hIgHs "n" lOwS: April 2007
Thursday, April 26, 2007
「 dancing away 4:40 PM 」



Went for Dentistry Dexterity Test yesterday... It was quite fun though it was mentally tired... It was a 3HRs TEST!!! And I had to do carving, twisting and molding... Do until my fingers hurt sia~ It was quite shocking to see the dress code of the students there... All wear until so formal... Even docs dont wear so formal loh... Haha... Gals were wearing heels & guys in formal attire... scary~

When I reached there, it was all gals until like 1.45pm then 3 guys... (from army, somemore, came...) Lucky they came, if not the entire lab would have me as the only male inside.. *so awkward*

I started with the wire twisting... It looked easy but its not... With the tweezer only... There's nothing much you can do... Haha... And you have to really slowly twist it... What's bad is that the shapes that they wanted us to twist into are full of bends... -_-"" I took like 1HR to finish 2 pieces of wire...

Then I proceeded to the next interesting thing - molding plastacine into the tooth... I can tell you now that I sucks in Arts & Craft... My tooth (I mean the one that I mold) didn't even look like a tooth... Whahaha... It looks more like a piece of ROCK...

Lastly, it was the torturous clay cylinder... We had to carve out a 2.3cm X 2.3cm X 2.3cm cube out of the cylinder and from the cube, removed a 1cm X 1cm X 1cm cube... Sounds difficult to do right? It's that difficult.. Haha.. Especially when the clay is so freaking hard and they give us some blunt scalpel... I saw that some of the gals were able to do nice carving... Haha... This also shows something.. Last time when I was in lower sec.. All my D&T works were done by my teachers!!! Hahaha...

So I basically sat behind the table and did those things for 3HRS... Haha... Didnt know that I had that patience...

After that, I went to meet Dar at Vivio City & had the enormous Swiss bacon Chicken Burger... *Almost puke out* Shouldn't have ordered that... We sat there talk cock for a while then headed home... Another boring day passed... Haha...

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Monday, April 23, 2007
「 dancing away 1:32 PM 」



I'm BACK from Pulau Dayang... It's quite an experience to be there!!! *strongly recommended to go there for a hol* There's the SANDY WHITE BEACH - the sand is so fine that they just slip through your fingers... The CRYSTAL CLEAR SEA is another plus point - so clear that you can see the sea bed that is more than 10m deep...

*Pulau Dayang - The Must-Go Place*

This is what we did over the weekend:

We took a mini bus to Mersing Jetty from Lor Mydin and the trip was 4hr!!! It was so MINI that I don't even have space to stretch... To make matter worse... Daryl K.O-ed the moment we crossed the malaysia checkpoint... He enjoyed his sleep but I suffered from the constant banging of his head on my shoulders... *smirk* I didnt sleep through out the trip cos I felt that my life was at RISK!!! The driver was an EX - F1 racer I think... He was speeding at 120 - 150 km/hr loh.. And waivering through traffics, driving against traffic... *-_-"" cold sweat broke out*

*"Formal F1 Racer" taking us to the destination*

*An ugly sleeping position & my bruised right shoulder*


At around 12MN, we arrived at Mersing Jetty where we took a BOAT *not a ship, as constantly reminded by Esther & Ying Kai* on which I managed to catch a nap of 2hrs... *The top deck is damn cold* And we arrived at Dayang at 4am on Saturday morning... We were supposed to sleep but I woke up at 5am plus to look at the SUNRISE... *Very beautiful to see the sun peeking behind the clouds* Then the day began... 3 trips out into the sea to see the beautiful corals and fishes during the day... By then, I was rather tired... *Didnt really want to go for the last one... But I had no choice.. It was the requirement* Though I was shag-ed, I enjoyed the night scenery underneath... Get to see maybe exotic fishes, plants etc... *The type of boat that we took* *Authentic Zinc-roof Hut where we have our meals*

*Dayang Island Resort - Taken at 6am*

*Beautiful Sunrise*

*Pulau Lang*

*Snorkelling Our Way during Surface Interval*

*Corals & Fishes which are too small to be seen*

*Our Princess - I meant the boat's name*

*Shen, Daryl & Me Soaking In The Sun*
*Found a mini Starfish* *More corals & fishes*

Last day, we had to wake up at 6am for dawn entry... Water was not as cold as expected... This was deep navigation... We went 26.3m deep... The corals and lifeforms underneath was breathtaking... There were giant sea clams that were bigger than my face... And we saw sharks... and of cos the ULTRA big bumphead parrotfish *which I labelled them as Kok Tao Fish*


*Permeating Rays through Dark Clouds**So old already... Still acting cute*

*Lesson in Progress*

*Sleepy Heads**Gina - The Pro... Names of the fishes are at her finger tips... And she describes the fishes so vividly*

*Group photo with Uncle Donald & Auntie May... Young at hearts!!! They have been diving for more than 20 years*

In the afternoon, we made our way back to mainland taking another 4hrs boat ride... Then the mini bus... And "Lucky" us, we had a small mishap on the way back... The tyre punctured.. And we had to change to another mini bus at one of the petrol kiosk before we can safely return to Singapore... =) By the time we reached, it was already 9 plus and we were all damn shag...


*Gone Case - Lousy Tyre**Shocked to see so many CUTS in the wheel*

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Friday, April 20, 2007
「 dancing away 1:11 PM 」



...It's RETRENCHMENT DAY...
Today is not a good day to work... Initially it all started with poor Li Shin... She was the first one to be OPERATED on... After she was told about the news, she packed up and left the office.. *sadz* After that, one by one, all of them were being called into the meeting rooms to have a LITTLE CHAT with the managers... And all of them came out looking some sort of down... But most of them saw this coming: due to the head-freeze and so on... The company gave all of them day off after breaking the news to them so that they can do whatever they like, be it to cry to vent their frustration or the indulge in food or entertainment... So currently, as of 1.17pm, the office is rather "DEAD"...

*Xiao P and gang went to Orchard to spend money maybe*
*All the rest of my team are still at J8 shopping*
*Most of them MUST be SWEARING & CURSING*
Anyway the reason behind the retrenchment: Company is shifting office back to China where all transactions are done... -_-"" By July - August, most of the staff here would have left except for the Team Leads and Manager... I was still imagining that I'm able to leave this place with them smiling.. It seems now that they will be leaving with me when my contract ends...

*even Peter Pan get to stay, how amazing can that be*

I was still thinking of returning here to work during my hols... Now it seems to me that it's impossible... Erm.. Maybe I'm able to go home earlier... Since everyone is not in the mood to work...

Anyway Peeps.. I'll be gone for 3 days until Sunday... Going off for my escapade... See you when i'm back...

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Monday, April 16, 2007
「 dancing away 8:01 PM 」



It's just another Monday... Let me think.. 106 days from 1st Jan *if I didnt remember wrongly from my Lotus Notes* That fast.. One-third of the year is gone!!! And what have I done? *erm... Seems like nothing... That's bad...*
As usual, today is a slack day.. But I wasn't in a very good mood.. *didn't know why... Maybe it was cos of the loud "thud" that woke me up bloody early this morning...* That's why didn't want to go out and have lunch with Mega Sleepy Superstar & GH... And I've promised that Little Halo aka Hsiao Wei that I'll dedicate one post for her... Erm... Wait till I get a better, clearer picture of her bah... *there are lots of things to write..*
I'm writing this for the sake of entering a post.. Haha... Sad.. Wait till next week when I come back then I'll share with you ppl my trip...
~ Cheerios ~

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Sunday, April 15, 2007
「 dancing away 8:00 PM 」



Took a day leave from work on Friday to go for all my medical checkups - NUS and AH...
2 things to be happy about and 1 to be sad...

Happy Thing:
1. Finally I broke my 5 year record of weight maintaining... Haha... And I weigh 1.7kg more!!!

*That is if the weighing machine at NUS is accurate*

2. The doc at AH said that "YOUR BACK WILL GET BETTER"... I spent 2hrs waiting and the consultation was less than 5 mins.. Efficient?

*which I doubt is true cos he didnt even do any checks but just asked everything verbally... And he is from KOREA*

Sad Thing:
1. Did the medical checkup at NUS and know what... I got HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE... Didnt know why my blood pressure shot up to 154/92.. Cos all the while my blood pressure is maintained at 110/80... Abnormal...

*Heart Attack is waiting for ME*

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Thursday, April 12, 2007
「 dancing away 10:40 AM 」



Finally... After so many seconds... minutes... hours... days... weeks... months... of waiting... I'm going for my advance course liao...

*...paiseh to CG, Kars & Kel, didn't go with you all... cos my classmate is interested so he's doing his open water and I'm doing my advance...*

This time there's a thicker textbook to read and most of the things have to do it myself... The video for 10+ chapters is only 1hr... *shows how brief the video is* But as usual, the video is damn boring and lame...

* Going to take lots of photos *

. . : : Looking forward to it : : . .

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Monday, April 9, 2007
「 dancing away 4:17 PM 」



As you can see... It's 4:27pm now and I can blog.. This shows how bored I'm at work...
Good Friday...
Met up with Dar, Ter & Joe for lunch at Hougang Mall... Had a budget meal of $4 at Long John... Haha... Then we decided to head for Vivo for a movie, despite the fact that Joe was wearing VJ PE T-shirt (a little sloppy)... And GUESS WHAT MOVIE WE WATCHED??? Meet the ROBINSONS... Hahah... 4 guys watching cartoon... Like not awkward... And its in 3D somemore... We bought the 1st row tickets but in the end we kapoh other ppl's seats in the 3rd row cos it was too TORMENTING... Even though we changed to the 3rd row, I was still unable to see the 3D effect... Haha... But one thing for sure... It made me damn NAUSEA... Feel like vomitting after watching it... After the movie, we had BK at some kiddy playground and went home...
Things to look forward to in the weeks - months to come:
= Trip to Pulau Dayang (might not have.. depends) =
= Trip to Binta =
= Trip to Hong Kong =
= Birthday Party =

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Thursday, April 5, 2007
「 dancing away 10:22 AM 」



Finally, something good happened...

Received a call from Adecco yesterday evening...

... My Contract has been EXTENDED ...

*which means that I don't have to go for job hunting after May*



Wednesday, April 4, 2007
「 dancing away 1:14 PM 」



Haven been putting up posts since god-knows-when... Haha.. Posting something up here during office hours now cos there's nothing to do... So let me think what I did this week..
Last week helped Elicia edited her essay.. (Elicia: Happy to see your name on my blog?! Haha...) Erm... We (Eddy & I) had a hard time making changes to her essay.. Her ENGLAND is too POWDERFUL!!! I felt I was a cast in the PERFECT STORM: I was lost in the middle of her essay... Haha... (Elicia: don't be angry arh... I know you under stress in Aussie liao... But take care lah har!! Don't kana bully by the guys! Stand Up to them...)
This Monday met up with JunTing & Jincong at Compass Point had the Jap Food.. (To ppl out there reading this: Don't try the food there.. I don't think its worth the money!) As usual, we talked rubbish and after that they went to TIMEZONE to play... They played the BASKET BALL SHOOTING, STREET FIGHTER (that's like ages ago, the screen showed lines...) That's all... Sad gathering... Nothing much...
This isn't a very good week... erm... Initially the trip is scheduled to be this week.. but cancelled... Then I spoke to someone but the person didn't reply.. Didn't get to sleep well cos of some bloody idiot went to adjust the temperature to 20 degrees, so freaking cold but I refused to wake up to adjust back... *Not a GOOD week*

P.S. Need to start to prepare for Party liao... Mom is pushing for it to be done... Invitations & everything!!! *headache*

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