Korea trip

Yoz.... Finally I have time to sit down and write abt the trip to korea

Day 1==== Everland
Temp: 1 to -1
It was the first day, and I am super cold, cos I think despite of all the clothes that I wore, one t shirt, one small jacket + one down jacket, I am still shivering. Conclusion is that the leather gloves were of no use. Pple next time just wear woollen gloves, cheaper and warmer. Despite of the coldness, we managed to take plenty of pictures of that place. There is a small safari there and we can take a bus to view the lions and bears. Altho I almost get frost bite, my hands were swollen, I am excited to try all those thrilling ride.I was screaming like hell for the last ride. Everland is the site of one drama, 红豆女之恋。the first korean drama show that I like. It is also shown in Lee Jun Ki newest movie's fly daddy Fly. But I am too scary cat to try the ride shown in fly daddy. Hmm, but still happy that I am in the same place as 이준기. Yeah!!!

Abt 10am, the place start to fill up, then managed to take a ggod looks at those korean. Conclusion is that Korean girls at age 15 -18 are not so good looking, unlike Japanese teens. The boys are better. I got see at least 2 that look like Garfield's oopa Hyun bin and got one Jun ki look alike albeit 17 years old.　Haha anyway, korean are taller than average Sporean. The males are at least 175cm and the females are at least 168cm. Female are mostly fair and Males are quite fair as well (ard my shade of colour)

Day 2 === Skiing
Yoz. Finally the day of skiing. We stayed in the famous Winter Sonata resort; Yongpyong. The instructor only taught us the starting and the stopping. After practising for a while, we are on our own. I can manged the gentle slope without difficulty. Then the guys in our tour group ask us to go up the slope. I dun want to go as I am not confident, but hoh, R seems confident, so we went up with the guys. When I　reached there, before I　can stablised myself, Already down I　go as it is v v steep, I can't stopped thus I sit down as I　am really scared. After that I continue to go down in a slower pace as the the slope is less steep by then. Garfield is really courageous as she zoomed down the slope without stopping or falling. R being less fortunate fall and decided to give up after 2 falls. But then we gals are really gungho to try. Still I managed to learn how to change direction by myself in order not to knock into others. Thru this exprience we make friends with the other pple in our tour group.

Idol sighting
Saw two guys who looked like HYun Bin again... Aiyoh, he is the common face in Korea.



Day 3 === Shopping day in dongdameum
The Four of us bought lots of face shop stuff... Majority of the cosmestic is cheaper than spore. But then hoh, I din bring much $$$ out to buy lah, so bought a few masks, a few eye shadowss that it. Unlike Singapore, the Man here went to face shop to buy masks for themselves not accompanying their girlfriends, as I seen them taking the Homme range of Skin care products. No wonder, the Hallyu craze over the Korean actors.. haha I also bought a heart shape earrings at the shopping mall. Too bad we have no time, else we can shopped till dropped. But then hoh, language barriers prevent us from sneaking out in the middle of the night. If it is in Japan, then I can 血洴

Day 4 === Lotte World
Lotte world is the sites for the staircase of heaven a teary korean drama that I din watch. It is the coldest day abt - 5 degrees. The queue for the rides are so long, that we abandoned quite a number of rides. As we are queuing for the hot air ballon ride. A 13 year old catched my Attention... He looks like a Junior Jun ki. R tot he is a girl, then he seems v shy as we auntie were looing at him. All of the sudden he seems to tok to a few girls abt his age in front of him... haha so young already 泡妞。Hahah it remind me of the "Grace" video where 이준기 invent a new machine for a hot air ballon, before soaring th esky with it. Thus Hot air ballon = 이준기
I am so sad that I not a Korean, Else I chase after the 준기 look alikes. Why is there no Jun ki look alike in Spore... Think Garfield also like to stay in Korea as there are so many Hyun Bins for her to choose.

Idol sighting
Just as I　was commenting that there are no Joo Ji Hoon look alike, I turn and saw a guy that look like him, except that JJH　is much taller. Garfield agree that the guy do resemble JJH, then he moved a bit and I take a look at his girlfriend, then OMG, that gf look like Yun En Hye. Haha think that this guy purposely go and find a girl that look her lah so they can fakeco "goong"

Day 5 === Daejanggeum
The is the exact film site of Jewel in the palace by the MBC studio. I really like this film sites as I　went through familiar scenes in Daejanggeum.




All in all this is a good trips. Spot various idols look alikes, taste those korean food. The shopping could be better tho, but stuffs there are more expensive than Spore.

We Learn, Lead and Serve

The Girls with me in the confined space resuce where we crawl into a maze in darkness. See they are all so pretty right... Except for moi.



Me and my fire fighting buddy aka cadet Teo.



The guys who all help me as I noe nothing abt drills and first aid.



Look Encik is so popular with the Girls. He is ex DART and HAZMAT... Super shuai.



More of ENCIK... Handsome???



The best training, my Major and me who is uber small fry.



My first aid Buddy aka Ai.

To Cpt Liang and all the AFI who support us... Heartfelt thanks... This course really made a difference in my life and I will go for the fire fighter and CPR instructor course soon... 是対に。

3rd OBC training course

3 weeks of intensive training finally end last week... YO! I graduate with no scratches and no scars and meet lots of heros in the training... Yes, heros as in saving life and make a great difference to the country. Let me make a quick recap of wat zoom by these 3 weeks

Week 1 (14/11- 17/11)
An apprehensive start of my Officer Basic training course (OBC) for National Civil Deference Cadet Corps (NCDCC). For the uninitiated , it is an entire new CCA of three years old. The LCP told me to polished my boots and iron my field dress till the lines on my pants can be seen. My pockets have to be starched (heck it, starch if for wat... durhh)I am wearing gutters for the first time. Dun really noe how to spell, it is a thin green thingy that is elastic to hold your pants so that the legs will not touch the boots.
So mah huan I think. I am never in the uniform gp before, thus really noe nothing.
Went to the meeting place and was surprised to find many female teachers (all pretty pretty kind... I look the most garang compared to them, but boy I was wrong) instead of males going for the course. My course was held at the Home Team Academy for the first week, (HTA)together with the NPCC officers. Hmm see lots of Botaks NS man there. For an absolute newbie in foot drill, the first week was sheer torture. All the kanan, kiri, beklang, hedapan pusing. Heng the guy behind teach me how,(thanks ah John) else I die in the hentakaki cos I dun noe which leg to bang during Berhenti. We have to learn all the basic footdrill in 3 days time... SIONG ah as this include sizing and hormat. The NCDCC officers were more stressed than the NPCC ones as we have to have a method of instruction test on first day of week three. I freak out when I realise that I have to teach Sizing. SO LONG ah the command. Heng Got Help from JF and S as they are both parade commander before, else I am already died.

After all the foot drill, we went to Civil defence Academy (CDA) for our Hazard Material training class (Hazmat)We have to dorn a suit and wear face mask. This is same as the gas chamber treatment for those NS guys

Week 2 (20/11 - 24/11)
The Adventure training camp (ATC) I named it the camp of instant noodles. I like this camp very much except of the food... SUCKS!!! we eat instant noodles until I felt like puking. Having a chef among us did not help when he dun have a kitchen ( he is a ex raffles hotel chef who become a teacher) But this camp really teach me that nothing is impossible as I jump down from the Jetty, get my hand caught in a raft and still get up and paddle. Knees like jelly still want to try the rope crawl like 3 storeys off the ground, all thanks to YY who urge me on and the best NPCC officier who guide me steps by step). It is a test of limit, not to say I run a mild fever due to sore throat.

Week 3 (27/11 - 1/12)

Last week is a real siong week, we learn so many stuff and has so many tests. We has a MOI for footdrill, another MOI for any SCDF topic, I chose fire hazard and Prepared all the ppt slides ,read up from SCDF websites. We have a First aid practical and theory test (I dun noe we had a theory test until the day and I spent like 15 min studying) For the first aid, we have learn on Mon and tuesday and Wednesday night is the test. We learn CPR on Wednesday and thursday morning we have a CPR test.
Beside all that, we have to learn Rescue in confined space, stretcher drills, fire fighting skill in furnace (a buidling full of stimulation of different kind of fire, the fire fighter also use this buidling to train)We used water hose, 10 - 15 kg of fire extinguisher of various kind to fight small fire (small means whole room full of fire but still containable). All thanks to Ai (my first aid buddy for her head and body during the practial and practise session) To Cadet Teo, whom I fire fight and practise CPR together.

All in all
Greatest thanks to my ENCIK . You are the best and definately a hero in the eyes of all of us...

It is a tough decision

I was thinking of whether I shd write my blog? Since I was up early on a Sat morning at 6.30am, (curse my bio clock for waking up on a Sat morining), I can choose between doing my scheme of work (SOW is totally school related, not my resolutions for next year, pls I am a procrastinator okie) for next year or writing my blog. Being the Uber slacker, I chose to slack off my time by writing the BLOG.

HTML
Ah Gen is learning HTML now, I am asking him to learn really fast and give me a new blogskin full of photos that I like.

Youtube MTV
For those who like kendo, the king and the clown. pls watch This MTV Jun ki is definitely more manly here... He so かこいい Make me want to go and dig out my old hakama. For those who like the first mtv can proceed to
the next. Else pls dun watch as this is a super duper fan worthy MTV. I have watch this MTV for countless time espically whenever I feels sad as this is a happy happy MTV. The song is sang by Jun ki and it is really cute as he will always put his hand on his forehead whenever he did something wrong... CUTE!!! destressed ah...

Bridemaid HORROR
For those who has ever comtemplate to be a bridemaid. Advice from a bridemaid of last week. DUN BE ONE. I noe it is your good friend, but hoh, pple like me who dun noe how to do make up properly and who dun noe how to style hair, it is torturous. I am so embarrassed by my incompetence that I practise the eye make up on my own until I get it right. はずかしい。

Feel that my blog is too plain. Thus put some photos of Rain and Jun ki for enhancement.





(note: they are both in traditional korean costume)

You know Korea Craze has really HIT when...

Evidence that I have watched too much Korean Drama
~can memorise some of the korean words,not just sah ran hye yo, can also detect those honorific terms (maybe because Japanese also has honorific terms), For name calling, eqivalent to the Japanese さん is shi in Korean( eg: tanaka san = tanaka shi)

~ have the burning desire to buy those product placement products like the samsoon pig in my lovely samsoon, the Alfred bear in Goong...

~ Can sing the " 3 bear song" in full house. (can find the Flash in youtube, very the cutie)

~ Watch KBS, MBC tv award despite not understanding Korean language.

~ Watch Nonstop a korean spoof on various famous drama like " samsoon" Some episode are without the subtitles.

~ Watch thoee entertainment news about Korean Actors in Japanese, as they went to Japan... Note: Rain 's English and Japanese pronunciation are very accurate... Parrot みたい！！！日本語を分かて意味がよくしって嬉しいはつです。

~ want to visit those filming sites of "samsoon" " full house", and " goong"

Forbbiden City - the gossip

This is the first time that we sat in the first row seats. The view was excellent, we can see Kit Chan and the other actors very clearly, in fact so clearly that we can spot microphones on their forehead, which I am not sure whether this is a good thing or not.

Kit chan gave a fabulous rendition as the Cixi... This woman has really power lungs. The song sang by her was resonated with passion and despire as she can't do much to help her dying husband and son.

The inaccuracy of the historical aspects spoiled the otherwise spectacular performance. I am so perturb by the inaccuracy that I have to check up my texts and internet for validation. Turns out that we are wrong in some part of the Messy Qing history.

Eg: We know that Pu yi is the last emperor of China. But we thought that he is the nephew of Cixi... Turn out that Cixi 's nephew is Guang Xu. Stoopid me tot that Guang xu is the father of Xuan feng. Nah, Xuan feng father is called Dao guang... Turns out that the musical is right abt Guang Xu being Tong Zhi 's successor. Aiyoh. After Guang Xu die, Pu yi then ascend the throne. (Pu Yi is supposed to be Guang Xu half bro)

Ahhh... Headache ah.

But hoh, the interesting fact that I have encountered is that all the last 3 emperors of China did not have any children. Pu Yi and Guang Xu are known to be impotent. Even Xuan Feng, Cixi 's husband got prob with producing a heir. Tong Zhi die early due to STD. Garfield and I discussed and conclude that qing blood become too thin after all the inbreeding of those bannerman. Aiyoh, must be lah.

A tale out of nothingness

Wham, had been a long long time since I last blogged. Reason is I have nothing to blog about. Lament abt my job; same old stuff that bored even me to tears. Interesting pple; I din get to meet any, unlike garfield.

Okie I do meet pple, but hoh, not the totally glam and foreign kind.
I went to a course recently and meet a Primary school teacher, what interest me is that like me, she can tok lengths on Classic books. The batter is comfortable and we actually know what each of us are toking about.

We actually tok abt Mr Darcy and Elizabeth conversation in Pride and Prejudice and whether Keira Knightley shd be the one who protray Elizabeth based on the novel.

Hello, how many of us will make such a conversation? Perhaps u may say that it is boring, but then the rarity of finding such pple makes me feel understood all of sudden. The bond is there, surely.

As this course is a small class, we get to tok to the lecturer too. Interesting biology lecturer who is a Hawaiian. Can see that he took effort in coaching non-bio teachers on the dissecting of cell. While we are doing the dissecting of a fig fruit, we managed to get the wasp whose whole life is embedded in the fig;like a microecosystem.
Well, we din managed to learn that in the textbook, or perhaps, not the right textbook.
He is really exhilarated on the few wasps as he claimed that he had learnt abt them in the books, but never ever saw any inside the fruit before in his life.

Yah, the wasps were quite difficult to find as they resembles black spots in naked view, you have to really break open the fruit for us to see it under a microscope.

This is real learning moment. If we never bothered with the details, we cannot "discovered" what has been already there in front of us as we are too used to routine, which is just cut, sliced and look at the seeds.

Thus opportuntity is out there, our obession of getting from one point to another prevent us from seeing it. Maybe we should just slowed down and relax, more things can be revealed to us if we are in less stressed state of mind.

The best things that come out from this " discovery thingy" is, Dr Hawaii want us to be part of his team for making learning materials for teaching purpose.

Yuppe, can write that down for my CV and portfolio liao...

(ps: okie, Dr Hawaii is foreign, with a Japanese mother.)

MBC drama "宮"궁

This is a super good drama, pls watch after my lovely samsoon...

I have just finish episode 9. Too bad, I can only watch it every weekend, cos 岡様 want to watch those channel 8 drama... Durhhh. But very happy that 궁 2 will be shot next year yipe... The protagonist 信君 acts very well despite being in his second drama onli

Another good VCD, that I have just bought today is " my girl" Hmm dun noe whether good or not. Shd be good lah. Cos nowadays, korean drama has deviate from its usual soapy style to those fun romantic kind... I can't stand those winter sonata, stairways to heaven type of show. (watch winter sonata for less than 20 episode and then skip to the last one at episode 40) I only like the my sassy grlfriend, Jewel in the palace (this one cause lot of tears as well, but hoh, at least the story background is good), my lovely samsoon and now I am smitten by "宮"궁

I am definately going to buy the U mag this week... Cos the leads are all on its cover.... Wahhh



信君 looks like a crown prince, doesn't he?

I noe I am pathetic, yet nowadays only this drama and weekend blading can lift me up from my bleak mood.

Us, the strawberry generation?

Unable to take hardship, this is a tag that we have to carry with us. The inability to take knocks cause us our nickname, the strawberry generation.

Yes, there are pple who changes 3 jobs in 3 years; the job is tiring, we are bored? Or was it that we are given the sack when we are unable to perform up to the standard? Who will like to go through the hassle of interviewing for job after job and get a ego crushing session? Our older generation think tat we have a crush life, no world war, no civil war, no kampong days, can study till university. We shd thanks our ancestors for our good life.
Thus we are always been protrayed as an ingrates for complaining. We shd be thankful to all those rubbish hurdle as us. Sadly speaking, I can never do that.
To be destroy by someone who are more competent is sad enough.
To be destroy by someone who are less competent is even more wretched.
I hate this kind of feeling. It makes me feel powerless.

Garfield as my model

I recently feels like asking pple to pose for me for outdoor shots...So any volunteers? =)(Veez,Eve and Long?) Too bad I din has an DSLR, else I can have less depth of field. Haiz...

Well, thanks to Garfield for helping me out as model of the day... Too bad I din capture her on blades.

Instead of fireworks

What Women want ...really...

This week 's interviewee is a successful banker (dun noe what bank lah, it was nv stated)

She looks like Karen Mok, except shorter,drives a Mercedes Convertible, practices Ballet at least 3 times a week, Worked for 12-14 hours every day and Chilled out in Balacava after a hard day at work.

Despite her apparent success, she admits to a failed marriage and the difficulties in commiting to a relationship for a life time.

According to her colleauge,she is very determined and a go getter.

Last Saturday, Garfield asks me what makes a successful women. This Programme gave me an answer; cool, calm, rich, beautiful, drove a big flashy car and the abiltites to let go of certain things such as relationship are what constitute to a real successful woman.

左右为难

您问，要我答吗？
什么样的答案才会和您心意。
不想踩到地雷而学会了无声的抗议
决定的事，是不会因为我的啼声而改变。
明明是自私的，却让他人觉得崇高无尚
真是英明阿，英明。

Shape Run 2006

Finally, the day of the run is here... I dun feel like going as I have not being training ever since I come back from China. The last time I trained was before my 2.4km run by organised by the MOE so that I can get my $100 bucks... Which is like more than a month ago... Jialat, I had not been diligent, I had to pay my due by exhausting and embrassing myself during the RUN!!! I so feel like not going until I realised that I shdn't waste my precious money just like that. Imagine how $15 can be the annual school fee of someone else in Guizhou! Okie, go lah, at the most, I will run for 3km and then walk for 2km loh. I nv run more than 3km for these past two year, thus I dun noe how I can pulled if off by running for 5km non-stop.

Surprisingly, I run comfortably for these 5km. NOn-stop, tho I had to sacrifices my timming. My own timming is abt 30min, but my official timming is abt 35 min.... Argh. Still I din relese enough of lactic acid, thus is aching over all today, but then I felt absolutely fine yesterday... In fact So fine that I went and watched Movie with Hui and Garfield after my run. The crowd was much less intimidating as compared to the Big Walk as I could run comfortably without bumping into anyone accidently. Thus no need to say SORRY all the time and feeling like a stammering idiot throughout the run.

All in all, it was a nice experience and I was thinking of joining 10km run next time. Meanwhile, I need to train for better timming.

麻了

有点麻麻的，是提不起，还是没感觉
风吹打着，想必那只是颤时性的不意，而不是真永远
可怜自己还在做无畏的挣扎
音消云散的斗志，回不来了。

东方明珠===上海

We have reached Shanghai on the fifth evening, as majority of the streets were curfewed due to the Russian leader summit, we did not manage to do much except shopping ard the neighbouring shopping centre The merchandise are more expensive than other town, thus we did not spent much there.

On the sixth day, we have been bought to 新天地, an area where it resemble our clark quay, filled with foreigners. There are plenty of pub and night life been seen. Next we went to the Xiangyang road and shop in the famous 向阳市场. This market will be closed after tomorrrow. The whole streets used to sells\ cheap counterfeit goods. It used to sells those class A fakes, but since China wants to join the WTO, they are to eradicate all those places that sells those goods. Still we managed to find some cheap goods such as "puma" Bag for 30 rmb ($6), and cheap braclets and earrings for 5 rmb. I did not buy any on the first time, but then return on my free and easy day to buy some home. Xiangyang street also has a very nice restaurant that serve 豆浆油条。The soya bean milk is not as sweet as the Singapore's. It was hot and authentic. The doughstick is elastic and yet crunchy. The size of the doughstick is double the size of Singapore's. The restaurant also provided free sunny side up or 荷包蛋。Yummy ~_~!

After lunch, we were being bought to 南京路。Although it is called nanjing road, this road is in Shanghai. The best thing about this street is that it has a very big book shop; 上海书城。The Shanghai bookstore is very new and it resemble the kinokuniya bookstore in term of decor. Too bad the book store did not sell English books, but if you want to buy any Chinese book, it will be available. I managed to buy a few books that cost between $3 - $5 (after the conversion)I really regret of not bringing a bigger suitcase so that I can hurl more books home. I bought about 7 books in all. （ I went there the next day too)The book store also sells CDs, DVDs and VCDs. I bought a movie known as " The Music Box" or 理发师 by 陈坤。He suppose to win the Shanghai best actor through this movie. Fortunately I bought this movie in Shanghai as I can't seems to find any of those Chinese arty movie in Singapore, except those starred Zhang Ziyi. There is a Taiwan styled vegetarian restaurant in Nanjing road itself, thus after 6 days of Vege only diet, I finally have the taste of something more closer to home. Honestly I dun mind those vege only diet as I will be quite thankful to any morse given.(it was hard to find vege food in other part of China)The food was quite good and cheap, all Chinese restaurant will give complimentary tea and watermelons.(We eat watermelons during every meal, no other fruits available)

On the evening of the Sixth day, we cruise the HuangPu river,黄浦江 and enjoy the full night scenery of Shanghai.


This photo was taken on the boat. This picture shows us Pudong, 浦东，which is full of hotel such as Hyatt and the orient tower. 浦东 was developed much later than 浦西, (This is the site of the peace hotel and HSBC, Citibanks)浦西 was part of the French concession in the early 20th Century. According to the guide, pudong symbolise the male as it was the east, Puxi symbolise the female, thus due to the fact that Pudong was developed much later than Puxi, the female was stronger than the male in Shanghai and Shanghai male has to do all the housework... Dun noe how true is that though, although my guide say that her husband does all the work... Hmm maybe I shd go and find a nice Shanghai man... Haha， Just kidding, I will rather preferred a certain Chongqing man *wink*



This is a photo of the Orient Tower, it was the third highest building in the world and the tallest in Asia. We have to take a lift up to 260m tall and view the whole of huangpu scenery. Hmm very breathtaking. After the tour, we take a underground train knowned as sight seeing tunnel, which run across huangpu river to reach the other side;Puxi. The site that we alight is known as the The Bund, 上海滩。

On the seven and the eight day, we are supposed to have free and easy day. I planned to visit the Shanghai museum, but then heard that the entry fee is quite expensive, thus we spent the two days shopping.

The first stop that we go is 七铺路，it was like a big complex fitted with whole saler priced clothes. There were a lot of baby doll dress found. Not quite my style, thus din buy anything except scocks for my brother. You will have to negotiate for a good bargain, although it may looks cheap, you can still bring down the price further. The price of the bag can be brought down from 120 to 35 rmb after some "disscussion", but then you have to have the thick skin in order to do that... (Finally, my skin come in useful on those days) The complex is quite crowded and there are 6 floors for you to shop in. The complex is extremely crowded in the morning and even the local exclaimed that this is quite a dangerous place to go. We go despite of the hearsay and find it quite okie. It resembled our far east plaze with greater variety and cheaper price.

The worthy stop that we made is to 城隍庙,this is the street that look like Chinatown. It has quite a lot of famous local restaurant in Shanghai. One of them sells the famous 小笼包. The queue there is long from 9am, the restaurant only start selling the 小笼包 at 10am. At 10am, you will probably need to wait for an hour for your 小笼包. In China, all the restuarant has two pricing, the first storey will be comprise of the cheapest menu, thus it will usually be crowded with people. If you prefer peace and quiet, you can proceed to the second storey with pricer items. But the 小笼包 restaurant is so famous that the 2nd storey of the restaurant was also packed with people. The next famous restaurant in the street is a vegetarian restaurant.(It was famous because, it appeared in the LOnely Planets) As usual, I only took a look at the first floor menu, as I was too full I only managed to buy some vege bao from the restaurant. The vegetarian is unlike any that I have taste before. It was more authentic as it contains spinach and mushroom.(the bao is 1 rmb, I bought 2, and it was v filling as it was quite big;double the size of our veg turnip bao) Its seems that the Vegetarian food in China are devoid of those mock meat. I rather like it as it feel more vegetarian to me... Durhhhh. But then there are not many vegetarians in Singapore as they equate being vegetarian as being poor, if rich, they shd afford to eat meat.

All in all, I love 江南,it was fabulous and is full of rich history for us to learn. There were so many famous food to eat as well such as the Suzhou dessert, Hangzhou salted duck, Wuxi braised meat, Nanjing 东坡肉。 上海小笼包。Good for the rest of them, I din taste any of those food except for those dessert tho. @_@

It was a remarkable trip... as you can see that I remembered quite a lot from the tour guides explanations without any notes taking.(there is a TCM　recipes from one of the guide regarding cough, I copied that one down though)

I think I wld visit other parts of China such as Beijing and Xi an for the Qin Terra Cotta army and its tombs,I am also interested to visit my ancestor hometown;Chaozhou. Thus I am actively seeking for travel mates for the Dec holidays.

远游江南， 在南京

After Hangzhou, we reached 南京，a town full of historical richness and grievance.

南京

We reached Nanjing at night and we start off with 夫子庙，this is a shopping street that used to house the chinese scholars in ancient China so that they can prepare for their imperial exam in Nanjing, which is the captial city of ancient China. But opposite this street is a street of brothels, no wonder so many of the scholars cannot be the 状元. Too much of the "temptation" maybe.
Now, 夫子庙 is a vibrant shopping street, with cheerful motivated salesgirls who encouraged each other via PA systems when one of them closed sales. Super ONz ah!!!
This is best place to shop as one polo t-shirt cost abt $8 and female one is even cheaper at $5(after the conversion) This is cheapest place to shop among all those town that we had visited. DVDs, Juicy peachs are plenty and good. Too bad, I didn't manage to buy the Peaches, my mum say I shd have bought, yah as if it was real light for me to hurled it back. =P



The place that we take the photos is where scholars lived, crossing the river will be the brothels.

Early next morning, we went to this bridge 南京长江大桥


This may seems like an ordinary bridge, but it uphold the dignity of the Chinese at that time. This bridge is designed by those Russian, who used to sent their engineers to China to help them to rebuild their cities after the civil war. But the Russian retreat and refused to help the Chinese due to some politicial issues, in short they left the Chinese to fend for themselves. Thus without the help of the Russian, they build the bridges with lots of sacrifices as they have to dive underneath the yangtze river to build the beams as there is no great machinary available in China in the 1960s. They took 8 wholes years and was completed in 1968.

南京大屠杀

This event was known as the forgotten holocaust of war world II, being a Singaporean, we are aware of the deeds done by the Japanese in the world war II, but when compared to the atrocities committed in Nanjing, it was pretty small scale. More than 300,000 people die in 6 weeks during the invasion of Nanjing, starting from 13 dec 1937. The killing does not stopped totally, but then subside after the 6 weeks. Maybe there were not so many civilian to kill after all. Or prehaps, the Japanese was busy invading other countries after 1939. The whole group of us was brought to the 大屠杀纪念馆。You can see a lots of Corpses and photos inside the museum. I did not feel much personally after the tour, because the description was not as comprehensive. The most absurd things that the Japanese have done was the killing competition。 They saw killing as fun and killed more than 100 civilians at one go for own ego sake. This prode me to read The Rape of Nanking and after reading that book (Ｉstill have 30 pgs to go)I really felt like puking, when I read about how the Jap soldiers raped those women, it is really grotesque, I need to shut the book for a short while to continue as I was really affected. No wonder the writter;Iris Chang die from depression after the publish of this book, The strand of getting all those information really get to her. After reading, I learnt that I am so fortunate to be living in Singapore at this period of time.
Maybe I was one of the civilians in my past life, I dun noe

After Nanjing, we stop at a town surrounding the taihu called wuxi, it was a beautiful town and it has a Movie Shooting Sites for the warring states. It was a short visit to this town though.

争霸传奇

范蠡



modern photos of 陈坤



Wah, finally can post pic.... thus can post my shanghai 's pic in my next post liao.

远游江南，漫苏杭。

苏州
Suzhou is the first place that we visited after we alight from the Shanghai Pudong Airport. 苏州 is a place that famous for its gardens. If you think that it was like chinese garden, it is so far from it. The gardens are the 后花园 of those rich men in ancient China as women are not allowed to go out except during the 初一十五of the lunar calender, thus the rich men has to emulate the world outside and create a inner world in their own garden. No wonder the women there are called 大家规秀.I wonder how does the poor girls survived in olden China. Maybe they are allowed go out to work. Thus can never imagine myself to be those 大家规秀 playing in those garden. The hotel that we lived in also resemble those 后花园, those I think it is the nicest hotel among those that we lived in. The air is fresh and the sky is already bright at ard 5.30am. WOW!!!



杭州
Before Hangzhou, we took a mini stop at wuzhen. This is the place when people want to flim the olden china like the old street that you see in Misson impossible 3. There are still pple who still live there. Amazing. I wonder whether I can lived there too... The place is as pretty with tint of ancient beauty, yet I dun think Singaporeans will like to live there for the long term. It is too rustic.

HangZhou is a really pretty place and its streets are filled with all kind of restaurants. The air is also quite cool there. Suzhou and Hangzhou is really the prettiest among the cities that I visit. There is a saying 上有天堂下有苏杭。Hangzhou has beautiful garden, but not the 后花园 kind, the prettiest things there is 西湖.


There is lots of beautiful stories surrounded the west lake like the 白蛇传 and the 梁三博与祝英台。Beautiful fables and long bridge which all couples should cross 13 times in order to 白头到老。This is because of another love story. Thus according to the guide, Hangzhou is a place for couples to visit and it has a very slow pace of life and pple in Hangzhou like to take time and relax. Hmm good for those stress out. It is refreshing to walk along the west lake early in the morning drinking the special brew of 龙井茶。Longjing is the tea grown in Hangzhou. The leaves are big and pretty. Hangzhou pple are very particular to their tea. They catagorise their tea to many different cat. Cat A is called 女儿茶; picked by those girls who are young and unmarried (max is early 20s) Cat B is called 媳妇茶, the tea is plucked by those women in late 20s to early 40s. Cat C is called 阿婆差,pluck by granny of cos. The top notch is the 雨前女儿茶。That kind of tea is v v exp woh. I managed to buy the 2nd grade one. Not so exp, but good enuf.


吴越之战
In 460s BC, Hangzhou is called 越国 and Suzhou is called 吴国. The two countries are constantly in battle with each other. There is a show shown in 浙江卫视regarding this. It is called 争霸传奇. The casts are mainly from hongkong, but the lead actor 范 蠡 was a mainland actor called Chen Kun (陈坤）. Quite a good show as it remind me of Jet Lee 's hero. This is a classic history legend that consisit of a lot of 成语,like 沉鱼若艳 to discribe 西施， 卧心尝旦 to describe 越王勾践's determination to endure the humilation caused by 吴王 夫差 so that he can upstage the latter after 10 years thus there is a saying, 君子报仇，十年不晚。. I am so hooked by this show that when I leave china, this shows was my greatest regrets. Hope that this show can be bought as soon as possible. (Durhhh I search for the whole of Shanghai oso cannot find this shows as it was the newest)*sob*


Dun noe why, I can't seems to upload my photos... Haiz... Thus no photos to see lah

Poverty, what a scary word!

Both Great Singapore Sales and issue of poverty of the next generation, are featured in today ST.
Wat an oxymoron.

Do they want us to think about those pple who cannot afford to shop while we are splurging? Durrhhh.
Is it just a harmless coincidence, or, meant for deterrence?

Well, maybe I am scared, I even felt guilty of thinking about the white flowery skirt that will made a nice addition to my wardrobe after reading such articles on poverty.
There are people out there who can't even have a full stomach, who does not get to see parents regularly, who has no pocket money or a table to study.

Yet here am I, complaining, whining on stuffs, when worse can have befall on me. I shd have known better, yet I don't. I shd be thankful to all that have been bestowed.

I am so ashamed of my material indulgence especially when I noe so many of them; the people of poverty.

So here I am, staying in, spending the first day of GSS, without Shopping.

N.B.: This transient feeling will promptly dissipate by tmr.

Weekend sports

Done quite a large amount of outdoor sports last week. Normally, I will just do indoor exercise in the gym. Last weekend, I spent all my exercising time in the open air... Shiok.
Went for two cycling trip last week at ECP. Suppose to be one cycling trip and one blading trip. But I was extremely lasy to hurl my cumbersome blades all the way to ECP to blade for 2 hours tops. Rather blade in my neighbourhood park loh.

Realise that ECP sells Peanut ice kachang. Not bad, quite crunchy and icy. Went to the Bedok Centre for my lunch. The store that sells curry rice is not bad. Only $1.80 for three type of curries. The curries were not too hot tho. The drink stall beside it sells lychee drink as big as big gulp. $1.20 per cup, super cheap.

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I went for the big walk on Sunday. The usual crowd was there. The" pigtail" guy whom I saw every year was there. Lots of cute Jack russels, schnauzer and terriers made their presence felt. No Bloody paws this year tho, phew.

Feel less tired this year despite a slight ache in my tights. Complete the walk in 1.5 hours time due to the crowd. Else should be able to complete earlier. We walked throughout the journey as we were not suppose to run or jog.

Inspire me to joined the Shape Run in July. This is my first competitive run. After completion of the run, you can get a goodies bag consisting of lots of stuff like NIke singlet, bottles, bags and perfumes...WAhhhhhh. The registration is even waive as I signed up for a 6 mth subscriptions for Shape. Since I buy Shape every month, it is no big deal for me to subscribe. I save $15 in the process. Even get another extra goodie bag as I signed up for the event during the big walk. There is a nice groovy Cd that I can run with after converting it to the MP3. I dun even need to train as I am running 5km only. Hahaaha... Really the lure of the goodies bag, is great.

It was done... Finally

After 5 days of crazy marking, I have finished marking my papers... YOYOZ
5 papers of Science and 6 papers of Maths... Siong ne. Poor us teachers. I suppose to go blading today, to relax but then hoh, lots of friends cannot make it. thus too bad loh.I dun want to do anything work related for this long weekend, but then fat hopes asI got ro teach on Monday... Teach wat, students want to study meh, arghhhh
Nvm, I am going to teach chapter 5 next week. The SEc 2 will be v v happy as they have been bugging me to teach this topic since the beginning of this year.
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Yesterday is a big day for all buddhist; Vesak day. My Bro and I were involved in manning a game stall in the vegetarian fare. He was scheduled for the morning session, while I was scheduled for the afternoon session. Before I arrived at the location, at ard 10am, such conversation took place.

Bro: You tink my sis will be late for the afternoon session.
Yun: Err...
Bro: definately late one lah. You noe why?
Yun: Err...
Bro: cos I am not ard mah!!! haha surely late
Yun: T_T!!!

As you can see, yun has not utter a word, my bro has done a monologue. Aiyoh, so like me... Xia shuay ah.

Garfield bday

Before makan
Garfield need to work earlier, thus Hui and I went shopping first.Hui and mum are satisfied with my "professional" Judgement last week in Dorthory Perkins thus decided to "employ" me as her personal shopper for this week as well.( Honestly because the fashion leader aka garfield is not ard, else u think anyone will seek my opinion on this? Wahaha)

Too bad Charles and Keith did not have wat we want in the correct size. (peep toe low heels) Suggest to Hui that she shd try Aldo as the size may be bigger. Hui is v v keen on my suggestions. Went to Aldo, she decided the shoes there are too expensive. Okie, no prob, we Shopper has to work within the budgets.

Thus went to VNC at city link, services suxs. Maybe, there were too many customers. Still I dun like bad services. Shoes not as pretty as I tot, thus we went away.

Went to Dorthory Perkins again as Hui want to buy more clothes. We went there, she try a few, but did not get wat she want. I was busy toking to Vee gal at that time, thus din notices wat she chose. Then I saw something... Black top, slight puffy sleeve, the right size for Hui. I grab, thrust it at Hui who timely appear outside the resting Room.
She try, thumbs up, even Vee say so... Make the purchase. I am the speeder shopper... Quick quick is the key
Last Week I kinda "force" Garfield to buy the pale yellow pumps instead of the brown one as I feel that it complimented her skin tone more than the practical brown one.
Feel happy, when Di compliment on the Yellow pumps this week.*happy*


During Makan
We eat at a open cafe called indodine. At first, I tot it is indochine, then told Vee.
Vee: where are we eating?
Mee: Err.. a place called iodochine.
Vee: I tot that place is in Wisma?
Mee: ???
In the end, I spell wrongly lah... Blur like sotong. Not all the food is good, Long san 's tomato's bread, is a bit funny in taste. Mine is tomato base pasta, taste okie. tho I feel that roma deli's one is better. Still the food at iododine is still value for Money lah.
Vee shows us some of the photos she take in Korea. V interesting. She went to place where Winter Sonata and Jewel in the places were shot. I am envious of her holiday, I oso want to go. Her photos taking skills are quite good and you can see lots of blossoms. Pretty, yet I dun noe the names of flowers. Vee gal oso become a tai tai in Korea as she splunge on the face shop products... Nice of her to bring back so many face mask for us... Hmm so many flavour as well. Got Red ginseng, pearl lah and lemon. I have tried the pearl one... V V good.

Afterthots
Haiz, we are all so busy with our life that we can only meet during someone 's birthday. Haiz, onli my and Garfield meet frequently... Anyway, the next bday of the gang is mine... Yeah!!!!

Election....

I am 25 years old...
Finally, I CAN VOTE!!!!

WHo will I vote?
MUSt read news ardently now... WOhLALA.

The good, the bad and the ugly

Since young, I've never been the "pretty friend"

The pretty friend is always clad in perfect outfit accessorizing with the perfect shoes and bags.. She never seems to have bad hair, skin, outfit or bad breath day. She know that she is attractive and use it to her maximum advantages.She will turns head whenever she go and if you want to be invisible, there is no better Companion than a pretty friend. Sales stuff will always serve her first even when both of you make a request. More evident if the stuff is a hum sup one.

C is my first encounter of a pretty friend. She is technically not a friend, as she is part of my extended family. She is pretty and cute, my aunties and uncles all like to ohh and argh at her. She is prefect in their eyes and always wear those fluffy pink dress. She looks like a princess and this make me look bad.

I am the next in the family line and if she is not around, maybe my confidence were not be shatter in such a early stage... Tho eventually will still be shatter by some body
" WAH , such a ugly baby" as I was bald and flaking.
" Look like a boy boy, wear skirt also no use"
GRRRRh, I was so unfortunate... It was even worse as we have the same birthday.
And my whole extended family will like give her so many presents, all nice and princess like looking, during the birthday. They will then coincidently forget that it was mine as well and muffed some apologies.

If a toddler can swear, I wld have swear. Still my mum wld say stuff like you were not pretty mah, so...TOO BAD, it was the fact of life. Honestly, I really like C as she is real sweet and pretty, we may have become best of friends if not for those bias adults...
Anyway, she marry a real nice good-looking chap. The kind that all my aunties Orhh and arghh during the Chinese New Year visit, while my other male cousins were sulking in one corner... I just sat there and gloat.

Due to the "education" early in my life, I see myself as a Ugly friend and I have no problems making friends with those pretty gals as I am not jealous of their looks.

The jealously will always be between those pretty ones. Scenarios will be like this
Girl A is pretty and popular with boys. Girl B is pretty but then not as outspoken and not so popular. One day POpular boy like girl B and girl A is jealous altho she may not like this popular boy, all becos tat her queen bee position was shaken. Poor girl B will then find herself alone in class and all those girls in girl A clique will not befriend her. This is called follow the leader example.


Naturally, I wun be in the girl A gang. They wun hate me tho as I was non-threatening. I will then befriend girl B as I felt sorry for her. THUS ta da, I gained a pretty friend.

Tats why I always have pretty friends all around me. Some of the pretty friends tell me that it is actually hard to make friends with gals and most of their pals are guys. No prob, they can look for me for companionship as having pretty friends have lots of advantages.

1) When shopping, will be asked more often to do suvery then when shop on my own. Then can obtain free goodies after the survey.
2) Will have more opportunties to bio shuai ge as pretty friends have shuai male friend as well.
3) Free Food, free ride,free KTV sessions from suitors of those pretty friends as they have to appear generous to you in front of your friend.
4) Can obtain fashion advices from those pretty friends.

In turn... I help to
1) sieve out those cmi suitors.
2) provide listening ear to their emotional turmoil.
3) validate their good looks when they stand next to me.

Thus wat a Win- win situations sia.

Election??? Am I voting?

This is the first time that I MAY finally have a chance to vote for the first time. Having been living in Sembawang GRC for like AGES, there wasn't even a remote rumour of opposition rearing its head in the GRC...

This year, it was different... cos we change our HEAD... and our head is a target for the recent " you know wat" scandal. Thus I may have chance to vote... WilL I vote, will I not... will be reveal soon, on the 27th...

EXCITED SIA...

Alpha FEMALE, To be or not to be...Afterthots

Read ST today... The article on the Alpha Female set me thinking.. Can I be labeled as an Alpha Female... Wahhaha

According to ST, Alpha female:
* is Successful in work
* Looks Good
* High earning
* Confident

Okie, successful in work I am not, looking good is a joke, If I am high earning I shd be able to afford manolos. Is confidence another word for my superb acting skills? Chay so I am not an alpha female.

Guess that I am just an Alpha wannabe. Most of the girls that I noe are not the typical conventional girls that will take the back role our man, no longer are we just statisfied to be the moral support. We want the action,we want the meat roles, we want the sky... Wahahaha *evil* smirk

Success used to mean being the wife of a political/financial big shot... NOw, success is to be the big shots ourselves. Look at the news, look at the slew of female political candidates... Look at my idol, Hillary Clinton... (okie, I am yet to finish her biography but still, I admire her)

"Some reluctant to be Alpha female" will tell me that AF will seen to be less attractive to male... Durhhh Everyone will be entitled to their own opinions. Well, some guyw do prefer to marry "down" as gals who are stronger or do better than them does not invoke the protective instinct of such man... Thus some of my friends suggested that maybe we shd act helpless initially then shows our true characters... haha Prehaps... Still there are men who appreciate those Alpha female and are actually proud of their success. Thus we shdn't just abandon our Alpha dream just because some guys dun like it...rather be a rich singleton than a repressed wife.

NEw Bored Air-headed ME

Long time nv blog liao... Pretty busy with all those sch matters.

But I HAve Finally Finish my exam paper woh...
HAHHAHAA
and I have pass my JAP test too... Heng ah , tot I will surely failed... I have been po Bied.

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Meet few friends + their friend this weekend, find I cannot click with those friend's friends. Here are some of the reason.
1) I dun talk abt my past relationship with others. I dun understand why will anyone talk about their exes to almost complete strangers?....HELLO I dun need to know such stuff bah... Somebody is just so weird.
2) No common topic about songs or which movie do we like (Other light hearted topic like Do you beleive in Feng Shu, Do you believe that your fav colours depicts your personality... etc are missing)
3) My joke backfired... I mean where is the sense of humour? NO need to be so serious right.I miss my close friends whom I can clown together.*cry*
4) NO one really enjoy shopping or tok abt shopping. [NO one want to tok abt how will the closing down of hush hush and OZOC affect us (My Jap classmates's fav shop). Liver and Nine west are having sales, or where is the best place to grab some chiong bag in HOngKong (Typical garfield and me tok)]

Okie, either I am childish or are really so different. If pple want something substantial, I can talk abt Politics or global warming, bird flu or even Quantum physic...Want me to show my serious side, ask me to solve a problem lah, I think I can provide creative ideas. Either I lost my human touch or I am simply so bored that I dun make any effort to be entertaining.

Example of my BOred Reply

"Stranger": So what do you like to do during weekend.

NEw BORed air-headed me: Shopping loh

"Stranger": Wah So free ah, shopping.
NEw BORed air-headed me think: HUH?
NEw BORed air-headed me: Okie lah, I do some sports too.

FULL Stop.
Or maybe I should say that I ponder about the meaning of life everyday and reflect upon my action so that I can constantly improve myself. I read shakespeare and love classical music like Bach, Chopin and Lizt. My favourite book is....as it is so aspiring. My fav scientist is Stephen Hawking. Despite his illness he can still contribute so much to the scientific world. To prevent Alzheimer,I have to play chess frequently..... BLAh Blah blah *LOL*

Dun think they will appreciate this kind of JOKE lah.

No matter what, why am I be accused of being shy or nervous or maybe interested in someone in the crowd. It is because Some pple are weird or maybe... the weird person is me.

*Siong * week

This is an extremely busy week for me...
So many things to be done and yet not done as I am sick last week...Things like editing Oral video, setting my Mid year exam papers; dateline looming and yet I have not START on my two Science papers. (I have struggled to finish my Maths paper)I think I will be a super woman to get it done by next MOnday. Dead liao.

This weekend has to forgo my Weekend shopping despite getting my Performance bonus this week as I have Orientation for media group. Then my media group leaders ask me to hand her the type written scripts by next Wed.... OMG I have to type in traditional Chinese leh. Spent like 1 day to type one page. I have 6 more pages to be done... * Dead* once again. GOt to work this Sun somemore to bring Students for BIG Walk... Yah, why done they just walk over me, let me perish better since I can't meet dateline. These afternoon got Speech day rehersals + learning circle meeting happening at the same time. Time to split myself. At this moment I think Cloning shd be legalised. *evil* me.

Tomorrow got Jap test somemore...Surely fail as the test is v difficult,+ I need to do a 3 min speech in Jap tmr and I haven't prepare my lines... WT*. Even now I am typing and studying at the same time. I have finished two chapter liao... 3 more chapters to go... Ganbatte.

New record: I typed all these in less than 10min.

ICON @Bugis

Interesting place beside the usual shopping hunt of Bugis junction and Bugis village. The shops are small but the variety is quite heterogeneous unlike the neighbouring bugis village.

Price and variety
The price range from really cheap $4 to quite few hundreds over. Shops are seen selling nice Boho skirts, to dangling Necklaces (nothing new) to those rare Lacey Tops, Audrey Hepburn inspired dress and those really cheap t- shirt.
The dress are quite classy and clean cut, yet the material are not the good enuf as they are made of cotton and "satin". No wonder the original satin dress look good as it is made by Chanel. There is a shop selling second hand LV and Gucci bag. The price of the sling bag is around $500 and one of the LV doucument bag cost ard $1300. which is abt half of the original price. The bags are still in mint conditions,really value for money... Another bag shop that I like sell " Chiong" bag that resembled those that the Hollywood celebrities have held. Price is cheap as the qualities were compromised. Still the bags look goood enuf. ( I always love bags...)

In the end
I bought a $4 I Luv vespa pink top and a $15 knitted wear. I can corrdinated the Vespa top with my Puma bowler shoes in the weekend and the kintted wear with A line skirt to wear it to work...Mission achieved

ONe week break

Due to my refusal of seeing a doctor, I am still sick... Yet bo pian has to go for external chemistry course on Monday and Tue, Wednesday has to go for CCA, today need to bring the kids to the old republic poly...
haiz... Nvm I am strong... strong enuf to work while I am sick...


Chemistry Course
Meet some interesting chemistry teachers at the course... Talk quite a lot... My course is all abt perfume and whitening product... Wah the beauty industry got a lot of chemistry uderlining it. Hmm thus if pple say I am getting more vain, I can just say that I am just honing my craft hahahhhha
The 2nd day, we went to the biopolis to visit the genomic insitute of Sinagpore for a field trip... I was like wah... go there for wat... All those things that the prof say, no one understand as most of us are just chemistry teachers. Heng I understand quite a bit as I have taken the Alvin's module ages ago... Man it doesn't sound different from the module lah.. It just remind me that I have lend my microbio textbook to pple... I haven't got it back yet... hahah In the end my fellow classmate has to ask me to explain to them in layman term.

Maybe I can work there after my stint in the school... Yah real, they wun want me, a nobody with no Honours degree...

I am Ah SO SICK!!!!

Man, my nose is runny, so runny that it seems to have a life of its own. I am sneezing, my tongue is invaded by the Uclers, I can't taste anything due to my blocked senses. Yet I refused to see doctor, I will not allow myself to spend that $30 to see a doctor when I can will my immune system to buck up... Tho it will take a Bl***Dy long time to buck up. I feel like shit now, can't mark my papers, can't set papers, no mood to chat on MSN...

I saw SHAN the man yesterday. That was the onli bright spot of my shitty weekend.He was ah SO CUTE!!!! Howard too...

The 1st post in March

Was at Heereen yesterday as Garfield told me that Shan Wee will be at the Heereen for a pre- Cleo Eligible bachelor Contest.
I was like WAT!!!!!! SHAN @_@. A Good looking and definately charming fellow. Onz I will like to see him in Person... THe CLEO bachelors were supposed to be there serving coffee... Wah. wait till I tell pple that I will be served by the Perfect 10 Adonis himself. Wolahlah...

Then we were like waiting and waiting, still no Shan Wee... WaT!!!!!, it turn out that not all bachelors are there to grace the events. Still Garfield's drool worthy 's colleague (DWC) was there. Out of the few bachelors who were there, he was one of the older, steady looking one. The rest were simply too young... SHd be in their 20s...Thus lack the charm that can only be present in an older man;confidence.

DWC was friendly and had a frim handshake... Definately an up and coming banker. Hope that he will win some awards at the finals. Though I dun think he will be THE Bachelor.Who will beat Shan in terms of popularity? All my hormones raging female friends are all ohhing and Ahhing at the guy himself.

As the females friends of the EB are are to answer some personal and sometimes embarrassing questions,( Eg: Howard 's colleague was asked to give him a kiss on his fav spot) Garfield and colleagues quickly jahbo as soon possible as they are scared to be pull up on stage.

Conquer of the week: I went and bought a TOP shop Jeans. The jeans are supposed to be more durable than those cheap Gio one. Lets see whether it will last.

MoonChild === The Picture

The two leads are just too kakoii to ignore... Tho I knew Hyde first due to L'arc encial, Gackt is motto kakoii desho?

Can't resist to put pretty picture of the two boys together...They look beautiful.

MOonChild

My friend bought the MOOn child Vcd for me from HOng Kong as I can't seems to be able to get hold of it in Singapore...

My friend warned me that it is a stoopid vampire show...
Me: huh? I still want to watch
Friend: Okie loh, v cheap anyway $4... No need to pay me.
Me: wah seh, so good of u...

Then it turn out that my friend is not wrong... quite a stoopid show.
Bro: Wah!!! kill kill kill onli, fun meh? No government one meh?
Me: How am I suppose to noe... u watch lah

It turned out that Gackt and Hyde can kill anyone and the whole show just go bang bang bang. They are nv trial for murder. Then dun noe why, hyde gana caught, trial for murder as he suck blood from his victims... He is a vampire u see... I am like WAT??? No need for government Intervention for robbery and gang fight induced death yet must put someone to death because he is out to find food... Tho must admit that his choice is not v the nice lah but still... T_T!!!

Stoopid show, but Gackt and Hyde are v kakoii...

Bro: why was Hyde a vampire, he dun look like leh, Gackt look more like one wat.
Me: Yah loh, dun noe why... Siao one

But still, Gackt was kakoii... Therefore I watch...
Bro:SIAO CHA BO



If such credit card is available in Singapore, I will definitely apply...是対に。

Brokeback Mountain

This is a movie that piqued my interest tremendously. I wondered how are they going to depicts two gay cowboy? How can this kind of movie made it to oscar? The setting of the quiet farm sound boring to me.

It turns out to be a pleasant surprise. The two leads are good looking. But the winner here is how repressive they are. Unable to acknowledge their love for each other due to fear of poisoning the life of their close ones,they had unknowingly wreaked their life. I love Heath character more as he was the less demonstrative of the two. It is like he dun even noe that he is gay before he noe the Jake's character. He was even engaged to a nice girl and never ever suspect his preference of the otherwise.

After the movie, I dun even find him gay as he nv like another guy other than Jake. It is more like he love this person, and this person happen to be a guy. (To me, gay = they like guys, any good looking guys, thats it)It was like the cupid just make a v cruel joke on him. When I heard that scene where Heath screamed," YOU are the one who do this to me, I am not like this before I met u.", I felt that I can understand his anguish. He noe that he had fall for a guy and he can't get him out of his system. The emotional side of him was in turmoil, yet the realistic part of him allowed him to go through his wedding.

Is his situation any different from a heterosexual relationship when we fall for the wrong person?(situations like, fall for someone whom we will not have a future with, as they are either attached, married or gay)Still, the realistic part of us went on with life and find suitable partners, yet some parts will still be stuck in an emotional tangle. For some fortunate souls, the repressive side will slowly disappeared to nought, thus becoming truly happy.

The leads can't let go despite their effort... I just felt so sad for them.

Typical bemoaning

It was not as if that I want to behave in a bias manner, but then sometimes I FEEL that I need to retort back at such pple for behaving in a bias manner. Altho we can't avoid this in our life, I hate it when I am unfairly judged by others. Some pple can get away with stuff by just being them. Zero effort needed. Others have to try so much harder for reaching the same results... FREAKINGLY UNJUST.

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To improve my English, I borrowed the grammer builder from my colleauge.
To improve my Jap, I read one new grammer every day.
To improve my Chinese, I read "pop corn" ( note: today 早报 got a 吴庆康写的专栏.非常地有启发性.)
To improve my mood, I eat chocolate.

Lastly … HECK those F... unjust pple...

Another Blog

Hi pple, this is another one of my Blog... I used this to practise my Jap typing and to hopefully write some Jap essay, given by my Sensei...I am seriously backlogged for now. For those who dun noe Jap, can oso take a look as well, tho, there is nothing much inside this blog... I will continue with this blogspot one. Will onli link it if there is an update...

楽しみに読んでください。。。

What have I done this weekend leh???

I LOve SAT... Time to play and hang out with buddies and Friends...

This week, lets see what have I been doing sia


This is a candid Shot woh!!!

Well, you shd be able to guess what activity right... * drum roll* yes!!! I went dragon boat again. This time with Eve and Ian...



After Ian went home, Eve and I try to act stoopid in front of my Camera. Told her to act in this manner for my blog sake, big sacrifice for Eve... yak yak I look retarded most of the time, thus no real sacrifice on my part...



After 3 hours of tedious exercising and abs ogling, we went Bugis junction to woffle down Scones and MOS burger for lunch. No Sat can be completed without do my favourite activity; SHOPPING. AS usual Shopping Kakis aka Garfield had to join me.

As garfield and I were to meet HUi and Long for dinner later, we went to HOllywood nails to Kill our time... Garfield chose pedi and me having nothing better to do opted for a Mani... OMG, for those who noe me, will not associate me with Manicure in like million years... My nails are now in an unnatural shade of pink. (my Bro shriek when he saw my nails.)Garfield shirek as well," so CUTE!" Err yah, still, I feel that the money spent did not justify thus I told them I will Mani at home, more economical.

As we were late due to our HOLLYWOOD treatment, we rush to Chinatown for Bday dinner... We order Jap ebi bento and Katsu bento...



Vegetarian One leh, NIce???

Yup, can guess whose Bday did it belong to?





According to Eve, I can only choing till 10pm, then I ta boleh... Yah after having dessert at another nearby traditional HOngkong dessert store, I was pronounced as concussed and definately in need of my beloved bed. Thus mark the end of one Sat.

I am still celebratung CNY... WAT???

I have been wanting to blog abt my CNY for a long time, but due to busy working life, Blosphere life has to take a tiny hiatus.

Well, I proud to say that I have got rid of 4 bags of Junk during the spring cleaning and my Room has re-emerged after months of resembling a ...

Ta da, here is my room

Nice and clean... Lets see how long it last???
Bought a bag. No, it is not from LV... But got similar monogram.
haha

Look at my Pineapple tarts going to waste

On the third day of CNY, Teddy is invited together with ah sa to come to my house for sponging off mum 's ang bao. Yet he say... NO nO, my mum say if I come to ur hse, I will quarrel with u one, cannot. Err... good to noe that he is not willing to place money over friendship... So touching.. As if I will nv quarrel with him in the future. I told ah sa abt the Teddy's theory.She like, Theory onli lah, not law, still can come lah! thus she still come.

So arming with ah sa law, I went to my veggie's mate home for my own sponging act. Stream boat Dinner was delicious. I took the opportunity to take some candid shots of the gals...

Candid meh? still look pretty leh

After various streamboat events... Today and tmr still got, my scales are gonna broke under my immense weight.

Arghhh... My pineapple tarts betray me!!!!

My pineapple tarts should have taste v crunchy and nice... Durhhh for 3 days, it remain so, then after the third day, it morphed into somthing sticky and soggy, which taste like the previous tarts that my mum made last year... Why does my previous batch has no such prob leh... culprit is my mum filling.. Durhhh, they are tasty, they are sour, they are WET!!! It affects the crusts... Arghhhh Shd have used the store bought one instead... Yet, the store bought aren't as nice sia... ARGHHHHHHH. shd have finished all the tarts within 3 days.. It is heart wrenching to see it go to waste... Trauma.

Tune test

For all those pple who are feeling bored, you can try this tune test, to see whether you are tone prefect or tone deaf... There are 26 tunes and I manages to get 22 correct in my office where the phones are ringing and pple is talking... For those friends out there, let see how u fare okie... remember to comment after u have try this site...

http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/tunetest/dtt.asp

Battle of schools... Contestant E vs NE

The old old story of whether elite school is better than others has resurfaced in the papers recently. Thus I will like to do a small comparision over the students in Elite (E) school and Non-elite school (NE). There will be two parts in the comparision. Part 1: students profile 10 years ago (1995). The reason that the profile is of 10 years ago is simple. I was a student back then... (stoopid reason, ya) Part 2: My own thoughts. Sources of datas are collected from various friends, relative and my own observations of how the profile has changed. Pls note that the percentage include here is based on my feeling,( for easy comparision) it is not a representation based on real Statistic done by any authorities . (The gov do take notes of such survery and there are real statistic been done on some of the aspects.)

Here we go...

Part 1
The Elite Profile 1995 (top 20 schools in Singapore according to the old school ranking systems)

1) 80% of the students used English in daily conversations.
2) 70% of the parents are Tertiary educated (A levels , Poly and aboved)
3) 70% of the students know how to play various instruments such as piano and violin.
4) 60% of the students lived in private housing.
5) 70% of the students had been drove to school by Parents.
6) 80% of the students have traveled with their parents to countries such as Australia when reached 15.


The Non -elite profile 1995 (My own experience and opinions of my school... hahahhh)
1) 80% of the students used MT in daily conversation
(I used hokkien at home and Mandarin in school, English was so bad that kena suan by my class chair who is the remainder of the 20% of the angmo speaking one)

2) 80% of the parents are Secondary educated and below. (My Form teacher struggled to explain my results cum behaviour to my mum in Mandarin... Her Mandarin was really funny, wahhaha)

3) 20% of the students know how to various instruments such as piano and violin.
(I want to learn too but than hoh, no $$$$ )

4) 70% of the students lived in HDB (My house at that time was a small 3 rm flat)

5) 80% either walked or take public transport to school. (My best record was a 5 min dash from my house to school as I was late)

6) 80% of the students have traveled to Malaysia (I only stepped into Malaysia once when I was in P3)


Part 2
As you can see the students'profiles are so different with each other. How can you determine which school is better? If a NE school has similar students's profiles will it do better? As more than 2 aspects are different, this comparision is not valid. (In Science, only one apect can vary, the rests are to remain constant before non-biased conclusion can be made.)

Why are the E students better recieved in the working arena here? Someone claimed that his friend got a job despite having to compete with those first class honours holders due to the fact that he was from the E school. Is that true? Or was it due to having better PR skills, can express hinmself better to charm the interviewer? I dun think that the interviewer will just employ someone by looking at the name of the school. If someone else from NE school can present himself well and articulate his opinions in a logical and creative manner, he will get the job too. No? Will the interviewer employ someone from E school if he did not take care of his appearance and seems too complacent?

The name of the school just seems to matters as most of the E students can speak and write better English due to frequent usage. They may also seem to be more confident as they have yet to undergo major setback in their life. NE students may have struggled and stubbled along the way and thus dun seems to exude such confidence. (Eg of such set back: WHy your grade is worse than Ah Sheng? He can get into E noe, U leh , useless) Still, confidence can be acquired from emulation of others who has it. Afraid to express own opinions due to language deficiency can be overcome as one join the toastmaster. Bad in Angmoh; like me, either you heck it or get yourself into an English Language school like British council and put in $$$ + effort to overcome it. (I will enroll after I got my JLPT 1 ...wahhh) Accentuate your good points, downplay your bad points. Attitude matters, not the name of the school.

The one that you fear

After toking to ah Ying, Hoon and hua, I realised that I tend to avoid a certain someone when necessary. Actually, this person did nothing to me and I definately dun hate him (yah, it is a him) But I will avoid him, whenever he is nearby. Why leh???Cos I feel shamefaced. As most of you know, I am a siao cha bo, and siao cha bo will act siao, right. In the middle of my siaoness, he will walk by so quietly... When I sense his presence, it is already like a big OH OH !!!

He will give the kind of disapproving looks that resemble a " Wah, you so old liao, still act like that, pls act accordingly to your age, can." without even opening his mouth. This may even seems like charisma to some. To me I simply hate that look, I have enuf of disapprovals by parents which I have to recieve without complain.To me, even when you behave correctly at all time... there is no need to look down on others right. Ah Ying say I am paranoid lah. Perhaps I am, but I can't help it, dun think I will ever be too friendly towards him... I just can't relax in front of such person. (Yah, me siao liao)

Product review === Garnier Light- dark spot corrector

Have been trying to find a spot corrector as no one look good with pigmentation unless the leopard skin trend is in. No, it is out now, beside the spots on my face clash terribly with the prints on my clothes. Yucks.

Acoording to ST and Her world and female, Garnier light is a good choice. Yah value for money as it only cost $10 bucks... Dun want to spend a small fortune on lancome and biotherm since garnier is the cheaper cousin of L'oreal enterprise. Since Garnier, Lancome and Biotherm all come from the same Lab, I think garnier stuff should be okie... Well, the blemish corrector from garnier really works on my big stubborn pimples during PMS.

Okie, I have to take a risk on my sensitive face... Will do a after usage review after 28 days. Stay rightly tunned.

I see angels clad in pink...

Meeting my colleagues for lunch and feeling a bit ,nah I confessed, real extra, yet I dun mind being an extra in a fish and co like restaurant that sound remotely like Manhattan. Got myself a calories laded mango milkshake that is delicious and not too sweet in taste. Feel guilty after drinking, as I can imagine my fat cells multiplying inside my head. My guilty conscience of excercising only once this week come creeping back.

Due to my new year resolution of trying to be stylish, I decide to embark on the scary proposition of shopping for new clothes ALONE. Scary not because I am lonely, scary because I will spent more if I shop alone.Yes, my track records shows. On my way to citylink, I saw something, pink, white and flurry, OMG, it is the angel. Have to say that it does a lot of injustice to the poor host. I can't help but smirk as I walked past. Just hope that my smirk wun be caught in candid video, right, garfield?

As I thot that the angels are seeking for the eligible female, my hands was dialling the familiar number of Garfield to ask her to come to citylink immediately, then stopped as one angel was approaching a guy. Chay, they are seeking for eligible male. Dream bubbles popped as my mission turn impossible. SIAN!!!

Is the guy been approached good looking... Err verdict is looks nice and bookish. But then I din stay long enuf to hear whether the guy is single or not? Guys like that are highly unlikely to be single lah? I continued walking.

I spent the rest of the afternoon buying stuff... Totally uneventful, except that I meet ah ying later to taste my tarts and yes she say it is nice, still she may be biased as she is my bf. (note: we are not gay, bf doesn't = to boyfriend)

In the end, I bought one OZOC Parrot printed black Tshirt? (huh? say garfield)
One white tshirt blouse and one pink skirt, tats it, din do much damage to my fragile wallet. All thanks to ah Ying who come to my rescue after 2 hours of shopping alone. Note: I din spent any when she was with me. Jialat, I really need someone to be around to curb my shopping frenzy. That totally explain my hours of fruitless shopping with garfield.

AAR of Pineapple tart marking

Numbers of attempts in pineapple tart making
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2

Analysis of the pineapple skins
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crispy like biscuit. (not too good)But then Mum like it crispy cum flaky, Dad like it slighty soggy with dough. Mum ask me to make the skins on next Sat, thus must be ok, since mum has high standard towards food...

Analysis of the pineapple stuffing
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Sweet and dry, not sour. Prefer the sour taste of the pineapple and less dry. But then the store bought one all taste the same. Self-cooked will require 4 hours to be fully cooked. Will then spent more than 8 hours to make the tarts if use the self-cooked one. Thus have to compromise the quality if you want it to be done in a lesser time.

Reflections
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Not quite up to standard yet, will make another batch next sat. Will see whether I have improved or not.

Movement of my blog

Hi pple, I have another blog as I can't program my blog to have Jap inputs when I change my blogskin, and I will like to change my blogskin as it is too common. I like those nice nice one but then my programming skills are too poor, thus when I change the blogskin, I cannot type in Jap. Thus I checkout one of my friend blog and change the server, which has nice skin for me to choose from. I wld like to put my input in the new blog, and close down this one... but then I am sad that I will not have my previous entries with me, then I cannot reread what I have written in this past few month, 悲しい, Don't know what I should do leh... pls give advice.

What I do with my life that will be different from last year???

OMG, I had sounded so witty till the moment that I accidently press delete and then u noe, there is no back tab for blogger unlike our MS words... Feel really dumb and stupid.

Thus I shrink my 2006 resoultion to a minimum few so that my clumsy hand wun do so much damage.

1. Be clever .

2. Be stylish .

3. Be Rich .

4. Save more .

5. Learn other sports .

6. Travel .

7. Dun complain, buy voodoo dolls and needles instead .

8. Just survive .

There, I am done.