Prawns, mussels, white mussels, tiny crayfish, large crayfish, black mussles and flower crab. (not in picture: Fresh oysters)






As you can see, this is the only picture i've taken as I was busy eating, trying to sample as many dishes as I can. Besides seafood, they have a simple spread of sashimi and sushi. Even their main courses are good. Black Pepper crab(we conclude that the crabs are fried as they are not that fresh), steam fish, beef, duck in beehoon and others which I can remember. Even their dessert spread is solid. They have intriguing selections of dessets, choco mousse, dessets in a cup, cheesecake and also a spread of chocolates pieces (Those Sins lookalike).

Damage? $68+++ per person.
Total bill? approx. $380 for 5 persons (Heng not I pay..if not eat grass liaoz)

Fliibee goes to Malacca!

Hi all~ My name is fliibee and I shall tell you about my trip to Malacca HeE Hee~





This is me still drooling from sleeping! *yawnz* papa took this shortly before yanking my little trotters and waking me up !@#$%^&





Sigh... waiting for papa's uncle at his place...Hungryz~











Yipee!! Fliibee is going into Malaysia! At Tuas checkpoint...papa uncle's Camry is in front of us!








My little FIRST CLASS seat for my trip to Malacca! soft and comfortable....ZzzZzzz






Stop over at Machap...boy..you should look at how fast papa scrambled to the toilet...HeE Hee








Papa flying continuously at 110km/h...his driving make me wanna puke...road is bumpy and there are many potholes! made me bouce around in my seat! !@#$%^&






Me at the entrance into Malacca town! stopped over at the infomation centre. Papa again rushed for the toilet...serves him right for drinking so much on the way...also that cheapo papa grabbed many many free maps before leaving the place





My lunchie!!! We reached Mahkota Parade at 1pm and had lunch. Papa bought black pepper chicken noodles at 4.40 RM...half price! But hor, the chicken also half the size ....








Shopping around in Mahkota.... most of the shops are opened, save one or two.





After shopping, papa brought me to Coffee Bean to rest before making our way back to Singapore. Here the muffins also half price compared to Singapore but luckily the portion not half the size... yum yum




Yam sticks for mama! But i'm gonna drool all over it first










After a long day's shopping...time for the journey home....











At my papa's uncle place again! We stopped over for dinner with the pizza brought in Malacca. two large pizza for 35 RM. No, it's really a large pizza...Yum yum~~

Me and big brother bunny!

GIC Part II

Well, had my first official interview in GIC. It went pretty alright by my standards but after the 2hrs +++++++, I felt bloody drained and still having to face with doing my FYP for tomorrow's meeting with Pannie.

Funny thing is, I don't really feel much for the interview but wonder whether if I even apply for the correct kind of job that I wanted. This thought has been at the back of my head and as stubborn in going away as the current rainy season... Sigh...

Life Sucks...Can someone just pass me like S$1 Billion bucks so that I can live my life the way i want to, not the way society dicitates me to.

Heh heh... a little more light-hearted incident while I was there..the head-hunted receptionist was having a flu and she was busy clearing her nose on a hankie when I approach. I really have to hand it to these people, she can do it in such a diginifed manner and upon seeing me, recovering nicely from her "business" with flair and prose. And all these while, she didnt even lose her composure. I think if i were to interview for HER job, i proberbly couldn't even get within a mile of the application form.